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A handful of clay guns made of cast iron pipes.

In fact, it is not a clay gun, it can only be regarded as an arquebus.

The barrel is about one meter and two meters long, one inch in diameter, half an inch in diameter, and there are three slightly raised rings on it, which are fixed to the body of the gun made of thick wood with iron hoops.

Chen Xu took this arquebus and looked at it over and over, and sighed a little helplessly, not to mention the weight, this gun is at least more than four kilograms, and the most important thing is that this thing is actually not a gun, at most it is a burning stick.

But in any case, this is a firearm in the true sense of the word, it relies on gunpowder as a power, and then it can fire out projectiles, and the power needs to be slowly verified.

"Master Hou, do you think it's suitable?" Gong Shengsheng stood next to him nervously and asked.

"It looks okay, but you don't know until you've used it!" Chen Xu poked the barrel of the gun a few times with a stabbing strip, and felt that the inside was very smooth and smooth, so he ordered a wooden plank about the height of a person to be erected forty zhang away as a target, and then put the gun on a tripod made of bamboo the thickness of three arms, and after looking at the wooden board for a few times, he instructed Sun Shujiong to take the gunpowder he brought from the carriage.

First insert a three-inch-long lead through the fuse hole, then use a small bamboo tube filled with most of the two gunpowder poured into the barrel mouth, poke it with a stabbing rod, and then put a few small pebbles the size of mung beans into it, and then poke it a few times with the poke rod, and then put the barrel on the tripod again.

Ma Gong, Gong Sheng, Yingbu, Sun Shujiong and several guards all stood beside them, watching Chen Xu tinkering with an iron pipe in confusion.

They didn't understand what Master Hou was doing.

However, adhering to the regulations of the Academy of Sciences that Chen Xu didn't say that they couldn't ask casually, they could only stare at them one by one.

Chen Xu put the butt of the gun on his right shoulder, squinted his left eye and aimed at the wooden board along the barrel, the barrel shook slightly a few times and felt that it had been aimed, so he ordered: "Help me light the fuse!" ”

"Yes!" Yingbu put a red-hot wooden stick that had been prepared a long time ago into the lead, the lead was ignited and burned quickly, with the sound of popping and a faint green smoke, the lead quickly became shorter and shorter, and Chen Xu's mood became more and more nervous, and there was sweat on his forehead.

Nima knows if he will blow up the chamber, so he should let someone else test the gun.

When it was too late, the three-inch-long lead burned to the position of the fuse in a moment, and then burned in under the gaze of seven or eight pairs of eyes.

"Boom~"

With a burst of fire and thick green smoke spewing out from the muzzle, Chen Xu only felt a huge recoil force coming from the butt of the gun, and his body leaned back, and the arquebus almost fell to the ground.

And this sudden loud noise and change made the onlookers retreat in fright, and looked at Chen Xu with frightened faces, and the rest of the factory was alarmed by the sound, and many people ran out in fear to watch the training ground, but when they saw that it was Qinghehou, some stewards began to loudly scold the craftsmen and helpers to go back to work.

Nima drops a gourd scoop, why is it so powerful.

Chen Xu grinned and plucked his ears with his fingers, the loud bang just now, he felt that his head was buzzing, and at the same time, he looked at the barrel carefully, fortunately, there was no sign of cracking and exploding.

"Help me hold it!" Chen Xu didn't have time to wait for his ears to calm down, handed the arquebus in his hand to Yingbu, and then pulled out his legs and ran towards the wooden target, looking carefully on it for a long time, and finally happily saw a small pit at the very edge of the middle of the plank, half of the stone embedded in it had been broken into slag, and it fell down when he touched it with his hand, and he went up and sniffed it with his nose, and he could smell the faint smell of gunpowder burning.

It hit!

This result made Chen Xu himself inexplicably excited.

Although only one stone was hit on the wooden plank, which was six feet high and two feet wide, this stone was half a centimeter deep, which shows that the power of this gun is not small, and if it is replaced with lead bullets or iron bullets, it is estimated that the power is much greater, because the small stones are not hard enough, and they will be shattered directly after hitting the board.

And Chen Xu looked back, the distance of forty zhang is almost ninety meters away in later generations, and it is obviously lethal, it can be seen that this distance musket is much more powerful than the light one, because the range of the light one is only seventy or eighty meters away, and the effective range is no more than fifty meters, and the power of the two is high.

The only advantage is that the light is more convenient than the arquebus, and it can shoot at any time without fear of wind, frost, rain and snow, but it is an inch long and an inch strong on the battlefield, and the gun can be equipped with more than ten iron sand projectiles, which can form a scattered attack surface, and the attack area of dozens of meters away can reach a radius of several meters.

Chen Xu returned to the test gun position with excitement on his face, carefully poked the barrel with a poke rod, and then turned the barrel upside down and knocked it a few times, and found that there was no residue after the gunpowder was burned, which shows that the gunpowder was also developed more successfully, the only regret is that the smoke is relatively strong, but this is no way to do it, before the invention of smokeless gunpowder, the musket camp on the battlefield has always been thick smoke, if it is against the wind, the soldiers who shoot can not see their companions and enemies clearly.

The second time he tried the gun, Chen Xu reduced the gunpowder a little.

He had seen a firecracker, but he had never fought before, and he didn't know how much gunpowder was more appropriate, but he felt that the sound and recoil of the first gun were a little loud.

"Boom~"

Soon with a burst of fire and smoke erupting from the muzzle, the fire gun sounded again, Chen Xu's reaction this time was much more stable than the first time, his body just trembled slightly and then handed the earth gun to Yingbu, and then ran to the front of the wooden target again, only to see that there were three more small pits scattered on it, and the small stones that were projectiles were all shattered into slag.

Chen Xu let out a long sigh of relief.

The wooden target is 90 meters away, and the shooting after using the tripod is quite stable, and a few of the more than ten scattered bullets still hit the wooden target after all, and this time the gunpowder is less, and the power does not seem to have weakened much, that is to say, this distance still has a certain lethality.

After returning, Chen Xu didn't bother to test the third gun.

His purpose this time was to verify the power of the firecracker, and now it had been achieved, and Chen Xu was a little worried about blowing up the chamber, it didn't matter if he killed others, it would be a joke to blow up his own immortal disciple.

"The effect is not bad, let's go, go to the workshop!"

Chen Xu took a group of people to the ironworks with a wave of his hand, and asked the hemp rod to take out all the parts made according to the drawings, and the hemp rod took out a wooden box, which contained fifty or sixty parts of various triggers, springs, hammers and tooth buckles.

"How did you build so much?" Chen Xu couldn't help but twitch and asked.

"Hey, hey!" The hemp pole rubbed his hands and smirked a few times, and said with a red face: "Master Hou, because these parts you designed are too small and complicated, so I have built a few more of each, and you can use which one suits you!" ”

Chen Xu couldn't help but laugh and picked out a set of parts and looked at it, and then measured the drawings with a ruler next to each other, especially after slamming the spring a few times with his hands, he nodded and said: "It looks good, it should be no problem, by the way, is the special barrel cast!" ”

"Back to Master Hou, there are more than ten roots cast in the barrel, but only three are used, I'll go get it for you!" Gong Losesheng hurriedly ran to the warehouse, and after a while, he came over with three iron pipes more than one meter long.

The barrels were all poured out of carbon steel, with a bore diameter and thickness similar to the arquebus just now, with a closed tail end, a small hole and an ear-like bulge on the side, which was the location of the ignition chamber, and there was a slot on it that could be inserted into a properly polished flint, and as long as the hammer hit the flint, it would produce a spark splash into the flint chamber.

Chen Xu carefully inspected the three barrels side by side, and found that they were all not bad, so he ordered: "Go and get the finished butt, and assemble it now!" ”

Soon a carpenter went and brought two finished butts.

The two butts look similar to the arquebus, but they are completely different, with a hole cut out in the side for the trigger and spring gears and other transmission excitation devices.

Found a quiet room, leaving only a hemp rod and a carpenter, under the command of Chen Xu, the two of them began to slowly install these parts on the butt according to the drawings, and the nails and hammers, clanging and turning over and over adjustments, it took an hour to finally install this flintlock musket, looking at this firearm that looked almost exactly the same as in later generations, Chen Xu breathed a long sigh of relief, wiped the sweat on his forehead with his sleeve, and then picked up the gun and aimed forward to try it, the gun was very heavy, four or five kilograms, The weight is mainly on the barrel.

Because it is cast, and in order to ensure that the barrel is strong enough, the thickness of the wall of the barrel is half a centimeter, and the aperture is also large, so this is a steel pipe, even if it is used as a cold weapon, it is enough to kill people.

The hammer is pulled up, accompanied by a slight click, and as the spring is pressed down, the tail end of the hammer is blocked by the trigger snap and is in a state of activation.

"Jesus God is on all walks of life, bless Lao Tzu to test the gun successfully, Amen!"

Chen Xu prayed to the gods of ancient and modern China and foreign countries in his heart, and then pulled the trigger!

Well......

Pushing harder, the trigger moved slightly.

Damn, is there any heavenly reason, two times without triggering, Chen Xu used two fingers, and then gritted his teeth and finally pulled the trigger.

"Bang~" Although the trigger was unusually jerky, it was finally pulled under the power of Chen Xu's two fingers, and with the movement of the machine, the hammer stuck on it was disengaged, and the hammer hit the flint above the fire chamber under the impetus of the spring, and under the violent impact friction, you can clearly see a spark coming out.

"Wahahahaha~" Chen Xu couldn't help but look up to the sky and smile, Amini is a Buddha, Lao Tzu is really a genius, and the musket really made Lao Tzu invent it.

Seeing Chen Xu's excited and slightly crazy appearance, Ma Pole and the carpenter excitedly began to wipe the cold sweat on their foreheads.

Hou Yexiao's mood changes were very intense, and he was a little crazy about losing his heart!

"If you win, go find some lead and help me make some bullets!" Chen Xu carried this flintlock musket that had appeared in the Great Qin Empire across thousands of years of time and space, and stepped out of the room with a majestic spirit like a victorious general and roared.

"Master Hou, there is a lead block warehouse, but how to make bullets?" The public loses and wins, and the fart comes up and asks.

"It's simple, melt the lead first, and then pour some bean-sized balls, and its practical iron can also be ......"

Gong Shengsheng almost cried after hearing this: "Master Hou, how can such a small round ball be cast?" ”

"I don't care how you cast, as long as I see the result, if you can't cast it within three days, you will die!" Chen Xu threatened viciously.

Originally, I felt that it was a very simple thing to cast a few small balls, but after the public won the victory, Chen Xu also felt a little bit difficult, and the mung bean-sized ball seemed to be unable to open the mold, but as a Hou Ye, he would not care about this kind of fucking problem, he just needed to see the result, as for how to solve this problem, it was not his business, the most important thing was that Chen Xu didn't know how to make such a small iron bullet.

However, Chen Xu believes that under the threat of terror, Gong Loser and a group of craftsmen will definitely be able to find a solution.