Muskets are available, but they are not enough, and artillery is also a weapon that must be equipped.

The two main types of artillery currently in the Ming Dynasty army are the Tiger Squat Cannon and the Franc Machine Cannon.

The tiger squat cannon is mainly equipped with artillery for the Qi army, in order to facilitate shooting, the cannon is placed in a fixed posture, much like the appearance of the tiger squatting, so it is named, with Qi Jiguang's "southern expedition and northern war", the tiger squat cannon has been widely equipped by the Ming Dynasty army.

The tiger squat cannon is not very powerful, similar to today's mortar, it is an artillery that mainly fires curved fire, the artillery barrel is thin, the lightest model weighs only 36 catties, the heaviest model is more than 50 catties, the firing range is not far, the maximum firing range is only 500 meters, suitable for fighting areas that hinder the mobility of artillery such as mountains, forests and paddy fields, and is mobile and flexible.

The Franc cannon was invented by European countries and was introduced to China by Portugal during the Jiajing period, and was called "Franc Machine" according to its country name.

In the third year of Jiajing (1524), the Ming court successfully imitated the first batch of 32 Franc cannons, each weighing about 300 catties, the mother gun was 2.85 feet long, and was equipped with 4 sub-guns.

The Franc cannon is an iron breech-loading smoothbore gun, the whole cannon is composed of three parts: the barrel, the belly, and the sub-cannon.

The structure of the mother gun and the child gun is adopted, the mother gun is the gun barrel, the child gun is actually a small fire gun, each mother gun is equipped with 4~9 child guns, and each child gun is loaded with ammunition in advance for use.

During the battle, first put a sub-gun into the bullet chamber of the mother gun, after firing, the empty sub-gun is withdrawn, and the other is replaced, because the sub-gun can be changed in turn, the time for temporary loading ammunition is reduced, and the firing speed is greatly improved, so it is also called "sub-mother gun".

The Franc cannon is also equipped with sights, which increases the firing range and improves the accuracy, and has initially possessed the basic characteristics of modern artillery, and is the most advanced artillery in this era.

However, limited to the technical level of this era, the Franc cannon also has an insurmountable shortcoming: the gap between the sub-cannon and the belly of the cannon is large, resulting in the leakage of gunpowder gas, even the heaviest model of the Franc cannon has a maximum range of only two thousand meters, and most of the Franc cannons have a range of less than one kilometer.

To put it simply, the Tiger Squat Cannon is a light artillery, flexible and has a short firing range, and the Franc cannon is a medium artillery and a rapid-fire gun, which has a longer range and greater power than the Tiger Squat Cannon.

The army of the Ming Dynasty has advanced artillery, and the army of Fangnan naturally has to be equipped with artillery, and the range of the tiger head gun is farther than that of the bird, even in the face of the tiger squat gun, it can shoot the enemy outside the range of the artillery, but it will not work when it encounters the Franc machine gun, and the Franc cannon has a longer range and can only be bombed.

Fang Nan originally wanted to develop a large-range artillery, but after careful consideration, he found that with the current situation of Hutou Village, it was impossible to create a more advanced artillery than the Franc cannon, and even the Franc cannon could not be built, because it required a lot of steel to build the Franc cannon and was inconvenient to transport.

In the end, Fang Nan decided to build the Tiger Squat Cannon, and personally took the students and blacksmiths to improve the Tiger Squat Cannon, and finally created a practical light artillery, weighing forty-one pounds, but with a maximum range of 700 meters, the performance was much more than the Tiger Squat Cannon used by the Ming Dynasty army.

Like the Tiger Head Gun, this gun was named the Tiger Head Cannon, but the Tiger Head Cannon was far less difficult to build than the Tiger Head Gun, as long as there was enough steel, the Tiger Head Gun was built faster than the Tiger Head Gun, but in the end, it was only one Tiger Head Gun every two months on average.

The range of the tiger head gun is not as good as the tiger head gun, and it also needs to use a lot of steel, if it is not for the tiger head gun is still somewhat useful in combat, by the way, train the artillery, otherwise this tiger head gun will not be built.

In addition, there is another reason why there is not much to build the Tiger Head Run, that is, the Tiger Head Cannon consumes too much gunpowder, which is not as cost-effective as the Tiger Head Gun, and in this deep mountain, saltpeter is too difficult to obtain.

Two years ago, Qiannan began to use silver to buy saltpeter from the villages that could be contacted in the deep mountains, and other villagers collected frost, processed it to obtain saltpeter, and was purchased by Fang Nan, which was not enough, Fang Nan arranged for people to buy saltpeter in some villages outside the mountains, even so, it could not withstand too much artillery consumption of gunpowder.

On average, one is one every two months, and now Fang Nan has saved eleven tiger head cannons in his hands, except for one tiger head cannon that is often fiddled, and the rest of the artillery is stacked in the warehouse.

In the past three years, Fang Nan's preparations for the rebellion not only included building tiger head guns and tiger head guns, but also forming a Qingshanzhai escort team with Hu Zhuang, He Yan, Zhou Yi, Wang Shengrong and other students who studied military knowledge, as well as some adult men under the age of 25 in Qingshanzhai.

The number of people is very small, only fifteen people, Hu Zhuang, who is only twenty-one years old, serves as the captain of the escort team, and fifteen people all learn to use tiger head guns, but He Yan takes four people to focus on learning to use tiger head guns.

Three years ago, the people of Qingshanzhai knew that the juniors in the village wanted to rebel and overthrow the Ming Dynasty, but they had been persuaded and had no objection.

In the past three years, Fang Nan has implicitly conveyed one thing to his elders through his students: as long as the rebellion can be successful, those who can read all the commonly used words in Qingshan Village and can do simple arithmetic can become a petty official at worst and live a worry-free life.

Seeing the power of the tiger head gun and the tiger head cannon, the juniors will be implicated if they want to rebel, and they know the things that Fang Nan vaguely conveyed from the juniors, after careful thinking, the elders have basically made a decision, actively move closer to the side of the owner of Fang Nan Village, and follow the Lord of Fang Nan Village on the road of rebellion.

It can be said that Fang Nan's identity as the owner of the village has gained a lot of power in Qingshan Village, but there is a gap in seniority, and it will take a while to transform into a gap in status, and it is not so easy for older people to obey the orders of younger people, and Fang Nan has also worked hard in the past six years to get to this point today.

Fortunately, Qingshanzhai is not a big family with the same surname, if it is in a big family, the blood relationship is more serious, and it is more difficult to change.

From a small village in the mountains just to eat and clothe and warm, to most of the people in the village decided to rebel, the change of Qingshanzhai can be said to be very big, and it is also under this change that the Qingshanzhai Guard Team was established, but the Guard Team has not had a chance to do it since its establishment, at most it is to fight wild beasts in the mountains and forests.

Hu Zhuang even thought about when a bandit would attack, so that the bandit could see the power of the escort team, but Hu Zhuang kept this in his heart and didn't dare to say it.