Chapter 728: This thing is much easier to use than a magic weapon!
"Mr. Lin!"
Seeing Li Yan appear, Ling Zhen came over excitedly.
Seeing this person's eyes falling on the Feng Leizi in his hand, he smiled again, showing a proud expression.
This reaction made Li Yan look forward to it even more, and he took Ling Zhen to the backyard.
There is a martial arts training area here. Lin Yuanjing and Xu Ning were here when they practiced shooting. There was no one around at this time, so they just wanted to demonstrate.
Ling Zhen was also unambiguous and said directly: "Please set a target for me!"
Li Yan asked: "How far is it?"
Ling Zhen smiled calmly: "A hundred steps doesn't matter."
The backyard was not that big, but Li Yan found a good angle and set up a wooden man a hundred steps away for Ling Zhen to shoot.
Ling Zhen raised Feng Leizi with his right hand gracefully, raised his left arm, and began to aim at the dark gun barrel.
Li Yan stood nearby, observing the fluctuations of energy flowing from the barrel, and then watched the mouth of the barrel begin to tremble.
After a while, a weak voice came from behind: "It's better to get closer..."
Li Yan was speechless and moved the wooden man from a hundred paces away to eighty paces away. Seeing that the muzzle of Ling Zhen's gun was still trembling, he moved forward again.
Finally, fifty steps away, Ling Zhen finally shouted: "It's right here! It's right here!"
Li Yan retreated to the side and saw Ling Zhen holding up Feng Leizi and taking aim with a graceful movement...
"Bah!"
The wooden man was intact, and a ball of fire exploded with a bang on the ground not far away!
The atmosphere became a little awkward.
After a moment of silence, Ling Zhen hesitated and said: "How about Mr. Lin give it a try?"
Li Yan had actually wanted to give it a try for a long time. He came over, caught Feng Leizi, and after playing with it for a while, he raised his eyebrows and said, "Did you change the name of this magic weapon after it was transformed?"
Ling Zhen was shocked: "How did you know? My uncle felt that the original name was no longer appropriate, so he named it 'Feng Huo Lei'."
Li Yan nodded: "This is a much more appropriate title..."
Ling Zhen and Ling Daoren, the uncle and nephew, each have two magical weapons, one is called Feng Lei Zi and the other is called Lei Huo Zi.
The former is the "gun" in Ling Zhen's hand. According to him, it is powerful but difficult to control. Sometimes it is even impossible to hurt both sides and directly injures himself, which can be understood as exploding the barrel.
The latter is a one-time magic weapon developed by Taoist Ling, which can blow down the city gate and create a sea of fire. The previous fire in Prince Jian's Mansion was set off by him controlling the Lei Huozi, which can be regarded as a highly explosive incendiary bomb.
But now the gun in Ling Zhen's hand has been modified and has the characteristics of both. At this time, Li Yan aimed at the wooden man, and a stream of light suddenly shot out from the muzzle, hitting the wooden man fifty steps away.
"boom--!"
After an explosion, the wooden man's upper body was torn apart, and his lower body began to burn.
"This is the power!"
Ling Zhen was overjoyed, and then he was amazed: "Master Lin got started so quickly, my uncle had to try it out several times before he could achieve such power!"
Li Yan played with the barrel, watched the lines on it dim, and asked, "Can it be mass-produced?"
Ling Zhen understood the meaning of mass production and shook his head without hesitation: "With my uncle's ability, it took so much effort to transform this 'Wind, Fire and Thunder', and it will definitely not be mass-produced."
This answer is not surprising, because the power of this "Wind, Fire and Thunder" is so great that even a general wearing armor, let alone a wooden man, may not be able to withstand this shot.
But great power is good, but it also loses the meaning of popularization.
"This object looks like a pistol, but it is actually an offensive weapon."
"Obviously, Taoist Ling's research is the same as "Taiyuan Zhenfa". They are striving upward, pursuing less but more refined, and neglecting downward compatibility, so they cannot be large and broad."
"This is normal and in line with the pursuit of Taoists. But if you want to develop firearms in the secular world, you have to fall to this person."
Li Yan looked at Ling Zhen and handed Feng Huolei back: "Please wait a moment, I just have some plans that I want Brother Ling to take a look at."
Ling Zhen stood waiting, and soon saw Li Yan come out with a thick stack of scrolls and handed them to him.
Ling Zhen took it. He was a little confused at first, but after reading one, he was immediately attracted: ""General Martial Arts"? Gunpowder formula? These are...guns?"
Li Yan said eloquently: "This is the 'Fireball Gunpowder Prescription', 'Tribulus Fireball Gunpowder Prescription', and 'Poison Smoke Ball Gunpowder Prescription' recorded in the "Martial Classics". There must be earlier recipes among the people, but they have not been preserved.
Come down."
"According to my analysis, this type of gunpowder is powerful but extremely unstable. The corresponding guns are the 'Bamboo Fire Gun' and the 'Flying Fire Gun'."
"As the name suggests, the bamboo gun barrel is made of long bamboo tubes. When shooting, two soldiers use one joint. One person holds the gun, and the other ignites the gunpowder in the gun to emit flames to burn the enemy, or to burn the enemy's attack.
As you can imagine, the city’s ladder has a short range, is difficult to operate, and has average practicality.”
"When it comes to flying guns, the barrel is made of sixteen layers of imperial yellow paper. The barrel is filled with gunpowder and iron slag powder, and the end of the gun is tied with a rope. The soldier holding the gun has an iron cup with a fire source inside. During the battle,
When the gunpowder in the barrel is ignited, the gunpowder burns instantly and can be sprayed out up to thirty steps away. It can burn and kill the enemy, so it cannot be underestimated."
"Of course, both flying muskets and bamboo muskets are just the most primitive tube-shaped muskets. When gunpowder is improved and bullets are invented and loaded in the guns, they become muskets. The giant bamboo tube is still used as the barrel, and the barrel is placed inside the musket.
It is not only the gunpowder, but also the bullets that are shot out after being propelled by it, just like Taoist Ling's thunderbolt, the power will be even higher."
"Just bamboo tubes and paper tubes will definitely be easily burned or even exploded after being fired several times. In the end, these firecrackers still have to be made of iron to enter a new field of development..."
After having [Quantum Reading], Li Yan read a lot of books and classified them into categories in the [Thinking Palace]. After meeting Ling Zhen's uncle and nephew, he specially sorted out the contents of gunpowder equipment and made these designs based on future trends.
Facts have proved that regardless of whether he can attract Taoist Ling, Ling Zhen has been aroused with strong interest: "I didn't expect Mr. Lin to be so good in the art of weapon refining. He just saw my 'Feng Lei Zi' and was able to create a new weapon."
I am really impressed by the fact that there are so many types of 'firearms' used by ordinary people!"
Like the "Three Character Classic", Li Yan was too depraved to explain: "Do you think it is operable?"
Ling Zhen looked at it carefully: "If gunpowder really has such explosive power, and the army already has the prototype of artillery, then I am sure to turn these 'drawings' into reality, but Mr. Lin has designed so many versions
, shall we start all over again, or shall we be in place once and for all?”
Li Yandao: "If the advantages and disadvantages of various guns and guns are as I speculated, then there is no need to start from scratch, but the accumulation of technology is also crucial, and there should be no idea of achieving it overnight..."
From a purely historical perspective, it was almost impossible to change social contradictions by developing productive forces before the Song Dynasty. All conditions could not be met. Only in the Song Dynasty did it become theoretically possible, but the actual situation
Not very realistic either.
In ancient times, there were actually many very intelligent and talented people, and they also made many inventions and creations that later generations seemed to be amazed by. However, most of the popular creations were made by unknown people among the people, and they were created by popular demand from generation to generation.
evolved.
There are various reasons for this, but one key factor cannot be ignored, which is the supply demand caused by the characteristics of agricultural society, which makes many advanced inventions of capable people useless.
This actually reflects a problem. Many time-travelers think that social conflicts can be solved by improving productivity through science and technology in later generations. This is somewhat taken for granted. Advanced science and technology are good, but the structural adjustment and adaptation of the entire society is actually the most important thing.
The more important and more difficult part to solve.
Li Yan understood the laws of history, so in the Tang Dynasty world, even though he had great power, he only informed Li Hong of many breakthrough developments, and did not act too hastily before his ascension.
In the world of the Song Dynasty, there are supernatural spells here, and what he wants to do is to combine them with the technology of later generations: "My current plan is to combine firearms with magic weapons. I don't expect to produce too many on a large scale, as long as I can arm them
Guard soldiers have become practical."
Among the personal guards who appear in the plot of Water Margin, the strongest is Gao Lian's "Flying Divine Soldiers". They are strong men selected from various places and trained.
"Hulu is hung on the body, and thousands of flames are hidden on the back." The description is very exaggerated.
As for Li Yan's personal Taoist soldiers, they don't do anything fancy, they just hold guns...
Half human, half ghost, the best gunner!
Ling Zhen was in a very excited mood. He took the drawing and looked at it again and again: "No matter what, this is an implementable path. Mr. Lin is really a great talent!"
Li Yan said: "It's overrated. This is much more difficult than simple technical improvement, and may even be impossible to complete. Not to mention that the final practicality is not as good as the magic, and even the cost-effectiveness of the bow and crossbow is not as good as..."
Ling Zhen's eyes lit up: "So Master Lin wants me to join?"
Li Yan nodded: "Of course, I am not enough to complete these specific implementation steps. Talents like Brother Ling are needed."
Ling Zhen was a very strong person in the original plot, but he had very few successful achievements. He was a model that did not live up to his name. I don’t know why...
If it was to suppress the use of firearms, wouldn't it be even more surreal to have Gongsun Sheng and others' arrogant fighting skills?
No matter what, Li Yan still hopes that Ling Zhen can play his role and shine in his field.
And the inventor Ling Zhen, who failed to become an officer and originally planned to repay his kindness and leave, was also willing to do so and clasped his fists heavily: "Thank you for your respect, brother. I will do my best to combine firearms with magic weapons and make it a reality!
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Li Yan smiled happily and made a beautiful wish: "Work hard, I hope that one day, the guards will hold our invention and shout, this thing is much easier to use than a magic weapon!"