After seeing such a situation, Xiao Tianjian began to start the idea of making flintlock pistols, with his understanding of the development history of firearms, with the current level of craftsmen he has at hand, as well as the level of science and technology in the world, if you want to make breech rifles, it is not possible, but there is basically no problem with building flintlock pistols, if it is a rifled gun, it is not even impossible, but he still pursues the principle of eating one bite at a time, first easy and then difficult, starting with flintlock pistols, as for rifled guns, Now it is estimated that it is still very difficult to do it, at least the process of drilling rifling is difficult to solve in a short time, even if it is to use pre-engraved rifling and then roll the barrel, it is estimated that it is not easy, so it can be used as a direction for future development, but it cannot be developed immediately.

As for the manufacture of flintlock pistols, after all, he has never seen the structure of flintlock pistols or real objects before, so he can only rely on his mechanical knowledge to explore by himself, fortunately, no matter what, he understands some flintlock pistol things, and it is not necessarily difficult to do this, and he has been thinking about it not for a day and a half, in the past year, he has taken the time to draw a number of drawings, constantly modifying the drawings, and now it can basically be handed over to the craftsmen for trial production.

And the flintlock pistol, and divided into two kinds of wheel flintlock and impact flintlock pistol, the earliest is a watchmaker through the clock on the clockwork to produce inspiration, made a wheel type musket, but this wheel type lighter has a big problem, that is, the structure is very complex, and the cost is also quite high, for the craftsman's skill level is more very demanding, after the wheel spring is polluted, it is easy to cause the failure of not ignition, so after the development of the development, there has been no large-scale equipment promotion, Only played a role in small-scale wars.

Therefore, when Xiao Tianjian considered the flintlock pistol, he directly abandoned the design of the revolver flintlock pistol, and directly considered the impact flintlock pistol, after all, the structure of the impact flintlock pistol is simpler, and the process is not very complicated, and the cost is relatively low, which is suitable for the large-scale manufacturing of his craftsmen at present.

So he handed over the drawings to several craftsmen among the masters, so that they could withdraw from the production of birds, and began to try to produce this new type of flintlock pistol, after all, there is not much difference between the structure of the flintlock pistol and the arquebus, the barrel is basically the same, just a set of firing devices, as long as there are ready-made drawings, the master of these craftsmen should not be a problem, the key is to solve the problem of the spring used for firing, as long as the elasticity and toughness of the spring are solved, it is basically a big thing.

At the same time, Xiao Tianjian is also concerned about the production of the gun, the early Gaosu used the mud fan cast cannon, although a good three-pounder cannon was produced, but the output is low, the cost is high, and it is also greatly affected by the season, the output can not be greatly improved, so Xiao Tianjian after receiving the three-pounder bronze field cannon, he ordered to switch to iron cast cannons, and at the same time change to the iron fan casting cannon method to cast artillery.

After several months of exploration and practice, the iron fan used to cast the six-pound field gun and the iron model of the three-pound gun have been cast, carefully polished, and put into the production of the cast cannon.

In this way, in just one month of September, Gao Su's cannon was cast into three three-pound bronze cannons and two six-pounder iron cannons, and the production speed was more than two or three times higher than that of the previous clay fan casting cannon method, and the quality was completely qualified after the test firing. In particular, the power of the six-pounder cannon is more than three or four times more than the power of the three-pounder gun, and because the caliber of the gun chamber has increased, the power of the six-pounder cannon has also increased very much, and the number of shotguns loaded is almost more than five times that of the three-pounder gun. As a result, grapeshotguns have also become a must-have type of ammunition for six-pounder guns.

Of course, after having the six-pounder cannon, Xiao Tianjian also ordered Gao Su and Gao Cheng to join forces to find a way to create a flowering shell used in the six-pounder cannon, after all, in terms of dealing with cluster targets, the flowering projectile is still more powerful at a long distance, and it is far more effective than ordinary solid bullets to the enemy.

Gao Su and Gao Cheng happily accepted the order, and began to work hard to develop the flowering bomb, after all, the flowering bomb has been lost in later generations, Xiao Tianjian has only heard of it, but has never seen a detailed picture or a real thing, and the craftsmen in the Xingtian Army have never made this thing, so they can only rely on their own exploration.

But one thing is for sure is that this thing should have been invented at the end of the Ming Dynasty, but it has already been applied to the war in the official army, according to legend, Yuan Chonghuan killed the wild boar Pi Nurhaci in Ningyuan and made a so-called Ningyuan victory, the wild boar skin is likely to be hit by a flowering bullet, otherwise it is impossible for the wild boar skin to die for a few days after being hit by a solid bullet from the Hongyi cannon.

Therefore, even if the flowering shell is not yet mature in this era, it is necessary to exist, and only in this way can the maximum power of the cannon be brought into play.

Because the process of making wax models and clay models is completely omitted, labor and material consumption are greatly saved, and the quality of casting cannons is also improved, so that the iron fan casting method proposed by Xiao Tianjian has also been recognized by many craftsmen, including Gao Su also had to bow his head and admit that the method Xiao Tianjian said is much higher than the casting method he used, and when he saw Xiao Tianjian again, his attitude was much more respectful, and he became a lot more humble.

In addition, Gao Su was also ordered to open an artillery training class outside Shuangfeng Village, specifically for the training of gunners for the Xingtian Army, and it has also begun for a short time.

Many modern people know that the cannon fire is to be measured first, and then it can be aimed and fired, but it is precisely this ranging that not many people understand, as a gunner, don't want to be a good gunner if you don't know how to measure, don't want to hit the artillery accurately, just install a front sight on the artillery, if you can't estimate the distance of the enemy, it still can't work, so in the past, when the Xingtian Army fought against the enemy, the artillery often had very poor shooting accuracy, even if the training intensity on weekdays was very high. In addition to speeding up the speed of reloading, the shooting accuracy is not much improved, only the old gunners can improve the shooting accuracy through the experience of long-term shooting and aiming, but the Xingtian Army is not rich enough to let the gunners play with guns every day, so it is impossible to improve the gunners' shooting level in a short time, so Xiao Tianjian thought of asking Gao Su to make an artillery training class to teach artillerymen some gun handling and aiming techniques.

As an artillery soldier in the Western mercenaries, Gao Su knew how to carry out the simple and easy thumb ranging method, and taught this ranging method to the artillerymen of the Xingtian Army in the artillery training class.

In this way, the function of improving the accuracy of the artillery shooting of the Xingtian Army is very huge, and often after a short training, the artillery goes back to the army to practice artillery aiming, which makes the shooting accuracy improve a lot, at least it will not easily miss the target again, and the shells will be hit high or low.

On this day, when Xiao Tianjian was busy dispatching the township troops to the direction of Zezhou, Yang Changshou ran to Xiao Tianjian in a hurry and said to Xiao Tianjian: "General, you have to take care of Gao Cheng's house, that guy doesn't know what to do, today he actually hit an object on our iron side, and almost killed a few of my craftsmen!" But it still hurt two people! If we continue like this, we'll be scared to death by this guy! ”

Xiao Tianjian paused for a moment, so he asked Yang Changshou what was going on, Yang Changshou said something to Xiao Tianjian in detail, and Xiao Tianjian figured out what was going on.

It turned out that this morning, the iron work was working normally, and suddenly an object flew from the sky, and it fell in the iron work, and the big guy didn't figure out what was going on, and the object that fell from the sky exploded with a bang, and as a result, the two blacksmiths who were slightly closer to the guy were injured on the spot, but fortunately, the two were not too close, otherwise they might have been killed on the spot.

At this time, Gao Cheng ran over in a panic, and as soon as he saw Yang Changshou, he made amends again and again, and hurriedly asked Xiao Tianjian for his guilt.

Xiao Tianjian asked Gao Cheng, "What the hell are you doing?" Why so careless? Fortunately, only two people were injured, and if it happened to fall into the crowd, it would be up to you to explain it! ”

Gao Cheng said to Xiao Tianjian with a guilty face: "Damn it! It's too careless to be small! In the future, the little ones will not dare to test shoot this kind of thing in the village again! Guaranteed never to happen again! I hope the general will forgive his sins! ”

Xiao Tianjian said to Yang Changshou: "Let those two craftsmen rest, if not, send them to the Lotus Village Medical Camp for treatment, and each of them will give them three taels of silver, and tell them that they will be paid during the period of recuperation!" ”

Yang Changshou glared at Gao Cheng, and hurriedly said to Xiao Tianjian: "The injuries of those two brothers are not serious, they are all minor injuries, and the village medicine officer has already taken out the shrapnel of their wounds and bandaged them, so there is no need to move them to the Lotus Village medical camp!" Thank you, General! ”

After watching Yang Changshou snort and leave, Xiao Tianjian let Gao Cheng, who was kneeling on the ground, get up and asked him, "What are you doing, you are so powerful?" Can you fly to the iron side? ”

After Gao Cheng got up, he asked Xiao Tianjian with wide eyes, "Didn't the general let the little one get it?" It's the kind of big fire.,During this time, the small ones tinkered with this thing when they had time.,Now it's made a few.,Try to put one today.,As a result, a tail fell off.,It flew to the side of the iron work.,It's really almost scared to death the small one! ”

Xiao Tianjian was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately got up and said, "Oh? You've already done it? Walk! Check it out! Ha ha! ”

Saying that, Xiao Tianjian pulled Gao Cheng and ran to his gunpowder workshop, Gao Cheng took out a guy from the house and put it in front of Xiao Tianjian, Xiao Tianjian was happy when he saw it, isn't this thing the rocket he wants!

I saw that this thing was about twelve or thirteen centimeters thick, about seventy or eighty centimeters long, the barrel shell was wooden, and a round iron guy was installed at the front end, and there were three tail fins on the body, and the whole was an earthen rocket.