"I don't know, how does the master plan to adapt it?"
Not far away, Takeda Katsuyori took a step forward and asked respectfully.
Takeda Katsuyori's question represents the doubts of all the former members of the Takeda family.
"Hey! Katsurai, don't worry. I have to ask someone first before I can answer your question on how to adapt it."
After Liu Shiba finished speaking, he turned to look at the old driver and laughed in a low voice:
"In the past three months, how many iron cannons that can fire fixed ammunition have been modified or newly built?"
When the veteran driver Tang Chen heard this, he couldn't help but laugh triumphantly and asked:
"Lord, why don't you take a guess?"
Liu Shiba's eyes bulged and he shouted sharply:
"You want to rebel? What the hell..."
After he finished cursing, Liu Shiba was busy calculating with his fingers, muttering in his mouth:
"According to your veteran driver's personal ability, if you have all the tools, you can modify at least ten iron cannons a day based on the original cannons.
If you forge newly forged iron cannons similar to the Peruvian guns, there will be no more than three guns a day, but Noda Castle still has two to three thousand auxiliary soldiers for you to call on, so the number will need to be increased...
After the capture of Noda Castle and the defeat of the Tokugawa Army of 12,000, a lot of iron cannons and gunpowder were captured, so you won't be too shabby in terms of materials, right?"
After muttering, Liu Shiba paused for a moment, then smiled strangely, looked up at the old driver and said:
"I'm thinking of giving you a discount. The number of long-barreled iron cannons definitely exceeds 7,000 or 8,000.
But according to your level as a veteran driver, I feel it is far from this, right? Are there any surprises? For example, short guns, grenades, etc.?"
The old driver was stunned for a moment, then laughed dryly and said:
"I've been here for a long time, but you still understand me! Either you don't do it, or if you do it, you have to do your best."
"I know you took the most credit this time, okay? Stop the ink and get to the point? I'm waiting..."
Liu Shiba was angry.
"Okay, okay!"
The old driver's face became extremely serious, and he said solemnly:
"The iron cannons modified by myself and the iron cannons modified by the auxiliary soldiers total more than 11,800.
However, after careful inspection, it was found that more than 3,000 of the gun barrels were unqualified, so in the end, only 8,500 long-barreled iron cannons were put to use."
Liu Shiba was amazed by the veteran driver's rigorous attitude toward technology. Hearing this, he said with great joy:
"Enough, enough!"
"Haha! Master, don't be happy too early, there will be more to come..."
There was a hint of pride in the old driver's eyes.
But Liu Shiba realized the old man's pretentiousness, deliberately made an expression of sudden enlightenment, grinned and said:
"Oh? What else?"
Listening to the conversation between Liu Shiba and the old driver, a group of important officials of the Takeda family behind him pricked up their ears.
When I heard that the number of iron cannons that could be loaded with gunpowder was as high as more than 8,000, I was already stunned...
But I didn’t expect that the old driver would have a follow-up?
The old driver squinted his eyes, looked around at the countless expectant eyes, and sneered:
"I'm so mean! By the way, I took all the more than 3,000 unqualified iron cannons back into the furnace and re-forged 3,000 short-handled handguns.
Although the shooting distance of these handguns is much shorter than that of long guns, it is still about a hundred steps, but one feature is that it uses iron bullets and can fire four shots in a row."
"What? Are you kidding me..."
Now, it was Liu Shiba's turn to be stunned and in disbelief.
What the hell, can a hand workshop create an almost modern version of a revolver? How is this possible?
"Haha! Nothing is impossible in the world, as long as you want to do it, you can do it."
The old driver explained meaningfully, took out a small package from his arms, handed it to Liu Shiba cautiously, and added:
"This is a small eight-shot self-defense revolver that I specially built for you. Do you like it?"
"this?"
Liu Shiba was really surprised when he looked at the small pistol with a black light in his hand.
He could tell at a glance that this was an imitation .38 revolver, and the material might be a little rough.
However, the workmanship of this revolver is very fine. The handle is also engraved with the traditional Chinese characters "谗八八" in small inlays. Eight shining silver bullet casings can be clearly seen inside the turntable.
Silver light?
Seeing Liu Shiba's confused look, the old driver smiled lightly and said:
"The bullet casings were originally made of brass, but you don't know, these days copper mines are gold mines.
Brass is equivalent to gold, which is too luxurious, so I modified it and fused it into a high-strength aluminum alloy bullet case, which is not less powerful..."
