Water Margin people

Chapter 357
"Brother, the ammo is loaded!"

After Ling Zhen finished everything, he said to Sun Lei.

"See that dead tree by the bank? Hit it."

Sun Lei pointed to a big withered tree on the opposite bank and said, the tree stood alone on the bank, very recognizable.

"Yes!"

Ling Zhen stood up straight and answered, and then began to adjust the angle of the cannon.

"Brother, get ready!"

Ling Zhen confirmed it several times, and finally got up and clasped his fists at Sun Lei. This was the first shot he fired after he went to Liangshan, and he had to shoot it beautifully. feeling.

"Is it possible to hit such a long distance?"

Pang Wanchun looked at the dead tree on the other side with suspicion. He is a master of arrows. The most powerful crossbow in the world is the three-bow bed crossbow (also known as the eight-ox crossbow) in the army. It is a sharp weapon in the army. Order, only the elite cannot be deployed, even if they are defeated, they must destroy the three bows and bed crossbows before they can escape, otherwise they will be punished with death.The reason is that the three-bow bed crossbow is made by concentrating the essence of the original millennium technology, and its range can reach up to one thousand steps (one thousand, five hundred meters), and it must not fall into the hands of the enemy.

"I don't think I can hit it either, it's too far away!"

Yang Zhi is also a little bit wise, he has more knowledge, he has seen all kinds of military weapons, and he is no stranger to artillery, how can he shoot so far?

"Brothers, I'm afraid you may be mistaken. Brother Sun Lei has full confidence in Brother Ling Zhen!"

Ou Peng laughed and said, if Sun Lei is sure about something, he must hold it in his hands.

"If this can be achieved, isn't our barrier in Liangshanbo a display?"

Fei Bao looked at the wide water surface and said, Liangshan's greatest geographical advantage is the natural danger of the water park, even an army of [-] can never get close to Liangshan, but if something can pass through the water park to attack Liangshan, then Liangshan will no longer be impregnable. .

"Even if we row a boat, we still get a stick of incense, right?"

Ruan Xiaoqi didn't believe it either.

"Brother Lin Chong, how powerful is this cannon?"

Ruan Xiaoer looked at Lin Chong and asked, Lin Chong is the instructor of the 80 Imperial Army, and he must be familiar with the military equipment.

"It can hit two or three miles."

Lin Chong smiled wryly and shook his head. The only thing he had ever seen was the kind of small cannon that could hit two or three miles. He didn’t even dare to think about it for more than ten miles, and he had never heard of it. But this is normal. Firearms have always been a secret in the army. He can't touch much as a stick-grabbing coach.

Everyone murmured for a while, all of them were skeptical about the range of the artillery.

"fire."

Sun Lei looked at Ling Zhen and nodded.

Ling Zhen took the order to ignite the fuse, and as the fuse burned, there was a loud "boom", the violent recoil of the gun barrel hit the ground heavily, and a burst of black smoke slowly drifted out from the gun barrel.

"Hit!"

Everyone didn't see the cannonball clearly, but the dead tree on the opposite bank was hit, and the bullet directly smashed the dead tree in half.

"My darling!"

Li Kui opened his mouth in surprise, thinking that when he was in Tokyo, he had said that Ling Zhen should carry a cannon to compete, if he was hit by a cannon, he might be wiped out without leaving any bones.

"Okay! As expected of Thunderbolt!"

Sun Lei laughed and clapped his hands and said, Ling Zhen is good at making artillery, he can shoot fourteen to five miles away, and he is known as "the number one gunner in the world in the Song Dynasty".

"It's still thanks to my brother's secret recipe for gunpowder, otherwise my little brother would still be like a frog at the bottom of a well, living in a daze!"

Ling Zhen cupped his fists at Sun Lei and said, if it wasn't for the best gunpowder formula that Sun Lei gave him, the power of the firearm would never be so powerful. If you want to fight more than ten miles, you must use a giant cannon. Skilled craftsmen may not be able to make one in a month.

"Don't talk about these, they are all brothers!"

Sun Lei waved his hands and said with a smile, now that Ling Zhen has gone to Liangshan, it is nothing to give a recipe.

"By the way, what you are shooting is a solid bullet, can you shoot it with a cracked bullet?"

Sun Lei looked at Ling Zhen and asked, the artillery in front of him is still very backward, relying on the explosion of gunpowder to launch the projectile, a solid projectile can only hurt the enemy by impact force, the lethality is too small, this is completely different from the Italian artillery that Sun Lei wanted Two things, what Sun Lei wants is the kind of grenade that can't explode.

"Brother, do you want to use the Thunderbolt Cannon?"

Ling Zhen pointed to the thunderbolt gun (small trebuchet) next to him and said to Sun Lei.

"This thing can't hit far. What I want is to hit the Zhentianlei to the opposite bank with this Tiger Cannon."

Sun Lei shook his head and said.

"Brother, if this thunderbolt was placed in the barrel, wouldn't it explode directly?"

Ling Zhen repeatedly waved his hands and shook his head, expressing that it was impossible.

"Brother, this cannon is not so good. Firearms can be roughly divided into two types. Those that can explode are mostly thrown, or tied to crossbow bolts, and some are even tied to kites. And artillery is fired by explosions. Yes, it can only be solid iron pellets or shooting out some caltrops and small steel balls. Don’t dare to directly set off the sky thunder!"

Ling Zhen explained to Sun Lei that if he put Zhentianlei in the barrel, it would not be suicide.

"Can't it be done?"

Sun Lei regretted that if he could only shoot solid projectiles, the lethality would be greatly reduced, and it could only be used for defending and attacking cities, not for other occasions.

"Slowly study how to prevent this thunderbolt from exploding in the barrel of the gun, and only exploding when it flies out and lands. Think about it, this way the power will be much greater. The enemy will be killed by thousands of horses and horses, and they are still ten miles away , I fired a row of cannons, and they turned into flying ash in an instant, how cool it is!"

Sun Lei looked at Ling Zhen and said.

"Brother, is this... is this really possible? Can the hollow bomb withstand the explosion of the gunpowder in the barrel?"

Ling Zhen became embarrassed, Sun Lei didn't even dare to think about this request, gunpowder is already flammable and explosive, how could it be fired in the barrel?

"How do you know if you don't try it? You should know that when you study gunpowder, all possibilities start from impossibility, such as artillery. Everyone thinks that it is bulky, slow, and weak, but you can shoot fourteen or five miles away. Isn't it impossible?"

Sun Lei said with a smile.

"Brother, little brother must work hard!"

Ling Zhen's eyes brightened, didn't everything he did start from the impossible?

"Several military advisers, how about this artillery!"

Sun Lei looked at the four military advisers around him with a smile and asked, this is one of the confidences for future battles in Liangshan.

"Sure enough, this artillery is so powerful that it will become a weapon in the battlefield in the future, and it will not be a problem to determine the outcome."

Xiao Jiasui sighed, today is just a thunderbolt, a cannon can have such power, if there are too many, it is unimaginable.

"Brother, with this help, great things can be accomplished!"

Xu Guanzhong said with a smile, originally he thought that Liangshan would take a long time to develop, but now it seems that Sun Lei's preparations are far beyond his imagination. Liangshan not only has many generals, occupies a geographical location, and has people's hearts, but now it has a big killer—— — Artillery, it can be said that it only waits for the right time.

"Haha, the objects are all dead, and our Liangshan depends on the brothers."

Sun Lei looked at the crowd and said with a smile, weapons are only secondary, and it is people who are absolutely determined to fight.

(End of this chapter)