Early that morning, the Juyi drum started to sound again, but it was not very urgent.
Newlyweds are inevitably a bit greedy for bed. When Chao Yong and Hu Sanniang arrived at the Juyi Hall, all the leaders were already there.
Chao Gai was not fond of women, so although his family was wealthy, he did not marry a concubine, nor did he have a wife like Song Jiang.
Before Chao Yong got married, he got up early every day to practice martial arts, but after getting married, he no longer had the same diligence as before. Chao Gai naturally noticed it and felt that his son was in love with women and was not a good man. However, they had just gotten married, so he couldn't say anything.
What.
Today, I saw that the two of them were behind Ruan Xiaoqi, and I couldn't help but frown.
Chao Yong naturally saw Chao Gai's dissatisfaction, so he quickly took two steps and walked behind Chao Gai.
Chao Gai shook his head and then said: "Just now, it was General Ling who beat the drum of reunion. Now that everyone is here, General Ling can speak if he has anything to say."
Ling Zhen stood up and said with a smile: "A few days ago, the young village master told me about the gunpowder formula given by the Nine Heavens Xuannv Empress. Now I have mixed some gunpowder according to the formula and made several artillery pieces. Therefore, please invite all the leaders
Come and see the power of the new artillery."
Everyone has seen the power of Ling Zhen artillery before. Although it is a bit unstable, the power of one or two guns occasionally is enough to make everyone tremble. Now when they heard that Chao Yong told him that the trial production of new gunpowder was successful, they couldn't help but become more curious.
, the previous artillery could not be stopped by manpower. I don’t know how powerful the new artillery given by the Nine Heavens Xuannv Empress will be.
Chao Gai was also full of awe of the artillery and the Nine Heavens Xuannv, so he led the leaders to the back mountain.
Chao Yong was quite confident in the black powder prepared by Ling Zhen according to the modern formula, and asked his soldiers to get some iron armor and leather armor.
Chemistry courses on the mixing ratio of modern black powder have been popularized, and it can be said that everyone knows it. However, without suitable projectile tools and without the help of professionals, Chao Yong did not dare to make black powder before. After all, the purity of each raw material
The first is a problem. Without a suitable purification process, black powder cannot be prepared even if the formula is known. In addition, the testing process is dangerous, so Chao Yong has been waiting for Ling Zhen, a professional gunner, to come up.
After getting married, Chao Yong went to Ling Zhen to inquire about his gunpowder formula. After asking, he learned that the artillery gunpowder prepared by Ling Zhen actually had more than a dozen ingredients.
Among them, there are fourteen liang of Jinzhou sulfur, seven liang of Wohuang (also a kind of sulfur), two and a half kilograms of flame salt, one liang of Maru, one liang of dry lacquer, one liang of fixing powder, one liang of bamboo stick, and one liang of yellow pill.
Liang, half a liang of yellow wax, one liang of clear oil, half a liang of tung oil, one or fourteen liang of rosin, and one penny of thick oil.
Chao Yong immediately told Ling Zhen the recipe for later generations. Ling Zhen was very suspicious when he heard that only saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal could be used to make gunpowder.
However, he had just joined the team, and Chao Yong was the young village leader, and he swore that the formula was given by Empress Jiutian Xuannv. Ling Zhen had no choice but to reluctantly prepare a new cannon with the thought of wasting a few kilograms of raw materials.
Everyone came to an open space in the back mountain. Chao Yong directed his soldiers to move some stones and put the leather armor and iron armor on the stones respectively.
Ruan Xiaoqi watched Chao Yong personally check whether the armor was tight, and couldn't help but wonder: "Brother Yong, you don't think artillery can blow up the armor, do you?"
Chao Yong kicked the stone, which felt about the same weight as a human being. He smiled and said, "I'm afraid the stones inside this armor will explode into half. Okay, let's retreat far away first."
After walking a few steps, he saw Ling Zhen holding a cannon the size of his head, which probably weighed five or six kilograms. The outer shell had been changed from the original paper shell to the iron shell he had specified, but there were not many leads on it.
Chang couldn't help but wonder: "Aren't you planning to throw it over?"
Ling Zhen looked at Chao Yong strangely and said, "Yes, we have always experimented like this."
Chao Yong originally thought that Ling Zhen would connect a long lead and then hide in a distance and light it, but he didn't expect that he would actually throw it away.
Fortunately, he didn't develop powerful black powder, otherwise he might have died in the experiment.
However, Ling Zhen may also have felt that the power of gunpowder was not that great, so he kept using this method to test. However, Chao Yong, who came from a later generation, knew how powerful the real black powder explosion was.
Chao Yong saw that Deputy Ling Zhen was just holding the other two prepared artillery pieces without leads, so he had no choice but to ask: "How far can you throw them?"
Although Ling Zhen is a gunner, he has also learned martial arts and has considerable strength. He smiled and said: "About four or five feet."
Chao Yong couldn't figure out how powerful Ling Zhen's new artillery was, but for insurance purposes, he still said, "I'll throw it away, and everyone should retreat thirty feet away."
Ling Zhen asked doubtfully: "Is the artillery so powerful?"
Chao Yong shook his head and said: "I don't know either, but to be on the safe side, it's better to retreat further away. Next time you try again, it will be much safer to prepare some long leads."
Ruan Xiaoqi shouted: "How can you see the explosion of the artillery from so far away?"
Chao Yong smiled and said: "When the explosion is over, we will check how the iron armor and leather armor were blown up. If you are standing close, I'm afraid we will have to check your appearance then."
Ruan Xiaoqi couldn't help laughing when he heard this.
Seeing Chao Yong's solemn appearance and the reputation of Jiutian Xuannv, everyone immediately retreated to a distance.
Chao Yong walked about fifteen feet away from the armor, lit the fuse, and threw it towards the pile of iron armor.
As soon as he threw away the cannon, Chao Yong covered his ears and fell to the ground suddenly.
"boom"
Chao Yong had just laid down on the ground when he heard a violent explosion. A circle of dust spread out from the explosion site, and stones covered with leather and iron armor were blown into the air.
Chao Yong felt a shock wave even as he lay on the ground.
"boom"
A piece of gravel smashed into the soil a foot in front of Chao Yong's head.
Chao Yong stood up and looked at the gravel that was several inches deep into the soil. Cold sweat instantly dripped from his forehead. If he had taken less than one step, the stone might have fallen on his head.
Chao Yong wiped his cold sweat and thought to himself: If there is another test in the future, he will definitely hide far away. He turned around and saw everyone looking stunned, and couldn't help shouting: "It's okay, let's go and see the power of the artillery."
This time, someone spoke faster than Ruan Xiaoqi. Ling Zhen was woken up by Chao Yong and ran forward while shouting: "This is the thunder from the sky. I didn't expect the power of gunpowder to be so powerful."
The other leaders also walked over with disbelief on their faces. Before they even got closer, they saw a large crater with a radius of more than ten feet in diameter formed in the center of the explosion.
Walking up to him, Chao Yong couldn't help but wrinkle his nose because of the smell of gunpowder and the smell of burnt leather in the air. However, Ling Zhen was enjoying the smell of gunpowder in the air and jumped into the pit to touch the cannon and explode it.
Mark of.
Lin Chong picked up a fragment of armor and sighed: "With such a deadly weapon, I'm afraid martial arts practitioners like us will have no use for it."
Hu Yanzhuo also sighed: "Not to mention flesh and blood, even armored horses cannot stop it. Such artillery should not appear in the human world."
Chao Yong looked at the leaders who were deeply shocked and said with a smile: "This artillery can only be fired through a trebuchet. It is just an additional weapon for attacking and defending the city. Who would stand and let the other side shoot them in a field battle?"
Cannons and trebuchets are attacking. Besides, it is still difficult to obtain a large amount of raw materials, so we still have to rely on the leaders in the Liangshan campaign."
Lin Chong was also shocked by the huge power of the artillery at first. Hearing what Chao Yong said, he couldn't help but laugh and said: "Brother Yong is right. Trebuchets are rarely used in field battles, and no one else has.
It takes so much strength to throw it so far."
Chao Yong wanted to tell them that there would be weapons like grenades in later generations, but he didn't know how to make grenades' fuses, so he could only keep this idea in his heart.
Through Ling Zhen, he also learned that it was too inoperable for one person to hold a small cannon, light it with a torch and then throw it out on the battlefield. The Zhao and Song Dynasties already had less powerful thunderbolt fireballs, so they
Because of the lack of operability, the army was not equipped on a large scale.
(This chapter sets the tone for the use of artillery in this book. It will only be used to attack and defend cities. It will not be used on a large scale, and there will be no real artillery. It will still be a cold weapon battle. The heroes of Liangshan rise)
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