Chapter 38 This is a baby!

Liao Ying sat behind several tables, just kept looking at the "painting" in front of her, with a wry smile on her face. This is not a painting, it is clearly a pile of ships and...

"Qingzhi, what is this?" Liao Yingzhong pointed at a drawing of a torsion stone generator with a question on his face. He could still see that the drawing of the three-layer pulp warship was a ship, even if there were too many pulp and no wing wheels. There was also a long sharp corner under the bow of the ship, so he didn't know what it was for? But he really couldn't recognize what the drawing of the torsion stone generator was.

"This is a stone generator." Chen Dexing gently tapped the drawings of the stone generator and said solemnly, "This is a powerful weapon of the military and nationality. For my Song Dynasty, it should be on the divine arm!"

"Above the Divine Arm Bow!" Liao Yingzhong took a breath, unable to believe it, "Don't lie to Qingzhi's virtuous nephew. The Divine Arm Bow is a powerful weapon for my great Song Dynasty to defeat the cavalry. This stone-generating machine...can it be used to make cavalry?"

Liao Yingzhong stared at the drawings of the torque-type stone generator. The appearance of this stone generator was really strange. There was no rope for traction. I wonder how to launch the stone?

"This stone-acting machine cannot defeat the cavalry, but it can defeat the infantry, defend a strong city, and attack enemy ships. With this sharp weapon, our Song infantry should be like a tiger to add wings, our Song city should be as solid as a golden soup, and our Song navy should be able to travel across the rivers and seas!"

Chen Dexing said jokingly, talking about the benefits of this torque stone generator, which was a bit like a salesman in later generations. But... then again, he did not speak nonsense, but instead sought truth from facts. This torque stone generator is indeed a powerful tool that can reverse the military disadvantages on the Song Dynasty!

If he hadn't really been to the battlefield of this era, Chen Dexing would have taken it for granted that the biggest enemy of the Song Dynasty infantry was the Mongolian Iron Cavalry that traverses Eurasia. However, after a few days of battle at Yangzhou City, Chen Dexing already knew that the so-called Mongolian Iron Cavalry was not a difficult problem that could not be overcome. Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, it has been under the serious threat of the northern nomadic peoples, and how to restrain the cavalry has always been the top priority of the army. An effective way to overcome the cavalry has long been summarized. Although the Song army's infantry still has disadvantages against the Mongolian Iron Cavalry in field battles, how many Song people were? How many Mongolian talents were? Even with a 10-to-1 exchange rate, Genghis Khan's descendants could not help but die!

If the Mongols really had to rely on their iron cavalry to attack the Southern Song Dynasty, the Mongols would probably have been extinct after more than 20 years of war! On the battlefield of the Mongolian and Song Dynasty war, it was not the Mongolian iron cavalry that really put the Song army in trouble, but the northern Han'er who was driven by the Mongolian iron cavalry! In the words of later generations, they were traitors! Therefore, to protect the remaining mountains and rivers belonging to the Chinese nation and to fight the Mongols out of the Central Plains, the main opponent was not the Mongolian iron cavalry, but the huge number of traitor infantry...

To deal with the traitor infantry, it is of course the most ideal to use high-end, atmospheric and high-end foreign guns and cannons. If you add a small-scale cavalry and the European army tactics of the Napoleon era, you will be able to sweep all the way to the Mongolian Plateau and eliminate the Mongolian race!

But where does the steel for making foreign guns come from? Chen Dexing has studied the Song army-style ring-headed knife in the past few days. It is not a steel knife at all. It is not even a cooked iron knife. It is a little crisper and not hard enough.

Chen Dexing guessed that it might be because the blacksmiths of the Song Dynasty did not know how to remove sulfur and phosphorus from iron ore, nor how to add appropriate carbon to the iron. Therefore, they refined high-sulfur, high-phosphorus, and low-carbon iron. If sulfur and phosphorus were removed, it could be considered as iron-melting. It could have good forging performance, create a high-quality blade, and also use it to build a barrel of a smoothbore gun. However, such a reform of the iron craft is not easy. Chen Dexing did not study metallurgy after all. Although he knew some principles, it would probably not be possible to implement the principles overnight.

Moreover, having a mature iron does not mean that a smoothbore gun can be made immediately. With a smoothbore gun, it does not mean that a large number of troops can be produced and equipped with troops immediately, and that the Song army can learn the corresponding tactics.

So Chen Dexing simply took a different approach and came up with the simplest solution - a torsion stone generator and iron cannon. Oh, the iron cannon of the Song Dynasty was not a musket, but a bomb filled with gunpowder! It was a bit similar to the grenades in later generations, but because of the poor quality of the **, the iron cannon was generally large in size and was difficult to throw. It was usually projected with a stone thrower or dropped directly from the city wall. In the battle outside Yangzhou City a few days ago, the Song army did not use gunpowder weapons.

According to the records in the "Wu Jing Zongyao" compiled by the Northern Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty was very complicated. In addition to sulfur, saltpeter (flame), carbon (bamboo, maru), there were also a large amount of yellow wax, rosin, clear oil, tung oil, thick oil and other oils. The gunpowder produced using this formula can only be used to produce incendiary bombs rather than bombs. In the Southern Song Dynasty, the gunpowder formula had been improved, but it was still incomparable to the granular gunpowder of later generations. Although it could barely produce bombs, it seemed a bit difficult to use as launching medicine. Therefore, most of these "iron cannons" that would burn or explode were fired by stone generators.

However, the stone generators used on the battlefields of the Mongolian and Song dynasties were huge and bulky human-powered traction stone generators. Without a light-weight torque stone generator, this made it difficult for the Southern Song Dynasty gunpowder weapons to play a decisive role in field battles. However, the torque generators invented by Westerners as early as the ancient Greek era can be made lighter and used as an original field howitzer.

"What my nephew means is that this stone generator is extremely lightweight and can be used in field battles and can be installed on warships?" Liao Yingzhong heard Chen Dexing's explanation and realized the value of the torque stone generator used with iron cannons - it can directly throw iron cannons on the head of the enemy infantry phalanx! Infantry combat depends entirely on dense battle formations. If hundreds of iron cannons land on the head of a Mongolian Han army, the consequences can be imagined...

"That's right, this stone generator is not a man-powered traction rope, but a stone generator with torque... Oh, the reason is very simple, I'll demonstrate it to Shibo for a view."

Chen Dexing felt that he couldn't explain clearly with Liao Yingzhong, so he took off a soft bow hanging on the wall of the room, and took another bowstring and a feather general. Then he also installed the extra bowstring on the bow body - a bow with two strings. He took out another feather arrow, folded the arrow, inserted it between the two bowstrings, and turned it repeatedly until the two bowstrings were twisted into a twist shape and could no longer turn. He pressed the broken arrow on the arrow shaft, then twitched the arrow shaft again so that it could be blocked by the bow body, and finally let it go suddenly.

With a light sound of "stretch!", the feather arrow with the arrow folded off quickly popped out under the force of the two bowstrings, but was blocked by the bow body. However, the arrow flew forward under the action of huge inertia and finally landed on the ground several feet away.

"Uncle Shi, do you understand?" Chen Dexing put away his bow and arrow and looked at Liao Yingzhong with a smile.

"Baby! This is a treasure... a powerful weapon of the military!" Liao Yingzhong was stunned for a moment, then roared, his face filled with ecstasy expressions, as if he had seen the infantry formation of the Mongolian Han army being blown up by countless iron cannons falling from the sky. "With this weapon, the Battle of the Two Huai Rivers will definitely win the victory, and the Western aid to Sichuan and Sichuan in the future will also win a great victory... Qingzhi, you have made great contributions again, who would want to take the achievements of the day before yesterday? Not to mention that I will make the decision for you, even the Privy Councilor will come out to uphold justice!"

Chen Dexing was stunned when he heard this, and showed an extremely surprised expression, "Uncle Shi, what did you say? Someone wants to take the merits of a certain family?"
Chapter completed!