He had never expected that the gift Qi Peiya had given him would be so unexpected, that the An clan's first guesses should be about some huge antiques and ornaments. He hadn't thought that even Zhu Di would be so shocked that his two eyes would stare at these cannons, as if they were going to stick to them. If they were rare in the entire Ming Dynasty, then they could appear all of a sudden and even help him attack Little Tang Mountain, causing Zhu Di's heart to burst with joy.
Just when everyone's eyes were fixed on the giant creature in front of them, they heard Qi Peiya clapping her hands and shouting, "Haha, look at you guys, this gift is definitely a big surprise, how about it?"
When everyone heard the laughter, they all came to their senses. The An family laughed. "Ya Er, you are too awesome. Where did you get all those cannons?" An Jiayu put his hand on the cannon's barrel, and upon closer inspection, the cannon's barrel turned out to be made of fine steel. One must know that the raw materials used to make weapons were usually copper and iron, and because fine steel was rare and precious, it was usually used as the weapon for special forces.
No one had expected that the twenty-six cannons brought by Chipeya were all cast from fine steel. The cannons were about three meters long, and their muzzles were much larger than the opening of a bowl. Each cannon was decorated with a tiger's mouth as the muzzle, and the tiger's body as the barrel.
Seeing that the crowd was obsessed with the cannon, and hearing the An clan's questions, Qi Peiya smiled and answered, "I made this cannon. I named it the Feral Tiger Cannon." How is that possible? " How could a cannon like this be made without a precise blueprint?
An Jiayi said, "Ya'er, don't lie to Fourth Uncle. Did you really make this Feral Tiger Cannon?"
"Of course, I have been working on this guy for a long time!"
An Jiajia stared at her with wide eyes, as if she did not know this little girl. "Fourth Uncle, if you don't believe me, I will show you the blueprints," she said. He whispered to the soldier from the rat camp, who turned around and ran back to the tent. Not long later, he ran out with a wooden box in his hand.
He opened it and saw that it was a large scroll. The two kings of Yan and Ning had already run over, and the two kings and An Jiajia had opened the scroll together, only to see that on the scroll, there were densely written instructions on how to make the cannons, such as how long the cannons were, how long the cannons were, how much the cannons were, how much the steel was, how hot the fire was, and so on.
On the scroll, there was a detailed drawing of the cannon production process, which also showed what was important in cannon production. The three of them looked at the scroll together, and when the three of them saw the last two items, their mouths gaped wide open, unable to close it even if they wanted to, because the last two items had the weight of two cannons, with a range of 10 miles!
Oh my god! Ten miles! What kind of concept was this? At that time, even the latest type of iron cannon developed by the Ming Dynasty could only fire for less than three miles, and it could actually fire for more than ten miles!
When everyone looked at her in surprise, she laughed, "Did you see the range?"
Everyone nodded their heads and said, "Yes!"
"In fact, I made two parts of it. The first part of the cannon was made of iron, so the steel was rarely used to make the body of the cannon, so the body of the cannon wasn't tough enough. Even if gunpowder could be fired for ten miles, the body of the cannon wouldn't be able to withstand it, so I cast a lot of cannons made of fine steel." Everyone nodded, saying, "Yes." Then, "In order to coordinate with the cannons, I didn't have to blast the cannons in the cannon, so the thickness of the cannons would decrease.
Everyone looked at each other when they heard this. Finally, they calmed themselves and said, "Ya Er, Fourth Uncle really doesn't know what to say to you. Come, let us see the might of this cannon."
"Good, Ya'er wanted to show you all, but you all just stood there in a daze, unable to get back to your senses." With that, with a wave of his left hand, he brought out three large wooden boxes. He looked at them and laughed, "The only drawback of this Feral Tiger Cannon is that it is too heavy, even each of the cannons has to weigh more than ten pounds."
After listening to him, An Jiayi opened the wooden box, picked up a cannon ball and pointed it at a small hill in the distance. "Can you see that Xiaoshan Mountain?" he asked.
The group looked in the direction that Zipia had pointed. There was a small hill in the direction of the fog. Everyone nodded in agreement.
"I'll make it so that you won't be able to see it again in a while." With that, she shouted, "Brothers, get ready!"
Before he could finish his sentence, the soldiers of the rat battalion guarding the Feral Tiger Cannon immediately stood up, and Chibeya shouted again, "Fill in the ammunition!" As soon as the soldiers heard this, they immediately took out a cannonball from the wooden box beside them and handed it to another person, who then fired the cannonball through the muzzle of the cannon.
It was Zipia again, shouting, "Aim!" The soldiers of the rat battalion aimed their cannons towards the hill in the distance after hearing the report. At that moment, Qi Baiya smiled and said, "This Feral Tiger Cannon is very loud. Everyone, get ready."
Everyone couldn't wait to see it. The An family smiled and said, "Hurry up! We couldn't wait for a long time!"
"Light the fire!"
An order was given, and the soldiers of the Rat Battalion set the torches on the cannon's letter, slowly burning it up. When the letter was burnt out, there was a deafening bang, bang, bang, bang. BOOM! Dong! "Boom!" A few hills were immediately blasted into dust by the twenty-six fierce tiger cannons. Since An Jiayi and the others were quite far away, they looked like a cloud of smoke.
Gradually the dust settled, and no matter how much everyone looked, they could not find a single trace of the hill. Zhang Yu and Zhu Rong immediately volunteered to ride their horses and gallop towards the hill, and in the time it took for a cup of tea to boil, Zhang Yu said, "Lady Qi's Feral Tiger Cannon is truly one in a hundred. At such a distance, a hill would be blasted into ruins.
When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but exclaim in surprise …