Chapter 9 The Conception of Artillery

"The ministers knocked on the emperor, and the ministers didn't know that the emperor was coming, and they missed the distance, and the ministers died."

"Get up, I don't know why you Aiqing quarreled just now, say it, I will listen too" I said with a smile as I looked at them

At this time, a sectarian stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, the ministers are not arguing, but discussing things, and the language is more intense."

"Oh, yes, I don't know what this sect leader is called."

"Long live Huiyu, Ling Zhen, the head of the artillery battalion"

"You are Ling Zhen, I know you, the artillery you are responsible for forging is very good, but I also have a lot of research on artillery, is Ling Aiqing interested in talking to me about artillery?" However, we can't get those 21st century artillery, but we still know a lot about the European artillery around the middle of the 15th century

Ling Zhen clasped his hands into fists and bowed down, "Yes, Weichen obeys."

"Okay, let's talk about what just happened."

After I finished speaking, Ling Zhen stepped forward and pointed to the two young men and said to me, "Your Majesty, these two are not the leaders of the army, but two officials in my Ordnance Department who specialize in artillery forging, this is called Lu Yi, this is called Duan Huang, Lu Yi means that speeding up the rate of fire of artillery can make our artillery shoot projectiles faster to kill the enemy, and improve the utilization rate of artillery, and Duan Huang means that blindly speeding up the rate of fire of artillery will make the gunpowder filled in the artillery unrealistic, which will cause the range of the projectile to be too close and the power is too small. The role of artillery on the battlefield has been greatly reduced, and the minister thinks that the current artillery is more important than the soldiers, whether the operation of the soldiers is standardized and skilled, if a group of soldiers who have not used artillery or soldiers who rarely use artillery operate artillery, even if the artillery is advanced, it may be useless."

"Well, you are right, the range and power of the artillery depends on the amount of gunpowder filled in the artillery and whether it is evenly loaded, and careful loading will prolong the time between the two bursts of artillery, and then there is the proficiency of the soldiers in handling the artillery, etc., these situations will indeed affect the use of our artillery, but ladies and gentlemen, do you think that my artillery will be different?" I said on the table in the center of the military tent, spreading out a blank piece of paper and drawing while telling them, "We can transform the artillery in this way, Make the muzzle of the artillery slightly narrower, the tail slightly wider, and make the tail of the gun into a trap, and clamp an iron hoop at the valve to prevent the explosion, and then make a plurality of sub-guns, each time you fire a gun, you only need to replace the guns, and then increase each group of artillery to five people, one person aims to open the cannon, one person replaces the gun to load the projectile, and three people clean up and wipe the guns and fill the gunpowder, so does this solve your problems "Hahaha golden fingers, the protagonist's aura, knowledge is power, I worship myself too much."

In the eyes of these people who were extremely surprised and adoring, I told them about the appearance of the gunners and guns, and my status in the hearts of these artillery leaders instantly rose to the realm of gods.

Then I continued to say to them, "As for the projectiles of artillery, you should not limit yourself to this one, you think, if the cavalry of the Khitans is about to be in front of you, how lethal it can be for you to launch this kind of fist-sized projectile, what if you replace this projectile with iron sand, hehe" I squinted my eyes and smiled sinisterly, as if the night falcon was constantly hovering in the air at midnight

After listening to what I said, everyone in this big tent shuddered, and cold sweat continued to flow down, and there was clearly a meaning in my eyes, this emperor was very ruthless

I explained a few more words to them, praised them fiercely, made them all feel flattered, got out of the military tent, and then asked Wang Jin to take me to the infantry training ground