Zhang Ji was very interested in artillery, and looked carefully and remembered that Tao Shiqi fired several more shots, but he was still not satisfied.

For the sake of cheapness and for the convenience of carrying, Du Zhongxiao is now making small cannons. Because the barrel is forged, the process conditions also limit the creation of larger cannons. In Du Zhongxiao's eyes, the cannon is now a large number of muskets, which is still a very long distance from the impression that one shot fired the earth and the mountain was shaking. Seeing Zhang Ji so excited, Du Zhongxiao couldn't help but have some doubts about his thoughts.

Until Zhang Ke returned to his side, Du Zhongxiao said: "The chief minister, the projectiles emitted by the cannons are only as big as a small bowl. It is naturally enough to pierce armor and destroy the enemy, but it is only a little stronger than the bed crossbow. In my opinion, defending the city is useful, but there are only a few more bed crossbows. It is still a bit insufficient to rely on these defending the city alone. I originally wanted to try the power with the small cannon first, and then cast the cannons in the coming year--"

Zhang Ke smiled and said, "It is good to have cannons, but these cannons are enough now. The Zhi army has not passed the battle formation, and they do not know how powerful such a weapon as a bed crossbow. A few years ago, as long as the city had sufficient food and grass, there were a few bed crossbows, and some archers, tens of thousands of thieves came to attack, they could not do anything to me. Tanglong Town occupies a geographical advantage and is located on a high platform, so the army cannot use it. If there are dozens of such cannons, I will be stationed with three or five hundred elite soldiers, and the Western thieves attacked the country, and I will not do anything to me!"

Du Zhongxiao was speechless when he heard this, and was a little suspicious of Zhang Ji's bragging. But after thinking about it carefully, Zhang Ji fought against Dang Xiang on Linfu Road and defended the city several times. Every time he brought not many people, Dang Xiang retreated in a mess.

In fact, let alone Dangxiang, even the Khitan lacks the means of siege. As long as the city is solid, most of them rely on people to rush towards the city with ancient ladders and rush towards the top of the city with arrows and stones. The greatest function of artillery is not to kill and siege troops, but to destroy the enemy's siege tools. Now artillery is naturally not powerful for siege cities, but to defend the city, it is more than enough to smash all the siege tools close to it.

The siege battles in Du Zhongxiao's memory mostly came from movies and TV. The people of the country rushed forward without fear of death, and all kinds of siege tools were densely packed. The ancient but powerful catapults that broke through the sky, stones fell on the city walls like rain. The sturdy and powerful rushing car rushed to the city gate with the fierce and bloody warriors who were fearless. The bows and arrows shot out were as overwhelming as locusts. In this situation, the cannons in front of them were really like children's toys, which could not give Du Zhongxiao confidence.

But in fact, the above pictures are impossible. No matter how stupid the army is, it always chooses several places in the city to make key breakthroughs. Correspondingly, the troops of the defending city are also very concentrated. Since the attacking party is attacking from the top, there is either no stone throwing opportunity or it cannot hit the city. The falling stones will hurt their own people and cause roadblocks. There are no strong soldiers at all, and they can stand under the city and shoot volleys on the city.

In a real siege battle, either the defender is slack or mistaken, allowing the attacker to open a gap. Or it is with the help of various siege tools, such as well as the well railing and the siege, facing the firepower of the defender, and on the other hand, relying on powerful protection to approach the city wall. As long as the defender can always knock out these tools, the attacker is almost impossible to approach the city wall. If it is close to the city wall, it will be impossible to climb without fire support.

Without actual combat, Du Zhongxiao could not imagine the war of this era, and the pictures in his memory were reliable.

After thinking for a while, Du Zhongxiao said to Zhang Ji: "The Dujian said this, and it doesn't seem too far apart. I have also made dozens of muskets here. Although they are not as powerful as cannons, they will kill people with one shot. Dujian will see if defending the city is useful."

After saying that, Tao Shiqi ordered the selected musketeers to get the gun.

The gun at this time refers to a weapon with a wooden pole and metal head, similar to a spear, with a long spear and a short spear. The spear is actually a spear, and it is a powerful weapon on the battle formation, and it is prohibited from being held by the people. As for the short spear, it is similar to the red tassel spear in my impression.

Zhang Ji didn't know what a musket is? After hearing Du Zhongxiao's words, he smiled and said, "Zhijun, when defending the city, the spear is not very useful. The soldiers guarding the city use a fork, but there is a ladder, and it is just pushed down on the fork. If an enemy army occasionally goes up to the city, push it down with one fork."

I was very nervous when defending the city. I didn’t have time to cut off and stab the enemy. I had to use swords and guns. The guards used forks and chain hammers and other strange weapons. The purpose of defending the city was not to kill the enemy, but to force the city wall. If you fall down, you will either die or be disabled. Why bother to spend your own efforts?

Du Zhongxiao knew that Zhang Ji had misunderstood and hurriedly waved his hand: "The musket I mentioned is not the purpose of the general idea, but is similar to the gun."

As he said that, he saw Tao Shiqi and his party turn back and pointed at him, "Look at the head of the capital, that's a musket."

Zhang Ji turned his head and saw twenty or thirty people carrying long spears, with a shaking bayonet in front of him, and actually: "Zhijun, your gun is not in shape! The pole is too short, the spear head is too long, and it is too sharp and thin, which is not conducive to the armor-transparent."

After hearing this, Du Zhongxiao was amused and said, "The Master misunderstood that this musket is not used that way."

Tao Shiqi stepped forward and sang the promise with his hands. Du Zhongxiao said, "The musket bullet is too small. You can stand some wooden boards dozens of steps ahead and let the supervisor take a look."

Tao Shiqi Chengnuo looked at the wooden boards around him, so he had to pull out some fences and tie them together, and the trees were in front of everyone.

Seeing Du Zhongxiao nodding, Tao Shiqi shouted an order. A group of musketeers knelt down and loaded medicine and bullets, and stood in a row with guns. With Tao Shiqi's loud shout, more than 20 muskets fired together, and black smoke rose and the smell of gunpowder was choking.

Zhang Ke was stunned for a moment and said, "This is obviously a cannon, why is it just a gun!"

How could Du Zhongxiao know why the name of this weapon is a gun? To be serious, it was the earliest gunpowder weapon in the Song Dynasty, and it was named "The Musket", although it was just a fire-breathing fire. However, the name of the gun was deeply rooted in his thoughts, and it would never change the name of the scanned association.

The two cannons just now made Zhang Ji think a lot. He even thought of how to use dozens of doors in the city. There were even countless thieves who came to attack the scene of being bombarded by the cannon and running away with their heads. However, Du Zhongxiao showed up again. Shaking his head, Zhang Ji stepped forward to check the fence that was shot by the gun. Unfortunately, there were no bullets on the fence, either passing through the gap or smashing the branches to pieces.

Taking a breath of cold air, Zhang Ke said, "The power of this musket can easily break the armor?"

Du Zhongxiao followed behind and said, "That's natural, it's more powerful than the average hard crossbow in the army."

Zhang Ji nodded, was silent for a while, and suddenly turned around and said, "Wei Dianzhi, didn't we catch a few looted men on the road? All of them were taken up! Put them armor in their arms and shoot them with muskets to see if this gun can break the armor!"

Du Zhongxiao was startled: "Dujian, do you want to use someone to test the gun? How can this be done!"

"How can't you do it?" Zhang Ji asked strangely. "How can you know that it can kill people without a human being? If someone wears heavy armor, if the projectile can penetrate the armor and shoot people to death, this musket is much more useful than a hard crossbow."

Du Zhongxiao smiled bitterly and shook his head: "That is human life after all--"

Zhang Ke finally understood what Du Zhongxiao meant and couldn't help laughing: "These looted foreigners should be damned! I kept them with me just to find out which tribes come from, and this matter is optional. Since it is damn, what's the harm in killing with a musket!"
Chapter completed!