The brow is furrowed!

When the cigarette butt was pressed into the ashtray, Zhu Guoqiang couldn't help but sigh.

Standing in the company's office, staring at the suppliers displayed on the computer screen, his mood seemed dull.

"Otherwise, how many more companies will be entrusted to make it?"

It is not anything else that is made, but artillery, which of course can only be purchased in the name of "props" or "decorations". But it doesn't matter if you purchase dozens of doors like this, you can purchase hundreds of doors...... Just kidding, this is sending yourself to the bureau!

"When the Qing army is repulsed, the first thing is to build a military factory!"

Again, Zhu Guoqiang swore to himself.

In fact, in the eight months after the Qing army retreated, he was not idle, and the hydraulic factory built on the Wang Tomb side on the grounds of making tools, in addition to making armor and all kinds of cold weapons, can also make gunpowder, paper shell ammunition, bayonets, shells, shells, and even grenades and other weapons. A lot of workers have been trained, and everything in the industry can only start step by step.

As for artillery manufacturing...... That is subject to the relationship of raw materials, the ironworks in Jinan can only provide white cast iron, this cast iron can not be machined, and it can not grind the gun chamber, in contrast, the excellent performance of the artillery provided by the industrial society here is simply the "zenith" scientific and technological level. And it's that cheap. It's almost a high-imitation plate for a cannon, which is just a few pennies.

Whoever you change is willing to use a better one! And it's outrageously cheap.

But here's the problem...... Quantity!

There is indeed a huge industrial production capacity here, but if you want to use all this to make weapons, you are basically challenging the powerful organs of the country, a few props, dozens of decorations are still possible, but hundreds of "decorations", that is really insulting IQ. Even if you run your own factory, you will be reported by workers every minute. Calling to report a black gas station will also reward 30,000 yuan! Manufacture of weapons...... Start with at least 100,000 prizes!

"The power of the Chaoyang masses should not be underestimated!"

In his own words, Zhu Guoqiang continued to flip through the page, and suddenly, his attention was attracted by one of the messages.

"Scrap train axles!"

Staring at the appearance of the axle, it changed in my mind, and seemed to overlap with the barrel of the gun. Zhu Guoqiang's eyes suddenly lit up, and he hurriedly picked up the phone.

"Hey, Lao Han, you can confirm that there is a list, 300 train axles, yes, if the price is right, you can just take it!"

The train shaft is not very conspicuous, but a few decades ago, the arsenal in the base area used it to manufacture artillery, and even during the War of Liberation, the military factory used it as a raw material to manufacture mountain cannons in batches. The steel used for the axle is definitely no worse than ordinary cannon steel.

Since the ancestors can, of course they can do it on their own side!

"If you look at the drawings, first of all, a lifting ring is milled out of its tail, and then a 115 mm bore is milled, and the tail is reduced to 90 mm ......"

In his office at the metal processing factory, Zhu Guoqiang pointed to drawings and explained the "mechanical parts" he needed to machine.

He doesn't need to explain the purpose of the part, he just needs to provide the drawings. In modern industrial society, even the best experts and scholars have no way to grasp the purpose of all mechanical parts, not to mention that new mechanical parts are put into production every day.

"The pendulum shaft of the pipe body should be welded with seamless welding technology, it is the stressed part, and the strength must be guaranteed, is it okay?"

The so-called "pendulum shaft" is the cannon lug, which is here just a component of the mechanical parts. Seamless welding technology can ensure the strength of the connection between it and the barrel.

But it's definitely not artillery, and no one would have thought it was!

But it was a gun, and it was a twelve-pounder gun, except that its caliber was 115 mm, which was 2 mm less than that of a 12-pounder, but this did not make a difference, and the diameter of the shell of the twelve-pounder gun was only 110 mm. A 5 mm clearance is not only sufficient, but it can even improve its range and accuracy, after all, the clearance becomes smaller, and the breath-holding performance is naturally better.

"Of course, no problem, three days, if you want urgent, two days, can you see it? However, in terms of price...... In this way, I only charge a little overtime pay. ”

The owner of the factory also simply gave a suitable price. He has been doing business for so many years, why didn't he see that this must be a big project, processing 600 "cylinder liners" at once, although I don't know its use, but this business is done well, and there must be room for cooperation in the future.

However, it only took an hour for Zhu Guoqiang to finalize the "artillery", no, it was an order for mechanical parts.

"The length of a train shaft is 2,180 mm, the maximum diameter of the tail is more than 220 mm, and the diameter of the shaft body is 170 mm. Artillery caliber 115 mm...... The wall thickness of the barrel is 27.5 millimeters, and the barrel length is 1.05 meters, and the length of the 12-pound mountain howitzer is 38 inches, and the wall thickness is 1.5 inches...... That is, less than 11 mm, but it is alloy steel forging, the material is more advanced, the allowable compressive strength of general cast iron is 200MPa, and the bearing steel is at least two or three times that of it. ……”

On the way back, Zhu Guoqiang still kept repeatedly comparing the data of the two gun barrels in his brain, considering the size and specifications of the train axle, he deliberately chose the 12-pound mountain howitzer as the prototype of the artillery, although it is a mountain howitzer, but it is not impossible to use it as a naval gun. After all, most of the ships in ancient China were single-layer planks, with a thickness of only three inches, that is, ten centimeters.

Bombarding it with a twelve-pound mountain grenade is even a bit of a waste of firepower.

While waiting for the traffic light, Zhu Guoqiang deliberately looked back at the two "cannon barrels" behind the car and said to himself.

"This barrel is ready, should I try it? Yes, you have to go to the cannon first! ”

Hit the gun, no, it's to test the gun!

Of course, it can't be tested here, it must be taken to the other side for testing, and the test is carried out on the embankment of the Yellow River outside Taoyuan County. Since it was only to test whether the artillery could be used, Zhu Guoqiang directly temporarily installed a barrel of more than 100 catties on the 12-pound cannon carriage, and the diameter of the two ear ears was the same.

For this "small" artillery, Chen Wushu and they seemed a little suspicious.

"Lord Shizi, can it really hit nine catties of cannonballs?"

The nine-pound cannon is their name for the twelve-pound cannon, a catty of 596.8 grams in the Ming Dynasty, and the difference between twelve pounds and Ming catties is not a little more than 9 catties. But the nine-pound cannon is a big guy, this thing is so small, can it hit a nine-pound cannonball?

"That's right!"

Nodding, Zhu Guoqiang said with a smile.

"It's a bit overkill to put it on a field artillery mount, and you can change it to a new type of artillery mount when you turn around, which can be used as a supplementary firepower for a twelve-pounder field gun, after all, it's lighter."

Not only is it lighter, if you change to the gun carriage of a 12-pounder mountain howitzer, its weight is not even as heavy as the gun carriage of a 12-pounder field gun, this guy is definitely a sharp weapon for marching and fighting in this year.

As Zhu Guoqiang spoke, the gunners had already aimed their guns at the hard sails of a small sampan on the river. After simple aiming, the gunner stuffed a reduced amount of powder bag from the muzzle, stuffed it with a solid shell, compacted it with a toner rod, and then punctured the powder bag at the bottom of the barrel through the ignition hole, stuffed it into the fire rope, and then ignited and took a few steps back.

In the sound of the ignition rope, the fire rope quickly burned out, and two or three seconds after a puff of white smoke came out of the ignition hole, there was a "boom" of cannon, and a cloud of smoke and flames erupted from the muzzle. Zhu Guoqiang shouted loudly when the cannonball accurately hit the hard sail on the sampan 100 meters away, and after making a hole in the sail, it whistled and flew to the other side of the river.

"Double the gunpowder to 12 taels!"

Twelve taels and one money!

That is, one pound. Historically, due to the thickness of the gun body, the 12-pounder mountain grenade could not withstand too high chamber pressure, and it was generally only loaded with 0.5 pounds of propellant when used, which was only half of the 12-pounder howitzer and one-fifth of the 12-pounder Napoleon gun, so the firing range was naturally closer.

However, after repeated calculations, Zhu Guoqiang felt that his 12-pound mountain grenade should be able to meet the standard of a 12-pound howitzer, after all, its gun body is made of high-quality bearing steel in the 21st century, and the strength of the body tube can fully withstand the chamber pressure of 454 grams of propellant!

As a result, just as he expected, the high-quality "cannon steel" could fully withstand higher chamber pressure, and with a cannon sound, the shell once again whistled out of the barrel, and then, Zhu Guoqiang ordered again.

"Twice as many propellants!"

After that, it was to test its chamber pressure, from twelve taels and one coins, to twenty-four taels and then to forty-eight taels and ...... In the end, with a loud bang, the barrel finally exploded, and it was only at this time that Zhu Guoqiang nodded with satisfaction, and then turned his head to look at the stunned crowd, and he asked with a smile.

"Gong Zhixian, how is it, has the boat been bought?"