The only regret of the beautiful military uniform is that it is only worthy of the rank of lieutenant, because Liu Hongji's identity still needs to be kept secret, so he can only be allowed to wear it like this to ensure that no one will see anything.

After Liu Hongji put it on, he liked to twist left and right very much, looking like a typical monkey and crown, which was a headache to watch. "I said brother, you're awkward, little brother is in a hurry, if you don't want to go, then you can continue to twist here."

"I said, Your Majesty, what do you want Lao Liu to see me?" After Liu Hongji moved his arm unsatisfied, he followed me out of the door and asked curiously.

"Brother Tai must know that there is a secret weapon in the hands of our Huaxia Revival Army, right?" I rolled over and jumped on horseback, and then smiled at Liu Hongji.

Liu Hongji nodded and replied seriously: "I naturally know this, don't say it's me, in the world, which powerful person in the world is not interested in your secret weapon under Your Majesty?" That Wang Shichong even sent a list of articles, willing to use 100,000 yuan to obtain our gunpowder formula. ”

"One hundred thousand? Hehe, it seems that Wang Shichong's old thing is also quite knowledgeable, but if his price is increased tenfold......"

"Ten times more Your Majesty, do you want to sell it?" Li Yuanfang couldn't help but say curiously.

"I could just sell him a few explosives packets." Ben Gongzi said this guy angrily, this son is selling Guanzi, not selling art.

Li Yuanfang almost fell headlong under the horse, quickly retracted the reins, smiled disgracefully and continued to ride the horse.

"Brother Tai must not know what to say, our firearms research institute has developed a lot of long-range weapons that use gunpowder." I continued to smugly gesture towards Liu Hongji.

"Ranged weapons?" Liu Hongji blinked, very disapproving. "Can it be farther than a crossbow?"

"Nonsense, if it's not as far as these two, if you are a little brother, I will eat too much and take money to make a fool of myself, right?" Ben Gongzi glared at this thing dissatisfied, he deserved to give birth to so many girls.

"Can that be farther than a crossbow?" Liu Hongji asked with some curiosity.

"The crossbow can shoot at most 300 steps, but the heavy firearm we have developed can throw an iron pellet weighing 20 catties to a distance of two and a half miles."

"Wait, you said yes, two and a half miles is not two hundred and a half steps, right?" Liu Hongji's eyes widened like two sixteen-watt lights.

"That's natural, I won't talk about more, when you get to the ground, brother, you will know the truth if you appreciate it yourself."

"First row aim, shoot! Reload backwards, aim in the second row, shoot! Retreat and reload...... With the roar, the smoke rose from the weapons test site of the Firearms Research Institute, and the rows of guns were as dense as firecrackers.

And those grass targets one hundred and fifty steps away were blown up by the strong kinetic lead bullets. Not far away, a cannon mounted on the retractor suddenly erupted a stream of blazing flames, followed by a roar like the roar of Thor, and a projectile smashed into the thick mud wall three hundred and fifty paces away almost in the blink of an eye, smashing a deep hole.

Liu Hongji, who changed into a uniform of the British Praetorian Guard, seemed to see a group of African elephants running over with grass skirts and chrysanthemums in their hands. The mouth is like a hippopotamus with a big winter melon stuffed in its throat, and its eyes are as wide as the big wild goose pagoda and the small wild goose pagoda.

The rate of fire of the cannon is extremely fast, or rather, because of the use of the form of a sub-cannon, the rate of fire of the cannon has been greatly increased. Each sub-cannon is stuffed into the bore and the bolt is closed, and only the fuse needs to be ignited to ignite the gunpowder in the sub-cannon like a bullet casing, and then the shell is ejected out of the cannon.

Immediately after that, someone will clean the barrel with a stick, and another sub-cannon will be stuffed through the breech, and the whole process will not take more than half a minute. This means that the rate of fire of the guns is not much slower than that of the flintlock musketeers.

In particular, after aiming the guns loaded with shotguns at the erected grass targets, only one shot, when nearly 300 shots were sprayed, it was like raindrops, and the erected grass targets were like plantains in the rain.

When the smoke cleared, there were very few grass targets erected, and they swayed gently with the wind blowing in the distance. Then, the soldiers who fired a volley here stopped shooting, and five people came out of the first row, took out a handle with an oval head from their waists, reached into the back of the handle and pulled it violently, and you could see a faint green smoke coming out of the handle, and then they ran two steps and threw it out.

Then all the soldiers immediately fell to the ground. Then there were five explosions in a row, blowing up five overlapping shallow craters in the open space dozens of steps away.

"Brother, how is it, what do you think when you see these weapons?" Seeing this scene, Liu Hongji's expression finally changed, and his son secretly breathed a sigh of relief, he deserved to be a military general, not as fragile as those ministers, I remember the last time I brought a group of important ministers to see it, several ministers were so frightened that they fell to the ground, which was really embarrassing.

"The lethality is unprecedented, if there are not hundreds of grass targets on the opposite side, but hundreds of sergeants, just one shot is enough to discount most of it. However, the speed is not as good as that of a bow and crossbow, and since this thing is guided by gunpowder, I am afraid that it is easy to be useless due to moisture, right? Liu Hongji, who came back to his senses, thought about it for a while, and then said.

I nodded in satisfaction. "What Brother Tai said is true, however, Brother Tai, you are wrong, these firearms are not afraid of rain, of course, if it is a downpour, it will indeed have an impact. However, these things will not be affected. I looked back and pointed to the cannon, and some grenades next to it.

Walking up to the cannon that was squatting and weighing a thousand catties, looking at the black and shiny cannon body, Liu Hongji couldn't help but sigh like this. "If you really have these fierce killing weapons, you can really use them to deal with the steppe cavalry, or to deal with the walls of foreign races."

"This is nature, these are what I have prepared for these alien enemies." Ben Gongzi nodded with satisfaction and smiled.

"Your Majesty, why don't you wait for my Huaxia army to attack Luoyang, how about getting two such cannons for your ministers?" Liu Hongji, this guy couldn't put it down, and circled around the cannon several times before asking.

"I said Brother Hongji, it's not that I don't want to give it to you, but this kind of cannon, only one has been made so far, and this is just a sample cannon." I rolled my eyes helplessly, and explained with a smile, this guy, seeing the artillery, is like seeing his own mother, no, he saw the reddest lady in the brothel of the Qinglou, with a greedy expression that he couldn't wait to take off his pants.

Of course, just a description doesn't mean that the Brotherhood will take off his pants and stuff his thing into the barrel, if he does that, he is not only a psychopath, but also a psychopath with the nature of a repeat rapist.

"Sample cannon? I said, Your Majesty, such a good thing, why don't you get more of it? Liu Hongji reluctantly pulled his gaze away from the artillery and said with a puzzled expression.

"We have tried to produce various kinds of artillery guns before, and this prototype gun is the sample after we have finalized it." I said with a long sigh. "No less than fifteen sample cannons have been cast, and you can imagine how difficult it is."

"The most important thing is that although this stereotyped sample gun is good, it is not enough shells."

Liu Hongji couldn't help but roll his eyes: "Your Majesty, what are these words, there are not enough shells, so let's make it." ”

"It's that easy, and you don't look at what these shells are made of." I rolled my eyes in annoyance, and picked up the shell casing that had just been fired and thrown aside. It's heavy, and although it has been blackened, the shell still looks very shiny.

"Copper? Obediently, this shell, just the copper consumed by its shell, I'm afraid it will cost five or six catties, right? Liu Hongji took it and swiped it in his hand, and couldn't help but gasp.

"Then do you know how many catties of copper this cannon cost to this cannon alone?" Ben Gongzi patted the lukewarm barrel without raising his eyelids and asked. This 10-centimeter caliber cannon consumed nearly 1,000 catties of copper, plus the rehabilitation equipment and gun carriages, which also cost more than 600 catties of good steel.

According to the calculation that this kind of artillery can fire two to three shells a minute, it is estimated that 120 to 180 shells will be consumed in one hour of combat, and each shell will consume several hundred catties of copper.

This is all money, living money, according to a pound of copper for the consistent money, just a cannon and a base of ammunition, the copper required is worth two thousand yuan, not counting labor and other costs.

In a word, compared to the horizontal knife whose cost price will not exceed five times, and the plate armor that costs no more than fifteen times, this kind of weapon is indeed a little thrillingly expensive.

If you want to form a scale, according to the calculation that one artillery battalion is responsible for eighteen guns, and if you want artillery to inflict terrible damage and huge damage coverage on the enemy, for example, if you are fighting a war of about 10,000 people on the grassland, you need at least three to five artillery battalions to be able to form enough firepower coverage.

Think about the great war in later generations, the overwhelming artillery fire can almost submerge the entire earth, and the number of artillery used is completely calculated in thousands, of course, referring to the Western Barbarians, our side is preaching millet plus rifles all day long, and everything else seems to be just floating clouds, so it's better to be harmonious.

But in this way, the amount of copper that needs to be consumed, just listening to it gives me a headache, you must know that at present, after the steel found those huge iron mines in Jiaozhi, the demand for steel has been able to meet the demand.

But copper, since ancient times, China has lacked this thing, because the copper coins of all dynasties, especially the Tang and Song dynasties, have been used as the circulation currency of their countries by the countries around the land of China.

Even if the country does not mint currency, everything is based on the five baht of the Tang Dynasty or the Song Dynasty. And our copper production is insufficient, which is why since the Han Dynasty, iron money and even paper money have been used in the land of China.