Chapter 125: The Great Invention

That night's drinking and chatting left a deep impression on Wang Baoshan, making him feel a feeling similar to being touched by happiness.

So much so that for more than half a month, he would find some excuses from time to time to help in the farm school.

said that it was to help, but it was better to have more contact with Zhou Xiu. Chat with her, learn poetry, or practice calligraphy.

Zhou Xiu's shameless questions about him were also answered, and he didn't mean to look down on him.

This made Wang Baoshan very grateful, and his enthusiasm for learning was getting higher and higher day by day, even to the point of forgetting to sleep and eating and drinking.

On this day, if it weren't for Liu Qing, who had been separated for a long time, he came to the peasant barracks and said that he was looking for something.

He may really stop caring about the outside world.

After Liu Qing found him, he first told Wang Baoshan about his recent situation.

He said that he now had about sixty or seventy men with the original brothers, plus the new ones.

They still lived, and Wang Baoshan's military camp was regarded as temporarily replacing him and becoming centurions.

Wang Baoshan first congratulated him, and then instructed him to do some things, and asked him to do it well, and his future earnings will definitely be limitless.

The two of them are now also at the same level, and the difference between superiors and subordinates in the past no longer exists.

When it comes to chatting about the world, there is naturally no need to take care of the rules and regulations before.

After chatting a little more, Liu Qing was about to leave, and when he left, he told Wang Baoshan.

said that he would have time to go to the fortification camp, saying that it was his friend Chen Chong, who seemed to have something to do with him.

This made Wang Baoshan a little puzzled, he asked Liu Qing what was the matter, but Liu Qing didn't know.

After Chen Chong went back to Heifengling with him, Du Xiaosan, who was in charge of the fortification camp, asked him to help.

Up to now, more than a month has passed, Wang Baoshan still doesn't know him, what's going on now?

After thinking about it, Wang Baoshan put down the matter at hand and planned to go over to see Chen Chong.

Liu Qing happened to be fine today, so he accompanied him all the way to the fortification camp.

This is no longer Wang Baoshan, the first time he came, he still knows the terrain here.

But after I came today, I found that in just over a month, the fortification camp that I had never been to had undergone a completely new change.

It was now afternoon, and in the twilight of the twilight, the fortified camp that had once been located in the southwest corner of the Black Wind Ridge, with its many stone chambers, no longer existed, and was replaced by a larger cave.

This huge cave, as far as the eye can see, is about a hundred steps wide, and it is black and dark in the middle of winter, I don't know how deep.

I saw that in this broad daylight, the inside of the cave was brightly lit and full of people.

There are hundreds of people, busy in it, doing the work at hand, and it looks like a prosperous scene of iron smelting and copper casting.

In the busy figure, the fire is soaring into the sky and the sparks are splashing. Some people were burning molten iron and copper juice by the stove, while others were wielding sledgehammers and constantly beating on the cutting board and all kinds of utensils that were burned red......

Among these tools are the molded tires of swords, the pieces of armor, and some copper and iron pipes that resemble tubes.

There are even some elaborate gadgets with a wide variety that is dazzling.

Wang Baoshan passed by them all the way, and he was surprised and inexplicable, he didn't recognize any of those things, what they were.

After passing through a busy area, he and Liu Qing came to the depths of the cave, and found Chen Chong in a relatively secluded place.

Chen Chong in this place is like a different person, and the whole person has completely changed.

Except for the faintly visible outline, he seemed to be much haggard, and he was so thin that only a piece of skin remained, and he became skinny.

His hair was loose and dirty, the edges of his eyes were dark and deep, and his clothes were dirty and wrinkled......

It seems that he hasn't taken a bath for a long time, so that Wang Baoshan can smell the heavy smell of sweat on his body from a long distance.

"Brother Chen, are you okay?"

Seeing this, Wang Baoshan hurriedly asked him how he was okay.

"Oops...... Brother Wang is here, why do you have time to come and see me today......"

Chen Chong was busy debugging a long tubular bronze vessel just now, and he didn't notice Wang Baoshan's arrival.

If he hadn't said hello, he wouldn't have known that someone else had already come beside him.

"What's wrong with you, how did you get to this, it's not them, it's not good for you......"

Wang Baoshan looked at him so miserable that he felt a little unhappy.

"Big brother, you can't blame us! We don't dare to treat Mr. Chen badly in the slightest!"

At the stall where he was talking, Du Xiaosan, who was a quartermaster, walked over, and he picked up the conversation.

When Wang Baoshan heard what he said, he hurriedly went to look and found that Du Xiaosan, who had not seen him these days, looked like Chen Chong, and couldn't help but be even more surprised.

"Third brother, what's wrong with you?

Du Xiaosan hit Hatche and said, "Yes, I haven't slept much lately......

"Is there anything ...... going on in the city?"

Wang Baoshan was a little incredulous when he heard it, and he thought that something big had happened recently!

"No...... According to the information that has come back in the past few days, the city is very calm now, and we don't know what conspiracy the city lord is brewing!"

"And why are you doing that?"

"It's not because of Mr. Chen, who asked us to make a batch of firearms according to his request, so that's why it's like this. ”

It turned out that after Chen Chongzhi came to Heifengling, because he knew how to develop firearms, he was regarded as a guest by Du Xiaosan.

Now, in the fortification camp, except for Du Xiaosan, only his identity is the most special.

In order to develop a batch of firearms that can be used as soon as possible, he urged his brothers in the fortification camp to step up the burning of iron and smelting copper day and night.

To this end, they also opened up the previous stone caves and directly opened up this hundred-step cave.

Chen Chong even lived directly in this cave, eating and living like his brothers in the camp, developing firearms day and night.

During this period, Chen Chong also taught them a lot of casting techniques, otherwise they would not have the ability to make exquisite firearms at the level before the fortification battalion.

After Du Xiaosan finished speaking, he walked to a large wooden platform and picked up a long-barreled firecracker.

"Big brother, look ......"

Wang Baoshan took it and looked at it, and found that this firecracker, compared with the handcuff that Chen Chong had shown him before, was not only narrow and slender, about one foot and two, but also its nozzle was also very small, estimated to be only about one or two inches in diameter.

In the hand, it weighs twice as much as an ordinary handcuff.

Chen Chong looked at him curiously, and took an identical long-barreled firecracker, operated it, and showed it to him.

He also said: "Brother Wang, this is an improvement I made according to the original firearm, this kind of long-barreled firearm not only has great firepower, but also has a longer range, about 300 steps......

"Really?" Wang Baoshan wanted to give it a try when he heard it.

Chen Chong saw that he wanted to test the power of the fire gun, but he didn't stop him, and asked them, each of them to bring a fire gun, and came to the outside of the cave together.

After walking more than a thousand steps to the left after leaving the cave, Wang Baoshan and the others came to a small hillside that was not too high.

It's an open area, it's very empty, and there are no other people passing through here, which is very suitable for practicing firearms.

Wang Baoshan had followed Chen Chong before and learned a little bit of the skills of using firearms, so this time when he saw the new type of long-barreled firearm, he had some itchy hands and wanted to try its power.

He looked at the hillside, and there were still a few planks on the top of the hill. On top of them, there are also circles drawn with red dye.

"Brother Chen, what is that?"

"That's the target I made, it's used to practice firearms, you see where we stand, it's exactly three hundred steps away from them......"

Chen Chong said, leading them to a demarcation line drawn with a red rope.

"Hehe, you have a lot of ideas! I'll try ......"

Wang Baoshan understood what he meant, finished with a smile, and began to reload the long barrel of fire in his hand.

Once he had reloaded, aimed, ignited, and fired, it took him less than three breaths to pull the trigger.

"Bang ......"

I heard a roar, white smoke filled, and an iron pellet the size of a soybean, with a sharp sound of breaking wind, quickly shot towards the target on the top of the mountain.

"How does it feel, my new firebolt, but a flintlock-style ......"

Chen Chong saw that he had finished shooting, and he unconsciously became smug.

He also gave a brief introduction to this new type of firecracker:

It is called a flintlock gun, which is directly through the machine to expand the flint, and then use the reeds inside to charge the flint, strike to produce sparks, ignite the ** decorated inside, and fire the projectile......

And this flintlock-type firecracker, there is no need to worry about the extinguishing of the firerope at all times like the original firestring.

In windy weather, it can still be played, except for rainy days, and particularly humid weather, the firing rate may decrease, but there is also a certain guarantee.

This is also the reason why Wang Baoshan was able to shoot quickly in just three breaths.

Because of the fire guns he used before, he needed to ignite the fire rope on it first, and then expand it by the fire rope igniter to shoot the projectile.

This operation process is extremely time-consuming, and it is impossible to shoot at any time.

Now it's a good thing, after Chen Chong's improvement, the randomness of shooting has been greatly improved, which is really a great invention!

Wang Baoshan heard it and was very happy, if you want to work, you must first sharpen your tools. With this new type of firearm, in the face of powerful military forces, why worry about not having the power to fight back!

Subsequently, with the help of Liu Qing, he shot several times in a row, which made him very addicted.

In the end, Liu Qing ran to the top of the mountain to check the target shooting.

After he came back, he regretfully told everyone that Wang Baoshan's shooting skills were very bad, and he was really rotten at home, and he didn't even hit a single shot.

Liu Qing also said that Wang Baoshan didn't know where the iron pills he shot go, so he searched for himself for a long time, but he didn't find one.

"Looks like I need to practice!"

Wang Baoshan listened to Liu Qing's return, and couldn't help blushing a little and laughing dumbly.