Daming: Brother, there is no future for monks, let's rebel

Chapter 62 Zhou Dexing's Blasting Hobby!

"No way, these big guns are too crudely made, too heavy, inconvenient to carry, inconvenient to adjust the shooting angle, and they don't have much power. They are filled with so much gunpowder, but their power is only so small."

Zhu Han's words immediately disappointed Zhou Dexing.

At this time, Zhou Dexing had already regarded Zhu Han as an expert in gunpowder tactics. Whatever Zhu Han said, Zhou Dexing regarded it as the truth.

"Brother, I think the big fire guns of these Yuan soldiers are already very powerful, so how powerful can they be?" Zhou Dexing asked.

These big guns, or early-type artillery, were all captured from the Dingyuan garrison.

In the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties, various gunpowder weapons were already very popular. An army of tens of thousands of people often had hundreds of artillery pieces of different sizes accompanying them in battle.

In terms of quantity, it is the era of queuing and shooting worthy of future generations.

However, in terms of power, the power of these Mongolian Yuan-made artillery is far worse.

Anyway, in Zhu Han's opinion, the best ending for the captured artillery is probably to go back to the furnace and practice again.

"Brother Zhou, a really good artillery must not only be powerful, but also light in weight. At least it must be able to be pulled by four horses, so that ordinary roads can pass. Now these guys are too heavy. It is difficult to advance quickly with the army, let alone advancing and retreating during the battle." Zhu Han shook his head and said.

After hearing Zhu Han's request, Zhou Dexing felt a little discouraged.

"If you follow your request, all of these big guns will have to be recast!" Zhou Dexing said.

"That's right, so I've been looking for craftsmen recently, and I'm going to cast a new type of artillery!" Zhu Han said.

Since capturing Dingyuan, Zhu Han has brought all the craftsmen under his engineering battalion.

Despite this, there is still a lack of enough craftsmen to experiment with the manufacture of new artillery.

"Dingyuan is a small place. There were not many craftsmen in the first place. It will be fine when Chuzhou is conquered. There are many craftsmen in Chuzhou Mansion!" Zhou Dexing said.

Zhu Han nodded. Under the current circumstances, this is the only way to go.

"Brother, don't be discouraged, let me tell you some good news!" Zhou Dexing said mysteriously.

"Brother Zhou, what good news?" Zhu Han asked hastily.

In the past few days, Zhou Dexing spent more time in the school grounds than Zhu Han, and Fatty Wang, who led the engineering battalion, was messing with something every day.

"Brother, I already have a new method that can make the tunnel excavation speed up to [-]%!" Zhou Dexing said proudly.

"What, it's almost [-]% faster?"

When Zhu Han heard this, he was immediately surprised and suspicious.

To deal with ordinary city walls, it only takes three days to dig tunnels. If it is reduced by [-]%, it will only take two days.

This effect is simply equivalent to having another engineer battalion.

"That's right, it's about [-]% faster!" Zhou Dexing said, and led Zhu Han to the side of the school grounds.

Fatty Wang and others from the engineering battalion have already been waiting for a long time.

Under Zhou Dexing's command, Fatty Wang and others began to demonstrate.

Zhu Han saw nothing different when they started digging the tunnel.

But when the entrance was dug out of the tunnel, Fatty Wang and the others stuffed the round wooden barrels into the tunnel.

As the tunnel was dug forward, the round wooden barrels were gradually added to the inside.

With the protection of wooden barrels, the excavated tunnel no longer needs to worry about collapse, and the speed of forward excavation is also greatly improved.

"Brother, how are you doing!" Zhou Dexing smiled proudly.

Zhu Han was stunned when he saw everything in front of him.

Isn't this the way later generations dig large tunnels!

It's just that modern tunnel excavation uses a reinforced slow-concrete dome, and this tunnel uses simple wooden barrels.

"Brother Zhou, who came up with this method?" Zhu Han asked hastily.

He even had some doubts whether there were other traversers in the engineer battalion.

Zhou Dexing patted his chest happily, "Brother, it's me! How about it, this method is okay!"

"Yes, quite possible, simply too good!" Zhu Han praised Zhou Dexing with the most simple compliment.

For this kind of vulgar person, if Zhu Han praised him politely, he still wouldn't be able to understand him.

Sure enough, Zhou Dexing was very happy with Zhu Han's praise.

"Haha, with this method, we will no longer be afraid of losing manpower when we attack the city, and we will dig faster."

When Zhou Dexing said this, he suddenly looked regretful.

"Oh, if I had thought of this method earlier, the brothers from the engineering battalion a few days ago would not have been buried alive."

Zhu Han nodded silently.

A few days ago, when the engineer battalion was digging hole attack training, an accident happened and collapsed, and three soldiers from the engineer battalion were killed on the spot.

Although death is unavoidable in combat, Zhou Dexing was very annoyed by the casualties during this kind of training.

In desperation, Zhou Dexing had a flash of inspiration and came up with this wonderful idea.

Zhu Han originally thought that Zhou Dexing was an illiterate old man, not to mention inventions and creations, even if he learned his own acupoint attack and blasting, he was already very powerful.

However, it never occurred to him that it was Zhou Dexing, a big bastard, who came up with such a brilliant idea.

It can make the point attack blasting method safer and faster.

At this time, Zhu Han felt that there must be many talents like Zhou Dexing in the world, but because of timing and fate, they missed the opportunity to show themselves.

It's like Zhou Dexing, but after studying with him for such a short time, he is already better than blue.

"Brother Zhou, you've done a great job. Our brothers in the Rebel Army need to learn from you!" Zhu Han praised sincerely.

Unexpectedly, hearing Zhu Han's praise, Zhou Dexing was not only not happy, but almost anxious.

He grabbed Zhu Han's sleeve and said with a solemn expression.

"Brother, I treated you as a brother and a master, so I told you this method. You must not say it, let alone let other people in our rebel army learn from it! I intend to treat you as the old Zhou family. The unique secret book, passed on to men but not to women!"

When Zhu Han heard this, his face immediately turned black.

He did not expect Zhou Dexing to understand his praise just now.

However, after thinking about it, he also understood Zhou Dexing's thoughts.

In the ancient times when the information was not smooth, no matter what industry it was, there was a trick to eat fresh all over the world and the experience of teaching apprentices to starve to death.

Not to mention Zhou Dexing's acupoint attack and blasting, a military weapon like Zhou Dexing, even some carpenters have kept some mortise and tenon skills that they have mastered in their own hands tightly hidden, and they are basically kept secret from male to female.

(End of this chapter)