Ten days later, deep in Lishan. \ Li Shimin took Li Jing, Hou Junji, Cheng Yanjin and a group of old talents to gather in an unknown valley.
Cheng Yanjin looked like he was hangover and didn't wake up, looked at the empty valley, and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty, what are you calling us here early in the morning for, are you going to hunt?"
Li Jing looked at the situation in the valley and said to Cheng Yanjin comfortingly: "Zhijie, be calm, since Your Majesty has called us, there must be something important, otherwise you would not have come to such a deserted place." ” Cheng Yanjin looked unhappy: "Hey, what can't you say at home, you have to come to such a broken place, does Your Majesty want to start another stove and become a bandit?"
"Okay Zhijie, you'll know what you're going to do in a while, go and stay for a while."
Li Shimin saw that Cheng Biting Jin was getting more and more unspeakable, and waved his hand to drive him aside.
After waiting for a while, I saw countless forbidden troops pouring into the valley and sticking rows of straw men into the hillside on one side.
"Hey, what are you doing here, you really want to fight" Seeing the chaos in the valley, Cheng Yanjin became interested again, separated the crowd and ran to the front.
However, I found that there was a whole row of iron boxes waiting for someone on the side where everyone was standing, and I was afraid that there were no less than 100 when I counted them carefully.
"What is this?"
Cheng Yanjin scratched his head and asked in confusion.
Li Muyun walked up from the foot of the mountain: "This is called a rocket, and it is mainly used for covering firepower. ” "What, what protection" Cheng Biting Jin plucked his ears.
"General Cheng just looks at it, and there will be results in a while."
Li Muyun didn't explain to Lao Cheng again, turned his head and whistled below.
Soon a hundred or so soldiers came to the chests, shook out the fire, lit the fuse in one corner of the box, and ran out of the back.
The sharp whistling of "Xiuxiu" resounded through the valley as the soldiers left, and the thick arms, long rulers, and strange arrows smashed into the other side of the valley two hundred paces away, and made a deafening explosion under the suspicious gaze of the old soldiers.
Grass clippings are flying, devastating, and the straw man in simple leather armor flies everywhere in the explosion, and the simple leather armor does not play any protective role, and the straw man inside completely falls apart in mid-air.
A phalanx, nearly 5,000 straw men, was wiped out in the continuous explosions.
Cheng Biting Jin opened his mouth wide, staring at everything in front of him in a daze, almost unable to believe his eyes.
Li Shimin's fists were clenched together, and his breathing was much heavier.
The rest of the old talents are also bright-eyed.
Li Muyun waited until the valley was quiet, and then came to Li Er: "Your Majesty, this is the rocket after the improvement of the prison, although the accuracy is a little worse, but this thing must be won by quantity, using covering shooting, just to cover the battlefield, and then the arrow explodes to hurt people, so it doesn't need to be too accurate." ” "This, this thing is gunpowder Li Muyun, don't lie to Lao Cheng, I know that gunpowder thing very well, it is useless except to blow up the city gate."
"It wasn't developed in detail before, and in fact gunpowder was used for many purposes, not just to blow up city gates."
Li Muyun said, beckoning to the big-headed soldiers below, there was not much time, someone had already run up and handed him a black iron ball.
"What is this," Li Er asked, pushing Cheng Yanjin away.
"I call it a meteor hammer."
Li Muyun tied the black iron ball with a rope, lit the fuse under the attention of a group of old guys, and then let go after a few rounds, and the iron ball fell into an uninhabited corner of the valley in an arc.
A moment later, there was a loud bang, and the earth splashed, and a shallow pit about half a foot above the ground appeared, and several small trees more than four feet high were blown to the ground.
"This, this thing can still be used like this" The old guys were more and more excited one by one.
They are all old people who have fought battles, and all they think about all day long is how to kill more enemies, and now that they see the power of rockets and black iron balls, they are still calm.
However, Li Muyun's display did not seem to be over, after the rocket demonstration was completed, thousands of straw men were erected on the opposite hillside again, and countless black iron balls were thrown into them by the forbidden army, and the straw men staggered again.
Then came the powder pack, which, with the help of a trebuchet, was thrown into the straw man.
There are also large black iron balls, which are buried in the soil, and after ignition, the grass men on them turn into countless grass clippings again.
Cheng Yanjin and a few other old people who are not afraid of chaos are like seeing their own mother, they can't put down these weapons, and they rush to the valley to play.
Li Shimin took Li Jing and others to sit together and discuss the functions of these thermal weapons.
Li Muyun asked proudly: "Brother Huang, this time you won't say that gunpowder is useless."
Li Shimin snorted: "Finally, your kid did something useful, and he didn't lose too much face to me." ” "Brother Huang, look at what you said, my brother and I have never been reliable."
Li Muyun smiled, and then turned his head to look at Li Jing: "Wei Guogong, what do you think of these weapons?"
Li Jing stroked his beard and was silent for a long time, he had just seen the power of those thermal weapons, and at this time he inexplicably felt like a hero in the twilight.
After a long time, he said slowly: "With some of these things, it is estimated that it will be useless to plan or anything in the future." ” Li Muyun shook his head: "What you said is not right, weapons are dead, people are alive, to put it bluntly, how to use these things depends on people in the end, so the strategy is still useful, but with these weapons, our soldiers can sacrifice less." ” Li Shimin agreed: "Well, this is true, no matter how powerful the weapon is, it is still a person who uses it, and if it is not used properly, it will hurt people." ” "Then Your Majesty means that you will get more of these weapons in the future," Hou Junji asked.
"This is inevitable, and if you have good weapons, if you don't use them militarily, wouldn't it be a waste."
"However, if these things are used for a long time, the minister is worried that the soldiers will lose their bloodiness and rely too much on gunpowder."
Hou Junji and Li Jing glanced at each other and expressed their worries.
"Hehe" Li Shimin shook his head with a smile: "Junji, you think too much, if I am not mistaken, I can only equip a small number of troops with such a weapon, and the real combat power of my Datang still depends on the knife in the hands of the soldiers." ” "This, why" Li Shimin did not answer Hou Junji, but looked at Li Muyun: "Let's talk about it, how much time do you think it will take if these things are all equipped with troops." ” "In terms of time, it will take at least five to ten years, because the troops need to be trained, although these weapons are powerful enough, but they are double-edged swords, they can hurt the enemy, and they can also hurt themselves, if they are not used properly, I am afraid that the first to be hurt will be our own people
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