Chapter 309 42. The Hundred-Li Large Cannon Is Really Brutal

The first explosion was followed by a second, more violent explosion, and the vibration was even piercing.

Several people could not sit still, so they stood up immediately and walked out of the residence. The servants and maids along the way were a little panicked, but they were still in order. No one ran around or shouted, but just looked around anxiously.

"Come here, go to the city to find out quickly." Yamanouchi Yoshiharu called a familiar servant.

"Father, what happened in the city?" After giving the order, Yamanouchi Yoshikatsu strode in from outside the residence. After seeing that Yamanouchi Yoshiharu was fine, his expression was much calmer.

"I hope you are fine, Dian Stable, everything is safe in the city." The father and son are kind and filial, very warm.

Several people greeted each other separately, but did not go into the house to sit down. They were still waiting for the people outside to come into the city to report.

"Report to Your Highness, there was an explosion in the forge house under the city!" A fellow in the city came in first to report.

"What is the specific situation?" "It seems that the barrel exploded during the test, and then the spark ignited the gunpowder barrel next to it, but fortunately it was at the test shooting range and did not involve the entire forge."

"Is anyone injured?" Yamanouchi Yoshiharu heard that there was no problem with the forge, so he didn't care much.

"Well, His Majesty Toshu was at the test shooting range at the time." The person who came to report buried his head deeply in his body, and his answer became smaller and smaller.

"What! Saburo Goro!" Yamanouchi Yoshiharu quickly changed from a nonchalant expression to a panic-stricken and anxious anger.

He hurriedly pushed away the people in front of him, took the horse and went down to the city, and everyone followed him.

Who knows what kind of trouble Imagawa Yoshichika has caused? If he dies, Yamanouchi Yoshiharu will be sad, and his rule over Totomi Half Country and Suruga Shita County will be shaken.

You can say that Yamanouchi Yoshiharu cares about his son, or you can say that he cares about the safety of the country's rule, anyway, Imagawa Yoshichika can't get into trouble for the time being.

When everyone arrived at the scene, the town magistrate had already sent people to put out the fire and deal with the scene. The huge forge had stopped working at this moment, and the originally hot furnace and the banging and hammering sounds of the forging had stopped.

The craftsmen and apprentices were gathered outside the door to accept the questioning of their like-minded people. They were ordered around one by one. Now that they saw Yamauchi Yoshiharu had arrived, they all knelt down on the ground and dared not speak.

"What's the matter? Where are Saburo and Goro?" Yamauchi Yoshiharu was of course most concerned about his son at this moment. The rest of the dead and injured were just given a few money for burning and burying the money for the soup and medicine.

A town official knelt on one knee in front of Yamauchi Yoshiharu trembling with fear. It was probably the first time he spoke to Yamauchi Yoshiharu. It seemed that he was not a samurai.

"The doctor has been invited and is treating His Highness Enshu." This sentence scared everyone. He was treated! How can this be good!

Kobayata pointed at him and said, "Is your life in danger? Where is His Highness Enshu now?"

"Oh, there is no danger to his life. He is in the clinic in front." This man's answering skills are really bad. He almost scared people to death. As expected, he can only do odd jobs in the castle town.

"Lead the way." Kobayata was so scary that he said something ambiguous and scary, so he was told to leave quickly and stop talking.

When everyone saw Imagawa Yoshichika, they realized that everyone was wrong. Everyone thought too much, and their thoughts were a bit crooked.

Imagawa Yoshichika was commanding the town to take care of the injured craftsman apprentice with a charcoal-black face, and he looked lively.

"Nonsense, the doctor is saving people, and you are pointing fingers here." Yamauchi Yoshiharu was furious when he saw Imagawa Yoshichika's dirty monkey-like appearance.

Imagawa Yoshichika caused such a big storm, but now he is completely fine and is still happy here.

"Father, elder brother." When Imagawa Yoshichika saw that his father and elder brother were here, he immediately bowed and greeted them in a proper manner.

"Tell me, what's going on." "Father and I will go to the shooting range and we will know." Imagawa Yoshichika was a little excited when he heard the question.

He took everyone to the shooting range, and the shooting range was still the same as it had just exploded. But there was not much gunpowder that was detonated, only a small barrel, which was only a few pounds. The power of black gunpowder is hard to describe. The sound is greater than the power, and it is good for firecrackers.

Soon, an attendant brought a cannon that had exploded. Everyone, pay attention, it was carried!

The barrel had exploded and was rolling like a twist. And this cannon was very strange, with almost no buttstock, only a wooden gun seat and the necessary ignition device.

Xiao Pingtai reacted at a glance, isn't it the ghostly big barrel that Benzi himself had!

It was the 100-ton barrel that Xiao Pingtai directly abandoned when he investigated the Japanese iron cannon market many years ago. And looking at this one, it may be even larger than 100-ton, with a ridiculous caliber and a ridiculous bullet.

And Imagawa Yoshichika has been working on this thing for the past two months!

He and the craftsman tested it today, and the 100-ton barrel in front of him was obviously not made successfully, and it exploded.

But according to Imagawa Yoshichika, he did this deliberately as a comparative experiment. Because the barrel of this exploded barrel was deliberately made of two pieces, just to compare with the one-piece barrel.

And the one-piece barrel had been tested first, and there was no problem at all, and the operation process was the same as that of a normal iron cannon.

As he was talking, someone dragged a barrel placed on a gun carriage over. This gun carriage was very simple, just a wooden frame and two large wheels. It seemed that it did not have the function of adjusting the shooting angle, but at least it was not a ridiculous thing to be fired by holding it.

After saying that, Imagawa Yoshichika was about to demonstrate to Yamauchi Yoshiharu, but he was grabbed by two of Yamauchi Yoshiharu's attendants. He dared not let him try again. The apprentice operating the big barrel that just exploded probably lost one eye. He could not take the risk.

However, two apprentices who had tried the gun and shot once took the initiative to operate it. They seemed to be very confident in the big barrel they had personally made.

Moreover, they did not use the big bullets weighing one hundred coins of the devilish caliber that Xiao Pingtai thought, but stuffed more than ten or twenty small bullets weighing six coins into the barrel.

After operating and firing, the wooden board 50 meters away was directly shot with holes and tattered.

In addition to the loud sound of firing, the unexpected effect was quite good!

Sure enough, existence is reasonable!

Imagawa Yoshichika quietly pointed out the technology of the big barrel, and Yamauchi Yoshiharu obviously considered more.

A dozen straw dummies wearing ordinary domaru were brought to the front, and a round of shotgun shells were fired at them. Wow, the dummies in front were all hit, and the bullet holes on the domaru were shocking. One of them was even "hit three times in a row", and the domaru was broken.

Imagawa Yoshichika, this kid, accidentally pointed out a weird military technology.