"He has recently become obsessed with Western guns and firearms, and a few days ago he got a Belgian cannon out of nowhere and test-fired it at home, which made his neighbors uneasy, and these days have finally stopped. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info" Shen Baozhen sighed and said, "Now eighty percent is doing dismantling at home, saying that one cannon will be turned into four." ”

"Why did Kunyu think of fiddling with Western guns?" Zhou Kaixi immediately understood Lin Yizhe's intentions, but he still wanted to confirm his guess, so he asked Shen Baozhen.

"Not for this steamer." Shen Baozhen smiled bitterly and said, "He always whispers in front of me, saying that this ship's armament is too weak and needs to be strengthened. I didn't listen to him, so he got angry with me and made his own mess at home. ”

Listening to Shen Baozhen's answer, Zhou Kaixi's face couldn't help but change slightly.

When the construction of the "Wannianqing" was nearing completion, Zhou Kaixi had already discovered that as a gunboat, although the "Wannianqing" was also equipped with armed forces, from the side side, the "Wannianqing" had five gun doors per side, and theoretically a maximum of 10 guns could be installed, but because the gun doors were very narrow, the room for adjustment of the firing range of the guns was very small. When Lin Yizhe first proposed the change of shipyard, he pointed out that the problem of insufficient firepower of the "Wannianqing," which is "dual-purpose for military and business," was actually very far-sighted.

And he and Shen Baozhen and others took care of Zuo Zongtang's face at that time, but they didn't listen to his advice at all!

And this persistent young man did not give up until the day the boat was launched, and he was still seizing the time to spare no effort to think of a remedy!

Thinking of this, Zhou Kaixi couldn't help but feel guilty in his heart.

"You don't have a good face, Shoushan, let's go and rest quickly." Shen Baozhen said, "Now that the shipping is not busy, you can breathe a sigh of relief." ”

Zhou Kaixi agreed, then said goodbye to Shen Baozhen, got into the sedan chair and walked not far away, he thought about it, and then ordered the sedan chair man to turn around and go straight to the direction of Lin Yizhe's home.

When he arrived at the Lin house, Zhou Kaixi got off the sedan chair, and the porter saw Zhou Kaixi's arrival, and hurriedly went in to report.

Zhou Kaixi couldn't help but be startled when he saw Lin Yizhe dressed in coarse cloth clothes with oil stains on his body.

"Lord Zhou came just in time, hehe, hurry up, follow me to try a new gun." Lin Yizhe wiped the sweat on his face, stepped forward and took Zhou Kaixi's hand and left.

Zhou Kaixi couldn't help but be a little amused when he saw that Lin Yizhe's face was full of excitement, he nodded, and followed Lin Yizhe to the backyard.

As soon as he entered the courtyard gate, Zhou Kaixi saw a wooden frame placed in the center of the courtyard, on which was a bundle of long yellow and clear copper pipes, which were bundled into a cylinder, and there was a rocker behind the cylinder, and there was a round flywheel and a long handle next to it. There is also a flat cylindrical copper box above the cylinder.

"This is ......" Zhou Kaixi couldn't help but be stunned when he saw this thing that was somewhat similar to a small artillery.

"This is my new serial gun modified from a 37-barreled 'Montigny' platoon gun made in Belgium," Lin Yizhe smiled and asked Zhou Kaixi to come forward and look at the gun, "How about it?" Doesn't look good, right? ”

Zhou Kaixi stepped forward to take a closer look at the machine gun, and he saw that the exposed copper gungun parts were made very carefully, which was the same as the craftsmanship of foreign craftsmen, and he couldn't help but secretly admire.

"This gun made you change to a six-barrel?" Zhou Kaixi counted the pipes and asked with a smile.

"Yes." Lin Yizhe nodded, "The original thirty-seven tubes are too bulky, and they are fired in wheels, so they are inconvenient to operate." I changed it to a six-barreled one, and the rift was fired, and the parts were simplified. ”

"Where did Kunyu get this Belgian national volleyball robbery?" Zhou Kaixi asked curiously.

"Belgian businessmen once peddled this kind of platoon gun to Ningchang (referring to Jinling Machinery Bureau) without success, this is the sample gun brought by the Belgians, and the business was not successful, so the Belgians abandoned this gun in the Ningchang factory, and it has been stored in the warehouse of the Ningchang factory, and I heard about it and asked for it." Lin Yizhe said with a smile, "In order to be used in the armament of the new ship, this gun has now been changed beyond recognition by me. ”

"Kunyu has a heart." Zhou Kaixi couldn't help but sigh when he heard that Lin Yizhe had taken great pains to enhance the armament of the new steamship.

"It's better to be in time than to be in time, Lord Zhou, come on, come on, try." Lin Yizhe said, stepped forward to check it again, adjusted the "Lin's machine gun" to the state of being fired, and pointed the muzzle of the gun at a big tree with a thick bowl mouth not far away, so he asked Zhou Kaixi to come forward to test the gun.

Zhou Kaixi settled down, and according to Lin Yizhe's operation method, he held the handle to adjust the direction with one hand, and slowly shook the handle with the other.

"Sudden ......" accompanied by the sound of brisk shooting, the barrel of the "Lin's machine gun" continued to rotate, spewing out pale yellow flames with white smoke, and the big tree that was used as a target instantly debris flew sideways.

Zhou Kaixi was stunned for a while.

At this time, Zhou Kaixi's hand was still shaking the handle mechanically, and the bullets continued to shoot out, hitting the tree, and the tree was quickly cut off a large piece, and after a while, the tree was crumbling.

Hearing the exclamations of the servants and shipmasters around him, Zhou Kaixi realized that the tree was about to break, and hurriedly stopped, and at the moment when his hand left the crank and the barrel of the gun no longer turned, there was a "click", and the big tree broke off and fell to the ground with a "boom".

Zhou Kaixi watched this scene in surprise, his eyes were wide, and his eyeballs almost fell out of their sockets.

Lin Yizhe smiled and admired Zhou Kaixi's shocked appearance, and his heart was full of a sense of accomplishment for a while.

Not everyone was able to "steal" Gatling's patent and turn the "Montigni" platoon gun into a "Lin's machine gun".

And the reason why he was able to "turn waste into treasure" became so successful was entirely due to those unknown special experiences in later generations.

Although Lin Yizhe is officially a psychological counselor, he has always loved hand-making, especially weapon models made of metal. In order to become proficient in all aspects of metalworking, he once apprenticed an old fitter for two years, and his enthusiasm can be seen.

I remember that year, Lin Yizhe was invited by a friend who studied in the United States to travel to the United States, just in time for the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War, and commemorative activities were held all over the United States. Lin Yizhe's friend is an enthusiast of ancient gun models, and took Lin Yizhe to a group of American friends he knew to copy ancient firearms. For Lin Yizhe, it was an extremely unforgettable and valuable experience. And he was so familiar with the construction of the Gatling gun, which is where he came from.

And the reason why Lin Yizhe knew that the Jinling Machinery Bureau had a "Montigni" platoon gun was obtained from an old photo uploaded by a netizen.

That time, Lin Yizhe was dangling on the major BBS, and occasionally saw an old photo of the Jinling Machinery Bureau in the late Qing Dynasty, which was a group photo of two Qing army officers and a craftsman with the same pile of weapons and ammunition. Lin Yizhe recognized the two weapons on it at a glance: the "Congreve" rocket and the "Montigni" platoon gun.

Afterwards, Lin Yizhe specially consulted the historical materials and learned that this photo was taken by a Belgian, and at that time, the Belgian arms dealers wanted to get rid of the old war materials in their inventory -- a large number of "Montigni" platoon guns, so they started the idea of the Qing Dynasty government, which urgently needed Western arms to suppress the Taiping Rebellion. The Belgians boasted to the Chinese side about the power of the "Montigni" platoon guns and suggested that a large number of Qing troops be equipped, but the Chinese side did not accept the Belgians' sales pitch after careful examination. The Belgians were so disappointed that they didn't even bring back a sample gun when they left. Therefore, this "Montigni" platoon gun has been eating ashes in the warehouse of the Jinling Machinery Bureau since then, until the outbreak of the Sino-French War, no one remembered it again, pulled it to the Bac Ninh battlefield, and was finally captured by the French army.

And now, because of Lin Yizhe's relationship, the fate of this Belgian version of the "Montigni" platoon gun has also been changed.

"The gunpower of the 'Wannian Qing' ship is too simple, and it can still support it for a while in long-range combat, but it is difficult to do it in close combat." Lin Yizhe said, "If you can place this repeater on the mast, when the enemy ship comes, you can condescend to attack it, and you can kill and injure more sailors." ”

"This is a sharp weapon for melee combat with real guns, and the 'Wannian Qing' ship is just right to use." Zhou Kaixi admired Lin Yizhe for a while, and the mustard caused by the change of location of the shipyard and Lin Yizhe has disappeared completely.

At this time, Chen Wan, who was coaxing the child in the house, looked out of the window and saw Lin Yizhe and Zhou Kaixi talking hotly there, and couldn't help but smile happily.

She has a lot of credit for the fact that this "Montigni" platoon can reach Lin Yizhe's hands so quickly.

After Lin Yizhe remembered the Belgian version of the "Montigny" platoon gun kept by the Jinling Machinery Bureau, he originally planned to ask Shen Baozhen to come forward and ask for a message. But at this time, Lin Yizhe already knew that Shen Baozhen and the Zeng brothers were not in harmony, so he was quite embarrassed. After Chen Wan learned about it, she wrote a letter to her godmother who was also the matchmaker of her marriage - Ouyang Shi, the wife of Zeng Guofan, and reported to Mrs. Ouyang that she had given birth to a daughter, and added a paragraph: "Kunyu has recently been addicted to Western firearms, and his self-drawing is full of patterns, suffering from the lack of mechanical parts, and it is difficult to cook without rice. Can you borrow a look? words. As a result, less than a month later, Zeng Guofan entrusted Li Hongzhang to borrow a foreign ship and send the gun by water. Of course, along with the gun, there was also a handwritten letter from Zeng Guofan to Lin Yizhe.

“…… This is more than the country of the old existence, to the volume is too large, almost than the cannon, easy to operate, so not selected, now to give you, if you can be flexible and transformed into a useful instrument, so that the countries of Taixi know that China also has ingenious people, do not dare to underestimate me, then the country's luck also. Looking forward to success, fly to the letter to tell ......"

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