Flying thunder cannon, or a large grenade with a delay lead, this is the answer given by Liang Baoyu.

Under the existing conditions of Datang, blindly pursuing ingenious design and fine structure is completely in the wrong direction!

Sturdy and durable, easy to make, and can form an assembly line operation design is the king!

High-precision weapons naturally have the power to crush, but more often than not, this kind of thing is only worthy of serving as a mascot to deter the Quartet.

And the current Datang who kills beards all over the world is enough to shock the audience, where do you need those things with long production cycles, low fault tolerance, and waste a lot of time and money?

If you have spare time, if you completely understand the characteristics of gunpowder, it is supported to engage in technical climbing Liang Baoyu.

But now that the Tang Dynasty has begun its westward expedition, the soldiers in the grassland desert need high-powered weapons that can be quickly mass-produced and can be distributed to ordinary soldiers on the front line on a large scale!

Judging from the actual combat data of the last Thunder Battalion on the grassland, the performance of the Eight Bull Crossbow with the rocket on the vast battlefield is not perfect.

Whether it is a type A or a type B rocket, there is really nothing to say in terms of power.

Even the most discerning military man could not refuse such a devastating weapon.

But behind the terrifying lethality is the dependence on logistics, as a sharp weapon for attacking fortifications, the eight-bull crossbow with the rocket is absolutely qualified, but in the face of those galloping enemies, its shortcomings are also obvious.

Although the iron bump named by Liang Baoyu as the flying thunder cannon cannot be compared with the rocket in terms of power or range, its excellent characteristics of easy operation and little pressure on logistics are completely enough to make up for other shortcomings.

Elementary and rough do not mean that there is no practical value.

Gunpowder weapons themselves are already many times ahead of this era of horror, at this time Datang should rely on others who still know nothing about gunpowder, as much as possible to develop as many weapons with low technology content and easy to mass produce as possible.

Liang Baoyu also wants to make the Makqin machine gun tomorrow, but there is no supporting industrial system, and there are not even qualified materials, so this thing can only be used as a delusion in the midnight dream.

To put it bluntly, the flying thunder cannon is a large grenade filled with gunpowder and various broken iron slag, and the power is naturally different according to the different types of charge.

The smallest Flying Thunder Cannon can be thrown by a strong guy in a soldier with a rope, and once it detonates in the enemy's military formation, it can be called a nightmare!

The research and development of any weapon must be combined with its own strength, at this time the Tang Army itself has a very strong combat capability, when the two armies are facing each other and killing each other, the enemy is ignorant of the situation, in the face of the horror of gunpowder weapons and the roar that makes the soul tremble, it is difficult for the military formation to remain undisturbed.

In front of the Tang army in this period, the end is self-evident.

The large Thunderbolt Cannon can be thrown using a simple trebuchet!

Compared with the terrifying weight and production cost of the eight-bull crossbow, the trebuchet with local materials is far ahead in terms of cost performance!

Moreover, the warships of the Tang Navy Division are equipped with trebuchets, and in this era when all ships are made of wood, a thunderbolt can be hit by a death sentence for an enemy ship on the spot!

It's not that the Flying Thunder Cannon is enough to sink a ship, but all kinds of iron waste that flies in all directions after detonating can completely empty the deck in an instant!

In this era, water warfare is not even the main means of shooting, all of them rely on heroic sailors to jump gangs, think about it, a group of foreign sailors waiting on the deck with knives in their mouths and ready to fight for their lives with the Tang Army, were instantly blown into a pile of flesh and blood by the iron lumps falling from the sky......

Is there any fighting in this battle?

It can be called an amphibious form design, which instantly made the anxious officials of the Ministry of Industry fall under Liang Baoyu's deerskin boots.

"Actually, you don't necessarily have to go for an iron shell, if you use it to defend the city, you can just fill the clay pot with gunpowder and iron filings."

Liang Baoyu, who directly took over the entire gunpowder test site as if an uncle, lived a more nourishing life than in his own home, he stayed here for five days, and three cattle around the test site fell to death...... There's no way, who let Yongxingbo get used to eating brocade clothes and jade since he was a child, and even the beef only eats fresh.

Looking at the test site that was gradually on the right track, Liang Baoyu called the officials of the Ministry of Industry who were in charge of steelmaking to his side.

The method of frying steel almost shocked the Ministry of Works, and the output of the Royal Ordnance Department in a hundred steels a year can now be tossed out in half a month.

But in the eyes of these people, the steel with superior performance is far from meeting Liang Baoyu's needs.

If you want to really make the gunpowder weapon exert its due power, if you want the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty to use the musket that will be familiar to future generations, even if you want to make the most basic artillery, the performance of steel must be further improved by leaps and bounds!

In order to support the next step in the development of gunpowder weapons, the material of steel must also be improved, and the world-respected 100 steels are still too many impurities and too high in carbon content in Liang Baoyu's view.

Even with the method of frying steel, the so-called 100 steels have to be repeatedly hammered and annealed by craftsmen to make delicate things such as special parts of the eight-ox crossbow, and the process is cumbersome and the output is impressive.

Liang Baoyu gave a plan to build a blast furnace, and directly drew the design drawings for the Ministry of Industry officials in charge of steelmaking.

The main furnace with a matching furnace is enough to make the temperature in the furnace reach the peak of this era!

Only a high enough temperature can be trained enough good steel, once this new blast furnace test is successful, with Liang Baoyu has been emphasizing the standardization of operations, in the near future, the Tang Dynasty's soldiers with long guns and short cannons is not an ethereal dream!

According to Liang Baoyu's consistent temperament of killing and buriing, the design drawings will no longer be asked, and the specific operation and subtle conditions will also count on those experienced old craftsmen, who will only lead to everyone's thinking.

"The Tibetan envoy has arrived in Xinfeng? That's not far from Chang'an City. ”

Liang Baoyu spent a lot of money to build a bathhouse, and now he is soaking in the petal-shaped pool and screaming comfortably, next to him is Gao Yang, who is dressed in thin gauze, to scrub the dirt he has worked hard for days, "How did those dogs conflict with our agricultural students?" Our people didn't suffer, did they? ”

"I didn't suffer much, after all, it was also our territory, that is...... is the Liu Shengyi who has the best relationship with Xiao Ke, who seems to have been injured. ”

Gao Yang scrubbed hard, wrinkling his small and delicate nose in disgust, "But the Tubo man who injured Liu Shengyi didn't fall well, as if he was hit in the chest with a punch by the woman he was traveling with, and he vomited blood on the spot!" ”

Liang Baoyu: ......?!