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

Chapter 74 Kui Wa, Can You Make Cannons?
It rained intermittently for three days before it stopped. As Liu Hongguang said, the water in Xiaohezi was so high that it almost overflowed the river.

Judging from this posture, there is no time for about ten days, and the water level will not be able to recede.The most convenient way for the foreigners to enter the Fifth Camp from Didao is to go down the Xiaohezi River Valley. Now that this passage is not available, they have to go around Manwa from Guanying Town, or come from Huangshiping Gorge.

There is a garrison in Guanying Town, and that place has not yet fallen, so that road cannot be walked for the time being.The topography of the mouth of Huangshiping Gorge is similar to that of Niutougou River mouth. It is also a valley mouth. The normal river water is bigger than that of Xiaohezi. Now that it is raining heavily, the valley mouth may not be able to pass through.

Unless the fans can desperately follow the complex ridgelines of the mountains and the small trails that the sheepherding boys usually walk, they insist on coming to Wuying.Otherwise, if the river does not recede, it is impossible for them to come to make trouble.From this, it can be generally inferred that Sanzhuang will not be in danger in the next ten days or so.

Taking advantage of the ten days given by God, hurry up and make the weapons that can be made.

A hundred catties of iron sounds like a lot, but it is barely enough to actually make weapons.There are fifty or sixty knives to be made, and forty gun heads.When these things are finished, plus the iron materials used to make the ten-strand crossbow, there will not be much left.

Song Yingkui made a rough calculation. He originally planned to make ten or twenty more helmets with iron materials, but now he can only shelve them temporarily because there is no iron available.As for casting cannons, there is no need to even think about it.Even the tiniest cannon can't hold up to ten or twenty catties of iron, and the amount of iron that's gathered is simply not enough.

After six or seven days of busy work, the round shields and spears used by the village guard team were ready.The next most important thing is to make knives, make crossbows and sew protective vests.

What worries Song Yingkui is that apart from the long-range attack method of bow and arrow, Fanzi also has the ability to throw stones with flying horses.The shields of the arrow knife shield team can resist, and coupled with the suppression of the crossbowmen on the side of the village guard team, it can generally be defended.What about rock throwing?It looks rough, but if it hits a person, it will cause serious damage.The other one is throwing stones, which can easily disrupt the formation.

It would be great if there were cannons. The cannons have a long range and can suppress the Fanzi's cavalry from rushing forward too much, so the threat of throwing stones will not be too great.But there is no cast iron cannon!After the things that should be done are done, the remaining iron may only be a few catties.

Even if they tried their best to scrape together the iron materials for casting a cannon, they still couldn't cast a cannon.The first thing to do in casting cannons is to make clay molds, and it takes more than ten to 20 days to dry the clay molds, and there is no time for this.

"Kuiwa, do you know how to make cannons? Fanzi's stone-throwing is very fierce. If our team doesn't have cannons to suppress Fanzi's cavalry, it will be easy for them to throw stones." When Song Yingkui was worried about how to deal with Fanzi's rock-throwing, the sentinel leader Yang Shunan also ran over and said the same thing.

Cannon?Are there guns in this era?Song Yingkui was a little shocked by Yang Shunan's question, looked at Yang Shunan wide-eyed and said, "Cannon? I can cast it, but the problem is that we don't have much iron left over here, and besides, we don't have time to make clay molds!"

"Does a lot of iron materials need to be used to make cannons? What's the matter with making clay models? I see that the military uses all wood?"

Wood for cannons?Can it withstand the explosive force of gunpowder?Wait, are the cannons we both talked about the same thing?Why does it feel like the cannon in Yang Shunan's mouth and the cannon in his mind are not the same species.

After careful questioning, Song Yingkui finally understood what Yang Shunan was talking about.It turned out to be a catapult.

Not to mention, it seems like a good idea to make a few catapults.This thing also has long-range attack capabilities, and the suppression effect is better than Fanzi's throwing stones if it is done well.Compared with the pegasus sling, the disadvantage is mobility.But it is not a big problem for the Zhuangzhuang team. The combat radius of the Zhuangzhuang team is only the three Zhuangzi nearby. The main combat method is to form an array to meet the enemy.

"Uncle Yang, your reminder is in place. It is really necessary to make cannons, and I also thought of a good thing that can make people suffer a lot, and it can be used in cannons." One person is short of wit, but everyone is skilled. After Yang Shunan reminded, Song Yingkui thought of a good thing.

We can't make guns, but we can make grenades.You don't need to make the ring-pull type or trigger-type grenade of later generations, just make iron firecrackers detonated by fire twisters.

If the fire grenade is thrown by people, because the detonation time is not easy to control, some throw it for a long time without making a sound, and some throw it too close, maybe it will hurt your own people.

There is no need to worry about throwing it with a stone thrower. Even if the thrown grenade cannot explode, it can still be used as a stone to hit people!As for the lead wire, make it long, with a high safety factor.After throwing it, even if it doesn't explode on the spot, it can block the enemy's attack if it explodes after a while.

"Master Liu, you have to find a way to bring me some sucrose, preferably more than ten catties." To make a grenade, Song Yingkui was afraid that the black powder he prepared would not be powerful enough, so he thought of adding sugar to the gunpowder to increase the explosive power. At least the iron shell of the grenade must be exploded.

"White sugar or brown sugar, white sugar is too rare, I don't think you can find much, but brown sugar can make up some." Liu Hongguang didn't understand Song Yingkui's intention of asking for sucrose, this guy wouldn't want to make sugar water for himself, would he?However, I reluctantly agreed to raise some.

"White sugar and brown sugar are fine! The more the better! In this way, I will donate another ten taels of silver, and all the money will be used to make sugar." Sugar is an expensive commodity, and ten taels of silver can't buy much.Fortunately, Song Yingkui knew how to purify brown sugar, and the impurities in brown sugar could be sucked away with charcoal.

It seems that white sugar is better than brown sugar for mixing high-power gunpowder. In addition to using white sugar for mixing gunpowder, Song Yingkui was out of his mind at this time, and thought of other uses of white sugar.Didn't the forums of later generations say that sugar is a strategic material, and that it can also inhibit bacterial infection and wound inflammation when placed on the wound, is it a good thing for wound healing?It should have been thought of a long time ago to stock up on such good things, so as not to rush out to collect them now.

I don't know how much Liu Hongguang and the others can think of, whether the candy they scrape together is enough.

After the rain, the people of Sanzhuang are busy making weapons, harvesting fields, and plowing.Everyone hoped that the Fanzi in Didao County, a hundred miles away, would come to his Zhuangzi a little later. If he came one day later, everyone would have more hope of surviving.Of course, it is best for Fanzi never to come from Zhuangzi!
Similar to the wishes of the villagers, Song Yingkui also hoped that the villagers would come later.One day later, the strength on my side will be stronger. As long as I make all the equipment I have imagined so far, and give myself a certain amount of time to hone the team, it will not be as difficult as I imagined to deal with mere chaos!

(End of this chapter)