Different from the rumors in Qing'an City, Canglan Mountain is in a kind of spring at the moment.

With the successful development and mass production of rifles and other firearms, the arsenal has been full of good news in the past few days. First, the grenade and mine experiments were successful, and then the artillery was successfully test-fired, so Li Yun was in a very good mood.

And unlike the low-key nature of the successful development of the rifle last time, this time the artillery test firing was successful, and Li Yun simply held a grand celebration meeting, inviting several village owners from Linquan Village, Feihu Village, and White Bear Village to come to watch the ceremony.

Artillery is different from rifles, which can be crafted by hand, but artillery cannot. The technology of artillery is much more difficult, so the artillery made by Li Yun is still a front-loading smoothbore gun.

Although there are many types of front-loading artillery in history, there are very few that have excellent performance and can be favored by Li Yun. Therefore, Li Yun only selected a few classic designs for imitation, and the research and development of other artillery types was handed over to the arsenal, which designed and developed according to the actual situation.

The classic designs Li Yun chose were the Napoleon cannon and the Franc cannon.

The Napoleon Cannon is a front-loading smoothbore gun named after the French Emperor Napoleon III, and this weapon is simple to manufacture and use. Not only can it wait to fire a variety of different types of shells, but also has superior firepower and superior performance.

At the same time, the Napoleon cannon also did it, the perfect balance of heavy firepower and mobility, it was a very classic field gun.

And the Franc cannon was not very good in terms of performance compared to the Napoleonic gun. But it also had a huge advantage, and that was that the Franc cannon had a very fast rate of fire.

Because the Franc cannon adopts the firing mode of the sub-gun and the mother gun, the gunner fills the sub-gun with gunpowder and shells in advance, and then fires directly after loading the sub-gun into the mother gun when firing. A Franc cannon is equipped with multiple guns at the same time, so it can burst into extremely strong firepower in a short period of time.

However, because there is a gap between the child gun and the mother gun, it will cause the leakage of gunpowder gas, so the range of the Franc cannon is not far.

However, although the range of the Franc cannon is relatively short, its ferocious firepower still has great tactical value in medium and close combat.

And artillery is known as the god of war and is an irreplaceable protagonist in war, so even though the front-loading smoothbore gun has all kinds of defects, Li Yun still decided to equip it in large quantities. And in the process of manufacturing, according to the actual situation, the Napoleon cannon and the Franc cannon were improved.

The main thing is to increase the caliber, as well as a more reasonably designed gun carriage.

Both of these guns are field guns and have high requirements for mobility, and although the original design is suitable for the earth battlefield, this is a new world that can be practiced after all. Not only are the soldiers extremely personal, but they also have more powerful service livestock. Therefore, according to the actual situation, Li Yun appropriately increased the caliber, and under the requirement of ensuring mobility, the power and performance of the artillery reached the extreme.

However, Li Yun did not blindly pursue large-caliber field guns, and according to actual combat needs, he also manufactured lighter small-caliber field guns in order to meet various needs in other complex environments in the future.

However, caliber is justice, range is truth, and in order to implement his own justice and truth, Li Yun also ordered the arsenal to develop heavy artillery with a larger caliber and greater firing range.

However, this kind of heavy artillery has higher requirements in terms of materials and manufacturing processes, and there are still many difficulties in the arsenal that have not been solved for a while.

However, Li Yun believes that over time, the craftsmen will become more and more proficient, and when they accumulate enough experience, all problems will be solved. After all, he has already told everyone in the arsenal about the detours taken by his predecessors and the lessons he has learned.

In addition to these artillery, there is another weapon that attracts everyone's attention at the test range, this weapon squats on the ground, like a toad with a wide mouth. At this time, if there are Chinese military fans present, they will definitely be able to recognize this strange weapon, that is, the flying thunder cannon nicknamed the conscienceless cannon!

The flying thunder cannon is a simple explosive bag projectile made by Chinese soldiers using gasoline barrels during the Liberation War.

The principle is to put gunpowder in a gasoline barrel, and after igniting the gunpowder, the explosive package bundled into a disc can be thrown out, and the range can reach more than 150 meters, and the power is extremely terrifying.

In those years, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) used this to attack cities and plunder land, destroying a large number of enemy pillboxes and living forces, and even many enemies were shocked to death. Therefore, this simple and powerful weapon naturally entered Li Yun's field of vision.

Like a certain army, Li Yun also suffered from a very severe phobia of insufficient firepower. Because his enemy was an army of martial monks, and his subordinates were mostly ordinary people, he frantically strengthened the firepower of his troops in order to make up for the gap in the quality of his soldiers.

Therefore, in some things, Li Yun has reached the point of madness.

Among these flying thunder cannons, the caliber is large and small, and the small one can walk on his back, and he is extremely mobile, and he intends to directly equip it to the squad level. But even the smallest caliber has a caliber of an astonishing 200 mm, and as for the largest caliber of the Flying Thunder Cannon, its caliber is not much thinner than a gasoline barrel.

The Qianyuan Empire was a feudal empire, and its army was mainly equipped with cold weapons. In addition, a considerable part of the explosives package that Li Yun assigned to the flying thunder cannon were high explosives and picric acid explosives.

So you can imagine what it would be like when the explosive packets thrown by these flying thunder cannons exploded in the enemy's formation.

It is said that when the arsenal was doing the test, there were even records of testers being stunned by explosives packets.

But even to this extent, Li Yun's phobia of insufficient firepower still shows no signs of being cured. In addition, the grenade had been successfully developed, so he simply set up a professional grenadier and assigned the grenadier to the infantry squad level.

In the end, Li Yun even wanted to fill every soldier with explosives and turn everyone into a demolitionist. But in the end, it was Xu Tianhua who stopped his madness, because the fragile explosives production of the Vermilion Bird Army couldn't withstand his nonsense.

In fact, after seeing the power of those firearms made by Li Yun, Xu Tianhua was almost stupid. Especially the picture of the salvo of the flying thunder cannon made him speechless for a long time in shock.

Therefore, Xu Tianhua thought that the firepower of the Vermilion Bird Army was strong enough, and he really couldn't understand why Li Yun's phobia of insufficient firepower was so serious.