The military exercise ended.

"Uncle, you are so powerful, even the prince can win. Now in our Pingwang Mansion, there are two Great Chu God of War. ”

Zu'er said excitedly.

"Well, my uncle is amazing. In the future, my uncle's reputation will definitely be higher than that of the prince!"

Di'er's eyes also lit up, and he admired him incomparably.

Of course, Li Yu is the happiest, father and husband, whoever wins is a good thing. Of course, if the husband wins, it will naturally be better.

"I'm talking on paper, it's nothing. Let's talk about it when we have a chance to go to war in the future. Then go back and celebrate!"

Chu Tianxiu said with a laugh.

Chu Tianxiu, Li Yu, Zu'er, Di'er and other three people happily returned to Yuyuan to celebrate the big sale of this new book.

sold tens of thousands of copies in one go, and received 50,000 taels of silver, not to mention, which caused a huge sensational effect, which was enough to make the book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" continue to be popular for several years.

This amount of silver is enough for Danyang County to equip a super elite unit of thousands of people. Don't look at the small number of people, but such an elite soldier is enough to walk sideways on the battlefield.

What is elite?

If you are willing to spend money to equip it, it is called elite, a good war horse needs hundreds of taels of silver, and a pair of armor and sword soldiers need hundreds of taels of silver.

A chariot with five horses required hundreds of pieces of silver.

To raise the soldiers fat and strong, they also need a lot of silver to buy meat.

Without the money to do this, it is impossible to build an elite army.

……

Taiwei Li Rong was in a heavy mood and returned to the Pingwang Mansion depressed.

Although Xiao Duhou is his son-in-law, winning or losing is the business of Pingwangfu's own family, and it does not hurt the fundamentals.

But this is a very shameful thing after all.

Why did he lose?

How did Little Dusk Marquis win?

It's important for him to figure out how he lost so badly.

Li Rong closed the door and didn't come out, holding the secret book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" of the art of war of the little dusk marquis, and he didn't think about tea and dinner, and watched it for three days and three nights.

His eyes were red.

False!

False!

Bragging!

This nearly million-word "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", in the eyes of a great Chu god of war and a great master of the art of war, many of the battle plots in it are virtual, and the characters in it are of little value at all.

However, he failed in a simulated military exercise!

Defeated by the little dusk marquis.

Li Rong pondered for three days and three nights, but still caught the most critical point of his defeat - the powder gun!

It was with the gunpowder gun that the Danyang soldiers inflicted heavy damage on the Li family soldiers.

The power of a gunpowder gun is about four or five times that of a bow and arrow.

Firepower!

That's the scariest thing.

A Danyang soldier armed with a gunpowder gun and armor fired at an elite soldier equipped with a bow and armor, and the archer was shot directly through the chest, but the Danyang soldier was unscathed.

This has nothing to do with the art of war.

It's a pure difference in firepower!

This decisive gap caused Li Jiabing to suffer a crushing defeat in the exercise. As for the other aspects, there is also a little influence, but it is all secondary.

The mystery of the art of war or something, that's completely nonsense, used to fool people. The scale of this military exercise was too small, and no art of war was used at all.

The difference in firepower can only be made up by firepower.

Li Rong wanted to understand this and immediately summoned Chu Tianxiu.

The two were in the main hall of King Ping's Mansion, secretly discussing important matters.

"Virtuous son-in-law, sit down!"

Li Rong's deep gaze looked at Chu Tianxiu and said.

"I don't know my father-in-law, what's the matter?!"

Chu Tianxiu looked at Li Rong's eyes that were red and full of anxiety after staying up all night, and asked with a smile.

"How much silver do you have for this powder gun, and how many can you produce every day?"

Li Rong went straight in and asked.

Chu Tianxiu understood as soon as he heard it.

The father-in-law asked so directly, obviously comprehending the mystery of Danyang Bing.

My father-in-law has a phobia of insufficient firepower, and he is ready to pile firepower.

"This powder gun is very difficult to make, and it is impossible for an ordinary blacksmith to make a steel cylinder that is strong enough and smooth enough to withstand the force of an explosion.

A powder gun, sold for a hundred taels of silver. A maximum of a few dozen a day!"

Chu Tianxiu said conservatively.

This also needs to look at Danyang County, the industrial scale of manufacturing steel round pipes.

As the scale increases, the output can naturally increase rapidly.

This requires a large investment.

The hundred gunpowder guns in the hands of Danyang soldiers were actually the first batch of test products, which were used to test the effect and see how many shots they could withstand.

Then look at the effect and improve it to make the powder gun more usable.

"Dozens a day?"

The corners of Li Rong's eyes couldn't help jumping.

In this way, 1,000 gunpowder guns can be produced in a month, and tens of thousands of gunpowder guns can be produced in a year, and a gunpowder gun army of 10,000 people can be equipped.

That's pretty scary scale.

However, compared to the size of the hundreds of thousands of standing troops of the Great Chu Dynasty.

10,000 is not much.

"I'll play the emperor tomorrow and prepare a powder gun force of 10,000 people! The Taiweifu will allocate the silver and place an order for you to produce enough gunpowder guns as soon as possible. In terms of price, can you keep it down?"

Li Rongyi gritted his teeth.

"Order 10,000? Then halve, fifty taels of silver for a powder gun! However, the imperial court has to pay the silver first, and I will hurry up and arrange to improve the process and reduce the price. ”

Chu Tianxiu said happily.

"Okay, so be it!"

Li Rong nodded and breathed a sigh of relief.

500,000 taels of silver, equipping a 10,000-person gunpowder gun force is still very cheap.

For the same price, you can't afford to raise a light cavalry unit of the same size.

"By the way, virtuous son-in-law, if you invent any powerful firearms in the future, you can directly recommend them to me. Direct procurement from the Taiwei Mansion. ”

Li Rong said casually.

He already had a hunch that gunpowder was extraordinary.

In addition to powder packets, powder guns have been invented. I'm sure I could invent something like that, and the firepower was so powerful.

Chu Tianxiu immediately smiled and said, "Father-in-law, what you want, you really have it!"

"Oh, what is it?"

"Cannon! A bronze cannon is similar in principle to a powder gun. That is, the gunpowder gun is magnified a hundred times, but this barrel is extremely thick, more than one zhang long and two feet thick. Shells, weighing tens of pounds.

The firing range of the artillery can reach one or two hundred zhang away, or even four or five hundred zhang! The power is even more terrifying, and a single cannon can collapse the city walls and destroy the city gates. ”

Chu Tianxiu said with added fuel and vinegar.

Li Rong was directly stunned, and felt a piercing coldness and indescribable trembling on his body.

The gunpowder gun is magnified a hundredfold.

Artillery?

Four or five hundred zhang? At such a terrifying distance, the archers could not even see the shadow of their opponents, and they were bombarded.

Artillery fire to knock down the city walls?

If this thing really appears, I am afraid that it will completely change all the ancient tactics on the battlefield.

The effect of the art of war is getting weaker and weaker. All strategies and tactics were overshadowed by firepower. The use of stratagem is only effective against enemies of equal strength.

For opponents with insufficient firepower, firepower will directly bring a crushing blow.

If the firepower is strong enough, directly push the opponent's lair and forcibly capture the city - the city is gone, the population and food are all gone, what else to fight.

Firepower reigns!

With the invention of gunpowder, the entire Great Chu will enter the era of firepower supremacy.