After this set of procedures, even if the preparations before the launch were completed, the soldiers who cleaned the chamber and charge retreated behind the shooter, and tightly plugged their ears with the strip of cloth in their hands.

The three cannons were all loaded, and with the gesture of John Tang, the shooter lit the fuse with the torch in his hand, and then took more than ten steps back, like their colleagues, covered their ears and opened their mouths wide, and squatted down.

The crowd of onlookers was still noisy, and some people saw the movements of the gunners, but the noisy sound never stopped, until the three loud noises that shook the mountains three times in a row, and all the noise came to an abrupt end.

In the distance, two of the earthen bags were suddenly torn apart, and the burning debris flew up four or five feet high, and for a while, it looked particularly spectacular.

Qian Lianghu secretly glanced at Gao Han's expression, and saw him stand up, with a smile on his face, he put his mind at ease, in this target soil bag, in fact, the loess is only shallow, and the bottom is pressed with straw and cotton wool or something, and there is a little gunpowder mixed in the middle, if it hits directly, it must be much better than breaking up a pile of loess, he is his idea. Now the effect proves that it is really more eye-catching.

The silence in the valley lasted for more than a minute, and by the time the crowd of onlookers let out an inexplicable shout, the gunners who fired the guns had rushed forward to recharge and clear the chambers.

Gao Han carefully stared at the actions of the gunners, the preparation before the cannon was nothing, but the operation after the cannon was fired was a test of skills, this is a matter of determining the frequency of firing, a cannon, firing once in thirty seconds, and firing once a minute, the consequences are completely different.

The first gunner who rushed up, carrying a bucket and a strip of cloth, directly cooled down the barrel, and the heat rose between them, and it was impossible to distinguish whether it was water vapor or gunsmoke, while the gunner holding the pestle dipped the pestle in the bucket in his hand, and directly reached into the barrel, turned it around a few times, and cleaned up the remaining gunpowder and fragments in the barrel.

After the barrel was cleaned, the temperature of the gun body had been reduced a lot, and new gunpowder packs and projectiles were also put in.

One minute! Gao Han silently calculated the time, about a minute to a minute and a half, the three cannons had been reloaded, and the noise in the valley had just sounded, and the rumbling noise suppressed the loud noise.

This time, there was only one target, and the fire objects flying all over the sky caused bursts of cheers.

The sound of cannons continued, probably because John Tang was very confident in the artillery he made, the three cannons have not stopped since they were launched, that is to say, the flying objects have never stopped floating in the sky, this is daytime, if it is night, the crowd looking around, plus the firelight in the sky, this is like a grand carnival scene.

Hagers watched the whole shot.

As a person to be watched, he was inconspicuous behind Olivia, and even the "leading figures" of the few people invited by Olivia were not aware of his existence, but he was the most carefully observed person in this test.

If John Tong was the one who knew the most about the making of this artillery, then he was the one who knew the most about the use of this artillery.

He had a whole fleet of armed merchant ships under his command, and three-pounder guns, which was almost the standard for armed merchant ships.

And the gunners on his merchant ships, either retired from the dynasty or those trained by the gunners, he learned that even the most skilled gunners under his command could not fire a shell almost a minute like the gunners in front of him.

This has nothing to do with proficiency, gunpowder and projectiles are loaded too quickly, only let the gunpowder burn in the barrel and explode the chamber, the cooling of the gun body can indeed solve this problem, but at the same time as solving this problem, a new problem has emerged, repeated rapid cooling, will greatly shorten the service life of the gun body.

That is, firing a shell in two to three minutes, this is a reasonable speed, at least, in his cognitive range, this is a reasonable speed.

But what he saw now, three three-pounder guns, firing five or six shells in a row, almost at a rate of one shot a minute, and the gunners continued to cool down and reload until all the targets were destroyed.

The firing frequency of these three three-pounder guns has already caused more and more damage than the firing frequency and damage of six or even eight or nine three-pounder guns.

In other words, two armed merchant ships of the same size, armed with three of these three-pounder guns, would have sent the other ship to the bottom of the sea before the shells fired by the other side could destroy their own ships, in front of the same three three-pounder guns of the Crown of Portugal.

Even more pessimistic, the blow of the other side is not even "insignificant", and the victory of the ships on this side is already decided.

It's just horrible.

He quietly glanced at the people in front of him, whether it was the Ming officials headed by General Gao, or those so-called "compatriots", it seemed that they were all immersed in the hustle and bustle, and no one had realized this problem yet.

In any case, he felt that he had to find someone who understood and pass on the news, otherwise, the Ming army, which was equipped with a large number of such three-pounder guns, would cause the kingdom's fleet, which was not prepared at all, to suffer huge losses when fighting the kingdom's expeditionary fleet in the future.

"Fortunately, I didn't lose my life!"

Tang Ruowang took off the strip of cloth in his ear, walked in front of Gao Han, and said loudly, hundreds of steps behind him, the dirt bags that were the target were all razed to the ground.

"One of three!" The sailor Guerrilla Liu Xing couldn't help but nodded, such an accurate head is already very good, especially at such a distance, if there are enough such artillery, dozens of cannons are fired together, even if the other party is an ironclad ship, I am afraid that it will not be able to withstand such a blow.

"Mr. Tang has worked hard!" Gao Han smiled and replied loudly: "All the people of the Firearms Factory and the Iron Factory, each person will be rewarded with ten taels of silver, and Mr. Tang will be rewarded with five hundred taels!" ”。

He looked at the brocade guards on the left and right behind him: "The sons and daughters share the joys and sorrows with the craftsmen, and appreciate them together!" ”

Everyone cheered in unison, even Tang Ruowang couldn't help but smile, Gao Han's generosity was a thing to be celebrated for everyone, and this reward was a huge amount of money for him.

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