On the ship, three short and sharp whistles sounded, and the sailors standing in front of the guns moved quickly, Guo Han's eyes widened, staring at the nearest artillery gun, and several soldiers were operating in an orderly manner. One soldier put a paper bag into the barrel of the cannon, the other soldier immediately lifted an iron through-strip and reached through the muzzle, and smashed it several times, while the third soldier opened a box next to the cannon, took out a swarthy ball from the inside, and put it into the muzzle.

After doing this, two soldiers stepped back and stood, while the other raised a torch stuck to the side and half-knelt on the ground, his eyes fixed on the front.

Guo Han raised his eyes to look ahead, and he found that almost at the same time, these soldiers had all completed the same movements, and it seemed that in order to reach this level, they had gone through repeated practice.

There was another long whistle, and the soldier kneeling on one knee stretched out his torch to the tail of the cannon and lowered a fuse, and the sound of burning sounded.

Kou Shuguang glanced at Guo Han, who was looking intently, snickered and took a step back, leaning against the bulkhead of the ship behind him, covering his ears with both hands.

There was a loud bang, and a burst of flames suddenly came out of the muzzle, and the long muzzle originally stretched out of the ship's side, but in this roar, the entire gun barrel quickly slid backwards along the guide rail on the floor, Guo Han was blown up by this rumbling sound for the first time, and before he could react, the entire building boat sat steeply backwards. He immediately kicked back a few steps, and Kou Shuguang behind him laughed and stretched out a hand against his back, which allowed him to stand firm.

The rumbling sound continued to sound, and a puff of fire erupted from the side of the ship, and the building ship continued to retreat under the strong recoil. Under the hull of the ship, waves rushed and slapped against the boat.

Guo Han opened his mouth wide and looked at everything in front of him, and the thick smoke when the artillery was fired covered the sky and the sun, completely blocking his vision.

The whistle sounded again in the officer's mouth. But at this time, Guo Han didn't hear anything, his ears were still buzzing, and the soldiers by the artillery picked up a pole with a brush at the front end from the floor, stretched it out from the muzzle, went in and out several times, put down the long brush, and then stood still again.

The hull of the ship was still undulating in the stirred waves, but the soldiers were stuck on the deck like nails, it was Guo Han. Leaning forward and backwards, some unsteady on standing.

When the smoke cleared, Guo Han looked at the target ships in the distance, there were only two left, and they were also undulating on the turbulent waves, and the place where the third target ship was originally parked was already empty at this time, leaving only a messy wooden plank floating on the water.

"Good guys!" Guo Han said loudly, and his voice was very loud. But he didn't notice it himself, and he threw himself to the side of the ship. Holding the boat gang, he stared at all this with wide eyes, and he couldn't even care about Kou Shu's time.

"Sure enough, it is a weapon of the country, with such a powerful weapon, what Qin State, what Chu State. What else are we worried about? Guo Han raised his head and laughed.

"Lao Guo, you are too optimistic!" Kou Shuguang walked up to Guo Han and said with a smile.

"What did you say?" Guo Han turned his head to look at Kou Shuguang, his ears were still buzzing, and he didn't hear Kou Shuguang's words clearly.

"I mean. You're too optimistic! The two hands cooperated in the shape of a trumpet, and Kou Shuguang said loudly in Guo Han's ear. There is nothing so easy. ”

Guo Han pointed to the river, which means that you can see for yourself.

Kou Shuguang stretched out his hand and patted the cannon body: "Do you know why this thing was equipped to the sailor first?" ”

"I was just about to ask, at the moment, your sailors don't have any powerful enemies, even if they go on an expedition overseas, the existing weapons can defeat the opponent without a way!" Guo Han nodded.

"It's very simple, this thing, each one is thousands of pounds, such a heavy thing, if you say that the equipment is given to the army, can they carry them in constant motion? That's going to be a burden. Kou Shuguang said: "In our country, the road conditions are good, and two horses can drag a cannon away, but when you go abroad to fight, the situation is different, you have also seen it in Chu State, can those roads be called roads?" With such a heavy artillery cart walking up, I'm afraid that I'm going to fall into it all of a sudden, and I'm going to fight a fart battle, so I'll be pushing the gun cart all day long! Therefore, this thing can only be equipped for the sailors now, and secondly, it is equipped on the city wall for the purpose of defending the city. ”

Guo Han nodded, looked at the big swarthy guy, and said in his heart that this is indeed a problem. But then he was happy again, "With these guys resting on the city wall, whoever dares to attack our city in the future will really be able to stand it." ”

"Who would dare to provoke us now?" Kou Shuguang asked rhetorically: "So, this thing looks extremely powerful now, but it is really not very useful in other directions except for our sailors and defending the city." ”

"The big thing is out, and the goal in the future is nothing more than to reduce his weight, which shouldn't be a big problem!" Guo Han is full of confidence.

"You're wrong, it's a big problem." Kou Shuguang shook his head and said: "The Ordnance Research Institute has been engaged in it for a long time, but the progress is not great, or the level of iron-smelting and steelmaking needs to be improved, don't look at this thing is made of iron, it is also dangerous, some time ago we had a cannon bombed, grandma's, several soldiers didn't even find all the corpses, and they were blown into pieces, and this smokeless gunpowder research institute has also been studied for a long time, and the progress is not great, you see that after this round of artillery, you can't see anything." ”

"It's pretty accurate." Guo Han said.

"Lao Guo, you're not a soldier, you don't know much about this, this is after marking the shooting boundary in advance, and the target ship also stops where it doesn't move, if the two armies fight, others stupidly stop where to let you fight, the shooting of moving targets, the hit rate of this thing is also a big problem." The smoke is heavy, after one round, from the second round, you have to fight blindly, if you can't hit the enemy accurately, then you have to rely on the gang to fight, with a bow and crossbow to solve the problem. ”

Guo Han looked at Kou Shuguang and said suspiciously: "Then according to what you say, this thing is not very useful?" ”

"You're wrong again, this thing is now being developed, it's just a prototype of a person, think about it again, when the weight is lowered, when smokeless gunpowder is developed, it will be of great use, besides, although there are many shortcomings, but in some cases, it is still of great use."

"Siege!" Guo Han suddenly sounded a possibility. "If we attack the city again, we can directly bombard the artillery, no longer need to climb the ladder, hit the wood, and directly blast an opening."

"Yes Luo!" Kou Shuguang laughed, "Come on, Lao Guo, let you see how powerful the blossom bullet is." That's for skirmishers. What you just saw was a solid warhead. ”

The sharp whistle sounded again, and the soldiers repeated the previous actions, but Guo Han saw that this time the iron balls held by the soldiers were very different from the previous ones, and they were covered with patterns.

Curious, he pulled one out of the box and looked at it carefully.

"This is the flowering bullet, after it is shot, it explodes with a bang, and it explodes, do you see these petal-by-petal patterns, and then it will be such a piece of broken shrapnel, much stronger than a bow and arrow. The target ships on the opposite side are equipped with scarecrows and good armor, let's take a look at their power. ”

The rumbling sound sounded again, but this time Guo Han had experience, retreated to the bulkhead of the ship, blocked his ears with both hands, and after a burst of shelling, the two target ships in the distance were burning, and the two small boats quickly sailed over from here, moved some things down from above, and sent them back.

Two scarecrows in armor looked miserable, one with a missing head, the other missing a leg and an arm, and the armor on their bodies was covered with broken shrapnel of different shapes, large and small. Each scarecrow has at least dozens of such fragments embedded in it.

"Oh my God!" Guo Han shook his head again and again, "If such a bomb explodes in the crowd, then the destructive power is too great." ”

"Of course, this is the ammunition that is designed to deal with dense charges. By the way, this shell has also been made into a throwing shell, ready to be equipped for the army, of course, much smaller than this. Kou Shuguang motioned to his officers to take one and show it to Guo Han, "That's it, we also have some here, but this thing is produced very little now, mainly because this kind of flap-shaped projectile is too difficult to build, and now it is only equipped for a few special forces." ”

Guo Han took the sweet potato-sized thing, swiped it in his hand, and looked at the guide rope at the tail, "Ignite him when you throw it!" ”

"Yes!" Kou Shuguang said: "The king is very happy that the Ordnance Research Institute made this thing, and personally named it a grenade, but the king also put forward some other suggestions for improvement, and now the Ordnance Research Institute is focusing on spontaneous fire, and there is no need for soldiers to carry fire folds with them." If it's really successful, it's much more convenient, but I don't know when I can succeed. ”

Guo Han's face was full of excitement, "Qin Chu thought that everything would be fine when he stole gunpowder from us, how could he have expected that we had greatly advanced the use of gunpowder, and at that time, let them taste the power of these things, that damn Mao Wei, now he is the Hou Ye of Qin State, who specializes in making gunpowder for them, it makes people angry to think about it." ”

The Mao Wei incident was the most painful failure of the Supervision Yuan and the National Security Bureau later, and it is no wonder that Guo Han gritted his teeth when he mentioned this matter.

"The king has never worried about this problem, weapons, is a systematic project, compared to gunpowder, the king pays more attention to the growth of basic industries, as the king said, the threshold of gunpowder is very low, but how to use it is a systematic project, and it is precisely these system projects, Qin Chu is a horse can not catch up with us, wait, Lao Guo, it won't take many years, this world, will be planted with our Yellow Dragon Banner." (To be continued......)