Chapter 3: 3 secret weapons
Chapter 3 3 Secret Weapon
Burnas is a small town by the sea. This town has a pier. Many nearby fishermen come here to convert their day's catch into cash. So there are people coming and going here most of the time, and it seems quite prosperous.
Tang Mo's weapons workshop is located on the edge of this town. It relies on coal dug from the nearby mountains and purchased iron to produce a variety of products.
The best-selling item has always been the long sword. Most of the mercenaries and city guards in the kingdom actually use cold weapons, and the long sword is their best choice.
The second thing is not military products, hoes, farm tools, iron pots and kitchen knives. These things may not seem very profitable, but they are another big part of the income of this weapons workshop.
This is the current situation, a fact that Tang Mo doesn’t want to admit, but must face—this place is more like a blacksmith shop than an arsenal!
Originally, such a blacksmith shop could barely maintain its existence and continue to survive peacefully. However, the relationship between the Kingdom of Leyte and the Kingdom of Susas on the northern border has become tense recently, causing the price of steel to start to soar.
As the clouds of war enveloped the land, people began to become nervous, orders began to decrease, and people began to cautiously wait and see how the situation would change - all of which made it difficult to operate Tang's Arms Store.
After staying up all night without rest and dragging his tired body back to his own territory, Tang Mo was too tired to continue talking.
It's not that he doesn't want to stay in the city for one night before coming back, but that he really can't afford the accommodation money. So he and Roger traveled all night and returned to the workshop at dawn.
"Ha..." Tang Mo opened his mouth and yawned while slumping on his chair. The ledger on the table was open, still on the page he had turned to when he left.
An inkwell and an old-looking dip pen were placed alone in one corner of the table, and in the other corner was a gas lamp.
You need to open the window when using this thing in a room. It is dangerous but very cheap. At least until Tang Mo comes up with a tungsten electric lamp, this thing will definitely not be eliminated.
He is not like those aristocratic gentlemen who have money to use expensive candles. Or maybe in the future, but now he definitely belongs to that kind of poor poor person.
This office is actually Tang Mo's bedroom. There is a single bed and a large wardrobe full of messy things.
When wages could not be paid and the workshop faced bankruptcy, Tang Mo chose the latter between selling the workshop or selling the house. He kept the workshop and sold the beautiful house where a happy family of three once lived.
Things were extremely bad before he traveled through time. The entire workshop didn't have much liquidity, but luckily, luckily he came!
"It's not my style to sit back and wait for death like this, Roger! We should try again. If we go to the royal city, is there any way to see the king?"
"Impossible, how could the king receive a commoner for no reason." Roger beat his stiff calves and shook his head at Tang Mo.
Tang Mo was stunned for a moment, then looked at the new rifle leaning against the wall, and asked in surprise: "Isn't there a reason for this?"
"Cyric's people will not let us see the king. I can even say responsibly that once our technology is known to the other party, they will imitate it immediately without hesitation, and then use the price to easily squeeze us out. "Roger continued shaking his head.
"Okay! I haven't slept all night. You should go and rest first." Tang Mo sent old Roger out of his room, then twisted his neck twice and said something to the young apprentice who was peeking his head not far away. Waved: "Have you finished the things I arranged before I left?"
"Yes, sir." After hearing Tang Mo's question, the young apprentice ran over and handed a part in his hand to Tang Mo like a treasure.
It is a cylindrical part, slightly smaller than a fist. People who are familiar with it can tell at a glance that it is a cylinder for a revolver.
Tang Mo looked at the smooth bullet chamber with an excited smile on his face. His secret weapon, the last part, was finally completed!
He returned to his room, sat back at the table, opened the drawer, and took out an oil paper bag inside. After opening it, a mess of parts appeared in front of him.
Suppressing his sleepiness, he began to assemble the parts, splicing seemingly unrelated things together. Sometimes, he would use a small hammer to hit rivets to firmly connect the movable parts.
Of course things were not as easy as he thought. By the time the revolver was nearly completed, it was already ten minutes past noon.
When he picked up the revolver from the table again, it was already a truly finished product.
Tang Mo raised the pistol level, crossed the crosshair through the gap in the rear sight, and pointed the muzzle in the direction of the door.
Whether it is a needle gun or the revolver in his hand that has never appeared in this world, they are actually the result of the joint progress of guns and bullets.
Tang Mo made mercury fulminate by himself in his simple laboratory, and produced a small amount of this more advanced and stable ignition device.
With this thing, the firing structure of the flintlock gun becomes too cumbersome, because mercury fulminate can be easily processed into a new firing device: the "flash cap". The reason why Tang Mo was able to master all of this was because he traveled through time with a computer in his arms. After coming to this world, he inexplicably had a supercomputer in his mind that could search for any information online.
With the help of this "golden finger", Tang Mo improved the weapon based on the existing technology - hence the needle gun, and the one he has now almost overturned the entire era. revolver.
Today's firearms can only fire one shot at close range, which severely limits the tactical use of firearms in complex situations.
So, like many old movies, most weapons of this era were equipped with both firearms and cold weapons such as long swords.
Who would have thought that a weapon to break this shackles had already appeared and was already in Tang Mo's hands?
The terrifying firepower that can fire six consecutive shots is Tang Mo's secret weapon, which is enough to give him a certain ability to protect himself when facing any enemy.
This weapon uses paper fixed-loading ammunition, and its rate of fire and reloading are faster and more convenient than all existing weapons. When facing a flintlock gun, the time it took for the opponent to fire three shots was enough for the pistol in Tang Mo's hand to fire 12 shots - such a density of firepower was definitely enough to be described as terrifying.
Just when Tang Mo was about to put the bullets he had prepared in advance into the pistol to try, a little boy wiped his oil-stained hands with his apron and stood at the door looking into the room: "Boss ! Someone is looking for you! He said he is here to buy a gun."
Tang's Weapons Workshop is said to be a workshop, but in fact it is larger than a small factory. As the saying goes, a sparrow may be small but has all its internal organs, but this small business is what I'm talking about.
There is a smelting and metallurgical workshop here, which can produce suitable steel by itself. There is also a production workshop for forging and grinding.
Of course, because I had repaired muskets before, there were also some woodworking equipment and machinery and corresponding operators, plus a few women who cooked for these workers' apprentices, which was really a lot of people.
Except for the apprentices, everyone depends on Tang Mo for food. Of course, these people are also very skilled. Many of them are independent craftsmen in their positions. This is the main reason why Tang Mo decided to continue working with them. .
What is the most expensive thing these days? Talent! After more than ten days of contact and work, Tang Mo felt that these workers could definitely be regarded as talents among talents!
It was with the help of these skilled workers that Tang Mo was able to complete the design and manufacture of the needle gun and dare to challenge the arms giant Cyric who stood in front of him!
After passing through the manufacturing workshop, Tang Mo saw the man who had come all the way from afar by the furnace of the hot smelting workshop.
One of them, Tang Mo recognized at a glance, was the guard who stood next to Baron Stella when he tested the gun.
"Sir!" Tang Mo, who recognized the other party, stretched out his hand and shook the other person's hand symbolically: "Welcome to Tang's Weapons Store."
"My name is Wes! We met at Baron Stella's before." Wes introduced himself: "I chased you all the way, but I didn't expect you to come back here overnight."
Tang Mo Tang Mo motioned to the workers who were watching to continue working, then turned to look at Weiss and asked with a smile: "So, what are you doing here after chasing me all the way?"
"I'm here to buy weapons." Weiss heard Tang Mo ask this and immediately replied: "I'm interested in that one..."
“K1 type fast gun.” Tang Mo reminded.
"I'm very interested in that K1 fast gun." Weiss took off his gloves: "In other words, one of my regular customers... will definitely be very interested in the K1 fast gun."
Tang Mo nodded slightly: "This is good news for us. Can we talk about this regular customer of yours? I always need to know who to collect the balance from, right?"
"Hahaha!" Weiss laughed loudly, and then nodded: "I used to work for Count Ronin Fisherow, and later I was employed by Baron Stella... But I still prefer him to that dude. Count Fischereau."
He paused and continued: "You know, the relationship between our kingdom and the Kingdom of Sussus has become increasingly tense recently... At the northern border, Earl Fisherot's territory has become endangered. The pressure of the war has made He must be prepared, but the earl, who loves his people as his own children, does not want to conscript civilians to die. "
"It is regrettable that by relying only on a well-trained standing army, the earl has to face the dilemma of lack of troops. Therefore, he urgently needs some ways to solve the current problem." Weiss said: "I think , the K1 gun in your hand may be the answer."
"Then you have really found the right person!" Tang Mo snapped his fingers and pointed at Tang Mo: "Believe me, the K1 gun's rate of fire is three times that of the Cyric flintlock gun! Invasion of the Earl's Territory People will understand what the oncoming steel storm means!"
"I have no doubt about this, so I quit my job and came here to find you... I hope you can go to Beiling with me. Bring your new weapons! The count's reward is not low, 500 gold coins... I will take it Thirty percent." After Weiss finished speaking, he looked at Tang Mo, waiting for his decision.
“Twenty percent.” Tang Mo thought for about ten seconds, but finally couldn’t let go of such a big temptation and was ready to take a risk.
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(End of this chapter)