At first, Ma Lin didn't know how popular honeycomb coal was in the Ming Dynasty, but he soon found out. Because Kong Tai sent a batch of local products from Taiwan. At the same time, news about honeycomb coal was also sent back...
As the governor of Taiwan, Kong Tai organized a large-scale army, mainly rattan soldiers. After the rattan soldiers were trained, Kong Tai ordered them to start their expansion in the northern part of Taiwan.
Faced with thousands of rattan soldiers and musketeers, the indigenous people on Taiwan are no match for them. No matter how brave they are, it is difficult for them to break through the defense of rattan players. If they attack each other from a long range, they cannot beat the musketeers... Moreover, the loud noise of the musketeers also has its own intimidation effect...
Therefore, in the past two years, Kong Tai dispatched troops and had already reached the coast of Tainan in later generations. A French tribal alliance, the predecessor of the "Big Belly Kingdom", was also defeated by Kong Tai's expeditionary army. The two sides fought a war at the Dajiaxi River mouth of Taichung, and Kong Tai dispatched 2,000 rattan soldiers and 100 musketeers. The fans of the Big Belly Alliance gathered more than 4,000 strong men and took the initiative to attack the colonial army that had just landed. However, he
Their attack failed to break through the defense of the rattan soldiers. The group of the most brave soldiers who rushed in front were killed by musketeers at close range. Then, the members of the Big Belly Alliance were defeated and fled. Subsequently, many defeated Big Belly Alliance members were forced to flee to the depths of the jungle on the island. Kong Tai did not dare to go deep into the depths of the jungle easily, so he occupied the coastal areas and the riverside areas downstream of several large streams on Tai Island, began to slowly develop, and build forts to fight steadily.
Then, Contai started large-scale development in the occupied area. First of all, what Marin attaches most importance to is the oil produced from the sulfonium pit. Although the daily output is only about 20 kilograms, it has accumulated a small amount. In more than two years, it has accumulated about 15 tons of oil. Of course, the ship sailed to Panama City since last year, and only brought back more than 7 tons of oil, which is the annual output. As for the output in the second year, it has not yet accumulated enough to send it back.
Marin was very happy to see so much oil. After all, even if the gasoline output rate is only 10%, it can extract more than 700 kilograms of gasoline. It can be used to burn the enemy's troops and can be used to let it go.
With this oil, and the production of oil is also constantly in the Galicia region of Poland, gasoline will definitely be enough in the future. Therefore, Marin decided to start developing a bed crossbow that can launch glass bottles containing gasoline.
These days, ships can be made of wood. If the wooden boat is made thicker, it may be able to withstand the bombardment of iron ball shells. After all, thick wooden boards are also very strong. However, wooden boats are definitely afraid of fire. Especially, gasoline burning, such as water-influenced flames.
Originally, Marin planned to try to use a stone caster to throw a simple cocktail moor bottle at the enemy's ship. However, after experiments, Marin discovered that the stone caster wanted to hit the bottle on the target, and it was really luck...
So, he thought of the bed crossbow...
The heavy crossbow arrows of the bed crossbow were made into the shape of a monkey in the future. The molten bottle containing gasoline was tied to the shaft of the Molotov cocktail. When the crossbow arrow was inserted into the enemy's arms several hundred meters, the gasoline glass bottle tied to the arrow shaft was broken due to impact, and the gasoline was poured on the enemy's ship due to inertia... Next, shoot the rocket with the bed crossbow... In this set, the enemy wanted to save the ship, which was simply delusional...
Unless the other party knows that the gasoline exists in advance and prepares to extinguish the fire with sand and soil. Otherwise, if you want to extinguish the fire with conventional watering methods, it will definitely be ugly...
However, because the oil production is currently very limited, Marin generally does not use gasoline easily. This kind of killer will only be used when attacking the strong city of the wooden city gate, or when launching a decisive maritime battle with the enemy country at sea...
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In addition to the oil produced by the sulfon pit, the product of Tai Island that Marin valued the most is probably the mothball. In the northern part of Tai Island, in this era, camphor trees were everywhere in the primeval forests. After Kong Tai sent troops to occupy the northern coast of Tai Island, he quickly relied on the Ming Dynasty craftsmen to cut down many camphor trees and extracted hundreds of kilograms of camphor and sent them back.
After getting these powdered natural camphor, Marin was very excited because his research on smokeless powder could continue...
Before, Marin only created the first smokeless gunpowder, B gunpowder, which is to mix nitrocellulose fibers into 2% paraffin for passivation, and obtained the first smokeless gunpowder in history.
However, the passivation effect of paraffin wax is average, and the smokeless gunpowder produced is prone to spontaneous combustion, resulting in very serious accidents (historically, some French steel warships were ignited by B gunpowder, and the losses were very heavy). Therefore, during World War II, everyone began to passivate nitrified cotton with more advanced passivating agents such as phenylenediamine.
But Marin doesn't know chemistry and can't make phenylenediamines. So he can only use the most powerful natural passivator - camphor...
Originally, in history, the explosives maniac, Nobel, used camphor as a passivator to develop Nord's smokeless gunpowder. Unfortunately, his invention was a little late and was born at the wrong time. Others' production equipment for B gunpowder was ready and will adopt your new thing? Then, Nobel's invention was shelved until the British learned Nobel's ideas and plagiarized his creativity...
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Then, Marin began to personally improve smokeless gunpowder. He first used the old method to produce nitrofibrous fiber particles containing 2% paraffin (the specific process will not be mentioned, so as not to be trapped by river crabs like Chapter 848). After obtaining the granular nitrofibrous cotton, Marin dissolved the camphor with alcohol and soaked the granular nitrofibrous cotton in the alcohol solution of the camphor (the nitrofibrous cotton is insoluble in alcohol). After the alcohol evaporates, the camphor covers the surface of the nitrofibrous fiber particles, forming a thin film, hindering the rapid combustion of the nitrofibrous cotton...
Of course, Marin is not sure about the specific concentration. Therefore, he made dozens of camphor alcohol solutions of different concentrations. Then, he tested the effects of various passivated nitrosilicate cotton one by one.
Then, several testers tested the effects of dozens of smokeless gunpowder on the shooting range. After several days of testing, Marin finally got a better ratio.
Later, Marin used this passive smokeless gunpowder as the standard launching medicine for single-headed bombs. Later, in key battles, all single-headed bombs used passive smokeless gunpowder as launching medicine. This gunpowder is powerful and has been passived by camphor, and its safety is greatly improved. You are not afraid of the shooter being killed by accident...
Chapter completed!