The scene of cutting chickens is easy to cause psychological shadows for any man.

Therefore, Zhao Mengqi wisely chose to avoid it, walked out of the cabin, and let Imperial Doctor Chong take his little apprentice to operate inside.

Although Doctor Chong has not cut much before, he is a famous doctor, and he has seen *** methods in the palace, so he is a little sure that he wants to do this job, as for whether he can succeed, it depends on Jiang Manhai's own luck.

Turning around and entering another cabin, Wu Qiong and the others were pulling a pile of debris, and Qian Long was still holding a complete black ball in his hand to study under the candlelight.

Zhao Mengqi's eyelids jumped, "Chubby, are you tired of being alive?" Ordinance whitebacked? ”

Qian Xiaopang was so frightened that his hand shook, he almost didn't hold it steady, dropped the black ball to the ground, and hurriedly pressed it on his stomach, which was salvageable.

This made Zhao Mengqi's heart flutter again, although he knew that Hei. The gunpowder will not explode on impact, but the shell of this black ball is iron, and it is difficult to say whether it will cause sparks or not.

Under normal circumstances, even if you are close to the fire source, it will be fine, because the lead on the black ball is sealed under a clay cover, and the lid must be unscrewed first when using it.

Zhao Mengqi hurriedly stepped forward and brought the black ball over, "You guy, you are hairy, if this thing is blown up, you will have more than two hundred catties, I'm afraid you won't be able to pick up half of it." ”

"How can it be so easy to fry ......" Qian Xiaopang sneered, "It's not that you said that the power is not enough, I just wanted to see what is wrong with this fried egg." ”

"Huh, you know?" Zhao Mengqi didn't believe this nonsense.

The black ball was a bomb secretly made by Zhao Mengqi to the craftsman, but everyone heard it as a fried egg, so he didn't care.

The structure of this thing is very simple, a three-inch diameter spherical iron shell, which is filled with four taels of granulated best formula black. gunpowder, a mushroom-shaped wooden plug is stuffed into the thin mouth, and a clay cover is added to the plug at the end, which weighs about one and a half catties.

The reason why the cork is made into a mushroom shape is to arrange a spiral-shaped lead channel inside, so that the lead can be protected during the combustion process and is not easy to extinguish.

Zhao Mengqi handed the black ball to Geng Zhi and asked him to take it out and put it back in the storage box, but he squatted down to study the fragments of fried eggs that had been collected.

After looking at it for a while, he felt that he had found a problem.

It may be that the blacksmith didn't know what Yan Wang wanted this iron shell to do, so the iron used was better, resulting in not enough fragments after the explosion, and the killing effect mostly relied on the shock wave, so it was not powerful enough.

This is not difficult to solve, next time switch to cast with pig iron with poor toughness, and then prefabricate the groove.

In addition, this shape and weight, if you use a ballista or a catapult to fire, it is very inconvenient to use alone, it seems that you have to design another one, similar to a long-handled grenade is quite good.

In addition, the three raw materials may have to be slightly adjusted, or find a way to purify, after all, the theoretical formula does not consider the existence of impurities.

"Your Highness, I think this fried egg is only so big, and the power is not less than the earth-shaking thunder, when defending the city, throw hundreds of them below, won't it kill thousands of people?" Qian Xiaopang came up with a salivating face.

Zhao Mengqi glanced at him, "That's because you don't know much." ”

Qian Xiaopang was a little unconvinced, "Your Highness, there is no firearm in this army that I haven't seen, and the most powerful one is the earth-shaking thunder, that thing is three or four times as big, more than a dozen pounds in weight, and the power is not as big as this." ”

At this time, gunpowder had been widely used in the military in the Great Song Dynasty, and it was generally used to make use of the flammability of gunpowder, which was used to set fires or produce toxic smoke, so there were many strange things in the formula.

A rocket is a gunpowder cartridge attached to an arrow or arrow tail and fired at the enemy's siege equipment to burn it.

Artillery is to project thistle balls or poisonous smoke balls with a stone thrower, and the thunderbolt cannons, tiger squat cannons, and cyclone cannons at this time are all of this type.

And the earth-shattering thunder is also this category, but it has been improved to use explosion and combustion, and the first to be used on the battlefield is still the Jin people, and the Great Song and Mongols have suffered losses in this regard.

As for the musket, in fact, it is a disposable flamethrower tied to the front of the spear or a long bamboo pole, and the power is needless to say, the stereotypical musket and the pear flower gun of Yang Miaozhen of the Red Jacket Army are like this.

And one more (this chapter is not finished!) )

161. Firearms

The assault musket is similar to the principle of firearms in later generations, using a bamboo barrel as a launcher, filling and sealing gunpowder and scattered bullets, but well, the range and power are more touching, and it can even be said to be a melee weapon.

For Zhao Mengqi, although he knows the best formula for gunpowder, the only thing he can make in the short term is this kind of bomb.

As for the tubular firearms, they are temporarily limited by the materials, and it seems that they can only make bronze cannons and copper firearms, but the Great Song Dynasty lacks copper!

If you can't mass-produce equipment, it's better to hide it first, otherwise the Mongols will learn it, and there will be no place to cry.

Hey, the tech tree isn't that easy to climb, let's take it one step at a time.

Speaking of the lack of copper, Zhao Mengqi remembered the Wa Kingdom, a country of volcanoes, with active geological movements, and metal minerals that really make people drool, so they can't let it go.

At this time, the relationship between the Wa Kingdom and the Great Song Dynasty was not bad, so it was not necessary to use force to open the way, and it was not bad to use "fair" trade to achieve the goal, and to convince people with morality.

Later, after the defeat of World War II, they could not grab it, so they bought minerals all over the world, even if they could not use it for a while, they would use it as reclamation materials and bury them for later use.

Relatively speaking, the Wa Kingdom is a small place, but in terms of land per capita, the natural resources are definitely richer than those of China.

Volcanic eruptions over millions of years have brought fertile volcanic soil to all parts of the country, with a moderate climate of heat and cold, mild climate, abundant precipitation, and few floods and droughts.

Theoretically speaking, in terms of farmland yields, Wakoku is higher than that of Huaxia, especially the Kanto,, Noo, and fertile alluvial plains, which are rare in the world for high-yield farmland.

There are pastures, fisheries, forest vegetation, etc., as for mineral resources, the state-owned mineral museum is called, the total amount of minerals is not much, but the variety is extremely rich, gold, silver, copper, coal and sulfur reserves are amazing, Marco Polo said that the country of gold is not a joke.

In such a place, we should do a good job in developing agriculture, fishery, and animal husbandry, and carefully excavate mineral deposits to export resources, instead of taking the evil road of urbanization and industrialization, which is simply a tyrannical thing.

Zhao Mengqi believed that as an advanced civilized country, the Great Song Dynasty still had the obligation to help the people of the Great Song Dynasty return to the right path even if it was facing a huge external threat.

161. Firearms