my magic industry

Chapter 85 Gunpowder
Just when the agricultural cooperatives began to take root in the surrounding areas of the imperial capital and began to operate in a prosperous manner.

On the other side, Xia Lin, who is known as the "wise man of the alliance", brought three construction teams from the First Construction Company, with some managers from the literacy class and Master Faen, and started to build a project about [-] kilometers away from the industrial park. A piece of land on the bank of the river was leveled and various buildings were built.

This is a place that he found suitable as the alliance R&D center after many investigations along the Diens River. The place is remote, but there is a deep-water bay passing through a forest on the bank of the river, where a wharf can be built, providing convenience but Stealthy traffic conditions.

There are basically no people living in the south and west. It only needs to build a fence to remove all kinds of vegetation that provide shelter. It only needs to send a team of ten industrial park security guards to ensure that no one can sneak into this area without magic power. area.

With the completion of the preliminary foundation leveling work and the construction of infrastructure such as docks, wooden houses, fences, and roads, Xia Lin bought a cargo boat and began to transport various building materials and mechanical equipment here.

With enough technical reserves, Xia Lin is naturally ready to point out the musket and artillery technology. The first thing is to make gunpowder.

After preparing the three raw materials of saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal, Xia Lin began to purify the raw materials.

This step is not difficult. After purification, Xia Lin mixed the three ground raw materials according to the approximate weight ratio of the best formula of black powder, and then obtained the most basic black powder powder.

However, Xia Lin will definitely not be satisfied with this small-scale powder preparation. He chose to use the small equipment he brought to continue processing these black powder powders. After a series of processes, Xia Lin finally obtained Guangyuan and Granules with similar granules.

Due to its stable size and uniform burning speed, this kind of granular medicine is several grades stronger than the bulk powder black powder.

Moreover, such uniform particles are also convenient for Xia Lin to carry out the next operation, that is, the fixed packing of paper shells.

Don't be in a hurry to proceed with the next operation, Xia Lin first wants to test the power of the black powder he made.

He filled a pot of finished product with a clay pot with a diameter of about [-] centimeters, and attached a fuse processed by a similar process to it.

Xia Lin held the nearly one-pound clay pot and led a mighty group of people to an empty river bank, buried the pot at a distance of about 50 meters, and then returned to the spot and threw it away. A flaming arrow passed by.

"Boom!" A loud noise resounded on the bank of the river, and a shallow pit with a diameter of nearly two meters appeared on the ground. Master Faen, and twenty employees who had attended literacy classes drawn from seven factories by Xia Lin Suddenly dumbfounded:

"My God! Boss, your magic is so powerful?"

"I'm afraid even the mountains can be blown up, right? You really deserve to be a mysterious and powerful mage!"

Facing the employees who were all talking about their magical power, Xia Lin was speechless:
"Don't think about it, one-ring spells don't have this power, this is the power of the black powder we made just now.

This kind of gunpowder will burn violently and explode when it encounters sparks. I brought you here to use this property of black powder to make two weapons that can change the battlefield! "

"Black powder? Just those small pellets? Boss, you didn't lie to us, did you?"

Master Fine squinted his eyes full of doubts, obviously not very convinced that those black particles made of saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal that he saw with his own eyes could produce such a huge power.

"If you don't believe me, I'll give you the whole little one, and you guys can try lighting the fire yourself!"

Xia Lin decided to use practice to convince the group of "law-blind" people, and then used a small earthen pot that was two times smaller than the pot just now, and pulled the fuse to a position five meters away from the bomb itself.

In order to prevent the fuse from being extinguished due to too long a distance, three strands of the fuse were twisted together to make a more reliable fuse.

"Okay, which one of you will try? Use this candle to light this rope, and run to us immediately when you see the rope is lit!"

Xia Lin'an placed the second crock pot and instructed several people how to operate it.

"I'll try!"

Just as everyone was hesitating, Master Faen couldn't wait to stand up and take over this job that required a lot of courage.

After Xia Lin and the others retreated to an absolutely safe area 30 meters away, Master Fine squatted down and lit the fuse with that candle.

With the sound of "呲呲", Master Fine sniffed and found that there seemed to be a sulfur smell in the air, and hurriedly followed Xia Lin's previous instructions and ran towards them.

Before he ran more than ten meters, the fuse burned to the end, and there was another familiar explosion sound, but the sound was much weaker than before.

After a burst of floating soil fell, a pothole with a radius of less than one meter appeared on the ground. It was exactly where Xia Lin had placed the clay pot just now.

"Plain, the Molten Lord! This is too exciting!"

Because the legs were a bit slow in sprinting, Master Fine still had some dust on his body, but his expression could not conceal the excitement and excitement.

Maybe the dwarves and black powder are also related. This is the first time I have seen such an explosion. Everyone else looked pale and frightened. Only Master Faen was still in high spirits, and he was even eager to try again. The same way.

"How? Do you believe it now? Black powder can explode, and it can be used to make a weapon similar to a crossbow, but it is much more powerful than an unenchanted crossbow."

Xia Lin briefly explained the use of black powder, and then returned to the wooden house with some terrified employees and the excited Master Faen, and asked them to start making bullets with lead and paper shells according to their own demonstration.

With a machine tool, it is not difficult to manufacture lead bullets. Xia Lin specially designed a friction forging press for this purpose, and also cast and processed many high-carbon steel molds for fast punching lead bullets.

There is nothing difficult about this friction forging machine. Its working principle is actually somewhat similar to that of the Gutenberg printing machine developed by Xia Lin before. It uses the screw to generate downward pressure to work.

It's just that the friction discs on both sides drive the horizontally placed flywheel in the middle to make the screw rotate and provide pressure.

Such a simple forging machine is suitable for processing lead bullets with a softer texture. Put the pressed lead plate on the high-carbon steel mold under the forging press, and you can get hundreds of lead bullets in one forging press, which is convenient and fast. .

As for the ignition device, after thinking about it for a while, Xia Lin decided not to use the troublesome and unreliable matchlock, but decided to conduct an experiment.

He wants to use the flame rune + flame rune + magic substance rune + template rune group copied from the flame arrow spell model to create a small rune disk, and use a trigger mechanism to control the magic crystal on and off to power the firearm. Provide an open flame source.

According to Xia Lin's experience, such a combination of type [-] runes and type [-] runes should be effective alone, but I don't know if the price of the rune plate for this spell model is acceptable.

In this way, there is an advantage. Since the flame produced by this rune plate can definitely burn through the potassium nitrate paper case, the paper case containing a certain amount of black powder can be made into the form of an early custom-made paper case bullet.

The front half of this fixed paper shell bullet fixes the lead bullet on the paper shell, and the back is the propellant, which can facilitate the user to fill the ammunition.

Although it may be troublesome to clean the barrel if the paper is not fully burned, it may be possible to realize the burst design in advance.

(End of this chapter)