"Is it the bamboo tube?" Wu Luan's face was gloomy, the tiger's body trembled, he had gotten the news before, but he hadn't taken it to heart, the three of them glanced at each other, their faces were much gloomy, everyone knew the news, but no one knew that these bamboo tubes were actually used for this purpose, and this kind of thing happened in the first round, although there were no more than a thousand people injured, but the blow to morale was still very big.

"Yes, it's like a small artillery, except that we use iron and copper, and the other side uses bamboo tubes." Wu Jue nodded and said: "I'm afraid the other party has already made it, but it hasn't been shown, it's so powerful, it gave us a ruthless blow as soon as it came up." I said that Jiankang City has stored so many bamboos for what, not to repair the city wall, but to make such bamboo cannons, tsk, so powerful! This thing is very convenient to use, and it doesn't cost any money, bamboo is in Jiangnan, but there are a lot of them. ”

"It's not that there are no weaknesses, but it's only two or three times, and the bamboo tube can't be used, and if you don't pay attention to it, it will explode, and it's the soldiers who are unlucky." Han Shizhong immediately saw the weakness of this assault rifle, and said: "This bamboo cannon does not have much explosives and iron bullets every time, if you put too much gunpowder, it will explode, and if you put too many iron bullets, it will affect the range." ”

"But it's easy to make, and you can already change any shortcomings." Wu Jue shook his head, he thought that he could easily capture Jiankang City, but he suffered such trouble in the first attack, which cast a dark cloud over Wu Jue, who was ready to take Jiankang before Li Jing arrived in Jiankang. These bamboo cannons are very powerful, but every time they attack, they can injure soldiers, which is undoubtedly a very bad thing.

"Yes, so that's the flaw." Han Shizhong smiled and said to the soldiers beside him, "Go and cut a bamboo." Although the soldiers were curious when they heard this, they still went to cut a bamboo.

Han Shizhong took out his sword, cut off the bamboo branches around the bamboo, and turned it into a transparent bamboo pole, cut a few more sections, and let people use sharp arrows to penetrate the bamboo pole, and stabbed a hole in it, before he smiled: "This is probably the so-called bamboo cannon, gunpowder and iron bullets are poured into it, and then the fuse is lit on it, and the impact of gunpowder is used to urge the iron bullet to achieve the purpose of killing, and it can shoot about one hundred and fifty steps, down from the city wall, I'm afraid it will be farther." It's just that this thing is different from our bronze cannon. After Han Shizhong finished speaking, he looked at Wu Jue.

"Afraid of the rain." Wu Jue suddenly realized that the cannon is also afraid of water, but after all, it is cast in bronze or steel, and it can still be used as long as it is prepared in advance, but this kind of bamboo cannon made of bamboo is different, it is damp itself, and when it rains, this kind of bamboo cannon cannot be used at all.

"Yes, as long as it's raining, it's useless." Han Shizhong said with a smile: "There are still two cannons on my big ship, which are used to deter the enemy, let's move them over first, as long as it rains, I believe that with just a few cannons, we can destroy the city wall in front of us, and at that time, we can easily take Jiankang City." ”

"So, we don't have to fight today, I'm afraid this day, well, there are about three days left." Wu Jue looked at the sky, his brows furrowed, as a qualified general, he needs to know astronomy, geography, when it is windy, when it rains, he should know a thing or two. Although Wu Jue is not as accurate as the current weather forecast, he can probably guess a thing or two.

"Then wait, chopping wood is not a mistake to sharpen the knife skills, as long as we are prepared, we will be able to win Jiankang soon." Han Shizhong gritted his steel teeth and said. If it was an ordinary method, Han Shizhong would never agree with it, even if he personally led the charge to lead the charge, he would not say such a thing, but this guy in front of him wanted to be hateful, with a bamboo cannon, as long as the gunpowder was sufficient, he could shoot iron bullets and hurt the enemy.

Just now, Han Shizhong could still see the tragic situation of the wounded soldiers, it was not terrible to die in battle, what was terrible was that those iron bullets hit the body, beating people like a sieve, the tragic situation of not being able to survive, not being able to die, Han Shizhong didn't want this kind of thing to happen, so he suggested delaying the attack.

"We are making progress, and the enemy is also improving, so let's play this easy-to-carry bamboo cannon for Your Majesty! Since it has appeared in Jiankang, other places will definitely appear, especially in the hands of Yue Fei, it is not an easy thing to seize Hangzhou. Withdraw your troops! Wu Jue sighed. As soon as the battle began, it was blocked by the enemy and lost more than 1,000 people, which made Wu Jue feel very annoyed, and more importantly, how much of this bamboo cannon Yue Fei had in his hands. He didn't take a small Jiankang city to heart, but what about Hangzhou? At the beginning, Tong Guan and Fang La fought fiercely in Hangzhou for half a year before they defeated Fang La, and now they are dealing with Yue Fei, how many soldiers and horses does the Tang Dynasty have to lose to defeat the other party?

On the official road to Jiankang City, the soldiers and horses led by the Tang Emperor moved extremely quickly, even if it was an infantry, the speed of action was also very fast, although Li Jing was dealing with state affairs in the carriage, but sometimes, he would also take Li Dingbei to ride a war horse, Li Dingbei was riding a young horse, despite this, Li Dingbei also suffered a lot, and he rode a horse at the beginning. Li Dingbei's thighs were often broken and dripping with blood. What surprised Li Jing was that Li Dingbei was able to persevere at a young age.

However, Li Jing still let Li Dingbei sit in the carriage most of the time, learning about political affairs and military affairs, and every night, Li Jing will check his homework, which shows how much Li Jing attaches importance to his son.

"Father, an urgent report from Jiankang City said that the Song Army had sent a new firearm, called a bamboo cannon, which was very powerful." Li Dingbei saw Li Jing enter the carriage, raised the report in his hand, and said, "Is this thing more powerful than our artillery?" ”

"It's called a brute, and it's not a great thing." Li Jing quickly understood what this so-called bamboo cannon was, he took a breath, he didn't expect the Southern Song Dynasty to actually make a assault rifle, and he didn't expect that he could hide it from the secret guard. However, it seems that cutting bamboo and firearms really have nothing to do with each other.

"General Wu Jue said that they were preparing to attack on a rainy day, is it because this bamboo is afraid of rain? That's why you attack in the rain? Is our artillery also afraid of rain? Li Dingbei asked curiously: "If this is the case, what if the enemy takes advantage of the rainy day to attack us?" ”

"Firearms are afraid of rain now, but our firearms are more powerful than them, as long as we prepare in advance, it is not a big problem." Li Jing touched his son's head and said.