Chapter 75

A piece of gum-coated mulberry paper three inches wide and several feet long, under the hands of the female workers holding wooden washboards, It was rolled into a thin paper tube with a diameter of about one minute (3.3 mm) several feet long, and while the paper tube was still glued, the female worker attached seven or eight cotton threads to the medicine tube and began to wrap the paper tube, and after the wrapping was completed, a layer of laminated paper was attached, followed by a layer of cotton thread painted with tung oil, and after repeated twice, the paper tube with a thickness of a little finger was made, and the processed paper tube was dried directly on the dark charcoal stove, and after drying, it was sent to another shed.

In this shed, the paper tube is placed on the suspension, and after it is straightened, the female worker standing on the suspension uses a small funnel to load the fine powdered black medicine into the paper tube, and tamps it with a thin wire while loading, and it takes nearly half an hour to make a three-foot-long medicine tube. These are the fuses, and when they are ready, they are sent directly to other workshops for later use.

However, at this time, Zhu Mingzhong did not supervise the manufacture of gunpowder there, but stayed in the workshop to ponder the grenade, which looked no different from the German-style grenades of later generations, except that the shell was replaced with cast iron up to 6 mm thick, and the iron shell was cast with grooves, which was made with reference to the "seven-man back" in the militia explosion manual.

"Seven people back" refers to the equipment for manufacturing grenades, only seven people are needed to divide labor, and the back is to go, the division of labor of seven people is generally modeling, iron, casting, processing the handle, if the seven people are proficient in operation, close cooperation, from ignition iron, to the first grenade made only half an hour.

Just like now, in just one day, hundreds of cast-iron shells of grenades have been cast. Although the grenade looks extremely simple and easy to manufacture, it still encounters some problems when it comes to practical use.

"Hereby ......"

The grenade thrown out emitted white smoke, one, two, three...... It took more than 20 seconds for the grenade to make a muffled sound, because there was no fire pipe, so the fuse could only be used, and the fuse could be installed in a 7-inch long wooden handle, and it would take at least 20 seconds from ignition to explosion.

"The fuse burns almost a centimeter in a second, and such a long wooden handle ......"

Looking at this "pointed" grenade, Zhu Mingzhong's brows furrowed. This fuse burned for too long.

"Why don't you shorten the wooden handle? So it makes the line of fire shorter? ”

Zhu Mingzhong, who was frowning, was holding a grenade that weighed almost a pound, and because of its weight, it could only be thrown ten zhang away, if the wooden handle was shortened.

"My lord, if you ......"

Listening to Zhu Mingzhong's self-talk, Zhao Shiqi looked at the "explosive thunder" in the wooden box, and said tentatively.

"If you always think that this twist grows in a wooden handle, then why don't we put it on the iron head!"

Mounted on an iron head!

Zhao Shiqi's suggestion made Zhu Mingzhong's eyes suddenly light up, and another kind of grenade from Germany in later generations even appeared in his mind, that kind of grenade, isn't it just a fire pipe installed on the top, in this case, it may explode in four or five seconds. In this way, it can also reduce the cost, after all, the time for processing the wooden handle is much reduced.

"Okay! Zhao Dongjia, just do it, but ......"

Holding the grenade, Zhu Mingzhong looked at the top and gestured with his fingers, without the protection of oil-soaked wood pipes and oiled paper, how can this fuse prevent moisture? If it is damp, Shi Ji thinks of the lid of some liquor in later generations.

"Well, in addition to turning the twist to the iron head, you can also install a pottery cover on it, and the pottery cover is sealed with glue, and when you use it, directly break the pottery cover, and then ignite it, which can not only prevent moisture, but also insure!"

There's a box of grenades, and it's clearly a box of liquor!

It doesn't matter if it's a grenade or a liquor, anyway, when the fight starts, Lao Tzu just throws thousands of grenades over, and blows up his mother, first blow you up to slag, and then he will charge with a bayonet.

In this day and age, who can withstand such an attack?

Zhu Mingzhong didn't know if others could block such a bayonet charge, but it was certain that at least it would be difficult for the green battalion soldiers to block such a grenade and bayonet charge.

"One, two, three...... Throw"

On the training ground, with the sound of the password, a platoon of soldiers held grenades in one hand, and after a period of running, the grenades were thrown out.

"Twenty-three zhang ......"

"Eighteen zhang ......"

"Sixteen zhang ......"

After each platoon of soldiers throws out a grenade, someone will measure the distance they throw, and each grenade corresponds to the same number as the one on the soldier.

"How, how far did I throw it?"

Wu Pin asked a little nervously, the reason why he was so nervous was because he needed money so much, yesterday, the garrison sent a notice to recruit grenadiers, and the grenadiers' salary was one or two or eight cents a month. And the first requirement for grenadiers is to throw far. For Wu Pinyong, who has great arm strength, he does not doubt that he can throw twenty zhang, but these twenty zhang is just a criterion for selection.

"It's more than thirty-one feet, you kid, what are you doing throwing so far, what if you hit someone?"

Wu Pinyong, who knew that he had thrown this distance, knew that he had passed the first level and was more accurate than the next. The first is as simple as throwing a grenade into a one-foot square box, which is made of lime.

Wuzhang ...... Throw in

Ten Zhang...... Throw in

Fifteen zhang ...... Throw into ......

Twenty zhang ...... Throw it in!

When Wu Pinyong threw the grenade into the frame from twenty zhang away, when he stood at the position of twenty-five zhang, not to mention the ordinary soldiers around him, together with Zhu Mingzhong, he was also attracted by the soldier in the field who could throw the grenade nearly 100 meters away, and he also came to the field, and now, it depends on his accuracy.

In the crowd of onlookers, Wu Pinyong took a deep breath, and after a run, the grenade in his hand was thrown out violently, a beautiful parabola was drawn in the air, and then it landed accurately in the center of the lime frame.

"Good!"

Almost at the moment when the grenade fell into the frame, Zhu Mingzhong immediately applauded him, and amid the cheers of the people around him, Zhu Mingzhong walked up to the soldier who looked to be in his thirties, and asked with a smile.

"Try a distance of thirty zhang?"

The garrison lord's order, Wu Pinyong dared to refuse.

Thirty zhang, although Wu Pinyong can throw it farther, but this is throwing thirty zhang into that box, can it work?

There was a grenade on the ground in front of Wu Pinhug, and he was preparing: turning his waist, throwing his arms, and then leaning over to pick up the grenade, while quietly staring ahead, and then his eyes narrowed into a thin slit, he was aiming at the target.

Then he took a few steps back, stopped, and then stared ahead. After a while, Wu Pinyong strode forward to run, sideways, threw his arms, turned his body, his arms straightened, and his whole body tensed backwards like a full bow.

A small black dot flew forward in the clear sky, like a small bird, flying very high and very slowly, like the trajectory of a cannonball, forming a graceful parabola, and finally landed exactly in the box.

At that moment, there was an applause in the entire school field, and in the applause, Zhu Mingzhong, who also seemed very excited, patted Wu Pinhug's shoulder hard.

"Okay, good, from now on, you are the commander of the grenadier battalion,"

As soon as he heard that he had been promoted, when Wu Pinyong was about to kneel down and thank him, Zhu Mingzhong said again.

"Don't forget to thank you first, the soldiers under my Zhu Mingzhong command are not easy to do, let you be the commander, just want you to bring out hundreds of grenadiers like you, how about it, can you do this errand?"

Wu Pinyong, who had just been promoted, immediately knelt down on one knee and bowed as soon as he heard the errand ordered by the adult.

"Please rest assured, if the villain can't do this errand, the villain, the villain, please ask the adult to cut off the villain's head!"

Wu Pinyong's military order made Zhu Mingzhong laugh.

"Your head, what's the use of me cutting it off, leave your head and do a good job!"

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