Chapter 285: Waiting for the Opportunity, King Ma's Sorrow

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Wen Huanzhang was also excited, but then he gloomy; "What we lack now is the obedience of the heart.

The military master said before that it is easy to fight the world and it is difficult to govern the world. If it weren't for that, he really wanted to defeat Goryeo and the Wa Kingdom now, then my Liangshan Army would have a large overseas foundation.

Moreover, there can be more soldiers and slave labor, and the most important thing is that the geographical location of Goryeo is extremely important, and the Wa State has a large amount of gold and silver, as long as our Liangshan army is defeated, there will be no shortage of money.

At that time, the only concern of the military lord was to conquer Goryeo and the Wa Kingdom, but we did not have so many management talents to govern the two places. ”

Xu Guanzhong said: "Yes, when the military master said this, we still felt that the military master was thinking too simply.

Thinking about Goryeo, the Liao State sent hundreds of thousands of troops to invade Goryeo three times, but in the end they all returned in vain, although our Liangshan army was strong......

Now it seems that the military master is right, with this kind of grenade, it is really not difficult to take down the two places. ”

After a pause, Xu Guanzhong suppressed his excitement and said: "But what Mr. Wen said, I can't rush it, just wait for the opportunity slowly."

I think that if the Zhao and Song Dynasty courts continue to toss like this, sooner or later the hearts of the people will be lost. ”

Wen Huanzhang laughed when he heard this: "Haha, what Mr. Xu said is very true, let's do things with peace of mind and wait for the opportunity!" ”

The two talked and laughed all the way to the official room on the edge of the conference hall in Wanzi City, and just greeted Zhu Wu, who was on duty.

Zhu Wu also knew that the two of them went to see the grenade test, and when he was about to pull the two aside to ask, he saw a person running in outside, but it was Wang Feiyu beside Lin Chong, who pulled three people in and introduced them to Wen Huanzhang and the others.

Not to mention that Wen Huanzhang and Xu Guanzhong carefully inquired about the Liao State and the Jurchens, but said that in the southern city outside Liangshanbo, Lin Chong and Lu Jianghao finally persuaded Li Qingzhao and his wife to stay for a few days and walk around Shuibo.

However, Lin Chong was a little afraid that the two would get to the bottom of it, so he asked General Lu to accompany each other well, explain to the two of them more about Liang Shanjun's political intentions, administrative program, and methods of doing things, and asked Lu Fang and Guo Sheng Haosheng to arrange people to protect the safety of the two.

In the end, Lin Chong excused himself to be busy with military affairs, said goodbye to the two, and rushed to Liangshan by boat with the jade lion of the night.

It is also said that the time is also the same force of heaven and earth, and he was just about to prepare for a raid on Zhongjing in Liao, and God sent himself three guides who had been stealing horses in the north all the year round, and also sent him a king among horses.

Thinking of this, Lin Chong couldn't help but pat the neck of the night jade lion again, and the jade lion also arched Lin Chong's arm with his head quite humanely.

So Lin Chong saw that there was no one left and right, and suddenly conjured two carrots and an apple in his hand, broke the apple in half, held it in his hand and began to feed the horse.

Like people, horses also like to eat sweet things, so sweet carrots and apples are horse favorites, and it would be better if you added a little sugar.

Sure enough, after only two or three bites, the jade lion shook his head happily, stretched his ears forward, and snorted comfortably, looking very happy.

"Good brother, in the future, we will kill the enemy on the battlefield together."

"I'll introduce another brother when I get back, kick the snow black horse, you are not allowed to bully him."

"Hehe, don't worry, follow me to ensure that you will eat and drink spicy food in the future, unspeakably majestic and domineering, and live a more wonderful life than anyone else! You can't hide your kingly spirit again......"

Somehow, Lin Chong suddenly thought that in the original story, this horse was successively ridden by Wanyan Zongwang, Shi Wengong and Song Jiang.

Although the two people in front of them are not kingly, they are not as high-spirited and fierce as themselves, but they are also a masterpiece for a while, and they are not too insulting to him.

But in the end, the jade lion finally became Song Jiang's mount, looking at Song Jiang, who was only six feet tall on horseback, black, short, fat and obscene, I didn't know what kind of mood he would have.

(PS: The horse's eyes are on both sides, so the perspective of seeing things is almost a 360° panorama, and it is possible to see the person on horseback; The other is not Black Song Jiang, the original Song Jiang is really obscene. )

I guess it's going to be desperate.

In fact, horses are the same as people, there are also those who have to meet the master, and there are those who have talents; There are also high-spirited, and there are also stumbling to death.

And the king of horses like the Jade Lion of the Night becomes the mount of a person like Song Jiang, and his skills are useless, and he will undoubtedly be depressed.

Fortunately, in this time and space, he met himself, and he should be his destination.

Lin Chong thought so, and soon arrived on the island, first settled down the night jade lion, this horse is also angry now, and it took a long time to be willing to live in peace with the snow kicking black horse.

After that, Lin Chong went to the engineering bureau and the test site to personally test the power of this wooden-handled grenade, and he was also very satisfied.

Although black powder has too many disadvantages compared with TNT explosives (yellow powder) in later generations, such as flammable danger; For example, there is too much residue and too much smoke; There is also the fact that the explosiveness is not strong, and the detonation speed is too low.

(Yellow powder is a detonator that detonates a violent explosion, so it is not afraid of fire, and it can explode and injure people without wrapping; Black powder, on the other hand, is ignited with fire and burns violently, so if it is not in an enclosed space, it will only burn and not explode. )

But the biggest advantage of black powder is that it has a low tech tree, it is easy to craft, and most importantly, as long as it is crafted properly, the power is not much worse than TNT.

It's about 40 to 45 percent.

That is to say, assuming that the kind of wooden-handled grenade equipped by our army in later generations is equipped with 80 grams of TNT, and the Liangshan army only needs to contain less than 200 grams of black powder, the power is theoretically equivalent to that of the hand grenades of later generations.

This time, Lin Chong asked Ling Zhen to test a grenade containing 240 grams of black powder, the full weight of which was about one and a half catties in later generations, and the body of the grenade was designed with a fragmentation groove, and the thickness of the iron sheet was also tested many times, so the killing effect would not be much worse than the grenades used by our army in later generations.

You must know that the earliest Maxim machine guns also used black powder bullets, and the power was not enough.

Now the only thing that is missing is the fuse.

In fact, Lin Chong designed a kind of pull-out fuze early on, that is, a small piece of iron was installed in a small dark grid, and when it was used, the wire was pulled hard, and the iron piece smashed the thin iron sheet that blocked it, hit the flint, ignited the sulfur and sulfur and then ignited the fuse, and the fuse burned for four or five seconds to ignite the black powder.

However, this kind of fuze is really a little difficult to use, one is difficult to process, too many processes; Another is that it's too unsafe.

Because of the large mass of the iron, it is easy to break the thin iron sheet that blocks it due to violent bumps or collisions, and it is easy to hit the flint by itself, and it is easy to blow up the user.

Therefore, Lin Chong tested two other detonation methods today, one is to fix the small iron nail with a small spring, and pull the spring to drive the iron nail to pop out to hit the flint; The other is to use brushed copper wire to rub the glass powder to ignite the sulfur.

This is also the detonation method of melon grenades and long-handled grenades in later generations, but Lin Chong and Ye Meng and others have to go through many tests to see which method is suitable for the current production level of Liangshan Army.