Artillery is known as the god of war, since it was invented, it has been valued by all soldiers, but the manufacture of artillery is different from light weapons, whether it is technical content, manufacturing difficulty or even cost is much higher than the firecracker, which can be seen from the Minghu Iron and Steel Works can easily manufacture brown besil flintlock pistols, but it was not until half a year later that Napoleon guns were imitated.

Hang Weihu took Yang Feng to a warehouse, and when Yang Feng saw a door neatly placed in the workshop, and before he had time to paint the anti-rust cannon, his breathing began to become rapid, and Hang Weihu's voice began to ring in his ears.

"These days, I have read a lot of artillery materials, and organized several engineers to study them, and finally succeeded in trial production of this artillery. The main Napoleonic artillery models were the M1857 12-pounder (5.44 kg) field gun and the M1841 6-pounder (2.54 kg) field gun.

These two models were originally cast with bronze, although casting the gun with bronze will make the malleability of the gun very good, and the life of the gun will become longer, and the most important thing is that it will not be blown up casually, but the cost of bronze is a problem that cannot be bypassed, I calculated that if you use bronze to cast a M1857 12-pound gun, the cost will be at least 220,000, and the cost of M1841 6-pound will be at least 1780,000, Moreover, one of the biggest problems with casting cannons in bronze is that the bore of the cannon is easy to become larger after being used for a period of time, which makes the accuracy of the cannon have a big problem. ”

Hearing this, Yang Feng interjected: "Then use steel to cast cannons, don't we all use steel to cast cannons in modern times?" ”

"That's the problem." Hang Weihu said with a wry smile: "To be precise, modern artillery barrel materials are made of alloy steel, often based on medium-carbon, nickel-chromium-platinum alloy steel. There is also a small amount of vanadium added to make modified steel. And the most important thing is to have electroslag remelting technology, but we don't have this technology. ”

"Can you figure out this technique?" Yang Feng asked again.

Hang Weihu took a deep breath, looked at Yang Feng with stunned eyes for a while before he said angrily: "Boss Yang, if my factory even has the electroslag remelting technology for producing modern artillery, will my factory still be like this?" ”

"Uh...... I'm sorry, I lost my words, so what...... You go on to say. Yang Feng rubbed his nose a little embarrassed, his words sounded naked ridicule to others, no wonder Hang Weihu was angry.

Hang Weihu continued: "But then again, although we can't make a barrel like a modern artillery barrel, we can still make a replacement for a cannon like the Napoleonic cannon, after all, it's just a smoothbore gun from hundreds of years ago, and the technical content is still very low. After several months of hard work by several engineers in our factory, we finally developed a qualified steel cannon, and we replaced bronze with a special alloy steel, so that this cannon surpassed the original Napoleon gun in terms of life and accuracy. Speaking of which, Hang Weihu's tone was full of pride.

"What about the Mini rifle I mentioned earlier, can your factory produce it?" Yang Feng's faint voice sounded again.

"This ......"

Hang Weihu's voice stopped abruptly, and his face showed embarrassment. After a pause, he said, "Boss Yang, the Mini rifle is a rifled gun, and now our factory does not have the ability to produce rifled barrels." ”

"Isn't it, you've been studying for so long that you can't even produce a gun barrel?"

"Do you think rifled barrels are those seamless steel pipes?" Hang Weihu finally got angry, blushed and said loudly: "Do you know that the barrel rifling broach is used to make the barrel, but we don't have this kind of machine tool at all, and this kind of machine tool is strictly controlled by the state, and you can't buy it even if you have money!" ”

"Can't you buy it with money?" Yang Feng was stunned, "What about abroad?" Can we buy it? ”

"You ......" Hang Weihu was so angry that he almost wanted to curse, if Lao Tzu had the way to get the machine for wire boring, he would still need to nest here to make these antique plate armor for you.

It was Yang Feng who stopped when he saw that Hang Weihu was about to explode, and just as he wanted to comfort Hang Weihu for a few words, a thought suddenly flashed in his mind. Isn't that Vladimir a well-known arms dealer in Ukraine, and he can't transport a large number of arms to China, so it shouldn't be difficult to get a rifled broach machine, right?

As soon as he thought of this, he immediately pulled out his phone and dialed a number that had just been stored in the phone book.

The phone beeped twice and then it was connected, and a familiar voice rang, "Haha...... Dear Yang, call me so soon, is it because those goods haven't been received yet? ”

"Oh no, Vladimir, I wanted to ask you a question, can you get a rifled broach machine for the barrel?"

There was silence on the phone for a while, and after a while, Vladimir smiled and asked, "Yang, what do you want this thing for?" Are you going to rob me of my business? ”

"Of course not." Yang Feng also smiled, "I just want to produce some gadgets by myself, and it's for my own use, and I definitely won't steal your business." ”

"If that's the case, there shouldn't be a problem." Vladimir's words were slow, as if he was considering something as he spoke, "Well, you give me a month, and I'll let you know where and when I'll pick up the goods in a month." ”

"Great!" Hearing that the rifling broach machine tool had fallen, Yang Feng burst into laughter, "Vladimir, you can make a price for this thing, and I will call you the money immediately." ”

"Two million dollars!" Vladimir unceremoniously reported the number, and Yang Feng grinned when he heard it. This guy is unceremonious, but this also proves one thing, Vladimir is a very clear person who distinguishes between public and private, friends belong to friends, and business belongs to business, but Yang Feng didn't blame him at all, only in this way can business last long.

When Yang Feng put down the phone, when he saw Hang Weihu who was looking at him dumbfounded, he said lightly: "Director Hang, you'd better forget what you saw just now, otherwise I don't dare to guarantee what will happen in the future." ”

"Yes, yes......" Hang Weihu then remembered that this Boss Yang in front of him was not only generous, but also very capable, could a person who specializes in selling artillery and rifles be a good stubble, and he was still thinking about how to slaughter him just now, if he really annoyed him, I don't know when his head fell off.

At this time, Yang Feng's voice came from not far away: "Immediately load these cannons and all the armor weapons and firearms into the car, and transport them to the old place tonight." ”[.]