Liu Jinli's face was full of light, and he nodded excitedly: "It's true, it's true, it's true, Zhao Jiaotou don't worry about it, just aim at the open space, after the thunderbolt on a sunny day, the flame can spray to the target three feet away, if it is poured with sesame oil and other things, it will ignite." ”

This is also the prototype of the primary gun, not with the explosive lethality of gunpowder, the main function is to ignite flammable materials on the position. Therefore, when muskets are used in general battles, they will first throw flammable materials such as sesame oil on the opponent's position or city, and then use muskets or rockets with gunpowder to ignite them, which are used to burn the opposing soldiers and destroy the position.

In the Southern Song Dynasty's many years of anti-Yuan war, the earliest rockets, thunder, flying thunder and other weapons appeared successively, Liu Jinli called the fire dragon weapon, actually called the musket. The musket was made of a long bamboo pole, which was first filled with gunpowder and then ignited and sprayed at the enemy during the battle.

And Liu Jinli has only seen the production process, but he is not proficient in the mysteries, anyway, he is painting a scoop according to the gourd, and after all, there is a pattern of a musket. However, he thinks that it is not like three points, what is the difficulty of getting this small fishing village on the southeast coast and fooling these fishermen who have never seen the world!

"Haha, don't be afraid, don't be afraid, give me some medicine twist, I'll launch a fire dragon from our Mengjia fishing village!" Zhao Tianyou's face did not change, and he also had some expectations for the primary mode of filling gunpowder with this bamboo tube.

Under the gaze of the surrounding people, Zhou Yuan lit the medicine twist inserted in the small hole of the bamboo tube with the letter incense in his hand, and a puff of white smoke rose from the rapid stabbing sound, and then there was a low muffled sound.

"Peng!"

The bamboo tube in Zhao Tianyou's hand shook suddenly, and more than a pound of black powder ignited, and a red tongue of fire erupted from the bamboo tube, accompanied by choking smoke, dozens of small pills snapped and burned, and really sprayed onto the ground three zhang away.

"What is this?" Zhao Tianyou was puzzled and raised the broken bamboo tube in his hand, looking at the small particles that had been tumbling and burning on the ground, this is a bit interesting!

Liu Jinli hurriedly ran out, stomped on it with his feet, and stomped on a few pills that were still burning and smoking, and then ran to Zhao Tianyou, and said with a difficult face: "This time I was a little abrupt, a little bit of the leftover pills from making fireworks, so I put it in, if I experiment with the fire dragon gun at night, it can shine and look better." ”

As early as the Tang Dynasty, the earliest firecrackers were invented by the firecracker ancestor Li Jin, after hundreds of years of folk development, fireworks and fireworks and so on are varied, no longer simply based on the sound of firecrackers, and the development of a lot of night fireworks, and emitting all kinds of bright fireworks.

The medicinal grains added by Liu Jinli are commonly used in fireworks, which are sprayed into the sky by the primer to delay burning, thus emitting various colors of bright medicinal grains. Depending on the proportion of saltpeter mixed with gunpowder, it can emit various colors such as red, yellow and white, which is a technology explored in folk fireworks workshops, and mastering this craft can support a fireworks workshop.

Liu Jinli gave a rough explanation, and Zhao Tianyou understood that this was the medicine added to the fireworks, which burst out in the air with all kinds of brilliant colors. Thinking about the technology of fireworks, which can later be written in the air, draw various patterns, and even form a continuous picture scroll, I can't help but nod my head in admiration.

Under the current level of science and technology, every small technical improvement of fireworks and gunpowder is the painstaking efforts of countless craftsmen for several years or even decades. For the improvement of these gunpowder formulas, Zhao Tianyou believes that there must be countless ancestors who died in the flames, or were blown up to death.

Thinking of these, Zhao Tianyou was a little puzzled, in the Song Dynasty, the era when China most admired technology and had a free and open economy, there were three of the great achievements of the four major inventions, why did it not achieve a powerful prosperous dynasty, but a miserable end that was bullied by other places for hundreds of years, and even almost wiped out in the end.

What is really going on in this day and age? Let this Great Song Dynasty, which is leading the world in military technology and military equipment, and whose strong economic strength occupies more than half of the world, has no power to fight back under the Mongolian iron cavalry bow and arrow. In the hundreds of years of war, it has been retreating step by step, until Yashan has no way to retreat, and 200,000 soldiers and civilians committed suicide by throwing themselves into the sea, ending up with the annihilation of the whole army.

Zhao Tianyou's eyes were a little confused after a lot of thoughts, but Liu Jinli in front of him thought that Zhao Jiaotou was dissatisfied with this matter, and he was shocked in his heart, could this be the rhythm of smashing his job?

"Sect Leader Zhao, wait a while, I'm immediately installing a tube of fire dragons, and this time I will definitely not add anything, let you see how powerful the flames spewed out by the fire dragon!" Without waiting for Zhao Tianyou to answer, he turned around and pulled Zhou Yuan, trotted straight to the gunpowder workshop.

"Brother Godbless, is this fire dragon a success?" Meng Shuirou, who had been silent, looked at the two gunpowder masters who ran away, and asked a little puzzled.

Zhao Tianyou compared the cracked bamboo tube twice and said: "It's half the success, let's mainly experiment with the power of gunpowder, which is successful." And this bamboo tube fire dragon is just beginning to explore, it is still far from having a practical use, and it is still far from being able to kill the enemy in battle. ”

In fact, Zhao Tianyou is already very satisfied, this gunpowder technology has been very rich in the people, and the fireworks industry has been developing, and the details should have surpassed the gunpowder workshop under the control of the imperial court.

In this very simple experiment just now, the gunpowder was successfully ignited and launched, and Liu Jinli's unintentional small action made Zhao Tianyou praise the firecracker craftsmen in Chinese history in his mind. After launch, the second ignition is delayed, such a key technology, and the folk have already mastered it, and the various gunpowder formulas make Zhao Tianyou feel excited.

If this can be converted into combat effectiveness as soon as possible, will it be possible to organize a musket team? Not to mention the creation of a more powerful weapon, that is, a simple single-shot arquebus, according to the rotation shooting tactics of World War I, can it defeat the Mongol cavalry galloping over on horseback?

Zhao Tianyou looked at the broken bamboo tube in his hand, and then thought about the blacksmith master who was busy, the basic material technology couldn't keep up, and he couldn't even make a gun barrel, and it was definitely not possible to rely on the bamboo tube fire dragon.

However, this experiment did not dispel Meng Wenshan's doubts, as the main or even exclusive investor, what the gunpowder master made was not just a cannon battle, and it was even as loud as the sound of a cannon battle. Is this a thing that is made out of hundreds of dollars thrown in? If you really want to set off firecrackers, go to the Fang Market in Fuzhou, Quanzhou, where there are all kinds of fireworks and firecrackers, and you can buy them with money.

Why don't you invite the two masters to do it, it seems that these two masters spend money to drink and sleep, and the things they make are not good, if it continues like this, the pressure on him, the patriarch, will be too great.

"Sect Leader Zhao, please forgive the old man for being blunt, can this thing really defend the fishing village?"