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Wu Kai looked at the several strange-looking muskets in front of him, but he couldn't wait to shout a few times to vent the excitement in his heart.

Five days and six nights, compared with the century-old development history of European firearms, it is not worth mentioning, but for Wu Kai, it is a painful ordeal.

In fact, with his more than ten years of experience in making gun models, it is not difficult to concoct a few guns even with the simplest tools.

The difficulty is that Wu Kai set three indicators for himself - instant excitation, continuous launch, and easy to carry!

In modern times, this is almost the standard indicator of ordinary firearms, but it can be placed in the Northern Song Dynasty, where the smelting technology is relatively primitive, it is really difficult to climb to the sky!

First of all, since instantaneous excitation is required, the arquebus series does not need to be considered, at least it must be a flintlock pistol - but in this era, even if there is qualified spring steel, it will not appear in the small Yanggu, and without spring steel, how to build an instantaneous excitation device?

Secondly, continuous firing, this rule at first glance does not seem difficult, but in the case of extremely poor processing conditions, setting up the magazine means that the air tightness is insufficient, and there is no smokeless gunpowder, and the problem of gunpowder residue must also be taken into account.

Finally, there is the problem of portability, in the small county town of the Northern Song Dynasty, it is absolutely a pipe dream to find suitable steel - at least until Wu Kai builds his own steel-making furnace, it is absolutely impossible.

Therefore, it can only be used to forge the 'fine iron' of the blacksmiths, although this thing hangs a 'fine' word, but the hardness is still several streets away from the steel, if the quality is not enough to make up the local method, easy to carry can only be a fantasy.

So in order to overcome these three difficulties, Wu Kai racked his brains, and once thought about giving up, so he simply made a few arquebuses honestly.

But the reason why he designed such a gun was for close self-defense - if it was replaced with an arquebus, why not just prepare two mountain knives!

So Wu Kai gritted his teeth, overcame all the difficulties, and finally created the gun in his hand - using flint to instantly excite, it can be fired seven times in a row in more than ten seconds, with a net weight of about three kilograms, and the volume is close to that of the Uzi submachine gun.

At first glance, doesn't it sound very powerful?

However, behind this glossy data, there are so many flaws that people are speechless.

First of all, in order to overcome the problem of no spring steel, Wu Kai finally had to choose a pure natural and pollution-free raw material - beef tendon!

True, he redesigned the structure of the excitation device, temporarily replacing the spring on the firing pin with a tendon, at the cost of an extremely laborious pull on the trigger, difficult to operate with one hand, and an unpredictable service life.

Secondly, in order to achieve the function of continuous shooting, Wu Kai gritted his teeth and simply threw the airtightness out of the clouds, and at the same time gave up the range, rate of fire, penetration, etc., and instead pursued small power and area kill.

At present, this gun uses a regent-type magazine, a paper-shelled iron sand bullet, the maximum effective range is estimated to be less than 10 meters, and there is basically no possibility of lethality, and there is also a problem that the magazine and the chamber are extremely difficult to clean, and after firing all the bullets, it is a lump of iron for a short time -- no, it is a copper lump.

In order to reduce the weight, Wu Kai could only use a luxurious all-copper barrel, after all, copper is harder and lighter.

High cost, short life, poor power, short range, complex structure......

To sum up, this gun is almost useless except for the indicators of 'instantaneous firing, continuous firing, and variable carrying' - but it cannot be denied that in the current time and space, it is still a weapon of self-defense.

At least, until Wu Kai developed a real repeating pistol, it was a barely qualified transitional product.

Of course, Wu Kaifei is so energetic, it is impossible to make a transition product just for his own use, in fact, the three arquebuses lying quietly at Wu Kai's feet are his real ambitions.

These three guns may be slightly different in terms of internal structure, but they have one thing in common—that is, the body of the gun is slender enough, the shortest is two meters away, and the longest can be almost three meters!

This thing is commonly known as the 'big lifting rod', with iron sand, jujube core nails as bullets, because the production is simple [mostly hand-knocked by small workshops], the power is good [range killing, can be used as an earthen cannon within a certain distance], in the Republic of China period was widely spread on the land of China, is the landlord old wealth against bandits standard.

Later, this kind of large lifting pole was carried forward in the hands of the guerrillas in Baiyangdian and became a sharp weapon against the Japanese invaders - and these few made by Wu Kai were based on the Baiyangdian large lifting pole as the prototype, and some small changes were made.

The main reason for choosing this non-mainstream large lifting rod over other types of arquebuses was that the arquebus was so inaccurate that it might have had some advantages in large regiments, otherwise it would have been reduced to a supporting role on the battlefield, and could not be compared with cavalry at all—and even as late as the 16th century, the English were still arguing about the merits of longbows and muskets.

In fact, bows and arrows were initially eliminated by muskets, not because of a lack of performance, but because musketeers were easier to train, cheaper, and easier to scale.

Given that Wu Kai's team had only just opened, and there were only a dozen people in total, ordinary arquebuses didn't make much sense.

That's why he chose the 'big lifting rod', a weapon between a musket and an earthen cannon, to complement the detonator from far and near.

Of course, the actual effect will need to wait until dawn and test it to be determined.

"Brother!"

Who knew that Wu Song couldn't wait, and rolled all three guns under his armpits, and urged anxiously: "What are you waiting for at dawn, order a few more torches, won't you have them all!" ”

Wu Kai was actually anxious to see the results, so as to determine whether this thing could be loaded into the monk army, so he inserted the 'cow tendon handcuff' into his waist, carried a bag of iron sand and a bag of jujube core nails, and went out of the west wing with Wu Song - the detonators and gunpowder made were locked in the cellar by Wu Kai, so he still needed to go and get them alone.

As soon as he opened the door, he saw Fahai wandering around in the courtyard, and he didn't know how long he had been waiting, anyway, a fat face was frozen blue, and when he saw Wu Kai come out, his happy snot bubbles came out, and he rushed to the front in a few steps, and said hurriedly: "Master, you finally came out - something happened, something happened again!" ”

Wu Kai was thrilled in his heart when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" Could it be that the officers and soldiers have come back again? ”

"Haha~ It's just right!"

Without waiting for Fahai to reply, Wu Song shouted excitedly: "I was about to try these things, are they as good as my brother said!" ”

"Second master, not an officer or soldier!" Seeing that he rolled up his arms and sleeves, looking like he was going to fight with people, Fahai hurriedly explained: "It's the disaster victims who have an accident!" ”

Refugee?

Wu Kai frowned and said, "Is there a secret agent from the government among the victims, or is there a thorn in the head to make trouble?" ”

In this latter case, Wu Kai has seen a lot in TV series, every time the protagonist comes out to do good deeds, there are always a few unsightly scoundrels who want to jump out and make trouble.

However, Wu Kai will not be in a hurry like the protagonist on TV, and he even wants to jump out a few thorns so that he can make an example of the monkey.

"It's not!"

It's a pity that Fahai disappointed him again, scratching his bald head and saying a little embarrassed: "Actually, there is a pregnant woman among the victims, who has been pregnant for more than eight months. ”

Wu Kai: "......"

What kind of mess is this?!

Wu Kai said with a smile: "Premature birth is premature birth, I am not a stable woman who delivers the baby, and I am not the father of the child, what is the use of you looking for me." ”

"It's not!"

Fahai hurriedly said: "Wen Po has already found it, but this child has not been born, the woman has fainted in pain several times, listening to Wen Po, I am afraid that it will be a corpse and two lives!" ”

Isn't it, this is still a difficult birth?!

I have long heard that giving birth to a child in ancient times was a hurdle for women, but I didn't expect that just a few days after I came, this hurdle was encountered by Wu Kai.

But it's useless to look for him in this matter!

He's just a prop master, not an obstetrician!

"Master."

Seeing that he didn't seem to have figured out the seriousness of this matter, Fahai had to lean up and whisper a reminder: "Don't let her die here, otherwise we won't be able to tell!" ”

"Can't tell? What is not clear? ”

Wu Kai still didn't understand, this Ximen Mansion is not a hospital, and he is not a powerless doctor, is there still a doctor who is not afraid of death who dares to stir up trouble? !

Fahai had no choice but to continue to explain: "You think, the pregnant woman was just taken in by us, and both mother and child died immediately, in case someone takes the opportunity to spread rumors, the reputation we have built up with great difficulty will be ......."

As soon as he said this, Wu Kai immediately understood.

Since ancient times, the legendary demons and outsiders seem to be particularly fond of 'engaging' pregnant women, such as 'stealing the purple river car at night' and 'the yin and yang sword of the son and mother', anyway, they either steal the placenta, or use pregnant women directly as raw materials.

So once the pregnant woman dies in the house, maybe the hat of the 'Evil Demon Outer Dao' will be buckled on Wu Kai's head again, which is not what Wu Kai wants to see.

But the question is......

Even if Wu Kai wants to save people, he can't help!

"It's my fault!"

To say that Wu Erlang is worthy of being a bright and upright man, if ordinary people encounter this matter, they will definitely push it on Wu Kai, after all, the detonator was let by Wu Kai, but he just hammered his chest in frustration, and regretted: "I knew that there was such a thing, so I went to find a place outside the city where no one was around!" ”

As he spoke, he suddenly remembered something, hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Wu Kai's arm, and said hurriedly: "Brother, don't you know how to spell?" Let's go, go and use spells to get the child out, and save me from worrying! ”

Wu Kai smiled bitterly: "Aren't I just about to go over, it's just this spell to save people...... Hehe, have you ever seen that fairy who helped give birth to children? ”

"Yes, isn't it just to send Guanyin!"

Wu Kai: "......"

In short, the three of them hurried to the place of the incident - this is a semi-independent courtyard, which originally seemed to be Ximenqing's housekeeper, but now it is temporarily used as a delivery room.

Before entering the courtyard gate, a woman's roar came into my ears, and listening to it made people chrysanthemum tense.

Outside the delivery room, there were about 20 people gathered, all of whom were victims who had been taken in together, talking head-to-ear, and looking at their expressions, they knew that the situation inside was not optimistic.

Wu Kai originally wanted to observe first, but when he didn't stop him, Fahai shouted: "Let it go, let it go, my master is here!" ”

Before the words fell, he knelt down on the spot, and said auspicious words such as 'Living Buddha Compassion', among which there was a burly young man, who took a few steps forward, hugged Wu Kai's feet and neck, and cried: "Living Buddha, Living Buddha!" You old man must save my wife! I'm kowtowing to you! I'm kowtowing to you! ”

If he didn't use his brain to smash Wu Kai's big female toe, Wu Kai might still be able to laugh more calmly, but at this time, he could only nod stiffly and said, "Don't worry, the deity will do his best!" ”

The man was overjoyed, and hurriedly turned his head and shouted: "Folks, let go and let the living Buddha go in to save people!" ”

People hurriedly parted left and right, and even Wu Song and Fahai flashed to the side, obviously not ready to follow - in ancient times, men were generally not allowed to enter the delivery room.

Tut~

Wu Kai smacked his lips, it seemed that he really had some 'privilege' as a living Buddha - although he didn't want this 'privilege' at all.