Kublai Khan stepped down and circled around the artifact, flicked his fingers with great interest, listened to the slightly dull hum, stroked the tendrils and asked, "What is this artifact called?" How does it work? How powerful? ”

Buber still maintained a prostrated posture and replied respectfully, "Back to the Great Khan, this artifact was just made last month and has not yet been named, so please give it a name to the Great Khan." ”

Kublai Khan raised his eyebrows, "Hmm...... According to Sango, this artifact can also be used to fire lead and gravel with gunpowder? ”

"Exactly."

"Cast in brass, it is shaped like a gun, and it breathes flint stones—let's call it a bronze firecracker."

All the ministers of the palace praised in unison, "It is worthy of the Great Khan, a good name!" ”

Kublai Khan, the "great master of Confucianism", actually has no talent, and the holy decrees issued in the historical records are all in the vernacular, and it is impossible to expect him to have a majestic name, but it is quite appropriate.

Kublai Khan was in a good mood and smiled, "Bu Bo flattened, introduce the function of this bronze fire gun to me." ”

"Xie Da Khan." Seeing that the results of the research had been affirmed, Buber got up happily and pointed to the various parts of the bronze fire pistol and introduced them one by one: "Great Khan, Prime Minister, and all the Nayan (adults), please see, this bowl-shaped mouth is the mouth of the gun, this body tube part is the gun, this bulge is the medicine room, and the last one that closes is the tail. Before launching, pour lead gravel into the mouth of the gun, fill the gun, and then pour a little primer into the medicine room, and use a red-hot iron skewer to reach into the hole......"

Buber proudly poked his index finger into the hole in the spherical medicine room, and came out of his mouth with an onomatopoeia, "Bang!" ”

At this time, a rough voice sounded: "According to Bu Bo Wanhu, the firing method of this bronze fire gun is quite similar to that of the Song people's muskets. ”

All the ministers in the palace have seen the shape of the spear attached by Li Heng, and some have also seen the real musket sent by Li Heng to Beijing.

Kublai Khan bowed slightly: "The instigation is all right." Hehe, in terms of weapon research and development, my Dayuan far surpasses the Song people, even if the Song people are one step ahead, we can catch up. ”

"Wolves don't compete with rabbits, but if necessary, they can catch up and bite rabbits to death at any time." ”

Instigated the Yuan Dynasty to destroy the Song Dynasty pioneer, brave by nature, often fighting, born in cowardice, accumulated merit to promote Fujian Province to preach consolation, marched to the southern marshal's mansion, even Fuzhou and other places, entered the governor's affairs, Zuo Cheng, and did the provincial affairs in Quanzhou. On the one hand, he pursued and suppressed the dynasty, and on the other hand, he was responsible for sending envoys to the countries of the South China Sea.

If it weren't for Kublai Khan's other arrangements for him, that is, to assist the Nine Emperor Princes Zhennan Wang Tuhuan to defend Annan and occupy the city, then the heavy responsibility of conquering the Xing Dynasty and attacking Qiongzhou would definitely fall on his head. In this way, it was not Zhang Hongfan who was killed by artillery bombardment, but he instigated the capital.

It was precisely because of the instigation of the capital and its heavy troops to be transferred out of Quanzhou that Mrs. Xu, Chen Hangyan and others took the opportunity to besiege Quanzhou and beat Pu Shougeng bitterly. Fortunately, the deputy governor of Yuan Gaoyou Road was happy to lead troops to help, so he was spared.

The reason why the instigation of the capital rushed to Dadu from Annan, thousands of miles away, was that he was summoned by Kublai Khan, consoled his merits, and sent him to attack the Song Dynasty. I had just seen the real musket a few days ago, and I was deeply impressed, and when I heard Buber's explanation of the bronze firecracker, I couldn't help but compare it with the musket, and found that the firing principle of the two was strikingly similar.

The words of the instigation of the capital aroused the resonance and applause of the ministers of the Mongol Yuan, and they asked Kublai Khan to order the test in public.

Kublai Khan also wanted to see how powerful this new firearm was, so he immediately agreed. So a cadre of Mengyuan ministers walked outside the palace like the stars holding the moon, hugging Kublai Khan. Only Prime Minister Boyan stood still, frowning, seeing that the monarchs and ministers were about to walk out of the inner hall, he sighed slightly, and had to follow.

On the west side of the altar temple on the outskirts of Miyagi, there is a large lawn. This is the royal martial arts arena, Kublai Khan is the emperor immediately, he likes to hunt with bows and horses, this area is the place where the cowardly guards practice on weekdays, and Kublai Khan will come to play when he is interested. It would be a good place to test firearms.

Under the attention of all the monarchs and ministers, Buber was full of red light, filled the lead gravel with his own hands, estimated it again and again, put in the appropriate amount of primer, and finally took the fire skewer handed by his entourage. In the excitement, his hands trembled slightly.

That's when the target is placed.

Kublai Khan, the instigation of Du, Sange and other ministers were also satisfied with the target that was usually used as an arrow target, and when the cowardly Xue placed the three targets ten zhang in front of the fire gun according to Buber's request, Kublai Khan's thick eyebrows trembled imperceptibly.

Bo Yan, who had been paying attention to Kublai Khan's expression, shook his head in his heart, and then looked at the ministers with excited expressions, and he didn't know what to say.

"Great Khan ......" Buber looked at Kublai Khan, and after receiving the bow, he slammed the fire into the hole in the medicine room.

Whew! The fire flickered, and green smoke came out.

Rumble! There was a muffled sound, and a large puff of smoke and gravel and lead shot out, crackling and hitting the three grass targets. The grass target staggered, the grass clippings flew, and the momentum was not small, but there was no scene where the grass target expected by the Meng Yuan monarchs and ministers was broken or shattered.

Seeing such an achievement, Meng Yuanjunchen stared wide-eyed, and the scene was weird. Buber, who was originally full of sorrow, also had a bad feeling, but he didn't know what was wrong, and his heart was uneasy.

Kublai Khan had a cold face and said calmly, "Put a feather armor on the grass target and try it again." ”

Soon, three targets were replaced, but this time they were all covered with Linggen armor, simulating actual combat defense. It also gave Buber face, and did not move the target back.

Now, Buber began to sweat.

In fact, after the development of this bronze firecracker, Buber reported it to the Privy Council, and the prime minister and fellow privy councillor Boyan also visited the military craftsman Wanhu Mansion and expressed his disappointment at the power of the bronze firecracker. It is believed that such power is okay in the defense of the city, but it is useless in field warfare. Dayuan Iron Cavalry dominates the world, it has always been offensive and offensive again, when do you need to defend in a nest?

Although Buber was a little disappointed, he still recognized the evaluation of the prime minister in his heart, so he didn't expect to be rewarded by the Great Khan, but he didn't expect this weapon to let the Great Khan know, and he sent a decree to let him bring a cannon into the palace for testing. And now it's ......

"Which bastard leaked the news that Wanhu Mansion has a copper firecracker." Buber gritted his teeth in his heart, hating this unknown mouthy guy to death.

The eyelids of Sang Ge in the ministers jumped, and he faintly felt that this time's sycophants were not a place, and they were not people inside and out......

The Great Khan had an order, and no matter how weak Buber was, he could only honestly use a horsehair brush to clean the chamber several times to confirm that there was no trace of gunpowder residue or gravel residue before reloading.

The fire was inserted, and the ground shook, and the rocks were like locusts, and the feathered nails on the target shook violently, clanging and clanging.

Soon, even the target with Linggen armor was presented to Kublai Khan, and there were obvious marks of hitting on the armor, but such traces were not much stronger than the long-range shot of heavy arrows, and they could not break the armor at all.

To put it bluntly, this bronze fire gun is equal to the original version of the tiger squat cannon, the power has been greatly reduced, and the actual combat ability is worrying, not to mention that it is not as good as the same type of artillery - the tiger roar cannon of the Song army, even compared to the tiger squat cannon more than a hundred years later.

Kublai Khan's face sank like water, and he forced Buber to look at him, "This is the bronze fire gun you made?" Look at what Li Heng wrote in Shuli's 'One shot will blow out, erosive for miles', 'One shot will kill you in a hundred steps', you can only shoot ten zhang! You can't even break your armor! ”

Buber broke out in a cold sweat, "Great Khan, judging from the experience of the ministers who have made artillery for more than ten years, how can there be such a sharp weapon in the world?" This, this, this is mostly an exaggeration ...... Tang Bao."

If it weren't for Meng Yuan's tradition of not killing masters, if it weren't for the current employment situation, Kublai Khan would have slaughtered his heart.

Kublai Khan didn't say much, shouting, "Come on, get on the musket!" ”

After a while, a cowardly Xue Wei knocked with a musket.

The musket was a defective product that Li Shi'an bought from Luo Dianman, and it was not difficult to use the musket, and it was easy to detect.

Xue Wei lacked training and was not very skilled in operation, but nothing went wrong. The target he aimed at was the grass target used by the Copper Fire System before, and it was also covered with Linggen armor, and the distance was also ten zhang.

Bang!

You don't even need to take a nail to look at it, you can see the nail pieces shattered and scattered from a distance.

Many of the ministers were shocked when they saw the power of muskets for the first time. Buber's eyes widened.

Kublai Khan said coldly: "Move ten more feet." ”

Bang!

The second shot, this time the armor was not broken, but it was obviously dented, if a person was shot in armor, the concussive force was afraid that it would be difficult for people to vomit blood.

"Move another ten zhang and go to the armor."

Bang! Bang!

This time the distance was a little far, and Xue Wei missed the target once, and the second shot hit.

When the grass target pestle was in front of Buber, the bullet eye that was enough to poke half a knuckle almost blinded Buber's gray-brown eyes. Buber's eyes bulged, his lips trembled, he couldn't say anything, his knees went limp, and he prostrate at Kublai Khan's feet.

All the ministers of Mengyuan were shocked by the power of this weapon, compared to it, what kind of bronze fire gun is a fart!

In the midst of depression, Kublai Khan roared, "Within one month of the military craftsman's mansion, put the trial musket in front of me!" ”

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