Chapter 12 General Cannon

"My lord, the artillery is ready." Wang Cannon is a little unkempt. Zhang Xuan sat there, and Wang Cannon didn't dare to be a little snubbed. Single-mindedly rushing to work.

The rush for several days was in mid-May. Wang Cannon presided over the artillery and finally finished.

A batch of artillery, a total of eleven guns.

It's just that the iron mold hasn't been completely removed.

The color of bronze is particularly beautiful in Zhang Xuan's eyes, a cylinder with a length of more than one meter and nearly two meters. Every ten centimeters on it, there is an iron clamp. One after the other, all over the barrels.

As for the cannon ears, fire gates, and lookout mountains, these are very standard.

"Dangdangdang." The sound of tapping, one by one, the iron molds were knocked down.

"It's my cannon." Yuan Shizhong walked over with a laugh. He looked at this cannon, grabbed the iron hammer, and personally started it, and under the guidance of the king cannon, knocked down the pieces of iron molds.

In a short time, all the iron molds of the eleven guns fell off. Yuan Shizhong looked even happier than Zhang Xuan.

Zhang Xuan is a person who has seen the world, this artillery is in Zhang Xuan's heart, but it is just Erer, but Yuan Shizhong is different, Yuan Shizhong sees that this artillery is a proper national weapon.

"That's right." Yuan Shizhong touched the artillery, softly as if he was stroking a woman, and said, "Has this artillery been named?" ”

"These are cannons made to open the seals." Zhang Xuan groaned slightly and said, "Let's call it Kaifeng Cannon." ”

This is in line with Zhang Xuan's usual naming principles. But it does not conform to the aesthetics of this era.

"What kind of name is this?" Yuan Shizhong frowned and said: "Then there is such a name, this is by the Yellow River, why don't you call it the Yellow River Cannon?" ”

Zhang Xuan said: "So what are you naming for?" ”

Yuan Shizhong pondered for a while and said: "This cannon is named, the small is the captain, and the big is the general, so it is called the Shenwei General Cannon." ”

If it is a comic, there must be a black line above Zhang Xuan's head.

That's a bit of an exaggeration.

Zhang Xuan said: "What should I call it if a bigger cannon than this one is built in the future?" Anyway, we should leave a little room for the future. ”

"That's right." Yuan Shizhong said: "But this cannon should be called a general cannon, and this cannon weighs at least a thousand catties, so it is called a thousand catties of general cannon." ”

"Call it whatever you want." Zhang Xuan said: "Hurry up and test the gun. Let's see if this cannon works. ”

"Okay." Yuan Shizhong also wanted to see if this cannon would work, and said: "Load the car immediately, let's go to Kaifeng City for a test run." ”

Although Zhang Xuan has been hiding in the camp to supervise the casting of cannons, Yuan Shizhong has not been idle, and he will attack Kaifeng City every day.

However, his focus was on training the army, folio

The intensity of the lockdown attack can also be imagined.

Exactly as before the camp, dig a hole in the city wall.

But the defenders of Kaifeng City are extremely experienced in this. All kinds of rolling stones and sasswoods, as well as the iron carriages of the previous ones, and even some people went down to the city from time to time to fight.

They seemed to have made a cavity on the outside of the wall. Soldiers can fall from here.

The soldiers who dared to go down to the city were all elite officers and soldiers. And all the people sent by Yuan Shizhong to attack the city were peripheral vassals, and the result can be imagined.

Even the progress of Xiao Yuan's camp could not enter the inside of the city wall. I can't even fight a tunnel war.

It's just that the soldiers of Xiao Yuan's battalion, in the repeated attacks one after another, are slowly familiar with the orders of the banners and drums.

At this time, Yuan Shizhong felt that he had tens of thousands of troops, not just more than 10,000 men under his command.

Chen De stood above the city, and suddenly realized that today's thief army was a little different.

When the thieves attacked before, they pushed more goose carts and dug holes under the city. Today, there was not a single goose cart coming, but it was neatly sent by the soldiers, and there were more than a dozen large and small vehicles in the middle.

I can't see what Chen De is in this car.

As the distance got closer and closer, Chen De suddenly saw clearly, it was artillery, and the weight was above a thousand catties.

Chen De's heart suddenly tightened, and he immediately said to the left and right: "Go and invite the chief soldier over." ”

In just a few moments, Chen Yongfu arrived.

When Chen Yongfu found out that Xiao Yuan's attack had become perfunctory, Chen Yongfu handed over the task of defending the city to his son.

As a father, it is understandable to cultivate his son, and he wants Chen De to accumulate more experience through these low-intensity battles.

However, Chen Yongfu was also worried about some accidents, so he rested in the castle tower. It came very quickly.

"Look, my lord." Chen De immediately pointed out the cannon to Chen Yongfu to see.

Chen Yongfu was taken aback when he saw it, and said, "Hongyi cannon? ”

"My lord, is this the Hongyi cannon?" Chen De asked.

Chen Yongfu took out the clairvoyant mirror from his arms, looked at it carefully, and after a while, he said: "This cannon is smaller than the Hongyi cannon, and it doesn't seem to be all kinds of general cannons, because it was cast by the thieves themselves." It's just that how can a thief have the ability to cast a cannon? In just a few days? ”

Chen Yongfu couldn't understand this.

Although cannons are cast all over the Ming Dynasty, and there are many types of artillery, Chen Yongfu has been in the army for most of his life, and most of them can be recognized, and there is an obvious style of Xiyi people on this artillery. It's not like the artillery of the dynasty.

And if this artillery was there before, why didn't it be used before, but take it out now.

If it was just cast, it would take only half a month, how

Although Chen Yongfu can't cast artillery, he also knows that casting an artillery cannon can be more than half a year long, and it takes three months to cast it.

And how the hell did this thing come about? Could it be that there are Xiyi people who have traveled thousands of miles to sell to thieves? Immediately, Chen Yongfu himself rejected this idea. Without him, it is simply impossible. This cannon is not a small thing. Where is it so easy to transport?

Just as Chen Yongfu was thinking, Xiao Yuanying had already stopped.

The artillery was parked three miles outside the city.

Wang Cannon and a group of people began to work hard to fix the artillery, and it took a while before the first cannon was fired.

"Boom." With a loud bang, an iron bullet shot more than a mile away, fell to the ground, bounced several times, and stopped moving.

Zhang Xuan frowned.

"What's going on?" Yuan Shizhong's eyes froze, his eyebrows were half raised, and his eyebrows were murderous.

"Your Excellency." Wang Cannon immediately explained: "The first cannon put the least amount of medicine. This is the rule of testing guns, and it is necessary to add medicine little by little. ”

"Really?" Yuan Shizhong said: "If you lie to me. You know the consequences. ”

"It's a rule I set." Zhang Xuan said. The pressure in Zhang Xuan's heart was not small, if the cannon casting failed this time, Zhang Xuan didn't know what to do, and his tone became stern. Then he said to Wang Cannon: "Go on." ”

"Yes." But after a while, Wang Dacang was already sweating profusely. He gritted his teeth and ignored the rules set by Zhang Xuan: that is, when testing the gun, add gunpowder from less to a little more. Stuffed in a lot of gunpowder in one go.

However, he was not without certainty.

After all, this cannon was forged by his own hands, and both the material and the craftsmanship can be called excellent, and he has confidence in this cannon.

"Boom." There was a loud bang.

A cannonball crossed a distance of three miles and hit the city hard. It's just that the Kaifeng city wall is also quite hard, so it's just a little soil.

"Go on." Yuan Shizhong was overjoyed. This result has made Yuan Shizhong very satisfied.

Immediately, eleven cannons were fired in turn, and although the landing points were higher or lower, most of them hit the city walls. The Kaifeng city wall could not withstand it, and with such a bombardment, there was a bang, and a large piece of soil fell off from the top of the wall.

Although there are not many of them, this already indicates a signal that the artillery is enough to break through the city, and the rest is a matter of time.

"Ten thousand wins, ten thousand wins." The righteous army was shocked and shouted, and above the city of Kaifeng, it was as quiet as death. Chen Yongfu slammed his fist on the female wall, at this time, even if he knew that the Kaifeng city wall was several zhang thick, let him bang, it would take a long time to blast the city wall open. But he still couldn't hold it back, and whispered to Chen De: "You quickly tell Lord Gao about the situation here." ”

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