MTL - Unparalleled Concubine-v2 Chapter 1037 Li Xin's confidence!

   Chapter 1037 Li Xin's confidence!

   Gunpowder is the foundation of the age of hot weapons, but the power of gunpowder itself is actually far less powerful.

   Nowadays, both the capital and the Yuwen Department in the northern Xinjiang place great importance on gunpowder, but in fact the "Tianlei" in the southwest is only the most basic application of gunpowder.

  The hot weapon is like a big tree. Gunpowder is the trunk of this tree. The trunk of this big tree extends out countless branches and leaves.

   Limited by vision and knowledge, it is difficult for people in this era to see farther scenery. They have only seen Tianlei. The current limit of imagination is just imitating Tianlei.

  Every improvement in thermal weapons will take an era of ten or even decades to advance little by little.

   But Li Xin is different.

   He has seen distant landscapes.

   He knew very well what would extend out of gunpowder. Earth bombs like Tianlei were the simplest things, and after that, there were fire guns, bird guns, artillery, and even… flintlock guns.

   But unfortunately, Li Xin was a liberal arts student in his last life. He knew what gunpowder would turn into next, but he didn't know anything about how to get these things out.

Originally, he didn't intend to really get these things out. Li Xin was a person with no ambition. If he didn't fall out with the Ji family, he even planned to bring the gunpowder into the coffin, not to change the original world in this world. process.

However, due to a series of conflicts of ideas and interests, he and the royal family finally came to the opposite side. In the ninth year of Taikang, Lin Hu was **** by the design of Meihuawei. Li Xin got the Meihuawei logo from Xiao Zheng, and spent another time. After a lot of hard work, he rushed from the capital to Jincheng to rescue the bruised Lin Hu from Meihuawei.

  From that time on, Li Xin knew that between himself and the Ji family, it had reached the point where it was necessary to distinguish between superior and inferior.

  So... just relying on simple gunpowder, or just relying on the Tianlei he figured out a few years ago, is not enough.

There are only 31 prefectures in the southwest, with less than one million households. At most, it can support 150,000 troops as it is now. No matter how much more, Zhao Jia will not be able to afford the military expenses, and the people in the southwest will also be recruited because of the military. Too many complaints.

   In short, the thirty-one state capitals in the southwest can only support about 150,000 people.

At that time, Li Zhijie and Li Shen and their sons had been operating in the southwest for more than 30 years. The Pingnan Army was only this number. Li Xin was not a genius general, nor was he talented in Wolong. It was impossible for him to rely on Tianlei alone. It is impossible to bring hundreds of thousands of troops to the southwest out of thin air by leading troops to win more with fewer troops and enter the capital.

   Therefore, he must continue to push the thermal weapon down.

   Lin Hu was severely tortured by Mei Huawei, and the only woman who entered his heart, Yulan, was unable to come together with him. After he was injured in Jincheng for a few months, he suddenly disappeared.

   Even Zhao Jia and Mu Ying didn't know where Lin Hu went, but these two were also very smart. They never asked Li Xin about Lin Hu's whereabouts, they just thought they didn't know.

It is now the fifth year of Yuanzhao. In the past five or six years, Lin Hu and more than 100 craftsmen have been in a manor on the outskirts of Jincheng. According to the ideas given by Li Xin, he slowly tried to make those What has happened in history is reproduced.

   For example, fire guns, artillery guns... and bird guns.

  Because Li Xin knows nothing about these things, he can only give ideas, so this process is very slow, but as long as the time is long enough, there will always be something to gain.

  With gunpowder, it is not difficult to make a gun, as long as a few blacksmiths can make a prototype, the difficulty lies in the accuracy, loading speed, the safety of the holder, and the effective killing distance.

Lin Hu and others had already brought out the fire gun in the first year of Yuanzhao, and quietly improved it for four or five years. Now they are quite mature in the fire gun. The steel ball in the fire gun can shoot close to the lead. Two hundred steps, the effective killing distance also reached about fifty to one hundred steps.

   But other than that, the two things, the artillery and the bird gun, were almost completely out of progress.

Even if Li Xin drew them a simple schematic diagram, these people still couldn't come up with a more practical bird gun. Even the artillery called "large fire gun", although it was made, but in terms of aiming The progress is very slow and cannot be used for combat for the time being.

   But in any case, the weapons workshop led by Lin Hu has made great progress in the past few years. These craftsmen hidden in the dark are also the confidence of Li Xin's daring to rebel!

Before Li Xin went to Beijing last year, he transferred Lin Hu and the craftsmen under his command from Jincheng to Hanzhong, so that when a fight broke out, Hanzhong would be used as a weapons base. At the same time, Li Xin gave them another task. .

   That is to make a "projection version" of Tianlei.

   In simple terms, it is to thicken the thickness of the clay pot so that it can be thrown out by the catapult.

Catapults are mature weapons and equipment in this era. Whether it is Ye Mao or Mu Ying and Li Shuo, they will use catapults proficiently. If Tianlei can be used as the "stones" of the catapults, it will be very simple in siege. .

   This kind of improvement is not difficult, as long as the right amount of thickened Tianlei clay pot is enough, the difficulty is that this thing needs to be lit before throwing it out, which requires precise control of the time when the lead wire burns.

   The thing that Li Xin asked just now is the thunder that can be thrown by the catapult.

The most important thing for craftsmen in this era is patience. In a few months, they have thought about this thing almost, they just haven't practiced it, so Lin Hu will tell Li Xin that he wants Li Xin to get a few Real guy come and try it.

Li Xin lowered his head and pondered for a while before opening his mouth and said, "This is in the city, it's not very convenient. In the past few days, I have asked people to wrap a hill for you outside the city, open it up as soon as possible, and then get a few catapults there to give you You test."

   Having said this, Li Xin lowered his head and thought about it, and said, "Huzi, this thing needs to be made out as soon as possible. It is estimated that I will use it in a few months."

  Lin Hu patted his chest with a smile, and said, "Don't worry, Lord Hou, with the catapult, I can debug it in a month at most."

  Li Xin nodded, and then patted Lin Hu on the shoulder: "You don't need to take a mouthful of a Marquis's, how you call it before."

  Lin Hu grinned.

   "Brother Xin."

Li Xin also smiled and said, "You are one year younger than me, and you are in your thirties, and you haven't been married for so many years. Do you want my brother to find you a wife, and you also have a son for Uncle Lin. Keep the incense."

  Lin Hu shook his head.

   "It's not urgent, I still have a lot of things to work on here. It won't be too late to talk about my business when I finish my brother's business."

   Li Xin patted Lin Hu on the shoulder silently.

   "Brother, can't you forget that woman?"

  Lin Hu bowed his head and was speechless.

   Li Xin sighed and said, "I should still be able to find her now, or else I will bring her to you?"

   "No way."

  Lin Hu shook his head resolutely and said, "Brother, I don't see her. It's good for both of us. It was not easy for you to save her life back then."

   This dark-skinned mountain man smiled honestly: "I don't really want women now, it's interesting to do things here."

Li Xin sighed slightly: "Then it will be another two years, but no matter what, you must marry a wife and have children. If you don't worry about this, I will give you a report, otherwise you will come to the underground, Uncle Lin. The first one refused to forgive me."

   "I listen to my brother."

   Li Xin patted him on the shoulder again, and said, "How much of the fire guns we made two years ago?"

  Lin Hu said: "There are about four or five hundred."

   "I'll send you some blacksmiths in two days. From now on, I will make every effort to make fire guns and thunderbolts that can be used for catapults."

   "Get out more ammunition for the firearm."

   Having said this, Li Xin paused and continued: "In a few days, I will select some young men from the army and send them to you, and you will divide some of them out and teach them how to make firearms."

  Lin Hu nodded and said, "Brother, don't worry, I wrote it down."

   "From now on, you won't be able to hide here."

   There is no problem with sneaky research on weekdays, but once the production starts with great fanfare, it will definitely be exposed.

   "I will mobilize 3,000 people to come over, guard around you, and protect your safety."

  Li Xin squinted his eyes and said, "If anyone here is disobedient, you will kill Huzi directly. The person you kill is equivalent to killing myself."

  Lin Hu bowed his head respectfully.

   "I must live up to my brother's trust!"

   (end of this chapter)