Prince Oerda stared at the long black iron rod with some strange surprise. When he was wondering, someone suddenly shouted, and then he saw thick smoke suddenly appearing from the black iron rod! Then there was a loud "boom" sound, which scared the prince to tremble.

Before we could figure out what was going on, someone shouted, "I'm beaten! I'm beaten!" This was shouted in Mongolian. The prince could understand it, but he was still confused. What was he hit?

"Oerd, look over there." Kublai Khan raised his whip and pointed at a big tree a hundred steps away. The surface of the trunk was broken, revealing the white wood core inside.

"Why go closer and see." Kublai Khan rode his horse forward as he spoke, and Oerda hurriedly rode his horse to follow up.

When he approached the big tree that was shot, Oerda discovered that the trunk was not broken with its skin, but was penetrated by the whole tree, and wood chips were scattered all over the ground behind the big tree.

"How?" Kublai Khan asked with a smile, "If there were 15,000 such guns, could our Mongolian army sweep the world?"

"Ten thousand... carry guns!?" Oerda took a breath and turned his head to look at the lift gun that had just finished shooting. Two Han soldiers were loading the lift gun with H medicine and projectiles on their hands and feet, preparing to shoot again.

Kublai Khan said that "10,000" guns were not bluffing, but would soon be there. After mastering the Western Regions such as Samadel, Bukhar, and Yulongjiechi, Kublai Khan's Mongolia already had a large number of craftsmen, and could build guns on a large scale. However, building guns was a craft job after all. Even if tens of thousands of blacksmiths were doing their best, 15,000 new guns could not be built without more than a year.

However, once the construction is completed, all the Han Eight Banners Army equipped with Kublai Khan, the firepower of the Kublai Khan army will immediately reach the level.

In addition, Kublai Khan also eliminated the camel gun, which is not much stronger than carrying the gun, but it is much more expensive. Moreover, he has to control the camel by loading ammunition by one person, which is really a bit fussy.

As an evolutionary version of camel guns, the bronze gun has also been successfully cast. This was made by Han craftsmen who brought the Western Regions from the Central Plains and are now the Eight Banners. In fact, they also cast cannons before. This thing is not difficult for copper smiths in the Han area. The metallurgy of the Han people is actually taking the path of casting.

But when they were in the Central Plains, they were third-class men who could be thrown out by Master Semu as scapegoats at any time. Naturally, they did less and made mistakes.

Now, they have risen to the Eight Banners of Han, and can ride on the heads of Semu people to act as a mighty man. The officials responsible for casting cannons are also all the Eight Banners of Yishui, and of course they are united. The three-inch heavy cannons with large caliber and one and a half-inch light cannons have been cast. The former is used to attack and defend the city, while the latter can be accompanied by the movement of Mongolian cavalry.

With the two powerful weapons of fuse-carrying guns and cannons, Kublai Khan's Eight Banners Army has completely realized the firearming! They have become the first army to enter the age of hot weapons.

The combat method of Kublai Khan Army also underwent earth-shaking changes due to the emergence of this completely firearmed Eight Banners Han Army. The formation of firearms in front and horses in the back and the tactics of firearms disturbing the enemy and the impact of horses in the horses.

Seeing the surprised expression on Oerda's face, Kublai laughed. The feeling of everything going well since Chen Dexing's rise has finally disappeared. With the powerful army of firearms and the powerful Mongolian horse team, what else can't be in the world? That Chen Dexing, it's fine if he is the king in the east. If he dares to come to the west, haha, then ask him to taste the power of Mongolian firearms!

He patted his stomach and smiled and said, "I'm a little hungry. Let's go here today and go back to have a meal! Oer replied, I'll take you to see the Eight Banners Firearms Army in Huzhen City tomorrow. The thousand guns were fired and hundreds of cannons were very powerful."

...

The gunshots did not only sound outside Huzhen City, but also sounded in the Jiangdu City campus, which was thousands of miles away, at almost the same time.

"Bang!"

A target fell in response to the sound of the schoolyard.

There were guards training in the school ground, perhaps because of strict discipline, or perhaps because they had been used to gunfire, and no one looked at them, and they were still practicing queues and tactics on the school ground.

And further afield, the guards were riding carefully selected tall horses, holding horse lances, and practicing storm charges over and over again.

Flying dust, neat formations, long horse lances, and roaring gunshots, all of this mixed together, showing an army that is heading towards a new era.

This army has been making progress over the past nine years, not just a step forward, but a steady progress. Now it has developed tactics similar to Spanish phalanx infantry. It is only one step away from the modern line infantry that is lined up to be shot.

The person who fired the gun was Chen Dexing, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty. He held a five-foot-long and twenty-pound-weighted convex gun in his hands. There was also a wooden rack in front of him to build the gun body. This rifle was too heavy and had a caliber of about seven minutes (more than 20cm), and the projectiles fired were two taels. You can imagine how recoil was so great that even a strong man like Chen Dexing almost failed to stand firm when he fired this convex gun for the first time.

However, such a large gun was indeed very powerful to shoot out the projectile. The target 70 steps away fell down, and a steel armor hanging on the target was suddenly shot out of a big hole.

"Sage, do you think this grenade gun is easy to use?" When the pierced steel armor was sent to Chen Dexing, a small man in Confucian uniform with a big head and a thin body stood behind him and took a few steps forward, smiling with a smile on his face, "If this musket can be used to replace the bow and arrow, the combat power of my Ming hero should be able to go up to the level."

This guy with a big head and a small body is Meng De, the former technician of Nanfen Iron Shop, and now he is the presided professor of the Metallurgy Department of Mingdu Tiandao Academy. This musket was created by him and several students from the Metallurgy Department of Mingdu Tiandao Academy.

Because a few years ago, a student named Su Zikui invented "distilled liquor" and became rich overnight, he became a millionaire in just a few years. This greatly stimulated the scientific research enthusiasm of teachers and students of Mingdu Tiandao Academy. Meng De was one of the best. On the one hand, he was studying iron smelting techniques for removing sulfur and phosphorus, and on the other hand, he was also studying muskets with his students.

Studying phosphorus and sulfur removal is actually a process of continuous trial and error, while muskets are a problem of design level. The former requires slow exploration, while the latter can succeed in a short period of time. Now that Meng De has achieved success, all he has to do is to convince the Ming Army Department to place an order.

Unfortunately, the new Secretary of the Army Department, Lu Hu, looked down on this melee, because the reason was that it was not as good as a bow and arrow. This is also true! In fact, the biggest function of this melee gun is to break armor. It can penetrate steel armor at 70 steps, which is something that no bow and arrow cannot do.

However, the Ming army's enemies were all armourless or light armored, so they could just shoot with bows and arrows, and there was no need for such powerful muskets. Moreover, once the Ming army equipped a large number of mesh rope guns, it meant that the bows and arrows were eliminated. In this way, the Ming army's medium-range firepower actually decreased.

After being rejected by Lu Hu, Meng De had no choice but to find Chen Dexing with his own mesh gun.

"This mesh gun is very good," Chen Dexing smiled slightly, and then handed the gun to the guard next to him, "but it is more suitable for the enemies of the Ming Dynasty, because they can use this weapon to defeat the steel armor of the Ming Dynasty."

"Sage, the enemy of the Ming Dynasty will sooner or later have steel armor." Meng De seemed a little anxious and said with a thought, "And the combs can also be used to deal with the enemy's shield. A piece of steel plate that can't block the projectiles of the combs a hundred steps away. If it is replaced with a shield, the same effect can be achieved."

"Meng Qing, don't worry, I will convince Lu Ehu to purchase it." Chen Dexing smiled indifferently, "It's not that Mingjun needs such a firearm, but this firearm... will always replace bows and arrows in the future."

Meng De breathed a long sigh and his face was filled with a smile, as if he was a profiteer who had just made a big deal. "You are still wise, saint, you will definitely have a place to use this coercion in the future!"

"The mesh gun needs to continue to be improved!"

Chen Dexing thought, "It is not convenient to fire the fuse, so change it to fuse. In addition, the weight and the projectiles of this coercine are too large, and it is best to have a half weight. It is enough to have a three or four minutes of the projectile. In addition, it is best to install a short knife on the barrel of the musket. By the way, the ammunition must also be improved, wrap the H medicine and the projectiles with a piece of paper..."

Meng De Zhang Zhang Zui smiled bitterly and shook his head, saying, "Sage, you have too many improvements, right? Some of them are easy, but they have to be changed all of them. If there are not three or five years, it will not work..."

Chen Dexing also laughed. He gave improvement requirements according to the smoothbore rifle in later generations. If Meng De could take it out immediately, then Ming Jun could really go in one step and queue up and shoot it.

But this is really not easy. Many things need to be redesigned and repeated experiments require money and time.

"How much does this convex gun cost?" Chen Dexing turned his head and asked Meng De.

"One hundred silo per piece, including a bracket, a poke bar and a three-foot-long fuse." Meng De quoted a price and looked at Chen Dexing with some anxiety.

The mezzanine is made of cooked iron and wood, and the main cost is manual. There are not many craftsmen who can build this thing, so the price is not cheap.

"Oh, I know." Chen Dexing nodded, "I will convince the Army Department to buy up to 20,000 units, but at this price... you have to discuss with the Army Department yourself. In addition, the entire patents of this convex gun will be purchased together. In the future, other companies will produce this kind of firearm." (To be continued.)
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