Daming pirates

A brand-new artillery was mounted on a brand-new gun carriage. The gun carriage was built by carpenters who had been working day and night these days according to Yu Xiaotian's requirements. It was made of fine hard materials and the workmanship was very fine.

, even the corners have been carefully trimmed by carpenters, and there are not many places that can irritate your hands.

Moreover, the gun mount of this gun is completely made of the four-wheeled artillery used on Western-style ships. The gun mount is also equipped with an iron ring. After it is installed on the ship, the rope can be threaded through the iron ring and just pull the rope.

, you can reset the artillery relatively easily.

As a senior ship model fan, Yu Xiaotian certainly knows very well what gun mounts should be used. In another famous naval battle in history in the West, one side of the naval gun used a gun carriage similar to the mount of a land cannon.

, while the other side's ship uses a convenient four-wheeled gun carriage.

As a result, for the side using land cannons, after firing, it was very cumbersome and difficult for the gunners and sailors to reset the cannons after reloading them, which ultimately resulted in them always being at a disadvantage in the artillery battle.

As a result, the other side's naval guns using the four-wheeled gun carriages fired faster and always had the advantage in firepower. In the end, the side using the four-wheeled gun carriages won the naval battle.

In this era, the old-style artillery of the Ming Dynasty did not even have artillery carriages. Most of them used fixed gun mounts. Sometimes when the gun was fired, the artillery might even jump up and turn over due to the recoil, injuring the people on the ship.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian would definitely not install a crude fixed mount on his newly built cannon and do such a stupid thing. Therefore, when he started casting the cannon, he already knew the size of the cannon and designed it himself in advance.

He bought a special four-wheeled gun carriage for the ship and ordered the carpenter to build it in advance according to the drawings.

In order to ensure that the cannon can be directly mounted on the gun carriage after being cast without too much error, Yu Xiaotian even asked the carpenters to make a wooden model of the cannon of the same proportion in advance and put it on the gun carriage for a test first.

Now that the cannon has been cast and the gun carriage has been prepared in advance, it is basically effortless to install the cannon on the gun carriage.

This matter is undoubtedly a very important event for everyone at Sea Wolf, and it is also a great joy. Although Yu Xiaotian did not make it too public, his subordinates still made this test gun very grand.

The installed artillery was draped in red and decorated with red cloth by his subordinates, and ropes were wrapped with red cloth. Eight strong men were selected to drag the cannon with red ropes in front of their heads. Li Gouzi even found a few trumpeters to play.

They played drums and trumpets in front of their heads all the way to clear the way, making it as lively as a wedding.

Yu Xiaotian was really speechless by these guys, but considering the folk customs, everyone also wanted to get some luck, and it was not easy to bend everyone's will, so he simply let them toss it, and

He himself followed the team quietly.

But now it's impossible for him to keep a low profile. Who doesn't know him as the big boss on Nanri Island? People who look strange wherever he goes will cheer continuously when they see him, and some people who have received his favor will quickly kneel down.

Kowtow to him by the roadside.

Nowadays, Nanri Island is under his rule. The people's livelihood is stable and the rules are strict. Few people dare to harm the residents of the island at will like before. Therefore, the farmers and fishermen on the island are now much better off.

There is no need to live in fear anymore.

Even when they go out to sea to fish, because their area is under the control of the sea wolves, no one dares to come to this area to harass them for fishing. As a result, the fishermen on the island now have a greatly improved view of these pirates and no longer treat the island.

The sea wolf tribesmen above were as frightened as tigers and wolves.

These people are actually very pure-minded. They have a strong balance in their hearts. They can clearly distinguish who is good to them and who is bad to them. In the past, when the Shark Gang was in Nanri Island, they would not have dared to think about it.

, so of course they know who to be grateful to.

As a result, as soon as the passing fishermen and farmers see Yu Xiaotian, many of them will quickly kneel down and kowtow in thanks, which makes Yu Xiaotian very touched.

Ordinary people are so simple. As long as you treat them well, they will know how grateful you are. But if you treat them badly, they usually remain silent and endure it silently. Once they reach their limit, they will rebound and become even more

It was as powerful as a typhoon, so he was secretly vigilant. If he wanted to become more powerful in the future, he must not easily offend the people who relied on him for a living.

Therefore, when Yu Xiaotian saw someone cheering or kneeling to greet him, he would always smile and return the favor with frequent clasped fists, feeling a bit like a polite corporal.

The place for the cannon test was chosen on the hillside south of Dazhai. The place had been put under martial law in advance. Anyone waiting far away would be blocked. After all, this is the top secret of the Sea Wolf so far. Ordinary people can know about the Sea Wolf.

Wolf has built his own cannon, but it is better not to let more people know about its specific performance.

After Yu Xiaotian arrived at the cannon test site, he glanced around and saw that the surrounding area had been cleared. He asked someone to pull up the rope and start measuring the distance in the open space.

Every one hundred meters, he had people build a mound of earth as a target. The mound was as tall as a man and more than two meters wide. For artillery in this era, it was already a relatively small target.

And the farther the distance, the bigger the pile of dirt. Yu Xiaotian didn't expect to be able to hit a target the size of a human body at a distance of 500 meters. Hitting a house would be considered a high incense.

A group of people were busy on the shooting range, digging soil and measuring. It took them a long time to set up the shooting range.

Yu Xiaotian ordered several specially selected gunners to place the gun at the designated location. For safety reasons, a bunker was built and two trenches were dug on both sides of the gun position.

A place where gun testers took shelter.

After everything was prepared, several boxes of ammunition were sent to the side of the gun emplacement where the gun was tested and put into the bunker to avoid any danger during the gun test.

Yu Xiaotian directly abandoned the loading method of bulk gunpowder. Before the cannon test, the night before, he ordered his men to pack the gunpowder into columnar boxes in concentrated specifications of one and a half kilograms, two kilograms, two and a half kilograms, and three kilograms.

To use the charging package, you only need to fill the package directly into the barrel of the gun, use an awl to pierce the oil paper from the fire door, pour the primer or insert a feather or thin bamboo tube, and then load the cannonball.

Ready to launch.

Because it was the first time to test the gun, everyone was not sure about the performance of the gun. If they fired it directly, they were afraid that the gun would explode and hurt the people who were testing the gun.

So for this test, Yu Xiaotian had some fuses wrapped in tissue paper and gunpowder twisted, leaving a long enough fuse, and put it into the fire door. After the testers ignited the fuse, they could immediately hide behind the bunker.

In the trench, this way, if the cannon explodes, the testers will not be harmed.

So after everything was ready, Yu Xiaotian gave the order, and everyone's eyes widened, and they began to hold their breath and became quiet, just waiting to watch the test of the cannon.

The selected gunners hurried forward and started busy loading the artillery. The operating procedures had already been determined. These shells were also carefully cast and polished by the craftsmen. The tolerances were well controlled, so

It takes very little effort when loading.

Soon the first shell was loaded and the fuse was loaded into the fire door. The gunners carefully aimed the muzzle at the first mound a hundred meters away. After completing the aiming, the gunner

With an order, several gunners jumped into the trench of the bunker.

Only one gunner was left, holding a flaming fire stick and waiting for orders.

"Light the fire!" Yu Xiaotian shouted sharply.

When the gunner heard the sound, he immediately ignited the gunpowder, turned around and jumped into the bunker. Only the ignited gunpowder was left, hissing and hissing with blue smoke, and quickly burned towards the fire door.

Everyone was so nervous that their hearts were in their throats. They stared at the new cannon with wide eyes. Suddenly, a ball of fire flashed out from the cannon bunker, and then the ground shook, and then

Then a loud noise was heard.

The gun carriage was pushed by the recoil and pushed out a meter or two. The bunker was suddenly surrounded by a cloud of smoke. Looking at the shooting range, a black dot flew out like lightning. The shell was almost invisible to the naked eye.

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After the cannonball flew out, it hit the shooting range hard. But unfortunately, the shot did not accurately hit the first mound a hundred meters away. Instead, it hit the first mound a hundred meters away, slightly higher.

It flew over quickly and landed nearly two hundred meters away, throwing up a cloud of dust on the ground.

However, this cannonball was not completely discharged. After landing, it bounced off the ground and continued to fly forward. It jumped on the ground like a dragonfly on water and rolled past the second mound, finally landing on about two hundred and fifty.

It came to a complete stop about a meter away.

Some people shook their heads slightly and were a little disappointed, but more people cheered, because in their opinion, although the shot did not hit the target, it was not far from the target. If it had been lower, it would have hit the target.

, if the target was a ship, this shot would be considered an accurate hit, the left and right deviation would be very small, and the accuracy would be considered good.

Yu Xiaotian was not too disappointed. After all, this was a new cannon. He could not ask the gunner to be familiar with the use of this cannon immediately. It was quite impressive to be able to achieve such results.

What's more, if this is fought against the enemy group on land, it is already pretty good. It can definitely penetrate the enemy group with one shot and open a bloody path among the enemy group. Solid bullets rely on ricochet to kill more enemies.

The enemy's, this is not considered a failed launch.

What he is most concerned about now is not the accuracy of the gun, but whether the gun is strong enough, whether it can withstand the high pressure of the gun barrel, and whether it will crack.

After the first cannon was fired, Yu Xiaotian immediately ran towards the gun emplacement himself, and the others followed closely behind.

Blacksmith Lei, Blacksmith Zhang and others also gathered around, with nervous expressions, and carefully observed the cannon from head to toe, and touched it again with their hands.

(Today, I would like to thank my friend Gu Weilong for the reward! When I woke up early yesterday, I felt like I had been stepped on by a herd of elephants. My whole body ached. I quickly took my temperature. I didn’t have a fever! So I started working, but I still started to have a low fever at noon. I was scared.

It’s killing me! I didn’t feel like I had a cold! I thought something was seriously wrong, so I quickly went to the hospital for a blood test. The result was that I was relieved. It was a viral cold. I went! It’s such a hot day and I actually caught a cold! I’m so unlucky!

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