Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 397

"My lord, I found you!"

A disheveled, bearded, and sweaty guy rushed in like a gust of wind, grabbed Yang Menglong who was talking with the technicians about how to make an emergency breech-loading musket, jumped and screamed.

Yang Menglong instinctively wanted to kick him aside, but felt that this kid was quite familiar, so he held back, looked at him carefully, and exclaimed in surprise: "Pang Xia!? How did you become like this!"

Pang Xia's current appearance is indeed a bit embarrassing. He is so dirty that he hasn't bathed in a long time, and his clothes are also tattered. Through those potholes, he can still see the scars everywhere on his body. , It's really sympathetic, it's hard to believe that this man is actually a technician that Yang Menglong values ​​very much, a diamond king who has a house and a car!But this guy who was even more embarrassed than a beggar was very excited, and even said with gestures: "My lord, what you want, we have made what you want!"

Yang Menglong's body trembled, and he called, "Did it really come out?"

Pang Xia said: "It's done, it's done!"

Yang Menglong said: "Quickly, take me to see!" He ran away, but after walking a few steps, thinking that his wife was still here, he stopped abruptly and said to Xiao Yufang: "That place is a bit dangerous, so don't come here. Alright, wait for me here!"

Xiao Yufang naturally knew where Yang Menglong referred to by "that place", dynamite workshop, even mentioning it made one's heart jump.She said: "Be careful, don't touch the things inside!"

Yang Menglong said: "I know!" He dragged Pang Xia and ran all the way, rushed out of the Firearms Research Center, and went straight to the Explosives Research Center!

The Explosives Research Center is located behind a hill, a mile away from the arsenal. Yang Menglong was also afraid that they would cause an accident during their research and blow up the entire arsenal. He was even more afraid that these two living treasures would be fine. Get a wad of dynamite or a bottle of nitroglycerine and throw it outside and listen for the noise, so keep this Research Center far away.Pang Chun and Pang Xia have been busy researching how to refine nitric acid this year. After all, without nitric acid, dynamite can only be a fantasy, right?Now that the nitric acid factory has been put into operation, the duo are finally free to continue their research!Yang Menglong was mentally prepared for the results of their research, but he didn't expect the results to be produced so soon. Tens of thousands of taels of silver are not in vain!

In the clean and tidy research center... yes, it is clean and tidy. Although the two living treasures are extremely slovenly, the workplace is surprisingly clean and tidy.A dozen or so people were chattering around an object the size of a fist. Needless to say, these guys were also dynamite maniacs, and they had the same bad taste as these two live treasures.Seeing Yang Menglong come in, everyone stood up and saluted. Pang Chun stepped forward, his eyebrows were dancing with joy, and his saliva was about to spit on Yang Menglong: "Sir, sir, we got the collodion you wanted!"

Yang Menglong asked, "Where is it?"

Pang Chun pointed at the thing on the table: "That's it! After a lot of effort, we finally got guncotton and nitroglycerin, and then mixed the two to create this thing!"

Yang Menglong's eyes suddenly became brighter than a hundred-watt fluorescent lamp, and he took that unattractive thing over, sniffing and pinching, so excited... Collodion, it really is Collodion!He finally made the world's first safe and stable high explosive!He was so excited that he kneaded it vigorously, and squeezed the ball of collodion into strange shapes, giggling in his mouth, and almost took a bite to taste what it was like."How did you get it out?" he asked.

Pang Xia said: "According to my lord's instructions, we made nitroglycerin and gunwool separately, and then mixed them according to the proportion... There is no difficulty, but gunwool and gunwool are a bit dangerous. If you don't pay attention, they will explode. After the gun cotton is put into the nitroglycerin, as your lord said, the gun cotton melts in the nitroglycerin, and the nitroglycerin is also sucked dry by the gun cotton, and finally there is only this left!"

Yang Menglong gave the gang of sloppy ghosts a thumbs up: "Yes, you did a good job!"

Pang Chun said: "My lord, you are being polite, this is what we should do, but... is this collodion really as powerful as your lord said?"

Yang Menglong rolled his eyes: "Of course! Otherwise, why would I use it? Let me tell you, this thing is not only several times more powerful than black powder, but also very safe, unlike nitroglycerin that explodes at every turn..."

Pang Xia said: "It's safe for sure, but it seems too safe..."

Yang Menglong froze for a moment: "What do you mean?"

Pang Xia said: "We used it for an experiment yesterday. We put a fuse on it and then detonated it. The fuse was burned out and it didn't react at all!"

A guy in his forties, with burns from nitric acid splashing on his face, said: "No more! I threw such a big piece of collodion from a height of several feet, and it didn't even fart. It was replaced by nitroglycerin. Or gun cotton, it has been blown up to earth-shattering!"

Yang Menglong's eyes widened: "What else is there!?"

Pang Chun nodded affirmatively: "It's true! Later we simply burned it with an open flame, but it still didn't respond!"

Pang Xia said: "I hit it hard with a hammer, but it didn't respond at all!"

Yang Menglong couldn't help admiring these lunatics... Burning with an open flame, smashing with a hammer, and tossing such a big lump of explosives in various ways, just to find out whether it will explode, this is a kind of magical spirit ?
This is the spirit of unlimited death!

The man whose face was burned by nitric acid was very confused and said: "It's so strange that two things with huge explosive power will not explode when mixed together!"

Yang Menglong said: "I don't believe in this evil anymore! Let's go to the testing ground and try it!" Holding this lump of collodion, he led everyone to the testing ground and started the experiment.

The first is to connect the fuse and light it, people hide away, watch a stream of sparks hissing and sizzling towards the collodion, and then...

Collodion did not respond.

Then began the second step of self-destruction. After checking and confirming that the quality of the collodion was fine, I threw it down from a height of more than 20 meters with great effort, and smashed it onto a concrete floor...

Still no response.

Yang Menglong picked up a stone and threw it at the collodion who was lying on the ground dreaming sweet dreams!Such a big rock, coming down from such a high place, should be able to smash you up, damn it!

The collodion that was hit with a stone looked disdainful: Do you think this is useful?

In the end, Pang Chun took a torch and jabbed at that thing, almost getting oiled, and gave it a fire!
The collodion is full of force, unmoved!
Yang Menglong sat down on the ground, staring at the lump of collodion that had been tossed beyond recognition, even if he smashed it with a hammer, he couldn't break it. He didn't even have the strength to speak.

Pang Xia said: "It's probably like this. We tried everything, but it just didn't explode!"

Pang Chun said: "I doubt that even if it is thrown into the stove, it will not explode!"

Yang Menglong tugged at his hair, and shouted frantically, "It shouldn't be! The method is correct, why wouldn't the explosives explode? What went wrong?"

Pang Chun asked: "Would you like to try burning it with fierce fire?"

Yang Menglong said with a mournful face: "No need! It doesn't make any sense to burn it up even if it can be burned with fierce fire. Is it possible that our army can light a lot of fire in the shelling area or blasting area before using it?" He was angry. He punched the thing that wouldn't explode no matter how hard he hit it, and shouted: "What's the problem? Why won't it explode?"

———As we all know, the first high explosive in human history was nitroglycerin produced by Nobel.The power of nitroglycerin is huge, two or three times that of black powder. Its appearance has enabled human beings to truly possess the explosives for making high-explosive shells. A piece of shrapnel, if you want to kill a large number of enemy troops with this amount of shrapnel, it is simply a dream.But the problem is that it is too sensitive. If you really want to put it directly into the battlefield, your field hospital will be full of wounded soldiers before the fight starts. Therefore, nitroglycerin is also called "crap oil".Yellow solid explosives made of diatomaceous earth or flour absorbed nitroglycerin solved this problem. Yellow explosives are very safe. It will not explode, so it is very convenient to transport and use.But in this way, the explosive power is greatly weakened. Therefore, for a long time after the appearance of dynamite, industries such as quarrying and mining, which require a large amount of explosives, would rather continue to use extremely dangerous cheating oil than go against each other. Much safer dynamite.Later, Nobel tried to mix guncotton and nitroglycerin, two equally powerful and dangerous high explosives, in proportion, and successfully produced an explosive that had both the safety of yellow dynamite and the power of nitroglycerin. Now Yang Menglong can't wait to take a bite of the collodion.This collodion is so safe, so safe that he can't detonate it at all!Yang Menglong wanted to cry after so much painstaking efforts to produce a pile of stuff that couldn't be detonated!
This guy who only knows what he doesn't know why he doesn't know that explosives like collodion are very stable, and it takes a very high pressure or temperature to detonate them.Do you think putting a fuse in a pack of TNT can blow up the enemy?Sao Nian, you are so naive, let alone inserting a fuse, even if a bullet pierces through the entire explosive pack, it will not explode!And Yang Menglong obviously thought that as long as he got it out, he could put it on the battlefield immediately, so this kind of scene that made people want to cry without tears appeared, and the collodion became a fake glue!

(End of this chapter)