Behind Liangshan, there are mountains and rivers beside it. Qinbei Pavilion
"Brother, I have reconfigured the gunpowder according to the formula and made the thunder!"
Ling Zhen said to Sun Lei with excitement on his face. He was holding an iron ball in his hand, which contained the newly prepared gunpowder. The Song Dynasty called this kind of firearm Thunder.
Ling Zhen can be regarded as a technology geek. After going up the mountain, Sun Lei carved out an open space for him in the back mountain. He found Tao Zongwang and built several houses in one day. Then he got in and started researching gunpowder. He just came up with the results. He hurriedly looked for Sun Lei to have a look.
“The portion is pretty good.”
Sun Lei weighed the thunder and nodded. It's not too heavy. People with supernatural powers like Lu Zhishen and Wu Song can probably throw it very far. It can be regarded as a huge grenade.
"Brother, the saltpeter and sulfur have been purified according to my brother's instructions. The charcoal is the best switchwood charcoal!"
Ling Zhen looked at Sun Lei gratefully. Sun Lei did not break his promise. He really gave him enough support and gave him the opportunity to display his talents. He also never pointed fingers or interfered with his research. Without Sun Lei, he would have lost his life. It is impossible to research such a powerful gunpowder.
"How are you going to fire this thing? With a gun barrel?"
Sun Lei looked at Ling Zhen and asked.
"Brother, this is hollow, and the iron sheet is thin. It cannot be fired from the barrel. Just light it and throw it out, or fire it with a thunder cannon."
Ling Zhen pointed to the fuse on the thunderbolt and the thunder cannon (small trebuchet) next to it.
"Sajia, come and try it!"
Lu Zhishen took the Zhentian Lei and weighed it. He felt that the weight was just right and not too heavy.
"Is this thing waterproof?"
Sun Lei looked at Ling Zhen and asked.
"Don't worry, brother, the lead wire is waterproof and the opening is sealed with paraffin wax."
Ling Zhen nodded.
"Then throw it into the water and try it!"
Sun Lei pointed to the empty water surface, where was the best place to experiment.
As the fuse was lit, Lu Zhishen stepped forward and threw it with all his strength. The thunderbolt drew an arc in the air and landed nearly two hundred steps away. The thunderbolt fell into the water with a "pop".
Everyone held their breath and stared at the place where the Thunderbolt hit the water. Most people on the mountain were unfamiliar with firearms, which only existed in fireworks and rumors.
"boom!"
A dull loud noise came from the water, and a huge white water curtain rose up, with water splashing in all directions. The water curtain was several feet high, and its range reached five or six feet, causing waves in the calm water.
Everyone was dumbfounded when they saw the power of gunpowder. They had never seen anything so powerful. If it were used on the battlefield, it would kill people invisible. If one cannon was fired, no one would die?
"Brother, it's successful! It's successful!"
Ling jumped up excitedly. This was the power of firearms that he had been pursuing all his life.
"Not bad, not bad!"
Sun Lei clapped his hands and said with a smile, this power is much more powerful than what he casually tinkered with that day. It seems that this professional thing still needs professionals to do it.
"I didn't expect gunpowder to have such power!"
Xiao Jiasui and others sighed with astonishment on their faces. They had never been in contact with the military and did not know much about firearms, a secret weapon in the military. At most, they only learned about it from books. The firearms described in the books were not so powerful.
"Now this firearm is not complete, and it is greatly limited in actual charging, but it is perfect for use in defense and attack."
Sun Lei said with a smile.
"Brother, I don't know. Ours is only powerful. This sky-shaking thunder can be improved and turned into a "poison smoke ball", "dung cannon", "pear fire ball" and "fire ball"."
"There is only gunpowder in this sky-shaking thunder, and highly poisonous medicine is added to it. After the explosion, poisonous smoke billows, and you will die of poisoning due to bleeding from the nose and mouth. It is called: poison smoke ball."
"Add all kinds of excrement into it. After the explosion, it can splash within tens of feet. It can get into the clothes and armor, and the wounds can become sores and fester. That's the dung cannon."
"Add various broken nails, iron pear, and steel balls into it. After the explosion, all humans and animals within ten feet will be penetrated by the broken objects. There is no possibility of survival. That is the pear fireball."
"Add flint fragments and kerosene inside that are very easy to catch fire. After the explosion, the fire will continue nearby, and the body will not be extinguished even if it is touched by water! That is a fireball."
Ling Zhen excitedly introduced the many "wonderful uses" of Zhentian Lei. Sun Lei was dumbfounded and cursed himself for being too merciful. There were too many vicious moves on the battlefield, and even a group of gunpowder recipes could not be understood. People come up with all kinds of sinister and vicious ideas, it's like a double blow of physics and magic.
"How about using it in a cannon?"
Sun Lei could only ask helplessly, it would be better if this thing could happen with a gun barrel.
Putting gunpowder in thunderbolts and throwing them is just a way of using it. Although gunpowder was not very powerful in the Northern Song Dynasty, there were many tricks to play with it. Many of them were very advanced. They were at the forefront of the times. Looking back, Still not out of date after thousands of years.
The "Wu Jing Zong Yao" clearly records gunpowder weapons such as fireballs, fireballs, pear fireballs, thunderbolt fireballs, smoke balls, poison smoke balls, and iron-mouthed fire harriers.
There are 14 types of "cannons" that specialize in firing incendiary firearms. They are "whirlwind cannon", "tiger crouching cannon", "belly cannon", "lying car cannon", "traveling cannon", and "whirlwind five cannons" , "join the gun" and so on.
"Brother, I have asked Brother Tang Long to build a squatting tiger cannon!"
Ling Zhen pointed to the object covered with black cloth next to him and said. Tang Long smiled and lifted the black cloth, only to see a fat artillery squatting on the ground. It really looked like a crouching tiger.
"How far can this thing hit?"
Sun Lei asked, touching the slightly short and bulky cannon.
"Brother, because the gunpowder is more powerful, it won't be a problem for the projectiles to hit the other side!"
Ling Zhen pointed at the north bank of Liangshanbo. It would be no problem for his cannon to hit the entire waterbore.
"Isn't that ten miles away?"
Sun Lei looked a little bit, Liao'erwa was not small, and the north bank was the closest to Liangshan, which was more than ten miles away.
"Brother, the caliber of this cannon is not big enough. The wind and fire cannon boy from Jia Zhanku used to shoot for fourteen or five miles!"
Ling Zhen said with a proud face, fourteen to five miles is the artillery range record in the Song Dynasty army, and only he can do it.
"Take a shot and see!"
Sun Lei nodded, no matter how Ling Zhen fought, as long as the distance was far, it would be good.
"Got the order!"
Ling Zhen apologized excitedly and started loading gunpowder. Everyone looked curiously at how he could shoot a projectile so far.
Ling Zhen first loaded bags of gunpowder powder and compacted them with a cork. Then he put the round cannonball into the barrel and compacted it. The projectile could actually fit into the barrel. I can't say it was perfect, but it was not the same. Far.
"Isn't it easy to make this barrel?"
Sun Lei looked at Tang Long and asked with a smile.
"Let an elder brother make preparations. Brother Ling Zhen's requirements are not as strict as usual. He has requirements for how heavy the cannon is, how thick it is, and how thick the barrel is. He even personally participated in the construction. The younger brother and four blacksmiths worked with him to build it in five days. Such a cannon."
Tang Long said with a wry smile, it's not like he had never shot a gun before. The Western Army had also made gun barrels, but he had never had such strict requirements as Ling Zhen.
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