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It had been sunny for several days, but suddenly a strong typhoon blew, and dark clouds rolled in the sky, and heavy rain could fall at any time.

Neither sooner nor later, the artillery test firing was chosen today.

Those who came to watch the test launch today, in addition to Zhao Luan and 6 Jiuyuan, as well as Guo Xixian of the military, Jiang Zhiang, as the representative of the Dongfeng Shipbuilding Company, the user of the cannon, and Jiang Zhiang, as the representative of the Taisong Haimao who was about to drive the new Dongfeng whaling ship, also came to the shooting range under the unnamed mountain.

As for Han Yanxuan, the supreme person in charge of the Taiwan and Song Dynasty Maritime Trade, he was receiving businessmen from Goryeo at this time. I have to say that Han Yanxuan has always been very busy, and he has the indicators of goods in demand, and he can't help but be sought after by the business community. Of course, the pursuit of the business community is too enthusiastic, and there are as many businessmen as there are waiting for Han Yanxuan to meet every day.

Fortunately at first, Han Yanzhou only needed to deal with the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty, and slowly, not all dogs and cats could be casually received by Han Yanzhou, but there were always some businessmen who needed Han Yanzhou to meet in the end, so the Taiwan Song Dynasty Haimao Company was full of people's schedule.

Some people also complained that Han Yanxuan had to take care of everything in his hands and refused to give power to his subordinates, but as a special Mao Geng, he clearly supported Han Yanxuan on this issue, Mao Geng said that Han Yanxuan's approach was not wrong, on the contrary, it was very meaningful to do so, first, the overall distribution plan indicators should not be lightly delegated, and second, more contact with merchants was conducive to the establishment of a business network of Taiwan and Song Dynasty sea trade.

With the merchants of Champong, Annam, Srivijaya, Zhenwax and other places have come to Kaohsiung, Han Yanzhou has become a figure of international attention, foreign businessmen may not know the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty Zhao Tuan, but everyone knows Han Yanxuan. In view of this, Han Yanxuan also quickly raised his goal and positioned the goal of Taiwan-Song Haimao to establish a worldwide business empire.

The businessman's sense of smell has always been very sharp, and soon, the merchants from Japan and Goryeo also came, and today, the three businessmen from Goryeo were very honored, and Han Yanxuan specially arranged time to meet them in his busy schedule. They were sincerely afraid, hoping that after being received by Han Yanxuan, they would be able to catch a little in-demand index.

Han Yan couldn't be empty, so Jin Ding replaced him.

Mao Geng looked at the sky, shook his head, and said in his heart that this god is a bit of a prank, and he hesitated a little, so he asked:

"Guogong, do you want to test another day?"

"No! No way! , shoot today. Come rain come shine. ”

Zhao Lian has been looking forward to this day of test firing, how can he be willing to postpone it again, he stroked the hard barrel body, his eyes were full of curiosity and expectation for this inconspicuous iron pipe-like guy, at this moment to stop the test firing and let Zhao Lian return is probably impossible.

"Maote, while it's not raining yet, let's test shoot quickly!"

Mao Geng nodded, if the weather was fine, today's test firing could be done calmly, but the sky is not beautiful, then only make do with the test firing, the effect will inevitably be greatly reduced, no matter what, these people who have not seen the power of guns will not be too picky.

Zhao Luan, 6 Jiuyuan and Guo Xixian were all invited to the fortifications built in advance, and each of them had a monocular, while Jin Ding and Jiang Zhiang were fortunate enough to observe the test launch up close.

There are two cannons placed side by side in the field, and the two cannons on the pedestal are not complicated at first glance, that is, a slightly larger iron cylinder, but the iron cylinder has enough money, and the barrel wall is old and thick, and the iron cylinder points straight ahead.

About sixty or seventy paces ahead, a cow was tied to a wooden post, and it was clear that it was the target of the test.

"Brother Jiang, according to this posture, it seems that you can shoot a cow to death, tsk! The power of the bed crossbow is no more than that, and this cannon is better than the bed crossbow? ”

Jin Ding felt that if a cannon could kill a cow, the power of this cannon would be comparable to a bed crossbow.

Jiang Zhiang hearsay, but he also has limited knowledge of cannons, and his heart is just such an iron barrel, it would be good to be able to compare it to a bed crossbow, but Mao Geng is his own master, and the weapons that the master values must be extraordinary, so he explained immediately:

"Brother Jin, of course the bed crossbow is powerful, but no matter how small the bed crossbow is, it takes at least five or six people to wind it, and the strongest 'Eight Bull Crossbow' requires dozens of hundreds of people to wind it, on the battlefield, it is not a simple matter to use the bed crossbow to kill the enemy. And in comparison, the cannon is much stronger, you see, this cannon, it seems that three people can cannon. Even if the power is slightly inferior, it is not flawed. Brother Jin, are you right? ”

Jin Ding is from a martial arts background, familiar with the "General Essentials of the Martial Arts", for the "Eight Bull Crossbow" such a big killer has been in awe since the beginning, the reason why it is called "Eight Bull Crossbow", as the name suggests, is to pull the eight cows forward together to wind, no! Eight cows may not be able to make the string. In the Great Song Dynasty, the army used manpower to wind it, and it really took a hundred people to wind the "Eight Ox Crossbow", and you must know that the "arrow" of the "Eight Ox Crossbow" was simply a spear with the thickness of an arm. However, the "Eight Ox Crossbow" is extremely cumbersome and can only be used in defending the city.

At a glance, there are two cannons here, in addition to Mao Geng in command, only Mao Geng's four disciples are there, Jin Ding knows two of them, Tan Xiaochun and Fugui, Jiang Zhiang also knows Yi Bojun, only Pang Jing Jiang Zhiang does not know, judging from the situation at the scene, it is impossible for four people to operate the cannon together, and it should not be two people, then, Jiang Zhiang speculated that the probability of three people operating the cannon is the greatest, which is already much stronger than the bed crossbow.

At this moment, Fugui was loading the medicine bag, Fugui stuffed a medicine bag into the cannon barrel from the mouth of the cannon barrel, and Pang Jing, another disciple of Mao Geng, stepped forward with something like a giant arrow, and inserted the arrow like a giant arrow into the cannon barrel.

"This kind of arrow is unprecedented, the arrow is thicker than a fist, and has four blood grooves, it seems to be made of fine iron, you see, there is a very thick rope tied to this huge arrow, it is strange."

The giant arrow mentioned by Jin Ding is actually the cannon arrow on the whaling cannon, yes, it is the cannon arrow! In order to design the appropriate shape of the artillery arrow, it took a lot of painstaking work. The four blood grooves mentioned by Jin Ding have the function of stable flight, and they are four huge barbs, the arrow shaft is 4o mm thick, directly inserted in the barrel, and the arrow is equivalent to the bazooka shape of later generations, the thickest part is more than 7o mm. What kind of arrows can be so fierce! In Jin Ding's eyes, the arrow of this cannon arrow is indeed a little terrifying.

Among the three people in the fortifications, Guo Xixian had heard of the power of the cannon before, and there had been two test firings before that Guo Xixian sent troops to isolate, but the two Guo Xixian only knew that the power was acceptable, so he didn't pay too much attention to it.

At this time, Zhao Lian had a lot of questions:

"General Guo, it turns out that the cannon is gunpowder and shoots iron arrows, yes and no? I'm afraid that this iron arrow is only twenty or thirty pounds, can it really shoot that cow? ”

"I've heard that you can break through a wall in one fell swoop."

Zhao Lian was a little disappointed:

"Breaking through a wall doesn't seem to be nothing, a giant arrow shot by a bed crossbow can be nailed into the city wall for two or three feet, how good is it to break through a wall!"

6 Jiuyuan smiled:

"Let's look at the test firing, how powerful it is, we will know in a moment."

"Don't let me down." , Zhao Luan has high expectations and is afraid that the result will be disappointing.

Mao Geng's choice was to test the whaling cannon first, and the test whaling cannon was originally in the back, but the storm would come at any time, and the whaling cannon was the focus of this test gun, so he temporarily adjusted the order of the test firing, but he didn't expect that in the eyes of the observers, almost all of them understood the cannon shooting as gunpowder archery.

Guo Xixian was thinking at the moment, a giant arrow made of all-fine iron was still so fancy, how much money would it take, could it be affordable!

"Aim." , in a hurry, Mao Geng and in time.

Fugui pointed at the target, began to adjust the muzzle, and after aiming, immediately made a gesture, yes, it was an OK gesture.

"Fire!"

Fu Guiyi pulled the running rope, and in an instant, the barrel of the cannon suddenly shook violently, and with a bang, the fine iron giant arrow flew forward, pulling the rope behind it and flying forward.

However, the cow in the distance was not hit, but was frightened by such a great movement, and jumped up and down for a while, like a frightened bull in a Spanish bullfight, except that the bull's nose was tied to a huge wooden post, and the poor cow returned to calm after tossing once. And the giant arrow was stuck all the way into a dirt slope in front of it.

Zhao Lian shook his head in the fortifications,

"Pang Jing, you come."

Fugui wiped the barrel with a wet cloth and then dried the barrel with a dry cloth, and after confirming that there were no sparks in the barrel, he loaded the medicine bag again, and Pang Jing also loaded the arrow again, but this time, the person who operated the cannon became Pang Jing.

Pang Jing's luck was obviously better than Fugui's, he pulled the cannon rope, boom, the cannon arrow with a strong momentum, directly hit the cow's abdomen, the cannon arrow easily drilled into the cow's body, the cow seemed to be greatly impacted, and fell to the other side.

"Hit! Hit! ”

When Jin Ding and Jiang Zhiang went around to watch, the cow was already dead, and then looked at the giant arrow, even the tail rod had also penetrated into the body of the cow, and only the rope dragged outside.

Mao Geng gave an order, and a sergeant had already lifted the buffalo onto a low-level four-wheeled cart, pulled it with a rope, and pushed it at the same time, and the body of the buffalo was brought to the front of the fortification.

Guo Xi was the first to run out of the fortifications, followed by Zhao Lu and 6 Jiuyuan.

"How?" , Zhao Lian couldn't see the doorway, this was asking Guo Xixian.

"Awesome!"

Mao Geng also walked over, looked at it for a while, and said with a smile:

"Whaling doesn't seem to be a problem." , a cow is about 2,000 catties, after the hit, the arrow is wedged into the body of the cow, and the arrow cannot be pulled out even if it is pulled by many people, and the effect of shooting into the whale's body is not much worse.

Mao Geng was very satisfied with the effect of the whaling cannon, but it was obvious that Zhao Lian had not seen enough of the performance. So Mao Geng said to the three people who were still immersed in Fang Cai's fatal blow:

"It's nothing, there's a great test shot to come."

Zhao Lu's eyes lit up again.

Next, the target was changed, and the target became a deer, two pigs, and three sheep, and a wooden plank was erected.

This time it was replaced with a shotgun, the so-called shotgun, which was nothing more than a pile of iron pellets wrapped in cloth.

With a bang, a cloud of iron sand shot out, rushing towards the target like a cloud of black mist.

In the binoculars, Zhao saw that the six poor animals were swept by the raging iron sand and fell in a pool of blood at the first time. And the huge wooden board was also shattered at the first time.

At this moment, a heavy rain poured down without a head, and in an instant, the target area turned a blood-red.

Zhao Lian put down the binoculars, his heart was inexplicably excited, but he still couldn't help but ask Guo Xixian:

"How? How is it compared to a bed crossbow? ”

"Guogong, this kind of power, the last general has never seen it, one cannon down, within a radius of more than ten steps, no matter people or animals, they will be killed in an instant, it is by no means comparable to a bed crossbow. With this cannon, from now on, I will no longer be afraid of the golden soldiers, not only are I not afraid, but the golden soldiers will be defeated by my Great Song Dynasty. ”

"Congratulations to Guogong, Xia Guan never expected the power of the cannon to come to this! Guogong, congratulations to Guogong, the day of restoration of the Central Plains is not far away! The lower officials congratulate the country and the Great Song Dynasty! ”

6 Jiuyuan was excited in his heart, and when he said that later, he couldn't help but burst into tears.

"I knew this cannon must be extraordinary!" , Zhao Lian made a timely statement with hindsight.