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Chapter 21 Ladder [Please recommend this week! 】

Shao Tingda chopped down the tree for a long time. When Chen Mu arrived at the place, he felt that the ax was unnecessary. There really isn't much difference.

For example, the rate of fire, the best range, and even the melee ability. Chen Mu, who has personally experienced smashing a Japanese gun, even believes that the fire gun is better than the bird gun.

It is true that from the perspective of 400 years, the bird gun is the direction of the development of human firearms, but now watching Wei Balang release the gun, Chen Mu believes that the ancestor's fire gun is not useless.The reason for this is not that the fire gun is too good, but that the bird gun is too bad.

The advantage of the blunderbuss lies in its stability and maximum range. Although the ballistic trajectory is unstable beyond 150 paces, and the shot will definitely miss after [-] paces, as long as the muzzle is slightly raised, the blunderbuss can land [-] paces away. Leaving aside the quasi-for the time being, if a blind cat encounters a dead mouse, [-] steps are all within the range of no armor.

The firecracker is not enough, it needs to be operated with one hand and is not stable, the barrel is too short and can only shoot at targets within [-] steps, the best range is only [-] steps, and if you want to break the armor, you have to put it closer to ten steps... ten steps, After putting down the blunderbuss, just lift the wooden pole and move upwards.

At this point, the three-eyed blunderbuss made up for this shortcoming very well, short-distance, short-term, and intensive killing, which may be the reason why the Nine-Bian Sergeant was still unwilling to give up the three-eyed blunderbuss and use the bird blunderbuss until the end of the Ming Dynasty.To be precise, the three-eyed blunderbuss and fire blunderbuss are not long-range weapons in the eyes of the wise, but 100% melee weapons.

This overturned Chen Mu's understanding of firecrackers. He asked Shao Tingda who cut down trees to make ladders: "What is a long-distance weapon?"

Shao Tingda grinned again and let out a barbell-like laugh: "Brother Mu, what nonsense are you talking about, how far can a blunderbuss hit? What kind of long-range weapon is it, a cannon! Franc cannon! General cannon!"

Chen Mu thinks about it too, the people of Ming Dynasty really don't pay much attention to the bird blunderbuss, what they value is the longer and heavier artillery.

I thought that the climbing ladder would be completed in a short time, but I didn't expect that they only cut out a few long slabs in half a day. Seeing that it would take several days to make a ladder, Chen Mu simply stopped worrying.The next day old man Zheng's youngest son, Zheng Cong, came as promised, and he came with his father's spear and wearing a mandarin duck jacket. He looked like an honest farmer, and was sent by Chen Mu to work at Feishui Bridge with Shao Tingda. Qi two.

Chen Mu commanded Fu Yuan to run errands more and more easily, let him sleep for half a day, and then was sent to Qingyuan City to buy some wooden barrels with his own horse, and brought back two big iron pots.As for whether he can ride or not, Chen Mu doesn't care so much. Anyway, he only asks him not to miss the whole day and come back to be on duty tomorrow morning. If he has more time, he can go to the guard to gamble with other military households. If he doesn't know how to ride a horse, the time is just enough for him to hurry back to sleep.

Shi Qi took Chen Mu's bird gun and played it with Wei Balang. The two cracked the gun in the woods next to the post.

The day went on like this, when it was Shi Qi's turn to rest for the second time, he and Fu Yuan switched, he rode back to Baihu to get the medicine, and Fu Yuan shot the remaining dozen lead bullets and went to the tree with a small knife. Buckle the lead shot, and then help to assemble the wooden blocks into a ladder.

After three days like this, it is considered a great success.

The gunpowder of the Baihusuo is not so easy to get. As Bai Yuanjie said earlier, the imperial court has not allocated armaments to the Qingyuan Guard for a long time, and the supply of gunpowder is pitifully small.There are only about [-] bird guns and fire guns in the entire hundred households. Excluding the fire guns and outdated and unusable bird guns, there are only a hundred or so sharp weapons.Although there is a large stock of gunpowder, most of them are prepared for the several large mortars in the guard.

It's not that they didn't have the gunpowder allocated to them, but that no one in Bai Yuanjie's entire Hundred Households made such a request in the past.There are many military households with a fire gun at home, but no one is like Madman Chen, who spends his days in the fields or in the deep mountains and old forests, not counting the Guangzhou mansion. Half a barrel of gunpowder.

Bai Yuanjie sent Jia Ding to bring Shi Qi to bring the gunpowder and lead pellets from Qianhu, and sent a donkey cart to transport the whole barrel to Anyuan Post Station. He also asked Bai Qi to send a message to Chen Mu: "Baihu said, this Don’t look for him after the barrel of medicine is finished, just ask this military household to take the silver to Qingyuanwei Gunpowder Store, and send two taels to get the gunpowder by himself.”

Bai Qi also left a photo of Bai Yuanjie stamped with his seal, proving that he was from Baihusuo.It was only then that Chen Mu figured out that it wasn't that a bucket of gunpowder cost two taels of silver, but that he had to send two taels of silver to the fire officer who watched the gunpowder storehouse.
"Just for this thing, do you need two taels?"

Chen Mu patted the not-so-high wooden barrel, which was estimated to be less than fifty catties, and it felt heavy and uneven when he lifted it.In the end, when he opened it, Chen Muguang wanted to bump his head against a tree. The barrel was actually divided into four compartments, including charcoal and lead pellets. Although he couldn’t recognize the other two, he could guess that the more was nitrate and the less was sulphur. There are also small pieces of wood attached to the lead pellets - ten liang of nitrate, seven qian of yellow, one liang of willow charcoal, add water for two minutes, stir well and dry in the sun for later use;

Hey, don't tell me, the font is not ugly!

Apart from these four items, the priming medicine in the leather pot and the coiled matchlock had already been soaked and were just waiting to be used.

But Chen Mu squatted on the ground and calculated the injuries for a long time, and figured out that the ratio of these three things seemed to be wrong!According to this calculation, Nike accounted for [-]%, but he knew that this thing should be calculated according to the ratio of fifteen, two, and three!

Chen Mu had an idea in his heart. If this idea can come true, maybe his gunfire speed can be increased by five seconds in the future. Although this is nothing in the ten to 20 second reload time, it is It can help him a lot.

But this requires a craftsman, and he does not have a craftsman.

"Fu Yuan! Go to Qingyuan City and bring back the steelyard; Shi Qi, go to the postman and ask for a water tank to move to the forest!" After dismissing these two, he looked back and saw that Wei Balang was squatting under a tree eating red fruits. Chen Mu pointed Shao Tingda set up the ladder yesterday and said: "Climb up and try it, go into the hole, and see if the ladder can support people."

Chen Xiaoqi couldn't trust his own skills a little bit.

To be honest, this wooden ladder is clumsy and has no nails. Chen Mu is really worried that he will suddenly fall down after climbing seven or eight meters on it.Wei Balang's legs and feet were loose, and when he heard Chen Mu ordering him to nod and stuff the red fruit into his mouth, he trotted to climb the ladder, vomited hawthorn cores while climbing, and was more than 8000 times more courageous than Chen Mu, so he didn't worry about the ladder breaking .

He rushed up to the cave three or five times, shivering while hugging his small arms, the dead child turned his head and waved at Chen Mu, "Xiao Qi, come up quickly, it's so cold here!"

What's the matter with Lengguan Laozi, give you a hug?
Thinking about it this way, the mind is extremely honest in the face of the temptation of boiled wealth, and the body is extremely honest, climbing the ladder faster than Wei Balang, but Chen Mu was dumbfounded as soon as he entered the cave with a short body - he didn't bring an oil lamp, he could see clearly Damn!

Feeling in the dark, I found a pothole that had dried up with dripping water, stretched out my hand to wipe the soil with my finger, and stretched it towards Xiao Hachiro, "Taste it, what does it taste like!"

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