"That being the case, well, let's go!" Xia Hongsheng nodded, and said, "Cheng Qian, you can do it too!" ”

Li Shimin had already allowed Li Chengqian to contact the military aircraft workshop last year, so Xia Hongsheng saw that Li Chengqian was there, and he didn't look good if he didn't take him.

Li Chengqian nodded, and the four of them got into the carriage again, and Qi Yong turned around and headed towards the military aircraft workshop.

Inside the carriage, Xia Hongsheng looked at the craftsman and asked, "Master, what's the matter?" ”

"Ouch, grandpa still remembers old decay!" The old craftsman looked excited.

Xia Hongsheng smiled and said, "The first artillery of Datang was made from your old hands, and you were also honored for your merits. I just forgot who you are, and I can't forget you old! ”

"Thank you, Grandpa!" The master saluted and said: "Grandpa, that's the case, we have been perfecting all kinds of firearms since we made artillery, and we are also thinking about making some new guys for a while, don't mention our firearms workshop, there are only three major pieces of earth-shaking thunder, mortars and artillery." After such a long time, we finally found a new firearm. No, I'm here to ask my grandfather to take a look, if I can get the advice of my grandfather, it would be great! ”

"New firearms?!" Xia Hongsheng was taken aback: "But what is it?" ”

"Our original idea was to make this thing instead of a crossbow." Master Fu said: "We have used firearms, but we think that the bow and crossbow are not far enough and the strength is not strong enough, so we think about how to make our artillery small and make it possible to use it in our hands!" ”

"Damn, you made a musket?!" Xia Hongsheng's heart shook violently, as if he had been smashed by a heavy hammer, and subconsciously exploded a sentence.

"Huh? Grandpa is really a god, and before he said it, Grandpa knew it! Master Fu said excitedly: "The thing we made is thin and long, and at first glance it really looks like a gun, but it is a firearm. It's gunpowder, but it's not a musket! That's a fitting name! ”

"Amazing!" Xia Hongsheng slapped his thigh and said, "Master Plan, wait for me to take a look, if you really make a musket, I will guarantee you a promotion!" No, two-class! ”

Li Chengqian was startled by these words, and asked, "Brother Sheng, what is this musket, and why do you attach so much importance to it?" ”

"Epoch-making thing!" Xia Hongsheng was quite excited: "Epoch-making! Cheng Qian, you know the word epoch-making! No, no, I had to see the real thing to know. If it's just an arquebus, it's not very useful, but if it's a flintlock pistol, it's really epoch-making...... I guess it's still a breech gun, I don't know if I can make a breech gun......"

Xia Hongsheng was too excited, so he talked to himself.

"Grandpa is really an immortal! The old man just said a word, and the grandfather thought of so much! When the master heard Xia Hong's words of promoting him to two ranks, he was also very excited, and said: "At the beginning, what we made was to use the fire rope as an introduction!" ”

"Qi Yong, hurry up!" Xia Hongsheng shouted to Qi Yong, who was driving the car outside.

"Okay!" Qi Yong agreed, only to hear the sound of the horsewhip outside, and the carriage suddenly sped up a lot.

Soon, everyone arrived outside the military aircraft workshop, got out of the carriage, and a few people rushed inside.

Wade all the way through the labyrinthine lanes - in fact, the layout of the military aircraft workshop is also a kind of formation, if you don't know the ingenuity in it, you can't go through it at all - to the core of the military aircraft workshop, that is where the firearms workshop is located.

Entering the courtyard, the soldiers who used to be guarded by layers of Datang blades finally arrived in the firearms workshop.

The craftsmen in the firearms workshop were already waiting in the courtyard, and when they saw everyone coming, they hurriedly ran up to see them.

"Excuse me, what about the muskets?!" Xia Hongsheng waved his hand and asked.

The craftsmen were stunned.

Master Master stepped forward and shouted, "The musket is the name given by my grandfather to our newly developed firearm, so let's bring everything out quickly!" ”

Only then did the craftsmen react, and hurriedly ran to the shed and carried out several large boxes.

The master went over, opened the first box, and took something out of it.

Xia Hongsheng looked at it and saw that the thing seemed to be a long spear, but there was a metal hook on the gun, one end of the hook was fixed on the gun, and the other end was clamped with a piece of rope.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, Grandpa, this is the first generation of muskets we have made. The top one is the arquebus. When the soldiers used it, they lit the rope first. The arquebus is specially made by our firearms workshop, and it burns very slowly, and when the soldiers fire, they use their hands to push the metal hook into the fire door, so that the fire rope ignites the black powder, and then launches the projectile contained in the chamber. The master pointed to the musket inside and introduced it to everyone.

"Yes, that's the arquebus." Xia Hongsheng nodded.

Master Fu opened the second box again, and the musket inside made Xia Hongsheng's eyes light up suddenly, and he couldn't help blurting out: "Flintlock pistol!" - No, it's not quite the same, what kind of ...... is this? Grinding wheels? ”

"Grandpa, this is the second-generation musket that we improved later." Master Fu also introduced: "This is the method that Master Mao came up with. After we made the arquebus, the army was disgusted with the inconvenience, if we went to the battlefield, the opposite cavalry rushed over, our soldiers had to use the arquebus to light the projectiles in the chamber, it was too slow, and when it was lit, the people on the opposite side also rushed over. Master Mao remembered the lighter that his grandfather asked him to make, and the grinding wheel on the lighter rubbed the flint, and when it was grinded, there would be sparks, and it could ignite the projectile. So I did this. When you use it, you just need to grind the grinding wheel hard like a lighter, and the grinding wheel rubs the flint, spraying sparks into the chamber of the gun, igniting the projectile, and the speed is really much faster than before! ”

"Good! Good idea! Xia Hongsheng couldn't help but sigh. The musket in front of him is very similar to the flintlock pistol in later generations, the difference is that the trigger has become a grinding wheel, and in later generations, the trigger is pulled, but this one is a grinding wheel. ”

Isn't this exactly the same as the original historical revolt musket? The craftsmen of the Tang Dynasty actually used this method to make an alternative wheel musket, and this wisdom is really not covered.

Li Chengqian looked at the third box and said, "Then in this box, it has been improved again?" ”

"Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, exactly!" Master Fu saluted Li Chengqian, opened the third box, looked inside, and said: "Later, we found that although it is much more convenient to do this, it is too finger-intensive to grind. But when it is used on the battlefield, it has to be grinded constantly, and the skin and flesh that are ground with a few fingers still don't work. ”

"Quite so." Xia Hongsheng looked at the grinding wheel and nodded.