Chapter 21: Fighting a cannon scares you to death
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"Standing out and watching? What is he watching? Watching us compete with the court snipe clam and what can he get? Zhao Jun was quite sharp with his mind, and immediately heard what the eyeliner really wanted to say.
"I don't want anything. I just feel like he doesn't belong here, and he's ready to walk away at any moment! Now that the words have come to this, the eyeliner who broke into Zhu Eighty-one's personal army team didn't want to avoid anything anymore, thought about it, and continued to add in a low voice.
"Nonsense! If he goes, where can he go? His current name is no smaller than our boss! Zhao Junyong couldn't accept this statement, and pouted with a sneer.
At the mention of the word "name", a strong sour water surged in his heart. Whether it was the uprising in Xiao County at the beginning, or the later attack on Xuzhou by leading the crowd, he Zhao Jun made a great contribution to it. Including making the last grain into baked cakes and distributing them to the homeless people, inspiring everyone to fight against the water, he also came up with the idea, and several other leaders just sat back and enjoyed it. As a result, later, the entire rebel army only remembered two people, one was Sesame Li, and the other was Zhu Eighty-one who was killed out of thin air!
After picking up such a big bargain, you still want to leave? Where can the surnamed Zhu go? If the army of the Mengyuan Imperial Court fights, the first target to be chased and killed is Sesame Li, and the second target is surnamed Zhu! Our Lao Zhao can only be ranked third, or fourth!
Thinking of this, Zhao Junyong pursed his lips again, and continued to sneer and said: "He is pretending to be a god and pretending to be a ghost, and he really regards himself as the body of Maitreya Buddha!" Your present news is very valuable, and I will record it in the merit book for you, and I will reward it in the future. Go back and keep an eye on him. If he dares to abandon the left army and flee by himself, there is no need to ask for instructions, and immediately give him to me on the spot to correct the law! ”
After finishing speaking, the two eyeliners were already lying on the ground in fright. Quickly slowed down his tone and remedied in a low voice: "Of course, if he is bent on following us, I will definitely not force you to do things that are not good for him." In short, you two must remember that we are also doing this for the sake of the Xuzhou Red Scarf, to expel the Tartars, not to dump each other, and not for my Lao Zhao himself. Hear me clearly! ”
"Clear!" The two eyeliners trembled in fright, kowtowed, and replied in a trembling voice.
"Let's go back when you hear clearly, continue to keep an eye on him, and come and report to me at any time if there is a situation!" Zhao Jun waved his hand with satisfaction and ordered the two to leave. Seeing the backs of the two eyeliners melt into the night, he slowly turned around again, pacing the room with his hands behind his back, "Drill holes in the iron rod and make gunpowder yourself?" Could it be that he was forced by our old Zhao to be anxious and wanted to find another way? But the cannon is made of bronze, why doesn't he even understand this bit of common sense, and he still wants to drill iron lumps?! ”
The mouth cannon is the standard firearm in the Mengyuan army, and there are more than a dozen of them on the enemy tower in Xuzhou City. It was a foot long and half a foot thick, and there was an aperture about three inches in the center of the body, wide in front and narrow in the back, in the shape of an inverted awl. After being filled with gunpowder, the iron sand can be knocked out fifty paces away, and the smoke is billowing and the sound is very huge. (Note 1)
However, apart from being used to scare people when defending the city, Zhao Changshi really couldn't think of what else that thing could do. At a distance of fifty paces, even with a one-stone bow, as long as the arrow shot hits the vital part, it can make the opponent fall to the ground in an instant, losing the ability to continue fighting. And shoot iron sand with the mouth of the gun to bombard, unless it hits the door and directly blinds the opponent's eyes. In addition, as long as there is clothing to cover it, even the heavier bruises can't be smashed. What's more, it blasted through the armor as rumored, and blasted the people inside to the point of breaking tendons and fractures!
"Unless, unless there's another possibility. He knew that the Iron Fire Gun was much more powerful than the Copper Fire Gun, so he thought about it at any cost! "Hostile is hostile, but from the moment the two met for the first time, Zhao Junyong never underestimated Zhu Bayi.
Since the other party was able to take advantage of the Red Turban Army's attack on Xuzhou, no matter the courage, mind and ability to grasp the opportunity, it has reached a terrifying height. Zhao Junyong thinks that such a sinister, cunning and ambitious guy can't waste his mind on useless things!
Thinking of this, he made a resolute decision, "Someone come, pass on the order of the long history, let the treasurer join the army to take out all the gunpowder in the arsenal, and distribute it to the armies in person early tomorrow morning." And the guns of the walls of the city were taken down and distributed with gunpowder among the armies. Let the officers and men of all armies familiarize themselves with the power of this thing in advance, so as not to be frightened and panicked when they encounter it on the battlefield! ”
"Yes!" The henchmen who were on duty at the door said yes and ran down quickly to deliver the order.
'Aren't you tossing firearms!!' Lao Tzu fulfills you! Listening to the footsteps outside the door gradually disappearing, Zhao Jun waved his fist vigorously, secretly ruthless in his heart, "First take a set of physical objects to make a mold for you." Let's Lao Zhao want to see what kind of magic weapon you can toss in the end! ’
He is now firmly in the second position of the Xuzhou Army, and he dare not disobey what he says. Early the next morning, Li Mubai, the treasurer who joined the army after thinking about his intentions all night and not figuring out any results, personally took his henchmen with two black circles under his eyes and divided the gunpowder that had been clumped in the arsenal and the rusty guns in the city gate tower into several equal parts, and sent them to the generals one by one.
Because no one secretly "cared for", the left army also received a full amount of gunpowder and firearms. There are a total of three guns covered with green rust, as well as about 500 catties of gunpowder and more than 100 iron "cannons". It was loaded with a board of carts and pushed directly into the campus of Ximen University.
Zhu Dapeng has been working on arquebuses behind closed doors recently, and he is so tired that he is dizzy. As soon as he saw the real thing allocated by the arsenal, he was immediately overjoyed. I couldn't wait to command my soldiers to wipe the guns clean, and then test fire the gunpowder from the arsenal. However, after the cannon sounded, the smile on his face instantly froze to ice.
Where is this artillery? It's not as good as the large 'two kicks' that I played in my last life. The large second kicker clicked on the lead and released it, and it could still smash a green bag on a person's head from a distance of fifty meters. The thing blasted out, but it didn't even hit a shallow pit in the wooden target thirty paces away.
"Change the gunpowder! Go get it from the second cabinet in my room! Without waiting for the second round of test firing by the pro-soldiers, Zhu Dapeng gritted his teeth and ordered.
The chemistry teacher in the previous life died early, but he was able to get a bachelor's degree in science and engineering, and he at least remembered that the standard formula of black powder was one sulfur, two nitrate, and three carbon. Although it took him a lot of effort to deduce the molar ratio to the mass ratio, the results were not necessarily completely accurate. But the general direction is not wrong, and what comes out is by no means comparable to the "gunpowder" in front of me that is yellow-colored like shit.
Unexpectedly, after the soldiers heard it, they did not act immediately. It wasn't until Zhu Dapeng pricked up his eyes that he looked at each other, and Xu Hongsan, the captain of the pro-soldiers, reminded everyone on behalf of the group, "Governor, you haven't signed for Li Shenjun's painting yet!" ”
"Huh?!" Zhu Dapeng was stunned, and then realized that Li Mubai, the treasurer of the army, had been standing next to the cart loaded with gunpowder. I was so anxious to test the effect of the cannons of the Yuan Dynasty that I forgot about the signing. Quickly wiped the gunpowder foam on his hand, walked back quickly, and apologized to the other party with a smile, "Oops! Look at my acute son. Rude, rude, let the army join the army wait for a long time! ”
"Zhu Dudu doesn't have to be polite!" Li Mubai took half a step sideways, then bowed down, and responded with the courtesy of a subordinate to meet his superior. "Xia Guan doesn't have anything to do anyway, just look at it fresh next to him!"
"You haven't seen artillery fire before?" Although he wished that this person would get out immediately, Zhu Dapeng still patiently accosted him. Without him, this surnamed Li is a distant relative of Zhao Junyong, who not only manages the useless ancient gunpowder and artillery, but also manages the storage and release of various weapons for Zhao Junyong. If the left army wants to be as well equipped as possible, it is indispensable to have a good relationship with this person.
"No, no!" Li Mubai, the treasurer of the army, waved his hand and responded loudly, "The lower official has already sent six this morning, except for the former army's Mao Dudu who pulled the lower official and carefully inquired about the use of this firearm, the rest of the governors and generals didn't look at it, so they ordered to put things away!" ”
"Oh!" Zhu Dapeng heard this and nodded slightly. Obviously, the generals of the Red Turban Army don't look down on firearms, and so far, this thing really has no value to be taken seriously.
It's troublesome to reload, it's extremely powerful, and it's not accurate. Thousands of doors are placed in rows, and shooting at the same time may scare a lot of people to death. Take out a door alone, and even the burning stick in the homeless people's house is not as good. At least the latter has a length advantage, and if you are in a hurry, you can pick it up and greet the enemy's head. This bronze cannon is a one-foot-long cannon body, but the thickness is more than half a foot, and after scaring people, it can only be picked up and used as bricks. It's too heavy, and it's far less comfortable to use than bricks.
Li Mubai's conversation today is very strong, and he has changed his appearance of doing business when he met Zhu Dapeng before. Seeing that the latter just said "oh" and stopped talking, he put on a smile on his face and asked tentatively, "I heard, I heard that Lord Du Du is also making gunpowder?!" ”
"I made some foolishness, but I didn't get enough saltpeter and sulfur, so I only made two or three catties!" Zhu Dapeng made gunpowder by himself in order to prevent the Xuzhou Red Turban Army from disappearing in a daze as he knew in his previous life. So I didn't have any sense of confidentiality, so I thought about it and responded casually.
Li Mubai had to make an inch, and immediately asked to stay and watch the next round of artillery test firing of the left army. "Then, then the lower officer, can the lower official take a look and see if the general's gunpowder is loaded into this gun, what will it be, what effect it will be?!"
"Hmm!" Zhu Dapeng frowned and groaned in a low voice. The guy surnamed Li wears one-legged pants with Zhao Jun, which he has personally learned a long time ago. If the power of the gunpowder that this person revealed was very different from what was under the arsenal, he would report it to Zhao Jun. Then the new formula became the common formula of the entire Xuzhou Army, and it was no longer the secret weapon of the Left Army.
However, thinking that he had used all the ground snakes such as Mr. Su and Sun Thirty-one, he only got a few catties of saltpeter. Zhu Dapeng couldn't help but smile bitterly. What's the use of knowing the secret recipe without raw materials? It's better to hand it over happily and see if the person surnamed Zhao has any way to buy enough saltpeter. At least then, the Xuzhou army will not be wiped out quickly against the army of the Mengyuan court, and it will not even leave a trace in the history books.
Thinking of this, Zhu Dapeng turned his heart sideways. Ignoring the series of coughs of the soldiers behind him, he nodded with a smile, "Okay, you stay." But stay away for a while, I'm only using that thing for the second time, so I'm not sure! ”
After that, he turned his head and ordered Xu Hongsan, the captain of the pro-soldiers, to go to the room next to the school yard to get gunpowder. Although Xu Hongsan was one hundred and twenty unwilling, the lord had an order, so he had to glared at Li Mubai countless times, gritted his teeth and went to carry out the order.
After a while, the gunpowder was taken, only a small pack, at most seven or eight taels. However, Xu Hongsan, Wang Dapang and Yu Changlin, the treasurer of the Zuo Army, joined the army and came to escort them together. After the two saw Li Mubai, they didn't visit Shangguan, one left and one right, sandwiching this person in the middle like a door panel.
Zhu Dapeng can guess the careful thoughts of his subordinates, and he will not poke it. smiled and commanded loudly, "Protect Li from the army and go farther!" A little farther away, a little farther away, yes, twenty paces away, at least twenty paces away. That's it, just be able to see clearly, don't get too close! ”
After that, I estimated the capacity of the mouth gun again. After thinking about it, he whispered to Xu Hongsan, "Don't press too hard later." Don't put too many cannons. Leave the fuse a little longer, then run when you light it, don't stand still and wait for the movement! ”
Commanded twice in succession, he was relieved. He first pulled out his legs and walked to Zhao Junyong's henchman Li Mubai, and observed the test firing effect of the new gunpowder with the other party.
Twenty paces of distance, converted into the common unit of measurement in his previous life, is about thirty meters. I can't see the specific details of Xu Hongsan's operation clearly. But Zhu Dapeng was still a little nervous, and his fingers kept opening and closing.
The things he prepared by himself had taken Mr. Su and a few henchmen the night before yesterday to a no-man's place twenty miles away from Xuzhou City, and secretly passed by. It's much more powerful than the 'two kicks'. It was only two or two servings, and the bamboo tube containing the charge was blown to pieces. The gun from the arsenal is dirty and broken, and if it is blown up by gunpowder, won't it become a handmade grenade?!
"As for me, you've killed people anyway!" For him to be so nervous and vigilant, Li Mubai was very disdainful in his heart. Isn't it just half a pound of gunpowder? It's not a Buddhist palm thunder. Twenty steps away is not enough, you still think you can blow a hole in the sky!
was thinking disdainfully, when he suddenly saw Xu Hongsan spread his legs, turned around and ran. "Whew!" Li Mubai shrugged his shoulders disdainfully and pouted and sneered. Before he could lower his shoulders, a thunderclap rang in his ears, "Boom! The sky fell apart, his legs suddenly weakened, and he was directly knocked out, and he fell dizzy!
Note 1: Zhankou gun, also known as Zhankou cannon, was a firearm of the Yuan Dynasty army. It has the prototype of artillery. The existing cultural relics show that the gun is 35.3 cm long, with a caliber of 1o.5 cm and a tail bottom caliber of 7.7 cm. Weighs 6.94 kg. The ratio of the multiple diameter (barrel and barrel inner diameter) is 3. Therefore, the power is quite limited.
Note 2: Li Mubai, played by book friend Li Jianbai. Yu Changlin, Wang Dapang, is also the name of a book friend. After that, there will be 6 new names of book friends, let everyone go to the end of the Yuan Dynasty together, and be a hot-blooded man who stands up to the sky!