open sea

Chapter 67 Withered Bones
If Chen Mu has any new ideas, even if he has new ideas, he will not deliberately bypass Bai Yuanjie.

He just felt that it was a pity that these few were wasting Qingyuanwei's time because of the constraints of soldiers and horses.So let Shao Tingda go back to pass some messages, take money to open the way and recruit three more craftsmen, buy some Fujian wool iron and wood, and make some bird guns.

Other than that, it was nothing more than letting Old Man Zheng teach Yu Ding how to boil salt in the cave while the farming season was over for the past two months.

They killed so many people during the war, licking blood at the edge of the knife to make a living, with great risks and great rewards, even if the rewards were withheld, the battle would definitely be a bumper harvest.Although the money for boiled nitrate is not as good as the rewards for military exploits, it is still an income in Qingyuan.

Chen Mu carefully sketched the general meaning and section of the rifling on paper with charcoal, and asked Shao Tingda to bring it to Qingyuan craftsman Guan Yuangu, and let him try to pull it out.Anyway, forging a new blunderbuss requires drilling, so try it out first.

Chen Zongqi didn't have much hope for this matter, but he just had the mentality of hitting a shot if he had a date or not.

Compared with rifling, what is more important to Chen Mu at the moment is the standardization of gun barrel production.

Standardization is easy to say, but it is too difficult to implement. The Ming army suffered a lot in this matter.Shan Chenmu saw with his own eyes that Lou Qimai blasted his gun, and his face was blown out. Although he saved his life, his face looked like a ghost, and he lost his sense of smell forever.

During the Battle of Xinjiang, the guns Bai Yuanjie left behind in the Chinese army exploded, killing three gunners on the spot and injuring four others.

This is a big deal, not to mention small things.

There are thirteen bird guns under the general banner, and the barrels are of different sizes. Some lead pellets can't fit in the bottom, and some lead pellets are too small to pierce. There is no strength in one step, and the lead shot falls to the ground with fifty steps, but it can't keep up with a hard bow.

The thickness is different, and when two guns are fired in a row, the gunner has to touch the gun barrel worriedly to see if any place is overheated, and if it is hot, he will be killed and dare not fire the gun again.

Rifling requires many attempts, and after successful attempts, it takes a long time to ponder. Summarizing the rules and making a simple rifled bed can be popularized on every bird gun under your command, but standardization does not need to be so complicated.

It only needs management, like Qi Jiguang's military training, strictly stipulates each step of production, accurate to each rough figure, and then formulates a set of effective and strict management reward and punishment system, and the seven seven eight eight can be perfected.

In Chen Zongqi's eyes, craftsmen are productive forces, and skilled craftsmen who cooperate with him are irreplaceable treasures!

Of course, Chen Mu did not forget Wang Rulong's advice, that is to collect fine bamboo suitable for medicine cartridges and make medicine cartridges.

It's funny to say that among Chen Mu's ideas, Bai Yuanjie was most interested in the rifling, or it wasn't the specific technology of rifling, but he was extremely surprised and curious about Chen Mu's conclusive gunpowder theory.

"Chen Erlang, are you saying that when the gunpowder is ignited, it will produce gas, and the gas pushes the lead pellets into the barrel and shoots forward, so the straighter and longer the barrel, the more stable the trajectory of the shot?"

"The lead shot is not straight, but curved?"

Not only is it curved, but it may also be oblique. In this era, the gun barrels all over the world are handmade. Compared with the guns 400 years later, the workmanship is extremely rough. It is possible to become a fifty-step accurate shooter.

But what's the use?You only need to change a gun, and everything returns to zero.Maybe the original gun barrel is slightly bent to the left, and the new gun barrel is slightly bent to the right, the previous feeling of proficiency will no longer exist, and it is possible to empty the gun after more than thirty steps.

Ming people do not lack thirst for knowledge, at least Chen Mu saw the shining point of thirst for knowledge from Bai Yuanjie, and kept asking him about his understanding of gunpowder in his spare time.

Bai Yuanjie listened very carefully, but...he didn't have much admiration for Chen Mu who came up with new ideas one by one. On the contrary, it was Chen Mu who admired Bai Yuanjie's profound knowledge and ability to draw inferences without a theoretical system. .

Scattered technical improvements are not actually the strengths of the soul 400 years later. Chen Mu deeply understood in the conversation with Bai Yuanjie that his complete theoretical system, which is different from this world, is the most precious treasure.

It was better than a flintlock, better than a breech-loading gun, and even better than the steam engine that had been roaring in his mind for a long time but didn't know where to start.

Bai Yuanjie understands much more than he imagined. He only needs to understand Chen Mu's explanation that gunpowder cannot explode when it is ignited in the air, and that it explodes in a confined space because of the concentration of power. idea.

It's just that what Chen Mu was thinking was that the rocket explosives were wrapped with small lead pellets, and what Bai Yuanjie was talking about was that the rocket explosives were wrapped with small stones.

Of course, Mingren or Bai Yuanjie's ideas are sometimes naive.

For example, Bai Qianhu comforted Chen Mu very proudly: "Don't worry, when I return to Qingyuan, I will ask the craftsman at home to make you a big gun with a barrel of two feet, and then you can put on that telescope, and if you encounter wars in the future, What about Li Yayuan, Wang Yayuan, Zhao Yayuan, kill him with a shot every ten miles or eight miles away! I give you the first merit!"

When Chen Zongqi heard this, he saw Bai Qianhu dancing excitedly, every flesh on his face was twitching.

Not to mention that the concentrated energy of the gun tube exceeds a certain distance, not only cannot increase the shooting range, but will reduce the force of the projectile, resulting in a reduction in shooting range; even if it can really hit that far, who would dare to think about a three-foot-long cleaning rod?
The longest spear Chen Mu has seen in the past six months is only one foot nine feet long, which is taller than two people stacked together, three feet?

Bai Qianhu, his heart is commendable, and his words are also crazy!
The war did not stop because of the leisure in Xinjiang Town.

Within a few days of July, news came from Weng Yuan that Yu Dayou led the army to defeat the thieves. Yu Dayou's army was still on the way. When they received the news, they also dispatched orders to Xinjiang Town. Deng Zilong belonged to Guangdong General Wang Rulong. Guard the baggage line in the rear.

Bai Yuanjie took command of the Qingyuan Guards and led his colleagues Shaozhou Qianhusuo and Nanxiong Qianhusuo's remaining seven hundred households to go northward to Shishan. duty.

One general success and ten thousand bones are not empty words, but real adjectives.

In the dispatch of troops and generals from all over the country, Chen Mu finally understood what kind of disaster it meant for the decayed and dilapidated guard army to send out a large army to suppress bandits.

The commander of the Qingyuan Guard did not participate in the battle, but nine of the principal and deputy Qianhu under his jurisdiction died in this battle that affected more than ten counties in the three prefectures of Guangdong, including four principal and deputy Qianhu with actual teaching, and one town governor. He escaped from the battle and was killed by Yu Dayou to correct the military law.

Not to mention the banner army, Chen Mu's general banner has [-]% fewer people than when he sent troops, which is relatively good among the guards who participated in the battle, at least no banner officers were killed.

For Qingyuanwei alone, six hundred households ceased to exist in World War I, and not a single official was left behind!
Although the transfer order was only a few words, Bai Yuanjie could read it clearly. He said to Chen Mu: "Yu Longqihu, Bai has opened his eyes. Before the army of the commander-in-chief arrived, he was encircling Li Yayuan and attacked!"

(End of this chapter)