Chapter 421: Throwing Stones and Exploding Cannons
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"Does everyone know about the situation in Ning Changzhen's department? Many words have some thoughts, you might as well tell them!"
In this room, Yu Wen Xiao Magan'er has finished speaking for a while, but the generals below are looking at each other, and no one speaks.
Without it, the various southern barbarian tribes really do not abide by the rules of the battlefield!
What is this? It’s like a forest conference! With so many insects, snakes and beasts, how can we, the regular army, fight them?
Seeing that no one spoke, Yuwen Xiaomagan'er turned his gaze to Yuwen Zhiji who was aside and said, "General Yuwen, have all the equipment that I ordered the rear to be made arrived?"
"When I get back to my lord, all the things have been shipped and are now stored in the northwest camp and are all assembled! At the moment, the student soldiers from the Engineering College are doing the final debugging!"
"That's good! Let's go see those new guys first and then study the battle plan later!"
When a group of generals followed Yuwen Xiaoma Gan'er to the northwest camp, they saw a group of thousands of student soldiers, all dressed in military uniforms, waiting neatly in formation.
Behind these student soldiers are hundreds of catapults and hundreds of steel monsters!
Seeing Yuwen Xiao Ma Gan'er and everyone coming, the leading young man quickly stepped out of the queue, ran to Yuwen Xiao Ma Gan'er, stood at attention and saluted, and then said loudly, "Report to the principal! The great cause of Jiangnan Institute of Technology is twelve
Yuwen Tianshu, a graduate of the year, first-class engineer, commander of the third engineering brigade, leads three thousand engineering soldiers of this brigade, and reports to you, please give instructions!"
Raising his hand in return, Yuwen Xiaomagan'er said, "Okay! You look good! You are worthy of being an outstanding graduate of our Jiangnan Institute of Technology!"
"How are you preparing everything?"
"Report to the principal! A total of three hundred catapults and three hundred spray trucks have been debugged and are ready for the principal's review!"
"Okay! Let's roll out the cross first, fire three rounds, and let everyone see the effect! Well, just the cross on the left in the second row!"
"Yes! Principal!"
After saying that, Yuwen Tianshu immediately turned around, casually selected a team of fifty people from the three thousand engineering soldiers, and began to demonstrate the operation.
The trebuchets operated by these engineers are roughly similar to ordinary trebuchets, but the structural design seems to have been improved a lot and looks more streamlined.
What's more amazing is that all three hundred trebuchets are almost exactly the same in size and style! It feels like they were carved out of the same mold!
In addition, what these trebuchets throw are not stones, but big black iron balls!
These large iron balls, each about the size of a watermelon, are made of pig iron and carved into imperfect regular hexagons on the surface.
"Could it be that these stones are used to throw iron balls at people? But, this is too wasteful? A lot of words."
"That's right! That's right! This is too wasteful! Such a big piece of pig iron would probably cost a hundred pounds. How many characters can be punched out with dozens of steel knives? It's actually used to hit people like this. How rich is it?
Isn’t it so corrupting the Dharma? There are quite a few words.”
Just as everyone was talking about it, Yuwen Tianshu had already commanded the engineering soldiers to arrange the ten trebuchets. After repeated inspections, Yuwen Tianshu raised his command flag and shouted, "Listen to my command.
One! Two! Three! Launch!”
As Yuwen Tianshu ordered the flag to fall, the cross-throwing stones simultaneously triggered the mechanism. Immediately, ten large iron balls shot out at the same time with a "whoosh" sound. They drew beautiful arcs in the air and flew straight out.
After traveling more than three hundred feet, he slowly fell.
Three hundred feet away, thousands of wooden dummy targets were densely placed, occupying a space of nearly a hundred feet...
The long-range precision shooting ability of these engineering soldiers is quite good. When iron balls fly out, without exception, they all land within a hundred feet of the wooden man stake.
Just when the generals were fully prepared to watch a scene of iron balls hitting a wooden man, the ten big iron balls exploded at the same time with a "boom"!
Although they were more than three hundred feet apart, the loud noise and powerful shock still scared the self-proclaimed battlefield veterans to the point where they could not help but tremble!
When everyone finally came to their senses and looked up again, they were all shocked and dumbfounded.
But seeing that out of the thousands of wooden dummies that were originally densely packed, less than half were still standing, and most of them were swaying, many were dilapidated, and some even had smoke rising from them!
"Is this a magical situation? Is it thunder?"
With this doubt, the generals swarmed towards the shooting range.
When the generals rushed to the shooting range, they discovered that the originally flat shooting range had become as if it had been gnawed by dogs. It was full of potholes, splinters of wood all over the ground, and most of it was filled with smoke!
Look here, look there, everyone studied for a long time, but they still didn't understand how the mess on the ground was caused, and they couldn't help but turn their attention to their lord Yuwen Xiao Ma Gan'er.
Finally, Li Jing, who had always been trusted by Yuwen Xiaomagan'er, was the first to ask, "Master, what's going on with this stone throw? How come it's so powerful and it's also on fire?"
"This is an important scientific research result of Jiangnan Institute of Technology. It's a stone's throw! Although the technology of this thing is still very low at present, it has initial application value, so I ordered them to build some. That's why we are now
This is what I saw!”
"Hi! His!"
"No wonder my lord, he insisted on setting up such an engineering college against all objections. He also regarded it as a treasure. He gave the best teaching qualifications and the most stringent review to the students who entered it.
, and the treatment is the most generous, that’s it!”
"My lord, he is really farsighted and farsighted, beyond the reach of my generation!"
At this point, everyone finally recalled the scene when Jiangnan University was divided into various colleges, and everyone's faces showed a look of astonishment.
Li Jing, on the other hand, had the fastest brain among all the people. He quickly guessed the key and couldn't help but ask, "Lord, what is in that iron ball? Could it be gunpowder?"
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"It's gunpowder! It's just gunpowder with an improved formula! Moreover, it's also filled with some other things to increase its power!"
"Oh, that's it! Could it be that my lord wants to use this thing against Ning Changzhen's subordinates?"
"That's right! However, this thing can only be used from a distance. Once the enemy gets close, it loses its power. Therefore, this thing has to be paired with another thing to increase its prestige!"
"My lord, it's the other side, the so-called spray train, isn't it?" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to () to subscribe and reward. Your support is my greatest