In Qingzhou Mansion, Shandong, in Wang Zheng's laboratory, Wang Zheng was concentrating on experiments, and the drawings were provided to Wang Xiang by Li Long, what yellow explosives to refine. For this reason, Wang Zheng can be regarded as a painstaking preparation, and it is a distillation bottle and a boiler.

For the history of Li Zhizao. Wang Zheng died in a nitroglycerin explosion, and Ye's research has been shunned, but he has been paying attention to the relevant progress.

By 1642, Wang Zheng had successfully practiced the relatively safer production of nitroglycerin and began to build a production plant in the wilderness.

This greatly stimulated another inventor in the family, Xu Guangqi, who was nearly sixty years old, who was very excited to participate in Wang Zheng's research on the application of nitroglycerin, that is, nitroglycerin explosives.

The nature of nitroglycerin is extremely lively, and it is easy to explode in liquid state, Xu Guangqi's opinion is that a part of nitroglycerin is added to black powder to create a "strengthening explosive", and his experiment has been successful, in the case of using an ignition device, the strengthening explosive can be detonated from time to time, but it is very unstable, that is, the explosion of this strengthening explosive is not controlled, and the power is also limited.

Wang Zheng also did similar experiments, and they faced two problems, one was the explosion control method, and the ignition method sometimes could not detonate nitroglycerin; The second is to make nitroglycerin as stable as possible without unduly impairing the power of the explosion, as they tend to explode suddenly.

Although the production problem is solved, nitroglycerin itself is like a child, with sudden tantrums from time to time, sudden explosions when you are not looking, or silence when you need to.

Now in the laboratory, Wang Zheng is carefully observing the nitroglycerin that has just been refined, and slowly putting nitroglycerin into a yellow container, which is the bullet shell made by Wang Zheng after Li Long gave Wang Zheng a drawing

"We analyze it chemically. There must be some conditions for the explosion of nitroglycerin," Li Zhizao joined the two inventors were willing to see, although Li Zhizao still did not want to get too close to glycerin, Wang Zheng was still happy to come to the ridge, and the three of them squatted on the side of the road, discussing an invention that could change the history of the world.

"I wanted to mix black powder with nitroglycerin, and ignite the black powder to make nitroglycerin explode, but it didn't seem to work well," Xu complained.

"I don't think it's enough, I mean it's not going to ignite. It is necessary to make the black powder explode, and use the explosion to detonate nitroglycerin," at the current level of the plum algae. It is easy to understand the role of a detonator, not to mention that this way is often heard, that is, the explosion of a hydrogen bomb, which was detonated with an atomic bomb.

"Li Zhizao is right, I think we can give it a try," Wang Zheng said excitedly, "You can put black powder in a small wooden pipe." Make a miniature version of the explosive, and on the outside is a large explosive made of nitroglycerin. First of all, detonate this small explosive, and use the high temperature and high pressure generated by the explosion to detonate the big explosive, okay, I think it will work. ”

Wang Zheng looked very excited. was about to arrange for an experiment, and Li Zhizao couldn't hold it back, so he had to tell him to be careful.

As for Xu Guangqi, who is eager to try. was left behind, such an old person came, and he ran around in the pile of explosives all day long, Li Zhizao felt terrible when he thought about it.

"If the nitroglycerin explosives are successful, do you think they can be made into the rifle that Commander Li said?" In order to let Xu Guangqi stay, Li Zhizao had no choice but to bring up these topics.

Xu Guangqi thought for a while: "First of all, the mine is opened, and now the iron and steel mill uses coke to make iron and steel, the original iron ore is almost insufficient, and the scale of iron ore mining should be expanded, with this kind of high-performance explosives, it will be much more convenient." ”

"There is also road construction, Sweden is mountainous, especially in the north, if you build roads, the project is huge, with explosives can be faster, and there is the development of rifles, machine guns and other weapons."

"There is also national defense," Xu Guangqi suddenly became worried: "I have also seen that drawing, you are right, in a few years, there will be no opponent of our army in the whole world, and there is a huge Russia, with this explosive, we can create high-performance ground mines, so that those potential enemies can not step into our country." ”

"Our country?" Li Zhizao looked at the ancient castle on the ridge from afar, and couldn't help but ask himself, is this his own country? Everything is so out of place.

"Don't worry, with Commander Li here, Daming will always be stronger," Li Zhizao put his arms around Xu Guangqi's emaciated shoulders and comforted.

The motherland will definitely be strong, Li Zhizao looked up at the blue sky and thought silently.

Wang Zheng's experiments were quite successful, and after the first test, Wang Zheng, who had sufficient material and manpower support, conducted dozens of explosion tests in three days, and finally improved the design of the explosive tube, using explosive water for the first time

The replacement of the wood pipes with metal pipes made the detonation of nitroglycerin very easy to control.

Wang Zheng was very excited about this success, and the continuous test also showed that the nitroglycerin that could be controlled by the explosion was much more powerful than black powder.

The problem now is that nitroglycerin still explodes on its own from time to time, and although this problem has been well controlled, it has not been completely solved, and if this problem is not solved, if it is put into use immediately, no one knows if there will be a problem.

Since Li Zhizao successfully solved the detonation problem, Wang Zheng now expects him to provide necessary suggestions in this regard, and tirelessly tells Li Zhizao about the properties of nitroglycerin and the results of his previous experimental observations.

"In general, nitroglycerin can be put into use, but in the liquid state, there are still occasional problems, and if they do, it will be worse," Wang Zheng.

Li Zhizao nodded, of course he knew how bad it would be, he was a smart person

The danger of liquid nitroglycerin has always been a concern for Wang Zheng, and he has tried to add wood alcohol to nitroglycerin, and then wash off the wood alcohol with water when the explosive oil is used, which has a certain effect, but it is far from enough.

Later, the focus turned to solid, powdery or fibrous substances, such as black explosives, collodion or paper powder, which were also unsuccessful because they were inherently unstable.

"I have an idea to use a porous, relatively stable substance to suck liquid nitroglycerin into small holes, such as wood chips and diatomaceous earth?"

Wang Zheng was stunned at the time, and then he became excited and ran away: "I see it's okay." ”

When Wang Zheng came to the laboratory, he immediately instructed his assistant to look for sawdust and diatomaceous earth, and later reported it directly to the factory, asking him to get these two common things as soon as possible.

The people in the factory did not dare to slack off, and found the things on the same day, but they were detained by Li Zhizao for one night and sent over the next day.

At this time, Wang Zheng had made all the preparations, he injected nitroglycerin into a piece of diatomaceous earth, which was selected, which appeared very fluffy and had more holes, and the diatomaceous earth inhaled liquid nitroglycerin like absorbing water, and gradually turned into a soft lumpy solid.

Wang Zheng paid attention to controlling the amount of nitroglycerin injected and obtained multiple samples, ranging from 1:1, 1.5 to 1 to 5:1.

These samples and detonators are then put together, made into explosives, and detonated, first to see if the effect of the explosion will be reduced.

The results of the measurement showed that the effect was weakened, but the effect was not large, that is, nitroglycerin was adsorbed with diatomaceous earth, which was feasible if it was safe.

The next question was to conduct a simulation test of diatomaceous earth adsorbed with nitroglycerin to see if the diatomaceous earth explosive would suddenly explode under different circumstances.

This kind of experiment is more dangerous, although some of the first experiments are carried out in the absence of people, such as using horses to carry a large amount of diatomaceous earth explosives, and then applying sulfuric acid to the tail, driving the horses to run around in the mountains, but no one knows what will happen, in case the horses are disobedient and run into the crowd, and the diatomaceous earth explosives suddenly explode, it will be bad.

Fortunately, such a situation did not arise, the diatomaceous earth explosives behaved very steadily, and in the case of unloading the detonator, under various extreme conditions, there was no sudden explosion.

With the results of the preliminary tests, it is then possible to carry out specific tests, such as testing the workability of diatomaceous earth soft bodies into blocks, cylinders or spheres.

At this time, Li Zhizao was hiding far away, and he was worried all day long, for fear that his idea would not work and something would suddenly go wrong.

Fortunately, as the days passed, the wilderness of Qingzhou has been relatively quiet, and various tests have proved that diatomaceous earth explosives do have good safety and can be processed properly.

Wang Zheng also found that when nitroglycerin and diatomaceous earth were three to one, it was the best comprehensive performance. Its explosive power is about five or six times higher than that of ordinary explosives of the same amount, but it is two to three times lower than that of pure nitroglycerin.

However, the main drawbacks of nitroglycerin, such as fluid condition, sensitivity to vibration and temperature, and difficulty in transportation, have been effectively eliminated. In other words, a more powerful safety explosive has finally appeared.

The safety of the algal earth explosives is ensured, and the first time it is used to try to blast the hard rock encountered, and the other batch of samples is used to blast the mountains along the railway.

As it turned out, the rocks, which used to leave humans helpless, immediately fell apart in the face of diatomaceous earth explosives, which greatly accelerated the progress of iron ore mining and railway construction, and also saved costs......

Wang Zheng's company immediately provided a batch of diatomaceous earth explosives, samples of mines designed and produced by Xu Guangqi to the army, and at the same time invited relevant people to open mines and build roads. Visited the construction site, using diatomaceous earth explosives, blasting hard rock.

In the face of the facts, the relevant departments quickly believed the report submitted by Wang Zheng, approved Wang Zheng Chemical's production application as soon as possible, and instructed the relevant departments to purchase diatomaceous earth explosives. It is used in related projects.

The news was immediately transmitted to the supreme commander Li Long, who was very happy when he learned that Wang Zheng had successfully developed the yellow explosives, and ordered the airship unit to inform Wang Xiang that they could carry out weapons and equipment.

These departments are also happy because it means that it was not possible to carry out before. Or it takes a lot of effort to implement the project, but now it is very simple. Wang Zheng began to manufacture the required mines, mines, and new artillery shells, and when possible, intervened in the production of other weapons.

It was at this time that an old friend approached the door.

"I came this time because our old friends have discovered a new technology that can improve the efficiency of steelmaking, and they hope to use this technology as an investment to expand the production efficiency of coal and steel." This person was a major inventor who was ignored by the Manchus, Dai Zi. When Li Long attacked the Manchu Dynasty, he found him in the prison of Shengjing, and after learning that he was good friends with Wang Zheng, Li Zhizao, and Xu Guangqi, he sent Dai Zi to Shandong.

Dai Zi said: "Haha, I heard that it is a safety explosive, isn't that the case, I have also successfully developed a rifle, which was instructed by Commander Li Long, once the explosive is successfully developed, rifles and machine guns will be produced in large quantities." ”

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Dai Zi was successfully developed, but Dai Zi was a Kwantung native and belonged to the jurisdiction of Huang Taiji, of course, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was generally more arrogant, thinking that they were a horse nation, and the bow and horse salvo was the last word, and they refused to accept the thunderbolt invented by Dai Zi and put Dai Zi in prison.

However, Li Long is well versed in history and knows that the wheel of history is going to move towards the era of hot weapons after all, and weapons manufacturing experts like Dai Zi will definitely be able to get it. When sending Dai Zi away, Li Long specially found out the manufacturing principles of Hanyang-made and the manufacturing principles of Japanese Type 38 rifles from his laptop, as well as the manufacturing drawings of German Makqin heavy machine guns and Czech light machine guns.

Dai Zi had never seen such a complex weapon, and it would take a lot of technical support to make such a weapon, so after he arrived in Qingzhou, the first thing he did was to find the garrison Shandong Fanqing. As soon as Fan Qing heard that it was Li Long's instructions, she vigorously supported Dai Zi. told Dai Zi important secrets such as the steel mill and foundry in Dongcheng. Dai Zi can be explored after three months of research. Finally, in mid-November, the first total rifle similar to that made by Hanyang, but also similar to the 38 type, was made. Even the problem of ammunition still needs to be solved by Wang Zheng, so after hearing that Wang Zheng's experiment with explosives was successful, he couldn't wait to come to Wang Zheng's laboratory to find someone.

Xu Guangqi is the oldest and has the first right to speak, saying: "That's right, the yellow explosives have been successfully developed, and we are ready to use them in industries such as remining and road construction." As for the rifle, it has not yet been developed "

Dai Zi heard Xu Guangqi say this, and said, "Old Xu, look at this!" As he spoke, he took out his own rifle that mixed the characteristics of the 38 type and the sum of Hanyang-made.

After Xu Guangqi looked at the rifle carefully, he was full of praise. , Dai Zi is the developer, introduced: "This gun" is 1275mm long, can be said to be the longest rifle in the current firearm From the appearance, the whole gun appears very slender and compact, clean and neat, so that it is more convenient to operate the gun, unlike some rifles, the appearance of "fragmented" a lot. "The barrel is 769mm long, making it the longest one. There were 4 right-handed rifling wires inside the barrel, and in pursuit of shooting accuracy, the rifling lead was determined to be 200mm, which was the smallest of all rifles of the time. The shape of the crosshair is "∧", and it can be adjusted horizontally with the dovetail groove with the front sight, and there is nothing special about it, and a ruler is installed. There are 3 notch shutters on the face (2 notches on the gauge frame plate and 1 notched shone on the vernier marker), and there are 3 ways to use them accordingly. When carrying a rifle or the target is within 300m, the gauge frame is used in the state of pulling forward, and the firing distance corresponding to the notch on the gauge frame plate is 300m; When the target is above 400m, the gauge frame is erected backward and the vernier is moved up, and another notch on the gauge frame plate is used to illuminate the door, and the shooting distance corresponding to this notch illuminating the door is 400m; When the target is more than 500m, then make the gauge frame still stand up, move the vernier down to positioning, use the third notch on the vernier to illuminate the door, and the corresponding firing distance of this notch illuminating the gate at this time is 500m; When the firing distance is greater than 500m, the vernier is moved up one by one, so that the gap on the vernier corresponds to the distance from the target. The gauge range of the "38 big cover" is 2400m. ”

Xu Guangqi was surprised, and Wang Zheng was also surprised: "2400m, it's terrible."

Dai Zi was not moved by the surprise of Xu Guangqi and the others, and continued: "That's right, it's 2400m, when I came from the northeast, Commander Li gave me ten bullets, and I tested it twice before I knew the result."

Xu Guangqi and Wang Zhengqi said: "How is it, how can there be any characteristics?"

Dai Zi continued: "The maximum distance of rifle combat use density is usually within 200m, and the distance that really reaches the peak of use density is around 100m. At this time, you can also use a little-known advantage of the vertical frame ruler, that is, when the firing distance is about 50m to 100m, you can erect the ruler frame, and put the target and the front sight in the vertical frame at the same time, for general aim rapid shooting, if the shooter has received a certain amount of training, the gun is not a problem. ”

Suddenly, four sturdy soldiers outside the door came in carrying an iron frame, and the four of them looked very struggling, as if the iron frame was very heavy......

Wang Zheng saw that this iron frame shot well, and unconsciously asked: "Mr. Dai, what is this?" ”

Dai Zi said, "This is a machine gun"

Xu Guangqi, Li Zhizao, and Wang Zheng exclaimed in unison: "Machine gun"

"The three of us have always wanted to develop machine guns, but we have focused on explosives, and before we have time, we didn't expect Brother Dai to take the lead," Wang Zheng said with a smile

Dai Zi said modestly: "It's all the drawings provided by Commander Li, and I have only made the machine gun from the drawings, but there is no ammunition yet, and the problem of ammunition still has to bother the three of them."

"The automatic loading system is very good, when I saw such a drawing, I was also blinded, I was afraid that it would not be manufactured, but I didn't expect it to be successful" Dai Zi said with a smile: "Commander Li said that he gave a beautiful name Li Long heavy machine gun, and the name of the rifle was made in Qingzhou."

Li Zhizao pondered for a moment: "This technology is very good, the three of us must make bullets as soon as possible and start production through the factory,,,。 ”

Li Zhizao said: "Some ideas, with the support of new explosives, can also make artillery, for example, breech guns"

Weapons research was in full swing at the research institute in Qingzhou, and Li Long began to return to the army after the conquest of the Manchus. 、

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