Qian Mingyi, a Hanlin scholar, rode on a horse and said to Yang Cha, the chief censor, beside him: "Tanglongzhen Xiaosheng, it is said that he did not fight with the enemy. It is just that the Khitans went deep into the Song realm and died of starvation. Now we suddenly asked us to watch the troops and say that there are any muskets and cannons. Where did this happen in this dynasty for decades? There have always been many magical weapons and weapons, at most they only performed martial arts in front of the palace. How could there be such a hasty mobilization of troops!"

Yang Cha said lightly: "The Privy Council will do this with deep meaning."

Qian Mingyi laughed when he heard this: "The Grand Marshal Xia intends to be in the Secretariat, everyone in the world knows it. Do you still don't understand if you do this!"

Yang Cha kept silent and rode his horse slowly forward.

Because Qian Mingyi was recruited as a Jinshi because he was recruited as a bachelor's academy in the past and was appointed as a Hanlin bachelor's degree in five years. It was an unprecedented promotion rate since the founding of the Song Dynasty. At this time, he was in his early thirties. Yang Cha was the second-class candidate in the first year of Jingyou, slightly older than Qian Mingyi, and became the chief censor in his thirties. He was also a rare young senior official. Because of his similar age, Qian Mingyi realized that he was the same type of person as Yang Cha, so he came over. However, he did not know that although Yang Cha was young, he was a high-ranking Jinshi and had outstanding political achievements, so he looked down on people like Qian Mingyi who were lucky enough to advance.

On the other hand, Zhang Fangping, the envoy of the Third Division, said to Hanlin scholar Wang Yaochen, "The world has finally calmed down. Why did Taiwei Xia make such a big noise for the artillery? It is really inappropriate for the battle of Tanglong Town. You can encourage the soldiers and reward border ministers with great importance. Why do you have to do this?"

Wang Yaochen said: "The Privy Council will make sense in doing this, let's go and see."

Most of the people who came this time were middle and senior officials, as well as a group of generals from the Three Yas. About 100 people, under the guidance of the guidance of the leaders, slowly left the city gate.

The warrior Ning received the report and said to Wang Kai: "The officials have set off, hurry up and make the food clearly. The soldiers who participated in the martial arts exercise stood there and were not allowed to make noise. You and I will go to welcome the Prime Minister and the Grand Marshal."

Following the instructions of Warrior Ning, the place was re-arranged, which seemed messy. Du Zhongxiao, Wang Kai and Han Jiang hurriedly organized people to clean up, and everything was organized and followed Warrior Ning toward Xinzheng Sect.

A group of civil and military officials led by Chen Zhizhong and Xia Shu were welcomed to stand on the stage. Wang Kai and Du Zhongxiao stepped forward to report. Everything was like a ritual. Du Zhongxiao stood there and Wang Kai stepped down to command the military performance.

Looking at the officials in the front row, Zhang Fangping, Qian Mingyi, Yang Cha, etc., who were thirty or forty years, but were already at the top, and only one step away from the priest, Du Zhongxiao sighed a little. He was also a young Jinshi, but he has been in the officialdom for five years, but he has only become a military officer, and his future is bleak. I don’t know when I will have the chance to be as high as these people. Like Qian Mingyi, he became a Hanlin bachelor in five years, and I don’t know how this official was.

He had made a signing for Xia Feng, but he was not close to him, and he had no personal relationship. He looked at him differently, but it was just the unspoken rule of this era and the special nature of signing for this position.

After the preparations are completed, Wang Kai stepped forward and shouted to reply. Xia Xu ordered Wang Kai to host the event and officially start the martial arts performance.

As Xuanzan guards received the order, the twittering sounds of officials stopped and the atmosphere suddenly became solemn.

Xia Feng ordered Du Zhongxiao to come to him and said, "Where are muskets below and cannons, how to use them? Let me tell you the ministers."

Du Zhongxiao bowed and pointed to the cannon below and said, "That is a cannon, all made of iron, and it is expensive. When used, first put gunpowder in it, and then put projectiles. There is a medicine pool behind the cannon. When fire is fire, ignite the lead, ignite the gunpowder through the medicine pool, and shoot out the projectiles."

Pang Ji said: "Gunpowder is nothing but an ordinary thing, how can it shoot out the projectile?"

Du Zhongxiao bowed: "When I returned to my husband, gunpowder is different from gunpowder, and the artillery is made of special products."

Why is it different? Du Zhongxiao didn't say it, and it was hard for others to ask. I think we know that there are many types of gunpowder in the army now. Some are used on rockets, some are specially used to ignite fires, and some are specially used to release poisons, and all kinds of them are used to disperse.

Du Zhongxiao finished the rough price and Wang Kai had also commanded the soldiers to fill it up and reported loudly.

Du Zhongxiao whispered: "The gun is fired below, and the sound is not small. Please be careful."

As soon as the sound fell, several muffled sounds were heard. In the smoke of gunpowder, the projectile hit the earth wall two hundred steps away.

"Huh--" The three generals standing beside Xia Shun, Li Yonghe, Ma Shun Xu Huaide, and Guo Chengyou, and Guo Chengyou, spoke together, and couldn't help but come forward. They all came with their troops with their minds to watch the fun. They didn't expect that the power of the cannon was so great that they would collapse the earth wall more than 200 steps away with one shot, which was unexpected.

After looking at it for a while, Xu Huaide said: "Looking at the earthen wall over there, this cannon is much stronger than the whirlwind cannon used in the army. If you can't hit so far with a whirlwind cannon, it won't have such great power."

Guo Chengyou said: "Yes, such a powerful tool has never been seen before, and there are few people using it."

The palace commander Li Yonghe was the emperor's uncle and relative. He sat in this position mainly because of his high salary and his nephew respected him. Although he usually had strict control over his subordinates, he rarely expressed his opinions on such occasions. He had never led his troops to fight, so he stood there silently.

The cyclone cannon is the most used trencher when defending the city. It is set at the top of the city and is named trencher because it can be fired in multiple directions. It can only take dozens of steps away and is not very powerful, so of course it cannot compare with the cannon. Even for the sake of transportation, the cannon made by Du Zhongxiao is not large, and it is not comparable to the catapult. Not to mention the cyclone cannon, a large stone cannon pulled by hundreds of people is not good.

Several generals of the Three Yamen expressed their interest, and the officials immediately became lively and discussed. Unfortunately, among these high-ranking officials, only Pang Ji once served in the border area, but after the war ended, he could not find a result. It was nothing more than discussing with each other whether using this cannon could break through the city wall and what level of city wall could it break.

Ding Du, the political affairs officer of the Communist Party of China, once compiled the "Martial Arts General Essence" with Zeng Gongliang. He was involved in military system and weapons, and no one compared him with theoretical knowledge. He went up and looked carefully for a while, and said to Du Zhongxiao: "If you use this cannon, can you do anything to the Kaifeng city wall?"

Du Zhongxiao replied honestly: "When I came back to my husband, I am making small cannons now, which are easy to carry in the army, so I naturally cannot do anything to the Kaifeng city wall. If I don't care about the capital and make cannons, it's hard to say. Cannons are different from other weapons."

Ding Du was surprised: "Is this a small cannon? How big would it be if it were a cannon?"

Du Zhongxiao thought about it carefully. The large artillery in his impression was nothing more than the Ottoman cannon attacking Constantinople. He could not remember the name, but only remember that the cannon was extremely huge and blasted the walls of Constantinople. The walls of Kaifeng were not particularly strong, because they had been moved to the capital since their founding. It was impossible to compare with the millennium-year-old capital of Constantinople.
Chapter completed!