Before Chen Yonghua said goodbye to Wang Yu, he suddenly remembered a question, so he asked: "Does Mr. Wang have a table?" ”

"Lord Hui, his subordinates are from humble backgrounds, and they only have single-word names, no table words." Wang Yu replied.

"Then I'll give you a watch! This one-word name is used by people with humble status in my Daming, and Mr. Wang is so talented and still uses a one-word name, which is really insulting to his identity. Chen Yonghua said.

What kind of words should I choose? After asking Wang Yu's birthday, Chen Yonghua thought about it, and blurted out three words: "Wang Jinnan!" ”

Wang Yu Great Khan, if he used the name Jinnan, wouldn't Chen Yonghua be able to use the name Chen Jinnan in the future? So he shook his head and said, "Lord Chen, my subordinates think that this name is more suitable for you to use, and my subordinates don't dare to use this name." ”

Chen Yonghua let out an "oh", and then laughed: "Mr. Wang, do you really don't know or fake don't know?" The official already has a word, called Fufu, and there is no need to use one more word. ”

Wang Yu's lips moved a few times, and he stopped talking, but before he could speak, he heard Chen Yonghua say again: "Jinnan, Chen Jinnan, this name is really good!" That's good! This official will have one more name in the future, Chen Jinnan! In the future, when you go to the opposite side to contact the anti-Qing and Ming restoration people, you will use this name! ”

Wang Yu sweated: Oh my God, the name Chen Jinnan was born because of me! It's a big joke!

Chen Jinnan seemed to be unsatisfied, and in a blink of an eye, he thought of a name for Wang Yu: "Your name is Wang Yu, but you have great ambitions and great causes, you have a far-sighted vision, and you can accommodate the entire universe in your heart, so the feather of the feather can be changed to the universe of Yu, Xinyu, and there is a universe in your heart." However, this heart word is not compatible with your birthday, so it is called Xinyu, the old and the new new! ”

"Wang Xinyu?" Wang Yu was stunned, isn't this the name of his previous life? In the dark, what a coincidence!

"That's right! It's called Wang Xinyu! Chen Jinnan looked at Wang Xinyu with a smile.

"Thank you, sir!" Wang Yu, who had become Wang Xinyu, hurriedly knelt down and bowed.

"Hahaha!" Chen Jinnan looked up to the sky and laughed, and left with Feng Xifan.

The wall has ears, and the news of Chen Yonghua's night visit to Wang Yu was seen by Chen Peng's cronies. After Chen Yonghua left, his cronies immediately rushed to Chen Peng's mansion.

The cronies entered the garrison mansion, but before they saw Chen Peng, they were first stopped by a sharp-beaked monkey cheek, triangular eyes, smooth upper lips, and a few mouse whiskers on the chin, who looked very obscene. That guy's surname is Zhang, he was originally a talent in Tong'an, but he failed to pass the imperial examination for many years, so he simply defected to Chen Peng and became his master.

The master stopped his cronies: "I came to report overnight, what's the urgency?" ”

The cronies replied: "The villain doesn't dare to say it, he can't say it until he sees the garrison." ”

The master looked around and found that there were no outsiders, so he said to the cronies: "There are no outsiders here, Lord Tebetsu may have already slept, you tell me what is important first." ”

"Report to the master! His subordinates were secretly ordered by Lord Garrison to keep an eye on Wang Yu, but tonight they saw that Lord Chen Yonghua went to Wang Yu's! The cronies panted and reported.

"I'll call your lord right away, you wait!"

The master was about to turn around and go to the inner house to call someone, but Chen Peng had already walked out: "Why are you so flustered?" ”

"My subordinates knock to see your lord!" The cronies knelt on one knee, the knife in their hands was vertically pressed against the ground, and they clasped their fists with both hands and saluted, "Just now, my subordinates were eyeing Wang Yu and found that Chen Yonghua visiting that kid at night!" ”

Chen Peng's face changed: "Did you hear what they said?" ”

"Back to my lord, when the two of them were in the house, Feng Xifan outside was staring closely, and his subordinates had no chance to get close! I didn't hear anything from them. ”

"Useless waste!" Chen Peng scolded.

"Back to my lord, but, but it's ......"

"But what?"

"But then Chen Yonghua called Feng Xifan in, and at this time his subordinates approached and overheard a little ......"

"Hurry up!" Chen Peng couldn't wait to ask.

The cronies stammered: "Return, return to my lord, then Chen Yonghua will go back tomorrow to return to King Yanping, but he left Feng Xifan behind." ”

Chen Peng's face changed greatly: "Then Chen Yonghua left Feng Xifan behind?" Is he mixing sand for us? ”

"It seems that Chen Yonghua's dog can't trust us!" The master gritted his teeth and said.

Chen Peng broke out in a cold sweat and was at a loss. After a while, he hugged his fist to the court in the north and said, "Originally, I wanted to get rid of Wang Yu for the court in the north!" But now that Feng Xifan has stayed, we will not be able to act well! Whether it is to do things on the flowering cannonballs, using Wang Yu's own military order, or suddenly asking someone to take down Wang Yu and beheading him to sacrifice the flag before the war, these two methods, with Feng Xifan watching from the side, we are not easy to do. ”

The cronie came up with a sentence: "My lord, it's not as good as this for the small ones, let's even Feng Xifan, the dog, and sacrifice the head to General Shi!" This Feng Xifan is also a wanted criminal in the imperial court! It's a great accomplishment for us to kill him! ”

Chen Peng snorted: "Kill Feng Xifan? It's easy to say! Do you know how high this little thief's martial arts are? Even if it is this official and all our personal soldiers, I am afraid they will not be able to take him! What's more, there are still people in our own soldiers who definitely don't dare to touch him! ”

The master also said: "Yes, if only it was so easy to kill him!" It's not easy for more than 1,000 of us to chop Feng Gou together! But there must be some of these soldiers who refuse to obey our orders. Now there is another Feng Xifan, it will inevitably be demagogic, after all, this thief is a person from King Yanping's side. ”

Chen Peng thought for a while and said: "As the saying goes, guns are easy to dodge and dark arrows are difficult to defend, although Feng Xifan's martial arts are high, we still have a chance to plot against him!" As long as Feng Xifan dies, no one will be able to stop us! ”

The master said: "Your Excellency is right! For the second thief, you can only outwit and not attack! The little one has a way to get rid of him! ”

"What's the solution?" Chen Peng asked anxiously.

The master replied with a sneer: "On the day when the opposite Wang Shi will come, King Yanping will definitely give us an order to go to war." When the time comes, the little one called Feng Xifan over and rewarded him with a glass of wine. The small one can get rid of the person by putting a crane in the wine. And my lord, you go to the camp in person and let your cronies take down Wang Yu! ”

Chen Peng was overjoyed: "Master's plan is very wonderful! Forgive him Feng Thief's martial arts, and if he encounters Hedinghong, he will die! As long as Feng Xifan is excepted, Wang Yu can easily win it! ”

The next day, just after dawn, Wang Yu got up, and now he is called Wang Xinyu again, I don't know if it's a coincidence or providence, the name of the previous life is back.

At that time, people got up early, and craftsmen got up one after another.

Today is the day of the test gun, and we are about to see what the results of the efforts of the past few days will be, and these craftsmen are as excited as Wang Xinyu.

The hour had just arrived, which was equivalent to seven o'clock in the morning, and the Takasaki Barracks began to get busy.

Under the command of Wang Xinyu, the craftsmen were divided into three groups, one group was responsible for loading gunpowder, and they put the side of the cannonball with the iron pipe facing up, and used a funnel to inject gunpowder into the cannonball through the iron pipe; Another group of craftsmen was responsible for kneading the fuse, spreading out long strips of cotton cloth, pouring powdered gunpowder on the cotton cloth, and then kneading it into a fuse. The last group is responsible for installing the fuse and sealing the shell, they take the fuse and the flowering shell that has been filled with gunpowder, first wrap the second half of the fuse with a thick paper, and then stuff the fuse from the iron pipe into it, stuff it into the shell, the thick paper completely enters the iron pipe, the part of the fuse that is not wrapped in paper is exposed outside, and then seal the gap between the iron pipe and the thick paper with wax, so that the sealing of the shell can be guaranteed, and the gunpowder in the shell can be prevented from getting wet, and the fuse can be fixed. Prevent the fuse from falling out while the shell is in the air.

Today's test consisted of four guns, a Tiger squat gun, an eighteen-pounder redcoat cannon removed from the battleship, and a six-pounder Franc cannon and a three-pounder Franc cannon.

These four cannons were carefully selected by Wang Xinyu, of course, they are the best cannons in the Gaoqi military camp, and Wang Xinyu also took the craftsmen to process these cannons: the inner wall of the barrel has been polished to ensure smoothness.

The shells that are ready for test firing, in addition to flowering shells, are solid shells, shotguns, and chain shells.

"Lord Chen has arrived!" Someone shouted.

The people who were busy put down their work and stood up one after another to greet Chen Jinnan, who came to watch the test-firing artillery.

"You go on!" Chen Jinnan made a gesture.

By the halfway mark, the gunners and craftsmen had completed their preparations for the launch.

Wang Xinyu ordered: "Prepare for the test firing of the first gun!" ”

Solid shell firing was carried out first, and the first gun test-fired was a three-pounder franc machine.

The gunners had already loaded the Franc machine with gunpowder and shells, and when they heard the order, one of the gunners slipped it into the belly of the cannon that had been opened above.

"Fire!" Wang Xinyu gave an order.

The gunner picked up the torch and lit the fuse on the gun. After the lead completely disappeared into the sub-gun, there was a loud "boom", and a fireball erupted from the muzzle, and the cannonball crossed an arc in the air, smashing on the grass a mile away, bouncing and rolling continuously before stopping.

Immediately afterwards, the second six-pounder Franc cannon was prepared, and in the sound of Wang Xinyu's shouting, the gunner ignited the lead of the gun.

The six-pounder Franc cannon sent the shells about two miles away, and the landed shells tumbled and bounced continuously, sending up bursts of sand and rocks on the ground.

"It worked!" The gunners and craftsmen cheered, and even Chen Jinnan's personal team jumped and jumped with the group.

"Not bad! It was a success! Two Franco cannons can hit that far! Chen Jinnan smiled and nodded.

The airtightness of the Franc cannon is much worse than that of the front-loading gun, and it can hit a range of one or two miles, which is already very powerful.

But then, the performance of the tiger squat cannon was eye-opening: a small tiger squat cannon weighing only forty or fifty pounds can actually hit a range of nearly one mile! However, the Tiger Squat Cannon fires solid shells, because the projectile is too small, the lethality is obviously not good, and after the shell lands, it only bounces a few times and then stops moving. If this kind of solid shell falls in the enemy group during a war, the effect of causing ricochet casualties is very small, and it cannot hurt a few people.

However, the Tiger Squat Cannon can hit so far is already very powerful, which shows that the particle gunpowder made by Wang Xinyu is far more powerful than the gunpowder used by the Ming army now.

"The redcoat cannon is ready!" The gunner, who was in charge of loading the cannon, shouted.

When the little ** of the test cannon came, people became excited, surrounding the red-coated cannon that had been loaded, and seeing what kind of effect this giant cannon could play.

The gunner poked the lit torch into the tail of the cannon, directly igniting the gunpowder in the powder pool, and then causing the gunpowder in the barrel to explode violently. I only heard a loud sound like the sky and the earth cracking, and the red-clothed cannon shook heavily, the entire cannon body withdrew several steps away, and a two-zhang long tongue of fire erupted from the muzzle, and white gunpowder smoke enveloped the entire fort.

No one could see the shells flying out of the muzzle, because the speed of the shells was so fast that it was impossible to see clearly. By the time people looked up and tried to find the trajectory of the shells, there was no trace of them. In about two breaths, smoke and dust rose on the grass eight miles away, and the cannonballs that landed on the ground tumbled and bounced like madmen. If there is a group of enemies in the meadow, then this single cannonball can pull a flesh alley at least fifty or sixty paces long in the crowd!

After a while, the people who had gone to observe the landing of the shells of the red-coated cannons came back and reported: "That's amazing! It's really amazing! This cannon will indeed festering for miles! ”

The second round is the launch of a shotgun, which is a kind of scaffolding made of iron wire, with iron sand and iron balls inside, and a cardboard skin or cloth on the outside. After the gunpowder burns, the shell breaks open in the barrel of the cannon, knocking out the iron sand and iron beads inside, forming a fan-shaped killing surface in front of the cannon.

Although the killing range of the shotgun is very large, the range is very close, but it is only about a few dozen steps to about two or three hundred steps, and it is not powerful if it is far away.

The test firing of chain shells was limited to the red cannon, and the other guns were not equipped with chain shells. Because this kind of shell was originally used against sails, it was only used on naval guns.

Before firing the flowering shells, Wang Xinyu taught the gunners of the red-coated cannon a new method of firing solid shells: lighting the stove, putting the solid shells on the stove to burn red, and after filling the gunpowder, first stuffing the wooden planks to ensure air tightness, and at the same time preventing the hot shells from exploding directly when they meet the gunpowder. This method is especially useful in naval battles, where a red-hot cannonball, which burns when it meets a sail, can also burn a hole in the ship's plank, and if the cannonball penetrates the gun deck of the opposing battleship and happens to fall on the opponent's powder keg, it will look good. Even if the powder keg was not lit, the sails were not burned, or even the ship's planks were not damaged, a hot shell falling inside the compartment could cause chaos and force the opponent to put down his work to extinguish the fire.

The most exciting moment arrived: the final test firing of the flowering shells.

At present, Wang Xinyu only has one flowering cannonball, which is the flowering cannonball of the eighteen-pound red-coated cannon.

The caliber of other guns is too small, and the power of flowering shells is not enough, not to mention that the next thing to meet is naval battles, and the army artillery does not need expensive flowering shells for the time being. In naval warfare, the effect of flowering shells is very large, and when a shell hits an enemy ship, it can cause an unknown number of times more damage than a solid shell. At most, a solid shell punches a hole in the ship's board, and to sink an enemy ship, it is not known how many shells need to be consumed. As long as five or six shells hit the opponent's artillery deck, there is always a possibility of causing the opponent's powder keg to explode, causing a large fire, which can bring a devastating blow to the enemy ship. The effect of flowering shells is dozens or even hundreds of times that of solid shells.

However, flowering shells are expensive, and flowering shells are hollow shells, with thin walls, and cannot withstand too much bore pressure, otherwise they will be shattered in the bore, and they cannot use too much propellant. Moreover, the hit rate of the artillery in those years was not high, so Wang Xinyu's test was to use a red-coat cannon to shoot at a sea target 300 paces away.

The redcoat cannon was turned around, and the muzzle was pointed at the sea.

Three hundred paces away from the battery, on the sea, was parked an old sampan that had been used as a target ship. This is an old sampan captured from the Qing army, about four zhang long and seven feet wide.

The red-coated cannon that had completed the preparation let out a roar, and the muzzle of the cannon flashed. But it was disappointing that the shell did not hit the target, but fell into the sea three feet away from the sampan. Only a violent explosion was heard, and a milky white column of water rose on the sea, and the small sampan was almost overturned by the waves.

The gunners hurriedly cleaned the chamber, cooled the cannon with water, then loaded it with gunpowder, stuffed it into the shells, and conducted a second test firing.

This time the shell hit the target, but it was very disappointing that the shell did not explode, but only smashed two piercing holes in the sampan, and finally the shell broke through the bottom of the ship and sank to the bottom of the sea, and there was no explosion.

"The target ship has sunk! The target ship sank! Someone shouted.

The target ship, whose bottom had been smashed open, began to sink slowly, and before the gunner could load the third flowering shell, the target ship had already sunk into the sea.

The gunners, who were about to fire, were stunned as they watched their targets disappear.