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Chapter 95 Test Cannon

After reviewing the data for the 122mm howitzer, Lu Chen's lips curled into a slight smile.

With such a powerful weapon, the barbarian cavalry was nothing.

Unfortunately, there were too few shells, only a thousand.

Two hundred howitzers, but only a thousand shells; the system is really stingy.

Don't be fooled by the fact that a thousand rounds seems like a lot; a howitzer only has five shells. Moreover, when he trained the new army, he wanted the soldiers to see how the shells were fired.

Teaching soldiers to use 122mm howitzers would waste some shells, and by the time they got to the battlefield, they wouldn't have a thousand shells left.

At this moment, Lu Chen said to the people outside, "Alright, you can come in now."

Upon hearing Lu Chen's voice coming from deep within the cave, Mu Changtian and the others immediately went inside.

After entering the cave, the group was stunned when they saw the howitzer in front of them.

What is this?

Were there any of these things in the cave before?

Unlike Mu Changtian and Mu Jingwu, Li Feng and the others had witnessed Lu Chen conjure weapons out of thin air, so they were not too surprised by the sudden appearance of the grenade launcher in the cave.

However, Li Feng and his group were still incredibly excited. They discovered that the grenade launcher's design was very similar to the mysterious weapon that Lu Chen had used before, only it was larger.

In Li Feng's eyes, the grenade launcher in the cave was an enlarged version of the Barrett in Lu Chen's hands. They thought that if the mysterious weapon in Lu Chen's hands could kill a Grandmaster, then wouldn't this kind of weapon be able to kill even a Great Grandmaster?

Mu Changtian then carefully examined the howitzer in front of him and asked, "Your Highness, what is this?"

Lu Chen said calmly, "Howitzer, have the soldiers take it out. I'll show you the power of this weapon."

Upon hearing Lu Chen's words, everyone was taken aback at first, but soon several soldiers surrounded them and immediately pushed the howitzer outside.

Although we don't know what kind of weapon this is, we can tell from its weight and the metal materials used to make it that this weapon must be extraordinary.

Mu Changtian and the others stopped worrying about how the weapon ended up in the cave; all they wanted to know was what kind of power it possessed.

If they weren't mistaken, Lu Chen had specifically recruited 10,000 soldiers to form some kind of artillery battalion, just so that these soldiers could use this mysterious weapon.

With the soldiers pushing, the howitzer was quickly pushed out, and when the soldiers saw this mysterious weapon, they all started to discuss it.

"What is this?"

"It must be some kind of siege weapon, right?"

"It has wheels, so it must be a siege engine?"

"Why did the prince have them push the siege engine to this place?"

"It doesn't look like a siege engine to me. Look at this thing, it seems to be made entirely of metal. If it were a siege engine, it would be too heavy."

……

Lu Chen ignored the soldiers' chatter and said to Mu Jingwu beside him, "Captain Mu, immediately summon the new army. I want to demonstrate to the soldiers how to use this weapon."

"Yes, Your Highness!"

Mu Jingwu quickly gathered the 10,000 soldiers, and then they moved the howitzers to an open space.

After setting up the howitzer, Lu Chen took out the howitzer's instruction manual from the system space and made simple adjustments to its position according to the howitzer's plain firing table.

He then said to the people behind him, "Everyone, cover your ears!"

Upon hearing this, the soldier did not hesitate and immediately covered his ears with his hands.

The next moment, a deafening sound rang out, and the ground around them trembled.

Even though they had plugged their ears, they could still hear the enormous sound.

Immediately afterwards, the shells fired by the howitzer exploded in the distant woods, instantly creating a huge crater. Dust and dirt flew several meters high, and some surrounding trees were snapped in two.

Seeing this, Mu Changtian and the others were stunned.

Everyone was stunned; they had never seen such a terrifying weapon before.

The ground would shake when it was launched, and the projectile was able to instantly blast a crater about five meters wide into the ground.

If the projectiles that were just launched had landed among their crowd, who knows how many of them would have died.

Mu Changtian and the others couldn't help but wonder, could this be the mysterious weapon that the prince had mentioned?

If we had such a weapon, or could produce more of this mysterious weapon, what would we have to fear from the barbarians?

Let alone barbarians, even unifying the world wouldn't be a problem!

Mu Changtian and his son Mu Jingwu exchanged a glance, both of them showing astonishment.

They had already suspected that the Northern King might have intentionally come to Beijun to lie low, mainly to accumulate strength and prepare for the future unification of the world.

Now that the Northern King has brought out such a terrifying weapon, it can be basically confirmed that their guess was correct. With such a weapon, how could they not unify the world?

What kind of city gate could withstand the firing of this weapon?

No matter how sturdy the city gate was, it would probably be blown to pieces in an instant. Even a master-level expert, if hit by the thing that was just launched, might be blown into dozens of pieces.

So this was the Northern King's trump card!

Lu Chen turned his head and looked at the people behind him who were speechless with shock.

"General Mu, what do you think of my mysterious weapon? Is it enough to withstand 300,000 barbarian cavalry?"

Upon hearing this, Mu Changcai snapped out of his shock and immediately said, "Congratulations, Your Highness, on possessing such a divine artifact! Your Highness's unification of the world is just around the corner!"

This……

Lu Chen was stunned for a moment. When did he say he wanted to unify the world?

Mu Changtian then asked, "Your Highness, how many of these... siege vehicles do you have left?"

Mu Changtian didn't know what this thing was called, so he could only call it a siege engine for the time being, since it did have some similarities to a siege engine, such as having wheels.

Lu Chen did not correct Mu Changtian's address. He replied, "I have one hundred howitzers and about eight hundred shells."

Lu Chen did not reveal the full number of howitzers and shells he possessed. In this battle against the barbarians, he would not need so many shells or howitzers; a maximum of one hundred would be sufficient for deployment.

Upon hearing Lu Chen's answer, Mu Changtian asked, "Your Highness, are you referring to the cannonball that was just fired?"

Lu Chen said, "Yes, the howitzer in front of us is just a launching device; the real weapon is the shells we just fired."

At this point, Lu Chen squatted down, opened the wooden box containing the artillery shells, and took out a shell from it.

Upon seeing the cannonball in Lu Chen's hand, everyone fell into deep thought.

It seems that the Great Xia did not have the technology to manufacture such shells.

Where did the Northern King get this terrifying weapon?

Mu Jingwu then asked, "Your Highness, are we capable of manufacturing these kinds of shells?"

Lu Chen replied, "Not yet, but it won't be long before we're able to manufacture similar weapons."

Upon hearing Lu Chen's words, everyone was immediately excited. If they could mass-produce such a terrifying weapon, who would be a match for Beijun in the future?

(End of this chapter)