Lieutenant Colonel Schneck brought some trouble to Claude after he was transferred to the theater headquarters by Marshal Michelchi. In just one week, the regiment headquarters had a backlog of official duties, most of which Schneck had done before. The lieutenant colonel is responsible for all the trivial official affairs of the regiment. Claude had to stay patiently in the office all afternoon to finish these official matters. Now he had to rush to Greno Castle at night to catch up with the new theater preparation meeting tomorrow morning.
It was only after sitting in the carriage that Claude discovered that Mike, who was sitting in front of him, had a bruise on his forehead. No need to ask, you know that this is most likely the work of your precious sister Anna.
"Why, Anna quarreled with you again and made a move?" Claude asked with concern.
"Ah, no, it's not." Mike quickly explained: "In the evening, I delivered food to Anna and helped her in her laboratory, but there was another explosion. This one was the washbasin that was blown up and hit me on the forehead."
Claude sighed. He didn't believe the words of his personal adjutant and cheap brother-in-law at all. Anyway, McJack was eaten to death by his sister Anna, and he would not dare to go west when told to go east. Sometimes when he was depressed after an experiment failed, he would take it out on McJack and take it out on him. However, seeing that Mike was enjoying it, Claude couldn't persuade him. This was a matter between the two of them and he couldn't get involved. He could only despise that Mike was afraid of his wife's tracheitis.
All of this can only be blamed on Claude not telling his sister Anna the story about Nobel, the explosive maniac in his previous life, who was a magician in this world. Claude said that this magician named Nobel invented an explosive that was more powerful than black powder. He read in the book that this magician named Nobel mixed nitric acid and sulfuric acid to get a liquid oil. , called nitroglycerin, can be used to treat heart disease, but it is dangerous, highly toxic, and prone to explosion.
Then the mage named Nobel looked for ways to make this nitroglycerin safer. Finally, he mixed the nitroglycerin with soil, so that it could be stored safely. It is said that this kind of explosive is more than ten times more powerful than black powder. Unfortunately, it was the age of magical civilization, and no one was interested in this kind of explosive invented by Master Nobel.
Later, Master Nobel mixed nitric acid with coal tar extract to obtain a solid powder substance called picric acid. He used this picric acid to make yellow dye, but in fact this picric acid is also an explosive. , but it is safer than nitroglycerin. In the end, Master Nobel also invented something called fulminant, but the book didn't say how it came from. It just said that this kind of thing is very sensitive and will explode when it hits a heavy blow or sparks.
In fact, nitroglycerin and picric acid are the only two explosives that Claude has in his mind. The reputation of the Nobel Prize in his previous life was so great that anyone who knows about the Nobel Prize will know that Nobel, the explosive maniac, invented the safe production of nitrification. The story of the craft of glycerin and the use of soil combined with nitroglycerin to produce safe explosives.
As for picric acid, this is what Claude read from military forums and online novels. Westerners invented picric acid, but used it as a dye for a hundred years. Finally, the French discovered it and used it in war, helping to create It established the reputation of the French Army as the best in the world in modern times. Then there was the Shimose dynamite improved by the Japanese with picric acid, which dealt a heavy blow to the Beiyang Fleet in the Sino-Japanese War of 1898. The fleet flying the dragon flag sank in the waves of the Yellow Sea, ushering in the half-century-and-a-half-feudal-and-a-half century of modern China. The history of colonial humiliation
As for mercury fulminate, Claude only knew that it was an explosive, but he didn’t know where it came from. In his previous life, he majored in computer management and was a poor student in chemistry. The knowledge he learned was for exams. When finished, return it to the teacher. So Claude really couldn't remember how fulminant was obtained, but if this problem was solved, it would be a very simple matter to produce bullets and improve muskets.
There is sulfuric acid and nitric acid in this world, Claude asked about it, but most people don't know what these things are used for. Just like sulfuric acid, which is a by-product of iron ore with a high sulfur content, people regard it as highly corrosive sewage. The same goes for nitric acid. The pharmacist extracted nitric acid when experimenting with saltpeter as a medicine, basically treating it as a highly toxic substance.
Claude told his sister Anna that he had accidentally obtained the book about the biography of Master Nobel during the five-year war in the Eastern Region. After reading it, he threw it aside without paying much attention to it. Later, the troops were mobilized and could no longer be found. It was probably lost in some garrison camp. This disappointed her sister Anna, who also wanted to read this biography of the explosive mage Nobel.
Sometimes Claude wants to know if there is a little devil who likes to cause havoc hidden in his sister Anna's quiet and weak body. Ever since he asked his sister Anna to help him figure out the production process of grenades and the design of the revolver, his sister Anna had put aside her pharmacy studies and started to like this kind of destructive explosion experiment. What disappoints my sister is that the explosive power of black powder is so small that the grenade is a bit large and requires a strong person to throw it twenty or thirty meters away.
Like Claude, his brother Blovik, and his sister Anna can all use their magic hands to throw grenades hundreds of meters away. But on the battlefield, ordinary soldiers are not that strong, and they cannot throw them so far. So Claude told his sister that the grenade can be made smaller and more powerful. As long as an ordinary soldier can throw the grenade 40 to 50 meters away, it can be regarded as a successfully designed weapon. .
On a whim, Claude told his sister Anna the story about Master Nobel. So my sister Anna got into the pharmaceutical laboratory and said that she could also make the two kinds of explosives invented by Master Nobel. Now that we know the names of the raw materials, the best ratio and manufacturing method will always be successful as long as we try a few more times. Claude was also hesitant, not knowing whether to stop his sister or wish her success as soon as possible.
But his mother's nagging made Claude very unbearable. The cabin used as his sister's pharmaceutical laboratory in the Villa Veblen estate had been accidentally burned down by his sister Anna while doing experiments. If it hadn't been for my sister's habit of casting a silence spell before the experiment, the explosion would have stunned my mother long ago, instead of simply burning down a cabin.
Claude had no choice but to ask Michael to find two empty rooms for his sister in a remote corner by the lake as a laboratory, which made his mother very dissatisfied. Because her sister Anna, who is addicted to experiments, always forgets time and forgets to dress up. Even when I go home to eat, I look like I'm in a hurry. Her mother reminded her many times that she should pay attention to her identity, stay with Mike more, and get pregnant and have a baby as soon as possible like her sister-in-law Kaifani.
Her sister Anna always promised and ignored her, so her mother turned to Claude to nag her, hoping that he would take care of his disobedient sister. So Claude's ordeal began, which made him regret that he should not have recruited the troops back to station in Lanhu Town. Some of his mothers were nagging him after being so close to home.
"Okay, even if your forehead is hit by the basin. But how is the progress of Anna's experiment?" Claude found a comfortable position and lay on the leather cushion chair, closed his eyes, and prepared to take a good rest. It was several hours' journey at night, and it would probably be two or three in the middle of the night when we arrived at Greno Castle.
"I really hit my face, and I got scolded by Anna." Mike emphasized the injury on his forehead. "Anna helped me apply medicine, and the swelling will subside tomorrow morning. In addition, Anna did use that sulfuric acid." and nitric acid to create a transparent, colorless liquid oil called nitroglycerin. Just like what you said, sir, it is very unstable and unsafe. It can easily explode with a slight vibration. Currently, Anna said that she is using various Plant a mixture of soil and test it to see which soil is most suitable.”
"You should also lie down and rest." Claude said: "Go back and tell Anna and let her try clay. I remember that the biography of the Nobel wizard said that he used clay to make a safe explosive, but it didn't say how effective it was. But it is very convenient to stick on the wall, and it will easily blow a hole in the wall when it is lit.”
"Okay, I will tell Anna when I get back." Mike responded.
"Go to sleep, we have to travel most of the night." Claude said. Silence fell in the carriage. As the carriage shook and vibrated on the road, the two gradually fell into a half-dream. Only the two soldiers driving the carriage sitting in front of the carriage and the guard teams guarding both sides of the carriage were still galloping.
Just as Claude rushed to Grenor Castle overnight, the ocean-going transport fleet loaded with the first batch of immigrants had already set off for the Tiersim Direct Territory on the Nubisian continent under the escort of the Storm Fleet. On the deck of the battleship Tornado, the flagship of the Storm Fleet, a gray-haired old man was walking accompanied by an elegant woman. Behind them, there was also a little boy of about eight or nine years old who looked around curiously.
"Father, I didn't expect that the top of the Firearms Research Institute in the Kingdom of Ovelas is also a group of old stubborns. They refuse to admit that our striker guns are more advanced and convenient than their muskets, and have the potential for improvement and development. They are still so stubborn. We insist on the ignition procedure of loading ammunition in the front chamber and believe that over the past few hundred years, this ignition and shooting method of loading and loading ammunition is the best, simplest and most reliable. Those who are unwilling to use the breech loading we invented Way.
I admit that our breech loading method is still a bit fiddly, but it can definitely be improved. Why would those old stubborns deny it and send you to the continent of Nubisia to be the general manager of some kind of gun repair workshop? In fact, we can completely refuse this appointment and set up a firearms laboratory at home. When we come out with a fully designed breech-loading gun sample later, we can slap those stubborn people in the face." The woman vented her resentment in a very dissatisfied tone. .
The old man smiled fondly: "Sofia, don't forget that there is no longer the Eskiline Principality. We have all become members of the Kingdom of Ovelas and have been made nobles. In fact, people from the Firearms Research Institute There is some truth in denying your breech loading method. After all, the biggest flaw is that the range and power are reduced by one-third.
In addition, our breech loading method is actually very troublesome. Every time, the paper scraps and ashes in the gun chamber must be cleaned out before loading. At the same time, attention must be paid to the spacing to ensure that the firing pin can accurately hit the bullet. point. In this way, the traditional front-loading method of loading ammunition is faster, and the soldiers are already familiar with it.
Because on the battlefield, soldiers are very easily nervous and struggle on the edge of life and death. Most of them rely on the instinct of long-term training of their bodies to act. The breech loading method requires careful attention and attention to the distance between the firing point of the paper tube bullet and the firing pin. This is very easy to be forgotten by soldiers in emergency situations, which can easily lead to misfires and the musket being unable to fire.
I accepted the appointment as the director of this gun repair shop because your breech loading method needs to be improved and perfected. Is there any place more suitable for us to conduct musket modification experiments than a gun repair workshop? Even though it is a war zone, this colonial war will not start for two or three years before the Hicks Kingdom is ready.
If we can come up with a new type of breech-loaded musket during this period and put it into practice in war, wouldn't it be more valuable than getting the approval of those at the Firearms Research Institute? You have to understand that muskets are weapons of war. , its value can only be reflected through war, rather than a few so-called firearms experts saying it is a good gun. The real experts are the soldiers on the front lines, and only they understand what a good musket means."
The beautiful lady supporting the old man suddenly realized: "So that's it, father, I wronged you. I thought you accepted this appointment as a compromise with the old stubborns at the Firearms Research Institute. They are clearly ostracizing you, an outsider, and treating you like an outsider." You, a firearms master, were assigned to the continent of Nubisia. But you accepted the appointment with humility, and you did not support my breech loading method, allowing the old diehards to laugh at my design. I was really angry at that time and wanted to Load your musket and fire into their stone heads."
"Haha," the old man laughed: "Sofia, there are some correct opinions that we must accept. In fact, I have been thinking about why the breech loading method will weaken the range and the power of the bullet. I suspect there are two main reasons. One is that the barrel is folded in half for loading, resulting in weak sealing. When the gas generated by the gunpowder explosion pushes the projectile forward, part of the gas leaks from the folded part, reducing the range by one-third.
Another possibility is that the gunpowder explosion is not powerful enough, and the paper wall of the paper tube bullet you made is too thick. Not only did it reduce the amount of powder, but it also left hidden dangers after shooting. There were too many paper scraps and ash remaining in the gun chamber. It was impossible to reload and shoot the gun a second time without cleaning the gun chamber first. That’s why those people in the firearms research institute will ridicule you that the breech loading method is not more convenient and faster than the front loading method. They don’t need to change the loading method.”
"But father, the gunpowder in the paper tube bullet is already the best gunpowder I have found. In addition, if the paper wall is not thick, then when the firing pin hits the firing point behind the bullet, it will easily push the paper tube bullet. Go to the front of the barrel, that way you won't be able to ignite the fire. I always use paper tube bullets to thicken the paper wall to get the bullets stuck in the barrel," the beautiful lady argued.
"Those problems can be improved, but it is very difficult to find a more powerful gunpowder." The old man sighed and said: "For hundreds of years, the performance of gunpowder has been improved to the extreme, but we still have not discovered anything except magic. Another substance besides crystal that can replace gunpowder to produce explosions. To produce an explosion, magic crystal requires a specific magic array, and the cost is too high."
"But father, didn't we invent gunpowder? I believe that as long as you give me time, I will be able to invent another explosive that is more powerful than gunpowder." The beautiful lady said unconvinced.
"Is that your invention?" The old man laughed, turned around and waved. When the little boy following him came to his side, he touched the child's head lovingly: "Without my little Mark, maybe you It took him another year to invent the gunpowder. It was thanks to his mischief in the laboratory that he mixed the potions and medicines together, and accidentally made you discover the gunpowder. Haha."
At this time, Captain Restin, the captain of the Tornado, came over: "Your Majesty, the Earl, and the Baroness, the fleet will soon approach the storm waters. The weather in this sea area is changeable, and heavy rain and heavy rain are likely to be encountered at this time. .So I personally think it would be a good idea to go back to the cabin, what do you think?"
The old man nodded: "Thank you for the reminder, Mr. Colonel, we will go back to the cabin now. We won't stay here to cause you any trouble."
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