After hearing Li Xuan say that he fired a cannon, Butcher Chen was extremely excited, and a big old man circled around the cannon like a child, watching the craftsmen who came with the cannon adjust the angle of the artillery.

From time to time, he also asked a lot of messy questions: "I said, why do you press the muzzle of the cannon so low, won't this hit hit the ground, you should raise the muzzle of the cannon, so that you can hit the Ming army on the opposite side!" ”

"Your cannonball is really heavy, such a big iron lump, can you really hit so far?"

"Don't bury your head in yourself, and teach Lao Chen how to shoot cannons, hey, this, I said you, I told me to come, why did you stuff the cannonballs in!"

Butcher Chen was talking nonsense around the craftsmen there, so that several other generals wanted to cover their faces, you Butcher Chen is also a senior general in the new army of the Tang Dynasty, the first fierce general of the Tang Dynasty who has made countless Ming troops famous and fearful, how can this be so naïve like a child.

And are you just curious?

We're curious, okay, but can we if we're curious? No, I didn't see a few of us watching quietly on the side with our own identities, at most, we stretched our necks and wanted to look more closely, but how could we be like you, go straight up and around.

It took a lot of time for the craftsmen to adjust the angle of the cannon and then load the cannon and the shells.

At this time, a craftsman led by him walked up to Li Xuan and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, you are ready!" ”

Li Xuan nodded slightly: "Thank you, Master Wang!" ”

The craftsman surnamed Wang immediately said: "It's not hard, it's not hard, it's all the small people's business!" ”

Li Xuan said: "I have to bother you to stay here for a few days these days, I will find someone to come and follow you to learn how to shoot!" ”

In the current Tang Dynasty, although there is a paper establishment of an artillery team, this paper establishment is really a paper organization, and there is not even a single artillery unit.

Now that he has this artillery, even if this artillery is just a test artillery, Li Xuan also plans to rely on this artillery to build the rack of the artillery team.

However, playing artillery is a technical job, how to aim, how much gunpowder to load, how to maintain it on weekdays, these are all technical jobs, especially aiming.

Li Xuan couldn't just find someone to come and get this cannon right, he had to let the selected artillerymen undergo special training, and who else knew the performance of this cannon better than the craftsmen who made it themselves, and how to operate it?

The craftsman surnamed Wang also said at this time: "Your Majesty, rest assured, the little ones will try their best to teach them!" ”

After chatting for a few words, Li Xuan looked back at which artillery, and then said, "Since everything is ready, then let's fight!" ”

As soon as Li Xuan's words fell, Butcher Chen ran out again: "Your Majesty, can you let the ministers come and open fire?" ”

Li Xuan smiled: "Why not!" ”

This is all aimed, the shells and propellants have been loaded, the next thing to do is to light the ignition rope, since Butcher Chen is willing, let him go!

Anyway, this cannon has been tested many times on the side of Huangzhushan, and there is not much danger of exploding, of course, this cannot be said that there is no danger of exploding bore, if Chen Butcher encountered an exploding bore when he opened the cannon, then he can only blame himself for being too unlucky.

As for Li Xuan himself, he would never touch such a dangerous thing, the quality of the artillery in these years is worrying, even if it is a gun made of refined copper, limited to the processing level of this era, it is impossible to be any better.

Therefore, Li Xuan himself hid far away, and even brought Fang Dongquan and Wang Danxu with him, so as not to blow up the chamber, and the high-level generals of the Tang New Army were collectively reimbursed.

However, Butcher Chen obviously didn't care about this, and took the torch under the guidance of the craftsman, then glanced back at Li Xuan and them, showing a grin, and then lit the fire rope with the torch.

After the fire rope was ignited, it soon ignited the gunpowder in the barrel, and in an instant, a loud noise came from the fort, and Li Xuan and the others not far away were rumbling in their ears.

With the loud bang, a cloud of white smoke mixed with fire also rose from the muzzle of the cannon, but Li Xuan's eyes did not stay on the cannon itself at this time, but cast their eyes on the other side of the river.

In sight, a small black dot quickly streaked across the sky, and then flew towards the other side of the river.

If you look at it with the naked eye, you will have the illusion that the shells are flying very slowly, but this is just an illusion.

In fact, the cannonballs flew across the river at great speed, landing in a small curve among the rafts built by the Ming army on the river beach.

Immediately afterward, they saw that the cannonball, like a giant, broke through the obstruction of many rafts, and ran all the way to the end, where sawdust flew sideways, and one rolled out dozens of meters before stopping.

Looking back at those rafts, there was a whole row of seven or eight searches that had been smashed to pieces.

These rafts were improvised and could not have been too strong, but when they were struck by a solid iron ball, the joints broke one after another, and sawdust flew sideways.

The Ming army on the other side of the river didn't know what was going on, and many people ran out to see it after hearing the loud noise, but the new army of the Tang Dynasty only fired one shot, and they had no intention of continuing the test after one shot, so as not to expose too much.

Therefore, those Ming soldiers didn't understand it for a while, but a few people saw the gunsmoke on the other side of the river, and guessed that this might be the big fire of the pseudo-Tang thief army, but it was not easy to judge for a while.

Although these Ming troops also had artillery, they did not have artillery that could hit such a distance, and the two guns in their hands were bowl-mouth cannons, weighing only a hundred catties.

Of course, there are also relatively large artillery pieces in the Ming army, such as the Ming army's imitation of the Franc cannon in recent decades, which is made of copper, the light one hundred and fifty pounds, the heavy one is three hundred pounds, and even the Franc cannon of thousands of pounds has been pounded out by itself.

However, these Franc cannons were regarded as militaristic weapons by the Ming army, and most of them were equipped with the northern border army and the coastal Ming army, and remote inland areas such as Xingquanfu naturally did not have such 'militaristic weapons'.

In addition, there is a very critical point that at this time, most of the artillery of the Ming army, including the Franc cannon, was used to fire scattered shells, and this Franc cannon was a rear-loading alphabet gun, and the sealing was so poor that it could make people desperate, because the firing range was very short.

This also created a very interesting situation, that is, the Ming army of Fucheng on the opposite side has really never seen an artillery that can fight five or six hundred meters away, and at the same time can maintain the hit rate and power, and it is natural to not figure it out for a while.

If it is replaced by the Ming army on the coastal side, especially the Ming army sailors, people can see at a glance that these pseudo-Tang thief armies are fighting solid iron bullets, and they are still that kind of long artillery.

However, these uninformed Fucheng Ming soldiers couldn't react for a while after seeing their raft being inexplicably destroyed.

At this time, the puppet Tang thief army stopped firing again, and they had no way to confirm the truth through the second shelling of the puppet Tang thief army.

At the same time, on the fort on the other side of the river, a group of senior generals of the Datang New Army were extremely excited.

"Good!" After running, the smoke from the muzzle of the cannon had not yet dispersed, and Wang Danxu, who was beside Li Xuan, couldn't help but say loudly: "With this sharp weapon, our army can add another three percent to this victory!" ”

"This cannon is really fierce enough, if there are so many dozens or hundreds, no matter how many Ming troops come, they can't fight it!" Fang Dongquan on the side couldn't help but exclaim.

At this time, Zeng Ziwen also said: "Congratulations to Your Majesty, congratulations to Your Majesty for getting this artifact, with militaristic weapons such as Italian cannons, my Tang Dynasty sweeping Kyushu is just around the corner!" ”

Listening to their words, Li Xuan looked light-hearted and pressed his hand slightly: "It's just a small cannon, don't make a fuss!" ”

Pretending, this is definitely pretending!

The people next to him looked at Li Xuan's appearance, and they all had to give a thumbs up, when it came to pretending to be forced, it was still our Majesty's awesomeness!

But don't say it, although Li Xuan pretends to be forced a lot on weekdays, but this time it is definitely not pretending, taking care of the artillery, tanks, aircraft, aircraft carriers of later generations, and then looking at the antique-like front-loading smoothbore gun in front of him, Li Xuan really can't have the mind to pretend to be forced.

What he wants is not this lonely artillery, he wants dozens or even hundreds of artillery, and the cannon in front of him will be of some help to the upcoming big war, but it will not play a decisive role.

To really stop the enemy's crossing of the river, he had to rely on the more than 1,000 people under his command, especially the musketeers of more than 200 of them.

And the butcher Chen who fired the cannon over there walked over with an excited face at this time, and then said to Li Xuan: "Your Majesty, Chen wants to go and shoot the cannon!" ”

Li Xuan was a little puzzled, didn't he fight just now? Could it be that this Chen butcher doesn't feel like it's fun to shoot a shot, and he still wants to shoot again? This is not good, this gunpowder and cannonballs are expensive, and they cannot be played around.

The Datang New Army had no comprehensive sources of sulfur, saltpeter and even iron, whether it was gunpowder or the iron ball used as a cannonball, but it was an important strategic material and could not be used indiscriminately.

Besides, if you shoot a few more cannons, no matter how stupid the Ming army is, you will know how to take precautions, and when the Ming army crosses the river, you may not be able to come up with any way to deal with it.

Therefore, it was impossible for Li Xuan to let Butcher Chen continue to fight this cannon.

And Butcher Chen probably saw the confusion on Li Xuan's face, and immediately explained: "Your Majesty, the minister has asked to serve in the artillery team, and with this artillery, he will definitely live up to the prestige of the Italian artillery!" ”

Hearing this, Li Xuan came to his senses, it turns out that your butcher Chen wants to change jobs, and you should not be a sword and shield soldier to become an artilleryman?

Li Xuan was a little speechless about this, and even couldn't figure it out, not to mention that you Chen Butcher didn't know a single character and couldn't play with artillery, just said that you were brave and didn't go to short-range combat, is it appropriate to hide behind and fire artillery?