Chapter 168

The fuse ignited quickly burned, and the people's comments disappeared immediately.

Not to mention the people in the tribe, even Ferguson has never seen the fuse. It won't be invented by an Englishman until about 70 years later. Now, no one has seen it.

The fuse made by soaking gunpowder is not the safety fuse of later generations. It burns much faster than the safety fuse.

However, the world's first fuse made by stone bear is more than two meters long, so when the fuse is lit, stone bear has enough time to leave the pit.

Stone bear lit the fuse and ran back quickly, then squatted down with Ferguson. The scene was quiet, and everyone's eyes were fixed on the fast burning fuse.

"Boss, what is this thing for?" Ferguson doesn't quite understand the role of the fuse.

Stone Bear looked askew at a puzzled Ferguson, shook his head with a smile and said: "after a while, you will understand what this thing is for."

Second lieutenant Ferguson scratched his head and again turned his eyes to the big hole.

At this time, the fuse has disappeared, leaving only a black burning mark on the ground. After about ten seconds, all the people felt a sudden light in front of them, and then a huge and dull voice suddenly sounded. Then, a large stream of smoke rose from the big pit and rolled up to form a flowing "mushroom".

Except for the stone bear, everyone was startled by the huge sound. Although the sound is not as loud as the sound when the gun is fired, the people are ready when the gun is fired. Like this, a small pottery pot can make such a loud sound.

The stone bear even saw the cattle far away and made a great commotion. It's obvious that the bull demons who are not afraid these days are also scared to pee by this huge explosion

The most important thing is that the rising and rolling small mushroom cloud makes some people kneel down involuntarily and kneel down to the mushroom cloud.

Stone bear nodded with satisfaction.

Not to mention the power of this indigenous grenade, the sound light effect alone is enough to praise it.

You know, the black powder was prepared according to the most perfect ratio. The raw materials were also purified, so the powder produced was naturally powerful.

Now, whether the French use the San Etienne rifle or the British use the brown Beth rifle, the amount of gunpowder that is filled when the projectile is fired is only seven or eight grams. But this small pot is full of three Liang black powder.

Although the power of black powder is far less than that of later generations, the power of three or two black powder in a closed container explosion is absolutely not small.

The M24 wooden handle grenade made by later German in the first World War was famous for blowing up the British and French on the battlefield of the first World War.

The power of M24 grenade is generally acknowledged. The 170 gram high explosive in this warhead gives this grenade great killing power. Even many modern grenades in later generations are far less powerful than M24 grenades.

The native grenade made by stone bear can't be compared with the famous M24 grenade.

However, this kind of pottery and clay grenade made by stone bear is very powerful. At least in this age when there is no grenade, the explosion of this kind of indigenous grenade will definitely scare the people.

Second lieutenant Ferguson around him is also dull. He certainly didn't expect his boss to make this kind of thing with such a big momentum. When it exploded, it almost caught up with the momentum of large caliber naval gun.

There was a louder voice than just now. Almost all the people squatted on the ground, talking and gesticulating loudly.

Some time ago, when experimenting with the valerian guns on the inland river armed transport ships, the clansmen saw the French soldiers fire guns. Later, the clansmen who learned to control the ships also fired guns.

The first time I saw the Frenchmen firing guns, almost all the people were sent out. At that time, the people were not wanted by the town. You know, when this kind of four pound Wallace gun is loaded with hard paper tube before firing, it can load nearly one pound of propellant at a time, which is three times larger than that of this native grenade.

However, when the gun is fired, the propellants explode in the bore, and the thick bore wall restricts the possibility of these propellants to spread around, so the sound potential seems to be similar to that of this kind of home-made grenade.

Although the charge of this native made grenade is small, it can explode in a radial manner and spread in all directions, so the momentum is much stronger.

As soon as the people's comments started, a lot of broken things fell from the sky, including broken pottery pieces, and the messy bits and pieces that the stone bear packed in the pottery pot.

However, the people of the tribe were nearly 40 meters away from the explosion point, and the local grenade exploded from the pit, so most of the fragments produced during the explosion were blocked by the planks on the four sides of the pit. Only some fragments that were not allowed to go to heaven were returned to the embrace of the earth under the attraction of gravity after the kinetic energy given by the gunpowder was consumed.

Anyway, this experiment is very successful, at least the stone bear himself is very satisfied. It's quite good that the local grenade I made for the first time can produce such power.

Seeing that the guardian adults stood up, the people of the tribe also stood up one after another. The explosion just now really scared them, but now that it's over, it doesn't matter to these people who have seen the firing several times.

The stone bear went to the pit and looked down. He found that all the planks on the wall of the pit had turned black, and the originally smooth planks had become potholes.

Obviously, although the fragments produced during the explosion did not cause any damage to the outside of the pit, they did great damage to the boards inside the pit.

Black powder is no longer as good as the later generation's tieyanti or RDX, but it is also a genuine medicine.

You should know that the detonation speed of black powder can also reach 500ms. Although this speed is far from being comparable to the detonation speed of ladder press, which is close to 7000m / s, it is faster than the exit speed of most pistol bullets. That is to say, the fragment produced by the explosion of this native grenade has a faster initial speed than the pistol bullet.

Such high-speed fragments, naturally, can not be resisted by those boards. In addition to the explosive heat of black powder, which is as high as 5066 kJ / kg, it is not surprising that these planks leaning against the wall of the pit were destroyed.

The people don't understand that, but Lieutenant Ferguson does. When he saw the miserable appearance of these boards, a handsome little face became unnatural

"Boss, what's the name of this thing you made? How is it so similar to the grenades thrown by our country's grenadists? " Although Ferguson has never seen this kind of native grenade, when he saw the power of this thing and the momentum when it exploded, he immediately thought of the grenades thrown by the grenadiers of the British Empire.

Yes, in fact, at this time, grenades loaded with black powder have become more popular in European countries.

As early as the 15th century, grenades filled with black powder appeared in Europe, but they were mainly used to defend fortresses and prisons.

By the middle of the 17th century, the shape and fragments of hand thrown grenades began to look like pomegranates and pomegranates, so they were called grenades. During this period, some European countries equipped their elite troops with field grenades, and called the soldiers who had been specially trained to use such ammunition as grenadiers.

However, in the 19th century, with the development of guns and the reduction of Castle offensive and defensive warfare, grenades were once ignored. But in the Russo Japanese War of 1904, grenades played a role in the battlefield.

Especially in the first World War, due to the rise of trenches, grenades were widely used. At that time, the more typical grenades were the famous M24 wooden handle grenade made by the German and the pineapple shaped mills grenade made by the British.

But at this time, because the grenades thrown by the grenadiers are filled with black powder, the charge is not much, and the shell of the warhead is not a pre cast fragment shell, so the power of the grenade at this time is not great, at least it is far less powerful than the earth made pottery pot grenade made by the stone bear.

But anyway, the scene of the explosion of this earthenware grenade is really like a grenade thrown by European grenadiers. That's why Lieutenant Ferguson asked.

Stone Bear looked at Lieutenant Ferguson, nodded with a smile and said, "yes, you can also turn this native grenade I just made into a grenade. The principle of making this native grenade is no different from the grenade thrown by your grenadiers. It's just that my homemade grenade doesn't have a cast iron shell, and it's filled with more gunpowder, so it's much more powerful. Why, interested in this thing? "

Lieutenant Ferguson shook his head. "I can't say how interested I am. I just think it's very powerful, so I'm shocked. I prefer to think about new rifles. That's the mission of my life. "

The stone bear nodded slightly.

In fact, if Lieutenant Ferguson shows his interest in this native grenade, stone bear has no need to hide it from him.

In Shi Xiong's plan, this young man with many gentleman virtues is a very important figure. In the future, the independent war in the 13 colonies of the new world will surely break out, and the stone bear can't even stop it.

Moreover, it is obvious that Britain at this time had just ended its seven-year war with the French, and its domestic power became very empty. In addition, European countries such as Spain had been trying to limit the strength of Britain, so the British at this time were not comfortable.

Even more than ten years later, Britain's national strength will not be able to cross the Atlantic and the New World colonies to fight against those independent guys. That's why the British descendants of the New World colonies were able to succeed on their own.

If the colonists of the new world mistook the start of the independent war by half a century, then needless to say, the British, who had already slowed down and their national strength began to grow stronger, would never allow their colonies to be independent.

As far as the national strength of Britain in the 19th century is concerned, it's easy to defeat those who are fighting alone. Apart from that, all those who are fighting alone will have to be terrified to put those sailing battleships in the open sea of those major cities.

However, the British now have no ability to cross the ocean to defeat the independent colonists. Otherwise, with the British King's temperament, he would never give up the new world's colonies.

In any case, the independent war that will break out in more than ten years will not be stopped by the British. Once these colonists succeed in fighting independently, there will be one more rogue country in the world, and it will also be a powerful rogue country.

Many carefree Indians living in the new world will be slaughtered by the citizens of this rogue country.

Therefore, the stone bear wanted to make the British more powerful during the independent war, so as to make the two sides stick to each other for a longer time and bleed more.

Stone bear thinks that before the outbreak of the independent war, he could not unify the Indians in the new world of North America, and the Indians who could not form a powerful regime could never resist the butcher's knife of the Americans.

Moreover, the British are not good birds. If the British defeat the independent colonists with their own help, they may not be much better than the Americans. For the sake of the resources and wealth of the new world, the British will probably hold up the butcher's knife to the North American Indians.

Therefore, the key is to bleed both sides and greatly weaken the strength of both sides. Only when both of them are weak can they take the opportunity to rise.

In order to weaken the strength of both sides, independent war is undoubtedly the best battlefield. Only the longer the war is fought, the more soldiers die, and the purpose of massive bloodletting for both sides can be achieved.

In order to be independent, the Americans fought for eight years. In order not to let the colony alone, the British fought eight years of anti independence war.

And what if this war was fought for ten or even fifteen years?

In the early years of the independent war, the British dominated and defeated the colonists, but after all, the British fought across the ocean. In addition, in the late period of the independent war, the French also joined the American side, and the British army broke out the plague of malaria because of a small mosquito called Aedes. This made the British fighting on both lines finally unable to resist, He lost the war in the end.

The British people's acclimatization broke out a plague, and the stone bear can't stop it. But what if it can deliver some "high-tech" weapons to the British people at the critical moment?

In fact, it was not that the British could not hold on at that time. It was just that the outbreak of the plague made the soldiers panic. If the British were to be given some weapons that were decades ahead of the times, it is estimated that the United forces of the Americans and the French would not be able to defeat the British so easily.

And if Lieutenant Ferguson does not die prematurely on the battlefield, then he is undoubtedly the best person to deliver "high-tech" weapons to the British.

It is for this reason that stone bear did not hide from lieutenant Ferguson's idea whether it was making a new type of musket or a powerful indigenous grenade.