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Chapter 43: The Door

Ivanov didn't know that Zhu Eighty-one felt sorry for himself because he fell for the ancients, and when he saw his master's face was gray, he thought that it was because the power of the handcuff was too small. After thinking about it, he smiled and flattered, "Don't be discouraged. In fact, it is easy to increase the range and power a little. It is nothing more than to make the gun tube longer and the aperture thicker. Put more gunpowder into it, and the power will naturally be great! ”

"It's going to blow up!" Xu Hongsan and Zhu Bayi turned their faces at the same time, looked at him like idiots, and vetoed loudly. The corpse of the Zhankou gun is still placed in the general's workshop of the left army battalion, and the whole army, who doesn't know that gunpowder can't be loaded into the Zhankou gun in unlimited quantities?! That is, this gorilla who has just surrendered, thinks that the gunpowder of the Red Turban Army is the same as that of Dayuan, and it can only be used to listen to movement after ignition!

"Explode?" Ivanov repeated mechanically, and then remembered that he had recently seen grenade training. The power of that gunpowder is definitely not comparable to the gunpowder that I saw when I was a mercenary in the West. I couldn't help but slap my head in frustration, and confessed loudly: "I, I actually forgot that you are using a new recipe here!" Isn't this one about doubling the walls? Or make it twice as thick, triple as it gets, and keep thickening it, and there will always be a time when it won't blow up?! ”

"Call you stupid, you're still not convinced!" Xu Hong circled his fingers three times and slammed it on Ivanov's helmet, "That's copper, you know?" Copper, you know? A pound of copper can cast more than 200 Tongbao. Just like that, the copper material used for a handcuff, if you buy a pig, you can buy almost three heads as heavy as you! How many times more do you want to multiply?! A few times more home! You're going to dig copper? Or can you just draw it on paper and make it up?! ”

"Ah, don't fight, don't fight! I didn't know before, I really don't. Ivanov jumped next to the statue and took a step away, holding his head and begging for mercy. Although he has been in Mengyuan for more than two years, he has only a handful of time to hang out outside the barracks. So I always thought that the price of copper in the East was about the same as that in the West. At this moment, when I heard that a small handcuff was worth three pigs, my eyes immediately widened, "Then my thousand-commander military salary, is the adult giving copper coins, or"

"Military salary, you know military salary. If you don't have any money, I'll pay you money, the money of the Great Yuan Dynasty! Xu Hongsan heard this, curled his fingers and knocked again. It wasn't until he knocked the other party to the ground that he saluted Zhu Eighty-one and comforted him loudly: "Don't listen to this idiot." With so much money, we might as well buy more gunpowder to make grenades! Even if you throw it out with a rope on it, it's not as far as a firecracker! ”

"Alas!" Hearing this, Zhu Eighty-one could only sigh helplessly. After the last actual battle, the grenade, as a new weapon, was completely regarded by the Xuzhou Red Army as a magic weapon to defeat the enemy. It's as if no matter what enemy you encounter, throwing hundreds of primordial grenades over you can instantly seal the victory.

However, he stubbornly believed that musketeers were the only correct way for the army to develop in the future. Otherwise, in the part of his memory that originally belonged to Zhu Dapeng, how could there only be machine guns and cannons, but the professional grenadiers were short-lived and completely disappeared?!

"Li Senjun recently made a bomb thrower that can be pushed by two people, and it can throw a two-pound iron thunder 300 paces away. When the battle was approaching, more than 30 bombards were lined up, and even if the opponent was an iron army, they were still blown up all over the field! Seeing that his master would always look depressed, Xu Hongsan continued to speak comfortingly.

"No matter how far you throw a grenade, it won't be farther than a javelin, and it's no better than a bow and arrow!" When it comes to the use of weapons on the battlefield, Ivanov is not afraid of anyone at all, and when he heard Xu Hongsan say too surely, he immediately refuted it. "Once or twice, you can take advantage, and when everyone knows that you have a grenade here, no one will rush forward stupidly. Use a strong crossbow first, a bed crossbow, and smash your bombardier. Then use the archer to ride on the horse, and shoot arrows as you run. Your grenade won't have a chance to throw it out. Even if you throw it, you may not be able to blow up the target that is running! ”

"If you don't talk too much, you'll die?!" Xu Hongsan argued with him, but he was so angry that he raised his hand and was about to speak with his fists.

Ivanov was frightened by him, and hid outside the door with his head in his hands. While hiding, he protested loudly, "I'm just a slave of the governor, you have no right to beat me." If you beat me without the permission of the Governor, you will beat the Governor. ”

"Alright, don't make a fuss!" Seeing that the two of them were getting more and more trouble, Zhu Bayi frowned and scolded in a low voice.

Xu Hongsan and Ivanov originally wanted to make him happy, but when they saw that the trick failed, they had to agree with a sigh of relief. They all took their posture and walked back. After only a few steps, Ivanov suddenly raised his hand again and patted the iron helmet on his head, and said loudly: "Copper is expensive, you can use iron, or use bronze." Bronze is cheaper than copper, stronger than copper, and melts better than iron! That's right, bronze! Bronze! Before I left the Golden Horde, I saw a kind of bronze handcuff. It looks like the one in the Governor's hand! ”

"Bronze, is that thing really stronger than copper?!" Zhu Eighty-one didn't have any concept of bronze in his mind. After listening to Ivanov's babbling words, he frowned and asked Xu Hongsan for confirmation.

"It's definitely stronger than copper!" Xu Hongsan did not raise the bar with Ivanov this time, but nodded very solemnly, "Whether it is cheap or not, my subordinates don't know very well." But bronze is certainly stronger than copper. When I used to be a sedan chair driver, I saw a lot of carriages from large families. The part where the axle is mounted on the wheels is all covered with bronze! ”

"On the side of the city-state of Florence, the bell for the church is also made of bronze!" Not to be outdone, Ivanov quickly interjected.

This sentence can be regarded as completely moving Zhu Bayi. Although the latter is an otaku in the 21st century, he also knows what the ancient clock looked like. And the ancient cannon and the ancient bell are just a difference between being placed diagonally and hanging upside down in his eyes.

Immediately, Zhu Bayi immediately copied the bronze handcuff and put it under his armpit along with the box, raised his leg and walked out of the door, "Let's go, follow me to the workshop, and ask Master Huang if you can imitate this handcuff and cast an enlarged version of it in bronze!" ”

"Alas!" Xu Hongsan always has some new words popping out of his own governor's mouth, and he has long been surprised. Ivanov, on the other hand, was just getting started with Chinese and didn't know what the concept of "enlarged version" was. At the same time, he agreed, and quickly followed behind Zhu Eighty-one.

Mr. Bai Su in Xuzhou City was broken by the Red Turban Army on the night, under the banner of Maitreya to protect a large number of neighbors living around the mule and horse lane, at present, in the entire Xuzhou Red Turban, the left army's workshop, both in terms of scale and technical level, are firmly in the first place.

In particular, those craftsmen who originally lived in the artisan alley still remember the tragedy of the other half of the alley being ransacked by the rebels on the night of the city break. Therefore, even if others offer double the price, they would rather work for Zuo Jun than change their court. With their concerted efforts, the general workshop of the left army was also prosperous. Now, as long as the raw materials can keep up, not only can they repair and build various weapons for their own families, but they can also recruit some of the work of the front army and the rear army, which has made a lot of windfall for Zhu Eighty-one, the metropolitan governor.

Zhu Eighty was relatively lazy all his life, and he usually pushed all the daily chores outside the army training to Mr. Su, and he rarely asked about it. The last time I came back to the workshop was a few months ago, when I arranged for someone to study how to drill holes in iron rods. Later, because of the failure of Shiyàn, he was busy making gunpowder for the Xuzhou army, so he stopped coming, and he forgot the general appearance of the workshop.

This time, I came with "new weapons" to look for "technical support", and from afar, I was smoked to tears by the pungent smell of soot. Looking up again, I saw that on the river beach that Mr. Su specially opened up for the craftsmen as a workshop, there was a huge courtyard made of stones. Above and around the courtyard, thick smoke billowed and sparks were rising, and the gray-black earth was like snow foam, blown around by the southerly winds of early spring. The surrounding wheat seedlings, leaves, and rape flowers that are about to bloom are all dyed black. Half of the river that flows in front of the courtyard has turned gray-black, so thick that you can write with a pen and dip it in it!

"I've really become the Great Demon King of Sauron this time!" Zhu Eighty-one rubbed his eyes a few times with both hands and smiled bitterly. It's just a blacksmith workshop of the hundred and tens, and it can actually pollute the surroundings like this? I still expect to create a cross-era weapon to crush the Yuan army, if this continues, whether the Yuan army will be driven back to Mobei Not to mention, Xuzhou City can be regarded as entering the 21st century ahead of schedule. At least on the side of the left general's workshop, the smell of the air is not much worse than that of later generations.

But he didn't have time to play with environmentalism. In the past two months, I have been wandering around Xuzhou, and the most environmentally friendly dynasty in Chinese history is probably the Mengyuan Dynasty. Kill all the people and bury them in the ground, and then enclose the land and leave the grass growing, and the mountains and rivers will be beautiful. The problem is that he can't be the one who admires the scenery himself, but the one who was killed and buried.

Just as he was sighing, he saw Xu Hongsan rubbing his reddened eyes, and complained hatefully, "Huang Lao, who is killed by God, doesn't spread the stove a little." With such a big river beach, why let everyone crowd into one yard?! ”

The only one of the three who didn't mind the smell of soot was Ivanov. I saw him sniff vigorously for a while, suddenly lowered his head, and asked Xu Hongsan in a very low voice: "Captain, you, in your workshop, do you use peat to make iron?" ”

"What do you use without peat?!" Xu Hongsan was stunned by the question, and replied angrily, "Outside this Xuzhou City, there is peat everywhere. Especially on the side of Jiuli Mountain, peat can be dug out by digging a pit. Instead of peat to strike iron, do you want everyone to go to the mountains and cut down trees? (Note 1)

"No, no, I'm just, just ask, ask!" Ivanov's eyes rolled a few times and he walked away.

However, after a while, he turned his head again, looked at Xu Hongsan, and asked mysteriously, "What about the armor, just hit it with a hammer." Like the one I wear, wearing this kind of big leaf heavy armor, is it also knocked out with a hammer piece by piece?! ”

"Of course, you don't need to knock on the hammer, and you have to hit the door of the head! Nonsense! Xu Hongsan couldn't stand this curious baby who asked everything, glared at him again, and waved his hand vigorously, "If there is anything you don't understand, you will see it yourself when you enter the yard." No one blindfolded you, so it's not annoying to ask you this and that! ”

Note 1: Xuzhou has been a coal-producing place since ancient times. Because coal is buried extremely shallow and easy to excavate, as early as the Song Dynasty, coal began to be used for metallurgy.