"Three, two, one, let go!"

With the Beiyang officer raising his hand on the beach, waving his arm, the scattered smoke wrapped in iron, twenty-four new Ming Empire rockets rose into the air, dragging violent tail flames and roaring into the distance.

On the other side of the coast, Chen Mu held a telescope and put everything in his eyes. He said to Bai Yuanjie, "The ballistics are straighter than I imagined, and the spread is not too large."

At this moment, a large piece of door panels that stood 750 steps away had been burned into a sea of ​​fire by the rockets. Some door panels were broken and nailed by the rockets, and when they exploded, they were broken into wood chips. Some door panels were directly knocked to the ground because they could not withstand the weight of the rockets falling. More rockets failed to nail the door panels, and the scattered tincture oil attached to the sand and raised the black smoke that Chen Mu liked.

As Bai Yuanjie said, the Rockets' range is not as far away as Zhao Shizhen's original Divine Power Mechanism, but the effect is amazing.

The most eye-catching thing is that their spread range is greatly improved compared to the divine arrows used by the Land Master. Twenty-four thick rockets are scattered between forty and fifty steps at a range of 750 steps, which is already extremely accurate.

The tincture oil in the distance was still burning, and the heavy steps of the juniper slapped on the helmet and armor were heard from the observation deck.

Du Heizi brought Chen Mu a standard fire arrow, with a black body and looked like a cannon with a smaller caliber.

Chen Mu did not get started to pick up the rocket, but asked Du Song to put it on the stone pier under the observation deck, because Bai Yuanjie had already told him the parameters of the Fire Arrow, and one of them weighed eighteen kilograms.

The most interesting thing is that the Fire Arrow is divided into three sections. Needless to say, the pushing medicine of the propulsion part is, as the middle and front end of the warhead, there are 15 three-qian cast iron pills used to cause damage, but it also has the front end.

Very scheming front-end.

The cylindrical rocket's tip is conical, and a seven-inch-long and one-inch-thick iron spike is grown at the top of the cone, which is used to nail it in when the rocket hits the target. However, this is not what the rocket looks like when it is launched. During the launch, a crawl-through ceramic conical pot on the conical arrow jacket is also required, and a pound of tinder oil is contained in the pot.

Chen Mu felt that the reason why the Fire Arrow had a short range was because he wanted everything. He wanted to kill and injure the warheads with more than four kilograms, and wanted to set fire to the ship with more than two kilograms of spikes and tinder oil. How could it hit far if it was so heavy?

But this structure is very useful because the nails are very long and the rocket is very heavy. The turbulent oil tank will not fall off during flight. It will only be hit after hitting the target and will be hit and broken when the spike penetrates half an inch. Then the turbulent oil will be ignited while the explosives explode.

A ship's volley energy consumes nearly a thousand kilograms of gunpowder.

If this is the price of the Ming Dynasty, the cost of a round of gunpowder volley is nearly twenty-seven taels of silver.

“The cost is very appropriate.”

Chen Mu gave such an evaluation of this cost, and he said to Bai Yuanjie: "It is very appropriate to use 100 taels of silver to paralyze an enemy warship and clean up all the water and land soldiers on the upper deck."

Within fifty steps of walking, it means that you can basically put a large ship on the sea, and two jade-faced rakshasa shot out at the same time. It is impossible to burn the enemy ship alone, but paralyzing the enemy ship makes it lose its mobility and combat capabilities.

How do you say that?

If you are poor, you will be tactical, and if you are successful, you will be bombarded by me.

"Just be satisfied, if you want me to say that, it's just a kind of field. If you formulate those tactics, or let others do it, you should farm in Tianjin and do your Tianjin industrial base well, and you don't have to worry about war."

Bai Yuanjie said and nodded: "How about you persuade the emperor, Bai will take care of the matter of the East China Sea. You can go back to Hucheng to live, lead Beiyang, and control Dongyang remotely."

This was just Lao Bai's fantasy. In fact, in a few months, he would return to the Ming Dynasty with more than 1,200 remaining ships, and then stayed in Tianjin to guard the increasingly prosperous industrial base for Chen Mu.

Chen Mu pulled the corners of his mouth and went back?

He won't go back.

Going back must be a worry, so where can you be free overseas?

He simply put aside the topic: "So, the gunpowder gap in Asia is 650,000 kilograms. No, at least two rounds of fire must be used on the ship. In addition, the commonly used guns and cannons must be used, and at least two million kilograms of gunpowder must be stored."

Sailor Man had a very deep skill in changing the topic, and what he said made Bai Yuanjie look at him: "What are you doing to prepare so much gunpowder? You put the rockets sent by the imperial court together. Fifty rockets with one volley are enough to fight a battle, so you don't need to prepare so much, and it's not easy to use if you can't finish it for a long time."

Chen Mu was happy and nodded, "That's right."

Of course he didn't plan to stock up on so much gunpowder, but he still said lightly: "The situation is complicated. Brother Bai, you just came here but didn't know that the saltpeter production of Rangkong was very high. The two bows that arrived at the port last month sent Changsheng four thousand kilograms of salt, all of which were big blocks like stones."

"This is still a shortage of manpower. When you start digging, the output will be more in the future." Chen Mu smiled and asked Du Song to call the flag army to withdraw his troops and return to the city. He said to Bai Yuanjie: "House the stool, you can make medicine in the same month if you need it. Moreover, even if you make gunpowder directly, you can sell it if you can't use it."

"There is a Fei Er in the Dadongyang who is thinking about beating his neighbors all day long. Our gunpowder is priced at 100 pounds, 200 pounds, 300 pounds, 90 cents, and selling him 100 pounds, 100 and 100 and 100 and 100 pounds is not an exaggeration."

Chen Mu said as he took out a silver coin from Du Song's waist and handed it to Bai Yuanjie, saying, "Here, this is the Spanish money he has entrusted us to do. The silver they dug from Peru will be handed in the Dongyang Military Palace first."

"This year, 170,000 jin of silver was minted, totaling 2.732,000 taels. According to the contract, 409,800 taels were returned to the Ming Dynasty. This is the labor fee for minting coins, and the remaining 2.32,200 taels were used to mint him."

"Cast nine silvers and one copper coins for him, and cast four hundred, sixty-four, four thousand four hundred silver coins, and the Ming Dynasty received another twenty-three two thousand two hundred and twenty taels."

"So now he doesn't have to pay for business with us." Chen Mu said with a straight face when he said this, "As long as he wants, I will send it to him immediately. Anyway, his money is all here, so I can deduct it myself and I will never let him suffer any losses."

Bai Yuanjie is no longer able to complain.

Originally, he thought that he said that the one who counted money the most was the most exciting thing among the old brothers could at least find some comfort in his wasted years in the Nanyang Military Mansion, but he did not expect that the Dongyang Military Mansion would be even more powerful.

He didn't even mention taxes, but directly minted coins from other countries.

Before Lao Bai could think of what to respond to Chen Mu's complacentness, he saw horse hooves flying dust from the official road towards the port. Du Song had led two personal guards to draw more than half of them to protect them.

When the rider rolled off the saddle from far away and near, he saw that it was a Mongolian rider wearing armor and dusty armor. He fell to the ground through several steps and clasped his fists and said in a not-standard official language: "Report to the commander, Jincheng urgently reported that the war was going on in the east."

Chen Mu and Bai Yuanjie looked at each other, and he saw the heat and desire bursting out from Lao Bai's eyes.
Chapter completed!