The Buddhist holy land, the authentic Jinshan Dharma Temple of Zen, is truly blessed by God.

In the blink of an eye, more than forty solid shells fell from the sky.

The main buildings in the temples such as Cishou Pagoda, Fahai Cave, Miaogao Platform, Lankata Platform, Tianwang Hall, and Main Hall were all bombarded.

The most severely damaged one is undoubtedly the Cishou Tower. Three iron bombs hit the Cishou Tower, causing serious damage to the tower body. An iron bullet also fell in the center of the Great Hall, smashing a big hole in the roof of the hall. The falling iron bullet jumped in the hall twice, destroying a pillar, and finally landed on the statue of the Buddha.

The monks in the temple were extremely panicked, and Master Dexin was also very embarrassed, thinking that the Japanese pirates from decades ago were coming again.

The sound of artillery bombardment from the direction of Jinshan also shocked Zhenjiang City.

After receiving the report, the prefect Wang Yinglin couldn't believe it. When he got up the city wall, he looked into the distance and found that there were more than a dozen warships on the river on one side of Jinshan, and he was so angry that he couldn't speak for a long time.

Wei Yin, dare you!

On the river, Eunuch Wei is even more popular than his fellow villagers' mansion.

Because the navy's shelling made him very dissatisfied.

There are two dissatisfactions. One is that the efficiency of naval artillery can not match the "saturated attack" that my father-in-law said. When a round of guns was shot out, it sounded like a rumble, but the actual shells were fired only more than a hundred, and the actual hit rate was probably less than half.

Second, all the artillery used by the navy were solid bullets, and there was no shocking scene of explosions all over the mountains when fired, which made the shelling operation less powerful.

But my father-in-law was not satisfied, and the navy generals were all excited. The effect was very good, quite good. This was also due to the reform of the entire army into the Royal Navy. My father-in-law had enough money, food, and money, and the honor of his own army brought great enthusiasm to the officers and soldiers. He focused on training to achieve the effect. It was necessary to put Jiang Liangdong before, not to mention that he could fire more than a hundred cannons in a round, and half of them could fire, it would be worthy of the court.

The hit rate is really not a bad training, but the only problem with the accuracy of the artillery is that the cannons are equipped with half copper and half size, and the longest range can hit three miles, and the shortest one is only one miles away.

Even if there are sights and sights in front of the barrel with precision adjustment, firing cannons is a technical job after all. After all, the navy was first established, and there are not many excellent and qualified gunners. Many chief and deputy gunners are temporarily rushing to put them on the shelves. The bombardment of a certain place of such a scale has never been done by naval officers and soldiers before.

In addition to the war between the North Korean and Japanese naval forces, the Ming navy officers and soldiers fought with the Dutch who broke in Fujian, but the scale was very small, and the Dutch red-haired ghost only came three ships. The battle was also very short. After the two sides shot each other at sea, the battle was basically over.

Therefore, the artillery battle against land proposed by Eunuch Wei was actually a bold and new attempt for the Royal Navy and even the entire Ming Dynasty navy.

Before this, it was not without it, but none of them used this combat method as the main combat method. The navy was basically used as a auxiliary land warfare, and the main task it undertakes is to transport troops. It has never been to undertake combat tasks alone. At most, it is to fire artillery to cheer up the siege troops on its own and scare the enemy guarding the city.

After all, the artillery shells used by the Ming army were mainly solid bullets. This kind of shell can confuse the enemy's army and horse sequences in field battles and create chaos. When combined with the "Sanwan" of the tiger squat cannon, it can often cause heavy casualties and injuries to the attacking enemy troops, but it has little effect on siege, which can be said to be useless.

Since the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming army has never had any siege battles that directly collapsed the defending army's city walls with cannons. They mostly attacked the city by means of ants supporting them and snatching the gates.

The deepest impression of the naval generals in naval battles was that they were at sea confrontations, seized ships from close to ships, and used various water firearms to defeat the enemy. They did not have this kind of combat experience of directly shelling land targets from the ships.

Therefore, it is already very rare to make it like this. If someone had not been sent to the ashore to measure the accuracy before, the effect would probably have to be folded in half.

Eunuch Wei didn't say much about this. He knew that in order to achieve what he called "full attack" in real combat in the future, and to cover the enemy and the entire city with artillery fire baptism, the only effective way is to create new guns and cultivate qualified gunners like modern and modern army.

This cannot be done in a short period of time, from at least three to five years, or at most ten years, without a large amount of financial investment, a lot of hard work, and a large number of technical talents, you can't imagine running overnight to enter a well-off society.

You can't replace the navy with artillery immediately, and changing the solid bullet to a flowering bullet shouldn't be a problem.

Eunuch Wei learned that the Ming Dynasty army has always been equipped with flowering bullets, so he must ask Wang Dali and others why they did not use flowering bullets, but instead of solid bullets.

"What my father-in-law said must mean the flowering bullet?" Wang Dali thought for a long time before he linked the "flowing bullet" mentioned by Eunuch Wei with the "spent bullet" in the army.

"When I say to my father-in-law, this piece of paper is very troublesome, the procedure is complicated, and the effect is not as good as solid, so I don't need it."

According to Wang Dali, it is really troublesome to loose bullets. When using it, you must first put the medicine into the medicine room at the bottom of the gun body, put wood and soil in the middle. After compacting, the shells containing the loose are put in the front chamber. In addition, the shells containing the balls must be filled with gunpowder, and then a layer of wet soil are separated, and finally seal the muzzle with wax. When setting off the gun, first ignite the fuse on the shell from the muzzle, and then immediately ignite the fire door rope at the bottom of the gun body.

After the entire program, at least half a stick of incense is required, and no mistake can be made in the middle, otherwise it will explode 100%. Moreover, when pretending to be loose, more than ten people must work together to lift the cannon body upright. In this way, the army will not want to pretend to be loose.

"So troublesome?"

The father-in-law was slightly stunned. He did not believe what Wang Dali said, and ordered him to find a loose piece to test it for him. This made Wang Dali stump. After asking several people, they said they did not carry it on the ship. In the end, he finally found two at the bottom of the valley of a lucky ship.

These two loose pieces look not the form of flowering bullets that Eunuch Wei thought. They look exactly the same as solid bullets. The difference is that they are hollow inside, filled with iron pills and medicine.

During the experiment, my father-in-law was far away from the cannon, and the great castrator would not stand under the dangerous wall.

He didn't ask to fight to Jinshan Temple, but this was giving the monks in the temple time to escape. No matter how disrespectful the Buddha, he would not kill all the monks.

The cannon was fired into the open space by the river. One shot about one and a half miles away, while the other fell to less than one mile. After landing, an explosion sounded, but it didn't sound very loud.

When the shell landed, the naked eye could clearly see that the surrounding reeds were swept away and then caught fire.

My father-in-law shook his head and knew that this kind of loose seed was not good, and he should not be used for real flowering bullets.

Wang Dali smiled apologized on the side and said, "Dad, there are basically no need for a slaughter in naval battles, but there are some in close combat. The tiger-squatting cannons are the slaughtered ones. When Qi Shuai fought Japanese pirates, he put the Japanese pirates in, and then used the tiger-squatting cannons to hit Sanzi. After one shot, he could wipe out more than a dozen Japanese pirates."

When he said this, he secretly glanced at the two personal guard captains beside his father-in-law who always held their waists in his arms.

Sanada snorted slightly, without saying a word, Oda said in a muffled voice: "We are not Japanese pirates, we are the imperial army."

Wang Dali smirked, and admired Eunuch Wei for getting these Japanese people from somewhere to serve as guards.

The father-in-law waved his hand, walked to a bronze cannon, patted the cannon body, and said to the navy: "This cannon is not good. It is too troublesome to load shells from the front, the range is too short, and the power is even smaller. It must be improved. The navy must take the initiative and control the enemy beyond the range!... So, your cannons must be further than the enemy, so that one shell can sink an enemy ship."

Can a shell sink an enemy's ship?

Everyone in the navy was stunned: How could there be such shells in the world? If there were such shells, why did the brothers fight with the Japanese before? They directly fired a few shots from afar, and then drove the boat to fight the dogs in the water. Wouldn't the battle be over?

"We will implement these things in the future."

Eunuch Wei ignored the confusion of the navy general and looked at Jinshan Temple with his hands behind his back.

It seems that it is necessary to establish the Jiangnan Manufacturing General Administration to carry out the Genesis Innovation of Weapons.

Westerners have begun the era of great navigation. The Ming Dynasty is already very backward in this regard. If it wants to come from behind, it will be possible to improve weapons.

By leading the opponent for several years, let them taste the feeling of being beaten if they fall behind.

The Jiangnan Manufacturing Administration must be established if it is not established.

Not to mention the Western countries, even the Japanese countries with silver mountains have to rely on weapons to suppress them.

My father-in-law had this condition. In terms of manpower, when he was slaughtered by the military weapons department in the military war, the other party packaged a large number of firearm craftsmen and "sold" him. These technical talents who seemed to be burdens in the military war were very precious wealth to Eunuch Wei. Therefore, he took over the people without even paying back the bargaining.

It is definitely not enough to rely on these craftsmen alone. You have to invite a group of technical talents from Macau, and some related books must be specially translated.

The site is ready-made. The Special Administrative Region says it is not big, but it is not small. It can accommodate the Manufacturing Administration for dozens of square kilometers.

As for funds, there is always a squeeze.

In the drawings, my father-in-law can draw a three-point image by himself, and the remaining seven-point can allow technicians to brainstorm and discuss together. No new thing is available from the beginning. As long as you give an idea and an implementable plan, my father-in-law believes that the smart people in this era are definitely no worse than those of him.

The only tricky thing is where the raw materials come from.

In the manufacturing bureau that specializes in weapon improvement and manufacturing, my father-in-law will definitely not be able to place it elsewhere, but can only be placed in Wusongkou. But there is no iron ore or copper ore in the area of ​​Wusongkou.
Chapter completed!