Chapter 242: Fire Gun (1)

"Father, don't worry! After all, the development of explosives is an unprecedented feat. Everything is new, and it is normal that there are many unstable factors."

"I believe that as long as we continue to study in this direction, we will definitely be able to find a feasible plan and figure out the things to avoid and the operations to be carried out." Li Chengqian said.

Speaking of explosives, although Li Chengqian dare not say that he is proficient, compared with the people of the Tang Dynasty, he is more than ten streets ahead of them.

After the explosive packages are made, how to store and preserve them, Li Chengqian knows more than these people.

Li Er sighed, having a treasure mountain but not being able to enter the door, more or less, will be a bit regretful.

"Everyone! It's getting late! It's time to get up and go back to the palace! The nine chiefs of Tiele are still waiting for your summons!" Wang Yuan reminded on the side.

Li Er's schedule was full. In addition to visiting the secret base to see the research on explosive packs, he also had to summon the leaders of the nine surnames, including the Uighurs, who had come from thousands of miles away to Chang'an. After

Wang Yuan's reminder, Li Er remembered this.

"I almost forgot about this! Get up and go back to the palace!" Li Er said, turning around and leaving the secret base.

Li Chengqian sent Li Er to the outside of the base. He had to stay at the base for a while, so he would not go back with Li Er.

"Chengqian, you should take care of the base and urge them to complete the research as soon as possible. I want to destroy Goguryeo in one go." Li Er said.

The last time he went on an expedition to Goguryeo, he did not destroy Goguryeo in one go, which was like a thorn stuck in his throat, making Li Er very unhappy.

This almost became Li Er's lifelong regret and a heart disease.

After seeing the power of the explosive pack, Li Er's mind became active again. He thought about relying on this explosive pack to lead the army again and solve the Goguryeo problem once and for all.

"Don't worry, father! I will not disappoint you." Li Chengqian said.

"Okay!" Li Er reached out and patted Li Chengqian on the shoulder, turned around and rode on a horse with the help of Wang Yuan, and was escorted away by a team of soldiers guarding the base and some guards.

In order to prevent the news from leaking, in addition to bringing Wang Yuan and some personal guards to this base, his ceremonial guards and other things stayed a hundred miles away.

After watching Li Er go away, Li Chengqian returned to the base.

"Your Highness!" The person in charge of the base saluted Li Chengqian.

"When will the explosive pack be manufactured?" Li Chengqian asked.

"After this study, we have re-listed the data and have determined what unstable factors there are."

"Our scientific researchers have already started to deal with it. Within a day, they will be able to manufacture qualified explosive packs." The person in charge of the base said.

"Very good! But we can't be careless. After all, this explosive pack is an extremely dangerous thing. Once used improperly, there will be harm. You should know it without me saying it again." Li Chengqian nodded with satisfaction. " Your

Highness, don't worry! We are doing everything according to your instructions. Whether it is storage or other things, we are very careful and dare not be careless in the slightest." The person in charge of the base said.

"I'm relieved now!" Li Chengqian said, "How is the development of the musket

going? Is there any progress?" "According to the encyclopedia and Tiangong Kaiwu compiled by your highness, the development of the musket is very smooth, and a musket has been made." said the person in charge of the base.

Gunpowder began to be used in the military in the late Tang Dynasty. The gunpowder was made into a ring, and after the hanging line was ignited, it was thrown out with a catapult; it exploded in the enemy, and people called it a cannon.

The first time gunpowder was officially used in the military was in the late Tang Dynasty, when Yang Xingmi's army besieged Yuzhang, and his generals used gunpowder to attack the city.

People also came up with the idea of ​​tying a gunpowder ball under an arrowhead, igniting the fuse and shooting it with a bow, which was a rocket.

In the Song Dynasty, wars continued, which accelerated the development of gunpowder weapons.

The Northern Song government also established a gunpowder workshop for this purpose, and successively manufactured gunpowder arrows, cannons and other weapons with combustion performance as the main feature, as well as thunder cannons and other explosive weapons such as thunder bombs.

In 1259, the Southern Song Dynasty even created a fire gun with a giant bamboo tube filled with gunpowder.

The bamboo tube was used as the gun barrel to launch the projectile, and because it was made of bamboo, it could only be used once.

There was also a kind of fire gun called the pear blossom gun, which used one or two bamboo tubes to load gunpowder and tied under the head of the long gun. When using it, it was ignited to make it burn and spray flames to burn the enemy, and then the gun head was used to assassinate.

This kind of firearm was very popular in the Southern Song Dynasty, and the Jin people called it the flying fire gun.

This is the earliest prototype of the firearm in history. After more than a dozen generations and hundreds of years of efforts, various firearms such as the fire musket were developed.

"How effective is the firearm?" Li Chengqian asked. He did not expect that these people would develop the firearm so quickly.

The firearm they were talking about was the musket, not the simple firearm of the Song Dynasty.

"Your Highness and His Majesty drove to the base just after it was developed and has not been tested yet, so it is not clear how powerful it is." The person in charge of the base said.

He originally wanted to test the effectiveness of this newly manufactured firearm, record the results, and then write a report and report to Li Chengqian.

Before he could start the experiment, Li Er and Li Chengqian appeared near the base. He had to give up the experiment temporarily and go to welcome the emperor and the prince.

"What are you waiting for? Let's experiment now. I want to see how powerful it is?" Li Chengqian said impatiently.

Gunpowder was invented in ancient China. It was also the first to be applied on the battlefield and used in the military. It was also the first to invent a musket in China.

The musket is recognized by the world as the ancestor of muskets. Although China was the first to use gunpowder to make muskets for combat.

However, it was foreigners who developed it and invented the direct prototype of later rifles - the musket.

Finally, it was brought back to the East by the Portuguese in the West. In the first year of the Jiajing reign of the Ming Dynasty, in the Battle of Xicaowan in Xinhui, Guangdong, Western muskets were obtained from two Portuguese ships captured.

The Ming Dynasty Armory attached great importance to imitating muskets and modified them, and finally produced bird guns.

Compared with the Portuguese muskets, bird guns have greater lethality, and the Ming government began to equip the Ming army on a large scale.

If Li Chengqian could have developed muskets in the Tang Dynasty, it would have been equivalent to advancing the era of thermal weapons by several hundred years.

"Go and take the newly developed muskets to the laboratory quickly. His Highness wants to witness the results of the musket experiment in person." The person in charge of the base said to the assistant beside him.

"Yes!" The assistant took the order and left, went to the workshop, put the newly made musket in a long wooden box, and then took it to the laboratory to test the power of the musket.

Everything was ready, and the assistant went back to report.