The holy land of Buddhism, the authentic Jinshan Dharma Temple of Zen Buddhism, is really favored by God.

In the blink of an eye, more than 40 solid shells fell from the sky.

The main buildings in the temple, such as Ciju Pagoda, Fahae-dong, Myokodae, Lenggadai, Tianwangjeonjeon, and Daeunghojeon, were all shelled.

The most seriously damaged is undoubtedly the Cishou Pagoda, there are three iron bullets in the Cishou Pagoda, causing serious damage to the tower. An iron bullet also fell in the center of the Daxiong Treasure Hall, smashing a big hole in the roof of the main hall. The falling iron bullet also jumped twice in the hall, destroying a pillar and finally landing on the statue of the Buddha.

The monks in the temple were panicked, and Master Dexin was also very embarrassed, thinking that the would-be had come again.

The sound of artillery shelling from the direction of Jinshan also shocked Zhenjiang City.

After receiving the report, the prefect Wang Yinglin couldn't believe it, and when he looked up at the city wall and looked into the distance, he found that more than a dozen warships were firing on the river on the side of Jinshan, and he was speechless for a long time.

Wei Biao, dare you!

On the river, Father-in-law Wei is more popular than his fellow countrymen.

Because, the shelling of the navy made his old man very dissatisfied.

There are two aspects of dissatisfaction, one is that the efficiency of the naval artillery bombardment cannot meet the "saturated attack" mentioned by the father-in-law, and a round of artillery is fired, which sounds like a rumble, but the actual shells fired are only more than 100 rounds, and the actual hit rate is probably less than half.

Second, all the artillery used by the navy is solid bullets, and the shocking scene of the explosion in the mountains cannot be seen at all, which makes the artillery operation a little less powerful.

But the father-in-law was not satisfied, but the admiral's face was full of excitement, this effect was very good, quite good. This is also due to the fact that the whole army was restructured into the Royal Navy, the father-in-law had enough money, food, and salaries, and the honor of being pro-army brought to the officers and men incomparable enthusiasm, and the effect of focusing on training from top to bottom. If you want to put aside Jiang Liangdong earlier, don't say that a round can fire more than 100 cannons, and half of them can be counted as worthy of the imperial court.

The hit rate is not to blame for bad training, but only for the accuracy of artillery. As for the guns equipped on the ship, half of copper and half of iron, half of half of size, the longest of which had a range of three miles, and the shortest of which was only one mile.

Even if there is a crosshair and a door in front of the gun chamber that can be adjusted, after all, it is a technical job to discharge a gun, and when the navy was first built, there were not many excellent and qualified gunners, and many of the main and deputy gunners were temporarily rushing ducks to the shelves, and shelling a place on such a scale was unprecedented for the officers and men of the navy.

In addition to the big battle between the Korean and Japanese sailors, the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty sailors fought with the Dutch who broke in in Fujian, but the scale was extremely small, and the Dutch red-haired ghosts only came with three ships. The battle was also brief, and after the two sides exchanged shots at sea, the battle was basically over.

Therefore, the artillery bombardment operation proposed by Wei Gonggong was actually a bold and new attempt for the Royal Navy and even the entire Ming Dynasty naval division.

Prior to this, it was not unprecedented, but this mode of combat was not used as the main combat method. The naval division is basically used as an auxiliary for land warfare, and its main task is to transport troops, and it is not the past to undertake combat tasks alone, at most, it is to set off artillery to cheer up the siege troops of their own side, and to frighten and frighten the enemy troops defending the city.

After all, the shells used by the Ming army were mainly solid shells. This kind of artillery shell can confuse the enemy's soldiers and horses in the field battle, create chaos, in conjunction with the tiger squat artillery "loose pills" intensive attack, often can make the attacking enemy suffer heavy casualties, but used for siege but has little effect, can be said to be chicken ribs.

Since the end of the Yuan Dynasty, none of the previous siege battles of the Ming army directly collapsed the defenders' city walls with artillery, and most of them attacked the city by means of ants attached to it and seizing the gate.

The admiral's deepest impression of naval warfare was the confrontation at sea, the seizure of ships close to the ship, and the use of various types of water firearms to contain the enemy, and they did not have this kind of combat experience in shelling land targets directly from their ships.

Therefore, it is already rare to be like this. If I hadn't sent someone ashore to measure the accuracy before, I'm afraid the effect would have to be discounted.

In this regard, Wei Gonggong did not say much, he knew that in order to achieve what he called "saturated attack" in the real battle in the future, so that the enemy and the entire city were shrouded in the baptism of artillery, the only effective way was to make new artillery and train qualified gunners of the modern army.

This can not be done in a short period of time, at least three or five years, at most ten years, without a large amount of financial investment and a lot of hard work, as well as a large number of technical personnel to participate, do not imagine running into a well-off society overnight.

You can't replace the navy with artillery right away, so it shouldn't be a problem to change the solid bullet to the blossom shell.

Gonggong Wei understood that the army of the Ming Dynasty had always been equipped with flowering bullets, so he must ask Wang Dali why they didn't use flowering bullets, but not solid bullets.

"The flowering bomb that my father-in-law said must be referring to Sanzi, right?" Wang Dali thought about it for a long time before he linked the "flowering bomb" that Wei Gonggong said with the "scattered son" in the army.

"Back to my father-in-law, this scatter is very troublesome, the procedure is cumbersome, and the effect is not as good as the solid bullet, so I don't need it as a last resort."

According to Wang Dali, the loose bullet is really troublesome, when using it, you must first load the medicine into the medicine chamber at the bottom of the gun body, put wood in the middle and add soil intervals, and then put the shell containing the loose bullet from the breech, and then fill it with gunpowder, and then separate a layer of wet soil, and finally seal the muzzle with wax. When firing a gun, first ignite the fuse on the shell from the muzzle, and then immediately ignite the fire door trigger at the bottom of the gun body.

The whole procedure must be at least half a column of incense time, and no one can make a mistake in the middle, otherwise it will be 100% blown up. In addition, when loading the loose seeds, more than ten people must work together to lift the gun body and put it vertically, so that the army is unwilling to install the loose parts.

"So troublesome?"

The father-in-law was slightly stunned, he didn't believe what Wang Dali said, and ordered him to find a loose test for him. This stumped Wang Dali, and after asking several people, they all said that they did not bring them on the ship, and finally found two in the bilge of a lucky ship.

These two scattered bullets do not look like the flowering bullets that Wei Gonggong thought, their appearance is exactly the same as the solid bullets, the difference is that they are hollow inside, filled with iron pills and medicines.

During the test, my father-in-law was far away from the cannon, and the eunuch didn't stand under the dangerous wall.

I didn't call to go to Jinshan Temple, this was to give the monks in the temple time to escape. The father-in-law no longer disrespects the Buddha, and he will not kill the monks.

The cannons were fired into the open space along the river, one hitting about a mile and a half, and the other landing less than a mile. After landing, there was an explosion, but it didn't sound loud.

When the shell landed, the naked eye could clearly see that the surrounding reeds were swept away, and then they caught fire.

The father-in-law shook his head, knowing that this kind of loose son is not good, and it should not be used for real flowering.

Wang Dali smiled on the side: "Father-in-law, there is basically no need for scattered sons in naval battles, but there are ones in close combat, and the tiger squatting cannon is scattered sons." Back then, when Qi Shuai fought the Japanese invaders, he put the Japanese invaders, and then used the tiger squat cannon to scatter the sons, and when the cannon went down, he could sweep down more than a dozen Japanese invaders. ”

When he said this, he secretly glanced at the two captains of the guards next to his father-in-law who always held the waist knife in his arms.

Sanada snorted slightly, but Xiao Tian said in a muffled voice: "We are not Japanese robbers, we are the imperial army." ”

Wang Dali laughed, and also admired Gonggong Wei for not knowing where to get these Japanese people as guards.

The father-in-law waved his hand, walked to a copper cannon, patted the cannon body, and said to everyone in the navy: "This cannon is not good, it is too troublesome to load shells from the front, the firing range is too short, and the power is even smaller, so it must be improved." The navy must strike first and dominate the enemy beyond the firing range! … Therefore, your cannons have to hit farther than the enemy, so that a single shell can sink an enemy ship. ”

One shell can sink an enemy ship?

Everyone in the navy was stunned: how can there be such a shell in the world? If there really was such a cannonball, why did the brothers fight the Japanese with their lives earlier! Just fire a few shots from a distance, and then drive the boat up to shoot those water dogs, won't this battle be over?

"These, we will implement them when we go back."

Gonggong Wei ignored the confusion of the admiral and looked at Jinshan Temple from afar.

It seems that it is necessary to establish the Gangnam Manufacturing Bureau and carry out the creation of weapons for innovation.

Westerners have already started the Age of Discovery, and the Ming Dynasty has fallen very backward in this regard, and if it wants to catch up, it is bound to have to improve its weapons.

With weapons that are years ahead of their opponents, let them taste what it is like to be beaten if they fall behind.

Jiangnan Manufacturing General Bureau must be established even if it is not established.

Not to mention the Western countries, even Japan, which has a mountain of silver, has to rely on weapons to suppress it.

Father-in-law has this condition, in terms of manpower, when he was slaughtered by the Ordnance Division of the War Bureau, the other party packaged and "sold" a large number of firearms craftsmen to him, these technical talents who are a burden in the eyes of the War Bureau are very valuable assets to Father-in-law Wei. Therefore, he didn't even pay back the counteroffer, so he accepted all the people.

It is certainly not enough to rely on these craftsmen alone, and a group of technical personnel must be invited from Macao, and some related books must also be specially translated.

The site is ready-made, and the Special Economic Zone is not big, but it is not small. Dozens of square kilometers, how can it accommodate this General Manufacturing Bureau.

Well, there is always a squeeze.

In the drawings, the father-in-law can draw a three-point portrait by himself, and the remaining seven points can be used by technicians to brainstorm and discuss together. Nothing new is something that comes from the beginning. As long as he gives an idea and a feasible plan, my father-in-law believes that the smart people of this era are definitely no worse than his old people.

The only tricky thing is where the raw materials come from.

The manufacturing bureau, which specializes in the improvement and manufacture of weapons, is definitely not likely to be placed anywhere else, but only in Wusongkou. But in the area of Wusongkou, there is no iron ore and copper ore.

There are no raw materials, no matter how good the idea is, no matter how complete the conditions are, it is also a sky garden.