"Boom!" A loud bang resounded in a corner of Yangzhou Industrial Park.
"This, this, this!" All the civil and military officials in Yangzhou were there, including Xu Shu, Minister of Internal Affairs, Lu Su, Minister of Officials, Zhuge Liang, Minister of War, and even Mi Zhu, Minister of Household.
Now all the people are watching this secret weapon of Yangzhou under the leadership of Liu Ye, Minister of the Ministry of Industry.
After the loud noise was over, people were stunned, because the small hill in front of the target was blasted out of a hole, and those wooden target scarecrows had long been swept away.
"How about it!" Liu Mang said to everyone with a smile.
"Three miles?" The distance between the wooden target on Lu Su's observer side and himself and the others was a full fifteen hundred meters, three miles, or in other words fifteen hundred steps. This distance, to be able to hit such a distance, what kind of weapon is this
Lu Su originally thought that the bed crossbow was the whole of Yangzhou. You must know that when Lu Su was working in Jiangdong, he was captured by the bed crossbow, but now it is Yangzhou? Ten thousand? Book? Bar? .nsb. has achieved the third generation of bed crossbows, but Lu Su knows that no matter which generations of bed crossbows are compared with this copper lump in front of him, they are completely scum. The current range of the bed crossbow is only 700 paces, but this cannon can shoot 1,500 paces. "Haha, Sanlidi, this is just my thousand guns." Liu Mang said with a smile.
"Two hundred gold!" Mi Zhu, Minister of the Ministry of Finance, also spoke next to him. When he opened his mouth, it was money. The bronze cannon in front of him was made of money. The barrel of this bronze cannon is a thousand catties of copper. ah. Copper represents money. How many copper coins can be made from this thousand catties of copper? One thousand catties is equivalent to two hundred gold.
This is the thousand cannons, and the three thousand cannons cost six hundred gold, plus the shells, gunpowder, cannon frames, and horses. A thousand cannons cost three hundred and fifty gold. It is between four hundred gold, and the price of a three thousand cannon is even higher, at least a thousand gold. This makes Mi Zhu, who has always been stingy and eager to use it for two articles, how can he not feel distressed.
So as soon as he heard that the lord Liu Mang wanted to build this cannon, Mi Zhu immediately vetoed it. What kind of cannon are you building? Why don’t you recruit more soldiers and buy more horses? Now a war horse costs only ten gold. Even if it is shipped from Liaodong to calculate the freight and loss, it is only thirty gold a war horse. You can buy a thousand cannons Ten war horses, and one with 3,000 horses can even buy dozens of them. How many cannons you need to build an artillery battalion, I am afraid that you can build another heavy armored cavalry, but when Mi Zhu saw the scene in front of him, Mi Zhu couldn't help but swallowed a bit of saliva. Although those targets were scarecrows, those scarecrows were all wearing heavy armor made in Yangzhou. This kind of heavy armor is hard to say, but it is priceless on the black market now. Because the heavy armor of the Yangzhou Army is not only good-looking, but also very practical and has strong defensive capabilities, which is much better than that of other princes.
But such a pair of heavy armor is simply vulnerable to this thing called a cannon.
Those wooden targets were all broken up, and the iron armor was torn apart. If this was a real person, that death would be a bit too miserable.
"Zifang, are these cannons worth the hundreds of gold?" Liu Mang said to Sherlock with a smile.
"It's worth it!" Mi Zhu's face was cloudy, and he said that he was worth it. Indeed, this cannon shocked Mi Zhu. If this thing was blasted in front of the enemy, who would be able to withstand it? But it's not good for him, Mi Zhu knows Liu Mang's plan, there are five hundred cannons with a thousand statues, one is worth three hundred gold, five hundred cannons are worth 150,000 gold, and one hundred cannons with three thousand statues is worth one hundred thousand gold , Adding up the back and forth is 250,000 gold, how can I spend so much money!
Although this Yangzhou is rich, it can't stand such flowers. So Mi Zhu felt distressed.
"Don't worry, Zifang, with these cannons, are you afraid you won't have any money?" Liu Mang patted Mi Zhu on the shoulder to comfort Sherlock. Cannon, sweep those princes who stand in front of him to the corner of history one by one, no one can stop Liu Mang from unifying the world, he has no money in Yangzhou, so go grab the money, go to those wealthy places .
After being told by Liu Mang, Mi Zhu's complexion improved a bit.
But it’s not much better, and he almost spit out a mouthful of old blood again, “I’ve decided, one thousand of these thousand cannons, and three hundred of these three thousand!” Liu Mang waved his hand, the cannon What is it? This is a hot weapon. With this cannon, Liu Mang can attack the world. He is the one who pioneered hot weapons.
"Pfft!" Mi Zhu's face turned pale again.
'Zifang, what's wrong with you, Zifang? "Mi Zhu's face became ugly, "Doctor, doctor! "Mi Zhu was quickly taken down, and the doctor said he was fine but was frightened.
"This thing is called a cannon!" Zhuge Liang is much better than the others, he still looks calm, but that's just the surface, you didn't see that Zhuge Liang's feather fan was taken down by him coming.
Never, never seen such a thing, Zhuge Liang has seen the ballista, the trebuchet, and even the bed crossbow, but Zhuge Liang has never seen this thing called a cannon, which completely subverts Zhuge Liang traditional.
If this thing is used to bombard the city walls and gates, what kind of city walls can withstand it? You don’t need to give him twenty more cannons like Zhuge Liang and five thousand elite soldiers. He only needs to build a camp outside the enemy’s city, day and night. If you stop bombarding the enemy's city, you don't need to send troops to fight, and the enemy may surrender.
With this thing, there is no need for conspiracy and tricks. Zhuge Liang thought in reverse, what if the enemy used this thing called a cannon to attack him? Zhuge Liang thought for a while and could only shake his head. If under the same conditions, there is no effect other than going out of the city and fighting the enemy to death, the existence of this cannon will make the city useless.
"My lord, my lord, then, those three thousand, three thousand cannons, yes, don't look at them!" Ma Jun on the side said, seeing the group of big shots in Yangzhou surprised by his masterpiece, very proud.
"Yes, of course!" Liu Mang said to Ma Jun, one thousand cannons, three thousand cannons, these are what Liu Mang wanted, the reason why he made cannons first is because cannons are easier to make, as for muskets, It's not that Liu Mang doesn't want it, but he also knows that it's impossible for a person to eat a fat man all at once. The artillery can be made rougher, because its weight is there. It's enough to pile it up with copper, but this gun No, the musket is a delicate task, so wait until the cannon is formed before using it.
"Three thousand cannons!" Liu Ye shouted to his subordinates, and soon a cannon that was many times bigger than before was pushed up.
The big guy in front of him is about three meters long, his diameter is 110-130 mm, and his weight is about three to four thousand catties. On the side of the cannon, a pattern was slightly carved out, with a ferocious lion on it, as if trying to tear the enemy apart.
"Clean the barrel, release the ammunition, and release the projectile!" All these actions were taught in the books that Liu Mang brought back.
To clean the barrel, it is to send out the air in the barrel, and also to make the inside of the barrel cleaner, and to clean out the gunpowder that has not been burned to prevent the barrel from exploding.
Put in the gunpowder, this is the propellant, and the projectiles are some iron lumps, and then use a long stick to put the propellant and shells firmly.
"Light it up!" Soon a big torch was brought over. Liu Mang and the others naturally wanted to stay away from the 3,000 cannons. The lessons learned from the past are there. No one can completely guarantee that the cannons are safe, so everyone should stay away from hundreds of meters for safety.
Fortunately, binoculars have become popular among the Yangzhou army, so everyone took them out one by one to look at the scene over there.
"Boom!" The 3,000 cannons did not disappoint Liu Mang. This time, the target of the 3,000 cannons became a small city wall paved with bricks and stones. He even used cement to pave it for reinforcement, but In the end, he was directly bombarded by the cannonball. With such a level of combat, what other city wall in the world can be his opponent among this cannon.
"Two thousand and five hundred steps?" It's another astonishing statistic. The data from the thousand cannons just now was 1500 steps, which is already shocking, but now there is another one with 2500 steps. , This is simply, this is simply, Zhuge Liang and others don’t know what words to use to describe it, the good fortune of the sky and the earth, this is simply turning the palm thunders written by the immortals in the book into reality.
For the first time, Zhuge Liang was really glad that he chose the right lord. If this was an enemy, Zhuge Liang didn't know what to use to deal with it, because he had never seen such a thing.
"Haha, haha!" Liu Mang laughed loudly, "It's him, it's him! Make me a thousand or eight hundred of them!"
"My lord, no, no!" Mi Zhu over there struggled to come over, and immediately jumped up when he heard Liu Mang's words, if he built a thousand or eight hundred doors, he wouldn't let people live.
"My lord, even though I am rich in Yangzhou, I still can't afford the money of the thousand or eight hundred families!" Mi Zhu always thought that he was a prodigal. The original Mi family was called Xu Banzhou, meaning that the Mi family's money could buy half of Xuzhou. But that's only about one hundred thousand gold.
Now the lord Liu Mang is more prodigal than Mi Zhu. If his lord is a prodigal, then Mi Zhu is really a representative of diligence and thrift.
ps:?? The cannons have appeared and the horizontal push is still far away! Shuangwen is still far away! Come, come, the end of the month, robbery! Ask for a red envelope, ask for a reward!