Chapter 142: Untitled
To be honest, Su Xiaocai still doesn't have any bottom in his heart about this kind of thing...... It's just a little impression from memory, plus my own imagination to construct this thing, and now all I have to do is experiment......
Su Xiaocai believes that this kind of thing is not a sophisticated thing, and has a sense of advancement, and designs the general direction and style, and other things can be handed over to the craftsmen here, changing little by little, and after doing it a few times, he will always make a qualified cannon ......
All that needs to be done now is to load the medicine, load the bullets, and shoot it out......
Su Xiaocai commanded the men to start with the smallest cannon and continue to the largest iron barrel, filling gunpowder and solid iron balls, stone balls, tile balls and hollow earth-shaking thunder......
As for how much medicine to load, what kind of range this dose will reach, Su Xiaocai has no number in his heart, this is to go through the test, master the skills little by little, so as to control the range and accuracy......
Thunder! It's even louder than thunder......
People who didn't even have time to cover their ears in front of them had been buring for a long time and were temporarily deaf......
Within a radius of dozens of miles, flocks of birds flew into the sky and circled, and wild beasts fled deeper into the mountains...... The big and small bandits in the mountains, the homeless people who came here to beg for a living, the villages and markets dozens of miles outside the mountains, many people were shocked and trembled......
"Oh my God......"
Everyone thought it was incredible when they saw the solid bullet being hit two miles away, and the hollow bullet also exploding two miles away......
Di Wen's ears were buzzing, so his voice was extraordinarily loud: "Not to mention how lethal this thing is, this sound alone is enough to make the little man so scared that his ass is urinating......"
Di Sanniang, Lu Hanfang, Daddy Mu, Mu, Yu Chi's father and son, and others listened to people's persuasion, so they covered their ears and finally slowly recovered from their panic!
"Heavenly ......" Lu Hanfang's white beard trembled violently, "Let's just imagine, if there was a group of enemies swarming in front of them, how would they all be doing now?" ”
"Shoot so far, even if the imperial army comes to suppress it, their best bed crossbow can't shoot so far, so we can press them to fight......
And these things you designed have different ranges and different powers, just from far to near, we can cover and fight all the time!"
Di Wen couldn't do it in the end, he could see through the essence of Su Xiaocai's designs at a glance......
Di Sanniang's eyes were very complicated, except for the horror she showed at the beginning, she didn't say a word from beginning to end, no one knew what she was thinking, but it was obvious that she was really shocked......
As for the others, their mouths are wide open, they can't close for half a day, and their minds should be blank......
The first batch of people who charged and lit the fire were already scared stupid, and their buttocks were urinated, and they were taken down...... So they were replaced by a group of warriors, all of whom were stupid and bold who volunteered among the minions, and they were fully prepared before the listing this time.
The previous charge was a bit small, and according to Su Xiaocai's estimate, the power of these cannons should be increased a little more......
So this time I filled a little more gunpowder, and the people I lit the fire, because they were prepared, so after they lit it, they ran to the side and covered their ears......
Thundered......
Thundered......
After another loud bang, the big guys, who were cast thick and clumsy, were bounced off by the powerful recoil......
Indeed, this time the range is a little farther! And the most important thing is that these stupid and bold new ones, because they have mastered the essentials and know that igniting a fire behind our thing will not hurt themselves, so they are not so cowardly and panicked in their hearts......
After launching, they can also reset and reload immediately......
Everyone who watched gradually got used to it, and everyone finally began to talk about it......
After more than a dozen rounds of experiments, these stupid boldnesses who were responsible for loading and igniting finally looked like gunners, calm, calm, and familiar with their movements......
And gradually grasp how much dose to shoot, how far, adjust the angle, can change the range and power, and so on......
The people gradually practiced it, but there were several cannons, and they had already exploded...... If there is no explosion, the crack has been shaken open and can no longer be used......
Fortunately, after having coke, the technology of refining wrought iron has also been relatively mature, so the outer layer of these barrels, Su Xiaocai specially designed and hooped wrought iron rings, this design can delay the time of blowing up the barrel and improve the service life of the barrel, and even after the explosion, the broken barrel will be bound by these wrought iron rings, and will not splash and hurt his own people......
Su Xiaocai was already very satisfied with this result, after all, it was already very unexpected that this thing could still have such an effect!
These things were made by himself with a little impression in his memory and his own imagination, and he couldn't be sure if he could fight before the experiment! And whether it will blow up in a single hit, he can't be sure!
It's a real surprise to be able to get this effect now!
With this good start, the next step is just a step by step improvement......
The change in the properties of steel, the blacksmith at this time, Ming didn't understand, Su Xiaocai didn't dare to say. But he himself understands that it is just a matter of changing the carbon content of the iron......
Now we need to improve from two aspects, on the one hand, the material, the carbon content in the iron is too high, then it is not a steel with good toughness, but a very brittle pig iron...... Therefore, in the process of making wrought iron into steel, he had to learn to control the carbon content, and at this point, he had to try again with the blacksmiths to determine a process......
The second aspect is, of course, the casting process, if the casting process is not good, there will be cracks in the barrel of the casting, and it is easy to blow up the chamber after a few shots......
After Su Xiaocai put forward his ideas to the blacksmiths, it was up to them to experiment, and Wei Chiqi was extremely interested in what Su Xiaocai said, and his father forced him to read for a few days, so he wrote down these essentials on the wooden board with charcoal......
In Anluo County, the old man of the Liang family was sitting in a dim room, coughing, and coughing very violently, and the whole person arched up, like a cooked prawn......
This old man is a person who has been strong all his life, he has always wanted the wind to be windy, to be rainy, and he has never encountered any major events, which makes him feel so heartwarming, it doesn't matter if he loses something, it doesn't matter if he dies some people, and even if he dies three sons, it's nothing......
What they have done with these sons, they know in their hearts that they have done these things, they have enjoyed the glory and wealth brought by doing these things, and they should pay the price for all this!
Besides, many people die every day in this world, and these dead people are all other people's sons! If someone else's son dies, why can't his own son die? So the old man's mind is still very open.
The only thing that he couldn't stand was this intense frustration! From the ancestral tomb being coveted and burned, to the thousands of people being killed and captured, the compound being blown to shreds, the granary being robbed and burned, and even the people who robbed the grain in the north of the city, in the end, they all went out of the city and followed the thieves up the mountain, all of which hit the old man too hard......
"Old lady, I have something to report to you......"
"If you have anything, why do you spit it out?"
"It's about Lao Ling Mountain again......" Butler Withered Rat said cautiously. The matter of Lao Lingshan has now become the old man's heart disease, as long as someone mentions these three words, he will do his best, roar and rage, scold for half an hour, and sometimes even beat people out of anger!
Therefore, few people dare to talk to him about the three words Lao Lingshan now.
However, the withered rat butler felt that the behavior on the mountain was too abnormal, and if he didn't say it, there might be serious consequences in the future, and he couldn't afford it! So, I still came in and told the old man.