It's no wonder that Qin Baichuan was surprised, Old Man Chu took Qin Baichuan to a stone room, the stone room is not very big, at best about a hundred square meters, but there are a lot of things that can be piled up. On the wall on the left hand side are rows of iron gall longbows, under the wall are piled up like a mountain of arrows, and on the wall on the right hand side are hanging more than a meter long war knives, which obviously no one has come to clean here for a long time, and the war knives are full of dust, but under the firelight, those war knives still emit a faint cold light.

In front of Qin Baichuan was a rectangular phalanx three meters wide, ten meters long, and two meters high, which was covered by canvas and could not be seen. Tsk, just looking at the weight, it must be at least about three tons!

Even if Qin Baichuan grinned, he said how the old man of the Chu family had influence, but after Qin Baichuan developed it, he didn't think that the Chu family was so powerful, and he waited until he saw these things in front of him, and he realized in his heart that he had underestimated the Chu family too much before! This nearly three tons of iron alone was enough to move Qin Baichuan!

Three tons of iron is about 6,000 catties, which is actually not much money when measured in silver, but the restriction of iron in Dasong is almost stricter than salt, and ordinary people are afraid that they will be arrested and interrogated by the government when they get about three or five catties, how can they accumulate so much! What's more, those merchants can still boil sea salt in order to grab profits, but where do they get the iron? Coupled with the strong bows and crossbows on the left and right sides, as well as the war knives, Qin Baichuan couldn't be surprised!

Of course, the mountains of iron and these cold weapons only surprised Qin Baichuan, but when Old Man Chu took him around the iron pile and came to the opposite wall, he was completely shocked. The things piled up here are extremely fragmentary, starting from the left hand side are more than a dozen ceramic barrels with the same appearance, but different colors are painted on the barrel body to distinguish them, and on the right side of the barrel are some black iron eggs the size of watermelons, round and round, and a fuse is also exposed on the iron egg, Qin Baichuan was blinded at that time.

"Little Brother Qin, do you know what it is?" His own baby bump could make Qin Baichuan show such an expression, and Old Man Chu was even more proud, and said in a deep voice.

"Could it be ......" Qin Baichuan swallowed his saliva: "Those ceramic barrels can prevent moisture, could it be that they contain gunpowder?" These iron eggs...... But landmines? ”

"Hahaha, Brother Qin is familiar with "Three Kingdoms Commentary", and he really can't fool you!" Old Man Chu smiled proudly: "It is recorded in the "Three Kingdoms Commentary" that when Mr. Kong Ming conquered the Southern Barbarians, he used gunpowder to create mines. ”

"Old man, why is this mine not used on the battlefield?" Qin Baichuan was almost about to jump up, as a modern person, he clearly knew the lethality of mines, there was such a thing, as long as a few rows were buried outside the city, what kind of big truth, big silver iron horse, if you hit it, you will die, and if you hit it, you will die!

"How can you use what you don't like on the battlefield?" Old Man Chu also seemed to be quite speechless, and said: "In the "Three Kingdoms Commentary", it is said that Mr. Kong Ming burned the rattan armor soldiers, and then he let people bury mines, cover them with stones, and protect the fuse with bamboo poles...... Hey, it's a pity, Mr. Kong Ming is as wise as a demon, but the old man has been unable to do it for several years, and after the fuse is lit, there is no achievement except for sneering and emitting thick black smoke. ”

"It's ...... Semi-finished products? Qin Baichuan calmed down a little, staring at the black iron egg and was reluctant to look away, compared to the bows and crossbows and war knives on both sides, Qin Baichuan's interest in this thing was obviously higher. Gritted his teeth and pondered in his heart for a long time, in fact, relatively speaking, mines are relatively simple to make among thermal weapons, as long as you find out the proportional formula, it shouldn't be too difficult...... Qin Baichuan hated himself for a moment why he wasn't from a science background, if he had studied chemistry back then, wouldn't it come in handy at this time?

"Brother Qin, the old man originally wanted to give all the things here to you, if you like that gunpowder cannon, go back and study it." Old Man Chu obviously had no interest in this gunpowder cannon, and waved at Qin Baichuan in the corner: "Come on, come on, show you a good thing." ”

Qin Baichuan obeyed the past, and at a glance saw that Old Man Chu was holding a delicate wooden box in his hand, this wooden box was seven inches wide and about seventy centimeters long, and Old Man Chu said mysteriously: "Little Brother Qin, you are well-informed, do you know what this is?" ”

"This ......" Qin Baichuan saw the shape of the box clearly, and suddenly said in shock: "Could it be...... Gun? ”

"Haha, wrong!" Old Man Chu said proudly: "Although the gun is a sharp weapon on the battlefield, it is too ordinary, and the old man doesn't like it!" Besides, when have you ever seen such a short spear? Come on, I'll give you another chance. ”

"Brother, your box hasn't been opened yet, can't he have clairvoyance?" Chu Jia's eyes were white, and the long box was the most important treasure of Old Man Chu, and he had to take it out from time to time to show off.

"Well, old man, I'm not talking about a spear...... Hey, forget it, I don't know what to say. Qin Baichuan's mind was the appearance of an ancient musket, but he couldn't remember what it was called for a while.

"Brother Qin, come and see!" The delicate wooden box was opened, the first thing I saw was a piece of bright red satin, and then the silk was lifted, and what appeared in front of me was a long black tube, which was round and straight, and an iron hoop was placed on the tube every interval, and the end of the old man Chu was the end of the long tube, and the long tube was thickened at the last three inches or so, then thinned, and finally thickened, like a handle, if the shape is put aside, this long tube is more like a dagger.

"Little Brother Qin, can you see clearly this time?" Old Man Chu regarded it as a treasure and held the long pipe in his hand, he was originally an old man who didn't know martial arts, but with the long pipe in his hand, his temperament seemed to have changed, and even if Tan Jiaotou stood opposite, he dared to fight.

"Firecracker!" After seeing the real thing, Qin Baichuan suddenly remembered that when he was in college, he had traveled to Inner Mongolia with his classmates, and he had seen this kind of thing with his own eyes in the Mengyuan Cultural Museum. According to the text next to it, the name "firebolt" was first proposed by the Mongolian Dalima Zhili, which consists of a breech, a medicine chamber and a tail hammer, which promoted the progress of China's military.

"Firebolt? The name could have been fine, but the old man called it a torch. Old Man Chu was a little surprised, and when he saw that Qin Baichuan had been staring at the fire gun, he handed it over casually.

Qin Baichuan didn't even say thank you in excitement, he took the gun in his hand and looked at it carefully, if he had to describe it, this gun could be said to be a combination of artillery and a modern rifle, with a semicircular hole in the thickened part of the tail of the gun, with a paper twist on the outside, that is, the fuse of the gun. Qin Baichuan studied for a while and understood that the principle of this firearm is extremely simple, the position of the tail hammer, that is, the tail of the modern pistol, is stuffed with gunpowder, and the gunpowder is ignited by the fuse, and after the gunpowder explodes, the steel balls in the long tube are exploded to achieve the purpose of shooting.

The old man Chu attaches great importance to this fire gun, but in Qin Baichuan's eyes, the production process is too rough, but he is also very happy in his heart, in the great song where cold weapons are prevalent, no one knows better than him what this kind of thing means.

"Old man, did you make this firecrackle yourself?" Qin Baichuan suppressed the joy in his heart, his gains from this trip to the Chu family were too much to expect.

"It was developed by me and the four brothers of A, B, C, D, and it is by no means the work of the old man alone." Old Man Chu saw that Qin Baichuan seemed to understand this thing a little, and told the ins and outs of the future: "Back then, in the war against the Great True Kingdom, they had a team of blowing arrows, this army came and went like the wind, everyone held a bamboo tube in their hands, and under the sudden blowing, a small arrow shot out, shooting the eyes of the war horse...... The old man once got a bamboo tube, and after studying it carefully, he wondered if he could change it slightly...... After years of trouble, gunpowder finally came in handy. Don't underestimate this torch, the steel pillar catapults, and those within ten zhang will die, and those within twenty zhang will be injured! ”

Qin Baichuan was speechless, Da Song is a little different from the modern unit of measurement, the so-called one zhang in this era is about three meters, so the old man Chu means that if you are shot within thirty meters, you will die, and you will be injured within sixty meters. Qin Baichuan thought about it, Old Man Chu's words were somewhat watery, this short fire gun is probably equivalent to a modern pistol, and hitting the vital point at thirty meters can kill people, otherwise it will be a serious injury at most; If sixty meters ...... Not to mention, modern pistols have a range of about fifty meters, beyond which the firearm is probably useless.

"Little Brother Qin, do you still have questions?" Qin Baichuan's excitement only lasted for a short time, and seeing that he lowered his head and was silent, Old Man Chu asked.

"Old man, can I try this gun? Oh, the torch. Qin Baichuan asked tentatively.

"Not here, go out and try!" Old Man Chu waved his hand.

The three of them walked out of the stone room quickly, and the old man Chu told Qin Baichuan the usage of the firecrackle one by one, and after confirming that it was correct, the old man filled the firecracker with gunpowder, and tamped the gunpowder with a special wooden stick, and finally threw more than a dozen small steel balls into the long tube.

"Brother Qin, pay attention!" Old Man Chu pulled out the lead on the fire hammer, and the fire fold blew out the fire, reminding softly. After Qin Baichuan nodded, the old man lit the fuse.

The fuse used in this torch fire is made of paper, mixed with some chemical raw materials that Qin Baichuan does not understand, and it emits a pungent smell when it burns. After waiting for more than ten seconds, after the fuse burned out, he only heard the sound of "Peng", and the fire gun ** burst out more than ten centimeters of fire, Qin Baichuan only felt that his right arm was numb, and the strong recoil shook him back half a step.

"Brother Qin, how do you feel?" Old Man Chu didn't notice Qin Baichuan's expression, and saw that some of the more than a dozen steel balls shot into the trunk of the tree, and some even crashed into the rocks, the old man snorted proudly with a smug look on his face.

Note: The historical use of landmines does originate from the Song Dynasty, when the Jin army attacked Shaanzhou, and the Song army used "gunpowder cannons" (i.e., iron-shelled mines) buried in the ground to inflict heavy casualties on the Jin army and win. In addition, firearms have appeared as early as Zhao Kuangyin's time, but the purity of gunpowder at that time was not enough, resulting in many weapons failing to form lethality, so they did not show a pivotal position in the war, until the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, firearms gradually appeared on the stage of history.

It is worth mentioning that as one of China's four major inventions, after gunpowder was introduced to Europe, local people developed and used it, and gradually transferred it to the military from the earliest beginning to treat diseases. This book is based on the Great Song Dynasty and the virtual ode, and there is no need to scrutinize some places that do not conform to historical facts.