Chapter 12: The Fusiliers
When all the training was over, Lin Jie lay on the ground tiredly, without any strength in his body, and turned over and lay on the ground like an octopus floating to the beach, not wanting to move. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
"Xiaojie, it's time to get up and read!" Grandpa looked at Lin Jie lying on the ground with a smile and said very gently.
Lin Jie glanced at his grandfather resentfully, he had never seen his grandfather speak so gently, and he had goosebumps on his body. Although Grandpa's face was full of smiles, his eyes were unquestionable.
Lin Jie hurriedly got up with great difficulty, picked up two mouthfuls of food and began to read and study.
"Uncle Hu, have you done these things in the past few days?" In the afternoon, Lin Jie arrived at Uncle Hu's blacksmith shop on time, and Uncle Hu was sweating and beating a piece of red-hot iron with a forging hammer.
"Xiaojie, the long pipe you said is not so easy to forge, but I will find a way, don't worry, I just don't know what you want these things for?" Uncle Hu picked up a towel stained with black mud on the table next to him and wiped his sweat, talking to Lin Jie in his mouth, but his eyes never took off the iron block that was being forged.
"Oh, it's okay, the other Uncle Hu has thought of a way, and this must not be difficult Uncle Hu. Lin Jie smiled, he was full of confidence in Uncle Hu.
Since Lin Jie and Uncle Hu got acquainted, Uncle Hu not only often told Lin Jie a lot of knowledge about blacksmithing and forging, but also often told Lin Jie some anecdotes.
I remember a few months ago, it was also at Uncle Hu's blacksmith's shop.
"Once, Uncle I accidentally dropped the powder of saltpeter and devil stone into the iron-making furnace, and there was a loud bang, which almost overturned Uncle's iron-making furnace, and Uncle will never dare to tinker with the devil stone again. Uncle Hu also told Lin Jie about an incident in his iron-making career.
Uncle Hu didn't care when he spoke, he completely regarded Lin Jie as his little friend, but Lin Jie's eyes lit up when he heard it, "What, what, two powders can explode when they encounter fire, and they can overturn the iron-making furnace, could it be that saltpeter and devil stone powder are mixed together and have the characteristics of gunpowder?"
At that time, Lin Jie immediately pestered Uncle Hu to help him get a big bag of both ores. A top student in science and engineering, Lin Jie naturally knows that explosives are not complicated, as long as they can violently react and produce gases mixed together, they can be called explosive. As long as the mixture is stable enough in normal times, it can be used as an explosive.
Uncle Hu had personally experienced the danger of mixing the two substances, and when he gave it to Lin Jie, he told him to be careful and not to put the two items together.
"Boom!" Ignoring the smoke and dust from the explosion all over the sky, and the smell of saltpeter in the air, Lin Jie hurriedly ran over from a distance.
After the smoke and dust cleared, looking at the big crater on the ground, Lin Jie laughed wildly: "The explosives have finally succeeded! From now on, we will cross the other world, starting with explosives!" It's just that the place he chose to do the experiment was extremely secretive, but no one would appreciate his crazy smile.
Although Lin Jie didn't know the specific composition of the two ores and used scientific methods to explain the principle of explosion, it didn't matter to him, he just needed to know how to use it. After continuous exploration, he has experimented with the optimal mixing ratio of the two ores.
As long as the mixing ratio of two ore powders is one to three, the explosion power is the largest, and the remaining residue is almost invisible after the explosion, indicating that when this ratio, the two ores are basically completely reacted, and the remaining residue is only impurities.
With explosives, Lin Jie suddenly had an ambition in his heart.
Since there are explosives, is it not difficult to make a gun? When Lin Jie returned home, he quickly drew a drawing of a gun, and considering the processing accuracy here, he naturally drew a long gun.
Later, when he told Uncle Hu about the main parts of the gun, according to Uncle Hu's experience in striking iron, many parts that were not easy to achieve were changed, especially the bullet manufacturing was really difficult, and Lin Jie finally had to change the gun to a flintlock pistol.
These things are not difficult for a hardcore military lover of science and engineering.
Looking forward to making the world's first gun, Lin Jie smiled proudly.
"Xiaojie, what are you laughing at? Uncle Hu is not doing it right?" While Uncle Hu was working, he inadvertently saw Lin Jie smiling stupidly with some small parts he had built, and pretended to be angry and said to Lin Jie.
"Oh, Uncle Hu, no. I'm so touched to see you make such a small part so exquisite!" Lin Jie came back to his senses and quickly replied. He had to admire the blacksmiths of this world, although there were no finishing tools, and the parts seemed to fit in size.
"Haha, yes, I'm a forger who can forge weapons. I've figured out how to do that pipe-like thing you want, and I'll make it for you in a few days!" Uncle Hu said proudly.
With his level as a forger, building farm tools here every day is not challenging for him at all. The things that Lin Jie asked him to help create stimulated his enthusiasm for creation, and creating these things seemed to be enough to reflect his value and conform to his identity as a forger, and he was a little tired of it.
Lin Jie happily put away the small parts, he wanted to take them home first and try to assemble them.
In the evening, as usual, Lin Jie came to a secluded place full of trees at the back of the village, and first silently recited the mantra taught by his grandfather in his heart, and then slowly closed his eyes, recited the mantra silently, and began to sense the aura of heaven and earth.
What made him feel a little depressed was that he still didn't know what the aura of heaven and earth was, and he asked his grandfather many times about this, but his grandfather always said to him: "Sensing the aura of heaven and earth is the first step to becoming a war soul master, and you can only rely on yourself." ”
Lin Jie was a little helpless, and he didn't know if it was because his original soul power was very low, not suitable for cultivating battle souls, or because he had memories on the earth, which caused the mutation of his body. Months had passed, and he still hadn't touched the edge of the heaven and earth aura.
The night breeze was a little cool, Lin Jie slowly entered the realm of forgetting things and me, feeling as if his body suddenly didn't exist, and the whole person was floating in the dark night sky like a balloon, and that feeling should be like an astronaut in space.
He didn't know if it was a dream or what, Lin Jie saw countless starlight from afar, just like being in the starry sky in the middle of summer, feeling that those little starlights were distant and deep.
Lin Jie had the urge to touch those starlight, but it seemed that those starlight were too far away to be touched.
Lin Jie used countless methods, but in the end, he didn't close the distance between him and the starlight, and in the end, he could only stare at those starlight in a daze. But somehow, when he gave up all his efforts, there was a blur in front of him, and Lin Jie suddenly felt that those starlights began to get closer and closer to him.