"The gentleman is cautious, and the article is the wish of the literati to spread the world, even if it is hidden in the famous mountain, there is always a day when the world is famous, this is the literature and education, Zeng Mingzhong painstakingly and lonely Hao Shou poor scriptures and then become a summary of the wisdom of the predecessors and carry forward, it is a brilliant matter, how can you use a stupid thing like a donkey to compare him, which is very unfair to him.

It was His Majesty who ordered Zeng Gongliang to preside over the editing, and it took five years to complete, and the middle of the text was prosperous, and if you want to find out what is useful to the Great Song Dynasty, you can't get it without great wisdom and great perseverance.

This book contains not only the principles of ordnance, but also the principles of warfare, which is a new understanding and progress made by the Great Song Dynasty on the basis of the cognition of its predecessors.

Yun Zheng, this book is not seen by everyone in the Great Song Dynasty, when it comes to ordnance, the Great Song Dynasty is not much stronger than the Western Xia or Liao, just the armor and the divine arm crossbow, the skills of the Western Xia craftsmen are far beyond the Great Song Dynasty, the old man heard Zeng Mingzhong say that the Western Xia armor is cold-forged, smooth and bright, non-strong crossbow can enter, the range of the divine arm crossbow is far beyond the strong crossbow, and the Khitan saddle, Xia State sword, Goryeo secret color, are all the first in the world, although they are effective, they can't be reached.

Even the small Wa country has a famous weapon to see the world, and Ouyang Yongshu also specially wrote a song for the Japanese sword: "The treasure knife is close to Japan, and the more Jia has to the east of the sea." The fish skin is attached to the fragrant wood sheath, and the yellow and white idle miscellaneous fish and copper. Hundreds of gold into the hands of good deeds, admiration can be demons. ”

The Great Song Dynasty is greatly lagging behind others in these aspects, if it can't learn from others' strengths, it will be very dangerous, our people are weak, they can't compare with the Khitans and the Tanguts, and they lack war horses, if they can't keep up with the pace of others, how is it good? ”

Lao Bao said very sincerely, and even lowered his figure a little, which is too rare for a high-ranking official who always pays attention to his dignity and majesty, and did not use his power to oppress Yun Zheng, but only hoped to be persuaded by Guò bitterly. To achieve their own ends.

After saying a lot of words, the meaning of his words is still inseparable from ordnance and war horses, if Yun Zheng can't give him a complete answer, or a scene that can make him see hope. He will still follow his original idea and take Yun Zheng away, and empty words are not a way to convince him.

Yun Zheng turned back to Zhou Tongdao, who got up: "The whole army gathered, took out the bed crossbow, gunpowder, armor-piercing cone, and the armor from Western Xia, wrapped those armors around the wooden figures, and then brought dozens of sheep to be tied to the gunpowder test ground, and we asked the two Shangguan to see what was in the Great Song Dynasty." Finally, let's take out our restored Divine Arm Crossbow and display it together, there really is nothing to hide now. ”

Zhou Tong rang the bell in the barracks, and it was his duty to arrange various military activities as Yun Zheng's deputy general.

Zhang Fangping watched the sergeants who were still staggering and walked out of the barracks with their whole bodies draped, and went to prepare separately, so he didn't doubt Yun Zheng's ability to control. Because no one complained, and no one complained, all preparations were done silently under the orders of the officers.

He and Bao Zheng personally inspected the injuries on the soldiers' feet, and the blood blisters on their feet proved that they had really walked a long way, and then looked at the marching logs written by Wu Jie and their own handwriting, they did not want to wonder if these things were forgery. Nor should the will and loyalty of these more than 1,000 people be questioned.

Yun Zheng invited Zhang Fangping and Bao Zheng to go to the deepest part of the barracks, where there was a hill, and there was a vacant lot on the side of the river, which was the place where the Jiazi battalion tested gunpowder. I once wanted Yun Zheng to demonstrate, but when I heard Yun Zheng say that gunpowder is still being explored, I plan to wait for him to develop it and then look at it.

The assault rifle and the swarm of bees are the ultimate application of gunpowder. At the same time, these two things are known for their unreliability, and there are countless cases of assault rifles that fail to fly out because of substandard cast iron or are blown up, and finally hurt their own people instead of others.

So after seeing the power of the new gunpowder stone, he decisively closed his mouth, and before the smoke cleared, he entered the explosion site and checked the damage caused by the gunpowder explosion with Zhang Fangping.

"The bed crossbow and the giant arrows carried gunpowder, covered with paper, supplemented by bad iron...... Falling from the sky,...... Its sound is like thunder, the paper cracks and the lime scatters into smoke, and the eyes of the people and horses are squinted, and the characters do not see each other. Bad iron flies, kill countless sheep, sometimes there are wooden people wearing Xixia iron armor, the iron armor that the strong crossbow can not break, it is covered with holes, in addition to the armor view, there are bad iron into the wood for three points, like a honeycomb, this is not human can be the enemy...... Defeating the enemy is like digging for something......

Its defense of the city has the name of 'the thunder that shook the sky, the iron is full of medicine, the fire is lit, the cannon is on fire, its sound is like thunder, it smells hundreds of miles away, it covers the range of half an acre, the fire is lit by the armor and iron, although the minister stands in the trench, he can also feel the hot wind blowing on his face and can't breathe, Yun Zheng is called the test field, the pig and sheep are miserable, the intestines are broken and miserable, Wei Chen does not dare to imagine what kind of scene this thing will be after the explosion in the crowd, the most terrifying person is the pig and sheep thirty steps away from the explosion point, the whole body is not damaged, only the mouth and nose bleeding like a spring, The sergeant was ordered to break open the skin and examine the internal organs, and his heart and lungs were broken.

Yun Zheng said, this thing burns, the sound is like thunder, its sound can also kill, use it to break the city is invincible, even if the enemy has a strong city, just pile this thing up under the city with a cart, there is no one who does not break, once a large amount of gunpowder is ignited, the earth shakes and the city and soil collapse, the smoke rises outside the sky, the soldiers are frightened to death, the fire is extinguished, and the ashes are gone.

Zhang Fangping ordered Yun Zheng to construct a stone city, and then attacked it, this time the gunpowder was piled up, and after ignition, it can be said that the sky has changed, and the power is particularly cool. …… At the time of change, the flame of light rises, that is, it is extended, and the fire rises quickly, as fast as a startling snake. …… Before it penetrated into the gunpowder pile, all the cannons were concurrent, and the loud sound was like a landslide and tsunami, and Chengdu was terrified,...... As far as 100 miles away, the roof tiles were ....... According to the matter, the wooden guards of the hundred people are all broken, and the Yingdong is cracked, or it is a cannon fan more than ten miles away. The flat land is all into a pit valley, to the depth of more than a zhang. The stone city built is nowhere to be seen, more than 20 residents of Sibi, all suffer from strange disasters, the house collapses, there are many damages, Yun Zhengqi said: "There is a lot of medicine!" ……

Wei Chen's performance was originally top secret, Yun Zheng said, the official family knew, the old minister knew, Zhang Fangping knew, and the secret spy department knew, and the rest of the people knew that there was probably something discordant.

The so-called king does not lose the secret, the minister does not lose the secret, a few things are not secret, the old minister thinks so, the secret recipe of gunpowder does not know, Zhang Fangping does not ask, the secret spy department sent a special escort into Beijing, after the view of His Majesty, it should be remembered in the chest, and then burn the secret recipe, then this thing will be unique to my Great Song Dynasty, as long as there is this thing, the old minister has a solid confidence in recovering the sixteen states of Yanyun for the first time.

The old minister ordered Yun Zheng to enter Beijing to supervise the manufacture of gunpowder, and he said that this matter should be completed by sending a henchman, why bother him, it is not difficult to supervise the manufacture of gunpowder, only loyalty is required, supplemented by careful thinking, and a cautious character is enough to take on the big responsibility.

He also joked that there is no need to put the hen in front of him when eating eggs, his hen plans to lay more eggs, as for the eggs that have been laid, he naturally needs to find other hens to incubate the eggs, once the chickens are in a flock, his hen's life will be as stable as Mount Tai, and the matter of killing chickens and taking eggs will not happen to him.

Yun Zheng this person is extremely intelligent, when he was a child, he said that he should be in the Donghua Gate roll call, the countryside old man said arrogant, the old minister thought after the examination of this son's knowledge, Donghua Gate roll call does not seem to be difficult for him, but now the knowledge has not yet reached the point of proficiency, but every time there is a new theory is refreshing.

I am afraid that this son in arithmetic is really as rumored in the market, he can be compared with the sages, the younger brother of his family, as well as his disciples Su Shi and Su Zhe's cognition of arithmetic is beyond the reach of the old minister.

There is a pair of words hanging above the hall of the Yun family, which is the family motto of the Yun family, and its words say: "Establish a heart for heaven and earth, establish a life for the people, continue to learn for the saints, and open peace for all generations!" ”

When the old minister first saw it, he was full of anger, and his words were arrogant and arrogant to the extreme, so what did he say about my Great Song characters!

However, if you think about it carefully, this person has not been laughed at so far, whether it is Yuanshan to suppress bandits, or to use two peaches to kill three soldiers to destroy the Miè Tubo Eagle Department, it is all a plan and then move, Qingtang, Xixia Wanli trip is also invincible, can adults can not do.

As soon as the gunpowder comes out, there will be no natural danger in the world, and there is no strong city to defend, and the thunderclap will turn into ashes in the thunderbolt.

The old minister didn't know what to say, only the chest was like the blue sea churning, there was such a sharp weapon, and there was such a talent, my Great Song Dynasty's stubborn posture for many years will be completely reversed, Yun Zheng said: "It is not impossible to attack instead of defending, we will pull out a city this year, and the next city next year, more than ten years later, the land of Yanyun will be in my hands, and the sealing pile treasury set up by Taizu will finally be available."

The one who breaks the swallow cloud is crowned king! With such a great achievement, don't worry about the world's heroes not coming to the world, when the old minister and Yun Zheng laughed about this matter, he actually said that it is better not to be crowned king, once the king is crowned, people's ambitions will immediately grow like weeds, and the human heart is the most unbearable temptation, two more temptations, if you don't rebel, you will rebel, the old minister thinks so.

Chengyanguan, the old minister privately asked Yun Zheng if he did it, but this son admitted with an expression, but he categorically denied it in his words, insisting that those old ways were killed by God's curse, not bombarded by gunpowder......

What the old minister saw and heard in Shu was all refreshing, Zhang Fangping governed properly, and the scourge of iron money had subsided, and it was replaced by "Jiaozi". This thing was firmly controlled by the Chengdu government among the twelve largest merchants, and under the strict control of the government, "Jiaozi" could already replace copper coins in the operation of merchants......"

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Chapter I