The First Corrupt Official of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 83 Master Ye's New Cannon Makes Zhu Yuanzhang's Back Chill

"Old Guo, you can't go there!"

"That's the artillery testing ground, you can't go there if you're wearing this suit!"

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When Lao Liu reacted from the blast of the sky-shaking cannon, Zhu Yuanzhang turned into a runaway wild horse and went straight to the place where the black smoke was billowing.

It's really a man in his 40s, running at the speed of a boy in his 20s, not at all slower than when the pro-military boy came to rescue him before.

And Lao Liu's loud reminder did not slow down Zhu Yuanzhang at all.

After he quickly took off his eye-catching prison uniform, he just threw it away and ran even faster.

Mao Xiang and the dozen or so pro-military boys were also running wildly, imitating Zhu Yuanzhang after pulling out his prison uniform and chasing Zhu Yuanzhang desperately.

In this way, they merged into the flow of people coming from all directions.

You must know that there are many craftsmen here who work without wearing a shirt, especially in the iron-making workshop. They usually wear a leather apron and two leather sleeves to work.

If it weren't for the sparks, they wouldn't even want these things!
Now that such a big thing happened, it was natural to throw away the leather apron and leather sleeves that got in the way and run away.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Lao Liu immediately panicked.

Workshops from No. 12 to No. 12 are all firearms production workshops, and the huge open space in front of No. [-] and No. [-] workshops is the firearms testing ground.

And within the wall surrounding the arsenal, there is a ten-foot-high wall that directly surrounds the firearms workshop and testing ground, for the sake of absolute confidentiality related to firearms!
Normally, people from the cold weapons factory would never go to the firearms factory easily!

The reason why they are all going there now is because the successive loud noises came too suddenly.

Cannons have been fired at the test site in the past, but how can it have such power?

Obviously, this is not a normal experimental artillery fire, but it looks like a powder magazine explosion!

Because of this, the masters in the cold weapon workshop ran over there like crazy. They were not here to watch the excitement, but to help put out the fire!

"Lao Guo and the others also went to help put out the fire?"

Thinking of this, Lao Liu immediately thought of what Lao Guo was filled with righteous indignation just now.

Obviously, he didn't go to fight the fire, he went to take advantage of the chaos to collect 'criminal evidence'!

In Lao Liu's cognition, it is impossible for this Lao Guo to be here for the rest of his life in a labor camp. Maybe someday the emperor will call him back if he misses him.

I'm afraid that at that time, if he tells what he saw and heard today, Master Ye will be in big trouble.

Thinking of this, Lao Liu immediately looked at his group: "Why are you still standing there?"

"Don't chase after him to find someone!"

As soon as the words fell, Lao Liu also ran over with his people.

On the way to the artillery testing ground, Lao Liu also thought again.

Why let them, a group of reform-through-labour prisoners, follow him to transport the iron ore to the arsenal?

Do overseers and jailers have this right?
The jailers definitely don't have this right, it must have been instructed by them, Lord Ye!
Then what is their Master Ye's purpose?
Thinking of this, he once again affirmed what he and Mr. Zhang from the armor workshop had guessed before, that Lord Ye must use these advanced technologies to convince this stubborn, but high-minded Beijing official.

After thinking about it like this, he became more and more sure of his guess.

"Yes!"

"A good official for the common people to live and work in peace and contentment, and for the young men in the barracks to survive as much as possible, has committed many serious crimes that the imperial court cannot tolerate!"

"He does need someone in court."

Thinking of this, Lao Liu ran even faster, and his eyes became more determined.

He can't do anything for their Master Ye, but he can correct Lao Guo's stubborn thinking as much as possible by virtue of the relationship between the first acquaintance and the late encounter!

After Lao Liu made up his mind, he immediately ordered to his people: "After you find someone, don't make a fuss, and tell me right away."

"understood!"

At the same time as Lao Liu and the others were chasing after them, Ye Qing and Wu Yong also arrived at a condescending place where they could have a panoramic view of the entire firearms factory area.

In the wide firearms testing ground, ninety factory cannons are lined up outside the firearms workshop in an arrangement of 2000 horizontally and [-] vertically, and all of them are aimed at the [-]-meter-long open space in front at the maximum elevation angle.

"Load in the front row, fire in the middle row, aim in the rear row!"

In front of the artillery formation, a semaphore messenger holding red and blue flags in both hands was making semaphore while giving orders.

The artillerymen who looked at him also followed orders.

The thirty gunners in the second row ignited the breech fuses at the same time, but because of the difference in human reaction speed, it was impossible to achieve absolute simultaneousness after all.

Therefore, the thirty cannons in the second row only fired shells one after another, but the intervals between them were not large.

While the shells draw fiery red parabolas in the air, they also bring people an extremely shocking visual sense.

The flaming shells dragged a long cloud of black smoke, enough to 'materialize' the parabola they drew.

The test field below these shells is also marked with white ash, and the distance between horizontal lines and horizontal lines is 65 steps (100 meters).

And these parabolic cannonballs continuously leap over these horizontal lines, and finally land on the No. 19 horizontal line and bloom one after another.

"Boom!"

Following the successive loud noises that shook the sky, there was continuous dust and smoke.

The explosion heat waves of the thirty cannons spread in all directions in a superimposed manner. Although it will be lost with the distance, it is after all the energy of the thirty cannonballs exploding almost at the same time.

The craftsmen who built the wall obviously underestimated the power of these cannons at the beginning of construction.

After all, in their cognition, the current cannon is simply a large firecracker. Apart from firing projectiles, it can only scare war horses.

Even though Ye Qing repeatedly told them to repair the fence, they still had no idea.

It can also be said that they never imagined that the wall they built would be collapsed by the heat wave of the explosion and the local earthquake-like movement.

just now,

Thinking that the powder depot exploded, the masters from the cold weapon factory rushed to the gap in the wall one after another.

If it weren't for the people from the firearms testing ground to stop and explain in time, they would have all rushed in.

"This is the cannon Master Ye designed for our Yanmen garrison?"

"My mother, compared with this cannon, the cannon issued by the imperial court is like a firestick!"

"It's time to go to the wall of Yanmen Pass and take back all the cannons distributed by the imperial court and put them back into the furnace!"

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The masters in the cold weapon factory area are relieved after knowing this is the case, as long as the gunpowder magazine does not explode.

Of course, I am also sincerely happy for the first batch of new cannons to leave the factory.

After the replacement of the new cannon is completed, the hope of survival for the boys in Yanmen County is much greater!
Among these shirtless brawny men, there were a dozen or so people who did not cheer.

Not only did they not cheer, but each of them looked dignified. Although there was shock in their eyes, it was more of fear.

Especially Zhu Yuanzhang, in addition to the look of shock and fear in his eyes, there was also a hint of murderous intent that was not obvious.

After all, with so many people here, he must try his best to suppress his killing intent.

But facing such a powerful killer, even he couldn't do it, completely suppressing the killing intent in his heart.

There is no other reason,

Just because these cannons can not only aim at Beyond the Great Wall, but also at Zhu Yuanzhang!
(End of this chapter)