Airship!

Wei Wenchang naturally knew that there were airships in the Shengong Palace, not only in the Shengong Palace, but also in Da Chu, but the airships were used for transportation, what did they have to do with the defense of the Shengong City?

Before I saw the fine iron output here, Wei Wenchang didn't care, but now it can't be done, the output is too big, as long as the safety here can be guaranteed, Da Chu will not have to worry about the lack of armor in the future, as long as the military recruitment and training can keep up, there will be a steady stream of well-armed soldiers on the battlefield to compete with the Austrians.

"Lei Shi, the airship transportation capacity is very strong, and it is naturally not a problem to evacuate the personnel of the Shengong Palace, but these blast furnaces and iron ore on the ground cannot be removed. Wei Wenchang said patiently, this is also in the face of Renault, the magical secret master, if it were someone else, he would have slapped him a long time ago, how can you speak?

Renault smiled slightly: "It seems that General Wei has a limited understanding of airships, so let's give me two days, and I will demonstrate it to the general." ”

"It's okay, Wei is waiting for good news. "Renault's actual performance for three years has made no one dare to underestimate him, and no one has used his own thoughts to figure out his mind.

Call the Huya, let them make gunpowder bombs, call Zhang Tan, and ask him to prepare a bowed crossbow with a rotating disc and the corresponding arrows.

The bomb is easy to understand, it is a bomb package with ingredients. This bowed crossbow is a small bed crossbow improved by Renault, under the crossbow, a rotating base that can rotate freely 360 degrees is added, and the crossbow bolt is also different from the ordinary one, and the tail of the arrow is equipped with an anti-drop device.

The general crossbow can only shoot flat or hang, you can't shoot down, put the crossbow arrow to the ground, it is easy to fall directly from the crossbow machine, and the bowbow can solve this problem very well.

In addition to these two weapons, three airships also need to be modified, with openings at the bottom and sides of the hanging blue. These technologies have been there for a long time, but they have not been made, Renault actually can't look down on bows and crossbows, but unfortunately the musket is not yet mature, and it is difficult to manufacture, even if the craftsman battalion has repeatedly improved, it can only be made to fifty per day, and this output is far from enough to support a national war.

"Sir, Mozi asks to see. As soon as the arrangement was finished, Mo Xiang walked in and said.

"Let him in. "Mozi rarely asks to see Renault, except for the normal study and examination school, Mozi is an absolute tech nerd and never leaves the laboratory.

"Hello, sir, please. "In three years, Mozi has also grown from a skinny little fart child to a young man today, with good food and a good mood, how Mozi looks very strong, but he is not tall.

"Sit, what's wrong?" Renault asked, there were too many in the Divine Crafts Temple, and there were not enough talents, and after arriving at the Forbidden Land of Death, Renault was very busy and basically couldn't find time to be idle.

"Sir, the primer you wanted, the experiment came out a few days ago, can you see if you can use it?" Mozi said, taking out a dozen primers from the bag he was carrying.

This little thing can make Mozi embarrassed, not only the material problem, the things that Mr. wants are very small, and the work is very deductible, and it needs to be made by hand, a big worker, and a dozen can be built in a day, and there are hundreds of materials that need to be experimented, plus various combinations, the project team is expected to need to do tens of thousands of experiments before it is possible to find the materials that Mr. wants.

Mozi was lucky, one of the new materials he chose had such a property, and after being hit, it would produce sparks in the compartment.

The so-called compartment spark refers to hitting the copper bottom from one side, and the material on the other side will produce one or several small sparks, which is very short and just meets the requirements of Mr.

The ghost knows what the use of this trick is, not to mention the craftsmen who participated in the experiment, even Mozi and Zhang Tan are confused, and they don't know the intentions of Mr.

Mozi picked up one of them, the primer was only the size of a fingernail, a round copper sheet, and in the center of the copper sheet, there was a carved center point.

Clamping the primer on the vice, Mozi found the hammer and alloy needle, aimed it at the center of the primer, and at the same time put velvet on the other side of the primer, and struck it slightly.

There was a soft sound of the bell, and the sound of the metal striking was particularly pleasant. I saw four small sparks appear at the other end of the primer, igniting the velvet below.

Reynolds's eyes were completely attracted, the principle of thunder mercury, Renault actually didn't understand it very well, but he understood the purpose of the existence of thunder mercury, the firing needle hit, through the lightning mercury ignited the primer in the primer, and then through the combustion of the primer, ignited the gun powder in the cartridge case, through the principle of thermal expansion, hundreds of thousands of times of expansion, strong expansion pressure pushed the warhead, shot out of the chamber.

The primer made by Mozi is definitely different from the principle of bullets on the earth, but the effect is much better, and there is no need to increase the combustion value through the primer, and the gunpowder can be ignited directly.

It's a pity that he doesn't have real gunpowder, let alone gunpowder, he doesn't even have smokeless gunpowder in his hand, and the combustion value and expansion rate of black powder are much lower.

Therefore, it is necessary to either endure the range and power of the bullet, or increase the charge to make the bullet larger, but the bullet cannot increase its weight, so as to ensure the penetration and range of the warhead.

Don't underestimate the armor of the Great Chu world, the leather armor of the light rider weighs thirty pounds, and the flintlock musket can shoot through a hundred paces away, and if it is replaced with iron armor, it must be placed within fifty steps before it can be killed with one blow.

In Renault's opinion, a gun that can't kill people three hundred steps away can only be regarded as a toy. The speed of the cavalry is too fast, three hundred steps is only a dozen seconds, the rate of fire of the flintlock pistol, people run back and forth, you can shoot a projectile, that is a hairy use.

Not to mention several segments of shooting, no matter how many segments there are, they will only be fired separately, and the total amount of projectiles fired will not change.

This is the reason why Renault is not optimistic about the flintlock pistol, when the cavalry charges, the flintlock pistol can actually only shoot one shot, and there is no chance of firing a second bullet at all.

If you want this opportunity, you have to use other units to add to block the enemy army and give the musketeers more time to equip.

It is slower than a bow and a crossbow, and when the enemy rushes to within thirty paces, the power of the crossbow and musket is really hard to say who is greater, but the speed of the bow and crossbow is obviously better than that of the musket.

With a primer and a fixed load, it was completely different, and Renault could turn the flintlock into a rear-loading bolt-action gun in minutes. As for automatic rifles, will it be far?

The principle of an automatic rifle is not too difficult, even if Renault does not know the structure of an automatic rifle, as long as the principle is taught to the craftsman, with the ability of the craftsman of Dachu, it will not be long before it can be manufactured.

Looking at these primers in front of him, Renaud sighed lightly, time, he didn't have enough time. Automatic rifles and machine guns, in the world of Da Chu, are definitely big killers, no matter how good the Austrians are, with such weapons, Renault dares to take tens of thousands of people to kill the Austrians' hometown.

But......

I can't afford to play!

As long as anyone who has studied history knows that people are alive, and when they have suffered losses, they will think of various solutions, and the result is that bullets kill people, and they need to be piled up in quantity.

It's no joke that hundreds or thousands of bullets can kill a person.

Originally, this phenomenon was normal, but Renault couldn't afford it, he didn't have automated equipment, no power source, and not even an assembly line.

How long does it take for the artisan battalion to produce 1,000 rounds of ammunition? Renault didn't dare to think about it, even if all the craftsmen were exhausted, they might not be able to produce 1,000 rounds of ammunition in a day.

It doesn't take much, even if it's a bolt-activated gun, as long as a thousand sticks are made, a salvo will be gone.

Renault is worried about the output, even if it is driven by water power, the speed of making bullets is not fast, he can't even pull up a thousand-person bolt-action rifle team, and a month of production is not enough for this team to fight for a few minutes, so how can it be played.

With a heavy pace, Renault opened the rattan box and took out a few drawings from it, these are Renault's inventory, most of the plans were taken by Cui Qing to collect, these boxes of plans and drawings are all Renault feels that they need to be kept secret, or it is impossible to complete in a short time.

"Mozi, come and see, these are two new types of muskets, set up a project team, and see if you can make them?" said two drawings and put them on the table.

Mozi respectfully picked it up and looked through it, Mr.'s private goods were all good things, no one showed them, and even he didn't have a chance to see them. Every time I see these novel designs, Mozi will be amazed, Mr. is Mr., it is unique.

The first of the two firearms that Renault took out was a bolt-action rifle, which had a relatively simple structure, did not require air conduction or anything like that, and was loaded manually. Mozi glanced at it and understood what was going on.

Before, he really couldn't understand it. But with the primer, he has a number in his heart.

The second type of firearm is the chain machine gun, which is the person Renault prepared for the Austrians. Of course, bolt-action rifles are very advanced for Da Chu, but when they were first manufactured, the number was insufficient, and they might not be able to withstand the cavalry of the Austrians.

Machine guns are different, as long as there is enough ammunition, this game is a cavalry terminator, and no matter how much it comes, it will not be enough to kill.

Mozi looked at the hour for half an hour, and his eyes were full of little stars.

"Sir, is this a gun that can shoot continuously?" Mozi's talent in mechanical manufacturing is unparalleled, and Renault is far worse than him anyway.

"Well, this kind of gun is called a machine gun, and if you add a trap to the gun, you can shoot continuously. ”

After speaking, he took out the third drawing, opened the drawing and said, "This is the design drawing of the bullet." ”

In fact, the manufacture of bullets is more troublesome than firearms, small in size, large in quantity, and complex in structure.

After opening the drawings and looking at them a few times, Mozi understood, pointed to the drawings and said, "Sir, this structure?"

"It can be simplified, originally I was worried that there would be no good primer, so I installed a primer pool here, and if it can be ignited directly, this one will not be needed. Renault nodded and said, the original bullet design was designed according to the earth's gunpowder weapon, and the structure of the bottom of the bullet was much more complicated.

"Yes. Mozi said excitedly.