Seeing how sure he said it, Wu Zhi couldn't help but feel a little more confident about overcoming the dilemma in front of him.
At this time, Zhu Wu also came to the side of the miniature catapult.
He kept looking at the exquisite structure of the miniature catapult and nodded repeatedly.
"Old Liu, you are really a strange person. You can even create such a thing."
"With you in our Liangshan Dazhai, we are worth thousands of soldiers."
Liu Laosan was naturally extremely happy to receive such praise.
However, in line with the craftsman spirit of excellence, he still put forward several urgent improvements to the miniature catapult.
For example: The wheels of this miniature catapult are fine on relatively flat roads, but if they encounter some more rugged mountain roads, it may not be easy to push them.
In addition, the current miniature trebuchet can only use horizontal launch method to release bombs.
If it is necessary to launch at an elevation angle, the accuracy may not be good.
After that, Liu Laosan mentioned more than ten shortcomings of the car.
If you want to solve these problems, it not only requires a lot of R&D investment and time, but also lacks some technical capabilities.
If only his master Li Jie could participate in its research and development.
It is estimated that these problems are not difficult at all.
As for Li Jie's technical ability, Wu Zhi had already seen it when he set up the Spring Festival Gala performance stage in the palace.
Whatever Wu Zhi asked for, there was almost nothing that Li Jie couldn't accomplish.
And the construction speed is also impeccable.
But at this time, there is no use thinking about those things.
After all, there is no way that Li Jie could have neglected his duties as a court official and turned to him to become a bandit.
In the following time, Wu Zhi focused all his attention on the production progress of enemy jet cannon shells.
After the concerted efforts of the construction and manufacturing army, the daily production of 20 artillery shells was finally increased to 100 artillery shells per day.
These enemy-disturbing jet cannon shells are inexpensive to manufacture.
It is mainly composed of: a bamboo tube as thick as an arm, some low-quality incense powder, some rough black gunpowder, and a slightly technological igniting fuse, which are filled and assembled.
In order to test the explosive effect of the miniature catapult and the enemy's jet cannon shells, Wu Zhi not only called Liu Laosan over, but also asked Wang Lun to drive some chickens, ducks and livestock over to simulate the test objects.
Wu Zhi first used a wooden fence to circle a rectangular site about 90 meters long and 45 meters wide in Liangshan Dazhai as a simple shooting range.
Then he asked Wang Lun to drive the chickens, ducks and livestock to the side of the shooting range.
Wu Zhi, Liu Laosan, Wang Lun and others set up ten miniature catapults and stood on the other side.
Upon Wu Zhi's order, ten miniature catapults moved the mechanism at the same time.
Immediately afterwards, a muffled buzzing sound was heard.
Ten enemy-disturbing jet cannon shells weighing three kilograms all flew towards the chickens, ducks and livestock dozens of meters away.
After a few breaths.
Waves of low explosions came from far and near.
At the same time, a "red cloud" also appeared above the heads of the chickens, ducks and livestock.
In a short time, the chickens, ducks and livestock were covered in it.
Some livestock, frightened, flapping twice in succession, then jumped out of the red cloud.
But the movements of those animals seemed very uncoordinated.
As if his eyes were dazzled, he was flapping his wings desperately at this moment.
I wanted to run away far away, but I kept running in circles.
After those 'red clouds' dispersed, Wu Zhi and others stepped forward to check the test results.
The air is still filled with the extremely strong and pungent fragrance of inferior perfume powder.
Faintly, you can also smell some explosives.
Looking at those chickens, ducks and livestock, the originally white feathers were now dyed purple-red by the inferior fragrant powder.
At this time, he kept shaking his head, fluttering his wings, trying to get up from the ground, but he was unable to do anything.
Wu Zhi, Liu Laosan and others are still very satisfied with the results.
After all, the radiation surface of this kind of weapon is quite wide.
If this kind of weapon is used against a dense crowd, the 'lethal power' it will cause is still very considerable.
Looking back at Wang Lun, the expression on his face at this time was not quite right.
Although those used for experiments were only some chickens and ducks and not real people, they were raised by Wang Lun and his livestock raising army personally.
At this moment, looking at the pitiful half-dead looks of the chickens, ducks and livestock raised by myself, I felt somewhat unbearable.
Wu Zhi, who was standing next to Wang Lun, also noticed the strange expression on Wang Lun's face at this time, so he offered words of comfort.
"Comrade Lao Wang, I know that you feel sorry for the chickens, ducks and livestock raised by your own hands."
"That's good. I have a good way to make them suffer less."
Wang Lun turned his head and looked at Wu Zhi with disbelief, obviously questioning what Wu Zhi said.
Wu Zhi smiled enigmatically at him.
Then, he said to Liu Laosan, who was standing beside him with an excited face:
"You have been working hard to build the manufacturing army. You have to rush to repair those bamboo arrow towers, and you also have to work hard to develop this miniature catapult."
"So those chickens, ducks and livestock that have been tested will be rewarded to you."
When Wu Zhi said this, the expression on his face suddenly became serious.
"When you build a manufacturing army, you must be more crisp and agile when dealing with chickens, ducks and livestock."
"Because those chickens, ducks and livestock have already made such great contributions to our Liangshan Dazhai. If we let them suffer again, it would be our fault."
After hearing this, Liu Laosan was so excited that he drooled impatiently.
Wang Lun: "..."
That night.
Wu Zhi was alone, pacing outside the Juyi Hall.
In my mind, I was planning my next actions, and I was feeling the unpredictable wind direction that night.
Normally, Wu Zhi would hardly consider the wind direction.
Because the impact it can have on the offense and defense of both the enemy and ourselves is extremely limited.
But today, it's different.
Because the attack and damage caused by the enemy's jet cannon shells mainly come from two levels.
First, when the shell explodes, it shatters the bamboo tube outside, causing a certain degree of physical damage to nearby soldiers.
Second, after the shell explodes, the low-quality fragrant powder sprays out from the shell's cavity, causing a certain degree of dust irritation and damage to nearby soldiers.