"Alright, since that's the case, let's take advantage of the fact that several Mongolian princes are in the capital and invite them to come and see the power of this mother-and-child cannon. As for the location, let's set it outside the artillery camp. We'll fire directly in the northwest direction, and the time will be the day after tomorrow."
In fact, Emperor Kangxi wanted to go see them tomorrow, but it was already evening, and it was inconvenient to make arrangements, so he postponed it for a day.
After giving the instructions, Kangxi went to Youqing's place.
"Dai Zi has manufactured a mother-and-child cannon. It will be test-fired the day after tomorrow. Shall we go and take a look?"
Youqing, of course, wouldn't refuse and nodded in agreement.
The next day, the Mongol princes, who were resting at the post station in the capital and waiting for their rewards, suddenly received an imperial edict to go and watch the cannon firing. They were all a little confused. They had heard of cannons, but had never seen one. These things were very rare. They were said to be divine weapons on the battlefield, but they had never seen them with their own eyes, and none of them believed it.
They could not disobey the imperial decree issued by Emperor Kangxi.
Another day passed, and outside the firearms camp, Kangxi, Youqing, the soldiers of the firearms camp, and the Mongolian princes who had come to be "intimidated" stood in a row.
At this moment, Dai Zi came over and said, "Your Majesty, the mother-and-child cannons are ready to fire."
"Then prepare for launch."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
The launching was naturally handled by specialists. Although Kangxi gave the order, Dai Zi waved a flag and then launched six consecutive mother-and-child cannons, hitting the pre-determined target point and leaving six large craters nearly a kilometer away.
The cluster munitions were launched successfully.
The six deafening sounds were pleasant to Kangxi and others, but rather unfriendly to the Mongol princes.
This time, Kangxi personally led the Mongol princes to see the six large pits. Each pit was about one and a half people deep and about four or five square meters in size, with blasted soil and rocks around it.
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