Chen Mu can have any new ideas, even if he has new ideas, he will not deliberately bypass Bai Yuanjie.

He just felt that it was a pity that these few people had wasted Qingyuanwei's time because of the constraints of soldiers and horses. So let Shao Tingda go back and spread some messages, use the silver to open the way, recruit three more craftsmen, buy some Fujian wool iron and wood, and make a few bird guns.

In addition, it is nothing more than taking advantage of the busy farming for the past two months, and letting Old Man Zheng teach some Yu Ding to go into the cave to boil nitrate.

They killed so many people in the war, and the risk of licking the blood at the knife edge was great, and the reward was great, even if the reward was deducted, it would be a bumper harvest after the battle. Although the silver money is not as good as the reward for war achievements, it is always an income in Qingyuan.

Chen Mu carefully sketched the approximate meaning and cross-sectional diagram of the rifling on paper with charcoal, and asked Shao Tingda to bring it to Guan Yuangu, a craftsman from Qingyuan, and asked him to try if he could pull it out. Anyway, forging a new bird gun also requires a drill chamber, so try it first if it doesn't work out.

Chen Zongqi didn't have much hope for this matter, but he just had the mentality of having dates and not having dates.

Compared with rifling, what is more important for Chen Mu at the moment is the standardization of the production of the gun.

Standardization is simple, but it is too difficult to implement, and the Ming army has suffered a lot in this matter. Shan Chen Mu saw with his own eyes that Lou Qimai blew up the fire gun, and his face was fried, although he saved his life, his face was like a ghost, and he lost his sense of smell forever.

In the Battle of Xinjiang, Bai Yuanjie left the Chinese army's cannon to blow up, killing three artillery soldiers on the spot and wounding four others.

It's a big deal, not to mention a small thing.

Thirteen bird guns under the head office, the size of the gun tube is different, some lead shots can not be put into the bottom, some lead shots are too small to be stabbed through, put out the guns can shoot 200 steps of the range of 30 steps is powerless, 50 steps lead shot to the ground, can not catch up with a hard bow.

The thickness is different, and if you put two guns in a row, you will have to worry about touching the gun tube to see if there is any overheating, and as long as it is hot, you will be killed and dare not release the gun again.

Rifling requires many attempts, and after a successful attempt, it takes a long time to ponder, and a simple rifling bed can be made to make a simple rifling bed in order to be popularized to every bird under his command, but standardization does not need to be so complicated.

It only needs to be managed, like Qi Jiguang's military training, to strictly stipulate every step of production, accurate to each approximate number, and then formulate a set of effective and strict management reward and punishment systems, so that we can improve 7788.

In the eyes of Chen Zongqi, craftsmen are productivity, and skilled craftsmen who cooperate with themselves are irreplaceable treasures!

Of course, Chen Mu did not forget Wang Rulong's advice, that is, to collect fine bamboo suitable for use as a medicine cartridge and make a medicine cartridge.

It's funny to say that Chen Mu's ideas, what interests Bai Yuanjie the most is rifling, or not the specific technology of rifling, but the extraordinary surprise and curiosity of Chen Mu's conclusive gunpowder theory.

"Chen Erlang, you mean that after the gunpowder is ignited, it will produce gas, and this gas pushes the lead pellet to collide up and down in the gun tube and shoot forward, so the straighter and longer the gun tube, the more stable the trajectory of the bullet when it is shot?"

"The lead shot is not straight when it is punched, but curved?"

Not only are they curved, but they may also be oblique, and the pipes all over the world in this era are handmade, and the workmanship is extremely rough compared to the firearms of 400 years later, and it is entirely possible for a skilled gunner to become a 50-step accurate shooter after hitting hundreds of guns with his own bird gun.

But what's the use of that? All you need to do is change the gun, and everything will go to zero. Maybe the original gun tube is slightly bent to the left, and the new gun pipe is slightly bent to the right, and the previous feeling of proficiency no longer exists, and it is possible to empty the gun for more than 30 steps.

The Ming people did not lack curiosity, at least Chen Mu saw the sparkle of thirst for knowledge from Bai Yuanjie, and kept asking him about his understanding of gunpowder in his spare time.

Bai Yuanjie listened very seriously, but ...... did not have much admiration for Chen Mu who threw out new ideas one after another, on the contrary, Chen Mu greatly admired Bai Yuanjie's profound knowledge and ability to draw inferences without a theoretical system.

Scattered technological improvements, in fact, are not the strengths of the soul four hundred years later, Chen Mu deeply understood in Bai Yuanjie's conversation that his complete theoretical system, which is different from this world, is the most precious treasure.

It was better than a flintlock pistol, better than a breech gun, and even better than the steam engine that had been roaring in his head for a long time but didn't know where to start.

Bai Yuanjie understood much more than he imagined, he only needed to understand Chen Mu's explanation that gunpowder could not explode when ignited in the air, and that the explosion in a confined space was due to the convergence of power, so he put forward the idea that coincided with Chen Mu.

It's just that Chen Mu is thinking of a circle of small lead pills wrapped in rocket explosives, and Bai Yuanjie is talking about a circle of small pebbles wrapped in rocket explosives.

Of course, Mingren or Bai Yuanjie's ideas are also naïve.

For example, Bai Qianhu comforted Chen Mu with great pride: "Don't worry, when you return to Qingyuan, I will ask the craftsman at home to make you a big gun with a two-zhang pipe, and you will install that telescope again, and in the future, if you encounter a war again, what Li Yayuan, Wang Yayuan, Zhao Yayuan, kill him every ten miles and eight miles!" Give you the first credit! ”

When Chen Zongqi heard this, he saw Bai Qianhu dancing excitedly, and every piece of meat on his face was twitching.

Not to mention that the energy of the gun tube exceeds a certain distance, not only can not increase the range, but will reduce the projectile power, resulting in a decrease in the range; Even if you can really hit that far, who would dare to think that the three-zhang long passage?

In the past six months, the longest spear Chen Mu has ever seen is only one zhang and nine feet long, which is taller than two people stacked together, three zhang?

Bai Qianhu, his heart is commendable, and his words are also stupid!

The war did not stop at the leisure of Xinjiang Town.

A few days after July, Weng Yuan came with the news that Yu Dayou's army had won the victory and pacified the thieves, Yu Dayou's army was still on the way, and they received the news at the same time as the order was also sent to Xinjiang Town, Deng Zilong belonged to the Guangdong general Wang Rulong, and guarded the baggage line in the rear.

Bai Yuanjie took the command of the Qingyuan Guard, and led his colleagues Shaozhou Qianhu and Nanxiong Qianhu to enter Muroshan in the north, and had the responsibility of guarding against the enemy, blocking the main road, and guarding and supporting the enemy.

One will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither, not a false word, but a real adjective.

In the fast horse news of the dispatch of troops and generals from various places, Chen Mu finally understood what kind of disaster it meant for the corrupt and dilapidated Weisuo army to send a large army to suppress thieves in this year.

The commander of Qing Yuanwei did not participate in the war, but the chief and deputy thousand households under his jurisdiction died in the battle that affected more than ten counties in the three prefectures of Guangdong, including four thousand households with actual instructions, and one of the Zhenfu escaped from the battle and was killed by Yu Dayouge to correct the military law.

Not to mention the flag army, Chen Mu's general flag was reduced by seventy percent compared to the number of troops when he sent out, and it was relatively good in the guards army that participated in the war, at least none of the flag officers died.

Qingyuanwei alone, in the first war, six hundred households ceased to exist, and not a single Zhengding was left!

Although the order was only a few words, Bai Yuanjie read it thoroughly, and he said to Chen Mu: "Yu Long Qihu, Bai has opened his eyes, and before the army of the chief military officer arrived, he formed a siege on Li Yayuan and attacked generally!" ”