Chapter 573

Today, the students were taken to the workshop. Everyone had to learn to make lead bullets with molds.

The big mold is very heavy. The young students work in pairs. First melt the lead and pour it.

After the mold is opened, there are lead bullets with thread patterns. The tail of this lead bullet is hollow, and a small conical wood block has to be installed.

Fang Xing picked up a lead bullet and put it into the gun. He introduced: "the gunpowder deflagration in the barrel, expand the air and push the wood block forward, and the tail of the hollow lead bullet will expand. In this way, the gap between the lead bullet and the gun chamber will be smaller, the range will be longer and the accuracy will be higher..."

"Well, look at these molds and think about the composition of the molds."

This kind of bullet is actually prepared for the rifling gun. The rifling problem has long been solved. It can be rotated with a simple stick knife.

But this processing method takes time, so Fang Xingxian is ready to build a sniper against 100 households.

At the end of a class, Fang woke up and took the students to the military camp.

Zhu Zhanji has arrived and is talking with Zhu Fang at the side of a bronze gun.

Seeing Fang waking up, Zhu Zhanji asked curiously, "brother Dehua, what's the name of this thing?"

"Gun, gun!"

Fang Xing called the students and asked Zhu Fang to introduce the gun.

"This is a bronze cast gun with a caliber of 90mm and a barrel length of 1.5m. It doesn't count the frame. It weighs 382 kg and fires iron bullets."

Zhu Fang patted the cast-iron gun frame and said, "the gun body is fixed on the gun frame and connected to the frame, which can not only buffer the recoil of launch, but also facilitate dragging. It only takes one horse to drag, and there is no problem with manual dragging in case of emergency."

The students stroked the gun curiously and took turns to ask Zhu Fang some specific manufacturing questions, as well as range and lethality.

"Brother Dehua, why don't we try?"

Zhu Zhanji could not restrain his curiosity and wanted to test the power of a gun.

Just try!

Fang woke up and asked people to put many personal targets in the distance, which were very dense.

"Get out of the way!"

A team of gunners specialized in testing artillery came. After saluting, they skillfully turned the muzzle and loaded the charge.

Finally, an iron bullet was loaded in.

Fang Xing introduced Zhu Zhanji: "we have a fixed charge, and the goal can be achieved by adjusting the muzzle angle."

A lead wire was inserted into the medicine bag from the fire gate. The gunner lit it with a red thin iron rod, and then... Wait!

The lead wire went on burning, and then ignited the medicine bag.

"Boom!"

The iron ball was pushed out of the muzzle and flew straight out.

Everyone followed the trajectory of the shell, gradually raised their heads, lowered their heads, and then watched it hit the target.

There was a crackling sound. Those wooden targets seemed to encounter prehistoric monsters. They were hit by iron bullets, splashing wood chips and flying debris everywhere.

"Bang!"

After a dull sound, the iron bullet that rushed out of a road in the target landed, and then bounced up again.

"This is a second kill."

Just as Fang Xing was talking, the iron bullet again destroyed a target. Finally, it broke through the target array and lost power before slowly stopping the violent performance.

Zhu Zhanji opened his mouth and could not speak.

Students and teachers are even more unbearable. Several have been scared to their knees. They all rely on grasping the talents around them to avoid making a fool of themselves.

"Let's go and see the effect."

Fang Xing smiled and invited Zhu Zhanji to see the lethality of the artillery.

When he arrived at the target array and saw the targets destroyed by the iron bullet, Zhu Zhanji inspired: "brother Dehua, if you are equipped with a large number of such weapons and cooperate with the fire gun array, I will be very clear..."

Fang Xing said modestly, "artillery has the greatest lethality to dense formations, whether cavalry or infantry."

At this time, masu asked, "teacher, what if the enemy spread out the formation?"

Fang Xing said with a smile, "it's simpler. The loose formation can't break the musket array."

Xu Fangda frowned and said, "teacher, but the cost of copper is not small!"

Copper is money, and copper is the strategic resource of Daming.

Fang Xing smiled: "as a teacher, I have found a big copper mine in Jiaozhi."

"This is really timely rain!"

Everyone felt that the discovery of the big copper mine was too timely. Only Xie Jin and Huang Zhong watched Fang wake up silently.

"With artillery, we will have the means to defeat the enemy from a long distance. Whether it is attack or defense, artillery will dominate the battlefield and become the God of the battlefield."

Fang woke up and looked at the excited faces and continued: "this is a practical case of Fang Xue. By calculating the bore pressure, the tolerance of bronze and the wear degree, the best charge is accurately obtained. This is Fang Xue!"

A sense of pride is spreading among the students. Many of Zhu Fanggang's opinions can be understood, which was unimaginable before.

Can the four books and five classics teach people to understand the properties of these substances?

No!

Can the article teach people to combine these substances into a war machine through a series of changes?

No!

So what can Confucianism do?

These students took the initiative to think about this problem for the first time. Xie Jin also stroked his beard and smiled. Only Huang Zhong was thoughtful.

"Teacher, I understand."

To Fang Xing's surprise, Li Er Mao was the first one to realize.

"Teachers and disciples believe that Confucianism can teach me truth and the truth of being a man and doing things."

Li Ermo said with bright eyes: "but he can't teach me how to resist foreign enemies, so the disciple thinks that truth can only educate the people, but to be strong, he can only..."

"Cough!"

Fang woke up and saw that Zhu Zhanji had come from the final landing point of the iron bullet, so he interrupted Li Er Mao's words with a dry cough.

"Truth, but what Fang learns and teaches is also truth."

Fang Xing said, "it's just that Fang Xuejiao teaches the principle of all things, and man is only one of all things!"

"Good!"

Xie Jin clapped his hands and shouted: "Dehua's words are very true. Everything is in it. We can't just learn our own truth, but we need to... What did you say?"

"Explore the world!"

Masu warned.

"Yes!" Xie Jin said happily, "Dehua said to explore the world, and this world includes the sky and stars above our heads. If you can know the mystery, I will have no regrets in my life!"

Fang Xing smiled and said, "Mr. Xie will certainly have this day. Dehua should try its best to help."

Zhu Zhanji also said, "Mr. Xie is willing to stay poor and cultivate talents for Daming. It should be a blessing."

This is a promise!

Promise as a future prince!

Xie Jin's eyes turned red and he arched his hands and said, "thank you for your love. I will be my Daming incarnation of peach and plum and die without regret!"

Fang Xing laughed and said, "there is a double charge test below. Stay away."

This interruption puzzled Zhu Zhanji, but Fang woke up without explaining.

"The prince of a country should think twice before speaking."

Fang Xingxing dropped this sentence and said to the students, "after trying this shot, let's go home today and have a holiday."

Why do you have a holiday?

Without mentioning the students' joy, Xie Jin was a little puzzled.

But it was already loading, so everyone stared at the muzzle

"Boom!"

The sound of this gun was louder than the previous one, and the recoil was not small. The whole gun frame retreated by two meters.

When the black spot appeared, everyone couldn't catch up with its speed. They could only watch the shell pass directly through the target and then disappear.