Horse on the World

Chapter 856 The Weapon of the Nation
Chong County, Jiming Ze, Flying Eagle Special Brigade Training Camp.This is a particularly secretive training camp in the mountains of Jiming Ze, which specializes in training Dingzhou special forces. It was founded by Shang Haibo and later belonged to the Dingzhou Supervisory Council. Although Shang Haibo rebelled against Dingzhou, This training camp has not been implicated by this.On the contrary, it has been strengthened. This started from Li Qing's favor and emphasis on special operations. He spends a small amount of money and uses the fewest people to do big things. In addition to the Overwatch Council, the special operations members trained here have begun to be equipped with first-level combat units in the army.Li Qing's goal is to ensure that there are at least 1000 special operations troops at the military level.
The training camp, which was already heavily guarded and extremely difficult for ordinary people to approach, has increased its security by several levels today, because Li Qing has arrived here today, accompanied by Lu Yiming, the chief minister of the cabinet, and Ren Ruqing, minister of the Ministry of Industry, Xu Xiaodao, deputy chief of Dingzhou No. [-] Arsenal, and others.

Nearly [-] students in the camp are fully armed, and they are distributed within several kilometers. Even a small mouse cannot slip through this area. The focus of today's defense is not the Flying Eagle training camp, but a group of There was a long and narrow valley in the middle of the valley, and after approaching the valley for a mile, the guard was replaced by another group of special agents from the Overwatch Council from the Dingzhou Arsenal. These students also had no idea what was going on in the valley.

Gu Hao greeted Li Qing and the rest of the group, and after saluting, he said: "My lord, my lords, the interior has already been arranged, and we can start when the lord arrives."
Li Qing nodded and quickened his pace, "General Gu has worked hard. Ruqing, Xiaodao, today is the test of your results. Why, are you a little nervous?"
Ren Ruqing said with a smile: "My lord, it would be a lie to say that we are not nervous. It took us several years and a lot of money to invest in these things, and finally saw the effect. If the lord is satisfied and we can trial-produce a large number of them, then we will It was a real relief!"

After entering the valley and walking inward for a few miles, the bottom of the valley suddenly opened up, and the bottom of the valley became wider from the narrow place before. A section of the city wall was erected, and the city wall was completely made of stone, which was much stronger than most of the earth-built city walls on the mainland today and then covered with blue bricks and stone strips.

In front of everyone, several earthen platforms were built, about half a meter high, on which several mysterious objects were covered with a few sheets of rain cloth.Before walking to the earthen platform, Li Qing smiled and said, "This is your treasure?"

Ren Ruqing said: "My lord, please reveal the cloth."

Li Qing turned around, grabbed the corner of the rain cloth with one hand, and took a deep breath. Here is the result of the weapon reform he tried his best to promote. Although it is still very simple, it is the first start of the hot weapon.When they appear on the battlefield, my war on this continent will change from now on.

Using force with his hands, he tore off the rain cloth violently, and three dark metal objects appeared in everyone's field of vision. A long iron pipe was placed on the base, about one and a half meters long, with a height of about one meter at the front end, and two There are wheels on the side, which can obviously be pushed forward.

"My lord, although we have made the seamless steel pipe you mentioned, the strength has never met your requirements, and the chamber often explodes, so we installed iron hoops on the outside of the gun barrel, which can effectively prolong the barrel." The service life of the normal gun barrel!" Xu Xiaodao said with his head down, a little ashamed.

"It's not easy anymore. From scratch, you only have two years, which is beyond my imagination." Li Qing patted him on the shoulder, "Take your time, don't rush, we have plenty of time. Scientific issues You can't be false." Excited, Li Qing slipped his mouth.
This is the cannon that Li Qing has been looking forward to making. Although it is still a breech-loading cannon, compared with the weapons of later generations in his world, this is still an extremely primitive thing that can only be seen in museums, but here, But it is an epoch-making product.
"My lord, please name it!" Ren Ruqing said excitedly, looking at the iron guy in front of him, the gleam in his eyes was like looking at his own son.
Gently caressing the cold cannon body, Li Qing said: "Just call him Shenwei Cannon!"

"Thank you, my lord, for giving me the name!" Ren Ruqing said loudly, and bowed to Li Qing, "Please stand back, Commander, we will start testing guns immediately!"
Li Qing nodded, stepped back from the earthen platform, and walked back about ten feet. The special agents of the Overwatch Council on both sides immediately held shields in their hands and blocked in front of the crowd.

More than a dozen craftsmen from the arsenal rushed up to the earthen platform in small steps. They carried a box and put several boxes on the earthen platform. After wrapping things and loading them into the barrel, another person immediately held a wooden stick in his hand and tamped it hard.

"My lord, this is a fixed gunpowder. After many experiments, we have determined how much gunpowder to use to maximize the power of the Shenwei cannon without causing fatal damage to the cannon body. The current fixed quantity can maximize the use of gunpowder." Use it for a longer period of time." Ren Ruqing said.
"With the current power, how many shells can one barrel fire before it will be scrapped?" Li Qing said.
Xu Xiaodao replied: "My lord, if you fire the first cannon and wait patiently for the heat of the gun bore to cool down, and then fire the second cannon, you can fire about [-] shells, but considering that it is basically impossible in battle." Yes, it will definitely fire continuously, but after firing about five shots in a row, the barrel has reached its limit and must be cooled, otherwise it will definitely explode. Even so, it can only support firing about a hundred shots in this way. "
On the earthen platform, a craftsman picked up a black thing that looked like a watermelon from a wooden box, and stuffed it into the barrel of the gun. At the same time, Ren Ruqing handed the two earplugs to Li Qing, "My lord, Please use this." Li Qing shook his head, "No need."
Ren Ruqing hesitated for a moment, but did not insist, "My lord, the first thing I tried was solid shells, which are mainly used to attack fortifications, walls, fortresses and other strong castles. The front wall was built with stones, so it is solid Chengdi is on par with Luoyang City Wall, and even surpasses it."

The craftsman on the stage had already lit the torch, looked back to this side, Ren Ruqing nodded.Except for the one who was about to light the fire, the craftsmen on the platform covered their ears and squatted down. Although they had already installed earplugs in their ears, the distance was too close.
The torch moved close to the tail of the Shenwei cannon, and a ray of sparks spread upward quickly. Li Qing stared at the front with wide eyes.

The boom was like a thunderbolt from the blue sky, Li Qing obviously underestimated the sound of this guy, his ears were buzzing, and Lu Yiming saw that Li Qing didn't use earplugs, he insisted on not using them, and now he just ate it Big trouble, Li Qing is a military commander, physically strong, plus he has a certain amount of psychological preparation, Lu Yiming didn't have this thought, this time there was a buzzing in his ears, he couldn't hear anything, his face was like gold Paper, crumbling.

"Quick, put earplugs on Mr. Lu!" Ren Ruqing quickly put the earplugs in his hand on Lu Yiming.Two guards came up to help Lord Shoufu.
The sound of the cannon sounded, and the earthen platform was completely shrouded in smoke, covering everything in front of it.When the smoke cleared, everyone saw that the city wall made of stones had been knocked down about half a meter square.
Seeing the sound of the cannon, Li Qing didn't try to be brave any more, he took the initiative to ask for two earplugs, and motioned to help Lu Yiming further away.Here, Ren Ruqing was in command to continue firing the cannons, and the other two Shenwei cannons also exploded one after another.When the gunpowder smoke cleared, the city wall in front had collapsed several meters wide and one meter high.
The craftsman on the earth platform jumped up, holding a long brush and other things in his hand, quickly cleaned the gun bore, and then reloaded the gunpowder and shells again. After three rounds were fired, the front was about two meters high and ten meters wide. The city wall has been turned into a pile of waste rocks, and the previously strong city wall no longer exists.

"Not bad!" Li Qing applauded, "If hundreds of Shenwei cannons fire at the same time, no matter how strong the city wall is, it won't be able to stop it."

"My lord is right. All our pre-set targets are based on the standards of the Luoyang city wall. If hundreds of cannons fired at the same city wall at the same time, only a few salvos would be enough to knock down the Luoyang city wall!" "Ren Ruqing said loudly, now the Minister of Dingzhou has made no secret that their goal is Luoyang.
Li Qing shook his head, "You overlooked one thing, that is the width of the city wall of Luoyang, on which several carriages can drive side by side, while your section can only run horses. Ruqing, what's next?"

"My lord, next is the flower bomb, which is specially designed for killing." Ren Ruqing said.

"Look!" Li Qing said.
Hundreds of craftsmen ran forward with their straw figures in their arms, inserted them into the ground, and began to put armor on them.

"My lord, this armor is the standard equipment for our Dingzhou soldiers. It can withstand ordinary knives, slashes and spears. If the explosive bullets can pass through these armors, then there is no armor in the world that can stop our explosive bullets." Ren Ruqing He said proudly, judging by his expression, he knew the results clearly, and now he just showed these results to Li Qing.
After a round of cannon fire, the straw man was swept away, and the craftsmen carried the scattered armor. Li Qing, Lu Yiming and others saw that the armor in Dingzhou, which is famous for its fine armor, was torn to pieces. What is even more frightening is that pieces of sharp iron pieces have been inlaid on the relatively complete armor at this moment, and some even directly opened a hole in the armor, but he didn't know where he flew to ．
Lu Yiming took a deep breath, "My lord, this is a sharp weapon of the country. It is invincible when used in war. How much time will it take? I'm afraid we will be able to conquer Luoyang within a year."

Li Qing laughed, "That's so easy. Yiming, have you ever thought about it? The other party has never seen this thing, nor has our army seen it. If it is shot out, the enemy will be stunned. Our soldiers may not be able to see it." I'm confused, our war horses are probably going to blow up the camp soon, so it will take a long time to get used to it. Moreover, this thing is laborious to make, and the output is not high. I really want a large batch of it. Equipment, that can’t be completed in a short period of time, and again, gunpowder, our production of gunpowder is far from enough to support us to complete a large-scale battle, so, for the time being, I don’t want to use it for the army.”

"My lord means..."
Li Qing nodded, "I'm going to build dozens of them first, and install them on the Qiyuan, so that Deng Peng can test them in actual combat."

(End of this chapter)