Chapter 83 Making Grenade 2

I slept soundly! Zhang Yang got up and saw that it was already bright and sunny outside. What a good day!

A bowl of porridge, a plate of side dishes, and two large cakes have been placed in the bow.

Zhang Yang knew that Liu Ruohan had come. Maybe she didn't disturb herself when she saw that she was still sleeping.

There is a warmth in my heart, and I have a feeling of personal concern. It's great!

After eating quickly, Zhang Yang walked to the blast furnace to the north. The grenade to be made today made Zhang Yang excited.

When there are few people, it can be solved by connecting crossbows. When there are many people, it can be solved by grenades. Moreover, grenades have a deterrent effect. This sound alone can definitely make the enemy unable to summon the courage to attack.

Those thousand models, I don't know how Li Bosheng is doing?

Zhang Yang walked while thinking about these questions.

When I walked to the neighborhood, I saw that the people in front of me had begun to work.

Materials are being added in the blast furnace. Looking at the situation, it is estimated that ironmaking will begin soon. Li Bosheng's efficiency is really good. Those molds have been placed together. After the iron and water is refined, they can flow next to each other.

"Brother, are you coming?" Li Bosheng ran over and asked.

Looking at the messy hair, the black face that has not been cleaned, and the red corners of his eyes, a trace of guilt flashed in Zhang Yang's heart. If it were in modern times, it must be a typical example of a black-hearted foreman.

"You did a lot of work last night. I announce that I will give you 20 more articles as a reward this month!" Zhang Yang said.

"Big brother is so good!"

"Big brother is so funny."

When everyone heard Zhang Yang say that they would give 20 more coins, everyone cheered up, and yesterday's fatigue was also swept away.

Zhang Yang looked at everyone's motivation and knew that the promise of these twenty articles worked. Today's ironmaking is still a tough battle.

After putting the ore inside, according to yesterday's steps, Li Bosheng has begun to ignite.

Zhang Yang looked aside. There was more and more smoke, and the flames became bigger and bigger. Finally, he burned the coke.

The bellows also began to blow the wind.

Division of labor and cooperation, everyone works in their own positions. Take turns pulling the bellows, crush the coke, and shovel them into the bellows with a shovel. Soon, the fire tongue inside was getting bigger and bigger, and the whole blast furnace was undergoing complex chemical changes.

Coke turns into carbon monoxide, and iron is reduced from iron ore at high temperature. The slag sinks and the iron floats on the water.

At noon, the second furnace of iron water is finally coming out.

The mold next to

has been completely dried, which is enough to withstand the impact of iron.

Li Bosheng opened the outlet and filled the small molds one by one along the pre-designed canal.

The rest of the iron water is then made into iron ingots. If you can't use it for the time being, then take it and sell it for money first. Anyway, you have everything. At worst, you can continue to refine it.

Zhang Yang watched the iron water fill the small molds one by one, as if he saw grenades one by one, playing a huge role on the battlefield.

Throw it at the crowd, bang, and solve it all. To attack the strong city, you don't need to fill the meat grinder of the city wall with your life. You just need to tie more than a dozen grenades together and pile them up at the gate. With a bang, the gate will fly to the sky.

The iron water gradually cools and solidifies. The temperature is getting lower and lower.

Zhang Yang couldn't wait to pick up an experiment, but as soon as his hand approached, he was blocked by the hot airflow. Although it solidified, the temperature was still very high. With his hand, it must be roast pork leg.

scooped a ladle of cold water and poured it on it. The white water vapor overflowed, and the temperature finally dropped.

Knocked on the mold shell and poured out the mud inside. Zhang Yang looked at his grenade blank with interest.

It's a little big, about the same size as the glass medicine bottles of later generations. How much gunpowder should be put in this one? There is too much gunpowder, and the killing radius is too large. If you can't throw it far, it may cause harm to yourself.

Zhang Yang looked at the slag all over the ground and suddenly thought of another method.

"Smash those slag into small pieces, just the size of soybeans." Zhang Yang ordered.

There is no need to explain why. Everyone is very used to smashing things, picking up the sledgehammer and starting to do it.

Black gunpowder was also taken some and placed farther away.

Zhang Yang first stuffed a fuse made into a billet made of molten iron, and then mixed the black gunpowder and slag particles and pounded them.

The fuse is Zhang Yang's gap in ironmaking. He rolled it with paper. This has been done when frying fish, and the effect is very good.

Mixing the slag particles of this black gunpowder can, on the one hand, reduce the power of pure gunpowder and reduce the killing radius, and on the other hand, increase the lethality. Not only will the outer iron shell cause great damage after it explodes, but the mixed slag inside will also scatter and be scattered by the iron shell. It is a big wound and collapsed by the slag. It is a dense small wound, which is simply better than the effect of a shotgun.

Sometimes, killing enemies is more effective than killing them, because killing enemies will drag them down.

After Zhang Yang carefully put it away, he picked up the prepared bamboo stick.

The selection of this bamboo stick is very exquisite. You have to choose adult bamboo. In this way, the texture is relatively hard and can withstand the weight of the iron shell. The thickness should be appropriate. It can be completely inserted into the reserved hole of the billet. If it is thin, it will be loose, thick, and can't be stuffed in.

This is a detailed job.

Zhang Yang carefully chose three or four, and finally found a suitable thickness. He hollowed it out, passed through the fuse, and then smashed the bamboo stick into the billet with a hammer. The appearance of a grenade was very similar. It is more similar to the "border zone construction" at the time of the Anti-Japanese War.

Watching the TV series during the Anti-Japanese War, the classic scene is that a soldier took out a grenade, pulled out the hat under the wooden handle, pulled out the fire rope, waited until the enemy approached, bit the fire rope with his teeth and pulled it away, threw it out hard, and the other party flew to the sky with a bang.

There are two types of grenades: those with handles and those without handles, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. The handle is thrown far away, and the handleless is the trigger fuse, which explodes when it touches the ground, and will not be picked up and thrown back by the other party. Overall, Zhang Yang adopts a structure with a handle. If you invest far, you can better protect yourself.

In the wooden handle, there are pull rings, drawstrings, wire reeds, drawstrings, fuses, **, and explosives. The gunpowder that can be ignited by friction between one end of the drawstring and the drawstring is coated with each other; a drawstring ignites the fuse connected with the drawstring by friction, and then explodes the explosives in the bomb body by the fuse index to make the grenade explode.

Now Zhang Yang has greatly simplified this structure. Because it uses black gunpowder, not explosives, there is no need to use **. It can be detonated directly with a fuse, but the power of black gunpowder is small, so the volume is relatively large, and the material of the fuse is pulled to ignite the fuse. Lead thiocyanate is used. Of course, don't think about this thing in this era. It's better to replace it with red phosphorus. After encountering friction, red phosphorus can be burned and is the raw material for making match heads. He just asked Li Bosheng, the warlock, several times, and he didn't know what Zhang Yang said. It can also be replaced by flint, but the institutions in it have to be a little more complicated, and you have to study it carefully and do experiments. Therefore, Zhang Yang finally simplified it to: the fuse is usually stuffed inside, took it out when it was used, lit it with a fire fold, and then threw it out.

It seems a little funny, but it's just a stopgap. If you find the right material in the future, you must make it into a device to pull the wire and make it angry.

What about training a team of special bombers in the future? Or should it be assembled for everyone in the army? This is still a question worth studying.

Ps: A grenade without a handle, also known as a grenade. Both have their own advantages: because the grenade has a handle, the throwing name is better, the grenade of the same weight should be thrown farther, and the landing point is accurate, which is generally easy to grasp after practice; the biggest advantage is that when attacking in the mountain, it will not roll down when throwing up and falling on the slope. The advantage of the grenade is that it is powerful, the killing is good, and the explosion has no dead angle.

Regarding the semi-automatic fire gun mentioned above, it has ushered in a great heated discussion among many readers. I will accept it with an open mind and think patiently. When Zhang Yang finds another bullish blacksmith and adopts the steel frying method, he can officially appear on the stage. After all, Zhang Yang's specialty is weapon manufacturing. What he gets are finished steel ingots. Now It's really a little difficult for him to make good steel. So for the time being, let this grenade play a role first.

It's really funny about the ignition device of this grenade. This is only temporary. Our protagonist needs to be gradually improved.