Wu Langxi came from Qinghai and was very surprised to hear that the general had put himself in prison, and hurriedly asked the reason.When he learned the truth, he hurriedly ran to the prison to see Wang Shuo.In front of Wang Shuo, Wu Langxi greatly praised Wang Shuo's courage to review, thinking that not to mention China, even the whole of Europe, there is no monarch like Wang Shuo in the entire civilized world, even the Roman Republic era is beyond reach, it is really a generation of Ming monarchs, and the blessing of China also made Wang Shuo's face red, and I don't know if Wu Langxi really praised him, or scolded him in his stomach, "Okay, don't talk about calves" No matter what bad water this old boy is holding, it is the best way not to let him continue.Wang Shuo hurriedly interrupted him and asked, "You don't study your firearms in Xining, why are you running here?"
The Manchu Qing Dynasty is about to fight, and they can't study modern rifles, and it's okay to get some sturdy guns that can hit far, but this Wu Langxi, who has been tinkering for a long time, has spent a lot of money, and Mao hasn't come out.Hearing Wang Shuo's inquiry, Wu Langxi smiled mysteriously, took out a long thing wrapped in blue cloth from behind him, and put it on the table.The blue cloth was opened, revealing a thin hollow steel pipe wrapped inside.Wang Shuo stared at the thin steel pipe, his eyes lit up and asked: "You did it" Wu Langxi smiled proudly and said: "This is all thanks to the medical needles you forced me to manufacture when my wife was injured, the principle is the same, and you have said the method of drawing and forming many times, I just continue to accumulate experience." ”If you want to aim accurately and hit far, you must first have a strong chamber and barrel.The chamber is short and thick, as long as the steel meets the requirements, it is easy.The barrel is a bit more difficult, and in order to be lightweight and have high coaxial accuracy, it is necessary to be able to make a seamless steel pipe.How to build a deep hole drill bit, let alone a drilling machine and a lathe, the stupid way to roll out solid round steel will definitely not work.Moreover, the method is too complicated and not suitable for batch sizing production.Wang Shuo tried his best to search for the remnants of the production and manufacturing process of seamless steel pipes in his previous life, and finally determined that he could use the method of hot drawing, through multiple sets of molds, and many times to see if he could find out if Wu Langxi had relied on this method to manufacture the needles used in the hospital.But the needle is copper, and the melting point and material requirements are not high, while the seamless tube is completely different.After many trials and errors, even Wang Shuo felt hopeless, otherwise he would not have been so worried about the Manchu Qing Dynasty coming recently.With cold weapons, if you don't have any advantage, you can fight with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and you are basically looking for death.However, Wu Langxi has more patience and perseverance than Wang Shuo, and he is not discouraged at all, and he is still working tirelessly every day.This time, he finally succeeded.He proudly explained: "Now, I can pull out a pipe more than three feet long, and I have also solved the problem of tooling, positioning and power to pull out the internal spiral, and it can be mass-produced."
Moreover, the kind of bottom powder that you said can explode with a slight impact, I have also made it, but it is still unstable, and I need to add some medium to stabilize it, and I have not yet found the most suitable medium. ”You can have a breech gun, a real breech gun, which was really made in Europe in the nineteenth century, that is, the kind of weapon used by the British army in the late Opium War.With this, it was terrible, Wang Shuo, who was enough for Manqing to drink a pot, happily gave Wu Langxi a bear hug, almost breaking his waist.He forgot that his current body was an enemy of ten thousand people, and ordinary people couldn't afford him to hug him.Since there is a steel pipe and a bottom gunpowder, then don't make a front gun, just make a back gun.He told Wu Langxi how to make smokeless gunpowder.Wu Langxi was able to get the bottom gunpowder, which showed that he could already master the manufacture and application of nitric acid, and the manufacture of smokeless gunpowder was only one step away, it was too simple.However, making a backyard gun is not as simple as Wang Shuo thought.All kinds of interlocking mechanisms, springs, firing pins, first of all, they don't have access to qualified steel to make these parts.Secondly, if you want to produce these parts in large quantities, you must first get the equipment to produce these parts, and there must be mechanical power, which is a complete set of industrial basic system, which can not be made in a while.Even the production of bullet casings is not possible under the current conditions.I'm afraid that before he could make these, the Manchu cavalry would have already come over.At this time, what was Li Zicheng doing when Wu Langxi came out with a seamless pipe, he was following the best strategy given to him by Niu Jinxing, dividing the army into two routes, one was led by the general Liu Fangliang, and went out of Hebei from Guguan; One route was led by him and marched north along Shanxi.Li Zicheng's plan was that the army would move from the south to the north, forming a combined encirclement and attacking Beijing from the north to the south.In February of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng led the main force to break through Fenzhou and now Fenyang, and divided it into Lu'an, now Changzhi County, Hequ, Jingle, and drove Taiyuan for a long time, and fell into it.Then, north to Datong.Li Zicheng attacked Daizhou and Jindai County, and the general army Zhou Yujijian City was fortified, and he retreated to Ningwu after eating all his food.In fact, to go to Datong from Dai County, there is no need to attack Ningwu Pass at all.Moreover, Zhou Yuji's remnants were defeated, and the defense of Ningwu was okay, and threatening the Shun army was already more than enough but not enough.Everyone unanimously agreed that Ningwu Guanshan is high and dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, so it is appropriate to let Zhou Yuji go for the time being, not to entangle with him, increase casualties, or directly march to Datong.At this time, Li Zicheng, with an army of more than one million, was reaching the most glorious peak moment of his life.He got a little carried away, his past modest style of treating others gradually lost, and his stubborn nature gradually revealed.In the previous attack on Dai County, the Shun army suffered numerous casualties, and Li Zicheng was angered by Zhou Yuji's stubborn defense in Dai County.At this time, regardless of everyone's persuasion, he insisted on attacking Ningwu Pass and killing Zhou Yuji to get out of this evil breath in his heart.This kind of practice of only trying to enjoy oneself for the time being, without considering the overall situation and the long term, has deeply disappointed many people of insight.Li Zicheng personally commanded the Shun army to attack Ningwu Pass.Zhou Yuji knew that Li Zicheng hated him and wanted to put him to death as soon as possible, so he had no choice but to defend to the death.This time, the Shun army went up against the dangerous pass, paid a heavy price, and finally broke through the Ningwu Pass and entered the city, but the casualties were even worse.Until they reached Beijing, the injuries of many soldiers were still not healed, and they could only bring their injuries to the battlefield when they fought in Beijing, and this injury was left during the attack on Ningwu Pass.The Shun army entered Ningwu Pass, and Zhou Yuji had no way to surrender, knowing that he would die, so he could only continue to fight in the streets, which were particularly tragic.In the end, Zhou Yuji was captured and killed, and his wife Liu was afraid of being caught and humiliated by the Shun army, so she led the women to the house to resist stubbornly and shot the Shun army with bows and arrows.The Shun army set fire to the houses and burned everyone to death.In this battle, the pass was also broken, Zhou Yuji also died, and Li Zicheng was also angry.However, it also ruined his courage to march into Beijing.Seeing that a small Ningwu Pass was lost and defeated, so difficult to attack, I went to Beijing, as well as Datong, Yanghe, Xuanfu, and Juyong, all of which were heavily guarded by the Ming army.If these passes are the same as Ning Wu, then when he hits Beijing, wouldn't he have to put all the soldiers and horses into it, and Li Zicheng, the commander of the changing pole, said to the generals: "It's better to return it, so as to raise it again." ”If this is the case, I am afraid that China's history will be rewritten
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