Of course, artillery technology has made great progress in these years. It can now attack at a distance of five miles, which is a distance of 2,500 meters.

However, Pidao does not yet have the technical conditions to manufacture artillery. In addition, artillery is too heavy and heavy to transport, and its loading is not as fast as trebuchets. Therefore, Li Xiao has no plans to manufacture artillery for the time being, but Li Xiao still wants to tinker with it in the future.

Yes, after all, this thing is heavy and not conducive to movement.

But it is still good to install it on the ship. After all, Phi Island is on the sea. After all, you have to deal with enemies on the sea!

After seeing the throwing distance of the trebuchet, the old fisherman said with a mocking face: "The trebuchet can throw this distance, so it is no longer useful."

"Yu Lao! What do you mean?" Ao Canghai's face immediately dropped. He had worked so hard to train. Now being said to be ineffective, his uncle couldn't bear it and his aunt couldn't bear it.

"It's not interesting! The latest muskets can already hit this distance." The old fisherman said with confidence, and the corners of his mouth could be turned to the back of his head if his ears were not blocking them.

"You mean, the musket can shoot as far as 600 meters? Even if it's inaccurate!" Ao Canghai looked in disbelief. He was very familiar with the matchlock gun. It can accurately hit within 200 meters.

The target is very rare, otherwise we wouldn't have to line up and fire off the rifles.

Although nitrocellulose is now available, it is not difficult to shoot 600 meters. But it is difficult to shoot 600 meters accurately.

"Don't believe it?" the old fisherman said with his lips curled up. He had a confident smile unique to craftsmen on his face. Next to him, Inafu Yu had the same moral character as him. The two old guys who were hostile to each other at the beginning have now become good friends. Li

When Xiao is free, he will see two old guys having a drink together, and then going into the laboratory to tinker with murderous weapons.

"Don't believe it? I'll bet you a pig!" Ao Canghai immediately offered the price.

"Okay! Just bet on a pig!" The fisherman agreed happily.

Material supplies on Pi Island are based on units, such as the artillery team and musketry team of Aocanghaiguan. Because of the large number of people, four pigs are allocated for food every ten days.

The number of people in Yu Lao's craftsman camp is relatively small, but considering the importance of the craftsman camp, Li Xiao received preferential treatment and was given two pigs every ten days.

Ao Canghai is in charge of the musketeers and artillery teams, so he naturally has the final say on what happens there. The craftsman camp is now the territory of the old fisherman, so he can also make the decision.

It was about a pig, and Li Xiao also wanted to see what the two old glasses had done.

The old fisherman ordered his men to return to his workshop and take out a gun about one and a half meters long. Ao Canghai was surprised to find that the gun did not have a match rope.

The old fisherman took out a small bag of nitrocellulose wrapped in kraft paper and poured it into the barrel of the gun, and then put a small pellet in. The pellet seemed to be smaller than the caliber of the barrel, and it just slipped into the barrel without using a purge strip.

"Old Yu, can this be done without a gun?" Ao Canghai's eyes widened. The reloading alone was much faster than the matchlock gun he used before.

"This thing is thinner than the barrel of a gun, but it has to be compacted with a rod." The old fisherman looked at Ao Canghai with an idiot's eyes. The ammunition was not compacted and the barrel would not fall out once it was downwards.

Only an idiot would ask such a question!

There is a live pig tied up in the lime circle just 600 meters away. It seems that this bastard Ao Canghai did it on purpose. The live pig can move. This makes shooting very difficult. You can use a matchlock gun accurately.

Hitting a target so far away is almost impossible.

After compacting the bullet with a purge, the old fisherman handed the gun to Inatomi Yunao.

The old guy put the gun on the erected frame, put the butt of the gun against his shoulder and started taking aim.

"Bang!" Inafumi pulled the trigger straight away, and thick smoke suddenly erupted from the muzzle.

When people looked at the pig in the distance, they found that the pig had fallen to the ground and howled.

It was already very difficult to hit a pig at this distance. Li Xiao and everyone walked towards the wailing pig. The bullet hit the pig's butt, and the point of impact was simply shocking.

The muscles are rolled outwards, and you can see the white bone stubble and the yellow bone marrow oil flowing out. Half of the pig legs are only connected by a thin layer of skin. When Li Xiao and the others walked over, the pig had already entered.

The last moments of life.

It was also the first time for Yu Lao and Yu Nao Inatomi to use mini bullets to shoot living creatures, and they were shocked when they saw the power. This is much more destructive than using round projectiles.

What they didn't know was that Li Xiao specifically ordered the lead core of the bullet not to be wrapped. After the bullet was injected into the human body, the lead core expanded or ruptured, thereby expanding the wound surface and causing serious injuries to personnel.

If a person is hit directly by a dummy bullet at a distance of one hundred meters, those hit in the head will be 100% killed, those hit in the limbs will be 20% killed, and all the remaining limbs will be amputated. Those hit in the left chest (near the heart) will be 100% killed.

Death, 70% if hit in the right chest, and 10% if hit in the abdomen.

In later generations, this kind of thing called dummy bullets was banned by international conventions. But these days, Li Xiao has no such worries. As long as it can kill Tatars, Li Xiao will use any bullet. Besides, with the Tatars'

With technological prowess, it is not unusually difficult to imitate flintlock guns and Mini bullets.

Up to now, they still love the powerful bows and arrows and the swords and spears in their hands. It is with these swords, spears and powerful bows and arrows that they defeated the Mongols and the Ming army.

They showed extraordinary confidence in the weapons in their hands.

What Li Xiao has to do is to dispel their self-confidence and let them go back to the white mountains and black waters. Of course, before that, they have to pay with blood.

Stalin once said that hatred formed by blood can only be resolved with blood.

Li Xiao thinks Stalin is right!

"Fuck! This thing is so powerful, what did you come up with again?" Ao Canghai's eyes widened and he couldn't believe the facts in front of him.

"From now on, when soldiers load each bullet, they will only use this pack of gunpowder." Li Xiao discovered that Mr. Yu and Yu Dafu had thoughtfully made the black powder into a small solid medicine cake.

This kind of small medicine cake is placed on the fire door, so you don't have to worry about sprinkling propellant.

The dosage of nitrocellulose was summed up by Yu Lao and Yu Nao Inatomi through countless experiments. This dosage will not have a fatal impact on the gun bore. It can also propel the projectile to the maximum extent. This is how the 600-meter range is achieved.

"Master Ao! You lost a pig to us, don't be shameless!" The old fisherman smiled and joked about Ao Canghai.

"Don't be shy, this pig is just for you."

"You...!" Looking at the pig whose entire hind leg was smashed, the old fisherman was speechless. A good pig was now missing one leg.

I don't know when, the fifth master also came over. When he saw Li Xiao, he smiled and said, "Are there good things again?"

"Well! A new type of rifle. Why are you back, Mr. Wu?"

"The military order from Inspector Wang is for Master Mao." The Fifth Master took out a military order from his pocket and handed it to Li Xiao.

Of course, Li Xiao would not ask Mao Wenlong to study together. When he opened the envelope and took out the letter inside, Li Xiao suddenly fell into deep thought.
Chapter completed!