back to ancient times to be emperor

Chapter 526 Shocked
"Follow the order!" Shen Kuo, Su Song and Tang Xun said in unison.

Those apprentices had also seen Lu Chengqi's true face, their expressions were all excited, and even the hand holding the fire folder was clenched extremely tightly. "Your Majesty, please move to look at the house." Shen Kuo said calmly without any confusion.

Lu Chengqi nodded, this was not the first time.The god of war—cannon is an extremely unstable thing.The chances of the artillery bombing, not to mention these primitive artillery, even the well-made artillery of later generations, will explode if they are not operated properly.If it really exploded, it wouldn't be worthwhile to say that this little life that was so hard to be reborn is here again.

If you want to see the artillery, you should hide farther away, your life is the most important thing.Besides, these blooming bombs are made with the most primitive method, who knows when they will explode?If there is no quality assurance, it will explode when it comes out of the chamber, and it will be an unjust death.

After retreating into the stone house, Lu Chengqi took an excellent position to watch the artillery fire the explosive shells.Shen Kuo was at the door, waving a small flag, indicating that it was time to start loading.

The apprentice in the distance saw the small flag waving, took a few deep breaths calmly, and then began to clean the barrel and load the shells.After the filling was completed, the person holding the fire bag pulled out the plug and blew on the fire bag, then turned to look at Shen Kuo's instructions.Shen Kuo waved the small flag vigorously, and when the apprentice saw it, he put the torch in front of the fuse, and the fuse instantly burned.

The sub-cannon was loaded with flowering bullets, which were not solid bullets. If one was not properly fixed, it would be normal to injure the gunner.As soon as the fuse was ignited, these apprentices ran much faster than before, and retreated tens of feet.Because the leads were placed too long, it was enough time for them to retreat to a safe location.

These apprentices were not stupid either, they made reasonable use of the length of the leads to ensure their own safety.But this is a pain for Lu Chengqi, he is eager to know whether the artillery made with so much money can restrain the cavalry of the northern nomads.After all, the Han people are farming people and are not good at riding horses.If you compete with cavalry, you will definitely not be able to beat the nomads.The only advantage of the Han people is that the cultural progress is much higher than that of the nomads, and they can create more powerful weapons to restrain the northern nomads.The Song Dynasty in the official history, although it was repeatedly invaded by foreign enemies, in fact, the technology of the Song Dynasty was the pinnacle of ancient China.

Lu Chengqi couldn't help complaining, "Why are you so slow?"

Shen Kuo apologized and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, please wait a moment, the lead wire may be a little long, it will be fine in a while..." Before the words fell, the barrel of the mother-child cannon blasted out huge orange-red sparks, followed by a slight shaking of the ground After a while, it was accompanied by a loud "boom", which was much more violent than before.

Lu Chengqi was caught off guard, and his ears hurt from the shock, and he was a little dizzy.

"Your Majesty, are you alright?"

Seeing that Lu Chengqi covered his ears, Tang Xun immediately asked with concern.

Lu Chengqi shook his head, and said, "It's okay, I just need to rest for a while. Isn't this explosive bomb too violent?"

Su Song had been silent just now, but now he spoke: "Your Majesty, it should be that the apprentices loaded too much gunpowder. If it was loaded normally, it shouldn't be like this. Such a charge is close to the limit. It is estimated that they learned Your Majesty wanted to test the longest range of the bomb, so he deliberately loaded more gunpowder..."

Lu Chengqi was stunned, he dared to be tricked by someone!He picked out his ears, sighed and said, "Shen Qing, go and tell them that there is no need for the maximum charge, just normal! Measure the range first, and then reload normally!"

Shen Kuo hurriedly said: "Observe the order!" Then he left the stone house.Lu Chengqi still felt his head buzzing, and thought: "No wonder everyone can't go to the battlefield, the sound of artillery is already deafening. If hundreds of volleys are fired, who can stand it?"

Seeing that the little emperor was silent and his face was cloudy, Tang Xun and Su Song thought that the little emperor was dissatisfied.A companion is like a tiger, they are all so nervous that they dare not breathe.

After about two quarters of an hour, Lu Chengqi was still thinking about whether the new wooden warship could withstand such a large recoil.Even if the latest keel technology is adopted, it is still made of wood after all. If there are too many cannons installed and you sink yourself, it will be very embarrassing.

After Shen Kuo came back, he was surprised to see Lu Chengqi staring into the distance silently.Looking at Tang Xun and Su Song again, a trace of helplessness flashed in their eyes.After Shen Kuo had some mental preparations, he said cautiously: "Your Majesty, the range measured just now is five miles..."

Lu Chengqi came back to his senses, said "Oh", and said, "Start loading normally, don't make any more oolongs."

Shen Kuo didn't dare to hesitate, and quickly waved the small flag in his hand, waving it at the four apprentices.In fact, before Shen Kuo turned around, they had already finished loading.This is because Shen Kuo was afraid that they would be smart and trapped themselves, so he specially watched them reload before turning back.

"Your Majesty, please cover your ears!" Shen Kuo reminded Lu Chengqi after waving the small flag.

Lu Chengqi just got rid of the discomfort, and he didn't want to try such an uncomfortable feeling again.After hastily plugging his ears with the silk handkerchief that he carried with him, he heard a faint "boom", and the ground shook accordingly.

"This time the power is much smaller..." Lu Chengqi thought in his heart.After all, full loading and normal loading are still less powerful, even laymen understand this truth.

Lu Chengqi took off the silk handkerchief, and said, "Shen Qing, how many do you think this cannon can be used on a new type of warship?"

Shen Kuo was taken aback, he had never thought about this question before.The new warships are parked in front of the dock on the Weihe River. Because they are not out of the sea, there are not many built.He personally went to investigate the performance of the new warship, but he did not speak affirmatively, he could only say conservatively: "Reporting to Your Majesty, I have not tested it on the new warship. In my opinion, it should be It can fire four to six sub-cannons..."

Lu Chengqi said: "After measuring the range this time, let's go to the new warship to test it. It's rare that I have time today, so I watched them all."

Su Song said in a bit of embarrassment: "But your majesty, it's almost noon now, and your majesty hasn't had a meal yet, how dare I ask your majesty to move to the bank of the Weishui Feng River?"

Lu Chengqi said indifferently: "Don't tell me the military supervisor doesn't care about food?"

Tang Xun knew that Lu Chengqi also ate at the dining hall at the Royal University, but how can the food at the Royal University be compared with the military supervisor?He said in embarrassment: "But your majesty is a body of gold, it is better for your majesty not to eat the food of the military supervisor..."

(End of this chapter)