"Swish, swish, swish!"
Sun Ming kicked his feet on the ground and kept retreating.
This was the second time he felt that death was so close to him.
He quickly reached into his arms and took out a round iron lump and a fire stick.
This is the secret weapon he developed, a low-end version of the grenade.
Originally, I wanted to show it to King Tang, but the other party didn't believe that Sun Ming could develop a new weapon, so he didn't have time to show it.
Unexpectedly, he could save his life at a critical moment.
But Wang Yuan's speed was too fast and would not give Sun Ming a chance to light the grenade.
Alas, technology is still too backward.
If there were later generations of pull-tab grenades, they would have exploded by now.
"Firearms, strange firearms, why haven't I seen them before?"
Wang Yuan was suddenly stunned, his eyes full of inexplicable color.
Firearms were not a rare thing in the Ming Dynasty, but most of them were three-eye cannons.
Fill a confined space with gunpowder, then ignite the gunpowder. The powerful impact will accelerate the projectile to an incredible degree, causing damage to the enemy.
But the firearm Sun Ming took out did not comply with this principle at all. Is this thing also lethal?
When Wang Yuan was stunned, Sun Ming found the right opportunity to light the grenade and then threw it behind him.
The killing radius of the grenade is still very large. Sun Ming is not far away from Wang Yuan. If he throws it in the middle, Wang Yuan will not survive and he will die. He can only control the distance as much as possible and throw it behind Wang Yuan.
"Boom!"
In an instant, a violent explosion sounded in the palace.
Sun Ming had been lying on the ground with his head in his hands, so he was not injured.
But Wang Yuanke was unlucky. His body was pierced by broken shrapnel, and his body became bloody and bloody, and his original appearance could not be seen clearly.
"This, what exactly is this? Why is it so powerful?"
Wang Yuan said unwillingly.
"Want to know? Go down and ask the Lord of Hell. You want to kill me, but you don't have the ability yet."
Sun Ming shook his head and stood up.
He no longer had the fear just now, and even pretended to have a pussy.
This feeling of surviving a disaster is really great.
"Master, Master, what's going on?"
A group of people ran out of the west courtyard.
These people are all members of the Sun family, and Sun Ming asked them to make grenades in the West House.
"Old Wang, it's okay. I'm just going to practice with him. Everyone, please go back quickly. Time is tight and the tasks are heavy, so there is no room for delay."
Sun Ming acted very relaxed, as if he had forgotten the life and death moment just now.
Wang Laowu was still very worried, but he also knew that this was the Tang Palace, and they were living under someone else's roof, so they couldn't be too presumptuous.
If the King of Tang is angered, the Sun family will also be implicated.
"Okay, let's go back to work, Master."
Wang Laowu saw that Sun Ming was indeed fine, so he led everyone back to the West House.
At this moment, Liu Zhongyi finally rushed over with the servants from the palace.
"Uncle, are you okay?"
Liu Zhongyi said with worry on his face.
"It's okay, it's just a small shrimp, it can't hurt me."
Sun Ming didn't want Eunuch Liu to worry, so he said lightly.
Hearing this, Liu Zhongyi took a deep breath and then walked to the body.
"Wang Yuan, the steward of the palace, how could it be him?"
Liu Zhongyi gritted his teeth and said.
"It's a pity that we didn't catch him alive. I don't know where he came from. Father-in-law, I think it's time to conduct a thorough investigation of the palace. We must not let these cats and dogs ruin things."
Sun Ming reminded.
"Well, it should be so. By the way, you haven't told our family yet, what happened to the explosion just now?"
Liu Zhongyi asked to get to the bottom of it.
"It's the kid's new thermal weapon. It's pretty powerful."
Sun Ming did not hide it. He originally came to help King Tang, but people had no confidence in him and ignored him.
It is now the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the gap in thermal weapons between our side and the West has become apparent.
In 1547 AD, French watch businessman Marc added flint to the original revolver, creating the world's first breaklock gun.
The shooting speed is fast, and it can still be effectively fired even in harsh battlefield environments such as rainy days, making the development of muskets advance by leaps and bounds.
Nowadays, the Ming Dynasty has very few matchlock guns, and more are still using very primitive thermal weapons such as three-eyed fire guns.
In addition, the Ming Dynasty's craftsmen cut corners, making the already backward weapons even worse.
As far as the Ming Dynasty is concerned, the generation difference in thermal weapons is still acceptable, and it does not reflect a big strategic gap.
Because before the advent of real bullets and repeating guns, muskets were not as easy to use as imagined, especially when a large-scale legion was attacking. You only had a chance to fire one or two shots, and the war horses had already rushed to the position.
What awaits the Musketeers will be people falling on their backs and being harvested without any resistance.
Of course, this was before the advent of explosive bombs.
Ordinary solid cannonballs can only shoot in a straight line. Although they can bounce back repeatedly after landing, causing greater damage, their accuracy is poor and limited by terrain.
If it is a muddy grassland or a place with loose soil, the power of the artillery will not be reflected.
The time point when the blooming bomb appeared was 1803, which was more than 100 years later.
Therefore, if the modern Ming Dynasty strives to catch up with Western technology, it will still be easy to catch up.
In terms of firearms and technology, it was the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, not the Ming Dynasty, that really widened the gap between the West and the West, and was even unable to catch up.
The emperors of the Ming Dynasty all saw the importance of firearms.
It's just that during Zhu Di's time, due to limited technology, he could only purchase it from the West at high prices, so each Hongyi cannon was a precious piece of equipment, with a horse and a team as standard.
By the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were problems such as funding and official corruption. It was not that Chongzhen didn't know how fragrant firearms were, or that he didn't want to make better firearms, but that he had no money.
They couldn't even pay the troops, let alone build cannons.
As for the reason why the Qing Dynasty did not develop firearms, first of all, the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty were all dominated by cavalry. The cavalry came and went like the wind, and the muskets could not lock the target at all.
Secondly, the rulers always think of themselves as the heavenly dynasty and are very disdainful of new things in the West.
Until the Opium War broke out in 1840, the self-righteous Manchus were beaten to a pulp and signed the Jinling Treaty, which was humiliating and humiliating to the country.
A big fight woke everyone up.
Both rulers and ministers were aware of the huge gap between the East and the West.
But if we try to catch up at this time, we are already helpless.
"Well, uncle, you should go back first. Leave the matter here to the old slave. I will explain it to the prince after the matter is settled."
Liu Zhongyi said.
"good!"
Sun Ming nodded.
Then he returned to the main room in the east courtyard.
"Has anyone been caught?"
The king of Tang Dynasty still sat firmly on Diaoyutai.
"Well, it's Wang Yuan, he's already dead."
"Father, the new weapon I researched may be able to turn the tide of the war!"
Sun Ming said firmly.
