Chapter 140 Chapter 141, Guns and Cannons! Firearms Master Huang Yaoshi!
In the study.
Lin Chaoying looked at the large iron cylinder on the desk and asked curiously:
"what is this?"
This iron cylinder is two feet long, with several iron hoops on it. It is hollow inside, with a round hole with an inner diameter of nearly two inches on one end and a small hole on the other end. The total weight is about forty pounds, and Lin Chaoying can easily lift it with one hand.
However, even with her intelligence, she had no idea what it was.
"Crouching Tiger Cannon..."
Ouyang Feng looked at the two small brackets at the front of the large iron cylinder and exclaimed:
"Pharmacist, you really created it!"
Huang Yaoshi put his hands behind his back, looked reserved, and said calmly:
"It's no big deal. It's not difficult to make a large firearm like this. The really difficult thing is a small firearm. For example, this one..."
He flipped his wrist, and a hand gun with a total length of one foot, a barrel half a foot long, a caliber of about half an inch, a mahogany handle, and exquisite workmanship appeared in his palm out of thin air.
And it's flintlock.
"This thing involves some linkage mechanisms, such as the linkage between the trigger and the hammer, and the linkage between the hammer and the primer pool cover. There is also the hammer's reed, which has very high requirements for the quality of the steel and the craftsmanship. I worked on it myself for a month before I made three suitable reeds."
Huang Yaoshi held the flintlock musket with a proud look on his face:
"As for the power, using the gunpowder formula that Brother Ouyang mentioned, the lead bullets fired from this hand can break heavy armor within fifteen steps. It is of course weaker than my current finger-snapping ability, but how many people in the world can practice kung fu to my level? And this musket can be fired by anyone, even a child..."
Ouyang Feng exclaimed:
"Pharmacist is really a genius! I just casually told you some ideas at the beginning, but I didn't expect you to actually create them!"
When the two of them were traveling in the Central Plains and Jiangnan, they chatted about a lot of miscellaneous things along the way. Ouyang Feng once casually told him about the idea of improving gunpowder and some barreled firearms - well, he didn't say it casually, he knew that with Huang Yaoshi's strong curiosity and strong motivation, if the new idea could arouse his interest, he would definitely find ways to realize it.
As expected, Huang Yaoshi has achieved results. He not only created the "Tiger Crouching Cannon", but also made a flintlock rifle.
Lin Chaoying didn't understand the riddle and continued to ask:
"So, what are these two things?"
Ouyang Feng said slowly:
"These two are powerful weapons that can change the form of war and completely drive the armored vehicles out of the battlefield. Even to martial arts masters, they are more threatening than the divine arm crossbow."
With Ouyang Feng's current level of cultivation, even the Divine Arm Crossbow cannot threaten him.
But as for the Tiger Crouching Cannon, no matter whether it was loaded with shotgun shells or large lead bullets, Ouyang Feng did not dare to face it head-on within its effective range.
His current horizontal training skills might not be able to withstand the damage from the shells, and his martial arts skills are not strong enough to allow him to chop the shells with a knife or even catch them with his hands.
“It’s the casting method.”
Huang Yaoshi took out two more booklets and handed them to Ouyang Feng:
"I have written down the methods of casting the tiger squat cannon and flintlock rifle, the proportion of gunpowder, the most suitable amount of powder for the cannon and the musket, the firing procedures... I have written them all down clearly."
Ouyang Feng took the booklet and smiled at Huang Yaoshi:
"The pharmacist is thoughtful."
Huang Yaoshi stared at Ouyang Feng and asked slowly:
"When do you plan to build a large-scale gun cannon?"
"Now is not the time."
Ouyang Feng shook his head:
"Both Jin and Song were very powerful, and they had many skilled craftsmen. As for the guns, judging from their appearance alone, they couldn't imitate the flintlock guns, and they might not even be able to make matchlock guns. At best, they could imitate the manual ignition guns. But the structure of the tiger squat cannon can be known by just looking at its appearance. With the skills of the craftsmen of Jin and Song, it is not difficult to imitate it."
Ouyang Feng would not underestimate the ability and wisdom of ancient craftsmen.
Besides, at that time, both Jin and Song had a lot of gunpowder weapons.
The Jin Dynasty even had explosives made by stuffing gunpowder into hollow iron balls.
Being able to use hollow iron balls to make explosives shows that even if the Jin Dynasty's gunpowder is not as good as Huang Yaoshi's improved gunpowder, its power is still reasonable. At most, the cannon barrel can be made bigger and thicker, and more gunpowder can be filled in, and the cannonball can still be fired.
Huang Yaoshi nodded slightly:
"Yes, it is not difficult to imitate a cannon. Even if it is larger and heavier, it can still be practical if placed on the top of the city wall."
"Artillery can easily kill elite soldiers with heavy armor. Especially when they are charging in formation or attacking a city, they are more threatened by firearms." Ouyang Feng said, "Although my soldiers are few in number, they have all trained for many years, have high martial arts skills, and are extremely strong. They can wear two layers of armor and move very fast, and are not afraid of bows and crossbows. Whether they are fighting on foot or on horseback, they are invincible. I would be sad if one of them died in battle."
Huang Yaoshi said: "Such soldiers are invincible in hand-to-hand combat. If they only use swords, spears, bows and crossbows, your soldiers will be unstoppable. After a big battle, there won't even be many casualties. But if the enemy is equipped with artillery, the losses will be great."
"That's right." Ouyang Feng nodded and said, "Since I already have an absolute advantage in hand-to-hand combat, then at least until I occupy Xixia, Guanzhong and even Shuzhong, and the main force of the army in the future expedition is gradually replaced by ordinary soldiers, firearms cannot be used."
Huang Yaoshi smiled and said, "Just looking at your martial arts skills, no one would have thought that you would be so cautious."
Ouyang Feng also smiled: "I have been cautious since I was young."
Huang Yaoshi asked, "Want to find a place to try out the guns and cannons?"
"Let's go and try!"
At that moment, Ouyang Feng, Lin Chaoying and Huang Yaoshi left the Huashan Sect and found a hidden valley. Huang Yaoshi operated the gun himself and tried the musket first. Even though it was a short-barreled pistol, it could easily penetrate the Liangdang iron armor that Ouyang Feng took out from fifteen steps away.
Then try the tiger squat cannon.
Huang Yaoshi first loaded the gunpowder bag wrapped in silk into the cannon, pressed it to the bottom of the barrel, and then stuffed an iron cylinder into the barrel. This iron cylinder was made of thin wrought iron and contained a hundred small lead pellets.
After stuffing the gunpowder bag and the shotgun shell tightly, Huang Yaoshi used a thin iron rod to pierce the fuse hole at the breech of the gun, punctured the silk gunpowder bag, inserted the fuse, and ignited it with a fire stick.
After a loud bang, the wrought iron tube spurted out and exploded, and a hundred small lead balls shot out like flowers scattered from heaven, making a sharp whistling sound and shooting straight to two hundred steps away.
Ouyang Feng placed wooden stakes at 100 steps, 150 steps, and 200 steps, and put two layers of Liangdang iron armor on them. After the fight, he looked over and saw that the double layers of Liangdang iron armor at the three locations, along with the wooden stakes inside, were all blown to pieces.
After inspecting the three iron armor wooden stakes, Lin Chaoying said slowly with a solemn expression:
"I understand why you said these two weapons can completely drive armored soldiers out of the battlefield. Once these two firearms are used, there will be no difference between armored soldiers and civilian soldiers on the battlefield. Once hit by lead bullets, they will all die. And with the coverage of the hundreds of lead bullets just now, even a master of Qinggong could not avoid them in time, and could only leave it to fate and take his chances."
Huang Yaoshi smiled and said:
"One or two cannons are still not enough to deal with a martial arts master. As long as you discover him in time and avoid the muzzle in advance, you will be fine."
Lin Chaoying said seriously:
"What if the person using the cannon is also an expert? This cannon weighs only about 40 pounds, and an expert can hold it in his hand, aim and fire it."
"Well..."
Huang Yaoshi frowned and stroked his chin, imagining himself holding the Tiger Crouching Cannon with both hands and firing. He felt that the scene was really a bit...
You're being too reckless.
If it were Ouyang Feng or Wang Wu, it would be about the same.
Anyway, it is impossible for Huang Yaoshi to hold the Tiger Crouching Cannon and fire it, so it is reasonable for him to hold a finely crafted, carved and silver-plated flintlock pistol in each hand.
"How many guns and cannons have you made, Pharmacist?"
"Because we only had three usable springs, and the barrel took a lot of time to make, we only made two flintlock hand cannons and one long-barreled musket. We did make five crouching tiger cannons."
"Give me all the Crouching Tiger Cannons, and one long and one short musket. I will send them back to Gaochang as samples and recruit craftsmen to study and imitate them."
"Aren't you afraid of leaks?" "Move the craftsmen and their relatives to the White Camel Villa and treat them well. The White Camel Mountain is surrounded by deserts and there is only one way in and out. There are wolf riders and secret agents guarding it. Who could leak the secret?"
"As long as you are sure."
Huang Yaoshi took out two muskets, one long and one short, four tiger-crouching cannons, as well as supporting parts, musket ammunition, etc. from the storage talisman and handed them all to Ouyang Feng.
Ouyang Feng was not polite and put it into his own collection talisman. After pondering for a while, he said to Huang Yaoshi:
"Pharmacist, you helped me create the gun cannon, a military weapon that can completely change the battlefield. I must repay you."
Huang Yaoshi looked disapproving:
"It's nothing. You and my sister-in-law have done me more good things."
In addition to studying martial arts together, Ouyang Feng also taught him the "Yi Jin Jian Gu Chapter", and even passed on to him such strange skills as the Absorbing Object Talisman and the Dragon Subduing Sound. Huang Yaoshi has always been thinking about giving back.
Ouyang Feng smiled and said:
"Let's get back to the point. Speaking of which, Pharmacist, you have been researching how to refine the essence of heaven and earth for more than a year, right? Have you achieved any results?"
Huang Yaoshi shook his head and sighed:
"How easy is that? I wanted to look for it in the Taoist scriptures, but none of the Taoist sages of all generations have realized the true way to immortality. At most, they have only realized the method of refining one's own essence and cultivating profound internal strength. The method of refining the essence of heaven and earth..."
At this point, his eyes suddenly became suspicious:
"You shouldn't be..."
Ouyang Feng said with a smile:
"Yes, I traveled in the sky and got a glimpse of the secrets of heaven. I got the longevity method that can refine the essence of heaven and earth."
Hearing his familiar words, Lin Chaoying almost couldn't help laughing.
Huang Yaoshi was slightly shocked, his eyes shining with a strange light:
"Just like when you traveled to outer space and obtained the methods of refining the Absorbing Object Talisman and the Dragon-Subduing Daoyin?"
Ouyang Feng nodded slowly: "Not bad."
"You want to teach me the secret of immortality?"
"of course."
Huang Yaoshi's voice suddenly became excited:
"This is the secret of immortality! So many sages, even emperors like Qin Shi Huang and Han Wudi, have tried so hard to obtain it, and you are passing it on to me so easily?"
"of course."
"you……"
Huang Yaoshi stared at Ouyang Feng for a long time before he sighed deeply:
"Well, from now on, I, Huang Yaoshi, will be the founding elder of the Huashan Sect. My Peach Blossom Island will become the East China Sea branch of the Huashan Sect..."
He, Ouyang Feng and Lin Chaoying once exchanged martial arts with each other and created achievements together.
Among the various Huashan skills, there is the essence of Huang Yaoshi's skills and his inspirational wisdom.
But he had never thought of completely binding himself to the Huashan Sect.
Even if he helped Ouyang Feng build the cannon, he only regarded it as a reward for his best friend.
But now, the real method of immortality, the method of immortality that even the richest emperors in the world are eager to obtain...
It would be fine if he didn't learn it. But if he did learn it, given Huang Yaoshi's unwillingness to owe anyone anything, how else could he repay Ouyang Feng except becoming a member of the Huashan Sect and contributing his wisdom and strength to the Huashan Sect and even Ouyang Feng's great cause?
……
In the Huashan Sect, the headmaster and his wife live in a secret room in seclusion.
Huang Yaoshi meditated for a while, opened his eyes, and looked at Ouyang Feng with a somewhat subtle expression:
"You said that the element of metal is the most compatible with you?"
"Yes. How about you?"
"I..." Huang Yaoshi's mouth twitched slightly: "I am Mu."
At the same time, he complained in his heart, no wonder since he met you, everything has been controlled by you, and now he has become a member of Huashan Sect without knowing it, and even Peach Blossom Island has become the East China Sea branch of Huashan...
"The wood element's energy, that's really wonderful."
Ouyang Feng smiled and said, "The wood element is good for refining the elixir. I'll have to trouble you, Pharmacist, to take care of the elixir-making matters in the future."
So I still have to do the hard labor of refining the elixir, right?
Huang Yaoshi was speechless for a while.
Ouyang Feng then took out the Wood Element Diagram, one of the seven diagrams of the Secret of Immortality, and gave it to Huang Yaoshi, and taught him the method of guiding and refining the essence of heaven and earth.
After Huang Yaoshi learned it, he saw Ouyang Feng still in the secret room and couldn't help but wonder:
"Why don't you go out?"
"This is your first time refining, so there may be accidents. I need to protect you here. I won't be able to rest assured until you successfully refine the first trace of innate true qi."
"How could anything happen to me?"
Huang Yaoshi said proudly, "I have the mental method and the diagrams. If I practice them step by step, there will be accidents. I don't need to practice the longevity method. Okay, Brother Ouyang, I appreciate your kindness, but I feel uncomfortable staring at me here. You should go out."
Ouyang Feng thought about it and thought that if he were in his place, he would probably feel uncomfortable being stared at by a grown man while practicing martial arts, so he stood up and said, "Then I'll leave. Be careful."
"Don't worry, nothing will happen."
Although Ouyang Feng left the secret room, he did not dare to leave it alone completely. He lived next to the secret room and used his spiritual sense to detect Huang Yaoshi's breath from time to time.
It was not until more than twenty hours later that Ouyang Feng noticed that Huang Yaoshi's aura had become lively and full of vitality. Knowing that he had successfully entered the sect, he felt relieved. After giving some instructions to Lin Chaoying, he left the sect's residence and went to Chaoyang Peak to prepare to set up the altar to practice magic.
He took out various materials from the talisman, built an altar according to the requirements of the tiger transformation technique, released the tiger demon's corpse, used the Blood Drinking Knife to peel off the skin and bones, dug out the heart and took out the flesh, and prepared the materials.
After being busy for most of the day, by dark, they had finally spread the tiger skin with the talismans painted on it on the altar. The soup made from tiger bones, blood and meat was also ready. Meimei drank a big bowl of it and practiced her mental skills while it was still hot. When the stars appeared, she began to pray to the Seven Stars of the White Tiger.
Although the method of transforming into a tiger requires praying to the White Tiger for seven nights and eighty-one days, it only needs to be prayed once a day, and each time only needs to last for two quarters of an hour, which is relatively convenient. That is, after the altar is set up, it cannot be moved or destroyed before the ceremony is over, so you have to stay by the altar and cannot leave.
But this did not affect his practice.
Apart from the two quarters of an hour prayer time every day, Ouyang Feng was either practicing the Hunyuan Wuji Gong, or the Hupao Gong, or practicing sword and palm techniques, or trying to comprehend the various techniques gained from the Twin Dragons World, or studying the Evil Emperor's relics, or competing in martial arts with Lin Chaoying who came to visit him. His cultivation level improved every day and was not delayed because of this.
Soon, nearly a month passed, and it was time to meet Guan Feng in the fantasy world again.
"Brother Ouyang, Jiangdong Governor Lu Su has passed away, and his successor Lu Meng is said to be often ill. But my father said that Lu Meng was very brave and daring when he was young. Although he is not in good health now, he is still a first-class master in the world."
The two have known each other for half a year and this is their sixth meeting.
Now Guan Feng called him "Brother Ouyang" more and more familiarly and naturally, sometimes even sweetly enough to make people's hearts melt. Unfortunately, the sweeter she called him "Brother", the more ruthless the "Zhanfeng Blade" would kill...
(End of this chapter)
