Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 481 Disappointing Flare Gun
In the twelfth lunar month, it was snowing heavily, and in the middle of winter, the Emperor Qianshi gathered his family and held a family banquet in Shanglin Garden.

His father, who hadn't fought in the past few years, gave him a younger sister and a younger brother, both born last year, one named Shi Lan and the other named Shi Lin.

Originally, he and his second sister should be called Shi Conglan and Shi Conglin, but in order to avoid the taboo of the emperor's name, they went directly to Zidai.

During the dinner, the whole family was very happy, but the father still said repeatedly that he could still fight and wanted to fight in Yunzhou.

Shi Congyun refused without hesitation. His father is not young, he is already over 50, and he is already very dangerous in this age.

Second, if the Supreme Emperor goes to fight, that's fine. Even if there is a commander in chief, he won't dare not to listen to him.

On the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, the craftsmen of the Confidentiality Department showed Emperor Shi their new invention, the burst gun, in Shanglin Garden.

Emperor Shi thoughtfully removed the protruding word, the musket is the musket, what is the protruding musket.

However, Emperor Shi was still very excited. He wanted to see what kind of musket it was, and wanted to shoot it himself, but the craftsman of the confidentiality department refused again and again, and finally changed to Gu Yang to test the gun, probably out of fear. The explosion hurt the emperor.

Gu Yang is now an important official of the Confidentiality Department, mainly in charge of the modification of the artillery.

However, after trying a few shots, Emperor Shi was a little disappointed. He also understood why the people from the confidentiality department added a word "protrude" to the musket. It turned out that the range of the musket was only about a dozen steps, and the bullet would not know how to fly any farther away. Where did it go.

Moreover, the ignition and launching are cumbersome. With such a short distance and such a cumbersome ignition method, within a dozen steps, someone's spear and broadsword would have been cut to the head, which is very impractical.

Emperor Shi looked at their gun barrels, they were only about one and a half feet long, and in order to facilitate large-scale construction and prevent being damaged by high temperature and high pressure when firing, the bottom was made of copper. Copper is a metal that is more malleable and softer than iron. , It is not easy to explode the chamber.

The strength of the metal is still not up to the mark. This is a problem in the metallurgical process. Emperor Shi thought to himself, but it is already very early in the tenth century AD. Will work it out.

It's just that it was not a good time at that time. It was roughly in the final stage of the subjugation of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the people of the Song Dynasty had no time to continue to study it or use it for war.

But Emperor Shi had plenty of time.

Gu Yang probably saw Emperor Shi's disappointment, and immediately asked someone to bring up a new pair of armor, which was made of iron armor, and the armor pieces were all Qin army's military specifications, only the elite could wear them, and then they fought against the armor. Two shots, still within ten steps, the projectile easily penetrated the thick armor.

Shi Congyun was very happy, and said on the spot: "I can continue to allocate money to you for this matter." He played with the musket in his hand, which has a short barrel and a long wooden handle behind it.

"You continue to study, you can lengthen the barrel, and at the same time, you can change the fire wire, replace it with a better matchlock, just like the kind you prepared for the sergeant, soak the twine in strong wine for a few days , the kind after soaking in urine again." Emperor Shi pointed them out enthusiastically.

Then he asked Zhao Shijian to prepare pens and inks, and he personally drew a sketch of his matchlock gun for these workers. Xiao Huanghua and Lin Shanggong were both pregnant, because Emperor Shi liked to work hard on weekdays.

But Emperor Shi was used to being followed by people, so he asked Zhao Shijian to come and follow him.

The service in ancient times is not the kind of service that modern people can think of. Someone needs to take care of pouring shit, urinating, and even spitting, and some even use "beauty bowls".

However, Emperor Shi was very, very disgusted with these things. Compared with his previous exploitation of Zhao Shijian in Shifu, he could be regarded as gentle.

And now Zhao Shijian still has several helpers with him at any time.

As Emperor Shi drew a sketch, several craftsmen leaned their heads to watch.

Shi Huangdi instructed them, "The barrel of the gun should be lengthened, if the barrel is too short, the shot will not be accurate, nor will it hit far.

It is best to use lead, which is yellow dan, for projectiles, but this thing is poisonous, so don’t eat it. Lead is easy to deform and heavy. It is powerful enough to be used as a projectile, and it can be easily deformed when stuffed into it. Full money pipe, increase air tightness. That is, no air leakage”

Emperor Shi told them a lot in Shanglin Garden, Zhao Shijian took notes beside him, and the craftsmen also took notes seriously.

"This is a major national event. You need to brainstorm. Anyone who has any good ideas can tell me. From now on, this thing will be called a musket. We must do our best to develop it. I can give you the money. Don't let me down." Shi Congyun finally shot Patted Gu Yang on the shoulder.

He immediately stood up straight. Although Emperor Shi liked to pat his shoulders to show his trust, there were not many people in the entire Qin Kingdom who had been patted by the emperor. In their confidentiality department, only confidentiality officer Feng Jisheng had this honor.

Gu Yang straightened his body, flushed with excitement, and repeatedly expressed that he would never let down the grace of God.

In the twelfth lunar month, news came from the north that the Liao Kingdom was indeed just a paper tiger, even more paper tiger than Emperor Shi and Fan Zhi expected.

On the day when the army went north, Murong Yanzhao reached the city of Youzhou all the way. On the front line about ten miles away, the tribal armies on the two wings they assembled ran away when they saw the Qin army. As a result, more than 2000 people from six battalions in the middle were too late to evacuate and were surrounded by the Qin army. , and then became a prisoner without resistance.

Afterwards, their entire army did not dare to confront each other at all, and immediately retreated into Youzhou City. Xiao Siwen accepted the conditions proposed by Qin Jun.

Immediately hand over this year's cattle and sheep, plus [-] head, and another [-] horses to redeem all prisoners of war.

When Shi Congyun went to Fan Zhi's house to have dinner, he told the old man the news, and he smiled rarely.

However, Fan Zhi's family was really shabby. Once the prime minister, the family didn't even have good bowls and chopsticks, and the mansion was not big.

After he withdrew the cash, the old man ate a lot less salt.

Another thing is that Xiao Siwen personally wrote a letter, requesting that his eldest daughter come to the capital. His eldest daughter is already 19 years old and has not yet married. Frail and sickly, he may not be able to adapt to the climate when he comes to the south.

Emperor Shi didn't refuse this time, and directly asked Zhao Shijian to help reply the letter, so let the eldest daughter come, anyway, he only wants a daughter from the direct line of the Xiao family or the Yelu family.

Then the army began to return south with a large number of cattle, sheep and horses.

The matter quickly spread in Guanbei, and then from Hebei to Hedong, then to the Central Plains, Jiangnan, and even Lingnan, it spread everywhere, and it was amazing.

After all, this incident is too invigorating, and it can also show the status of Qin State and Tianwei today. I want to repent some of the Liao State. After being frightened by the Qin Army soldiers coming to the city, I dare not breathe, and I send cattle, sheep, horses, and daughters. Yes, I just laughed out loud.

It has greatly boosted Qin's military prestige, people's hearts and morale.

Only Shi Huangdi and Fan Zhi understand that they can do this mainly because of four or two thousand catties. They have already detected the undercurrents in the Liao Kingdom, and Xiao Siwen and others seem to be planning some political change. Under such circumstances, they dare not There was a real head-on conflict with Qin Jun.

Because of this, Emperor Shi ordered Murong Yanzhao and others to go northward to intimidate the Liao Kingdom.

This move now seems to be the right move. Although there is a risk, the result is very worthwhile.

So this winter, Jinling was approaching from all directions, and the Qin State's four-way army, which was about to encircle the capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty, also ate the mutton sent from the north. In [-], Li Yu was assigned. There were so many people from various armies asking for battle, and the frontline soldiers all wanted to enter Jinling as soon as possible.

Some troops even went to the siege themselves, saying that the soldiers could not meet the requirements of the New Year, and they switched to fighting, and the Southern Tang people were caught off guard.

Emperor Shi was naturally happy to read these memorials in Daliang, but he also vetoed it. Jiangnan is no better than the Liao Kingdom. If he fights the Liao Kingdom, he will really agree to the surprise attack tactics during the Chinese New Year.

Jiangnan is different, they have no strength to resist, and Emperor Shi doesn't want to disrupt Jiangnan and smash it into a mess.

In this way, during the few days of the Chinese New Year, the armies from all walks of life stopped their offensives, ate the meat sent by the Liao Kingdom, and took shelter from the cold on the land in the south of the Yangtze River, and passed a comfortable year.

But this was just the calm before the storm. After a good year, all the Qin soldiers who had eaten meat were ready to go.

(End of this chapter)