Volume 1: The Wind Rises in Tianjing, Chapter 74: Fire (3)

On the small hill where the artillery was placed, all the people in charge of carrying it had been evacuated, and Guo Yi and the others came to the hillside, only to see ten artillery pieces lined up, all rushing towards a small hill to the south, about a mile away.

"Are you going to hit that hill bag?" Guo Yi asked.

"Yes, Commander." Chai Yun came up to salute and said, "I only prepared two shells for each artillery, one solid one and one flowering shell. ”

"Let's get started, I want to see the power of this cannon, too."

"You stand back, it's a little loud. It's best to cover your ears. Chai Yun asked Guo Yi and the others to take a few steps back, waved his hand, and said loudly: "Let's go!" ”

Guo Yi pushed it away and covered her ears with both hands, like a child playing with firecrackers around the Tianjing River around the Tianjing City New Year's Festival. Xu An and Shu Huzhuo felt that Guo Yi's movements were funny, and they didn't cover their ears.

"Bang" "Bang" "Bang......

Ten huge cannon shots rang out almost simultaneously, and the small hill in the distance suddenly filled with smoke and dust.

"Can you see clearly?" Guo Yi put down his hands covering his ears and asked Shuhuzhuo.

Shuhu stood in place, only to feel like a swarm of bees flying by in his ears, buzzing and barking. Seeing that Guo Yi opened his mouth but didn't know what to say, he said, "Teacher, what did you say?" Perhaps because his ears were shaken, his voice was so loud that he was almost roaring.

Liu Neng snickered on the side, and Chai Yun walked to Shuhuzhuo's side, got closer, and said with a roar: "The chief soldier asked you, can you see the hill over there?" ”

Shuhu Zhuo listened to Chai Yun's words, shook his head, looked at the small hill, and saw that there were several more big pits on the originally barren hillside.

"See, there are so many big pits! If you hit the crowd, you can pay it back! Shu Hu Zhuo's voice was still very loud, like a showing off child, Xu An's ears were still buzzing at the moment, and he leaned over to Shu Hu Zhuo and asked, "What did you see, what a big pit." ”

Guo Yi covered her ears, although her ears were also shaken, but compared to these two, it was much better. Now that the smoke had cleared, he could see the crater on the hillside, and almost immediately wanted to run to the hillside to see the crater left by the shell.

"I'd like to check it out." Guo Yi looked curious, he had never seen artillery in the Anxi Army, and most of the troops that the Anxi Army was proud of were actually infantry.

"Don't panic, the chief soldier, there are still ten flowering bullets, after they are released together, let's check them out."

"Okay." Guo Yi leaned further back this time and covered her ears tighter, while Shu Huzhuo and Xu An also learned to be smart and followed Guo Yi back.

As the crowd spoke, soldiers rushed to the artillery. Several people worked together to reset the artillery, and just fired a shell, the gun slanted back a step because of the recoil. There are also soldiers holding an iron hook in their hands, cleaning out the unburned gunpowder in the barrel of the gun, so that it is convenient to fill the powder.

After working for a while, the second round of flowering bombs was finally ready, and every soldier in charge of the inspection waved to Chai Yun, who nodded and said, "Let's go!" ”

Ten more thunders, but this time, instead of being filled with smoke and dust like the solid bullet just now, the hillside quickly calmed down, as if nothing had happened.

Good thunder is loud and rain is small.

Although Guo Yi also discovered the abnormality of this flowering bomb, there was no exit, and he had never seen what the power of this flowering bomb was, so it was naturally difficult to make assertions, but he couldn't wait to go up the hillside.

Chai Yun ordered the soldiers to pack up the artillery at the division gate, and he and Liu Neng followed Guo Yi to the hillside.

"Chai Jiangjun, I'm afraid this artillery is not iron." Guo Yi asked as she walked.

"Back to the general soldiers, it is true that it is not all iron, and the inside of the cannon chamber is copper."

"Is there any benefit to this?"

"It won't blow up, and it will last longer."

Seeing this, Liu Neng stepped forward and said: "General Guo, the artillery of these five guards has to be replaced by more than 20 guns every year, and the Yiren from the west ask for 4,000 taels and one cannons. ”

"It's so expensive, can you copy it yourself?"

Chai Yun shook his head and said, "The problem of imitation is too big, and once this artillery is blown up, there are often several casualties." ”

"What about the cannonballs, can you make the cannonballs yourself?"

"Solid and flowering bullets can be made by themselves, but only less than half of the number is used in the army. The Red Lotus Bullet must be bought from the Yi people. Eighty-two one. ”

"So you didn't bother to show it today?" Guo Yi laughed.

"The chief soldier forgives his sins, and the total stock of the Red Lotus Bullet Army is not much." Chai Yun hurriedly confessed.

Guo Yi didn't actually care, just those ten rounds of solid ammunition, he already felt that the artillery was worth the price. Just listening to these numbers, he felt a chill in his back, and a feeling of powerlessness came from his heart. The enormous power of this cannon seems to have been built entirely with real money.

When I arrived at the bottom of the hill that was bombarded, at the bottom of the barren slope, a bomb crater suddenly appeared, Guo Yi went down to the bottom of the pit to take a look, this half-human high crater was still steaming hot. If such a shot came to the cavalry of the Jin army, the casualties would have been more than a dozen. Dozens of taels of silver were exchanged for more than ten lives of the gold army, this business, done.

"Is this the power of each of these shells?"

"On a rainy day, the gunpowder is not completely burned, and the power may only be eighty percent like this."

Guo Yi jumped out of the crater and walked a few steps, but saw metal pieces the size of a baby's finger scattered everywhere on the ground, picked up a piece, and asked, "What is this, is it a shell fragment?" ”

Chai Yun took the fragment from Guo Yi's hand and said, "This is the flowering bomb." ”

"What if it hits someone?"

"No one can withstand it, if it explodes in the ranks of the Jin Army, even people and horses will be overturned."

Guo Yi listened to Chai Yun's words, and couldn't believe that the flowering bullet that seemed to be thundering and raining was so powerful.

Xu An and Shu Huzhuo each picked up a few pieces of metal and played with them in their hands, somewhat disbelieving the power of this gadget.

After listening to Chai Yun's words, Guo Yi did not go to the place where the craters were dense on the hill, but turned around and walked towards the camp. ”

"No, I know what it's capable of." Guo Yi said, his footsteps did not stop, and he said: "It's a pity that the Anxi army is still guarding bows, arrows, knives and guns, and thinks that it is invincible in the world." ”

When they heard this, they did not dare to continue. Xu An also heard Guo Yi say this about Anxi Army, and wanted to refute it, but he couldn't come up with an example, although he was not convinced, but he had to admit the power of this musket artillery.

"This world does not belong to swords and guns, this world belongs to flames." Guo Yi said a sentence intentionally or unintentionally, and then took a big step and headed towards the camp.