Chapter 55: The Inventor of the Musket (2)
"Your Excellency!" The swift catchers with knives and sticks, and the officials slammed the door open, but they saw an incredible scene: the dignified county lord actually hugged the famous master......
Song Ting hurriedly pushed the sloppy man of Chen Gui away from himself, and then coaxed the catchers and officials to disperse, saying that this was just a cannon battle, so that they would not be allowed to break in when they heard this kind of sound in the future.
Coaxed away the catchers and officials, Song Ting picked up the old drawings again, pointed to the picture painted like a bird, and asked, "Brother Yuan Ze, can you make the firearms on this picture?"
Chen Gui glanced at the drawings and muttered: "This kind of firearm, I am still groping, if I want to make it, I am afraid it will take at least three years, or even ten years, of course, it may not be possible to make it in a lifetime......
Song Ting also knew something about invention, to invent something, it may really fail countless times, and it may not succeed, just like Edison said: invention is one percent talent, plus ninety-nine percent perspiration.
In fact, most of the great inventions are only improved on the basis of the original things, such as Cai Lun's improvement of papermaking, Bi Sheng's improvement of printing, Watt's improvement of the steam engine, and Edison's choice of bamboo wire as the light bulb filament, which are all improvements made on the basis of the predecessors, but have deeply influenced later generations, if there is no such improvement, so things may disappear, rather than carry forward, so these people who improve things have become "great inventors", and the original inventors are unknown to everyone.
Song Ting looked at the bamboo pipe that exploded on the ground, picked up a small half of it, and couldn't help but sigh, the power of this assault rifle was indeed very fierce, not only shooting the quail eggs in front of it far away, but also blowing itself up...... It seems that the side effects are also obvious, because it can only be used once.
If the barrel can be improved and no longer use bamboo pipes, but steel, then it is impossible to blow up the chamber, and the effect of multiple or even unlimited uses can be achieved.
In addition, although the assault rifle has the effect of individual combat, after all, the operation is relatively troublesome, and it is necessary to ignite the rope, and to use a hand-held wooden stick, if you really use this kind of thing to go to the battlefield one-on-one, I am afraid that the rope will not be burned out, and it will be hacked to death with a knife.
So, for now, the effect of this assault gun is far inferior to that of a crossbow arrow, which can at least be instantaneous.
However, when Song Ting looked at the design of the bird's gun, his eyes burned with fire, if this arquebus could be developed, it would really end the era of cold weapons.
The power of the arquebus is far more powerful than the assault rifle, and the Song court once read a historical record that when the arquebus first began to circulate in Europe, a well-trained soldier could shoot two bullets in three minutes, and the shooting distance reached two hundred to three hundred meters.
Just imagine, on the battlefield, at a distance of 200 to 300 meters, even if people can't shoot you with crossbow arrows, you can shoot two bullets, although you may not be able to hit, but it is estimated that scare can also scare people away. In this era, the crossbow arrows that can "penetrate the Yang in 100 steps" are already terrifying, and 100 steps are only about 100 meters......
Retracting his thoughts, Song Ting made a few simple comments on the assault rifle invented by Chen Gui, but he didn't expect his random comments to make Chen Gui's eyes widen and stare at him in shock, as if he had seen a ghost, and suddenly jumped up and shouted: "Oops! Chaozhong, Chaozhong! What I have always been unable to understand was actually made clear by you in a sentence or two! Listening to your words is better than reading a book for ten years! You're really making my mouth start! ”
He pointed to the drawings of the bird gun and said: "With the guidance of the DPRK and China, I am confident that this unprecedented firearm will be developed within two years!"
Listening to the stereotype's words, Song Ting was also very happy, and couldn't help but pat him on the shoulder to express encouragement. This action is very subtle, and it is usually done by the leader to his subordinates, but at this time, the county lord of Chen Gui didn't seem to realize this at all, not only was he not angry, but he also showed a humble smile, as if Xiaobai had won the praise of his peers.
The old rules looked dirty and smelly, Song Tingke really couldn't stand it, couldn't help but pull him out of the house, ordered someone to give him a bath, and invited Cao Bin, the three of them came to the Chunfeng Building together and rubbed it, and told him to rest for two days first, and it is also necessary to rest to make inventions.
After eating, Song Ting went to the old house again, took the food box and handed it to the officials, took two finished assault rifles, showed a mischievous smile on his face, sat in a sedan chair carried by four people who belonged to the county, and happily returned home.
Now don't say that the entire sedan class, that is, all the servants in the entire third class and six rooms, have to look at the face of his master. Now in the entire Yongtai County Ya, who doesn't know that the real county seal is Master Song?
The sedan chair fell at the gate of the courtyard, and Song Ting asked the sedan chair drivers to carry the sedan chair back to the county office.
Song Ting knocked on the door, and it was Xiaoman who opened the door, she looked at no one on the left and right, and then shouted happily: "The master is back?"
Song Ting bowed slightly, glanced at her, and found that she was wearing a new dress today, with pale pink patterned silk placket and narrow sleeves, which looked brand new, and a pale pink patterned silk skirt on the lower body, with a faint bulge in the light white bandeau chest, and Xiaohe showed her sharp corners, although she was not very expected, she could also see it; The orange lip grease was smeared on the lips of the peach's small mouth, with the big sparkling eyes, in addition to being cute and charming, it added three points of charm and beauty.
When Xiao Man saw Song Ting staring at her, he immediately blushed timidly, lowered his head, and didn't dare to look up at his eyes.
Song Ting didn't deliberately pay attention to her appearance, but she was wearing a new dress today, and she really looked a little better, so she couldn't help but look at it twice.
"Xianggong is back?" In the house, Zhao Yuanzhen wore a dingdong, water sleeves and clouds, a long skirt dragging, and walked out, Yingying Fu, a smile, refreshing people's hearts......
Every time he saw this intoxicating face, all the unhappiness and troubles of Song Ting disappeared in an instant.
If you have a wife like this, what more can a husband ask for?
He took two steps forward, Zhao Yuanzhen smiled and came over to take his arm, and when he saw that he was holding two bamboo-like things in his hands, he asked in surprise, "What are these two that Xianggong is holding?"
Song Ting said with a smile: "This is the important weapon of the country."
"What a national weapon! I think it's clearly two broken bamboo tubes! "The ghost sword came out of the shadow, and the god was unaware, and he spoke very politely.
Song Ting smiled and said, "Okay, you fly to the roof now."
The sword didn't know what he meant, but she still listened to him, and with one arm, she took off, like a white bird, and soon perched on the roof, she looked down and asked, "What are you telling me to fly up for?"
Song Ting smiled on his face, pulled out the arm held by Zhao Yuanzhen, put a brute gun on the ground, and held the other in his hand, looked at the quail eggs in front, looked at the ghost sword with a thief smile on his face, and said: "The ghost sword, you seem to hate eating eggs the most, don't you?"
Youjian is very tired of eggs, eggs, duck eggs, goose eggs...... Wait, I don't touch anything, I bought a few salted duck eggs last time, and she almost vomited. I don't know what the problem is.
Listening to Song Ting's question, Youjian snorted coldly and asked impatiently, "What do you want me to do?"
Song Ting shouted: "Stand still, stand still......"
The bamboo tube was already aimed at the roof, Song Ting took out the fire knife flint from his waist, handed it to Zhao Yuanzhen, and asked her to light the fire rope, although Zhao Yuanzhen didn't understand what he was going to do, but he still lit the fire rope.
"Stand still......"
Song Ting was afraid that the Hidden Sword would fly away, so he couldn't help reminding him, but the Hidden Sword was holding the sword in his chest with both hands at this time, looking like he could help me.
The fire rope burned rapidly, sneering, Song Ting clenched the wooden stick, and there was a tremor from the wooden stick, only to hear a "bang" explosion, the smoke was filled, and a quail egg the size of a thumb shot out suddenly, and the speed was amazing......
Just when the quail egg shot steeply in front of the sword, she actually exclaimed, "Oh no", and then hurriedly drew her sword to block, only to hear a clatter, the quail egg cracked, and a stream of egg juice splashed on her face......
The ghost sword was annoyed, flew down, spit out the egg liquid in his mouth with a "phew", actually threw the long sword away, stomped his feet, and snorted angrily: "You know that bullying people ......" turned around and went to find water to wash his face.
"Hey, don't be so stingy. Come on, let's try again......" Song Ting picked up another assault rifle with a smile on his face that had succeeded in his plan.
This Nizi, who stepped on his feet and pinched his thighs a few days ago, also pranked her once this time, which can be regarded as flattening.
However, this experiment can be regarded as a verification of the applicability of the assault gun, if it is used for sneak attacks, the effect is still very significant, just frontal, it is to find death.
Even if you use the bullets that are fired, you can't use quail eggs anymore, you need to use hard objects like stones and marbles, and if you use stones and marbles, you may be able to stun people suddenly, but quail eggs can't do it, this is definitely not good......
I really don't know how this fool came up with quail eggs...... Looks like we'll have to go to the market tomorrow and buy some usable marbles to experiment again.
Youjian washed his face and came out, picked up another assault spear, took a closer look, pulled the fire rope, and said, "This thing is still a little interesting......
Zhao Yuanzhen was also very curious, and after looking at it, he looked at Song Ting and asked, "Is this a firearm?"
Song Ting nodded: "Yes, but this can only be regarded as version 1.0."
Zhao Yuanzhen and Youjian couldn't understand what he was saying, they only felt that what he said was unfathomable and very mysterious. Xiao Man also walked over, touched the fire rope, and asked, "Is it that if you light this, it will explode?"
"Yes." Song Ting smiled and nodded, then pointed the bamboo tube in the direction of the sword, and said with a wicked smile: "Zhen'er, one more ......"
Zhao Yuanzhen also pursed her lips and smiled, and lit the arquebus, she believed that her husband was just joking......
"Hey! Feed! Do you want to go too far? Ghost Sword was so anxious that he hurriedly fled, turning back and cursing from time to time.
Bang! There was an explosion.
Quail eggs shoot straight out and fly through the sky......
"Quack Quack ......"
"Oops! Who's going to be a duck......"