"Iron and Steel General Division" five miles northwest, adjacent to the east slope of Huangyazhai not far away, the length and width are about five miles of several buildings, surrounded by a tall cement wall, the main entrance plaque "Ordnance Manufacturing Division" several conspicuous big characters are impressive. The guards on both sides of the gate are tall, their eyes do not squint, and they are solemn and majestic.

When he stepped into the gate, Wang Song couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and looked at the guards a few more times.

The guards on duty were soaked and sweaty, but none of them complained.

"Let people build the sentry box immediately, the guards are also people, on such a hot day, sooner or later they will suffer from heat stroke!"

Wang Song's face sank, and he was about to say to let the guards go in to rest, but when the words came to his mouth, they were stuck in his throat.

The soldiers trained on the field never distinguished between scorching heat and heavy rain and severe cold, and if he set a precedent, it would obviously break the rules of the army.

"Change the garrison every hour, prepare more mung bean soup, and when the guard box is covered, it will be more comfortable!"

After Wang Song said these words, he nodded to the guards with a grateful look on his face, and entered the gate of the "Weapons Manufacturing Division".

The land inside the manufacturing division is level, and a two-meter-wide cement road runs through the entire compound from south to north, and the houses on the east side are like factories, which are obviously working factories. There are no buildings on the entire site to the west, but there are targets one by one, and it is obvious that this is the place where the guns are tested.

This is the first time Wang Song has come to the place of "Ordnance Manufacturing Division". Today, the "China Iron and Steel Manufacturing General Division" has become a behemoth, and civilian and military products are completely separated. And around Lin Tianyou, a huge group of technical people has gathered for him to deploy at any time.

The "Ordnance Manufacturing Division" is the official organization that completely produces weapons, and what is currently being studied is the tube grenade, artillery and the spontaneous firearm that Wang Song values the most.

In the past, after the grenade was crushed and the wax seal was crushed, it had to be ignited with fire, and in the battlefield where every second counted, the danger factor was extremely high, and it was easy to be attacked by the opponent's archers, and it was also easy to be affected by the weather.

The tube grenade, on the other hand, just doesn't have these steps, and these can solve the problem with a light pull.

Relying on his background in chemistry in his previous life, he also made mercury thunderate on the basis of gunpowder, which was used as a detonating charge for grenades.

Due to the successful production of glass, Wang Song also had a large number of experimental instruments, and after the mass production of three acids and two alkalis began, the need for pulling gunpowder potassium chlorate and gunpowder mercury thunderate in the grenade was quickly solved.

Chemistry is a delicate and rigorous subject, and in order to obtain potassium chlorate and mercury leiate, Wang Song has done countless experiments, and each time he is cautious.

The production of mercury rayate, the production of alcohol, and the production of potassium chlorate, which seemed unbelievable to people at that time, were not so difficult to achieve in the face of repeated experiments.

Now that he controls such a vast area, the raw materials for experimentation and production he needs are naturally easy to obtain.

still responded to that sentence, the master is in the people. As long as he proposes a rough idea, countless craftsmen and technicians will imitate and expand it.

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This is the result of the opening wise.

China's thousands of years of feudal society, all dynasties and dynasties, have all implemented the policy of ignoring the people, so as to make it easier to manage. But it is contrary to the spirit of Confucianism.

A sentence "The people can, make it; can't, so that it can be known", can be forcibly tampered with as "the people can make it, but not make it known", these emperors' selfishness can not make the dynasty strong, but is the bane of the dynasty's downfall.

Only when the people are wise and the people are strong, can there be the rise of the nation and the strength of the country.

The rise of the German Empire is the best example of this.

"Pass! Pass!"

The explosion of the grenade attracted Wang Song's gaze. I saw that in the test area of the grenade, several young people were running towards the place where the smoke column had not yet dissipated, apparently to check the results of the test.

"Xianggong, you're here!"

Seeing Wang Song coming over, Lin Tianyou, who was watching, hurriedly walked over and stepped forward to salute.

"God forbid, hard work. How does the tube grenade look, can it be used?"

Wang Song asked with a smile, from the explosion just now, he could already feel that the effect of the grenade should not be bad.

Lin Tianyou beckoned, and two young people ran over, and the young man at the head handed over a booklet and said, "Director Lin, this is today's test data!"

Lin Tianyou took the booklet, looked at it carefully, and then stepped forward and reported to Wang Songyu: "Xianggong, 100 tube grenades were tested today, and 92 of them exploded, and 8 of them did not explode. The results of the tests in recent days have been basically the same, and it seems that it is ready for production. ”

Wang Song nodded slightly. The pass rate of more than 9 percent is already quite good. These are all old jobs he used to do, and now he has repeated experiments, and there should be no problems.

However, firearms are a matter of life and death for soldiers and the success or failure of the war, and they must not be sloppy.

"It is still necessary to continue to improve and strive to control within half percent. 100 grenades, no more than 5 defective ones. ”

In the cannon casting workshop, the temperature rose suddenly, and as soon as Wang Song entered, his clothes were soaked.

Beside the smelter, tightly wrapped craftsmen were working nervously, wearing masks and glass mirrors on their eyes, and everyone's clothes were wet. But even in such an environment, everyone is conscientious and has no complaints.

The salary of more than 10 silver dollars a month, even for those who did not have any skills, was more than three silver dollars, which was too high compared to the monthly income of Israeli sergeants and soldiers, one or two silver dollars.

The sound of "bang" was endless, followed by white smoke rising, which was the sound of molten iron flowing into the mold. Wang Song held back the pungent smell, and Lin Tianyou hurriedly handed the mask over.

Out of the workshop, Wang Song's clothes were already dry and wet. He shook his head self-deprecatingly, and said with a wry smile: "Take a trip in this workshop, but you have fought ten rounds on the battlefield!"

In the finished artillery workshop, two young men were squatting next to a gun truck, carefully observing and recording various data of the artillery.

"Xianggong, this is the 9-pound cannon that just was made."

Lin Tianyou hurriedly stepped forward, pointed to the artillery on the gun truck, and said happily.

"Xianggong, this cannon is 135 centimeters long, the gun weighs 700 kilograms, the caliber is 117mm, one kilogram of gunpowder, the effective firing range is 500 steps, the firing angle is 5 degrees, the firing range is two miles, and the firing angle of 10 degrees can reach three miles."

"What if I fire a solid bullet?"

Wang Song looked at the workshop full of artillery and continued to ask.

Lin Tianyou shook his head and said: "Hui Xianggong, the effective range of a nine-pound solid bullet is only about one mile, because the initial velocity of the cannonball is slow, it is difficult to ricochet even on hard ground."

Wang Song nodded. When firing a shotgun, the requirements for the bore pressure of the gun are not so high, the gun body is also thin, and the gunpowder is also less, so the muzzle velocity of the solid bullet is also slow.

However, because it fires shotguns, it is extremely effective against large-scale infantry shooting. Considering that now the Jin people have a large number of foot soldiers in addition to cavalry, Wang Song must consider such artillery.

"God bless, this kind of nine-pound artillery, produce 1,000 first, and then the army will be of great use."

Lin Tianyou nodded. It seems that in future wars, artillery will definitely be the trump card in the army.

The Loyal and Righteous Army now produces three types of heavy artillery: 5 catties, 7 catties, and 9 catties, with weights ranging from catties. In addition, there are two kinds of Fran cannons, one hundred catties and one 70 catties, if the Lord takes advantage of the characteristics of its sons and mothers to fire quickly, they are all shotguns. In addition, there is a tiger squat cannon, which also fires a shotgun, which weighs only 40 kilograms.

Other than that, it's this 700-pound shotgun. Now look at it

In the future, the superiority of the Loyal Army in artillery has greatly surpassed other products of the same era.

The Jin people were also imitating the Loyal Army, producing artillery and grenades, but due to the natural defects in gunpowder technology, the grenades often failed to explode, and the range of the artillery could not exceed two or three hundred steps, and the damage to the soldiers in armor was limited.

"Godless, it's been so long since the spontaneous fire bolt was made, is there any problem now?"

After talking for so long, Wang Song finally turned to the topic, which is also the focus of his attention.

As a veteran military enthusiast, he naturally knew that the parts of spontaneous firearms were complex and very difficult to make, and even sad to make artillery.

However, before the advent of metal bullets, spontaneous muskets were used for more than 200 years in history, and the date of its appearance is only two or three hundred years ago.

The basic principle of flintlock is extremely simple: it produces a spark that ignites the gunpowder stored in the tube.

To create this spark, the flintlock gun uses the "flint + steel" method, where the flint is struck against iron or steel, and the flint stirs up tiny iron particles. The impact force and friction generated during the impact ignite the iron particles, and the rapidly burning sparks fall into the powder pool gunpowder, igniting the gunpowder and forming a shot.

Striking iron, springs, steel bars, and gunpowder pools, Wang Song drew them according to the structure of the flintlock fire pistol in his memory, and then handed it to Lin Tianyou for him to arrange research and manufacturing.

Blocking irons, springs, pipes, triggers, these "China Iron and Steel General Division" can be manufactured by themselves, and the rest depends on the exploration of details.

In fact, this matter has been going on for nearly a year, and several times the feedback he has received is that it is about to be completed, but Wang Song does not know the specific results.

"Xianggong, although the flint fire was made last time, the effect of the test was very unsatisfactory, and the armor was only 40 steps."

Lin Tianyou said: "Later, these two brothers thought that it could be the same as the artillery, the rear end of the fire gun was thickened, which could greatly improve the range and power, and the villain also made a few handfuls, and the heavy armor could be broken in about 60 steps."

"Oh!"

Wang Song couldn't help but look at the two young people in front of him. The two young men had been recording the data of the artillery just now, and he had not noticed it for a while.

"Xianggong, this is Yu Yunwen, this is Wu Gong, both of them are students of the martial arts hall, today is a day off, and they are here to help."

Lin Tianyou continued: "Xianggong, the rear end of the fire gun is thickened, plus the wooden support, and the sword with the front is used as a spear, it is the idea of the two of them."

Wu Gong blushed and said: "Xianggong, I don't dare to compare with you, most of this is Brother Yu's idea."

Wang Song was stunned for a moment, and then laughed.

It turned out to be these two brothers, no wonder they were a little familiar just now.

"Xianggong, although these two people are students of the martial arts hall, the "Weapons Manufacturing Division" is also short of manpower. ”

Lin Tianyou said cautiously: "Xianggong, can you transfer these two to the 'Weapons Manufacturing Division', the villain has a place where they can be used." ”

Yu Yunwen and Wu Gong were both dumbfounded, looking at Wang Song together, for fear that he would say something agreeable.

The two of them traveled thousands of miles and were admitted to the Martial Arts Hall, and now they are about to complete their studies, so they naturally don't want to stay in this weapons division all day. In the future, they will cross the battlefield, Jin Ge Iron Horse, that is their ambition.

"Xianggong ......"

The two clasped their fists together and looked at Wang Song pitifully.

"Since they are students of the Martial Arts Hall, they naturally want to crisscross the battlefield and defend their families and the country, how can they stay here!"

Wang Song made a face and said: "When the autumn and winter season comes, Fanzi will attack, and they will go into battle to kill the enemy, so you should transfer other students."

Lin Tianyou shook his head and smiled bitterly, Yu Yunwen and Wu Gong were overjoyed. For these ambitious young people, the battlefield is their destination.