The great hero of the Silk Road, starting from a farm farmer

Chapter 127 Using the principle of matchlock guns to make trigger grenades!
Except for the lack of food, Song Yingkui felt that everything else went smoothly beyond imagination.

After the Battle of Lang Pass, the main force of the Xi Fan Army had no intention of fighting the Fifth Battalion, as if they were scared of being beaten, and there was no enemy in the vicinity.

The main force of the Western Fan Army closest to the Fifth Battalion was stationed in Yuyuan County, with a small number of only two to three hundred people.The only one who can really pose a threat to the Fifth Battalion is the Western Feudal Lord Army in Wazhou City.

In addition to the main garrison of the Western Domain in Wazhou City, Gongchang City and Huizhou City are the cities where a large number of garrison troops have been heard nearby.

The current battle lines between Xifan and Dazheng are maintained at the junction of Minzhou and Qinzhou in the east of Gongchang City. The main force of the Zheng army is defending the West Qin Pass. At present, there are no large-scale wars between the two sides, and the situation is relatively calm.

Song Yingkui in the Fifth Battalion has finally received definite news from another powerful force in the entire northwest frontier recently, and Da Zheng also abandoned Pingqing Mansion in Xisu Province, which intersects with Beixiang.Beixiang crossed Longshan Mountain and occupied Jingzhou, which intersects with Huizhou, and officially handed over to the Xifan forces.

In the process of interacting with Yeli Heizawa Department, Song Yingkui learned some past events of the entire northwest frontier forces.It turns out that the place where the Beixiang people first lived was not their current headquarters in Yinzhou, but in the Qingfan Grassland. Later, they couldn't stand in this area, so they moved to Yinzhou.The blood relationship between most of the tribes of the Yeli Banzi and the Beixiang people is actually closer than that of the Xifan people who originated in the grasslands of Houfan.

Of course, among the ministries of Yeli, the two most powerful ones are closer to the blood of the Xifan people.As for the Heize tribe, they are not closely related to the Xifan and Beixiang people. Their blood belongs to another older tribe called the Xiqiang tribe.It is precisely because of the blood of the ancient tribes that their habits are quite different from many of the current clans. For example, they still retain the tradition of women in charge of tribal patriarchs, and there are many customs in the tribe that are unique to the female clan society. .

In addition to basically grasping the situation of the surrounding major forces, countless small forces like the Fifth Battalion Army have emerged in the entire Xisu Abandoned Land during this period of time.For example, Wei Jiachuan, which is close to Wazhou City, established an independent armed force called the Western Wei Army under the leadership of Wei Dadao.A few years ago, the Western Wei Army fought against the main force of the Western Domain. In the end, the Western Wei Army was recruited and became a semi-independent armed force.The mine owners of Qiancheng Castle on the south side of Wazhou City also organized the miners to set up several small independent armed forces for self-protection.

Among the people who formed an independent armed force, there was a person Song Yingkui was most familiar with, Zuo Shaotang from Zuojiazhuang, who led his fellow villagers to occupy Guanying Town, and became a small force.

At the beginning of the third year of Jingli, Xifan seemed to have the intention of stabilizing the abandoned land of Xisu, and they issued a decree to establish the Xisu Jiedu Mansion.The decree stated that in the future, the people of Xisu Province will hand over their tax burden to General Xisu Jiedu's Mansion.

This so-called Xisu Jiedu Mansion has an incomplete organizational system, and it may just be a grand appearance. In Xisu Province, Pingqing Mansion is in the hands of Beixiang people, Qinzhou is in the hands of Dazheng, and the four states of Hexi are in the hands of Gaojia and other localities. In the hands of warlords.There are still many small independent armed forces like the Fifth Battalion Army in Wazhou and other places. It is impossible for Xi Fan to collect taxes from the whole province.

But at least it shows that they have a plan to govern the local area, and it depends on the progress and strength of the implementation.

"Shopkeeper Guo, our grain supply is almost bottoming out. You have to focus on harvesting grain recently. Is there any way to increase the grain trading volume on the two market days of Wuying and Sanchakou?" Before eating less day by day, before he figured out how to pry the food in the hands of the Hao family Dazhuang, the only thing he could count on was to exchange money and goods for food in the market.

"It's hard! The year before last year was full of crops, and last year we experienced wars. Ordinary people didn't have much surplus grain and dared not sell it in the market. The big households who had grain were reluctant to sell it outside." Guo Kaifeng's words and Li Junhao's What I said is almost the same, people who have food in their hands will not easily put food on the market.

"How about this, shopkeeper Guo, you have collected and inquired about the news recently, and see who has a lot of grain in our neighborhood at the moment, and we will find a way to find out where the grain can be found. For example, Yuyuan City and I need to find out if the Xifan army in Didao City has enough food."

When people are in a hurry, they dare to think of any way, but they can't buy food. Instead of attacking big households, it seems that it is easier for the Xifan army to meditate and guard the city to get food, right?There are not many vassal soldiers guarding Yuyuan City and Didao City. The more troublesome thing is that they have cities to defend. The Fifth Battalion Army has not yet fought a siege battle.

The weapons currently equipped in the army do not seem to be particularly suitable for siege.The number of field guns is small, the caliber is still small, and the power is more general. The few small field guns equipped in the army should not be able to break through Yuyuan and Didaocheng.

Cast a few heavy cannons to blast the city?It seems unrealistic!Even if the heavy artillery is cast, transportation will be a problem. The roads leading to Yuyuan and Didao from the Fifth Battalion are all small roads, and the heavy artillery cannot be used.

It would be great if there was a gun with great power and small requirements on the gun body.In other words, if the range of the torsion catapult is slightly longer, if the grenade can be triggered, it seems to have a similar effect.

Improve the throwing distance of the catapult?It seems that I have some ideas.Song Yingkui had seen a weapon called a bed crossbow in the equipment of the Dazheng army. It was regarded as a heavy weapon in the army. It could shoot heavy arrows at a distance of more than a hundred feet, and it could also throw small stones at people.You can completely learn from the idea of ​​making a bed crossbow to make a vehicle-mounted heavy-duty throwing crossbow, throwing grenades.

The grenade is an explosive weapon. As long as it hits the top of the city wall, the resulting lethality should be able to overwhelm the defenders. Isn't this similar to the effect of heavy artillery shelling the city?Another one is that the bed crossbow can be easily combined with the vehicle. After the vehicle-mounted crossbow is designed as one, this thing can be used in field battles and sieges. It is the easiest explosive weapon to realize under the technical conditions of this era.

The launching device has an idea, but the detonating device of the grenade has to find a way to solve it.Song Yingkui mainly did not know what the detonator used for detonators and bullet primers was. It seemed that a detonator called radium mercury was once the mainstream detonator.But I don't study chemistry, so I don't know how radium and mercury are made. He knows that mercury is mercury, but what is radium?It's not the radioactive element radium, is it?
After thinking hard for several days, I really thought of a solution.Who said that trigger mines cannot be made without trigger detonators?Isn't an arquebus a kind of trigger rapid detonation weapon?Let's also make a deduction device similar to the matchlock gun on the grenade, won't this problem be solved?

Get a piece of matchlock on the grenade, ignite it before launching, and when it hits the ground, due to the violent impact, the device that fixed the matchlock before was knocked loose. The trigger pushes the head of the matchlock into the medicine pool, and detonates the grenade quickly!
(End of this chapter)