Yipin Tang

Chapter 93 Thunder on the ground

It has been more than a month since Li Er got the gunpowder formula, he was still hesitant, and finally summoned Yuan Tiangang five days ago to let him start to configure the gunpowder.

Today is the day to experiment with the effects of gunpowder.

There is a royal hunting garden behind the Daming Palace. Li Er only brought Yuan Tiangang, Cheng Yaojin and Qin Qiong, as well as a few guards of the Imperial Army, and apart from Li Shimin, only Yuan Tiangang had seen him.

"Your Majesty, is this thing really that powerful?" Cheng Yaojin held the "Tianleizi" made by Yuan Tiangang in his hand and looked around and didn't think there was anything special. Li Er originally wanted other soldiers to try it. Tianleizi, but Cheng Yaojin saw the mysterious appearance of Li Er and Yuan Tiangang, and he was so curious that he wanted to try it by himself. Even though old Cheng was a rough person, he was not small at all.

Hearing Cheng Yaojin's question and Li Er didn't speak, Yuan Tiangang smiled and said: "Mr. Lu should be careful, Wang Zixin once said that this thing can open mountains and crack rocks, and even a fist-sized thunderbolt can be blown to pieces." A huge boulder, even bigger, can explode a three-meter-high city gate."

"So powerful?" Cheng Yaojin was not frightened by Yuan Tiangang's words, he wondered: "Isn't this just a bigger firecracker, a lot of firecrackers were burned in my house during the Chinese New Year last year, so I just heard it. "

"Duke Lu, don't be careless. This is not a firecracker, it's a thunderbolt. I think it's better to try another guard."

"No, it's fine if I come here."

When we arrived at the place where the gunpowder was tested, a half-person-high stone was prepared about ten meters ahead, and a hole the size of a fist was cut in the stone, just enough to put the Tianleizi in.

Li Er, Qin Qiong and Yuan Tiangang retreated 20 meters away according to Wang Xiang's instructions. Lao Cheng put the Tianleizi into the hole and pulled the lead wire out.

Yuan Tiangang made a full two-meter-long fuse, and Cheng Yaojin took out a torch and lit the fuse on the ground, watching the fuse burn away curiously.

"Lu Guogong, come back quickly!"

"Old Cheng, come back!"

"Bite gold!"

Hearing everyone calling him, Cheng Yaojin scratched his head and walked back, looking back at the burning fuse from time to time, thinking that Li Er and Yuan Tiangang were making too much of a fuss, and they had to run so far to set off firecrackers.

"boom!"

Cheng Yaojin had only run less than ten meters when he heard a loud noise behind him, his ears were buzzing, and before he could figure out what happened, a wave of air pushed him behind him, pushing him staggering, A lot of gravel hit him one after another, which hurt him very much, so he hurried all the way to the hiding place of Li Er and the others.

"What the hell is going on?"

Hearing that Cheng Yaojin could still complain about Li Er and Qin Qiong, he was relieved. They had seen clearly just now, a burst of fire suddenly burst out ten meters behind Cheng Yaojin, and after a loud noise, the big rock was immediately blown up. smash.

The imperial guards guarding all around heard the loud noise and ran over nervously. They were relieved to see that Li Er and the adults were fine. Li Er waved his hand to let the imperial guards continue to guard around.

Seeing Cheng Yaojin grinning and scratching his back, Li Er turned over him and took a breath. The clothes on Cheng Yaojin's back were cut open by the flying gravel, and his back was stained with blood. , apparently scratched by gravel.

Fortunately, he ran a certain distance at that time, and his back was covered with some skin trauma. If he was standing next to the stone...

Li Er and Yuan Tiangang looked at each other with shock in their eyes, and Qin Qiong on the side also had a solemn expression, and was terrified for Cheng Yaojin, these flying pebbles were almost like hidden weapons.

"Your Majesty, do you still want to try?" Yuan Tiangang asked.

With fiery flames in Li Er's eyes, he suppressed his excitement and said, "Try!"

He has seen the cracked rock of Kaishan, but he hasn't seen Kaishan yet.This time, it wasn't Tianleizi, which was bigger than a firecracker, but an iron bucket half a person's height, which was carried by two imperial guards, and it was full of gunpowder!Wang Xiang said that gunpowder loaded with iron is the most lethal, and Li Er wants to see if it can open mountains!
The goal this time is not a stone, but a ten-meter-high stone mountain in the hunting garden, standing among a peach forest. Although it is a stone mountain for viewing, it is not comparable to ordinary boulders. It is about ten meters high. In their eyes, the stone mountain, which cannot be surrounded by 40 or [-] people, is already a giant. At least no city has such a tall and strong city wall.

Let the imperial guards carry the gunpowder barrel into a small cave under the stone mountain, and then pull out the lead wire. The lead wire on the powder barrel is several times longer than the lead wire on the Tianleizi just now, but no one thinks it is long.

Cheng Yaojin still has lingering fears after suffering the loss, so naturally he doesn't want to light the fire again, and hides far away with Li Er and the others, and hides outside the peach forest, hiding behind a huge rock.

Li Er called a guard and told him to light the fire, and reminded him to run back and hide it immediately after lighting the fire.

The guard is not Cheng Yaojin, so naturally he will not be careless, and he also heard the loud noise just now, and immediately ran back as fast as possible after lighting the fire, hiding behind the boulder, he was very curious about the iron that His Majesty asked them to carry over. What exactly is the bucket for.

Soon his doubts faded to shock.

Thunder on the flat ground, if you have to use one word to describe this movement, then you can only use the word "thunder on the flat ground", the earth seems to vibrate.

After the thunder on the flat ground, looking around, the ten-meter-high stone mountain in the peach forest collapsed under the eyes of everyone, kicking up dust all over the place!
It took a full quarter of an hour for Li Er to wake up from the shock, but Qin Qiong stopped him when he wanted to check.

"Your Majesty, let's send a guard to take a look."

After the guards confirmed that there was no danger, Li Er took Qin Qiong, Cheng Yaojin and Yuan Tiangang to the middle of the peach forest. The majestic stone mountain had turned into rubble. shocking.

"The Tang Dynasty has this sharp weapon, and there is no city that cannot be broken!" Li Er gasped excitedly, Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin were also flushed with excitement, if they had this thing in their hands, they would lead troops to attack the city Easy as pie.

"Your Majesty, look!"

Qin Qiong walked to a crooked peach tree, pointed to the iron piece embedded in the trunk and exclaimed.

Li Er and Cheng Yaojin were surprised when they walked over, and then looked at the other nearby peach trees. Many iron pieces and gravels were deeply embedded in the trunks. It is not easy for a sword to penetrate so deep into a tree trunk. If these pieces of iron and gravel hit a person... it is unimaginable.Li Er finally understood why Wang Xiang said that gunpowder contained in iron was the most lethal. If the bamboo tube outside the Tianleizi was replaced with an iron sheet, once it was thrown into the crowd and exploded, countless pieces of iron would be deadly weapons. !The same is true for adding gravel to gunpowder.

"Turkic." The corners of Li Er's mouth turned up slightly, and a sharp light flashed in his eyes.

Yuan Tiangang sighed secretly in his heart, and couldn't help thinking of Wang Xiang's strange face...

On this day, many people in Chang'an City heard the shocking thunder coming from the direction of Daming Palace, and some even felt the ground tremble slightly, and then looked up to see the scorching sun in the sky. , only Li Chunfeng, who was reading in Gewuyuan, had a thoughtful expression on his face when he heard the loud noise.

(End of this chapter)