"Third brother, congratulations on being the groom again, this lady can't forget us. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info "Niu Jianhu surrounded Li Chao with a smile on his face.

"Na Mei is not a wife." Li Chao was immersed in drawing drawings, and replied without raising his head. Concubines will also have witnesses and will be registered, but the concubine is also a concubine, but she is just a little more advanced than an ordinary concubine, and she is still not a wife. Therefore, it will not be as lively and grand as marrying a wife, if Li Chao pays attention to it, he will also go to greet his relatives, and his wife's family status is high, and he will also send someone to marry, and there will be relatives to add makeup.

But there are also people who take concubines, but they are just carried back with a sedan chair and a few tables of wine.

Li Chao's wife is the concubine daughter of Zheng Shanguo, the secretary of Dali Temple, the marriage of Zhao Guogong and Zheng Guogong, the union of the new wealthy family and the old family, the Zheng family of course wants to be grander. When they sent Wanrong into the palace, they made a big scene.

Li Shimin married Zheng Wanrong, and it is said that he also earned tens of thousands of dowries, and the wealthy families of the major clans also gave many gifts, and Li Shimin earned tens of thousands of yuan. If it weren't for the Zheng family's concubine, it is estimated that several major families would also accompany a concubine or something.

Li Shimin ascended the throne as emperor, whether it was the wealthy families in Guanzhong or the scholars in Kwantung, they were still relatively supportive, at least on the surface.

"San Lang, what are you painting?"

"Cannon!"

"Cannons? What is it? Stone-throwing trucks? Ballista? ”

The Tang people also called the stone-throwing cart a cannon, but it was a cannon next to the stone character, and even the ballista was also called a cannon.

Li Chao did draw the cannon next to the stone character, not the cannon next to the fire character. In fact, it is okay to make a cannon in this era, but Li Chao doesn't want to make this kind of artillery at all.

First, if you want to make artillery, you need to have gunpowder, and although gunpowder is not difficult to prepare, it is not easy to make powerful gunpowder, it is too easy, and second, in fact, it is not very powerful to get out.

Think about the Song Dynasty, there were all kinds of gunpowder weapons, which were advanced enough, but the actual effect was also average. If you really want to be powerful, not only the formula, but also the problem of large-scale production.

Li Chao didn't want to bother to make this kind of thing, at least not now.

However, he was about to send troops to Lingwu, and Li Shimin only gave Li Chao 20,000 people, and only two months of food and grass. This battle is not allowed to be defeated, and Li Chao does not want to lose the battle, in order to increase the chances of winning, Li Chao is ready to get some black technology.

You don't have to bother to get gunpowder, after all, you can't get so much sulfur and saltpeter for a while. To make a powerful gunpowder, it is not only sulfur and saltpeter can be made, it will take a lot of time to make a process chain black technology tree.

It's hard to quench your thirst in the distance, so it's better to get something else.

Li Chao chose two things, one was a crossbow, and the other was a stone-throwing cart.

The crossbow and the stone-throwing cart are all existing equipment, Li Chao is going to get some powerful version of it, and take out a strong version of the eight-bull crossbow on the bed crossbow, that is, the three-bow crossbow, and make the Xiangyang cannon on the stone-throwing car, that is, the whirlwind cannon.

These two are not individual weapons, they can be regarded as weapons of mass destruction.

The three-bow crossbow is also a kind of bed crossbow, also known as the eight-ox crossbow, which combines three large bows and sets them on a crossbow bed, and requires thirty people or eight oxen to pull it apart, so it is also called the eight-ox crossbow.

This kind of crossbow uses hard wood as the shaft of the arrow and iron as the feather, and is commonly known as one gun and three sword arrows.

It can fire both a spear-like crossbow and a smaller seven bolts.

Shoot a crossbow gun, the range can reach a terrifying 700 steps, arrows like spears, if fired at close range, can be directly nailed into the rammed earth city wall, when the salvo is fired, rows of treadling arrows are firmly nailed into the city wall, can make an arrow ladder on the city wall, so that the siege soldiers can climb up.

And if you load seven iron crossbow arrows and fire a volley in rows, then even the strongest cavalry will not be able to block such an attack.

This can almost be regarded as a Gatling gun in the era of cold weapons.

Three bows, but they are all super strong bows that reach twelve stones.

The drawing that Li Chao took out was still a strengthened and improved version of the Eight Bull Crossbow.

Ratchets and pulleys were added, so that the winch no longer needed to be pulled by thirty soldiers or eight oxen, and two soldiers could winch the ballista.

According to the introduction on Li Chao's drawing, this improved eight-bull crossbow has increased by 300 steps to the original range of 700 steps, reaching 1,000 steps, which means that the maximum range can reach 1,500 meters and shoot three miles.

Even if the effective range is discounted, it can shoot a mile and a half.

If you use these eight-bull crossbows to launch rockets, you can deal with the defenders in the city, and you can be like a tiger with wings.

The Xiangyang cannon is a stone-throwing car, but this kind of stone-throwing car is different from the stone-throwing car at this time, this is a counterweight stone-throwing vehicle, using the principle of leverage.

At this time, most of the stone-throwing vehicles are pulled by piso, and the larger the stone-throwing car, the more people need to pull the cable, and there are even the kind of stone-throwing vehicles that need 200 people to pull and throw.

The light one only needs to be pulled by two people, but it can only throw a half-pound stone projectile, and the range is not far.

The heavy stone throwing machine needs one or two hundred people to pull the rope, and can throw hundreds of pounds of stone bullets.

However, this kind of rock-throwing car is far worse than Li Chao's.

Not to mention the number of people who are needed, and the launch is slow, the range is short, and the accuracy is poor.

And the kind painted by Li Chao is a counterweight stone thrower.

This kind of catapult can already be considered a semi-automatic weapon.

The stone thrower has a huge iron block or stone block hanging at the back end of the lever, which is equipped with a pulley and a ratchet, and the lever is pulled down and hooked through the pulley and ratchet, and after the stone bullet is installed, the iron hook is opened when it is fired, and the large iron block falls down and throws the stone bullet.

This kind of rock throwing car can be built very large, but it does not require much manpower after using a pulley block and ratchet, and even only a few people can operate it.

In particular, this kind of catapult has a longer range and is more powerful.

It can shoot one or two hundred catties, or even three or four hundred catties of giant stone projectiles, and even the city tower can be smashed.

Smash out a giant crater more than two meters deep, a real giant cannon.

Li Chao didn't get the kind of giant cannon with a counterweight of 10,000 catties, in fact, the optimal ratio of counterweight to shells was about 100 to 1. Shoot ten catties of stone projectiles, then the counterweight is a thousand catties.

However, it does not mean that the counterweight can be increased indefinitely, because not only can you fire larger stone projectiles by increasing the counterweight, but it also requires the extension of the counterweight arm.

Twenty pounds of stone projectiles are fired, the counterweight is 2,000 catties, the counterweight arm and the projectile arm are one to four, and the most ideal effect can be achieved when the court projectile is used at a 38-degree angle, and the firing range can reach 400 meters.

With a stone bullet of 20 catties and a range of 400 meters, this is definitely a giant cannon far beyond this era.

Li Chao plans to make the biggest is this kind of twenty-pound cannon, and then get some ten, five, and two catties.

When the Jin army attacked the city of Tokyo in the Northern Song Dynasty, it set up 5,000 cannons overnight, and when attacking the city, it directly fired 10,000 cannons in unison, and the troops defending the city were blasted and destroyed, and the Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed.

Li Chao didn't imagine that there were 5,000 cannons, but if there were hundreds of cannons, it would be quite powerful.

This is a huge cannon that is simple to operate, requires less manpower, and is much more powerful.

The improved version of the Eight Bull Crossbow and the Xiangyang Cannon are both real militaristic weapons, no weaker than primary gunpowder weapons. Even far exceeded, this kind of thing, ordinary people have to gouge out their eyes when they look at it.

No, a few people are now the founders of the country, and they are also people that Li Chao trusts, so he didn't hide it from a few people.

"These two things are so powerful?"

"An eight-bull crossbow with a range of 1,000 paces, which can be operated by only two people?" Niu saw that the tiger's mouth was open and could be stuffed into two fists.

Li Gan was also shocked, they were all people who were very familiar with ordnance, but the performance of these two weapons was still beyond their cognition.

"Twenty pounds of stone bullets, with a range of three hundred steps? , it only takes two or three people to operate? ”

"How is this possible?"

"It's impossible for me to say that I don't count, when I finish drawing the drawings, I will take them to the ordnance supervision to manufacture, and when the time comes, I will know how powerful it is when I try it."

It's not hard to draw drawings.

Li Chao actually copied the information stored on the hard disk in the computer, and then added some annotations, size conversions, and other things.

When Li Chao sent these drawings to Li Shimin and gave a detailed explanation, Li Shimin's eyes were as wide as bull's eyes, and his mouth was wide open and forgot to close.

"An eight-bull crossbow with a range of 1,000 steps, an artillery carriage that can fire 20 catties of stone bullets and a range of 300 steps, can only be operated by two or three people?"

Li Shimin felt that Li Chao was joking with him.

"Your Majesty, the minister is really not joking."

"You're not kidding, how is that possible?" Li Shimin shook his head, he had never seen such a powerful and perverted artillery carriage.

"Immediately summon the general as the chief eunuch and the ordnance supervisor, immediately!"

If there is really such a powerful ballista artillery truck, even if it is only half as powerful as Li Chao said, it is enough to shock the world.

The chief officer who was the supervisor and the ordnance supervisor arrived, looked at the drawings, and was amazed.

"I've never seen anything like it."

Li Shimin asked anxiously, "Can this design really be that powerful?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, I don't dare to say it yet, but several of the designs, such as this pulley and ratchet, can indeed greatly reduce the manpower required. We also have a similar bed crossbow for these eight ox crossbows, but it takes dozens of people to start it, but if you use these devices, two people can indeed use it. ”

Li Shimin was overjoyed when he heard this, and this alone was enough for him to be pleasantly surprised. From 30 people to 2 people, this is not only a 10-fold reduction in manpower, but also a qualitative leap on the battlefield.

"This kind of stone-throwing car, actually not with manpower to pull up the rock-throwing car arm, but with this device, put down the boulder and bounce the stone bullet, wonderful, very wonderful."

"Your Majesty, I wonder who came up with such a design?"

"Hahaha!"

Li Shimin laughed, "You immediately dispatch the best craftsmen and start trial production immediately, I want to see the real thing in the fastest time, I really can't get a moment in time, I really want to see the power of these two artifacts immediately!" ”

Although the thing was still just a drawing, Li Shimin's face was flushed with excitement.

"Such an artifact, I want to give it a name. These eight bull crossbows will be given the title of General Weiyuan, and this boulder cannon will be given the title of General Shenwei. ”

(To be continued.) )