Daqin: Assist Zulong at the beginning and become a public enemy

Chapter 554 The Extensive Use of Gunpowder

Chapter 572 The Extensive Use of Gunpowder

The huge sound like winter thunder and the shrill sound of breaking through the air like a group of demons dancing in the center of the explosion completely broke the confidence of the already shocked envoys from the Western Regions.

Let’s not talk about the power of the iron bullet. Just the huge sound and the shrill sound of breaking through the air. If it appeared on the battlefield, half of the soldiers would be demoralized in an instant, not to mention those who are extremely sensitive to the sound. The sensitive war horses were gone, and the cavalry was basically useless in this sound before the battle even started.

After all, no one can guarantee that their cavalry will remain calm when they encounter such noises when they charge. The whole army will be thankful if they can stand their ground, let alone continue to fight.

If the sound only shocked them, then when Ying just led them to the place where the iron bomb exploded, everyone's faces turned pale in an instant.

Although it was amazing to see from a distance before, the impact on the vision is still not as strong as that seen close up.

The next few shots were not directed at the open space. Xu Fu followed Ying Gang's instructions and placed a lot of life-sized wooden figures within a radius of tens of feet where the iron bullet was expected to land. Some of these wooden figures were lying down and some were standing. .

Therefore, in addition to a bomb crater with a diameter of several feet and a depth of half a foot, what appeared in front of everyone at this moment was a wooden figure that had become disorganized within a range of more than ten steps around the crater.

The iron ball fragments exploded by the gunpowder densely covered the three or four wooden figures around the crater. These three or four wooden figures were also the most seriously injured. They were either missing their heads or arms and legs. Of course, it was even more chilling. The only ones are the jet-black iron pieces with only a little tail exposed that are deeply submerged into the bodies of the three or four wooden figures.

Except for the three or four wooden figures who were most seriously injured because they were closest to the crater, most of the wooden figures further away were hit by one or two or three pieces of pitch-black iron, which were also deeply embedded in the wooden figures' bodies. middle.The unlucky wooden man's hands and feet had also been cut off by pieces of iron.

Everyone knew that there should be a wooden figure at the place where the iron bullet rolled down, but at this moment, the wooden figure had disappeared completely, except for a broken wooden foot that appeared in the crater, and there was nowhere to be found that belonged to the wooden figure. any part of the body.

The lying wooden figures around the crater were much better than those standing. Most of them were not greeted with iron plates, but they also tended to fall apart due to the shock.

At that time, Ying Gang just looked at the not too big crater and sighed lightly, the power was still too small.

After all, it is impossible for the ammunition of this era to reach the amount produced by later generations, and it is completely impossible to form fire suppression.

Such a big lump, Ying just thought that there would be at least a big hole of more than ten feet, but he didn't expect to blow up a small hole with a diameter of more than one meter. There are too few shrapnel and the power is too small, and some shrapnel are bigger than Admit that the palm is still big, and some are only as big as a fingernail. The result of this is that such a big pile of iron bullets only hurt the wooden man closest to the explosion point.

After reading the results of the test firing, Ying Gang looked at the envoys from the Western Regions, whose faces were all pale and kept swallowing, dropped the word "How?" and walked away.Leave a group of generals who are anxious in their hearts to think alone.

Compared with the last time, the impact this time is far greater than before.

After all, it was just bombing ships before. Although it was powerful, there was no serious simulation of bombing people after all.

Moreover, it was a fixed explosion before, but this time it was projected from a distance. The impact is by no means the same.

Ying Gang did not continue to accompany these envoys from the Western Regions. He went to explain to Xu Fu that he could engrave the pattern on the iron ball as a reference to the watermelon, so that after the gunpowder in the iron bomb exploded, the iron bullet on the shell would explode more easily, and the shrapnel would be distributed. The damage is also more even, and the lethality can definitely be doubled several times.

On the way back, Dale wanted to ask what gunpowder was several times, but the Royal Forest Army leading the way said coldly, "Don't make any noise" and blocked all the envoys' words.

In fact, this is exactly what Ying Gang wants to achieve.

The pre-Qin era cannot be said to be the most prosperous era in China, but it is definitely the era with the most enlightened social and cultural atmosphere.I would like to ask, apart from the hundreds of years before the Qin Dynasty, which dynasty in the later dynasties really paid attention to farming, folk arts, and various crafts?Not to mention that it was able to compete with Confucianism, Mohism, Taoism and other big schools on the same stage as in the pre-Qin period, and issued a formal imperial edict to the outstanding ones to announce to the world.

Looking at the history of China for thousands of years, all dynasties and dynasties can only do this in the pre-Qin Dynasty.

The collapse of rites and music in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods left Daqin not only with an empire where various rituals and laws stirred and exchanged, but more importantly, it gave the elites at that time the idea to see the world with more enlightened eyes.

The collapse of rites and music made them have no sense of resistance to new things as they did in later generations.

Many generals, especially Meng Tian, ​​who saw such a weapon for the first time, were surprised, but as the elite of the Qin Dynasty who dealt with battles most frequently, his years of fighting have cultivated his sense of war, and he is naturally better than ordinary people. What an ordnance means to an army.

Because of this, after seeing the power of gunpowder, he was more shocked than others.

Although they were just test firing today, the power shown by this test shooting alone is enough for Daqin to devote all his manpower and material resources to researching the use of gunpowder and better projecting vehicles that use gunpowder.

If gunpowder is really used on the battlefield and equipped with the Qin army, it will bring an unprecedented subversive change to the Qin army.The significance of this to the Qin Dynasty is no less than the changes brought to the Qin Dynasty by Shang Yang's reform.

More importantly, only they have this kind of weapon, and as long as they rely on this epoch-making weapon, Meng Tian dares to conclude that there is absolutely no country that can fight against them.

Through the world map drawn by Ying Gang, Meng Tian already knew that this world is infinite, and he also knew that this world is not a powerful country like Qin. strong state existence.

Then, as long as the Daqin army can really use such a heaven-defying weapon, who else in this world can be the opponent of the Daqin?

More importantly, with such weapons, they don't need much manpower to go into war. The more soldiers they can have free, the less supplies they need, and the stronger their fighting power will be.

Let me ask, who can stop the great cause of Qin's conquest?
But the many envoys headed by Dell next to them had another idea.

(End of this chapter)