Heavenly Dao Formula

The next day, when Xia Fan walked into the Mechanism Bureau, even his footsteps were a little pretentious.

"Why, you didn't rest well last night?" Mo Yun looked at him with some concern, "Although the alchemist's energy is very good, he will still be tired if he lacks sleep."

"Thank you for your concern." Xia Fan rubbed his forehead and said. Last night was obviously just picking out his ears, but he felt that he had spent a thrilling night. After being affected by the reverberation of the knives, no matter if it was an ear pick or a copper pompom, it seemed that what was inserted was not the ear hole, but the swimming hole. Like walking on nerve endings.

The current flowing in the spine hits the brain wave after wave, almost without stopping. I'm afraid that only alchemists can hold on to such stimulation, and ordinary people might just roll their eyes white and pass out in a coma.

As Li said, this is indeed a good way to exercise the mind. It's just... It's too easy to trigger other chain reactions.

At least for Xia Fan, he felt a whole new field appeared in front of him.

This echo technique will definitely become a popular technique in the world in the future.

The only regret is that the shock technique and the Kan technique are almost in conflict with each other in terms of order. He still can't even perform the most basic illusion technique, let alone the more advanced echo technique.

Otherwise, he would also like to give Li a taste of the same.

Of course, these thoughts can only be recollected by oneself, and speaking out is guaranteed to only get ruthless blank stares.

"That's right. Didn't you ask me where the remaining steel is going to be used? After ten days and ten nights of thinking, I finally came up with a complete idea."

Mo Yun couldn't help being awed.

As the person in charge of the secretariat, there must be many things to deal with every day. Even so, the other party can still take time to think about the questions he raised so carefully. This attitude is admirable.

It's no wonder that this person's mechanical skills are very accomplished. I'm afraid that apart from the factor of the listener, his own relentless thinking is also one of the reasons.

"Say, I'll listen."

"I think Jinxia's top priority is still to improve the strength of the princess's army. Only when she is strong can she cope with the various restraints of the court." Xia Fan pondered.

The iron materials in stock in the city are consumed once smelted, and half of them are used to make production machines to improve the strength and precision of processing devices. How to use the other half has become a very critical issue. It can be expected that due to the control of salt and iron, Jinxia will not be able to get sufficient supplies for a period of time in the future, and this part of steel will naturally have to be used wisely.

"I agree." Mo Yun nodded, but soon showed hesitation, "Your idea is firearms? It is true that steel is stronger than wrought iron and bronze, and it is an excellent material for casting guns, but that It's not something I'm good at. In the Ministry of Industry, this part of the industry is under the exclusive control of the Equipment Bureau."

"I have really thought about this aspect, but it has several difficulties that Jinxia City can't solve at present, so I can only temporarily abandon it." Xia Fan smiled, "Don't worry, although the new plan is far from the mechanism beast , but it is a brand new thing, even if you move the Mechanical Bureau here, there will be no advantage. If you are on the same starting line, I believe in your ability even more."

"Really?" Mo Yun also showed a smile. She believed that this was not flattery, but an affirmation of herself - after all, in terms of professional knowledge, the other party never joked. "Then what's your plan?"

"Air rifle." Xia Fan replied.

"Air... rifle?"

"Well, a long-range weapon that kills enemies without gunpowder."

Are gunpowder guns okay? Of course good. But if you want to widen the gap between generations, you must light up the line of chemical technology-before the invention of nitro propellant and thunderbolt primer, gunpowder guns were able to meet the enemy in dense arrays, in other words, they were lined up to shoot. It would be fine if there were no sensitizers, even if it was a flintlock, it would still be crushing against the feudal army, which was dominated by cold weapons.

But with the addition of qi-sensing people... the situation is completely different. For example, an alchemist like Ning Wanjun who rushes into the formation, coupled with Luo Youer's wielding willow technique, can enter the formation with only one reload time. If the person who is affected by the gas gets close, one can imagine the fate of the densely packed soldiers.

To solve this drawback, a more efficient rate of fire, power and accuracy is the only effective way. Unfortunately, in Xia Fan's view, the only special product of Jinxia City is salt, and saltpeter is all dependent on purchases. When these chemical products can be mass-produced, it is unknown when, which obviously does not meet the purpose of the urgent task.

Therefore, he chose another technical route.

A weapon that was once short-lived, but soon disappeared into history.

"Go to my office and talk." Mo Yun said.

...

In a room full of blueprints, Xia Fan narrated his ideas with lectures and drawings.

In the simplest terms, an air rifle uses high-pressure gas instead of conventional gunpowder to eject the projectile out of the barrel.

Its core components are high-pressure gas tanks and how to inflate the gas tanks efficiently. On the contrary, the firearm itself has no difficulty, and its structure is simpler and clearer than that of a gunpowder gun. Since the bullets of the air rifle have only the bullet head and no shell case, even the firing pin, shell ejection and re-entry mechanism are omitted, and the automatic loading of the bullet can be completed with only a small section of spring.

Gas tanks naturally have to be strong and strong to withstand the high pressure. To achieve this, the iron sheet and copper sheet must be made very thick, which will undoubtedly increase the weight of the gun, and the steel tank is very suitable.

More importantly, this kind of tank structure is very suitable for mass production with stamping machines. In the past, people relied on the power of waterwheels to drive heavy hammers to forge armor pieces. Now there are sky motion instruments and gear sets to drive steel hammers to fall repeatedly. And the momentum has increased by more than ten times.

The integrally formed ram gas tank, coupled with the one-way valve, solves the most critical part of energy storage.

And another big problem - inflation, is the main reason it was eliminated. In order to fill a bottle of air tank with high-pressure air, a soldier often needs to press it hundreds to thousands of times, in exchange for twenty or thirty shots on the battlefield. Although it is easy to achieve continuous shooting, how refreshing it is to shoot, and how embarrassing it is after shooting. In case of one battle after another, I am afraid that even the gas tank will not be able to rush through. This is not to mention that everyone has to carry a heavy pump when marching daily, which is also a painful thing for logistics.

But Xia Fan did not have similar troubles.

In his eyes, it is nothing more than equipping a large army with an alchemist and carrying an inflator of the astronomical version, so that rapid and unified loading can be achieved during the rest period. For soldiers, it is nothing more than carrying a few more portable gas storage tanks.

After hearing the second part, Mo Yun's eyes became brighter, she never thought of using air as a weapon!

Although this matter sounds unbelievable, if you think about it carefully, it contains the principle of law. In the previous school lectures, the other party regarded air as a real object. Since the object can be compressed, it also has the power to rebound.

A trickle of water, when squeezed, can propel a windmill until it lifts a sledgehammer, but what about gas, another type of water?

"Let's try it out," she said, rubbing her hands together.