Great Song: You Asked Me to Forge Iron, So Why Am I Handcrafting a Gatling Gun?

The Great Song is weak, the Jin are making threats, and the peace faction at court knows only how to send them money and women? Zhao Chen, a top modern-day military-industrial expert, awakens the “Infrastructure Maniac” talent! Enough pretending. I’ll say it plainly: I’m bringing industrialized firepower to this Great Song! Scrap iron and rotten wood → composite repeating crossbows, three times the power! Moldy saltpeter and sulfur → granulated black powder, a hundred times the explosive force! Blast furnaces and water-powered hammers → flintlock guns and twelve-pound field cannons, with production boosted by 100%! When eighty thousand Jin Iron Pagodas reach the city walls, laughing that the Song army are all cowards, Zhao Chen calmly unrolls ten miles of barbed wire and reveals a prototype Maxim gun. “Open fire!” Cannons blanket the ground in fire, a torrent of steel sweeps through, and the Iron Pagodas are instantly blown into fragments! “In the face of heavy firepower, the nomads have finally learned to sing and dance.” Zhao Chen surveys the map of the world. “The Great Song’s warships will sail across the globe!”