"Pencil!"

Again, when drawing the pattern, Zhu Mingzhong missed the most common pencil in later generations, and he was accustomed to the hardness and thickness of the pencil, and he hated charcoal!

Charcoal is not fine enough!

This is what Zhu Mingzhong dislikes the most, the lines he draws are too thick, so that it affects his drawing, and what he needs is a pencil.

"When you settle down, you'll have to get a pencil out anyway!"

For the invention of the pencil, Zhu Mingzhong does not think there is any difficulty, it is nothing more than graphite and clay squeezed into thin strips, sintered, and then wrapped in wood, the technique is simple and there is no difficulty, with the pencil, not only can you write, but more importantly, you can draw drawings.

Be sure to get the pencil out as soon as possible!

Again, when the charcoal pen in his hand was broken, Zhu Mingzhong muttered to himself.

Can't wait any longer!

Finally, after missing the tip of the charcoal pen several times, a structural drawing of a new gun carriage was presented on the drawing.

Artillery field!

In this era, although Europe has already invented the field artillery, however, the gun carriage is extremely primitive, the field of artillery, it is from the gun carriage, with the invention of the artillery in the hundreds of years, the structure of the gun carriage has progressed rapidly, from the cumbersome fixed gun carriage and four wheels, etc., gradually standardized to the first appearance in Burgundy triangular pitching gun carriage, and the rear artillery carriage gradually evolved from the heavy double-track straight line to the curved double-track, becoming lighter, and finally appeared Congreve monorail gun mount, the mobility of the field gun increased unprecedentedly.

And now, what Zhu Mingzhong painted is the Congreve monorail gun mount. Its technology is not complicated, it is actually a combination of wood and iron. But it is of great significance to field artillery, this simple structure of the artillery mount almost set off a revolution, and the mobility of field artillery is even better than that of infantry, which is also what Zhu Mingzhong pursues.

A few days later, among the craftsmen of Changzhou, a 700-pound gun was installed on a new monorail gun mount, although the gun carriage's nearly five-foot gun wheel was still a traditional Chinese wheel, but the screw-controlled height adjuster at the tail of the gun and the operating tools hanging on both sides of the gun carriage were undoubtedly revolutionary. The craftsmanship of this gun carriage is so good that even from the perspective of future generations, Zhu Mingzhong did not find any fault.

The gun carriage is important, but ...... Shells are more important, in this era of solid shells, the lethality of solid shells is extremely limited, according to the statistics of the Napoleonic era, the lethality rate of solid shells accounted for only 2.5% of the total casualties, and this is still the highest data, the lowest is not even 0.2%.

If you want to make the most of the power of artillery, you have to use it on the shells.

Recalling the information related to the front-loading gun, Zhu Mingzhong drew the patterns of grenades, howitzers and other shells on the paper, and even drew the pattern of the woodpipe fuze, the technology of the woodpipe fuze is very simple, but it is a wooden pipe filled with gunpowder, and the role of the woodpipe is the time fuse, which is cut short according to the enemy's distance during the shelling, and ignites the fuse with the help of the fire of the cannon flame when the artillery is fired.

However, this does not mean that there is no technical difficulty, and now, what Zhu Mingzhong needs is a weapon with lower technical difficulty, after all, time ...... His time is limited!

And in this era, the use of grenades, in itself, carries a certain risk .......

"General, when making this gun carriage, that is, this screw was difficult to make, and later, thanks to the expert in making guns, he used his wire to turn the tail of the gun to make the screw ......."

For Wang Xianli, who has been promoted to the general of the craftsman battalion, he always seems very cautious in front of the general. However, Zhu Mingzhong doesn't care about this, all he cares about is whether his design can be manufactured.

"This is the front car and the ammunition car?"

Zhu Mingzhong walked to another vehicle that looked like a four-wheeled carriage, they were two cars, that is, the ammunition car and the front car were assembled together, and they were actually two separate vehicles. On the ammunition car there was also a spare wheel, which was indispensable in the years when there were no rubber tires. The wheels on the front car and the ammunition car used on the gun carriage were universal. It also plays the role of carrying personnel when towing the march.

With them, together with the Congreve monorail gun mount, flexible and maneuverable field artillery will appear in this era, but there is still a distance from real field artillery. In addition to the more flexible artillery mount, the shells of field artillery are also extremely important.

"Is that tin sheet made?"

"General, the villain is trying to tell you about this, this iron sheet has to be hammered out with wrought iron, the villain has calculated that even if everything is added together, a small number of iron cans will cost two coins of silver, too expensive, and it is also a waste of time and power to fight, so, so ......"

Wang Xianli looked at the general in front of him a little nervously, and then gritted his teeth and said.

"So the villain ordered people to use it, and used paper and paper to roll into a paper hole, although it was a little thicker, but, it could be the same as the iron sheet, it could, it could be rolled into a cylinder, it could be loaded with lead, at most, at most, it was less than a dozen leads, and if some were added, the lead would not be less."

Paper tubes?

Looking at the paper tube in his hand in surprise, Zhu Mingzhong only felt a little incredible, he just thought that during the Civil War, the shotgun was packed in an iron can, and there was a wooden stopper fixed with screws under the iron can, and below it was a fixed gunpowder packed in linen, and the rate of fire of this fixed cannonball was much faster than that of bulk cannonballs in this era. With a tin canister as a stock, the range of the projectile is also increased, making it one of the most effective shells on the battlefield.

Compared with the grenades and shrapnel with a certain technical difficulty, Zhu Mingzhong chose a cascading shotgun with a simpler technology and even no technical difficulty.

"Paper bullets?"

First glanced at the rather hard paper tube, and then looked at Wang Xianli, Zhu Mingzhong asked in surprise.

"Will this work?"

The answer is, of course, yes, after all, in the shotguns of later generations, the butt is just plastic, and the purpose of the butt is to restrict the distribution of shotguns at close range, and the paper cartridge can fully meet the needs of being a lead pellet containment, at most it is only thickened at the bottom of the cartridge.

"Okay, General, it will definitely work!"

Holding the thick paper tube glued out of the paste, after a little soo, Zhu Mingzhong said to Wang Xianli with great interest,

"Okay, let's try it, let's go, drag the cannon, let's try it outside the city......"

As soon as Zhu Mingzhong's words fell, someone over there rushed to report.

"General, the order sent by the Great General has arrived!"

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