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"Why?" Zhao Heng was puzzled. ReadМ

"The artillery is so powerful that I'm afraid it will accidentally injure the people. I hope the emperor can find an open place."

"Oh?" Zhao Heng became happy after hearing this.

The general said this, which proves from the side that this artillery is indeed very powerful.

This time he rejected the Beidi envoy and felt uneasy.

Now, he finally felt a lot more at ease.

Dou Wei and Liang Kai looked at each other with solemn expressions.

"In that case, let's go to the Royal Forest Garden." Zhao Heng raised his voice by an octave.

In the afternoon, the Liang family's fleet arrived at Jinling City.

After learning the news, Zhao Heng boarded Luan Yu and headed northeast.

When the two artillery companies arrived, the artillery generals of King Yan and the Liang family ordered their soldiers to adjust the artillery, and then waited for Zhao Heng's order.

The sixth prince had been beside the cannon early in the morning, looking proud.

This is an opportunity to show his face in front of the emperor and the ministers.

"Let's start, who comes first!" Zhao Heng was already feeling itchy along the way.

Seeing that it was ready, he immediately gave the order.

At this time, the sun was shining, there was no cloud in the sky, and the vision was very clear.

"Let's try King Yan's artillery first." Liang Kai's eyes wandered back and forth between King Yan's artillery and his own artillery, looking awkward.

Just in appearance, the Liang family's artillery lost to the Yan King's artillery.

The outer wall of King Yan's cannon is smooth and flat, like the surface of a bronze mirror.

However, there are honeycomb-like holes on the outer wall of the Liang family's artillery.

The bore of the Liang family artillery is one finger off the center line, while the bore of the Yanwang artillery is very standardized, right on the central axis.

The most important thing is that even this kind of artillery is a good product selected by his Liang family from a hundred failed products.

If Zhao Xu were here and saw the Liang family's artillery with his own eyes, he would definitely laugh.

Because he could tell at a glance that the cannons used by the Liang family must be made from clay molds.

This clay mold casting cannon has three shortcomings. First, the clay mold has low air permeability and is difficult to dry out. After baking over charcoal fire, it is often dry outside and moist inside. Moisture is generated during casting, which is the origin of honeycomb holes.

For this reason, clay-mold cannons often have defective products. There is even a saying in the cannon-casting work "Xifa Shenji" in the late Ming Dynasty that "if you can cast a hundred hits, you will be a national expert."

Second, after the artillery casting is completed, the clay mold needs to be smashed to take out the artillery. This is extremely time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it is difficult to standardize artillery manufacturing.

The third is that when molten iron is poured into the mold, the shape core will often be disturbed, causing the cast gun bore to be not on the central axis of the gun body.

The Liang family's artillery has all three shortcomings.

"Then let's try King Yan's first." Zhao Heng glanced at the Liang family's artillery with disgust.

As the saying goes, ugly people are beautiful, so he didn't like the Liang family's artillery the first time he saw it.

The artillery general ordered the soldiers to take out gunpowder and cannonballs from two wooden boxes.

First, clean the gun barrel with a purge, and then load the gunpowder and shells one after another.

Finally, the torch was given to the sixth prince.

"Your Highness, just light this fuse." The artillery general looked blank.

No one in the royal family wanted to come to Jinling. They only recognized King Yan and refused to pay attention to the others in Dasong. He was chosen and could only admit that he was unlucky.

"The artillery is extremely powerful. Your Highness had better cover your ears after igniting it." The general reminded again.

The sixth prince snorted and ignored the general.

He wanted to see how powerful King Yan's artillery was.

Taking the torch, he lit the fuse.

"Zizzi..." The fuse burned quickly, and the flames penetrated into the small holes in the cannon.

"boom……"

At this moment, a burst of fire followed by a thunderous explosion.

The sudden loud noise made Zhao Fang sit on the ground.

He was so frightened that he fainted.

Zhao Heng and the ministers, who were standing thirty meters away from the artillery, were also in a very embarrassed state.

Many ministers were trembling and their legs could not support them, so they could only support each other.

There was even a water stain where the minister was standing, which was urine.

"It's so shocking!"

Zhao Heng grabbed Liang Cheng's arm tightly, trying not to expose his trembling legs under his gown.

He yelled to keep his voice from shaking.

Liang Cheng was in great distress, his legs were half-bent due to weakness.

But feeling the strength of Zhao Heng's hand on his arm, he held on.

He can be embarrassed, but the emperor cannot be embarrassed.

After the initial fear of Dou Wei, Han Zheng and others, their hearts were filled with shock, and it took them a while to calm down.

Immediately, their eyes looked at the artillery with desire.

Until now, they had just speculated.

But now that they had seen it with their own eyes, they finally understood why the Yuan family's 150,000 troops were defeated by King Yan.

Just this thunderous noise would frighten the soldiers on the battlefield.

"Congratulations to the Emperor for acquiring this magic weapon!" Dou Wei struggled to reach out with his legs in front of Zhao Xu, and lowered his body deeply.

Han Zheng, Liang Kai, Xie Duan and others responded and hurriedly followed to congratulate.

"Hahaha..." The respectful look of the ministers made Zhao Heng feel more relaxed than ever before, just like when the artillery burst out.

The third prince looked at the sixth prince who was still unconscious on the ground.

Originally he thought he would be happy, but now he couldn't be happy no matter what.

Indeed, he made the Sixth Prince look foolish.

But this proves the huge power of King Yan's artillery.

Such powerful firearms were made by King Yan.

There is no doubt that artillery will become another important bargaining chip for King Yan in the future.

After all, his father seemed to have no intention of letting King Yan hand over the artillery casting method.

And even if his father wanted it, would King Yan give it to him?

After all, King Yan has now become a considerable force of his own.

"My dear friends, no courtesy." At this time, Zhao Heng's laughter stopped, and he was completely relieved.

With such a powerful weapon of the country guarding the border, what can he do in Beidi?

Now, he no longer regrets handing over King Yan to Beidi.

Otherwise, if King Yan destroys the method of making cannons in a rage, it will be a huge loss to Da Song.

Dou Wei noticed Zhao Heng's expression and her heart sank.

He had never seen Zhao Heng glow with such confidence.

However, King Yan, the prince, has artillery, and his powerful clan also has artillery. The King of Yan cannot have all the glory.

So he said to Liang Kai: "Liang Shangshu, now it's time to test your Liang family's artillery."

"Start testing the artillery." Liang Kai swallowed and yelled at the Liang family general.

From the outside, the Liang family artillery has lost.

Now he hopes to surpass the Yanwang artillery in terms of range.

Zhao Heng also wanted to see the Liang family's artillery, so he sat down and watched again.

"Boom!" There was another cannon blast.

However, the sound of this cannon is obviously not as clear as that of King Yan's artillery.

After the thick smoke cleared, Zhao Xu cast a sidelong glance at the ministers and said, "My dear friends, please follow me to find where the cannonballs have flown. Let's see whose cannons fly farthest."

After that, he walked forward and ordered the imperial army to search for him in the forest garden on horseback.

When the setting sun remains red, it disappears into the skyline.

A Forbidden Army soldier shouted: "Your Majesty, we have found it."

Zhao Heng and the ministers followed the sound and saw black projectiles lying quietly under the roots of a tree.

This is five hundred steps away from the artillery position.

"This is a shell from the Liang family's artillery." Yang Feng picked up the shell with the word "Liang" on it.

Then everyone continued to move forward and found another cannonball at a distance of 800 steps.

Yang Feng picked it up again and said to Zhao Heng: "Your Majesty, this iron bullet weighs ten kilograms, which is about two kilograms heavier than the Liang family's artillery."

"What, it weighs two pounds!"

"How can this be."

"I didn't expect that the Yanwang artillery can shoot a ten-pound iron bullet so far. It is about twice as powerful as the Liang family's. It is really powerful."

"..."

The ministers talked a lot, and when Liang Kai heard this, his face turned red and white.

This time, the Liang family was completely humiliated.

Zhao Heng hurriedly took the iron bullet from Yang Feng's hand, and it was just as Yang Feng said.

This time, he was not only excited, but also shocked.

Dou Wei and others looked thoughtful. The gap was so big that it was immediately difficult for them to detect the Liang family's artillery.

However, they will still want the Liang family's method of forging cannons.

After all, it is better than nothing.

But for artillery, they still tend to want King Yan.

"Tie this cannon with red cloth and transport it back to the palace. I will inscribe it with my own hand and call it General Shenwei!" Zhao Heng laughed.

"Yes, Your Majesty." The Imperial Guards soldiers shouted in unison.

Zhao Heng continued: "There is a banquet in the palace, and I will have a big banquet for all the ministers tonight."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Liang Kaixin felt sour.

In this artillery competition, the Liang family completely lost.

That night.

The celebration in the palace was like the Lantern Festival, with lanterns hung all over the treetops.

It wasn't until midnight that the banquet broke up.

With different thoughts, the ministers went back individually.