The two of them ate their meals and rested in the house.

Wait until the sun sets in the west, about the first quarter of the hour. Qian Zijun asked Li Feibai to get up, led Li Feibai to the armory, and said hello to the old man in charge of the warehouse, asking for two newly made firearms.

For example, a small official like the old man of the armory, he did not dare to disobey the order of the six products to calm down, so he hurriedly took the two into the warehouse, opened the room of the fire gun and let the two of them go in to choose.

The firecrackers were all brand new, and there was nothing to provoke, Qian Zijun took two casually, and led Li Feibai out of the armory to a small forest in the camp. He said: "I was supposed to lead my second brother to hunt, but I couldn't ride a horse with this leg, and I couldn't squat and draw a bow, so I had to borrow a firearm to get by!" ”

Entering the grove, Qian Zijun walked to a slightly larger tree trunk, drew a knife and drew a circle on the trunk, and said, "Let's try it today." A comparison to see who can hit the target first. Two comparisons to see who hits the target the most times. After hitting the target, I don't care about today's dinner. The one with the least number of hits, regardless of today's wine! How is it? ”

Li Feibai said: "Everything is up to the eldest brother!" ”

Qian Zijun walked about fifty steps back, stopped, drew a line on the ground with a knife, and said, "Take this as a boundary!" Then he took off the two firecrackers on his back, handed Li Feibai a shot, and said, "It's very simple to launch firecrackers, you can learn it by watching me do it!" With that, he untied the gunpowder bag, the projectile bag, and a small box hanging from the rod, and hung them on his belt.

Qian Zijun first opened the small box, took out a gunpowder twist from the inside, stuffed the gunpowder twist from the body of the gun into the gunpowder tube, and pressed it with his thumb to prevent the gunpowder twist from falling out of the gun tube again. Then he scooped out a spoonful of gunpowder from the powder bag, reversed the barrel so that the barrel was facing up, and poured the gunpowder into it. Then he took out a projectile from the pellet bag and stuffed it through the mouth of the gun. Finally, he removed the stab stuck in the gun, stuffed it into the barrel, and tamped the gunpowder, the projectile, and the gunpowder twist. Then he lifted the gun, took the flint from the gun, and struck a piece of iron next to the gunpowder twist, and after a few dings, a string of flames burst out, igniting the powder twist.

Qian Zijun leveled the body of the gun, closed his left eye, and aimed at the crosshair on the gun's body, aiming at the target at three points and one line. Just as the powder twist was about to finish burning, the black smoke from the powder twist squinted his eyes, and while he blinked, his hand moved slightly, and the gun lost its head and flew a foot away from the target.

Qian Zijun shook his head and sighed: "It's a pity, it's a pity!" When he turned around, he saw Li Feibai standing next to him in a daze, and said that Li Feibai was startled by the loud sound of the firecracker, and said, "Second brother, were you frightened by the sound of the firecracker?" In fact, although it is loud, it will not hurt you. ”

Li Feibai was frightened by the sound of the gun, but was surprised that it was so difficult for the Ming Dynasty to fire a gun. He didn't have a watch, so there was no way to give Qian Zijun time to pinch the meter, but it took five minutes from Qian Zijun to the time when he was loaded with gunpowder! Even if Qian Zijun is unskilled, it will take about two minutes for a skilled person to complete a reload to fire. With such a rate of fire, how could it be possible to bring out the power of the firecracker?

He said, "Big brother, is this really a newly bought firecracker?" Not old? ”

Qian Zijun said: "What does the second brother mean by this? You smell it, and there is the smell of wood and iron, how can it not be a newly bought firecracker? ”

Li Feibai said: "Then why don't you buy a new type of firecracker?" And to buy this old-fashioned firecracker? ”

Qian Zijun was stunned for a moment and said, "This is the new-style firearm built by our Ordnance Bureau, not the old-style firecracker!" ”

Li Feibai said: "But this is a charge twist, a gunpowder projectile, a compact, an ignition, and a wait for the powder twist to burn out." It's too long! I have seen a kind of gunpowder, there is no twist, there is no need to use the hand to fire, let alone wait for the twist to burn out, just load the gunpowder projectile, and then compact and pull the trigger, the firing pin hits the flint to ignite the gunpowder in the gunpowder tube, to complete the gunpowder, can save a lot of time. Why not use such a new type of firecracker, which is so cumbersome to reload and so time-consuming? ”

Qian Zijun said with a smile: "Second brother, how can there be the kind of fire gun you said in the world?" It can't be what you saw in your dreams! ”

Li Feibai said: "We don't have it in Henan, maybe there is one in the capital?" ”

Qian Zijun said: "I have only been to the capital once in the spring, and the firearms camp has also turned around, which is exactly the same as our firecracker, how can there be the kind of firearm you said!" By the way, what are you talking about the trigger? And what is a firing pin? ”

Li Feibai pointed to the bottom of the gun and said: "That kind of fire gun has a mechanism in this place, and if you pull the index finger, you can trigger the striker ...... above" Speaking of this, he suddenly stopped and said secretly: "The short gun used by Deng Bao should not have been figured out by himself!" He immediately asked, "Big brother, how much does it cost to buy a firearm like yours?" ”

Qian Zijun said: "I don't know how much it is, there must be more than ten taels, and the minimum cannot be less than ten taels!" ”

Li Feibai was moved, if a fire gun earns ten taels, 10,000 is 100,000 taels, and 100,000 is 1 million taels, this is a big business. He said: "Big brother, if there is the kind of fire gun I said, if one sells for fifteen taels, do you want it in your army?" ”

Although the power of the fire gun is much greater than that of the bow and arrow, Qian Zijun does not like the fire gun and loves the bow and arrow, this time if it were not for the leg injury that was not good, he could not squat on the crotch and shoot arrows, he would have led Li Feibai to come to the test of archery instead of the fire gun. For no other reason, it takes too long to launch a firebolt, and it can even be said to be torture, especially the final shot, which is a test of human arm strength. First of all, the firebolt itself is not lightweight. Secondly, the gunpowder was ignited for too long, and the length of time was immeasurable. The weight of the gun is a test of arm strength, and the launch time is a test of endurance. Therefore, the accuracy of the fire gun is low, such as the one he just had, it was originally nine out of ten, but he blinked at the last moment, and all his previous efforts were wasted!

If you really want the kind of gun that Li Feibai said, saving a few loading steps is still secondary, the key is that you don't have to hold up the gun for so long when you fire it, and you don't need to wait for the gunpowder to burn out, which will greatly improve the accuracy.

Qian Zijun said: "If you want to be able to make such a gun, send it to the Ordnance Bureau, and ensure that you will be a six-grade official." ”

Li Feibai said: "I don't look at the official who is not an official, I want to sell guns." ”

Qian Zijun said: "Well, if you dedicate the gun to the Ordnance Bureau and present the production method, you should be rewarded with 10,000 taels of gold!" ”

Li Feibai said: "Big brother misunderstood, what I said about selling is not a reward, but I will make it, and then sell the finished product to the army!" ”

Qian Zijun said: "I only heard that the army buys all kinds of weapons from the Ordnance Bureau, but I have never heard that the army buys weapons from private hands, isn't the second brother a little whimsical!" ”

Li Feibai smiled: "It's up to people!" Take a walk, you can always get the way through! ”

Qian Zijun didn't take Li Feibai's words seriously, after all, firearms are not what anyone said could be made, Li Feibai is a child who came out of the mountains, and today is the first time he has seen a firearm, and it is impossible to build it.