Qiming 1158

Chapter 923 The Dawn of Industrial Civilization

Wang Tietou skillfully operated a series of procedures before the arquebus was fired.

Pour a certain amount of gunpowder into the barrel, and then stuff a round bullet wrapped in a thin piece of cloth through the muzzle.

"You said before that the iron should be about the same size as the muzzle of a gun, so that it can be shot farther and has more power, or a little smaller, wrap it in sackcloth, or apply some oil, moisten it, and it will go in easily. .

Then I polished a few pieces of iron, about the same size as the muzzle of a gun. After passing a small piece of thin cloth, dipped in a little oil, it was quite easy to put it in. Then I used this rod to poke it a few times, and the porcelain was solid. Okay, the barrel is fine. "

Speaking of this, Wang Tietou stabbed the bullet into the barrel of the gun with an iron rod, stabbed it for a while, then added some gunpowder into the fire door room, and then he let Su Yonglin hold the gun, he lit the match, and The lit end is clipped to the clip on the gun body.

"That's almost it, can you try?"

Wang Tietou looked at Su Yonglin with hope.

Su Yonglin looked at his skilled operation and smiled, "Have you tried?"

"Of course, how can you use something that doesn't work well? I tried it at the beginning, especially the medicine. If you use it too much, it will explode, and if you use it less, you can't fight it. If you have any problems, you can adjust it a little. Now The ignition is much better, and it failed to light up several times at first."

Wang Tietou smiled naively: "Don't tighten your body, just relax a little bit. Although this thing is light, the recoil is quite strong."

Su Yonglin was a little moved.

This process is easy for him to say, but every step is to risk danger, and the explosion is the biggest danger.

Nodding, Su Yonglin took the matchlock gun and went out the door. Standing in an open space, there was an empty wooden box more than ten meters away from him.

Su Yonglin held up the gun and aimed at the wooden box in a way that made him feel inexplicably friendly, then pulled the trigger, the smoldering match rope went to the fire door room, and the gunpowder ignited.

After a gunshot that made him feel inexplicably familiar, the obvious recoil made him tremble, and he couldn't help but take a step back.

With the sound of cracking, Su Yonglin dispelled the wafting smoke with his hands, and was quite surprised when he saw the wooden box that was smashed into several pieces.

Is this matchlock gun that powerful?

He thought about it carefully, and it probably has something to do with the granular gunpowder that the Ming army ordnance department has been improving for several years.

Their gunpowder is obviously stronger than ordinary powdered gunpowder, so it has more power, and this way of wrapping the ammunition in a thin cloth and stuffing it into the barrel also plays a role.

It seems that once this type of arquebus can be mass-produced, it will greatly improve the combat effectiveness of the Ming army.

"Good."

Su Yonglin walked over to Wang Tietou and patted him on the shoulder: "How much effort did it take to make this gun?"

"For six or seven months, I've been busy with artillery work all the time. It's all about taking time to fiddle with it. When I was doing it, I also scrapped several guns, and another one was scrapped during debugging. This one is also repaired and modified. It took half a month to change it before I dared to give it to you, how about it, right?"

"It's more than good. It's completely beyond my imagination. Have you tried to fight iron armor?"

Su Yonglin fell in love with this matchlock gun.

Wang Tietou was very surprised.

"Ah? Iron armor? How can it be? Iron armor is so precious, it is worn by elite soldiers in hand-to-hand combat. It is not our turn to use it."

"If this arquebus can't be used for iron armor and shields, what do I need it for? I tell you, it definitely can! It can definitely break armor, and the effect against iron armor is much better than a strong crossbow! You go to them and ask for iron armor. , let the scarecrow put it on and do the experiment, just say what I said."

Su Yonglin was very happy, called Qiu Yuan, and handed the arquebus in his hand to Qiu Yuan.

"At the same time as the cannon was cast, I divided a team and handed it over to Wang Tietou. With Wang Tietou as the foreman, I figured out every production process of this arquebus, and simplified it. I'll give you some time. Guns, I also want to mass-produce them."

"Ah? This is also going to be mass-produced?"

Qiu Yuan took the matchlock gun, looked left and right, then looked at Wang Tietou, and said, "Tietou, didn't you say before that this thing is not good for rainy and windy days?"

Wang Tietou looked at Su Yonglin.

Su Yonglin smiled and nodded: "It's true that it's not easy to use it on a rainy and windy day, but it's a question of whether it can be used and when it can be used. Now we need to solve the problem of whether it can be used or not. If this can solve the problem of energy production , and then most of the process of the flintlock gun is actually completed."

"By the way, I also looked at the flintlock gun you mentioned and polished one."

Wang Tietou patted his head, turned around, went back to his room and pulled out a gun.

"It's done?"

Su Yonglin widened his eyes and was shocked. He really thought that he had met a master craftsman, and he succeeded in rubbing a flintlock gun with some pictures whose artistic value was greater than their use value.

But when he saw the sample, he knew he was thinking too much.

"It looks like this. I also found the flint for the fire, and the scythe was ground according to what you said, but this trigger and spring... It's really a bit difficult. some time."

Wang Tietou pointed to Su Yonglin the bolt of this semi-finished flintlock gun. Su Yonglin took a closer look and suddenly felt that he might have really met a master craftsman.

This hand rubbing can rub the flintlock gun to this extent, including the clip holding the flint and the fire scythe, which were all rubbed out by his hand, which means that the firing bolt is a little unclear and cannot be used yet. So this gun can still be used for viewing, but it can't be used.

But this is already very remarkable, at least the appearance has reached the level of a flintlock gun.

Su Yonglin looked at Wang Tietou carefully and wondered if he could directly hand over the rifling and lathe work to him. After three or two years, he might just create a small modern workshop.

Sure enough, the laws of historical development certainly limit the progress of the human world as a whole, but the subjective initiative of individual human beings cannot be underestimated.

The large-scale mass production of industrial products requires industrialization and fool-like operating rules, but only three or two can be done by hand.

Although all this has only just begun, Su Yonglin always feels that the future he longs for is not far away.

Su Yonglin felt that he had seen the picture of the future.

In the not too distant future, the musketeers in the Ming army can line up with muskets and shoot out a whole plume of white smoke with the commander's order, causing a dimensional blow to the Song army who are unfamiliar with muskets, making them one after another. down the road.

Their shields would be pierced by muskets, even if they barely blocked, their arms would be broken due to the tremendous kinetic energy, and they would roll over to the ground in groups, wailing to death, or lose their combat effectiveness, unable to continue to provide melee troops. Protect.

Without the cover of the shield soldiers, the remaining melee troops would be quite powerless in the face of muskets. Although they wore iron armor and iron helmets, they could not stop the violent impact of musket projectiles, or died on the spot, or fractured to the end, or suffered concussions. , or internal bleeding...

All kinds of horrific ways to die will come with the hail of bullets.

Ordinary feudal troops will probably collapse at this stage, unless they have enough organization and conviction to open up and be able to withstand the rain of bullets and rush to the front.

However, the Ming army musketeers were also skilled in the use of multi-stage firing tactics, so that they fired uninterruptedly before rushing to the front, and they would always be shot by violent projectiles.

If they were still able to charge in front of them, it would be the turn of the pikemen who protected the musketeers to attack.

Before the firearms formed an absolute advantage, the musketeers needed the protection of the musketeers. They would take over the work that the musketeers had not done, and completely annihilate all the enemies that had been destroyed.

Can the broken army bring any results to the Song army?

Next to the soldiers are roaring cannons, which are attacking the enemy's rear army.

Behind the warriors were smoking chimneys and whirring steam locomotives, providing them with a steady stream of war supplies, propelling them forward fast.

A terrifying war machine is rumbling forward, sprinting forward at an unimaginable speed, crushing the ancient and decaying medieval empire into slag.

The dawn of industrial civilization will be lit in this ancient land, and with it will be the earth-shaking and complete changes.

(End of this chapter)