Yulin took a closer look at the contents of the box, and saw that this iron pipe was made of iron, but it was not the common kind of iron used in weapons, and the color of this iron was even darker and brighter, with slightly regular dark lines and a faint blue light.

The iron pipe was about the thickness of an egg, the walls were thick, and the joints were half thicker, which made the assault gun even heavier. The barrel of the gun is about more than a foot and a half, but it is very different from the assault rifle that Yulin has seen in the Song Dingguo Mansion in that there is a wooden grip in the middle of the barrel, and there is a grip that curves downward at the rear of the tail.

At the back of the barrel, above the grip, there was a small crossbow-like thing, except that the bowstring was fixed with an iron chisel, and the tip of the chisel was tapered to a small hole in the back of the iron pipe. The string of the crossbow was now relaxed, and behind the string was a movable semicircular clasp attached to an iron wrench in a semicircular ring below the grip. Except for the two grips, the two guns were coated with a thin layer of grease, which made the whole black iron smooth and shiny.

Yulin became more and more strange and asked, "You said this is a assault gun?" However, I have also seen the assault rifles of the government army, but they are very different from yours! ”

Li Xue'an said with a smile: "The firearms of the government army use giant bamboo as the tube, and the gunpowder is installed inside, and then put into the sub-kiln, and the torch or burning straw rope is used to ignite the fire, which can generally only hit about 150 steps, and some can hit 200 steps." When Li Xue'an talked about firearms, he was full of energy, if it weren't for the sickly gray and white on his face, he would really be like a professor giving a lecture.

Yulin hurriedly leaned him on the quilt and handed him a bowl of water to drink.

Li Xue'an continued: "However, there are many unsatisfactory official assault rifles used by the government and the military, one is that the official assault rifles are in their infancy, and there is basically no accuracy at all, and after ignition, they are almost blind shots, and it is difficult to effectively hit the enemy; The second is that the official assault rifle is made of thick bamboo pipes, and the wall of the pipe is very fragile, and the barrel of the gun bursts after a few blows. Third, due to the influence of the weather, it cannot be lit on a rainy day, which is no different from a burning stick, and cannot be used at all; Fourth, the official assault rifle was too slow to reload gunpowder and could not be fired continuously, and it was far less useful than bows and arrows and repeating crossbows. As a result, the musket became a chicken rib and was not used on a large scale in battle. ”

Yulin asked, "So what's the benefit of your assault gun?" ”

Li Xue'an couldn't help but smile a little arrogantly, but he couldn't stop coughing because of the initial recovery from a serious illness.

After he breathed a sigh of relief, he said: "I have been adrift overseas for a few years, and I have been in Persia for nearly a year, and I have seen that the iron used in the local Persian scimitars is slightly different from that of our dynasty, and their iron is made of wrought iron and charcoal staggered and repeatedly hammered, and then repeatedly simmered with cold water, so that the Persian knives made are extremely hard and sharp, and have dark lines.

At that time, I remembered that if the weapons of our dynasty were to be made by this smelting method, they would be indestructible, and they would be invincible in battle. As refugees, they worked in one of their blacksmith shops, only begging for food and shelter, and did not charge a cent of clerical wages. The boss saw that I was diligent and reliable, so he often instructed me on one or two smelting skills, and sometimes they went out or had a holiday, so they left me to guard the store. I had the heart to slowly gather the best iron materials, and while he was away, I made these two iron barrels. ”

Li Xue'an paused to catch his breath and continued: "The most important thing about my musket is that every time it is fired, it must be lit with torches or fire ropes, and it cannot be used in case of rain, and this method is inevitably not in a hurry in an emergency, and the fighter plane is missed!"

I thought of the fire sickle flint we were using, which would be much easier to ignite in this way. Fu also thought that it was too inconvenient to use this method to have one person hold a gun and one person to ignite, so he thought that it was very convenient to hit the flint with the power of a bow and crossbow, so he cast a special small bow and crossbow behind the iron pipe, and put the flint in the special hole behind the barrel, so that the fire stone was ignited by shooting the iron chisel with the bow and crossbow, so that only one person could use the musket, and it was very fast and convenient, so that only one person and one gun could defeat three or four official guns! ”

Yulin also listened with great interest, and pulled Xue'an to ask this and that, Xue'an asked: "Don't be too confused about how to use this gun, I'll just get out of bed in a few days, and I'll take you to the mountains to set off a fire, okay?!" ”

Yulin was overjoyed, looking forward to it in his heart, and couldn't help but secretly admire Xue'an's strange and obscene skills!