At this time, Chinese firearms were still in a state of initial development. At this time, the so-called "cannon" of the Ming Dynasty mostly refers to the "mortar cannon" made of large pieces of wrought iron. It is characterized by a short barrel, short firing range and low muzzle velocity. Its main use is to use the thrust of the gunpowder explosion to throw a large iron pellet in the barrel of the cannon to "smash" the fortifications made by the enemy.

Yes, "smash". It is "smashed" rather than "fried". In Zhu Su's opinion, this thing can't be called a "cannon" at all.

At best, it's a more powerful "catapult". The range was 108,000 miles away from the catapult.

However, in the eyes of Fujiwara, who was born in the Wa Kingdom, the so-called "cannon" was a terrible weapon that only the powerful Celestial Empire could have. At that time, the cannon had not yet been introduced to the Wa Kingdom, so Fujiwara was still a little curious about the so-called "invincible cannon of the great general".

"This thing has such a bluffing name, is it really terrifying? In that case, why didn't His Royal Highness King Wu use him to destroy Daida Jun and Zhang Jun outside the city...... Is it really the same as what these two soldiers said, because Daming abides by 'benevolence'? "Fujiwara's heart center is telegraphing.

"And, the distance......" he glanced up at the distance between the cannon and the target. The cannon was set up on a mound hill in the barracks, and the target ...... It was simply set up far away on a hill outside the barracks. If it weren't for the red flag on the target, Fujiwara would have been almost out of sight.

"Maybe those artillerymen angered the young highness......"

After all, the former emperor also once asked a low-ranking samurai to shoot down the stars in the sky with a bow and arrow. If he can't shoot, he will kill himself. In the final analysis, it was just because this samurai dared to rudely glance up at the emperor's face and make the emperor unhappy, so he casually found an excuse to let him die.

I think the same trick used by His Highness is the same. Nobles, it is natural that they will manipulate the life and death of others at will...... "If you can attack from such a distance, it is no longer a weapon, but a miracle." Fujiwara slandered in his heart.

"It's on fire! Silence! A soldier saw a torch-holding artilleryman in the artillery battalion come near the cannon and opened his mouth to remind his companion who was still chatting. Fujiwara also held his breath: he hadn't seen a cannon, a noble thing that only existed in the Celestial Empire. Today is just the right time to rise and see......

Then, Fujiwara saw the great general's invincible cannon emit a terrible fire, and it seemed that something flew directly out of the muzzle.

But that's about it. As for the target on the hill in the distance, it was motionless.

"Huh? That's it? ”

"The weapon that the Celestial Empire is proud of is actually just a little louder. It seems that he is still a samurai of my country......"

He finally regained a little bit of confidence as a Japanese man, and a rumbling sound like thunder suddenly exploded in his ears, and Fujiwara sat on the ground in surprise: I saw that the mountain in the distance, which was originally a target, had exploded into a large sea of fire like the explosion of Mount Fuji! The dazzling fire directly blinded Fujiwara's eyes!

Not to mention the target, the mountain is about to be blown up!

"This ...... This...... This ......" Fujiwara was dumbfounded, his ears buzzed with this deafening sound, and the whole person pointed to the mountain in horror.

Celestial cannons! Terrifying!

It's horrible! It's a miracle! If His Royal Highness King Wu had fired directly outside the city a few days ago......

Hey, Fujiwara can't even think about it!

"Look, this barbarian was so frightened that he sat on the ground. It's just a shell from the general's cannon, as for it? One of the soldiers scoffed.

"Tsk, uninformed guy, it's a shame. That's it, and he still says every day that he is a high-ranking official and minister. ”

"Haha, barbarian minister, isn't that just a barbarian? Even if Gao Gao is a barbarian official, he doesn't have as much knowledge as the people here us! ”

"It's just ......"

A group of soldiers sneered at Fujiwara. Fujiwara blushed with shame as he listened.

He looked back at the mountain, and his eyes were reflected in the blazing fire and falling rubble of the mountain. And the fear that is deep in my heart at this moment, and the fanaticism!

……

"Old Five, what is the origin of your cannon! It's so powerful! In a tent over there, Zhu Di looked at the flames burning on the mountain, felt the tremor faintly coming from the soles of his feet, and asked Zhu Su excitedly. I heard that you once worked with Brother Mu Ying to improve firearms...... Isn't this a new type of artillery? ”

"Fourth brother, wake up." Regarding Zhu Di's insistence on coming over to see the excitement, Zhu Su was speechless. "The one in the camp is an ordinary big iron pimple cannon, how can it be so powerful."

"This old-fashioned iron lump has a range of no more than one mile, and it can only affect three feet. Where can such a big movement be made? I asked the soldiers to bury gunpowder in the mountain in advance, and when they heard the sound of cannons, the soldiers on the mountain ignited a large amount of gunpowder......"

In the Suzhou treasury, a lot of gunpowder was stored. Jingzhong has already begun mass production of new black powder, which was also the master of the old gunpowder that was supposed to be eliminated. So Zhu Su simply asked Wei Guan to empty the treasury this time and buried all the gunpowder in the stockpile into the mountains.

The original intention was to blow up this stone mountain, so that the stones could be mined and taken to Taihu Lake to repair the embankment. After all, although the flooding of Taihu Lake is safe for the time being, if the embankment is not repaired, sooner or later there will be a day when the people will be drowned. It's better to urge Suzhou to repair the embankment, which can be regarded as a benefit to one party.

happened to meet this Fujiwara again and had been begging to be seen, Zhu Su thought about it, and simply took advantage of the situation to scare him ruthlessly, so he fabricated a "general invincible cannon", and took the opportunity of bombing the mountain and quarrying to stage such a "cannon bombardment of the mountain", which was intended to show off the "muscles" of the Ming Dynasty, so that this ignorant Japanese man was even more afraid of the Ming Dynasty......

Even Zhu Su himself didn't expect that the momentum caused by these old-style gunpowder would be so terrifying when the amount was large enough. I don't know if the "group performances" around Fujiwara were scared, but they did a good job of implementing the performances and lines......

"It turned out that gunpowder was buried in advance...... Zhu Di looked at the fire in the distance, a little disappointed. I thought you had come up with such a terrible weapon! ”

"If I really have this kind of big killing weapon in the Ming Dynasty, what Wang Baobao, what Emperor Yuan Shun, give him a cannon directly, and I will lead the Ming army to be invincible in the world......" Zhu Laosi fell into a sweet dream.

Zhu Su couldn't help laughing, thought about it, and saw that there was no one else near Zuo, so he smiled and said to Zhu Di: "Not now, it doesn't mean that there will be no in the future." ”

"Fourth brother, haven't you forgotten where I came from?"

"You mean?" Zhu Di's eyes lit up. "Old Five, can you really make such a powerful firearm?"

"It's not necessarily possible to do it, but I can tell you with certainty that the fourth brother will indeed have such an exaggerated power weapon in the future." Zhu Su said. What is there to blow up a mountain with one cannon, and nuclear weapons in the future can even directly blow up a certain country out of a nuclear level...... In ancient China, there were many biases in the study of firearms, and telling Zhu Di in advance about the future potential of firearms was only good and not bad.

"By the way, fourth brother, you were able to conquer Mobei five times in history, and the Northern Yuan Dynasty fled in a hurry, and the 'Shenji Battalion', which is mainly equipped with firearms, has made a great contribution."

"Divine Machine Battalion!" It was the first time for Zhu Di to hear the name of the army he led in the future, and his face couldn't help but be grim, and his whole body was full of blood. "What a mighty name! It turns out that my Zhu Di is the best at firearms! ”

"Old Five, I remember!"

(End of chapter)