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In addition, the large-caliber carronage gun is placed on a wooden slide gun carriage, and does not use the four-wheeled gun carriage commonly used for general naval guns. The recoil distance is short, and the pressure per unit area of ​​​​the deck is much smaller than that of ordinary naval guns. Many

Light ships can also be equipped with this kind of carronnon to exert great attack power.

Think about using a large cannonball weighing more than 20 kilograms, more than 30 kilograms, or even forty or fifty kilograms. Even if it hits an enemy ship, the enemy ship will probably not be able to withstand it. A light ship will probably not be able to withstand a few cannons.

It can be beaten to pieces. Even when dealing with large and sturdy warships, the Caron Cannon can relatively easily smash the hull of the enemy ship.

Moreover, because this type of artillery uses large shells, it can also use explosive grenades to bombard land when necessary. It is also quite powerful and can even be used as a siege artillery to attack fortresses in land battles.

In naval battles, the British fleet in history often used this large-caliber carronnon to blast away the sides of enemy ships with solid bullets, or simply directly load hundreds of shotguns and use them as sweepers to directly destroy the enemy ships.

The enemy on the deck of the ship was wiped out, and the power was quite powerful.

However, when this kind of gun was first invented, it was criticized and resisted by many officers of the Western Navy. The reason is very simple: the range of this kind of gun is too short, and the longest range can only be 400 meters.

It can be used within 100 meters, and the ballistic trajectory is curved. It is believed that this kind of gun cannot play a very high role in naval battles.

However, during a subsequent battle with the French, this opposition was overturned by the performance of the carronade. A British ship equipped with a batch of large-caliber carronade guns was encountered at sea.

When a French warship was at a disadvantage, this British ship showed its fine tradition of fighting when encountering the enemy. It rushed to get close to the French warship and braved the gunfire from the French warship to use their guns.

The carronade guns came close to bombard the enemy ships.

The result was that the large-caliber carronade exhibited extremely powerful power at close range. It first smashed the French ship's stern into pieces, and then aimed shotguns at the hole in the French ship's gun stern, and shot through with just one shot.

, they messed up the inside of the French ship, killed and injured more than a hundred French people on the ship, and directly disintegrated the resistance on the French ship.

After this battle, the British paid more attention to carronade guns, so they built them in large numbers and equipped their navy for use. They even specially transformed several large merchant ships into warships that all used carronade cannons. When fighting with the enemy,

It played a very important role in the battle for hegemony of the sea.

Even when the British launched the Opium War, they used a large number of carronades. In addition to destroying Qing warships, they also came close to the coast and directly bombarded the Qing army's positions on the shore, causing a lot of damage to the Qing army.

The heavy damage caused the destruction of many Qing army forts, effectively supporting the Marines' beach landing operations.

Yu Xiaotian knew about this. He had not recalled this thing before. Recently, when he was thinking about the problems of the fleet, he suddenly thought of building carronade guns, so he immediately started to design them. However, he

This matter was not left to the Nanyue Island Gun Works, but the research and development of this gun was left to Blacksmith Qiu of the newly established Tamsui Gun Works.

The reason why he put this type of Carronal Cannon for trial production at Danshui Cannon Manufacturing was that the focus of Sea Wolf Industry would shift to Danshui in the next step, and secondly, Nanyue Island would go all out to produce twelve

Pound short guns, replace the six-pound guns currently used in the fleet, and equip the fleet as soon as possible. Third, Blacksmith Qiu is skilled in craftsmanship, has good technology, rich experience, and is prudent in his work, so it is more suitable to handle this matter.

Of course, there is no technical problem in manufacturing the carronade gun. The technical difficulty of manufacturing the carronade gun itself is much lower than that of the 24-pound long-barreled artillery, and the consumables are not large. The key lies in the mold opening. As long as Tiefan can do it

Well, and with the internal mold water-cooling casting process they are currently using, this kind of gun should not be difficult to solve.

After looking at the artillery pieces in the finished product warehouse, Yu Xiaotian turned to Blacksmith Qiu and asked about the trial production of the new carronade. Blacksmith Qiu quickly led Yu Xiaotian to the last work shed.

This workshop is a workshop currently used by Tamsui Cannon to produce iron models. There are several skilled craftsmen here who are responsible for casting the iron models of various iron cannons. Whether the quality of the cannon casting is good or not, the iron models are

For the key function, there can be no sloppiness, and the tolerances must be as small as possible.

Therefore, Blacksmith Qiu selected a few craftsmen with the best skills from the two artillery operations and transferred them to this workshop to be responsible for this work.

As soon as Yu Xiaotian entered the work shed, he immediately saw the craftsmen here busy at work, and several sets of various gun models were already placed on the shelves, including the newly made twelve-pounder gun models,

There are also gun barrels for light Franco cannons, and there are also some barrel barrels that are specially used to cast artillery shells of various calibers. The manufacturing process of these barrel barrels is very demanding, and ordinary people cannot make them well.

On a platform in this work shed, a bunch of iron mold parts have been placed at this time. The iron mold for casting the cannon is not a whole iron mold, but a combination of many iron molds. When using it,

It needs to be put together before it can be used. After the iron cannon is cast, and after the annealing is completed, the outer mold must be removed piece by piece to reveal the cast cannon body. The workload is relatively speaking, although it is compared to the clay mold.

It should be simple and easy, but it is also not easy. There can be no sloppiness, let alone wrong installation, otherwise there will be scraps.

"Master, this is the model of the cannon that you want the kids to make. It is not difficult to make the model of this kind of cannon, but it is not easy to make the mold. It takes a long time. You have to make the clay mold first.

Then I took out the iron mold and made the clay mold, which was a waste of time. The gun model has just been completed and you are here! The little one has not had time to report this to the big boss!" Blacksmith Qiu said with a face full of companionship.

He smiled, pointed at this set of iron rules and said to Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaotian immediately walked over and asked Blacksmith Qiu and the others to assemble the gun model. After looking at it, he nodded and said, "Yes! This is what I want! I thought you would have it ready after the year, but I didn't expect you to arrive.

We’re just making it now! I’m afraid it will delay things!”

Blacksmith Qiu hurriedly apologized and said: "Please forgive me, Master. It's not that the younger ones deliberately delayed it. As soon as the young men received the plan sent by the Master, they started to take action immediately. However, during the New Year period,

Not to mention the weather, it was still a bit cold, and the clay molds dried too slowly. The little one was anxious, so he wanted to use the drying method to dry the clay molds quickly, but accidentally the first set of clay molds cracked, and the little one didn't dare.

I made do and quickly made a new set of clay molds, but it took me a while. I hope you can forgive me!"

After hearing this, Yu Xiaotian understood why they were procrastinating and wanted to scold them. However, seeing the tired look of these craftsmen, it was obvious that they had not had a good rest for a long time. During the Chinese New Year,

He definitely didn't take a break either.

And they definitely wanted to hurry up, but their good intentions turned out to be bad, and they were too anxious to eat hot tofu. Instead of being able to get there early, they actually delayed it for a few days.

So Yu Xiaotian held back his anger, considering that many things were unexpected. In addition, under the current technical conditions of the mud drying process, it is difficult to effectively control the temperature and humidity of the drying room, even for a master craftsman.

It can also ensure that there will be no problems. If he gets angry about this kind of thing, I am afraid that it will discourage these craftsmen in the future, curb their enthusiasm for future experiments and exploration, and stifle their creativity.

After thinking of this, Yu Xiaotian had nothing to be angry about, so he smiled and said: "That's it! Don't apologize! I can understand your mood, no one can guarantee that everything will be done just right! Even if you delay for a few days, it will not matter.

Nothing! I should try it next time

You should still give it a try. Don’t be afraid of delaying things, so you don’t dare to try new things. Failure is the mother of success. The skills you have now are all the result of the constant exploration of your ancestors, fathers and countless craftsmen.

Accumulated experience?

So I don’t want you to stick to the old rules in everything, hold on to the old foundation in front of you, and dare not try anything. Only by constantly trying new technologies can we make more and more things that are better than now!

I think the animal-powered horizontal boring machine you built during this period is very good. I just gave you an idea, and you figured out how to make it yourself. Isn't this a good thing?

In the future, you will continue to try new things. In addition to casting cannons, you must also think carefully about how to use machines to replace manual labor, improve accuracy, speed, and save time and effort! Don’t be afraid of failure, just let it go.

That’s right! Even if you can’t do it or do it wrong, it doesn’t matter! I won’t blame you or anything!”

Yu Xiaotian knows very well that although he understands many modern technologies compared to people of this era, he alone cannot support a whole set of industries, not to mention that industrial development also involves a lot of chemical aspects.

These things can only be gradually improved and improved through the continuous exploration of countless people. Craftsmen must not stick to the old rules and cling to the old system. In that case, they will not be able to promote the development and progress of industrial technology.

China's imperial examination system places more emphasis on literature than military affairs, and never pays attention to science and technology. Although there are many capable people in the past dynasties who have created quite brilliant science and technology, by the end of the Ming Dynasty, China's science and technology development had begun to lag behind

Europeans failed to form a scientific education system, but still focused on the eight-part essay, so that it did not take long for them to completely lag behind the technological level of the Western world.

Of course, this also involved the entry of the Manchu and Qing Tatars into the country, which destroyed many technologies and economic cultures that were just in their infancy in the late Ming Dynasty. In the next two hundred years or so, China's splendid civilization was completely surpassed and abandoned by other industrial civilizations in the world.

It went so far that China almost became synonymous with ignorance and backwardness, and suffered countless humiliations. Until he came to this time and space, China could not completely turn over.

Although he is just a pirate leader now, he now has considerable resources, and more importantly, he has mastered many technologies that are beyond this era. He hopes that by opening the golden finger, and within his ability, he will be as powerful as possible.

It allows craftsmen to be more innovative and can greatly promote and promote the development of Chinese people's scientific and technological level.

Everything is still in its infancy, so he must encourage his subordinates to try new technologies.

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