In a dilapidated flat land, surrounded by traces of scorched holes, a man in armor stood next to a young man wearing a feather fabric and asked softly.
"Experiment, I must know what went wrong!"
Xia Yu's face looked a little ugly. This was already his first experiment, but he just couldn't get a stable artillery.
Obviously, the Red Army in the inner government can produce stable hand-held artillery, but here he can't even produce the kind of artillery that can be placed on the ground and ignited.
If we can't get it out, then Wei Ming's country may really be destroyed.
Following Xia Yu's order, the roar sounded again and again. After a long time, the inventory of artillery shells had been emptied.
"Okay, let's do this this time."
This time the experiment still found no problem, Xia Yu waved his hand a little tiredly.
It was obvious that he had produced stable gunpowder that was far ahead of this era, but the design of the artillery was unsuccessful, and every time it either exploded or was a dud.
If he couldn't produce this battlefield weapon in the next few years, he would have no choice but to try to improve the matchlock gun.
Alas, he has obviously restored everything from soap to high-strength liquor, but why is it so difficult to succeed in terms of weapons?
The unhappy Xia Yu walked towards his workroom, where there were drawings he had drawn, and he wanted to find out where there was any problem.
But before he entered the workshop, a woman in kimono suddenly stopped him and said worriedly.
"Master Xia Yu, you really need to rest. If you continue like this, your body will not be able to bear it."
Looking at the woman with her hair tied up in a red lining and a black kimono in front of her, Xia Yu raised his tired eyes, waved his hands and said.
"It's okay, Yongzhen, I know my body well, don't worry."
Hearing what Xia Yu said, the worry in Yongzhen's eyes increased instead of decreasing. She could already hear the deep fatigue in Xia Yu's voice.
As a doctor, she knew very well that if this continued, the other party would definitely collapse from long-term fatigue.
"No, Master Xia Yu, you must go and rest!"
After saying that, Yongzhen didn't wait for Xia Yu to refute, stretched out his hand and took his arm, and walked towards Xia Yu's room.
Xia Yu tried to twitch his arm, but found that he couldn't resist Yongzhen's strength at all, so he had to smile bitterly and not resist.
As expected of a swordsman, his strength is much greater than his own, and he has obviously been exercising.
A moment later, Xia Yu was forcibly pushed into the room. Looking at the closed door, he had no choice but to lie on the bed. However, he was so anxious that he could not fall asleep.
It has been more than ten years since I came to this world, but this is the first time I am so anxious. If I had known, I would have researched and developed weapons earlier.
Procrastination is really bad.
He knows this world. After all, Ashina Country is a fictional country that can only be found in that game. Moreover, he also met the invincible founder of Ashina Swordsmanship, Ashina Isshin.
Not only that, he is also the adopted grandson adopted by Isshin Ashina, just like Genichiro Ashina.
Speaking of which, Tan Yilang is still his brother, even though their grandfather and grandson are not related by blood.
In fact, according to convention, he should be called Ashina Natsujiro, but at his strong request, he still kept his original name.
Ashina Yishin saw that he was so tough and he was not a stubborn old man himself, so he agreed to his request.
That's why he can always live in Weiming's country in the name of Xia Yu.
He and Genichiro served as a civil and military officer in Ashina. Genichiro learned various kendo moves and went to the battlefield to make contributions.
He was responsible for clerical work and making some decisions, but among the senior military officials, he was not looked down upon by anyone.
This was not because he was Ashina Isshin's adopted grandson, but because he experimented with distillation methods and successfully brewed high-strength liquor, which happened to hit the hearts of all Ashina's senior executives.
From Isshin Ashina to the doctor Dogen, there is no one who does not like to drink. The wine he brewed has directly become one of the favorite wines of all Ashina senior executives.
After that, he slowly came up with some things that could be invented using ordinary methods, such as soap, home-made cement and fine salt.
If conditions didn't allow it, he would have wanted to take out the glass.
Because of his invention, the life of Wei Mingguo has become more prosperous.
But he also knew that this kind of nourishing life would not last long, because later the imperial army would attack Wei Ming until Wei Ming destroyed the country.
The beginning of all this was the invasion of the Hirata Residence by the Imperial Household, and then the senior Ashina senior officials died in battle and fell ill.
Three years later, Miko Kuro's ninjas will escape from the water prison, and then kill all the Ashina masters in just a few days. At the same time, the red army in the inner palace will attack the Ashina Kingdom like a broken bamboo.
Xia Yu knew about this later scene, but he was not nervous because the success of his previous invention led him to think arrogantly that the artillery was just like that.
As long as stable gunpowder is invented, artillery can be successfully developed, and with artillery, preparing a red army will not be a problem at all.
Therefore, Xia Yu has been living happily these years. Occasionally, he remembered how to make some things and made them accordingly.
This kind of life continued until Ashina Isshin grew old and the situation became increasingly dangerous, and he finally woke up from his previous happiness.
Since then, he began to study gunpowder. As expected, he successfully formulated a stable gunpowder through exhaustive methods. The next step was artillery.
But what made it difficult for him to accept was that he couldn't get it out. Although the gunpowder was successful, the artillery was not successful.
This also made him nervous, but nervousness could not make the experiment successful, and he paid the price for his pride.
Therefore, Xia Yu began to work tirelessly on drawings and designing every part of the artillery by hand. Even if it squeezed his body, he wanted to create an artillery that was stable and capable of defending against the Red Army.
Genichiro has already gone to the battlefield to kill the enemy. He does not have the combat power, so he can only study some weapons in the rear while analyzing the current situation and making some painless decisions.
"Oh, I hope there's enough time." Looking at the ceiling above his head, Xia Yu came back from his thoughts.
No matter how you say it, it was Isshin Ashina who adopted him when he was young, and Genichiro Ashina did not fall behind on the responsibility of an older brother.
He is not a cold-blooded person, otherwise he would have escaped secretly long ago, how could he still be here.
Just when Xia Yu was staring at the ceiling aimlessly, his eyelids getting heavier and heavier, and he was about to fall asleep, a notification sound suddenly woke him up.
[Xia Yu has joined the chat group!]
Huh? What sound?
Xia Yu opened his eyes, and a bright chat group interface appeared in his sight.
Before he could say anything, the chat group automatically jumped to the group announcement, and he patiently read the explanation of the group announcement.
"Is there this kind of time travel?"
[Xia Yu]: Is there this way to travel? Great, it’s finally saved.