Section 747 The Cannon of a Thousand Machines
Huang Ya unhurriedly took out a scroll drawing from her sleeve and unfolded it in front of everyone, "This is the 'Thousand Machine Cannon' designed by my man's own hand, which is filled with special cannonballs, with a range of up to 1,200 steps, and the power is very terrifying. If any of you don't believe it, you can wait for us to build these thousand machine cannons, and then come forward and taste them for yourself, and see if you can resist them?!"
Zhuge Qian heard Huang Ya call him "my man" with a big grin, his face turned red, and he said to everyone: "Although the design concept of this thousand machine guns was originally proposed by me, it was drawn by my sister herself. Her arithmetic skills are in her own right, and there is no other person in the world who can turn my ideas into reality, so most of the credit for these thousand cannons goes to her. ”
Huang Ya listened to him praise herself, smiled shyly, thought about it and then became unhappy, "How many times have I told you, my biggest advantage is not arithmetic, but beautiful, I am the number one beauty in the Huang family for hundreds of years!"
Zhuge 's face turned red and white, and he secretly glanced at Xie Duyan not far away, then looked at Huang Ya, and carefully complimented: "Yes, yes, compared to the Yueying Ancestor back then, you can be said to be like a fairy." ”
"Of course!" Huang Ya raised her chin proudly, her garlic nose tilted up to the sky.
Everyone looked at the pair of young men and girls who were flirting unscrupulously in front of people, and they were all suspicious of what the two said, and they came forward one after another, carefully looking at the drawings unfolded in Huang Ya's hand, only to see that the center of the drawings was painted with a circular mechanism, and there were six cannon barrels on the edge of the circular mechanism.
Liu Yu stood in front of the drawing and looked at it for a while, then asked, "Miss Huang, I don't know what this circular mechanism means, why do you have to set up six cannon barrels?"
Huang Ya explained: "The thousand machine gun is different from ordinary firearms, it can be loaded with six to 12 rounds at a time, depending on the number of barrels. The circular mechanism in the picture is used to rotate the barrel so that the shells in each barrel take turns to trigger and fire continuously. The greater the number of barrels, the greater the number of bursts. ”
When she said this, she put away the drawings in her hand, took out another roll of drawings from her sleeve, and unfolded them in front of everyone, "This picture is the style of the shells used in the thousand machine cannons, with brass as the shell, and the interior is designed as a burst and a firing part, which are respectively filled with different kinds of gunpowder. After activating the mechanism on the 10000 cannon, the gunpowder in the firing part is triggered first, and the cannonball is ejected from the chamber. When a shell hits the ground or hits a target, the high gunpowder contained in the burst will explode, leveling a radius of three feet!"
Within three zhang, raze to the ground!
Everyone was taken aback when they heard this, and they immediately exploded into discussions.
Liu Yu nodded slowly and asked, "If this is the case, it can really be regarded as a big killer, I don't know how heavy these thousand cannons are, and how heavy are the shells?"
Huang Ya said: "Depending on the number of barrels, the weight of a thousand cannons may be between two hundred and four hundred catties. As for the shells, each one weighs more than ten catties, and there is no problem for people with great strength to carry more than ten with them. For the masters of the rivers and lakes, it is not difficult to carry such a thousand machine guns, and it is not a luxury to kill and injure hundreds of people in a moment with the power of one person. ”
It's difficult for the monks and the eighteen Arhats of the Shaolin Temple to practice hard skills, and all of them have great strength. When these monks heard that the Thousand Machine Cannons were so powerful, they thought that if they could carry one on the battlefield, they would definitely be majestic, so they came forward one after another, with a look full of interest.
Liu Yu gasped, secretly glad that such a big killing weapon fell into his hands, if Zhuge Poor and Huang Ya defected to Huang Chao instead of himself, then he might not be able to hold Chang'an City.
He was in a trance for a long time before he came back to his senses, "Judging from the drawings, the design of this thousand cannons is complicated, and no one knows the formula of the ammunition used, so it must cost a lot of gold and copper materials. Even so, the head of this family will not be stingy, and he will definitely build a few more of these thousand machine guns. As long as we have these cannons, we won't have to be afraid of the so-called fire and thunder three skills of Thunderbolt Hall in the future. ”
Di Xin's face was a little pale, and he stepped forward with his hands down, and sighed, "Don't be afraid, it's just a heaven and an earth." According to the spies' report, the thunder cannon of Thunderbolt Hall can only walk on the fire and thunder cart, and its action is relatively cumbersome, and it is said that it can only fire one fire thunder bullet at a time, and it is very laborious to change the ammunition, which is far worse than the thousand machine cannons that can be carried around and fired continuously. ”
Xiao Heda smiled bitterly, "These thousand cannons are very heavy, and there are probably not many of us who can easily carry them, counting the difficult master and the eighteen Arhats, at most there are no more than twenty people." He looked at He Weigui, "You might as well ask Hall Master He's opinion." ”
He Weigui's expression was gloomy, he pointed out that the martial arts of the Cangjian Sect had always paid attention to lightness, and he did not have much advantage over other masters in terms of strength. For him and his disciples, it was very difficult to carry a thousand-machine cannon of several hundred catties to the battlefield, which would inevitably slow down their footwork and movements. After the shells were used up, it was a pity to throw away the empty thousand machine guns, and they couldn't be used as swords, so they could only be a burden.
Thinking of this, he tried to ask Huang Ya, "I wonder if this thousand machine cannon can be transformed to make it smaller and more flexible, so that it can be carried by my disciples in steps?"
Huang Ya shrugged her shoulders, "There is no way, if the size of the thousand machine cannons is reduced, then the shells will also be reduced, and in this way, the power of the thousand machine cannons will inevitably be greatly reduced." ”
He Weigui sighed deeply, "Thank you, girl, I understand." ”
Many people present shook their heads one after another, there were very few people among them who practiced hard skills, and most of them practiced light spirit kung fu, so why not be the same as He Weigui, and this powerful thousand machine cannon has no fate.
"It's a pity, although these thousand cannons are powerful, they are chicken ribs!"
"That's it, that's it, walking with these hundreds of pounds of cannons, I'm afraid I'll be exhausted to death before I get a few miles away!"
"Hehe, even if you don't die of exhaustion, you can't run fast, if you are caught up by the enemy cavalry, these thousand cannons can only be thrown out to smash people. ”
"It's lucky to hit someone, but if you don't hit it, it's miserable. ”
The thousand machine cannons, which were originally shocked in the eyes of everyone, suddenly became useless in the eyes of most people after Xiao Heda's discussion.
Liu Yu watched silently, because he had already seen Zhuge Qian standing aside and laughing secretly, as if he was in his chest, and he didn't care about what everyone said.
Xie Duyan interjected at this time: "Even if it is twenty thousand machine guns, it is enough to play a great advantage on the battlefield and change the offensive and defensive posture of this sect and the Huangchao army in one fell swoop. Her eyebrows condensed slightly, "It's just that the design of these thousand cannons is complicated, even if all the skilled craftsmen in Chang'an City are gathered, I am afraid that it will not be completed in a few months, and by that time, I am afraid that the army of Huangchao has already entered the city." ”
"Don't be afraid of this, if I let the man of my family personally supervise the construction, it won't take half a month's work to build at least twenty thousand machine cannons for you. The cost of each thousand cannons is about three thousand taels of silver, not including the cost of the shells, so go ahead and prepare!" Huang Ya said with a big grin, her tone as usual.
"Three thousand taels!" everyone blew up together.
In addition to serving as the law enforcement elder of the Sword Gate, Dong Neng is also responsible for the money and silver expenditure of the sect, and he was so frightened that he was about to cry at this time, so he just sat on the ground, "Where can I get so much silver, you still sell me!"
Not to mention three thousand taels, even three hundred taels of silver, it is difficult to get it in Chang'an City, which has been trapped for a long time.