Laughing proudly, I'm crazy for the leader

Blackwood Cliff.

On the top of the morning sun watching the sunrise, Dongfang Sheng stood here watching the sunset.

With his hands on his back, his eyes were full of confusion.

Not far away, Dongfang Bubai was slowly walking towards him.Ever since she returned to Heimuya from Fuzhou, Brother Sheng would stay here for an hour every evening. smile.

Brother Sheng has something on his mind!Even her elder sister would not tell.

The golden brilliance gradually faded, Dongfang Sheng turned around, and saw Dongfang Bubai in the distance.

Dongfang Bubai said: "News came from the fire room. Old Wu told you to go and have a look. He has made the first mold for the gun barrel you mentioned."

The bewildered Dongfang Sheng frowned when he heard the news, glanced at Dongfang Bubai, and rushed down the mountain, Dongfang Bubai followed unhurriedly.

The fire house was built in a hidden valley west of Heimuya. On the way back from Fujian, Dongfang Sheng met a blacksmith who had escaped from the Western Regions, that is, Old Wu. After making the Damascus knife, Dongfang Sheng's head was buzzing, and he tried various methods, and finally kept Old Wu.

The blacksmith who can make Damascus knives, others don't know the energy in it, but Dongfang Sheng, who is a traveler, knows it very well.

During the Han Dynasty and the end of the Han Dynasty, there were many blacksmiths who could make Damascus knives, but they never appeared in the Central Plains after the end of the Han Dynasty.

Don't underestimate this Damascus knife. What Dongfang Sheng needs is not this knife, but the craftsmanship of the making process, which is called tempering!

This is a super killer, a craft that changes the world.After the tempering process, the internal structure of the steel has undergone a huge change. The steel after this change is very tough, and there is a new name, Ma Gang!

The cold weapon made of hemp steel is full of toughness.They are all top-notch treasures, but this is still a bit of a waste, because they can be used to make gun barrels!

If ordinary steel is used to make the barrel, with the explosive power of gunpowder, the entire barrel will be realized or even burst after a few shots.It just makes up for this shortcoming. In modern firearms, most of the guns are made of hemp steel, especially sniper rifles.

Magang, this is an epoch-making thing. After knowing that Lao Wu can build Magang, Dongfang Sheng had a very crazy idea in his heart, that is to make guns!

The gun thing.It seems very complicated, but it is actually.Manufacturing is relatively simple. The most important problem is the technical barrier, which is too restrictive. However, the emergence of hemp steel makes this technical barrier collapse in half in an instant.And the other half is gunpowder!

Unfortunately, as a time traveler, the formula of black powder is too simple, one nitrate, two sulfur and three charcoals.The ratio is 4:1.

Not only that, Dongfang Sheng also knew the formula of smokeless gunpowder.

In fact, black powder was no longer a technical barrier in ancient times. The gunpowder in the Ming Dynasty was close to the concept of 4 to 1, but it was not so accurate.

The smokeless gunpowder is to replace the charcoal, which accounts for 15% of the black powder, with fibrous cotton. However, the extraction and preservation of fibrous cotton requires too high technical requirements, temperature and humidity, and it is currently impossible to directly process it. come out.

In ancient times, there was another key issue in making guns, which was the concept. The ancients did not have the thinking of modern people, nor did they know the power of modern weapons. The prototype of guns was muskets, but the filling speed was too slow. , causing guns to become disposable items on the battlefield. It is for this reason that the ancients did not particularly care about and specialize in the research of firearms.

They don't have this concept, but Dongfang Sheng has it. When he was sick in bed, he read a lot of books on various aspects, and he was relatively clear about the structure of guns.

When he first traveled to the world of Swordsman, Dongfang Sheng thought about making firearms, but due to the barriers of steel, Dongfang Sheng dismissed this idea, but after meeting Old Wu, he decided to give up this crazy idea. Actions.

After accepting Lao Wu into the Sun Moon God Sect, Dongfang Sheng ordered the congregation of the Dark Dragon Hall to secretly search for various firearm craftsmen in various state capitals, and exhausted various methods to find more than 20 craftsmen with their families. .Build a fire house in a hidden valley west of Blackwood Cliff to house these people.

The periphery of the fire room is protected by the dark sentry on the third floor and the third floor outside the congregation of the Dark Dragon Hall. At the same time, it is listed as the top secret of the Sun Moon God Sect, and only the leader can know it.

Guns are relatively simple after having a concept. After the firehouse was established, Dongfang Sheng gave Lao Wu a task, which was to make gun barrels, not fake barrels, but real rifled barrels.

Rifling, this is another revolution that changed the world. The appearance of rifling has improved the range and accuracy of guns by many concepts. Pulling out beautiful rifling in a small barrel is tantamount to a dream with ancient technology. It is a technical barrier, but in the face of this technical barrier, Dongfang Sheng has a cheating method.

Instead of pulling, use engraving!

Make two wrought iron rods, grind them against each other with garnets, and make them into the guide rails of a simple machine tool, then make a bronze rod the size of a gun barrel, carve rifling on the surface, put it on a simple working bed, and pour it with water The molten steel is filled with glue around the bronze rod, and then the two ends are cut off to form the prototype of the gun barrel.In this way, the outer layer is a steel pipe, and the inside is stuck with a bronze rod, and the way to turn decay into magic is to use fire.

Bronze and steel have different melting points. When the temperature rises to 1000 or [-] degrees, the bronze will fuse into copper water, and the steel pipe will come out, forming the blank of the barrel.

After the blank of the barrel comes out, the subsequent process is relatively simple. At this time, the barrel is not very hard, which is convenient for grinding and drawing. Then, the barrel is pressurized and tested with water, and the back tempering is not necessary. Dongfang Sheng taught, this is Lao Wu's housekeeping skill.

After Dongfang Sheng told Lao Wu the method he thought of, Lao Wu has been handling the process of practice, and now it has been nearly a month, and finally figured it out, Dongfang Sheng is full of ecstasy, hot weapons are about to qualify in advance Is it?

When Dongfang Sheng rushed to the fire room in a hurry, a group of craftsmen were surrounding Old Wu, looking at the black and shiny gun barrel in Old Wu's hand, they all marveled at its exquisiteness.

Old Wu and other craftsmen saw that Dongfang Sheng was coming, so they handed over the gun barrel in their hands to Dongfang Sheng for him to practice. Full of ecstasy, the surface of the entire gun barrel was polished very smooth. He lifted him up high and saw the three beautiful rifling lines inside through the sunlight, almost like half of a modern mechanical carving.

The biggest problem, the barrel, is finally done!

The barrel is finished, how can there be no gun body?

At this time, a firearms craftsman handed over a simple version of the gun body, which was slightly improved on the basis of the matchlock gun of the Ming Dynasty, just for show.

When the barrel and body of the gun became one, Dongfang Bubai walked in. After Dongfang Sheng played with him, he threw him to Dongfang Bubai. After a careful look, Dongfang Bubai said: He answered the question in his heart: "Brother Sheng, is this the musket you have been dreaming about for a while? Is it no different from my arquebus?"

Dongfang Sheng just smiled and didn't explain. Even the firearms craftsman couldn't digest this thing for a while, let alone her?

So Dongfang Sheng just gave Dongfang Bubai an expression that you will know when the time comes.

"Old Wu, thank you for your hard work. Later, I will ask someone to give you 300 taels of silver as a reward. In addition, I will give you another day off to rest and rest!"

Dongfang Sheng threw the gun to one of the firearms craftsmen, and then said to one of the more experienced craftsmen among the group of firearms craftsmen: "Throwing the gun, how is your research going?"

Throwing cannon is a kind of firecracker that I often played with when I was a child in modern times. Don't underestimate this kind of thing, because it can be used as a primer for bullets.

Dongfang Sheng had told them the formula of black powder a long time ago, and they also successfully came up with the formula. A bullet consists of a shell, warhead, gunpowder and primer. This is a modern bullet. The frequency of firing a bullet is too low. If it is on the battlefield, it is very likely that it will become a melee combat after firing a few bullets.

The most important test for bullets is the primer. Modern primers are neither extravagant nor desirable for Dongfang Sheng. They can only be used as primers. Once the primer is ready, a bullet will also be successfully produced.

Dongfang Sheng thought that this research would take some time, but when a craftsman surnamed Wang threw a cannon in front of Dongfang Sheng, Dongfang Sheng's heart was pounding, and it took a long time to calm down the excitement in his heart. , took the little firecracker carefully, and when the dropped cannon exploded in the yard, Dongfang Sheng knew that the world was about to change because of it!

Snapped……

The explosion of the falling cannon frightened Dongfang Bubai. She never expected that the gunpowder could be detonated without fire. After a while, she squatted on the ground, picked up the shell of the falling cannon, held it in her hand, Very puzzled on his face.

"Very good, very good, everyone in the fire room will be rewarded with 200 taels of silver, and have a day off!"

The progress of the fire room was beyond Dongfang Sheng's expectations. Now, he had to go to another important matter as soon as possible. After coming out of the fire room, Dongfang Sheng and Dongfang Bubai walked on the path in the forest.

"Sister..." Dongfang Sheng paused, but he couldn't say the word "sister" for a while. After a while, he said: "I need a group of people, not many, three hundred is enough. Among the 300 people, I will ask Tong Che to find some adult orphans outside to fill half of it. I will choose the remaining half from the congregation. However, what I need is someone with a clean background, a clean relationship, and who is loyal to you. It's not important, I hope my sister... help me make a list." (To be continued...)

ps: The fourth volume of Swordsman begins, well, after today, there will be an update every day.