Shen Rong made a gesture, and the craftsman lowered the torch and lit the lead. As soon as www.biquge.info saw that the lead began to smoke, the craftsman dropped his torch, ran over in a few steps, and rolled headlong into the trench.

The rest of the people had already taken refuge in the trench, only to see the spark burning into the barrel along the lead, and there was a loud bang, and the smoke was filled. The smoke cleared, and a pungent smell of sulfur filled the air.

And the cannonball also flew far away, landed on the flat ground below, and then exploded with a bang, and suddenly a mushroom cloud rose on the flat ground, of course, only a trumpet.

At the same time, the whole ground seemed to tremble a few times, and the huge thunder made Lu Wenxin startled, fortunately, he had listened to Wang Daquan's words before and covered his ears, otherwise he wouldn't have been deafened this time?

Lu Wenxin saw that the cannon had gone off, so he put down his hands covering his ears and was about to speak, but Wang Daquan said, "My lord, come with the lower officials, and see if this success is possible!" ”

After speaking, Wang Daquan couldn't hide the anxiety in his heart, and he stepped out of the platform one step ahead of the ground and rushed to the tiger squatting cannon.

Lu Wenxin shook his head and smiled bitterly at several of his subordinates: "This Wang Daquan is really true!" ”

Several people had no choice but to follow Wang Daquan's footsteps and ran to the fort.

I saw that after the tiger squat cannon was fired, there was still green smoke from the muzzle, and the cannon body retreated a lot, sinking the tamped earth platform by an inch.

And in the distance, in the direction where the muzzle of the gun was pointing, a craftsman had already run over and measured the range.

After measurements, the range of this launch reached two hundred and five steps, that is, the designed indicators were achieved.

Hearing this number, Lu Wenxin and several officials of the Ministry of War were also dumbfounded, this range is really amazing, although there are also weapons with a range of more than this number in the Great Song Dynasty, such as the bed slur, but those are cold weapons, and the lethality cannot be compared with this kind of cannon at all, just looking at the big crater blown out by the shell, Lu Wenxin knows that if this kind of shell falls into the enemy camp, it can kill and injure more than a dozen enemies, to say the least.

An official from the Ministry of War said: "My lord, this, this is far enough, much stronger than the stone cannon we use, not to mention that this is still shot flat, if it is shot like a divine arm bow, I am afraid that it will be farther away." ”

Lu Wenxin also said excitedly: "What a cannon!" Lord Wang, you have done a good job, I believe that the emperor will be very happy if he knows about it! ”

Wang Daquan was also very excited, this artillery was just an iron pipe, and if he put gunpowder, he could launch a few catties of iron bullets 200 steps away, which was indeed beyond his imagination. He has been in charge of the ordnance superintendent for so many years, and has made a lot of flying rockets, poisonous smoke balls, and thunderbolts, but he never thought that gunpowder could be used like this.

In fact, this distance is not too far, if Li Xiang gets out the kind of rear-loading cannon in later generations, I am afraid that Wang Daquan and these people will be frightened, and the range of modern artillery generally reaches more than twenty or thirty kilometers, which is a hundred times farther than this tiger squat cannon. One step in the Song Dynasty is one and a half meters in later generations. Two hundred steps, that's three hundred meters.

Compared with the very simple mortars and recoilless guns in later generations, the firing range is also much shorter, which is of course subject to the limitations of the steel smelting level and processing level at this time, so this cannon can hit three hundred meters away, which is already good.

If Wang Daquan and these people know, the old 60mm mortar is lighter than this, and the firing range can reach more than 1,400 meters, while the modern 60 mm mortar can reach more than 5,000 meters. I'm afraid that they will work hard to develop it! Of course, without Li Xiang's help, it would have been impossible for them to make mortars or recoilless guns that would only exist hundreds of years later.

However, Lu Wenxin and Wang Daquan were not finished with their joy, and suddenly Shen Rong shouted loudly: "My lord, it's not good, there is a crack in this cannon chamber, it seems that we still haven't passed the test!" ”

Wang Daquan's heart was not good, so he cracked after just one shot, which means that this cannon has been scrapped, although the range has reached the design goal, but the gun chamber has cracked, and naturally it can no longer be used. Just one more shot, and you'll be disarmed.

Lu Wenxin was also cold in his heart, which obviously means that this experiment failed again!

Lu Wenxin's face was not very good-looking, Wang Daquan knew that the emperor must be very concerned about this matter, he did not handle this matter well, and if he didn't do it well, he would lose his official position.

Wang Daquan walked up to the cannon, checked it, and found that the chamber of the cannon had indeed cracked a crack, and the test in the past half a month has been fired dozens of times, but it still has not succeeded.

Although this time the charge did not reach the maximum, only sixty percent, there was still a problem, obviously there was a problem with the manufacturing process of the gun body, or there was a problem with the material.

Lu Wenxin thought about it, and also felt that Wang Daquan was no wonder about this matter, after all, this is a new type of weapon, and it can make a sample cannon in such a short time, and it also hit two hundred steps away, which is already very remarkable, it seems that the bell must be tied to the bell.

Looking at Wang Daquan and Shen Rong who looked depressed, Lu Wenxin waved his hand and said, "Okay, you two don't be too pessimistic, this official also understands that you have done your best, the difficulty of this kind of cannon seems to be extremely great, don't be too anxious." Now the key is to find out where the problem is, this official thinks, you should hurry up and ask Li Xianggongzi to come and take a look, after all, he is the one who designed this kind of cannon, and only he knows where the problem is. ”

Wang Daquan smiled bitterly: "My lord, I disappointed you!" Let's send someone to invite Li Xianggongzi! ”

Besides, Li Xiang, at this time, he was in the Guozijian and was arguing with Lu Xiufu about a problem!

It turned out that in today's class, the direct lecture of the lecture was about the soldiers, and naturally it talked about weapons.

In class, Li Xiang was named to answer questions again, and he said, "Soldiers, ominous weapons, have to be used as a last resort, and talk is the best." This famous saying.

Lu Xiufu disagreed, and after class, he found Li Xiang again and argued.

Li Xiang also had some opinions about this Lu Xiufu, this person was too persistent, so Li Xiang said to him: "It's right to make weapons to kill people, but it depends on whether the war is just." Moreover, with powerful weapons, it is not necessarily necessary to kill, weapons, ominous weapons of soldiers, weapons that are not gentlemen's weapons, they have to be used as a last resort, and tranquility is the best. This means that weapons will not be used until they are absolutely necessary. Why do you say that, when a country has a strong army and weapons, others dare not invade it, so weapons play a deterrent role and can effectively curb the aggressive intentions of other countries against their own country. Weapons are used to kill, but how to use weapons depends on the people who use them, and when they are used in the right direction, weapons are also good, and it can also be said to save people. ”

Lu Xiufu was about to refute, when he suddenly saw Wang Yisun coming in, with an official and two sergeants, he immediately kept silent, he didn't dare to argue with Li Xiang in front of Dr. Wang.

Li Xiang also saw that the person who came was Shen Rong, the young eunuch of the Ordnance Supervisor, and thought to himself, could it be that there was something wrong with the development of artillery?

Sure enough, Wang Yisun walked up to Li Xiang and said, "Li Xiang, you should go to the ordnance prison with this Lord Shen, it seems that there is something important." ”

Shen Rong hurriedly said: "Yes, Gongzi Li, now that we are in trouble, we are waiting for you to go over and take a look, let's go!" ”