In the early days of the hand cannon, the user held the barrel with two hands and had an assistant help light the fuse. The user can also place the hand cannon on the stand and hold it with one hand and reload it with the other hand, so that one person is enough to operate the hand cannon. Hand cannons have a variety of shells, mainly spherical or arrow-shaped shells made of lead, iron, or stone.

After continuous development and the practice of warfare, the structure of the hand cannon was also constantly changed, and the barrel was added with a powder pool, and the lead protruded from the wall of the pipe into the tube, replacing the previous method of igniting from the muzzle. The mouth of the powder pool was covered with leather, which was later changed to a metal lid to keep the gunpowder dry before ignition and prevent premature burning. This improvement greatly increased the firing efficiency and power of the hand cannon, and similar firearms since then have basically continued this characteristic.

Due to the limited power of the black powder made by the local method, and the relatively rudimentary construction of the early hand cannon, it was not a very lethal long-range weapon. Early hand cannons were not even powerful enough to penetrate the light armor of the cavalry. In addition, the handle of the hand cannon is not easy to grasp, and there are design problems with the barrel, so the accuracy of the hand cannon is not high. Because of these defects, hand cannons do not often appear on the battlefield, but the loud noise and gunpowder smoke when it is fired are a great deterrent to the enemy army, which can reduce the morale of the enemy army, so it can play a certain auxiliary role.

It was not until the middle of the fifteenth century that the invention of granular gunpowder and arquebus led to the development of firearms, which began to play an indispensable role in warfare. Driven by these inventions, the accuracy and power of hand cannons increased dramatically. In the famous Battle of Constantinople, the Byzantine defenders dealt heavy blows to the attacking Ottoman army with hand cannons, which fired walnut-sized lead bullets with great penetrating power. It could often penetrate an armored Ottoman soldier, hit another soldier behind him, and then hit the next soldier again until the power of the cannonball wore off, so that a single shot of lead could often kill 2 or 3 enemy soldiers at a time. Under such firepower, the besieging Ottoman army suffered heavy casualties, and when the Ottoman soldiers swarmed in, the Byzantine gunners fired hand cannons from a very close distance, and the effect was that the enemy was bleeding all over the ground, and in some sections the corpses were even piled up to the height of the city wall, which shows the great power of the enemy. As an important weapon in many ancient countries, hand cannons were still used in a few regions until the 20th century.

The hand cannon in the hand of the person in front of Sun Hui is smaller in size than the Byzantine hand cannon, and it fires an iron projectile, which is slightly larger than a ping pong ball. But such a terrible weapon was not enough to kill the prehistoric beast.

"Who are you? What are you doing in this barren mountain at this time? The man asked.

At this time, the two of them saw the appearance of this man clearly, he was about thirty years old, strong like a bison, with a very neat beard, his expression was a little vicious, but he did not look like a bad person, and there was no malice in listening to his question.

"We ...... Who are you, you are not allowed to hunt here...... But thank you for saving us. Xiao Tiantian had returned to her normal form at this time, and she diverted the topic and wanted to show favor to this man.

"I didn't hunt, this evil beast doesn't know where it came from, it's surprisingly big, it's rampage in the mountains all day long, a few days ago I overturned a monument in this temple, and I came here today to get rid of it." The man looked at Sun Hui and Xiao Tiantian, "You two, you eloped, right?" ”

Xiao Tiantian's face turned red all of a sudden, Sun Hui was also very embarrassed, and was about to explain, but the other party waved his hand, "Forget it, I won't ask where you came from, but you are really good, how can you come here?" Don't know how many people have died here? I'm really convinced. ”

As he spoke, he walked towards the temple with the eagle eagle on his head, and several large dogs followed him with their tails wagging.

Sun Hui looked at his back, thoughtful, Xiao Tiantian saw that he was stunned, and gently patted him on the shoulder, and he came back to his senses.

"Brother Sun, don't you think this person is quite like a person." Xiao Tiantian said.

"I was thinking just now......" Sun Hui looked at her and raised her eyebrows, "Why don't you tell me first, who does he look like?" ”

"Yang Zaixing!" Xiao Tiantian said without hesitation. Sun Hui nodded approvingly.

"In this way, he should be Yang Zaixing's descendant." Xiao Tiantianjing was completely aroused, she decided that this person must have some kind of connection with this magical place, besides, the other party is equivalent to saving herself, and she must always ask for a clear identity.

Xiao Tiantian pulled Sun Hui and followed the man to the courtyard of the temple from a distance, only to find that there were two strange statues standing behind the abandoned mountain gate. Generally, most of the temples enshrined at the mountain gate are the four great King Kongs and the like, but the appearance of these two gods is very strange, the paint and color paintings on the body are extremely bright, one holds a sword and a rope, the sword holder steps on the evil ghost, and there is a tiger lying next to the rope person. Take a closer look, there is a plaque on the ground, shine it with a flashlight, but see three big characters written on the plaque: Dushuo Temple.

Sun Hui silently recited the three words of Dushuo Temple in his heart, feeling so familiar, and suddenly looked at the two statues, and suddenly understood in his heart, the name of this temple is called Dushuo, which should be taken from the meaning of Dushuo Mountain, and those two statues should be the two brothers of the gods who guarded the gate of ten thousand ghosts under the big peach tree on Dushuo Mountain, but they don't know what is enshrined in the hall?

At this point, Sun Hui and Xiao Tiantian's curiosity was even stronger, and the two quickly chased in, and saw that the man had bypassed a huge peach tree and walked into the only main hall in the temple that had not collapsed.

The hunter glanced at Sun Hui and Xiao Tiantian, who followed up, and didn't say anything, just put the big eagle on a scaffolding on the side, and then commanded the three big dogs to lie quietly in the corner, and then also pulled a broken futon and knelt beside the other person, leaning down to worship.

Sun Hui raised his head and looked at the statue in the main hall, it was a bronze statue, a brave warrior, with a tiger-like beast under his feet, an evil dragon wrapped around his body, holding the dragon's body with both hands seemed to be fighting, with his erudition, but he couldn't see where this was sacred.