industrial lord

Chapter 68 Gunpowder Weapons
/*The one who made gunpowder in the previous chapter was blocked*/
The next afternoon, Frederick invited Ommett, Diesel, and Julius to the manor to discuss how to use black powder.

Julius's eyes were bloodshot, obviously he hadn't slept well last night, and his eyes glowed a little when he saw the coals under the fire in the fireplace, even the charcoals in the small stove for hot tea.

Frederick also had blood in his eyes. Seeing him like this, he immediately handed over a note. With the note, he could ask Manuei for funds, lest he enter the brave mode and collect charcoal around his home.

After the inventory of various industries at the end of the year, the dividends belonging to him were shipped to the small treasury, and most of them went to Wesenberg University before they were warmed up.

"The headmaster is really generous..."

After Julius saw the amount on the list, he was exhausted.

Then Frederick handed him two parchment booklets, newly bound by the lines on them.

The first booklet contains the raw material production method of a certain angina pectoris drug that was written overnight last night.

As an alchemist, Julius is no stranger to the materials mentioned in it. He has done all of them in the laboratory, and the output is very low. Except for soap and glycerin, they have not been produced on such a large scale.

The second booklet is about how to make fireworks shells. It also mentions that different metals will make the flames show different colors. If there is no paper shell, use slime glue instead, and it is also waterproof.

Frederick said to Julius: "See if these methods are feasible. If possible, start these industries next spring, but pay attention to safety."

Julius flipped through the booklet hastily, and then asked solemnly: "Principal, what method does the 'Wechsler' in it use to divide the temperature?"

Frederick blinked, pointed to Ogilvy and replied, "You can ask him when you have time, his students are making new thermometers."

Julius put the two booklets in his arms and asked again: "Principal, may I get some of my students back to help?"

Frederick nodded and said, "Of course."

Julius looked relieved.

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes. The same is true in Weissburg University. The relationship between teachers and students forms different groups, and there are small groups within the large group.

Frederick didn't care about it, as long as they recognized themselves as the headmaster.

Then, getting back to business, he put a piece of parchment on the table and said, "This is a weapon made of black powder that I came up with."

Diesel looked at it and said, "It's very similar to a gun, except that the tube is thicker and much shorter. It probably fires a large bullet filled with gunpowder."

Frederick nodded.

After thinking about it last night, he decided to give up guns that use black powder as propellant. It's very simple, the rate of fire is flawed.

The rate of fire of one or two rounds per minute of the front-loading gun is unbearable. The enemies on the battlefield these days have magic shields. This kind of firepower density can't make the enemy in a short time under the accuracy bonus comparable to Brownian motion. The overload of the magic shield failed, and the next moment it was output close to the face.

The breech-loading gun looks good, but the bullet casing is not acceptable at this stage, and the processing cost is too high.

On the whole, in terms of guns, we still have to follow the path of magic air guns.

So Frederick decided to use black powder as a cheap explosive. This time he took out a 50mm caliber grenade launcher. The structure is the same as that of the muzzle gun. The grenade is made of hard slime glue. In the middle is black powder, surrounded by a circle of bearing steel balls to kill the enemy.

Julius studied the grenade, and said after a while: "I'm afraid it's not powerful enough to ignite the gunpowder."

Frederick replied: "The power of gunpowder is actually not that great. If the distance is longer, there will be less shock waves. Let it push the steel ball to cause more damage."

"Its function on the battlefield is to strike dense enemies, destroy the enemy's formation, and disrupt the enemy's offensive spell."

Ogilvy had an understanding of the battle and nodded in agreement: "The cavalry can charge from fifty to 100 meters away. If it can hit such a long distance, even if it only hurts the horses, it can prevent a decisive charge. "

Diesel put down the teacup in his hand and said with a smile, "In this way, your puppet horse can be sold."

"I think this kind of projectile can be prepared with more types, such as arson, freezing, mud and so on."

After hearing this, Ogilvy said in shock: "Good guy, you want a little magic crystal cannon for each of you!"

"You might as well make the spray can bigger, so that the projectile can reach a distance of two kilometers, and the magic crystal cannon will be beaten obediently."

Diesel smiled and said, "Do you think I didn't think of it? I'm already working on the design, but you need to work harder on the materials."

"I designed a 75mm jet cannon. The tube needs to be very thick in order to withstand the air pressure. It is almost a ton with the frame."

Ogilvy said with some embarrassment: "If the cost of using elemental steel is still too high, if you want to produce better ordinary steel, I'm afraid you need to find that person."

Diesel nodded and said, "That's true."

Frederick was just about to ask which great god they were talking about, but Julius also echoed: "Indeed, he has been studying ordinary steel. I don't know if they are still alive."

"Excuse me..." Frederick asked, "Who are you talking about?"

Julius replied: "One of our acquaintances, known as 'Stainless Steel Alchemist' Monnarz, traveled to the East with 'Urine Alchemist' Fritz two years ago."

Frederick blinked, what kind of nickname is that.

Seeing that the topic turned to other directions, he took out another piece of parchment and changed the topic back.

"What is this?" asked Julius. "The roof of the church?"

Frederick curled his lips and said, "A rocket powered by gunpowder, used for siege."

The military black powder rockets he knows are only Congreve rockets like the large Chuan Tianhou and the subsequent improved Hal rockets. The accuracy of the former still depends on faith, and the latter uses the blades at the tail to rotate the projectile body, so it is better. Pray less.

But he wanted to see if the Jinyi 40-2 double-cavity soil rocket used by the Meteorological Bureau could be enlarged and used on the battlefield. This meteorological rocket looks a bit like a V2 rocket, with a height of 82.5cm, a diameter of 5cm, and a vertical flight height More than 3㎞, the payload is 100g.

Frederick thought, after enlarging it, as long as the range exceeds 1 kilometer, it will not lose, and the HAL rocket has reached such a level.

The three scholars studied it for a long time, and they seemed to understand it, but they didn't seem to understand it.

Frederick had no choice but to study with them when he was free.

Then he took out the last weapon: the heartless cannon.

"That's good." Julius nodded and said, "The trebuchet can also be used."

Frederick said: "The range of this is very short, only 200 meters. It is not accurate, and it is generally used for defense."

Ogilvy nodded and said: "Not bad, it can be used to destroy siege equipment, and it can also be used when besieging camps."

"It's just a problem, such a large thin iron sheet is not easy to make."

Frederick was taken aback, and slapped himself on the forehead. In his previous life, when he was poor and white, he had someone smuggle thousands of tons of iron sheets.

"Forget about this first." He said, "Next year, we will study the steel rolling machine. I remember that there is a hand-operated machine for rolling lead sheets. Use that to change it."

Ogilvy nodded.

After talking about the three weapons, everyone chatted for a while, had dinner together, and then dispersed.

Soon it will be Winter Soul Festival, so let's talk about something after the new year.

Shortly after dinner, the butler, Alfred, reported to Frederick the preparations for the Winter Spirit Day gift.

Frederick expressed satisfaction after hearing this, and then asked, "Ah Fu, what is your son doing now?"

Ah Fu replied with a calm expression: "Bruce now goes to Bryant on one day, and goes to Benz's carriage workshop on two days. It's not definite."

Frederick nodded slightly, and said, "I'm going to build a workshop dedicated to the production of weapons. I need someone I can trust to manage it. Ask him if he's interested."

Ah Fu immediately bowed and replied: "Thank you for your trust, Master, he will definitely be interested."

Frederick said: "Okay, let him come to me after the Chinese New Year."

(End of this chapter)