"Brush, brush!"

Sun Ming kicked the ground with both feet and kept retreating.

It was the second time he felt that death was so close to him.

He quickly reached into his arms and took out a round iron lump and a fire fold.

This is the secret weapon he has researched, a low-profile grenade.

Originally, he wanted to show it to King Tang, but the other party didn't believe that Sun Ming could develop a new weapon, so he didn't have time to show it.

I didn't expect to save my life at a critical moment.

But Wang Yuan's speed was too fast, and he wouldn't give Sun Ming a chance to light the grenade at all.

Alas, technology is still too backward.

If it was the ring grenades of later generations, they would have exploded by now.

"Firearms, curious firearms, why haven't I seen them before?"

Wang Yuan was suddenly stunned, his eyes full of inexplicable color.

Firearms were not a rare thing in the Ming Dynasty, but most of them were three-eyed guns.

Fill the confined space with gunpowder, then ignite it, and with a powerful impact, accelerate the projectile to an incredible degree, inflicting damage on the enemy.

But the firearm that Sun Ming took out did not conform to this principle at all, is this thing also lethal?

Just when Wang Yuan was stunned, Sun Ming found the opportunity to ignite the grenade, and then threw it to the rear.

The killing radius of the grenade is still very large, Sun Ming is not far from Wang Yuan, if he is thrown in the middle, Wang Yuan will not survive, he will definitely die, he can only grasp the distance as much as possible and throw it behind Wang Yuan.

"Boom!"

In an instant, a violent explosion sounded in the palace.

Sun Ming was lying on the ground with his head in his hands, so he was not injured.

And Wang Yuanke fell into blood mold, his body was pierced by broken shrapnel, and his flesh and blood became blurred, and he couldn't see his original appearance clearly.

"What the hell is this? Why is it so powerful? ”

Wang Yuan said unwillingly.

"Want to know? Go down there and ask Lord Yama, if you want to kill me, you don't have that ability. ”

Sun Ming shook his head and stood up.

Without the fear of Fang Cai, he even pretended to be forced.

It's a really good feeling for the rest of your life.

"Young master, young master, what's the situation?"

A group of people ran out of the west courtyard.

These people are all members of the Sun family, and Sun Ming asked them to make grenades in the West Mansion.

"Lao Wang, it's okay, I'll practice with him, let's go back quickly, the time is tight and the task is heavy, but it can't be delayed."

Sun Ming behaved very relaxedly, as if he had forgotten the moment of life and death just now.

Wang Lao Wu is still very worried, but he also knows that this is the Tang Palace, and they are under the fence, so they can't be too presumptuous.

If the Tang King is angered, the Sun family will also be implicated.

"Okay, then we'll go back to work, young master."

Wang Lao Wu saw that Sun Ming was really fine, so he returned to the West Mansion with everyone.

At this moment, Liu Zhongyi finally rushed over with the people in the palace.

"Uncle, are you alright?"

Liu Zhongyi said with a worried face.

"It's okay, it's just a small shrimp, and it can't hurt me."

Sun Ming didn't want Gonggong Liu to worry, so he said lightly.

Hearing this, Liu Zhongyi let out a sigh of relief, and then walked to the corpse.

"Wang Yuan, the housekeeper of the palace, how could it be him?"

Liu Zhongyi gritted his teeth and said.

"It's a pity that I didn't catch him alive, I don't know where he came from, father-in-law, I think it's time to conduct a thorough investigation of the palace, and we must not let these cats and dogs spoil a big deal."

Sun Ming reminded.

"Well, that's how it should be, by the way, you haven't told our family yet, what the hell is going on with that explosion just now?"

Liu Zhongyi asked the bottom line.

"It's the kid's new hot weapon, and the power is not bad."

Sun Ming didn't hide it, he originally took it out to help King Tang, but people didn't have confidence in him and didn't pay attention to this stubble at all.

Now that it is the end of the Ming Dynasty, the gap between our side and the West in thermal weapons has already appeared.

In 1547, the French watch merchant Mark added flint to the original revolving musket, and the world's first rifle appeared.

The shooting speed is fast, and even in the harsh battlefield environment such as rainy days, it can still be effectively stimulated, so that the development of muskets has advanced by leaps and bounds.

And now in the Ming Dynasty, there are very few arquebuses, and more are still using very primitive thermal weapons such as three-eyed firearms.

In addition, the Ming Dynasty's craftsmen cut corners, making the already backward weapons even more unbearable.

As far as the current Ming Dynasty is concerned, thermal weapons are still acceptable, and they do not reflect too much strategic gap.

Because before the advent of real bullets and repeating guns, muskets were not as easy to use as imagined, especially when a large-scale corps charged, you only had the opportunity to put one or two shots, and the war horses had already rushed to the position,

What awaits the musketeers will be people who are on their backs, and their lives will be harvested without resistance.

Of course, this was before the flowering bomb appeared.

Ordinary solid shells can only hit a straight line, although they can bounce repeatedly after landing, causing more damage, but the accuracy is too poor, and it is limited by the terrain.

If it is a muddy grass or a place with loose soil, the power of the artillery will not be reflected.

The time node of the flowering bomb appeared in 1803, or more than 100 years later.

Therefore, if the modern Ming Dynasty strives to catch up with Western technology, it is still easy to catch up.

Firearms and science and technology, the West was really widened apart, and even powerless to catch up with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, not the Ming Dynasty.

The emperors of the Ming Dynasty saw the importance of firearms.

It's just that when Zhu Di was limited, because of his limited technology, he could only purchase it from the West at a high price, so every Hongyi cannon was a baby bump, and it was equipped with a horse and a team as standard.

And at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was the problems of funds and official corruption, not that Chongzhen didn't know how fragrant firearms were, nor that he didn't want to make better firearms, but that he had no money.

Military salaries can't be paid, let alone cannons.

As for the Qing Dynasty, the reason for not developing firearms is that first, the Manchu Eight Banners are mainly cavalry, and the cavalry comes and goes like the wind, and the musket cannot lock the target at all.

Second, the rulers always regard themselves as the superior kingdom of the Celestial Empire and are very disdainful of the new things of the West.

Until the outbreak of the Opium War in 1840, the self-righteous Manchus were beaten to the ground and signed the Treaty of Jinling, which humiliated the country.

A big war that woke everyone up.

Both the ruler and the ministers of the court were aware of the huge gap between the East and the West.

But if you catch up at this time, you will already be powerless.

"Well, uncle, you go back first, leave the matter here to the old slave, and when it is resolved, I will explain it to the prince."

Liu Zhongyi said.

"Good!"

Sun Ming nodded.

Then he returned to the main room of the East Courtyard.

"Caught somebody?"

Tang Wang is still sitting firmly in Diaoyutai.

"Well, it's Wang Yuan, the person is dead"

"Father, the new weapon I've researched may be able to turn the tide of battle!"

Sun Ming said firmly.