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It has been three months since the establishment of the Jin Dynasty. In these three months, under the leadership of Wanyan Aguda, the Jurchens withstood the four consecutive attacks by Xiao Feng, the king of the Southern Court of Liao, causing the Liao Kingdom to drop nearly 60,000 corpses in Huining City. Even so, the Jurchens also suffered heavy losses. Their total strength was only 20,000, but they had lost more than 4,700 people in the uninterrupted battle. Moreover, winter has arrived, and the Jurchens have almost no food to eat.

In the situation, as the emperor of the Han people, how could he bear to let them fight hungry? So my kind heart once again gave good luck and sent 10,000 stones of military ration to the Jurchens. If it was not for nothing, they wanted to exchange wild ginseng, mink, bear skin, tiger skin, deer antler, etc., and the price was not low. As for me, I don’t have time to care about them to fight to the death. I want to see how my precious cannons are like

After leaving the city, we went straight to the artillery camp. Wu Song stepped forward and handed me the emperor's gold medal, and was put in by the guard post. The artillery camp now can be said to be under heavy protection, and there are ten steps inside and five steps inside. We went straight to the headquarters of the Ordnance Department in the artillery camp. All the officials of the Ordnance Department who had been notified came out to greet me, and they were ranked first and officially booming the sky Lei Lingzhen and Gongshu Natural.

Gongshu Natural and Ling Zhen are the first and second leaders of the Ordnance Department. Gongshu Natural is the left assistant minister of the Ordnance Department and Ling Zhen is the right assistant minister of the Ordnance Department. Although Gongshu Natural is naturally the boss, everyone knows that Gongshu Natural can do nothing except inventing and creating, so the actual boss of the Ordnance Department is still Ling Zhen.

"Long live my emperor, please come to see you."

"Flat, please come up quickly, hahaha, Gongshu, Ling, take me to see our artillery and crossbows."

"Yes, please, the emperor." When it comes to cannons and crossbows, Gongshu and Ling Zhen were extremely excited and took me to the test site.

After about ten minutes of leaving, he arrived at the test site of artillery and crossbows. Ling Zhen stepped forward and gave orders. Soon, soldiers brought six artillery and ten crossbows to the test site.

There are three types of artillery, one is a cannon, one is a naval gun smaller than the cannon, and the other is actually a grenade launcher that appeared on the Asian battlefield during World War II. However, the one in front of me is a little larger and has a bracket, which looks more like a small mortar. After asking, I found out that this little thing was a product of Gongshu Nature and Ling Zhen's joint research.

"Your Majesty, I still remember that the use of artillery mentioned in the last time you came to the military camp, said that artillery is in plain combat, city defense, and naval combat. However, it plays a much smaller role in mountain wars and jungle wars. That is because in mountain wars, the volume and weight of artillery are too large, and dragging forward is very labor-intensive and animal-powered. The ground is uneven. Assuming that artillery is difficult, it is easy to hurt people due to unstable artillery fixation. In jungle wars, there are dense trees and small spaces. Our current field artillery is inconsistent

There, he calmly turned the gun head, and he would be unable to aim because of the dense woods ahead. Therefore, after discussing this matter with Gongshu, we both had a small cannon suitable for jungle warfare and mountain warfare. This cannon is small in size and light in weight, and it is even easier to operate with a soldier. However, due to its small size, the maximum range is only about one hundred feet, and the effective range is only more than sixty feet." After Ling Zhen said, he and Gongshu naturally showed a look of shame on his natural faces.

After listening to it, I thought a little bit. The maximum range is about 100 meters, which is about 330 meters in later generations, and the maximum effective range is 60 meters, which must be about 200 meters. In those dense jungles and relatively steep potholes, these ranges are enough.

"Hahaha, my dear brothers, please don't do this. What you have done has been a great achievement. Come on, let me first show these cannons and this crossbow experiments." He encouraged Gongshu Natural and Ling Zhen, and then couldn't wait to ask them to arrange the artillery and crossbow demonstrations.

The first demonstration is the artillery. The first round is the two heavy artillery with cannons. Five people operated it, equipped with six sub-guns. Each cannon fired ten times. Under the command of the cannon commander, two heavy artillery began to fix the cannon, fill the sub-guns and projectiles, fix the sub-guns, and the gunner aimed. After everything was ready, the artillery commander gave the order, and saw a tongue of flames running out of the muzzle with a deafening loud noise. In an instant, a stream of smoke rose from the mountain about fifteen miles outside the test site. After the two cannons were fired, the gunner quickly fixed it.

Pull out the iron bolt of the gun, exit the gun, fill the projectile again, replace the gun, fix, aim, ignite, and fire, and control the cannon at a very fast speed. The other three soldiers handed over the loaded gun at the moment the gunner and commander retreated the gun, and quickly cleaned the guns, filled and compacted the gunpowder, and inserted the leads. All the steps were very fast. Seeing that they had finished firing the ten guns, I didn't say anything, but just signaled for the next demonstration. Ling Zhen was signaled by me, and Ma Shan arranged to start a new round of demonstrations.

The second round of demonstration, the carrier-based artillery demonstration. Since there is no ship, it can only be tested on land. The same as the heavy artillery demonstration just now, the soldiers manipulated the artillery very quickly and completed the second round of demonstration skillfully and quickly.

I am very interested in the third round of demonstration. Since this mortar-like small cannon has a great dominant role in future mountain jungle warfare, I am particularly concerned about this. The shells of this small cannon have two parts, one is a bullet and the other is a fired sub-gun. Unlike heavy cannons, this sub-gun is disposable. The walls of the gun are very thin and easy to deform. They throw them away after use. They put the gunpowder into this small cylindrical sub-gun in advance, and made a cylinder with a cover on the side. The opening on the side can be placed in the sub-gun, and then put the projectile into the cylinder, ignite, fire, open the side cover, take out the sub-gun that was replaced and thrown away, and then fill it again. The entire filling, aiming, and firing process is only about one minute. On the battlefield where time is life, it can be said that this small cannon can play a role in the victory or defeat of the war.

"Hahaha... OK, OK, OK, the two beloved ministers are really the lucky stars of my Song Dynasty. With this little cannon, used in special operations in jungle and mountainous areas, our army will sweep everything and be invincible. Reward, I will reward you two and your Armory Department's people, Xiao Douzi, pass on my will. Special Jin Gongshu naturally and Ling Zhen are barons. There is a gold book, and the Armory Department will be rewarded with 100,000 guanwens. The two beloved ministers will allocate their own contributions." After that, I quietly said to them, "You two will be separated from these 100,000 guan, and you will give them all. I will give you one more share after you go back." In fact, they are extremely happy to have a title, because most of the titles are obtained from military merits. Craftsmen like them who are craftsmen who are genius by scholars will not get a title in the past, so they can imagine what they are feeling now

"Two my dear friends, try this crossbow for me to see," I said to them with equal excitement.

"Yes, the emperor, I will arrange it now." Gongshu replied naturally.

Ten soldiers holding crossbows walked to the designated place of Gongshu Nature and stood there, and then about five to seven hundred steps in front of them, soldiers hurriedly placed scarecrows there to serve as targets. During the Song and Yuan dynasties, one step was about 30.7 cm, which was about 150 to 200 meters in front of the demonstration soldiers. I turned to ask Gongshu Nature and Road.

"Old Lu, can your crossbow shoot that far?"

"Don't worry, my old Lu's things are bad, haha?" Gongshu naturally replied confidently.
Chapter completed!