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Chapter 187: Shocked, self-explosion
"Master Liang, bring Li Ji to me. I will personally instruct Li Ji to improve the bamboo musket. Make it a sudden musket, improve it into a fire blunderbuss, and even create a bronze general (artillery)!"
"Old slave obeys the order."
Liang Shicheng took Li Ji to Zhao Guan's house and entered the Orchid Pavilion.
When Li Ji hit the target with his bamboo fire gun this time, he was no longer as nervous as before.
When Li Ji kowtowed to the saint, although he still stuttered a bit, he was much stronger than before.
Zhao Jidao: "Li Ji, although you are the first person in the world to develop a bamboo musket, the killing power of your musket is still not strong."
Li Ji nodded seriously and said:
"Before the official..., the grass... grass-roots man Li Ji was given... to use metal tubes instead of... bamboo tubes, which will definitely... greatly enhance the killing power..."
In fact, Zhao Ji also knows another good way to increase the power of the musket, but he has not revealed it yet.
Even if he now talks about using explosives (TNT) instead of gunpowder, the killing power will be greater, and it probably couldn't be produced in the ancient Song Dynasty.
Zhao Ji smiled slightly and could only talk about some methods that were probably feasible in the ancient Song Dynasty, and then said:
"The musket uses a metal tube instead of a bamboo tube. Although it can increase some power, it will not increase too much.
Li Ji, have you ever thought about loading bullets in addition to gunpowder inside the barrel?"
Li Ji listened thoughtfully, but he still couldn't understand, so he stammered and asked:
"What...what is a bullet?"
Zhao Ji said in words that ancient people might understand:
"Bullets are Ziqiao, also known as gun sand. They are made of iron particles the size of rice grains.
The gunpowder is first sealed inside the musket, and then the nest, that is, the gun sand, is filled in and compacted with a drill.
In this way, after ignition, the gunpowder will erupt and the gun sand will be ejected, which can greatly increase the killing power of the gun."
After Li Ji heard what Zhao Guanjia said, he suddenly understood, clapped his hands happily, and said excitedly:
"The official sage, the grass-roots people, why didn't I... didn't... didn't think of it?"
The eunuch Liang Shicheng immediately stretched out his orchid finger, pointed at Li Ji, and said: "Bold Li Ji, how dare you, a common man, compare with the emperor?"
Li Ji was so frightened that he immediately knelt down and admitted his mistake...
Zhao Ji smiled slightly and said: "Li Ji, there is no need to blame yourself. Get up quickly. I still have something to say to you."
After Li Ji thanked him, he stood up and did not dare to talk nonsense again.
Zhao Ji added: "Also, Li Ji, the bamboo gun you developed, it is too laborious to point the torch at the gunpowder hole when igniting it. You can add a lead to the gunpowder hole, and it will ignite.
Much more convenient.”
Li Jishen nodded in agreement.
Zhao Jidao: "I told you to listen, because I'm afraid you won't remember it completely. I'll draw it for you to see."
Li Ji was shocked at why he was so highly regarded by the Song Dynasty Emperor Zhao Guan's family!
How virtuous and capable is he? The Zhao Guan family wants to draw a picture of their suggestions for modifying the bamboo musket and send it to him?!
Li Ji was so grateful that tears filled his eyes, and he kowtowed and thanked him again.
Zhao Guan's family was good at calligraphy and painting. The eunuchs who served around him always kept the Four Treasures of the Study no matter where they went.
Liang Shicheng, who lives in Orchid Pavilion, personally laid rice paper on the dragon case for Zhao Guan's family and polished the ink.
Zhao Jiti put the pen on the rice paper and quickly drew the design of the musket...
For the time traveler Zhao Ji, who inherited the painting talent of the original owner Song Huizong, combined with his own historical knowledge, it was simply too easy to draw the design of the musket invented in the Southern Song Dynasty (plus some of his own improvements).
Zhao Ji, a time traveler who is a top student in the history department, knows that in "History of the Song Dynasty·Bingzhi" it is recorded that in the first year of Kaiqing (i.e. 1259 AD), the seventh year of Lizong Zhao Yun's reign (Southern Song Dynasty), Shouchun people
"He also made a sudden fire spear, using a giant bamboo as a tube, and placed a nest inside, which was like burning and setting off flames. Then the nest made a sound like a cannon, which could be heard from a distance of more than 150 steps.
In 1260 AD, the Mongol Empire's army was defeated in the battle in Syria. The Arabs seized rockets, poisonous fire jars, artillery, thunder and other gunpowder weapons, thus mastering the
The manufacture and use of gunpowder weapons.
After that, the Arabs fought long-term wars with some European countries. During the war, the Arabs used gunpowder weapons. Therefore, the Europeans also gradually mastered the technology of manufacturing gunpowder and gunpowder weapons from the war.
When Zhao Ji thought of this, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart:
The four great inventions of papermaking, the compass, gunpowder, and printing were the first to be invented and used in my country. However, in the late Qing Dynasty, the country was opened to the country by a foreign fleet with powerful ships and cannons...
Today, Zhao Ji is working so hard to invent improved muskets and even artillery, just to bring into play the huge power of gunpowder, one of the four great inventions, in military warfare. At least in the war with the Jin Kingdom, he can make
More gunpowder weapons play their role.
If the Jin Kingdom can be defeated or even destroyed, then it is not impossible for me, a time traveler, to come to the parallel world of the Song Dynasty and knock on the doorsteps of the European powers.
Zhao Ji felt that he, as a time traveler, had previously drawn a route to discover the new world for Tong Guan, who was preparing to go on a voyage;
Still, it would be much more beneficial to the country to draw a design for Li Ji that highlights the gun at this time than the original owner, Song Huizong, who only knew how to use his painting talent to paint flowers, birds, insects, fish, figures, landscapes and other artistic paintings.
Zhao Jiya was already excited. He picked up his imperial brush and drew a design drawing of a protruding gun on the rice paper not far away.
He also drew the design drawings of firecrackers and earth cannons that he knew.
Zhao Ji felt that it was not enough, so he took up his pen and drew on another piece of rice paper the design of the Hongyi cannon that he knew.
Of course, when he wrote the name of the cannon on the design drawing of the Hongyi cannon, he wrote the four characters "Red Cannon".
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The red cannon that the time traveler Zhao Ji knows has many advantages in design, such as long barrel, thick tube wall, large caliber, and the overall shape from muzzle to breech
The gradually thickening corresponds to the principle that the chamber pressure goes from high to low when gunpowder burns.
The design drawing of the red cannon drawn by Zhao Ji strives to restore the salient features of the red cannon that he, a time traveler, knows. For example, there should be cylindrical lugs on both sides of the center of gravity of the cannon body. The cannon is based on this.
The shaft can adjust the shooting angle and change the shooting range according to the amount of gunpowder used.
Zhao Ji thought about it again, picked up the pen and drew the front sight and rear sight of the red cannon on the design drawing of the red cannon.
Of course, the red-coat cannon that time traveler Zhao Ji also knows about calculates its trajectory according to a parabola, with high accuracy. So, even if the one-ton red cannon was invented in advance in the late Northern Song Dynasty, would it be useful on the battlefield?
Everything is still unknown.
Even with the current industrial strength of the Northern Song Dynasty, it is still unknown whether a red cannon can be produced.
However, Zhao Ji felt that since he already had some military knowledge, how could he know that if he didn’t give it a try, he would not be able to invent the series of gunpowder weapons that I gave him in this world.
What about heavy firepower weapons such as firecrackers, earth cannons, and even red cannons?
Thinking of this, Zhao Ji took up a pen and showed the design drawing of the red cannon with numbers that could be read by the tools of the Song Dynasty.
Traveler Zhao Ji has also done some research on the history of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and he is relatively clear about the specific data on the imitation Hongyi cannons that were popular in battles at the end of the Ming Dynasty.
For example, the Hongyi cannon is about 3 meters long, has a caliber of 110 to 130 mm, and weighs more than 1 ton.
However, Zhao Ji had to convert these data in modern society with the dimensions of the Song Dynasty, and then mark them on the design drawing of the red cannon he drew in words that people in the Song Dynasty could understand...
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