"What are you doing in a daze? If you don't hurry up and load the gun and start firing, the general is getting angry." The soldiers who had just rushed back from Sun Youming looked at the gunners who were still in a daze and couldn't help but urge.
The sentry officer in charge of these squatting cannons stepped forward, grabbed a handful of gunpowder that was as sticky as dough from the barrel, spread it in his hand and handed it to the passers-by, saying: "It's not that we don't want to fire, you Look at the way gunpowder has become like this, it’s completely useless.”
"Then use fire to bake, fan, and no matter what, fire the cannon first." The soldiers once again urged the other party to fire.
The sentry officer's face turned bitter when he heard this, and he said, "You can't bake gunpowder with fire. Once it's dried, it's all over."
"I don't care what you do, you have to fire today anyway, otherwise your heads will be waiting to be moved!" the soldier pointed at the gunners in front of him and threatened.
The sentry's face became even more bitter after hearing this.
Of course he understood that the other party was just the person delivering the message, and these words were the meaning of the person behind the other party.
"Okay, hurry up and get ready, the general is still waiting." The soldier said to the sentry in front of him.
The sentry officer hesitated for a moment and said tentatively: "This gunpowder is really useless. Even if it is dried, it will take several days and the sun must be sufficient. See if you can talk to the general and don't use the cannon yet. "
"No." The soldier refused immediately. He immediately walked to a wooden barrel, reached out and grabbed a handful of gunpowder from inside, and asked, "Can't such a barrel of gunpowder be used? Is there anything in it that can be used."
The sentry officer said: "It's hard to say, but looking at the outer layer, I'm afraid the inside is also damp. Even if you pick out some that are barely usable, there won't be many of them."
"Let's take a look first and then talk. As long as the cannon can be fired, it will be fine. If the cannon can't be fired, then just wait for your head to move!" The soldier dropped the gunpowder in his hand and turned around to leave.
The sentry standing there looked bitter.
A pile of damp gunpowder trying to fire the Crouching Tiger Cannon would not kill him.
"Boss, do we still open these wooden barrels containing gunpowder?" A gunner on the side asked the motionless sentry.
After hearing this, the sentry officer hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and said, "Open it, open it all. I don't believe you can't find any usable gunpowder."
At this moment he also became cruel.
For the sake of his own head, even if he wanted to change, he would have to conjure up some gunpowder.
Several gunners gathered around several wooden barrels and scooped out the food one by one with their hands.
All the wet gunpowder was thrown around the barrel, just to find the gunpowder that could still be used inside.
"You are too slow. Bring an ax and break the barrel from the middle." The sentry asked his men to get the ax.
If there is still gunpowder that can be used in the barrel, it can only be in the middle of the barrel.
The ax was quickly fetched.
The sentry officer picked up the ax with one hand, walked to a wooden barrel, raised the arm holding the ax and slashed hard, and immediately cracked open a wooden board, causing the gunpowder inside to spill out.
Then he hit the barrel with a few axes, and the barrel was completely cracked open.
The gunner who was waiting aside hurriedly leaned over to pick up the gunpowder scattered on the ground, rummaged through it, and finally grabbed a handful of gunpowder and brought it to the sentry officer. He said: "Head, there are indeed some that are not very wet in there." Gunpowder should be barely usable, but its power cannot be guaranteed."
"As long as it can be used, find them all, and you guys, use an ax to crack open the remaining barrels and find out the usable gunpowder inside." The sentry officer handed the ax in his hand to a gunner next to him. .
Soon, all the remaining barrels were cracked open.
The gunner collected some barely usable gunpowder from it and piled it together separately.
"That's it?" The sentry officer looked at the small pile of gunpowder in front of him with disappointment on his face.
He thought he could find out how much, but he didn't expect that there was only such a small amount of gunpowder, which was not enough to fire several shots.
The gunner on the side smiled bitterly and said: "This is already a lot, head. If there are more, there is really no place to take them."
"Okay, I don't really blame you." The sentry officer didn't really blame the gunners. He also knew that it was not easy to get such a small amount of gunpowder, but such a small amount of gunpowder was simply not enough.
The gunner on the side stepped forward and said: "Boss, do you think it's time to fire as the general said?"
"Yes, fire first and let the general listen to the sound of the cannon." The sentry officer reacted and immediately asked his gunners to prepare to fire.
In order to prevent the gunner from wasting gunpowder, he specifically warned: "When firing the cannon, load less gunpowder, as long as it can fire, do you understand?"
"The tigers and thieves are hiding so far away, and they can't hit them if they don't have enough gunpowder!" said a gunner.
The sentry officer's face darkened when he heard this and said: "You know that the tiger thieves are far away from us, so you filled them with gunpowder. Can you hit people with just these tiger squatting cannons?"
"Then why fire? We don't have much gunpowder to begin with. It would be wasteful to fire again. I think it's better to wait until the tiger thief gets close before firing." One of the gunners suggested.
The sentry officer stared at the gunner who spoke and said, "Do you think the general doesn't know that the tiger thieves can't be hit? The general wants to scare the tiger thieves with the sound of cannons, so that the tiger thieves will not dare to attack easily. You just need to make the sound of firing, and the rest will be fine." It’s none of your business.”
It is easy for these gunners to just make the sound of firing.
Several gunners each removed a little gunpowder, and soon the Crouching Tiger Cannon was fired from the fort wall.
However, because not much gunpowder was used, the sound of the cannon was a bit unsatisfactory, but it was still the sound of cannon.
The sentry in charge of the gunners took a look at the remaining gunpowder and saw that it was less than half. Once the enemy came, it would only be enough to fire two or three cannons.
Sun Youming, who was on the other side of the fort wall, was very satisfied when he heard the sound of cannons.
I saw him saying to his own soldiers: "Did you see it? If you don't force these people, they will just blame each other. If they say they want to behead their heads, the wet gunpowder can also make the cannon go off for you."
He naturally knew that gunpowder could no longer be used when it got wet, but he didn't think that all the gunpowder was unusable. His men must have a way to get usable gunpowder.
He thought he knew all about the little tricks of his subordinates.
"General, it seems that the sound of this cannon is not loud, and the amount of gunpowder may not be enough." said the soldier next to him.
Hearing this, Sun Youming chuckled lightly and said: "You think that I let them fire the cannon just to scare the tiger thieves. Naturally, I have to save some gunpowder. When the tiger thieves attack, I will let the gunners in the fort Increase the amount of gunpowder and hit the motherfucker hard.”
"The general is wise." The soldier complimented.
The sudden sound of cannons in the fort really startled Zhao Wu.
He also didn't expect that there were cannons on Shicheng Island.
Fortunately, he didn't expect to rely on human lives to build the military fort in the beginning. He stayed here just waiting for the soldiers behind and the cannons shipped from the sea.
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