Chapter 66: Heaven-shattering thunder

The next day, an urgent military situation came from the battalion.

Fu Tingye immediately rushed back to the Qingzhou camp and did not go with Hua Qingxue and Li Jingnan to test weapons.

The place he was going to this time was very remote, and Fu Tingye told Hua Qingxue before leaving that he should bring all the guards with him to protect him.

The carriage drove forward unhurriedly, and Li Jingnan sat in the carriage, curiously playing with the iron ball in his hand.

He changed his left hand to his right hand and asked, "This thing is called Earthquake Thunder?" Will it be as powerful as thunder? ”

"Hmm...... Sort of. Hua Qingxue replied hesitantly.

She hadn't tried the power of a weapon yet, so it's hard to conclude if it could be as powerful as thunder.

After trying it, she can know whether the gunpowder ratio inside needs to be adjusted, as well as the length of the lead and the thickness of the shell, all of which need to be corrected over and over again in the test.

In fact, the earth-shaking thunder is a kind of gunpowder weapon that appeared in the late Northern Song Dynasty, with a round body and a big belly, filled with gunpowder inside, wrapped in pig iron on the outside, and equipped with a lead, after detonation, the pig iron shell will explode into pieces!

Although at first glance it looks rough and resembles an iron ball, the effect is basically the same as that of a modern grenade!

Hua Qingxue knows the best ratio, but the conditions are limited, and the purification effect of each material cannot be compared with modern times, because the purity is different, so the ratio becomes less rigorous and accurate, and she can only estimate and make several different ratios to make up for the error caused by different purities.

The guards escorted the carriage to the foot of the mountain.

Hua Qingxue and Li Jingnan went up the mountain first and climbed the high slope so that they could watch the detonation effect.

The guards sent different proportions of Heaven-Shaking Thunder to the corresponding location, each spaced about thirty meters apart, and then placed three wooden men wrapped in iron armor near the Sky-Shaking Thunder.

Hua Qingxue took a pen and paper, marked the serial number on the paper against the position of each earth-shattering thunder, wrote down the ratio, and signaled to the guards around her that they could start detonating.

Everything is ready to go.

The guards on the hillside raised a red flag aloft aloft it, and the people below the hillside immediately began to move, lighting the fuse and quickly withdrawing!

Li Jingnan clenched his fists tightly, and his heart almost rose to his throat!

Hua Qingxue also looked solemn.

She is good at talking on paper, but after all, the paper stays in theory, and she will encounter various situations in practical action......

Rumble! - Boom, boom, boom, boom! ……

Explosions rang out one after another! Deafening!

Hua Qingxue's eyes widened in an instant, and she wrote down the number of the earth-shattering thunder with the greatest firelight.

The others all looked shocked, Rao was mentally prepared, but they never thought that this thing was so powerful!

Li Jingnan's face turned red with excitement, and he grabbed Hua Qingxue's hand and shouted, "It's the earth-shaking thunder!" It's really earth-shattering! It feels like the whole mountain is moving! ”

Hua Qingxue smiled and said to the stunned guards on the side: "Tell the people below to determine whether all of them exploded, whether there are any squibs, if not, now start the distance measurement, and measure the diameter of the killing range with the earth-shaking thunder as the center." ”

"Yes!" The guards turned to leave and went down the hill to deliver a message.

Li Jingnan was still so excited that he couldn't help himself, and actually hugged the little bean behind him, "Little bean!" Did you see that?! It's really earth-shattering! Isn't it?! Isn't it?! ”

Xiaodouzi's face was pale, and he was dizzy from being shaken by Li Jingnan, "Slave...... Minion tinnitus...... What the emperor said was that it was indeed a thunderstorm ......"

"Okay, don't toss the little beans." Hua Qingxue smiled and pulled the two apart, she was quite sympathetic to this little eunuch, in fact, she was only five or six years older than Li Jingnan, and she was also a half-old child, but it was not easy to take care of the little emperor every day.

Hua Qingxue took Li Jingnan's hand, "Let's go down the mountain to see the scene of the explosion." ”

"Good!"

When the group went down the mountain, Li Jingnan was simply running and jumping, so excited that he couldn't wait to get down the mountain immediately.

The people under the mountain had already measured the distance, and when they saw Hua Qingxue and others coming down the mountain, they respectfully presented the measurement results.

"Miss Hua, the count has been completed, and a total of eleven sky-shaking thunderbolts have all been successfully detonated."

Hua Qingxue took the page that recorded the distance measurement and looked at it carefully.

Li Jingnan also stretched his neck and leaned beside her to look, "Which one is the most powerful?" Which, which? ”

Hua Qingxue silently calculated in her heart, the explosion range of this batch of earth-shattering thunder was about five to eight meters.

She looked flat and said, "Let's go to the scene first to see the situation of the dummy." ”

Which one is powerful, not only depends on the explosion range, but also depends on the blasting power, so Hua Qingxue asked people to place wooden people at a distance of three meters, five meters, and eight meters.

They inspected the damage to the dummy from the site of the first explosion.

Basically, the three- and five-meter dummies were all torn apart, and the iron armor on their bodies was also exploded! Although the eight-meter dummy fell to the ground, it was only slightly damaged, while the place where it was wrapped in iron armor was unscathed.

The result surprised everyone, and they thought that this thing could easily blow through the sturdy iron armor!

Hua Qingxue was not satisfied.

It's really loud...... If you just consider the startling horse, then this effect is enough.

However, judging from the degree of damage to the wooden dummy, there is an absolute lethality rate within five meters, more than five meters will only be injured, and more than ten meters, it will not have any lethality......

If you look at it by the standard of grenades, the explosion range of five to eight meters is very reasonable, but the problem is that in order to ensure the effect, Hua Qingxue is almost the size of a bowling ball in the size of these earth-shattering thunders!

What does it mean that the volume is ten times that of a grenade, but the effect is almost the same?

It seems that the purity of gunpowder is still not enough......

Hua Qingxue sighed silently in her heart, no wonder there is almost no development of Daqi's gunpowder weapons, it seems that the reason lies in the purification technology, it is precisely because the purity is not enough, which directly affects the power of the blast.

She lowered her head to make a note on the paper, and when she looked up again, she saw a circle of people staring at her with strange expressions.

Hua Qingxue laughed, "What's wrong with you?" It all depends on what I do? ”

Li Jingnan looked at her face and said, "Look at you...... I don't seem to be satisfied......"

They were all stunned! I feel that this is the power that only immortals can have! As a result, Hua Qingxue didn't even blink, and even frowned-

She wasn't satisfied???

Hua Qingxue just smiled lightly and put away the pen and paper, "Well, after all, it's a half-finished product, and its power is limited." ”

Li Jingnan swallowed and asked her in astonishment: "What do you mean...... What could be more powerful than this? ”

"Hmm." Hua Qingxue remembered the difficulty of purification, and nodded lightly, "I'll think of a way again." ”

Li Jingnan pounced violently! hugged her, "Hua Qingxue!" You're amazing!! ”

Hua Qingxue was taken aback by him, and couldn't help but wonder, "I'm just trying, fortunately, the materials are sufficient, otherwise I can only be a clever woman who can't cook without rice, and the manpower and material resources in the future will be indispensable to ask the emperor for help." ”

Li Jingnan picked up her body, raised his little face and said, "Don't worry! You do it! How much do you do, and if the materials are not enough, I will issue an order to call on the whole country to help you find it! ”

Hua Qingxue touched his head with a smile, "Then the people's girl will thank the emperor." ”

Li Jingnan was in a good mood, squinting like a cat that had been trimmed.

Xiaodouzi suddenly retracted his gaze, only to feel frightened, hanging his head and not daring to look again!

Touching the Emperor's Head...... Such a disrespectful act, even the Queen Mother has never done so......

……

Li Jingnan saw the power of the half-finished earth-shattering thunder, and was in a good mood, and couldn't wait to report the good news to Fu Tingye!

Hua Qingxue also happened to want to go to the Qingzhou camp, and she was always a little uneasy when she remembered that Fu Tingye was called away by the emergency military situation.

They got into the carriage and did not return to Panshui City, but went directly to the direction of Qingzhou Daying.

When we approached the barracks, we saw many wounded soldiers coming back one after another.

Some of the lightly injured were supported by each other to return to the camp, while the seriously injured were lying on stretchers and did not know whether they were alive or dead, and several military doctors took care of them back and forth, forming a long line.

Li Jingnan's face changed suddenly!

"What's going on?! The Liao soldiers are coming? Li Jingnan lifted the curtain of the carriage door and yelled at the coachman in front, "Hurry up!" I want to see Fu Tingye immediately! ”

Hua Qingxue's hands clenched unconsciously.

Thinking of Fu Tingye on the battlefield where the sword has no eyes, she panicked in her heart, and at this moment she realized that that man had occupied an important part of her heart.

The guards arranged by Fu Tingye for Hua Qingxue had a pass pass pass for the barracks, and they got out of the carriage and went straight to the camp-

There were many soldiers gathered in the camp at this moment, and Hua Qingxue and Li Jingnan suddenly rushed in, and everyone was stunned.

Several of them recognized Li Jingnan's face and knew that this was the newly enthroned emperor, and was about to salute, but Li Jingnan had already rushed to Fu Tingye and asked eagerly, "What's the matter?" Why are there so many wounded soldiers out there?! Did we lose? Are we losing again?! ”

Hua Qingxue stared at the blood stains on Fu Tingye's body, and thought uneasily: It's his blood...... Or someone else's blood? Is he hurt......

Qin Lao Wu explained uncomfortably: "Your Majesty, this time there are many Liao soldiers......

Li Jingnan's face turned pale, as if he couldn't accept it, "So we lost again?" We...... How many people died? ”

Fu Tingye said in a deep voice with an expressionless face: "The emperor said cautiously, winning or losing cannot be concluded on this, we repelled 60,000 Liao soldiers with 40,000 troops, even if there are casualties, we should never use loss as an evaluation, it may affect the morale of our army." ”

Li Jingnan was stunned and turned his head to look at Qin Lao Wu.

Qin Lao Wu nodded, "What the general said is right, this time the Liao soldiers attacked Fenghuanggang, the cavalry used the high ground, and the impact power was extraordinary, fortunately, the general had already prepared and arranged 20,000 archers in advance, so that he finally repelled these Liao soldiers, as for the dead and wounded...... Unavoidable. ”

With 40,000 against 60,000, it is impossible to defend it without spending a single soldier.

Li Jingnan's little face tightened, and resentment flashed in his eyes! turned around and ran in front of Hua Qingxue and shouted, "Hua Qingxue! We use earth-shattering thunder! Use the Heaven-Shaking Thunder to find them for revenge now! I'm going to kill them! I'm going to kill them all!! ”

He was screaming and grabbing, and he was out of shape like a child who had been robbed of his toys and ran wild!

"Your Majesty!" Hua Qingxue suddenly raised her voice and stopped him, "You calm down!" ”

Everyone in the tent was stunned, and looked at Hua Qingxue in a daze.

She...... How dare you yell at the emperor?!

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