In the first workshop in the west of the courtyard, the stove, bellows, anvils, and troughs are neatly arranged, and the five craftsmen led by Li Huowang stand with their hands down, and there are a few high-quality bird guns made in the past hanging against the wall.

"If you have a gun, you have to have a cannon, Lao Tzu will make all ...... by himself" Qin Lin hummed a song and inspected his subordinates, and his heart was refreshed for a while.

Although he doesn't know advanced martial arts, he is a sharpshooter, and there is basically no bullet within the range, as long as he has a gun in hand, even if he is a strong enemy like Duan Haiping and Wei Tianya, he will definitely not be able to escape the end of a headshot.

You have magic skills, I have science, huh, hey!

Bi Maokang has seen Qin Lin's ability in the past few days, and he has already followed him with all his heart, and when he saw this, he laughed and said, "Why is the chief so happy? As I saw in my later life, the captain of Jinyi used embroidered spring knives as weapons, which remained unchanged for two hundred years, but there were very few firearms, such as Shenji guns, bird guns, Franc machines, and generals' barrels, which were mainly used by the Beijing Shenji Battalion and Qi Dashuai's training of the Zhejiang New Army. ”

Qin Lin laughed and patted Bi Maokang's back, "Old Bi, since you are intensively researching firearms, don't you know that in a few years, this thing will be popular in the world, and when the battle is decisive, swords, guns, bows and arrows are only used as auxiliaries, and you mainly have to rely on muskets and cannons!" One day, guns and other objects will completely replace the eighteen weapons of the past. ”

"It turns out that the chief is determined to innovate, and his enterprising spirit is no less than Qi Shuai!" Bi Maokang shook his head to the ground, and his expression was pleasantly surprised.

Gunpowder is one of the four major inventions of the Chinese, and in the Song Dynasty, they made firearms such as earth-shaking thunder and assault muskets, and repeatedly defeated the Mongol elite soldiers in the defense of Xiangyang and Diaoyu City, and resisted the Eurasian Mongol Empire with the so-called "weak" Song force.

Later, the Mongols learned the technology of making guns and cannons in the Central Plains, and they were very effective when they conquered Europe in the west, and the "Eagle's Nest" built by Persian Murayi between the mountains and mountains, and those fortified castles in Russia and Eastern Europe were broken one by one by Han craftsmen with artillery.

In the era of Zhu Yuanzhang's northern expedition to the capital and Zhu Di's north out of the Shuo Desert, the combat mode of "the god machine is in the front, the horse team is in the back, first destroying its front with the gun, and then the horse team is rushing into battle", which has become the magic weapon of the Ming army to defeat the enemy, from Nanjing in the south of the Yangtze River to Hala and Lin in the north of the desert, invincible, so the huge Mengyuan Empire collapsed.

However, with the subsidence of the war and the stability of the country, the Ming Confucianism "emphasized the road and lightened the weapon", and the idea of following the old ways gradually emerged, and the development of firearms existed for a long time in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, until the needs of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the generals headed by Qi Jiguang set off a high dynasty to develop new firearms and train new troops.

In the Ming Dynasty, the middle and lower class literati in Jiangnan generally had a tradition of investing in the mansions of dignitaries as guests to gain opportunities in the scientific field and officialdom, such as Xu Wenchang giving advice to Hu Zongxian. Bi Maokang also thought so, in addition to reading and writing to prepare for the imperial examination, he also studied firearms, intending to take advantage of this to make a step forward.

Qi Jiguang, who didn't want to be the most enthusiastic about firearms, was transferred to Jizhen in the north to train the new army, and Bi Maokang was disappointed when he heard the news, and he was depressed for a long time.

Now that he finds that Qin Lin's views on firearms are very sophisticated, and he is extremely enthusiastic about the research and development, Bi Maokang is really like meeting a confidant, compared to the previous one who took refuge purely for the sake of promotion and promotion, and now he has more and more intention to belong to him.

The craftsmen were also surprised and delighted when they heard Qin Lin's words, and Li Huowang couldn't help but exclaim.

Qin Linqi said, "What's wrong with Master Li?" ”

Li Huowang bowed and said: "The little ones used to work under Qi Dashuai, and his old people often came to personally guide the construction of firearms, and what they said was almost the same as what Engong just said, so the little ones were surprised, if it wasn't for Engong's younger age, they would have suspected that Engong was Qi Shuai's fellow disciple." ”

Qin Lin raised his eyebrows: "What did Qi Shuai say?" ”

Li Huowang thought for a while before reciting word by word like Meng Tong was reading: "Qi Dashuai said that people's martial arts must have limits, and our Ming army's kung fu of making swords, spears, bows and arrows is not better than that of the Tang and Song armies, and there has been almost no change in more than a thousand years;

But there is no end to the progress of firearms, from the Song Dynasty to the Yuan bowl, to the early years of the Dynasty, the general's barrel, and to today's shotguns, Franc machines, with each passing day, more and more convenient to use, more and more powerful

In the future, it will be decades or more than 100 years, and one day it will completely replace swords, spears, bows and arrows, and all the officers and men of the army will use firearms, and that will be a earth-shaking change. ”,

Qin Lin listened to it leisurely, Qi Jiguang expected it to be as if he had seen it with his own eyes, it was the same as the development of later generations, if there was a chance in the future, he must see the demeanor of this famous general.

As everyone knows, in the minds of Bi Maokang, Li Huowang and others, Qin Lin himself is also a generation of gods, and he has never met Qi Dashuai, but his knowledge is the same-God, how old is our chief? In the future, I am afraid that I will stand taller than Qi Shuai and go far?

Qin Lin stood for a while, came back to his senses from the smoke and clouds of history, and smiled: "By the way, today I am here to find a way to improve the shotgun, Mr. Bi, can you make the shotgun?" ”

Why wouldn't Bi Maokang? During the Wanli period, the law and discipline had long been relaxed, and there were not too many people playing crossbows and muskets, but the White Lotus Sect rebellion needed to be manufactured in large quantities, so Li Huowang was hijacked, if it was one or two, like Bi Maokang's family.

He plucked a shotgun from the wall, first opened the lid of the medicine pool, poured the powder into it, and then closed the lid; Then the muzzle of the gun was reversed upwards, and the gunpowder was poured into it first, and then the buckshot was stuffed, and the whole strip was stabbed to make it compact; Finally, the flint is struck, the fire rope is lit, and the fire rope is clamped to the dragon head, and the preparation for shooting is completed.

Qin Lin pointed to a blue brick wall, "Just hit there." ”

Bi Maokang aimed at the brick wall and pulled the trigger, and opened the lid of the medicine pool, and the dragon head fell with the burning fire rope, igniting the ignition powder in the medicine pool, and the flame entered the gun chamber from the fire hole, instantly igniting the gunpowder in the chamber, pushing the projectile to shoot out rapidly.

I only heard a bang, the muzzle of the gun flickered, white smoke came out, and the brick wall in the distance was smashed into stone chips, and the power was really not small.

It is too late to be fast, in fact, the trigger is linked with the lid of the medicine pool and the faucet, and the speed at which the gunpowder burning bullets are fired is so fast that it is difficult to distinguish with the naked eye, from Bi Maokang pulling the trigger to the bullet hitting the brick wall, but it is a blink of an eye, so this gun can shoot down birds, hence the name shotgun.

Seeing this, Qin Lin nodded, pulled the trigger and fired the bullet almost immediately, which was not much different from the firearms of later generations, ordinary people were holding a bird gun that was ready to be fired, even if it was a master of Huo Chonglou and Duan Haiping, it was inevitable that they would have to beat the drum in their hearts.

The process of reloading can be forward...... Qin Lin shook his head and let Bi Maokang fire a second shot.

This time, the step of igniting the inquisition was omitted, and Bi Maokang first filled the chamber with gunpowder and lead bullets, then pulled up the dragon head holding the burning arquebus and left the gun, filled the powder into the pistol, and then closed the lid of the pistol, and completed the preparation for firing, which was slightly faster than the first time.

Another shot, the brick wall of the bricks collapsed, the power is like this, if it hits a person, what golden bell cover iron cloth shirt thirteen Taibao horizontal practice can not resist.

"This gun is very good," Bi Maokang fiddled with the shotgun excitedly, "It's better than the two guns in the late Sheng's house, sir, it's used to equip the brocade brothers, this is a top-notch gun." ”

Unexpectedly, Qin Lin shook his head: "Although the gun is good, it takes too long to reload in front." The army fought tens of thousands of people, and there were archers, cavalry, sword players, and spearmen cooperating, and the shotgunners could calmly reload. ”

Saying that, Qin Lin made a move of taking out the gun from his waist and shooting it immediately, he didn't notice it for a while, it was like a pistol in later generations, and there was a ping-pong dubbing in his mouth.

Bi Maokang and Li Huowang looked at each other, and smiled bitterly at the same time, their faces were longer than horses, and they said in their hearts that there was no way to do this.

Qin Lin also sensed that the requirements were too high, so he took back his fingers with a smile and scratched his head: "At least the first shot can't take that long, let's arrest the murderer, there are many emergencies, if you want to take it out, you can fight, there is absolutely no time to slowly reload and light the fire rope." ”

Li Huowang was relieved when he heard this: "If it's just the first shot, it's easy to do, first load the bullets and gunpowder and put them in the chamber, and you can save the steps of loading when you use it, but the bullet is easy to slide out, and you should pay attention to keeping the muzzle facing up at all times when carrying the gun." ”

"You don't have to point the muzzle of the gun up at all times, there is another way for the late life," Bi Maokang added: "The late life found that if you put a layer of oiled paper in the lead bullet, you will never slip out when you stuff it into the barrel, and it will be more powerful when fired." ”

"Good!" Qin Lin applauded, put the bullets and gunpowder in the barrel in advance, and the first shot could omit the reloading step, which was a good way.

"However, it still takes a long time to light the arquebus, can it be improved?"

Qin Lin remembered that when he was a child, he played with a kind of fire skin gun, and when the trigger was pulled and the hammer was smashed, the fire skin could be fired, and now since he can refine white phosphorus from human urine, white phosphorus can be converted into red phosphorus, can it be mixed with saltpeter, sulfur and other substances

reaction, try to make the fire skin, clamp it in the position of the medicine pool, pull the trigger, the dragon head falls and ignites the fire skin, which ignites the propellant and the bullet is fired, so that the step of igniting the fire rope is omitted.

Load the ammunition in advance, install the fire skin, and cover the lid of the medicine pool is equivalent to insurance, and the gun can be carried on the body at any time if it is shortened, and it can be shot when it is pulled out, killing the enemy with one shot.

"What a way!" Bi Maokang slapped his face, saving the arquebus is a considerable progress, if you can fight with a gun, it is definitely a weapon to defeat the enemy.

Li Huowang just sighed generously, and said in his heart This Qin chief is really amazing, he actually has such an opinion on firearms, is it really like the legend, which star in the sky descends to earth? RO！ ~！