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Chapter 330

Yunzhou Carpenter Camp is on the shooting range by the Baihe River, a cloud of smoke rises, and the human-shaped target eighty steps away is full of holes. Seven rounds.

They are all old firecrackers under Liang Song, the former head of the infantry. Not only are they extremely accurate in shooting, but they are also extremely fast in reloading. Each of them shoots three bullets, and their movements are extremely neat.

"it is good!"

Zhang Cheng praised loudly in satisfaction, and said again: "If all the fire soldiers under my command are equipped with this Yunzhou blunderbuss, and with strict drills, they can shoot three blunderbuss in such a leisurely manner as in the trial shooting just now, even more so." Why can't you kill the bandits and Tartars?"

Li Guofu also stepped forward, took a Yunzhou blunderbuss again and observed it carefully in his hand, he saw that the whole body of the Yunzhou blunderbuss was black and fine, and the gunpowder pool was also slightly in front, so it was not easy to get distracted.

Yunzhou blunderbuss is no different from western arquebus guns in terms of shape and structure, except that the faucet of western arquebus guns is fired from the front to the rear, while the bird blunderbuss in front of you is installed with the faucet reversed, and a baffle is installed at the back to prevent the The gas injures the shooter, which is a manifestation of the ingenuity of the Chinese at that time.

Li Guofu looked at it for a while, and then said: "Just then, I didn't see soldiers using ox horn medicine pots, nor did I see bamboo medicine tubes, and the gunpowder was filled very quickly, how can this be done?"

Zhang Cheng looked at Wei Zhice with a smile on his face, only to see Wei Zhice took a paper bag from a sergeant, stepped forward and said, "Eunuch Li, all the sergeants use this to pack their medicines."

Li Guofu took over a paper tube with a suspicious expression on his face. He held it in his hand and inspected it carefully, then put it on the tip of his nose and sniffed it, and said in surprise, "Is this a medicine bag?"

"That's right, it's the paper cartridge, Eunuch Li, these Yunzhou blunderbusses of this general are made according to the standard requirements, and each shot uses the same amount of charge.
Therefore, this paper tube ammunition package was specially developed, and it is very convenient to use. Even the lead bullets are made uniformly, and each team is equipped with a special mold for lead bullets, so that they can melt the lead lumps by themselves even during wartime. , to temporarily make standard lead bullets. "

Zhang Cheng saw that Li Guofu's father-in-law was very interested in this, so he continued: "This bird gun is indeed a sharp weapon for killing thieves in wartime. Even Qi Shaobao praised it very much in the past, but there are still many bird guns in stock today.

However, they are either in disrepair for a long time and are unusable, or they are defective products that cut corners and materials, and the standard is not uniform, and there is no standard charge.

It is precisely for this reason that the general made this excellent bird gun, in order to reassure the soldiers and make it easy to use, so that they can exert their power on the battlefield.

Just imagine, my father-in-law, if there are thousands of such Yunzhou blunderbusses, lined up in three rows, and shoot salvos in turn according to the order, even if there are tens of thousands of slave riders, what is there to be afraid of? "

Li Guofu also nodded frequently when he heard the words, Zhang Cheng hurriedly hit the rails while it was hot: "If you want to accomplish something, you must sharpen your weapons. If you want to train a strong army, you must supplement it with sharp weapons. Nowadays, armor and banners are not a big problem.

Only the craftsman who drills and grinds the barrel and the fine iron, Zhang Cheng is really powerless, he can only rely on Eunuch Li to solve these two problems for me. "

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In fact, for the sake of safety, the gunners in the Ming army would personally measure the charge amount of the gun in their hands, and then prepare the sub-drugs according to this amount.

For example, in the Qi family's army, each gunner carried 53 bamboo tubes filled with gunpowder, each of which contained a fixed amount of gunpowder for one shot, and another bag contained 53 suitable lead.

However, Zhang Cheng went one step further, he directly chose paper tubes to pack the medicine.

Paper tube fixed gunpowder is to pack a certain amount of granular gunpowder in a long paper tube. When filling, bite the paper tube with your mouth, first pour some gunpowder into the fire door, and then stuff the rest of the gunpowder into the gun mouth. .

Moreover, the other end of Zhang Cheng's paper tube containing the sub-powder is directly wrapped with a standard gun bullet, and after pouring the gunpowder, forcefully squeeze the lead into the muzzle.

In this way, not only is the quantity of sub-powder guaranteed to ensure the power of each shot, but it can also greatly reduce the loading steps of gunpowder and lead, which allows ordinary gunners to reach a speed of one shot per minute. Shooting twice a minute is also no problem.

Now men, women and children here in Yunzhou have jobs, and their strong laborers cultivate wasteland, while women lead older children in the family to work in various workshops here to earn money.

Because the custom-packed sub-powder is extremely important, and the difference in charge is extremely high, everyone has a custom-made small cartridge to weigh the gunpowder, and the foreman does spot checks and weighs from time to time.

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Moreover, according to Zhang Cheng's requirements, the Yunzhou Jiangying Gunpowder Bureau also used refined granular black gunpowder for gunpowder. Although it is not as powerful as modern gunpowder, its advantages are obvious.

That is, it is easy to carry, and burns more evenly and fully. It is indeed more powerful to shoot Yunzhou gunpowder than ordinary gunpowder. What is more beneficial is that there is less residue left after it is fired. After cleaning is very convenient.

In fact, the preparation of granulated black powder has long been recorded in Daming, but later people cut corners for convenience, and the court did not allocate money according to actual needs, so they cut corners.

According to records: To make gunpowder, five catties of nitrate, one catty of yellow, and one catty of eggplant ash are used for each material.

The above nitrate, yellow, and ash totaled seven catties, which were divided into three troughs, and [-] pieces were fixed to be milled before they came out of the troughs.Three catties of medicine are used, one catty of shochu is used, and it is made into mud, which is still put in the trough, and then crushed for a hundred times, and then comes out of the trough.Mix it into granules, which are as big as yellow rice or mung bean, and it must be put into the palm of the hand without feeling the heat.

Of course, these technical matters are not Zhang Cheng's strong point, and he doesn't bother to worry about these things. In his heart, he even feels that it would be better to go home and accompany Yingying and Yanyan to make troubles together.

Anyway, he just provides ideas and requests, and the rest is naturally the work of these craftsmen.

Zhang Cheng believes that under the guidance of correct ideas and sufficient resources for trial and error, many things will be invented and created naturally.

At present, as long as we strictly follow the previous experience, formulate a practical system to restrain them, and then make good use of reward and punishment measures, well-made bird guns are the top weapons of this era just like gunpowder, armor, swords, guns and shields.

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It is precisely because of the need to meet the needs of the Yunzhou Jiangying Gunpowder Bureau that several large distilleries have been specially built. The spirits produced are not only used for the gunpowder workshop to mix granules of black gunpowder.

It can also be used for medical camps to further refine alcohol for disinfection, but the remaining Zhang Cheng was originally intended to be sold to the private sector, but the market is very bad. People in this era are still not used to drinking spirits.

But there is one person who really likes this kind of nearly [-]-degree spirits, and because of this person's preference, finally the entire North Road generals fall in love with this spirit.

"Burn the knife!"

(End of this chapter)