Bang——
A loud bang resounded across the sky.
"What's going on?"
"What happened?"
Outside the Craftsmanship Department is an empty square. The craftsmen who were kicked out by Liu Chan are all chatting here. They don't care what the emperor wants to do behind their backs.
But there was a sudden loud noise that shocked everyone.
"Your Majesty!"
After panicking, the craftsmen instinctively rushed to the craftsman's office.
After all, the emperor and the prime minister are both in their craftsmen's offices at the moment.
As panicked as the craftsmen,
And Prime Minister Zhuge Liang.
"Your Majesty!"
Zhuge Liang's eyes widened and he asked in horror: "This——"
The explosion was indeed quite loud. Although Liu Chan had been mentally prepared, he was still shocked by the loud noise.
However, there was only one explosion.
Soon he smiled and said: "Success."
"Ah?" Zhuge Liang was stunned for a moment.
"Xiangfu!" Liu Chan asked Zhuge Liang as he walked out: "What's this going on?"
"The sound shook the sky!"
"Hahaha!"
"Xiangfu,
Come with me to see its destructive capabilities." As Liu Chan spoke, he had already stepped out of the yard.
But as soon as he arrived at the yard, he saw the craftsmen who were in shock.
"Your Majesty!"
A craftsman breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Liu Chan safe and sound.
"Everyone, stand down!" Liu Chan said angrily, "I have nothing to do."
Halo——
The craftsmen were originally worried that the emperor would be in danger, so they rushed in anxiously, but Liu Chan didn't accept their feelings at all.
After dismissing the craftsmen, Liu Chan and Zhuge Liang walked towards the place where the bamboo tubes had been buried.
Liu Chan took a leisurely stroll and was in a good mood.
Zhuge Liang was a little cautious.
After all, this movement is really big.
"Your Majesty, don't get too close." Zhuge Liang reminded.
Liu Chan has yet to explain why this thing makes such a big noise. Zhuge Liang, who experienced it for the first time, is naturally still a little confused.
Liu Chan smiled and said: "Don't be alarmed, Mr. Xiang. After this thing explodes, there is no danger."
Talking,
Liu Chan has come to the corner.
‘Oh shit——’
Liu Chan was shocked by the sight in front of him. He could clearly see it when he was still more than ten steps away.
The originally flat ground now has a pit with a diameter of about one meter.
‘Is it so powerful?’
This really surprised Liu Chan. Although in this experiment, he added a lot of black powder. After all, it was a bamboo tube as long as a chopstick and as thick as a wrist.
Just when Liu Chan was secretly surprised, Zhuge Liang, who was following him, was also surprised.
"This——"
"Your Majesty, is this caused by the explosion just now?"
Facing Zhuge Liang's surprise, Liu Chan put away his secret joy, nodded and said: "Exactly, it was the explosion just now."
"This..." Zhuge Liang was almost sixty, but at this moment he was like a curious child. He widened his eyes, walked quickly to the edge of the pit, and then measured the width and depth of the pit.
.
Liu Chan had already seen it. It was about one meter in diameter and half a meter deep. However, he didn't care about the width or depth of the pit.
While Zhuge Liang was still surprised at the pit, Liu Chan had already walked to the foot of the wall next to him.
"Xiangfu!" Liu Chan shouted: "Look here."
Zhuge Liang was stunned for a moment, thinking to himself, aren't you looking at this trap? Gu Feed
But when he came to Liu Chan's side, he was shocked again.
The originally clean and smooth walls were now covered in scars.
"Iron nails?"
As soon as Zhuge Liang opened his mouth, he was confused for a moment, and then said incredulously: "Is that the iron nail that Your Majesty put in the bamboo tube before?"
"Yes!" Liu Chan nodded in affirmation.
These iron nails were made by Liu Chan very early on. They are somewhat different from ordinary iron nails.
Ordinary iron nails are mainly used to fix wooden furniture. It is a small iron rod, but one end is slightly pointed, so that it can be easily set into the wood.
It’s just that these nails are different.
First of all, it is not a small iron rod, but more like a triangular object, and it is angular. The three corners are very sharp. Strictly speaking, it can be called a triangular nail.
At present, there are not many iron nails like this in the craftsmanship department, only a few hundred in total. They are not big, a little smaller than a fingernail.
In this experiment, Liu Chan put more than twenty pieces into the bamboo tube.
Because the pit is only five or six steps away from the wall, some of the iron nails were shot directly into the wall after the explosion.
Hiss——
Liu Chan was really shocked this time.
"Xiangfu——" Liu Chan pointed to the iron nails on the wall and asked, "How does this thing look like?"
Before Zhuge Liang could answer, Liu Chan added: "If this thing... exploded in the charging enemy formation... what did Xiangfu think... would be the result?"
"This -" Zhuge Liang said in shock: "If this thing is used on the battlefield, it will definitely cause heavy casualties to the enemy."
"It's just..." Zhuge Liang asked with some confusion: "Your Majesty, the power of this thing is really amazing, but it needs to be ignited every time before it explodes?"
"If you use it every time, you need such tedious operations..."
Zhuge Liang fell into deep thought as he spoke. If we only talk about its power, it can only be described as terrifying, but this operation is a bit too cumbersome and dangerous.
At this time, he finally knew why Liu Chan asked him to go back to the house just now.
"Hahaha!" Liu Chan laughed loudly when he heard this, and said: "Father, this is why I just asked you about skilled craftsmen."
"This thing is called a bomb...it needs a launching device."
"If the launch device is perfect enough, its range can reach thousands of meters."
When Liu Chan just said this, Zhuge Liang was immediately surprised and asked: "How much?"
"Thousands of meters!" Liu Chan said firmly.
This is beyond Zhuge Liang's cognition. Currently, he believes that the weapon with the longest range is the Han's three-bow bed crossbow, which can reach 600 steps, which is about a thousand meters when converted.
But what Liu Chan told him was that the range of this thing could reach several thousand meters.
More terrifying than a three-bow bed crossbow?
Liu Chan was secretly proud, thinking that Prime Minister, you were also born in the wrong era. If you were born eighteen hundred years later, the range of human weapons would have already crossed continents.
This is several kilometers, is it very far?
"Your Majesty, are you serious about this?" Although Zhuge Liang couldn't believe it, he thought that Liu Chan could make a three-bow crossbow. Now this thing called a bomb has such amazing explosive power, maybe it really can reach the range.
Thousands of meters.
"Of course!" Liu Chan nodded and said: "I need smelting craftsmen with superb skills. It is difficult for ordinary smelting craftsmen to meet my requirements."
This is a fact.
It is also for this reason that Liu Chan developed black powder five years ago, but did not use it for military purposes. The main reason is that the current smelting technology is still relatively backward.
This bomb can't be thrown by a trebuchet, it would be a waste of natural resources.
Zhuge Liang laughed when he heard this and said: "This is not difficult. We have such talents in our Han army."
"Really?" Liu Chan was overjoyed.
Although he liked history very much in his previous life, he didn't know about these smelting craftsmen. For example, in the Three Kingdoms, he was more familiar with the capable ministers and fierce generals.
As for these craftsmen and craftsmen, he doesn't know much.
Is there really such a great person among big men?
Liu Chan is very curious.
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This chapter has been completed!