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Volume 3: Stormy France Chapter 109: Gunpowder

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    After a while, Bai Zhou woke up from his thoughts.  This was mainly because the object Weifu brought him was too shocking.  Originally, in Bai Zhou's mind, even just bringing some oil was already very difficult. Unexpectedly, Weifu was so powerful that he directly brought gunpowder.

    It can be foreseen that in the future, no matter which country has a war with the Western Qin people, it will have to endure the roar of gunpowder first!

    Of course, gunpowder alone cannot fundamentally change the current fighting style of the Western Qin people. In other words, now, Western Qin still needs to use cold weapons to fight the enemy.  However, on some more special occasions, the gunpowder alone is enough for all the enemies of the Western Qin tribe to drink a pot, but this premise is that the Western Qin people have enough gunpowder.

    Bai Zhou seemed to understand why Weifu knew that a single reciprocating cannon would not have much effect, but still insisted on taking it to Basel. Presumably he wanted to use its range and the explosive power of gunpowder to create a one plus one  An effect greater than two.  After all, even if the accuracy of the returning artillery is not good, as long as the explosion radius of the gunpowder is sufficient, the killing effect it can produce, especially the killing effect on enemy generals, will be considerable.

    "How much gunpowder did you bring?" Bai Zhou suppressed the excitement in his heart for the time being, because he was a little worried that Weifu would say "that's all" to him.  In that case, Bai Zhou could only cry without tears while holding the cloth bag handed to him by his husband.

    "A lot, but not much, about a thousand catties." Wei Fu gave Bai Zhou a figure that sounded acceptable.  But everyone knows that one thousand kilograms is the combined weight of seven or eight men. For a war, this is an extremely small number.

    To put it in a more intuitive way, the maximum weight of the projectile carried by the cannon is one hundred and fifty kilograms, which is three hundred kilograms. A thousand kilograms of gunpowder is not enough to fire the cannon four times with a full load.  It can be said that four launches will not play a decisive role in a war unless it can paralyze the enemy's command center every time.

    But having said that, something like this is better than nothing.  What is particularly worth mentioning is that its "audio and video" effect is more shocking than those of the bee-crossbow aircraft. If used properly, it can be used to destroy the enemy's morale.

    "By the way, how is the power?" Bai Zhou asked.  This is another topic of concern to Bai Zhou.  After all, if it is a thousand kilograms of gunpowder, then Bai Zhou believes that he can definitely blow up the Burgundians until they howl like ghosts. But what Xi Qin has in his hands now is a thousand kilograms of black gunpowder, and depending on the situation, it is still the most primitive one.  Growing black gunpowder, Bai Zhou was not very optimistic about its power - if he had known that he would be in this situation, he would have had to study how to make picric acid and smokeless gunpowder.

    "This" Wei Fu hesitated to speak, as if he was looking for words to use to describe their power, but in the end, he found that no words seemed to be easy to describe, so he simply said: "Young master, I'd better see it for myself.  Look, I¡¯ll ask someone to demonstrate it to you.¡±

    After saying that, he led Bai Zhou to the other side of the square. The soldiers around him obviously knew what Bai Zhou was here for, and they each performed their duties and led a way out.

    These people were brought by the lieutenant from Bern. In other words, they knew how to use the gunpowder they carried this time and knew how to demonstrate its power. After receiving the captain's signal, they began to prepare step by step.  .

    Bai Zhou looked around. Apart from these soldiers, only Wang Xiaobao and a few secret guards were following him and his husband. However, it was obvious that they were fully prepared for the upcoming gunpowder "test".  , the look on his face seemed a little cautious, but also very relaxed and natural.

    After all, they are not ignorant people. They have been in the army for a long time and naturally know that there are many kinds of weapons using gunpowder in the world. Although no one of them has ever used gunpowder weapons, they have still seen it. Therefore, for  It was not surprising what these soldiers coming from Bern had prepared.

    Bai Zhou saw that these soldiers did not prepare much. They just carefully took out a bottle-like thing from a box, with a white band exposed on it.

    Could it be a grenade? This was Bai Zhou's first reaction when he saw this thing. After all, the image looked too similar.

    "This is called Zhentian Lei. It contains about half a kilogram of gunpowder. After lighting the fuse, it is thrown out immediately. The power of the explosion is enough to make sure that there is no living thing within one meter around the explosion point." Wei Fu introduced,  "Due to the rush of time, we didn't get too many gunpowder weapons. This thunder is the only one."

    Thunder?  one meter?  Bai Zhou ignored the name, which sounded very intimidating, but paid special attention to the number "one meter".

    ?"Boom!" There was a loud noise. Of course, there was no shaking of the sky and the earth. Zhentianlei's first "performance" was quite satisfactory. Of course, this satisfactory performance refers to the performance in hot weapons. If it is placed in cold weapons,  To compare, well, there is no comparison at all.

    Although he was more than a hundred meters away, Bai Zhou still felt some scum splashing on his face, and waves of air came from him.  Moreover, the explosive fire just now and the thick smoke that lingered for a long time seemed to tell everyone that its power was not bad.

    Although compared to its momentum, the one-meter killing radius seems a bit pitiful, but Bai Zhou knows that the one-meter effective killing radius is indeed a good figure in this era, although it cannot be compared with various types of grenades in later generations.  In this era, this can already be regarded as a big killing weapon.  Having said that, not to mention the bottles and jars that are obviously made of pottery, there don't seem to be many left in Western Qin (after all, such fragile things are naturally difficult to preserve after all the migration), and there are currently not many used for them.  For military use, more importantly, each of these things requires about half a kilogram of gunpowder. That is to say, if the Western Qin Dynasty used all the gunpowder to make the so-called thunder, it would only be able to make two thousand pieces.

    It seems that using them to scare people is obviously better than using them to kill people.  Bai Zhou curled his lips and thought helplessly.

    A middle-aged man throwing an object weighing about a kilogram with one hand cannot throw it very far. Moreover, because the workmanship of Zhentianlei is actually very rough, the throwing hand does not dare to use force suddenly, for fear that it will hit the target.  It exploded before it was thrown, so the distance was usually twenty or thirty meters. Of course, if it was thrown from the top of the city to the bottom, the distance would definitely be farther, but the distance would be limited.

    For this distance, Bai Zhou knew that it was already a good result based on the current technology of Western Qin. You must know that even if thermal weapons are left in later generations, it is still common for them to misfire and hurt themselves. What's more,  It was the Middle Ages, and all levels of craftsmanship were completely inadequate.

    Just think of it as a mid-range destructive weapon, Bai Zhou thought. The distance of twenty to thirty meters is no longer necessary for the "Zhentian Lei" which has no "handle", is inconvenient to throw, and is not strong in texture.  What to ask for.

    According to Wei Fu, they only brought more than a hundred finished Zhentian Lei this time, and also brought seven to eight hundred empty cans, because they didn't know how Bai Zhou planned to use this batch of gunpowder, so they didn't  Dare to make all the empty jars into thunderbolts.  After all, if the Western Qin army needs to use ready-made gunpowder, they can't just smash the cans one by one.

    Bai Zhou saw the smoke slowly dissipating around the explosion point, and walked slowly towards it.  Although Bai Zhou is not a weapons enthusiast, nor is he a military geek, he is still very interested in this explosion, because no matter what, this thing may not be the same trump card of the West Qin tribe in the future, and now  Naturally, we need to know more about it.

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