Chapter 238 Shocking Firearms

A small hole was exposed in the center of the ten targets, the targets were three layers thick of wooden planks, the size was the same as the arrow targets of ordinary archers in training, Gundam walked closer, touched the target, carefully examined the bullet holes, and sighed to himself, with his decades of training in marksmanship, although he could shoot hundreds of shots from a distance of sixty meters, but the penetration power was far less powerful than the musket,

I saw Gundam in great detail: "Gao Aiqing, you are my famous divine shooter, you can evaluate the power of this musket." ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister's strength is not as good as the musket."

"Well, it is true that manpower is inferior to equipment at this time, but this is not the greatest strength of the musket."

"Your Majesty, please clear up your doubts for the ministers."

"Gao Aiqing, I came to ask you, it will take a few years to reach the level of divine shooting like you."

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister's qualifications are dull, and it will take about six years."

"Well, Li Aiqing, Xia Aiqing, Lu Aiqing, the three of you are also famous generals of my dynasty, you tell me how long it takes to train an archer."

The three of them said in unison: "Your Majesty, it will take at least two years." ”

I nodded and said: "Yes, a well-qualified soldier can master the basic essentials of shooting in two years, if you want to reach Gao Aiqing's divine archery realm, it will take more than five years, but our opponents have grown up with bows and arrows since childhood, and most of them have more than ten years of archery practice when they join the Mongolian army. The musket will change all that, and it will only take two or three months to train a qualified musketeer at the earliest, which is why I am confident that I can build a Great Song army that surpasses the Mongols. ”

"Just two or three months?"

"Of course, among test shooters, the fastest record for one person is one month and seven days, and he can reach ten shots and ten hits at 60 meters."

Xia Gui thought for a while and asked, "Your Majesty, with such firearms, won't you be able to train a large number of musketeers soon, how did Your Majesty decide to launch the Northern Expedition in three years." ”

"Xia Aiqing, I said that firearms are the inevitable trend of future wars, but in the early stage, the current musket still has many drawbacks, such as slow production due to the complex manufacturing process of the musket, the firing speed is not as good as that of skilled archers, and it will be affected by the weather, etc., which will restrict the use of muskets, okay, Aiqing, let's go and see the second type of firearm, throwing grenades."

Wen Tianxiang received my instructions and said, "Please move your majesty and your lords back thirty meters." ”

"Thrower, ready, target, thirty meters ahead."

"Put."

Ten projectiles were thrown accurately at the target in front of them, and as the projectiles landed, the explosion suddenly sounded, accompanied by bursts of smoke, and after a while, the smoke dissipated, and the original ten targets no longer existed, leaving only a few pieces of wreckage scattered on the potholed ground,

"I named this grenade grenade, which means a thunderbolt that comes from my hand."

This time, even Li Tingzhi sighed greatly, and couldn't help but praise: "It's amazing." ”

I smiled: "Let's move on to the third firearm, Song Rui, test the gun." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Wen Tianxiang took us to turn around, and walked to a place more than 300 meters away from Luoshi Mountain, Yun Bofei pointed to a small artillery statue next to him and said: "Your Majesty, my lords, this is the latest artillery developed by the Gunpowder Division, which is an artillery that fires ammunition, not a stone-throwing machine in the traditional sense. ”

The gun is mounted on a two-wheeled vehicle, the gun body is about 2 meters long, the caliber is nearly 10 centimeters, the whole gun body is cast with good stainless steel, the gun is composed of the body tube, the medicine room, the gun tail and other parts, the tail of the gun has two square holes, can be equipped with trunnions, from the appearance alone, this is indeed a cannon,

I was also excited: "Okay, let's try it." ”

Yun Bofei said: "Your Majesty, please stay away. ”

Wen Tianxiang forcibly let me stand twenty meters away, I knew that he was afraid that the cannon would explode and hurt us, you must know that the ammunition of the cannon is not comparable to the projectiles and projectiles of the musket.

I looked at it from a distance, and saw that Yun Bofei was also nervous, but he couldn't hide the joy from the heart, although the artillery has been repeatedly test-fired, but because of its large amount of ammunition, once it explodes, it is not a joke, and Yun Bofei does not dare to be careless.

"Wait." I said suddenly, "Yun Aiqing, come over and let Peng Chong command, I have something to say to you." ”

Yun Bofei hurriedly confessed a few words to Peng Chong and came to me: "Your Majesty, please instruct." ”

"Yun Aiqing, you can explain the principle of this artillery to all the adults."

Yun Bofei was stunned for a moment, perhaps guessing that my intention was to worry about the artillery explosion, and he was also quite grateful in his heart: "Yes, Your Majesty." ”

Wen Tianxiang took out more than a dozen rags from his arms and said, "Your Majesty, adults, first plug your ears with rags. ”

At this time, Peng Chong, who was next to the artillery, had already begun to give orders: "Everyone is ready, prepare, and load ammunition." ”

Two big men carried a huge cannonball into the breech of the cannon,

"Fill the gunpowder."

"Adjust the angle of the gun body, form a half-angle (45 degrees) shape, target, at the white point of the rear mountain." Peng Chong was obviously very familiar with the steps of artillery, and ordered step by step in an orderly manner,

"Light the fuse."

"Ignite the propellant."

"Ready, put."

I only heard a bang, the shell flew out of the barrel of the artillery, and hit the target in the back mountain in a parabola, in the blink of an eye, the shell fell about five meters to the left of the white point in the back mountain, and then exploded, the huge sound seemed to break through the sky, and a burst of black smoke instantly covered the target left and right.

Even though we all covered our ears with cotton balls, we could still hear this loud noise,

The mountain wind blew, and after a long time, the smoke gradually dispersed.

I took out the rag and suddenly it occurred to me that it was not a small cotton ball that plugged my ears, cotton was introduced from abroad more than ten years ago, but it has not yet been popularized.

"Your Majesty, this is." Lu Wende also took out the strip of cloth and asked in surprise,

I looked at the four demented-looking generals and laughed loudly: "This is artillery, a type of firearm. ”

Yun Bofei said happily: "Your Majesty, the artillery test firing was successful. ”

"Okay, Wenzhang, go and see the situation near the target, you Aiqing, if you are interested, you can also go over and have a look."

As soon as the words fell, the four system envoys all followed Wen Zhang's brisk walk towards the white spot on the back mountain.

"Your Majesty, although this artillery was successfully test-fired, there is still a lot of gap from the parameters set by Your Majesty at the beginning, and just this range cannot reach a mile away."

"Don't worry, Yun Aiqing, let's take it step by step."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"By the way, gunpowder is a dangerous product, Song Rui, Yun Aiqing, you must pay attention to safety, no matter who you are, you must strictly follow the safety steps formulated, and you would rather stop for three minutes than grab a second, this point must be remembered."

"Yes, keep in mind."

"Let's go, go and wait for them in the house."

Wen Zhang and the four envoys were all happy when they returned to the house, and Xia Guixian said: "Your Majesty, let's give me ten guns on Huainan West Road first." ”

"Ten, Xia Aiqing, do you know how much silver taels this cannon will cost, I tell you, this cannon cost me a full six thousand taels of silver, not counting the cost of ammunition and labor." My face sank, and then I laughed again, "However, after three years, I promised to give you at least fifty gates in the Luzhou War Zone." ”

Xia Gui listened to my previous sentence and suddenly felt a chill in his heart, six thousand taels of silver and then cannonballs, labor and other expenses, it would not be tens of thousands of taels, but my latter sentence made his heart flutter: "Your Majesty, as long as Your Majesty gives me 50 cannons, 50,000 grenades, and 50,000 muskets in the Luzhou War Zone, the minister promises to bring Kublai Khan's head." ”

As soon as I heard this, I said in my heart, no wonder everyone said that Xia Gui had to talk about the conditions for the war first, I looked at Xia Gui with a smile and said: "Xia Aiqing, if you don't have these firearms, will you not fight for me, will you not bring Kublai Khan's head." ”

Xia Gui's expression was grim, how dare he refute, and said cautiously: "Ah, Your Majesty, that's not what the minister meant." ”

Li Tingzhi hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, Lord Xia really didn't mean this, just now the ministers and others saw the effect of the artillery attack, Lord Xia was too excited, and this is a bit nonsense." ”

Xia Gui glanced at Li Tingzhi gratefully, and said, "Yes, yes, Your Majesty forgives you." ”

"Yes, I shouldn't have heard it this time, so sit down."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"Ladies and gentlemen, the three types of firearms you see today are the initial and most basic types of firearms developed by our dynasty."

Wen Zhang's eyes widened and said: "Your Majesty, no, this is the primary one, then what will be behind it, can it be that you can still fly in the sky and swim in the water." ”

"Haha, Wen Zhang, your master, the Dao Master, said that you are talented, and he is really not wrong."

Wen Zhang naturally didn't know that I was praising him, so he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the minister is just talking casually, it can't be true, it can't be true." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, Wen Zhang is young and open-mouthed, Your Majesty is not strange." Wen Tianxiang also thought that I was blaming Wen Zhang for talking nonsense, and hurriedly explained,

I secretly laughed and said: "Song Rui, Wen Zhang is right, Yun Aiqing, especially those of you who are engaged in research, you have to be like Wen Zhang, you must first dare to think, think that ordinary people dare not think, in order to do what ordinary people dare not do, in the future, maybe there will really be a device that flies in the sky and swims in the water." ”

"Yes, the ministers are taught."

"Well, well, let's get down to business, generals, what do you think of these firearms."

Li Tingzhi said: "Your Majesty, let's use the word shock to describe it, once the soldiers of our court can be equipped with these firearms, the minister thinks that he can compete with the Mongolian cavalry in the field, and even if the other party has a city to defend him, he will be torn apart by this artillery." ”

Xia Gui said: "Master Li, you are too conservative, what is a confrontation, according to my old Xia, you will definitely beat the arrogant Mongolian iron cavalry so that you can't find your direction, and you are screaming everywhere to find your mother." ”

Gao Le said: "Haha, Lord Xia, Your Majesty is here, don't talk nonsense." ”

"It's okay, go ahead."

Gao Gao said: "Your Majesty, firearms have not yet been applied to the battlefield, in fact, how powerful the combat effect can be, it remains to be tested, the minister thinks that the decisive factor on the battlefield is people, not weapons, so, no matter how far firearms progress, the training of the army is the most important, but well, this kind of weapon also hopes that Your Majesty can distribute it to me in the middle of the river." ”

"Well, Gao Aiqing is reasonable, my army will be equipped at that time, Gao Aiqing doesn't have to worry about this, Lu Aiqing, you can also talk about it."

Among the four, Lu Wende knew that he had the farthest relationship with me, so he was the last to speak almost every time: "Your Majesty, the minister is the same as Lord Li, I feel that there is really no suitable word except for the word shock, I have the divine power of Your Majesty, plus there is such a firearm, why worry about the immortality of Mongolia." ”