open sea

Chapter 98
There are not many bad religions in the world, but there are many people who do bad things in the name of religion.

"boom!"

The three-foot blunderbuss emitted gunpowder smoke, and the lead shot hit the discarded cloth mask of the guards worn by the wooden man thirty paces away.

The two pieces of pig iron armor behind the cloth surface were crushed, but the lead shot also lost its strength and did not hit the wooden man directly.

But that's enough.

"It's okay, have you tried the maximum range?"

Chen Mu picked up the red-painted and exquisitely crafted short blunderbuss and turned his head to ask Guan Yuangu, Guan Yuangu cupped his hands and said, "I have tried it, and the holes drilled out of the blunderbuss bed are straighter than hand drills, and it can be lifted in sixty steps." The muzzle is half an inch high, but it can hit a foot square of wood, and it is difficult to shoot at any distance, the longest shot can be a hundred and thirty paces, and more than sixty paces can break an inch of flesh, and it cannot kill anyone."

The short gun can penetrate armor within [-] paces, [-] paces is the best shooting range, and its power is limited if it is not accurate beyond [-] paces.

Basically in line with Chen Mu's expectations.

The blunderbuss itself is the long-range weapon that Chen Mu envisioned, the long-range weapon of the cavalry, but the cavalry can't use it yet. He put the blunderbuss on his back and tried it out, and said, "Have you tried using flint to make fire?" ?”

"Back to Qianhu, the little old man has tried it, and it has taken shape. Please come with me, Qianhu."

Already finalized?

Chen Mu was very curious, he held the short gun in his hand, asked Fu Yuan to wait outside, and walked to the iron workshop with Guan Yuangu.

The current iron workshop is much more decent than the one in Qingcheng Zongqi Yamen in the past. Iron furnaces, anvils and other utensils are piled up in the corner outside the warehouse, and there are punched barrels hanging on the wall. Opposite the shop was the carpenter's room, scattered utensils were placed all over the floor, and the young descendants of the carpenter's family were carrying wood to the yard, and they saluted Chen Mu repeatedly.

Guan Yuangu obviously regarded the flintlock requested by Chen Mu as the most important treasure. He unlocked a room in Tiefang and asked Guan Zun to keep watch outside. Then he led Chen Mu into the room and took it out and hid it under the bed. The large wooden box, took out a few exquisite pieces of wood.

The wooden blocks were placed on the table, and a few candles were lit. Only then did Chen Mu realize that these wooden blocks were actually blunderbusses one by one. , the old man has always taken it to heart, it is made of an iron spring inside the bird's gun, but the spring is weak and the force is small, and it cannot be fired, and although the spring is strong, the trigger cannot be pressed."

"Later, the old man heard that there were craftsmen in ancient times who made better springs from Burmese iron, so he bought some privately. The striking force was sufficient, but the trigger was also powerful. "

Guan Yuangu took out several guns and let Chen Mu watch them one by one. Some of them were very similar to the guns of the flintlock he had imagined, and the only difference was a durable iron spring. Ten thousand steps.

I am afraid that foreigners from Haojing still need to complete this step. Chen Mu wants to go to the island to see if there is a watch shop in Fanyi in Haojingao. Those watchmakers must have a way to make iron springs.

Just when he was about to comfort Guan Yuangu with a few words, he saw the old man bent over the bed and groped inward again, and then he brought out a short blunderbuss that was similar in shape to the nearly twenty blunderbusses outside, with a heavy responsibility on his face. Zhuang said to Chen Mu: "Qianhu saved the child's life, but I dare not go all out to make the flintlock that Qianhu said!"

do, make?

"Get it and let me see it!"

There is no difference in weight between the short guns and those outside, but there is a big difference when looking at the position where the matchlock was originally plugged in by candlelight.

The iron plate on the medicine pond that was hit by the flint was [-]% similar to the flintlock gun in Chen Mu's impression, but the flint was very heretical.

The curved flint rod is roughly carved with a snake shape. It seems that Guan Yuangu wants to make the small flint rod into a dragon shape with a casting mold, and a piece of flint is sandwiched at the end of the dragon-shaped rod. In my impression, it looks like a flintlock gun, but there is a small crossbow structure in front of the medicine pool with strings on it, and there are also crossbow teeth on the back of the flint pole.

"This is a string made of animal tendons and fish maw. It was used in crossbows in the past. It is cheap to make. A tael of silver can be several feet long, and a gun uses less than three inches." Guan Yuangu introduced it from the hand of Chen Mu. He took the short blunderbuss and demonstrated pulling the strings, "The dragon head is stuck inside by the iron teeth and connected to the trigger. Halfway through, you can't go back, but you can pull the blunderbuss strings back. Here, the old man uses a crossbow. Machine build, stuck."

click.

As Guan Yuangu said "stuck", there was a soft sound inside the gun machine, and the gun string, which was stretched and stacked to less than two inches, was stuck backwards in the circular opening on the small disc protruding below the side of Wangshan. Closed with the outside with the gunstring, it is firmly stuck inside.

Then Old Craftsman Guan handed the short gun back with contented joy on his face, and said, "Qianhu is really a man of heaven, so that the gunner can fire the gun without a match."

Chen Mu held the blunderbuss without speaking, with a very serious face, and lightly pulled the trigger.

Boom.

click!
There is a slight sound of the string breaking, and the elastic force of the gunstring that has been stored for a long time is released. The impact dragon head brings flint to the iron sheet of the medicine pool, and the huge force makes the flint shine brightly.

Sparks are flying in the medicine pool!

Chen Mu's serious face made Guan Yuangu worry that the exquisiteness he had made was unsatisfactory. He stared at the medicine pool with wide eyes, and pointed at the medicine pool carefully with his loose, dry and stained hands, as if he was worried that Mr. Qianhu would not see a flash The passing spark reminded quietly and briskly.

"Look, Qianhu, it's on, it's on!"

Chen Mu still didn't speak, and wound up and fired five times in a row. The strength of the animal tendons was not small, and a lot of sparks were shot every time.

"It's bright." Chen Mu had mixed feelings in his heart. Looking at Guan Yuangu's weather-beaten and ingratiating face because of his poor status as a military craftsman, he asked softly, "Are the gunstrings durable? Then there is the copper faucet. Easy to deform, this Guan Jiang considers it?"

"I've thought about it! Qianhu, please see, there is a twist lock here, and you can change it by unscrewing the tap. Gunstrings and bowstrings are just as durable, and they won't break a hundred times."

Guan Yuangu took out a few pieces of faucet boards and a few gunstrings from the wooden box, held them up and said: "Take the gunner with you, and change it when you are stationed in the camp. There is time!"

"it is good!"

Chen Mu finally said yes, Guan Yuangu was overjoyed, the old man pursed his lips and smiled like a child, "I'm afraid that the gun won't please thousands of households!"

"Very good! Guan Jiang, the meaning of this gun to Chen is far from what you think, and the meaning to Daming is far from what you think!" Chen Mu asked with a smile: "This gun, if you take it If it is dedicated to the imperial court, what kind of official position can it exchange for?"

In the Ming Dynasty, there were not many ways for craftsmen to rise up. They could either enter the imperial examination or become an official with skills. Last year, Xu Gao, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, who died this year and was imprisoned for embezzling the Marco Polo Bridge, was a carpenter who was appreciated for his skills.

Chen Mu wanted Guan Yuangu to become an official with this flintlock. He didn't expect an official position like Minister of the Ministry of Industry. Small officials of the seventh or eighth rank can always be expected, right?
Unexpectedly, Guan Yuangu's face was gloomy, and he shook his head and said: "I don't want to be an official. The cost of making a pole and a blunderbuss will cost less than two or two to the Ministry of Industry. Half of the body is buried in the soil. Why don't you give it to thousands of households in the guard?" To make a blunderbuss, there are tiles to cover the body, and rice to eat, that’s enough.”

"This blunderbuss is called Guan's blunderbuss. Later, Chen asked someone to hold it and dedicated it to the old governor of the Ministry of War, in the name of Da Lang."

After Chen Mu finished speaking, he asked Guan Yuangu: "Guan Jiang, what do you want, as long as Chen has it, you can mention it."

"Craftsman is the man of heaven!"
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Bird guns also rely on iron springs to reset the snake rod.

(End of this chapter)