Chapter 94 Shocking Thunder

There was a breeze on the wide sea. The emperor in a uniform smelled the sea breeze full of the smell of the sea. His nose was a little itchy and he wanted to rub it, but the ministers were around him. He was embarrassed to always pinch his nose, so he had to rub it when drinking tea. As the emperor, he knew that he could not drink more tea, because If you drink too much tea, you have to relieve yourself. It's okay to do it in the palace. But now it's on the boat, and the civil and military officials are all nearby. Is he going to relieve it alone?

Xiao Huangmen, who is responsible for pouring tea for the emperor, is very strange. His Majesty has drunk so many tea today, why is a cup of tea still full?

Fortunately, everyone did not pay much attention to the emperor. Their eyes were on nearly a hundred broken ships on the distant sea as imaginary enemies. These ships were the nearest trophy of the thick legs of the East China Sea Governor Su. Some of the pirates were collected and some were killed. The rest of the ships played their last residual heat and served as the Yue Guo sailors** The object of.

Five thousand Vietnamese naval divisions, from four fleets, 1,000 each from the East China Sea Fleet, the South China Sea Fleet and the West Sea Fleet, and 2,000 people from the Funan Fleet, divided into four columns, escorting the four-story ship of the emperor, ready to go. The clapping poles and crossbows on the four buildings were ready, and the sails had been lowered. The soldiers clenched their weapons and stuck to their posts, but now they all salute the emperor.

The emperor was curious and asked Zhang Zhao, the lieutenant who was with him: "Why are the buildings and ships of the Yue Marine Division on two floors?"

Zhang Zhao said solemnly, "As a courtesy, the son of heaven has four floors, the king has three floors, and ordinary generals can only have two floors."

The emperor glanced at Zhang Zhao and said "oh" as if he didn't understand. Sun Quan, who was standing on the other side, rolled his eyes speechlessly. When old Zhang Zhao also told lies with his eyes open, the Yueguo building ship did not build four floors, because the four floors were easy to turn over, which had nothing to do with the emperor's dignity. However, at this time, he did not want to offend Zhang Zhao. On the one hand, Zhang Zhao was nominally the teacher of the King of Yue and the father of his Sun Quan. On the other hand, Zhang Zhao's third prince beside the emperor now has a noble status. In the past, Zhang Zhao did not take him seriously. Now if he takes the opportunity to say a word to him, he can only endure it.

"Are you sure there is no problem?" At the bow of the Tianzilou ship, Sun Shao looked at Ge Heng and Lu Shan nervously: "If you are not sure, it doesn't matter if we don't try. In case the performance is smashed, it will be a shame."

Ge Heng clenched his fist, and his face was also very nervous. His hands were clenched together and hesitant. Facing the sunshine in the east, Lu Shan squinted at the imaginary enemy in the distance. When she was silent for two or three breaths, she turned her head and said, "Your Highness, I am 80% sure."

"Eighty 80%?" Sun Shao asked a question.

"Well, this is still a conservative estimate. If everything goes well, it will be 80% to 90%."

Sun Shao looked at Lu Shan suspiciously. Lu Shan's face was calm and her eyes were clear. Sun Shao gritted his teeth and gently stamped his feet: "Okay, then try. If it's done, you are all thousands of households, and you can choose the island of the South China Sea. If it doesn't work..."

Ge Heng and Lu Shan stared at him at the same time. Sun Shao looked at their eyes for a moment, and suddenly smiled: "If you don't achieve it, you can't do it. Anyway, I'm not afraid of them."

Ge Heng and Lu Shan couldn't help laughing. No one expected that Sun Shao would say such a sentence in the end. They looked at each other and bowed to Sun Shao: "Your Highness, I'm going to prepare."

"Go ahead." Sun Shao waved his hand, and all his hesitations and worries disappeared in a moment, and he looked confident. When Ge Lu saw it, they couldn't help but add a little confidence. After another salute, they got off the ship and went straight to Guan Feng's ship Fengyi for the final preparation of the weapon at the bottom of the box.

Sun Shao turned around and looked at the emperor and ministers on the deck of the knight's room (the fourth floor of the building ship) with a smile. He strode up, came to the emperor, bowed and saluted: "Your Majesty, everything is ready. Please order the attack."

The emperor's heart is full of pleasure. Although he knows that this sailor can't be mastered by himself, at least at this moment, this sailor is a great sailor, and he is the commander. He stood up solemnly, took a flag from Lieutenant Zhang Zhao, and solemnly handed it over to Sun Shao: "King Yue, order my big Han sailors to attack."

"Only!" Sun Shao shouted, took the flag in his arms, saluted Tianzi and Lieutenant Zhang Zhao in turn, and then strode to the railing and stood silent. The sailors on both sides looked at it, and their blood was boiling one by one. The thick legs on the left side of the leading building were the first to raise their arms and shout:

"Long live Your Majesty, Long live the King of Yue!"

Immediately after that, Cui Qian, the leader on the right, shouted unwillingly:

"The Han army is powerful, and the sailors are powerful!"

Five thousand sailors immediately shouted in unison:

"Long live Your Majesty! Long live the King of Yue!"

"The Han army is powerful! The sailor is powerful!"

The roar is neat and powerful, just like a person shouting, obviously after a long time of training. The emperor smiled when he heard it. Anyway, it was very gratifying for him that the Yue sailors could put him in the front at this time and the already dead Han army in front of him.

"Long live Your Majesty!" Sun Shao turned to face the emperor, raised his arm, and shouted, "The Han army is powerful!"

Gu Yong, the prime minister of the imperial historian Zhang Zhao, who had just arrived, quickly shouted, and the other attendants also shouted in unison. Only Liu Bei, the king of Shu, Sun Quan, the king of Wu, and Cao Zhang, the new riding general were a little stunned. They didn't expect that Sun Shao would play this. After a moment of hesitation, they had to drink and salute the emperor to the emperor in unison. Shout:

"Long live Your Majesty, the Han army is powerful!"

The son of heaven is very happy, and he is looking forward to his own strength.

Sun Shao shouted twice and raised the Lingqi in his hand. The 5,000 sailors who were shouting in unison were suddenly silent. They quietly looked at the building ship, Sun Shao, and the battle flag in Sun Shao's hand.

Sun Shao suddenly waved the order flag and then pointed forward. The East China Sea Fleet in front of the left immediately burst into a thunderous roar, and several warships guarding the building ship suddenly started and quickly rushed forward. Immediately after that, the thick-legged boat of Donghai Dusu started. The snow-white spray turned out behind the ship, and the sharp bow plowed a blue wave on the sea and ran forward. After a while, Cui Qian, the leading West Sea Fleet on the right, also started, and then the South China Sea Fleet on the left rear. Only the Funan Fleet on the right rear did not move and quietly watched the three fleets fly away.

The emperor quickly raised the thousand-mile eyes in his hand and stared at the calm sea in the distance. Several ministers didn't say anything. With different thoughts, they raised their eyes and watched the finale of the King of Yue.

In a moment, the East China Sea Fleet in front approached the imaginary enemy. With a drum sound, a dark cloud flew from the building ship, mixed with several black spots in the middle. In a blink of an eye, it leaped two hundred steps away and accurately hit those imaginary enemies. As the columns of water rose to the sky, the two outermost ships were first hit. The emperor clearly saw a calm warship suddenly shaking in Qianli's eyes. After a short pause, it suddenly untied and sank at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The East China Sea Fleet, which took the lead in approaching the imaginary enemy, had approached the group of ships after firing several rounds of crossbows and Thunderbolt cannons. They did not slow down, but passed through the perimeter of the group at full speed. When staggered, the clapping rods on the building ship roared and threw them out, smashed into pieces of several ships within the strike range, and then raised Go for a long time.

Behind them, the West Sea Fleet and the South China Sea Fleet came one after another, in accordance with the law, one by one with these imaginary enemies. As soon as the South China Sea Fleet rushed over, the East China Sea Fleet rushed up again. Although they had only three building ships, a total of only 12 ships, they cooperated tacitly and hesitated. The evil wolf, surrounded by a strong but helpless beast, gnawed a large piece of meat every time. In the face of a smooth and gorgeous attack, in just a quarter of an hour, hundreds of ships fell to pieces, most of them sank to the bottom of the sea, leaving only a few broken boats floating sadly on the sea, and the tattered boards were everywhere.

Looking at the three fleets "returning with a great victory", the emperor breathed a sigh of relief, put down his eyes, shook his sore arms, and praised: "The Yue Guo sailors are really sharp, and the cooperation is tacit, like an arm, okay."

"Your Majesty, this is the Great Han sailor." Zhang Zhao reminded.

"Oh?" The emperor was stunned, and then smiled happily: "Yes, it's my big sailor. Yesterday, I watched the walking exercise, which made me ambitious. Today, when I saw the sailor's power again, my heart was even more powerful.

"The Han army is powerful! The sailor is powerful!" Everyone was talking about the scene.

"Your Highness, why doesn't your ship move?" Cao Zhang, who was unconvinced, shouted.

Sun Shao, who was smiling, shook his head and motioned Cao Zhang to be a little relieved: "It's just an aperitif in the front, and a big dish in the back, but I didn't expect that those guys were too happy and killed all the imaginary enemies. I'm arranging someone to make up the ship. I'll invite you to watch a good show right away."

"We will wait and see with Your Majesty." Cao Zhangyin smiled. However, although he tried his best to make himself look insidious, his Chinese face with thick eyebrows and big eyes did not look like a bad person.

"Don't worry, I will make you satisfied."

"What, is there anything more powerful?" The emperor was shocked. The smooth and sharp attack just now had opened his eyes. How could it be an aperitif? The dishes haven't been served yet?

"Your Majesty, please wait a moment." Sun Shao said respectfully. He looked back and said with a smile, "Your Majesty, please take a look. The supplementary imaginary enemy is coming."

The emperor quickly raised his eyes and looked into the distance. He saw about a dozen buildings and boats slowly coming and stopping on the sea, but this time they did not stop together, but one in the east and one in the west, divided into four places. The emperor was a little surprised and was about to ask, but he saw Sun Shao raise his arm, motioned to the Fengyi on the right, and waved the order flag in his hand. Then he turned around and said, "Your Majesty, please look at the latest weapon of my Han sailor."

The emperor didn't care about the soreness of his arms, so he quickly turned Qianli to the Fengyi building boat on the right. Suddenly, a black smoke spewed out of a high pipe at the back of the Fengyi building boat and soared to the sky. Then the building boat began to accelerate at an incredible speed, a little faster than the three building ships just now. In a short time, the building boat sped away like a running horse, and the torping waves were The back of the boat plowed a triangular surface of water.

"This..." The emperor was stunned. When he saw the three buildings just now, he already felt very fast. He had always heard that Sun Shao's warships speed was amazing. This time, he finally saw it with his own eyes and was surprised. Unexpectedly, the Fengyi moved together, and the original three buildings were dwarfed, and suddenly It was compared.

Not only the emperor was surprised, but others were also surprised, and the most surprised was Sun Quan. He put down his thousand-mile eye, rubbed his eyes hard, and quickly put the thousand-mile eye on his eyes. Because of excessive force, the thousand-mile eye almost squeezed out his eyes. He opened his mouth. Although he couldn't see his eyes, his shocked look was still clearly visible.

The building boat, which was originally talking and laughing, was so quiet that there were only exclamations and gasps. Only Zhang Zhao was calm. Although he did not squint, the slightly picky corners of his mouth could not hide his inner pride. Compared with his pride, although Sun Shao was also calm, the corners of his eyes were ** from time to time. He did not raise his eyes, but held the railing tightly with both hands. If someone stands beside him, he will definitely hear his heavy breathing.

He is very nervous.

After four years of continuous research by Ge Heng and others, thirteen model machines were scrapped, and the first batch of finalized steam engines were finally made. Is this the same as the original steam engine in history? Sun Shao didn't know. All he knew was that even now, the operation of these steam engines was unstable, and the longest normal working time did not pass eleven hours, not even a day. However, such an immature product shows great power. Four steam engines can keep the Fengyi sailing at normal speed, and eight can exert the sprint speed when rowing with 600 sailors. For the sake of insurance, he installed the first 16 products together and used the spiral that has been improved many times. Paddle, it can be said that the current Fengyi has reached the fastest speed that the hull design can achieve.

The effect of doing this is obvious. The speed revealed by Fengyi is the speed of a warship, especially a warship as large as a building ship, but the risk is also very high. It is difficult to guarantee how long it will run at full speed. Maybe in the next moment, a steam engine will lie down, or even two or three. The most extreme situation may even be more than half. In that case, this exercise has become a joke.

Even 16 units can give Sun Shao face and keep running normally, which is only half of the success. There is a more important link below.

Ge Xuan and Wei Boyang studied the thunderstorm for three years.

The process of studying gunpowder was very fast. Under the guidance of the prescription given by Sun Shao, it took them only a year for them to turn black gunpowder into mass-produced products. However, in the process of producing artillery, they encountered great trouble. Sun Shao knew little about this and gave them very limited help. They could only explore by themselves. After countless experiments, they finally figured out some way and made a bronze and brass gun barrel, but the training was very complicated and far from reaching the practical stage. It happened that Sun Shao sent Qin Lun from Funan to Zhu Ya. After hearing what Qin Lun said about, Ge Heng and Ma Jun were greatly inspired by the torsion cannon of the Daqin people, and simply used the Zhentianlei researched by Ge Xuan and others on the improved torque crossbow cannon.

This attempt has an unexpected effect. The torsion crossbow gun has both a strong crossbow and a thunderbolt gun. It has a long range and high accuracy. After using a shocking thunderbolt with greatly reduced weight, the range and accuracy are also guaranteed. However, the power of black gunpowder is actually limited. If you use an iron shell, it will usually blow up in half, and the lethality is limited, that is, the sound is scary. But who said it well, the power of the people is infinite. The technicians who are full every day came up with all kinds of ideas to increase lethality. Some stuffed nails in it, some put poison in it, and some tried their best to grind the iron shell out a few trenches in order to burst a few more pieces.

Today, in order to make the effect very majestic, the iron shell was filled with fire oil. Sun Shao held his breath and listened. It was not until the loud sound came that a raging fire on an imaginary enemy warship ignited, and he breathed a long sigh of relief.

Listening to the explosion after another, looking at the fiercely burning enemy ships one after another, Tianzi and others held their breath. It was not until the Fengyi circle and returned to the Tianzi's ship that there were violent explosions in the distance. More than a dozen buildings were blown up into pieces one after another in the explosion and flew all over the sky. The dance, combined with the rolling smoke, is amazing.

Of course, these explosions were caused by the explosion of explosives installed on the building ship in advance. With more than a dozen thunderbolt, it's okay to set them on fire. It's impossible to blow up these ships.

However, except for Sun Shao, no one on the ship knew the truth. What they saw was that the Fengyi rode the dust and went out to fight against more than a dozen buildings at an amazing speed. Before the enemy could react, they retreated completely, and then turned the enemy into fragments with a loud noise.

In an instant, only Liu Bei remembered the scene when Guan Yu killed Yan Liang in the army in Baimapo. Unexpectedly, twenty years later, Guan Yu's daughter staged a more popular scene. Liu Bei suddenly regretted it. He found that he had been fooled by Sun Shao again. He pushed Guan Yu to Luoyang as a trouble, which was equivalent to pushing off a strong ally. Otherwise, with Sun Shao and his wife's filial piety to Guan Yu, how could the State of Shu do a little bit of this shocking thunder?

Sun Shao, who had completely relaxed, stood on the side of the ship with a smile. He looked at Guan Feng, who was overjoyed, strode up with a sword. He stretched out a hand and led Guan Feng to the emperor. The couple saluted: "The sailor drill is over, your majeon, please comment."

"Ah? Ah!" The emperor put down his eyes and looked at the thick smoke in the distance. After a long time, he closed his mouth. At this time, he felt that his arm was sore that he couldn't lift it, and even his chin could not be closed. He stepped forward and pulled Sun Shao anxiously. He raised his hand effortlessly and pointed to the sea in the distance: "Sun...Sun Qing, what kind of weapon is that? Is it so awesome?

"Your Majesty, that's a thunderbolt." Sun Shaoqiang suppressed his proud smile and said, "When this thing is powerful, it is like a thunder in the sky, but your majesty is far away today, so it doesn't sound so big. Next time you can get closer..."

"No, no, no..." The emperor shook his head repeatedly and said with a wry smile, "It's not big? You can hear it clearly from so far away. If you get close, won't you even be deaf? Shocking thunder, shocking thunder, as expected, things are just like their names.

As the emperor spoke, he suddenly felt a little strange. What's the name of this thing is not good, but it is called Zhen Tianlei. I am the emperor, and he is shocked. Isn't it difficult for me? He subconsciously glanced at Sun Shao, who smiled harmlessly. Thinking about it, the emperor felt that he might be a little allergic. Among the four kings, Sun Shao is the most loyal, and he should not have this idea.

" By the way, why is Guan Qing's warship so fast? How much faster than other warships, which is similar to a running horse? The emperor asked with great interest, "Guan Qing, both your father and daughter are heroes."

"Your Majesty praised me, and I am ashamed to be a concubine." Guan Feng blushed and shyly stepped back, half hiding behind Sun Shao.

"Your Majesty, this ship does not use manpower, but material resources." Sun Shao smiled and said, "This uses the power of steam, so I call it a steam engine."

"steam?" The emperor thought for a moment and asked, "But is it the same as the steam when making steamed cakes?"

Sun Shao praised himself secretly. Who said that the emperor was stupid and smart? He nodded quickly and said, "Your Majesty."

Tianzi Da Le smiled and said, "Sun Qing, I have nothing to do in Luoyang, and I have also read a lot of articles from Zhu Ya College. Who... I have also read the powerful articles in the steam, but I didn't expect that this insignificant steam can drive the ship."

"Your Majesty, there is a road to heaven and earth, and the road is in everything. Your Majesty is wise. If you pay a little attention to it, you will definitely find more ways of heaven. I have heard two poems, and I dare to share them with your majesty.

"Oh, what poem, tell me." The emperor urged him with high interest.

"Everything is quiet and self-sufficient, and the four-hour prosperity is the same as others."

The emperor chanted a few words and sighed: "Good poem, I don't know who wrote it. I didn't see it at first sight. It's really a regret of my life."

"What did you hear? You wrote it yourself, didn't you?" Cao Zhang squeezed in front of him, squeezed his eyes at Sun Shao, and then saluted the emperor: "Your Majesty doesn't know that His Royal Highness the King of Yue also wrote poems in those years, and there are many good sentences that my father and Wang's disciple Jian are full of praise. For example, even a rude person like Chen knows that 'the stars are flowing flat and wide, and the moon is flowing. In my opinion, these two sentences may also be a masterpiece of His Royal Highness the King of Yue, but he occasionally got a wonderful sentence. He was busy with government affairs and had no time to make up for them, so he had to say that he had heard it.

Sun Shao is speechless.

The emperor looked at Sun Shao, who was a little embarrassed, and then at Cao Zhang, who was clearly a little guilty. He rushed to show his favor to Sun Shao, smiled, turned to the ministers and smiled, "Guys, you guys, look at the water master of Yue... No, what is the power of my great sailor?"

"Your Majesty, with such a sailor to guard the sea for your majesty, I will definitely be invincible in the world." Liu Bei, the king of Shu, rushed to congratulate him, and then arched his hand to Sun Shao: "Sageous nephew, you are always unexpected. Compared with the water division, our walking horse is simply not worth mentioning.

(to be continued)