"Lord Wang, I'm watching for a while! It's so much fun! ”

"How can I do that, I spent a lot of money to research this loom, how can it be easily seen by you!" Zhao Rui said with a smile.

"Yo, Lord Wang, are you still keeping this a secret?"

"yes, why should it be kept secret for more than 300 years......

You must know that the industrial revolution in Europe began in the sixteenth century, and Zhao Rui's loom was more than 300 years ahead of them.

And who can resist good quality and cheap cotton cloth?

It's really stupid for them not to buy it, because machine-woven cotton cloth is many times cheaper than hand-made cotton.

Sent Li Fulin, Zhao Rui immediately rushed to Langjiang Mansion, because there are a few artillery pieces waiting for Zhao Rui to test fire, these cannons are the final product of iron ore smelting, and it is the next big killer for Zhao Rui's development, although it can't make cannonballs like modern times, but this kind of cannon must be there in the later stage, not only on the city wall, but also on the ship, even if the army has to prepare small artillery, when the time comes, it will be loaded with iron slag and the like, scattered out, no one can stand it!

At this time, the artillery ordered by Zhao Rui was still ignited by the fuse, although it was backward, but the artillery in the real sense only appeared in the Yuan Dynasty after 1330, and now it is still 60 years ahead, and the whole army and the whole city are equipped with enough to resist a small-scale war.

It took two days from Dabao to Langjiang Mansion, and this is still the speed at which Zhao Rui took Zhao Gong and more than 100 guards to ride fast horses, this time Zhao Rui experienced the side effects of territory expansion, which was really tiring, and most importantly, it was too time-consuming.

But wait, wait for the steam engine to be made, and then after improvement, when it is made into a steam train, the good days will come, and when the time comes, the rails will be laid, and everything can be transported, no labor is required, and the speed is fast, just thinking about it, Zhao Rui is full of energy.

Langjiang Mansion wants to be the center of Zhao Rui's sphere of influence, and it is the big city closest to Jiaozhi except for Sinong Prefecture, and the geographical location here is much more important than Si Nong Prefecture, so Zhao Rui specially sent Fang Hongbin to garrison, Fang Hongbin was also very happy about this, saying that he could finally go from behind the scenes to the front of the stage.

However, now the conscription does not need to be checked by Fang Hongbin, Zhao Rui has already set up a conscription office, and there is a team of special personnel for fair and just selection, and now Zhao Rui's training methods have become a system, and there are different training plans and training methods for new recruits and veterans, so Zhao Rui's side has been far ahead of other countries in the world in the operation of conscription and the training of soldiers.

Fang Hongbin's face was a little solemn when he saw him this time, and Zhao Rui guessed that something was wrong.

"Lord Wang, I have often seen the Jiaozhi people sneakily serving outside the city recently, there may be some action!"

As expected, Fang Hongbin saw Zhao Rui and immediately reported the abnormal military situation.

Zhao Rui didn't care, thinking that there were muskets stationed here, and the Jiaozhi people would come if they liked it.

But just as Zhao Rui went to the city wall to debug the artillery, there were really a lot of people from Jiaozhi, and they were also pushing huge siege equipment.

Such an equipment Zhao Rui is so familiar, it turned out to be the return cannon of the Yuan army, I didn't expect that the Jiaozhi people still had a connection with the Yuan army!

Originally, Jiaozhi did not have the strength to attack Zhao Rui, but Chen Jiong always remembered that it was not a taste in his heart, but fortunately, an envoy from the Yuan Dynasty came to visit, saying that it could provide a return cannon, and this kind of return cannon has been improved and has a very long range, so Chen Jiong moved his mind.

There are not a lot of Jiaozhi troops, thirty or forty thousand people, but they parked the return artillery far away, and some of them reached the limit distance of the rifle, which made Zhao Rui surprised, did the Jiaozhi people want to line up first?

But after the return cannon fired, Zhao Rui felt that it was not so simple, and more than a dozen huge boulders fell from the sky and fell on a large open space in front of the city wall.

It seemed that this was a test shot from the Cochins, and the next moment they began to slowly move forward and return the cannon.

Not good......

Although the damage of this indiscriminate attack of the stone throwing machine is limited, the city wall can definitely be smashed by them.

"Listen to me! Aim at their gunners and shoot accurately from a distance! Without further ado, Zhao Rui immediately gave an order.

"Tutu...... Sudden ......"

The familiar gunshots resounded through the wall again, and where the Jiaozhi people on the other side were located, there was a clanging sound, with doubts, Zhao Rui found a telescope, took a look at the shelf, and really underestimated the Jiaozhi people, they really came prepared!

I saw that there was a wide iron plate under their return cannon, which couldn't help but resist Zhao Rui's ammunition, and it also added weight to the return cannon itself, improving stability and shooting accuracy.

In this regard, Zhao Rui couldn't help but sigh, in the real ancient history, there was no Huihui cannon that looked like this, it was like a butterfly effect, Zhao Rui brought a musket, and the Huihui cannon also developed into a different appearance in order to resist the attack, but Zhao Rui didn't know if this was the idea of the Jiaozhi people, or the Yuan army was already preparing to attack himself and designed it.

"It's not good, it's useless! I'll take the cavalry out to attack them! Fang Hongbin said anxiously.

"Don't go, I don't think it will get much! And there's not so much time to spare! ”

Zhao Rui stopped Fang Hongbin, and at this time, the return cannon moved forward for a distance and stopped.

"Quick, Hongbin, there is only one way now, quickly push the artillery made in Wanya Prefecture up!"

"Yes! Rajah! ”

Hearing Zhao Rui's urging, Fang Hongbin immediately ran down the city wall to do it, but fortunately, several cannons were placed at the door, so he ordered someone to push them up.

Although the cannon was extremely heavy, it was designed with wheels that could be pushed up by four people on the slope of the wall.

At this time, the return cannon of the Cochins was fired again, this time more threatening than the last time, and two huge rocks smashed the walls down a little.

Time was not waiting, after the artillery was transported, Zhao Rui quickly carried out a preliminary calibration, then loaded **, iron ball, and then ignited the fuse.

Everyone was stunned to look at the big iron pillar-like thing, wondering what its power was.

It is worth mentioning that the ** used now is all centrally configured in Dabaocheng, Zhao Rui set up the new ** formula and processing technology as top secret, and only after Zhao Rui's approval can be applied for.

After Zhao Rui lit the fuse, he asked everyone to quickly retreat to dodge, everyone looked at Zhao Rui's nervous appearance, and didn't feel anything, thinking that the artillery was just an enlarged version of the musket, what was there to fear.

In fact, they didn't know Zhao Rui's worries, the quality of the steel at this time was not up to par, according to the book, the steel smelted with coal contained sulfur, which was easy to increase brittleness, so whether the artillery would explode, Zhao Rui actually had no bottom in his heart.

At this time, the Jiaozhi people still felt that the Huihui cannon was a little far away, and they were adjusting it to make the Huihui cannon closer to Langjiang City, which was an ordinary earthen wall, not as solid as the bricks and stones of the Song Dynasty at all, and it was estimated that if they hit it squarely, the city wall would collapse in an instant!

Launch it!

Zhao Rui was also anxious in his heart, but fortunately, the fuse on the artillery was getting shorter and shorter, and it was getting shorter and shorter, until it disappeared, and it was still smoking......

"Boom!"

The earth-shattering ghost god shot sounded! A huge iron ball flew out of the air, and by coincidence, it smashed right on the steel guard of a return cannon.

Like a stone falling on the cannon, there was a clang, with some trills, a return cannon collapsed in an instant, and the soldiers next to it were also killed and injured countless because of the broken return cannon, and the big iron ball was castrated fiercely, even if it broke a return cannon, it did not stop, and continued to fly forward.

Thinking that they were afraid of the muskets on Zhao Rui's side, the Jiaozhi army was walking behind the return cannon, thinking that they would attack after the city wall was broken, but this also provided the basic conditions for the cannonballs to kill in a wide area.

"Whoosh!"

The iron ball burst through the air, and the long line of cross-toe soldiers were hit, killed or wounded!

Oh my God, what the hell is this, how does it feel more powerful than the return cannon!

Not only were the soldiers frightened and surprised, but even the people on the city wall were unenforceable and looked at the still smoking barrels.

Unexpectedly, the first shell saw the effect, Zhao Rui was still very happy, and when he stepped forward to prepare the second cannon, he was suddenly stunned, because after the first cannonball was fired, a big crack had appeared in the city wall under the artillery, and if another cannon was fired, the city wall might not be able to withstand it!

The Cochin people did not stop because of an iron ball, they were still pushing the return cannon and continued to move forward.

Zhao Rui immediately made a decision, and hurriedly ordered someone to push the other artillery to the city gate, the first cannon because the barrel was too hot, let it cool down first.

Seeing the power of the artillery, everyone was very excited, and although the cannon was extremely heavy, they pushed it down without complaint.

"Open the gates!"

Now a total of seven artillery pieces have been loaded with ammunition by Zhao Rui, and when he pulls out the fuse, he is almost ready to fire.

As soon as he finished speaking, the gate rattled and the gate opened.

Zhao Rui personally instructed the soldiers to adjust the barrel to the correct direction, a moderate elevation angle, and then ignited the fuse at the same time.

The fuse was stinging and burning, like a firework played with as a child.

This time, there was no need for Zhao Rui to say, all the soldiers hid in the distance and watched carefully.

After the failure of the first two test firings, the Cochin people felt that they were too conservative on their side, and this time they greatly increased the distance traveled, and they would definitely hit the city wall.

Because it was the first time they had used the return artillery, they also adopted the advice of the Mongols and formed the return cannon into a number of triangular artillery arrays, with sharp angles facing the direction of the city wall.

Zhao Rui held up the binoculars to look at it, thinking that their artillery array was so similar to the way the bottle was placed in bowling?

The advantage of this is that it can increase the power of the local area, but in case it is hit by Zhao Rui's artillery......

"Boom...... Boom Boom Boom ......"

Seven cannons fired at the same time, extremely powerful, Zhao Rui felt that the ground under his feet was trembling!