Four large wooden boxes were lying quietly in the corner of the room, Lin Jue walked over, asked people to pry open a wooden box, and took out a small earthen pot from it to return to everyone.

"This is ......" Gao Muqing didn't know what Lin Jue brought, she had almost forgotten about it in the past two days.

"Wine? Aha, the military advisor is really good, the wine brewed in the cottage is too unpalatable, the military advisor is considerate of the brothers, did you bring four boxes of good wine from afar? Why didn't you take it out earlier? Yes, before the decisive battle, let the brothers not get drunk and not return, right? Liang Qi rubbed his hands and said happily.

The crowd burst into laughter. Qin Chuncao said angrily, "You know that if you drink, the military advisor will condone your problem?" ”

"That's not for sure." Liang Qi said with a smile.

Lin Jue smiled and said, "Brother Liang, I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you this time, this crockpot is not filled with wine." Let's go out, and I'll show you what it is. ”

Everyone curiously followed Lin Jue out of the secret room and stood still in the open space in the hall. Lin Jue pulled the cork, reached into the crockpot and grabbed a handful of black things, and then suddenly waved it towards an oil lamp on the stone wall. But with a bang, a large arc-shaped fireball ignited in the air, and the beeping sparks burst out. The crowd was stunned and retreated to dodge.

A pungent smell quickly filled the air, a puff of smoke dispersed, and several people coughed loudly.

Gao Muqing covered his mouth and shouted, "Is it gunpowder? ”

Lin Jue clapped his hands and laughed, "Exactly." I've put a lot of effort into making these things. I have been to the firecracker workshop in the capital many times, and the gunpowder they used to make firecrackers and fireworks was all bought out by me. I also paid a lot of money to hire a few masters of the fireworks workshop to equip these fierce gunpowders. This time, I brought four large boxes, hundreds of cans. On the way, I was so worried that something would happen to me. Good thing to get here safely. These things are the secrets of what those arrows can fire. ”

Everyone suddenly realized. It turned out that the military advisor wanted to use the power of gunpowder to shoot arrows. I seem to have heard of it, but I've never seen anyone do it. The power of gunpowder is not great, can the gunpowder brought by the military advisor really be able to urge the gunpowder to be fired and hurt people? I'm afraid that the strength is not enough, and even the cloth is difficult to penetrate.

In those years, gunpowder was difficult to popularize because of its lack of purity, and there were basically no decent firearms in the army. At most, gunpowder was used as a tool for some auxiliary operations. For example, igniting a fire, making smoke, or transmitting a signal, etc. Someone also had the idea of making a gunpowder launch, but the effect was not as good as that of a bow and crossbow, so it also died down. But for Lin Jue, there was no doubt about the power of gunpowder, so Lin Jue never stopped improving gunpowder.

In Hangzhou, he tinkered with it, and the gunpowder used in Wang Ba's box was already extremely powerful, but Lin Jue felt that it was not enough. So in the capital, Lin Jue will ponder on this as soon as he has time. His original intention was to improve the ammunition of the Wangba box to make it more powerful and have a longer firing range. Therefore, in the past year, I bought a lot of gunpowder and hoarded it at home, and also consulted many workshop craftsmen to purify this gunpowder and test the power of this gunpowder formula. It wasn't until he got the news that the cottage was in danger that Lin Jue realized that he might be able to use gunpowder to play a role in the cottage's retreat.

Therefore, on the day of arrival, Lin Jue finally spent a night putting a powerful group attack firearm that he had seen into the drawings. That's a multiple-launch rocket device called a 'swarm'. In later generations, Lin Jue once saw a detailed construction diagram in a book, so Lin Jue tried his best to recall the details, drew a sketch, and packed hundreds of jars of gunpowder hoarded at home into boxes and transported them together. He knew that these things would definitely come in handy.

"This ...... Can it be done? Liang Qi wondered.

Lin Jue laughed and said, "I don't know if it's successful or not, and it's the first time I've done this." May God bless you and make it all the best. ”

Everyone rolled their eyes, and the military advisor didn't know whether this thing was successful or not, which was too child's play. As the military advisor said, tomorrow's decisive battle will rely on these things to exert its might, if it doesn't work, wouldn't it be a waste of work?

Lin Jue couldn't care about other people's thoughts, time was pressing, and he still had a lot to do. When he said in a deep voice, he said, "Brother Liang, if you have nothing to do, take someone to the mountains and forests to help me cut some fine bamboo, as long as the green bamboo, the bamboo is seven inches long, and the mouth is two inches wide." This standard must be met, and those who do not meet the size will not be allowed. Got it? Go fast and go back quickly. ”

Liang Qi hurriedly arched his hand and said, "Don't worry, military advisor, I will take people there, there are many bamboos in the Beibian Valley." ”

Lin Jue waved his hand and asked him to go quickly, and Liang Qi rushed out to pick and chop. Lin Jue led a group of people to bring out cans of gunpowder one by one and put them on the ground in the hall. He also instructed Qin Chuncao and more than a dozen female guards to start mixing gunpowder with rough straw paper and starting to make fire ropes. The female guards are meticulous in their work, and they are also very handy in this kind of meticulous work.

After Liang Qi came back with people carrying bundles of fine bamboo, Lin Jue took matters into his own hands and used a wooden ruler as a mark to cut off the thin bamboo that was in line with the seven-inch long diameter and two inches in diameter.

"Look at it carefully, and then fill it according to my method." Lin Jue commanded.

Everyone watched intently as Lin Jue carefully poured the black gunpowder powder into the fine bamboo, and gently stuffed it with bamboo chopsticks from time to time. After a short time, the bamboo pipe filled. Lin Jue asked Gao Muqing for a hairpin, and used the sharp end to pierce a deep hole of six inches in the middle of the gunpowder. Finally, a section of lead wire is pierced into the hole and some gunpowder is sprinkled to compact.

"You're done, have you seen it clearly? The medicine should be filled, but not too tightly, and the tightness should be appropriate. A hole must be pierced in the middle. I won't tell you more about the reason, in short, with a hole, it won't explode after ignition. I don't want it to explode, I want it to fire, you know? The lead wire should be pressed firmly and must not fall off. Then the thing is done. Lin Jue held the green bamboo tube with two fingers and said to everyone.

"It's not ...... New Year's two kicks? It's just longer and thicker. How can this thing shoot an arrow? Liang Qi's face was dazed.

"Just give it a try." Lin Jue took an iron-headed long arrow, and carefully tied the bamboo tube tightly under the arrow with twine. Then he took the arrow and went to the square outside the Justice Hall. Everyone followed along, all wanting to see if this thing worked.

Lin Jue put the finished iron-headed rocket on a piece of bluestone in the square, aimed it at the empty place, and ordered everyone to stay away

Later, the fire rope behind the bamboo tube was lit with a fire fold. The arquebus snorted and burned, and everyone stared at the arrow expectantly. But behind the bamboo tube, there was a burst of fireworks. The arrows scurried forward, flying indiscriminately in an irregular manner, and then plunged headlong on the bluestone road dozens of paces away, sliding on the ground for a long time.

Everyone was dumbfounded, this is the effect of making trouble for a long time, it is not at all the imaginary effect of shooting straight ahead, pointing where to hit. Lin Jue was also a little embarrassed, this thing was indeed made for the first time, but in fact, he didn't have any bottom in his heart. It's a bit embarrassing to come up with this kind of result. But Lin Jue knew that this way could definitely shoot arrows, the method was good, and there might be a problem with the details.

Lin Jue retrieved the scorched rocket, frowned and studied for a long time, and suddenly understood the problem. If the rocket flies in an irregular way, it must be a problem with the center of gravity. The iron head arrow is inherently heavy, and it is equipped with a long tail to maintain balance in flight. Now with a tube of gunpowder, it looks top-heavy and unstable, so it will fly indiscriminately. It's not that the gunpowder power is not enough, it's just that there is a problem 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 shaft of the arrow at the end of the arrow, so that the center of gravity of the entire arrow returned to its original position.

Half an hour later, the second test began. Lin Jue lit the fuse again, and the gunpowder spewed out fireworks, and a sharp whistling sound sounded. The rocket flew straight ahead with blue flames. With a bang, smoke and dust rose from an earthen wall two hundred paces ahead, and earth and rocks fell. Everyone rushed over to check, but their mouths opened wide.

The rocket struck straight into the earthen wall, leaving a large hollow in the bowl. The whole stick was stuck in the middle of the wall, half in the back and half in the front, and it pierced through the earthen wall. Everyone understood that the arrows hit the flesh and blood, but if there was some strength, it was not surprising that they penetrated. But if you want to shoot through the earth and rocks, it is not easy to do. One is that the arrows themselves are hard enough, and the iron-tipped arrows used today are indeed hard enough, but this alone is not enough. To penetrate the walls of earth and stone, it takes a lot of strength. Ordinary human-drawn bows and arrows cannot penetrate earth and rock.

And now, this scene is in the past, which shows that under the impetus of gunpowder, the strength of the arrow has reached a considerable extent. The powerful force actually made the bow and arrow easily shoot through the earth and stone wall, what kind of scene would it be if it were shot at a person.

"Oh my God, it's so powerful?" Gao Muqing exclaimed in disbelief.

Liang Qi admired the five-body body and threw himself to the ground, and said to Lin Juezuo, "Strategist, you have cast a spell, Strategist, are you a monster?" ”

Lin Jue laughed and reprimanded, "Nonsense, I haven't seen a workshop where people make fireworks, fireworks can burst into the air and burst into sparks, how can they jump up?" Did you throw it with your hands? Isn't that the power of this gunpowder? I've just made some improvements. Okay, we can't delay any longer, this method has proven to work, and we need to hurry up and make rockets now. Mu Qing, Bing'er, let's do it together, all the rockets have to be made. Even if it's an all-nighter tonight, it's going to be done. Ming'er is still waiting to entertain Qin Donghe with these things. ”

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