In Edwood's firearms workshop, some of the dwarves are carving stone molds, some are sorting ores, and everyone is very busy. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

And one of the young dwarfs was even more so, and he was seen trotting all the way to the blacksmith's shop with a whole basket of selected ore.

As he passed through a certain lounge, he was startled by a roar of rage, and his feet slipped and fell to the ground, and the selected ore spilled on the ground, and rolled out of the ground with a grunt.

I only heard the voice in the house continue to roar:

"Can't use a medicine column!? Why? Only this form can be filled with the most explosives! ”

The old dwarf's voice was furious.

"No, if the density is too high, it will not be able to fully burn, which will not only produce more incomplete burning residue, but also reduce the power."

Chen Yin's voice retorted: "Therefore, it is necessary to crush the column of charge, and then screen out particles of the same size, and use these granular gunpowder to reload in order to produce high-quality fixed ammunition." ”

"Impossible! How can a denser unit of space have more explosives, so how can it be less powerful? ”

“…… I said, it's not completely ...... burning."

"How can it not burn completely!? You can just light a pill pillar and try it! Can it burn to the bottom!? ”

“……”

The dwarf shook his head, picked up the ore from the ground, and ran quickly to the blacksmith's shop.

Inside the cottage.

Chen Yin felt that he had exhausted his donkey skills, and he couldn't convince this stubborn dwarf old man at all.

"Otherwise, let's try to load them separately?"

"Try it!" The whitebearded dwarf's eyes widened and he said angrily, "If you lose, you're going to ask me to drink Tirifingo!" ”

"And what if you lose?" Chen Yin clasped his hands to his chest.

“…… I'll make a reload according to your requirements. The old dwarf's eyes rolled.

How so? Getting along with this old man, Chen Yin always has a feeling that he can't take it on.

Chen Yin sighed.

Without waiting for Chen Yin to object, the old dwarf hurriedly changed the topic: "It just so happens that the new gun I just cast should have cooled down, so let's use my latest work to experiment." ”

"It's up to you......" Chen Yin shook his head helplessly.

"Hehe, that's it!" The white-bearded dwarf seemed to have taken advantage of something, as if he was afraid that Chen Yin would regret it, so he casually grabbed a dwarf and gave a few orders, and then quickly dragged Chen Yin to the weapon test site in the backyard.

The backyard of the entire firearms workshop was a huge open-air grocery and shooting range, with a large amount of broken copper and iron piled up against the courtyard wall on one side, and the shooting range on the other side of the courtyard.

The range is based on 10, 20, and 30 distance units, and each distance unit is checked with several wooden targets. Although Chen Yin didn't know what the distance unit used by the dwarves was, judging from the distance estimate of 10 units, it was about 1.6 meters per unit when converted into meters.

In other words, the nearest target should be 16 meters, and the farthest is 48 meters. If you do a little math, you can know that the 10, 20, and 30 unit targets here can basically correspond to the earth's standard 15-meter target (actual 16 meters), 30-meter target (32 meters), and 50-meter target (48 meters).

"Not bad, but I guess your weapons can be used at a maximum distance of 10 units, right?"

Chen Yin said this because he noticed that the area of the 30-meter target was already twice as large as the 15-meter target, and the 50-meter target was more than three times the area of the 30-meter target. If the dispersion area is calculated by the target area, it is already up to luck to hit the person from 30 meters away, and the 50-meter target is a target with a side length of more than 3 meters...... Not to mention.

"Humph! What do you know? Artillery can only be used in a cluster! The white-bearded dwarf stretched out his short and thick index finger and shook it, "As long as there are 10 infantry, you can easily put dozens of infantry!" Even the war into the city will be rewritten because of its appearance! ”

"But a knight can take out 10 of your infantry." Chen Yin was a little unimpressed.

“…… Now it seems that this is the case, right...... But someday, someday our artillery will become more powerful! The old dwarf waved his hands excitedly.

Looking at the white-bearded dwarf's excited performance, Chen Yin couldn't help but pout secretly, it seems that the dwarf's skill level is nothing more than that...... You must know that the Holy Light Church had high-tech fusion weapons at the beginning of its colonization!

There must be some other reason why this world has returned to the age of cold weapons.

Thinking of this, Chen Yin suddenly asked, "How is your ****** power?" ”

"It's huge, you'll know in a moment." The old dwarf looked proud.

"And what about the cost? How much does it cost? What resources do you need to consume? ”

As soon as Chen Yin's words came out, the old dwarf looked vigilant: "I won't tell you the formula of the medicine pillar, you will die of this heart!" ”

“…… Trinitro? Chen Yin tentatively said the word.

Trinitro is the basic chemical formula of many modern explosives, such as the famous *** (C4), whose chemical formula is **********. The ********** that was first invented as a dye was the infamous picric acid.

"What does that mean?" The old dwarf was stunned.

"Glyceryl trinitrate?" Chen Yin tentatively said another term, glycerol trinitrate may not be clear to some people when it is said like this, so everyone will be clear in another way: nitroglycerin.

"Huh?" The old dwarf was still dazed.

"Nitrocellulose?"

“……”

"Hey, nitric acid should be known, right?" Chen Yin was speechless.

“…… What is that? ”

"Well, it can't be black powder, right?" Chen Yin rolled his eyes, if it was black powder, then there was no need for him to come to the dwarf at all. As a ******, black powder has the disadvantages of insufficient power and excessive residue, and its residue is also corrosive, which can greatly reduce the life of the barrel.

In this case, for people like Chen Yin, who can't afford to re-purchase a barrel replacement, black powder can already be ruled out - it is better for him to use a bow and arrow directly.

"I don't know what you're talking about, but I guess you think our medicine column is bad, right?" The whitebearded dwarf smiled and stroked his beard, "Let me show you the power of our dwarves now." ”

The old dwarf looked at the medicine pillar that had just been delivered on the table, hooked his hand, and ordered again: "Tear these down and replace them with the No. 3 medicine pillar." ”

"Yes."

A short time later, a young dwarf returned with a wooden plate, and a large number of dark and shiny cylinders were densely stacked inside. From the outside, these pill pillars are very delicate, and even have a layer of oil on the cylinder, no matter how powerful this pill pillar is, just looking at the appearance can tell that their pressing process is very exquisite.

In the line of defense of the blacksmith's shop, a young dwarf came over with a stone mold, and after placing it on the table, he took out a few scraps of metal parts from his pocket and placed them on the table.

Finally, two freshly polished wooden butts and a front stock were delivered.

The old dwarf looked at his work reverently, held the stone hammer in his hand, gently cracked the stone mold, and then carefully removed the broken stone mold.

A stout trumpet-shaped iron bump gradually appeared in front of Chen Yin. The dwarf carried the big horn and skillfully loaded the butt and metal parts on the table one by one, and in less than 1 minute, a freshly baked horn gun was loaded.

The old dwarf grabbed a pillar of medicine and carefully rolled the copper sheets, fibers, and pillars together with the stack of white paper next to him. His thick fingers curled the column with surprising dexterity, leaving just a polygonal void at the bottom, exposing the copper base.

"Don't you roll iron sand?" Chen Yin was stunned.

"No, I have a better option." The old dwarf smiled mysteriously, took out five or six iron balls the size of glass balls from his butt pocket, stuffed the medicine column into the chamber of the gun, poured these small iron balls into it, and finally stuffed them tightly with paper balls.

"Would you like to try it?" The old dwarf held his trumpet gun with a proud expression.

"Forget it, you can do it yourself." Chen Yin shook his head.

The old dwarf shrugged, shoved his whitebeard into his belt, and pulled the trigger on the 15-meter target with his horn gun.

"Bang!"

The expected crisp explosion was not heard, replaced by a sound like "poof", a bit like the sound of a hand-held firework burning, but shorter and more powerful. A thick cloud of smoke then filled the entire launch site.

"Sure enough, the burning rate was too slow." A hint of clarity flashed on Chen Yin's face, and he quietly avoided the smoke.

"Tsk, it's still not ideal." The old dwarf shook his head as he looked at the target in front of him that was smashed with sawdust, "Is it your turn?" I'd like to see what you can do. ”

"A coarse sieve, a fine sieve, felt, thick skin, or something like that." Chen Yin made his request.

Soon everything was delivered, and the mesh size of the sieve was a little inappropriate, and after changing it again, Chen Yin sat down at the wooden table and took out the medicine column cut and pressed by the Swiss Army knife.

"What a waste, what a waste." The old dwarf shook his head and watched as Chen Yin scraped the pillar of medicine that they had managed to press out into fine powder.

"But this knife is a bit interesting......" The old dwarf saw the difference between Chen Yin's knife at a glance.

"Like it? Not for sale! Chen Yin's tone was cheap.

"......" The old dwarf opened his mouth, not knowing what to say, so he simply closed his mouth and watched Chen Yin operate intently.

I saw that Chen Yin first sifted the powder scraped out of the medicine column with a fine sieve, discarded the excessively fine powder, and then used a coarse sieve to sift out the slightly larger particles inside, and then repeated the process of fine sieving and coarse sieving after re-cutting and pressing with a knife.

A few minutes later, Chen Yin got a handful of granular ****** that were basically the same size.

"It's a really good invention, why hasn't it been popularized?" Chen Yin took a cut of white paper and handed it to the old dwarf.

"Hmph, the Holy Light Church does not allow the large-scale sale of paper products based on plant fibers." The old dwarf said casually, but didn't explain much. After taking the white paper, he deftly rolled it into a column, and put the fire cap in it, and exposed a small piece in the middle.

"It's a perfect workmanship." Chen Yin shook his head in admiration as he played with the primer of the paper tube, and then stuffed in some fibers as well—because he didn't know the composition of the ******, he didn't change it.

Next, about two-thirds of the ****** in the particle state was filled, and then Chen Yin rolled up the seal and stuffed the propellant bag into the muzzle.

Next, he used thick felt to cut out a round gasket slightly larger than the barrel, also stuffed it into the muzzle of the gun, compacted it, and finally wrapped a few iron balls in white paper and filled it from the muzzle.

"Come on, try your might." Chen Yin handed the loaded horn gun to the old dwarf.

Although the ......old dwarf didn't know why Chen Yin didn't try it himself, he didn't think much about it, he took the horn gun with an indifferent face, clamped it under his armpit and pulled the trigger on the 15-meter target.

"Bang! Poof......"

The old dwarf was shocked, and the horn gun in his hand was almost thrown to the ground, although the granular ****** was only filled with two-thirds of the medicine column, but the burning speed and efficiency were greatly improved, which can be seen from the fact that the concentration of gunpowder smoke has become significantly smaller.

The increased explosion speed naturally allows the projectile to obtain higher energy, coupled with the improved air tightness of the felt, although the recoil of this gun is not not much improved, but the distribution points on the target are much smaller.

The projectile gained a more engaged muzzle velocity while the recoil did not increase significantly, which clearly indicates a higher explosive efficiency.

"This ...... It's unbelievable! How can such a simple change improve so much!? The old dwarf looked at Chen Yin in surprise.

Chen Yin shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands: "I said it a long time ago." ”

As he spoke, Chen Yin threw a plastic shell to the old housekeeper.

"According to this caliber, according to the recipe I just made, the iron ball is twice as small as your one, and it is loaded with 7 per bullet. I'm going to order 1,000 rounds of this specification, let's make a price. Chen Yin crossed Erlang's legs and said gracefully.

"I can be free, but ......"

"Well, I won't charge the patent fee for granular gunpowder." Chen Yin smiled slightly.

"...... this?" The white-bearded dwarf was stunned, his expression was particularly comical with the beard that had just been tucked into the waistband of his trousers.

"What? Or do you think my ****** granularity isn't worth the price? ”

"No, no, no, of course not......" The old dwarf finally reacted, Chen Yin was going to be empty-handed

According to the recipe I just made, the iron balls are twice as small as yours, and they are loaded with 7 per bullet. I'm going to order 1,000 rounds of this specification, let's make a price. Chen Yin crossed Erlang's legs and said gracefully.

"I can be free, but ......"

"Well, I won't charge the patent fee for granular gunpowder." Chen Yin smiled slightly.

"...... this?" The white-bearded dwarf was stunned, his expression was particularly comical with the beard that had just been tucked into the waistband of his trousers.

"What? Or do you think my ****** granularity isn't worth the price? ”

"I can be free, but ......"

"Well, I won't charge the patent fee for granular gunpowder." Chen Yin smiled slightly.

"No, no, no, of course not......" The old dwarf finally reacted, Chen Yin was going to be empty-handed

(To be continued.) )