The instructions for the use of the Napoleonic 12-pounder gun are as follows: equipment items, three long rods, one for worms, one for sponges, and the remaining one for reloading, gunpowder, and shells.

If it is the first time to fire, load the gunpowder and then load the shell, you can also fix the two together, push the ball to the deepest part of the gun with a push lever, and use a long needle to reach into the fire door, and pierce the container containing the gunpowder, which can be paper, cloth, silk or whatever, as long as the gunpowder can be wrapped, of course, the effect after the launch is different.

Among them, gunpowder can be adjusted according to the range and ammunition type at each launch, which is more economical of gunpowder, but will increase the procedure when loading, and it is also possible to use a uniform ******, but this is more wasteful of gunpowder.

Then aiming, the later Napoleonic artillery has mechanical aiming devices at the tail of the gun and at the muzzle, which is commonly known as the iron sight, which can be fired by direct aiming, in addition, it can also be aimed through equipment such as quadrants, but because the mathematical level required for ballistic calculations is too high, ordinary soldiers cannot master it at all, so the gunner's aiming mostly relies on experience, when the aiming is completed, remember to remove the sighting device from the cannon, dismantle it, remove it, say important things three times, Otherwise, the recoil of the gun when fired will be broken, and even if it is not broken, it will also skew the aiming baseline, and even so, the accuracy of this detachable sighting device does not need to be expected to be very high......

The next is the ignition, and the way of ignition is also very free, you stuff the ignition tube in the high, and pull a rope in the back, which is similar to the fire pipe of a grenade, and the cannon and the rope in the movie start at that time; You can also take a beak-shaped ignition rod directly, ignite the beak part (not an open flame, but a spark state), and then extend it through the fire door to contact the punctured gunpowder bag, just like a cannon fire, although the cannon is indeed a cannon battle; Lower a little more, insert a burning rope into the fire door, and light it with an open flame until it burns in on its own......

After a loud bang, the trouble really begins, the gunner first has to put the gun back in place, reduce the effect of recoil, and then use the worm to remove the remaining gunpowder and debris from the barrel, which is very important, otherwise, when the loader fills the gunpowder into the gun, it may ignite directly, so that the loader will be pierced into a sugar gourd by the loader......

Of course, depending on the material used to wrap the gunpowder container, the difficulty of this step is also different, such as silk, which can be completely burned, and this is not the end, but also with a long rod containing a sponge dipped in water and extended into the barrel, on the one hand, it can cool down the artillery, and on the other hand, it can further extinguish the sporadic sparks that may remain and prevent misfire during refilling.

During this period, there was another person who had to always stand next to the artillery, blocking the artillery's fire door to block the air flow and prevent the deflagration of the residual gunpowder after firing, and his tool to block the artillery fire door was a thumb up most of the time, don't laugh, which was summed up after many accidents.

It was only then that the artillery returned to its original state and could continue to load, aim and fire.

Although Li Xiaoyi knew that no one could be expected to understand ballistics in the Lord of the Rings, he deliberately strengthened the strength and accuracy of the mechanical sight, which could be disassembled without disassembly, simplifying the shooting process and improving the shooting accuracy, and equipping the artillery with semi-fixed ammunition to simplify the loading procedure, but such a large set of operations above was still too reluctant to teach in a short period of time.

Moreover, the gunners of the Napoleonic guns were at full strength, a total of 8 people, under the command of a gunner, during the battle, all 8 gunners had specific duties, 4 gunners under the supervision of the gunner, loaded ammunition and fired artillery, and the other 3 gunners prepared ammunition and carried it from the front car to the gun.

After receiving the order to shoot, Gunner No. 1, holding a projectile pusher and a gun brush, walked to the right of the muzzle and stood still; Gunner No. 2 stood to the left of the muzzle, ready to receive the shells and cartridges and load them into the chamber; The position of the third gunner was located to the right of the breech, and one of his important tasks was to protect the gun's fire door while cleaning the chamber with a gun brush during the loading process.

Gunner No. 4 stood on the left side of the breech, ready to punch a hole in the powder pack through the fire gate, and then pull the rope, ignite or plug the rope to fire the gun. Gunner No. 5 is responsible for carrying ammunition and is often referred to as the "Ammunition Mover", who waits by the No. 6 or No. 7 gunner while he prepares it.

After receiving the firing order, the gun commander gives the order to load the ammunition, specifies the type of shell required, and indicates the range of the shell to the target, which usually needs to rely on the gunner's own experience to estimate, so the most experienced veteran in the artillery crew is generally the one who can hold the position of gun commander.

The No. 6 or No. 7 gunner, who prepares the ammunition, immediately consults a table that lists the required angles of fire for the corresponding shells, charges and ranges, as well as the flight time of the shells, also called firing tables, and tells the gunner aloud when he finds out the required angles of fire.

The gun commander used the quadrant to determine the angle of fire and adjusted it with the sight, while ordering the third and fourth gunners to use the hand stick at the end of the gun to adjust the gun, and the gun to make appropriate corrections according to the wind direction and strength.

At the same time, the No. 6 or No. 7 gunner should cut the length of the delay fuse appropriately according to the hit time recorded in the firing table, and then pull out the active plug from the fuse hole of the shell and lightly tap the fuse into the appropriate position of the fuse hole. When the shells were ready, the No. 5 gunner, the "ammunition carrier", loaded them into a backpack to carry the shells to the gunner's position.

The gunner will inspect the shell to make sure that it has a fuse, that it is the type of ammunition needed, that the cartridge has not leaked gunpowder or otherwise been damaged, otherwise it may affect the effectiveness of the shot, or worse, explode directly in the chamber!

After the shell inspection was completed, the gun commander gave the command to "continue", and the fifth gunner received the order and walked to the gun, where he handed the shell to the second gunner.

The shell is placed on the muzzle by the No. 2 gunner, and the No. 1 gunner, and sometimes the No. 3 gunner, pushes it into the chamber with a projectile, after which the No. 1 and No. 2 gunners leave the gun and stand behind the muzzle with their backs to the enemy. At the same time, the No. 4 gunner made a hole in the packet and then took a different position depending on the firing method, waiting for the firing order.

As soon as the artillery is fired, it is necessary to assess whether the shell hit accurately. The job would have been easy to do without the dizziness and confusion of the black smoke and noise, because the projectiles in flight were easy to observe, and the gun commander had to determine exactly where the fired shell had landed so that he could correct it for the next shot.

While the gunner observes the target, the gunners roll the guns back to their positions and, if possible, proceed to clean the chambers. After that, the commander of the gun gave the order to fire a second shell, readjusting the gun, most likely to correct the angle of fire, and possibly the delay time of the fuse. The above firing process was repeated until an order was received from the officer to stop the shooting.

After training, the artillery group with better quality can fire 2~~3 shells per minute. Of these, a lot of time was spent on artillery resets and repeated aiming. During a battle, if the enemy is approaching an artillery position, the gun commander will ask for shotguns. There is no need to be particularly delicate when firing shotguns, you don't need to wipe the breech, you don't have to aim, you just need to fire them in the direction of the enemy's attack, and according to the records of the American Civil War, when the enemy is close to the gun position 1000 feet, that is, 330 meters, start firing shotguns at a rate of 4 rounds per minute, until one of them turns and runs away or is all killed!

These 100 cannons need 800 gunners, so go there to find so many gunners in a short time? As for what one post is multi-functional, and these high-level things such as job swapping are even more unaffordable...... (To be continued.) )