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Chapter 43 Northbound(1/2)

Zhang Chuxun handed the pistol to Yang He, and he said, "When the young man makes another Yin-Yang machine, he will not be afraid of the wind and rain when pouring the pistol."

Yang He took it carefully and secretly praised Zhang Chuxun's skills, although good materials are indispensable.

He smiled and said, "There is no need to use Yin and Yang Machine."

He saw that there seemed to be a pile of chicken, duck, goose feathers in front of the hall, and immediately said, "Is this duck feather or goose feathers?"

Zhang Chugong was a little surprised, but he still said, "Go back to my husband, this is a goose feather."

He briefly explained that a few days ago, a village bought a few fingers from them. Because the exchange was not enough, he brought a goose to pay, and then the three brothers feasted.

Yang He went over to pick up some goose feathers. Minister Yang also helped to pick them up when he saw this, and muttered, "Don't be standing there, help to pick them up together."

Everyone hurried forward and helped Yang He took a few goose feathers in his hand. It took a long time to drought and the goose feathers were quite dry.

He asked Zhang Chugong for some induction medicine. Zhang Chugong looked quite puzzled. Zhang Chugong even touched his head, not understanding what this Xianggong Yang was going to do, so only Zhang Chuxu's eyes lit up.

Yang He used a dagger to cut a selected goose feather into two pieces, compared the length and cut it slightly, poured the thick end full of medicine, then put the sharp end tightly, and cut it with the dagger to make it sharper.

Finally, Yang He stuffed the goose feather medicine tube into the hole of the fire door nest, and he pulled the hammer to the maximum position to be fired, and then pulled the plate machine.

"Bang!"

The hammer flint hit the edge of the scythe. As the hammer fell into the fire gate nest, the same large tide of thick smoke rose up with the flame light, and the fire was also successfully ignited!

"this……"

Zhang Chugong and Zhang Chujing were both stunned. Minister Yang and others shouted loudly, and Zhang Chuxu's eyes became brighter.

Yang He smiled. Both chickens, ducks, and geese feathers are very flammable. Some slight sparks will ignite. Especially, they are placed in the induction medicine. After the flint is scraped off, it will bring a large amount of hot iron filings. That is no different from falling directly into the induction medicine.

Moreover, with this goose feather inducing medicine tube, standardization has emerged unknowingly, which can prevent the inducing medicine from sometimes falling too much or less.

It is definitely not afraid of the wind. Even if it rains sometimes, this goose feather medicine tube will not be afraid of wetting the gunpowder inside. It can be said that it moves several times in one move.

Especially with the goose feather medicine tube, the automatic opening and closing Yin and Yang machine is no longer needed, saving a difficult step to manufacture.

"My husband is amazingly wise. When I saw this goose feather day and night, I didn't expect to use the inducement medicine."

Zhang Chugong was amazed, and Zhang Chujing also looked at Yang He again and again, scratching his head.

When Yang He broke through the window paper, they were immediately inspired.

Zhang Chujing said excitedly: "You can use the Winged Tiger Gun, so you don't need the leads."

Zhang Chuxun said: "Brother's bird gun can also be used."

Zhang Chugong nodded excitedly. There is no difference between the charge of the Winged Tiger Gun and the Three-Eyed Gun. Both the fire gate poured the medicine. This way, the medicine is easily sprinkled when rotating, or is blown away by strong wind, or is wet by some rain. Just avoid the problem of sprinkling the medicine, they have to twist it tightly when loading the medicine, and even put leads in the fire gate.

Not to mention this, the leads are easy to be tied and ignition is easy to be extinguished, just like firecrackers in later generations often cannot be lit.

Now that I'm fine, just stuff a goose feather to draw the medicine tube. Not to mention the convenience, it will not be blown away by the strong wind, nor will it fall off, or even be afraid of some light rain.

Especially their bird guns and winged tiger guns are ignited with open flames, so they are not afraid of the problem of not burning.

Han Guan'er's eyes were shiny. The goose feather medicine tube was just used on his three-eyed gun, which was so convenient and practical.

Yan Dezheng and others were also impressed. Earlier, Xianggong Yang told him to pay attention to collecting various chickens, ducks and geese feathers along the way. They had always been unclear, so it turned out that they were used here.

Although Zhang Chugong's bird gun has the Yin-Yang Machine, he can also use a goose feather guide tube to pour medicine into the fire gate nest. This is completely different from the convenience of stuffing a goose feather guide tube directly.

Compared to the fact that it is easier to store, even if you make a bird gun in the future, it can save the Yin-Yang machine step.

The three brothers discussed with Yang He that if a bird gun is used, a goose hair tube should be used on a self-generated fire gun. The fire door nest should be deeper, and if it is a groove-like shape, all the scraped hot iron chips fall into the groove, so as to facilitate the ignition of the goose hair tube inside.

During the discussion, everyone also felt that the goose feather induced medicine tube was not without its disadvantages. For example, it is difficult to collect now, so the size of the medicine tube should be appropriate, otherwise it would be too large, and it would be difficult to stuff the goose feather induced medicine tube into the fire door.

Yang He asked Zhang Chugong again if there was oil paper. Zhang Chugong's eyes shiny, "Do you want it?"

He took oil paper and took lead bullet gunpowder as he said. Yang He looked at it and Zhang Chugong's gunpowder was very good, belonging to Willow ash gunpowder.

He looked at his pistol carefully, chose a certain amount of gunpowder, and then chose a lead bullet with the mouth, and then turned it into a paper tube, which became a fixed-load paper tube ammunition.

Everyone watched closely, wondering what surprise Mr. Yang was surprised.

A thoughtful look flashed in Zhang Chugong's eyes: "Is this?"

He glanced at his fourth brother Zhang Chuxun, who nodded to him, and then Zhang Chuxun's eyes were also bright.

Zhang Chujing scratched his ears and faces even more excited. Yang He pierced another layer of window paper, reminding him of a possibility.

After the Qi family army, there was a general idea of ​​fixed-packing in the Ming army, but they still used medicine, ejection, lead bags, etc. separately. In particular, gunpowder was made of copper tubes or bamboo tubes. Each tube was filled with a gun, and the same amount was equal.

Such a launch step has been much simplified, but it is still not as good as a fixed-load paper cartridge ammunition. Especially with bottles and jars on the body, it is quite dangerous.

Fixed-loaded paper-tube ammunition is a leap in the history of firearms, giving people the concept of fixed-loading for the first time.

Looking at the paper tube in his hand, Yang He nodded with satisfaction. He made another goose feather medicine tube and walked out of the temple gate.

Everyone followed quickly. Yang He walked to the big cypress tree a few steps, stuffed the fixed-packed paper-shell ammunition into the gun barrel, poked it to the bottom with a stick, and then pulled the hammer open and stuffed the goose medicinal tube into the fire door.

With a sneer, the sharp end of the goose cape pierced the paper shell and inserted it into the gunpowder.

Generally, the paper shell must be bitten and poured in, but the goose cape can pierce the paper shell, so Yanghe will be stuffed directly, which saves one step.

Of course, this may have a little more residue after launch, and it needs to be carefully cleaned afterwards.

"Kakaka!"

Yang pulled the hammer to the maximum position to be fired. He aimed at the cypress and pulled the plate machine.

With a loud bang, a large stream of thick white smoke came out, and the big cypress tree was beaten to pieces.

"good!"

Minister Yang and others applauded loudly, and brothers Zhang Chugong were also full of admiration.

Mr. Yang was getting more and more confused about them. He seemed to know everything, and he was like an unfathomable ocean. The more he came into contact with him, the more he felt unfathomable it was.

At the same time, they were very excited. They had just had a goose hair tube, and now they were fixed-loaded paper tubes and ammunition. The secrets learned about them made them highly excited.

They eagerly gathered around to discuss with Yang He, and they were like elementary school students seeking knowledge.

Yang He also told the three brothers that the fixed-loaded paper tube ammunition can be made and used, but their paper tubes are limited to their firearms. If they are replaced with other firearms, their fixed-loaded ammunition will not be used.

Just like the fixed medicine used by Yang He's hand gun is different from them.

It’s not that Yang He has to charge a patent fee, but that the craftsmen’s skills are different at this time, resulting in different caliber sizes of each gun and even more different quality of each gun.

Whether these various muskets can be stuffed into them will be discussed. The fixed amount of gunpowder may be just right for some muskets, but when placed in some muskets, there may be a risk of explosion.

It is like the bird guns and winged tiger guns of Zhang Chugong and others. They can use the same fixed-packed medicine, but when they are placed on Han Guan'er's three-eyed gun, they may explode.

Because the amount of gunpowder is too much, the mass of his firearm cannot withstand this amount of medicine.

This is also the disadvantage of firearms at this time. In the Qi family's army, they also select firearms of similar caliber to form a team, and then each round of each round is a lead bullet mold to make their own lead bullets. The units cannot be used for each unit, and they cannot promote the entire army, which puts great pressure on the logistics.

Therefore, we must unify the standards and manufacture almost the same firearms so that the same fixed-loaded paper-tube ammunition can be used uniformly.

But even so, the three Zhang Chugong brothers were very excited, at least their firearms could use the same fixed-loading paper bullets.

...

Han Daxia and Qi Youxin rushed to the mountain temple. They heard the guns in the abandoned village and thought something had happened. They saw that Yang He was safe and relieved.

They had no gains from the abandoned village. Obviously, this village has been searched countless times by the refugees passing by, and even the doors and windows of each household are rarely retained.

It was still early before lunch, and Yang He ordered Han Daxia and Qi Youxin to urge the killers to take sides. As yesterday, there was a quarter of an hour of shield practice.

The three Zhang Chugong brothers made goose feather medicine tubes and fixed-loaded paper tube ammunition in the temple. After discussing the dosage of the hand gun with Yang He, they packed five fixed-loaded paper tubes for Yang He, and five goose feather medicine tubes.

Yang He put one shot in his pistol, put the hammer down and stuffed it to the left of his belt, and placed the remaining four shots on his inner pocket on the left side of his cloak.

After covering his cloak, Yang He felt at ease. In addition to double insertion and slashing saber, he also had a powerful hot weapon.

The Zhang Chugong brothers also packed some fixed-packing medicines for their bird guns and winged tiger guns, using a unified lead and dosage.

They carefully checked the three-eyed guns jointly used by Han Guaner and Luo Xianjue, and also used combined lead to pack several fixed-load bullets for them. It can be seen that their gunpowder dosage is obviously much less than that of the Zhang Chugong brothers.

If there are too many, there may be danger of explosion.

But at least, they all said goodbye to those dangerous bottles and jars, and placed the goose medicinal tube and fixed paper tube ammunition in their lead bags.

At this time, the commonly used goose capillary tube has also been used.

However, because there are not many goose feather tubes used together, Zhang Chugong did not use goose feather tubes. His bird gun has an yin and yang machine that can block strong winds and pour the medicine into the fire nest.

At this time, Yang He didn't need to explain it, and he knew what to do. The paper tube he packed was fixedly loaded with ammunition, one end was the induced medicine, then the induced medicine, and finally the lead bullet, then tied it with a thin thread on the other side, bit it open and poured it into the fire door nest.

Yang He nodded secretly. Needless to say, a person's intelligence is needed, he just needs to pierce the layer of window paper.

At noon, everyone had lunch in an abandoned house in the abandoned village.

At about four o'clock in the afternoon, Hu Juye's brothers met, and Chen Qiuao and others braved the wind, snow and cold, rushed to the mountain temple.

...

"Huh, I'm frozen to death."

Hu Juye cursed as soon as he came in.

Zeng Youyu, who was beside him, also cursed repeatedly: "What a damn weather."

After Hu found employment, his younger brother Hu was frustrated, but only Chen Qiuao didn't sound a word.
To be continued...
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