Not to mention that the salt merchants in Zhejiang were surprised by the large amount of refined salt that suddenly appeared, and some even had evil thoughts, and said that Pang Gang, who has been busy these days, ushered in his first batch of tungsten ore from Laizhou today.

In front of the Lingshan Wei Arsenal, there was a string of big cars parked, and the front of the Arsenal was crowded, and a family leader was saying to Pang Gang with a smile on his face: "My lord, this batch of tungsten ore was specially instructed by Lord Wei to be transported by the villain, and the tungsten ore of more than 10,000 catties has sunk, and the brothers have wasted a lot of strength along the way!" ”

He smiled slightly, turned to Li Xian, who was directing the military households to carry the ore beside him, and said: "Pawn Li, you take the brothers down to eat, and by the way, give each brother ten taels of silver, the brothers can't let the family be wronged when they come from afar." ”

"Yes, my lord, go and do it immediately." Li Xian has lived a long time, and he is naturally very familiar with the world, so he immediately led those families to the canteen opened in the military camp.

10,000 catties of ore looks like a lot, but it can't help but Lingshan Wei has a lot of people, with the efforts of more than 100 military households, they all moved them into the arsenal in less than a meal, although some people wonder in their hearts, why don't they put these ores in the special loading warehouse, but put them in the arsenal, but when they secretly saw the somewhat nervous and excited look on Pang Gang's face, they were relieved, maybe these ores are more important to the huge people, Maybe put it in the arsenal guarded by a sergeant.

When the soldiers moved all the ore in, Pang Gang immediately ordered Cheng Kai to lead his soldiers to guard the door and not allow anyone to enter, and walked into the arsenal with a torch, and the iron door closed with a bang.

Under the light of the torch, the original black tungsten ore reflected a little charming light, Pang Gang squatted down, took out the "Modern Weapons Encyclopedia" from his arms, opened the catalog and brought it close to the pile of ore on the ground, and soon a line of words appeared on the page, "Found 10,000 tungsten ore and eight catties, do you absorb it?" ”

"Yes!"

In an instant, a black hole appeared in front of the book, like a whirlpool sucking the tungsten ore on the ground into it, although it was not the first time to see such a situation, but Pang Gang still couldn't help but be shocked by this supernatural phenomenon, although he had been trying to figure out the origin of this mutant book, but after groping for a few times, he finally reluctantly announced that the miracle shown by this book was far beyond his comprehension, and finally had to give up helplessly.

Soon, this more than 10,000 catties of tungsten ore was absorbed by the black hole, and the number of tungsten ore on the catalog finally changed from zero to 10,000 and eight.

"Huh can finally cash you out, as long as you have enough wood collected by people, you can cash in the warship." Pang Gang muttered, a look of relief flashed in his eyes, but although he couldn't cash out the ship yet, it didn't prevent Pang Gang from cashing out another ultimate weapon.

He flipped the pages back to the previous pages, and finally fixed his eyes on the last color map, and below this color map were written a few lines of small print, iron ore 500, wood 10, tungsten ore 100.

This is a firearm that Pang Gang has been looking forward to, but cannot be fulfilled because of the lack of tungsten ore, and its name is the Mini rifle.

In the past, there was no tungsten ore, Pang Gang had to pick up a tall one in the squire, and chose Lu Mi Gong as the standard weapon of the army, but although Lu Mi Gong has the characteristics of small caliber and longer range than the general Ming firearms, it also has many bad shortcomings, such as it has a most hated shortcoming of Pang Gang, and it is also a common problem of all smoothbore guns, that is, there is no rifle in the barrel, so that the accuracy of this gun can make people crazy. As a result, Pang Gang had to use a platoon of guns to shoot against the enemy, a hundred rounds of bullets hit the past, facing the enemy who was only less than a hundred paces away, generally only twenty or thirty lead bullets hit the target, and the rest of the bullets did not know where to fly, which also made Pang Gang, who grew up listening to the song "We are all sharpshooters, every bullet destroys an enemy", especially hateful.

The Minnie rifle that Pang Gang is now going to cash in is a rifled gun in the true sense of the word, and the Minny rifle was developed by Claude Claude, the inventor of the Miney bullet and the captain of the French Orleans Chasseurs. Edierne. Minnie and Capt Henry. Staff. Devikine, a front-loading rapid-fire gun developed around 1849 AD. When the French army fought against the Algerian revolutionaries in the North African battlefield, they found that although their rifles were much better in workmanship than their opponents, they could not maintain heavy fire and could not withstand the enemy's tidal attack.

Based on this, Minnie and others boldly improved the French rifle and created a new type of rifle cartridge, the Minnie bullet. In order to match this bullet, Minnie and others developed a new type of rifle after repeated designs, which is the famous Minnie rifle (also known as the Minie rifle). The advent of the Mini rifle heralded the official arrival of the era of rifled rifles as mass equipment for infantry.

The Mini rifle uses the cylindrical shell lead bullet invented by Mini. Since this bullet is slightly smaller than the caliber of the rifle, it solves the embarrassing situation of the old rifle's frontloading bullet that cannot be stuffed into the barrel or clogs the barrel due to the large bullet. Mini rounds can be easily pushed into the chamber with a ram lever, which greatly increases the rate of fire. The bullet is threaded around the body to match rifling, and the middle of the thread is stuffed with animal oil. The bottom of the bullet uses a cork material.

When fired, gunpowder gases hit the cork, and the cork was hit by an instantaneous impact, and then the bullet was violently propped up. Because the bullet is propped up, the chamber can be sealed by the bullet itself at the moment of firing, without leaking gunpowder gases and causing the kinetic energy of the bullet to be lost. This solves the problem of the sealing of the chamber of the old front-loading gun, which greatly enhances the rate of fire, range and safety of the gun (good sealing is not easy to cause gunpowder residue residue to clog the barrel and cause explosion).

The Mini rifle is also equipped with a safety lock to prevent misfire. The whole gun weighs 4.8 kilograms, the caliber is 17.8 millimeters, and each bullet weighs 32.4 grams, and the killing distance can reach an astonishing 900 meters, and accurate hits can be guaranteed within 500 meters. The Mini rifle was quite powerful at the time. Tests conducted in 1849 found that the Mini rifle could penetrate two aspen planks within 15 yards and penetrate 20 inches deep into the third plank. Because of the sheer power and firepower of this rifle, rumors spread that the Mini rifle could penetrate a person with a single shot and then penetrate anyone within 15 meters of its trajectory.

It can be said that before smokeless gunpowder, thunder mercury, fire caps and rear-loading rifles came out, the Mini gun was the king who ruled the battlefield, and no gun could compare with it, and this was also the confidence of Pang Gang to lead thousands of troops to cross Korea and invade Korea with 50,000 Qing soldiers. Looking at the picture that had been turned into a color book, Pang Gang's hand slowly stretched out

"Squeak"

There was a tooth-sour sound from the door of the arsenal, and a burly figure slowly walked out of it, but he was still holding a firearm very similar to Lu Mi Gong in his hand, and Cheng Kai, the captain of the personal soldiers who had been waiting in front of the door for a long time, hurriedly greeted him.

"My lord, you have finally come out, and I have looked for you several times in terms of talent experience."

"Is there anything he's looking for me?" Pang Gang, who was holding the firearm tightly, asked.

Cheng Kai stretched out his hand and scratched his head, "I don't know if I am lowly, but I heard him say that it seems that Erlong Mountain has found traces of a suspicious person." ”

"Where are the others now?"

"I heard him wait for you in the Senhe Mansion."

"Let's go, let's go!"

Pang Gang immediately took Cheng Kai and them on their horses and galloped towards the direction of Qianhu Mansion.

Soon, Pang Gang came to Qianhu Mansion and handed over the horse to Cheng Kai, Pang Gang immediately walked quickly towards the hall. After arriving at the hall, I saw Lin Fengzheng and Li Xianzheng sitting inside, frowning a little worried.

Because of cashing out the Minnie rifle, Pang Gang was in a good mood, and as soon as he entered the door, he asked Hua Yan with a smile, "Governor Lin, aren't you patrolling Erlong Mountain today, by the way, checking the armament, why do you have time to come to Lingshan Guard?" ”

"My lord, something is wrong!" As soon as Lin Feng saw Pang Gang, his fat face trembled, and he hurriedly said: "Last night, our guards at the bottom of the mountain caught two spies who wanted to sneak into Erlong Mountain, their skills are very strong, we dispatched dozens of good hands to catch them, after our interrogation overnight, they recruited the mastermind behind the scenes, it turned out that they were spies sent by Yan Benge, president of the Zhejiang Chamber of Commerce, for the purpose of stealing the secrets of our Erlong Mountain." ”

"Oh, now the trees want to be quiet and the wind doesn't stop! Did the pervasive salt dealers notice us so quickly? A trace of anger slowly appeared on Pang Gang's face: "Hmph, it seems that they are red at our refined salt and sent someone to steal the technology." Let's let the salt merchants in Zhejiang act as agents for our refined salt, originally with the goodwill of everyone who is rich, but some people don't know what to do, so don't blame us for being polite. ”

"Governor Hayashi!"

"Humble Duty"

"Starting today, immediately stop the supply of refined salt to Zhejiang!"

Lin Feng was shocked: "Ah what, my lord, then do we still want to make money?" ”

Pang Gang smiled and shook his head: "You don't have to rush, just suspend the supply." Zhejiang is gone, we can still sell to Jiangsu. Governor Lin, if the salt merchants in Zhejiang come to urge the goods, you will tell them that if you don't stop peeping at my Erlong Mountain, we won't do business in Zhejiang! ”

"Yes!"

Lin Feng also understood what Pang Gang meant, and now it was time to give those greedy salt merchants a little bit of power

(To be continued)