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Chapter 70 Where's My Airship? !
above the artillery positions.

Eighteen five-inch guns and six eight-inch guns were arranged in three rows and were being loaded.

Although the artillery of the Ming Dynasty has not yet developed to the extent that the length of the barrel and the caliber of the later generations are exaggerated by forty or fifty times.

But the current smelting process of Daming iron cast cannons can already achieve the extent that the barrel length of the five-inch cannon is 20 times the caliber.

That is to say, for a five-inch artillery, the barrel length is about 60 inches, which is more than two meters long when converted into a modern unit.

The eight-inch artillery can't achieve a length of 20 times the caliber, but can only achieve a barrel length of 12 times the caliber, which is nearly a hundred inches and more than three meters long!
For artillery, the longer the barrel, the faster the rate of fire and the farther it can hit.

Especially for naval guns on ships.

Theoretically speaking, the longer the better, the better!

But at present, Daming's iron and steel smelting technology is not that advanced, and the various powerful alloys of later generations have not been researched.

Therefore, the length of the barrel of a general cannon does not exceed five meters at most.

Otherwise, when firing, the barrel may be broken directly, and the shell will explode directly in the artillery barracks.

However, with a gun body of more than three meters long, plus the base, the length of a gun is nearly four meters, which is quite shocking to look at.

The artillerymen unscrewed the screw-type breech bolts at the tail of each gun, stuffed shells with a diameter of eight inches or five inches into the barrels, packed a propellant powder, and twisted the breech bolts again.

The loading of ammunition is completed.

According to Penke's requirements, each gun is loaded with solid ammunition, and the pursuit is an ability to destroy buildings.

First use the solid bullet to break the defense.

Then using explosive bombs to kill is the consistent combat method of the Ming artillery.

"The artillery battalion is ready!"

"First salvo!"

"three!"

"two!"

"one!"

As a small red flag in the commander's hand was swung down heavily, 24 artillery pieces roared at the same time.

The cannonballs, endowed with extremely strong kinetic energy by the gunpowder, flew towards the most magnificent hall in the center of the small town of Chivalrous Island two miles away.

Rifled guns with engraved rifling are still very accurate. If you hit a static target, as long as it is within the effective range, you can basically hit wherever you want!
After a short but long two or three seconds.

The 24 cannonballs fell in a perfect parabola towards the main hall of the Knight Island.

The three or four hundred Knight Island disciples who gathered in the hall were tense with cold hands and feet, fearing that they would be decapitated by shells in the next second.

The timid disciple even closed his eyes, not daring to face this thrilling scene.

Only the island master of the knight-errant island sitting at the head of the main hall looked very calm, without any sign of worry.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

A dull sound like a boulder hitting the ground sounded one after another.

All the disciples of Chivalrous Island looked up at the ceiling of the hall in horror.

But did not see any holes smashed by shells.

On the beams above the head, the beautiful ceiling paintings are still bright and beautiful without any damage.

"blocked!!"

"The island master is mighty!"

"Hahaha, no matter how powerful the court's cannons are, can they still be stronger than the mountain guard formations made by Qi refiners?!"

"Peng Yan Wang will be helpless now."

"Hahaha, without the cannon, those ordinary soldiers who want to fight us in street fighting are courting death!"

The disciples looked like they had survived the catastrophe, and they said some bad things to vent their emotions.

The five seconds that passed just now were definitely the most exciting, longest, and most ups and downs in their lives!
The owner of the Knight Island also had a smile on his face.

In fact, he didn't want to fight hard with the court.

There are less than 400 disciples in Xia Ke Island.

How could it be possible to confront the imperial court with an army of nearly one million?
In the final analysis, there is still only one way for Knight Island to surrender.

But surrender also depends on whether you are qualified
If Chivalrous Island was easily captured by Peng Ke, how about surrendering?
There is no chance of surrender at all, so you can only let it be slaughtered!
But now that Knight Island has shown its own tortoise shell, it can let Penke know that it is not easy to take down Knight Island by force.

In fact, they have room for negotiation.

In the cellar, there is enough grain for the disciples to eat and drink for a month.

At the very least, the Knights Island can guard the main hall for at least a month.

This month, he can try to negotiate several times with Penke, and find a way to get some favorable surrender conditions for Knight Island.

It's sad to say
All the plans of the island owner of Knight Island are not to defeat Penke, but to fight for a qualification to surrender decently
Individual force, or even a collective sect, really has no ability to resist in front of the imperial court that controls the general situation.

"Hey"

The head of the Knights Island sighed, his eyes flickering, thinking about what kind of surrender conditions he should ask, so that Pen Ke can accept it, and at the same time, he can save his disciples as much as possible.

In the army formation.

Holding the binoculars, looking at the yin-yang fish pattern rising from the main hall of the Knights Island, blocking 24 cannonballs, Peng Ke's temples throbbed wildly.

"Is it science?"

"Is this reasonable?"

"Why didn't Hua Pingan investigate and find out that there is such a thing in Knight Island?!"

"Isn't this something only in those Taoist caves in the deep mountains and old forests, as well as the great mountain guards that only exist in the Daoist gates?!"

"Doesn't this thing require at least a Qi refiner who is too clear to set up a formation board?!"

"The Qi refiners in Taiqingjing have been extinct for hundreds of years!"

"Why, there is such a thing in Knight Island?!"

Penke was very puzzled, even a little unbelievable!
It's just a sect of the rivers and lakes, how could there be such a thing that is considered a treasure for the Qi refiner lineage?

This kind of mountain protection formation that can only be made in the Taiqing Realm is now considered a non-renewable resource.

In addition to 36 blessed lands and 72 caves, there are more than a dozen Taoist sects in the north and south, each with a set of ancestors.

No more Qi Refiners can make it!

Why didn't the northern barbarians completely cut off the lineage of the Chinese qi refiners?
Why are those gas refiners able to seal the mountain to protect themselves?

Rely on this stuff!

As long as they open the formation, there are mountains, waters, forests, and farmland on their own hills.

As long as there are Qi refiners who keep adding mana to the array, then the mountain protection array can protect them from the world for hundreds of years without any problem!
The reason why Emperor Hongwu and the Qi Refiners mainly focused on cooperation was that the two sides had a tacit understanding not to talk about the fact that they closed the mountains to hide from the world after the northern barbarians occupied China.

It is because these qi refiners are too capable of shrinking their heads.

They are really anxious, they can continue to seal the mountain for dozens or hundreds of years.

But on the other hand, the qi refiners were also afraid that Emperor Hongwu would be in a hurry, and they bombed them day and night, so they also needed to protect the array at all times, which was quite torturous.

Only then did the qi refiners join the world to join the imperial court, and the imperial court continued to recognize the detached status of the qi refiners and provided a certain amount of support. This is the result of a compromise between the two parties.

But why does Knight Island have such a large array of mountain guards? !

Peng Ke put away the binoculars, and said with some displeasure: "I still don't believe it. Is it possible that there are Qi refiners who practice hermitism in Knight Island, who can continuously protect the array?"

"This world must talk about energy conservation, right?"

Ah Hu, who was following Peng Ke, listened to Peng Ke's words, and asked a little puzzled: "My lord, what is energy conservation?"

"One or two sentences can't explain clearly." Penke shook his head, then turned his head and shouted at the orderly: "Go, let the signaler send the signal."

"Damn it, where are my three airships?!"

"Let them come quickly."

"Give me a hard blast!"

"There is no mountain protection formation that cannot be pierced by bombing!"

"If there is, then the equivalent is definitely not big enough!"

(End of this chapter)