Chapter 237: Fainted with Fear

"Why?" Zhao Heng was puzzled. Read М

"The cannon is so powerful that it may accidentally injure the people. I hope the emperor can find an open place."

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

The general's words proved from the side that the cannon was indeed very powerful.

This time he rejected the Northern Di envoy, and he had been worried.

Now, he finally felt relieved.

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

"In this case, let's go to the Royal Forest Garden." Zhao Heng's voice rose eight degrees.

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

Upon hearing the news, Zhao Heng boarded the imperial carriage and headed northeast.

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

The Sixth Prince was next to the artillery 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's going first!" Zhao Heng had been itching to try all along the way.

Seeing that everything 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 the King of Yan's cannon first." Liang Kai's eyes wandered back and forth between the King of Yan's cannon and his own cannon, looking embarrassed.

Only in appearance, the Liang family's cannon lost to the King of Yan's cannon.

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

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

The barrel of the Liang family's cannon deviated from the center line by one finger, while the barrel of the King of Yan's cannon was very standard and was on the central axis.

The most important thing was that even such a cannon was a good product selected by his Liang family from a hundred failed products.

If Zhao Xu was here and saw the Liang family's cannon with his own eyes, he would definitely sneer.

Because he could tell at a glance that the Liang family must have used a mud mold cast cannon.

This mud mold casting cannon has three disadvantages. First, the mud mold has low air permeability and is difficult to dry. After being baked with charcoal fire, it is often dry on the outside and wet on the inside. Moisture is generated during casting, which is the origin of honeycomb holes.

For this reason, mud mold casting cannons often have defective products. In the book "Western Method Divine Machine" on casting cannons in the late Ming Dynasty, there is even a saying that "casting one out of a hundred is a national master."

Second, after the cannon is cast, the mud mold needs to be broken to take out the cannon, which is extremely time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it is difficult to achieve standardization of cannon manufacturing

Third, when molten iron is poured into the mold, the core is often disturbed, so that the barrel of the cast cannon is not on the central axis of the cannon body.

The Liang family's cannon has all three disadvantages.

"Then try the King of Yan's first." Zhao Heng looked at the Liang family's cannon with disdain.

Just as people are ugly and beautiful, he didn't like the Liang family's cannon at first sight.

The artillery general received an order and asked the soldiers to take out gunpowder and shells from two wooden boxes respectively.

First, he used a cleaning rod to clean the barrel, and then loaded the gunpowder and shells one after another.

Finally, he gave the torch to the Sixth Prince.

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

No one in the royal army wanted to come to Jinling. They only recognized the King of Yan and didn't want to pay attention to other people in Dasong. He was chosen and could only blame himself for his bad luck.

"The cannon is very powerful. Your Highness had better cover your ears after ignition." The general reminded again.

The Sixth Prince snorted and ignored the general.

He wanted to see how powerful the King of Yan's cannon could be.

He took the torch and lit the fuse.

"Zizi..." The fuse burned quickly, and the flame drilled into the small hole on the cannon.

"Boom..."

At this moment, a fire burst out with a thunderous explosion.

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

He fainted directly due to excessive fear.

Zhao Heng and the ministers standing 30 meters away from the cannon were also very embarrassed.

Many ministers shivered, their legs could not support them, and they could only support each other.

There was a water stain where the ministers stood, that was urine.

"It's so shocking!"

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

In order to prevent his voice from trembling, he roared.

Liang Cheng was in great pain, his legs were half bent because of weakness.

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

He could lose face, but the emperor could not lose face.

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

Then, they looked at the artillery with eager eyes.

Before, they were just guessing.

But now seeing it with their own eyes, they finally understood why the 150,000 troops of the Yuan family were defeated by the King of Yan.

Just this thunderous sound would scare the soldiers on the battlefield.

"Congratulations to the emperor for obtaining this magic weapon!" Dou Wei took a difficult step and came to Zhao Xu, bowing deeply.

Han Zheng, Liang Kai, Xie Duan and others reacted and hurried to congratulate.

"Hahaha..." The respectful look of the ministers made Zhao Heng feel unprecedentedly happy, just like when the cannon burst out.

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

Originally he thought he would be very happy, but now he couldn't be happy at all.

Indeed, he made the sixth prince look bad.

But this proved the great power of the Yan Wang cannon.

And such a powerful firearm was made by the Yan Wang.

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

After all, his father did not seem to want the King of Yan to hand over the cannon casting method.

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

After all, the King of Yan has become a powerful force.

"My dear ministers, please don't be polite." At this time, Zhao Heng's laughter stopped, and he was completely relieved.

With such a national weapon guarding the border, what can he Beidi do to Dasong.

Now, he no longer regretted handing the King of Yan over to Beidi.

Otherwise, if the King of Yan destroyed the cannon casting method in anger, it would be a huge loss for Dasong.

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

He had never seen Zhao Heng so confident.

However, the prince of Yan had cannons, and their powerful family also had cannons. The glory could not be taken by the King of Yan.

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

"Start testing the cannons." Liang Kai swallowed his saliva and shouted at the Liang family generals.

In appearance, the Liang family artillery has already lost.

Now he hopes to surpass the Yan Wang artillery in range.

Zhao Heng also wanted to see the Liang family artillery, so he sat down to watch again.

"Boom!" Another cannon shot.

But this cannon shot was obviously not as clear as the Yan Wang artillery.

When the smoke cleared, Zhao Xu glanced at the ministers, "My dear ministers, follow me to find out where the cannonball flew to? Let's see whose cannon flew farther."

After that, he went forward and ordered the imperial guards to search in the forest garden on horseback.

When the sunset was only a little red and sank into the skyline.

A soldier of the imperial guards shouted: "Your Majesty, we found it."

Zhao Heng and the ministers looked in the direction of the sound, only to see the black projectile lying quietly under a tree root.

And this place is five hundred steps away from the location of the artillery.

"This is a cannonball from the Liang family artillery." Yang Feng picked up the cannonball, which had 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 cannon."

"What, two kilograms heavier!"

"How is this possible?"

"I didn't expect that the King of Yan's cannon could shoot a ten-kilogram iron bullet so far. It is about twice as powerful as the Liang family's cannon. It is really amazing."

"..."

The ministers talked about it, and Liang Kai's face turned red and white when he heard it.

This time, their Liang family lost face.

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

Now, he was not only excited, but also shocked.

Dou Wei and others looked thoughtful. With such a big gap, the Liang family's cannon was suddenly difficult to enter their eyes.

However, they would still want the Liang family's cannon casting method.

After all, something is better than nothing.

But for the cannon, they still prefer the King of Yan.

"Tie this cannon with red cloth and transport it back to the palace. I will write an inscription for him in my own handwriting, calling him the Great General of Divine Power!" Zhao Heng laughed.

"Yes, Your Majesty." The soldiers of the imperial guards shouted in unison.

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

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

In this cannon competition, the Liang family lost completely.

That night.

The palace celebrated like the Lantern Festival, with lanterns hanging all over the treetops.

The banquet ended at midnight.

With different thoughts in mind, the ministers went back.