Xiao Han had watched movies like Tunnel War and **War when he was a child, and he had seen them more than once or twice!
The simple tools and materials in the movie gave Xiao Han incomparable confidence.
There is no reason why the skilled craftsmen from the Tang Dynasty can't make something that a run-down village could make by ourselves!
Just do it!
Draw the pattern of Hand-Thunder and let someone outside do it!
In less than two days, someone sent all the materials Xiao Han needed.
It's said to be **, but in fact, this thing can't be thrown at all!
It has a shell the size of a pineapple, plus fuses, gunpowder, etc. If you put them all together, it would weigh forty or fifty kilograms!
Even if Ren Qing, the best martial artist here, throws this size, it will only take about ten meters and it will be over.
If you really take it to the battlefield like this, you don't have to think about it, it will definitely make a joke that the attack distance is ten meters, but the attack range is twenty meters.
Naturally, Xiao Han would not do this kind of loss-making business by throwing a thunderbolt and killing one of his own!
Of course, the idea of using it as a cannonball is not very realistic.
Because the quality of today's steel pouring is simply not up to standard, with bubbles and cracks all hidden inside! Even if Xiao Han was crazy, he would not dare to use that steel to make a cannon barrel!
As for designing this thing to be so big, Xiao Han's intended use is to use it with a trebuchet in the future!
Think about it, in the future when the Tang Dynasty goes to war, the catapults will no longer throw out monotonous stones, but explosive bombs! Who can carry this thing?
However, today is just to test the power, so the trebuchet can rest and just hope to detonate it.
Carrying the "big pineapple" to the experimental field outside the valley, Xiao Da personally packed them together and then buried them shallowly in the middle of the forest.
Originally, looking at the thick cast iron shell, Xiao Han was a little worried that the medicine would not be strong enough to explode it!
However, when the fuse was burned, a loud noise exploded in the forest!
Xiao Han knew how unnecessary his worries were!
The loud explosion made the entire mountain forest tremble!
The wild beasts in the forest were frightened and chatted in panic, and the autumn leaves on the trees were like rain! They were falling from the top of their heads!
The gunpowder smoke was blown away by the mountain wind, and Xiao Han and others stood up from a distance, shaking their heads that were stunned by the shock.
As far as the eye can see, the flat ground has long since disappeared, leaving only a large pit one meter wide and half a meter deep on the ground!
The original shrubs and small trees next to the big pit have disappeared completely, not even the root hairs are left!
A little further away, those trees as thick as thighs were directly penetrated by flying shrapnel!
Only a big tree hugged by one person can barely withstand the power of this blow!
Seeing this scene eagerly, Xiao Han felt that there was no need to look for those dummies wearing armor that were blown away.
Under the huge power of firearms, those armors that can withstand cold weapons are probably not much different from a piece of thick cardboard!
"Why, why is it so powerful?" Xiao Han walked slowly forward, brushed away the leaves that fell on his head, and swallowed hard while looking at the devastation in front of him!
The love between his children that he visited a few days ago has gone away, and he still doesn't know: the formula of gunpowder has been improved to such a terrifying extent by Xiao Da and others!
Although its ingredients are still the most basic ingredients of black fire medicine.
But the steps of choosing carbon, refining saltpeter, and purifying sulfur are probably something that even Xiao Han can’t understand now!
In this case, even if someone gets the formula, it is impossible to achieve the current power!
After all, everyone can make the recipe, but only Xiao Da and the others can do the craftsmanship!
"Well, the direct killing radius is twenty-five meters, and the effective killing radius is thirty-five meters! The safe distance is at least fifty meters!"
Unlike Xiao Han, whose eyes were wide open, Xiao Da was holding a small notebook at this time and quickly recorded the data of this experiment in it, seemingly not surprised at the damage it could cause.
That's right! These things were all made by his own hands, and he should have already had a good idea of its power.
"This kind of power! If it were thrown into a cavalry charge, I'm afraid it could kill dozens of people with just one bullet!"
Ren Qing frowned and made a very fair evaluation of the power of the hand-thunder.
"Dozens of people?"
Xiao Han blinked, picked up a piece of shell fragment from his feet, put it under his nose and smelled it, his small eyes seemed to be shining with a different kind of light.
"You think, if you fill it with small steel beads, and then calculate the time of the fuse, let it explode in mid-air! Wouldn't the result be better?"
"Pour in steel balls and explode in mid-air?"
Hearing Xiao Han's words, Ren Qing, Xiaodong and others subconsciously raised their heads and looked above their heads!
Above the head, everything is quiet, except for the occasional fallen leaves falling from the high treetops!
However, when they imagined steel balls falling from the sky like rain, a penetrating chill instantly eroded into their bones!
Let me go! What is a ruthless person? This is a ruthless person!
Compared with Xiao Han who could come up with such an idea, Ren Qing felt as pure as a newborn bunny!
I've been killing people for a lifetime with my own knife! It's not as good as someone else's simple improvement!
"What if we add poisonous smoke?"
Just when Ren Qing and others were feeling extremely cold, another suggestion hit their fragile hearts again.
Xiao Da! That simple and honest young man who usually loves to be silent! What do you think, this kind of advice shouldn't come from his mouth, right?
"Am I getting old?" This absurd thought arose in Ren Qing's heart. When he looked at Xiao Han and Xiao Da again, a sense of frustration arose spontaneously, as if the waves behind in the Yangtze River pushed the waves ahead, and the waves in front died on the beach.
"Ahem, poisonous smoke is not good. No such poison can withstand the high temperature of an explosion! Besides, poisons are not cheap. It is really too expensive to use."
"Yeah, that's right! Hey? Lord Marquis, isn't it too easy to just use a trebuchet? Can we seal the gunpowder in the arrow stalk of the crossbow?"
The master and servant were chatting in full swing! They ignored the horrified looks of the people around them, as if they had seen the devil!
It's strange that the most powerful weapons in the world are often born in the hands of some peace-loving people!
For example, the inventor of the Gatling was a doctor. His original intention of inventing the machine gun was just to reduce the number of soldiers, so that fewer people would be injured and die.
Xiao Han does not have the lofty ideals of Dr. Gatlin. What he wants to do most is to exchange for the maximum casualties of the enemy at the minimum cost for his own side!
In other words, his kindness is only for his own people, and he can only say sorry to his enemies.
Have a bodhisattva heart and use thunderous means!
