Chapter 1248: The waterwheel runs happily and has a big brain hole
"Whoa!"
The old driver rushed behind Liu Shiba and said with a triumphant smile:
"Hey! Three thousand iron cannons that can fire fixed ammunition. The barrels have been reheated and forged with high-quality alloy.
The production principle of this batch of iron cannons should be somewhat similar to the early Mauser, so the chance of the chamber exploding is very small. If there are no accidents, one gun can fire five hundred shots..."
"Fuck! Three thousand Mauser?"
Now, it was Liu Shiba's turn to be stunned.
Seeing the anger in Liu Shiba's eyes, the old driver quickly apologized and said with a smile:
"I'll tell you the truth! After working hard all night, forgetting to eat and sleep, and working overtime..."
Liu Shiba was so angry that he gritted his teeth and said with a cruel smile:
"Yes, yes...you! Tell labor and management directly the results, don't talk to me about working all night long! Of course, I won't deny your credit!
Don’t think that I don’t know anything, you just treat those captured Tokugawa soldiers as horses that don’t eat grass and let them work hard, right?”
In three months, 3,000 guns were produced, and an average of thirty guns were made a day!
However, when thinking of the Tokugawa Army, the five or six thousand soldiers who were captured are not impossible from a base point of view, but the craftsmanship is definitely a bit mysterious...
"whee!"
The old driver smiled mysteriously and said:
"I luckily found a huge piece of pig iron in the Takeda family's Sunfu backyard, so I planed it into a simple machine tool. I can make rough iron cannons with no problem."
"Do you think I'm stupid? What do machine tools use to generate kinetic energy?"
Liu Shiba narrowed his eyes.
"Human power generates electricity! I came up with it accidentally. There are no big rivers or large reservoirs here, so I can just use people to make up..."
The veteran driver explained it this way.
"Nani?"
Human power generation? This is the first time Liu Shiba has heard of it!
The old driver gestured in the distance:
"Didn't you have people dig a giant water storage trench four to five meters deep outside the Noda Castle wall?"
"Um!"
Liu Shiba kowtowed and explained:
"That's right! Cold weapons are still the mainstream here, and the battlefield is still dominated by infantry ashigaru.
If there are huge trenches, Noda Castle will not be so strenuous to defend. But what does power generation have to do with trenches?"
"Quack, quack! It does matter."
The old driver's dry laugh was as unpleasant as jagged teeth.
However, Liu Shiba's eyes were more focused on the old driver's demeanor and gestures...
After dancing and gesticulating for a long time, the old driver finally said mysteriously:
“It was a bit troublesome to divert water from the trench because it was too far from the river, so we used the canals used to irrigate farmland.
After connecting a slightly larger canal, we tried to divert water from a large river several thousand meters away, but we didn't expect it to work."
When Liu Shiba heard this, he stood up and stared at the mountains in the distance. He remembered that there was no big river on the way here.
Exaggerated, it must be mountain spring water...
Huh? No—
Liu Shiba asked strangely:
"The river you described is in that direction, right? I remember the terrain. Noda Castle is the highest in the surrounding area, so water cannot be drawn here."
The old driver grinned and said:
"Hehe! Did you forget the water tanker? Along the road are human-powered water tankers contributed by farmers and some large households.
If four or five people stand on that kind of water wheel with bare feet, then the small gap between channels will disappear, right?"
Hearing this, Liu Shiba suddenly seemed to have a sudden realization, thinking of the city moat and then the waterwheel...
But! The old driver definitely didn’t treat people as human beings when he did this!
"I've guessed what you mean! Should all the water trucks along the way be transported to Noda Castle?
Then, a water tanker was placed every ten meters around the trench, and finally the surrendered Tokugawa soldiers were put on top of them, stomping them to death..."
Liu Shiba tentatively expressed his guess.
"That's right! Hundreds of waterwheels rotated crazily, and the water gradually began to accelerate, accelerate, and accelerate again. Each waterwheel gave orders to the other, making the moat completely come alive and spinning me desperately...
So, in the rotating and rushing artificial river, artificially relying on the speed of the water flow, enough electricity was generated, and finally these points were used on the simple machine tool."
