Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 231

Cao Yanming came out with the appearance that I am the most dick in the world, but in fact this is still restrained.

At the very beginning, Cao Yanming, as the third generation of Quan who returned to the righteous army of the Cao family, looked at Yan Jin, Ma Yaozi, Ma Shacai and others with the eyes of servants.

Because these people are the lowest-level officers of the Guiyi Army, and their status is far behind Cao Yanming.

As for Bai Congxin, Qiongre Duojin and others, Cao Yanming didn't even bother to look at them. These damn picky horse thieves would have to wash their eyes if they took a closer look.

But after staying with Zhang Zhao for more than two years, Cao Yanming's arrogance has been washed away, and he can learn how Zhang Zhao treats others equally.

But well!There is still a lot of arrogance, especially after he got engaged to Li Shengtian's second daughter, Princess Tianxi, the sense of arrogance of a nobleman, the sense of superiority of someone who studies the world, the avenue of fire and thunder, has emerged a lot .

Zhang Zhao squinted and looked at Cao Yanming with a sneer. Cao Yanming's expression changed, and he immediately became honest.

He dared to show off to anyone, but to Zhang Zhao, Cao Yanming didn't dare to say a word, because he knew that this cousin and brother-in-law had a lot of tricks to manipulate him.

Cao Yanming handed a long spear in front of everyone. If there is any difference, it is that there is an extra round pipe under the position of the gun head.

Everyone was puzzled, Cao Yanming was a little complacent, but when his eyes fell on Zhang Zhao, Cao Yanming suddenly became a little admirable, and his face was a little more humble.

Because this thing was actually completed by him and the people from Huo Lei Ya under the guidance of Zhang Zhao.

This thing is the pear flower gun that has been used in Chinese history from the Southern Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty. Speaking of the pear flower gun, many people know that this is the spear method created by Li Quan and Yang Miaozhen at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty. What is so strange?

In fact, this is a big mistake, because the pear flower spear is not a traditional long spear at all, and the pear flower spear method is not a traditional marksmanship.

The pear flower spear is actually a firearm, and the pear flower spear method should be named as the gun method similar to the bayonet technique of later generations.

According to the records of Wu Bei Zhi in the past dynasties, the pear flower gun is located at the head of the traditional big gun, and an iron ring is used to hoop a bamboo-wrapped animal skin, or it is simply an iron cylinder.

The caliber ranges from about three inches to one inch and eight inches, and the length is about two feet.

It contains mixed chemicals such as charcoal, iron dross, broken porcelain, sulfur, and arsenic, which have the functions of burning, poisonous smoke, and spraying.

Soldiers can also carry several cartridges with them for replacement and launch, and the poisonous flames sprayed can reach several feet away.

The so-called rainstorm pear flower gun is not at all unable to pour the rainstorm played by the pear flower gun, but that it can fire flames like a rainstorm, broken porcelain pieces and iron filings.

This gadget developed into the Ming Dynasty, and finally evolved into two branches, the pear flower gun and the three-eyed gun, and did not disappear until the matchlock gun was widely used.

But it didn't disappear completely. During the first Opium War in the Qing Dynasty, it was still used, but it was far outdated.

At the beginning, Zhang Zhao also hoped to directly engage in the three-eyed gun in one step, but found that it was too time-consuming.

The cost of the three-eyed gun's lump of iron is too high for the current smelting technology, and the cost of drilling holes is even higher.

Sometimes it is not necessarily the technology that hinders the new invention of military equipment, but often because of the cost.

As for directly turning the large cylinder of the pear blossom gun into a musket, Zhang Zhao also thought about the operation that could be used to shoot lead bullets, but finally gave up because of the technical cost.

First of all, the cost of lead bullets is very high, and secondly, if the lead bullets are to be fired like a matchlock gun, the airtightness must be high.

The thin metal cylinders in Zhang Zhao's hands, even the bamboo and wooden cylinders, did not meet the requirements at all.

I'm afraid that instead of firing lead bullets at that time, the gun head will be blown up, so in the end, Zhang Zhao gave up, let's take it step by step.

Under the signal of Cao Yanming, two craftsmen belonging to Huolei Ya came over, and they began to demonstrate the pear flower gun in their hands.

At first it was just stabbing and blocking, nothing unusual, but when Ma Yaozi and the others got impatient, the show came.

A craftsman lit the lead wire of the cylinder under the pear blossom gun with a torch, and after a few breaths, there was a crisp bang.

In the terrified eyes of everyone, a section of fire dragon suddenly appeared from the cylinder, and it sprayed more than two feet, that is, about six or seven meters away. A cloud of poisonous smoke was also sprayed out in the blazing fire.

The one targeted by the craftsman was a sheep in iron armor. It was sprayed straight on, and then it twitched violently. After two or three times, it fell to the ground and screamed.

Ma Yaozi hurriedly jumped over to look at it, but was choked by the poisonous smoke that hadn't yet dispersed, and all the people went to look at it together when the smoke cleared.

Zhajia was burnt by the intense high temperature to cut off the ropes of two nail leaves, and the nail blades were exposed crookedly, and the sheep inside, a large mass of skin was directly burned into a twisted shape, and it was almost ripe.

"What a powerful poisonous fire!" Ma Yaozi looked at Cao Yanming with frightened eyes for the first time.

"This poisonous fire can actually burn the rope connecting the armor leaves. If in the battle formation, someone burns the opponent's armor with poisonous fire first, and then stabs along this place, wouldn't the enemy be as if he had no armor?"

"Yao Zi, you are wrong!" Yan Jin shook his head seriously.

"Although this is useful, it is only equivalent to piercing the armor. It doesn't increase the lethality much at all. In my opinion, the most important thing is not to use the rope to burn the armor leaves, but to shoot at the eyes!"

Ma Yaozi was taken aback, this is too damn vicious!You are covered in armor, you can't cover your eyes too.

If you spray it in the enemy's eyes during a battle, you will burn him blind, and you will be slaughtered right away?

"No! What you said is wrong! A certain view of this gun, if it is used in foot combat, the big cylinder can be easily knocked down.

Although its poisonous fire is fierce, its lethality is strong within one foot, and its effect is much weaker beyond one foot, so it is not suitable for infantry combat at all. "

Bai Congxin shook his head again and again, indicating that these two statements were wrong.

"Not suitable for infantry combat?" Ma Yaozi pondered for a moment, then rolled his eyes.

"Then who do you think should use it, the cavalry?"

"That's right! It's for the cavalry!" Li Ruotai, who hadn't said much, stood up and weighed the pear blossom gun in his hand.

"This thing is used in infantry combat, and it is indeed possible to be knocked off the cylinder, but it is different in cavalry combat.

Both sides are cavalry, we can use this to intimidate the enemy's horses with fire, and even use it to burn the eyes of the enemy's horses.

The shooting range of more than two zhang is completely enough, no killing is required, as long as the opponent's horse is frightened, then the goal will be achieved

Armored cavalry can also be used to attack the enemy's heavy infantry formation. Originally, armored cavalry charge is terrifying. If the spear in hand can spray poisonous fire, after several times of burning, it can scare the enemy infantry to collapse. "

Zhang Zhao nodded. Li Ruotai was right. The most useful pear flower gun was actually for the cavalry.

The cavalry decisive battle between the two sides is used to scare the opposing horses, and the infantry formation is used to break the infantry's psychological defense. In addition, it is filled with arsenic to produce poisonous smoke, and it can also be used to force the enemy infantry formation to move to achieve the purpose of breaking the formation.

Everyone was talking about it, Cao Yanming took out a small black clay pot again, and he handed the pot in front of Li Ruotai.

"Li Dutou, this is filled with carefully refined tung oil and gun cotton, which are extremely flammable.

If you encounter an infantry formation that cannot be taken down, you can first let the infantry be one hundred to one hundred and fifty steps ahead, and throw the tung oil clay pot with a sling.

Then the armored cavalry rushed to the formation and ignited the tung oil with poisonous fire. A certain person didn't believe that whose infantry could resist the fire of tung oil and poisonous fire without chaotic formation. "

The eyes of Li Ruotai and other cavalry generals were shining, but Zhang Zhao gasped in distress.

Tung oil!It's so expensive that it's dead, if you use it casually, it can directly bankrupt Zhang Erlang.

"Ahem! This plan is very clever, but it is inconvenient to use it for many purposes. It should be kept secret and not easily detected by others. It will be brought out when the decisive battle is over!"

"Your Majesty, this gun is really exquisite, but you haven't said yet, how should we deal with the war elephants of Tianzhu Xiaxi Kingdom?"

Seeing that the more people discussed, the more they got off topic, Yin Yaozi couldn't help but came out to remind.

"Yes! It's time to talk about this. This pear flower gun has another function, which is to deal with war elephants!"

Zhang Zhao nodded and said, but Fanquan behind him looked puzzled.

"Your Majesty, the last general read the book of war saying that to deal with war elephants, you should use the colorful Peng Pai that depicts lions and tigers! War elephants are most afraid of this thing."

Well, it is true that war elephants can be frightened by strange and brightly colored portraits of lions and tigers, but this is not necessarily effective, because the basis for this trick to work is actually to scare.

Because the elephant looks tall, but it is actually a very timid animal, even more timid than a horse.

Because of their intelligence, they are more likely to be frightened by all kinds of strange things.

Whether it is a variety of brightly colored patterns, or a variety of violent sounds, even human shouts can frighten it.

Of course, there is a premise for this, that is, the war elephants are not in estrus and lactation, and the fighting power of the male elephants and the female elephants with cubs in this estrus period will be overwhelming.

In later generations of India, there are people who are killed by male elephants in estrus every year. Of course, elephants in estrus and breastfeeding will not listen to people's orders.

However, since it is a war elephant, it must mean that this kind of elephant will still undergo a lot of training by elephant trainers, so it has a certain ability to resist brightly colored objects, human drums and roars.

At least after living in human society for so many years, it is not so easy to be scared by these common things.

So according to Yin Yaozi, there is a certain risk that using ligers and tigers to scare elephants will not work, but they will definitely be scared by Zhang Zhao's "invented" pear flower gun.

This six-seven-meter-long flame, not to mention an elephant, can scare a person even if he sees it for the first time. With this kind of weapon, a war elephant is not to be feared.

After slowly explaining how the Pear Blossom Spear can restrain war elephants, everyone was no longer worried. Zhang Zhao immediately ordered Cao Yanming to lead Cao Cao and all the craftsmen of Huolei Ya to produce a thousand sets within a month. The pear blossom gun came out.

At the same time, let Li Ruotai and Bai Congxin choose elite cavalry, and they must be familiar with the usage of the pear flower gun and form combat power within one month.

When all this is done, Zhang Zhao will wait for the army of the Shahi Dynasty in India to hit the door by itself, and try his Rainstorm Pear Blossom Spear!

　When I said last week that there will be an explosion update, I didn’t expect that the upper limit will be exempted on Monday. Then it is not appropriate to explode the update at this time. It’s not that I don’t want everyone to read a few more chapters for free. The fifth chapter is updated, let's change it to Tuesday, please understand.

　　
　
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