Late Qing Dynasty Executioner

Chapter 36 Give You a Chance
While everyone was throwing stones, Chen Gu made a few detonators out of bamboo poles.

There was no preliminary selection for this test shooting. After all, among the people in a small village, it is natural to know who is good at archery.

Unfortunately, Liu Er had few archers under his command, so he only selected five people.

At Liu Er's request, they tried it with a bamboo tube filled with mud, but the result was not ideal.

After tying the bamboo tube, the range of the bow and arrow is seventy or eighty meters, but the accuracy is greatly reduced, and the accuracy can only be guaranteed within thirty meters.

"This is worse than using dynamite cans. The other side only has eighty soldiers, and you have a hundred dynamite cans. If each person has one dynamite can, there will be some left. Just use the dynamite cans!" Zhang Haomin suggested.

Chen Gu thought for a moment and said, "Let's get some detonators. If the other side has someone with extraordinary martial arts skills, we can use archers to concentrate fire on them. Explosive cans are too big to be thrown, and the speed of throwing is also slow, so they can be easily avoided in advance.

When an arrow with a detonator is shot at the body, even if it cannot cause damage to the armor, the detonator on it will definitely cause harm to the opponent, and even an expert may not be able to withstand it.

Moreover, the detonator is simple and quick to make, and not much gunpowder is used, so it is very cost-effective!"

Liu Er nodded and agreed with Chen Gu's statement.

Moreover, except for the barrel of the rifle that Chen Guan made by hand, which was taken from the gunpowder gun provided by Zhang Haomin, all other parts were carefully polished by Chen Guan himself, so the precision is very high.

Although there is only one rifle, it is enough to provide fire support.

When everyone saw that the rifle in Chen Gu's hand could cause rocks to fly hundreds of meters away, they also became more confident.

After the test, Chen Gu became more confident in sniping Addis.

The key is that the rifle in Chen Gu's hand can not only shoot far and accurately, but also shoot very quickly. Basically, he can shoot once in one breath.

In this way, even if Addis's ship was sailing along the river on the opposite bank, Chen Gu could still snipe and kill the other party.

The effective killing distance is 300 meters, but considering that the opponent is likely to be wearing three layers of armor, if you want to cause effective damage to the chest and abdomen, it is likely to be shortened to within 100 meters. However, this distance is enough to snipe Addis.

After ten shootings, the data showed that the maximum distance was four hundred meters.

If it was a prepared sniper attack, Chen Gu would be sure to hit the target's head within a hundred meters.

The last thing tested was Chen Gu's rifle, mainly because Chen Gu wanted to try the rifle's maximum shooting distance, effective shooting distance, and his own aiming distance.

With such shooting speed and accuracy, they don't have to fight the enemy desperately. As long as they can maneuver and delay for a cup of tea, Chen Gu can kill all the enemies by himself. After all, the enemy has only eighty soldiers.

After all, this is the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River. During the dry season, the width of the river is only about 30 to 50 meters. If you find the right place, it can even be as narrow as about 20 meters.

Then I tested the power of the detonator. Although it was far less powerful than a can of dynamite, it was still enough to kill a person at close range.

"Okay, let's go back!" Chen Gu thought for a moment and said to everyone, "After we go back, everyone should go to Lao Zhang to report their home addresses and emergency contacts."

Everyone couldn't help but look at each other, and finally looked at Liu Er. They were so mixed up that they didn't even want to reveal their real names. Everyone only used nicknames to address each other, for fear that something might happen one day and implicate their families.

Now Chen Gu actually asked them to report their home addresses and emergency contacts, which was a bit against the rules. Liu Er also looked at Chen Gu in confusion, waiting for an explanation.

Chen Gu smiled and said, "It's up to you to write it or not. If you write it, if you unfortunately die on the spot, I will send someone to send your ashes and the silver you deserve back after the matter is completed. It doesn't matter if you don't write it."

These people are all single. If they die accidentally, they will naturally have no share of the silver.

Now everyone couldn't help but feel embarrassed. What Chen Gu said was not unreasonable. After all, they were fighting against the personal guards of a provincial governor, and they were facing a warship with cannons. Although the things on their side were also very powerful, no one dared to be sure that they could win without any damage.

All beings are equal under the cannon. If one cannon is fired, people may be gone before they have time to arrange their affairs. It is very necessary to write down your family address and contact persons in advance, so that when you die, your soul can return to your hometown and you can also leave some money for your family.

But many people also wanted to complete this job, make a lot of money and then live a good life. If they left their home address and contact persons, Chen Gu would have something to hold against them.

Everyone was in a dilemma for a moment.

Liu Er took a few steps forward, approached Chen Gu, and asked in a low voice, "What do you want to do?"

"Nothing. Don't you want to do something big? I'll help you!" Chen Gu said with a smile.

"I know my own business well and don't need your help." Liu Er said with a frown.

"You know it, but you don't have the ability. Otherwise, you wouldn't have been struggling for so many years and only have a small village left. Just leave it to me."

After Chen Gu finished speaking, he looked at everyone, raised the rifle in his hand, and asked in a loud voice: "Do you think this gun is powerful?"

"Awesome!" There was nothing much to say about this. They had never seen such a powerful gun. In front of this kind of gun, any martial arts master was nothing.

"Do you think, if we have tens of thousands of people and each of us has a rifle like this, can we accomplish something big?" Chen Gu asked again, and without waiting for anyone to answer, he turned around and left.

Everyone became thoughtful.

It is actually not an easy task to have a rifle for everyone, even if it is just a manual rifle like the one in Chen Gu's hand.

Just for this rifle of Chen Gu, he found two blacksmiths to make the accessories and two goldsmiths to make the bullets. Chen Gu also spent more than half a month polishing it himself before he made it. If he wants tens of thousands of them, it would be hard to say how long he would have to wait.

Moreover, rebellion is not something that can be solved with just the use of force; logistics and administration are the biggest problems.

A rifle, a hundred explosive cans, and ten horses almost consumed all of Chen Gu's nine hundred taels of silver.

It can be said that the military force these people saw was built up by Chen Gu with silver. If it were not for the silver on Addis's ship as a reward, Chen Gu would not dare to waste it like this.

After returning, Chen Gu followed Liu Er to check the ambush point. As for whether everyone would report their home addresses and contacts to Zhang Haomin, it depended on everyone's choice.

Anyway, Chen Gu has already given everyone a chance. Whether they can seize it depends on their own fate.

(End of this chapter)