Chapter Eighty-Eight: Grenades

Pei Ge'an soon encountered the biggest problem of modern people after they arrived in ancient times, that is, it was difficult to combine theory and reality.

She knew how every product was supposed to be, but when she was asked to do it, she was in a quandary.

Although the ancients had a strong practical spirit, or the ability to imitate, it was a new product, and even if there was theoretical guidance, they stumbled.

The waterwheel can smoothly drive the grinding disc and even the textile machine, because they are no strangers to the waterwheel, and they are no strangers to the textile machine.

The linkage devices are all large, and with the drawings according to the drawings, they can also be imitated.

But the concept of a grenade is not available to everyone, and Pei Gean only knows the principle, and does not understand the dimensions of all aspects.

So, when she confidently came to the workshop in the western suburbs to make a grenade, she found that she was about to collapse.

The wooden handle of the grenade was made last year and is almost indistinguishable from the wooden handle grenade of World War II.

In ancient times, although the processing of steel parts lacked capacity, the processing of wood could be even more cumbersome.

It's just a hollow wooden stick that can be done by any carpenter.

According to the drawings she gave, her brother Pei Feng and Pei Yun also hammered out more than twenty cylindrical sleeves with pig iron.

The base of the sleeve can't be beaten, but this problem is not big, first knock out a round iron sheet, put it on the wooden handle, and fix the iron sheet and the sleeve with iron sheet from the outside.

By the time the Jinyi Guard came to want, the craftsmen had already made a thousand training bullets with a similar weight.

The training bomb is filled with sand and weighs not much different from a normal grenade, except that it does not explode.

However, when the explosives are mixed with iron filings to form ammunition, which are then combined with the leads ignited by white phosphorus, the seemingly simple process does not meet the requirements.

After a busy morning, dozens of pieces of white phosphorus paper made of cardboard were already placed on the ground, and on the white phosphorus paper, hemp rope was repeatedly folded and then glued to it.

Murong Defeng, as the general of the Jinyi Guard Firearms Battalion, participated in this project at the same time with a team of specially selected grenadiers.

These grenadiers were all men of incredible arm strength selected yesterday to throw grenades, capable of throwing grenades over 50 meters.

Generally, an untrained person can throw thirty meters, which is already very far.

In addition to them, a large group of officers followed, but until noon, no qualified grenades were assembled.

Either the white phosphorus was not ignited, or the lead point was not gunpowder, and there was even an accident.

It's not that it exploded before it was thrown, but that the craftsmen were watching the joke, and one of the craftsmen snuck in and almost got hit on the head with a grenade.

Pei Ge'an carefully inspected the grenade in his hand again, the gunpowder was compacted, but a ventilation hole was left.

The shell is also relatively satisfied with the air-tightening, and there is no gunpowder leakage.

The white phosphorus cardboard was glued to the grip of the wooden handle, and the upper and lower positions of the lead were not shifted.

Handing the grenade to Murong Defeng, she said solemnly: "Marquis Yu, try again." ”

Murong Defeng said with a smile: "Don't worry, I will definitely hit the target." ”

Thirty meters away from them, there were several scarecrows on the ground wrapped in cloth.

Before seeing the explosion, even the elite of Lu Duoson's era only thought that it was training to smash people with iron bumps.

Murong Defeng followed the steps of the training, stood a lunge, and then stood up straight and moved his body.

Then, holding the wooden handle in his right hand, he found the hemp rope with his left hand, and with a sharp pull of his left hand, he was rubbed by the hemp rope that was glued to the white phosphorus paper, igniting the white phosphorus paper, and then lighting the lead.

Pei Ge'an shouted: "Lose." ”

Murong Defeng saw the wooden handle in his hand smoking, first took half a step back, pressed his body down, and then stepped forward and lunged forward.

With the power of this whole body, he threw the grenade in his hand far away, and the grenade drew an arc in the air, and then landed on a scarecrow with precision.

He smiled, and before he could be satisfied, he heard a loud bang.

Then, two carpenters carrying a log, still twenty meters from the shooting range, let out a scream and threw the wood off their shoulders.

Lu Duoxun was still communicating with Tian Hu, the chamberlain in charge of the carpentry battalion, about the textile machine, although he was in charge of military equipment, and the textile was not under his control, but in his opinion, the design of this kind of textile machine, especially the linkage device, must be kept secret.

The waterwheels and interlocks that are now being tested by the river, as well as the new spinning machines and looms, must be protected from being seen by outsiders.

If you want to let the Liao Dynasty and the people of the Southern Tang Dynasty learn, it will be a threat to the Great Song Dynasty.

Especially in the Southern Tang Dynasty, their economy is more developed than that of the Great Song Dynasty, and their textiles are also more developed, so they must not be allowed to learn secretly.

Then, a loud bang shook them, and they turned to look to see that several scarecrows on the other side of the shooting range had fallen, and a huge cloud of dust rose into the air.

Their mouths opened wide in surprise......

Pei Ge'an, who had been anxious for a long time, finally breathed a sigh of relief, and snorted lightly with a little smugness: "Go over and see how the effect is." ”

But all of them just turned their heads to look at her, and their bodies remained motionless.

This made her even more proud, and she said, "What is this, in the future, I will make you a bomb that can blow down the city wall in one fell swoop." ”

Lu Duosun was the first to react, and as soon as he brushed up the hem of his clothes, he strode towards the shooting range, still shouting: "This is a military secret, strictly protected!" ”

At the range, the cloth wrapped around the two scarecrows in the center had been torn open by the shockwave, revealing the straw inside.

The other scarecrows, wrapped in tattered cloths, were full of holes.

A carpenter cried. "My second uncle is injured......"

Everyone was shocked, originally they thought that the two carpenters were frightened, could it be that they were bombed?

Lu Duosun hurriedly ran over, only to see a teenage carpenter with a frightened face, crying at a middle-aged man who fell to the ground.

An iron thistle was stuck in his thigh, and only one tip could be seen, and blood was pouring out.

"Doctor Workshop...... Come and put him over. ”

A group of carpenters came running quickly, and the chief shouted: "It's enough to go to four people, all of them go to see the excitement, and they can't do any more work!" ”

Ludosun stood at the place where the carpenter had been injured and visually measured the position of the shooting range, about six or seven feet.

When Pei Ge'an heard that the carpenter was injured, he also ran over and was relieved to see that he was only injured in the leg and not in the bones. "Tian Hu."

Tian Hu hurriedly hunched over and trotted over. "Big Sister ......"

"This carpenter is also considered a work injury, and the workshop will be responsible for the treatment, and he will be compensated with two yuan of money."

Tian Hu is Liu Xiao's apprentice, and he thought that his master had been demoted and went to the farm.

He made iron knives from the farm, and later came to Xiangyang to take charge of the carpentry camp, and he has been involved.

Liu Xiao is respectful to Pei Ge'an, and he is even more careful with her than with Zhao Dezhao, Tian Hu will naturally not be uninteresting.

He smiled and said, "Yes, I will do it immediately after the next order, this guy can be regarded as a blessing in disguise." ”

Pei Ge'an knew that the current gunpowder was not very powerful, and almost relied on the blasting of the pig iron cylinder to stun the enemy. So she deliberately filled the ammunition with nearly one-fifth of the thistle terrestris to increase the destructive power.

The destructive power of these thistles is amazing, and they fly randomly without a target, and now they fly twenty meters away, which is also beyond her expectations.

"Big Sister ......"

Pei Ge'an looked up and smiled: "Lu Bingcao." ”

Lu Duosun said excitedly: "Eldest sister, such a simple iron pimple has such power, it is really unimaginable. The manufacturing process of this iron lump must not be passed on......"

Pei Ge'an nodded and said: "This is called a grenade, the most important thing in this is gunpowder, now saltpeter is controlled in our hands, others just learn it, without saltpeter, it is difficult to produce it in large quantities." By refining nitrate from urine pits, not much gunpowder can be produced. ”

Nowadays, firecrackers are still rare and expensive, mainly because saltpeter is hard to find.

In fact, there are saltpeters and nitrate clay in various places, but the number is very small.

Ludosun also knew this, but he thought that since firecrackers could be produced everywhere, it meant that other people could still produce gunpowder.

Da Song has mastered this process, and he can hide it for as long as he wants.

"Eldest sister, although others have a small output, it is not nothing, so you should be careful. I'll have people come up with a strategy to keep the process a secret. ”

Pei Ge'an smiled: "This is your responsibility, I won't care." But where it went, this was the simplest weapon I've ever made, and there were more powerful ones to come. ”

Lu Duosun asked tentatively: "Where did the eldest sister learn this? ”

Pei Ge'an is not a real little girl, she glanced at Lu Duoxun and said with a smile: "The second brother taught me." ”

No matter how good Lu Duosun is in history, it will be later, and now he is only a thirty-year-old "young man", and he has not really reached the peak of his life.

Because of his strong ability, he sees farther than others, and he habitually thinks more about the connections behind many things.

With these new technologies, he can already see that the future Great Song Dynasty has countless steel, countless cloth, and powerful force.

If there was such a grenade, even if it was the iron cavalry of the Liao Dynasty, the Song Dynasty would not be afraid.

And that's just the beginning?

Looking at the little girl in front of him, Lu Duosun had already made up his mind, this thigh must be hugged tightly.

Later in the afternoon, Wang Pu and Cai Lingxing went to the cement and steel mills together and arrived at the carpentry factory on the south bank of the Han River.

And at this time, the same grenade has already been made in dozens, and more than twenty have been tested.

Every time, find the problem, find the problem, and solve the problem.

When the two old men, who were a hundred years old, saw this powerful grenade, they both thought that they had found a way to deal with the cavalry, and they were excited.

The sixteen states of Yanyun, there is hope for recovery!