"Machine gun, that's a good name."

While fiddling, the eldest grandson weaved while happily responding, and after a while, her new inventions were finally all laid out, spinning wheels, eight steel pipes in eight directions, while turning, this girl explained proudly while showing off.

"If you transfer all eight steel pipes, Lang Jun, you can shoot eight shots in one go, how about it, Miss Ben is smart, right?"

Seeing this girl with her little brain held high, Li Jie couldn't help but reach out to help her wipe the sweat on her forehead, and asked with a smile: "Then my smart lady, how can my husband hide these eight pipes and wheels on his body?" ”

"Uh~"

The beautiful apricot blossom's eyes were round, the eldest grandson obviously didn't think about this, and covered her cheeks for a while in anguish like a toothache, and this girl simply grabbed her regular three-ring bun angrily: "Ahh I've been doing a lot of useless work for days! ”

"It's not necessarily useless." Picked up a heavy steel pipe and shook it, and knocked it with his fingers, listening to the crisp sound, Li Jie couldn't help but smile and said.

In the city lord's mansion, under the swaying lights, two young figures approached each other, but at this time, there was a cough outside the door: "Old minister Yang Yi asks to see." ”

"Your Highness, you are looking for me." Entering the house, he smiled and looked at Princess Shuo, who was hiding behind her with a flushed face and combing her hair, Yang Yi bowed down meaningfully, which made Li Jie also embarrassed, scratched his head and said: "Uncle Yang doesn't have to be polite, Jie is looking for Uncle Yang, there are still some things that need Uncle Yang's help." ”

"These days, Jie wants to cooperate with Luo'er to develop new weapons, which is definitely an important support for our army, so the development progress of Tuntian Grange must ask Uncle Yang to work harder, and he will be in charge of this king these days."

This is the time to develop weapons? Or go with the princess? Yang Yi was obviously stunned, turned his head and glanced at the eldest grandson Zhi who was hiding behind him, and suddenly his color flashed on Yang Yi's face, which immediately made him smile bitterly and shook his head, in the end, he was a young man, he couldn't help it, but it was okay to really develop one, after all, the Wuyuan Military Group was so powerful, and it was too dangerous to have no heir.

"Your Royal Highness, there are three unfilial pieties, and no queen is the greatest, since His Royal Highness has decided to take advantage of this leisure time to develop the princess's weapons, the old minister will not say much, His Royal Highness can rest assured, and the old minister will maintain a stable Gaizhou for His Royal Highness."

With an ambiguous look on his face, Lao Yang Yi bowed respectfully and said, "In this case, the old minister will retire and not delay His Highness's hard work." ”

"What's the matter?" Stunned as he watched Lao Yang Yi leave, Li Jie turned his head in confusion: "How did Uncle Yang know that it was Luo'er who developed the weapon?" Luo'er, why is your face so red? Isn't it a fever? ”

"the!" was misunderstood by Yang Yiyi, so ashamed that his face almost didn't drip blood, the eldest grandson Zhi opened Li Jie's hand stretched out to his forehead, and slipped out of the room quickly in three steps and two steps, making Li Jie shake his head.

"What's going on? Won't Luo'er come to the eldest aunt, right? ”

Two flowers bloomed, and the other end, with Li Jie's authorization, Lao Yang Yi also ignored the hard work, and summoned the guards to inspect the armies at night, and muttered to himself while walking: "I heard that tonight, Li Jingye of the Shangguan Zhongjun Army has been punished by His Royal Highness's military law, so you should take a look, pay attention to the harmony of the armies, and you can't leave any grievances." ”

Saying that, Yang Yi put on a kind and kind smile, and walked slowly towards the station of the Guanzhong Army Xiao Regiment Yongtuan, but before he could get closer, Yang Yi suddenly stopped suddenly.

"Your Highness, even if you punish your subordinates, you can be convinced and grateful, I can't wait, I don't have to go, continue to patrol the camp." With a sigh of emotion, Yang Yi led the guards around a corner, and left the Guanzhong Army garrison in a corner of the barracks with satisfaction, behind him, under the greetings of chili oil and mustard cake, more than 600 people from Li Jingye's department were really "grateful" around the fence, snorting and tears at the moon, and drinking water desperately.

Until now, I feel that my tongue is still wooden, and the choking feeling that lingers in my nose echoes more than once, and I poured a bottle of water and wiped my tears, Li Jingye covered his tearful eyes, tragically gave a middle finger to the moon tree, and muttered with resentment: "Li Jiulang, a certain family cursed you to give birth to a baby Mu You******, quickly, bring water to Ben General!" ”

Early the next morning, running away from the trivial affairs of Gaizhou City, Li Jie led the eldest grandson weaving, as well as hundreds of guards, and a large group of craftsmen left Gaimu City and quietly entered the mountains.

Gaimu City, that is, near Anshan City in the future, there is a famous Anshan iron mine in the country, although the iron ore has low iron content, but the advantage is that the burial is shallow, which is conducive to mining.

As soon as the small earthen blast furnace was built, Li Jie's great cause of testing new weapons began.

In the furnace, the coal exudes an astonishing heat, and in the crucible, the red-hot molten iron is also bubbling and bubbling, and several blacksmiths continue to pour it into the clay mold, and then take out one solid steel pipe after another, and carefully polish and drill it, and the whole room is not only the sound of striking iron, but also the buzzing of the drill bit that makes the eardrums hurt.

Li Jie once recruited the strange craftsman Feng Changfeng in Chang'an, among these blacksmiths there were his apprentices, more than 20 skilled craftsmen at the end of the day, and there were only more than ten finished steel pipes that could be used, which were carefully stored in boxes stuffed with sawdust.

In the small courtyard of the mountain city, more than ten straw handles are erected in the yard, at this time Changsun Weaving's masterpiece has come to a big change, and the eight steel pipes installed on it are even more dark and heavy at this time, which is not comparable to the shoddy steel pipes that Changsun Weaving made temporarily, and the original wooden shaft is replaced by heavy iron wheels, and the whole gun seems to have a sense of metal oppression.

However, in terms of structure, in addition to the iron wheel with an extra crank shaft, the connection of the iron barrel is more flexible and can be removed, there is also an extra curved iron arm from the back of the iron wheel stretched to the top of the runner, and the black iron hand in front of the iron arm pinched a piece of red-hot coal, and the rest did not deviate from the original Changsun weaving design, crouching and looking at the target wearing heavy armor grass in front of him, Li Jie nodded to the operating soldier: "Start!" ”

With the order, the soldier in full armor carefully and quickly shook the hinge, and the fuse above the black barrel of the rotating gun quickly ignited after touching the coal, and it took less than five seconds to shoot eight shots in a row, and the three heavy armor grass handles on the opposite side continued to tremble with the sound of the gun, and the naked eye could see the popping sound of the heavy armor being beaten.

After the fireworks dissipated, a soldier immediately stepped forward to check, and immediately ran back excitedly, kneeling on one knee and reporting: "Your Highness Qiqi, all three heavy armors have been pierced, and they are perforated on both sides. ”

"Oh." Li Jie was silent for a while, and he couldn't see his joy or anger, so he waved his hand directly and said: Change the barrel, load, and continue the test. “

"Whoa!"

The novelty brought by the firearm made the herald extremely excited, turned around and returned to the experimental group, watching more than a dozen soldiers take off the heating barrel in a panic, change the coal, and reload the spare barrel, Changsun Zhi was very careful to stick to Li Jie's side: "What? Out of sorts? ”

"Nothing, just a little disappointed." Reaching out to hug her delicate body, Li Jie sighed and said.

Dengzhou's cannon experiment has almost failed, more than 10,000 catties of iron cannons can also be used to defend the port, the power of Kankan and more than 2,000 catties of copper cannons are about the same, in order to load the gunboat, in the end you still have to use expensive copper, these days, copper is money!

Sometimes, it's not easy to make money, just like this barrel, even if a skilled craftsman produces only half a day for more than a day, and it takes more than a month to produce a qualified barrel from the beginning of 100 steel, and the cost is expensive, and it is not possible to equip the troops on a large scale like in later generations, so Li Jie basically gave up the musket plan, and planned to leave it for the future to study slowly, anyway, the steel crossbow is enough as a mainstream weapon now.

However, Changsun Weaving's rotary gun machine gun gave Li Jie inspiration, since it can't be equipped on a large scale, it is not impossible to build a weapon that is used in small quantities and has strong firepower, in the era of cold weapons, the army fights in a formation, and the infantry fights against the cavalry, fights each other, and the defeat of the battle is generally based on the fact that the formation of one side is completely disrupted and falls into chaos as the standard.

The reason why the fierce general is important is because the fierce general has the ability to quickly tear apart the enemy's formation, and if he loses the protection of the formation, no matter how many troops are pigs and sheep, otherwise how could the chaotic Goguryeo army be slaughtered by half of the Tang army's army in the end valley.

If this kind of earthen machine gun is used, the two sides suddenly open a big hole in the opponent's army formation before the battle, and then the sharp soldiers of the front arrow formation rush in, or when the opponent's cavalry charges, suddenly strafe at the opponent's fierce general's vanguard, interrupting this sharp spirit, it is also a sharp weapon in the battle array.

It's a pity that Li Jie still thinks too highly of the steelmaking process of this era, 100 steelmaking, sharp, flexible, with few impurities, as a blade and gun blade, armor piercing is indeed a first-class weapon, but there is also this fatal shortcoming, not hard enough.

The amount of gunpowder is a little larger, the barrel is easy to explode, the gunpowder is less, the lead bullet that is shot out is not powerful, just an experiment, it is already the best one in a few days, 100 meters away to break single-sided armor, 50 meters away to break double-sided heavy armor, this power, unsatisfactory, but also to consider the missile rate, to deal with the lack of armor of the opponent is OK, to deal with the heavy armor troops are a little stretched.

"Lang Jun, eldest grandson, it's time to eat!"

The gentle voice suddenly sounded from behind the mountain city, and when she turned around, it was Pei Ying, the girl, who was struggling to hold a big basket, smiling and waving her hand at the two of herself, and finally a smile appeared on her cheeks, Li Jie patted Changsun Zhi's shoulder and said with a smile: "Okay, Chang'an was not built in a day, but the king is too anxious, wait to go back to Chang'an, find a few Tianzhu Kaizi and buy some Uzi steel, when the time comes, shoot farther, and the power penetration will be stronger, and it will be perfect." ”

Dragging the eldest grandson weaving, Li Jie had already happily walked towards Pei Ying, listening to Li Jie's muttering, but the eldest grandson weaving lowered his head and lowered his little brain, racking his brains to think, how can it be more stable and accurate, more lethal, and more penetrating? .