Xiao Han had seen movies like Tunnel War and Gun War when he was a child, and he had seen them more than once or twice!
The simple tools and materials in the movie gave Xiao Han incomparable confidence.
There is no reason why the skilled craftsmen from the Tang Dynasty can't make something that a run-down village could make by ourselves!
Just do it!
Draw the pattern of Hand-Thunder and let someone outside do it!
In less than two days, someone sent all the materials Xiao Han needed.
It is said to be a gun, but in fact, this thing is not something that can be thrown easily!
It has a shell the size of a pineapple, plus fuses, gunpowder, etc. If you put them all together, it would weigh forty or fifty kilograms!
With this size, even if Ren Qing, the best martial artist among them, could throw it, he would only be able to throw it for about ten meters.
If you really take it to the battlefield like this, you don't have to think about it, it will definitely make a joke that the attack distance is ten meters, but the attack range is twenty meters.
Naturally, Xiao Han would not do such a loss-making transaction as throwing a thunderbolt and killing one of his own!
Of course, the idea of using it as a cannonball is not very realistic.
Because the quality of today's steel pouring is simply not up to standard, bubbles and cracks are all hidden inside! Even if Xiao Han was crazy, he would not dare to use those steel materials to make cannon barrels!
As for designing this thing to be so big, Xiao Han's intended use is to use it with a trebuchet in the future!
Think about it, in the future when Datang goes to war, the catapults will no longer throw out monotonous stones, but explosive bombs! Who can carry this thing?
However, today is just to test the power, so the trebuchet can rest and just hope to detonate it.
Carrying the "big pineapple" to the experimental field outside the valley, Xiao Da personally packed them together, and then buried them shallowly in the middle of the forest.
Originally, looking at the thick cast iron shell, Xiao Han was a little worried that the medicine would not be strong enough to explode it!
However, when the fuse was burned, a loud noise exploded in the forest!
Xiao Han knew how unnecessary his worries were!
The loud explosion shook the entire forest!
The wild beasts in the mountains and forests were frightened and chatted in panic, and the autumn leaves on the trees were like rain! Falling from the top of my head!
The gunpowder smoke was blown away by the mountain wind, and Xiao Han and others stood up from a distance, shaking their stunned heads.
As far as the eye can see, the flat ground has long since disappeared, leaving only a large pit one meter wide and half a meter deep on the ground!
The original shrubs and small trees next to the big pit have completely disappeared, with not even a root hair left!
A little further away, those trees as thick as thighs were directly penetrated by flying shrapnel!
Only a big tree hugged by one person can barely withstand the power of this blow!
Seeing this scene eagerly, Xiao Han felt that there was no need to look for those dummies wearing armor that were blown away.
Under the huge power of firearms, those armors that can withstand cold weapons are probably not much different from a piece of thick cardboard!
"Why, why are you so powerful?" Xiao Han walked slowly forward, brushing away the leaves that fell on his head, and swallowed hard while looking at the devastation in front of him!
The love between his children that he visited a few days ago is gone, and he still doesn't know: the formula of gunpowder has been improved to such a terrifying extent by Xiao Da and others!
Although its ingredients are still the most basic black fire-medicine ingredients.
But the steps of carbon selection, saltpeter refining, and sulfur purification are probably something even Xiao Han can’t understand now!
In this case, even if someone gets the formula, it is impossible to achieve the current power!
After all, everyone can make the recipe, but only Xiao Da and the others can do the craftsmanship!
"Well, the direct killing radius is twenty-five meters, and the effective killing radius is thirty-five meters! The safe distance is at least fifty meters!"
Unlike the wide-eyed Xiao Han, Xiao Da was holding a small notebook at this time and quickly recorded the data of this experiment in it, seemingly not surprised at the damage it could cause.
Right! These things were all made by his own hands, and he should have already had a good idea of its power.
"This kind of power! If it were thrown into a cavalry charge, I'm afraid it could kill dozens of people with just one bullet!"
Ren Qing frowned and made a very fair evaluation of the power of the hand-thunder.
"Dozens of people?"
Xiao Han blinked, picked up a piece of shell fragment from his feet, put it under his nose and smelled it, his small eyes seemed to be shining with a different kind of light.
"You think, if you fill it with small steel beads, and then calculate the time of the fuse, let it explode in mid-air! Would the result be better?"
"Fill it with steel balls and explode them in mid-air?"
Hearing Xiao Han's words, Ren Qing and Xiaodong subconsciously raised their heads and looked above their heads!
Above the head, everything was quiet, except for the occasional fallen leaves falling from the tall treetops!
However, when they imagined steel balls falling from the sky like rain, a penetrating chill instantly eroded into their bones!
I go! What is a ruthless person? This is a ruthless person!
Compared with Xiao Han who could come up with such an idea, Ren Qing felt as pure as a newborn bunny!
He raised a knife and killed people all his life! It’s not as good as someone else’s simple improvement!
"What if we add poisonous smoke?"
Just when Ren Qing and others were feeling extremely cold, another suggestion hit their fragile hearts again.
Xiao Da! That honest young man who loves silence the most! No matter how you look at it, this kind of advice shouldn't come from his mouth, right?
"Am I getting old?" This absurd thought arose in Ren Qing's heart. When he looked at Xiao Han and Xiao Da again, a feeling of frustration arose spontaneously, as if the waves behind in the Yangtze River pushed the waves ahead, and the waves in front died on the beach.
"Ahem, poisonous smoke won't do. No such poison can withstand the high temperature of an explosion! Besides, poisons are not cheap. It's really too expensive to use."
"Yeah, that's right! Hey? Lord Marquis, isn't it too easy to just use a trebuchet? Can we seal the gunpowder in the arrow stalk of the crossbow?"
The master and servant were chatting in full swing! Completely ignoring the horrified looks of the people around him as if they were seeing a devil!
It's strange that the most powerful weapons in the world are often born in the hands of some peace-loving people!
For example, the inventor of Gatling was a doctor. His original intention of inventing this machine gun was just to reduce the number of soldiers, so that fewer people would be injured and die.
Xiao Han does not have the lofty ideals of Dr. Gatlin. What he wants to do most is to exchange the enemy's maximum casualties at the minimum cost for his own side!
In other words, his kindness is only for his own people, and he can only say sorry to his enemies.
Have a bodhisattva heart and use thunderous means!
