Fake Eunuch: Discovering the Emperor is a Woman!-Chapter 311 - 309 Firearms

When Lin Yi received the message, he was at the training ground of Nanshan Base.

He was holding a strange object in his hands.

Bringing it up to his eyes, he then aimed at a wooden target in front.

Upon pulling the trigger, a loud "bang" was heard, followed by an iron arrow dragging a trail of flames straight towards the wooden target.

In the blink of an eye, the feathered arrow had deeply embedded itself into the target.

"Report! Ten rings!"

The voice of the Soldier responsible for reporting the target score shouted loudly, which echoed back to Lin Yi.

Upon hearing this sound, the people nearby couldn’t help but gasp in astonishment.

"Sss! Sir, this device is so powerful, it hit the bullseye within a hundred steps."

Listening to Tie Niu’s words beside him, Lin Yi frowned and shook his head, handing the object to a Soldier nearby.

Then, watching the target reporter run towards them carrying a target, he couldn’t help but sigh:

"Ah, the force is there, but this device still isn’t quite right.

It’s much worse than I had anticipated.

To mention one thing, loading it is very cumbersome."

Hearing Lin Yi’s words, Tie Niu also nodded in agreement:

"This device is indeed not very convenient to use; the time it took for you to perform those operations just now, I could have shot three feathered arrows."

Lin Yi agreed with this point.

Even though his operations were already quite fast, someone unfamiliar with it would likely take even longer.

"Sir, the wooden board has been penetrated."

At that moment, the target reporter had arrived with the wooden target.

Now, everyone could clearly see the condition of the wooden board.

And upon seeing the condition of the board, Tie Niu’s eyes widened in disbelief.

"Sir! How could the power be so great?

Look, the board has been completely penetrated!

How is this possible, it’s from a hundred steps away!

Even if I use a Strong Bow of three stones, I couldn’t shoot with such force."

Tie Niu, who was previously disdainful of the device’s slow loading speed, was now shocked by its power.

The wooden board had a large hole in it, and an iron arrow had pierced through the board, completely passing through it.

Even for someone as strong as Tie Niu, this power was shocking.

He could confidently claim to hit the bullseye of the board from a hundred steps away.

But to shoot a feathered arrow through the board was utterly impossible.

It was not something humans could achieve, unless using specialized Crossbows designed for city walls.

But the device in the gentleman’s hand was quite compact.

At the very least, it was much smaller than his bow and arrow.

And the long stick-like appearance was very strange.

If someone said it was a stick, it would be believable.

But the notion that it could unleash such power was unbelievable to him.

Even though he had witnessed the device unleashing such power, he was still deeply shocked.

"Heh, this power is actually considered minimal; if researched well, it could be much more powerful.

The power of this device depends on the amount of black gunpowder loaded inside.

If it’s loaded more, it will be even more powerful."

Yes, what Lin Yi just used was the Firearms he had recently had developed.

This device, Lin Yi had already started having it forged and researched quite some time ago.

But crafting the barrel was very difficult.

To the current Blacksmiths, it was harder than reaching the heavens.

Since they lacked precision machines like lathes, they had to rely on manual boring techniques, which required great skills.

Among these blacksmiths, almost no one could achieve this.

That’s why, even after so long, only this single piece had been developed.

And its appearance was quite rough.

At the very least, this device was far from meeting Lin Yi’s standards.

Nevertheless, it must be said that at least the thickness of the iron tube was sufficient, without worrying about the barrel exploding.

But the overall appearance gave it a somewhat comical look.

All in all, the device looked similar to the bird guns of later generations.

There was nothing that could be done about it; Lin Yi also wanted to create a semi-automatic rifle, but obviously, it was not possible at this time.

The device he considered very poor, in the eyes of these ancient people, was not the same; they had already been dumbfounded.

Their eyes repeatedly scanned the wooden target and looked at the black stick held by the Soldier, filled with shock.

They couldn’t believe that such power could be emitted from this device.

However, thinking about the Hand Grenades used in recent training, and considering the device they now saw, they could come to terms with it.

After all, the training of these Soldiers was unlike that of the current soldiers in You Country.

They had been exposed to Firearms early on.

Thus, when Lin Yi fired the gun and the loud bang resounded, these people didn’t show any abnormal reactions.

Of course, when Lin Yi fired, although he pulled the trigger, it didn’t mean the gun had an autonomous firing function.

It was just that a Flint was tied to another end of the trigger.

Directly pulling the trigger, the Flint approached the exposed fuse.

Yes, the overall shape resembled the Firearms of future generations.

It still required loading the Gunpowder, then an iron arrow, and inserting a fuse before igniting it to shoot.

But the current fuse wasn’t very reliable.

It’s not an exaggeration to say, from the moment it was ignited, the fuse would burn out almost instantly.

That’s why a Flint was tied to it.

Pulling the trigger, the gun would fire almost instantly.

"Report! Sir, someone from the palace has arrived, Your Majesty has summoned you for an audience."

While they were testing the gun, a Messenger Soldier ran over quickly.

Seeing the messenger, Lin Yi nodded and then spoke to Tie Niu:

"Tell the workshop to produce at full capacity; although it’s not very useful, it’s better than nothing."

...End of Chapter...

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