Shen Rui and Liu Meng, the two political envoys, patronized the big ship, but they didn't notice what the guns sent to Daming were. Although there were also cannons on board, they were all mounted on wooden four-wheeled gun mounts, so there was nothing unusual about it.

And when the gunners of the Grand Duchy of Beihai, with the help of the Ming soldiers, pushed 40 Fran cannons to the shooting range, Shen Rui and Liu Meng were surprised to find that these guns were actually installed on wheels......

"Hey, these ghost guns are so chic, and they actually have wheels. In this way, the transportation of artillery is much easier. Unlike my Ming artillery, it needs to be carried by several people before it can be deployed. Liu Meng, the right-hand political envoy who knows a little about military affairs, said in surprise.

"It's a bit clever and flexible!" Shen Rui also agreed.

"Oh, my subordinates look at these Western artillery, but they are so beautiful!" Looking at the glittering bronze cannon, Xu Yong, the commander of the Guangzhou avant-garde, said with hot eyes.

Because it was a tribute to the Ming artillery, these 50 Furlong bronze cannons were all polished. So, on the spot, these bronze cannons all emitted a slightly dim golden yellow light. Unlike the bronze cannons on those ships, because they are not polished, the color is duller.

And Xu Yong, a general who drinks the blood of soldiers, can't look down on anything the same color as copper coins. Seeing these 40 shiny copper cannons, Xu Yong's eyes were full of copper coins at this time......

And Shen Rui, the political envoy of Zuobu, also nodded and said:

"This Beihai country is also obedient, just these forty copper cannons cost a lot!"

As a political envoy, he is in charge of the money and grain of a province, so he is naturally more sensitive to the cost of spending. In Shen Rui's opinion, each of these forty copper cannons weighs a few hundred catties and is worth tens of thousands of copper coins. If there are forty gates, the price of copper alone is worth more than 2 million copper coins, which is equivalent to more than 2,000 taels of silver, which is definitely a tribute to conscience. Unlike some vassal states, the ivory and spices contributed by them are also very valuable in the Ming Dynasty, but in their own countries, they are actually ordinary goods. For example, ivory, if you send a team of soldiers and horses to hunt a group of elephants, you can easily obtain it, and you just bully the Ming Dynasty for lacking this kind of thing.

Since Shen Rui has become the political envoy of Guangdong, in charge of the Guangzhou City Division, he naturally knows the inside story of the tributaries of those vassal states. Like Beihaiguo, who really sent dozens of bronze cannons, he was definitely a conscientious tribute.

In fact, most of the diplomats of the Ming Dynasty knew very well that the so-called tributary trade was simply a scam. Specifically, it is a scam in which those vassal states brought a group of local products to the Ming Dynasty to eat and drink, and then brought back a lot of rewards.

However, knowing that this was a scam, Da Ming still flocked to it. Why? Because in the Confucian tradition, "all nations come to court" is the only weapon to whitewash the peace of the world and the strength of the country.

Because of this, the two political envoys of Menqing were all high in the face of those so-called tributaries. Because, they know, this is a group of profit-seeking Fanbang liars.

And Beihai did not use cheap local products to fool the Ming Dynasty, but it made Shen Rui, the political envoy of Zuobu, have a good impression.

However, Liu Meng, the political envoy of Youbu, said disappreciatively:

"So what? Wen Jingong, I want to come to treat Fanbang well. Although the Beihai country paid tribute to 40 bronze cannons, although the value was high, how could the return gift of the Ministry of Rites be light? All in all, it will definitely make them satisfied. ”

"Brother Zixian is reasonable!"

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While the two envoys were talking, 40 guns were ready to be put into position......

"This Western artillery is so fast!" Liu Meng, who knew a little about military affairs, exclaimed.

While they were chatting, 10 of the 40 guns had been deployed to their intended positions and aimed at their targets. This kind of speed is incredibly fast in Liu Meng's eyes.

You must know that the artillery of the Ming Dynasty is a thick barrel. On the battlefield, the officers and men of the artillery battalion must first use flat poles and ropes to carry the thick barrels to the front of the position. Then, dig a pit with a shovel before you can arrange the artillery.

But these bronze cannons of the Beihai Kingdom, because of the wheels, the arrangement is simply simple - the artillerymen push the gun carts, come to the front of the formation, put the hoe behind the gun carriage on the ground, and then begin to visually aim.

Of course, the garrison hoe of this era is not the same as the garrison hoe of modern artillery. Modern artillery has a stationing machine and a muzzle brake to offset the recoil, so the stationing hoe of modern artillery often needs to be fixed on the ground. Before deployment, it is necessary to dig pits and fix the stationing hoes to avoid the movement of the artillery spirit after the shelling, which will affect the secondary shooting.

But the artillery of this era obviously did not have a hydraulic stationary machine and a muzzle brake. Therefore, after each shelling, the huge recoil force will be transmitted to the gun carriage and finally to the point of contact between the cannons and the ground. Eventually, the artillery will retreat as a whole.

So, after the shelling, the artillerymen need to push the artillery back to the original. This practice is called resetting......

Whether it is an infantry gun or a naval gun, there is this process. Of course, naval naval guns would pull the gun carriage with a rope. And the huge recoil generated by the fire of the naval guns will break the rope. And this process will cancel out the recoil of most of the gunboats. Otherwise, the retreat of the gun carriage may be significant.

However, infantry artillery is less troublesome. When deployed, where the hoe touches the ground, there will be several conical iron members that resemble nails. When deployed, these "nails" will pick up the dirt. When the artillery mount retreats after the shelling, those contact points will use the friction with the ground to counteract the recoil to reduce the distance of the gun carriage's retreat.

And the reset of such an infantry gun is very simple - just return to its original position. Before firing the gun, the artillerymen will draw a white line with lime at the initial deployment site. After the shelling, the artilleryman simply pushes the gun back to the white line, which is very simple.

And re-targeting, too, is simpler. Why? Because the artillery of this era was generally flat-fired. And the enemy, generally, is only two or three hundred meters away. At this distance, there is no need to calculate the trajectory, as long as the muzzle is aimed directly in front of you, at most the muzzle is slightly raised and lost. And the role of the lookout and the front sight is to allow the artillery to see the target in front of it and align the muzzle......

According to the agreement, the soldiers of the Thousand Households Institute erected several broken doors hundreds of paces away from the shooting range as targets for artillery bombardment. If you can hit a broken goal from a hundred steps away, it will definitely be an extremely powerful old gun...... No, it's an old gunner......

In the Guangzhou avant-garde, the gunners who were able to accurately hit a target a hundred steps away with their artillery on the shooting range could be counted on one hand. Moreover, those who can do this are basically middle-aged people at the level of uncles.

However, the artillery of the Beihai Kingdom brought by Kong Tai this time were all young people, and there was not even a middle-aged man who looked reliable.

According to the traditional concept of the Ming people - "no hair on the mouth, no work", can these young gunners really hit a target a hundred steps away?

Under the eyes of the Ming officials and soldiers who were expecting or watching jokes, the artillery of the Beihai Kingdom was preparing in an orderly manner......

Because it was an artillery for the Ming Dynasty, it was natural to use powdered gunpowder instead of granular gunpowder. For this reason, the North Sea artillerymen had to be busy with one thing before firing the cannon - stirring the gunpowder......

This is because black powder is a mixture of saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal, rather than a single compound. The density of the three substances is different, and after long-distance transportation, after bumps, it is easy to delaminate - the denser ones fall to the lower layers, and the lighter ones go up......

Therefore, in the era of powder gunpowder, artillerymen had to use a wooden spoon to gently stir the gunpowder powder evenly before they could charge it. Switch to musketeers, too.

After the gunpowder powder is stirred, it is time to officially reload the ammunition. The way the Furlong bronze rear-loading gun was reloaded was peculiar, because - it was rear-loaded......

A Furlong cannon is generally equipped with several subguns, what are subguns? In fact, it is similar to the copper-shelled bullets of later generations. Of course, unlike the copper-shelled bullets of later generations, the copper-shelled bullets were loaded a long time ago. And the sub-guns of the Furlong cannon need to be reloaded on the spot.

Under the astonished gaze of the Ming officials and soldiers, the young gunners of the Beihai Kingdom easily loaded all the five guns into gunpowder, pressed the iron ball shells into them, and stuffed them with rags to hold their breath. Of course, also to the eyes of the son, insert the fuse......

After a series of preparations, the gunners of the North Sea Kingdom began to perform......

"Reload—"

With the order of the commander, the artillerymen put the first gun into the Furlong cannon. In order to achieve closure, the front end of the sub-gun is embedded in the barrel. Therefore, after the gun is put in, there will be a forward push action, so that the gun and the barrel are more compatible. Subsequently, a wooden bolt will be placed in the back to prevent the sub-gun from retreating and affecting the normal shelling......

Immediately after the loader is loaded, the loader stands up and salutes to indicate that the loader is complete......

Seeing that all 10 loaders saluted, indicating that they were all reloaded, the commander drew his command knife and shouted:

"Fire!"

At the same time, the command knife slashed hard. Of course, it's the air......

Suddenly, 10 torches leaned into the fuse......

In fact, when fighting in Europe, the artillerymen used not torches, but arquebuses. But in the era when the Ming Dynasty had not yet acquired arquebus technology, Marin felt that it was better to use a torch to be more down-to-earth......

Soon, the fuses of all 10 guns burned out. Then, there was a continuous "bang-bang-bang......" of shelling......

After the smoke cleared, everyone turned their attention to the field......

The officials and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were surprised to find that 6 of the 10 broken doors used as targets were dismantled......

"Six out of ten, it's amazing!" Liu Meng, who knew a little, exclaimed.

But soon, the Daimyo soldiers sent to observe the results of the battle came back with even more shocking news - three of the four broken doors that had not been dismantled had a round hole in them...... Obviously, it was hit, but the goal was of good quality and was not smashed and disintegrated......

In this way, that is, in this round of shelling, 10 Franc cannons were actually 9 out of 10. In the Ming artillery, this is definitely a result against the sky......

But what stunned the Ming officials and soldiers was that when they learned the news that the 8th Franc machine gun had missed, the artillery commander ran to the 8th gun angrily and threw a big ear scraper at the artillery observer who was in charge of aiming......

"Waste, I can't even aim so close!" The roar of the artillery commander resounded through the school grounds. After Kong Tai's translation, the Ming officials and soldiers who learned the content of the artillery commander's roar were stunned......