Not to mention that the salt merchants in Zhejiang were all surprised by the sudden large amount of refined salt, and some even had evil thoughts. Pang Gang, who has been busy these days, received his first batch of salt from Laizhou today.
of tungsten ore.
In front of the Lingshan Weiwu Beiku, there were a bunch of large trucks parked, and the front door of the weapons library was crowded. A head servant was smiling at Pang Gang and said: "Sir, this batch of tungsten mines was specially ordered by Lord Wei."
The villain brought it here quickly, but the more than 10,000 kilograms of tungsten ore has been sinking, and the brothers have wasted a lot of energy on the way!"
Pang Gang naturally knew that the leader of the servants wanted to take credit. If he wanted the horse to run fast, he would naturally need to feed more grass. He smiled slightly, turned to Li Xian, who was directing the military household to carry the ore, and said: "Li Dianli,
You take the brothers down for a meal, and give each brother ten taels of silver by the way. The brothers have come all the way, so I can't let anyone feel wronged."
"Yes, sir, I will take care of my humble duty immediately." Li Xian has lived a long time and is very familiar with the ways of the world. He immediately led the servants to the canteen opened in the military camp.
Ten thousand kilograms of ore seems like a lot, but there are so many people in Lingshan Guards. With the efforts of more than a hundred military households, they were all moved into the arsenal in less than one meal. Although some people felt that
It was strange why these ores were not put in a warehouse specially designed for loading, but put in an arsenal. But when they secretly saw the nervous and excited look on Pang Gang's face, they felt relieved.
, maybe these ores are more important to the giant people, and they can feel at ease if they are placed in an arsenal guarded by sergeants.
When the military households moved all the ore in, Pang Gang immediately ordered Cheng Kai and his soldiers to guard the door and not allow anyone to come in. He walked into the weapons warehouse with a torch, and the iron door closed with a bang.
Under the illumination of the torch, the originally dark tungsten ore reflected a little bit of charming light. Pang Gang squatted down, took out the "Encyclopedia of Modern Weapons" from his arms, opened the catalog and held it close to the place on the ground.
Heaping ore, a line of text soon appeared on the page, "Tungsten ore was found to be 10,518 pounds. Do you want to absorb it?"
"yes!"
In an instant, a black hole appeared in front of the book, sucking in the tungsten ore on the ground like a whirlpool. Although this was not the first time he saw such a situation, Pang Gang could not help but be shocked by this supernatural phenomenon.
, although he has always wanted to figure out the origin of this mutated book, but after groping for several times, he finally announced helplessly that the miracles shown in this book were far beyond his ability to understand, and finally had no choice but to
give up.
Soon, more than ten thousand kilograms of tungsten ore were completely absorbed by the black hole, and the number of tungsten ore in the catalog finally changed from zero to ten thousand and five hundred and eighty-eight. This time, Pang Gang turned the page to the ship chapter.
and the artillery chapter, the pictures that were originally black and white finally turned into color.
"Huh... I can finally redeem you. As long as I collect enough wood, I can redeem the warship." Pang Gang murmured, with a look of relief in his eyes.
, but although it is not possible to cash out the ship now, it does not prevent Pang Gang from cashing out another ultimate weapon.
He turned the pages forward to the previous pages, and finally fixed his eyes on the last color picture. Under the color picture were written a few lines of small words: 500 iron ore, 10 wood, 100 tungsten ore.
This is a firearm that Pang Gang has been looking forward to for a long time, but has been unable to fulfill due to the lack of tungsten ore. Its name is the Mini Rifle.
In the past, due to the lack of tungsten mines, Pang Gang had to be taller and chose the Lumi gun as the standard weapon of the army. However, although the Lumi gun has the characteristics of small caliber and longer range than ordinary Ming Dynasty firearms, it also has many features.
Bad shortcomings, for example, it has a shortcoming that Pang Gang hates the most, and it is also a common problem with all smoothbore guns, that is, there is no rifling in the barrel, so that the accuracy of this gun can drive people crazy. As a result, Pang Gang had to
Use volley shooting to fight against the enemy. A hundred rounds of bullets will be fired. Facing an enemy who is less than a hundred steps away, usually only twenty or thirty lead bullets will hit the target, and the rest of the bullets will not fly.
Where did he go? This also made Pang Gang, who grew up listening to the song "We are all sharpshooters, every bullet destroys an enemy", especially hate it.
The Mini gun that Pang Gang is now trying to cash in is actually a rifled gun in the true sense. The Mini rifle was created by the inventor of the Mini bullet, Captain Claude Edirne Mi of the Orleans Chasseurs of the French Army.
It is a muzzle-loading rapid-fire rifle developed by Nihe Captain Henri Stav de Vine around 1849 AD. When the French army was fighting against the Algerian revolutionaries on the North African battlefield, they found that although their rifles were better in workmanship than their opponents,
There are a lot of them, but they can't sustain fierce firepower and can't withstand the enemy's tidal attack.
Based on this, Mini and others boldly improved the French rifles and created a new rifle cartridge, the Mini bullet. In order to match this bullet, Mini and others developed a new rifle after repeated designs
, this is the famous Minie rifle (also known as the Minie rifle). The emergence of the Minie rifle heralded the official arrival of the era of rifled rifles as mass equipment for infantry.
Mini's rifle uses the cylindrical lead bullet invented by Mini. Since this bullet is slightly smaller than the caliber of the rifle, it solves the problem of the old rifle's front-loading bullets being too large to fit into the barrel or clogging the gun.
The embarrassing situation of the tube. The Mini bullet can be easily pushed into the barrel of the gun with the ejector rod, thereby greatly increasing the rate of fire. The bullet is threaded around the bullet body to match the rifling, and the middle of the thread is stuffed with animal oil. The bottom of the bullet
Use cork material.
When shooting, the gunpowder gas impacts the cork, and the cork suddenly expands the bullet after the instantaneous impact. Because the bullet is expanded, the bullet itself can be relied on to complete the sealing of the chamber at the moment of launch, without leaking the gunpowder gas and causing the bullet's kinetic energy to be lost.
.This solves the chamber sealing problem of the old muzzle-loading gun, thereby greatly enhancing the gun's rate of fire, range and safety (good sealing will not easily cause gunpowder residue to clog the barrel and cause the chamber to explode).
The Mini rifle is also equipped with a safety lock to prevent misfire.
The whole gun weighs 4.8 kilograms, has a caliber of 17.8 mm, and each bullet weighs 32.4 grams. The killing range can reach an astonishing 900 meters, and accurate hits can be guaranteed within 500 meters. The Mini rifle was quite powerful at the time. Tests conducted in 1849 AD found that
, the Minie rifle can penetrate two poplar planks within 15 yards, and penetrate the third plank 20 inches. Due to the huge power and strong firepower of this rifle, for a while, rumors claimed that the Minie rifle could penetrate with one shot.
After one person, it will penetrate anyone within 15 meters of its trajectory.
It can be said that before the advent of smokeless gunpowder, mercury fulminate, flash caps and breech-loading rifles, the mini gun was the king that ruled the battlefield. No other gun could compare with it, and this is why Pang Gang was confident in leading the battle.
With the confidence of thousands of troops to cross North Korea and fight against the 50,000 Qing troops who invaded North Korea. Looking at the pictures that had turned into color pictures, Pang Gang slowly stretched his hand...
"Squeak..."
The door of the Arms Library made a heart-wrenching sound, and a burly figure slowly walked out of it, but he still held a firearm very similar to the Rumi Gun in his hand, and he had been waiting in front of the door for a long time.
Cheng Kai, the captain of the personal soldiers, rushed forward to greet him.
"Sir, you are finally out. I have been looking for you several times before."
"What does he want from me?" Pang Gang asked, holding the firearm tightly.
Cheng Kai stretched out his hand and scratched his head, "I don't know about Bingzhi, but I heard from him that Erlongshan found traces of a suspicious person."
"Where are they now?"
"I heard he said he would be waiting for you at Qianhu Mansion."
"Let's go and have a look!"
Pang Gang immediately mounted his horse with Cheng Kai and others and galloped away in the direction of Qianhu Mansion.
Soon, Pang Gang arrived at Qianhu Mansion. After handing the horse to Cheng Kai, Pang Gang immediately walked quickly to the hall. When he arrived at the hall, he saw Lin Fengzheng and Li Xianzheng sitting inside with frowning faces.
Pang Gang was in a good mood as he cashed in the Mini rifle. As soon as he entered the door, he smiled and asked Hua Yan, "Governor Lin, weren't you patrolling Erlong Mountain today to check the defenses? How come you have time to come to Lingshan Guard?"
"Sir, something happened!" Lin Feng saw Pang Gang, his fat face trembled, and said hurriedly: "Last night, our guards at the foot of the mountain caught two spies who wanted to sneak into Erlong Mountain. Their skills
They are very powerful. We mobilized dozens of experts to catch them. After our overnight interrogation, they recruited the masterminds behind the scenes. It turned out that they were spies sent by Yan Benge, the president of the Zhejiang Chamber of Commerce, with the purpose of stealing our
The secret of Erlong Mountain."
"Oh, now the trees are quiet but the wind is not stopping! Did those all-pervasive salt dealers notice us so quickly?" A trace of anger slowly appeared on Pang Gang's face: "Huh... look.
They are jealous of our refined salt and have sent people to steal the technology. We let Zhejiang salt dealers act as agents for our refined salt with the intention of making money for everyone, but some people don't know what is good and what is good. Don't blame it.
We’re not welcome anymore.”
"Governor Lin!"
"The humble job is here"
"Starting today, we will immediately stop the supply of refined salt to Zhejiang!"
Lin Feng was shocked: "Ah...what, sir, do we still want to make money?"
Pang Gang smiled and shook his head: "You don't have to worry, we're just suspending supply. If Zhejiang doesn't have it, we can still sell it to Jiangsu. Governor Lin, if the salt merchants in Zhejiang come to urge the goods, tell them clearly. If you don't
Stop peeking at Erlongshan, and we will stop doing business in Zhejiang!"
"yes!"
Lin Feng also understood what Pang Gang meant. Now it was time to show those greedy salt merchants a show of strength...