Li raised his hand and ordered: "Bring a pencil and a drawing!"
"Quick, go get it immediately!"
Mas was excited and gave another order.
Dai Yuanhua watched quietly, his eyes shining with brilliance. Li Zhen took him in and was willing to let him make the twenty-eight-shot firecracker designed by Dai Zi. Dai Yuanhua was extremely grateful. Li Zhen asked Dai Yuanhua to learn from foreigners.
Making guns and cannons laid the foundation for making twenty-eight consecutive fire cannons. Dai Yuanhua was even more grateful.
However, that was limited to the gratitude of an expert in making weapons to an official. Li Zhen suddenly showed his talent in making weapons, which surprised Dai Yuanhua.
After a while, the craftsman brought white paper, pencils and cardboard.
After Li Zhen took it, he thought about it carefully and started to draw the simplest grenade on the drawing. The hand grenade on the drawing has a full picture, indicating the length and width, and a cross-sectional view, which details the grenade.
Items such as pull rings, pull cords, detonators, and sulfur are all carefully labeled.
Everyone looked at the drawings in Li Zhen's hands and were extremely surprised.
The hand grenade drawn by Li Zhen was not big, and it was the most common hand grenade model in later generations.
Compared with the grenades that have been invented in Europe, they are smaller and smaller.
Historically, there was a special group of grenadiers in Napoleon's army. These soldiers were specially trained and were only responsible for throwing grenades. In fact, the 'hand grenades' at that time were equivalent to artillery shells, but they were thrown out.
It became a grenade. After Li Zhen improved it, the compact grenade was easier to carry and easier to bring to the battlefield.
After thinking carefully, Maas said: "General Li, I have to admire your idea. It is definitely God who can think of such a method. But I want to remind you that the size of the grenade is small, the ammunition loaded will be less, and the power will be reduced."
It then weakened.”
Li Zhen smiled and said: "Brother Mas, it doesn't matter. The key is whether the grenades can be manufactured in large quantities."
Mas glanced at the other experts, and they all nodded.
Among them, an old man with gray hair said: "It is not difficult to make grenades. Plus, with the machines and raw materials brought from the family, we can make them very quickly according to the drawings."
Obviously, mass production is possible.
Maas smiled and said: "General Li, the effect will be achieved today."
Li Zhen rubbed his hands and said: "I will assist you and make it immediately to try the power of the made grenade."
Mas was also extremely excited and immediately asked people to take action.
With the cooperation of all the craftsmen, each craftsman was responsible for a link, and the first grenade was made before evening. Mas immediately found someone who specialized in testing weapons, and took Li Zhen, Dai Yuanhua and a group of experts to the backyard.
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Li Zhen looked at Mas and ordered: "Brother Mas, let the person who is testing the power of the grenade listen to my order. I shouted start, immediately pulled the match cord and threw the grenade."
Mas nodded and gave the foreigner some instructions.
Li Zhen took out the pocket watch presented by Mas from his arms, looked at the time on the pocket watch, and suddenly shouted: "Start!"
In an instant, the foreigner who was trying out the weapon quickly pulled the match rope and threw it out.
"boom!"
After the grenade hit the ground, it made a muffled sound, but did not explode for the time being. After another three and a half seconds, a loud bang suddenly erupted in the yard, and the ground shook.
The dust and soot dispersed, leaving a large hole in the yard.
Li Zhen put on his pocket watch and strode over. He looked at the scope of the explosion and felt a little disappointed. The effective half-pound grenade in later generations could reach more than six meters, and some could even reach nine meters. After the grenade in front of him exploded, although
A crater was left, but it was only over three meters, not more than four meters. The force of such an explosion was a bit small.
Mas said happily: "General Li, such a small and easy-to-carry weapon is really good." All the experts were also very excited and thought that the small and easy-to-throw grenade was really good and very practical.
When Li Zhen heard this, he shook his head.
Mas looked at Li Zhen and asked, "General Li, do you have any more questions?"
Li Zhen said: "Leave aside the issue of the explosive power of the grenade thrown, and it will not take a day or two to change. However, have you ever thought about it, from pulling the match cord to igniting, to the explosion after the bomb hits the ground, it takes a total of
It took more than seven seconds. Among them, from the time the soldier pulled the match rope and threw the grenade to the time the bomb hit the ground, it did not exceed four seconds."
"Based on this calculation, there is still three to four seconds of rest time after the grenade hits the ground."
"Imagine throwing a grenade to blow up the enemy. But there is still three to four seconds. The enemy can pick up the grenade and throw it back to us the moment the grenade hits the ground. Isn't this blowing up ourselves?"
"It's risky to pick up the grenade and throw it back, but we can't let the enemy pick it up."
"You are experts and know the power of weapons. Once a large-scale grenade is thrown back to your position, it will definitely cause huge casualties. I require that the match rope of the grenade should not be too long, and the burning time must be controlled."
Li Zhen said seriously: "Judging from the current situation, everyone is completely familiar with the manufacturing process of grenades, so we will temporarily slow down the manufacturing of guns and cannons and make grenades first to ensure that tens of thousands of grenades are manufactured."
"ah!!"
After hearing this, Mars exclaimed.
Tens of thousands of coins, this is a big problem!
Li Zhen ignored it and continued: "Leave the main craftsmanship to experts and craftsmen, and leave ordinary manufacturing to skilled hands. Try to divide labor and cooperate as much as possible to increase speed and reduce errors. After every hundred grenades are produced,
, it is necessary to carry out quantitative random inspections. How effective is the experimental grenade? Make sure the grenade is intact."
After hearing this, Mas was a little reluctant.
However, at present, it is obvious that I cannot refuse, so I can only agree.
Li Zhen glanced at the experts around him and said: "I know that when everyone is making money, they also have their own dreams and want to create more and more sophisticated firearms. I still have a lot of creativity in my mind, which is enough for you.
Do it. Before that, I asked the Mas brothers to bring some gun samples to Italy, and you must have seen them. As long as everyone is willing to work hard, I will have more wonderful ideas to share with you."
After hearing this, the experts present became happy again. It was most exciting to be able to make money and realize their dreams.
Seeing that things were almost done, Li Zhen said, "I'll leave the grenade matter to everyone. I have something to do and leave first."
Mas, Dai Yuanhua and others immediately sent Li Zhen away. When they reached the door, Li Zhen suddenly stopped and said, "Yuanhua, come back with me. I have something to discuss with you."
"yes!"
Dai Yuanhua took off his work clothes, clapped his hands, and followed Li Zhen.
Li Zhen and Dai Yuanhua left the mansion, got on the carriage, and headed towards Daotai Mansion. On the way, Dai Yuanhua wanted to ask questions several times, but found it difficult to speak, so he could only wait quietly for Li Zhen to speak first.
ps: The second update of the fourth update, please continue to ask for flowers. Today we have reached 2,000 flowers. Xiaodong will continue the fourth update tomorrow, it’s up to everyone. Flowers are free, handsome guys and beauties, please work hard.
