Chapter 520 Progress in weapon research and development
Chapter 520 Progress in Weapons Research and Development
Wu Zhi, after rejecting the chef's offer to pour tea for the three of them, personally lifted the teapot on the coffee table.
Then he poured three bowls of tea for himself, Ling Zhen and Hu Sanniang respectively.
After the three of them had finished drinking.
Wu Zhi then asked Ling Zhen how the construction progress of the red cannon and simple grenades was going.
And the answer given by Ling Zhen couldn't help but surprise Wu Zhi again and again.
After Wu Zhi handed over the seeds of the devil pepper to their scientific research institute.
Shen Kuo, Li Jie and others specially opened up a piece of land in the back mountain for planting devil's pepper.
To this day.
Not only did they grow the devil's pepper, but they also used fireworks and other methods to dry all the mature devil's pepper.
When Wu Zhi went to Ling Zhen to find him just now, he was loading the ground devil chili powder into the projectile according to the ratio of gunpowder to chili powder.
Soon, it will be taken to the test site to test the killing effect after the explosion.
If the explosion effect of the simple grenade is satisfactory, then everyone in the scientific research institute will submit the explosion effect of the weapon to Wu Zhi.
After he confirms it, Li Jie, Shen Kuo, Ling Zhen and others will teach the production tasks and production skills to their production teams for mass production.
Regarding the toughness of papyrus for making simple grenade bodies, the solution given by Shen Kuo and Li Jie is:
First, a small piece of land was opened up on Shuibo Liang Mountain for drying and making tough papyrus.
After the tough straw paper is finished and its toughness is tested to meet the standard, Shen Kuo and Li Jie will work together to build the hand-operated tough straw paper rolling machine.
It will be used in the future mass production of simple grenade bodies.
Although the work of making tough papyrus seems complicated, there is no shortage of talents in this field in the scientific research institute on Shuibo Liang Mountain.
As long as the destructive performance of the simple grenade is excellent, then the task of making tough papyrus can be assigned to the scientific research institute.
With the hard work of everyone in the scientific research institute, it is estimated that the tough papyrus used in making simple grenades will be produced within a few days.
And what about that red cannon?
During the period when Wu Zhi left Shuibo Liangshan, not only Ling Zhen participated in the improvement process, but Li Jie and Shen Kuo also helped with research when they had free time.
Finally, the weight was successfully reduced to the point where it could be pulled by two horses.
Not only that, with the wonderful ideas of Shen Kuo and Li Jie, a shock absorption system was even added to the red cannon.
In this way, even if their Liangshan army went out for battle, they would have to travel hundreds of miles.
The red cannon will not cause any problems under the pull of two war horses.
Now, the only thing that needs to be solved is the power of the shells fired.
But this problem is no longer a problem after the development of Devil's Chili Noodles.
After a joint discussion between Shen Kuo, Li Jie and Ling Zhen, they finally decided to divide the red cannon shells into two types of shells according to their functions.
One is an anti-personnel shell filled with gunpowder and iron sand inside the projectile body.
The second is an enemy-disturbing artillery shell filled with gunpowder and deviled chili powder inside the projectile.
At present, anti-personnel shells filled with iron sand are already being mass-produced.
The enemy-disturbing artillery shells filled with deviled chili noodles will also be put on the schedule for mass production after the explosion effect of the simple grenade is satisfactory.
As for the bicycle, after repeated adjustments by Shen Kuo, Li Jie and others.
The finished product is not much different in appearance from the bicycles of later generations.
The only two differences are that the tires are not rubber and the transmission structure is not chain-type.
But even so, the leaders on Liangshan Mountain could still catch up with the running speed of ordinary war horses when they pedaled for a test drive.
However, because this bicycle is not the core demand of Shuibo Liangshan now.
So Wu Zhi lowered the priority of manufacturing bicycles.
In other words, first measure the explosion effect of the simple grenade.
After the explosion effect is satisfactory, simple grenades and enemy-disturbing shells can be mass-produced.
After the production of these two weapons meets Shuibo Liangshan's demand for foreign wars, the bicycles will be mass-produced.
When Wu Zhi took Hu Sanniang's little hand and slowly came to the back mountain, he saw a large field of sweet potato seedlings.
The breeze blows slowly in the evening.
The countless sweet potato seedlings are like endless waves, swaying in the wind.
Speaking of Wu Zhi, it has been almost two years since he came to this world.
In his previous life, one of his favorite street snacks was roasted sweet potatoes.
It feels warm in your hands and smells sweet.
One bite, it feels soft, glutinous and honey-smooth.
All of them reveal this kind of delicacy and their love for Wu Zhi.
But seeing Wu Zhi at this moment, he first broke off a one-meter-long branch from the tree next to him.
Then he walked to the sweet potato field and dug along the sweet potato seedlings.
Hu Sanniang, who was following Wu Zhi closely, couldn't help but feel extremely surprised when she saw this scene.
What are these patches of things in the ground?
And what is that guy digging in the ground?
Just when Hu Sanniang was confused and confused, the expression on her face was full of doubts.
With excitement on his face, Wu Zhi used his hands to dig out a sweet potato from the soil that was about the thickness of his forearm and larger than an adult's hand.
At the beginning, Wu Zhi was worried that the soil quality in Shuibo Liangshan was not good and that he would not be able to grow high-quality sweet potatoes.
But when he held the huge sweet potato in his hand, all the worries in his heart were eliminated.
Instead, his face was full of excitement and joy.
After Wu Zhi was excited for a long time holding the sweet potato, he put it into Hu Sanniang's hand.
Afterwards, he kept digging in the ground.
At this time, Hu Sanniang was holding this thick and big thing in her hands, and she couldn't help but feel that her brain was not enough.
What is this?
That guy, why did you suddenly give this thing to me?
Just when Hu Sanniang was about to speak, she asked all the questions in her heart.
Wu Zhi then threw the tree branch in his hand aside.
Then he picked up seven sweet potatoes of almost the same size from the ground.