Song Yi

Chapter 427

Seeing their dazed expressions, Du Wenhao added: "It's a weapon fired with gunpowder."

The military supervisor glanced at the young military supervisor behind him again.The young prisoner suddenly realized, and hurriedly replied: "Yes, there are in the West Workshop."

"Oh, as long as there is one. I will take a look at the East Workshop first, and then go to the West Workshop."

After viewing the Bow and Nut Academy, he came to the East Workshop.This is where individual light weapons and equipment other than bows and crossbows are manufactured.Du Wenhao once again organized an ad hoc sampling inspection. Similarly, at least [-]% of the weapons and equipment that have been accepted are substandard products.

He already had a plan in mind, so he didn't reprimand the military inspector who didn't know what to ask.

The West Workshop is a large-scale offensive and defensive equipment manufacturing workshop. There are relatively few unqualified products here, but it has reached [-]%.

After Du Wenhao looked at all the workshops, he asked the young supervisor in astonishment, "Where are the muskets? Didn't you say that the West Workshop has them? Where are they?"

The young supervisor hurriedly squatted down, opened a box, and took out a ball made of clay: "This is it, general, this thing is called a poison smoke ball, which contains gunpowder, ignites the wire, and throws it into the enemy's line with a trebuchet, or When defending the city, smash down the tower for defense. After the explosion, poisonous smoke can be released, which can make the enemy's mouth and nose bleed, and even poison the enemy to death!"

Gas bombs?Du Wenhao took it over with great interest and took a look: "Can you test the effect?"

"Okay! General, please come this way." The military supervisor led Du Wenhao to the backyard testing ground.Put a few cages of chickens on the ground, and then threw a poisonous smoke ball, and it exploded, emitting puffs of smoke. Several chickens fell down and twitched in the cage.

However, the smoke disappeared quickly, and the chicken that fell on the ground slowly recovered, again.

Du Wenhao looked at the Military Weapons Supervisor: "What's going on?"

The military inspector's face turned red, he couldn't figure it out, he looked rather embarrassed, and looked at the young inspector beside him.

The young supervisor was also very embarrassed, and said timidly: "Generally...you have to fire a few shots in a row to..., to have an effect. Do you want to fire a few more shots?"

Du Wenhao sneered: "It's so difficult to deal with a few chickens, but how effective is it to deal with people who are so many times bigger than chickens, and in such a wide battlefield? You can't expect the enemy to lie there and not move." , wait until you slowly smoke them to death with poisonous smoke?"

The young supervisor blushed and said, "This poison smoke ball can only make people's noses and mouths bleed and lose the ability to attack, but it can't poison people to death all at once."

"What is the poison formula?"

"Inside are 15 liang of sulfur, 14 liang of aconitum, 12 liang of flame nitrate, [-] liang of croton, [-] liang of chamaejamas, [-] and a half of tung oil, [-] and a half of small oil, [-] liang of charcoal powder, and [-] liang of asphalt. Half, two taels of arsenic, one tael of yellow wax, one tael of Zhuru, one tael of Maru, one and a half taels of paper for the outside, ten taels of hemp skin, two and a half of asphalt, two and a half of yellow wax, and one and a half of yellow dan Two to one cent, half a catty of charcoal powder, smashed together and spread on the outside."

Du Wenhao smiled wryly after hearing this: "These things can only make people sick and uncomfortable. As for the bleeding from the nose and mouth, it is an exaggeration, let alone poisoning people to death."

However, this idea reminded him that with the chemical knowledge he has mastered, it should not be a big problem to produce poisonous gas. The key is how to manufacture on a large scale, how to compress poisonous gas, how to launch, how to detonate and a series of related technologies. .It took trial and error.

However, looking at ancient and modern Chinese and foreign wars, whenever a new weapon appears, it can only take advantage of it for a period of time at most, and when the enemy learns it later, this advantage will disappear.When the Northern Song Dynasty invented the cannon, Jin quickly learned it. In modern warfare, Germany was the first to invent missiles. After World War II, many countries developed this technology and possessed missiles.In modern society, there are many cases of counterfeiting the opponent's weapons. Even sophisticated weapons such as atomic bombs can be learned quickly, not to mention these relatively simple equipment in ancient times.

*** It is well said that it is people, not new weapons, that determine the outcome of a war.This sentence is more suitable for the ancient times when the weapons are not very powerful.Therefore, I want to develop new weapons, but my main energy must be put on the reform of the army, and building an elite division is the right way.

Du Wenhao said again: "What other firearms are there, show me."

The military supervisor repeatedly agreed, and demonstrated the rockets and other firearms tied to the arrows of the bow. Most of them were incendiary firearms, with superficial appearances, but the effect was not satisfactory.

After Du Wenhao finished displaying all the firearms, he still didn't see the shadow of the musket, and asked curiously, "Isn't there a musket? Where is it?"

"These are..., nothing more..." The military supervisor replied in panic, he didn't understand what kind of weapon Du Wenhao was talking about.

Du Wenhao asked for a pen and paper, and drew a schematic diagram of a flintlock gun: "This is what it looks like. Put the gunpowder into the muzzle, fire it, and the bullet will shoot out from the front."

The young prisoner shook his head: "I have never seen this kind of weapon drawn by the general."

The army of the Northern Song Dynasty already knew how to use gunpowder in weapon manufacturing. However, the earliest musket appeared decades later in the war against Jin in the late Northern Song Dynasty. At that time, it was made of bamboo, filled with gunpowder, and then ignited and sprayed on the enemy.Therefore, at this time, there were no muskets in the Song Army Arsenal.

Du Wenhao was very puzzled. If there is no military weapon station, it proves that the army is not equipped with such weapons at all.

Develop muskets, artillery!
Du Wenhao was excited, but unfortunately, he couldn't remember the structure of the Maxim heavy machine gun, but he knew the structure of the pistol and AK rifle, because they were relatively simple, and they should be able to be built while testing and developing, as well as artillery!However, he was worried about whether the steelmaking technology and machinery manufacturing technology of the Northern Song Dynasty could keep up with the needs.Moreover, the more critical thing is that I don't know how to make bullets, to be precise, the primer of the bullets.I don't know how to make smokeless gunpowder, and of course I don't know how to make dynamite.The developed artillery can only fire black powder, which greatly reduces its power, or can only fire solid iron balls and stone balls.It is used to siege cities and deal with the densely populated tactical formations commonly used in ancient times, and the effect is still good.

Du Wenhao really regretted that he studied forensic medicine in college and only studied bullet wounds. He knew the damage caused by these weapons and explosives, but he didn't focus on the manufacture of bullets and explosives. What a failure!
It seems that it is better to develop the flintlock gun with relatively low requirements first, or if it is not possible to develop the matchlock gun first.step by step.

Du Wenhao was very happy to see that there was nothing in the field of firearms. It would be great if he could build a firearms team. Then develop the artillery, equip it secretly first, build a mysterious division, and use it in key battles to give the enemy Only one strike of thunder can achieve the greatest effect!

He continued to observe quietly.

When he came to Dongfangfang Armory, there were all kinds of firearms here. Du Wenhao tested the weight first, and then looked at the styles. After reading all the styles, he felt that they were too mediocre and nothing new.

He held a flower gun and shook it in the air, thinking that if he really wanted to fight martial arts recklessly, he would never be the opponent of those generals who had trained hard since he was a child, and he had to be a surprise to win.I can't think of a good idea for a while, so I just don't decide. Anyway, it's not satisfactory to decide on the weapon, so it's better not to decide.Just took a rotten silver gun in hand as a count.

According to the weapons and equipment needed for this expedition to Xixia, he made a list and gave it to the Military Weapons Superintendent, then left the Military Weapons Station, brought the guards to the Privy Council, showed the Queen Mother's order, received the talisman and arrow, and then went to the Ministry of Households Food and grass were distributed.

After finishing these things, it was already noon.

Du Wenhao sent someone to inform the former enemy commander-in-chief of the Western Expedition to deploy Lu Gongzhu, the deputy commander-in-chief Fudu to deploy general Qu Zhen, and Li Xian, the supervisor Xuanqing envoy, to Sanya for a meeting to discuss the dispatch of troops.It was learned that all three of them were called into the palace by the Empress Dowager.

Du Wenhao knew that Gao Taotao must be telling these people to resolutely implement his strategic plan.He also explained in person that the combat plan that the deputy commander disagrees with cannot be implemented, and he must report to himself to decide this new military law.He didn't bother to wait, so he had lunch in Sanya, and called up all the commanders of the three armies, and a group of troops went straight to the first commander (battalion) of Guangde Infantry, Yangwu County, outside Kaifeng Prefecture, the capital. inspect.

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Headquarters of the First Battalion of Guangde, Yangwu County.

The battalion commander Guo Ce is checking the goods at the gate of the camp warehouse. The return indicator set by the army commander is very heavy. It is almost September now, but the indicator is only half completed. If this speed is maintained, it will definitely not be possible to play the whole year by the end of the year indicators, when...

When he thought of this, his heart was on fire, and he thought that he must complete the task as soon as possible. However, the full strength of a command (battalion) is only 500 people, and less than half of them are at home now!If it doesn't work, the only option is to send more soldiers to participate in the return. I hope there will be no other things to mobilize troops at this time.

Just as he was thinking about who to transfer to participate in the return, the camp gate officer came running out of breath, and knelt down on one knee: "Report to the commander, and all three yamen will be inspected. General Zai Du will bring all the generals to our camp for inspection!"

"What?" Guo Ce shivered in fright. At this time, it is not a good thing to check and bring people here. He is really afraid of coming, so he hurriedly asked people to send other officials to come, and ran out to greet him first.

At the gate of the barracks, seeing the inspector Du and the commanders of all the armies coming with dozens of people, his expression changed.

Before waiting for the politeness, Du Wenhao cut to the chase and said, "I want to meet the soldiers of the battalion, say a few words, and watch the brothers practice. Tell the brothers to gather at the training ground."

Guo Ce said with a panicked smile: "General, generals, please sit in the big tent for a while, the humble officer will immediately send an order to prepare a banquet, and bring the generals to finish eating, and then meet with the brothers to give a lecture, how about it?"

(End of this chapter)