Traveler Major League

Chapter 73 Firearms

The weapon manufacturing workshop in Weisuo City, Yijun County is even simpler than Liu Ze imagined. There is no Miscellaneous Manufacturing Bureau and Arsenal at all, and there is no magic hangar for manufacturing and storing firearms.

According to the person in charge, there are usually ironworks and hundred households specially set up in Weixia, which specialize in ironware and can supply agricultural tools and military weapons for Quanwei. Iron work, here is no good mine, there is no set.

The so-called establishment of craftsman households only has a few people who are dedicated to maintenance, and the others only exist on paper, and there are none in real people, which made Liu Zekong happy for nothing.

There is only a usable blacksmith's shop next to the carbon market in the city, especially the owner of that shop, Wei Jiahui, who has the most excellent craftsmanship, but he has no experience in casting artillery and other ordnance, but he is familiar with other cold weapons.

When there is no condition to cast new guns, the only way to upgrade the captured guns is to improve the gun mounts and use the fixed cartridges of granular gunpowder.

"Big cabinet, this is how we make gunpowder." Sun Mo, who knew how to prepare gunpowder in the guard, watched Liu Ze pick up the raw materials and semi-finished products in front of him, shaking his head in disappointment, trembling with fright .

Liu Ze put down the materials in his hand and asked, "Where are you from?"

"I had no father or mother since I was a child. I was picked up by my master and became a Taoist priest. When my master died, I had nowhere to go, so I married a daughter-in-law and stayed here." Sun Mo looked at Liu Ze and asked. He didn't dare to hesitate, and didn't dare to lie, so he quickly replied.

This aroused Liu Ze's curiosity: "How can you, a Taoist priest, still make gunpowder and muskets?"

"My master taught me."

Wang Shanbao stood beside him with a cucumber and smiled while chewing: "Then your master must not be a serious Taoist priest. How can a Taoist priest know how to make a gun?"

"Oh, don't talk nonsense, this gunpowder was invented by alchemists and Taoist priests, but it's not serious for this master to still handle muskets." Liu Ze also grabbed a cucumber from Wang Shanbao and gnawed it, and handed one to Sun Mo. The other party rubbed his hands on the clothes a few times, and quickly smiled and took it with both hands.

"My master is serious, but I only know this musket when I come to this guard. It's also simple." Sun Mo saw that Liu Ze didn't have any malicious intentions, and his heart was much more stable. He also imitated Liu Ze and Wang Shanbao's example. Son, standing and gnawing on a cucumber while talking.But Sun Mo has no father or mother, and he only thinks of his master.

"Come and practice how to use the firecracker, and show me." Liu Ze nodded and stopped asking.

"Follow orders." Sun Mo picked up a blunderbuss while talking and doing.

"Pour the powder!" Pour the gunpowder from the medicine tank into the medicine tube, and each tube can fire one shot.

"Charging!" Pour gunpowder from the muzzle into the barrel.

"Press the fire!" Use the stick that comes with the gun to compact the gunpowder in the chamber.

"Load!" Take out the projectile and put it into the gun chamber, and then use a stick to press the projectile into the barrel for compaction.

"Fill the door medicine!" Pour the gunpowder in the powder pot into the fire door of the medicine chamber, fill the medicine chamber so that it is connected with the gunpowder in the gun chamber, and then cover the fire door to prevent moisture.

"Fit the match!" Load the match into the tap grip of the trigger.

"Ignition!" Light the matchlock, and the preparation is completed at this time, and the shooter is in a state of being ready to fire. When shooting, the fire door cover needs to be opened, and the trigger should be aimed and fired in a kneeling or standing position.In an emergency, it can also be fired directly at the fire door without aiming at the launch.

"Fire!"

The faucet drives the matchstick downward to ignite the gunpowder in the medicine chamber, a puff of gunpowder smoke comes out, pop!
With a gunshot, a cloud of sawdust was splashed on the wooden target 50 meters away, hitting the bull's-eye.

Wang Shanbao hurriedly ran over and brought the whole wooden target back, touched it with his hand, and saw a hole pierced by a wooden slag cutting his hand. He gritted his teeth in pain, but still cheered happily: "Good marksmanship, great power! This The wooden target is thicker than our shield, so the shield can't stop it within 50 meters?"

"That's because our shields are so bad. There is a kind of hard and soft shield in "Ji Xiao's New Book", which can withstand the shooting of muskets at a long distance. The hard and soft shield weighs fifteen catties and is made of balsa wood. Mengsheng cowhide, nailed firmly, the surface of the cowhide is coated with gray paint and oil for waterproofing. There are two layers of quilts inside the cowhide, and a thick paper layer made of tissue paper is sandwiched between the two layers of quilts. This is A shield made of composite materials." Liu Ze patiently explained.

"Hey, if we also build this shield, won't we be invincible when we meet the imperial army in the future?"

"According to the records, at a distance of [-] to [-] steps, the musket can't shoot through the hard and soft cards, but at a distance of [-] steps, the hard and soft cards can't resist the musket." Liu Ze took the bird gun and looked it up and down, and then said , "The biggest problem with the hard and soft brand is that the price is too expensive, and it costs five taels of silver per side. The musket is still cheaper!"

Liu Ze looked at the equipment of these bird guns and said strangely: "I remember that the gunner equipment mentioned in Qi Jiajun's Shuwu article is that each gunner has sixty cartridges, one iron spoon, one cone, and 120 lead pieces. One leather bag, one piece of cloth and oil, and one piece of ammunition for the tin turtle. That is to say, each musketeer has a total of sixty rounds of ammunition when the field battle comes, and they are packed in a single cartridge. No need for you Is it so troublesome?"

Sun Mo didn't dare to speak, looked at Liu Ze glaring at him, and then whispered: "We all use it like this, and no one cares about us."

Seeing that he didn't quite understand, Liu Ze had to call his assistant to record: "It is recorded in our infantry drills that the usage of the current bird guns is all simplified. The lead bullets and gunpowder are loaded in paper tubes in advance, and the lead bullets are placed on top. The gunpowder is at the bottom, and the middle is tied tightly with a string, which saves the steps of taking lead bullets and weighing each round of gunpowder separately. The specific steps are as follows: bite the bottom of the paper shell, and pour all the gunpowder in the paper shell into the barrel , insert the lead bullet with the paper shell into the gun barrel, insert the lead bullet with the cleaning rod, put back the cleaning rod, and then add a small amount of gunpowder into the powder chamber to start firing. You can also put a A large lead bullet and a few smaller lead bullets will increase the power even more."

Matchlock gun shooting is still too complicated, Liu Ze asked again: "Do you know flintlock gun? It's a self-igniting gun."

"I haven't heard of it." Sun Mo rolled his eyes, racking his brains and wondering what Liu Ze was talking about.

"Then is there a good flint mine near Shaanxi? It's a flint mine."

"I don't know about this, but is there any use for a big cabinet?"

Zhang Poyuan, the former master of Yijun County and now the adviser of the People's Army, bowed his head and listened to this: "Commander, there are many flint mines in Daxigou, Fugu County, Shaanxi Province, and there are also many in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and in the south. Among them, Ningyuan County, Hunan Province The velvet stone is the best."

"Then what about our Yijun County?"

"not at all."

"It seems that there is no way to upgrade to a flintlock in the near future!"

(End of this chapter)