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Chapter 181 Queshan Arsenal, natives duel

The western suburbs of Queshan County.

On the east bank of Sanli River, at the foot of Wuli Mountain.

The five Tiger Guards who were accustomed to using flintlock guns held shields in their left hands and single-shot blunderbuss in their right hands. They charged towards the several wooden stake men wearing double armor in a semi-encirclement formation!

When they were more than ten steps away, the five of them picked up short muskets almost at the same time and started hitting the wooden stake man!
bang bang bang...

As the gunfire rang out, several of the stake men were shot.

Liu Sheng could see clearly from behind that there was a hole in the outer layer of the wooden pile.

The five guards did not stop practicing.

They first used their shields to block arrows, then retreated a dozen steps and reloaded their weapons.

The paper shell fixed-loading ammunition was used. After taking it out, bite the bottom. First, add a little to the powder tank of the flintlock gun as ignition powder. Then put the chewed paper shell into the barrel and press it tightly with a purge bar.

The whole process is a lot shorter than when the paper shell is not used to load the ammunition!

The five men stepped forward again and fired short muskets, and another bullet hole appeared in the wooden stake man!
Liu Sheng looked at it and nodded slightly, then said: "Bring the target over and have a look."

"Yes!"

Several personal guards responded and fetched several wooden stake men.

Liu Sheng personally inspected the bullets and saw that the armor and cloth armor of all the wooden stakes were broken, and the lead shot was completely embedded in the wooden stakes.

This shows that the single-shot short musket he asked the gun factory to produce is quite powerful.

The director of the firearms factory, Lao Huamao, was transferred from the military and political affairs. At this time, he stepped forward and introduced: "The short musket we produced based on the drawings given by the commander has a maximum range of sixty steps and an effective range of Within forty steps.

One layer of armor can be broken in thirty steps, and two layers of armor can be broken in twenty steps.If it reaches within fifteen steps, even three layers of armor can be broken. "

Liu Sheng nodded.

The armor-piercing effect of this short gun was similar to what he expected, which showed that the gun factory had done a good job in developing it - it took skill to make something according to the drawings.

He asked his personal guards to try it again, and found that it could indeed break through three layers of armor within fifteen steps, and he was even more satisfied.

It should be noted that this is a flintlock musket that can be fired with one hand (without charging), not a matchlock gun with a barrel of more than one meter.

If it were a matchlock gun, it would be able to break through two or three layers of armor in sixty or seventy steps.

"How long does it take for your gun factory to produce [-] of these short muskets?"

"Back to the Marshal, the gun factory's hydraulic drilling machine is very powerful, and it has a special steel drill bit made according to the formula given by the Marshal. It can drill pipes very quickly.

This kind of short blunderbuss barrel can be drilled in one day. If it is a bird blunderbuss barrel, it will take three or four days.

However, the gun factory now only has five drilling machines, and each drilling machine can only drive four drill bits at the same time. Even if they are all used to produce short blunderbuss tubes, it would still take a month to produce [-]. "

This remark not only flattered Liu Sheng, but also suggested that the firearms factory had too few lathes at present and needed more to increase musket production.

Liu Sheng smiled and said, "I will ask the machinery factory to buy you more hydraulic drilling machines, forging hammers and other machines as soon as possible.

You can decide how to arrange the production work in the factory, but you must deliver these [-] single-shot short guns to the Military Affairs Hall in one month. "

"Yes!" Lao Huamao responded loudly with a military salute, and then said: "Commander, please name this short gun!"

"Let's call it 'Xinghua style'."

After arranging the short gun production tasks and giving the short gun a random name, Liu Sheng continued to inspect the firearms factory.

Gun factories and other types of arsenals are now built on the east bank of the Sanli River to facilitate the operation of various lathes using the water power of the Sanli River.

For example, drilling machines existed in the Ming Dynasty.

Human-powered drill presses are generally foot-operated. If you use them to drill gun barrels, a drill press can only drive one drill bit. It takes nearly a month to drill out a gun barrel!

Not only is the manual drill press not as powerful as the hydraulic drill, but the drill bit is not strong enough.

Queshan Firearms Factory uses a water-powered drilling machine and uses a small amount of special steel made by local methods as drill bits, which naturally greatly improves the efficiency.

But this does not mean that all hydraulic drilling machines are so efficient.

Hydraulic drilling machines vary in power. If the power is low, it will take a long time to drill out a gun barrel.

Building various arsenals in Queshan was a task Liu Sheng had assigned last winter - at that time, the craftsmen who were forcibly recruited by the Weibu were already building various types of armor by the Sanli River.

Now in the past two or three months, the firearms factory, artillery factory, ammunition factory, armor factory, etc. have been initially built, and some hydraulic machines have been used.

Although every factory faces a situation similar to that of a firearms factory - there are not enough water-powered machines, and there are not enough skilled workers.

But it still increased the output of Guibu's guns and artillery armor by a large margin!

Unfortunately, the water flow of the Sanli River is too small and the height is low. The power of the hydraulic lathe is destined not to be too high, and the scale of the arsenal built here will also be greatly restricted.

For example, in a firearms factory, according to Liu Sheng's estimation, it would be enough to install twenty or thirty drilling machines.

If Kueibu wants to build a larger arsenal, it will have to find a place with a better geographical location.

After inspecting various arsenals, Liu Sheng was about to go to Queshan Iron Factory to have a look when he saw a horse galloping towards him.

But it is the knight guard who delivers the message.

After the knight dismounted, he delivered a telegram.

"Commander, there is an urgent call from Liujiazhai!"

Liujiazhai?
Could it be that something happened in North America?

A few days ago, I asked you if everything was okay?

With doubts, Liu Sheng opened the message and read it. Only then did he realize that there was a conflict between the Kuei tribe and the natives in the upper reaches of the Xinluo River over hunting.The conflict was not big, just a few dozen people.Some of the Kueibu hunters were injured, but none of them were seriously injured or killed.

As for the situation of the natives, the telegram did not say anything.

But afterwards, the tribe took the initiative to negotiate with the Wei tribe. After some exchanges, the Wei tribe learned that the other party wanted to resolve the hunting ground dispute through a "duel" - I don't know if it was because they knew how powerful the Wei tribe were, or it was traditional.

If Weibu loses in the "duel", its range of activities upstream will be greatly reduced, and it will not be allowed to expand further upstream.

If the tribe loses, it will migrate away and give up the land that will later become the city of Sacramento to the Wei tribe.

After Li Changwen left, the affairs in North America were jointly handled by Liu Dachuan, Yang Minghe, Guo Sanhai, and Yan Yuanshan.

This matter was obviously very important, and the four of them could not make a decision, so they sent a letter to the telecommunications office in Liujiazhai, asking the telecommunications office to send an urgent message to Liu Sheng.

'Looks like it's time to go back to North America. '

After putting away the telegram, Liu Sheng thought to himself.

He returned to Queshan on the first day of March. It is now the ninth day of March and he still has not been to Tianmu Mountain.

The delay in various things is partly due to the fact that the front-end time is mainly busy with the red lady, busy making little people, and I am a little indulged in the gentle land, and I don't want to be happy anymore.

Liu Sheng returned to the county seat, had lunch with Lady Hong, explained some affairs here, and then rushed to Tianmu Mountain with three hundred horsemen.

The distance from Queshan County to Tianmu Mountain is less than a hundred miles, so it took more than three hours to get there by horse.

Liu Sheng ordered two hundred knights to enter the camp at the foot of the mountain and guard the horses.

He only led Li Dingguo and a hundred other knights into the mountain.

This arrangement was made because Liu Sheng not only wanted to win over Li Dingguo's people, but also completely win over his heart.

After passing the first floor of the villa, passing through the time and space gate, and arriving in North America, even though Li Dingguo had experienced a lot in the past ten years, he was also shocked and speechless for a moment.

When he looked at Liu Sheng again, there was obviously more awe in his eyes.

In the past, Liu Sheng was a hero in his eyes, but his vision, ability, and structure far exceeded Zhang Xianzhong.

But now in his eyes, Liu Sheng has been shrouded in a mysterious aura, rising from ordinary to extraordinary!
"Brother Dingguo, what do you think of North America?"

It happened that it hadn't rained for several days and the land was not muddy. Li Dingguo stepped on the ground and sighed: "Just looking at this place, it seems that the fertility of the land is not inferior to that in Shu."

Liu Sheng smiled and said: "This place is quite big, and there are many good places. You can take a good look at it in the next few days, just to relax."

Li Dingguo nodded, having unlimited expectations for this strange land.

At the same time, I also had an understanding of the magical items such as telescopes and telegraph machines that Liu Sheng had taken out before. If Liu Sheng had a destiny to be an immortal, or even an immortal, it would not be unusual to have those magic weapons.

Arriving at Huachu Camp, Liu Sheng quickly met Liu Dachuan.

"My subordinates are incompetent, please forgive me, Commander-in-Chief!" After meeting, Liu Dachuan first apologized.

Liu Sheng said: "With the development of our tribe, conflicts with the natives are inevitable.

Moreover, this conflict only involved a few dozen people, and we had no casualties. Why should we be forgiven?

You'd better talk carefully about what's going on with the Zal tribe upstream. "

"It's like this..."

After listening to Liu Dachuan's detailed account, Liu Sheng realized that it was not just the Zal tribe that was going to "duel" with the Wei tribe this time, but the entire Altay tribal alliance to which the Zal tribe belonged!
The fishing and hunting group has found out that there should be only seven tribes in the Atele Alliance, all of which live in the area where the Xinluo River continuously turns, which is later known as the urban area of ​​Sacramento and its surroundings.

The largest tribe has about 500 people, and the smallest tribe has only more than 200 people.

The North American natives are not stupid. They have long noticed the rapid development of the Kuei tribe downstream.

It's just that there are many people in the Yi tribe, and they are different from them in everything from clothing to weapons, so they have never taken the risk to communicate.

They hope that the expansion will stop and will not threaten their current life.

However, as the Yibu hunting team continued to expand its hunting range northward, the natives felt that it was impossible for both of them to live in this area.

Therefore, we took this conflict as an opportunity to solve this problem.

"Duel" is the method chosen by the natives to solve the problem.

According to the "duel" tradition relayed by Zajinbu, the two sides have to fight three games, with two wins out of three.

The first one is a single duel.

The second game is a duel between five people and five people.

The third game is a battle between 50 people and 50 people!

The rules are simple, draw a circle, and those who cannot win will either die in the circle, or escape the circle and admit defeat.

"Aren't there any restrictions on weapons?" Liu Sheng finally asked.

"They didn't say, they should bring their own weapons and armor."

Liu Sheng laughed when he heard this and said, "Then what's there to hesitate about? Just agree to the duel."

Liu Dachuan hesitated and said: "The main reason is that some people in our army feel that there is no need to follow the rules of the natives. They can send troops to drive away the natives, or even capture them as hard labor."

Liu Sheng pondered for a moment and asked, "Are there many people who have this idea?"

"I asked people about it, and most of the people from the fishing and hunting groups said so. Ordinary people in the camps thought it would be good to resolve the dispute through a duel."

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(End of this chapter)