Entering the study, there was no one else around, and Wang Xinyu suddenly bowed: "Weichen see His Royal Highness the Prince!" ”

Wang Shiyuan was shocked, and hurriedly reached out to help: "Lord Wang, please get up quickly!" The grass people can't afford it! The grass people are really not His Royal Highness the Prince, the grass people Wang Shiyuan is just a down-and-out scholar, the prince can bring the grass people to the east and live a peaceful life, and the grass people are grateful to the prince for his great kindness. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

But Wang Xinyu's strength is much greater than Wang Shiyuan's, how can he help him up, Wang Shiyuan was so anxious that he broke out in a cold sweat, and he also knelt down: "Lord Wang, Caomin is really not a prince!" Lord Wang, you misunderstood! ”

Li Guangdi is a smart person, although he doesn't know whether this Wang Shiyuan is the legendary Prince Chongzhen, but when he saw Wang Xinyu kneeling, he also knelt down: "Weichen see His Royal Highness the Prince!" ”

"Ah, you guys, get up quickly! The grass people are really not princes! Wang Shiyuan was about to cry.

Wang Xinyu said: "His Royal Highness the Prince, you are the orthodoxy of the real emperor!" If His Royal Highness insists, Wechen can find witnesses to prove that you are His Royal Highness the Crown Prince! Now that my Ming Dynasty has recovered Yingtianfu, I hope that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will go to Yingtian to ascend the throne as the emperor! ”

Wang Shiyuan smiled bitterly: "Lord, now that the Ming Dynasty has a son of heaven, one country cannot have two kings, if the old man goes to Yingtian to ascend the throne again, this Ming Dynasty will have to fight again!" What is there to do with this emperor? I think when my father was there, when did the poor father sleep peacefully? The father's life is simple, not to mention compared with the ministers of the court, even if it is a small seven-grade official, his life is more comfortable than his father's! But my father was diligent and dedicated to the country, but what happened to him? It also affected my brothers and sisters. This emperor is not deserved! ”

Wang Xinyu sighed: "Since His Royal Highness the Crown Prince insists on not coming forward, Weichen is not reluctant!" ”

Wang Shiyuan added: "I know that the South China Sea says that I am loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and I still hope that the South China Sea will remember that today's events should be nothing, and everyone should not know about it!" ”

"His Royal Highness the Prince's teachings, Weichen will keep them in mind!" Wang Xinyu arched his hand.

After bidding farewell to Wang Shiyuan, Wang Xinyu and Li Guangdi were on the way back to Anping Castle, Li Guangdi asked: "Lord Wang, this Wang Shiyuan, is the bloodline of Emperor Chongzhen?" ”

"It's like a fake!" Wang Xinyu nodded affirmatively, "It took a lot of effort and investigation to find him!" originally thought that since he refused to admit that he was the crown prince, he would not need it in the future. But today, it seems that this prince is still useful! ”

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince refuses to come forward to prove himself, then we might as well support King Lu! If King Lu is the prisoner of the kingdom first, and then ascends the throne later, we can control it. Li Guang said.

"If King Lu is allowed to come out as a prisoner in this matter, it will only lead to infighting! It's better to wait until Wu Sangui and the others drive the Tartars out of the Jingshi, and then we will make plans! Anyway, he has absolute strength and is not afraid of any intrigues! Wang Xinyu said with a smile.

Back in the gun factory, at this time a newly cast gun was placed in the factory, this is a new type of 12-pounder howitzer, this kind of gun looks quite light, but the barrel weight is only about 200 pounds, but it can fire the same 12-pounder shell as the old howitzer. However, these are not the key, the most critical thing is that although this gun is still a front-loading gun, this gun has added a lot of parts, such as the addition of a lifting screw to adjust the muzzle elevation angle; In addition, a fire cap ignition can be installed on top of the fire door for instant triggering.

A fire cap ignition device was used, so that the gun did not need a fuse. The use of a fuse to ignite also requires a time for the fuse to burn, and when shooting at a moving target, it will cause errors due to the time difference. The use of fire cap ignition can achieve instant firing, as long as the fire is pulled, the gun can immediately roar.

It can be seen that this gun is already the ultimate front-loading smoothbore gun.

Although there is already a steam engine, it is not too much of a problem to manufacture a breeched rifled gun, but because the technology of casting materials has not yet met the requirements of later generations of gun steel, the rifling is easy to wear, the cost of the breeched rifled gun is still too high, the service life is too short, and the fuse of the rifled gun is still too expensive.

Now that the technology of front-loading smoothbore guns has reached its peak, it is still a mass production of new front-loading smoothbore guns.

This new type of artillery, the flowering shell is also different from the previous flowering shell, the flowering shell adopts a new prototype metal medicine disc fuse.

Originally, the flowering shell used a cork fuse that was oriented towards the muzzle of the gun, and the gunpowder gas was used to ignite the fuse inside the cork fuse. Because the fuse is facing the muzzle direction, it is likely that when the cannon is discharged, the fuse cannot be ignited, so the fired shell will not explode.

However, the cork fuse should not be directed towards the tail of the gun, because the cork fuse cannot withstand the high pressure of the expansion of the gunpowder, which will cause the shell to explode in the barrel.

The disc-shaped metal fuse can not only withstand the pressure of gunpowder gas, but also because it is a disc with a built-in annular channel, the gunpowder gas will not be blown directly into the inside of the shell to cause an early explosion, so the fuse can be aimed at the direction of the tail of the gun, so that when the shell is fired, there will be almost no thing that the fuse cannot be ignited, and this flowering shell is more reliable.

"The original long-barreled cannon, the gunners were reluctant to use the flowering shell, but the reliability was too poor! Now with this medicine disc fuse, it is possible to equip long-barreled naval guns with flowering shells. Wang Xinyu nodded.

The new artillery was pulled out, although it was a twelve-pound gun, if this kind of cannon was judged from the weight of the shell, it was already a heavy cannon, but it was only two hundred pounds of barrel, and the weight of this kind of gun was only as heavy as the original three-pounder gun, and it only took two horses to pull the gun cart and run.

The craftsmanship makes this cannon look particularly smooth and shiny, with a copper glitter.

Two workers began to load the shells, first by inserting the cartridge through the muzzle, then by piercing the awl through the fire door, and by inserting a tube containing a fire cap and primer into the fire door, to which a rope was attached.

The new flowering shells were stuffed into the muzzle, compacted, and the gun was loaded.

"Fire!" Dai Cang gave an order.

A worker pulls the fire rope, and with the pull of the rope, the fire cap tube stuffed into the fire door spews out sparks, and at the same time, a fireball erupts from the muzzle, and light blue gunpowder smoke comes out of the muzzle. The reason why the gunpowder smoke is also light blue is because the propellant pack is not filled with ordinary black [gun] powder, but nitrate fiber propellant.

The "boom" cannon was ejected, flew more than a mile, landed near the target, and exploded a huge fireball.