Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Chapter 89: (Shenwu Cannon)

In the middle of August of the second year of Tianzhu, Shangguan Yin Feng finally got what he had been thinking about for a long time, cannons, and cannonballs, when the Wutang Machinery Division sent the cannons to Shangguan Yin Feng's mansion, it was already two o'clock in the evening, when Huang Botao transported the cannons to the front of the mansion, Shangguan Yin Feng couldn't wait to stand on the front steps of the door and wait...

"Lord, the cannon has been built, and the projectile production has been completed, please give it a try..."After Huang Botao saw Shangguan Yin Feng, he clasped his fists and saluted...

"Okay, I've prepared the target, Huang Botao, you personally give me a try..."Shangguan Yin Feng had already taught Huang Botao how to use the cannon, so now he was standing on the steps with Murong Xue and the others to watch how Huang Botao's first shot was...

Because it was the first time, Huang Botao couldn't help but be a little nervous, before it was just a drill, now it is a practical application, he seemed a little cautious, when Huang Botao slowly loaded the black powder in the powder keg into the bottom of the cannon, a person from the mechanical department next to him carefully put a black cannonball half smaller than a football into the barrel, and then handed the torch to Huang Botao on the side...

Huang Botao took the torch and lit it at the fuse that came out on the surface of the bottom of the cannon, followed by a continuous 'bang' sound, and finally, with a muffled 'bang', I saw a burst of fire coming out of the muzzle, and the black cannonball flew to the scarecrow target two hundred zhang away from Huang Botao in the night, and then there was a loud bang, and the scarecrow was blown out, of course, the burning straw was splashed everywhere...

"Ahh

Of course, everyone standing next to them was stunned by this sight in front of them, and apart from the buzzing of their ears, all that was left was amazement...

"Congratulations, congratulations..."

"Congratulations on your success..."

Huang Botao came back to his senses first, and immediately congratulated Shangguan Yin Feng, he was not in vain...

"Order, from now on, set up the 'Shenji Battalion', Huang Botao, you are the commander of the Shenji Battalion, I will give this guy a name, Shenwu Cannon, and, continue to supervise the construction, the more the better..."

"Thank you, Lord Xie..."Huang Botao can be said to have gained a lot, but how could he know how majestic this newly formed Shenji Battalion will be in the future...

The next day, the people of Nanyang City were talking about the loud noise that happened last night, because Shangguan Yin Feng ordered it to be kept secret, so the people were just a legend of gods and ghosts, how did they know that this loud noise was emitted by the Shenwu cannon...

The formation of the Shenji battalion is also very fast, except for the soldiers of the cannon, the rest of the gunners are all students recruited by the first phase of the lecture hall, they are all Shangguan Yin Feng personally taught how to use the Shenwu cannon, for this reason, Shangguan Yin Feng specially established a shooting range at the foot of the mountain at the south foot of the west of Nanyang City, which is specially used as a training place for Shenwu artillery, of course, all the training of the cannon is at night, in addition to keeping it secret, it is also Shangguan Yin Feng to plan for the night battle in the future...

At night, Shangguan Yin Feng fell asleep with the four ladies in his arms on the big bed, and Murong Xue whispered in Shangguan Yin Feng's ear: "Husband, the Shenwu cannon is certainly powerful, but has the husband ever thought that once the enemy breaks through the defense line of the artillery army, then those gunners will encounter a catastrophe, and Husband will have a countermeasure?" "Murong Xue's thoughts are not unreasonable, once the enemy breaks through the defense line of the gunners, those bulky Shenwu cannons will not run faster than the wind like cavalry...

"The husband has already thought of these situations, so he has ordered Huang Botao to make a new weapon according to the drawings..."Shangguan Yin Feng's new weapon, referring to the musket, the Ming Dynasty's Shenji battalion is equipped with long guns and short guns, there are various models of muskets, Shangguan Yin Feng carefully selected the improved version of the arquebus, Shangguan Yin Feng has always been an instructor of special forces, although he is most familiar with automatic rifles, but now the conditions are limited, it is not very good to have cannons, muskets are even more rare...

"New weapons?" Murong Xue looked at Shangguan Yin Feng curiously, and suddenly looked at him with a flash of inspiration: "Isn't it those long things that Fujun painted a few days ago?" "Murong Xue had actually seen it a long time ago, but when she saw it, Shangguan Yin Feng had already handed over the drawings to Huang Botao...

"The new weapon is called the arquebus, there is a metal hook on the gun, one end of the hook is fixed on the gun, and can rotate around the axis, the other end is clamped with a burning arquebus, when firing, the metal hook is pushed into the fire door by hand, so that the fire rope ignites the black powder, and then the projectile contained in the chamber of the gun is fired..."

Murong Xue couldn't understand this, and shook her head again and again: "The husband is really a god, and the concubine doesn't understand..."

"The production of this thing is more complicated than the cannon, I estimate that even if it is worked day and night, it will take at least a year, but during this period, as long as the cannon is done, it will be fine..."

"Then I'm looking forward to my husband's new weapon..."

"Come, while they sleep, let's do it once?"

"Don't..."

At the beginning of October of the second year of Tianzhu, the city of Jizhou was broken, Yuan Long led the army to withdraw from the city of Jizhou, during this period the offensive and defensive battles have been miserable, at least 100,000 casualties on both sides, when Yuan Long retreated, the 170,000 army was only 780,000 behind him...

In the same month, Chai Shang fought with Li Yanqing in Baoding, Baoding could not be attacked for a long time, Murong Jin led an army of 50,000 to make a detour to raid Bazhou, but was repelled by the defenders of Bazhou, who had been prepared, and Murong Jin had to return the same way...

The war in Hebei is in a state of temporary stagnation, and both sides are resting, after all, there has been more than half a year of continuous fighting, and both sides are mobilizing grain and grass to prepare for future troubles...

As for Shanxi, due to Liu Xuan's hot battle with Wentai's army in Jinyang, Tuoba Wenhong had to stop attacking Sima Xin and Murong Ba, temporarily giving the place where the two were a chance to breathe...

Hebei, Murong Jin's army, is sixty miles away from Bazhou

"General, what now?" The general walked into the big tent and saluted Murong Jin...

Murong Jin looked at the map with a serious face, they were now blocked by Li Yanqing in Baoding and Bazhou, and they couldn't advance or retreat, and Chai Shang's reinforcements were also blocked in Baoding and couldn't advance, because the purpose at that time was to sneak attack Bazhou, so they didn't have much food now, and it would last for two days at most: "The enemy army has already prepared, we have fallen into Li Yanqing's plan..."

"General, Li Yanqing is a well-known person in Beiping, according to the opinion of the last general, it is better for our army to go to Rong County for temporary refuge..."

Murong Jin pointed to Rong County on the map with his finger when he heard this, muttered in his heart, looked at the general and said: "Now it seems that it can only be done temporarily, let's go to Rong County first to defend and wait for General Chai to reinforce the army..."

Thirty miles north of Baoding, Li Yanqing's army

"General, Murong Jin led the army to Rong County..."

Just as Li Yanqing was about to sleep, the general ran into his big tent in a hurry, and after hearing the report, Li Yanqing got up from the bed, patted the bed vigorously and said: "Okay, finally take the bait, you, immediately go to Bazhou to tell General Yuan Rui, let him lead all the troops to Rong County, and we will arrive later..."

"No..."

"Tell the herald to let him go to Baoding and inform General Yuan Tian that he must block Chai Shang's army..."

"No..."

Li Yanqing walked out of the big tent, looked at the soldiers who had already fallen asleep, and shouted: "Left and right, beat the drums, gather the army..."

Murong Jin never thought that the reason why Li Yanqing blocked him near Rong County was to let him lead the army into Rong County, and then mobilize superior forces to completely annihilate Murong Jin's army...