Four large wooden boxes were lying quietly in the corner of the room. Lin Jue walked over and asked someone to pry open one of the wooden boxes. He took out a small earthen jar from inside and returned it to everyone.
"This is..." Gao Muqing didn't even know what Lin Jue brought, and she almost forgot about it in the past two days.
"Wine? Haha, the military advisor is so kind. The wine brewed in the imitation village is too bad to drink. The military advisor is considerate of the brothers and brought four boxes of good wine all the way. Why didn't you bring it out earlier? Yes,
Before the decisive battle, do you want the brothers to stay drunk until they return?" Liang Qi rubbed her hands and said happily.
Everyone laughed. Qin Chuncao said angrily: "You know if you drink, the military advisor will condone your problem?"
"That's not certain." Liang Qi said with a smile.
Lin Jue smiled and said: "Brother Liang, I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you this time. The jar is not filled with wine. Let's go out and I'll show you what this is."
Everyone curiously followed Lin Jue out of the secret room and stood in an open space in the hall. Lin Jue pulled out the cork, reached into the jar and grabbed a handful of black things, and then suddenly pointed towards a lamp on the stone wall.
The oil lamp was swung over, but there was a bang, and an arc-shaped fireball ignited in the sky, and sparks exploded in all directions. Everyone was shocked and retreated to avoid it.
A pungent smell quickly filled the air, a puff of thick smoke spread, and several people coughed loudly.
Gao Muqing covered her mouth and shouted, "Is it gunpowder?"
Lin Jue clapped his hands and laughed and said: "Exactly. I have spent a lot of effort to make these things. I went to the firecracker workshops in the capital many times, and I bought out all the gunpowder they used to make firecrackers and fireworks. I also returned
I spent a lot of money to hire some masters from fireworks workshops to equip them with these violent gunpowders. This time I brought four big boxes with hundreds of cans. I was worried to death on the way, fearing that the bumps would cause an accident. Fortunately, I arrived safely.
Here, these things are the secret of how those arrows can be fired."
Everyone suddenly realized. It turned out that the military counselor wanted to use the power of gunpowder to launch arrows. It seemed that they had heard of this, but they had never seen anyone do it. The power of gunpowder was not very powerful. Could it be that the gunpowder brought by the military counselor was serious?
Is it possible to activate gunpowder and fire it to injure people? I'm afraid it's not strong enough and can't even penetrate cloth.
These days, gunpowder is difficult to popularize because of its insufficient purity. There are basically no decent firearms in military operations. Gunpowder is at most used as a tool to assist combat, such as igniting fire, making smoke, or transmitting signals, etc. Some people have also had such an idea.
, they had invented something that fired gunpowder, but the effect was not as good as that of a crossbow, so they stopped. But for Lin Jue, there was no doubt about the power of gunpowder, so Lin Jue never stopped studying gunpowder.
Improvement.
He had tinkered with it in Hangzhou, and the gunpowder used in the Tortoise Box was extremely powerful, but Lin Jue felt that it was not enough. So in the capital, Lin Jue would think about it whenever he had free time. His original intention was to improve the Tortoise Box.
Ammunition is just to make it more powerful and shoot farther. Therefore, in the past year, I bought a lot of gunpowder and stored it at home. I also consulted many workshop craftsmen to purify the gunpowder and test the power of the gunpowder formula. Until I got a copycat
After receiving the critical news, Lin Jue realized that he might be able to use gunpowder to help the village retreat the enemy. Therefore, on the day of arrival, Lin Jue finally spent a whole night using a powerful group of weapons that he had seen.
The attack weapon was put on the drawings. It was a multi-shot rocket device called "Swarm of Bees". Later Lin Jue once saw the detailed structural diagram in a book, so Lin Jue tried his best to recall the details and drew
He made sketches and packed and shipped hundreds of jars of gunpowder hoarded at home. He knew that these things would definitely come in handy.
Lin Jue laughed and said, "I don't know whether it will work or not. This is my first time doing this. I hope God will bless me and everything will go well."
Everyone rolled their eyes. The military strategist actually didn't know whether this thing was successful or not. This was too much of a joke. The military strategist said that tomorrow's decisive battle would rely on these things to show off their power. If it didn't work, wouldn't it be a waste of time?
Lin Jueke didn't care about other people's thoughts. Time was tight and he still had a lot of things to do. He then ordered in a deep voice: "Brother Liang, if you have nothing to do, take someone to the mountains and forests to help me cut some thin bamboos.
As long as it is green bamboo, the bamboo joints are about seven inches long and the mouth is two inches wide. It must meet this standard, and anything that does not meet the size will be rejected. Do you understand? Go and come back as soon as possible."
Liang Qi hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "Don't worry, military advisor, I'll just take people there. There are a lot of bamboos in the Beibian Valley."
Lin Jue waved his hand and asked him to go quickly, and Liang Qi rushed out to chop. Lin Jue led a group of people to carry out cans of gunpowder and placed them on the ground in the hall. He then ordered Qin Chuncao and a dozen female guards to start using rough
He mixed the papyrus with gunpowder and began to knead the match rope. The female guards were meticulous in their work, and they were quite good at this kind of delicate work.
After Liang Qi returned with his men carrying bundles of thin bamboos, Lin Jue took matters into his own hands, using a wooden ruler as a standard to cut off the thin bamboos that were seven inches long and two inches in diameter.
"Watch carefully, and you will fill the potion according to my method in a while." Lin Jue ordered.
Everyone watched intently as Lin Jue carefully poured the black gunpowder powder into the thin bamboo, and gently stuffed it with bamboo chopsticks from time to time. After a while, the bamboo tube was filled. Lin Jue asked Gao Muqing for a hairpin.
Use the pointed end of the gun to poke a deep hole about six inches deep in the middle of the gunpowder. Finally, insert a piece of lead wire into the hole, sprinkle some gunpowder and compact it.
"It's done, have you seen it clearly? The medicine should be filled in, but it should not be too tight or too loose. It is as suitable as possible. There must be a hole in the middle. I won't tell you more about the reason. In short, there is a hole.
, it will not explode after being ignited. What I want is not for it to explode, but for it to burst into flames, understand? The lead must be pressed firmly and must not fall off. Then this thing is complete." Lin Jue held the piece with two fingers.
The green bamboo tube said to everyone.
"Isn't this... the second kicker put out during the Chinese New Year? It's just longer and thicker. How can this thing shoot an arrow?" Liang Qiyi looked confused.
"You'll know after you try it." Lin Jue took a long iron-tipped arrow and carefully tied the bamboo tube tightly with hemp thread under the arrow. Then he took the arrow to the square outside the Juyi Hall. Everyone followed suit.
Many people came here, wanting to see if this thing worked.
Lin Jue placed the completed iron-head rocket on a bluestone in the square, pointed one end in the air, ordered everyone to stay away, and then used a fire stick to light the match rope behind the bamboo tube. The match rope burned, and everyone
Everyone stared at the arrow with anticipation. But they saw a burst of fireworks behind the bamboo tube. The arrow suddenly rushed forward, flying randomly in an irregular way, and then plunged dozens of steps away.
On the bluestone road, it was still spinning and sliding on the ground for a long time.
Everyone was dumbfounded. This was the effect that had been going on for a long time. It was not the imagined effect of shooting straight ahead and hitting wherever you pointed. Lin Jue was also a little embarrassed. This was indeed the first time he had made this thing. In fact, he had no confidence in it.
It was a bit embarrassing to get such a result. But Lin Jue knew that this method could definitely shoot the arrow. The method was good, but there might be something wrong with the details.
Lin Jue took back the burnt rocket, frowned and studied it for a long time, and suddenly understood the problem. The rocket was flying in an irregular way, which must be a problem with the center of gravity. Iron-headed arrows are inherently heavy, and with
Only a long tail can maintain balance during flight. Now that a tube of gunpowder is added, it appears top-heavy and unstable, so it will fly randomly. It's not that the power of the gunpowder is insufficient, but that there is something wrong with the direction of the force.
Lin Jue immediately began to improve. The method was very simple, just add a counterweight to the tail. Lin Jue's method was to put a piece of bamboo on the arrow shaft to return the center of gravity of the entire arrow to its original position.
Less than half an hour later, the second test began. Lin Jue lit the fuse again, the gunpowder sprayed out fireworks, and a sharp whistle sounded. The rocket rushed forward with blue flames. With a boom,
On an earthen wall two hundred steps ahead, smoke and dust rose up, and earth and rocks fell rustlingly. Everyone rushed over to check, only to find that everyone had their mouths open.
The rocket hit the earth wall straight and left a depression as big as the mouth of a bowl. The whole rocket was stuck in the middle of the wall, half in the back and half in the front, and it penetrated the earth wall hard. All of them were stuck in the middle of the wall.
Everyone knows that if an arrow hits a body of flesh and blood, it is not surprising that it penetrates as long as it has some strength. But if you want to shoot through the earth and stone, it is not easy to do. First, the arrow itself is hard enough. Today
The iron-tipped arrows used are indeed hard enough, but this alone is not enough. To penetrate the earth and stone wall, it also requires great strength. Ordinary human-pulled bows and arrows cannot penetrate the earth and stone at all.
And now, this scene is vivid in front of me, which shows that under the push of gunpowder, the strength of the arrow has reached a considerable level. The strong force actually allows the bow and arrow to easily penetrate the earth and stone wall. If it were shot on a person,
What a scene that would be.
"Oh my God, it's so powerful?" Gao Muqing exclaimed in disbelief.
Liang Qi fell to the ground in admiration and bowed to Lin Jue: "Military Advisor, you must have cast a spell, Military Advisor, are you a monster?"
Lin Jue laughed and scolded: "That's nonsense. I haven't seen a workshop where people make fireworks. Fireworks can jump up into the air and explode with sparks. How can they get the power of jumping up? Could it be thrown up by hand? Isn't it just the spraying power of gunpowder?
What? I just made some improvements. Okay, we can't delay anymore. Facts have proved that this method is feasible. Now we have to hurry up and make rockets. Mu Qing, Bing'er, let's do it together, all the rockets will be made.
It has to be made well. Even if it takes an all-nighter tonight, it must be completed. I'm still waiting to entertain Qin Donghe with these things tomorrow."
