The next day, an urgent military situation came from the camp.
Fu Tingye immediately rushed back to the Qingzhou camp and did not go with Hua Qingxue and Li Jingnan to test the weapons.
The place we were going to this time was very remote. Before leaving, Fu Tingye told Hua Qingxue to bring all the guards with him for protection.
The carriage drove forward slowly, and Li Jingnan sat in the carriage, curiously playing with the iron ball in his hand.
He weighed it with his left hand and his right hand, and asked: "Is this thing called Zhentian Lei? Will it be as powerful as thunder?"
"Well... I guess." Hua Qingxue replied hesitantly.
She hasn't tried the weapon's power yet, so it's hard to tell whether it can be as powerful as thunder.
Only after trying it could she know whether the ratio of gunpowder inside needed to be adjusted, as well as the length of the lead wire and the thickness of the outer shell. These all needed to be corrected over and over again during the test.
In fact, Zhentian Lei is a gunpowder weapon that appeared in the late Northern Song Dynasty. It has a round body and a big belly. It is filled with gunpowder and wrapped with pig iron on the outside. It is equipped with a fuse. When detonated, the pig iron shell will explode into pieces!
Although it looks rough at first glance, like an iron ball, the effect is basically the same as a modern grenade!
Hua Qingxue knew the best ratio, but the conditions were limited. The purification effect of each material could not be compared with modern ones. Because the purity was different, the ratio became less rigorous and precise. She could only estimate how to make a few. Different ratios are used to make up for the errors caused by different purity.
The guards escorted the carriage to the foot of the mountain.
Hua Qingxue and Li Jingnan went up the mountain first and climbed to a high slope so that they could watch the detonation effect.
The guards sent different proportions of Thunderbolts to the corresponding locations, about thirty meters apart from each other, and then placed three wooden men wrapped in iron armor near the Thunderbolts.
Hua Qingxue took a pen and paper, marked the serial number on the paper according to the position of each thunder, wrote down the ratio, and signaled to the guards around her to start detonating.
everything's ready.
The guards on the hillside held a red flag high, and the people down the hillside immediately took action, lighting the fuse and evacuating quickly!
Li Jingnan clenched her fists tightly, her heart almost in her throat!
Hua Qingxue also looked solemn.
She is good at talking on paper, but in the end, it is just theory on paper, and she will encounter various situations in actual actions...
boom! —Boom, boom, boom, boom! …
Explosions sounded one after another! Deafening!
Hua Qingxue's eyes widened in an instant, and she wrote down the serial number of the thunderbolt with the strongest fire.
Everyone else looked shocked. Although they were mentally prepared, they never thought that this thing was so powerful!
Li Jingnan's face turned red with excitement. He grabbed Hua Qingxue's hand and shouted, "It's Thunder! It's really Thunder! It feels like the whole mountain is moving!"
Hua Qingxue smiled and said to the stunned guards on the side: "Ask the people below to confirm whether they all exploded and whether there are dumb cannons. If not, start measuring the range now, and measure the diameter of the killing range with Zhentian Lei as the center. "
"Yes!" The guard turned and left, going down the mountain to deliver the message.
Li Jingnan was still too excited to control himself, and actually hugged Xiaodouzi behind him, "Xiaodouzi! Have you seen it?! It's really Thunder! Isn't it?! Is it?!"
Xiaodouzi's face was pale, and he was dizzy after being shaken by Li Jingnan, "Slave... my ears are ringing... what the emperor said is indeed a thunder that shakes the sky... "
"Okay, don't mess with Xiaodouzi." Hua Qingxue smiled and pulled the two away. She quite sympathized with the little eunuch. In fact, he was only five or six years older than Li Jingnan, and he was still a half-year-old child, but he worked hard every day without complaining. Taking care of the little emperor is not easy.
Hua Qingxue held Li Jingnan's hand and said, "Let's go down the mountain to see the explosion site."
"good!"
As a group of people went down the mountain, Li Jingnan was running and jumping. He was so excited that he wished he could get to the bottom of the mountain right away.
The people at the bottom of the mountain had already measured the distance. When they saw Hua Qingxue and others coming down the mountain, they respectfully handed over the measurement results.
"Miss Hua, the inventory has been completed. A total of eleven thunderbolts have been successfully detonated."
Hua Qingxue took the page recording the distance measurement and looked at it carefully.
Li Jingnan also craned his neck to look next to her, "Which one is the most powerful? Which one, which one?"
Hua Qingxue calculated silently in her mind and found that the explosion range of these thunderbolts was about five to eight meters.
She looked calm and said, "Let's go to the scene to see the condition of the dummy first."
Which one is more powerful depends not only on the explosion range, but also on the blasting power, so Hua Qingxue had people place wooden figures three meters, five meters, and eight meters away.
They started at the site of the first explosion and inspected the dummy for damage.
Basically, the three-meter and five-meter dummies were all torn apart, and all the armor on their bodies exploded! Although the eight-meter dummy fell to the ground, it was only slightly damaged, and the area wrapped in iron armor was unscathed.
The result surprised everyone, thinking that this thing could easily blast through the solid armor!
Hua Qingxue was not satisfied.
The noise is really loud... If you only consider frightening the horse, then this effect is enough.
However, judging from the degree of damage to the wooden dummy, there is an absolute fatality rate within five meters. If it exceeds five meters, it will only cause injury, and if it exceeds ten meters, it will not have any lethality...
If we look at it by the standards of grenades, the explosion range of five to eight meters is very reasonable. But the problem is that in order to ensure the effect, Hua Qingxue made these thunderbolts almost as big as a bowling ball!
The volume is ten times that of a grenade, but the effect is almost the same. What does this mean
It seems the gunpowder is still not pure enough...
Hua Qingxue sighed silently in her heart. No wonder Daqi's gunpowder weapons had almost no development. It seems that the reason lies in the purification technology. It is precisely because of the insufficient purity that it directly affects the power of blasting.
She lowered her head to make notes on the paper, then looked up and found a circle of people staring at her with strange expressions.
Hua Qingxue laughed, "What's wrong with you? Are you looking at what I do?"
Li Jingnan looked at her face and said, "Look... you don't seem satisfied..."
They were all shocked! It feels like this is the power of splitting stone and breaking metal that only gods can have! As a result, Hua Qingxue didn't even blink, and even frowned—
She is not satisfied? ?
Hua Qingxue just smiled softly and put away the pen and paper, "Well, it is a semi-finished product after all, and its power is limited."
Li Jingnan swallowed and asked her in shock: "You mean... can it be more powerful than this?"
"Yeah." Hua Qingxue remembered the difficulty of purification and nodded lightly, "I'll think of a way."
Li Jingnan rushed over suddenly! He hugged her and said, "Hua Qingxue! You are so amazing!!!"
Hua Qingxue was startled by him and couldn't help but smile, "I'm just giving it a try. Fortunately, there are enough materials. Otherwise, I would have to be cunning. I will have to ask the emperor for help in future manpower and material resources."
Li Jingnan leaned on her, raised his little face and said, "Don't worry! You are in charge of doing it! Do as many as you can. If there are not enough materials, I will issue an order to call on the whole country to help you find them!"
Hua Qingxue patted his head with a smile, "Then daughter, thank you, Your Majesty."
Li Jingnan was in a good mood, squinting like a cat being groomed.
Xiaodouzi suddenly looked away, feeling frightened, and lowered his head, not daring to look again!
Touching the emperor's head... Such a disrespectful behavior, even the Queen Mother has never done this...
…
Li Jingnan was in a good mood after seeing the power of the half-finished Sky Thunder, and couldn't wait to tell Fu Tingye the good news!
Hua Qingxue also happened to want to go to Qingzhou Camp, and she always felt a little uneasy when she thought of Fu Tingye being called away by an urgent military situation.
They got on the carriage and headed directly towards Qingzhou Camp without returning to Panshui City.
As we approached the military camp, we saw many wounded soldiers returning one after another.
Some with minor injuries were helped back to camp by each other, while those with serious injuries were lying on stretchers, not knowing whether they were alive or dead. Several military doctors were taking care of them back and forth, and these people formed a long queue.
Li Jingnan's expression changed immediately!
"What's going on?! Liao soldiers are attacking?" Li Jingnan opened the carriage door curtain and shouted at the driver in front, "Hurry up! I want to see Fu Tingye immediately!"
Hua Qingxue's hands clenched unconsciously.
When she thought of Fu Tingye going to the battlefield where the sword has no eyes, she felt panicked. Only at this moment did she realize that that man had occupied an important part of her heart.
The guards arranged by Fu Tingye for Hua Qingxue had passes to the military camp. They got off the carriage and went straight to the camp—
There were many soldiers gathered in the camp at this moment. Hua Qingxue and Li Jingnan suddenly rushed in. Everyone was startled.
Several of them recognized Li Jingnan's face and knew that this was the newly enthroned emperor. Just as they were about to salute, Li Jingnan had already rushed to Fu Tingye and asked eagerly: "What's going on? Why are there so many wounded soldiers outside?! We lost. Really? Did we lose again?!"
Hua Qingxue stared at the blood stains on Fu Tingye's body, wondering uneasily: Is it his blood...or someone else's? Is he injured...
Qin Laowu explained uncomfortably: "Your Majesty, this time the Liao soldiers are outnumbered..."
Li Jingnan's face was livid, as if he couldn't accept it, "So we lost again? We... how many people died?"
Fu Tingye said in a deep voice with no expression on his face: "Your Majesty, please be careful. We cannot judge victory or defeat based on this. We used 40,000 troops to repel 60,000 Liao soldiers. Even if there were casualties, we should never judge them as losses. It may affect us." Military morale.”
Li Jingnan was stunned and turned to look at Qin Laowu.
Qin Laowu nodded, "The general is right. This time the Liao soldiers made a surprise attack on Phoenix Ridge. The cavalry took advantage of the high ground and the impact was extraordinary. Fortunately, the general was well prepared and deployed 20,000 archers in advance to finally repel these troops." As for the Liao soldiers, casualties... are inevitable."
With 40,000 fighting against 60,000, it is simply impossible to defend without spending a single soldier.
Li Jingnan's little face tightened, and anger flashed in his eyes! He turned around and ran to Hua Qingxue and shouted: "Hua Qingxue! Let's use the Sky Thunder! Let's use the Sky Thunder to take revenge on them now! I want to kill them! I want to kill them all!!!"
He screamed and clawed, acting like a child who ran away after his toy was taken away!
"Your Majesty!" Hua Qingxue suddenly shouted to stop him, "Calm down!"
Everyone in the camp was shocked and looked at Hua Qingxue dumbfounded.
She... dared to yell at the emperor? !
Don’t want to live anymore