Datang Longya

Chapter 330
With Yu Chigong's deterrence this time, the Western Turks did not dare to attack easily even though they knew that the Tang Dynasty was causing a locust plague. After all, Yu Chigong's pursuit of more than [-] miles did not seem to be fake.

After all, he hadn't seen Datang's mysterious explosive weapon yet.

The envoys who entered Chang'an were not limited to the Western Turks. Envoys from Xue Yantuo and Tuyuhun all entered Chang'an in the name of "friendly diplomatic relations" to inquire about "explosive weapons".

However, they all failed, and they were even worse than the Western Turks, because they had seen the arrow boxes on the soldiers of the Dragon Tooth Army and guessed that there were explosive weapons inside.But even so, they didn't see the scene of the thunderbolt launching.

The unknown is scary.

Tang Jian arranged for the Dragon Tooth Army to enter the Qinling Mountains with gunpowder weapons. As a qualified diplomat, he has achieved the ultimate in grasping people's hearts.

As for Yu Chigong and Cheng Yaojin, although they didn't get the Thunder Arrow, they secretly gave each of them a Thunder Arrow when they set off.

Earth-level thunder!

In the small warehouse, Zhang Zhongqing saw this big guy.

Sima Wuli stood at the door of the small warehouse. As the emperor's direct subordinate, the daily management of the Earth-Level Thunder was his responsibility. He would not allow anyone to touch the Earth-Level Thunder, including Zhang Zhongqing, the maker.

"Very well, there is no firewood in the warehouse, and no open fire."

Zhang Zhongqing was very satisfied. It seemed that Sima Wuli had thoroughly understood his manual, and he was not so stupid as to die.

Sima Wuli said with a blank expression: "The responsibility is, don't dare to neglect it, within a radius of [-] meters, no open flames are allowed to approach, otherwise, wouldn't it be an injustice to blow up your own people without waiting for the ground-level thunder to kill the enemy?" die."

Zhang Zhongqing nodded, and an idea of ​​developing fire prevention measures for gunpowder weapons emerged uncontrollably in his mind. Gunpowder weapons are extremely flammable. If the enemy uses fire to attack...

Wouldn't that be a catastrophe like the end of the day, if the gunpowder weapons used against the enemy were used in one's own team, it would be a devastating blow.

As soon as this idea came up, he couldn't stop the car. Zhang Zhongqing thought hard all night, even though the team left the border and entered the territory of Western Turks the next day, he still had no idea.

Seeing Zhang Zhongqing dangling on the horse, who might fall off the horse at any time, Leng Feng couldn't help slowing down the horse, patted him and said, "What are you thinking? Look at you, you have dark circles under your eyes, and you haven't slept all night?"

Zhang Zhongqing rubbed his temples and said, "I was thinking about how to make gunpowder weapons fireproof. Think about it, if the enemy attacked our barracks without fear of casualties, as long as a rocket was shot into the warehouse where gunpowder weapons were stored, we would be blown up to the sky. "

"It's very simple." Leng Feng opened the arrow box on his back, took out a cloud-piercing arrow, pointed to the pinch plate where the fuze is hidden, and said: "As long as you optimize this place, there is not much space between the pinch plate and the arrow shaft." There is a gap, even if it is burned, it can last for a while.

Especially for earth-level thunder or something, you have designed the pinch plate to hide the fuze at the fuze, and then sealed it with a layer of wax. It cannot be baked by an open fire, and it must be directly contacted by an open flame. "

Zhang Zhongqing patted his face: "Your method sounds good, but you have to experiment to know how it works."

Having said that, Zhang Zhongqing remembered that he was in the grassland now, not in his well-equipped Jingleisi laboratory.

"Yaoshou!"

Zhang Zhongqing sighed, reined in the horse's reins, jumped off the horse, found a carriage loaded with cotton clothes, tied the horse to the rear of the carriage, and jumped on it to sleep.

On the prairie where there are ideas but no experiments, you can only sleep!
move on………

When a small river three to four meters wide appeared in the binoculars, Li Ke urged the horse to go a few steps faster, caught up with Master and said, "Master, there is a river ahead, should we avoid it?"

It is common sense that there are herdsmen living around the rivers on the grasslands.

Li Xiaogong wanted to look through the binoculars, then shook his head: "This river flows from west to east, and it happens to block our advance route. It's useless to go around. Be ready to meet the enemy at any time."

After speaking, he raised a small yellow flag, and the soldiers who saw the flag drew out their weapons, and sent a message to the back, which was a signal to prepare for war.

After only three miles, I saw a herd of horses drinking water by the river, and a huge herd of sheep.

It’s okay to see a herd of horses on the grassland. Horses can be seen everywhere on the grassland, but it’s not so good to see a flock of sheep. The flock of sheep means that there are herders grazing them nearby.Such a large flock of sheep must not be owned by a few households. It should be the sheep of a large and medium-sized tribe.

All the people of Western Turks are soldiers. A large and medium-sized tribe has at least a few thousand people, which means that there are likely to be thousands of enemies nearby!

Sure enough, a row of war horses that were obviously not wild horses appeared from the front, followed by row after row of war horses.

It was exposed not long after entering the new land of West Turkic!

"Ready to fight!" Li Xiaogong shouted, raising the yellow and red flags at the same time.

The yellow flag is a signal to prepare for battle, the red flag is a signal to charge, and the appearance of red and yellow together means to play by ear and decide when to fight independently.

Only fools take the initiative to attack!Since the Western Turks are charging here, it is better to wait for them to reach the front and consume some strength before meeting the enemy.

There are not many veterans on the battlefield who don't know the principle of exhausting my profit and restraining it.

"Damn, let no one sleep."

Zhang Zhongqing, who had just fallen asleep, was woken up by the sound of drawing a weapon. He stood up in the carriage and just saw the horses running from a distance, and the Turkic man wielding a scimitar on the horse.

"The fuze on the nail cannon, grandma's, I'm worried that I won't have a chance to try it out!"

The Turkic people of this tribe charged forward, neatly arranged in rows. For Zhang Zhongqing, there was no formation more suitable for his experiments than this one!

Several members of Jinglei jumped off their horses and lifted the nail gun from the carriage. The weight of the nail gun is not heavy, and two strong men can lift it, and its base has its own wheels, and there is also a turntable under the barrel , the most convenient to use!
The nail gun is different from the artillery. The gunpowder inside it is already installed. When using it, you only need to pull out the front plug and insert the fuze in the back.

A complete idiot operation.

Seeing that Zhang Zhongqing was going to use a big weapon, Leng Feng hurriedly told people to retreat behind the nail cannon, saying that he forgot to ask Zhang Zhongqing to calculate the fan-shaped attack range of the nail cannon!
After inserting the fuze, Zhang Zhongqing blew on the torch and waited quietly for the Turks to approach.

A hundred steps, eighty steps, fifty steps!

Zhang Zhongqing lit the fuze.

boom!
Smoke from the burning gunpowder rose, and numerous triangular pyramid-shaped nails were sprayed out.

(End of this chapter)