Back in the back hall, Yang Lin felt particularly troubled, fiddling with the bird gun around him, the bird gun is the arquebus mentioned in the previous life, and the Chinese people like to call it the bird gun.

History seems to have been replaced by flintlock pistols, a few days ago I accidentally saw the Ming Dynasty Bi Maokang wrote the "Weapon Illustration" has such a pattern, there is also such a manufacturing instructions, but also let Chen Huaixi take the craftsmen to make.

But craftsmanship requires a lot of experience, and even if there are drawings, even if there are manufacturing instructions, it will take a long time to actually complete the manufacture of flintlock pistols, let alone large-scale assembly of troops.

Holding the bird gun, Yang Lin pondered while conducting a simple aiming and shooting drill.

After touching it, Yang Lin felt that something was wrong, why was it that in less than two or three days, this gunpowder was damp again? Sichuan is located in a basin, and the weather is particularly humid all year round, and this gunpowder will be damp in a few days.

A little gunpowder was dipped in his hand, and the gunpowder was visibly damp and stuck together. If you want to avoid the gunpowder from getting wet, you need to avoid the gunpowder coming into contact with the outside air if there are many gaps between the gunpowder.

In the previous life, it seems that the fire projectile and the propellant were packed in the same paper tube, and the paper tube was torn (bitten) during loading, and the propellant and projectile were loaded into the gun chamber together, which not only simplified the loading process, but also ensured the quantitative loading of the propellant, but this did not seem to prevent the gunpowder from getting wet.

Yang Lin thought about it, it seems that it is to promote paper bullets, but at least it can greatly speed up the launch speed, in the Ming Dynasty Qi Jiguang period there was already a prototype of paper bullets, that is, the gunpowder is wrapped in a bamboo tube first, and the paper bullet does not need to use a bamboo tube, first wrap the gunpowder and sticky lead shot in a kraft paper bag, bite the kraft paper when firing, pour the gunpowder first, and then put in the lead shot and kraft paper, and then ignite the shot.

When it comes to the trick of release, it used to be:

One wash, two medicine, three medicine, four lead, five lead, six paper, seven paper, eight open doors, nine medicine, ten press the fire rope, eleven listen to the order to open the fire door, press the fire rope is seven words, not conducive to memory.

According to the principle of lean production in the previous life, the process of putting the gun can be completely changed: one washing, two medicine, three lead, four paper, five tamping, six opening the door, seven medicine, eight pressing the fire rope, and nine opening the fire.

In this way, it can be seen that the paper bullet greatly simplifies the firing process and reduces errors in the loading process, which was thought to be a very good improvement, so that the guard chief Niu Dayong led thirty people to practice.

Everyone was also quite happy, everyone was banging in this back garden, who expected that ten shots were fired in a row, and there were actually two bird guns exploding.

Looking at the explosion chamber, you can see obvious black residue, unlike the yellow powder explosion that burned completely, the black powder combustion chemical equation used in the late Ming Dynasty is:

2KNO3+ S + 3C ==== K2S + N2 ↑+ 3CO2↑

In addition to the gases nitrogen and carbon dioxide, it not only affects the explosive effect (the conversion of a solid state into a gas in a short time in a confined space), but also the solid residue of potassium sulfide, which affects the performance of the firearm.

If the quality of the gun is poor, or the dirt is not cleaned, it will seriously affect the stability of the gun and even cause the explosion.

The bird gun is a light weapon, different from the Western medium and heavy arquebus, the Western heavy arquebus lead weighs more than 50 grams, and the late Ming Dynasty bird gun lead weighs about 3 yuan (about 15 grams), which is why the bird gun is not easy to blow up, and the Western heavy arquebus is easy to blow up.

Everyone was initially interested, but seeing how easy it was to blow up, they didn't want to use it.

It seems that history does not develop in parallel, especially in the embryonic state of technology.

Just like in history, it took more than 200 years for flintlock pistols to replace arquebuses.

It took several years for paper bullets to replace ordinary lead.

As the main general, although he knew that paper bullets were the future development direction, he couldn't force everyone to use them, so Yang Lin had no choice but to let Niu Dayong lead a secret team to study.

In addition, it is to establish an weapons bureau to build weapons, which were completely handmade in the past, and the quality is uneven, and the soldiers on the battlefield are worried

Just breathed a sigh of relief, there was a rush of footsteps from the side compartment, and I knew that it was Fan Daiyun without looking up, since I returned to Pengzhou, the Fan family moved to Pengzhou, and came to the back hall every now and then to help with life.

Sure enough, before the people arrived, Fan Daiyun asked as she walked: "My lord, everyone says that the adult is two-faced and three-stabbed, that is, the minister, but how to entertain the envoy of the Great Western Army and present the official seal."

Why do adults have sad faces, as if they owe money to others? ”

Standing up with a wry smile, watching the two of them sit down, walking and walking, Yang Lin suddenly stopped and said, "Miss, as long as I am sad, do I owe money to others?"

Fiddling with the hair on her forehead, Fan Daiyun said uneasily: "The concubine listens to what people say, and adults have a great sense of fame, and every time they encounter something unhappy in the past, it is like this. ”

quite disapproving, Yang Lin was noncommittal and ignored it.

Seeing that the other party was like this, Fan Daiyun was no longer as aggressive as before, fiddling with her hair, and asked for a long time: "My lord, will you really surrender to him?" ”

Yang Lin was quite conflicted in his heart, although he knew that this official seal was just an ordinary thing, why did everyone think that he had taken refuge in Daxi today?

Although the pressure on the north has been sharply reduced, the tiger in front and the wolf in the back are facing the more powerful Great Western Army.

The local tyrant of Huanglong in the north, Zhang Nengqi, the general of Daxi Dingbei, garrisoned Baoning Mansion in the west, Ma Yuanli, the governor of the Daxi Left Army stationed in Shunqing Mansion in the south, and Liu Tingju, the governor of the Daxi Army, garrisoned Chongqing Mansion in the northeast.

In addition, the situation in the control of the counties is a mess, especially in the counties of Bazhou, although the volunteers control the ground, but in the shadows the local thugs are still calling for wind and rain.

The remnants of the local rioters are entrenched in some cottages, and sometimes even move around to fight against the newly formed local grassroots organizations.

The consumption of money and food for the suppression of bandits is very large, and the consumption of grain for the thousands of displaced people to be resettled is also very large; due to the rebellion of the local rioters year after year, many fields have been abandoned, and many large local families have no grain in stock.

In previous years, these big families might have given some food to charity, but now they are all worried, who would want to set up a porridge shack?

In the face of all kinds of crises, some people suggested sending heavy troops to suppress them, after all, many thieves have been thieves for many years and will never be constrained by the government.

In the face of local riots and rogues, where to go?

After a week of thinking, Yang Lin took out the killer weapon of Xiangyong, and trained more than 100 Xiangyong in various townships.

Implement new policies, especially household registers and ID cards, to prevent thieves from escaping.

Resettle the displaced people and carry out farming, so that those who have been coerced to see hope.

Calling on large households to set up porridge sheds in the local area to provide relief to the displaced people.

………

But all this needs food, and Bazhou has been plagued by local rioters since the twelfth year of Chongzhen, and it has been five or six years now, the land is deserted, there are many displaced people, and there are many unscrupulous people in the local area who collude with the local rioters, and it is even more difficult to quell the local bandits in the short term.