Chapter 271 (1/2)
Hearing that, all the faces, including Kuaima, looked forward to it. Even Gao Niu and Da Jiao don't talk about evacuating any more, because they all want to see the power of the thing that the guardian ordered in actual combat.
In this expedition to Yuchi people, Kuaima, as the rock bear's most determined younger brother, will naturally follow. And he also helped Jack Williams make this ”gadget” together. When he used this ”gadget” later, he was the main controller.
It's a ”gadget”, but it's really big. At least it's much bigger than the muskets used by brothers.
Five large barrels wrapped in animal skins were unloaded from the back of the cattle. The barrels were made of thin steel plates, riveted at the joint and bottom, and opened at one end.
The diameter of a big barrel is 40 cm and the length is about one meter. The whole body is made of thin steel plate about 3 mm thick. The weight of such a big barrel is more than 160 Jin. A cow can only carry such a cylinder.
That's why the expedition team used ten domesticated bison to pull ammunition supplies, mainly to pull these five ”gadgets”.
While Kuaima was unloading these five ”trinkets”, some other soldiers had already dug five inclined pits with a depth of more than 70 cm and a diameter of about half a meter on the top of the hill with the fastest speed. After the five big barrels were unloaded, they were directly put into the excavated inclined pits, and then the voids were filled with the excavated soil.
By this time, the soldiers on guard had begun to shoot. Some fast running Yuchi people have reached the foot of the hill, about 200 meters away from the top of the hill.
Because it's a commanding shot, it's OK to extend the distance appropriately.
After the big barrel was placed, Kuaima put five logs as thick as 15cm into the bottom of the barrel.
A round groove with a diameter of about 20 cm was dug out in the middle of the log, which was naturally done by the old wood family.
The main function of this circular groove is to hold black powder.
When the log fell on the bottom of the barrel, the five tall tree tribe men carefully poured the black powder contained in the leather bag into the groove, and at the same time inserted a long fuse into the black powder, and then led the fuse outside.
After doing all this well, another round board about three centimeters thick was put on it, and then a medicine bag with fuse was put on the round board.
The inside of this kind of cartridge is a pottery pot, which contains a large amount of black powder, which is equivalent to a handmine made of clay that has been expanded several times. The outside of the pot was wrapped in several layers of cotton cloth and wrapped with string.
Because the clay pot is too brittle, it is wrapped with multi-layer cotton cloth to prevent the clay pot from being broken during firing.
The main function of that round board is to isolate it. Its name is isolation board. When the black powder in the groove of the log below is ignited, a large amount of gas generated by the explosion of the black powder will push the board upward and shoot out the cartridge on the round board at the same time.
It's true that after these five big barrels, logs and round boards were assembled, a ”super heavy weapon” was formed, which frightened the enemy during the liberation period. This simple but powerful weapon was helplessly called ”conscience gun” by the enemy.