The final testing ground of the "Battle of Ballistas" is in the base camp of the Ministry of Industry - Gongkou City!

The Privy Council decided to send a total of 20 evaluators to be responsible for this evaluation, most of whom are generals serving in the Privy Council, and there are also several special evaluators, such as Chen Gong and Fa Zheng, who are not theoretically in the Privy Council, but are also very good at strategic decision-making and tactical command, and are also invited to evaluate.

Together with the five palace scholars, as well as Bai Tu himself, these twenty-six people are the evaluation team that finally ended the "crossbow dispute" and decided the future development direction of the Chu State in terms of armament!

Because the New Year was approaching, most of the generals who were invited by the Privy Council to participate in the evaluation were transferred back on the grounds of "returning to Beijing to report on their work".

For the vast majority of reviewers, this is also the first time they have entered Gongkou City, the most mysterious place in the Chu State...... One.

Even though most of the secret workshops have moved to Yizhou, Gongkou City has a large number of technical backbones and undertakes the design and experimental tasks of most of the secret projects.

Most people seem a little confused about being called back in a hurry to participate in the evaluation of the test ordnance, but ...... But there is also a faint sense of pride in my heart.

Aside from the Imperial Scholars and Bai Tu himself, there were only twenty people in total who had this qualification—and that alone was enough to make people feel nostalgic.

Among them, the lowest official positions are Fa Zheng and Huang Zhong.

Fa Zheng is precisely because his qualifications are still shallow, and he is reused but has no important positions, but everyone knows that after waiting for three or five years, his colleagues may not move, but Fa Zheng will definitely be able to rise to the top, and even have the hope of entering the cabinet in the future.

As for Huang Zhong......

Needless to say, because of the "problems left over from history", when the country was founded, he did not receive too high military ranks, and after the founding of the country, there were few wars, and there were no opportunities for meritorious service, and he was still a miscellaneous general.

However, being invited here shows Bai Tu's trust in him - in fact, Lu Bu didn't take him with him, but he was specially added by Bai Tu.

In addition, there are Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, Sun Ce, Zhou Yu and other "all-stars" of the Chu army, as well as the "new generation" including Lu Meng and Wei Yan.

Xu Shu, who had been cooperating with the Ministry of Industry to do tactical expansion for the new armament, was not among the evaluators this time, but he was the commander of this test!

When Bai Tu led them to watch the ordnance test below on the high platform built on the test site, all the world's famous generals also concentrated their spirits.

In fact...... Many of them also have some things on their minds, mainly because they have some opinions about the previous Chu Jia transaction, and they want to reflect to Bai Tu - most of the main army is not equipped with Chu Jia, why should they sell it to outsiders?

There is no shortage of money in the state of Chu!

But now was clearly not the time, and they decided to wait until "down to business".

After all, a lot of people were tossed back from afar, and when they saw Bai Tu, they looked solemn, so they couldn't help but care.

"Zhongda, you have to work harder this time, the cavalry for the test will be under your command! You don't have to go near the test phalanx to avoid accidental injury. Bai Tu specially instructed Gao Shun.

Gao Shun: ......

"Ahem, come forward and speak." Bai Tu vaguely saw that Gao Shun seemed to be muttering something.

It's a pity, because the test is very confidential, Hao Meng's level obviously can't enter Gongkou City.

Gao Shun approached within five steps of Bai Tu, and tried to be as loud as possible, only then was Bai Tu heard: "Does the king want the last general to go all out, or simulate the ordinary generals of the enemy army?" ”

"As long as you aim to rush into the safety line, you can go all out, but the Himezo soldiers used for the test are different from ordinary soldiers, and the orders that can be accepted are very monotonous." Bai Tu said after hearing it clearly.

The first thing that was pushed up, these generals also recognized, was the Bai Gong Cannon, the "most advanced" catapult of the Chu State.

And as a target, with a group of ordinary war horses in thin armor, plus a very dull-looking Ji Zao soldier.

These soldiers, both human and horse, were specially synthesized with cheaper manpower and horsepower for experimentation, and could not survive for a long time, nor did they need to undergo normal training, because as long as they could accept the simplest [567 Chinese] movement commands......

Fifteen hundred!

At this time, Gao Shun, if he commanded his own trapped camp, he could command 3,000 people like an arm, and he could command 1,500 people without trapping the camp......

And the commander who simulated the "cavalry phalanx" and launched an attack with ten white cannons was Xu Shu!

When Fa Zheng saw Xu Shu, he faintly had some meaning of comparison - Xu Shu was not a few years older than him, but in terms of battlefield command alone, Fa Zheng was unconvinced once before and asked him to deduce the sand table, but he was completely abused.

Of course, in terms of strategic control and aspect, Fa Zheng is still confident that he can defeat Xu Shu, but Xu Shu is not comparable to him, and Xu Shu is only concentrating on battlefield command!

Gao Shun silently commanded the cavalry phalanx to approach, but because he was not trapped in the camp, this jerky feeling made Gao Shun feel uncomfortable.

If it wasn't for the camp, Gao Shun couldn't manipulate it slightly, but he could barely "pull" it up......

After a "thunderclap" of air friction, the cavalry was suddenly reduced.

Xu Shu naturally only can't see the commander, and mainly vents his firepower to the cavalry on the bright side......

Before the second round of stone throwing, Gao Shun had also reluctantly commanded the cavalry to shoot arrows at the enemy position, and there were shielded guards around the catapult, and the two gunners who cooperated, while receiving protection, loaded their ammunition and pulled the winch, ready for the next attack.

However, it is obvious that the effect of directly attacking the Ji Zao soldier array with the white cannon is not good, after all, even if the white cannon has been improved many times in terms of steering performance, compared to the moving cavalry, it still looks bulky, and the loading is slow, and there are only two waves of throwing that mainly cause damage.

Then the test cavalry had already crossed the "safety line", that is, it had broken into 10 meters of the artillery, and the test was over.

Lu Bu and the others watched from the high platform, but nodded secretly-Xu Shu's reaction was already quite good, Gao Shun...... Needless to say, with a command of this scale, no one can beat Gao Shun purely in battlefield command, regardless of the strategy of the "Evil Demon Outer Path"!

The results were immediately counted......

Nearly 200 cavalry casualties were inflicted, of which 70 percent were caused by the second throw, the first throw was about 500 meters long, and the second time was about 200 meters.

Meter, is also a unit of length also in the Chu State, in a world where there is no unit of "meter", Bai Tu does not know how to determine "meter", and does not want to continue to use "step" This unit with too much error, so he had to set "meter" for one meter eight.

If it was a real battlefield, the next thing would definitely be the slaughter of artillery, of course...... If the ordinary cavalry was not commanded by Gao Shun, it could also collapse before this.

The return cannon was an "old guy", but as a comparison, soon ten new "guns" were pushed up.

Obviously, everyone has a deep curiosity about this kind of black long-barreled "cannon" that looks like it is poured with high-speed rail.

Many people didn't figure out for a while, how to shoot this thing out of the stone bullet, is it ...... Do you use the black cylinder like a rocker?

On the contrary, some generals who had come into contact with the sample guns before, looked at the black barrel at this time, and vaguely guessed something.

Soon, everyone's doubts were answered.

After Gao Shun replenished his manpower, he once again began to charge from 1,500 meters away, and this time ...... Not long after the acceleration began, before the real charge, the artillery moved!

The shells used by the long-barreled black cannon were also seen in the loading at this time - each one was only the size of a fist, compared to the bulky stone bullets, it was very small, and many generals directly picked up the "clairvoyance" and saw that the shell should be metal.