As soon as Ling Zhen said this, Xiao Tang and others immediately laughed and cried. They thought that this thunder bombarded the sky was really focused on the work of making guns. It was already at the point where they forgot to eat and sleep, and forget about everything.

"This is Xiao Renxia, ​​the Du Yuhou? I wonder what it is worth summoning a villain?" Ling Zhen heard Han Tao and Peng Yan introduced that the newly appointed pacifier of Jingxi South Road and the Du Yuhou of the Palace. He could only ask Xiao Tang politely, but his expression was obviously impatience.

Xiao Tang couldn't help but smile and shook his head, saying, "I am obliged by the official family to appease the states in the southwest of the capital. When encountering strong men who harm one side, it is necessary to clear their hamlets, capture all the thieves, and demolish the nest. I have heard that the gunners Botian Lei Lingzhen are good at making guns, so I want to send you to walk with me and take me to take the thief's nest."

After Ling Zhen heard this, his unwilling expression was written on his face. Ling Zhen turned around and looked at the artillery bureau pattern covered with tables. He thought to himself that when the imperial guards in the capital were ordered to go on the expedition, he never ordered me to go with me. I was happy to have free time to study military weapons. But how did you know my name? You didn’t ask me to be sent by you? How should I refuse?

Ling Zhen and Yang Zhi's reaction to Xiao Tang's order was completely opposite. Seeing that Yang Zhi had the opportunity to be ordered to make contributions, he was not only ready to seize this opportunity, but also very grateful for Xiao Tang's promotion. But Ling Zhen was fine. This was obviously the opportunity to accumulate military achievements and be promoted to his official position. Ling Zhen was reluctant to refuse, and he was just accusing Xiao Tang of disregarding his technical research and wasted his precious time for research and creation...

No wonder Ling Zhen was caught by the Liangshan hero in Water Margin and was only worried about the safety of his family in the capital. When Song Jiang promised to take his family up the mountain, Ling Zhen agreed to surrender to Liangshan. Anyway, he was keen on making guns, and he would not reuse it in the prison of the capital military. Where isn't it?

Xiao Tang originally came to visit him by Ming. Seeing Ling Zhen with such an attitude, he didn't want to force him to accompany him with military orders. With Ling Zhen's ability to use artillery to help him, it was certainly a big deal, but it was not necessary for him. Moreover, Xiao Tang didn't feel bad about this "natural stupidity" who is passionate about technical researchers but is not sophisticated. On the contrary, he respected them more. Since you don't want to seize this opportunity, why should I force it?

When Xiao Tang was about to say goodbye to Ling Zhen, who had written the word "exit guest" on his face, he suddenly glanced at a drawing on Ling Zhen's desk and saw that the gunfire painted on it was supported by a huge soaring pillar and placed the trench on the sill shaft. He smiled and asked Ling Zhen, "Is the gunner Ling studying the improvement of this whirlwind cannon now?"

Ling Zhen's eyes lit up and he said, "That's true, Lord Xiao is actually a person who understands things?"

Xiao Tang walked forward, pointed to the end of the whirlwind cannon on the pattern, and said, "If you load heavy objects at one end, and pull down one end of the stone bullet with a winch pulley, put the stone bullet and cut off the rope, and throw the stone bullet with the downward momentum of the heavy objects, will it have a greater power and range?"

"Huh!?" Ling Zhen's eyes shone, and he said happily: "What the lord said is exactly what I want! I'm not to hide it. The villain has thought so too!!"

Xiao Tang was more interested in the history of cold weapons wars in later generations, and had also consulted a lot of information about guns from the Song and Yuan dynasties. At this time, the so-called guns were stone throwers for throwing stone bullets (in this time, they were called Dazha, or the cannon next to the stone), and were not the kind of guns that used the tail of the gun to hold the bolts and the barrel as the cannon as the shells. However, the shells used in the Song Dynasty had already appeared in the shells used to bombard the enemy, causing burns, blasts, and scare the enemy and scare the enemy's troops. For example, Ling Zhen's nickname, Botian Thunder, was also a gunpowder weapon called "Zhentian Thunder" that was already known as "Zhentian Thunder". According to records, this Shining Thunder "is the iron can hold medicine, and the cannon caught fire with fire. The sound was like thunder. It was heard a hundred miles away, and the fire was lit with armor and iron."

Ling Zhen looked at Xiao Tang again at this time and was a relative and friend who had not seen him for a long time. Xiao Tang used the information of Hui Huans that the Mongols relied on when they continued to invade wars to expand their territory one by one. He was surprised to find that the production and principles of the Hui Huans had been initially conceived and understood.

Originally, the Ming Dynasty who was born in the Muli region of the Western Regions in the early Yuan Dynasty, Alao Wading, a native of Muli in the Western Regions, and Yi Simayin, a man in the Western Regions, was a two expert who was good at making artillery. The exhibition of stone throwers from human power machines and torque machines to the peak of counterweight heavy-duty catapults. In the Song Dynasty, the single-tip, double-tip, tiger squat and other stone throwers used to pull ropes, and shoot stone bullets or shells weighing about twenty kilograms, with a range of only 80 steps. The heavy catapult must fix the cannon stand. It is not only very bulky, but can weigh up to a maximum of nearly 100 kilograms, and the range of only fifty steps. The cannon that the Hui cannon can shoot is 150 kilograms, and the range can even reach nearly four hundred meters!

This kind of advancement of military technology requires the accumulation of knowledge of countless generations. Although Ling Zhen, a master of artillery making, vaguely figured out some ways, he lacked military weapon supervision to support him in bold experimenting his ideas, he never broke through the last layer of window paper. Although Xiao Tang had absorbed the evolution and changes of various weapons in the history of the Chinese war, he was only a paper understanding and only knew its general concept, which was not as good as Ling Zhen, an artillery making expert with rich practical experience.

Now Xiao Tang and Ling Zhen are talking about each other, and they feel like they are breaking the clouds and seeing the sun. After a detailed discussion, they have some insights into how to tie heavy objects on the tips when building cannons, how to install iron hook gun rods on the cannon stands, how to use the lever principle to leverage the power of the cannon to the extreme when radiating cannon shells... and other details have some insights.

Xiao Tang and Ling Zhen chatted more and more. Before they knew it had passed, they kept Yang Zhi, Xuan Zan, Han Tao and Peng Qi aside. They either stared at each other or watched Ling Zhen excitedly, and they wanted to hold Xiao Tang's hand and talk long, and refused to let him go.

"Mr. Xiao has seen the scriptures and is knowledgeable and talented. He has made the villain suddenly enlightened and enlightened!" Ling Zhen had completely regarded Xiao Tang as a friend with similar interests. He changed his previous attitude, his face was convinced, and he bowed respectfully to Xiao Tang.

Xiao Tang hurriedly helped Ling Zhen up and said, "Don't be so polite. I will benefit a lot after a long talk with Deputy Envoy Ling." In fact, when Xiao Tang was using his experts in the current era to prove the new firearms and guns. When he was manufacturing the guns, he was also thinking about the feasibility of other powerful military firearms in this era.

However, Xiao Tang also hid his tricks. At present, he could not tell Ling Zhen all about it, because if the rebel forces that Xiao Tang planned to cultivate in the green forest would one day meet the official army, and if Ling Zhen, the deputy envoy gunner of the military weapon in the stele of Jia, was really taken seriously by the court, he would inevitably not let his confidant brothers suffer. Of course, if Ling Zhen could be asked to help him achieve great things, Xiao Tang would also ask this Thunder to maximize his talents...

Ling Zhen was lifted up by Xiao Tang and said, "With the guidance of Lord Xiao, the villain is inscribed with the five inner world. If there is any way to send someone, the villain dares to obey!"

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Note: Regarding the previous chapter mentioning the deeds of Yang Wen, the distant brothers of Yang Zhi, as well as the life stories and backgrounds of the ten Jiedus such as Wang Huan, Xu Jing, Zhang Kai, and Mei Zhan, this book mainly describes them in Song and Ming dynasties such as "The Drunken Weng Talk" and "Qingpingshantang Talk Book", as well as the prototypes of the characters in the zaju opera. In "Water Margin", the characters in the zaju opera are also gathered and aggregated to form the characters of the ten Jiedus, so there is no conflict.
Chapter completed!