The four pillars of smoke converged twenty feet away, and the smoke billowing from the target reminded people of the disaster that these four grenades thrown one after another would have brought if they were on the battlefield.

The scene in front of them stunned the onlookers, and they all jumped up excitedly, even cheering, cheering, and applauding to express their excitement.

If they had some doubts before, then now, there is no need to be suspicious, the grenade really does not need to be ignited, it just needs to be pulled casually.

Later, these generals of the army and navy all flocked to Dai Cang and asked him how many he had made now. They all looked at the grenades in the box with bright eyes, and they looked like they were going to take them all away.

"You don't have to worry about the quantity!"

Zhu Mingzhong greeted everyone and said with a smile on his face.

"You've seen it! This grenade is several times stronger than the old one, and most importantly is easy to use. Now that the military factory has successfully experimented, there is no need to worry about mass production. In the future, hundreds of them will be made every day, and nearly 20,000 pieces will be made in a month, and they will be issued to all battalions when the time comes, of course, first of all, the grenadiers will be the mainstay, and I have ordered someone to build a new grenade branch factory, specializing in the manufacture of hand grenades, and it is expected that after the new factory is put into operation, it can produce 3,000 pieces a day, and 1 million a year, there is no problem at all. When the time comes, the number of grenades in the army will naturally not be worried! ”

When everyone heard this, they all cheered again.

Zhu Mingzhong, who is well aware of the important role of the pull-out grenade on the battlefield, almost immediately after solving the problem of the production of potassium chlorate, ordered people to start building a new grenade factory, so as to meet the army's needs for grenades, and even he believes that in the future, the fighting methods of the loyal and righteous army will be fundamentally changed because of the invention of hand grenades, and may even change the direction of future wars.

While everyone was still immersed in the grenade, Zhu Mingzhong had already picked up a rifle on the table, which looked not much different from ordinary rifles.

Now the arsenal is no longer restructured into rifles, but to manufacture a new type of flintlock pistol that fires 7 money lead bullets, compared with 6 or 5 money flintlock pistols, it is more powerful, and the accuracy is more accurate, of course, the corresponding price is that its projectile is heavier, more gunpowder, but relatively speaking, it is worth it, and the projectile weighing 7 money can ensure that it penetrates the heavy protective armor, so as to achieve the purpose of killing and injuring the enemy.

"As we all know, the power of this 7 money flint is powerful, and the accuracy is extremely high, although it cannot be 100 shots within 30 zhang, but the hit accuracy can reach about 7 percent......"

For the 7 money flintlock pistol, the loyal army is extremely satisfied, not only its power, but more importantly because of its accuracy, compared with the original restructuring of the bird gun, its accuracy is higher, and the power is greater, naturally welcomed by the loyal officers and soldiers.

Zhu Mingzhong, who understands the direction of future weapons development, does not even doubt that this rifle, which is officially called the "14-year flintlock gun" but is also privately called the "7 Qian gun", is very likely to become a long-lived weapon - in the next one or two hundred years, it will be the standard equipment of the Chinese army, of course, there may be a firing version at that time, after all, now that potassium chlorate and thundermercury have been prepared, as long as necessary, the firing cap can be launched at any time.

"However, even so, the performance of the 7 money gun can only meet the general combat needs, some special needs can not be met, for example, sometimes on the battlefield we need a higher precision firearm, after all, sometimes, we need to be fifty or sixty zhang away or even more distance, to give the enemy an accurate attack, if we were in Suqian, we can kill Da Su with a shot from a distance of 100 zhang, it is estimated that the battle will not last for a few hours."

When the famous battle of the Loyal Army was mentioned, the generals laughed, and their smiles were a little proud, after all, they were the winners of that battle, and this smile is the smile of the victor.

"Therefore, since then, Zhu has been thinking of creating a new type of rifle, which must be accurate enough to pierce through a hundred steps and accurately hit the target from a distance of 100 zhang......

Under the gaze of the generals, Zhu Mingzhong took the rifle in his hand and said with a smile.

"Compared with the ordinary smoothbore gun, the spiral rifling can make the projectile rotate and fly stably in the air, improve the shooting accuracy and range, but, in this way, it brings a problem, because the projectile has to be rigged and rifled, so compared to the smoothbore gun, the projectile has to be tightly fitted with the gun, so that when loading, the shooter needs to insert the bullet into it, and then hit the bullet vigorously to stuff the bullet into the tail. The rifled gun is simply too slow to reload......"

Holding the rifle in his hand, Zhu Mingzhong's expression looked a little proud, on the one hand, the rifled gun was difficult to use, and on the other hand, it was the high precision of the smoothbore gun in seconds. Of course, no one is willing to give up an excellent rifled gun just like that. That's why the Baker flintlock pistol appeared in history, its bullets were covered with a layer of skin, the skin was much softer than lead, so it was easier to load, and during the Napoleonic Wars, those "green jackets" who used Baker rifles, the infantrymen famous for their green uniforms, used Baker rifles to inflict heavy losses on the French army.

In fact, at the beginning, Zhu Mingzhong was going to use a Baker rifle to increase the firing speed by wrapping leather on the outside of the bullet. Although Zhu Mingzhong from later generations knew that there was a simpler choice - the Migne bullet, but he did not choose this "big killer", the reason why he did not choose the Migne bullet, one of the most fundamental reasons, on the one hand, is based on the current stage of the technology of manufacturing rifling is not mature, the relatively backward processing technology makes the arsenal can not process the standard rifling, on the other hand, it also has a certain relationship with secrecy, after all, the principle of the Migne bullet is just a layer of window paper. When the technology is not mature, proper secrecy is necessary.

Because of this, Zhu Mingzhong finally chose another weapon, the Braunschweig rifle, but instead of firing a round projectile with a belt similar to a Hoch's ice ball, it borrowed from the conical "Kulikov" warhead used in the Russian Liege rifle, an imitation of the Braunschweig rifle.

Compared with the Braunschweig rifle, after Zhu Mingzhong's improvement, its caliber has become smaller, and the barrel has been lengthened, and the "Kulikov" warhead has also undergone some improvements, the bullet is more slender, and the bullet belt on its surface is similar to the prismatic cartridge belt on the French front-loading rifled mortar shells in later generations, plus the bullet head is soaked in beeswax, so it is easier to load, so compared with the ordinary Braunschweig rifle, its accuracy is higher.

Although the mold used to make this bullet is more expensive than an ordinary bullet mold, the price is worth it, because its accuracy is more than enough to make up for all the shortcomings, and of course it requires a lower standard of rifling than the Mine rifle.

In the next test, the accuracy of the rifled gun immediately convinced these generals, and in the face of this guy who could accurately hit a humanoid target from a distance of sixty zhang, they almost immediately thought of its usefulness, looking at the eyes of the people, Zhu Mingzhong said in a tone full of temptation.

"Now you can already see its accuracy, at a distance of 100 zhang, although you can't hit with a gun, but occasionally you can hit, you can imagine that we can select excellent shooters to use this rifled gun, and then they wear green military uniforms, military uniforms that can be hidden in the environment, and shoot the enemy's generals or artillery at a long distance, so that this battle is not twice the result with half the effort?"

While everyone was imagining how to use rifled guns on the battlefield, Zhu Mingzhong picked up another copper ruler-long cylinder and asked.

"Do you know what it is?"

Most of the people shook their heads in unison.

"This is a telescope, use it to see things, a few miles away people can clearly see whether he is a man or a woman, old or young, in the past, this telescope was from the West, not to mention expensive, and there are not many of them."

It is precisely because of the scarcity of telescopes that most of the generals of the Loyal Army have not touched it, of course, except for the generals of the navy, after all, every warship in the navy has a telescope.

"Now we can use this telescope, in the past, only ships would be equipped with a small number of them, but now, the first batch of telescopes has been produced, and in the future, everyone can use a magnifying glass directly in the rear to see the front clearly. And with the help of it, you can observe the situation on the battlefield, and then mobilize troops to attack the enemy's weak points, or direct artillery long-distance shelling, or mobilize snipers to snipe valuable targets, so as to break up the command ...... of the enemy's army"

Speaking of these military knowledge, which belonged to basic common sense in later generations, Zhu Mingzhong handed the telescope to the generals, and everyone looked at it and was amazed. After all, many of them have never seen a telescope, and for them, they are all amazed at the world presented by the telescope.

Looking at the generals who were trying to observe the distance with binoculars, Zhu Mingzhong looked at the other people standing on the side, they were all from the fleet, and the reason why they came to Qinghe this time was because of the weather - now that the weather has warmed up, the wind direction has changed, and because of this, those opponents in the south may not be able to bear it anymore.

So Zhu Mingzhong walked towards them and said with a smile.

"Well, don't you think there are no weapons suitable for the naval fleet? Don't worry, let's go check over there! ”

As he spoke, Zhu Mingzhong had already walked towards the caron cannon on the other side......