Chapter Eighty-Three: A Temporary Solution
With a wave of his hand, the three Phoenix were unloaded, and the six-pounder guns equipped with Napoleon's cannon mounts were pushed up, and the shield car was directly pierced at 500 meters, and sawdust flew sideways. Flying like a shotgun. The medium-sized Franc cannon on the Feilai Mountain was also pushed up with a portable gun mount, using five-pound shells, and the shield car was also pierced at about 400 meters.
"This is the naval gun of the Fujian and Guangdong General Town Government, which was temporarily dismantled from the ship, and it is impossible for you to use, but I have some equipment here to sell to you, but I only accept silver and gold. Pay with gold at a 10% discount. Bring the plates and steel plates, as well as the grenades. Li Jing shouted to his subordinates.
Soon Li Jing's plate armor and rolls of one-millimeter carburizing hardened medium carbon steel plates were lifted over, "You can find someone to put on this plate armor and try it, the musket and bow and arrow can't be shot within three or five meters, the eye is just a slit, and the bow and arrow can't be helped." Wearing a thick cotton coat inside, it is cold over there anyway, and it can also resist the slashing of blunt objects to a certain extent. Wear plate armor and rush up, and you can pour fire oil on it. ”
Dong Zhongkui and the others looked at the large number of rolls of steel plates curiously, and they didn't know what to do with them.
Li Jing said: "Cut this well, use rivets, riveted on the outside of your car, it can resist the bow and arrow musket of the Eight Banners, and it will basically not shoot through." In addition, there is an empty door under your wheels, which is easy for people to pick up and shoot in the shins, so you can block it with this."
Qi Jin said: "If this steel plate is used under the wheel to protect the outside of the wheel, it can affect the passage of high and low roads, and the road outside the gate is not as smooth as the official road." ”
Li Jing said: "This is easy to do, you see this thing is called a fold, there is a shaft in the middle, you can turn it up and down, use the fold to rivet the steel plate up and down the wheel, turn over the steel plate below and hang it up when marching, put it down during the battle, I can also open a sliding window for the steel plate, the bottom of the car can lie down, stab the gun, and cut the enemy's calves and feet with knives and axes." ”
Bai Zaixiang picked up a grenade and said, "What is this grenade?" "The weight of this thing is seven catties, the explosive power of black fire / medicine is only one-seventh of T/NT, the power is insufficient, the wooden handle grenades during the Anti-Japanese War are about one pound, this can only achieve the killing effect of modern grenades by doing seven catties, but, such a large weight is still not far away, think about the shot put throwing in the student physical education class, the men's shot put is 7.2 kilograms, this grenade is equivalent to the weight of half a shot put. The men's shot put world record is only 23.2 meters, and the average person throws 10 meters is good. A student is considered to have passed a few meters.
This grenade is tightly bound by Li Jing with five catties of black/colored particle fire/medicinal first layer of cowhide, wrapped with a pound of steelmaking waste, steel slag and iron sand on the outside, and compacted with a 0.2 mm tinplate canned box, the wooden handle is made of a bamboo pole half a meter long, and the inside is a rope that is detonated by fire.
The grenade fire pipe is a glass powder inside the fire pipe, and the glass powder is wrapped in a ball of copper wire, one end of the copper wire is connected to the fire rope, and the other end is connected with the fuse and sulfur, and the friction between the copper wire and the glass powder is used to ignite the fuse and sulfur. This firing method was invented by the Gongxian Arsenal during the Anti-Japanese War, which was very safe and reliable, with an annual output of 3.8 million pieces during the Anti-Japanese War. Glass is also simple, and when the kiln is fired, glass beads similar to glass will be produced by the way, and it is not necessary to make transparent glass, there are many black glass beads in these waste materials of burning cement and porcelain. Just grind it into powder with a small stone mill.
The long handle is made of bamboo, because it is easy to open the inside, and it can be held with both hands, which is still farther than with one hand, and the long handle has the principle of leverage, and it can also be thrown far, and the landing point is accurate. In addition, if it is a sloping ground, it will not roll if it has a long handle. If it's round, throw it out and roll it back and blow yourself up. Also, throwing downhill may roll away.
Li Jing introduced: "Eight Banners likes a team of 30 people with four shield cars, and they surround themselves on all sides, and this thing is thrown in, and the effect is better in a confined space." But if you don't throw it far enough, it's not unlikely that it will blow yourself up. So you'd better buy plate armor. lest all the grenadiers become dead. ”
Chen Ce and the others also picked up these large lollipop-like things from the dozen or so grenades displayed on the table, and exchanged views with each other while observing.
Bai Zaixiang said: "Zhengyi, can you find a place to try the power." ”
"Okay, no problem" Li Jing asked people to tie pigs, cows, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese and other poultry and livestock to wooden stakes. Then he dug a pit with a diameter of five meters, and said to everyone: "Let's watch from fifty meters away, don't get too close, this thing is too powerful." Which of you has a strong man in the army, find a few? ”
All the generals are eager to try, especially a few aunts. Li Jing had no choice but to prevent them from pulling the fire and throwing it directly to see how far they could throw. As a result, Qin Liangyu was the tallest, with a net height of 186 cm, almost two meters in leather boots and a helmet, with long arms and long legs. Directly picked up with both hands and threw it out for nearly fifty meters. looked at Li Jing stupidly.
Qin Liangyu smiled and said, "Zhengyi, don't say that it's only seven catties, even if Aunt Qin picks you up, she can throw ten meters." Then Ma Xianglin also threw nearly 40 meters. Bai Zaixiang and the other three sisters are not less than thirty-five meters. That's almost the range of a modern grenade. Well, these from the southwest are ruthless. Li Jing said that he maliciously slandered in his heart, no wonder the toasts were short-lived, and so many widows inherited their husbands as toasts. With this physical fitness, no man can bear it.
In the afternoon, it is much worse to change to ordinary native soldiers, generally only about twenty meters, and the worst one only throws ten meters, this distance is very unsafe, so much black/gunpowder may hurt yourself.
This time, under the guidance of Li Jing, Qin Liangyu first pulled out the wax-coated waterproof cork at the bottom of the bamboo tube, and then put the cotton thread loop on his little finger, picked it up and threw it out, and the grenade accurately landed in the center of the stake ring of the poultry and livestock herd. After waiting for about three seconds to land, there was a loud bang, black smoke rose up, and everyone shrank their heads in fright.
When the smoke cleared, more than a dozen cattle and sheep were staggered, bleeding from their mouths and noses, and their bodies were full of shrapnel and steel slag cuts, and the poultry were all blown up, but not a single one was seen.
The generals were in a sensation, and they all squeezed up to throw a shot, Li Jing watched from the side, to prevent accidents, these generals can not be less than thirty meters, they are all at a safe distance, and finally Bai Zaixiang's daughter, fifteen-year-old Ran Tianxue, also made a fuss about throwing it, but this girl was nervous and threw the grenade under her feet.
Everyone in the distance was frightened, Li Jing said that it was too late, it was fast, he picked up Ran Tianyi, ran ten meters at a speed of 100 meters and jumped into the dirt pit, and pressed Ran Tianyi under him. There was a loud bang outside, black smoke rising and sand flying everywhere. Bai Zaixiang and his two sons, Ran Tianyu and Ran Tianyun were anxiously red-eyed, and they wanted to rush over, but they were stopped by everyone.
When the smoke cleared, Ran Tianyi only hugged Li Jing on all fours like an octopus, and cried in fright. Although Li Jing was frightened by this dead girl at this time, he was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat, and he had already scolded this stupid girl in his heart. However, at this time, Wen Xiang Nephrite hugged her arms and unconsciously reacted. I couldn't help but feel ashamed and embarrassed, and my ears were red.
Everyone pulled out the two people who were almost buried in the sand, but Ran Tianyi still hugged Li Jing tightly and didn't let go, crying loudly. I can't pull it off. Everyone in the Ran family and the sisters of the Bai family were embarrassed. Li Jing's face was also flushed.
Ran Tianyi cried for a while, sobbing slowly, feeling as if there was something hard against herself, the girls at this time were precocious, and the ethnic minority girls in the southwest mountains were especially wild. suddenly understood something, and quickly let go of Li Jing and ran away covering his face.