Steel Dynasty - Chapter 155

[Chapter 155 A stunning shot]

“Your Highness, what on earth is it?”

Lu Fei asked impatiently. It wasn’t a crossbow or a catapult. He had been thinking about this question for several days.

Luo Xin also came over, his eyes still stained with eye droppings. The three days of confrontation were boring enough.

At this time, Xiao Ming could no longer hide it. He asked Chen Qi and others to lift the linen cloth.

Suddenly, a dark-skinned artillery piece with a cold metallic texture appeared in front of them.

“Hey, isn’t this a fire cannon?” Luo Xin looked weird, “But it looks much stronger than the fire cannon.”

Niu Ben carefully looked at the cannon in front of him, and unlike Luo Xin, he didn’t make a conclusion easily. Then he walked around the cannon and looked at the cannon carefully.

“Your Highness, I don’t know what this is called?” Niu Ben asked.

“I call it artillery.” Xiao Ming said. Luo Xin’s words were not wrong. After all, this fire tube is the predecessor of artillery.

Nodding, Niu Ben circled around the artillery again, and patted the barrel of the artillery. He put his head on the muzzle and looked inside for a while, “This artillery is well-made, and it is not comparable to the fire barrel. Moreover, the fire barrel is thick and short, and its range is only about 200 meters. Your Highness will definitely not use this to attack the city, right?”

“The old general has thought carefully. The reason why this artillery is different from the fire barrel is that it has its subtleties. Wait a minute. You can tell, Luo Xin, don’t be frightened until you pee your pants.”

Luo Xin said with a playful smile, “Your Highness, you have underestimated me. I have lit a fire torch in the army.”

“Is that so? , I can only leave this matter to you, the others have no experience.” Xiao Ming said seriously.

Luo Xin grew up in Chang’an City, and his father was Huai Dajun Luo Quan. His personality was naturally a bit frivolous, but not as strict as others.

He said: “This is too simple.”

Lu Fei would have snatched this job normally, but he knew Xiao Ming very well, and when he saw the evil smile on Xiao Ming’s face, he knew it was definitely not a good thing, but this time it was Honestly, I won’t argue with Luo Xin anymore.

Luo Xin wanted to be the first to be a death squad. Chen Qi and others were quite helpless, but they still asked dozens of people to help unload the artillery from the vehicle and fix it on the gun mount.

At this time, the artillery was pointed at Uburg’s city gate at an oblique angle.

Then Chen Qi unloaded the artillery shells, gunpowder, match ropes, and tools for cleaning the artillery from the vehicle, and arranged them in front of the artillery.

At this time, on the city tower, Liu Chuang was watching the actions of the Qingzhou Army below.

When he saw a strange thing placed in front of the Qingzhou military formation, he suddenly felt a very ominous feeling.

He asked the people around him: “When will the tunnel be unblocked?”

Unknown to outsiders, there were actually two tunnels leading to the outside of the Liujiawu Fort, one of which was blown up by him.

Liu Chuang originally thought of escaping through another tunnel, but he never thought that because the tunnel was in disrepair and part of the tunnel had collapsed, he was trapped in this Uburg.

But for the past few days, they have been asking their men to clear the tunnel. Once the tunnel is successfully cleared, they can escape.

In the past few days, the Qingzhou Army was besieging and not attacking, which was exactly what he wanted, but this situation seemed to be ending today.

“More than 200 people have been sent to dredge the tunnel. Now we have cleared more than 50 meters. It should be fast. I remember that only this section of the soil is very soft. There should be no problem after that.” “

Speed up the speed, otherwise we will fall into trouble this time. Here it is, and take all your food and salary with you,” Liu Chuang said.

“Yes.” The man responded, and then said: “What should I do with this cement? Do you want to take it away too?”

“Idiot, how can you take this thing away with it when it is so heavy? It cannot be eaten or used.”

From the slave’s mouth, Liu Chuang learned that this thing was called cement, but it was obviously of no use to him.

The man nodded, turned around and walked down the tower.

Liu Chuang looked further down the city and saw a man dressed as a school captain poking around in the strange thing with a long stick.

This man is Luo Xin, who is cleaning the barrel of the gun.

And what he was holding in his hand was the barrel purge for cleaning the barrel.

The artillery currently produced by the Equipment Department is a front-loading smoothbore cannon. Gunpowder and shells must be loaded from the front, and the firing of the artillery requires a certain process and is not random.

Xiao Ming understands the loading procedure of the artillery, so naturally there is no need to explore it separately.

Because when the artillery was produced, he asked Chen Qi to prepare the barrel rods, barrel strips, gunpowder shovels, ignition rods and other things to avoid being in a hurry.

At first Luo Xin came up and was about to stuff gunpowder and cannonballs inside, but he stopped him in time.

This artillery is not a fire barrel. There is no need to mention the sealing of the fire barrel. The shells of this artillery are almost as big as the muzzle and can just be stuffed in.

Only in this way can the ammunition explode and the artillery shells have sufficient power and range.

If there is something like sand mixed in, it is likely to cause a stuffy bomb.

The cannon bore was cleaned according to Xiao Ming’s request, and then the gunpowder and shells were loaded. At this time, Luo Xin used a gunpowder shovel to take out a forkful of gunpowder and put it into the cannon bore.

The top of the gunpowder shovel is in the shape of a groove, which is exactly the amount needed for artillery firing.

Finally, Luo Xin stuffed the solid cannonball into the barrel and compacted the cannonball and gunpowder with a bore rod.

“Your Highness, is it okay now?” Luo Xin asked at this time.

He had never been so precise when using a fire torch before.

“Okay.” Xiao Ming said.

The ignition of the fire tube is the same as that of the artillery. Xiao Ming did not teach the rest, but took a few steps back and stood far away.

Seeing Xiao Ming like this, the others followed suit and took a few steps back.

When Luo Xin turned around, he suddenly realized that he was the only one left. He suddenly had an ominous premonition.

He looked at Lu Fei, willing to hold on to this bastard even if he wanted to, and said, “Colonel Lu, come with us?”

“You’d better ask Captain Luo, I’ll give this credit to you.” Lu Fei looked humble. look.

Luo Xin looked at Xiao Ming again and saw Xiao Ming giving him an encouraging look.

Gritting his teeth, Luo Xin stuffed the match rope into the hole in the back of the artillery and stuffed it into the ammunition chamber.

Chen Qi had already lit the fire stick for him, and he only needed to light the match rope.

“Your Highness, I ordered it.” Luo Xin shouted to Xiao Ming.

Xiao Ming nodded. Although he was playing a trick on Luo Xin, he still reminded him: “Don’t forget to cover your ears and stand far away.”

Luo Xin nodded, took the fire stick and lit the match.

“Zizi”, when exposed to flames, the match rope quickly begins to burn. The thin rope made of hemp rope has been soaked in oil and burns very quickly.

After Luo Xin lit the fire, he took a step back and immediately covered his ears.

At this moment, a loud noise like thunder suddenly came out, flames and green smoke were seen coming from the muzzle, and black cannonballs hit the city gate like lightning.

However, the war horses in the Qingzhou army panicked and neighed, causing chaos.

(End of chapter)