The mixing of black powder was not difficult for Dong Liang.

He served as a soldier, worked as a technician in an arsenal, and was a teacher in a technical school for the rest of his life.

These things were easy to grasp, and what he made was still particles of gunpowder.

It's just one more step. Dong Liang can get both egg whites and rice soup.

Sulfur and fire salt were purchased, and there was a lot of charcoal in the camp.

The island has lush vegetation. Dong Liang taught Lin Ben to build several earthen kilns on the edge of the woods. This way, the charcoal fired was not only efficient, but also produced charcoal with fewer impurities.

People in the life group are very busy now, and they have been divided into several groups to take charge of different things.

Dong Liang needed a lot of wood, and he even planned to set up a wooden fence around the camp to build simple defenses.

For logging alone, there are not enough people in the life team.

Dong Liang had to organize his guards to act as lumberjacks after training.

Outside the gunpowder warehouse, a yard was built with wood and thatch to protect it from the wind.

This became Dong Liang's firearms processing site.

A square piece of cotton cloth was spread in front of Dong Liang.

While explaining, he also gave demonstrations to the Chinese workers.

After a while, a small explosive bag was planted by Dong Liang.

This explosive bag is boxy and smaller than the explosive bag used by engineers.

Because the small explosive packs made by Dong Liang were used as grenades.

He currently does not have the conditions to use pig iron to cast the shell, so he can only use explosive bags to make grenades.

However, Dong Liang mixed some sharp stones into the gunpowder, which should be able to play a certain role in actual combat.

In addition, he also needs to make some land mines.

It is not difficult to make explosive packets. You must master the key points of tightness, solidity and density.

The craftsmen are required to be careful and patient during production.

The tightness of the bandage is directly related to the power of the explosion.

On the "Bonn", Richard was working non-stop with the remaining ten sailors.

These sailors did not participate in the riot on the deck and were lucky enough to survive.

But they helped dispose of the body, and most of them were discouraged.

Especially Banner's body, which was almost broken into two parts, gave these foreign sailors nightmares every day.

"Richard, are we going to keep working for these piglets?"

A sailor said to Richard that he knew that the remaining guards on the ship could not understand English at this time.

"Stop talking and work with peace of mind. I don't want to die. That Mr. Dong is a scholar and he can keep his word."

"Ouch!" A stone hit the sailor. He screamed and looked around.

I saw the tall, stout piggy with hair as short as a steel needle, sitting motionless on the top of the poop, seemingly looking at the scenery of the bay in the distance.

"Go to work, Bush. As long as we obey orders, we won't die. You should be lucky that they are not a group of savages who cannot communicate."

The "Boen" will have to wait until there is another strong tide ten days later before it can sail out.

Before that, Richard had to repair the sails and rudder.

Kang Baye also knew what happened on the shore. He was very worried.

But Dong Liang is right. This big ship is their escape route. It carries everyone's expectations and must be protected.

He had been keeping an eye on these crew members for the past two days.

Fortunately, they have already lost their courage and should not cause any trouble again.

Three days passed, and Dong Liang still had not seen a trace of Fusang.

The spears of the escort team have already been made. Although the ship nails are called nails, they are more than a foot long. After being hammered, they can easily be made into the spear heads.

The spear shaft is not made of bamboo.

Dong Liang discovered a kind of tree in the forest. This tree was only as thick as a wrist and branched from the root. Each tree had more than a dozen scattered trunks.

This kind of trees all grow in dense forests. In order to let the treetops get the sun, they focus on growing taller.

So much so that there is no extra energy to grow thicker.

Dong Liang's eyes lit up when he saw this thing. This kind of tree trunk is like a white wax pole, and it is really a natural spear handle.

In three days, Dong Liang made more than 300 spears, each of which was more than five meters long.

He also made five or six hundred short spears from the surplus ship nails.

The beach was their training ground, and Dong Liang was holding a strange tool in the shape of a crutch in his hand.

"Xu Shu, come and try throwing a short spear with this thing." Dong Liang's fellow villager Xu Shu was assigned to Wang Su's second spearmen team.

At this time they were practicing spear throwing on the beach.

The short spear appeared earlier than the bow and arrow, and its use is simpler than the bow and arrow.

Dong Liang now has no time to make bows and arrows, nor to train archers.

Most of this island is covered with mountains and forests. The spear throwers might be able to play a greater role.

"Yes, Captain." Xu Shu took the small tool from Dong Liang's hand.

This thing has a rung at one end. Place a short spear on its smooth surface and support the thick end of the spear on the rung.

Xu Shu's hand was held on the handle at the front of the tool. There were grooves on the handle that fit perfectly with his fingers.

Xu Shu threw it forward with force, and the short spear flew more than twenty feet this time, nearly one third longer than the distance he had just thrown.

"Captain, this thing is good. The strength I used is obviously the same as before. Why does the short spear fly further?"

Dong Liang didn't have time to tell them about the principle of leverage in the process of throwing spears.

"Captain, what kind of books did you read before? Why do you understand everything?" Wang Su said with admiration.

They were originally worried about whether they could withstand the Fuso people's revenge.

But in just three days, Dong Liang trained more than two hundred spearmen and made sharp spears for them.

As Dong Liang said, weapons are the courage of soldiers.

Dong Liang taught them how to use a small torsion catapult to throw explosive packets, and how to change the formation of the spear phalanx and how to cooperate.

He also taught them how to use short spears.

This group of Chinese laborers felt that they could just attack the county seat now.

They have also seen the imperial court's flood troops in various places, and the guys they use are worse than themselves.

"This thing has been used for tens of thousands of years, of course I know." Dong Liang said with a smile.

This spear-throwing device has been around since the Neolithic Age, but our Chinese civilization invented bows and arrows long ago and rarely use these primitive things.

Dong Liang made a visual inspection and found that using a spear thrower, you can basically throw a short spear to a distance of seventy or eighty meters.

Although the longbows commonly used by the Fuso people are longer than their bodies, they only have a range of thirty or forty meters.

By then, their archers had been pierced by short spears before they even fired their bows.

"I'll say it again, when throwing a spear, lean your body forward as much as possible, and when your arm finally stops, point directly in front of the target you want to throw." Dong Liang once again helped them demonstrate.

After staying at the training ground for a while, he was called to the workshop again.

A fixed area was set aside in the camp as a workshop.

There is a blacksmith shop and a carpentry workshop here.

Although the conditions are simple, the sparrow is small but has all the internal organs.

"Captain, what do you think of this gun carriage?"

In front of Dong Liang was a two-wheeled artillery cart.

He drew all the parts in advance, and then the Chinese carpenters helped to make them.

The finished product has just been released.

The artillery carriage is not big, and almost all of it is made of wood.

Dong Liang prepared to install several small artillery pieces on the ship on the gun carriage.

In this way, if they had a field battle with the Fuso people on the island, these cannons would be more convenient to use.

The training intensity these days is very high.

Everyone is basically operating at full capacity.
Chapter completed!