"Yes, Your Majesty, I will follow your instructions." Song Yingxing quickly replied.
"Everyone, come with me to the vicinity of the military factory to see those artillery pieces."
Everyone stood up with Jiang Tian.
Song Yingxing cupped his hands to Jiang Tian and said, "My lord, may I borrow your carriage for a moment? I'll go ahead and go back to prepare."
"The crank is in the car. You take some people and go drive it."
"promise……"
The group walked out of the county government office gate.
Song Yingxing had already started the car.
Many people at the scene had seen Jiang Tian's train, which was tens of meters long and powered by a steam engine.
When the train started, the steam engine emitted puffs of white steam, and thick smoke billowed from the chimney.
This car is much smaller than a train.
After watching Song Yingxing jump into the car, he started the car and drove away into the distance.
Everyone present felt that their own thoroughbred horse was no longer appealing.
This little car doesn't need horses, yet it can move incredibly fast; no one who sees it can resist its envy.
Jiang Tian looked at everyone with a sly expression: "Work hard and I'll get one for each of you."
"Thank you, my lord," everyone said in unison.
The group walked toward the military factory.
From afar, you can see the massive chimneys of the military factory, billowing out plumes of black smoke.
The clanging and banging sounds filled the air.
Shen Lian stepped forward quickly: "My lord, I have something to say."
"Speak."
"Our lord wants to take over Japan quickly. Shouldn't we, the Embroidered Uniform Guard, undermine them from within?"
Jiang Tian had thought about this before.
However, he now possesses formidable strength.
Once Jiang Tian's 500,000 people land on the island, they can easily push their way through without any problems.
"If you Jinyiwei want to undermine them from within, then go ahead and do it. Consider it practice for your Jinyiwei."
"promise……"
“Shen Lian, the two brothers Lu Wenzhao and Lu Wentong, whom your Embroidered Uniform Guard selected in the capital, are incompetent. Thousands of civilians in the capital have been killed or injured, and a large number of houses have been razed to the ground.”
Upon hearing this, Shen Lian knelt down with a thud: "Please punish me, my lord. I never imagined that the Lu brothers, Wenzhao and Wentong, would be so incompetent."
"I should punish you, but I need your manpower now, so I'll record your crimes for now and deal with them after I've wiped out the Japanese."
Shen Lian quickly got up from the ground: "My lord, rest assured, I know what to do. This time, I will enter Japan first, and our Embroidered Uniform Guard will turn Japan upside down."
"Since you are going to enter Japan first, take some of the muskets produced by the military factory with you."
"promise……"
...
The shooting range outside the military factory.
One red-coated cannon, two Napoleonic cannons, eight Francois cannons lined up in a row.
Dozens of artillerymen stood on either side of these cannons.
Seeing Jiang Tian arrive with his men, Song Yingxing and the others quickly came to greet them.
"My lord."
"Song Yingxing, you don't need to worry about me. Just fire according to your pre-arranged plan." Jiang Tian waved to Song Yingxing.
Song Yingxing quickly ran towards the cannons.
Xiang Yu and his men quickly ran towards the cannons.
They looked the cannons up and down.
"My lord, what use are these iron weapons? They are neither sharp nor effective for defense."
"My lord, I think these cannons are not as useful as bows and crossbows."
"Does our lord expect these iron weapons to deal with those Japanese?"
"In my opinion, producing more bows and arrows would be more useful than producing these cannons."
Everyone started talking at once, discussing the matter animatedly.
Jiang Tian smiled slightly: "Song Yingxing, prepare more targets in the distance. Especially those straw targets, you need to prepare more of them."
Song Yingxing brought over a tray with more than a dozen telescopes on it.
"Rest assured, my lord, we not only have bundles of straw, but also plenty of wooden stakes. All of you generals will surely witness the power of our artillery."
Everyone held a telescope and looked at the target in the distance.
The targets were arranged very closely together.
Song Yingxing was an extremely meticulous person; he arranged more than 2,000 bundles of straw into four square formations.
There are more than 100 wooden stakes in the distance.
These bundles of straw and wooden stakes were arranged in the formation of soldiers.
"The Franco cannon is ready to fire." Song Yingxing waved a small red flag rapidly.
These artillerymen loaded shells, aimed, and fired.
A series of booming cannon shots rang out.
The shells roared out and headed straight for the distance.
These artillerymen were quite skilled.
After they finished firing, they quickly unloaded the submachine gun.
In less than two seconds, the other cannon was loaded and fired again.
The thunderous roar of cannons rang out once again.
Smoke rings billowed from the muzzle of the Frankish cannon.
The shells flew straight toward the target, which was hundreds of meters away.
In less than the time it takes to brew a cup of tea, one of the American Frankie cannons fired 20 shells in quick succession.
Everyone present was stunned.
Apart from Lord Wu'an Bai Qi, they gained a new understanding of cannons for the first time.
Everyone looked at the bundle of straw in the distance.
These bundles of straw were battered and broken, lying in all directions.
If it had been soldiers instead of bundles of straw, the soldiers would have been blown up and suffered heavy casualties.
When Xiang Yu, the Hegemon-King of Western Chu, and Han Xin, the strategist, saw it, they were even more shocked.
Xiang Yu, the Hegemon-King of Western Chu, stared wide-eyed: "This thing can actually shoot so far! Even my arrows can't go that far."
"My lord, if our 500,000 troops could be equipped with a thousand cannons, no matter what kind of army they are, they would be annihilated like dry leaves in front of us." Han Xin was deeply impressed by the power of cannons.
“My lord,” Li Cunxiao had once carried cannons for bombardment, “I’ve carried this kind of small cannon before, I don’t know if I can use this kind of giant cannon.”
Li Cunxiao glanced at Xiang Yu, who had also used the Frankish cannon.
However, the Francois cannons they used were not as powerful as the Francois cannons newly produced by Song Yingxing.
"Xiang Yu, you guys try those Napoleon cannons." Jiang Tian pointed to the two Napoleon cannons.
Xiang Yu and Li Cunxiao rushed to the two Napoleonic cannons.
The artillery has been loaded.
The cannon can be fired simply by lighting the fuse.
Xiang Yu and Li Cunxiao each carried a cannon, holding a torch in one hand, and placed it directly at the fuse.
Two loud booms.
Two shells, each weighing five or six pounds, flew out directly.
The recoil of this Napoleon cannon was much greater than that of the Franco cannon.
The cannons in Xiang Yu and Li Cunxiao's hands almost flew out of their grasp.
They did everything in their power to hold the two cannons in place.
Both Xiang Yu and Li Cunxiao were thrown back several steps by the recoil of the cannon.
"This cannon is powerful, my lord. We should also equip ourselves with some of this type of cannon." Xiang Yu praised the cannon highly.
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