After hearing Zhu Hesheng's words, he saw the grenade hammer that Zhu Hesheng took out - it was actually a small wine bottle with a wooden handle inserted into it.
A room full of Chao Zhen officials didn't know what to say.
A powerful gunpowder several times more powerful than black powder!
How great would it be if this were true?
If we really have this treasure, and it is unique to the Yanping Palace system, then the Qing Dynasty may really be coming to an end.
But is this possible? Why did Zhu Qipao accidentally discover such powerful gunpowder? Could this be the imagination of Zhu Hesheng, who was not very clear-headed?
Chen Yonghua looked at what Zhu Hesheng was holding, which seemed to be a small copper flask, and felt a little unreliable.
But he still smiled and asked: "Lieutenant Feng Guo, is the gunpowder you mentioned contained inside this small wine flask?"
"Yes." Zhu Hesheng said with a smile, "Military advisor, commander-in-chief, and prefect, why don't we try it in a place with fewer people?"
Chen Yonghua looked back at Qiu Hui, who had thick eyebrows furrowed, and Qiu Hui glanced at his precious daughter Shuzhen, who was standing in the corner with a small mouth, and could only nod his head and said: "Okay, okay, let's give it a try. ..... The commercial port is crowded with people and the space is narrow, making it inconvenient. Why not go to the north and find an open space at the foot of Goumuhan Mountain?"
Chen Yonghua nodded: "Okay, let's go to the foot of Goumuhan Mountain."
Zhu Hesheng smiled proudly, and in the midst of everyone's suspicious eyes, he inserted the grenade hammer back into his belt, and then held his hand to Qiu Hui, "General Rong, Xiaguan's gunpowder is very powerful. It was filled in a copper wine pot, and the official also put a lot of broken copper coins in it. Once it exploded, it would form many fragments (Eunuch Pang would never see his auspicious pot again), which would be extremely lethal. So onlookers watched People should not get too close to avoid being injured by fragments."
Qiu Hui nodded and said to his son Qiu Rong: "Ah Rong, can you take a group of soldiers to the bamboo forest at the foot of Goumuhan Mountain to arrange it. No other people are allowed to approach."
Qiu Rong received the order and turned around to set up the shooting range.
Seeing Qiu Rong leaving quickly, Qiu Hui and Chen Yonghua glanced at each other. Chen Yonghua said: "General Town, if this kind of violent gunpowder is really several times more powerful than black gunpowder, it's best not to let too many people know about it. ...Why don't you and I go take a look first?"
Qiu Hui understood that Chen Yonghua arranged this not only to keep confidentiality, but also to leave some dignity for Zhu Qipao - if the explosion failed, wouldn't there be fewer people to watch the joke?
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At the foot of Goumuhan Mountain and around the small bamboo forest, Qiu Hui's soldiers were already surrounding him. All roads in and out were blocked by soldiers wearing cloth-covered iron armor. No one is allowed in or out without Da Lao Hui's order.
At the edge of the bamboo forest, Yongmeng Su, Su Zhanshan, and Zhao Hongkui, together with several of Qiu Hui's soldiers, had followed Zhu Hesheng's instructions and used the shovel borrowed from Qiu Hui's house to reach the small bamboo forest fifteen steps away. At the location, a bunker was dug that could accommodate two people.
After digging the bunker, Zhu Hesheng's three men followed Qiu Hui's soldiers and retreated sixty steps away. Then they turned around and looked at the bamboo forest, stretching their necks to look around, waiting for the shocking explosion!
Qiu Hui and Chen Yonghua had already sat down on two Taishi chairs placed side by side behind two large shields. They were holding telescopes in their hands and were looking at the small bamboo forest sixty steps away.
At the edge of the small bamboo forest, Zhu Hesheng, who was full of confidence, and Qiu Rong, who was dumbfounded, had picked out a bamboo as thick as the mouth of a bowl. Zhu Hesheng tied a grenade hammer to a bamboo pole with a straw rope, and then carefully tore off a piece of red paper stuck to the bottom of the hammer handle. The hammer handle was originally composed of two semicircular wooden strips with a hollowed out middle, put together and tied tightly with hemp rope. There is a cotton thread stuck with a lot of powdery black gunpowder hidden inside the hollowed out part. One end of the cotton thread is deep into the hammer head of the grenade hammer, and the other end is stuck to the red paper. After tearing the red paper, the cotton thread is pulled out. a little.
Zhu Hesheng took out the huozhezi, pulled out the lid, and blew it twice more. The faintly burning huozhezi suddenly glowed red.
Immediately afterwards, Zhu Hesheng lit the fuse with a fire stick, and then he loudly said to Qiu Rong who was standing beside him: "Dao Scarrong, walk away!"
After shouting, Zhu Hesheng pulled another scarong, then ran towards the dirt bunker.
Although Scarrong didn't believe in any violent gunpowder, a copper hammer filled with black gunpowder exploded quite powerfully, so he didn't dare to seek death, so he followed Zhu Hesheng and ran behind the bunker.
"Squat down, squat down!" After reaching the bunker, Zhu Hesheng still did not dare to take it lightly. He shouted "squat down" while holding his head with both hands, looking cowardly and afraid of death.
Scarrong was braver than him. He just sat down with his back against the bunker without holding his head. He also wanted to laugh at Zhu Hesheng, but before he could say anything, there was already a "boom" behind him!
...
There was a loud noise, and at the same time a cloud of white smoke and a piece of fire rose up. A bamboo as thick as a bowl fell down, making a "click" sound, and then slammed to the ground!
Chen Yonghua and Qiu Hui put down their telescopes at the same time, stood up from the Grand Master's chair, and stared at the bamboo forest in front of them.
Of course they have seen the explosion of a gunpowder-filled bomb... To achieve the kind of momentum they are seeing, at least a kilogram of high-grade black powder must be filled into an iron-cased bomb.
And how big is that copper wine pot? I wonder if it can be filled with three ounces of gunpowder... Three taels of gunpowder can explode with the power of a pound of gunpowder. This gunpowder is really powerful!
Chen Yonghua suddenly thought of something and walked towards the bamboo forest in three steps and two steps. Qiu Hui also quickly followed. The two of them ran one after the other until they reached the explosion site.
At this time, Zhu Hesheng and Qiu Rong also turned out from behind the bunker and wandered to the explosion site.
The four of them didn't bother to talk, they just carefully observed the bamboo that was blown up by the grenade hammer - there seemed to be a lot of fragments after the explosion of the grenade hammer (there were also many broken copper coins filled in the grenade hammer), because during the explosion Many holes appeared on the dozens of bamboos within five or six steps of the spot!
The holes in the bamboo closer to the explosion point even penetrated!
If those bamboos were all Manchurian soldiers wearing iron armor, I'm afraid not a single one of them would survive... Even if they weren't killed on the spot, the fragments that penetrated into the human body would cause the wounds to suppurate and eventually kill them!
After Zhu Hesheng inspected the explosion scene, he finally showed a satisfied smile. He was about to say a few words to boast when someone next to him suddenly burst into tears: "Wow, the late king, the late king... If there had been such a thing earlier, How could we be defeated in Nanjing!"
Zhu Hesheng looked back and saw that it was Chen Jinnan who was crying!
The power of sweet gunpowder is of course unmatched by black powder!
If a grenade hammer weighing more than a kilogram of sweet gunpowder explodes properly, it will be enough to cause a square infantry square ten steps wide in front and ten steps thick to suffer heavy losses, and even directly lose its combat effectiveness!
And a grenade hammer of this weight is relatively easy to throw. It doesn't seem to be a big problem if it is thrown twenty or thirty steps. If a shield car is used to cover the "hammer soldiers" on the battlefield, I am afraid that even the genuine Eight Banners force will have a hard time holding it. ?
If during Zhu Chenggong's Northern Expedition to Nanjing twelve or thirteen years ago, Guo Xingye's army could be equipped with this kind of powerful gunpowder grenade hammer, Nanjing would be 100% defeated.
The surnamed Kuo would not have died young on the malaria-ridden island of Taiwan, and the anti-Qing patriots who followed him would not have suffered heavy casualties under the walls of Nanjing, nor would they have died in large numbers due to epidemics after arriving in Taiwan. .....
Therefore, half of Chen Jinnan's tears were shed for those anti-Qing patriots who died young because violent gunpowder appeared too late.
The other half of his tears were shed for the hope of victory in the anti-Qing cause!
With such a powerful grenade hammer, the army of Yanping Palace can have the strength to defeat more with less.
One against ten is unthinkable, but three against four is still possible. Nowadays, the number of green battalion troops in Guangdong, Fujian, and Zhejiang provinces is only 110,000. Including the banner army, the number is 130,000 to 40,000.
The Yanping Palace can muster about 30,000 armed forces... As long as it can fight one against three or one against four, the Yanping Palace will not be weaker than the Qing army of the three provinces in terms of force.
If the young Emperor Kangxi really forces Wu Sangui to rebel, then the opportunity for the Yanping Palace to sweep across the three provinces of Fujian, Guangdong and Zhejiang will come!
