In Shen Mo's base, the assembly of the lathe was going smoothly.

The metal parts processed using simple wooden lathes, although most of them are made of cooked iron, are much more solid than wooden ones after all.

His first pure iron lathe was smaller than later generations. Although it was simple and rough, Shen Mo felt like he had a treasure.

Using the crucible steel smelted by Uncle Jiang, Shen Mo quickly made the first batch of steel parts with this lathe and began to upgrade the lathe. Then he continued to process new pure steel parts like crazy, slowly replacing the entire lathe.

So the first lathe guide rail was made, and the first bronze sliding bearing was born smoothly. This simple lathe began to evolve itself at an astonishing speed.

Shen Mo couldn't help but feel excited, so he used human power to start making his first gun when he didn't have stable hydraulic power.

Shen Mo chose steel with appropriate carbon content and quickly made the first barrel. Although it is still smooth-bore at present, the accuracy of the barrel has far exceeded the industrial level in the early days of the Republic of China in his previous life.

After Shen Mo finished making and installed all the accessories, Shen Mo happily looked at the gun in his hand.

Okay, no matter what kind of martial arts master you want to fight with me, let him first see the gun in my hand!

Due to the craftsmanship and many other restrictions, Shen Mo's gun is exquisitely made, but the technological content is not high.

The barrel of this gun is about one foot long and is double barrels parallel, which is very similar to the double barrel hunting rifle that has cut off the stock and saw the barrel short in movies.

Since the black gunpowder is not strong, Shen Mo slightly increased the caliber of the gun chamber. Now the two barrels parallel to each other are exactly 20 mm in diameter.

The inner chamber of the barrel is polished very smoothly and looks like a mirror. Since there are two separate firing systems behind the barrel, the trigger guard is also a double-plate machine with one front and one back.

Behind the barrel are two hammers that can be pulled up. Since the spring steel is not too far, when the gun is fired, it uses a power reed buried in the walnut handle.

The gun was propelled and fired with black gunpowder. Shen Mo directly made a silver metal shell with a lathe. The bottom fire was pressed with a thin copper plate. The bottom fire was filled with thunder mercury for firing.

The reason why Shen Mo used a silver shell is because the performance of silver has better ductility than brass and is not prone to rust. Moreover, this shell can be used for reinstallation, so it doesn't matter if it is expensive.

After 95% silver and 5% brass were melted together, it was still silver-white, but the hardness was much higher. It was no longer as soft as before, roughly equivalent to later British naval brass.

After installing granulated black gunpowder in the shell, tamp it tightly with a wool felt gasket, and then add nine nine-mm deer bullets into each shell.

After that, just use felt and ash to encapsulate the shell.

When Shen Mo was testing the gun, he was surprised to find that this two-unit short-barrel hunting rifle with a level of 1850 hunting rifle was even better than he thought.

Ten meters away, the projectiles were spread out like the size of a small round table. The lead bullet easily penetrated an inch thick pine board.

When it reaches 20 meters, the scattering of shotguns is almost as big as two door panels. Of course, as the distance grows, the power of the bullets is gradually decreasing. If the distance exceeds 50 meters, it will only cause skin trauma to the enemy.

But this is also very good. This thing is invincible in close combat! Shen Mo thought happily.

The day he tried the gun was the day when he saved Chu Huaibing.

He specially brought his several of his subordinates to a secluded and unmanned mountainous area in the suburbs, and tested the properties of the guns and grenades he developed with some demonstrations.

The grenade's high-tin bronze-cast fragments are very ideal. When prefabricated fragments as big as small fingernails flew out, they easily tear and penetrated the half-inch thick wooden boards around them.

The wooden boards seven meters away were riddled with holes. The wooden boards arranged within two meters of the explosion point were almost crushed to pieces.

The gun test is also very successful. For a person who knows how to do martial arts, this gun may also have the disadvantage of being able to recoil and firing a shock hand. However, for a warrior like Shen Mo, there is no need to care about it at all.

Except for a little bit, thick white smoke will appear when this black gunpowder bullet is fired. After firing a shot, the white smoke immediately blocked the sight of the shooter. When Shen Mo saw this, he couldn't help but frowned secretly.

If this gun was not fired continuously, then when the second gun was shot, the gunman's eyes would be covered in white. At this time, if he fired again, whether he could hit the enemy can only rely on his character.

"No wonder in the era of black gunpowder, whether it is a clamp or a flintlock, it must be fired by the officer's order!"

Shen Mo thought to himself: "If you want to shoot freely, as long as one person shoots first, then the two or three people around him can't see the enemy in front of him, so what's the point?" Fortunately, the nitrate experiment has begun. Shen Mo has begun to test the use of diatomaceous earth as a stabilizer for nitrifying glycerin. I believe that soon, his first generation of smokeless gunpowder can be made. This thing is the nitromine explosive in later generations. Of course, what Shen Mo said about production is limited to experiments.

At the level of the room, if you want to produce industrially, then he is still far away!

While testing these guns, Shen Mo felt a little imperfect. He kept thinking about how to improve it.

But he didn't pay attention to the people next to him, and his chin was so shocked that his chin was about to fall off!

The explosion of the grenade was like a thunderous explosion. In an instant, the wooden boards and human targets were blown to pieces and the wood chips soared!

Shi Baoying opened his eyes wide and looked at everything in front of him. Only then did he realize that Shen Mo was alone in Fengle Tower blocking the attack of more than 80 assassins on the stairs. What a bloody scene at that time!

If this thing is thrown into the crowd, no one will be spared within two meters. As long as a piece of metal flies to you, it will be a blood hole immediately! The little pelican even breathes trembled when he sees this scene. He can't help but think in his mind that when two ships fight on the water, if one side throws a few such things into the other's boats, then the opposite boat will be immediately bombed.
Chapter completed!