Zhao Xiong thought for a while and said, "Liu Sheng, go and ask Li Ge to bring the fire hammer on the ox cart and let Master Wang check it." ”

After a while, Liu Sheng came over with Li Ge and a few other family members carrying guns!

At Zhao Xiong's signal, they leaned against the wall and put down the firecracker.

Zhao Xiong motioned for Wang Xiaoqi to take a look at these firearms.

As far as these firecrackers are concerned, he still doesn't dare to teach others how to use them.

Maybe under the hard work of Mr. Zhang, it would be okay to put a few shots on these firearms.

But these firecrackers, who are older than him, will have a lot of fun if they blow up.

Historically, many firecrackers were used to blow up the chamber, especially in the late Ming Dynasty, which caused the sergeants to have a fear of using firearms.

More than 100 years have passed, and the folk saying about the explosion of the fire gun is even more terrifying.

For example, in the past few years, the imperial court suppressed the Liukou in Guangxi, and mobilized the firearms battalions of the three southeastern provinces to crusade against the Liukou.

Who knows, the firearms battalion, which gathered more than 10,000 people, encountered an ambush in the middle of the Hengyang Mansion crusade, and it rained heavily from the sky.

In a panic, some firearms could not be hit, and some directly exploded, seriously injuring the coach on the spot, making this crusade a miserable failure.

The firearms battalion of more than 10,000 people quickly collapsed, and only more than 3,000 people ran to Changsha Mansion to collect them, and the more than 3,000 people were wounded.

Therefore, south of the Yangtze River, Guangxi's Liukou quickly expanded, entrenched in the mountains and mountains of southern Hunan and captured several county towns in western Xiangxi, threatening Wuchang.

The imperial court went to crusade every year, but the terrain of Xiangxi was dangerous, and every time it was in vain, the generals of the imperial court were also tired.

This year's crusade was only symbolic, and it lingered for dozens of miles in the county seat under the jurisdiction of the Liukou.

Therefore, he can't joke with his life and that of his family, in case of a blow up in his chest, breaking into his eyes and piercing his hands, it will be miserable.

In about a quarter of an hour, several firecrackers were checked by Wang Xiaoqi one by one.

He straightened his waist, turned his head and sighed, shook his head at Zhao Xiong and said with a wry smile:

"Some of them were made during the Taizu Xiongwu period, and they are all seventy or eighty years old, and two of them may explode after two trips.

The rest is Yongping 5 years of manufacturing, and there are 10 years of prosperity, which is still new.

However, the craftsmen have taken a clever approach in manufacturing, and the thickness of the wall of the gun pipe is uneven, especially in the welding of the gun pipe, which may also be a lack of craftsmanship or a material problem.

It is estimated that if you put a dozen shots, it will definitely blow up and bor. ”

After Zhao Xiong listened, he was extremely depressed.

Zhao Xiaodonkey, who was next to him, stumped his tongue, and Liu Tongxun lifted the fan and pointed at the finger fire, reminding Li Ge to be leisurely, he might explode.

Li Ge also listened, and was scared for a while, but he had tested it with a firearm yesterday, and he was thankful that he didn't blow it up.

Wang Xiaoqi saw Zhao Xiong's depressed expression, his eyes rolled, and he thought about it.

This Zhao Tianba just said that he plans to build a private small blast furnace, and the silver from the blast furnace is easy to say, and they don't need to prepare materials, where can I find such a good thing!

So he coughed twice.

When Wang Xiaoqi saw Zhao Xiong looking at him, he said cautiously:

"My lord, these firecrackers still have to be redone, and there are no problems in handing them over to Xiao.

As long as the adults set up a small blast furnace to produce molten iron, the small ones can make fine firecrackers for the adults. ”

Zhao Xiong listened quietly and did not interrupt him.

Wang Xiaoqi gritted his teeth and said, "My lord, please come with me!" ”

At the back of the shed, there is also a stone house.

As soon as Zhao Xiong walked into the stone house, he felt a smell of carpenter's work and blacksmith's work, mixed together.

Zhao Xiong misses him very much for checking in the past, a small private workshop, which is the smell inside, and he is really too familiar.

"My lord, only a gun made of such fine iron can be strong and durable, and it will not explode when shooting."

Wang Xiaoqi lowered his body from a few wooden planks, groped, pulled out two iron pipes, put them on a workbench made of wooden planks, showed them to Zhao Xiong, and then explained:

Zhao Xiong walked, came over and picked up an iron pipe, looked at it, and weighed it again, it was very heavy, about seven or eight catties.

"My lord, this is a pipe, if you want to make a pipe, you need to use fine iron to roll it into two iron pipes, one large and one small, so that the two are tightly attached.

Then use a steel drill to drill into a smooth and straight pipe with a smooth inner wall.

Obtaining the gun tube is the first step, and the second step is the most critical drill gun.

The drilling process is very precise, probably, each person can only drill about 1 inch per day, and it takes about a month to drill into one.

I guarantee that the gun pipe that comes out of this way is still above the acceptance of the Ministry of Industry, and there is no problem in firing one or two hundred shots. ”

Zhao Xiong nodded noncommittally.

Historically, the military department of the imperial court had very strict requirements for the quality of firearms, whether it was the manufacturing bureau of the military department or the manufacturing bureau of the local guards.

When they make weapons, they must indicate that a certain department, a certain guard, a certain institute, a certain year, and a certain season have been made, and they also need to make a book afterwards so that they can check it at any time.

However, even with so many regulations, more than 100 years have passed, social turmoil, and lax armaments, but the quality of weapons is a decline that is obvious to all.

Of course, the reason for the low quality of Dakang's weapons is also related to corruption in officialdom and the poor artisan system.

Zhao Xiong pondered for a while, and then said:

"Master Wang, I believe you, this time before the Chinese New Year, the small blast furnace was erected first, and I came over to light the small blast furnace.

You'd better organize a few people now, I have a ready-made gun now, can you build the fire gun I drew in a day! ”

As he spoke, Zhao Xiong took out a notebook in the pocket of his military coat and handed it over.

Wang Xiaoqi took the notebook suspiciously, looked at the red-looking notebook, and turned a page, drawing with a pen on it, a strange-looking firecracker.

It looks much better than the firecracker he made, and it looks much better.

He also studied private school for two years, how many words do you recognize?

Victory I rifle.

Muzzle caliber: 15 mm

Full gun length: 1420 mm

Barrel length: 760 mm

Full gun weight: 4.2 kg

Effective range: 270 meters

Rifle Type: Fire Cap Shotgun

Ammunition feeding method: front-loading type.

Flipping further back, there is a detailed, exploded view of the firebolt, much more detailed than the drawings of his family heirloom and the manufacturing bureau.

But for millimeters and kilograms, he vaguely felt that this was a unit of measurement, and he was terrified to see this booklet.

I was sweating profusely in such a cold weather.

Zhao Xiongba, what is this going to do?

In fact, the Shengli 1 rifle that Zhao Xiong took out was the "Enfield" front-loading rifle produced in the 50s of the 19th century.

With the use of a Mine warhead, a cylindrical shell lead bullet.

Since this bullet is slightly smaller than the caliber of the rifle, it solves the embarrassing situation of the old rifle's frontloading bullet that cannot be stuffed into the barrel or clogs the barrel due to the large bullet.

Mingne rounds can be easily pushed into the chamber with a ram lever, which greatly increases the rate of fire.