Yue Lengqiu, Yue Zhi followed Wu Qi and Zhang Gou Er to the island to pick up the steps to watch the crossbow platform; Lin Lian, Gao Zongting and others greeted each other beside the crossbow platform.

"Governor Yue came all the way to the car, and when he came to Haizhou, he had to go through the boat and bump the boat, which is really rude!" Lin Jian stood with his hands in his hands, watching Yue Lengqiu and Yue Zhi come up on the stage, smiling and consoling.

"Chongguo Gong is polite." Yue Lengqiu bowed his hand, although the crossbow platform was only fourteen or fifteen zhang high, but Yue Lengqiu hurried all the way, sweating and panting on his forehead.

It has been two years since Huang Pi parted, and although Yue Lengqiu had returned to Jiangning in the middle, Lin Lian happened to be not in Jiangning, so he didn't have the opportunity to meet. At this time, seeing that Lin Lian had a thick short mustache on his lips, his eyes were blazing, his body was healthy, and he had a majestic momentum, Yue Lengqiu secretly sighed in his heart: In the end, it is not comparable to those of them who are in the twilight.

Gao Zongting, Ge Cunxin and others all greeted Yue Lengqiu and Yue Zhi; Shi Fengtai walked over and said to Lin Lian: "The scattered bomb is ready, do you have to wait for a while?" ”

"Yue Du and I are not outsiders, let's talk about things while watching the crossbow...... Lin Jian asked Shi Fengtai to perform the shooting without stopping, and invited Yue Lengqiu and Yue Zhi to sit on the crossbow platform.

Yue Lengqiu and Yue Zhi followed Wu Qi to the east and west islands, and the sound of ballistas did not stop on the way, the sound was big and small, and the momentum across the mountain was not small, even if they understood that Lin Jian had ulterior motives for arranging this way, he was very eager to see the power of Huaidong's new weapons in his heart.

Yue Lengqiu sat down beside Lin Bin, only to find that the crossbow platform was a thin side peak, and the crossbow field was in the wide valley in front of the peak, surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the sea on one side, only to see five huge black crossbows staggered on the southwest wing of the crossbow field, which looked like they were made of fine iron.

It is said to be a fire crossbow, but it has a great water share with the traditional crossbow. Looking at it from a distance, I can't see how complicated it is, it's more like a simple black iron pipe with a huge body on the frame of the iron car, and some accessories like ear touches and winches, which I can't see clearly from a distance.

The crossbows are all half-human-tall carts, and when you look at them from above, there are projectiles similar to the stone bullets used in the crossbows, which seem to be cast in iron.

Compared to the soldiers around the crossbow, the large iron pipe of the fire crossbow was two lengths; The tail end looks bulky and clumsy, like a strong man's waist, and the front end sticks out from the frame and gradually narrows.

Just now I heard a movement like rolling thunder across the mountain, was it emitted by this kind of weapon? Yue Lengqiu was quite puzzled in his heart. At this time, he also searched his stomach to think about the words about the fire sulfur pill and alchemy, but it was difficult to correspond to the crossbow in front of him.

"Flame Spray!" However, Yue Zhi has a good memory and quick thinking, plus he has thought all the way before, and when he saw the true body of Huaidong's new weapon, he had a flash of inspiration, and instantly thought of the record of the previous dynasty about the flame-spraying scene, and blurted out.

After being reminded by Yue Zhi, Yue Lengqiu also thought about the record of the flame spraying opera in the notes of the literati of the previous dynasty: it was said that it was a juggler of the previous dynasty, who filled a small amount of fire pill powder in the bamboo pipe, knocked the flint and ignited it with a medicinal twist, which could emit fire and five-colored smoke. This flame opera was quite popular in the court in the early years of the previous dynasty, but after the ban on pills, it was lost.

Sometimes it's really just a simple matter of piercing a layer of window paper, Lin Jian glanced at Yue Zhi sideways, thinking that Yue Lengqiu's heirs could not become a climate, and Yue Duming also died on the battlefield, but there was a nephew who could become a climate.

In fact, Yue Zhi is quite old, and he is close to the age of confusion. He was born as a child, but he failed to do so many times. After Yue Lengqiu led the troops, he gave up the scientific expedition and became a staff member, and he had been a staff member by Yue Lengqiu's side, and only after the Yongxing New Year did he have the opportunity to lead the troops independently, but he quickly became the most important general under Yue Lengqiu's command.

Although Yue Zhi succumbed to Tao Chun at this time and became the deputy commander of Voryang Town, he was actually equal to Tao Chun and Deng Yu's status. It's just that Lin Tie only gave Yue Lengqiu the establishment of two towns, and Yue Lengqiu couldn't call one of Tao Chun and Deng Yu a grievance.

Yue Lengqiu and Yue Zhi are both from scholars, but they have been immersed in military affairs for half their lives, and they are considered representatives of traditional soldiers and one of the most pragmatic people in the world.

Huaidong's new weapons don't look very complicated, Yue Lengqiu couldn't help but lean over and look forward according to the long case, looking at the new weapons is simply changing the bamboo pipe used in the traditional flame-spraying drama to a super-large iron cast pipe, thinking that the reason should be almost similar, filling in the fire pill to ignite and spray out the iron and stone - but can the flame-spraying play spray out the iron and stone to hit the target body six miles away?

At this time, Lin Jian handed over something and called softly: "Yue Du ......"

Yue Lengqiu came back to his senses and saw that Lin Jian handed him a bronze mirror, and hurriedly took it with both hands to thank him.

The mirror has begun to spread to middle-level generals in the Huaidong Army, and it is inevitable that it will be spread to the outside world; In particular, the spread of Xinxue has made some truths clear, and outsiders can also imitate the mirror according to the principles described in Xinxue.

In the armies of Henan towns such as Wuyang and Zhengyang, there are all mirrors flowing in, but the number is very small.

A good mirror is good, and distant objects a few miles away are seen as if they were near, but in the war of the world, their use is limited.

When the world's field of vision is already wide, standing on a high place can observe the activities of people and animals more than ten miles away - to see more vaguely or more clearly, in terms of tradition and tactics, the significance is really not very great.

What's more, the production of telescopes is extremely difficult and expensive, Yue Lengqiu has two telescopes in his hand, and more often they are just used as playthings.

At this time, the mirror can be used to see the careful situation of the crossbow field more clearly.

In the looking glass, Yue Lengqiu saw more clearly that the beaches on the periphery of the crossbow field were all humanoid and horse-shaped puppets. These horses and puppets, all dressed and armored, there are chariots, shield carts, bed crossbows and other weapons, look closely, although they are all dummies and fake horses, the imitation is the complete water infantry horse army charging from the beach, and there are several ferries in the distance.

There is also an accurate distance marked on the body of the puppet, using the new style of weights and measures implemented by the new school, and the nearest puppet from the new war weapon in Huaidong is marked with the words "two hundred meters", and there are words such as "four hundred meters" and "six hundred meters" in the distance, which can be seen clearly with a telescope, and can more intuitively judge the lethality and effective killing distance that the new crossbow can produce.

The weights and measures practiced by Xinxue finally determined that the "Gongzhi Ruler" was three feet for one meter and three feet for ten meters. A square cabinet is made with one meter as the edge, with a capacity of 2,000 catties. It also redefines the concept of "liter", with one-tenth of a meter as the edge, and the square cabinet as the "liter", holding two catties of water. The newly defined "liter" is slightly different from the traditional "liter" of measuring meters, but the gap is very small, and it can be accepted by the world.

In order to promote the new weights and measures, the official letters of the Privy Council and the Ministry of Military Affairs began to use units such as kilometers, meters, kilograms, catties, and liters, and the towns of Henan could only be forced to adapt. However, Yue Lengqiu also knew that one of the fundamental purposes of Xinxue's implementation of the new weights and measures was to unify the degree length, volume and bulk density, which was much more convenient than the chaotic weights and measures in the past.

Traditional measurement, measuring rice with stone, liters, firewood and grass to enclose, measuring cloth and silk to horse, measuring tea and iron; And the length of the size, there is also the so-called difference between the work ruler, the earthwork ruler, and the river ruler, which is chaotic.

Yue Lengqiu didn't have time to think about the advantages and disadvantages of the weights and measures performed by Xinxue, but he asked Lin Jian about the situation that he could see in front of him: "This is to check the new battle crossbow to suppress the enemy's battle formation?" ”

"Exactly." Lin Jian said.

Yue Lengqiu re-used the scope to look at the array of puppets: the humanoid puppet representing the foot soldier pushes the shield cart, holds a large shield, a knife and spear, and a bow and crossbow is in the center; The horse-shaped puppet representing the horsemen occupies the two wings, and there are a small number of heavy armored horses used for battlefield assault in the center, and the armor worn by the people and horses should be real armor, including leather armor, iron armor, and cotton - on the beachhead is a complete, charging battalion-level battle array, the entire battle array has a depth of 400 meters.

And before this battalion-level battle formation, only five new weapons were deployed - could five new weapons be able to suppress the close charge of a battalion-level battle formation?

Yue Lengqiu subconsciously glanced sideways at Yue Zhi, only to see Yue Zhi's brows raised, his expression extremely solemn, knowing his thoughts and the doubts and shocks in his heart, just like himself.

Yue Lengqiu suppressed the strong doubts in his heart, and watched with a telescope as the Huaidong crossbowman filled a large package of yellow paper into the mouth of the pipe first, pounded it with a wooden pestle, and then filled a type of iron cylinder from the mouth of the pipe, and looked at the instructions of the flag order, and saw that there was a flint on the crossbow tail to hit the spark......

Before Yue Lengqiu could react, he saw that the five fire crossbows fell back almost at the same time, and the crossbow mouth spewed out huge flames; Before, the crossbow was filled with large iron cylinder-shaped bullets, but in the firelight, countless iron pellets were sprayed out. Countless iron pellets formed a long cone-shaped barrage in the smoke of the fire, accompanied by an earth-shattering loud sound, covering the human and horse puppet array......

Listening to the loud sound of the fire crossbow being fired at close range, the mountain rock under the intuition seat was also shaking, Yue Lengqiu's hands holding the scope couldn't help but tremble, and when he looked closely, the front wing of the entire centaur puppet array had been completely torn apart by the barrage. The armor on the puppets was horrific, the limbs were mutilated, the wooden weapons were also wounded, and small holes could be seen in the large wooden shields or iron shields......

The middle and rear positions of the entire battle formation are only slightly better, but it is certain that the entire battalion-level array that has launched a charge will completely collapse if it is hit by this wave at a distance of two hundred meters, and there is no possibility of luck.

Although countless iron pellets were scattered in the puppet battle formation, Yue Lengqiu was like a prison crossbow attack, only feeling that his hands and feet were cold, and he couldn't help but have cold sweat on his back:

He and Yue Zhi let down their guard and rushed to Haizhou to discuss the Northern Expedition, so they were able to invite Lin Jian to watch the shooting of Huaidong's new war crossbow on the crossbow viewing platform; If they don't come this time, then the military horses of Zhengyang and Wuyang will definitely be the first to experience and feel the power of Huaidong's new weapons on the real battlefield - Lin Jian will definitely not carry out the Northern Expedition in the unstable situation on the Western Front.

"There are five shots of scattered bullets, and there are 1,000 iron pellets that can accommodate one or two weights, and all five bullets have been successfully fired, and the actual lethality is still ......being counted," Shi Fengtai came over to report the situation of the test firing.

Lin Lian nodded and said, "Take one of the 200-meter, 400-meter, and 600-meter human and horse puppets so that everyone can take a closer look......

He visually detected the artillery scattering projectiles, which could form an effective lethality between 200 and 400 meters; Farther away, the barrage formed by the scattered bullets will spread, and the lethality will also be drastically reduced, and the ability to pierce armor will be lost.

The newly compiled fire crossbow drill code sets the scatter shooting distance at 350 meters, which is appropriate; This has actually been used on the battlefield instead of the intensive use of bed and scorpion crossbows.

Shi Feng went to the crossbow field to select typical people and horses and puppets to send to the Guanbashi, and organized manpower to count more detailed killing data.

Lin Lian turned sideways, with a smile on his face, and said to Yue Lengqiu, who was not much frightened: "This time, the towns of Henan want to reduce the number of troops, and others think that I have no ambition for the Northern Expedition, but in fact, I want to reduce some military funds for the research and development of new war crossbows; Asking Governor Yue to come over is precisely to discuss the Northern Expedition......"