The problem with weapons production is that it is not possible to scale up production in the face of secrecy.

The barrel can be made by a blacksmith in a blacksmith's shop, and then threaded for easy connection, but the part where the ammunition is loaded and the part where the flint fire is fired, Tang Xidong can't take it out for anyone to handle.

After the disassembly of the whole new flintlock pistol, considering the assembly, Tang Xidong designed two kinds, one is the thread buckle, which connects the barrel and the barrel of the loading part, and the second part is the buckle, which connects the butt and the loading part.

But things are not as easy as imagined, after all, it is a new model, the assembly requirements of each part require a lot of time to practice and familiarize, you need to understand the role of each production part, in order to understand the special requirements of each part of the production of parts, and then focus on the critical parts in the production.

The flintlock pistol, sandwiched between hot and cold weapons, is in a rather difficult phase, first, it is completely inexperienced, and second, there is no corresponding weapon model to learn from.

In the initial time, every day was made of waste parts, and every craftsman in the craftsman workshop did not have the concept of standardized processes.

Whenever he saw the waste parts made by everyone in front of him, Tang Xidong was particularly eager for the mechanized CNC operation developed in the future.

But apparently, it was a pipe dream, and all he could count on was the craftsmen in front of him.

Faced with the current situation, no matter how anxious Tang Xidong was, he could only be patient and start again with everyone.

A long time has passed in the midst of groping and familiarity.

Outside, with the efforts of nearly 10,000 people, large areas of farmland on both sides of the Fen River have been mined.

The Fen River dam is also busy, re-channeling the river, and the construction of the dam foundation is nearing completion.

Aquaculture is also progressing steadily.

The large quantities of soap, soap, perfume, and cement produced every day were also transported out in the hurry of the caravans, and then exchanged for silver, grain, and other necessities.

The caravanserai were sold mainly in Jingshi and the commercially developed coastal areas south of the Yangtze River.

Jin merchants have their own channels, Tang Xidong doesn't have to worry too much, he just needs to strictly control the shipment of goods and send special personnel to investigate the price of goods sales.

He also purchased a lot of war horses in the area north of the Yellow River, and the good ones were directly delivered to the army for cavalry training, and the bad ones were temporarily left for the later formation of baggage troops.

There is no news on corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, peppers and tomatoes yet.

Tang Xidong repeatedly asked the caravan to find these crops and reward them.

But apparently, these crops have not been cultivated on a large scale for the time being, although they have already been introduced to the Ming Dynasty.

Compared to the fact that everything was going well outside, the craftsman's workshop was still struggling to move forward in the quagmire.

Fortunately, although the development of flintlock pistols was difficult and slow, the production of artillery and gunpowder had made great progress.

The large and small artillery pieces have been cast, and they are just waiting for Tang Xidong to take the time to pull them out and try them.

In addition, the gunpowder workshop has also made a lot of progress, and Tang Xidong's progress is not only to make it, but to tap the power of black powder to the maximum extent, and to develop the types of black powder as diverse as possible.

In terms of power, first of all, under the thoroughly studied formula of later generations, it has far exceeded the power of gunpowder used by the Ming army now, and secondly, in terms of types, it has created time-delay bombs suitable for artillery use, and fixed ammunition suitable for flintlock pistols, and most importantly, it has created the killer feature that Tang Xidong has always designed - homemade grenades.

A time-lapse bomb is a lead fuse stretched out of an iron-clad explosive, and the fuse is made of oiled paper wrapped in gunpowder powder, and the burning time of the fuse is determined by the length of the lead and the firing distance of the gun.

In the case that the fixed ammunition could not be invented, Tang Xidong could only let the craftsman wrap the gunpowder with oiled paper, jam the marbles in the front section, and lead out a short lead in the back section, so as to extend into the small hole reserved at the bottom of the flintlock lighter, and the oiled paper has a certain moisture-proof and waterproof effect, which can ensure the normal use of the ammunition.

The grenade, as simple, is to press a sealed explosive canister on the wooden handle, and then lead out the fuse, in order to prevent accidental burning, usually the lead will be pasted with oiled paper, after tearing it in wartime, light it with a fire source and then throw it out.

The manufacture of time-delay bombs also requires supporting artillery, and the artillery needs to consider that the explosion of gunpowder will not immediately ignite all the leads.

Therefore, the exposed part of the lead of the time delay bomb can only be a small hole and a small section of lead, and the other leads need to be hidden in the iron ball, and at the same time, it must be considered that the perfect combustion will not be extinguished in the middle of the process.

Therefore, the shape of the time bomb is bizarre, in addition to the round iron ball, there is a small iron pipe like a straw that protrudes around the outside of the round ball, and the lead is hidden from the iron pipe, and the small mouth of the iron pipe connected to the round ball can be ventilated and ventilated, so as to ensure that the lead in the iron pipe can burn normally.

At the moment of gunpowder explosion, the lead of the rear mouth of the iron pipe is ignited, and the ventilation of the front mouth provides oxygen, and the lead burns along the iron pipe until the explosives in the round iron ball bomb are ignited.

After making time-lapse bombs and grenades, Tang Xidong took time out to rack the newly cast steel cannon in the valley of the back mountain.

Begin experimenting with the effects of the Time Delay Bomb.

This is the first test after the time bomb was made, which can provide a lot of data, and Tang Xidong asked the craftsmen to make a record.

In addition to the craftsmen of the gunpowder shop, there were Liu Lianqing and Deng Dahu, Liu Dagou, Li Shangquan and Xu Sanxing.

These people will have to deal with gunpowder pharmacies in the future, and Tang Xidong hopes that everyone can contact them in advance.

When a few people saw the artillery set up on the top of the mountain, their eyes were full of the bright light of a hungry tiger pounced, although they had always known that Tang Xidong was hiding and busy with these things, but when the artillery appeared in front of them, this feeling of seeing it with their own eyes was completely different from the feeling of having been speculating and expecting, the latter was able to control it, and the former's whole body trembled with excitement.

Twenty time-delay bombs were made according to the caliber of the gun, and each type of shell with the same lead length was prepared with two, and the two shells could provide differences and comparisons in the experiment, so as to find problems.

The order of the trials is sorted from the length of the leader from long to short.

After the long-awaited artillery test officially began, a basin of cold water was poured on everyone in an instant.

If there is a happy opening, there will be an opening to hit the mountain.

The firing of the first cannon of the first artillery in the history of Luoliang Mountain did not go well.

Although the craftsmen of the gunpowder shop were able to make gunpowder and bombs, they could not accurately control the ammunition fired by the artillery, and the first shot was fired, and the parabola of the cannon fell directly to the bottom like a crushed branch, and it took a long time to hear the explosion of the bomb.

The bomb that fell into the valley disappeared in front of everyone's eyes not long after it was discharged, and naturally the bomb firing distance and explosion time could not be measured.