Although he lost four taels of silver, he was still very happy to see the gunpowder and projectiles that the sergeants brought back one after another, and believed that this time he could cope with the whole war.

"Yang Qi, so much gunpowder, when are we going to use it?" Li Tianfu now admires Yang Qiguan very much, but he has seen his skill in shooting firearms, not only to shoot accurately, but even the clay jars thrown out are also shot one by one, and there are no missed shots.

"Yang Qi" is Yang Qi's official name, so everyone calls him that.

"Remember, all this gunpowder must be stored off the wall and off the ground, and it must not be exposed to the slightest moisture!" Yang Qi instructed.

"Yes!" A group of soldiers immediately responded.

"Yang Qi!" Wang Yuangang placed a box of gunpowder and said: "I found that our current speed is stuck in the amount of gunpowder, even if we shoot all day long, there are cases of less or more gunpowder, so it is particularly energy-consuming, do you think we can get a fixed gunpowder?" ”

"Huh~?" Yang Qi was surprised: "How did I forget this?" Then you all talk about it, how should we make this customized paper bullet? ”

"Custom-made? Paper bullets? These soldiers pondered.

"This thing with ammunition has to be moisture and waterproof, and it has to be easy to open." Applejack said.

"Why don't we just use kraft paper?" Wei Dayong said.

"Well, this one is good, and it's easy to stack!" Li Tianfu clapped his hands and shouted: "Quick, there is one over there, let's try it." After speaking, he pulled a piece of kraft paper next to him, wrapped it, and folded it twice at both ends in order to prevent the amount of medicine from leaking out.

"Will this work?" Wang Yuan was a little worried.

Because of Yang Qi's military regulations, people are required not to leave the gun, and the gun is not to leave the person, so Li Tianfu took the gun in his hand after getting it, according to the usual training, tested the fire rope, filled the amount of gunpowder of about three yuan, and then put in the lead pellet, took out the whole strip and compacted the lead bullet, all the steps were completed, and when the gun was fired, Yang Qi estimated that it took about a minute and a half. After trying the time of ordinary training, he began to make a lot of ammunition according to the new fixed loading, everything else is the same, Li Tianfu found that the lead pellet would slide into the barrel from the kraft paper in advance, and cover it with a layer of gunpowder, but it took about two minutes, and the firing was not completed.

"Ah Fu, you can't do this!" Applejack said.

"yes, the lead shot is not on the top, so you can't shoot at all."

"In this way, everyone will look for it and find the thinnest piece of paper to come back." Yang Qi saw that the big guy was enthusiastic, and said while the iron was hot.

The crowd took the order and ran out one after another.

"Custom-packed paper bullets!" Yang Qi fiddled with the firearm in his hand, this is actually a bird's gun improved in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, named because its muzzle is like a bird's beak, with a range of three hundred meters, an effective range of one hundred and fifty meters, and it can shoot through three layers of armor within one hundred meters, and the wooden target is hit with a bowl-sized wound, although it is so good, it still can't get rid of the fate of being an arquebus.

"Granular gunpowder?" Yang Qi looked at the pile of black powder powder scattered in front of him and muttered, the gunpowder in the bullets and shells of later generations is all granular gunpowder, and the granular gunpowder is much more powerful than the gunpowder of the same weight, and the reason is that the granular gunpowder burns more fully and quickly! The explosion that occurs in an instant will be even more powerful, and this improvement is not complicated. He was thinking quickly about the production of granular gunpowder, and he knew from the experience of later generations that the granular gunpowder was first discovered because the gunpowder was damp, and the soldiers were afraid of being punished, so they were placed in a ventilated and dry place, and the granular gunpowder obtained, there were too many processes for making granular gunpowder in later generations, but now the only one that meets the requirements is: the wine grinding method.

He was thinking about it, the sergeants returned one after another, holding different paper patterns in their hands, he looked at them one by one, only the paper in Wang Yuan's hand met the requirements, first of all, this paper must be soft, and it will not be damaged after repeated folding in a small area, and secondly, it is flammable, and it can be ignited through the fire rope and medicine pool, and finally the burning must be sufficient, otherwise it will bring difficulties to the gun again.

"What kind of paper is this?" Yang Qi asked.

"This is filthy paper produced by Ouchi Treasure Banknote Division!" Wang Yuan said with a wink.

"Filthy paper? What is it for? Yang Qi asked curiously.

"Wipe your ass." Wang Yuan didn't think it was strange that Yang Qi didn't know anything, after all, ordinary people had really never seen this thing.

"Huh~!" Everyone said in disgust, judging from everyone's reactions, the vast majority of them had never seen it.

"Oh~, it's just a piece of paper?" Yang Qi instantly understood.

"Paper? What is it? Wang Yuan asked with some incomprehension. Ancient people used toilet chips to solve the problem after the large number, the general toilet chips are grinded to a more rounded bamboo strips, some similar to the bamboo slips on the thin slices, the descendants do not understand, some toilet chips unearthed from the tomb are also collected, thinking that it is a part of the bamboo slips, but I don't know that the piece is just the "hand paper" of the ancients.

"Nothing." Yang Qi waved his hand, took the filthy paper, and began to make paper bullets according to the ratio, he put the lead pill in the front, three coins of gunpowder in the back, tightly rolled into the caliber of the barrel, after a while, the paper bullet was formed, he made more than a dozen paper bullets in one breath, and then began to load, Yang Qi directly stuffed the paper bullet into the barrel, and then took the strip and quickly compacted, and fired a full five rounds in two minutes, the surrounding sergeants were suddenly hot, Li Tianfu was anxious, and quickly grabbed five paper bullets in his hand, and practiced, he only had time to shoot four shots, If you increase the amount of training, you should be able to fire more. Because it is made of filthy paper, it burns very sufficiently, and there are very few impurities in the barrel, if the post-production of gunpowder, filthy paper and other materials, the ingredients are selected from good materials, there should be no need to clean the chamber, and perhaps more shots can be achieved.

"Yang Qi, this is good!" Li Tianfu laughed.

"Well, it works really well." Yang Qi nodded and said: "But there is another hidden danger, that is, with such a rapid firing loading, the barrel may not be able to withstand thirty shots, and it is likely that it can only be fired twenty times, and the gun will have to be replaced." ”

"Well, what Yang Qi said is extremely true." Wang Yuan touched the barrel of the gun that had been fired five times in a row, it was indeed very hot, and it felt like the barrel of the gun that had been fired eight or nine times.

"If it is replaced with granular gunpowder, this kind of barrel may only carry fifteen shots." Yang Qi thought in his heart, and if he had the opportunity, he must remake the barrel.

"Wang Yuan, you go to Mr. Hu and ask for more filthy paper, as well as good spirits to serve in the three altars." Yang Qi commanded.

"Yang Qi, are you going to drink at night?" Wang Yuan said with a smile, if Yang Qi drinks, he can also ask for some relief by the way.

"What do you think? Alcohol is forbidden in the barracks, and I want spirits to be useful, and the recruitment is. Yang Qi gave him a blank look and said.

"Yes!"

"Ah Fu, Ah Jie, you two go find me a grinding plate, it's okay if it's smaller, the key is that I can roll alone, find it and put it here, and you can go to training."

"Dayong, you take the others to enter the training state immediately, let's practice as much as possible and sweat more! Less bloodshed in wartime! Yang Qi began to arrange for everyone, and he didn't want to delay for a minute.

"Yes!" Wei Dayong said happily that he could finally lead the troops to train.

After a while, Yang Qi wanted everything to be ready, he wanted to make granular gunpowder, first poured the gunpowder into a large wooden basin, and then poured in the liquor little by little, while adding wine, and gunpowder, until it became muddy, and then he spread the mud-like gunpowder on the wooden board, spread a thin layer, and put it in a cool place to dry, and so on, he made a hundred catties of mud gunpowder.

After dinner, as usual, it was physical training, Yang Qi took the whole team of sergeants to exercise, before going to bed, and took time to make fixed paper bullets, during the day the sergeants have seen the role of fixed bullets, which will make their own training and use paper bullets the next day, all of them are very attentive, Yang Qi looked at the paper bullets they made, each of them is like a "work of art".