Reborn Tang Emperor Li Chengqian

Chapter 242 Musket (1)

"Father, don't worry! After all, the development of explosives is an unprecedented feat. Everything is new, and there are many unstable factors that are normal."

"I believe that as long as we continue to study in this direction, we will be able to find out a feasible solution, and figure out the things and operations that should be avoided." Li Chengqian said.

When it comes to explosives, although Li Chengqian dare not say he is proficient, compared to the people of Tang Dynasty, he is enough to beat them by a dozen blocks.

Li Chengqian knows better than these people how to store and keep the explosive packs after they are made.

Li Er sighed, it would be somewhat regrettable that there is a treasure mountain in the sky but not allowed to enter it.

"Everyone! It's getting late! It's time to drive back to the palace! Chief Tiele is still waiting to be summoned by everyone!" Wang Yuan reminded.

Li Er's itinerary was well-arranged. Today, apart from visiting the secret base to see the research on the explosive package, he also had to summon Uighur and other nine leaders who had traveled thousands of miles to Chang'an.

After being reminded by Wang Yuan, Li Er remembered such a incident.

"I really almost forgot about this! Get up and drive back to the palace!" After Li Er finished speaking, he turned and left the secret base.

Li Chengqian sent Li Er outside the base, and he had to stay at the base for a while, so he wouldn't go back with Li Er.

"At the base, Chengqian, you should take care and urge them to complete the research as soon as possible. I will destroy Goguryeo in one go." Li Er said.

In the last expedition to Goguryeo, Goguryeo was not wiped out at once, like a thorn stuck in his throat, which made Li Er very upset.

This has almost become the regret of Li Er's life, and it has become Li Er's heart disease.

Ever since he saw the power of the dynamite pack, Li Er's mind became alive again, thinking that relying on this dynamite pack, he would once again lead a personal conquest and completely solve the Goguryeo problem once and for all.

"Father, don't worry! My son will definitely live up to my father's expectations." Li Chengqian said.

"Okay!" Li Er stretched out his hand and patted Li Chengqian's shoulder, turned around and rode on the steed with Wang Yuan's support, and was escorted away by a team of soldiers guarding the base and some guards.

In order to prevent news from leaking, except for bringing Wang Yuan and some personal guards to the base, his guard of honor stayed a hundred miles away.

After watching Li Er go away, Li Chengqian returned to the base.

"See Your Highness!" The person in charge of the base saluted Li Chengqian.

"When will the explosive pack be manufactured?" Li Chengqian asked.

"After this study, we've restated the data and we've been able to identify the destabilizing factors."

"Our scientific researchers have already started to deal with it, and within a day, we can produce a qualified explosive package." The person in charge of the base said.

"Very good! But don't be careless. After all, this explosive bag is an extremely dangerous thing. If you use it improperly, you should know what harm it will be." Li Chengqian nodded in satisfaction.

"Your Highness, don't worry! We will follow His Highness's instructions. Whether it is storage or other things, we are careful and dare not be careless." The person in charge of the base said humanely.

"This way I can rest assured!" Li Chengqian said: "How is the musket manufacturing going? Is there any progress?"

"According to the encyclopedia compiled by His Highness and the works of heaven, the progress of the musket is very smooth, and a musket has been produced." The person in charge of the base said humanely.

Gunpowder began to be used in the military at the end of the Tang Dynasty. The gunpowder was made into a ring, and the hanging wire was ignited and thrown out with a trebuchet; it made it explode in the enemy's army, and people called it artillery.

The first time that gunpowder was officially applied to military affairs was at the end of the Tang Dynasty, when Yang Xingmi's army besieged Yuzhang, and his generals used gunpowder to attack the city.

People also tied the gunpowder ball under the arrowhead on a whim, ignited the fuse and shot it out with a bow. This is the rocket.

In the Song Dynasty, wars continued one after another, which promoted the accelerated development of gunpowder weapons.

The government of the Northern Song Dynasty also established a gunpowder workshop for this purpose, and successively manufactured gunpowder arrows, artillery and other weapons with combustion performance as the mainstay, as well as thunderbolt guns, and explosive weapons such as thunderbolts.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, in 1259, a gunpowder with giant bamboo as a tube and gunpowder inside was made.

A bamboo tube is used as the barrel to fire projectiles, and the bamboo tube can only be used once.

There is also a kind of musket called the pear flower gun. One or two bamboo tubes are filled with gunpowder and tied under the head of the spear.

This kind of firearm was very popular in the Southern Song Dynasty, and the Jin people called it the flying firearm.

This is the earliest prototype of firearms in history. After more than ten generations and hundreds of years of hard work, there are various firearms such as firearms.

"What is the effect of the musket?" Li Chengqian asked, he did not expect that these people would research the musket so quickly.

The musket they are talking about is a matchlock gun, not the simple musket of the Song Dynasty.

"It has just been developed and has not been tested yet. His Highness and His Majesty came to the base, so it is not clear how powerful it is." The person in charge of the base said.

He was going to experiment with the effect of the newly manufactured musket, record the results, and then write a report to report to Li Chengqian.

Before he could start the experiment, Li Er and Li Chengqian appeared near the base, so he had no choice but to give up the experiment for the time being and go to meet the emperor and prince in person.

"Then what are you waiting for? Let's experiment with it now, and I want to see for myself how powerful it is?" Li Chengqian couldn't wait.

Gunpowder was an invention in ancient my country, and it was the first to be applied to the battlefield and military. It was also the first to invent muskets in my country.

The musket is recognized as the originator of muskets in the world, although our country is the first to use gunpowder to make muskets for combat.

However, it was developed by foreigners, and on this basis, the direct prototype of the later rifles-the arquebus was invented.

Finally, it was passed back to the East by the Portuguese in the West. In the first year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, during the Battle of Xicaowan in Xinhui, Guangdong, they obtained Western arquebus guns from two captured Portuguese ships.

The Bingzhan Bureau of the Ming Dynasty attached great importance to the imitation of matchlock guns, and modified them, and finally produced the bird gun.

Compared with the matchlock guns of the Portuguese, the bird guns were more lethal, and the Ming government began to equip the Ming army on a large scale.

If Li Chengqian could have developed a matchlock gun in the Tang Dynasty, it would be equivalent to advancing the era of hot weapons by hundreds of years.

"Hurry up and take the newly researched musket to the laboratory. Your Highness wants to witness the results of the musket experiment in person." The person in charge of the base said to the assistant beside him.

"No!" The assistant led the order to retreat, went to the manufacturing workshop, packed the newly manufactured musket in a long wooden box, and then took it to the laboratory where the musket was ready to be used for experiments.

When everything was ready, the assistant went back to report.

(End of this chapter)