Zhao Yun sighed and said: "After we entered the jungle, we encountered the attack of monsters, that group of monsters fell from the sky and attacked us, we were blinded all of a sudden, and we couldn't resist effectively at all, those things moved too fast, we could only escape all the way here." ”

"What monster?" Li Feng asked.

"A spider about the size of a human head." Zhao Yundao.

When Li Feng heard this, his brows furrowed, what they encountered just now was a millipede that had been magnified countless times, and Zhao Yun and they had encountered a big spider, and this place didn't know how many of these terrifying insects were hidden.

Compared with fierce beasts, these scary-looking insects bring a far stronger sense of fear to humans than fierce predators.

"Take a good rest, you and we will go back together, the general will not leave us." Li Feng comforted.

After a night of fear, as soon as the morning dawned, the soldiers took the wounded on improvised stretchers and hurried back in the direction of the camp.

Along the way, everyone's hearts were hanging, staring vigilantly at the surrounding bushes, these terrifying big insects, I don't know where they will come from.

"Total, this is where we met spiders in front, be careful." Zhao Yun reminded.

Li Feng nodded, and told the soldiers to be on guard, focusing their attention on the high treetops.

"Titicaca!"

A tooth-aching grinding sound suddenly shocked everyone.

I saw that on the high treetops, countless black spiders the size of human heads quickly climbed down the trunk.

"Run!" Li Feng shouted in horror.

With so many spiders at all, it was impossible for humans to resist, Li Feng was so frightened that he hurriedly ordered all the people to retreat, and he had no intention of fighting with them.

The soldiers ran away, and the spiders, seeing that the tasty prey was trying to escape, jumped down from the trunk of the tree like rain, and squeaked and chased after the people, and eight legs like iron rods swung rapidly, not much faster than a human running at full speed.

Li Feng glanced back, and the dead soul was rushing, urging everyone to speed up in horror.

And the group of spiders seemed to not stop if they didn't kill this group of prey, and they chased after each other, and the strange sound of "squeaking" made people's scalps tingle.

Fleeing all the way for their lives, the tired and panting crowd finally rushed out, and when they saw the spacious beach and the camp not far away, Li Feng hurriedly shouted: "General, help!" ”

Li Mu, who was staring at the jungle hesitatingly, saw the people running from the forest in a hurry, and his heart was already in his heart, although he didn't know what danger they had encountered, he immediately sent people to respond.

The dense group of spiders behind him chased to the edge of the jungle, stopped, and erected a pair of forefeet to watch the prey escape.

Back at the camp, the crowd that had escaped was in shock.

The wounded were carried down by the doctors who accompanied the army for treatment, and Li Feng and Zhao Yunzhi were called over by Li Mu.

"What happened to you?" Li Mu asked.

The two of them recounted what happened yesterday, and their eyes were full of horror.

After Li Mu listened to their story, he was shocked in his heart, this seemingly ordinary jungle did not expect to be so terrifying.

He sent someone to call Nan's hometown and asked, "Hometown, have you been to this place before?" ”

Nan Hometown shook his head and said, "General, this place is too far away from where my tribe lived before, and I haven't been here. ”

"Do you have any of these horrible bugs over there?"

"No, if there were these bugs, I'm afraid the humans there wouldn't be able to survive." Nan said slowly.

Li Mu nodded and told him to stand down.

"General, let's go quickly, this is not a place to stay for a long time." Li Feng suggested.

"After breakfast, let's leave, make a note of here, there is no land where these monsters survive in our territory of Great Xia, and after completing our mission, send someone to level here." Li Mu said coldly.

"Yes!"

Li Feng and the two said in unison, this place frightened them, if they could be bulldozed in the future, the two of them naturally couldn't ask for it.

After repairing for a while, the navy hurriedly left here with supplies.

At this time, in an open space outside Yancheng, civil and military officials accompanied Wang Lang to watch the test firing of the new weapon.

While the craftsmen were preparing, Lin Huo asked, "Your Majesty, is this cannon really as amazing as you say?" ”

Wang Lang smiled: "This is natural, if the artillery made by the Ministry of Industry can really succeed, then it will change the mode of war, and this thing will be the god of the battlefield." ”

When Lin Huo heard this, he was a little excited, if it was really as magical as Wang Lang said, then in the face of the possible attack of the dinosaur people, how could he be able to fight.

After the craftsmen were ready, they asked Wang Lang if he could start.

With Wang Lang's consent, for the sake of safety, this experimental artillery made the fuse very long.

The officials hid from aside, watching the test launch through the binoculars in their hands.

The flames of "Zizi" burned rapidly, and the air was filled with a faint smell of gunpowder.

"Boom!"

The violent rumble seemed to shake the earth, and a fire snake erupted from the thick muzzle, and a solid iron bullet whistled in the air and flew quickly into the distance.

The improvised earthen wall in the distance collapsed in an instant under the impact of the iron bullet, and the undiminished projectile bounced on the ground several times before stopping.

Everyone was stunned when they saw the power of this cannon, this small iron bullet was actually even more powerful than a stone thrower.

"Your Majesty, this... This... Is this the power of artillery? Lin Jian said dumbfounded.

Wang Lang said with a smile: "This is artillery, the god of the battlefield in the future, this is a small-caliber artillery, the firing range is about 500 meters, this kind of artillery is used for field warfare, and in the future, it will produce artillery with a larger caliber, which I estimate can hit a thousand meters, and use this thing to defend the city, and the city will be difficult to break." ”

Listening to Wang Lang's explanation, everyone was deeply shocked by this inconspicuous artillery, with this thing, who else in the world is their opponent, as long as hundreds of guns are fired together, it will make the enemy frightened.

At this time, Mu Feng stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, in addition to the artillery test firing today, we have also made another weapon. ”

Wang Lang raised his eyebrows and asked curiously, "What weapon?" ”

"I call this thing the Ten Thousand Arrows Car, and it can fire a large number of arrows at once, and its power is not under the longbow." Mu Feng said with great confidence,

"Could it be..." Wang Lang was shocked and had a rough guess.

Hurriedly said to Mu Feng: "Quickly let people take it out, and I'll see how powerful this Ten Thousand Arrow Car is." ”

"Yes!"

Mu Feng waved his hand and motioned to the craftsmen to start preparing.

Several craftsmen slowly pushed the open space of the square two-wheeled vehicle lane, and removed the earthy yellow cloth covering it, revealing the true face of the ten thousand arrow carts.

At the first glance of this 10,000-arrow car, Wang Lang immediately confirmed the guess in his heart, and said secretly: "Sure enough, it's this thing." ”

This square carriage is loaded with dense bamboo tubes, each bamboo tube is equipped with two or three arrows, and the end of the arrow shaft is not pasted with tail feathers, and its appearance is exactly the same as the magic machine arrows of the Ming Dynasty in his impression.

"Your Majesty, this thing is a 10,000-arrow cart." Wooden air ducts.

Wang Lang nodded, although this thing was a sideways weapon in the early firearms era, its power should be regarded as a weapon of mass destruction in this era.

"Let's see the power of this 10,000-arrow cart." Wang Lang said with a smile.

When Mu Feng heard this, he hurriedly motioned to the craftsman to prepare.

The weapon was not complicated to operate, and the craftsmen, having adjusted the angle, lit the fuse.

"Whoosh!"

As the fuse burned out, the arrows in the bamboo tube flew out diagonally like fireworks.

Looking at the arrows in the sky, Wang Lang estimated that there were hundreds of arrows in this car.

The arrows that were thrown out fell and stuck in the dirt more than a hundred meters away, and this round of attacks was almost as effective as a salvo from an archery battalion.

A group of officials today can be regarded as an eye-opener, whether it is artillery or magic arrows, they have subverted their perception of war.

If this kind of gunpowder weapon is on the battlefield, it is a nightmare for the enemy, and the power of gunpowder is not at all what flesh and blood can resist.

"Your Majesty, this 10,000-arrow cart can be compared to hundreds of archers, as long as our army is equipped with this kind of weapon, it is not afraid of the enemy fighting in formation, and it can cause great damage with artillery." Mu Feng said eloquently.

Wang Lang nodded, very satisfied with the performance of the Ministry of Industry, this magic arrow was made without his own participation, which shows that the creativity of the craftsmen is worthy of recognition.

Looking at this otherworldly version of the divine machine arrow, Wang Lang said: "In the future, the Firearms Department will focus on the production of these two weapons, as for the artillery, try different calibers, as small as one person can hold it, and as large as it can fire dozens of catties of projectiles." ”

"Your Majesty, why is this artillery so varied, the current one is extremely heavy, it is very inconvenient to move, it takes seven or eight people to lift it, if it is made into one person who can hold it, it is estimated that it will have no power, and it will be of no use at all!" Mu Feng asked differently, he didn't think that Wang Lang hadn't even thought of such a simple loophole.

"Now the artillery only has a bronze cannon body, it is inconvenient to move, don't you add wheels to it, these hundreds of pounds of things are not easy to pull with livestock, as for the problem of insufficient power of artillery miniaturization, this needs to be carefully studied to see what went wrong, the current artillery power is good, but in my opinion the power is still a little insufficient, with the specifications of this artillery, at least it can hit a distance of eight or nine hundred meters, I don't know how to improve it, It's up to you to look into it yourself. Wang Lang said slowly.

Wang Lang's words made Mu Feng stunned for a while, looking at the artillery on the mound, he was simply amazed by Wang Lang's idea of adding wheels to the artillery, he didn't think of such a simple thing, and secretly said that he was extremely stupid.

But for Wang Lang said to increase the power of artillery, Mu Feng is a little speechless, in order to develop these artillery, the Ministry of Industry invested a lot of manpower and material resources to barely produce a fairly mature sample, this power is simply the power of the gods for him, Wang Lang is still not satisfied with this thing, he really doesn't know where to improve.

Wang Lang ignored the entangled Mu Feng on the side, walked to the side of the artillery, carefully observed the cannon body, and saw that the test firing just now did not cause damage to the cannon body, so it seems that this artillery can be put into actual combat.

Carefully touched the cannon body, although it had cooled down for so long, the cannon body was still a little warm, Wang Lang put his hand into the barrel and carefully groped along the inner wall.

The inner wall of the barrel is mostly smooth, but occasionally there are protrusions and depressions in some places.

Wang Lang frowned slightly, such a cannon body didn't explode just now, and now it seems to be a miracle.

Seeing that Wang Lang's expression was a little wrong, Mu Feng hurriedly asked, "Your Majesty, is there anything wrong with this artillery?" ”

Wang Lang pondered for a while, and did not answer Mu Feng's words, but said: "Clean up the cannon chamber and try firing again, the charge is the same as before." ”

Mu Feng looked at the cannon suspiciously, called the craftsman, and asked it to reload.

Having seen the power of the artillery just now, there is no danger except for the earth-shaking sound, and this time they are going to test fire again, and the ministers want to watch the firing of the artillery up close this time.

But their idea was quickly rejected by Wang Lang, what are you kidding, this quality of artillery, and want to watch it up close, it's just that they have a long life.

At Wang Lang's insistence, the ministers had no choice but to retreat to their original places and watch with the binoculars in their hands.

Soon the craftsmen cleaned the chambers, loaded the shells, and after ten minutes of preparation, the long fuse was ignited.

"Boom!"

A huge roar sounded again, this time the effect was similar to before, the artillery stayed intact on the mound, and was not blown apart as Wang Lang imagined.

Wang Lang touched his chin suspiciously, and said secretly: "Could it be that I am thinking too much." ”

After a moment of silence, he called Mu Feng and asked him to order the craftsmen to continue the test firing, and if they could withstand firing ten shells in a row without exploding the chamber, then it would prove that the uneven parts of the chamber were not a big problem.

The loading process of front-loading artillery is extremely slow, and it takes nearly ten minutes or so to prepare for each shell fired, although when forming artillery in the future, the speed can be increased a little, but for Wang Lang, who was born in the information age, this speed is too slow.

When the sixth round was fired, a deafening explosion sounded, the cannon blew up, the heavy barrel was jumped up by the huge explosion, the cannon body was shattered and scattered, and the mound of earth where the cannon was mounted was almost leveled, and the scene was a mess.

Seeing such a terrifying scene, everyone was glad in their hearts, if it weren't for Wang Lang's order to stay away from the artillery, I am afraid that he would have already flown into the sky and shoulder to shoulder with the sun.