Goryeo, Jeolla Province, Jeju Strait.
It had only been a few hours since the temporary fleet left the Longtouyan navy camp. Under the command of sentry officer Peng Yushu, the Hunan navy warriors began to slowly become familiar with the new ship at their feet! To be fair, a Chinese-style sailboat with hard sails is much easier to maneuver than a Western-style sailboat with soft sails. In addition, the Hunan Army's sailors already have experience in inland river boating!
Therefore, they quickly adapted to the old lock boats and military rice boats. Now, apart from not daring to fully raise the sails, they can easily drive these large ships with a length of more than seven or eight feet to have fun in the deep sea! Sometimes they gather together to form a long snake formation, rushing towards the distant sea, sometimes they spread out to form a three-point plum blossom formation, like an open fishing net, constantly outflanking the non-existent imaginary target ahead...
In short, the sea is very big and empty! It's enough for these experienced river sailors to practice various formations in unfamiliar sea-going ships. Even if they occasionally encounter some problems during this period, no bystanders can jump out and laugh at them! So in the formation drills again and again, the sailors of the Hunan Army gradually became familiar with their new ships! They have been able to continuously turn the hard sail, adjust the rudder, and use the various sea winds blowing from all directions to push the big ship under their feet to continuously cut the waves and sail into the sea!
"The watchman sent a flag to the other ships, ordering them to load their artillery immediately. The longships will take the lead, and each ship is ready to take turns firing artillery and muskets! We are all elite veterans who have been on the battlefield. Don't call those who worship God later. The guy who teaches, if you have any chance to watch our brothers’ jokes..."
The ships here have been able to control them skillfully, so the next step is the fleet semaphore training and the firing of artillery and cannons! So soon, as the red and black flags in the flagship basket continued to wave, the Hunan Army and Huai Army gunners on the four warships immediately started to get busy! They carried the cannonballs, cleaned the cannon breech, and loaded gunpowder. Everyone was doing what they should do under the command of the officer! Therefore, in just ten breaths of time, with their efforts, dozens of artillery pieces on the four warships were ready for launch! Read the book
"Twelve and a half pounds of snake blunderbuss, nine pounds of small snake blunderbuss, six pounds of eagle blunderbuss, Ye Gong's divine blunderbuss, Tianzi blunderbuss, Ye Gong's divine blunderbuss, Dizi blunderbuss, Ye Gong's divine blunderbuss, Xuanzi blunderbuss, and the flying cannon, the big No. 1 Folang machine, and mountain-splitting cannons! Look, look, the cannons on my ship can open a world expo in future generations! System, you old man even rewarded me with old lock ships and rice boats. Is it just that? You can’t reward me with a batch of artillery pieces to equip my ships, and then ask me, a poor guy, to scrape together some random artillery pieces to fool around with me! I won’t be afraid of losing the face of your great master if I tell you! In the future, as long as I have The artillery factory is capable of mass-producing front-loading smoothbore cannons and carronade cannons, and as soon as they are accurate, they will be swept into the garbage dump to moldy and rotten..."
A tall and sturdy hull, a straight and slender mast, and a large hard sail hung on the mast! The old lock ships and military rice boats rewarded by the system are very satisfying in the eyes of the leader Kanglin Kangda! After all, in terms of performance and armament, these ships completely surpassed the fortune ships, bird ships, and sand ships that Chiyang had equipped in large numbers before; not only did these ships have more reasonable hull proportions, but they also traveled faster, and even loaded The quantity and quality of artillery are also much higher than the latter!
You know, the hull of the old lock ship is a Western-style hull. The U-shaped hull allows this kind of sailing ship to carry a larger number of larger-caliber artillery pieces, and the meter boat, due to its wide hull, can also carry a large number of guns. Ming people, heavy artillery in the eyes of Qing people! So, when Conlin's eyes passed over the hull, masts, sails, and then moved to the gun positions, there was a phenomenon of a large number of artillery pieces of different calibers piled up and placed randomly!
And this, not surprisingly, caused strong dissatisfaction among the former! However, dissatisfaction is dissatisfaction, and Kang Lin has no practical way to solve it! After all, Chiyang has just upgraded to the fortress era. To build matchlock guns, flintlock guns, tiger crouching guns, and Franco machines, they still need to rely on Bao Dazhong’s blacksmith union workshop. As for the more advanced front-loading smoothbore guns and carronade guns , then it will have to wait until the artillery factory is established before it can be produced!
The most important thing is that he has not yet unlocked the manufacturing blueprints for the front-loading smoothbore cannon and carton cannon, so at this moment, let alone the artillery factory, there is no trace. Even if the artillery factory has been successfully established, it is still Bo
A gun carriage on an asphalt road - no way! Therefore, he is destined to use these messy artillery pieces for a long time!
The imperial system still has some artillery inventory, but the price is beyond the reach of Conlin, a poor guy. Therefore, if you want to effectively solve the problem, you have to use your brains from the manufacturing drawings and artillery factories, such as Russia There is artillery technology that can be purchased in the support. Otherwise, after this trip, you can order someone to go to Daming to buy a batch of tea leaves and get this artillery technology first!
After all, it’s not expensive at all. It’s just 600 units of export goods. Converted into Ming dynasty pounds, it’s only 19,800 jins of tea, less than 20,000 jins. These things that are available all over the mountains and plains are exchanged for the Ming dynasty. Regarding the important artillery technology, this deal is very cost-effective no matter how you look at it! By the way, it’s really confusing whether I should change to the eagle cannon technology, the long cannon technology, or the mortar cannon technology!
"Sentinel, why are the artillery equipment on our ship so weird? There are red cannons used by Westerners, bamboo cannons and double-jet cannons used by the Eight Banners Green Battalion! Tell me, where did we find our new commander? These old cannons? You know, based on the old tradition of our Hunan Army, we are now also using mountain-splitting cannons and Western long and short explosive cannons! Tsk, tsk, using these old antiques to fire a salvo, I guess we can't even fire them at 20 breaths. Fire a round of bullets..."
To be honest, there is more than one person who holds the same opinion as Conlin! Peng Yushu, the junior officers under Sentinel Peng who had seen the power of Western long and short explosive artillery, looked down upon the semi-snake muskets, small snake muskets, bamboo cannons, and folangs on the old lock ships and military rice boats. Machines, thinking those things are primitive firearms that are behind the times! If possible, they would rather have all the artillery on the ship be the long and short explosive cannons they are familiar with, or if not all the cannons on the ship are mountain-splitting cannons!
However, their complaints also could not solve any problems. Not only could they not solve any problems, a few of the guys who yelled the most fiercely were lucky enough to receive heartfelt greetings from their own sentry officers. The flying riding whip soon learned What does it mean to be diligent and thrifty and make a revolution if they don't do it? Old artillery, what happened to the old artillery? As long as it can be used at the critical moment, I didn’t see the old artillery from the previous dynasty dug up by the God-worshipping guys in the Yuezhou area. When placed on the battlefield, it can still beat the shit out of the Eight Banners Green Camp! Therefore, it can be seen that the role of firearms in the war is only an auxiliary. The Hunan Army was able to defeat the enemy and defeat the advancing long-haired army on the battlefield, relying on the spirit of fighting to the death and the tactics of fighting a tough battle. Whether there are advanced firearms to help, the problem is not too big!
"Asshole, let's fire whatever cannons are on the ship. There's so much nonsense! Brothers don't have Western artillery, why don't we stop fighting? Huang Laizi, after the drill is over, you can copy Qi Shaobao's " "Seventeen Bans and Fifty-Four Cuts" twenty times, and deeply reflect on your mistakes! This means that someone is still your superior officer now. If someone else becomes the sentry officer after reaching the peak, I will not drag you out. Behead in public! Everyone, cheer up. It is no longer the Qing Dynasty, and the leader of Kangda is not Zeng Wenzhenggong. We must be careful, careful, and careful under his command! Otherwise, hum, continue Come down and suffer your consequences!"
"The rice boat Pike, the rice boat Pomfret fired a salvo from the port side guns!"
As the red and black flags in the flagship gondola continued to wave, the Hunan Army artillery warriors on the two rice boats immediately ignited the powder on the fire doors of the ship's cannons! The next moment, accompanied by thick smoke and huge roar, all the artillery on the port side of the two military rice boats instantly sprayed out long flames and a large number of hot shells!
Before he could see the result of the firing clearly, the watchman in the flagship basket waved the red and black flag again and directed the Hunan Army gunners on the two old lock ships to start firing volleys of artillery! Different from the six-pound eagle guns, large Folan guns, and mountain splitting guns equipped on the former ship, the artillery installed on the two old lock ships are mostly long-barreled heavy guns with larger calibers, like twelve-and-a-half-pound snake gun, nine-pound cannon, etc. You can see the small snake gun and the flying cannon on them!
Therefore, the noise caused by it is destined to be greater than the former, especially the twelve and a half pound snake gun and the nine pound small snake gun, the thick and thick barrel, the excellent and sophisticated gunpowder, as well as the lugs, front sight, and illumination of the gun. Door, so that the cannonballs they fire not only hit far, but also hit accurately! A round of salvo, only a round of salvo, half snake gun, small snake gun and a group of shells splashed by Shenfei cannon
Within the range of 200 meters to 1,500 meters, he successfully shot out dozens or even hundreds of large or small water columns!
Seeing the spectacular scene of hundreds of large and small cannons being ejected from the barrel, everyone, including Kang Lin, was in a daze with their mouths wide open. Only the lookers on the gondola were holding up simple range-finding instruments. , roughly calculate the range of Hongyi artillery there! The conclusion reached was not surprising, and it shocked the Hunan Army, Huai Army and even the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom who were still disgusted with the ineffective artillery just a moment ago. They never expected that such backward artillery could be so powerful!
"Lord Commander, Sir Sentinel, the farthest range of the artillery shells can be three and a half miles and less than four miles. The impact point is relatively concentrated, and the power is much higher than the mountain-splitting cannon. It is roughly the same as the long-explosion cannon! I, Chiyang, have this With the help of the divine weapons, we will definitely be able to defeat the enemy in the future! Therefore, I dare to congratulate Chiyang and congratulate the commander-in-chief!"
