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After a while, Wu Shengtian put down the telescope and cursed: "Damn! These rebels are actually waiting for the cannon to come! This seems to be a bit of trouble! This time they might have brought the Hongyi cannon! I'm afraid they're going to

We also need to invite the cannons out!"

Liu BuTong also looked at it for a while, nodded solemnly and said: "It looks good, damn bastard! In order to deal with me, they actually brought the Hongyi artillery here! Our village wall can't stand up to a guy like this.

!***! I’m afraid our cannon can’t be hidden now!”

"Come here, let Platoon Commander Dai come over!" Wu Shengtian and Liu Butong stepped down from the observation deck and immediately ordered.

After a while, a young man ran over, extended his hand to salute the standard Sea Wolf military salute, and said loudly: "Dai Fang of the artillery platoon has been ordered to report!"

"We're not at home here, so there's no need to be so polite. Go down and prepare. Pull out the No. 5 short cannon and the No. 3 long cannon, put them on the wall of the village, and get ready to shoot. The rebels may bring them over right away.

A Hongyi cannon, you must destroy it before the enemy fires! If that doesn't work, use explosive shells! In short, you can't let them blow down the wall!"

When Dai Fang heard this, he was refreshed and his face showed joy. As an artilleryman, he came with the army this time, but he never had the chance to play with cannons. The few cannons that were brought here were only used in a big building every day.

In the courtyard, I led my men to practice, but I didn't dare to place them on the wall of the village. That would be too ostentatious. At best, I just put two small improved Crouching Tiger Cannons on the wall of the village, but the Crouching Tiger Cannon is for leveling.

The artillery is really too small and not enjoyable to play with.

The two times the rebels attacked, he and his men had no chance to take action. They could only watch the infantry show off their power. This time, Wu Shengtian finally allowed them to take out the cannon. Now it depends on their ability.

So he responded with a loud voice, ran down like flying, called to his artillerymen, and called some rural soldiers to help, ran to the Liu family compound, and brought out the two cannons with a loud bang.

Although the six-pounder cannons have light shells, they have been largely eliminated by Sea Wolf's navy, leaving only a small part for use as deck secondary guns. However, for the army, the six-pounder cannon has the advantages of a six-pounder cannon.

First of all, the six-pounder gun is a long gun with a relatively large barrel. It is considered a kind of cannon. It has an advantage in shooting range and has a long direct shooting distance. In addition, the army's six-pounder gun does not have much equipment, but it is an improved type with a longer barrel.

, the cannon wall was gradually made thinner and the weight was reduced.

In addition, the tail part of the gun is thickened, which can make it withstand more gunpowder, and the range is improved a lot. It is also mounted on a standard wheeled gun mount, which makes it lighter to move and can be dragged by a horse, allowing it to move with the army.

, two horses can pull a front cart, and a six-pounder cannon is attached to the back to drag it. The total weight is only about 700 kilograms, which is quite light.

As for the twelve-pounder, it is a mountain howitzer with a short barrel. Its trajectory is relatively high and curved. The range is not too high, but when it is slung, it can hit two miles away, and the direct range is short.

, but it can also be guaranteed to hit about 300 steps, and can launch grenades and shotguns, which are extremely powerful at close range.

The two cannons were dragged out of the Liu family compound by Dai Fang and his crowd, and were dragged up the village wall from an inner slope with a whirring sound, and placed on two preset gun positions.

The stockade wall is not as thin as the city wall, so the area of ​​the gun position is not large and cannot withstand the recoil of the artillery when it fires. If there are no corresponding measures, the cannon may recoil and climb down the wall as soon as the gun is fired.

Therefore, stakes are reserved on the gun position to fix the pulleys. After the cannon is mounted on the wall, a set of pulleys must be fixed to reduce the recoil distance of the artillery fire, so as to ensure the effective use of the artillery on the wall.

Dai Fang had already made preparations. As soon as the two cannons were transported to the wall, he immediately led his people to install the pulleys, fixed the cannons on the pulleys, and arranged them in the gun positions.

The two cannons are now covered with gun jackets, which makes it difficult to see the covered cannon bodies underneath. However, from the shape, a discerning person can still recognize that these are two cannons. Those rural soldiers have never seen them in the village before.

There was such a big killer hidden inside, so everyone gathered around to see what was going on, but Dai Fang coaxed him aside with a stern face.

After the gun jackets were uncovered, the artillerymen immediately began to wipe and maintain the two guns, re-clean the gun barrels, and transported the ammunition boxes to the ammunition depot next to them, so that they could be lifted up at any time for use by the cannons.

According to the requirements, the artillery position and the ammunition depot for storing ammunition must be separated. The ammunition depot must be set up in the safest place. Only safe solid shells and shotshells are allowed to be placed next to the cannon, while powder bags and explosive grenades must be placed.

In a safe ammunition depot, in case the ammunition explodes during the battle, causing catastrophic consequences.

When used, a dedicated person would deliver the medicine packs and grenades to the artillery position for the artillerymen to load and launch. This was obviously much smarter than the Ming army in this era.

As an artillery officer, Dai Fang was well versed in this. His preparations were done in an orderly manner, and the gunners were all good at it. In addition, he had been feeling uncomfortable for a long time, so he was working in full swing and moved very quickly.

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In about half an hour, the two cannons were fully prepared and ready to fire. The black muzzles of the cannons were pointed at the enemy outside the village.

At this time, there was also movement from the rebels in the distance. More than 200 people were driving a few mules, and a Hongyi cannon with a gun mount weighing two thousand kilograms was driven away from the rebels.

The camp was dragged to Xishan Village.

Wu Shengtian held up his telescope and carefully observed the situation on the rebel side. After seeing that the rebels had brought the Hongyi cannon, his face became a little tighter.

Dai Fang was also holding a telescope with a high magnification at this moment, observing the situation of the Hongyi cannon on the rebel side. After carefully identifying it for a while, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

In the eyes of the Ming army, this weapon should be an absolutely advanced weapon, but in the eyes of Dai Fang and others, it is simply rubbish.

This Hongyi cannon looks very majestic, with a dark barrel, thick and big, but the barrel is not very long, and the caliber cannot be clearly seen, but it is estimated that it will not exceed the caliber of a twelve-pounder at most.

The weight of the projectile is at best within twelve pounds, but this kind of cannon was made under the leadership of Sun Yuanhua, Xu Guangqi and others, who hired Folangji craftsmen to go to the north to guide the casting.

The iron material used is also pig iron from Hebei, but because coal is mostly used to make iron in the north, China's coal mines mostly use coal with a relatively high sulfur content, and the iron ore also has a relatively high phosphorus content. The quality of the pig iron produced is,

It is far inferior to the quality of pig iron made from charcoal in Guangdong and Fujian.

This kind of northern pig iron contains a lot of phosphorus and sulfur that are not good for the quality of pig iron. In addition to being easy to rust, the pig iron is also relatively brittle. Therefore, the quality of cannons cast in the north is not very good. In order not to explode the barrel, it can only be added

The thick cannon wall makes the cannon appear bulkier.

It is also a twelve-pounder gun. With the same barrel-to-barrel ratio, Seawolf uses the iron mold casting method. In addition, it uses high-quality pig iron casting locally produced in Guangdong and Fujian. In addition, it uses internal mold water-cooling technology to make the gun wall

The thickness is thin, and the weight of the gun is at least half or even more than that of the Ming army's cannon.

The total weight of Sea Wolf's 12-pound mountain howitzer is only over 500 kilograms. With the same caliber, the Hongyi cannon used by the Ming army weighs 1,500 to 2,000 kilograms, which is far more than Sea Wolf.

The number of mountain howitzers used was more than three times greater, and coupled with the backward technology of the gun mounts, the quality of the Ming army's entire artillery was reduced, and it was much heavier than the Sea Wolf's 12-pound mountain howitzer.

Therefore, the rebels' Hongyi cannon can be said to be a disaster when marching in the wild. In addition to using more mules and horses to pull it, it also requires many people to wait on the side. The marching speed is also very slow. This is also the main force of the rebels.

After such a long time, their cannons were slowly transported.

After understanding this situation, Dai Fang roughly guessed the basic performance of the rebel Hongyi cannon. The direct firing range of this cannon is only slightly farther than the twelve-pound howitzer they used. If it is fired at a high angle,

It's not close, but it can't surpass the twelve-pound howitzer used by Sea Wolf. It can be said that the range and power are both in the middle.

However, Seawolf's cannons are cast using standard iron molds, and the inner diameter of the barrel is uniform. After being polished and drilled with a standard boring machine, the inner wall of the barrel is smooth and the size is quite standard. This allows Seawolf's ammunition factory to make shells.

, much more convenient.

For all solid bullets cast by Seawolf itself, the tolerance range is controlled to the minimum, and it can fit closely with the inner wall of the gun barrel. This effectively reduces the amount of deflation, effectively increases the range and muzzle velocity of the shell, and for cannons

The shooting accuracy also has very good results.

Compared with the same period, because the Ming army used the clay mold casting method for its cannons, the inner diameter tolerance of the cannon bore was very large, and the inside of the cannon bore was not smooth. The cast shells could only try to meet the smallest cannon bore use. The natural tolerances of the shells were very large, and the installation

After filling the gun breech, there is a large gap between the shell and the gun breech. As a result, when the gunpowder is fired, a large amount of gas explodes and escapes from the gap, and all the gas cannot be effectively used to propel the shell.

The result of course is that the accuracy of the artillery shells is very poor, the range is reduced, and the power is weakened. The cannons of both sides are not comparable in this regard. Therefore, although the Sea Wolf's twelve-pound cannon is short and powerful, it is not larger and more powerful than the Ming army's.

The stupid Hongyi cannon was no match. The two sides were firing at each other, and Seawolf's twelve-pounder still had a considerable advantage.

In addition, Seawolf also equipped the twelve-pounder with a small amount of explosive shells, which are exploding grenades. Although the charge is not large, after all, it can explode after landing. Even if it explodes into several pieces, it is still more powerful than solid shells.

It will be more frightening to the enemy.

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