"Master Li, wake up, wake up, ......wake up" When it was almost dawn, Li Yue, who was sleeping directly on the table, was woken up by Feng Chaozong, and the sleepy-eyed Li Yue looked at the sky outside the house and was still dark, and couldn't help but complain, "What's going on?" It's not dawn yet? Wake me up so early? ”

"It was you who told me to wake you up, and you have repeatedly explained that as soon as that new firearm is made on trial, it will wake you up immediately." Feng Chaozong was even more resentful than Li Yue. Before Feng Chaozong's words fell, Li Yue had already sat up and asked sleepily, "Has the grenade been trial-produced?" So fast? Feng Chaozong shrugged his shoulders and said: "You promised a hundred yuan, those craftsmen can't save so much in a lifetime, of course, they worked overtime overnight to catch up with the production." ”

"Great, tell them to rest for a while, and when it's dawn, we'll go find a hidden place outside the city and see the results of the experiment. Remember to inform the king of Wu'an and Zhang Xiang to go together. After sending Feng Chaozong away, Li Yue said to himself: "Isn't it a Youguo person?" Shame on you, let me snow! ”

The next day, Wang Wenbin of Wu'an County, Zhang Qi, Li Yue, Feng Chaozong, and more than 20 craftsmen, as well as a team of officials, hurried to a small forest more than 30 miles south of Datong Mansion.

Wen Bin and Zhang Qi were very curious, Li Yue said last time that as long as the preparation method of gunpowder was slightly adjusted, the power could be multiplied. Moreover, Li Yuefei said that the new firearm he developed could reverse the situation of the war against Youguo, but they wanted to see what the situation was.

When they arrived at the experimental site, the twenty craftsmen yesterday were impatient and eager. Li Yue spoke: "Take out the newly made firearms quickly." ”

"My lord, here." The eldest old craftsman asked people to hold out a large plate, on which were placed ten primitive grenades with iron-headed wooden handles, some of which were lit with fire with exposed fuses as painted by Li Yue, and some of which were improved by the old craftsman.

Li Yue grabbed a casual look and found that these grenades were all iron-headed wooden handles, weighing about two catties, which were easy to grab and throw, and these craftsmen were able to make such perfect grenades for the first time, which was really commendable, and Li Yue was amazed. Wen Bin, Zhang Qi and Feng Chaozong next to him looked confused, and asked together, "What is this?" ”

"Grenade, it's going to blow up!" Li Yue squinted his eyes and said, "Light this grenade and throw it out, and it will explode with a bang." If the ghost dog is blown up by this grenade, it will have to be broken into thousands of pieces, and the power will be great! With this weapon, there is no need to be afraid of the cavalry of the northern captives in the future. ”

"Is this thing really that powerful?" Wen Bin, Zhang Qi, and Feng Chaozong were all suspicious of these swarthy things, and refused to believe that they were really that powerful.

Li Yue made a new discovery in that grenade, and the iron pipe at the top of one of the grenades was not integrated, but had cracks one after another, like scales. Li Yue picked up the grenade and said in surprise: "Who did this?" Why did you make the surface of the iron pipe like this? ”

"Go back to your lord, this is done by the grass people." Yesterday, the old craftsman smirked and said, "Master Li, the grass people think that there are not too many fragments of the smooth iron pipe after the explosion, and the power will be affected, so the grass people made an iron pipe with a gap on the surface, so that the explosion will increase the fragments, and the effect should be better." ”

"What's your name? What a talent! Li Yue had already made up his mind in his heart and promoted him afterwards.

"Grass people Jiang Hongfeng." The old craftsman replied excitedly.

Li Yue handed a hair-pulling grenade to Feng Chaozong and said, "Chaozong! Don't you really believe in the power of such firearms? I'm a kind person, I'll give you a chance, you pull this tab out, and throw it into the woods, do you dare? ”

"It's a joke." Feng Chaozong took the grenade nonchalantly, pulled out the ring according to Li Yue's instructions, and a faint gray smoke immediately came out of the grenade. The grenade, which weighed less than two catties, was easily thrown by Feng Chaozong more than fifty steps away and fell into the dense woods.

But probably because the lead was left long enough, the grenade fell into the woods and didn't explode immediately, making Wen Bin inexplicable, and couldn't help but ask: "Nephew, didn't you say that this thing would explode?" How to ......"

"Boom ——!" Before Wen Bin's words fell, the grenade fuse that fell into the woods had burned out and exploded violently. Except for Li Yue, who was lying on the ground covering his ears, the huge explosion shook everyone's eardrums, and the air waves also blew the broken branches and leaves of the woods and the dust flew all over the place. After a while, everyone cheered.

Wen Bin and Zhang Qi praised in unison: "This son, the real Luban is reincarnated!" ”

"Let's go, let's see the killing effect." Li Yue got up from the ground, and before he even had time to pat the dust on his face and clothes, he rushed to the woods.

The others followed closely under the leadership of Wen Bin, and the explosion scene at this moment was already a mess, within a radius of ten meters with the explosion point as the center, all the small trees were uprooted by the air waves, the big trees with thick bowls cracked and shook, and a soil pit with a diameter of more than half a meter appeared on the ground, and the power of the explosion was visible.

Seeing this scene, Feng Chaozong couldn't help but rejoice in his heart, fortunately he threw the grenade over in time, otherwise would he still have his life? ”

The craftsmen who made grenades next to them exclaimed: "It turns out that adding saltpeter to seven and a half catties will have such a great power?" "Only one pound of gunpowder has such great power, and if you want to change the previous gunpowder, it will take at least twenty pounds to have such great power!"

There are even craftsmen who take the opportunity to make a big fuss: "Master Li is really a god, let us make such a good weapon with a little guidance, otherwise we won't be able to make such a good thing in another three hundred years." ”

The team of officers of the ordnance supervisor also liked the shape, and they talked nonsense: "Great, with this kind of weapon, we will be much easier on the battlefield in the future, and this firearm will definitely make the ghost dog drink a good pot." ”

"Make more of this kind of thing, with this kind of grenade, we will definitely be able to recover our homeland!"

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"Don't argue yet, let's try this grenade again." Li Yue was more concerned about Jiang Hongfeng's improved fragment grenade, and he threw the grenade into the woods, and Wen Bin and others were lying on the ground like Li Yue this time, covering their ears. There was another loud bang, and when Li Yue rushed up to check the effect again, he found that the grenade really produced a large number of fragments, which could fly nearly twenty meters away at the farthest, all of which were deeply trapped in the tree trunk, and some fragments could shoot through the tree trunk, and the effect was far better than Li Yue imagined.

After watching the scene, Li Yue took out the money ticket from his sleeve, turned his head and said to the twenty craftsmen: "You have done a good job, I will give you a hundred money tickets now." ”

Zhang Qi kept shaking his head, how could the officials of the imperial court spend so much money?

"Thank you, sir." The craftsmen were overjoyed, and they were busy kowtowing to Li Yue to thank him.

Li Yue was not used to others kneeling for him, and he didn't want to take the lead, so he waved his hand to stop him: "Don't thank me, if you want to thank you, thank the king of Wu'an, this is all the prince's idea." ”

Wen Bin felt that Li Yueju's achievements were not arrogant, which was really rare. After receiving the thanksgiving from the craftsmen, he said, "You are those who have served the country, and this is your deserved reward." After returning home, we must pay close attention to the manufacture of this new type of firearm, and Zhang Xiangzi will satisfy all the necessary materials. ”

"Thank you, Lord Wang!" The craftsmen knelt down again to thank him.

Zhang Qi turned to Li Yue and said, "This kind of firearm is too vulgar to call it a grenade, it is better to call it a 'heaven-shaking thunder'." ”

Li Yue replied: "Good name!" Thank you for your name! Since then, this new type of firearm has been named Earthquake Thunder in Daliang, but the soldiers still like to use the name Li Yue said before, simple and clear, grenade.

After this weapon experiment, Wen Bin and Zhang Qi jointly gave a recital to the emperor: "There are talented people in the country, and this son is extraordinary, erudite and talented." It's quite condescending to be in charge of the ordnance superintendent......"