Shao Tingda cut down the tree for a long time, and Chen Mu felt that he had an ax in his spare when he arrived at the place, so he put it aside and tried his best to teach Xiao Hachilang to set fire, so he found that in fact, the Ming Dynasty's broken fire gun and bird gun were really not much different in some aspects.

For example, in terms of rate of fire, for example, the best range, and even in terms of melee ability, Chen Mu, who has personally experienced smashing a firecracker, even thinks that firecrackers are stronger than birds.

It is true that from the perspective of four hundred years, the bird gun is the direction of the development of human firearms, but now watching Wei Balang release the gun, Chen Mu thinks that the ancestor's fire gun is not useless. The reason for this is not that the fire gun is too good, but that the bird gun is too bad.

The advantage of the bird gun lies in stability and maximum range, although the trajectory is unstable at 50 paces away, and the shot must be missed at 100 paces, but as long as the muzzle is slightly raised, the bird gun can fall 200 steps away.

The gun is not good, it needs to be operated with one hand and there is no stability, the gun is too short to shoot at a target within 50 steps, the best range is only 30 steps, and if you want to break the armor, you have to put it closer to 10 steps...... Ten steps, after putting the gun, you can pick up the wooden pole and do it up.

At this point, the three-eyed gun makes up for this shortcoming very well, short-distance, short-time, and intensive killing, which may be the reason why the nine-sided sergeant was still unwilling to give up the three-eyed gun until the end of the Ming Dynasty. To be precise, the Three-Eyed Gun and the Fire Gun are not a long-range weapon in the eyes of the Ming people, but a 100% melee weapon.

This subverted Chen Mu's perception of the firecracker, and he asked Shao Tingda, who cut down trees to make ladders: "What is a remote weapon?" ”

Shao Tingda grinned and let out a barbell-like laugh again: "Brother Mu, what stupid thing are you talking about, how far can the bird gun hit?" What kind of long-range weapon, cannon! Furlong cannon! Great General Cannon! ”

Chen Mu thought about it, the Ming people really didn't pay much attention to the bird, they valued the artillery that could hit farther and heavier.

I thought that the ladder to climb would not be completed in a long time, but I didn't expect that they would only split a few long boards in half a day, and seeing that it would take several days to make a ladder, Chen Mu was no longer in a hurry. The next day, Zheng Cong, the youngest son of the old man Zheng, came as promised, and came with his father's spear and wearing a mandarin duck jacket.

Chen Mu commanded Fu Yuan to run errands more and more handily, let him sleep for a long time, and then was sent to lead his horse to Qingyuan City to buy a few wooden barrels, and bring back two large iron pots. As for whether he can ride, Chen Muke doesn't care so much, anyway, for a whole day, he only asks him not to miss the time to come back to duty tomorrow morning, and if he has more time, he can go to the guard post to gamble with other military households, if he can't ride a horse, the time is just enough for him to come back and sleep.

Shi Qi took Chen Mu's bird gun and Wei Balang and a classmate to release it, and the two of them crackled in the woods next to the post house, Chen Mu himself was naturally not idle, still running and jumping to exercise.

The days passed like this, the second time it was Shiqi's turn to rest, he and Fu Yuan swapped, he rode back to the hundred households to get the medicine, and Fu Yuan took the remaining dozen lead bullets and took a knife to the tree to buckle the lead pills, and then helped to put the wooden blocks into a ladder.

After three days, it is finished.

The gunpowder of Baihusuo is not so easy to get, as Bai Yuanjie said before, the imperial court has not allocated armaments to Qingyuanwei for a long time, and the supply of gunpowder is pitiful. There are only about 600 bird guns and fire guns left in the entire 100 households, and the real sharp weapons are only 100 rods after removing the fire guns and the old and unusable bird guns. Although there was a large stock of gunpowder, most of it was prepared for a few large mortars in the guardhouse.

It's not that there is no gunpowder allocated to them, but in the past, no one in the entire hundred households under Bai Yuanjie's command made such a request. There are many military households who put a musket at home, but no one is like Chen Madman, who doesn't care about the fields or the deep mountains and old forests all day long, not counting going to Guangzhou Mansion, and he has finished half a barrel of gunpowder in the inventory of 100 households in ten days.

Bai Yuanjie sent Jiading to take Shi Qi to bring gunpowder and lead pills from Qianhu, and directly sent a donkey cart to transport the whole barrel to Anyuan Station, and also asked Bai Qi to bring a message to Chen Mu: "Baihu said, don't look for him after this bucket of medicine is finished, and directly let this military household take the silver to Qingyuanwei Powder Depot and send two taels to get gunpowder by himself." ”

Bai Qi also left a copy of Bai Yuanjie's seal with the letter, proving that he was a member of the Hundred Households. Only then did Chen Mu figure out that it was not a barrel of gunpowder that cost two taels of silver, but that he had to send the fire officer who looked at the powder magazine two taels of silver, otherwise he wouldn't want to get gunpowder just by taking the film!

"Just this thing, it costs two taels?"

Chen Mu patted the wooden barrel that was not very high, and it was estimated that it was less than fifty catties, and he felt that the weight was uneven when he lifted it. As a result, when I opened it, I saw that Chen Muguang wanted to hit his head on the tree, and the wooden barrel was actually divided into four compartments, there were charcoal and lead pills, although the other two were unrecognizable, but they could also guess that there was more nitrate and less sulfur, and small pieces of wood were attached to the lead shot - ten taels of nitrate, seven coins of yellow, and one tael of seven coins of willow charcoal, add water for two minutes and stir well to dry and set aside; One lead pill and three pieces of medicine to prepare for the gun.

Hey, don't really say it, the font isn't ugly!

In addition to these four things, the primer in the leather pot and the coiled arquebus have been soaked and are just waiting to be used.

But Chen Mu squatted on the ground for a long time, and figured out that the ratio of these three things seemed to be wrong! According to this calculation, nitrate can account for eighty, but he knows, this thing should be in the ratio of fifteen, two, three!

Chen Mu had an idea in his heart, if this idea could come true, maybe in the future, his firearm rate of fire could be increased by five seconds to reload time, although this was nothing in the long reload time of ten to twenty seconds, but it could bring him a lot of help.

But it requires a craftsman, and he has no craftsman.

"Pay Yuan! Go to Qingyuan City and come back with a rod scale; Shiqi, go to the post man and ask for a water tank to move to the forest! After sending these two away, he looked back and saw that Wei Balang was squatting under the tree and gnawing red fruits, Chen Mu pointed to the ladder that Shao Tingda had set up yesterday and said, "Climb up and try, go into the hole, and see if the ladder can hold people." ”

Chen Xiaoqi can't believe in his own craftsmanship a little.

To be honest, this clumsy shape has no nails in the whole body, and it all relies on the wooden ladder of mortise and tenon, and Chen Mu is really worried that he will suddenly fall down after climbing seven or eight meters on this. Wei Balang's legs and feet were loose, and when he heard Chen Mu commanding him, he nodded and stuffed the red fruit into his mouth and trotted to climb the ladder, spitting out the hawthorn core while climbing, and his courage was more than 18,000 times greater than Chen Mu's, and he didn't worry about the ladder breaking down at all.

Three or five times up the cave, holding the little thin arm and shivering, the dead child turned his head and beckoned to Chen Mu, "Xiaoqi, come up quickly, it's so cold here!" ”

What's the matter with Leng Guan Lao Tzu, and give you a hug?

Thinking so, the mind is extremely honest in the face of the temptation of boiling wealth, and he climbs the ladder faster than Wei Balang, but Chen Mu was dumbfounded as soon as he entered the cave with his short body - he didn't bring an oil lamp, and he could see a hair clearly!

Feeling the darkness, he found a pothole where the dripping water was dry, stretched out his hand to wipe the soil, and stretched out to Kohachiro, "Taste, what a taste!" ”