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Chapter 632: Experiment

In the long corridor, all sides are inlaid with square stone slabs, and there is a pine oil lamp on the wall every ten meters for lighting. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After walking hundreds of meters in a twist and turn, Luo Daoming couldn't help but feel a little strange, it stands to reason that now that he has gone so deep into the ground, so far, how can he not feel a little lame, and he can still feel that the wind is blowing slowly.

As if seeing Luo Daoming's doubts, Ren Ruqing explained: "Lord Luo, there are ventilation ducts in the corridor to ensure air circulation here, and now, we have actually gone deep into the belly of the mountain. ”

Luo Daoming said suddenly: "This is the mountain behind the factory?" ”

Ren Ruqing nodded.

After walking a little further, I saw the black-clothed special agents of the Supervision Yuan, and every other distance, two special agents stood with knives, and when they saw Li Qing and his party, they were all busy bowing and saluting.

Everyone walked to a thick iron gate and stopped, on both sides of this iron gate, there were eight black-clothed agents, on one side of the wall, a small house was opened, seeing everyone coming, an officer in the house ran out, at a glance saw Li Qing like the stars holding the moon, and was immediately surprised and delighted, snapped upright, and made a military salute, "Bao Aihua, the captain of the Yingyang Colonel of the Internal Intelligence Department of the Supervision Academy, has seen the handsome!" ”

Li Qing nodded: "It's hard work!" ”

Bao Aihua said excitedly: "Xie Dashuai, don't work hard, I am willing to go to the soup for Dashuai and die." ”

Li Qing turned his head to look at Gu Hao: "General Gu, how long have these people been on duty here?" ”

"Dashuai, they, like me, have been here for more than two years, and they usually only go to the factory for activities when the guard is changed, and they have never been out of the factory for two years!"

Li Qing frowned: "This is too harsh, right?" Secrecy is important, but we can't let our soldiers go to prison and have no freedom at all. ”

Gu Hao said in a low voice: "Great Marshal, in the past, Director Qingfeng gave a death order, and the security here is not allowed to leave the core area of the arsenal until the project is successful." Those who violate the order will be killed! ”

Li Qing said dissatisfiedly: "This is too unkind, these soldiers have families and relatives, how can this be?" ”

Gu Hao said: "You can rest assured that after I received the order, when I selected people in the department, the first was to Dingzhou, to the commander was absolutely loyal, and the second was to have no family to drag me down." The master also knew that there were not a few people in our department who died like this in the past, so it was quite simple to select such a group of people. ”

Li Qing's face let go a little, "In this way, it's reasonable, Gu Hao, in the future, the special service salary of the security guard here will be doubled, and he will be promoted to a higher rank every two years." ”

"Thank you, Dashuai!" Gu Hao was overjoyed, and Bao Aihua on the side was even more smiling, he had been here for two years, and according to the order of the marshal, he would soon become a lieutenant of Zhenwei, which would leave the circle of low-level officers and enter the middle-level officer class. The soldiers standing guard on the side are also very happy, this is everyone's share!

"Captain Bao, open the door!" Ren Ruqing on the side said with a smile.

"Yes, Lord Ren!" Bao Aihua took off a key from his waist, strode to the iron door, opened the huge lock, then held the knocker and began to knock rhythmically on the iron door.

According to the fixed rhythm, after beating three times, everyone vaguely heard the sound of the other end of the iron gate, and after a while, the iron gate slid silently into the belly of the mountain, and another road appeared in front of everyone.

After walking dozens of steps, everyone's eyes suddenly opened up, and a huge hall appeared in front of everyone's eyes, and around the hall, small doors were marked with numbers.

"My lord, this is the place where gunpowder is developed and manufactured." Ren Ruqing introduced.

In a closed room, one box after another, containing the gunpowder of various formulas that the arsenal had explored in the past two years, Ren Ruqing picked up the box marked 1827 and presented it to Li Qing: "Lord, this is the final product, which has basically reached the power you said." We're here to name him Thunderbolt! ”

Taking the box, Li Qing looked at the fine black powder in the box, and couldn't help but feel excited, the era of cold weapons lasted for thousands of years, and once black powder came out, it only took hundreds of years for human beings to transition from the era of cold weapons to hot weapons, and since then, hot weapons have developed at a jaw-dropping speed, day by day, and finally terrifying killing weapons appeared.

When a hot weapon is against a cold weapon, the war will no longer be called a war, but a one-sided slaughter. Li Qing knew too many such facts, and what impressed him the most was a movie about the Qing Tibetan Plateau that he had seen in his previous life, when more than 100 British soldiers set up a machine gun and faced the impact of thousands of Tibetan soldiers' iron cavalry, the rain of bullets shot thousands of heroic Tibetan soldiers all on the grassland.

Now that he has made black powder, it can be said that he has opened Pandora's box, so will the future develop like in his previous life? Li Qing didn't know, but the wheels of history were rolling forward, and one day, those murderous weapons would definitely appear on this continent.

"Can you show them how powerful they are?" Li Qing asked.

Luo Daoming on the side also looked at Ren Ruqing suspiciously, could it be that these black details are the biggest secret of Dingzhou today?

"Dashuai, please! It's all set! ”

Everyone once again walked through a corridor on the wall, and after walking dozens of meters, Ren Ruqing pointed to an iron gate on the wall and said: "Lord, this house is excavated in the mountain, and then inlaid with stones weighing several catties each, and the outside is covered with iron plates in a special experimental room to test the power of gunpowder!" ”

"Bring it!" Ren Ruqing shouted.

A special agent held a large box in both hands and walked over cautiously, Ren Ruqing opened the box, and what appeared in front of everyone was a small porcelain wine jar-like utensils.

"In order to increase his lethality, we customized this special batch of porcelain and put gunpowder inside! Then attach the lead, and when you use it, you only need to ignite it and throw it. ”

Li Qing exhaled, he had never told Ren Ruqing and the others about these things at that time, but now it seems that people are really talented in creating killing weapons, and how to pursue the maximum lethality of weapons has become an instinct of people who study this thing. This is probably the most primitive grenade!

Under Ren Ruqing's command, the small door was opened, and everyone was surprised to find that there were many livestock, cattle, sheep, pigs, etc., and there were more than a dozen of them locked inside. A special agent walked into the room with a porcelain jar in his hand, then put on a long lead, took a few steps back, shook the fire fold, lit the lead, then turned around and ran, jumped out of the door in a few big strides, and the other person who had been guarding the door for a long time quickly pulled the thick iron door.

There was a boom, and everyone only felt that the entire corridor seemed to shake a few times, and there was a crackling sound above the iron gate.

The door was opened, and the scene presented in front of everyone made everyone lose color, in the room, the smaller animals such as sheep and pigs had already fallen in a pool of blood, and the big one like a cow was also covered with blood, and his body was covered with large and small blood, and there were countless porcelain pieces inserted into his body. The two agents drew their knives and slashed each of them, killing the badly injured cow directly.

Luo Daoming's eyes widened, and what was happening in front of him made him feel a little unbelievable, it was only the small jar just now that caused such a big damage, those powder-like black medicine powders. The loud noise that had just come from his ears was still ringing in his ears, even though it was through a door.

"It's a pity, my lord!" Ren Ruqing was a little regretful, "The power of this porcelain shell is still not enough, I am now discussing with Xu Xiaodao to see if he can make some iron shells for me, the first few times have failed, either it is thick, it can't be exploded, or it is blown up with two petals, there is no lethality at all, how can the iron shell be blown into pieces to form a greater lethality than the porcelain shell, Xu Xiaodao is now nerve-wracking, but I think it won't be long before we will experiment." ”

"Very good!" Li Qing clapped his hands, "It's really surprising that you guys can make such rapid progress." As for the kind of iron shell you mentioned, it is indeed possible, as for the thickness of the wall, you can find out from the experiment, but you can make the iron shell like a turtle's back when casting the mold, once it explodes, isn't it easier to get rid of those marks? Li Qing said with a smile.

Ren Ruqing tilted his head and thought for a while, and slapped his thigh, "Yes, lord, you really wake up the dreamer with a word, in this way, it will indeed save a lot of trouble!" And we can also accurately calculate how many debris he can fly out once he explodes, and how much coverage he can form! ”

"Creating this kind of thing is a preliminary result!" Li Qing smiled, "Tonight, you bring Xu Xiaodao and come to my residence, I have some new ideas to discuss with you." ”

Now the arsenal in Dingzhou has long solved the production of steel, and as for cast iron and other things, it has long been out of the question, which provides the possibility for Li Qing to make some things similar to red-coated cannons, tiger squat cannons and other things. If this cannon is made, it will be much easier to attack the fortified city in the future, and the greater use is that it can be mounted on your own naval ship, and this guy's hit rate is much stronger than that of trebuchet.

As for the guns? Li Qing doesn't want the kind of broken gun that is a dozen pieces of green smoke, and after the fight, he can't see the situation on the other side, but these can be provided to them as ideas, let them slowly explore, how to make it, Li Qing himself is also dark-eyed. Anyway, there are a lot of skilled craftsmen here, so let them toss. It's better to toss it out, but it can't be tossed, the Dingzhou Army itself is the strongest army in the world, and you don't have to be afraid of anyone!

We have time!