Chapter 1017.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Accompanied by a burst of sound as dense as fried beans, the doll formation a hundred paces away was suddenly shattered, and a doll made of grass and wood was shattered to pieces.
“Beep~”
In the next moment, the sound of a loud whistle reached the ears of everyone in the martial arts arena, and a group of soldiers with cannons quickly stepped forward, raising the weapons in their hands to aim at the mannequins in front of them.
While the cannoneers who had just finished firing backed up in unison, making room for combat.
The sound of gunfire rang out once again.
In this way, wave after wave, team after team of cannoneers methodically advanced forward, and a projectile containing powerful lethal force quickly destroyed the dense array of mannequins.
In the end, only a few broken wooden poles were left behind.
At this moment, Shangguan Wu Ji, who was watching this drill next to the martial arts field, shook his head, his eyes extremely complicated.
Nowadays, he had clearly realized that the artillery and cannons “invented” by Wang Chen would greatly change the pattern of future wars.
If the enemy was unable to adapt, they were destined to be crushed into pieces!
This is by no means an exaggeration.
Because these new weapons wielding cannons are not elite Hanhai soldiers, but new recruits, most of them are first or second rank, and there are even a lot of ordinary people.
But the cannons erased this gap in rank, martial artists under the fifth rank simply couldn’t carry the siege of the ordinary cannonsmen.
And when replaced with special heavy cannons, a fifth-ranked Wu Zong would also have to kneel!
With the same number of people, a team of newly trained cannons would face an elite Hanhai army head on, and the former would have a much better chance of winning.
Once this kind of weapon is popularized, will there be any point in trying to improve our cultivation strength in the future?
Especially for martial artists with limited talent, such a gap really made people despair!
Shangguan Wu Ji was sighing for them.
And at the same time, this Commander of the Hanhai Army’s confidence in Princess Qing Yun’s seizure of the throne increased by a few more points.
He said to Wang Dust next to him, “Tai Fu Wang, this Divine Mechanism Battalion will surely be invincible!”
Under Wang Dust’s arrangement, a large portion of the newly recruited soldiers were organized into artillerymen and cannons, and then expanded and integrated a powerful Shenji Battalion based on this.
The Military Manufacturing Battalion, which was originally under the Hanhai Army, was also assigned to the Shenji Battalion.
At present, with the addition of auxiliary soldiers, the number of soldiers in the Shenji Battalion has exceeded 5,000.
However, according to Wang Chen’s plan, the size of the Divine Mechanical Battalion would be expanded by more than ten times to serve as the main force of the new Hansea Army to sweep the world!
Right now, the main problem is that the manufacturing speed of weapons can’t keep up, the process of making a qualified cannon is complicated, and it takes a lot of time, even though Wang Dust has come up with the so-called “assembly line” manufacturing method, it can’t completely solve the problem of production capacity.
The Shen Ji Battalion relies on cannons, without these new weapons, there is no combat power.
Wang Chen smiled.
He could understand Shangguan Wuji’s feelings, after all, the latter had also started from the lowest level of martial artist, and had put in countless efforts and resources to reach his current level of strength.
The artillery and cannons, however, were firing on all cylinders!
“Lord Tai Fu!”
It was at this time that a guard hurriedly ran over and reported, “The A5 Prospecting Team has just sent someone to bring back news that they have discovered a Flowing Yellow Mine!”
Wang Chen’s eyes immediately lit up, “Where are the people? Where are they?”
Singijeon cannot be separated from gunpowder, otherwise it is a pile of useless scrap iron, and the three materials for manufacturing gunpowder, charcoal is the easiest to obtain, nitro has the Nitro Field Manufacturing Method, and nitro mines can also be mined.
Only this flow yellow, also known as sulfur is quite rare, Wang dust previously searched the entire Hanhai City is also a few hundred pounds of the amount.
Because the flow of yellow in this world belongs to the medicinal herbs, the usual dosage is very small, merchants can not be a large number of stockpile.
In order to prepare enough gunpowder to support his plan, Wang Chen sent a team to prospect and purchase.
Unexpectedly, in just half a month’s time, there came a good news.
The flow yellow mine discovered by the A5 prospecting team was located in a large mountain more than two hundred miles southwest of Hanhai City, where there was an active volcano spewing out smoke and flames all year round, and there existed a large area of flow yellow that could be collected on its mountainside and underneath the mountain.
After understanding the situation, Wang Dust immediately mobilized a group of miners, escorted by 3,000 Hanhai troops, to go and mine the flow yellow ore.
Then he asked other prospecting teams to continue searching for saltpeter ore and new flow yellow ore.
The following month, Wang Duan personally led 3,000 Hanhai Iron Cavalry and 5,000 Shen Ji Battalion, and went east into the West Sea to capture the county town.
The process of capturing West Sea County can be said to be lackluster. The Shen Ji Battalion set out thirty cannons and bombarded the city walls for just three rounds before the white flag was erected in the city.
It was not challenging at all!
At this point, Hanhai and West Sea counties under the banner of Princess Qing Yun, and formally put out the banner of re-establishing the orthodoxy of Da Liang.
Became a member of the “anti-Jing” forces.
At this time only three months from King Jing ascended to the throne, and the Great Liang territory is already full of beacons.
After usurping the throne, the first big thing Emperor Yuan Jing did was to make a brotherly alliance with Daqi, ceding three counties in the north to Daqi, the “big brother”, in exchange for the latter’s support for himself.
At the same time, Emperor Yuan Jing also started with his relatives, and sent all the princes and county kings to prison.
The whole country was in an uproar!
Emperor Yuan Jing’s perverse behavior triggered fierce opposition from all levels of the court, as he was already in the wrong position, but he also bowed down to the world’s enemy, Qi, as his brother, and the cession of three counties was even more disheartening.
Therefore, except for the central and eastern seven counties, the rest of the counties of the Great Liang have rebelled, and the rebels who saw the opportunity even rose up and swept away several counties in the south.
Nowadays, Da Liang has already fallen into the situation of the vassals’ struggle for supremacy.
Among the forces under the banner of the orthodoxy of the Great Liang, not only Princess Qing Yun a, influence than she has come to the big.
Hanhai County and West Sea County, although the area is vast, but belongs to the scope of the border counties, the population is not much potential is limited, in everyone’s view can not set off what waves.
And after the news of Princess Qing Yun raising the banner against Jing spread, most people also scoffed.
Because there was no precedent of a female emperor ascending to the throne in Da Liang, even if people wanted to fight for the honor of being a dragon, they would not go to join a woman like Princess Qing Yun.
As a matter of fact, the most favored rebel king at present is the Ming King Liang Mingrui, this Da Liang Prince’s seniority is very high, which is considered as the uncle of Princess Qing Yun and King Jing, no matter the strength or popularity, it is at the top of the royal family.
Emperor Yuan Jing once tried to call Liang Mingrui to join him in Daye, but the Ming King rebelled and took over two neighboring counties in Fengxian, rapidly expanding his power and making the world look at him!
After the Ming King showed his power to fight for the world, heroes and heroines from all walks of life came to join him in droves, further increasing his prestige.
Undoubtedly, if Princess Qing Yun wanted to move into Da Liang, her first opponent would be Emperor Yuan Jing, followed by King Ming!