The great hero of the Silk Road, starting from a farm farmer

Chapter 220 The Western Fan wants to levy heavy taxes on Haixi Castle!

"Wang Daozhang, do you know what the Beixiang people use to prepare gunpowder?" It's not too surprising that Beixiang has firearms. The prototype of gunpowder has appeared for many years. Last year, they gathered a group of alchemists. It is conceivable that the original gunpowder formula should be appropriately improved.What worries Song Yingkui is whether they will prepare gunpowder that is more powerful than black powder. Although this is unlikely, what if it happens?
Danshi Wang Danyang, who escaped from Beixiang, was considered a conscientious Danshi. After learning that the Beixiang people had firearms and were preparing to attack the Yungu Army, he managed to escape from Beixiang's surveillance. After all the hard work, he escaped to the official camp.You must know that Yinzhou City, the capital of Beixiang, is nearly a thousand miles away from the official camp. You can imagine the suffering that the old Taoist priest suffered along the way. He is a righteous man with a righteous heart.

"It uses sulfur, nitrate and charcoal, but the method of mixing it is different from the previous gunpowder. It is very powerful and can be truly made into artillery. According to the general of the Xiang people, it is almost the same as the artillery of the Yungu Army." Wang Danyang was a core member who participated in preparing gunpowder for Beixiang. Precisely because he had a good understanding of the progress of Beixiang's firearms, the more he thought about it, the more frightened he became. He was worried that Beixiang would cause a catastrophe if he had firearms, so he risked his life and death. Take the risk to come to Yungu to report the news.

Sulfur, saltpeter and charcoal?Sure enough, it is not out of the category of black powder, which is the good news among the bad news.So Song Yingkui continued to ask: "Taoist Priest, do you know the main types of firearms made by Xiang Ren?"

"Mainly artillery. They also made some cannons with fire twisters based on the cannons used by the Yungu Army. As for the small-barreled cannons of the Yungu Army, they made few of them because they were laborious. The general of the Xiang people said, The small-barreled cannon is of little use and is dispensable; the cannon and cannon-throwing are enough.”

Is it enough to have cannons and cannons?How many cannons were cast in Beixiang?What you say is so confident.Song Yingkui asked very curiously: "How many body-barrel cannons have the Taoist priests and Xiang Ren cast? They don't take our Yungu Army seriously."

"The total number of large and small cannons must be hundreds. I don't know the exact number. Anyway, the formation is very scary, and the general must make preparations in advance."

Hundreds of cannons?Is Beixiang so cruel?It is difficult to transport hundreds of cannons to Huizhou and Gongchang.Besides, does Beixiang have such a powerful iron-making industry?Hundreds of heavy cannons were cast in less than half a year. This production capacity is really terrifying.

In order to more accurately evaluate the progress of the Beixiang people's artillery, Song Yingkui took him to the Yungu Army's artillery testing range outside Taoyang City and asked him to see the actual power of the Yungu Army's current artillery models, and then compared them. He saw the power of Beixiang artillery and gave an intuitive comparative evaluation.

When they arrived at the artillery field, Wang Danyang's eyes gleamed after the various artillery guns fired in a circle.According to his intuitive feeling, Beixiang's artillery was far less powerful than Yungu Army's artillery.What they call hundreds of guns are actually mostly small-caliber cannons.Some cannons are actually unable to produce muskets, so they have to push the barrels inward, creating a weird thing that looks like a cannon but is not a cannon.As for their explosive shells, their power is even more worrying. There is no delay fuse device, and they are not as complicated as the Yungu Army's artillery shells.And the small number of muskets they worked so hard to make have no firing devices at all. They are the most primitive ignition guns. Strictly speaking, they should be called fire guns.

"Appoint Wang Daozhang as the chief director of the Alchemy Court. From now on, the leadership of the Alchemy Court will be handed over to Master Wang. After he is familiar with the operation of the Alchemy Court, he can participate more in the daily management of the Alchemy Court. I don't know if the director can commit himself. , serve our Yungu Army?" Song Yingkui didn't understand Wang Danyang's work ability, but he couldn't be aggrieved because he risked his own life to deliver such important military information.Let him be assigned to the post of Headmaster of Danyuan first to see his ability, and then arrange him to a suitable position.

"The general favors him, and Wang is grateful. However, Wang still wants to go to Dazheng to inform the court that Xiang has firearms. He also hopes that the general will allow Wang to leave the country for the sake of Tiancang's livelihood." Renren's There is a gap in realm. Wang Danyang is obviously a person with a big heart. Of course, in his opinion, the safety of Dazheng may be more important than the small place of Yungu.It is already very interesting to come to Yungu first to report the news. "Song admires Brother Wang for his ability to plan for the righteousness of the world. Let's do this. Japan will host a banquet today, and you and I will have a drink to express Song's respect for heroes. Tomorrow I will lead the way for Brother Wang and write Send a letter of introduction to General Yao Dake in Qinzhou and send someone to escort Brother Wang to Qinzhou safely. Is this arrangement possible?"

To be honest, Song Yingkui admired Wang Danyang a little.It is really rare for an idle alchemist to be able to have such a heart and do such a thing.Whether the news he brought to Qinzhou would be taken seriously by Dazheng officials, and whether Dazheng would develop firearms based on it, is another matter. Anyway, Song Yingkui was not very optimistic about it.

A toast to the heroes with good wine. Yun Gujun didn’t have any good wine, but he drank the wine that night very happily.When he came to Dazheng, Wang Danyang was one of the few people that Song Yingkui admired from the bottom of his heart. He should be considered an idealist.With a strong drink, wish him a safe journey.

After a heavy drinking session and seeing off Wang Danyang early the next morning, Song Yingkui hurried to the official camp.Although the firearms of the Beixiang people may not be very powerful, they should be treated with caution. The upcoming war will be the first time that the Yungu Army has faced an opponent with firearms.Corresponding tactical adjustments and adaptations must be made, and offensive and defensive tactics must be practiced when the enemy also has firearms.But there can't be a situation where Yungu's army is blinded by the opponent's firearms, otherwise the joke will be too big.

From the bottom of his heart, Song Yingkui actually didn't understand why the Beixiang people came to Yungu Army in such a hurry after they had firearms.They should have seen the power of Yungu's weapons. They are the ones who have the deepest understanding of the performance of Yungu's weapons. They shouldn't be so useless after having firearms, right?At least you have to practice with other forces first before talking about it.

If you don’t understand the mentality of General Beixiang, then you don’t understand. Since they dare to make people feel uncomfortable, we should take it seriously and give them a good lesson on how to fight a war in the era of hot weapons, so that they know that not all firearms can be used. When it comes to weighing firearms, there may be a huge difference between firearms and firearms.

Good fortune never comes alone, and misfortunes never come alone. Just when Song Yingkui summoned his generals to conduct enemy preparation drills, the trade officer stationed at Haishibao came back with another bad news.When the people of Xifan saw that the scale of trade in Haishibao was getting bigger and bigger, especially the transactions between Yungu Army and Hexi Army were becoming more and more frequent, they were so sick that they actually proposed to levy levy on all the goods traded in Haishibao. The unreasonable demand for a [-]% tariff.

How long has the Haishibao Forecasting Market been open?The people of Xifan couldn't sit still. They really had a good life, but they had to go up the pole to eat shit!

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