Chapter 452： Great attempt - smokeless powder

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Jerome Bonaparte reorganized the interior of the Rifle Research Institute with the advantage of being the only traveler in this time and space and being familiar with the development trend of future warfare.

Headed by the Mauser family, let's call them members of the Auburn Dorn faction, they continued to study bolt-action rifles and metal fixed-loading cartridges.

The members of the local faction, headed by Alfonso Xia Saibo, changed their research topics and devoted all their efforts to studying multi-barreled rapid-fire weapons.

There are good and bad groups in this way. The advantage is that it is conducive to fostering a sense of competition between groups and speeding up the research process. The disadvantage is naturally also related to competition. If the two groups have a strong sense of competition, it is easy to stimulate conflicts between the two groups, thus slowing down the progress of the research.

Therefore, Jerome Bonaparte also deliberately set a red line to allow healthy competition between the two groups. If there was any team member who dared to make a trick or stumble, Jerome Bonaparte would invite him to take a seat at the Xibingku Grand Hotel under the Maintenance Command.

Jerome Bonaparte's calm face, combined with his frosty words, sounded a wake-up call to the staff of the institute, and no one dared to disobey a monarch who spoke the truth.

"Please rest assured, I will strictly supervise them to prevent them from doing some outrageous things!" Anderson Mauser assured Jerome Bonaparte.

"That's good!" Jerome Bonaparte nodded and said to Anderson Mauser: "I don't want any of you to have friction over a trivial matter, thus affecting the progress of the entire team!"

Afterwards, Jerome Bonaparte once again encouraged everyone in the institute and assured them that everything they did would be rewarded handsomely.

Accompanied by Anderson Mauser, Jerome Bonaparte leaves the Institute.

Although it was already cold winter, the weather was uncharacteristically hot. The sun at 3:00 noon shone on the earth through thin, continuous layers of pale white clouds. Jerome Bonaparte and Anderson Mauser The two walked on the concrete pavement under the scorching sun, and the coat that was originally designed to resist the cold has now become a "perspirant". Bean-sized sweat beads slipped from the temples to the cheeks, and the cheeks and ears were covered under the sun's rays. A layer of crimson.

Jerome Bonaparte and Anderson Mauser kept walking along the concrete road, until they reached a crossroad, Jerome Bonaparte stopped and said to Anderson Mauser: "Just Send it here!"

"Yes! Your Majesty!" Anderson Mauser bowed slightly to Jerome Bonaparte, then turned to leave.

Jerome Bonaparte stood alone at the crossroads, as if he was waiting for someone. Ten minutes later, on the road on Jerome Bonaparte's left, there was someone he was waiting for— - Basilio.

"Your Majesty, please forgive me for being late!" Basilio bowed to Jerome Bonaparte for his lateness.

"It's nothing!" Jerome Bonaparte smiled and replied lightly: "Everyone will be entangled in all kinds of trivial matters and will miss the appointment. By the way, where is Professor Wu Ci's laboratory? I haven't seen Wu Ci's laboratory along the way!"

"Your Majesty, please come with me!" Basilio immediately responded to Jerome Bonaparte.

Basilio and Jérôme Bonaparte first set out westward, and after reaching the second crossroads, they moved northward and soon reached a house.

This is a two-story villa, located in an independent residence far away from the staff residential area of ​​the Northwest Supervisory Army in the North Industrial Park.

And the owner of this villa is Professor Wu Ci who discovered methylamine.

Just as Jerome Bonaparte and Basilio were about to step into the villa's gate and enter the villa, there was a deafening explosion from inside the villa.

Jerome Bonaparte and Basilio's expressions changed greatly in an instant, and Basilio immediately guarded Jerome Bonaparte behind him.

"Quick! Go in and save people!" Seeing this, Jerome Bonaparte pushed aside Basilio and ran straight towards the villa.

No one knew better than him what the explosion meant.

Seeing that Jerome Bonaparte put down his daughter and entered the villa, Basilio could only follow Jerome Bonaparte into the villa.

When Jerome Bonaparte and Basilio stepped on the stairs leading to the second floor, a choking breath caused by the explosion of gunpowder floated from the second floor to the first floor.

Seeing this, Jerome Bonaparte and Basilio immediately ran up and quickly reached the laboratory corridor. The two people standing in the corridor immediately saw black smoke wafting from the laboratory.

"Quick!" Jerome Bonaparte ran into the laboratory.

At this time, the laboratory was a mess, and the smell of gunpowder and burnt feathers filled the laboratory.

In the laboratory, Dr. Wu Ci was hurriedly waving his clothes in an attempt to extinguish the flames caused by the new explosion.

Seeing this, Jerome Bonaparte and Basilio also took off their clothes to help Dr. Wu Ci put out the flames.

After 5 minutes of "tossing", the three finally extinguished the flames completely.

However, the faces of the three were inevitably blackened by the thick smoke.

The three who had completely extinguished the fire slumped on the ground and gasped for breath. After a while, Jerome Bonaparte cared about Professor Wu Ci's physical condition. He turned his head and asked with concern. Said: "Professor Wu Ci, are you okay? The explosion just now didn't hurt you!"

"God bless me! There is nothing serious about my body!" Wu Ci replied to Jerome Bonaparte while leaning his body back and facing the sky, his hands supporting the ground and panting heavily.

"It's fine! It's fine!" Jerome Bonaparte breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Professor Wu Ci was fine.

After a short rest, the three of them stood up again. Looking at the labyrinth in front of them, Wu Ci shook his head with lingering fear and said, "Alas! I still underestimated the instability and power of nitrocellulose!"

"Everything has two sides! Nitrocellulose is like an untamed beast. A little carelessness will cause great harm to those who study it!" Jerome Bonaparte also sighed with emotion. Then he changed the conversation: "However, the more ferocious this beast is, the more it proves its worth! I believe that as long as we can tame this mad beast, then we will surely usher in a brand new era!"

"Yeah!" Dr. Wu Ci scratched the sweat stains on his forehead with his hand, and said excitedly, "If we can use this energy, which is more powerful than black powder, to use it to open up mountains and roads on top of buildings, we must Can do more with less.”

"That's right!" Jerome Bonaparte echoed.

However, Jerome Bonaparte did not have the same idea of ​​contributing to architecture as Dr. Wu Ci did. The only reason why he was willing to work on nitrocellulose was to explore smokeless gunpowder in the shortest time. At the expense of some people's lives.

The change from paper shell to metal fixed ammunition is a project of quantitative accumulation, and the change from black powder to smokeless powder is also the result of qualitative change.

In the original time and space, the Mark Qin heavy machine gun, which was originally called chicken ribs, immediately became the darling of the times after the invention of smokeless gunpowder, and became a famous widow maker in the First World War. By.

It can be said that smokeless gunpowder has created a large number of weapons such as Mark Qin, making the war an assembly-line massacre when the national strengths of both sides are equal.

"Your Majesty, the purpose of your ordering me to study nitrocellulose is really to benefit the whole of France, not to make it serve the war?" Just when Jerome Bonaparte was thinking about the application of smokeless gunpowder in war, Wu Ci's voice reached Jerome Bonaparte's ears, pulling Jerome Bonaparte back to reality.

Seeing the serious questioning face of the professor who was about his age, Jerome Bonaparte touched his nose and fell into silence. He didn't want to deceive Wu Ci, but he couldn't bluntly say that nitrocellulose was just for the sake of war.

Silence is enough to represent the attitude of Jerome Bonaparte.

Indeed, Jerome Bonaparte's silence already represented acquiescence in the eyes of Dr. Wu Ci.

"Your Majesty, I'm very glad that you can tell me this frankly! If my invention can save the deaths of French soldiers can make my country no longer suffer from the invasion of the Tsar, then I am willing to exhaust my As long as you can, develop it!" Professor Wu Ci responded to Jerome Bonaparte from the perspective of a simple patriot.

"Professor Wu Ci, nitrocellulose is like a sharp blade, you can use it for self-defense, and you can also use it to kill people! A knife is a knife, there is no justice or evil, the key is what kind of person is the knife holder. Use this knife with your mentality! I am a patriot just like you, and my dream is to make France great again! Let every French person stand up involuntarily when they say "I am French"!

From 1815 to the present, we have lost too many things, the dignity of the nation, the dignity of the country, and the glory of the army! I must do my best to get back all that France has lost!

I want my soldiers to be able to serve their country with more powerful weapons, rather than risking a hail of bullets to charge. "Jérôme Bonaparte did not deny in the slightest that he was an imperialist with "simple" values, and at the same time appealed to his national passion for Wu Ci.