Borrow the day to change the day

Hearing that Marquis Zhongxing had arrived, Fan Jun, the eunuch of the Bingzheng Bureau, greeted him with a smile on his face.

He hates and loves this Marquis of Zhongxing at the same time. He hates that Marquis of Zhongxing often mentions some weird things and asks him to do them. Every time, he exhausts his brains; , but often can be made after groping.And once it is done, it will be another achievement of oneself.

"Master Hou, our family has finally fulfilled its mission. The thunder jumping is already done, and we are waiting for Master Hou to inspect the goods, haha..." Fan Jun said first when he saw Zhong Jinwei.

Not only Fan Jun was excited when the thing was made, but Zhong Jinwei was also happy.Seeing Fan Jun's complacent look, he also smiled and said, "Then father-in-law will take me to have a look."

"Master Hou, please." Fan Jun pointed sideways and led Zhong Jinwei inside.

After turning seven turns and eight turns, we came to a spacious open-air place.There are already craftsmen waiting here, and when they saw the palm print eunuch and Zhongxing Hou coming, they all saluted.

Fan Jun ignored them, and when he came to an observation point, he pointed to the middle of the field and said, "Look, Lord Hou, there are scarecrows in armor over there, and the jumping mine is buried in the middle."

Zhong Jinwei nodded, knowing that these scarecrows were used to test the power of landmines.He looked at it for a while, and said to Fan Jun, "Then let's start, I'll wait and see."

Fan Jun immediately raised his hand in the direction of a slope in the distance. The craftsman over there has been watching this side. After receiving the message, he began to push a stone wheel.

When the stone wheel began to roll down the slope, the craftsmen immediately squatted down and hid behind the slope.

It was only then that Zhong Jinwei discovered that there was a ditch on the slope just enough to fix the stone wheel rolling down in one direction so that it would not deviate from the direction.

A few seconds later, Zhong Jinwei saw gunpowder smoke coming out of that place, followed by a loud noise.

Zhong Jinwei's eyesight is not bad, he saw a few things bouncing off the ground, and then exploded in the air.After hearing several noises in a row, the craftsmen pushing the stone wheels revealed their bodies and ran towards the scarecrow.

Although Zhong Jinwei didn't know the effect at this time, but seeing this scene, the meaning of the thunder jumping was already there.

"Master Hou, please." Seeing those craftsmen waving their hands, Fan Jun turned and said to Zhong Jinwei.

When Zhong Jinwei heard this, he immediately walked towards the test site.

When he got closer, he saw that the site of the explosion was a large pit, but he could see some wooden fragments on the ground.With the explosion point as the center, the closer the scarecrow is, the more damaged its armor will be.

Zhong Jinwei took a rough look and found that the lightning jump had affected everything within a radius of several tens of feet.The power of this lightning jump far exceeded Zhong Jinwei's prediction.

Overjoyed, he quickly asked Fan Jun, "How did this lightning jump come about, and why is it so powerful?"

Fan Jun smiled and gestured like a master, and the two craftsmen brought two things and placed them in front of Zhong Jinwei and Fan Jun.

Fan Jun pointed to the two things on the ground and introduced to Zhong Jinwei: "Master Hou, look, there are two floors inside this wooden cabinet. The mines are placed on the top, which are all cast iron round mines; the bottom is filled with gunpowder. The mine fuze. There is also an ignition device on the side of the wooden cabinet."

When Fan Jun was speaking, some craftsmen opened the cabinet according to what Fan Jun said, and displayed what Fan Jun said one by one.

"When in use, first bury the wooden cabinet in the ground, place a rollover on the side of the wooden cabinet, and connect it with the ignition device inside the cabinet. Once the enemy accidentally steps on the overturned vehicle and affects the ignition device, the explosive explosion can throw the mine in the cabinet to the ground seven or eight times. feet high, it exploded in the air. Its killing range can reach tens of feet in a radius, and it is extremely powerful."

After Fan Jun finished his introduction, he looked at Zhong Jinwei, as if waiting for him to ask a question.

Zhong Jinwei ignored his complacency. After looking at the structure of the lightning jumper, he pointed to the ignition device and asked, "Is this an ignition device?"

"Yes, this is the steel wheel fire that Marshal Qi invented when he was guarding Jizhou. After the enemy triggers the mechanism, the steel wheel rotates and rubs against the flint sharply to ignite, which can detonate the mine." Fan Jun immediately introduced.

Zhong Jinwei kept nodding his head, the structure of this lightning jump is really good.At the level of the late Ming Dynasty, it is really not easy to use the existing conditions to create this kind of lightning jump. No wonder it took several months.

He didn't know that the jumping mine with this structure was not developed by Ding Shoucun, Huang Mian and others until the Opium War period in history.The firearm technology in the late Ming Dynasty did not regress, so it is not surprising that it took a few months to research it.

"Okay, Eunuch Fan is really good. I'll give the new army [-] of these lightning jumps first. Is it okay to come and pick them up in half a month?" Zhong Jinwei looked up at Fan Jun and asked him after finishing his research.

Unexpectedly, when Fan Jun, who was pretending to be a master just now, heard Zhong Jinwei's words, his jaw dropped to the ground, and he replied with a bitter face: "Master Hou, you will spare our family!"

"What?" Zhong Jinwei actually watched Fan Jun still pretending to be there after watching Jumping Thunder, just teasing him.

Fan Jun hastily explained to Zhong Jinwei, lest he really give an ultimatum, and he would be forced: "Master, the cost of these mines is very high, and it takes a lot of effort to make them. You need a hundred mines at a time, and it takes half a month." This time, our family really can’t get it out!”

In fact, this kind of jumping mine is much bulkier than ordinary mines.According to different power requirements, the size of the cabinet is different, and the number of mines placed inside is also different.Not very convenient to use.

Zhong Jinwei changed his words and said to Fan Jun: "Then let the new army and special forces use ten first, and then get another twenty mine-jumping mines of different powers before going out. Shouldn't that be a problem?"

After hearing this, Fan Jun nodded quickly and said, "No problem, no problem."

At this time, Zhong Jinwei thought of another matter, and asked, "How's the progress of that rifled gun?"

"Our family has mobilized the most skilled gunsmiths and is in the process of making it. Hou Ye, I am dissatisfied with you saying that the rifle is not difficult, but it needs slow work and careful work, and it will take time." Fan Jun replied quickly.

Zhong Jinwei understood what Fan Jun meant, he meant that the rifled gun had to be crafted carefully and it would take time and effort to make it.In other words, this thing isn't mass-produced yet.

"Okay, then I will give you another month, and I must give it then. Otherwise, the expedition will be delayed." Zhong Jinwei looked at Fan Jun and told him.

Fan Jun heard that there was still a month to go, and the amount requested by Lord Hou was not much, so he nodded quickly and said: "Okay, okay, it must be built within a month."

"Okay, then I won't disturb Eunuch Fan. When I see the emperor another day, I will definitely tell the emperor about the power of this lightning jump, so that he will be happy too."

Fan Jun was overjoyed by Zhong Jinwei's words, and immediately sent him out of the military battle courteously.

"Let's go, go to the Beijing camp to see." Zhong Jinwei left the military battle bureau, seeing that it was still early, he said to the guards around him.