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Ding Du stood in the middle of the military tent, and when Liu Ping signaled that everyone had arrived, Ding Du said: "Everyone, this crossbow is what we have said about it. The pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info is much more convenient than before. ”

Ding Du said this, picked up the crossbow, and demonstrated it, and the crossbow box was changed between two breaths. Ding Du was obviously very satisfied with his action, and a smile rose at the corner of his mouth: "There is also the problem of crossbow arrows, this time the crossbow arrows we made were made into Mitsubishi arrows according to the meaning of the master of the horses, when the crossbow arrows were shot into the opponent's body, even if they did not hit the vital parts, they would make the other party continue to bleed and could not be stopped." ”

He took out the arrow again and showed it to everyone, and then his tone was a little unhappy: "The disadvantage is that her range has been shortened by nearly thirty paces, and we haven't thought of a way to make a crossbow arrow with such an arrow shoot farther, please pay attention to this when you use it." ”

As he spoke, he picked up the bamboo tube again: "Come, you come with me." ”

Everyone followed Ding Du outside, only to see that more than a dozen straw men had been tied on one side, Ding Du smiled very confidently, lit a lead next to the bamboo tube, put the bamboo tube on the ground, clamped it with two sticks, and aimed at the row of straw men from the side.

When the fuse burned out, suddenly a flame erupted from the front of the bamboo tube! The raging flames immediately burned all the dozen straw men! When the flames erupted, Ding Du began to count.

Everyone was amazed! If such a fire is really used on the battlefield, the enemy will not be spared!

Ding Du used the two sticks to shake the bamboo tube a few times, and the flames kept spraying, drawing a wall of fire with the swing of Ding Du's hand!

When it was counted to ten, the flames slowly decreased until the bamboo tube was also burned!

Geng Tiande let out a sigh of emotion after seeing it: "Good girl, amazing!" ”

Such flamethrowers would not have appeared until more than a hundred years later in the Southern Song Dynasty, and were widely used by sailors as a sharp weapon for the Song army to guard the Yangtze River.

There are many powerful weapons, in fact, in the weapons chapter of "Wujing General", there are already preliminary ideas, and they have even been formed. It's just that it was not taken seriously in the Northern Song Dynasty, so the development was slow. Palm thunder appeared in the defense of Tokyo, stone cannons were made by the Jurchens according to the Wujing Headquarters, and flamethrowers appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty.

As for the world's first gun, it is also recorded in the Wujing General Essentials, although I don't know who invented it, but some hunters in the Northern Song Dynasty have used this most primitive, bamboo barrel as the barrel of the gun in hunting, and it is limited to hunting.

Now that Chen Yuan has provided Ding Du and Zeng Gongliang with a steady stream of funds, Zeng Gongliang can put all his thoughts on research and don't have to worry about money. The main thing is that the victory in the war stimulated the progress of research, so many things, especially some that Chen Yuan indicated that they could try, came out in advance.

The last trebuchet was naturally a stone cannon, Zeng Gongliang made it smaller, easy to carry, and just used to launch palm mines!

This time, the soldier's reaction to the palm thunder was two points, one was that the lead was uncontrollable, and the other was that it was too heavy, and it was very laborious to hold it in one hand.

Zeng Gongliang couldn't find a way to solve the weight of the palm mine, and the current technology has not yet reached the point where it can make grenades. They simply got a small trebuchet and fired palm mines, which was not bad.

After trying all three things, everyone was very excited to see them, and with these, they would definitely be able to achieve more brilliant results this time!

Ding Du said: "The bow and crossbow can be equipped for all of you, and there will be a lot more thunder in the palm than last time." It's just this guy,"

He kicked the burned bamboo tube on the ground with his foot: "We just got this guy out, you take some first, a hundred barrels, after using it, write down the situation, and we will fully equip it after we improve it." ”

Liu Ping nodded: "Thank you, Lord Ding, if we don't fight this battle well, don't say anything else, even you, Lord Ding, are sorry!" ”

Ding Du smiled: "General Liu doesn't need to say that, you can say good about our things, which is the greatest encouragement to us." There's still something to do, I've shown you everything, I've said what I did just now, I'm leaving, and you can send some people to move things when you go back. ”

Weapons can improve combat effectiveness, as long as the person holding the weapon has sufficient combat ability, there is no doubt about this.

Chen Yuan has invested heavily in the equipment of the new army, but fortunately, now Renzong has stopped him from reading to support him, and it is much better.

Don't underestimate these equipment, that armor, even clothes and helmets, more than thirty times, more than five times the soldiers of the Song army before. This is the cheapest, knives, hooks, sickles, shields, bows and crossbows, this set together costs more than 200 pieces, which is equivalent to 30 taels of silver, not counting some cart crossbows, stone cannons and other large equipment.

Of these 10,000 people, Chen Yuan invested a total of 3.7 million yuan! Compared to the equipment of the Song army in the past, this is definitely an astronomical amount, although Renzong gave a part, but the big gap was made up by the money donated by those merchants that day.

Renzong didn't dare to take it all out, it's not that he didn't have it, but if he took it all out, those officials wouldn't let him go, which was definitely a very good reason to stop the strong army. 10,000 people will need more than 200 guan, so 100,000 people will say more? How many more are 200,000? It's just equipment, it's not going to war yet.

How did Chen Yuan spend all this money, 1510 and Renzong made it clear, Renzong silently calculated an account in his heart after hearing it, and then looked at Chen Yuan: "Shimei, according to your way of playing, bring the materials to support Li Shibin and Jiao Guluo, then this battle will cost more than 20 million to say the least." ”

Chen Yuan nodded: "Yes, but Weichen thinks that if 20 million can solve the party problem, and don't let the party become a mess, it is worth it." ”

Renzong hesitated for a moment, and said slowly: "I finally understand why Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty pacified the Xiongnu at the beginning, why he scattered tens of billions of dollars in one fell save. ”

Chen Yuan immediately followed and said: "But even if some people later say that he is reckless, but the exploits of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty have not been compared with any king so far, long live, if you want to do great things, you can't care about small money!" As long as you pacify the party and conquer the Liao State, you will definitely have a share in the position of the first emperor of the ages! ”

Renzong sat down slowly: "Why don't I want to? It's just that we are so short of food now, I always feel that if something goes wrong, I'm afraid it will be difficult to clean up! ”

Chen Yuan whispered: "That's why we have to use the front-line victory to constantly bring good news to the people." ”

Renzong waved his hand: "I know what you mean, don't worry, this battle is settled!" In a year and a half, you pacified the party, and the problems here were handed over to me to solve, and after a year and a half, you came back to help me handle the affairs of Liao. ”

Chen Yuan immediately said: "Weichen obeys the order!" ”

Chen Yuan thought for a moment, and then asked in a low voice, "Long live, what about Goryeo?" ”

Renzong took a deep breath: "I have already asked Wen Yanbo to go to Goryeo to discuss the establishment of diplomatic relations with them. ”

Da Song is rich, to what extent is Da Song rich? When I talked about the New Year's coin with Liao, it was Fu Bi who went to talk about it. When he came back, Zhenzong asked him, how much money did he promise to give to Liao?

Fu Bi stretched out two fingers, and Song Zhenzong was stunned for a moment: "Oh, two million, it's a little more, but as long as the army is suspended." ”

Later, Fu Bi smiled: "They want 200,000, ministers, only 100,000." ”

Zhenzong immediately laughed. 100,000, or 200,000, in the eyes of the emperor of the Song Dynasty, are small numbers, and the number of flowers sent to eat.

Now Renzong is still like this, but Renzong always feels that whether it is two million or twenty thousand, it is not a matter of money, but a matter of face.

Now that his waist is stiff, he naturally wants to save face.

Now, he can only lose face in front of the Koreans, because the Great Song really needs food! Renzong smiled: "What I said to Wen Yanbo was to the king of Goryeo, how many coins we can give them, and I will calculate according to how much grain they sell us." If you sell us 10,000 stone of grain, I will give him 1,000 a year. What do you think of this plan? ”

Chen Yuan looked at Renzong in amazement: "Long live, if the king of Goryeo sells you all the grain and scrapes together tens of millions of stones, won't he give him more than one million guan every year?" ”

Renzong glared at him: "I will only give it for one year next year, or another year later." Just thank him for helping me through this. If he still wants to, hum. ”

Chen Yuan suddenly found that Renzong had really changed, and it was completely different from when he first met him. In the past, he was just a benevolent elder, and there was a little cowardice and hesitation.

But now, Renzong is more like an emperor, an overlord who reigns over the world!

His mercy will no longer be abused against his enemies.

"The minister understands, and the minister promises to Banzai that in the year after tomorrow, Goryeo will not talk to us about the issue of food!"

Renzong asked again: "Shimei, how is Li Wei in the barracks?" ”

These words really stopped Chen Yuan, and Chen Yuan was stunned for a moment: "This, this, the minister is guilty, after sending him to the barracks, I haven't seen it." ”

Renzong smiled: "That's it, it's about to go on the expedition, I also want to go and see the sergeants, you go and arrange it, and we will go to the barracks together tomorrow." ”

Chen Yuan knew that Li Shibin had been defeated in the party, and the newly collected 50,000 soldiers were beaten by Li Yuanhao and Yeli Yuqi, and only more than 20,000 people remained, and they fled back in embarrassment.

The corner was even more unbearable, and he wanted to watch Li Shibin fight, so he went up to pick up the cheap ones again. As a result, he didn't expect Li Yuanhao to take him as the first target of the attack, and rushed over with 20,000 party members, slashing most of the 30,000 horses under Jiao Guluo.

The two of them alone would definitely not work, and Chen Yuan had known this for a long time.

The role of Li Shibin and Jiao Guluo is to not let Li Yuanhao be idle when the Song army is not ready. After the Song army severely injured Li Yuanhao, they would come to take advantage of the fire to rob, so it would be fine.

(To be continued)