Chapter 21: Composite grenades
(The third watch is tomorrow, it's Monday again, brothers, you can keep tomorrow's red ticket for me!) Hehe! )
"General...... These ...... These are small leisure time, the gadgets made for the child soldiers, I didn't report to the general, and I asked the general to punish them! Gao Chengyi was startled when he saw Xiao Tianjian staring at the half-finished products of the pile of firecrackers on the table, seeing that Xiao Tianjian's face was unpredictable, thinking that Xiao Tianjian was angry when he saw him wasting gunpowder and making these useless things, so he quickly knelt down and pleaded guilty to Xiao Tianjian!
Xiao Tianjian dropped the letter cannon in his hand and immediately ordered Gao Cheng: "Don't talk about this!" Forgive you for your innocence! The Kids have something they want to learn, so don't do it for them in the future! Gao Cheng, you put down this stone thunder thing first! Iron head, go to the blacksmith to get some small iron pills weighing a penny, don't do more first, just get a handful! If not, iron slag will also be! Gao Cheng, you wrap me in a few paper shells, and the holes for gunpowder in them should be as big as possible, do it now! ”
Gao Cheng was a little confused by Xiao Tianjian's inexplicable instructions, and he didn't understand what the paper shell Xiao Tianjian was going to do, so he asked Xiao Tianjian what kind of paper shell he wanted.
Xiao Tianjian explained to Gao Cheng for a long time, and Gao Cheng understood what kind of thing Xiao Tianjian wanted, so he didn't dare to slack off and hurriedly found the paper, and began to wrap it up busily.
This thing is for him, who has been making firecrackers with his father since he was a child, Xiao Tianjian wants this thing is too simple, and after a while, he wrapped two or three paper shells larger than a fist, and sealed the bottom end, and there was a hole in the middle, waiting to be filled with gunpowder, Gao Cheng secretly wondered, 'Isn't this thing a large firecracker?' However, if this is filled with gunpowder and tamped, it can hold at least four taels of gunpowder, which is more than the gunpowder filled in the stone mine, which is too much! If this sounds, I'm afraid even people will be killed! Xiao Tianjian immediately asked Gao Cheng to fill the iron slag with gunpowder into the wrapped paper shell, tamped it with a wooden stick, sealed the mouth, and pressed a long lead.
After getting it done, Xiao Tianjian took the large paper thunder in his hand and weighed it, although it was heavy or pressing, but the weight was much lighter than that of the stone thunder, it was estimated that it was only about a pound of weight, and it was full of gunpowder of four taels, and most of the rest of the weight was on top of those iron particles, and it was easy to throw it to a distance of thirty steps away by hand.
Then Xiao Tianjian immediately took the two of them to the back mountain, called a few carpenters, and erected a few planks more than one person high in the open space to be used as targets.
Putting a wrapped large paper mine in the middle, Gao Cheng obeyed the order and lit the medicine twist, turned around and ran, hiding far away from Xiao Tianjian and Tietou.
I only heard a bang, the ground shook a little, and even if the large paper mine exploded into pieces, Xiao Tianjian immediately rushed over, pouting his ass and looking at the wooden boards the size of a human being that stood up.
"Haha! It really works! Come and see, these planks! Hey! If the enemy is not armoured, there is no problem in injuring them! Even if you're wearing leather armor, you can hurt them! After Xiao Tianjian looked at a few wooden boards, he immediately laughed, although compared to the grenades of later generations, the power of this paper mine is far from that level, but in terms of the power of the black powder at the moment, it is already commendable to be able to do this step now.
Tietou and Gao Cheng ran over with them, lying on the wooden board to see, sure enough, iron particles were left on several wooden boards, and the small iron pellets were deeply embedded in the wooden boards, and there were actually iron pellets that simply penetrated the wooden boards, if they flew to the people, they would ensure that they could blow up the people to the flesh, compared to the explosive power of the stone mines, it was not small at all, and the shrapnel distribution was much more even.
"God, it's better to use this than to use stones!" Gao Cheng smacked his tongue and said to Xiao Tianjian.
Xiao Tianjian nodded with a smile on his face, and took the two of them back for a distance, and after more than thirty steps, Xiao Tianjian took a paper mine, put it on the fire fold and lit the lead, the lead burned on the paper mine in his hand, and a puff of green smoke came out.
only heard another boom, so Xiao Tianjian immediately ran over to watch the effect.
This time, because of the landing point, the two planks could not fall on the iron particles, but most of the planks were still hit by the iron particles and deeply embedded in the planks.
"It's done! There is absolutely no problem with this alternative stone, haha! It's just that the power of this explosion is still a little smaller, continue to improve it, it will be better to use! Xiao Tianjian shook his head and touched the wooden boards that were blown up with small holes, as if he was caressing a woman's delicate skin, and with a smug smile on his face, only saliva flowed down his chin.
The iron head looked at these planks and smiled, but at the same time, he was a little frightened, this thing is really powerful, if you take it and throw it into the crowd, I am afraid that it will blow up on the spot, it is really unguardable.
Gao Cheng was also very happy, these days since he was accepted into the Xingtian Army by Xiao Tianjian, he originally wanted to enter the new barracks to receive training, as long as he was careful in the future, sooner or later he would be incorporated into the soldiers, so that he could follow the Xingtian Army to fight, and he would be able to repay Xiao Tianjian for saving his brother's life.
But Xiao Tianjian didn't agree to his request at all, but let him stay in the cottage, all day long to do this Laoshizi stone thunder, if it weren't for the battle of the Stone Buddha Temple, he probably didn't even know what the battlefield was like, but obviously Xiao Tianjian was not satisfied with the kind of stone thunder he and a few stonemasons made, and he always thought that these stone mines were too heavy, which made Gao Cheng very depressed, and sometimes he also wondered, how to make Xiao Tianjian satisfied, so several stonemasons were forced by him, and their skills improved a lot, and the walls of the carved stone mines were getting thinner and thinner. But it still couldn't meet Xiao Tianjian's requirements.
Now that he saw that Xiao Tianjian had finally found a solution, of course he was also happy, so he nodded again and again: "Don't worry, general, the little one knows what to do, and I won't do the stone thunder in the future, and I will change to these paper mines!" This thing is much easier than making stone mines, and if I have a skilled hand to help me, the gunpowder will be enough, and I can make a few of them every day!
In addition, the small one should let the brothers in the army light it and throw it out to hurt people, but the little one still knows a kind of thing, which is very similar to the kind of thing that the general wants!
In the early years, the small heard of a thing called porcelain tribulus terrestris, which was fired out of mud and had the size of a fist, the shell was like tribulus terrestris, and the middle was a hollow thing, which was filled with gunpowder, sealed the mouth, installed with a lead, and was thrown into the enemy group after ignition, and it could also hurt people.
It's not a bad idea that a general came up with today, you can make such a powerful guy with paper, it's simpler than stone thunder and porcelain tribulus, and you don't have to worry about being broken if you fall to the hard ground, so you don't need to fire any porcelain tribulus terrestris in the future! ”
Xiao Tianjian paused for a moment, porcelain thistle is the first time he has heard of this thing, if according to what Gao Cheng said, then the grenade is much earlier than the age when it was invented in his memory, originally he also wanted to make a new weapon to equip the Xingtian military, but he didn't expect the ancients to invent this thing a long time ago, using fired porcelain as a shell to fill gunpowder, throwing it to kill and injure the enemy, it is not a bad way, as long as the shell is not broken when it lands, Once exploding, the lethality of the porcelain pieces scattered everywhere for the enemy really cannot be underestimated!
So he nodded and said, "Okay! In the future, there is no need to do the stone thunder for the time being, and now the stone thunder shell that Zhang has carved by the stonemason will be used up, and there is no need to make more stone mines, as for the porcelain tribulus terrestris, it is also a good thing, but at the moment we don't have this condition, so we will specialize in making this kind of paper mine for the time being! But you have to find a way to do a good job of moisture-proof, don't do it for a while, it will be damp, and it won't sound when you use it, and you have to find a way to do it moisture-proof, so as not to delay your use!
As for the gunpowder thing, you have to think of a way, in the future, we can't just expect to seize it, after stabilizing the gods, we have to configure the gunpowder ourselves, you have been doing this since you were a child, you should also know what to do! I'll help you find a way to find a way to sulfur, I'm afraid we'll have to find a way to solve it ourselves! But these are all things for the future, so I'm not in a hurry for now!
Okay, it's getting late, let's go back to the village for dinner! Let's go! ”
At this point, Gao Cheng and Tietou looked at the sky, and it was basically dark, so a few people packed up their things and strode back to the stockade.