Daming pirates

The entire cannon looks short and fat. The ratio of the gun length to the inner diameter of the cannon is roughly six to one. The tiger-headed cannon actually looks a bit cartoonish. However, when it was displayed there in darkness, no one doubted that this thing was a very scary thing.

Guy.

"Okay! This is what I want! How about it? Has it been weighed? How much does this guy weigh?" Yu Xiaotian is most concerned about the weight of this kind of gun. If it is too heavy, there will be some trouble in shipping.

Otherwise, this kind of gun will not be put into practical use, but will become a new useless weapon. It is very powerful when placed on land, but has a short range and is not suitable for use as a shore gun.

When used as a siege artillery, it is too heavy. Without solving the problem of pulling horses, it would be a disaster for any army, especially for the Sea Wolf War Barracks.

For an army that takes the elite route and does not use human sea tactics, just transporting a heavy artillery takes up enough troops that the war barracks can collapse.

"It has been weighed. This gun is not very heavy. It is not even as heavy as the No. 5 long gun. It is only slightly heavier than the standard No. 5 gun. The total weight is 830 kilograms, not counting the weight of the gun mount!

It's definitely no problem to install it on the ship. As long as the ship can install the No. 5 long gun, it will be no problem to install it. But right now, I don't know what the recoil of this guy is. Can the ship equipped with the No. 5 long gun be able to withstand the recoil of this guy?

, the recoil of this gun was so great that it shattered the ship's plank when it was fired!

It is said that during the Wanli period, the navy used a large kettle, which was installed on a naval warship. One shot of the cannon shattered the ship. As a last resort, a large raft was dragged behind the warship to specially enlarge the kettle.

The power of this thing is estimated to be much more powerful than that of Dafa, I'm afraid the ship won't be able to withstand it!" Blacksmith Qiu quickly said to Xiaotian.

After Yu Xiaotian heard this, he felt quite satisfied. The weight of the thirty-two-pound Caron gun did not exceed the weight of the twelve-pound cannon. This created conditions for equipping the navy in large quantities. Once the recoil of this gun passed through

Testing, if the modified Fu ship can be equipped with it, it will be a huge leap to greatly improve the firepower intensity of Chinese warships.

In the past, it was difficult to install a 12-pound cannon, let alone a 32-pound cannon, on Chinese warships. The Daifaji made by the Ming Dynasty in the early years is a typical example.

It is thick and stupid, and its caliber is not too big. It is not even as powerful as a six-pounder. It weighs only five or six hundred kilograms. Among the world's equivalent artillery, it is only a light artillery at best, but this is

It could not be mounted on a naval warship and the deck would be shattered when the cannon was fired. When used, the cannon had to be hoisted from the ship to a large raft towed behind the stern of the ship before it could be loaded and fired.

Yu Xiaotian couldn't imagine what a disaster it would be for the user with such a cumbersome method of use. On the battlefield, various situations were changing rapidly. Who could wait for you to slowly hoist the cannon and then aim it at the raft?

Fire up!

And as far as he knew, the Ming Dynasty had never made any effective modifications to the navy's warships over the years. When the Western large plywood ships were rampant along the coast of China, the Ming Dynasty suffered a lot, but it

No one has ever proposed to imitate Western ships and transform warships for their own use.

Therefore, some historians of the Ming Dynasty's Navy were boasting about it. However, after this era, Yu Xiaocai discovered that it was simply the old history. The current Ming Navy's navy has long been far behind in terms of technical equipment and training.

Far behind the times.

The Ming Dynasty Navy is said to be equipped with a lot of firearms, but in fact it is still in its infancy. Most of the time, the firearms are just used to show off their force, to embolden and deter the enemy. If they really encounter a more powerful enemy

At that time, in addition to using the old-fashioned gang-hopping battle, they could only achieve some effect by using their numerical advantage and using fire ships to attack with fire.

Now in the eyes of Yu Xiaotian, the Ming Navy has been completely scorned by Yu Xiaotian after the battle between Nanyue Water Village and Puxisuo. If the Ming Navy comes to trouble him, it will not spend five or six times as much as he does.

With the strength of his troops, there is no way he can be his opponent.

Now he no longer has to deal with the navy of the Ming Dynasty, but in the future he will mainly have to deal with his peers, especially Zheng Yiguan and the Dutch and Spanish, who have strong firepower at sea.

The thirty-two-pound carronade is undoubtedly his current artifact to break through his own firepower limitations. As long as the test is successful, a large number of equipment can be equipped on Sea Wolf's warships in the future, even if it is really possible to face the Spanish and Dutch at sea in the future.

Although he fought hard, he was also capable of fighting them at sea without being knocked down by the opponent's firepower.

Under Yu Xiaotian's order, the artillery immediately loaded the newly cast Carronade gun onto an ox cart, transported it to the shooting range, and began to prepare for the test.

In order to prepare for the test of the artillery, the artillery field that specializes in producing projectiles has already cast twenty or thirty thirty-two-pound artillery shells in advance according to the data given by the artillery, as a preliminary test of this kind of artillery. If this kind of cannon is used,

If cannons are to be put into production in the future, cannonball workshops will begin to cast such cannonballs in large quantities.

A group of people, escorted by soldiers, marched to the shooting range in a mighty manner. A group of shipwrights had arrived in advance and were busy building a platform here.

In the future, the carronage gun will be mainly used as a naval gun. The most critical issue is to test its recoil and whether the deck of ordinary ships can withstand it.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian did not adopt the old method of testing this gun on the ground. He sent people to the shooting range in advance and built three simulated forts based on the structural strength of the ship's deck.

This carronage gun will be installed on these simulated docks for test firing to test whether the docks can withstand its recoil. This is also a test that must be done before other guns are put on the ship.

After the Caron gun arrived at the shooting range, people from the Navy also rushed over. Currently, the navy training camp is mainly stationed in Tamsui City. Because the new camp is located in Tamsui City, new recruits must undergo initial training before they can carry out the training.

Assignment, most newcomers will be assigned to the navy.

Therefore, the Navy also built a special training camp here to receive new sailors assigned from the new camp and conduct professional training for them. Although they also have to undergo queue and combat training, the intensity of this training is far less than that of the combat camp.

Over there, because these newcomers have to spend more time on various training ships.

There are many kinds of training boats, including the smallest sampan, the slightly larger dragon boat, the single-masted fishing boat, the two-masted bird boat, and even a medium-sized lucky boat.

New recruits in the navy have to practice on various ships, including rowing, rowing, raising masts, making rigging, learning gunnery, etc. The training time now takes up to three or four months before it ends at the training camp.

Only qualified personnel can be assigned to serve in the fleet after preliminary training.

Each newcomer has two assessment opportunities. If they fail the first assessment, they can stay in the training camp and extend the training for another month. If they fail the second assessment, they will

They were eliminated and assigned to work in other places, but they would definitely not be able to get on the ship in the future. The most they could do was go to the resettlement village and work as a supervisor, responsible for leading some local heroes.

The commander of the naval training camp stationed in Tamsui City is named Chen Sheng. He is also one of the people who followed Yu Xiaotian earlier. This man is in his thirties, much older than Yu Xiaotian. He was originally from Quanzhou.

There is a small leader in the navy over there who is responsible for steering the ship.

This man also had quite a lot of sailing experience and had a certain foundation in military career. He was very familiar with the situation of the old Ming army. Later, due to special reasons, he became a deserter and fled to Nanyue Island to work under Zhang Hu.

After Wang Hong joined Yu Xiaotian, he has always been a leader.

This man had a flexible mind and was good at learning. After a year or two of training, he was first promoted from a gunner to a captain, and later became the captain of a detachment in the fleet.

This time the naval training camp was established, and when Yu Xiaotian was selecting candidates, Chen Sheng stood out from the many candidates and eventually became the leader of the training camp.

Chen Sheng has a stable personality, is good at observing and learning, and is good at summarizing experience. In addition, he has rich experience, is bold and careful, and is very suitable to be the leader of this training camp.

And his biggest advantage is that he is very serious about his work and has strict requirements for his subordinates. Such a person will naturally be reused in the Sea Wolves, and he is doing quite well here now.

When he learned that Yu Xiaotian was going to test a new gun used by the Navy, Chen Sheng immediately rushed to the shooting range to observe the gun test.

Under the order of Yu Xiaotian, the carronade gun was first set up on the first simulation stand. Although the shells of this carronage gun are very heavy, the charge is not large. The actual charge of the 32-pound shell is

The weight is about three kilograms.

Someone weighed out three kilograms of gunpowder and loaded it into the barrel of the cannon. Then the two gunners worked together to pick up a cannonball with a special clip and loaded it into the barrel. Then they fired the cannonball in the conventional way.

The cannonball is fed into the bottom of the barrel.

With just a roar, the cannonball rose into the air amidst the flames and smoke, and flew out of the barrel. The hot cannonball made a heart-shaking sound and smashed into the distance.

"Smashing" is a suitable word to describe this kind of artillery shell. Caron gun shells are heavy, have a short barrel, and a small charge. The trajectory is naturally not straight. It is very similar to the trajectory of a mortar, but it is better than that of a mortar.

The trajectory should be straighter, at least it has a flat shooting distance of tens of meters, while mortars or mortars can only shoot in a curve.