Chapter 123: The Birth of the Wooden Grenade
I feel a little dizzy, but I still do this kind of invention and creation by myself. Who let Lao Tzu hang up?
Carefully screwing the round wood to the hollow grip, the fishermen have developed a simple machine tool. Although it can't deal with iron tools yet, it has problems dealing with wood and wood. Since we can only use wood, let's use wood.
After two major battles between Bingzhou and Shuofang, Yun Hao began to ponder the main problems of firearms now. The first is that the power is not great, although it is already shocking in this era. It is far worse than the explosives of later generations, and the fragments produced by the iron-clad grenades are not enough, and the lethality is not satisfactory. When cleaning the battlefield, Yunhao took a special look, and many Turks were not so much killed by the bomb as they were killed by shock. Some, and fucking scared to death.
There is also the fact that the grenade is made into a spherical shape, and it is not too far to throw. Yun Hao remembered that in later generations, the militia trained ordinary guys to be able to throw a wooden-handled grenade thirty or forty meters away. And now the grenade, the big man can meet this standard. A person who can throw fifty or sixty meters away, Yun Hao has never seen it.
Since there are so many shortcomings, it is definitely not something that I can tolerate. When the Yun family held a triumphant banquet, a group of old guys drank wine and wrote poems. Yun Hao really couldn't get used to listening to these cultural people bragging, pointing to the two mountains and making the most primitive obscenity. Yun Hao really wanted to take them to Huichun Tower to see the undulating mountains.
Yun Hao, who was helpless, could only discuss academic issues with the fisherman, but was arrested by the curious fisherman early the next morning. Start of development of a new type of grenade!
Wooden-handled grenades, thrown far away to pull the fire is convenient. You don't even need to carry tinder, so you can use it as usual on rainy days. With so many advantages, there's no reason not to tinker with them.
In order to increase the power of the explosion, Yunhao specially added many small steel balls between the gunpowder and the wooden handle. Don't look at this thing, it's only the size of a soybean grain, but a hundred steel balls splash up with amazing effects. It's a bit troublesome to pull the fire pipe, and the detonator can't be made out yet.
Let's not talk about whether mercury thunderate can be drummed out, lead azide alone will die. Datang's chemical industry is not primitive, but fundamentally wooden.
Since detonators could not be used, flint became the only hope. Carefully install the fire pipe, and then put in a pound of gunpowder. Tighten the bolts, and then hand the three-pound grenade to Xiong Kuanhai. This kind of dangerous work still has to be done by fierce people. This cargo is tall and strong, and can definitely throw grenades farthest.
Although it was an experiment, everything was simulated according to the actual battle. The majestic sea unscrewed the back cover in style, revealing the rope with an iron ring inside. With a desperate pull, the grenade began to smoke.
"Throw!" Yun Hao jumped into the bunker, and with a loud roar, Xiong Kuohai threw the wooden-handled grenade in his hand.
This product is also really good, and I didn't see him running hard. The three-pound grenade was thrown by him a full fifty paces away, and there was a burst of gunpowder smoke in the "boom", and Yun Hao poked his head out to see the armor worn on the wooden stake in the distance, standing tall in the smoke.
"Is it that the charge is too small, and it doesn't look very powerful." The old man also poked his head out, and was a little discouraged when he saw that the armor that didn't seem to be damaged.
"There are more charges, the power is greater, but the weight is too heavy. Ordinary soldiers, they can't throw far at all. On the battlefield, distance is life. A distance of thirty or fifty paces was a matter of moments for those Turkic cavalrymen. Besides, the farther ones have to rely on trebuchets. It's no problem to throw twenty or thirty pounds of that thing, and the power should be better than this. Yun Hao said as he and the old fisher got out of the bunker made of sacks.
At first, I was skeptical, and I was thinking about finding something wrong. But when they got to this armor, everyone's eyes widened.
The dark pure steel armor is far more powerful than any kind of armor of the Turks. But now, this armor is covered with dense small holes. There are even one or two pieces of wood chips missing from some holes. When will wood be able to break through steel! If it was on the battlefield, the people in this armor would have died very miserably. Even if you don't die, it must be painful.
The fisherman carefully examined the armor, and the wooden shelves inside were filled with steel balls. After checking the depth of the steel ball, the old man shook his head. "The charge has to be added at least half a catty, and it is better to be heavier to ensure sufficient power. With such a force, it can only hurt the flesh but not the bones. With the strength of the Turks, it is difficult to guarantee that some guys will be able to endure great pain and continue to fight. Be sure to break their bones so they can't continue to fight. ”
"Then add half a catty, a catty and a half charge is already the limit. No matter how heavy it was, the soldiers couldn't throw it far enough. Fifty or sixty paces was enough for them to throw two rounds of grenades. In this way, you can kill and damage the enemy to the greatest extent, if it is too heavy, the power is great, but unfortunately you can only throw one round. In total, there were fewer enemy troops killed or wounded. "In the end, he has battlefield experience, Yun Hao agreed to the request of the old fisherman, but he stuck to the bottom line.
War affects everyone in its own unique way, and everyone who has been on the battlefield suffers from a unique mental illness. For many people, life has become two parts: war and preparing for war.
Yun Hao doesn't like war, he doesn't like killing. But the reality forced him to kill, if you don't kill, others will kill you. The Han people occupy the fertile plains, and with their hard work, the farming people can always find food in the land to feed themselves.
God seems to be very jealous of this race, no matter what kind of natural conditions they encounter, they can use their ingenuity to defeat those natural forces. When the gods were powerless to stop the nation, they chose to put a wolf next to the nation.
Dog Rong, Xiongnu, Qian, Qiang, Xianbei ......, these wolves bite the kind Han people again and again. Again and again, huge scars have been left on the body of this nation. Millions of Han Chinese died under butcher's knives, killing men and stealing food. Old men and children starved to death in the wilderness, and they took the women. If you commit adultery, you will eat by day. The tide of corpses is surging, and the Yellow River is blocked.
The wound of Wuhu Chaohua left too deep on the Han nation, and a hero named Ran Min stood up. A killing order was issued, and the heads of millions of Hu people fell to the ground. The hatred formed by blood and tears can only be repaid by blood and tears.
Yun Hao didn't want to be Ran Min, but he didn't want to see the hungry wolf of the Turks leave a scar on Datang's body again. Their performance in Hebei is enough to prove their savagery and bloodthirstiness. For the Turks, Yun Hao thought that it was not too much to inflict any kind of punishment on them.
The hatred of millions of people finally turned into a single word. That's "killing"!
Equip the warriors with the most advanced weapons and give them the most adequate provisions. Let them go deep into the desert steppes and kill all the humans they can see. Whether it is Turkic or other peoples. It doesn't matter if it's a man, a woman, an old man, or a child!
All the sins they committed in Hebei will be repeated on the grassland. Blood for blood, tooth for tooth is not the best way, but it is the most effective way. The head of a mountain is like the blood of the sea. can make those hungry wolves on the grassland fearful, the Han people are too modest. If you want to stand tall in the forest of nations, iron and blood have always been the best weapons.
Wooden grenades were extremely successful, and at the same time significantly reduced the cost. If you want to equip the army on a large scale, cost is an important consideration. Excessive cost of equipment to the army in large quantities will bring another disaster.
Next, the cannonballs thrown by the trebuchet were tested, due to the strong projectile ability of the trebuchet. It can throw thirty pounds of things at as many as seven or eight hundred steps, so the shells of the trebuchet are all iron-shelled. The fire cable is also lit by pulling the fire pipe under the iron lid. To the greatest extent, this weapon can still be effectively used in rain and snow.
The explosive power of thirty pounds of gunpowder is far from being comparable to that of a grenade. Yun Hao and Yu Lao were in the telescope, and they clearly saw a row of wooden people as targets rising into the air. The iron armor worn on the wooden man was scattered like pieces of paper. There was even a piece of shrapnel that flew out a hundred and ten meters with a whistle and embedded in the trunk of the tree with white smoke.
"We did our best this year, but we only produced more than 10,000 catties of gunpowder. This gunpowder was used in a single battle, and it may have killed and injured the Turks in large numbers. But if it is distributed to the soldiers of the entire northern Xinjiang, I am afraid it will not be enough. Yun Hao sighed, after all, the output of gunpowder was still too low.
The current border of the Tang Dynasty extends from Gansu in later generations to Liaodong. With a border line of almost tens of thousands of miles, it is simply unrealistic for the soldiers to be equipped with firearms.
"10,000 catties has been exhausted, and the purification of sulfur has been tested many times, but there is no good way. The supply can only be met by increasing the scale of production, but unfortunately we can't find high-quality sulfur mines. Otherwise, a lot of time can be saved. ”
Yun Hao looked at the helpless fisherman, and wanted to say that there was a place called Iwo Jima in the sea outside the Japanese Empire. It produces high-quality sulfur, but unfortunately it is impossible to get it back with current seafaring technology. Even if you barely get it back, the cost will be scary.
Usually, there are high-quality sulphur mines around the volcanoes. It's a pity that Yun Hao thinks about it, and every time he thinks about it, where is there a volcano in Datang now. The famous volcano Tianchi, one in Xinjiang and the other in the northeast. Now, they all belong to the category of barren land.
"Many things have accumulated from quantitative changes to qualitative changes. As long as we expand production, we will naturally find a way to do it after a long time, and this kind of thing cannot be rushed. If you are impatient, you are prone to accidents. The things we make have the power to destroy the world. If one can't get 10,000 catties of gunpowder to explode, Lishan will tremble. ”
"This kind of thing is said by you kid, doing this job is to don't put your head on the waistband of your pants. We didn't dare to use any of those prisoners of war. I'm afraid that if it's a little extreme, we'll all be finished if we secretly make a little bit of harm. ”
As we talked, we walked and the day's trial was over. Both of them were very excited, and Yun Hao happily invited the old fisher to come to the house for a drink. The fisherman, who was in a good mood, readily agreed, and the two walked out of the academy side by side at sunset. Followed by a large group of fierce men!
Lintong has become more and more prosperous, and the hard stone road is paved with gravel. Then pour asphalt on it, and when boiling oil, there is a lot of asphalt left, which is just used in the road construction of Lintong. On both sides of the road are bluestone roads, and the black road will no longer poke your feet like bluestone. The carriage runs on it and will not be bumpy as before.
Some people even said privately that taking a carriage in Chang'an is a sin, and riding a carriage in Lintong is a pleasure. The Imperial Historian carefully verified that what kind of rebellious guy said this, whether he was advocating for the Lintong Hou rebellion. In the end, the perpetrator was found, but they didn't have the courage to go to the Taiji Palace to impeach Li Yuan for talking nonsense.
On both sides of the road are rows of small three-storey buildings, all of which are all kinds of stores. In the most remote corners, there are many stores with red lanterns. When a single man passes by, there will be an old bustard with heavy makeup to pull it. Some guys are half-pushed, and some guys take advantage of the old bustard first, the real red light district.
Lintong has never banned the industry, and Yun Hao knows that this is the oldest business of mankind, and it is impossible to ban it. The police of later generations have been fighting pornography and illegal activities for three days, but the bathing center and foot massage city are still not open, and the world is all over the world.
It's better to comb than to block, and there are heavy taxes in the Lintong industry. The old bustard and those women who have lost their footing are ordinary taxpayers and are protected by law. Elsewhere, it was common for guests to beat up prostitutes. But in Lintong, this kind of thing is subject to lawsuits. According to Yun Hao, Lao Tzu collects your taxes, so you can't let people kick your ass. Unless you want to!
Opening a brothel in Chang'an City will not work at all without the support of the underworld. Which brothel doesn't have a few big and three rough thugs. In fact, the exploitation of prostitutes is heavier than the taxes of Yun Hao's hands.
There is no such exploitation in Lintong, and there is no unfair industry competition among those half-hidden prostitutes. In addition to collecting taxes, the official servants did not dare to collect other benefits at all, and they did not even have the slightest hands and feet. You must know that there are bonuses for errands in Lintong. Once the money is collected, it is found out, even if the relationship can be transferred to another place, but this objective unplanned income will be gone.
With so many convenient conditions, Lintong's industry has shown a blowout development. In just half a year after Yun Hao's expedition, brothels sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. In an extreme period of time, a large number of excellent practitioners and loyal consumer groups have emerged.
Even the gentlemen in Chang'an City are not prostituting in Chang'an City now. Specially set up a carriage and came to Lintong to ski in the hot springs, while revealing the fragrant geltease of the beauty.
Numerous brothels have even banded together to develop an industry service standard system called ISO90. This programmatic document with strong guiding principles has become a compulsory course for new entrants.