"Two thousand?" Li Huaien was stunned and repeated the quantity: "It's a lot, if you use high-grade refined iron, it may affect the progress of building the bird system." ”

Wang Huan waved his hand and said, "You don't need refined iron, just ordinary pig iron." ”

Li Huaien was stunned again, the expression on his face became rich, and his eyes widened and he exclaimed: "Ordinary pig iron? Didn't you say that this is a cannon, my lord? The walls are so thin, and ordinary pig iron is used, it will definitely blow up! ”

"Huh? You are right to say that it is a cannon, but strictly speaking, this thunderbolt is not a cannon. Wang Huan pondered for a while, and thought in his mind how to explain to Li Huaien so that he could understand: "Because what it fired was not an iron bullet, but a medicine bag." ”

"Don't shoot iron bullets? Shot pack? Li Huaien's understanding of Wang Huan was refreshed again, and his understanding of the cannon in his heart was almost overturned, except for his eyes were round, and even his mouth was wide open.

Wang Huan gestured with both hands, took the circular partition in the barrel in his hand and lectured: "This partition is still made of wood, when the thunder is used, use this partition to divide the iron barrel into two grids, one small and one large, the small grid is inside, used to fill the black powder for firing, and the fire rope is extended from the round hole at the bottom of the barrel to ignite, when the black powder is filled, compacted with a wooden partition, filled with a little soil to ensure the seal, and then loaded into the large grid with a yellow explosive package, the medicine bag is detonated with a detonator bomb, Therefore, the length of the arquebus should be longer. ”

"When firing, first ignite the fire rope of the medicine bag, calculate the distance of the enemy, estimate the range of the thunderbolt, wait for the enemy to enter the range, and then ignite the black powder, the gunner leaves immediately, the black powder detonates and launches the wooden partition together with the medicine bag, the medicine bag flies, and the powder bag can be detonated at the same time as the extinguishing bomb explodes, so as to kill and injure the enemy."

After speaking, the audience fell silent.

Li Dingguo, Ma Wannian and other people who have seen Wang Huan's hand under Xinhua City are okay, although they can understand the general meaning in the clouds, while Li Huaien and other prisoners, inspectors, and masters of the military war bureau have never heard of it, and they are all stunned, staring at them with big eyes.

After a long time, Li Huaien suddenly high-fived, straightened up excitedly, almost jumped, and shouted: "Unbelievable, genius thinks!" Genius, my lord! My lord! ”

The other people in the War Bureau haven't come back to their senses, but only Li Huaien has figured out the beauty of this kind of thunder.

Li Huaien danced with his hands, and said in a trembling voice: "Another shortcut, whimsy, the wonders of adults are really unique!" In this way, it is equal to a thunderbolt, ten times more powerful than the red-coated cannon, although the big iron bullet hits far, but can only erode all the way, hurting people only a few miles, if the enemy army is scattered, the effect of the cannon is not strong, and the thunder is different, a big iron bullet weighs twenty or thirty pounds, the thunder will send the same weight of medicine packets to the enemy formation, obediently! ”

"Once twenty or thirty catties of yellow gunpowder is detonated, it will definitely be wiped out within a radius of more than ten zhang, and there will not be even slag left." Wang Huan added with a smile, he patted Li Huaien, who had the word excitement written on his face with an expression, and signaled him to calm down: "But it's very important, the proportion of black powder must be tested to a rough rating, and it is best to make a medicine bag out of paper, and the soldiers on the battlefield will know how far they can shoot as soon as they see the size of the fire pack, and they will know how far they can shoot." ”

"Good, good! Wrap it around me. Li Huaien loves technology, and when he hears such a new thing as thunder, he can't wait, so he hurriedly said: "But my lord, although thunder is good, it has drawbacks, and the operation is not good, and it is very likely to hurt others and not hurt yourself!" ”

"Yes, the danger of exploding is unavoidable, so our people should stay away as much as possible when launching, and it is best for General Manager Li to design the thunderbolt as a two-wheeled vehicle to drag, which can facilitate movement on the battlefield at any time." Wang Huan nodded and said, what Li Huaien thought of must be that the iron barrel is too thin, once it is filled too much, it will explode or too little medicine bag will not be able to shoot out, and staying in the barrel is worse than exploding, and dozens of catties of yellow explosives explode, it is terrifying to think about.

"Well, dragging it with a two-wheeled vehicle, it works, this thunderbolt is thin and hollow, the weight is very light, you can run around with a two-wheeled vehicle on the battlefield, and when you get to the place, you can put it on the spot, two or three people can carry it in place, and the gunner who is used after filling the medicine can immediately hide far away, even if it is blown up, it can also be kept thorough, this method is feasible." Li Huaien clasped his hands around him, as if he was talking to himself, his eyes were staring at the ground, he didn't even look at Wang Huan, he was stuck in thinking and couldn't extricate himself, and his pedantic look made people laugh.

After figuring it out, Li Huaien jumped up again, and the nearly fifty-year-old man was as excited as a child, hugged the wooden barrel, and confessed to Wang Huan: "Adults, please feel free to take a look, the villain is in a hurry to try production!" "Walked away.

Wang Huan and the others looked at the direction in which he disappeared and were stunned.

The deputy director of the War Bureau is an old man who was born as a clerk and is responsible for the entry and exit of materials and the delivery of finished products in the War Bureau, shrewd and careful, and took the lead in reacting at this moment, and hurriedly said to Wang Huan in fear: "Manager Li is anxious about what the Lord is anxious about, and his loyalty can be seen. ”

"Forget it, I already know Li Huaien's temperament." Wang Huan shook his hand indifferently, and grinned indifferently: "Let's go, let's go to the gunpowder field to have a look." ”

Of course, the gunpowder field of the Kuizhou Military War Bureau cannot be built in the Wanshou Valley, such a dangerous place, hidden in the distant mountains, selected by Wang Huan himself, surrounded by mountains, even if there is an accidental explosion, the destruction can be controlled in the valley, and the innocent will not be harmed.

From the War Bureau to the gunpowder field more than ten miles of mountain road, all kinds of farms on both sides can be seen everywhere, with pig raising the majority, cattle raising second, many mountain people push the chicken cart, the car is tied with a fat head and two fat pigs, humming and screaming to the direction of the gunpowder field, and there are many big carts coming in the opposite direction, the car is full of baskets of lean meat, to the direction of Wanshou Valley.

"Thanks to the blessing of adults, now the number of pigs raised in this mountain is more than people, pigs are purchased by the government, farmers are guaranteed by drought and flood, they are very motivated, and they also drive up the pigweed planting industry, this mountain, it turned out to be all barren mountains and old forests, after the adults set up factories and mines, everyone is vying to open up the wasteland, all rushing to farm, all feel that there is money to earn with the government, can be exchanged for food, and you can also buy pork discounted by the government every once in a while. The accompanying deputy general manager couldn't help but point out to Wang Huan, where is the government-run pig farm, where is the pig farm run by the mountain people, roughly calculated, there are many more private pig farms than the government-run ones, these pigs, all purchased by the gunpowder field to refine bioglycerin, used as explosives raw materials.

Wang Huan couldn't help but sigh with emotion, he didn't expect that he had been concentrating on refining yellow gunpowder, but he had no intention of producing so many ancillary industries, and now Wanshou Valley has become a huge mining city and munitions city, within a radius of two hundred miles, the mines are dense, all kinds of factories and workshops are complete, and most of the people who are running around this land are no longer engaged in farming, and make a living by engaging in various jobs in mines and workshops.

What's more, because of the special topography of the stone pillars, the high mountains and deep streams have become natural barriers, and if outsiders want to enter, there is no other way except for the waterway and an official road running through the north and south.

This is the incomparably solid rear of the Kuizhou army, no matter what the situation is, as long as Wanshou Valley is not lost, inexhaustible funds and munitions will be continuously produced, enough to arm a new Kuizhou army.

For a few days, Wang Huan ran around Wanshou Valley, convened a meeting of leaders from all over the country, on the one hand, encouraged them to continue to operate the mines on their own territory, on the other hand, it is also necessary to give some technical guidance, after all, mining in this era is still a high-risk work, water penetration, gas, collapse and other dangers will occur at any time, Wang Huan teaches some modern mine technology, which can greatly reduce casualties.

Those surrendered soldiers were all put into the mines, and it was a punishment for them to go down to the most dangerous sections instead of ordinary miners.

By the time Wang Huan returned to Wanshou City, Li Huaien had been waiting for him for a long time with red eyes.

The gray-haired eunuch looked like he hadn't closed his eyes for several days, his eyes were bloodshot, and the dark circles under his eyes were like two balls of ash smeared on his face, and his face was pale, but there was an abnormal flush.

As soon as he saw Wang Huan, he ran up in a hurry, and ordered someone to pull over a two-wheeled cart like a treasure, and the car was covered with a red cloth with a large thing.

"My lord, the villain is fortunate not to be dishonored, and finally tried to produce a sample of thunder, please take a look." Li Huaien carefully lifted the red cloth, like a kind old father, finally raised his children to adulthood, and brought them out to see people.

As soon as the cloth was lifted, an iron cylindrical hollow object like the oil drum of later generations was revealed, with a huge caliber, which could accommodate a strong man to drill into, the barrel body was short and thick, and the six iron hoops were tightly tightened and reinforced, fixed on the two-wheeled vehicle by four iron pillars, and the mouth of the cylinder was facing the sky, and the inner chamber of the black hole was like the blood basin mouth of a giant beast, waiting to devour life.

Wang Huan couldn't help but applaud, this thunder was almost exactly the same as what he requested, and the thickness of the barrel wall was strengthened, and it looked very solid.

"Great, Mr. Li is really powerful, he built it so quickly." Wang Huan circled around the two-wheeled vehicle and was full of praise: "And it is much thicker, and the reliability must have increased a lot." ”

Li Huaien was relieved, and said with a sigh of relief: "The villain is fortunate not to be dishonored, the adult's intelligence and wit, the villain is not as good as what the adult, lest the things made are not what the adults think, and the adult's military plane will be delayed, so I can't afford it." ”

Li Dingguo and Ma Wannian also came up to watch curiously, and after looking up and down, they smashed their tongues and said: "My lord, under Xinhua City, the medicine bag we shot out with a soil nest exploded into a Tartar wolf. ”

When everyone heard this, they were all amazed, and they all came up to touch and watch, and they all felt that such a big cannon and such a short cannon, how to use it, I don't know why.

Li Huaien was eager to try, and said to Wang Huan: "My lord, how to use this thunder, how powerful it is, you have to actually hit it to know, please try the cannon, let me wait to open my eyes." ”

Everyone's eyes were eager, and they all looked at Wang Huan.

Wang Huan also wanted to try whether the enhanced version of the conscienceless cannon could be used, so he asked if there was a ready-made medicine bag, and Li Huaien immediately ordered someone to send the yellow explosive bag that had been prepared, so Wang Huan did not delay, and ordered Li Huaien to take it and go straight to the shooting range.

The shooting range of the War Bureau was built in a valley ten miles away from Wanshou City, and a flat land was split in the valley, and the ground was full of potholes.

On both sides of the shooting range, there are benchmarks erected with long bamboo poles, indicating the distance, Wang Huan thought about it, and let people put a big car in the place where they were thirty zhang and fifty zhang away.

Then Wang Huan ordered the soldiers to unload the thunderbolt from the two-wheeled vehicle, the weight of the thunderbolt was only nearly 100 catties, and the four of them worked together and easily lifted it down.

Then Wang Huan personally went into battle, commanding the thunderbolt to be placed in a dug pit on the ground in a forty-five angle posture, fixing the angle of fire with a huge wooden wedge, and then covering some soil, and the tail was half-buried in the soil The thunderbolt shot was ready.

Li Huaien has made several black powder packets, the dosage is from small to large, Wang Huan thought about it, chose a moderate one, put it into the barrel, inserted the fuse from the small hole reserved on the barrel, and then put the wooden round lid into the barrel, tamped it with a wooden stick, and filled it with a little wet soil, .net Finally, put a twenty catties of explosives wrapped in a circle, and inserted a captive bomb on the medicine bag, and the long lead of the capsulator bomb was dragged to the mouth of the barrel.

Wang Huan led everyone to retreat, and only stopped until he was thirty zhang away, and advised: "Wait until the explosion happens, no one is allowed to take half a step forward, remember!" ”

He pulled out an iron chisel with a red-hot tip from a burning charcoal stove behind him, pinched the damp cloth on the chisel, took a breath, and was about to step forward to light the fire.

Ma Wannian grabbed it, grabbed the iron drill, and said to Wang Huan in a deep voice: "My lord, such a dangerous thing, let's leave it to the last general to do, my lord's golden body, please stay here and watch!" ”

Li Dingguo also said: "Adults can't take risks, please respect yourself!" ”

The rest all knelt down and said in unison: "My lord, please respect your identity!" ”

Wang Huan had no choice but to hand it over to Ma Wannian.

The square-faced young man looked colorful, proudly got on his horse, raised his whip and hooves, galloped in front of the thunder, stretched out the iron drill, first ignited the lead of the extinguishing bomb, waited for the lead to burn, submerged in the barrel mouth, and then ignited the lead on the barrel body that exposed the small hole, and then the iron drill was lost, and the horse ran back like a lifeless.

Wang Huan and the others in the distance lowered their bodies one after another, hiding behind the low walls made of stones, waiting quietly.

After Ma Wannian ran back to Wang Huan's side for a while, he only heard a muffled sound, and the thick barrel body of the thunder shook, emitting a puff of green smoke, shooting out a cloud of ash and dust, and the wooden round cover was separated from the sparkling medicine bag in the air, leaving the medicine bag alone with a dull whistling sound, straight into the distance.

Everyone's eyes stared at the medicine bag visible to the naked eye, flew over a long distance, and with a "snap", it fell to the position between the two carts, rolled on the ground a few times, and did not move.

At this time, the lead of the extinguishing bomb burned out.

(End of chapter)