Today's Ningxiang Qianhu Craftsman Workshop is much larger than in the past, and Sun Yuan needs to form a thousand-person musket force in the future. He had already figured out that with the combat effectiveness of his own troops, if he was still trained like the Ming Dynasty army, he would not be the opponent of the peasant army and the Qing army at all.

In the future, the peasant army will be Sun Yuan's main opponent, and the Qing soldiers will be the most vicious enemy of the entire nation.

To defeat them, one must be an era ahead of them in weapons.

When he first arrived in Ningxiang, Master Cui only brought six apprentices, while his son-in-law Yue Luming had only one person.

This manpower was obviously insufficient, so Sun Yuan sent more than a dozen military households to help them, and at the same time put the carpentry workshop of the Thousand Households Institute here.

Three teams of people occupy a large part of the house.

Half a year, to make a thousand qualified muskets, this task is still very heavy in this era.

As soon as I entered the courtyard, I heard the clanging of the fire, the fire was burning vigorously, and several blacksmiths were bare-chested and wielding hammers vigorously.

As Sun Yuan expected, early in the morning, Blacksmith Cui sat on a chair with a teapot and cursed his apprentices incessantly, and the foul language was endless.

"Cui Shizao."

"Ah, it's the lord of a thousand households, I don't know what to order?" When Blacksmith Cui saw Sun Yuan coming in, he hurriedly put it in the teapot and was about to kneel.

Sun Yuan helped him up and said, "Get up, I'll come over to see how the progress is?" ”

Blacksmith Cui: "Three hundred barrels have been forged, and the matching bolt has been made." As he spoke, he respectfully handed over a shotgun that had been assembled.

Sun Yuan only felt a sinking in his hand, and was taken aback in his heart, and said in his heart, this gun is so heavy!

The gun was four feet long, and there was an arquebus attached to the bolt, which was the standard seventeenth-century style of a heavy arquebus.

Blacksmith Cui handed over a fork again: "The recoil of this gun is large, and it is held with a fork when the gun is released." Otherwise, one is not good, and it will really turn people to the ground. ”

Sun Yuan: "It's not inconvenient. ”

"Yes, but I can't help it!" Blacksmith Cui lit the fire to the fire rope with his hands and feet, turned his head and scolded the house: "Little bastard surnamed Yue, don't you fucking look at the time now, and you can't get up yet?" All day long, I only know that a woman gives birth to a child, and you are like a pig! The master of a thousand households is here, and you still don't come out to bow down? ”

"Daddy, what are you scolding?" Next to her, Cui Blacksmith's daughter heard her father scolding her husband again, and in front of the master of a thousand households, she was so angry that tears appeared in her eyes.

"It's coming, it's coming." After a while, Yue Luming came out with a small bag of oilcloth, gave a salute, and handed the small bag to Sun Yuan. He said excitedly: "If the eldest master doesn't come, the villain is about to go over to meet him." This is the gunpowder I made according to the old man's method, and it was mixed with water and sifted into the size of a sesame seed. Not to mention, it was very strong when it was launched, and it burned cleanly. The villain has already sifted out thousands of pounds this month. ”

Sun Yuan opened the oilcloth bag and saw that it was already grainy, and he was happy in his heart: "Tired, you have to hurry." In another month, the soldiers will have to train their guns, and the gunpowder will be consumed very much. If you don't have enough manpower here, just say it, and I'll send you two apprentices. ”

"Yes, it would be nice to have two more helpers."

After speaking, Yue Luming began to hurriedly fill Sun Yuan.

The arquebus in Sun Yuan's hand weighed twenty pounds, according to Blacksmith Cui. When fired, it was either supported by a Y-shaped fork, or it could only be placed on the shoulders of another soldier.

In addition, it is too bulky to reload.

First the gunpowder was poured into the chamber of the gun, and then a lead bullet was filled. Then use a long through strip to push the buckshot into it and hammer it with a wooden hammer.

Finally, pour a little gunpowder into the primer pool of the musket.

In this way, the ammunition of the musket is fully loaded.

As soon as Yue Luming started, Sun Yuan began to calculate the time for loading. It took Yue Luming 20 seconds to load the gun with gunpowder and bullets, but it took more than 40 seconds to locate, install, and aim. By the time everything was done, more than a minute had passed.

It was so troublesome to reload, but it was a big surprise to him. Even if it is a soldier who has undergone rigorous training, it is estimated that it will not be much faster.

With such a slow reloading speed and such a bulky gun, Sun Yuan couldn't help but take a breath of cold air: I really didn't expect this musket to be so problematic, I didn't have a whim last night.

"Bang!" A cloud of white mist rose, and Sun Yuan was knocked back by the recoil of the gun, feeling a faint pain in his shoulder.

A few little apprentices ran forward to carry the two dummies placed at the foot of the wall, and then let out a cheer: "It's amazing, it's amazing, the double layer of iron armor has been pierced." ”

This is probably the only good news that Sun Yuan heard when he came to Cui Blacksmith, and when he looked closely, a small hole the size of a broad bean had been shot out of the front of the iron armor. Therefore, the arquebus had no rifling and a strange trajectory, and as soon as it entered the dummy, it made a teacup-sized hole in the vest, and the iron armor leaf was also turned to the side, which looked very terrifying.

This gun, but the power is enough. With just one shot, you can make the enemy lose their resistance.

Blacksmith Cui and Yue Luming were also colorful.

But at this time, Sun Yuan shook his head: "No, disassemble all the guns and redo them." ”

"What?" Blacksmith Cui's eyes widened in surprise: "Master Qianhu, what's wrong with the gun made by the villain?" ”

"That's right, Master Cui's gun is perfect." Sun Yuan looked up at the sky: "It's too heavy, and I'm afraid of rain." When it rains, the fire rope gets wet, and the musket is not as good as a root or stick. ”

"But aren't all these arquebuses like this?" Blacksmith Cui couldn't help but scream again.

"Ignition with an arquebus is really troublesome, and it has to be changed." Sun Yuan handed the flint in his hand to Blacksmith Cui: "Bring a pen and paper, and I'll draw a pattern for you." ”

"Yes, the villain will go and get it." Blacksmith Cui hurriedly went back to the house to get pen and paper.

Sun Yuan turned back to Yue Luming and said: "And you, when you were loading just now, your movements were too slow, and when you went to the battlefield, after you fired a shot, before you finished loading, the enemy had already pounced in front of you." I have to change it, and I have to fill it with the medicine in thirty breaths. ”

Thirty breaths, which should be forty to fifty seconds, is not much faster. But on the battlefield, every minute and second is related to the life and death of soldiers, even if it is half a second faster.

In fact, as far as Sun Yuan knew from his previous mixed military forums, in Europe at the same time, it took nearly a minute for a skilled musketeer to go from loading to shooting.

Yue Luming shook his head: "I'm afraid this won't work." ”

Sun Yuan: "There is nothing in the world that cannot be done, as long as you use your brains more." So saying, he took out a piece of paper from his bosom, filled it with some medicine, wrapped it in the shape of a small roll of paper, and finally stuffed a buckshot into it.

Then, he bit one end of the small paper roll, shook some gunpowder into the barrel of the arquebus, then shook some gunpowder into the primer pool, and finally stuffed the bullet in the paper roll into the barrel.

Yue Luming was originally a master craftsman, but after just one glance, he immediately understood the joints in it, and couldn't help but exclaim: "This method is good, the master of a thousand households." ”

He rubbed his hands excitedly and kept muttering: "Put the gunpowder into a small paper roll in advance, and when you go to the battlefield, you can directly follow the steps to reload, but it is much faster." The big man is really the big man, and he can even come up with such a simple method. ”