Prince of Tang Dynasty

Chapter 378 Making Landmines
Gao Ming named the landmine he designed "Fudo Myo", which sounds very lofty, but in fact this kind of landmine has another name in history.

Land mines.

That's right, the landmines designed by Gao Ming were not his original creations, but had appeared long ago, and that was the landmines used by the Eighth Route Army to deal with little devils during the Anti-Japanese War.

The biggest advantage of this kind of landmine is that it is easy to obtain materials and has great power. Even if it is a landmine made of a crock pot, as long as it is large enough and filled with enough gunpowder, it can still cause great damage to the enemy.

Gao Ming didn't know how the Eighth Route Army used the landmine firing device, so he could only think for himself. After thinking for a long time, he finally decided to use the friction ignition method to fire the landmine.

This kind of device is actually a combination of flint and pinion. The pinion is pulled by a wire. As long as the wire is pulled, the pinion can be driven to rotate. When the pinion rotates, it rubs against the flint, and the sparks produced by the friction can trigger landmines.

After designing the mine from its appearance to its structure, Gao Ming's face was full of emotion.

"The teacher is right, learn mathematics, physics and chemistry, and you will not be afraid to travel all over the world!"

At this time, the voice of serving the book suddenly sounded outside the study.

"Your Highness, dinner is ready!"

"understood!"

Gao Ming agreed, then folded the blueprint of the landmine and put it in his arms, then walked out of the room with a smile on his face.

After dinner, Gao Ming asked Wu Mei to take Su Wan'er and the others to visit the Furong Garden, in order to deepen their relationship.

Wu Meibingxue was smart and knew Gao Ming's intentions, so she took Su Wan'er's hand and went away with a smile on her face.

Seeing how they got along well, Gao Ming immediately nodded in relief.

"Well, harmony in the harem is the most important thing. In order to make their relationship better, why don't I organize them to have a friendship cannon tonight?"

Thinking of this, Gao Ming immediately rushed to take a bath. After taking a bath, he even drank a couple of sips of tiger penis wine that he had soaked for more than half a month, which was considered as a full preparation.

That night, in Gao Ming's bedroom, red waves rolled and artillery fire shook the sky. Gao Ming fought one against four and was defeated after two rounds. The bedroom also returned to tranquility.

When Gao Ming woke up the next morning, he found that he was the only one left on the bed. Looking at the strands of unidentified hair left by the pillow, he suddenly sighed long.

"Hey, this group of women is really getting more and more outrageous. After eating and wiping, they put on their pants and left. They didn't think about my feelings. At least they gave me a good morning bite or something. It seems that these women are still I need to adjust and teach slowly..."

While muttering, he got up, and Shi Shu and Shi Jian guarding outside the door knew that he was up, so they came in immediately to help him dress and wash, and also brought him millet porridge and some pastries.

After getting dressed, Gao Ming casually picked up a piece of pastry and put it in his mouth, then asked the servants and the others.

"Where's your princess?"

"Back to His Royal Highness, the Crown Princess, Meng Fengyi, and the others went to the garden with Wu Guanshi."

Hearing this answer, Gao Ming nodded immediately.

"Well, it's good to go to the garden, as long as they have something to do. Speaking of which, I have to go to the military inspector. I won't be back at noon today, so don't wait for me for lunch."

"Yes, His Royal Highness, the maidservant will let someone prepare the chariots and horses!"

After finishing speaking, Shi Shu went out to prepare chariot and horse guards for Gao Ming, and when everything was ready, Gao Ming got into the chariot and went to the Military Weapons Supervision.

When Gao Ming arrived at the Military Weapons Supervision, the craftsmen inside were all busy, and the sound of "clinking" irons could be heard everywhere.

Looking at the bustling scene, he immediately nodded in satisfaction.

"Well, the atmosphere is good!"

Since many craftsmen have never seen Gao Ming, and he was wearing plain clothes, no one recognized him all the way. It was not until he reached the innermost point that a man in a green official robe came towards him. He greeted him, and then bowed to him.

"The next official, Liu Tao, didn't know His Highness the Crown Prince was coming, so he was far away from welcoming him, and hoped that His Highness the Crown Prince would forgive him!"

As the saying goes, don't hit a smiling person with your hand, and Gao Ming didn't care about these red tapes, so he waved his hand immediately.

"Okay, those who don't know are innocent, let's be excused!"

"Thank you, Your Royal Highness!"

Seeing Gao Ming being so easy to talk to, Liu Tao's face suddenly flashed a gleam of joy.

"His Royal Highness, the cannon you ordered has been ordered to supervise the construction day and night, and the first one will be ready in three days at most!"

"Well, that's fine!"

Hearing Liu Tao's words, Gao Ming nodded immediately, then took out the landmine blueprint he drew yesterday from his arms, and handed it to Liu Tao.

"This is my newly designed weapon. Find some people to make it. Today I will stay in the military supervision for a day. If you don't understand anything, you can ask me!"

"Yes!"

After receiving Gao Ming's order, Liu Tao immediately found a few craftsmen and started making landmines.

Because Gao Ming marked it clearly on the blueprints, and because he was in charge of the Military Weapons Supervisor, he could solve the problems of the craftsmen, so the craftsmen made the landmines very smoothly.

Now that the thing is made, all that remains is to see if it can be used.

Gao Ming didn't know how powerful this landmine was, so he had no choice but to choose the experiment site outside Chang'an City.

In order to confirm the lethality of the landmines, Gao Ming also had a horse tied to the place where the mines were laid, and a straw man in leather armor was tied to the horse.

After everything was prepared, Gao Ming tied the trigger device of the landmine with a rope, and then took the rope and retreated to a place 20 meters away to lie down.

Seeing Gao Ming's movements, Liu Tao and several craftsmen who came with him were all stunned.

"His Royal Highness, you are..."

Gao Ming didn't intend to explain so much to them, so he pressed his hand directly towards them.

"Stop talking nonsense, get down, you will know later!"

"Uh... yes, Your Highness the Crown Prince!"

They didn't dare not listen to Gao Ming's words, so they all imitated Gao Ming's appearance and lay down on the ground.

When everyone was lying down, Gao Ming suddenly grinned.

"Hey, are you all on the ground? I'm going to start when I'm all on the ground. I kindly remind you, you should cover your ears at the end!"

When Gao Ming uttered the word "Duo" for the last time, he also pulled the hand holding the rope violently!
"Boom!"

Suddenly, there was an earth-shattering loud noise, accompanied by the strong vibration of the ground.

Gao Ming had been mentally prepared, and his ears had already been stuffed with wet cloth strips, so the loud noise didn't affect him much.

But Liu Tao and others were different. Caught off guard, they were immediately stunned by the loud noise, and their mouths could even stuff an egg directly into them.

Seeing this scene, Gao Ming suddenly grinned.

"Hey, do you know how powerful these are?"

But what Gao Ming didn't expect was that as soon as his words fell, Liu Tao shouted at the top of his voice.

"What? What did you say, His Royal Highness? I can't hear you! Your ears are buzzing!"

"..."

(End of this chapter)