Da Qin: At the age of six, I beat Qin Shihuang at the beginning

Chapter 225 Cannon Preparations
Qin Mu was momentarily at a loss for words.

Dad really is Dad, seeing things right to the point.If Qin Mu denies it, he can't explain what he pretended before.But if I don't deny it, my science popularization just now will be in vain!

Forget it, waste it in vain, anyway, people in this feudal era are superstitious!They are not superstitious now, what traditional beliefs do future generations still have!

Now Qin Mu is too lazy to say anything to them, anyway, everything that should be taken has already been obtained.

What he was most satisfied with, of course, was the sword given by Wang Jian, and what he was most dissatisfied with, was the wooden sign given by Meng Yi.

It looks like a token, but if you observe carefully after you get it, it is actually rosewood, but even rosewood is not worth much!Putting it in a pawn shop, even ten taels of gold can't be exchanged.

While complaining, Qin Mu asked Fan Kuai and Dian Wei to lift the heavy cannon off the carriage.

The cannon has just been cast, and there is no need to add any brackets. Anyway, it's just a trial, so Qin Mu just let it go.

First, a few coachmen dug a large pit with a 45-degree slope on the ground. The pit was extremely deep, almost 1.5 meters.

Dian Wei was also asked to hold the heavy cannon and place it on the slope of the pit.

The barrel of this gun is very long and the pit is 1.5 meters deep, but a part of it still sticks out of the ground.

Qin Mu didn't care, and then directly covered the cannon with a layer of soil.

After all, there is no support, but if it is just placed like this, the recoil may cause the cannon to shift, so it is better to compact the soil first to prevent it from bouncing later.

Of course, you still have to leave room for the muzzle and tail.

Qin Mu first filled the small hole in the breech of the gun with a length of hemp rope, then came to the hole and began to fill some black-gray powder into the gun barrel.

Zulong and the others looked at it with some doubts in their hearts.Is this where Qin Mu's confidence lies?Just such a dark and inconspicuous thing that can hit a hill in the distance from five miles away?

Do not make jokes!Daqin's crossbow is actually the most powerful long-range weapon among the Seven Kingdoms!
If so, the real effective killing range is fifty feet, equivalent to 150 meters!No matter how far away, you can only shoot towards the sky, let the crossbow arrows fall naturally, and kill the enemy.

If you want to shoot farther, you can only use some huge city defense crossbows and bed crossbows. The range is barely more than one mile, but I never know who can exceed five miles!

Besides, Qin Mu's so-called "cannon" doesn't have any mechanical expansion on it. When the time comes, what will be used to shoot the arrows out?
Although everyone was curious, they didn't intend to interrupt Qin Mu's preparation at all.

Just now, because of his laughter, he gave away a lot of good things. Now, while they are still heartbroken, no one wants to talk, and no one wants to be fooled by Qin Mu again.

That's right, it was Qin Mu's trick.Now, everyone has realized that Qin Mu obviously meant that he knew how they would react after he finished speaking, so he intentionally expressed his displeasure and just provoked them.

"Old Li, what is that powder in Doctor Qin's hand?"

Wang Jian looked at it for a long time, and he was really curious. However, if he didn't ask Qin Mu, he could only ask Li Xiang who was beside him.

This person is a scholar, so she should know something, at least, she is more knowledgeable than a big boss like her!

Li Si curled his lips, looking at Qin Mu's actions: "How do I know? The thing in the young master's hand is obviously some kind of weapon. You, a general in the army, haven't even seen it?"

Wang Jian snorted: "If you've seen it and still use it, I don't need to ask you... Forget it, don't say it if you don't want to! If I really have such a good thing with a range of five miles, Daqin will rule the world at least ten years earlier." !"

Li Si thought for a while, and agreed with Wang Jian's statement.This thing definitely didn't exist before.So... This is another new thing that Qin Mu fiddled with.

At this moment, Zu Long suddenly frowned and said, "This is... the smell of saltpeter!"

He used to believe in alchemists, and for alchemists to make alchemy, saltpeter is a necessary main medicine, so he recognized it.

saltpeter?Everyone present was stunned.Isn't this thing used by alchemists for alchemy?How did it get stuffed into this?

Could it be that this so-called cannon is a weird alchemy furnace?
Can't it?Li Si's eyes moved slightly, recalling some of his previous experiences.

It is said that when an alchemist makes alchemy, he must pay great attention to the ratio of medicines.If something goes wrong, then it's not just a matter of whether the elixir can be formed or whether it is poisonous, and sometimes, it may even explode!
Some unskilled alchemists are killed every year!
Could it be that the saltpeter was the cause of the explosion?And Qin Mu is going to use this cannon to create an explosion?
But he couldn't figure it out, even if the saltpeter was added and it would explode, it wouldn't be able to explode five miles away, right?

And... if they can really blow up five miles away, then they are so close, wouldn't they be dead?

Li Si's face was pale, and he stepped back straight.

Qin Mu glanced at him in surprise, but didn't react, but seriously stuffed the gunpowder into the barrel.

The gunpowder was configured in a hurry after he got the shooting map of the cannon.

In terms of power, it should be greater than black powder. In this era when gunpowder was not invented at all, it should be unique in the world.Moreover, the most important thing is that Daqin may not have some raw materials for black gunpowder, but his gunpowder is the raw material that can be obtained in Daqin.

Of course, the amount of medicine loaded still has to follow the structural strength of the cannon.If too much gunpowder is loaded, it is likely that the cannon will not work and explode on the spot!

All of this is unknown, and Qin Mu still needs to test it step by step.

Qin Mu kept stuffing gunpowder into the gun barrel, and if he didn't get any part in, he would stick an iron stick in and pound it a couple of times... not for anything else, but to compact the gunpowder so that it could be ignited when the time came. , to provide sufficient power.

This kind of cannon basically relies on the thrust of the gunpowder.

Qin Mu froze for a long time, and finally felt that it was almost done.

Then, he asked Dian Wei to explode a large black iron ball from the car and stuff it into the gun barrel.

Afterwards, Qin Mu was a little worried, tied up the hemp rope at the tail and other ropes, and pulled it far away.

These ropes were specially treated by Qin Mu long ago, soaked in high-quality kerosene, and then dried in the sun.

Although there is no difference on the outside, once it is tapped, even if it rains, it will be difficult to extinguish him.

After doing all this, Qin Mu slid the rope into the deep pit behind the cannon pit.

(End of this chapter)