Chapter 134 The appearance of new artillery to treat ammonia is the beginning of success

Zhang Zhimu and the others arrived at Li Yunhe's shooting range, and saw Li Wei and they were already waiting here. Seeing Zhang Zhimu and Chen Yufeng coming, Li Wei ran over and said, "Mr. Zhang, Uncle Shi, Mr. Ouyang, you are here." This time we really have a cannon. ”

Chen Yufeng said with a smile: "You kid, after seeing the 120 heavy mortars last time, you didn't use all the 60 guns, do you want to like the new and hate the old again this time." ”

"Uncle Shi, you don't know, this time is different from last time. Just look at it. Li Wei was a little embarrassed to say Chen Yufeng.

Zhang Zhimu, Chen Yufeng and the others followed Li Yunhe and them and walked towards the 130 cannon parked at the gun position.

Although the cannon has not yet been painted, the mighty barrel of the cannon has made him look extraordinarily powerful. Stroking the barrel, Chen Yufeng said, "This guy is like a chimney." ”

Zhang Zhimu asked Li Wei, "How do you feel after a few shots?"

"Compared to this guy, our other cannons are not called cannons." Li Wei replied.

"There's no way to experiment with the longest range here?" Zhang Zhimu suddenly discovered the problem.

Li Yunhe said: "Yes, there is no way, the distance here is limited. But we're trying to figure out how to build a shooting range in a wide area first. Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to make artillery firing tables. ”

"Don't just say it, we're here to see how your bombardment goes?" Chen Yufeng wanted to be anxious to see how the cannon worked.

Li Yunhe said: "Mr. Zhang, you have to stay away from here!" ”

"Hey, hey! You guys are fighting here, we can't see it? Chen Yufeng pretended to be dissatisfied.

"Uncle Chen, we really can't be here, such artillery is not the same as mortars. Yunhe is right, we need to be a little farther away. Zhang Zhimu knew that Chen Yufeng didn't understand how loud such a cannon was.

Li Yunhe took a few binoculars and said, "Uncle Chen, you can look the same with this thing." ”

When Zhang Zhimu walked out, he said to Li Yunhe: "There are no earmuffs, and it is okay to make a simple earmuff out of cotton." ”

"No need, Li Wei and they got their own earmuffs."

Zhang Zhimu and the others retreated to a place more than a hundred meters away from the artillery, where some chairs were arranged.

Chen Yufeng said: "Are we still so far away? ”

"You'll find out in a moment." Zhang Zhimu said with a smile.

On the hillside opposite the firing range where the muzzle was pointing, two circles were drawn in white ash on the hillside. It's about two or three miles away.

After a while, Li Yunhe also ran over. After Li Wei finished arranging, he also went to stand far away from the artillery. The atmosphere was a little tense. Li Yunhe said: "Everyone pay attention and cover your ears with your hands for a while. ”

At this time, Zhang Zhimu, Chen Yufeng and others were holding binoculars and watching the gunners busy. One gunner took out a shell from the box, put it into the chamber, and the other closed the bolt. At this time, all the gunners covered their ears with their backs to the guns, and only one gunner covered his ears with one hand and held the gun rope with the other. As if hearing the order, the gunner holding the cannon rope covered his ears with both hands as soon as he pulled the cannon rope. Listening to a loud "bang", a large ball of fire erupted from the muzzle of the cannon, and a puff of smoke and dust also shook around the artillery. Soon, a burst of smoke and dust rose from the white ash circle on the opposite hillside. Then a "boom" explosion came with the trembling of the earth. Although Li Yunhe repeatedly said that the sound of the artillery was too loud, the power of the sound was far beyond everyone's imagination. Whether it is the sound of the cannon fired or the explosion of the shells, it makes people feel trembling in their hearts.

Yang Yulin was really afraid that it would have an impact on the child in her belly this time, she glanced at Zhang Zhimu, and couldn't help touching her stomach, a little afraid. Chen Yufeng: They also know why they are so far away.

After a few more shells, Zhang Zhimu said okay. Li Yunhe waved his hand at Li Wei, and Li Wei signaled the gunners to stop fighting. Zhang Zhimu and the others came to the artillery again, and when they talked to the gunner and Li Wei, they needed to make a louder voice.

When Li Wei spoke, he obviously raised his voice, "This cannon is not only powerful, but also easy to aim, just like aiming with a rifle." Look at the other side, two circles on the hillside. Although we haven't finished our shooting table yet, I can hit whichever one I want now, one shot at a time. ”

Zhang Zhimu said to Li Yunhe: "Find a place that can be used as an experimental field as soon as possible." I don't think there's anything close to it. We need a testing ground with tens of miles of open land. ”

Chen Yufeng said: "The only place like this is the grassland outside the Great Wall. ”

"Then let's make a shooting table for a close shot first." Zhang Zhimu said: "We are still the old way, our shooting watch can be done first, and our production can be carried out at the same time." After our artillery has been used for a while, you will have to develop the artillery to be installed on our steel-hulled ships. This steel-hulled ship required two twin 130 guns on the foredeck, with a high and low front and rear configuration, and a twin 130 gun on the rear deck. ”

Li Wei said: "With six 130 guns, such a warship will be invincible in the world." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "If we can equip the ship with artillery, we can also increase the caliber of artillery." But for now, we have enough 130 guns. When Qingfengzi develops *****, the same caliber of artillery shells can be several times more powerful. Much better than increasing the caliber of artillery. ”

Chen Yufeng said: "Can our current warships be equipped with such artillery? ”

"I don't know if our warships can withstand the recoil of artillery. We will also study this matter with Mr. Lin Zongwei and Mr. Lu Bingyi. If it works, I think the deck of the warship will be welded into one piece. Let the entire deck bear the recoil of the guns together. Zhang Zhimu said.

Yang Yulin interjected: "I don't think so. This kind of running didn't kill others, but he was shocked to death first. ”

"No, there is a closed turret on the outside of the guns on board. This turret can significantly reduce the vibration of sound. Zhang Zhimu said to Li Yunhe again: "However, the course and pitch of the guns on the ship need two working modes: electric and manual. You need to take into account when designing, it is best to make the rangefinder and sight into one, so that the pitch parameters are automatically corrected. ”

"Sun Liang and they are already engaged in this matter. Don't worry! Li Yunhe said. With a couple of experiences in the production of gun sights, they are already very old. And a large number of people have been trained. ”

"In the era of revitalization, talents are needed and talents are created." Zhang Zhimu suddenly remembered a famous quote of the great man in his previous life, but he revised it.

Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He were obviously very satisfied with the new artillery. Chen Yufeng came over and said to Zhang Zhimu: "Zhimu! You see, you should catch these things. If this cannon were to be taken out to fight, it would scare them away without intimidation. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "The advantages of the cannon are its high rate of fire, straight ballistics, and easy direct aiming and shooting. However, he cannot attack the target behind the obstacle, and to deal with the target behind the obstacle, we still need our mortars to solve it, or we will develop large-caliber ** guns in the future. ”

As soon as Li Yunhe and Li Wei heard the large-caliber ** gun, they came to the spirit again, and Li Wei asked: "Mr. Zhang, what do you say is a large-caliber ** gun?" Let Li Yunhe and them do it now, the time to build a new cannon is too long. ”

"I'll tell you about the ** cannon later." Zhang Zhimu said: "Li Wei, you have to start preparing to form a heavy artillery regiment now, and in the future, you will expand it to an artillery division. Uniformly armed with 130 cannons and 120 heavy mortars. As a command center directly under the artillery. ”

"Yes! I'll be ready right away. However, Li Wei soon put forward the conditions again, saying: "Can the students of our Yaogang College give us a few more after graduation." We need a lot of people here who can write and calculate. ”

Chen Yufeng immediately quit, he was afraid that Zhang Zhimu would agree as soon as he blurted out happily, that was the baby that everyone was staring at, "Li Wei, don't worry about this matter first." We'll think about how we're going to distribute them. You good behave, we won't forget you in this place. ”

Ouyang He was also next to Zhile, and just like Chen Yufeng, he was very afraid that Zhang Zhimu would agree. Because a large part of these graduates will stay in the newly built military academy as teachers. It is said that 'starving father and mother do not eat seed food', so these seeds must be kept.

"You've finally come here for a while, and we're done with the cannon battle. I'm showing you the little cannon fight. After speaking, Li Yunhe shouted behind him: "Bring up the things." ”

A few people came up from behind, carrying plates. When they got closer, they saw that they were some very small pistols. This is a small pistol made in the Browning style described by Zhang Zhimu.

No one had ever seen such a small pistol, and everyone picked up one.

Li Yunhe said as if he had a few treasures: "This robbery is a six-to-five millimeter caliber of seven o'clock, with a capacity of seven rounds, a weight of more than one catty, and an effective firing range of 30 meters. ”

Li Wei held the pistol in his big hand and said, "When did you get such a small pistol, this is for the girls." ”

"You're right, if you want to protect the female soldiers and the leaders who work in the office every day." Li Yunhe said: "The range of 30 meters in a general close combat is enough. ”

Ouyang He said: "Yes! I think the female soldiers each have a big pistol, which is too bulky. There was no need for those telegraph and telephone operators to carry such heavy pistols.

Yang Yulin said: "We female soldiers all need such pistols. I just don't know if such a small ** can kill people. ”

"Why don't you try it?" Li Yunhe was a little dissatisfied.

Yang Yulin quipped: "Okay! Take your gun to the test. ”

Yang Yulin's words caused everyone to burst into laughter. At this time, the half-body target twenty meters away had already been established.

Li Yunhe told everyone the essentials of using this pistol. Since everyone has used pistols, shooting is not a difficult task.

Yang Yulin took the lead, and quickly finished firing seven bullets, saying: "It's easy to grab, this muzzle doesn't jump at all." Shooting stability is good. ”

After a burst of gunshots, everyone was very satisfied with the guns.

Li Yunhe said: "There is no problem at all with killing people at close range. However, it is necessary to produce a special type of bullet for this gun. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "This kind of gun is worth it. In the future, if we are to do the arms business. You can sell this gun for a very high price, because those who have money will buy one for themselves. ”

Chen Yufeng said: "This kind of gun should also be produced quickly, and our senior cadres can use this gun to defend themselves." At close range, this is the best weapon. No matter how good your martial arts are, you can't dodge continuous shooting. ”

When everyone walked back satisfied, Li Yunhe was still sitting on Zhang Zhimu's car.

Zhang Zhimu asked: "How are your light machine guns and new heavy machine guns developed?" ”

"The light machine gun will soon be able to experiment. I just lengthened and thickened the barrel of the automatic rifle and added a bipod, which was also slightly improved. It shouldn't be a big problem. I guess it's okay to shoot a few hundred rounds and then change the barrel. Li Yunhe said: "That kind of air-cooled heavy machine gun, we thought about it, if we want to change the barrel conveniently, we need to make a big change in the entire structure, in addition, we found that the reliability of using canvas as a cartridge belt is not good, we still use steel chains to feed ammunition according to what you said." In this way, no matter what the rate of fire is, there is no need to consider the problem of the cartridge belt. ”

"We're going to expand our army soon, do you have enough guns?" Zhang Zhimu asked.

"Don't worry! If I prepare 10,000 as you say and don't grab them, it won't be enough. Thanks to my mindfulness, I prepared a little more. Li Yunhe said: "Machine guns and mortars are enough. If it weren't for the preparations in advance, our military factories would all be moving to Beishan, and how could we have the ability to produce such weapons immediately. ”

"There's one thing you need to arrange as soon as possible. Yangchang's electronics are getting finer and finer, and they need high-purity copper. You have to arrange for someone to set up an electrolytic copper factory. Zhang Zhimu said.

"How do you get electrolytic copper?" Li Yunhe asked.

"In fact, it is very simple, in a trough, put sulfuric acid and copper sulfate solution, use a pure copper plate as the anode, use a coarse copper plate as the cathode, after the power is on, the copper on the coarse copper plate will gather on the anode in an ionic state. As long as the voltage is well controlled, the iron plasma except copper will be separated to obtain pure electrolytic copper. In this way, the copper can pull out a thinner copper wire. He has the highest electrical conductivity. Zhang Zhimu explained.

"Okay, I'll arrange it. But isn't this thing going to be very power-intensive? ”

"Of course, it's a lot of electricity."

"That's something to think about. I think we will build the factory first. Wait for Li Di and the two two-megawatt generators in the smelting yard to generate electricity. Li Yunhe said: "Li Di said that they want us to connect the two-megawatt generator in the kiln and the two-megawatt generator in the smelting yard to the grid for power generation, so that our electricity can be more stable." The furnaces for electrolytic aluminum and electrolytic magnesium have been built in the smelting plant, but they have not dared to test for fear that their electricity consumption will affect the electricity consumption of the steel mill. Just wait for those two generators to generate electricity. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "It would be great if their aluminum could be produced. Not to mention that the light of that thing, the conductivity is second only to copper, and there are many places where copper can be used. If you use it to make water bottles, lunch boxes, water tanks and other things for soldiers, it will be much lighter. Adding aluminum powder to ** will also greatly increase the power. In particular, adding them to the welding flux will greatly increase the temperature of the welding. In short, there are too many advantages. ”

Li Yunhe is most willing to chat with Zhang Zhimu, and he can learn a lot through small talk, which is not something that Zhang Zhimu can talk about in class. But now Zhang Zhimu is too busy and rarely has time to chat with him.

When he arrived at the kiln, Zhang Zhimu said to Yang Yulin: "Li Yunhe and I are going to Master Qingfengzi, do you go back or go together." ”

"I'll go with you." Yang Yulin didn't want to be stuffy in the house all the time.

After saying hello to Chen Yufeng and them, Zhang Zhimu and their carriage came to Yaogang Academy.

Qingfengzi saw Zhang Zhimu and them coming, and knew that something must be wrong, and after letting go of the seats, without waiting for Zhang Zhimu and them to speak, Qingfengzi said first, "Mr. Zhang has good news for you, I just received a call from them today, and our synthetic ammonia may have succeeded." They say the synthesis rate is too low, only a few percent. But I think that's the breakthrough. With these percentages, we can slowly increase them. Isn't it? ”

"Oops! This is a great event, a major breakthrough. Zhang Zhimu said, "In the future, if we have synthetic ammonia, we will have a large amount of nitric acid, and we can also produce chemical fertilizers on a large scale." It's so inspiring. It's worth the effort. ”

Li Yunhe said: "This time I finally saw the dawn. In order to produce high-voltage equipment for you, I have sent my strongest team to you. Used up a lot of the best just now. But it still looks worth it. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "The success of synthetic ammonia means that the production capacity of our kiln has reached a new level. They still have a long way to go, and they need to gradually increase their synthesis rate. We also want to encourage them. They should be given some rewards, and they should also be reported by the "Kiln Gang Weekly". It is not easy for them to work silently in the past two years, and it is not easy to fail again and again. ”

Qingfengzi said: "There is another thing, we can make film by adding camphor to nitrocellulose according to the method you said, but the stability of this thing is too poor." As long as you accidentally rub it, it can burn. ”

"The higher the nitrogen content of nitrocellulose, the more unstable it is, and you can reduce the amount of nitric acid at nitrification and minimize the nitrogen content." Zhang Zhimu said: "But if you want to completely solve this unstable problem. You can look at treating the fibers with acetic acid and acetic anhydride, which will produce the most stable film. It can be a little more complicated, though. First, the fiber is activated with acetic acid, and then treated with acetic acid to drink acetic anhydride. As for how to do it, I still have to try to figure it out. ”

"We're going to improve it on nitrocellulose, and it's ready to use right away. We will arrange for someone to do the acetated fiber you said slowly. Qingfengzi is still very attentive to his films.

"You know, acetated fiber will have a great impact on our world, it is a very stable plastic, that thing can not only heat press out the products we need, but also can be injection molded out of various shapes of products we need." Zhang Zhimu reminded Qingfengzi of the importance of this thing.

"I'm going to take it seriously." Qingfengzi nodded and said, "I guess correctly, Mr. Zhang is still concerned about the coal tar fractionation this time, right?" ”

Zhang Zhimu smiled and said, "The main thing is this matter." ”

"Mr. Zhang doesn't have to worry about this. We've already started experimenting. However, the oil we separated does not seem to be obvious. We need to try again, and it will pay off soon. Qingfengzi said, "As for the toluene you need, we haven't started yet." As long as our fractionation column works properly, I guess toluene separation isn't too much of a problem. ”

"I know Master Qingfengzi, you have too many things to do. Please hurry up on this matter, our diesel engine and gasoline engine are basically out, just waiting for the oil to carry out the experiment. Li Yunhe said.

"Okay, I know, we'll hurry. Mr. Zhang still has something, please talk about it! Qingfengzi said.

"We are about to develop a cathode ray tube display device, which requires zinc oxide. And I would like to ask for your help. Zhang Zhimu said.

"Zinc oxide is too useful, and for Li Yunhe's rubber, we have produced a lot for them. There are also those who are engaged in enamel, and it is also our zinc oxide that has helped them a lot. There are also lacquers and paints made of zinc white, which are more and more useful. You can use it. Qingfengzi didn't think it was still a problem.

Zhang Zhimu said: "The zinc oxide used in the phosphor we use needs to be of high purity, and a small amount of zinc sulfide and zinc chloride need to be added to it, so as to make a phosphor with high luminous efficiency." It may be that you need to make different proportions of material to try out which material ratio works best. ”

"We can help them with this. But the best thing to do is for them to learn how to make materials with different additives, so that it is much easier for them to experiment on their own. It's not a difficult thing to do, and it's easy for them to get the hang of it. "Qingfengzi is very happy.

"Okay, I'll let Yangchang and them come to you directly." Zhang Zhimu said.

Knowing that Qingfengzi's time was too tight, they hurriedly said goodbye.

Back at the post of Yaogang, Zhang Zhimu said: "I want to see Yan Xing, and then go with him to Xiurong to meet the county magistrate." ”

Yang Yulin said: "I won't go, the road to Xiurong is getting worse and worse." It's also uncomfortable to ride in the car. ”

Zhang Zhimu said to Li Yunhe: "By the way, I still want to talk to you about this." We are going to build a tramway between Xiurong and Yaogang. It is to build a rail road that is narrower than our current trains, and we will build a tram powered by electricity to transport customers back and forth, so that we can reduce the pressure of transportation on this road. When I have time, I will invite Li Di and the others, and we will work together to figure out how to do this. ”

"It's a good thing, I think it can be done. I'll just wait to hear you. Li Yunhe finished speaking and left. Zhang Zhimu went straight to Yan Xing's company.

Yan Xing's company is very lively, and when he saw Zhang Zhimu arriving, Yan Xing said, "Zhimu, you sit first." I'll be done right now. ”

After waiting for a while, Yan Xing sent all the people around him away, and said to Zhang Zhimu: "I am like this every day here, it is very lively. ”

"Don't get too tired." Zhang Zhimu said.

"Now, if no one comes to me, I won't get used to it." Yan Xing said, "There must be something wrong with you coming." Go ahead. ”

"I see that you are okay now, so come with me to Xiurong, and we will go to meet the magistrate." Zhang Zhimu said.

"You really need to meet this magistrate." Yan Xing said, "Otherwise, this person is still very embarrassed." You said that he didn't leave Xiurong, and he was still the magistrate of the Ming Dynasty. But the police have all been replaced by our people, and he still has our money. You say he's awkward or not. However, we didn't send him any more officials, and Xiurong's affairs were still in his charge. But we have a lot of decrees to make next. It's not easy to get his affairs straightened out. Besides, I also have to give the third child an explanation. ”

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Five-line scores, oscillating circuits, caesarean sections. Guo Shoujing made alloy cannons, and Guan Hanqing created "Journey to the West". --Progress of "Memories of the Southern Song Dynasty".