The elm cannon actually takes advantage of the strong and heavy nature of the elm wood. The trunk of the elm tree is cut and hollowed out in the middle, the cannon is mounted on the barrel, the trunk is closed, tightened with wire, and a hole for the fuse is drilled in the back.

A scattering cannon loaded with black powder as propellant and iron sand as projectiles.

Note that this elm wood is not hollowed out at the front and back. There is also a solid part at the back, where the black gunpowder is placed. If it is really hollowed out from the front to the back, then the elm wood will be

It's been scrapped. Moreover, the space where the gunpowder is placed can be made a little thicker, and the outside needs to be reinforced.

However, under the current conditions, there were no steel or iron pipes suitable for the barrel of the cannon, so Hu Changyi could only make a fuss about elm wood, and hoop the elm wood with several layers of iron rings to stabilize the barrel and prevent it from exploding.

Of course, the chamber pressure of this kind of shotgun is not much higher. There were not many elm cannons in history that had a barrel installed, so it doesn't matter.

If it really doesn't work, don't we have a system to assist us? If the system fails to pass the appraisal, we can just change it.

In later generations, Lao Wai believed in a saying: "Leave professional matters to professionals, and laymen should not dictate to experts!"

Therefore, after professionally drawing the lines for the two elm pieces, Hu Changyi simply stepped aside and left the rest of the work to Liu Chunsheng and his two brothers.

Although the two brothers Liu Chunsheng are young, they are around 20 years old at most, but their skills are not bad. They must have seven or eight years of craftsmanship. It seems that they have practiced child skills since childhood. Well, children of poor people have early

If you are the head of a household and learn a craft from the adults in your family, you really start from a young age.

The two brothers each took a half-section of elm wood. They first leveled it with a plane, and then took out tools such as chisels and adzes. Amidst the sound of chiseling the wood, the originally solid elm wood was chiseled into a hollow one, and then they were reshaped and fine-tuned.

, until the cutout becomes a semicircle.

During this period of time, Guo Dezhu took Li Tieniu out for a trip. When he came back, he brought back some round iron hoops, and he didn't know whose stove and anvil he borrowed.

"Brother Dezhu, your craftsmanship is very good!" Looking at the iron hoops that the system identified as high-quality, Hu Changyi sincerely sighed that Zhangqiu blacksmith is well-deserved. Well, Guo Dezhu is a serious Zhangqiu blacksmith, the kind who strikes while standing (in our chapter

In the lingo of Qiu Blacksmith, the person who squats to strike iron was taught by his master’s wife (￣┰￣*)).

"It's nothing, just the skill of eating, the skill of eating. As for Changyi, is there anything else? If nothing happens, I have to go back!" Guo Dezhu said with an apologetic look.

"Go back? Where to go?" Hu Changyi was surprised.

"Go to the village chief's house! My brothers and I were looking for an iron stove and anvil. Village Chief Xia took us to their house and found a blacksmith's style. He said it was left here by a blacksmith.

I haven't come back for several years. Alas... the blacksmiths are poor and the blacksmiths are miserable!" Guo Dezhu sighed, seeming to lament the fate of that blacksmith.

"Alas...it's all caused by this damn world! Brother Tiezhu, go ahead. No matter what you promised to the village chief, try to complete it as much as possible! It's hard to be a blacksmith, but the blacksmith is a serious craftsman no matter what. It's not that the blacksmith is here

Can a blacksmithing stall be set up on the side of the county government office?" Hu Changyi said with a smile.

"Ha, that's true. Without the blacksmith, the farm tools in the hands of the people are useless if they break. The county magistrate has to look up to the blacksmith. There are also grain sheds in these villages, and we blacksmiths are here.

It will be given out for housing." Guo Dezhu said.

"Dezhu, let's go quickly. Just now I saw that all these fellow villagers have gone home to get their stuff. It seems that you have to be busy for a day or two! But let me tell you, please beg Village Chief Xia to be his son-in-law.

Come on, I think the daughter of the Xia family is a good childbearer!" Li Tieniu said at the side.

"Wait a minute? Why did your son-in-law come to visit you? Brother Dezhu, you have to think about this matter. This is not a trivial matter!" Hu Changyi was excited when he heard this.

"No, it's nothing. The daughter of the Xia family handed me a towel, poured a bowl of tea, and wanted to make me a pair of shoes..." Guo Dezhu said, scratching his scalp.

"You... you'd better go to Uncle Dezheng and ask. Now our discipline has changed, and I can't tell you clearly. Of course, if you don't have the intention, forget it!" Hu Changyi reached out and patted Guo Dezhu's thick chest.

raised his shoulders and gave him an expression that said you had to figure it out yourself.

"I, I really don't have any ideas! Now that I'm a soldier, I could die at any time, so what else can I think of?"

"Let's go, let's go first if you have any ideas..." Guo Dezhu explained while being pulled away by the anxious Li Tieniu. It seemed that Li Tieniu was more anxious than Guo Dezhu.

Looking at the two brothers leaving, Hu Changyi smiled and shook his head. He didn't know why the daughter of the Xia family fell in love with Guo Dezhu except that he was taller and stronger.

Of course, this was just an interlude. Hu Changyi asked Zhao Fengnian that the troops could rest here for at most three days, and then they would leave for Jingxing County in three days to help defend Niangzi Pass. This time, they were facing the frontal battlefield in a serious way and coordinating front-line operations.

of.

In fact, from the perspective of the Eighth Route Army's combat environment, there is no such thing as a rear or a rear. The so-called rear is the rear of the area occupied by the Japanese. It operates directly in the heart of the Japanese and is a serious combat environment where it is surrounded by enemies.

Therefore, those who say that the Eighth Route Army wandering around without attacking is not as valuable as the frontal battlefield, simply do not understand the situation or do it on purpose. In the past few years of the Anti-Japanese War, the combat environment of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army would have been worse than that of any domestic force led by Guogui.

It is impossible for an army to persist and grow stronger.

Even if you persist, the most likely scenario is that you will become a member of the puppet army or have various ambiguities with the Japanese.

Not long after Guo Dezhu and the others left, Zhao Fengnian, who went to visit Xing Dezheng at the medical station, came back with a small bag in his hand.

"Uncle Fennian, how are uncle Dezheng? Is the wound not infected? Also, what are you carrying in your hand?" Hu Changyi asked.

"Old Xing is fine. The wound has been treated and re-bandaged, but it will take a while. This is the jujube core you wanted. I met Xiao Liu from the regiment on the way and picked it up! Xiao Liu said it was just

Sun-dried!" Zhao Fengnian said.

"Freshly dried...Uncle Fengnian, couldn't it be what the whole group just ate at noon?" Hu Changyi thought of the white rice porridge he drank at noon.

"You really just ate it! In the past, no one would care about collecting this stuff. They would eat it and throw it away. It happened to be red dates and white rice porridge at noon today. The leader heard that you wanted date cores, so he asked the kitchen to take the ones he just received.
Chapter completed!