Chapter Twenty-Four: Preparing for the South, 10 - Making Guns

Chen Yufeng: They came back the next afternoon, and this time Chen Yufeng and they had two more mounts and brought back eight people.

It turned out that on the way to Lingshui Wharf, they met a group of people who ate raw rice, so they said that they had to leave the horses behind, but there was no way, Li Jing cut down the two leaders, and the others ran away. So you got a horse and a big green mule.

At Lingshui Wharf, Chen Yufeng stayed for one night. In the evening, according to what Zhang Zhimu said, first find a few people who know a few words to come over, and tell them about the matter, they are all very happy, this is a rare opportunity in troubled times. It's just that two of them are good at kung fu and literate, each with a seventeen or eighteen-year-old son, but they have also practiced martial arts since childhood. Chen Yufeng thought about it, so he took it all. A total of eight people were found according to the number of horses. Invite a few people to have a good meal, let them go back, and tell them to quietly pack up and set off early in the morning. But where can this be done quietly? Early in the morning, there were twenty or thirty people who blocked the store where Chen Yufeng lived, and they had to follow, shouting "Mountain Harrier", you can't leave us alone. There was no way, Chen Yufeng told everyone that in another month, he would come here and try to bring as many people as possible. This time, Chen Yufeng said that the owner can't use too many people, and he can't help it.

Chen Yufeng took everyone to Xiurong City first, bought a set of new clothes, shoes and socks for everyone, and led everyone to take a bath, change into new clothes, and eat. I don't know what my surname is. Only then did he return to the kiln. After entering the courtyard, Chen Yufeng asked them to put their rags and luggage in the courtyard, and assigned bunks to each person in the house. I put forward a request to everyone, that is, no matter how tired you are, you must wash your face and feet before going to bed at night. Everyone thinks it's strange, we're all cheap people, what are we doing with all that? But when they saw the new quilts and mattresses assigned to each person, they all nodded and said yes.

After Zhang Zhimu saw everyone, he asked the two seventeen or eighteen-year-olds to come over and help, and the others built a house with Chen Yufeng. Zhang Zhimu said to Uncle Chen: "Tomorrow, buy a pig to kill, there are too many people, everyone has to have a little oil." In the future, you must eat better. ”

When processing these two long steel rods, everyone has experience and thinks that it is not so strenuous. This long steel rod is to be processed into a shape with thin at both ends and thick in the middle, that is, it is processed into a section of 45 centimeters wide and 45 centimeters in diameter in the middle of the steel rod, and the other parts at both ends are processed into a diameter of 43 centimeters, and the edges of the two ends of the middle section are inverted into rounded corners. It's just that because the steel rod is too slender, the amount of feed is much smaller during processing, and finally I have to use wood to make a supporting wooden sleeve in the middle of the steel bar, which is how the two steel rods are processed.

Finally, a steel bar with a diameter of 76 centimeters and a length of 3 feet 5 was processed. The outer diameter of the barrel designed by Zhang Zhimu is 75 centimeters, the inner diameter is 45 centimeters, and the wall thickness of the barrel is 15 centimeters.

After all the processing was completed, Zhang Zhimu said that the surface heat treatment should be carried out. Then he picked up a steel rod with pliers and quickly moved it on the fire to heat it evenly, and quickly threw it into the water before it was hot. Zhang Zhimu told everyone that when quenching, the steel parts will be deformed due to internal stress, which will affect the accuracy, if the surface is heat treated, it will not only increase the surface strength, but also minimize the amount of deformation. Everyone nodded their heads, indicating that they had seen a lot.

Then it's time to really manage it.

The barrel is built, and the rest is relatively simpler. The muzzle of the gun is also thermally combined with the front sight, which also plays the role of fixing the two barrels. This part is then fixed to a wooden gauntlet. At this point, the front end of the grab is completed.

There are also firing and locking mechanisms at the rear end. Since there is no ** and potassium chlorate for ignition, it can only be ignited with a fire rope. However, the fire rope designed by Zhang Zhimu is different. There is no fire at the bullet**, put the black ** directly, and glue it with a piece of tissue paper and wax outside, so that it is not afraid of rain. The excited firing pin is cross-shaped, the arquebus is wrapped around the firing pin, and the firing pin breaks through the paper when it is fired, and the firing rope ignites to reveal the lead**, **igniting the inside of the cartridge case**. The locking mechanism is a double-sided locking mechanism. When the gun is closed, the elasticity of the steel is used to automatically buckle the chamber and barrel, and when you want to move away, you push the handle, and the lock forks on both sides are separated, and the gun will be moved away. Just get a small handle, and you can remove the bullets in the gun hall as soon as you move it. The spring used for firing is also made of a red-hot steel bar that pulls out the steel wire, winds it into a spiral, and burns it red-hot and quenched. After installing the ** at the back, connect the front and back parts with rivets to make a shaft. Zhang Zhimu took the gun, pulled it up, and with a click, the gun was tightly integrated. Pick up the gun, move the bolt, ** aim against the shoulder, snap the shot, it feels great. With a push of the wrench, the gun snapped. The length of the robbery is four and a half feet.

Zhang Zhimu burst into tears with excitement, and took a long kiss with the gun. At this time, Li Yunhe said that the mold for stamping the copper bullet casing had been made. Tomorrow you will be able to stamping bullet casings.

For dinner, Zhang Zhimu asked the people who participated in the robbery to have a table, asked Huang Yukun to add a dish, and gave two catties of wine to reward everyone. In order to make it easier for a few people to drink, Zhang Zhimu didn't drink with them. Instead, he came to sit and eat with those newcomers, and he had been here for several days, so Zhang Zhimu was worried about getting a gun, and he didn't have time to talk to the big guys. Zhang Zhimuke knows that this emotional investment must be careless. Xiaohu Xiaoqing over there pouted when he saw that Zhang Zhimu hadn't eaten with them. Zhang Zhimu smiled when he saw it.

At the dinner table, Zhang Zhimu is a good hand at chatting and caring everywhere. At the beginning, a few people were still very restrained, but after Zhang Zhimu finished a few jokes, everyone let go. I can't wait to tell all my things. Hearing that everyone went through five levels and cut six generals, Zhang Zhimu took the lead in cheering; Speaking of suffering, after Zhang Zhimu comforted him, he told everyone that when we are together in the future, we can help each other and no longer be alone. Until the end of the meal, everyone was reluctant to disperse. These people, who cares. In the past, in the eyes of the rich, they were not as valuable as a brute. Also, in the years of peace, a woman and a boy who could work were 1,200 copper coins. Zhang Zhimu impulsively wanted to say that he wanted to smash the old world, but he still held back, and it was not the time yet.

Chen Yufeng's house building is almost ready, and the materials used have been pulled back. In addition, this time, Zhang Zhimu wanted to turn the roofs of the existing grass houses into tiled houses, and this time the materials were also pulled back. Tomorrow I will be ready to dig the foundation, according to Zhang Zhimu's requirements, it is still one floor underground, one floor above ground, and the two basements must be connected by passages.

The cartridge case designed by Zhang Zhimu is a straight cartridge case that imitates a shotgun. The total length is 120 centimeters, the diameter of the cartridge case is 75 centimeters like the outer diameter of the barrel, and the inner diameter is slightly larger than the barrel, in order to make the outer diameter of the bullet slightly larger than the barrel, so as to increase the chamber pressure and increase the firing range. The shell is stamped with copper, and the steel mold has been done, which is stamped and formed in two times, one stamping into a cylinder, and two stamping into a bullet bottom and a ** hole.

At first, the shells didn't go well. But after several improvements, the cartridge case was finally stamped. Then, a dozen round balls were poured with lead to make bullets. At the same time, some lead sand was made. Zhang Zhimu's method of making lead sand also opened everyone's eyes. In fact, it is very simple, after the lead is melted in a crucible, it is poured into water, and the lead water is blown into lead sand in the water. Pick out some mung beans and make gun sand.

drove away the children, Zhang Zhimu began to ****.