Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 371 Bomb Throwing and Power

Over the next month, Claude spent most of his spare time on the iron ore development in the East Mosilaga Mountains, apart from dealing with the operations of the theatre headquarters. While Mr. Viberon did not know why Claude was so concerned about this iron ore development, Claude's such attention also showed that his investment of 2,000 gold kroner had not been water-breaking. With his strong assistance, grass-roots managers, as well as the Nikancha diggers, were soon recruited and it took only a month and a half to produce iron ore.

The next step is to set up a foundry where iron ore is converted into iron water for casting molds, which is a simple task, just a refinery kiln plus a mold manufacturing workshop, which for Mr. Viberon is a light and ripe thing to do, and it's easy to do. But Claude also asked for a woodworking workshop, a black powder configuration workshop and an assembly workshop, which caused Mr. Viberon to start worrying, and he didn't understand what Claude was trying to do...

It was only when Mr. Viberon went to Claude that he discovered that Miss Anna, who rarely appeared in the Fields family, was present and asked her own questions after hurrying to salute her. Claude laughed and said that now that Mr. Viberon had signed a confidentiality agreement, he could see what weapons he was going to build.

Mr. Viberon saw the big lieutenant next to Claude talking about two boxes, one filled with a 10-centimetre diameter cylinder with black iron on top and a wood grip on the bottom. Then the big lieutenant took two iron plates out of the other box, one thick on the ground for the floor, and the other thin iron plate was inserted into the groove on one end of the thick spot base plate and connected to an L-shape.

Then the big lieutenant broke the L-shaped iron plate down, and the iron plate became a circular arc. Nice elasticity... Mr. Viberon found this iron plate to be a shockproof spring iron plate under the carriage, but Claude couldn't figure out what he was doing with it.

The big lieutenant grabbed the spring iron plate with one hand, took one out of the box filled with black iron cylinders and placed it in a hole on the end of the spring iron plate with his hand, the wood grip facing down. Immediately after the big lieutenant pulled off one of the threads exposed on the wood grip with one hand and loosened the spring iron plate with the other hand.

“Boom," the spring iron plate bounced back, while the black iron cylinder inserted in the hole of the iron plate was thrown out at high altitude.

That's good, Mr. Viberon wonders in his heart, isn't that the ancient principle of a stone thrower, Claude even talks about smashing a raw iron egg, it seems perfectly possible to sell his so-called weapon in the war zone for a higher price, which means more profit...

It's just not long before Mr. Viberon thinks in his heart, he hears a "burst” from afar, and the explosion sounds. He turned around and discovered that the cylinder made of black iron had exploded on the ground. A small pit had been blown up on the dirt hillside in the distance, smoking green...

“This, this thing will explode?” Mr. Viberon asked in surprise.

“Of course, otherwise you think I set up an iron ore workshop to throw goosebumps at the enemy?” Claude answered, then turned to her sister Anna and said: "Alas, this black powder is not as powerful as a safety explosive, a motion like throwing it past the heavens and earth cracking, frightening can scare people unconscious...”

Mr. Viberon doesn't care if Claude is talking about black powder or some kind of security explosive, something that could explode unexpectedly. Even if he had never served in the army or experienced war, he knew that the kind of throwing weapons that Claude had designed would play a big role in the war. It may not be threatening to explode, but dozens of them thrown over and exploded, just to think, can only mourn the defensive enemy at the position...

Mr. Viberon had previously witnessed the armed repression of indigenous riots in overseas territories. It was basically a row of guns that went by, and the violent indigenous rioters fell down the front row, and the chicken dog jumped around the back. Imagine the result of dozens of these exploding cylinders thrown into the crowd and exploded, Mr. Vibran believed that it would not be worth thinking twice about if the Nikanchas wanted to rally the crowd to start a riot in the future.

“May I see it?” Mr. Viberon pointed to the cylinders in the box and asked the big lieutenant. The lieutenant nodded and gave the next seat.

Picking up a cylinder, Mr. Vibran immediately found out why Claude had set up a throwing structure with a spring iron plate, which was a little too heavy. Even though the wood grip in the back is comfortable, Mr. Viberon estimates he can only throw more than 10 meters away.

“Can you open it?” Mr. Viberon asked.

Claude nodded, and the big lieutenant standing next to him came over, taking over the cylinder in Mr. Vibran's hand, twisting counterclockwise, separating the black iron cylinder from the wooden handle below, and pouring out the black powder in it.

In fact, the so-called grenade design is simple. The black iron shell is filled with particulate black powder, but the wood grip has a delicate design for pulling fire. Pull the wire head exposed outside the wood grip, drive the flint heat inside the hollow wood grip and ignite a short powder twist inside. The gunpowder twist, on the other hand, revealed a large amputation, apparently in the black powder particles contained in the black iron casing. As long as that short powder twist in the hollow wood grip burns to the top of it, it will blow up the particulate powder inside the black iron shell...

This is supposed to be a very simple grenade design, just a little more advanced than the kind of powder twister that was exposed and lit directly with fire. But this is Claude's limit. After all, he was a computer manager before he crossed, not a scientific genius who could make anything.

But this has come as a great shock to Mr. Viberon, who exclaimed, "General, you are a genius to design such a powerful weapon. What is its name? ”

“Grenades.” Claude shook his head with a sigh: “It's not very powerful, and the effective damage range at the time of the explosion is too small. As you can see, if you reload it, it's too heavy..."

That's true, Mr. Viberon just took a weight that he already knew about. It's just that Mr. Viberon said, "General, since you've designed the thrower, there's no need to design the wood grip at all. If you're not throwing it with your hand, it should all be made of cast iron, filled with gunpowder. Would that increase the explosive power? ”

Things are always so wonderful that perhaps it's the outsiders who often see the breakdown of blood that obscures them, pointing directly to the truth about things themselves. Claude and sister Anna had their eyes lit almost simultaneously. Yes, the soldiers couldn't throw far with their hands anyway. Why not just remove the wood grip, enlarge the black iron housing, load more black powder, and refine the throwing device, believing that the explosive power of the grenades thrown out would be greater by then.

“I'll go back and try to improve it.” Sister Anna ran off in a carriage. Claude had to let Big Grimes keep up with her and keep her safe.

Only three days later, Mr. Viberon was invited by Claude to watch a new grenade throw explosion test.

Mr. Viberon discovered that the grenade to be thrown for the explosion test had completely changed its appearance, and the black iron cylinder had been extended after the wood grip had been removed, looking like a black iron bottle. And the simple slinger changed to a fixed mode, and the top spring iron plate was longer and thicker, and couldn't be broken down by hand. There is an extra hook and turntable next to it. You need to turn the turntable before throwing it. Break the spring iron plate down with the hook, fix it according to the scale on the turntable, and place the grenade on it.

Likewise, the thread was pulled, and a green smoke appeared behind the grenade, which meant that the powder twist inside had been ignited. Then the hook was broken, the grenade was thrown high, flying far away, followed by a "burst", the explosion sounded, and the smoke spread.

Clearly, this improved grenade exploded louder than the previous Mr. Viberon had heard, which meant that the explosion was more powerful. Claude nodded and was satisfied with the explosive power of the grenade in this experiment, which of course had to be lost, and the improved throwing structure was much slower than it had been before. However, in order to ensure the distance thrown and the accuracy of the throw, this loss in throwing speed is tolerated.

“Now this grenade is not for throwing with your hands, brother, you have to give it another name.” Sister Anna said.

Indeed, these iron canister-like grenades don't have a wood grip, so it's really hard to throw them away with your hands. Claude thought about it for half a day and named it a bomb thrower.

It's just that Mr. Viberon frowned with an iron jar-like projectile.

“What's the matter, is there a problem?” Claude asked.

Mr. Viberon pointed at the groove on the surface of the black iron shell throwing the bullet and asked, "General, why is there such a crack in the shell? ”

Claude laughed: “It's very simple. With these cracks, the black iron shell will break into more than thirty pieces when it explodes, posing a great threat and damage to the surrounding objects in a five-meter square area. Without these cracks, the black iron shell may only be blown into two or three segments when it explodes, and the threat and damage drops dramatically..."

Mr. Viberon grinned, "General, I see. This requires us to work on this black iron shell and create cracks in the exterior, doesn't it? ”

Claude nodded: "Yes, it's supposed to be very simple processing. What's the problem? ”

“Yes, General, we have absolutely no problem casting this black iron shell.” But to make cracks like this on this black iron case, we need to cut the machine and the machines, and the threaded machines. These are all machining machines that are easy to buy, the problem is we don't have the motivation... "

Power? Claude thought it was strange that he hadn't heard of it. The world had already had a simple machine, and when he got the diary and magic notes of Master Landers, he saw the design atlas inside. In designing the initial firearms, Master Landers designed a series of alchemy synthetic furnaces and machine kits for the production of barrels. Not to mention the four major gun factories in the Kingdom of Orvilas, even the military workshops in the three counties in the south of the newly occupied territories, have a large number of machine-making machines.

Now Mr. Viberon says there's no motivation. What's going on?

But with Mr. Viberon's Cope, Claude finally understood that he thought it all too simple. The world's mechanical machines, though they do, are in a very early stage, and the biggest problem is that power limits the promotion of those machines. Generally speaking, there are only three kinds of motivation available in the world, the most important of which is hydropower, followed by animal power, and the third is legendary magic.

The four original gun mills in the kingdom of Orvillas are all located in the valley, not for the sake of secrecy, but because there is a waterfall in the valley that has been around for many years. Big waterfalls like this also need to fall high, have plenty of water, etc. to be used as a power for all kinds of hydraulic mechanical machines, so that these simple performance machines can be activated to make all kinds of delicate objects on all kinds of metals and alloys, cutting, grinding, eye punching, drilling, threading, etc...

The second strain of animal power is simpler, basically pulling the connections by pulling the turntable, so that the simple machine tool device can perform some reciprocating motion to achieve a mechanical replacement for manpower. But most of these simple machines are used in small workshops and woodworks, where too hard items are difficult to handle. And the biggest drawback is the instability of animal power, which can cause errors and waste of objects produced.

As for the third legendary magic, I've never heard of it. It is to use the magic stones consumed in the magic charm array as energy to drive the steady operation of huge mechanical devices. It is said that there is only one place in the kingdom where magic is used to power the whole kingdom, which is located in Wangdu's artillery manufacturing workshop, and that all artillery tube production is powered by magic in order to produce uniform specifications without errors.

There are also some man-machines, wind machines, but none of them get on the stage. Manpower is not sustainable and wind power is unreliable, with very little wind power really available except for those windmills. The reason is that the wind is eating by God, and suddenly it's small, and it's changing quickly. Sometimes the wind has just turned the sail around and the wind has changed direction, which is trouble and labor...

Mr. Viberon told Claude quite bluntly that there were no waterfalls in the mountainous area where the iron ore was located and that there was little water available, so it was difficult to install those simple machining machines at the iron ore mill. Unless another place with waterfalls can be found as a processing site, the cast shell casings from the iron ore workshop will be transported to the site for processing before assembly is complete.

Claude asked, "Have you ever heard of steam power? ”

Mr. Viberon frowned for half a day and shook his head to say he hadn't heard.

Anna, the sister next to her, is very interested in what Mr. Vibran has just said, but Mr. Vibran has only heard about it. He's not a magician, he doesn't know how to use magic stones to power energy consumption. Instead, he remembers what the magic stones are, the concomitant stone shells of the magic crystal mines dug during the ancient period of magic civilization, born of the accompanying magic crystals, also have a little magic.

In the last era, the crystals became scarcer and more precious. So when the magician discovered that the abandoned stone casings of the crystal mine also had a little bit of magic, these stones soon became a precious resource of magic material. There is only one Demon Stone mine in the Kingdom of Ovilas and it is still in the Kingdom itself. All the magic stones produced there belong to the Sterling royal family.

Claude was a little upset, and he never thought he'd run into any more power problems making grenades. He asked Mr. Viberon if he had heard of steam power, which did not mean that he could make steam engines. Knowing that there was a huge gap between the principle and the actual production, he could not and would not draw a structural diagram of the steam engine. He could only be discouraged to ask Mr. Viberon to send someone to look in the mountainous area near the iron ore to see if there was any available hydraulic power to install the machining workshop...