Chapter Twenty-Six: Test the Gun

Although Liu Hou's words were very unpleasant, Zhang Fei didn't dare to be angry with him, Zuo Ci is now very famous, especially as a high-level figure in Liu Bei's group, Zhang Fei knows that he took out peerless formations, straw paper, soap and "earth-shaking thunder", these actions are not something that mortals can do.

As Zuo Ci's "disciple" Liu Hou is also mysterious in the eyes of the world, although Zhang Fei is rough, but thick and fine, usually witnessed Liu Hou's various miracles. So I don't dare to be too rude to this junior.

It is rumored that Uncle Liu Huang has a son: both civil and military, can train at the age of three, export chapters, write into writing, and is an immortal genius. Many people scoff at these rumors and think that they are false, but Zhang Fei and Liu Hou are often in contact with him and are very familiar with him, knowing that some rumors are not all exaggerated, and some are true.

"Haha, Xiao Adou Mo wants to grow up with other people's ambition to destroy his own prestige, Sun Quan Xiao'er, martial arts are sparse and ordinary, your third uncle and I can take his head with one move. If it was his eldest brother, the dead ghost Sun Celai would be about the same. ”

"I know that you are known as the first of the hosts, like a bag and a ......"

"Hehe, that's all my second brother's false praise, false praise, hehe." Zhang Fei touched the back of his head, revealing a shy look, but no matter how he looked, he didn't look modest.

Liu Hou rolled his eyes, "Hmph, what's the big deal, fighting is not alone, what's the use of you being brave." No matter how brave the general is, he will be defeated and he will die. Do you remember Wen Hou Lu Bu? ”

"Lu Bu, this bird ......" Zhang Fei immediately wilted when he heard Lu Bu's name. Zhang Fei has never admired anyone in martial arts in his life, the only exception is Lu Bu. Lu Bu's force value can be called the first in the world.

"Back then, you three brothers couldn't beat this guy, but what was his final result? It's not that Cao Cao killed him. ”

"It's not that you can't beat it, it's ......," Zhang Fei argued.

"Pay attention to the point, the point is not a question of whether you can beat it or not." Liu Hou is very helpless, talking to this black guy is just laborious, often off-topic, and this guy is sometimes shrewd, sometimes just a cowhide lantern, and he can't see through it, so when talking to him, you can't be too subtle, you must be straightforward and clear and thorough.

"The point is that I want to make it clear that fighting is not fought by brute force, nor by individual bravery." Liu Hou can only explain the problem in a simple and clear way.

"So what?" Zhang Fei finally returned to the topic and asked very cooperatively, after all, as a veteran soldier who has fought for many years, he is always most interested in the topic of how to win a battle.

"Stay here." Liu Hou pointed his finger at his head.

"Leaning on the head? Little Adou, you're not kidding, are you practicing iron head skills? The left path is really profound, and it can even be iron-headed. ”

Liu Hou is about to sweat, is this guy really stupid or fake? You can't be pretending to be stupid and trying to play with me, right?

"It's by brain, just look at Zhuge Junshi, how many soldiers and horses can he kill Cao Cao with one plan."

"Well, it seems to make sense, Kong Ming's guy is the best at tricks and tricks, and he can't pay for his life, Cao Cao gave him all the way to burn and flood, so that he lost his soldiers. But little Adou, you are no worse than him at all, you are also a scheming person with a bad stomach. I've watched the battle between you and that woman, you often play tricks, and that woman wants to die. ”

Liu Hou Khan thought to himself, do you use adjectives, what conspiracies, what tricks, you can't say scheming, resourceful? Say I'll forget it, you still want to die, this word is easy to be ambiguous, okay, that's Liu Bei's woman, will you beat me pp if you listen to this cheap dad?

"Third uncle, you are too outdated, do you think it is great for you to take the first rank of the army like a bag to pick up things? You must know that your nephew and I, a 5-year-old child, can do the same. ”

"Isn't it, little Adou, are you talking in your dreams? Or steal your daddy's wine to drink, get drunk and talk nonsense here? Zhang Fei smiled.

"Don't believe me? I'll show you. Liu Hou didn't say much, and asked Zhao Yun to take his package.

Zhao Yun handed over the package retrieved from Sun Shangxiang's ship to Liu Hou. Liu Hou opened the package, and Zhang Fei saw that there was a black iron ancient monster inside, and a clay pot, and a "braid" extending out of the exit of the clay pot.

Of course, Zhang Fei didn't know what this thing was, but later generations knew at a glance that the black iron rod was a handcuff, and the clay pot, the "braid" was a lead, so the function of this clay pot was about to come out - a bomb.

It turns out that these two things are the hard work of Zuo Ci and a craftsman in the past two years, and they are also Liu Hou's current "ultimate weapons". The clay pot is not very difficult to make, and in addition to being filled with gunpowder, there are also some pieces of broken iron mixed with it, so that it can increase the lethality.

The handcuffs can be difficult, first of all, the materials of casting, Zuo Ci and the craftsmen experimented to test it, and after several tosses, finally used a piece of "dark iron" (estimated to be meteoric iron) to make it. Then there was the casting, the barrel of the gun drilling, because of the "dark iron" is abnormally hard, the drilling process is very, very slow, such a handcuff requires the best blacksmith, and it took a full three months to successfully build. Therefore, it is extremely difficult to manufacture this handcuff, and the manufacturing cost is immeasurable.

However, this gun was a flintlock pistol, and Liu Hou skipped the arquebus stage and directly asked Zuo Ci to target the flintlock pistol. Then, the gun used paper shell bullets, that is, a certain amount of gunpowder and projectiles were packed with paper, and when used, the contents were poured into the chamber and compacted with a strip to fire.

The benefits of bullets with paper shells are obvious. Now Liu Hou is holding a front-loading gun, adding gunpowder directly from the muzzle, and then loading the warhead. This operation is slow and the amount of charge is uncertain each time, and the shooting effect of the guide zhì is not stable. If it is less loaded, the firing strength is not enough, the range is not far enough, and it is easy to explode if it is loaded too much.

And the quantitative charge is nothing more than an effective way to solve this problem, in order to speed up the reload, and the amount of medicine is certain, paper shells came into being.

Liu Hou had people roll a tube of paper, seal one end, and then load a certain amount of gunpowder and tie it tightly with silk thread. Because the paper tube is relatively large, after the paper tube is loaded with gunpowder, there is still a certain space left in the upper part, and the projectile is loaded in this space, and then the silk thread is tied to seal the projectile.

In this way, the paper shell bullet has two layers, one for the projectile and one for gunpowder. When used, it is only necessary to untie the silk thread that seals the two layers of exits (slipknot, open when pulled), or cut the paper shell, load the gun chamber with gunpowder and projectiles in succession, and compact it with a whole strip to use.

After Liu Hou calmly loaded the ammunition, he asked the soldiers to bring a pair of armor, wrapped it around the oars, and raised the gun with both hands to face the armor. After thinking about it, he still forgot it and handed the gun to Zhao Yun.

Liu Hou remembered such a primitive gun, there was no shock absorption and recoil elimination device at all, and his own small arms and legs were already very laborious to pick up this gun made of "Xuantie", in case he couldn't control the recoil, the muzzle was off, but it was very dangerous.

Liu Hou instructed Zhao Yun to hold the gun tightly, saying that there would be a great rebound force and a loud noise, so that he could prepare his mind.

Zhao Yun pulled the trigger on the armor as he said. I only heard a "bang", and a puff of green smoke came out of the handcuff. Everyone was so frightened that their hearts and livers jumped "bang", and even heroes like Zhao Yun were taken aback, and their hands were weak, and they almost threw away the handcuffs. Only Liu Hou covered his ears in advance and was spared.

Zhang Fei took the armor and looked at it, there was a big hole in the heart of the armor, and there were sparks in some places on the cave wall, and the oars wrapped in the armor were also broken.

Zhang Fei couldn't help but gasp. "This, this, could it be the "earth-shattering thunder" of the left Dao Chang? It took a long time for Zhang Fei to calm down and ask. Liu Hou once said to Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang that Zuo Ci would create a "heaven-shaking thunder", and there was no secret between the three brothers, and Zhang Fei naturally heard about it.

"No, no." Liu Hou said and picked up the clay pot, "This is the 'earth-shaking thunder'." As he spoke, he let Zhao Yun light it, and then threw it out of the boat as best he could. Zhao Yun threw it and threw it about 30 meters away, and the clay pot exploded in the air before it fell into the water.

Only a "bang" sound was heard, and a cloud of sparks and green smoke rose from the air. The people on the boat were so shocked that their ears were "buzzing", and everyone was so frightened that they couldn't even stand on their feet, and some simply lay down. What's more, they thought that the heavens had sent down thunder to punish someone, so they all knelt down and begged the heavens to appease their wrath.

"Good guy, this Zuo Dao Chief is really a god. There's this, what's this thing called? Zhang Fei asked, pointing to the handcuff.

"It's a pistol, also called a handcuff." Liu Hou said in a timely manner.

"Yes, with this pistol and the 'Heaven-shaking Thunder', don't say take the first level, it is estimated that as soon as you take it out, the enemy will be scattered."

"That's right, so to fight, you can not only rely on ingenuity, but also rely on these things." Liu Hou guided Zhang Fei in the direction of the technology flow.

"Good nephew, your third uncle usually treats you best, isn't it, why don't you go and talk to Zuo Ci, and ask him to equip each of my team with this gun, 5 per person, ah, no, 10 of this 'earth-shaking thunder' per person."

Liu Houzhi rolled his eyes, when did you have the best time for me? I also have a gun per person, and now I can't make more than one shot. The current smelting technology is too poor, if you want not to explode, the gun must be very thick and heavy, it is no longer a gun, but a small cannon, and it is estimated that few soldiers are willing to carry it.

The production of "earth-shaking thunder" is simple, but Zhang Fei's 5,000 people, 10 per person is 50,000, even if Liu Bei sends another 1,000 craftsmen to come, it may not be produced in a short period of time, because the limiting factor is not in the manpower, but in the raw materials.

In this era, although there are saltpeter and sulfur, but the output is not large, recently because Liu Bei asked someone to bring back to make more gunpowder, has almost bought up the saltpeter and sulfur on the market, but it is only enough to make 2 or 3 thousand catties. Until saltpeter and sulphur mines are found, it is almost impossible to produce them on a large scale.

Therefore, at this stage, gunpowder is still mainly used for intimidation, and it is only used to attack fortified positions when it encounters some hard bones that cannot be gnawed. Large-scale equipping of troops is clearly unrealistic.

"Do you think this thing is that easy to do? If you want, send more men to find saltpeter, sulfur, and iron. After the capture of the city, he gathered all the craftsmen and sent them to Master Zuo, so that he had enough manpower to produce this thing. ”

Sure enough, Zhang Fei sent people all over the world to look for mines, and finally found a few mineral deposits for him, which is a later story. Moreover, because of Liu Hou's words, the first thing Zhang Fei did when he went to a place in the future was to catch the craftsmen, and Zhang Fei also became a figure for the craftsmen to talk about the tiger's color change, and when they heard that Zhang Fei was coming, they all ran away in advance.

However, the craftsmen who were caught, especially the craftsmen who had the ability, Liu Hou would ask Zuo Ci to give them preferential treatment, so that they were more than one step higher than the original in terms of economic status and social status, so that there was no mess in the end.