Ning Yu actually thought very clearly, in this era, it is not that the more advanced things are, the better, but the easier things to mass-produce, the better. Both flintlock pistols and Napoleonic guns were strictly mass-produced weapons, and in this era, there were not many technical difficulties to overcome.

Compared with the current sub-mother cannon and mountain splitting cannon used by the Qing army, the performance of the Napoleonic cannon is too strong.

In terms of firing range, the effective range of the six-pounder Napoleon gun was more than 1,300 meters, while the effective range of the twelve-pounder gun was about two kilometers. One hundred and fifty meters to two hundred meters, that is, the sub-mother cannon that Ning Yu had made by Lei Huozi before, can hit 300 meters with ten percent medicine.

This gap is no longer something that can be solved by manpower, so Ning Yu decisively abandoned the mother and son cannon and chose to manufacture Napoleon cannons, to solve the technical problems of Napoleon cannons, especially in terms of steel, you need to pay more attention, but Ning Yu is not very worried about this, because Yunmeng's iron mine is already operating normally, and the wrought iron produced every day has reached thousands of catties, and this month, thirty or forty thousand catties of wrought iron is not a big problem.

The rest of the matter was handed over to Lei Huozi to solve, Ning Yu was sometimes really fortunate to be able to meet a rare gun master in this world, not only very experienced, but also very strong in learning, so many follow-up things can be handed over to him to solve.

Ning Yu looked at the thunder camel and said: "This time is quite hard, and the winter is coming soon, and after a while, the Ning family will send a few trucks of charcoal to my sister-in-law and wife, and then I don't have to worry about food." Here I would tell my father that everything is provided to the highest standards. In addition, after making the cannon I mentioned, each person will be rewarded with fifty taels of silver, and you will take one thousand taels master. ”

In this year, a thousand taels of silver is really a lot, so Lei Huozi knelt down in a little panic and said, "Young Master, this money is too much, and the camel can't afford it." Since beating the old lady, my surname Lei has been eating the food of the Ning family, and the affairs of the Ning family are also the affairs of my Lei camel, which is naturally obligatory. ”

Ning Yu smiled and helped the thunder camel up, and said: "Speaking seriously, you are still my elder, there are still a lot of things behind this, if this kind of cannon is really made, one thousand taels is really not too much." ”

This was said by the thunder camel grateful, so he hurriedly went to greet the craftsmen and began to conduct trial production. Now the craftsmen in the courtyard also know who this little young master is, so they always look at him with a little awe, not only in terms of identity, but also in terms of knowledge.

Ning Yu saw that the matter here was over, so he didn't stay longer and returned to Xiaogan's old house.

At present, the things on the side of the Eagle Camp, the salt mine, the iron mine, and the cannon factory are all on the right track, so Ning Yu has also lived a comfortable life for a while, and from time to time he accompanies the old lady to burn incense and worship the Buddha, but every time he goes to the Temple of Mercy and Grace, Ning Yu always thinks of Master Yuanhui. Although the two had only stayed together for a few days and chatted several times, some of the words Yuan Hui said deeply affected Ning Yu.

The days passed unconsciously, and in the blink of an eye it was the winter moon.

"Bang! Boom! Boom! A dull sound of gunfire came from the shooting range in the Eagle Camp, Ning Yu also held a flintlock pistol in his hand, his fingers gently pulled the trigger, and a small hole appeared in the target paper in front of him.

Rows of young eagle battalion cadets had changed into freshly made thunder-type flintlock pistols and were participating in marksmanship training, and some small holes appeared scattered in the target paper one hundred and fifty meters away, although the accuracy was not high, but the range was sufficient.

If you want to make the gun more accurate, you need to draw rifling in the chamber, but now the rifling process is not very perfect, and the rifling will wear out the rifling after using lead bullets for a long time, and it will not be accurate in the end, so Ning Yu did not force it too much.

"Tell the camp, today's marksmanship training is complete, please instruct!" Dong Ce said loudly, the young man who had been in the Eagle Camp for almost a year now became very tall, his eyes were bright, and his face was full of determination.

"After each team returns to the camp, they will submit a report on the use of the Thunder Gun, mainly talking about the shortcomings and seeing what still needs to be improved." Ning Yu put down the gun in his hand and wiped his face with the towel handed over by Ning Si.

Now the weather is still relatively cold, but Ning Yu and the cadets of the Eagle Battalion don't care too much, but this training has achieved its goal. Among the 100 guns, only two of them had problems with their bolts, and none of them exploded, which already made Ning Yu very satisfied.

However, Ning Yu decided to arrange a few trainees to learn how to maintain it at that time, and when the time comes, he will set up a gun maintenance class with the army, which can also make the service life of the flintlock pistol longer.

The artillery workshop also came with news that the research and development of the thunder cannon is about to end, and four six-pound thunder guns can be manufactured in the spring of next year, and the so-called six-pound thunder cannon is based on the six-pound Napoleon gun, which is developed on this basis. As for the 12-kilogram cannon and the 24-kilogram cannon, there is currently insufficient manpower, and it is necessary to continue to allocate manpower to the past.

Ning Yu didn't think about it, so he waved his pen and allocated another 30,000 taels of silver, which he obtained after consulting with the family—30,000 taels for whatever he thought was worth investing in, and then arranged for a hundred reliable craftsmen to use for Lei Huozi.

The cannon workshop itself is located in Xiaogan County, which is the old territory operated by the Ning family for a hundred years, and there will be people to monitor whether outsiders enter the intersection every day, and the whole is in a state of looseness on the outside and tightness on the inside, so there is no need to worry about safety, and there is no need to worry about someone leaking.

In today's Eagle Battalion, there are more than 400 cadets, of which more than 100 are under the age of 10 and only carry out basic education and military training courses, and more than 100 are under the age of 14 and are planned according to the previous training subjects, and the remaining 200 are over 14 years old and have begun to get in touch with flintlock pistols and more advanced military training courses.

Although this move is very sensitive, in today's Eagle Battalion, the cadets have preliminarily completed the ideological education class, and it is not an exaggeration to say that Ning Yu does not know the imperial court. Therefore, Ning Yu was also very relieved to start training in line tactics and platoon guns.

Modern line tactics must also be achieved by flintlock muskets, because in the arquebus era, shooting in a dense line of musketeers was a near-suicidal act, because when armed with arquebuses or shotguns, it was necessary to carry four to six meters of arquebuses on the march, and the arquebuses were either wrapped around the neck and shoulders, or wrapped around the bullet belt, and when firing, it was easy to ignite the scattered gunpowder around them, so it was necessary to fire at intervals of two to four steps.

With flintlock pistols, soldiers can reload salvos in dense array formations without worrying about confusion.

Therefore, in Ning Yu's view, the Eagle Battalion can turn to a more professional militarized organization.