Our family is in decline

It was very lively when entering the shooting range. Due to today's test requirements, Patton directly transferred two gun crews to assist and were responsible for operating the artillery test firing.

And Eugene led the researchers to collect, range, power, effects between different shells... and then record the data.

These data will be used in subsequent improvements and positioning of the gun.

This unproven artillery is very risky, because the hidden damage is not visible, so sacks are filled with soil to build an arc around the artillery.

The artillery is operating inside. After a process is completed, everyone has to stay away from the artillery, and then the cannon is fired.

The live ammunition test requires first loading a small amount of gunpowder and detonating it, and then continuously increasing the amount of gunpowder until the gunpowder and the shell are of equal weight! Only artillery pieces that have passed these tests without problems such as cracks or explosions are considered qualified.

Lance looked around and found a person among the artillerymen who impressed him a bit.

"Bonaparte? Why is he here?"

Lance's words also made Barton on the side a little curious.

"My lord, have you heard of him too?"

"I heard?" Lance seemed to sense something, and asked curiously, "Can you tell me how this person joined the artillery?"

Barton naturally felt something was wrong, but he still explained it.

This man named Bonaparte performed averagely during the recruit assessment, and was even a little short and thin, making it difficult to pass the assessment. However, he was very smart, accepted knowledge quickly, and showed extraordinary talent in artillery ballistic calculations.

His talent was revealed after he touched artillery, so he was discovered by Patton and specially recruited into the artillery.

"He said that he had never been exposed to artillery before as a farmer. If he hadn't lied, he would have been a good hand at artillery!"

This was the first time that Lance heard Patton commenting on a soldier like this. It seemed that he couldn't teach him this before and it made him very angry.

"This kid is indeed smart. Before..."

Lance briefly talked about Bonaparte's heroic act of identifying the cultists before and then tracking them alone.

At this point, Patton was quite satisfied, but soon he came to Bonaparte's behavior of using the army as a springboard, and he instantly became alert.

He knew how much the lord valued the army. Let alone the lord, even he was a little disgusted by such naked words.

"My lord needs me..." Barton paused for a moment, and after thinking about it, he couldn't help but speak.

"No, everything should be treated as normal. Hamlet is so big that I can't accommodate him alone?"

Lance naturally knew what Barton meant. He was just looking for opportunities to marginalize or kick him out.

But Lance doesn't care, he's not intolerant of someone's small ambitions.

Barton was inexplicably relieved when he heard this. He knew that the lord was not contradictory, which meant that this was really normal.

To be honest, Barton's attempt to suppress or even hide it seems very much like using power to please Lance.

But only after being beaten did he understand that this was a kind of protection for Bonaparte. After all, if it really aroused the lord's disgust, it would be more than that, and Hamlet would not even have room to accommodate him.

It's better to suppress it yourself first and wait until later to see the situation.

He himself was born on a farm outside Totnes, and he was also talented in artillery. Seeing him reminded him of his own youth, so it was normal to admire Bonaparte.

I don’t even want anything to happen to him. After all, I grew up in the hostility of those nobles. Without the protection of his teacher, he wouldn’t be where he is today.

And Lance's attitude made Barton feel the difference. The lord's broad mind was completely different from the nobles of Totnes.

"What happened to those horses?"

Lance deliberately changed the topic and looked at the horses next to the shooting range.

"These horses will be used on the battlefield, so now we need to conduct desensitization training to let them gradually adapt to the sound of gunfire. There is also a saying in this. At the beginning, you need to stuff things into the horses' ears. In the process, slowly Continuously reduce until fully adapted.

Moreover, horses are also social animals. If you control the leader, you can control the others. Although these horses raised by humans are not obvious, they still have this habit, so as long as you put a few horses that have been trained not to panic among them, they will be more stable. Almost done.

And the comfort of familiar soldiers can..."

"Bang!"

Before Barton could finish speaking, there was a sudden loud noise from the other side, and at the same time there was rising and exploding smoke.

Lance and Patton looked over subconsciously, and then discovered that a gun had exploded during the test firing. The force directly exploded the barrel into two sections, and the frame was smashed by the explosion.

If someone had been standing next to him just now, something might have happened, but fortunately he was well prepared, and the arc-shaped mound surrounding the artillery blocked its power.

Seeing that the artillerymen and testers didn't look too strange, they quickly stepped forward to deal with them. Even the reaction of the horse over there seemed very calm after a few days of training.

"Another failure..." Lance couldn't help but frowned when he looked at the exploding cannon.

Although the scrap material can be re-melted, the time and craftsmanship wasted is equivalent to a dozen gold coins wasted.

Gold coins don't matter, manpower and material resources are okay, but what Hamlet lacks most now is time.

Lance was not in the mood to take a leisurely stroll, but went straight up to find Eugene.

"What is the yield of this batch of artillery?"

"About 20%. Only four of the seventeen artillery pieces sent for testing in the first batch were usable. The rest either found cracks during testing or exploded directly."

Lance's heart couldn't help but twitch when he heard this. With a 20% success rate, who can afford this thing?

No wonder even Totnes just got an artillery regiment, this thing is too cruel.

"What is the success rate of cannon casting in the Totnes workshops?"

"The small-caliber eight-pound cannon is actually about 30%. Even if one out of ten large-caliber cast cannons can be used, it will be good. The success rate is even lower, unless it is cast in bronze, in which case the success rate will be much higher, but the cost will be five times. cost."

Hearing this, Lance felt a little better. At least there were brothers and sisters who were in trouble. Even Totnes' condition was only 30%, so Hamlet wasn't that bad.

But Lance still found it difficult to accept this success rate.

The cannon mold will be damaged by 30%, and the test cannon will be damaged by 80%. Good guy, he still has to deduct 10%, so why not kneel down and cast the cannon!

Totnes has countless craftsmen and countless resources, and they can stack up even with this success rate.

But for Hamlet, it is no longer bleeding, but drawing blood. If this continues, other equipment in the army will not need to be updated.

"I have researched the situation of artillery casting these days, and I feel that the process can still be improved."

Lance is going to intervene!

Even Eugene couldn't help but cheer up a little after hearing this.

He did not forget that his small-caliber artillery was rejected by the Totnes Gunnery School. He came to Hamlet not to lie down and retire, but to prove himself!

Does Lance really have no research on artillery?

There was no similar information for him in the games he had played. Those technology trees only had one click to upgrade, and there was no detailed information at all.

But he has read too many novels, especially historical novels that are always related to the development of firearms. Otherwise, he would not be able to put forward various opinions on the transformation of muskets.

Compared with clay mold casting, he knew more or less similar techniques such as sand casting, solid bore drilling, wrought iron inner liner and pig iron outer casting, and iron mold casting. You can tell the general method just by listening to the name.

But why did he not interfere with the casting of artillery, but still used the most common technology?

Because Hamlet's existing system is not complete at all, those craftsmen are not familiar with these new artillery casting methods at all.

Unlike fixed-loading bullets, these technologies require the investment of a lot of resources, and must be researched and verified before they can be carried out.

If Lance wants to apply new technology, he needs to bet on success when the artillery has no guns available.

But he couldn't afford the gamble, so he chose the safest way, first letting the artillery have guns to use, even if it was just for training.

But now that this batch of artillery has come out and the artillery has guns to use, it will have buffer space to try new technologies.

Another reason is that once these techniques are started, it is difficult for Hamlet to completely defend them. If a big force like Totnes finds out, then Lance will completely make a wedding dress for others.

Because of where the volume is, those people can easily replicate the technology.

In this regard, he can only ask for strengthened security and review, and at the same time separate the processes, and let different craftsmen be responsible for one technology and split it up, so that even if there is a leak, it can still buy some time.

The tasks burdened on these craftsmen are very heavy, but the apprentices have also grown recently, and they are able to share part of the work.

Moreover, Lance chatted with those people and found that there are several apprentices with very good talents who deserve to be cultivated.

Lance discussed the issue of artillery with Eugene, and after leaving a few ideas behind, he had no use for it. There was no way, the level was just that, and they still had to try and conquer the real core technology.

When he got out of the shooting range, he was alone again, and everyone had things to be busy with.

Although there were many ups and downs along the way, the artillery was finally built.

As long as the artillery and other equipment can keep up, Lance will have enough confidence in Patton to form Hamlet's artillery unit.

And Lance's heart is also focused on another project, which is the shipbuilding industry.

Whether it is Hamlet's future Armada, or the development of marine resources, shipping, etc. all rely on ships.

At present, the ships in this world have not reached the level of iron boats. Everyone is made of wood. Some may have supernatural powers, but ordinary people cannot have access to them.

Therefore, it is not difficult to conquer the shipbuilding technology. As long as the relevant craftsmen and materials are available, it can be built.

When Lance took over the port and took complete control of Hamlet, he began to think of ways to reorganize the town's former small shipyard.

But it is a pity that Hamlet was repeatedly destroyed by bandits and the mayor. Those craftsmen who knew how to build ships were almost dead. Similarly, most of the refugees he accepted were inland. There were all kinds of craftsmen, but there were no shipbuilders.

This shipyard has been reorganized for so long that it cannot even build a small ship and can only simply maintain the ships. In this case, Lance can only choose to continue to hoard wood and use it as a warehouse.

However, Hamlet does not have it, but Ovendo does. It developed as a river transportation node, and the shipbuilding industry has accumulated to some extent.

Fortunately, Walter knew what he needed, and this time the technical jobs that Vic took over from Ovendo City included shipbuilding.

It was the arrival of these people that promoted Hamlet's shipbuilding industry, which was able to provide maintenance services for those cargo ships and also had the ability to manufacture ships, although it was limited to ordinary small ships.

Craftsmen in this era have no concept of division of labor. They all master a complete set of shipbuilding technologies. A few or even one person can build a ship. But in fact, making a ship requires a whole supporting industry chain, and craftsmen are just one of them. part.

There are many doorways in the supporting materials, including wood, waterproof oil, caulking materials, canvas...

That kind of three-masted sailing ship that can sail on the sea, or even a giant cargo ship with five decks that is more than ten meters high, requires the technical achievements of hundreds of shipwrights, and a whole set of industrial chains behind it.

It is estimated that the only things Hamlet can make now are small fishing boats and larger light boats, and except for wood, everything else needs to be purchased.

The only thing that gives Lance some comfort is that the technical gap is not very big, and Hamlet has also taken the first step from zero to one, which is also an improvement.

"Hello, Lord Lord!"

"Work hard and don't worry about me."

Lance entered the shipyard and inspected it. There was a very strange phenomenon here, that is, there were more apprentices than craftsmen, and now it was more like a training than shipbuilding.

If we expect a few shipbuilding masters to come from the outside world, we might as well train them ourselves.

So Lance directly selected a group of young people from the entire Hamlet, including those refugees, to join the shipyard as apprentices.

Let them each learn a process directly, and an experienced craftsman will be responsible for explaining and teaching.

This situation is destined to seriously slow down the progress of the project, and it is unlikely that there will be any output in a short period of time. He will even have to fill in a lot of practice materials.

But we need to take a longer-term view. The difference is a little bit short, but this is Hamlet's own talent.

The entire port area of ​​Reims has been planned, the expansion of the wharf, the construction of warehouses, and the new factory area are also under construction.

Why was Hamlet able to accommodate so many refugees with so few problems?

In addition to a complete management system, they all have work to do, and problems such as food and accommodation have also been solved.

Because Lance is an ordinary person, he knows what ordinary people want. If you have a choice, who wants to risk your life? Who doesn't want a stable environment?

Of course, there are some scoundrels and lazy dogs among them, and the whip of the labor camp supervisor will make them reform.

Human rights can only be sustained when we are full. There is no such saying in this era.

Thanks to [Yanshi Yiwenchun] for the 500 reward