Chapter 13 The Cannon Casting Plan

Yan Li Zhai is among them.

Li Zicheng is explaining things to Li Guo. The two of them paced slowly on the wall, passing by every volunteer soldier, trying to hold their chests and stomachs up, showing their best side in front of Li Zicheng.

"In Kaifeng City, there are still people who want to transport grain into the city from the south." Li Zicheng said with this bit of ridicule between his words: "It's too underestimating me to break into the camp." I'm sending you south this time. This batch of grain and grass was robbed. ”

"Yes." Li Guo said.

"It's just a small thing." Li Zicheng's footsteps stopped suddenly, looked at the faint shadow of Kaifeng City in the distance, listened to the looming cannon sound in his ears, and said: "The real big thing is to find out for me where Zuo Liangyu is now." ”

"Kaifeng City is not in a hurry for a while, this was originally in my expectation, but Zuo Liangyu did not move, but I was a little surprised, I don't believe that the imperial court can sit still. The one in Beijing who can watch Kaifeng City be captured by me. When you go south this time, don't rush back after robbing the grain and grass. Send a detective to report Zuo Liangyu's whereabouts clearly. ”

"Yes, the boy understands." Li Guo said.

Li Zicheng turned around, patted Li Guo's shoulder and said, "However, you also have to be careful not to be reckless." Don't think about meritorious service, find out and understand, just come back quickly, your aunt is still waiting for you. ”

"Yes." Li Guo said: "The child will definitely go and come back quickly." ”

Li Zicheng said: "Go ahead." ”

"Yes." Li Guo bowed his head and saluted, and then went down the city wall, but after a while, three thousand cavalry left the camp and galloped south.

Don't look at Li Guo as submissive in front of Li Zicheng, as if he was a child. But Li Guo is also a fierce general on the battlefield, and he is nicknamed a tiger. It's not easy to get along with.

After Li Zicheng saw Li Guo leave, Gu Junen took a few steps to climb the wall and said, "King Chuang, is there a situation in Xiao Yuanying?" ”

Li Zicheng said: "What's the situation? ”

"Zhang Xuan will cast cannons." Gu Junen said.

"Didn't I know this situation for a long time, Zhang Xuan cast a batch of cannons in Linying." Li Zicheng said disappreciatively.

Gu Junen's face was a little serious and said: "It's not those small cannons, but cannons, Hongyi cannons." ”

"Hongyi cannon?" Li Zicheng's voice changed dramatically.

After the battle of Ningyuan, the famous name of the Hongyi cannon spread to the world, how could Li Zicheng not know? Li Zicheng's voice said with a bit of incredulity: "Are you a Hongyi cannon?" ”

"Whether it's a Hongyi cannon or not, I don't know." Gu Junen said: "But this cannon can bombard the Kaifeng city wall. But there is no doubt about it. ”

"Let's go.

Li Zicheng immediately went down to the city without saying a word, took more than a thousand guards, and headed in the direction of Xiao Yuanying.

It's just that when Li Zicheng arrived, he found that Cao Cao arrived a little faster than him.

After all, the people that Li Zicheng planted in Xiao Yuanying were only in the dark, but the people that Luo Rucai planted next to Zhang Xuan were above board. Therefore, Luo Rucai's speed was much faster than Li Zicheng's, and when Li Zicheng arrived at Xiao Yuan's camp, Luo Rucai was already watching the Qianjin general's cannon hit the target.

Of course, this poor target is naturally nothing else, it is Kaifeng City.

Luo Rucai looked at Kaifeng City, the originally neat Kaifeng city wall has become more and more ugly. Originally, it was just a few big holes dug under the corners of the wall, but at this time, a large area of soil of different colors was knocked out on the city wall, like patches. This piece and that piece are extremely ugly.

"Good. King Chuang, what do you think of my Cao Ying's thousand-pound cannon compared to the Hongyi cannon? Luo Rucai laughed loudly and said. Luo Rucai casually put the cannon that belonged to Xiao Yuan's camp into his bag.

Li Zicheng touched the cannon that still had residual warmth and said, "Wu Laosan, come over and take a look, how is this cannon better than the Hongyi cannon?" ”

In fact, when Zhang Xuan cast the cannon, Li Zicheng was not idle, artillery is the first important weapon for siege, how can Li Zicheng not understand, and in the camp, it is this Wu Laosan who presides over the casting of artillery.

Wu Laosan is a Liao person, and in the troubled times, he doesn't know how to enter the camp. It is said that the Hongyi cannon was seen in Liaodong back then. This time, Li Zicheng specially called him over.

Wu Laosan was dark, and there were cracks in his hands, which looked like the hands of people who often worked, he gently stroked the Qianjin General Cannon, and then carefully took out a hammer, from the muzzle to the tail of the cannon, clanging and knocking.

The voice was extremely crisp, and there was nothing special in Zhang Xuan's ears. It's just that Wu Laosan listened very carefully, knocked almost inch by inch, and the power in his hands was also of different sizes, and finally tore off the soil on the cuffs, wiped the muzzle of the cannon fiercely, took a closer look, and said: "Sure enough." ”

Li Zicheng said: "Let's talk about what's going on." ”

Wu Laosan said: "The iron core of this cannon copper tire is still an iron mold, and it won't take long to blow up." ”

"Impossible." The first thing that couldn't be accepted was Wang Cannon, who said: "How can it be possible to blow up the chamber, this is the real material, there is no fake at all, it is impossible to blow up the chamber." ”

Wu Laosan said, "Hmph." If there is real material, it will not blow up, but you can see for yourself this muzzle, this iron color, is there it that should be there? ”

Wang Cannon came to the muzzle of the cannon and looked inside, only to feel that there was nothing wrong with this iron luster.

Wu Laosan saw that Wang Dacan's eyes were full of eyes and he didn't know what the problem was, so he snorted coldly and said, "I thought it was a skilled craftsman, but it was just a two hundred."

Five. ”

Wang Dacang was furious, but he couldn't speak, after all, the handicraft is nothing else, it can, if it can, it can't. Distinguish from the top, no need to talk nonsense, before Wang Cannon, he was just an ordinary blacksmith, who would cast some small cannons, but the cannons had really not been cast, and they were used with the new technology pointed out by Zhang Xuan, which could give him a decent look. It's good that the cannon can still fire, but the rest is really beyond his ability.

In fact, he also knew that there was something wrong with the iron mold casting cannon. But what was wrong, he couldn't tell.

Zhang Xuan said: "May I ask Mr. Wu, what is wrong with this cannon?" ”

Wu Laosan was invincible in front of Wang Cannon, but he didn't dare to do so in front of Zhang Xuan, and immediately bowed down and replied: "Little Lao'er, I have been casting cannons for many years, and I still have some experience. This cannon needs to use a clay mold, because the cannon is golden, and contains fire, the nature of gold fire, has always burst, so with the soil, the cannon is strong, not easy to explode, and now it is easy to use the iron mold, then heavy gold, less earth. The body of the cannon is brittle, and it is okay at first, but after a long time, I am afraid that it will explode. Therefore, this cannon will not work. ”

Zhang Xuan tried hard to understand what Wu Laosan said, he believed that Wu Laosan would not dare to lie to him, but he understood every word Wu Laosan said, but he didn't understand anything together?

"Is there a way to fix it?" Zhang Xuan asked directly.

"I'm afraid it's only thickened." Wu Laosan said.

Zhang Xuan said: "Okay, let's ask Mr. Wu to bother." King Cannon. ”

"The little ones are here." Wang Cannon said.

"You have to ask Mr. Wu for more advice." Zhang Xuan said: "Next time, the cannon body will be thicker. ”

"By virtue of this, listen to Wu Laosan said, the clay mold is better than the iron mold? Why don't you use clay molds? Luo Rucai asked.

Zhang Xuan said: "Children don't need clay molds, they need a word fast." The world is changing rapidly. Clay mold casting cannon takes too long, and we are in a hurry to use it, cast cannon with iron mold, even if there are all kinds of inconveniences, only can be used, in the future there will be time, and it is not too late to build a good artillery. ”

"Not bad." Li Zicheng said: "Brother Luo, I intend to gather all the copper and iron materials of our three battalions in Xiaoyuan Camp, let Zhang Xuan preside, Wu Laosan assist, and build a batch of artillery." What do you think? ”

In just a short period of time, Li Zicheng thought about it carefully.

If you want Zhang Xuan to go to Yan Li Zhai to cast a cannon, I'm afraid it will be inconvenient. Let Zhang Xuan cast a cannon in Cao Ying, Li Zicheng was a little worried, so he simply let Xiao Yuan cast a cannon in the camp, after all, although Yuan Shizhong was attached to Cao Ying, but Xiao Yuan Ying was Xiao Yuan Ying, Cao Ying was Cao Ying, and Xiao Yuan Ying would never dare to break into the camp for Cao Ying to offend him.

"Okay." Luo Rucai immediately agreed. said: "It's just how many cannons are going to be cast." ”

Li Zicheng pondered for a while, gritted his teeth slightly, and said, "Baimen." ”

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