Chapter 1111: Early Spring of the Empire

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It was under the guidance of this understanding that Kotaro Munakata successfully obtained a sample of "Hayashi's gunpowder" by means of monetary bribery. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Tell me more about your adventure, Zong Fang-kun." Arao Seiki was eager to know what had happened, "It must be a wonderful story." ”

Kotaro Munakata smiled slightly, "Yes, but you can just know it, but don't mention it in the report, Arao-kun." There are other uses for this intelligence line. However, this time, the credit will be on your head. ”

"I understand." Arao nodded his head, "After the great cause of the empire is accomplished, let's tell the truth to the people!" Your contribution will not be forgotten by the Empire! ”

At this moment, the Arao Essence would never have thought about what the truth was that they were able to get their hands on this time, and the day they were looking forward to would never appear.

Port Arthur, artillery test site.

The target made of the scrap ship had been erected, and the staff quickly left after issuing the "fire-ready" flag.

Lin Yiqing looked at the 140mm cannon used to test the new artillery shells, and felt a little excited in his heart.

He still remembers that in the original historical time and space, when he was a child, he used the explosives prepared by himself to mix the old toilet with concentrated salt water to blow up a rural earthen toilet......

And the explosive formula that I secretly learned in a book is today's "Lin's gunpowder"!

The reason why Qianguo used this formula in this era was not because of his childhood experience and how affectionate he was for this formula, but because he was forced to make a realistic choice.

He knew, of course, that the Japanese Navy had now begun to secretly equip artillery shells with picric acid as a warhead charge, the so-called "Shimose gunpowder" shells. However, if the Qianguo Navy still uses the black powder shells that are currently commonly used by the world's navies, it will certainly suffer a big loss.

And he doesn't want to equip the Qianguo Navy with picric shells now.

He has a deep understanding of the unstable ills of picric acid.

Although he knew how to passivate picric acid, the chemical industry was still extremely weak in the current Qianguo, and it was very difficult to make benzene to passivate picric acid. At present, there are still many difficulties in producing large quantities of relatively safe TNT explosives on our own.

In this case, the advantages of "Lin's gunpowder" are revealed.

Lin's gunpowder is essentially a potassium nitrate explosive, and the production process is very simple, only need to fully mix the toilet clay with concentrated brine, and then evaporate and dialysis to crystalline it. In addition to the toilet soil, the soil of the saline-alkali land is mixed with sea salt water, and it is distilled and precipitated many times to produce high-purity potassium nitrate explosives.

Toilet soil, saline-alkali soil and sea salt are all things that can be easily found in large quantities in Qianguo.

While producing the explosives needed by the navy, he also solved with one stone the public health problems that had plagued the cities of Qianguo for many years, and this was an achievement that he was quite proud of as the minister of the Ministry of War, Shangshu and Haihai.

Although the power of Lin's gunpowder is not as good as picric acid, about 70% of that of picric acid, it has stable medicinal properties and relatively high safety, and the advantages of easy availability of raw materials, simple production process and rapid mass production are incomparable to other explosives.

Of course, Lin's gunpowder is not without shortcomings, its biggest disadvantage is that it is easy to be damp and compacted, and if you use a hammer to knock it, it is no different from self-explosion.

Lin Yiqing is well aware of the weakness of this explosive, and his solution is to coat the inner cavity of the shell with a layer of natural rubber 1 mm thick (that is, white rubber milk, it doesn't matter if the thickness is uneven, and there is no need for any technology) to seal and reinforce.

Previously, Lin's gunpowder has passed many tests and proved that its performance is good, and it is the latest armor-piercing blasting bullet in Qianguo this time, which is loaded with Lin's gunpowder.

After a short time, the gunner packed a huge armor-piercing blasting bullet and a propellant made of smokeless gunpowder into the gun chamber, and after careful aiming, with the command of the commanding officer, there was a loud bang, Lin Yiqing saw that the muzzle of the gun spewed dark red flames and slight smoke, and the shell flew towards the target like a meteor.

The ship-shaped target was hit directly, and in the light of fire and gunsmoke, the hull was blown apart.

Seeing this spectacular scene, many testers cheered, because they knew that in the future war, they must be the victorious.

Lin Yiqing put down the binoculars, and at this time, many technicians rushed to the target to watch the test results and collect data.

"My lord, that thing is done, and the things have been taken away by the Japanese." The subordinates whispered to Lin Yiqing.

"Okay, I got it." Lin Yiqing nodded quietly, and then walked towards the broken boat-shaped target with everyone.

At about the same time, at a secret test site belonging to a naval arsenal in Japan, a subtle smile appeared on the corner of Shimose's mouth as he watched the raging fire and yellow smoke flowing around after the explosion.

"The new gunpowder of the Qianguo country cannot reach the power of 'Shimose gunpowder' at all." Sosuke Harada's face looked unusually excited against the firelight, "Its explosive power is only about 70% of that of 'Shimose gunpowder', and it can't burn in a flowing way." ”

"It will defeat the Qianguo and win the victory for the empire!" Shimose Masayo also said excitedly.

"The Navy has decided to use 'Shimose Gunpowder,' and the Army is planning to do the same, but the Military Command Department requires that for the sake of secrecy, the name of 'Shimose Gunpowder' should not be mentioned in any documents or written records, and no mention of its use should be mentioned." Sosuke Harada looked at Masayo Shimose with some apologies, "I'm afraid that only in the future will the people know about your merits." ”

"It's okay! For the sake of His Majesty the Emperor's great cause, these are nothing! Shimose shook her head absently, her eyes still fixed on the flowing flames, as if she saw the Qianguo people screaming and struggling in pain in the flames.

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