Chapter 46: A New Type of Cannon
Zhu Youxiao just finished speaking, "Let's fight!" With these two words, he instantly ran behind a low wall in the distance.
The technology of making artillery in this era was not very good.
Don't let this cannon blow up, then he will die.
He didn't believe in the heavens, and would give him a second chance to cross.
This Zhu Youxiao's operation can be described as smooth.
He didn't call Lu Xiangsheng, so it was not Lu Xiangsheng to advance, nor was he retreating.
Sun Yuanhua, who was next to him, obviously had already seen Lu Xiangsheng's embarrassment.
"It's okay, Lu Shilang, you can go over there first and stay with Your Majesty."
"To be honest, our arsenal also cast the first artillery, and we haven't even tried it."
"We don't know what's going on."
When Lu Xiangsheng heard this, of course he wanted to run away.
This is the first artillery of the arsenal, and no matter how you think about it, you don't feel safe.
But Lu Xiangsheng still held back the worry in his heart and stood with Sun Yuanhua.
No matter how Sun Yuanhua said this, he is also a squire of the Ministry of Works, and he will see him in the official face in the future.
Now Sun Yuanhua doesn't run, if he runs, he will not give others face.
Soon Lu Xiangsheng discovered that this artillery was a little different from ordinary artillery.
He found that the artillery here was not lit by an arquebus, but by flintlock.
It is also a piece of flint clamped on the jaws of the hammer, and an anvil is provided on the side of the fire hole, and when shooting, the trigger is pulled, and under the action of the rope suddenly pulled, the flint is hit heavily on the side of the fire door, and sparks emerge, igniting the gunpowder and firing.
This greatly simplifies the process of shooting, as soon as the rope is pulled, the flint inside will shoot out sparks, igniting the propellant.
Sun Yuanhua gave an order, and a shell was stuffed into the barrel of the cannon, followed by a packet of propellant.
Sun Yuanhua saw the gunner of the cannon click, and directly closed the simple rear loading device.
The gunner pulled the rope and slammed, and the cannon roared.
There was also a puff of smoke from the artillery, and the shell flew out with a "whoosh".
The height at which this cannonball flew was something Lu Xiangsheng had never seen before.
Soon he discovered an even more miraculous scene, the gunners did not clean the chamber from the muzzle, but simply opened the rudimentary bolt.
From behind, he quickly cleaned up the gunpowder residue inside.
The second cannonball was quickly stuffed in again, and then the propellant thumped, and the rudimentary bolt was closed again.
With a bang, the second wave of shells went out.
At this time, Lu Xiangsheng's eyes were already solemn.
He slowly discovered that this cannon was different.
Although the Franc cannon is also a rear-loading gun, and his loading speed is also so fast, his Franc cannon obviously can't hit that high.
It was too late, the second shell had already been fired, and the rudimentary bolt had been opened again.
Two more gunners, who had already been prepared, hurriedly went up to clear the chamber, and then the third shell was stuffed in.
It was only after the third artillery shot that they finally stopped.
Lu Xiangsheng's heart was full of shock.
Just looking at the height of this cannonball, he can already see that I am afraid that the power of this cannon is even more powerful than ordinary artillery.
Because the shell shoots so high, it means that he can hit farther.
They didn't know what method Zhu Youxiao had adopted, but he looked at this height, at least it was a power that ordinary Hongyi cannons couldn't match.
Sun Yuanhua over there laughed.
He was a master of artillery.
He could already tell from the firing of the cannon just now.
The cannon bolt that His Majesty researched turned out to be really useful.
The problem of the rear-loading gun was finally solved.
He only used the time for the Hongyi cannon to fire one cannonball just now, and he fired three cannonballs from the Emperor of the Apocalypse's golden gun.
"Hurry up and send someone to test the distance, Your Majesty is still waiting!"
Dozens of gunners and brocade guards, who had already been prepared, hurriedly rushed out.
Zhu Youxiao saw that the cannon was over, and he also came from behind the earthen wall.
He looked at the stupid big black cannon, and then at the cannon latch, and he didn't seem very satisfied.
This thing is mainly built by manpower, and the polishing is not as fine as in the industrial era, and I don't know what the final effect will be.
Lu Xiangsheng next to him couldn't help but come up, touched the cannon, and then "snorted" and retracted his hand again.
The cannon had just finished firing three shells quickly, and it was needless to say how hot the barrel was, and he was so excited for a moment that he forgot about it.
"Your Majesty, this cannon is so powerful?"
Zhu Youxiao's face was not shocked, and he pretended to be like a hand.
"It's hard to judge right now."
"It's the first time I've seen this cannon fire, so let's wait for those people to come back!"
It took them half an hour to look for the shells and measure them, and then they finally returned.
"Your Majesty, great joy! Great joy! ”
"Those three shells flew out, and they flew four miles."
"Our artillery, it's a success!"
When Zhu Youxiao heard this, he felt a little disappointed.
Sure enough, the cannon bolt made by manpower is still not as good as the cannon bolt made by the machine.
These things eventually leaked.
If it is a front-loading gun, this shell can actually fly almost five miles out of the new maroon gunpowder.
In other words, as far as we can see, this shell has almost flown nearly a hundred feet.
But when Sun Yuanhua and Lu Xiangsheng next to them heard this, they were already crazy on the spot.
Lu Xiangsheng listened to the reports of these brocade guards, felt that everything was unreal, and finally ran to the ground by himself.
He must go and confirm it for himself, he can't listen to the nonsense of these brocade guards.
Only when you have really seen it yourself can you be sure that this thing is true or false.
But when he ran out of the four miles, he found a pit in the ground, but there was no bullet in the pit.
Then he ran further, and found another crater twenty or thirty feet away.
This is caused by the second blow of a round shell that bounces off the ground and falls to the ground for the second time.
Lu Xiangsheng went crazy.
He knew the power of this artillery, it was epoch-making.
He knelt down in front of the shell crater and kissed the dirt of the crater.
When he raised his head, Lu Xiangsheng was already crying bitterly.
It took a long time for Lu Xiangsheng to be pulled back.
He looked at Zhu Youxiao and suddenly knelt in front of Zhu Youxiao.
"Your Majesty, my Ming Dynasty has the blessing of my ancestors!"
"Emperor Taizu gave such an improvement method to improve the deficiencies of all previous artillery."
"As long as Your Majesty can cast a hundred cannons for the minister, the minister can guarantee that he will definitely be able to fight in the field with Jiannu,"