Horse on the World

Chapter 635 Experiment
In the long corridor, all sides are inlaid with square stone slabs, and there is a pine oil lamp on the wall every ten meters for lighting. The sound of hitting the floor.

After winding around for hundreds of meters, Luo Daoming couldn't help but feel a little strange. Logically speaking, now that he's gone so deep and so far underground, why doesn't he feel a bit awkward, and he can still feel the wind blowing slowly? blow.

Seemingly seeing Luo Daoming's doubts, Ren Ruqing explained: "Lord Luo, there are ventilation ducts in the tunnel to ensure the air circulation inside. Now, we have actually gone deep into the mountainside."

Luo Daoming suddenly asked, "Is this the big mountain behind the factory?"

Ren Ruqing nodded.

After walking a certain distance, they saw the special agents of the Overwatch Council in black. Every other distance there were two special agents standing with swords on their shoulders. When they saw Li Qing and his party, they all hurriedly bowed in salute.

Everyone stopped in front of a thick iron gate. On both sides of the iron gate, there were eight special agents in black clothes. On one side of the corridor, there was a small room. An officer from the house ran out and saw Li Qing, who was like a moon surrounded by stars at a glance. He was surprised and delighted, stood at attention, and gave a military salute, "Lieutenant Bao Aihua of the Internal Affairs Department of the Overwatch Council has seen the commander-in-chief." !"

Li Qing nodded: "Thank you!"

Bao Aihua said excitedly: "Thank you Marshal, don't work hard, I am willing to go through fire and water for the Marshal, and die."

Li Qing turned to look at Gu Hao: "General Gu, how long have these people been on duty here?"

"Marshal, like me, they have been here for more than two years, and they usually only come to the factory for activities during the changing of the guard. They have never left the factory for two years!"

Li Qing frowned: "Isn't this too harsh? Although secrecy is very important, we can't make our soldiers feel like they're in jail, with no freedom at all?"

Gu Hao said in a low voice: "Marshal, Director Qingfeng issued a death order before. The security here, before the project is successful, no one is allowed to leave the core area of ​​the arsenal. Anyone who violates the order will kill Wuhe!"

Li Qing said dissatisfiedly: "This is too unreasonable. These soldiers all have families and relatives. How can this be so?"

Gu Hao said: "You can rest assured, Commander. After I received the order, when I selected personnel in the department, the first thing was to be absolutely loyal to Dingzhou and the Commander, and the second was to have no family and relatives. , In our company back then, there were not a few people whose whole family died like this, so it was quite simple to select such a group of people."

Only then did Li Qing let go of his face, "Well, it's reasonable, Gu Hao. In the future, the special service salary of the security guard here will be doubled, and the official rank will be promoted every two years."

"Thank you, Commander!" Gu Hao's expression was beaming with joy, and Bao Aihua couldn't stop smiling from ear to ear. He has been here for two years, and according to the Commander's order, he will soon become Captain Zhenwei. Then he broke away from the circle of low-ranking officers and entered the ranks of middle-ranking officers.The soldiers standing guard on the side were also overjoyed, everyone has a share!
"Lieutenant Bao, open the door!" Ren Ruqing laughed.

"Yes, Master Ren!" Bao Aihua took off a key from his waist, strode to the iron door, opened the huge lock, then held the door knocker, and began to knock on the iron door rhythmically.

According to the fixed rhythm, after knocking three times, everyone vaguely heard the sound of clanging and clanging on the other side of the iron gate. After a while, the iron gate slid silently into the mountainside, and another corridor appeared in front of everyone. .

After walking dozens of steps, everyone's eyes suddenly opened up, and a huge hall appeared in front of them. Around the hall, small doors were marked with numbers.

"My lord, this is where gunpowder is researched and manufactured." Ren Ruqing introduced.

In a closed room, each box contained gunpowder of various formulas explored by the arsenal over the past two years. Ren Ruqing picked up the box marked No. 820 and presented it to Li Qing: "My lord, this It is the final product, and it has basically reached the power you mentioned. We named it Thunderbolt here!"

After receiving the box, Li Qing looked at the fine black powder in the box, and couldn't help feeling excited. The era of cold weapons lasted for thousands of years, but once black powder came out, it would take only a short time for human beings to transition from the era of cold weapons to hot weapons. For hundreds of years, since then, hot weapons have developed at an astonishing speed, and at last, terrifying killing weapons appeared.

After hot weapons meet cold weapons, war will no longer be called war, but will be a one-sided massacre.Li Qing knew too many of these facts, and what impressed him the most was a movie about the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau that he had seen in his previous life. When more than a hundred British soldiers set up machine guns and faced thousands of When the cavalry of Tibetan soldiers charged, the rain of bullets shot and killed thousands of heroic Tibetan soldiers on the grassland.

Now that I have made black powder, it can be said that I have opened Pandora's box, so will the future develop like the previous life?Li Qing didn't know, but the wheel of history was rolling forward, and one day, those weapons that could kill people would definitely appear on this continent.

"Can you show their power?" Li Qing asked.

Luo Daoming on the side also looked at Ren Ruqing suspiciously, could it be that these black fines are the biggest secret in Dingzhou now?
"Come here, Commander! Everything is ready!"

Everyone passed through a corridor on the wall again, and after walking tens of meters, Ren Ruqing pointed to an iron gate on the wall and said, "My lord, this house was excavated in the mountain, and each piece weighed several catties. The stones are inlaid, and the special laboratory room covered with iron plates is used to test the power of gunpowder!"

"Bring it here!" Ren Ruqing shouted.

A secret agent was holding a larger box in both hands, and walked over cautiously. Ren Ruqing opened the box, and what appeared in front of everyone were small porcelain wine jars.

"In order to increase his lethality, we customized such a special batch of porcelain, filled it with gunpowder! Then installed a lead wire, and just ignited it and threw it out when using it."

Li Qing let out a sigh of relief. He had never discussed these things with Ren Ruqing and others at the time, but now it seems that people are really talented in creating murderous weapons. How to pursue the maximum lethality of weapons has become a research topic. It's an instinct of people.This is probably the most primitive grenade!

Under the command of Ren Ruqing, the small door was opened, and everyone was surprised to find that there were quite a few livestock inside, such as cattle, sheep, pigs, etc. There were always dozens of them locked inside.A secret agent walked into the room with a porcelain jar, and then installed a longer lead wire. After taking a few steps back, he shook the torch, lit the lead wire, turned around and ran, and jumped out the door with a few strides. The other person guarding the door quickly closed the thick iron door.

There was a bang, and everyone felt that the entire corridor seemed to shake a few times, and there was a crackling sound from the iron gate. Li Wen and Li Gan, who were following Li Qing, were startled, and rushed to the door. Come and stand in front of Li Qing.

The door was opened, and the scene presented in front of everyone made everyone pale. In the room, the smaller animals such as sheep and pigs had already fallen into a pool of blood, and the ones as big as cows were also covered in blood. His body was covered with large and small blood cuts, and there were countless porcelain shards inserted into his body.The two secret agents drew out their knives, rushed up and killed the seriously injured cow with one knife at a time.

Luo Daoming's eyes widened. What happened in front of him made him feel a little unimaginable. It was only the small jar just now, those black powder like powder that caused such great damage.Even though the loud noise just came through a door, it still made his ears buzz.

"It's a pity, my lord!" Ren Ruqing felt a little regretful, "This kind of porcelain bullet is still not powerful enough. I'm discussing with Xu Xiaodao now to see if he can make me some iron shells. The previous few times failed, or If it is too thick, it can’t be exploded, or if it is fried in two pieces, it will not be lethal at all. How can the iron shell be blown into pieces to form a greater lethality than the porcelain shell? Xu Xiaodao is now having a headache, but I It won’t be long before we can experiment with it.”

"That's great!" Li Qing clapped his hands, "I'm really surprised that you can make such fast progress. As for the iron shell you mentioned, it is indeed feasible. As for the thickness of the wall, you can learn from the experiment. Come and explore, but when you cast the mold, you can make the iron shell like a turtle's back, once it explodes, won't it be easier to get from those marks?" Li Qing laughed.

Ren Ruqing tilted his head and thought for a while, then slapped his thigh, "Yes, my lord, you really awakened the dreamer with just one word. This way, it really saves a lot of trouble! And we can also accurately calculate that once he explodes, How many fragments can fly out, and how much coverage can be formed!"

"Creating this kind of thing is a preliminary result!" Li Qing smiled, "Tonight, bring Xu Xiaodao and come to my residence. I have some new ideas, and I will discuss them with you."

Now the arsenal in Dingzhou has already solved the production of steel. As for cast iron and other things, it is no longer a problem. This provides the possibility for Li Qing to make some things like red cannons and tiger crouching cannons.If this kind of cannon is made, it will be much easier to attack fortified cities in the future, and its greater use is that it can be installed on your own naval giant ship. This guy's hit rate is much better than that of a trebuchet .

As for the gun?Li Qing doesn't want the kind of broken gun that can't see the situation on the other side after hitting it, but these can be provided as ideas for them, let them explore slowly, how to make it , Li Qing himself also had dark eyes.Anyway, there are many skilled craftsmen here, so let them toss.It's better to toss it out, but if it doesn't come out, the Dingzhou Army itself is the strongest army in the world, so there is no need to be afraid of anyone!
We have plenty of time!

(End of this chapter)