Since our traversers are all in their own roles and in their own areas of expertise, it didn't take long for the construction of the industrial zone and the construction of the steam gunboat to enter the fast lane.

Three or four days have passed since the start of the first phase of infrastructure construction in the industrial zone. This morning, in a wasteland outside the southern edge of Yangguan Town, near the bank of the Great River, Director Li, Director Wen, and the eldest young master of the Huang family were surrounding two metal objects that shimmered with a dull black luster.

"This is the cannon you forged? It looks like the quality is pretty good, and although your workshop isn't a modern factory, the production efficiency is quite high! The young master of the Huang family, who was a little neatly dressed, looked at the 32-pounder Caron cannon and an 8-inch mortar cannon in front of him, and was amazed.

"Our Wenjia Workshop has a good reputation in the area of Yangguan Town, and the quality of the production is far better than the defective products made by those handicraft workshops, and the production efficiency per unit time is also very high. Although the industrialization process has not yet begun, it is not a big problem to make a few qualified modern artillery! Director Wen was not modest at all, and said that Wenjia Workshop was "there is nothing in the sky and nothing in the ground".

In a few moments, a dozen men and porters from Wenjia's workshop flashed out of the dense reeds beside them, some of them carrying heavy-looking wooden boxes, and some of them carrying barrels with a capacity of about fifty liters.

"Oh, we've got our ammo!" Li Changting rubbed his hands excitedly, with a look of impatience on his face.

Every man sleeps a monster in his subconscious - a monster that craves violence and conquest. As a result, men have always had a special, inexplicable love and obsession with firearms such as guns. Because guns symbolize absolute power, but also symbolize the supreme power that can decide the life and death of others - this thrill of gaining power will make any male animal addicted to it.

Not to mention, our director Wen is a mechanic, and Director Li is a chemistry!

As the saying goes, every person who comes out of the mechanical profession is a potential black gun dealer, and every person who comes out of the chemical profession is a potential explosion enthusiast!

In this plane, all restrictions on the manufacture of firearms, artillery, and explosives no longer exist, how could the two directors not rejoice?

The crates and casks were soon opened, and inside the crates were round balls of shiny black oil, each the size of a medium bowling ball, and without exception there was a hole about the thickness of a finger in the outer shell, and a circle of moisture-proof leather pads around the edge of the hole, and a layer of oiled paper on it, which sealed the whole hole very securely.

"This is the cannonball you made?" The young master of the Huang family asked suspiciously.

"Or else? What else could this be if this is not a shell? Wen Tongxin replied angrily, "Both the Caron cannon and the mortar cannon can only shoot spherical shells, and it is not easy for us to make such a high-quality hollow iron ball!" What's more, this shell is just a consumable, and it is certainly not a long-term solution for us to use the purchased iron materials, so these shells are specially made for artillery testing! ”

"There are three types of ammunition that we are testing today: blasters, shrapnels, and shotguns. The blasting bomb is actually an early grenade, which is filled with explosives, and the bomb body can be detonated regularly after inserting the time fuse, of course, you must use the firing table to calculate the angle, distance and approximate flight time of the shell, so as to determine the length of the fuse. The internal structure of shrapnel is more complex and more difficult to make, but in general it is more effective in killing unprotected people. “

"If we still have a chance to make a heavy mortar gun with a caliber of more than 10 inches, we can even make a slow-fall grenade shotgun." Director Wen uncharacteristically smiled evilly, "It is to add a simple parachute bag above the round shrapnel and launch it with a strong charge at a large elevation angle, due to the problem of the center of gravity, the side with the parachute will definitely face up, and the entire shrapnel will slowly descend after opening." After reaching a certain height, the time fuse detonates the internal charge, at which point the metal shotgun projectiles concentrated in the half of the spherical shells close to the ground are projected vertically downward, sending a rain of steel to the opponent. “

"Why does this design sound so unreliable? Let's just talk about this parachute bag, how do you make sure that the flames of the gunpowder explosion do not ignite the parachute bag directly? Young Master Huang didn't seem to buy it.

"Tell me why you're so unimaginative?" Wen Tongxin said, "Of course, the umbrella bag is mounted on the outside of the shell shell, but the spherical shell has a cork butt, and the umbrella bag is protected by the butt when it is inside the gun chamber. It's not that complicated at all! “

"Okay, good, just when what you say is right, but as the old saying goes, don't look at the advertisement to see the cure! The cannon you cast is not up to standard, and it still has to be fired to count! The Huang family was still not convinced.

"Isn't that what we're here for today! Alright, stop talking nonsense, hurry up and start testing guns! “

A few Shui Yong sent by the Huang family to learn artillery skills quickly took out the dark brown medicine cake from the powder keg and used it according to the normal load. These medicine cakes are all maroon gunpowder made by Director Li adding reed crumbs and an appropriate amount of adhesive to the black medicine formula, and the deflagration reaction is more stable, and it is not easy to explode when used in large-caliber naval guns. What's even more interesting is that since the sulfur in the native plane and the sulfur in the original plane are not the same thing at all, the main ingredient of white smoke produced by the original black powder deflagration - potassium sulfide - is also different from the original plane. The original potassium sulfide was solid, so its particles floated in the air to form white smoke released by black medicine; The potassium sulfide in this plane is a gas, which means that the black powder deflagration in this plane is a chemical reaction in which all reactants are solid and all products are colorless gases. In this way, not only does the black powder of the original plane have very little residue left after the deflagration, but it also has its own smokeless powder effect!

This is also where the confidence of the three traversers dares to blatantly test the cannon on the river beach - without a lot of smoke, the probability of artillery exposure is much lower.

"One mortar! Conventional charges! No shells, twenty-five dense positions in the southeast, and an elevation angle of seventy degrees! Cannon assembly fill! The commander of the test gun, who was holding the red flag, waved the flag sharply and gave the command cleanly.

"This first shot was empty." Director Wen suppressed his voice and explained to the remaining two.

The entire artillery crew quickly went into action. Although the series of movements still seemed a little stiff, the Huang family's water warriors still accurately and quickly executed the series of steps of passing the medicine bag, cleaning the gun chamber with the chamber cleaning rod, loading the medicine bag, adjusting the horizontal direction, adjusting the vertical angle, and inserting the fire pull tube in the ignition hole, without making any mistakes.

"Gun crew ready!"

"Ready!!"

"Put !!"