Only then did everyone finally understand that this seemingly ugly thing was a powerful firearm. A solid iron bullet fired through gunpowder that fires hundreds of paces and sweeps everything in front of you.

When everyone was amazed, Lin Jue sighed and said, "Hey, it's not possible." This thing is useless. ”

"What? This thing is so powerful, why can't the military advisor say it? Shen Tan and the others were surprised.

"Too low value for money. The firing range was only about 500 paces, and it cost me hundreds of catties of refined iron and several catties of gunpowder, which was not worth it at all. I thought I could go a thousand paces away, even to a place of promise. Now it seems that I am thinking too much. A distance of 500 paces is to build a bed crossbow, and this distance can also be reached. The power is okay, but I'm afraid it's not much use in the face of strong walls. All the fine iron I brought with me was used to make this, and I only made a dozen or so doors. This hammer thing still needs to be equipped with a lot of manpower and mules and horses to tow and launch, and we are afraid that we will have to spend thousands of people to use a dozen of these things. And I don't know how many times I can launch it, if it is scrapped after a dozen times, it will be a pile of scrap metal. It costs a hundred taels of silver to launch once, and it is not worth it, it is not worth it. The value for money is too low. Gotta melt it. Lin Jue shook his head and said.

Hearing Lin Jue say this, everyone also nodded. Such a money-burning and labor-intensive thing is really not very good. However, the power of this thing was the largest firearm they had ever seen, and there seemed to be no weapon that could match the power of a large man.

"Strategist, this thing is still quite powerful, I suggest keeping it and not melting it down. Improvements may be made in the future. In the future, when we have money, we are not afraid to spend money, and it is useful to build more. For example, if there are ten gates and eight gates erected on the city wall or mountain pass, it is a nightmare for the attacking enemy. Sun Dayong said.

Lin Jue said with a smile: "You, the commander of the firearms battalion, naturally hope that you have a big guy in your hands. Let's keep it, after all, it is the first firearm made by Luoyan Valley, and the destruction is unknown. I'll give it a name, and I'll call it 'Kamui General'. It will also be useful to make improvements in the future. It's up to you to dispatch this thing, but don't launch it again, it's a silver tael. ”

Sun Dayong was overjoyed and hurriedly thanked him. Liang Qi smacked his lips with envy.

"Here's the highlight, and that's the most important firearm I'm going to test today." Lin Jue walked to the object covered by the felt cloth on the flat ground on one side. It was carried in a large car, and it was very large, but not too heavy. If it was all made of fine iron, the wooden cart would have already been crushed apart.

Someone stepped forward and lifted the cloth, revealing the true face of the thing. Everyone stared at that thing with wide eyes, and they were all confused. Placed on the cart was an iron round barrel with transparent ends, and next to it was a round iron sheet and a piece of iron with honeycomb-like dense holes. There are iron shafts connected between the two round iron plates, like two asymmetrical wheels.

"What is this?" Ma Bin scratched his head and said, "It's so thick, you can drill people in." Could it be that he wears his body as armor? What are these two wheels for? What kind of strange weapon? ”

The crowd burst into laughter, and it was clear that this was not armor. A whole bunch of soldiers with bucket armor on their bodies, what's going on?

"I guess it's a 'swarm'?" Gao Muqing said with a smile.

Lin Jue pointed tall and said, "Smart, it's just a swarm of bees." ”

Liang Qi and the others suddenly understood, the firearm called a swarm of bees had been made by Lin Jue during the battle with Heifeng Village, but it was only wooden. Its firing power is breathtaking. Lin Jue was not in the mountains, the swarm of bees had long been burned out, and after a long time, he had almost forgotten this firearm. Hearing Gao Muqing say this, Liang Qi suddenly woke up, and immediately remembered the situation when the swarm was condescending and swept the hillside.

"At the beginning, the swarm of bees was wooden, which could easily catch fire, and the structure was loose and undurable, and it was easy to fall apart. It is also not easy to carry and load arrows. And this time, I used a fine iron outer cylinder. Pure iron is only made of rice grains, and the weight is not heavy. What's more important is that this inner core is fixed. After loading the arrow, it is directly inserted into the iron barrel, and the iron pin at the rear is fixed, so that it can be carried and fired at will. Reusable and unbreakable. And the loading is convenient, too. It only needs to be equipped with three or four cores, rotated and loaded, and it can be continuously fired. Of course, you need a rocket of the right size, and it is not possible to find a common arrow. But that's not a problem, our arrow workshop is already running, and it's not difficult to make a special arrow. ”

Lin Jue said as he beckoned two soldiers to help. The soldier reported a bundle of arrows, all of which were rockets that had been made in advance. Lin Jue quickly inserted the arrows into the small holes of the shaft core one by one, and the tail of the arrow was against the solid iron piece. After all the fuses were woven together, the two soldiers stuffed the 'wheels' into the iron bucket according to Lin Jue's instructions. Pull out the fuse and hang out in the small hole in the rear.

"Pull up the hill and give it a try." Lin Juedao.

The flatbed truck was pulled up the hillside, and a swarm of bees was carried down by two soldiers, and laid diagonally on the grass above the hillside. Two soldiers used a slender iron chisel to insert a small hole in the dead corner and nail it to the ground to fix it.

"Mu Qing, you come and light the fire." Lin Jue said with a smile.

Gao Muqing agreed, stepped forward to take the fire fold blown in the soldier's hand, and lit the fuse that was braided like a braid. The crowd hurriedly retreated, but saw the fuse snorting and sparkling. There was a thud, and a rocket burst out of the mouth of the swarm of iron barrels with a terrible screech. The next moment, there was a loud swishing and booming sound, and sparks of gunpowder burned one after another as the smoke rose. In just a few breaths, the roar had ended. The shrill whistling continued. The arrows dragging the long tail fire were still flying in the air, and then the sound of explosion rang out. Hundreds of paces below the hillside, there was smoke and fire on the fan-shaped ground. The strong smell of gunpowder smoke was pungent and unpleasant, but everyone ignored it and stared blankly at the hillside below. There, all of them were covered by rockets within a few dozen steps of the fan. The crackling sound caused the grass stalks to rise and fall, and black smoke filled the air. The slopes of the overgrown mountains seemed to be scorched.

Ma Bin, Shen Tan, Sun Dayong and others have seen the power of this 'swarm' bazooka for the first time. When he saw the arrows firing in a row, screaming like lightning, he was already terrified. At this moment, seeing the scope and effect of the blow, he was really dumbfounded, and he was speechless for a while.

"This ...... So powerful? Ma Bin said in surprise.

"Sixty-four rockets in a row, within five breaths. Shoot out, covering the ground within a radius of 100 steps. The arrows are angled and shot out in a fan-shaped shape to cover the ground in front of them to the greatest extent. The end of the gunpowder will explode, increasing its power. Who can defeat such a firearm? Awesome, awesome. Sun Dayong muttered.

Lin Jue laughed out loud and said, "Brother Sun has observed carefully, it is exactly sixty-four rockets, slightly in the shape of a flare, just to let the arrows diverge and present a fan-shaped attack." Because the gunpowder cartridge is tied, the flight distance of the arrow is different, and it will fly up and down, left and right, so it is more difficult to predict. However, this situation has a negative effect on the lethality penetration, which is why a small cartridge is added to the end of the powder keg, whether it explodes in the air or between the invading enemies, it will increase the lethality, at least set them on fire. ”

Shen Tan said: "It's so powerful, you are really counted to the bones." As soon as this thing comes out, who can compete with my Falling Goose Army? ”

Lin Jue shrugged and said, "You can't be too superstitious about this thing, this thing is powerful, but you can't rely on these completely." If there is no advantageous formation, if there are not sufficient resources, this thing is just a pile of waste. Sixty-four rockets at once, how much does it cost, have you calculated? ”

Qin Chuncao said: "According to my estimate, the cost of an arrow is four hundred yuan, that is, four yuan of silver. Coupled with the gunpowder and the cost of production, at least one tael of silver is required. ”

Lin Jue nodded and smiled: "It is worthy of being a cottage to manage the entry and exit of money and grain, and it is roughly not bad." Don't forget that this is an iron-headed arrow, and the cost will be added by two dollars, so the cost of a rocket is about one or two dollars. Sixty-four arrows, that's more than seventy taels of silver. In the blink of an eye, more than seventy taels of silver were gone. ”

Everyone smacked their tongues and said yes, this is simply burning money. In a way, to fight a war is to fight silver. The Luoyan Army is about to implement the military salary system, and before that, it was symbolically given some silver grain and allocated some resources to be used as military salaries. But after becoming a soldier on the right track, there must be a payment of military salaries and silver. Rewards and bereavement benefits must also be given in real money. There is no tax in Luoyan Valley, where does all this silver come from? Now that this firearm burns so much, where does the money come from?

Lin Jue said: "However, since the power is so huge, a swarm of bees must be made. My initial idea was to build thirty frames, which is also the number I estimated would bring after all the thousands of catties of refined iron I would bring were used up. Think about it, if you line up thirty planes here, and fire them in a few rounds, everything ahead will be scorched earth. Slowly, the person who attacked was a mosquito, and he was afraid that his wings would be broken. ”

Everyone imagined that kind of situation, and it was difficult to describe the scene in their hearts. This is already the case with a swarm of bees. Thirty, I'm afraid that thousands of troops and horses will have to be defeated. This is many times better than the blocking of bows and arrows and crossbows.

"But thirty crosses, one round down...... Thousands of taels of silver, after a battle, it is tens of thousands of taels or even more than 100,000 taels of silver. Qin Chuncao said in a low voice.

Liang Qi smacked his lips and said, "I said daughter-in-law, what are you talking about?" Isn't that a bad sight? ”

Qin Chuncao said: "What I'm saying is the truth, we don't have so much silver, we don't have so much material consumption." Although it has been more stable in the past few years, except for grain, there is nothing of value in the warehouse. The silver was only a hundred thousand taels. ”

Liang Qi hurriedly said: "Don't talk about this. ”