Came to the artillery shipyard, as an artillery shipyard near the capital, because the researchers, top craftsmen and chief planners of Xianju County have been brought here, so it has become the top artillery research institution of the Huaxia Kingdom.

This institution is also equipped with an artillery production plant, this model is similar to the top research department in the seventies and eighties of the Chinese post-Chinese generation, a research base has many research institutes, each research institute is equipped with a workshop, but each base is a research direction on the one hand, for example, the tank manufacturing is equipped with tank-related research institutes, and then there is a large factory, the research institute is responsible for theoretical research, the research institute workshop is responsible for making samples, and the factory is responsible for transforming the production line and carrying out production.

So this artillery research institute is also equipped with a factory.

The artillery researched by the research institute of the Huaxia Army is now the top of the front-loading rapid artillery. There is no room for improvement in quality, it has reached the top, and the gun carriage can not be improved, and then it will become a modern artillery, so the current research direction is rear-loading, although there are some rear-loading samples to be installed in the troops, but it still can't escape the style of the Portuguese Fran cannon, the sub-mother cannon, the air leakage is serious, the firing range is not far, and the speed has not improved much.

That is, Zhang Qiang's steelmaking has reached some levels before, so it can improve the quality of some artillery on the basis of the iron mold casting cannon method, in the case of sufficient chamber pressure, the artillery can be fired farther, due to the help of particle gunpowder, the rate of fire has increased a little, the number of shells fired by a gun is higher, and the number of shells fired by others has been seriously worn out, and they have fired 200 pieces before serious wear and tear, and at the same time, the total number of shells fired is more than others, and others are only 300, so the barrel must be scrapped. Six hundred of them are still usable.

However, when it reaches 500 cannons, it will be replaced, and then sold at a low price to some merchants in the South Seas, who will fire more than 100 pieces, and if they still want to use it, they will have to worry about blowing up.

Of course, those officials under Zhang Qiang would not tell them, such a low price, sometimes the people of the Huaxia Kingdom would rather return to the furnace and rebuild it than sell it.

But this time Zhang Qiang came and heard the good news, that is, a craftsman mixed some other metals, which improved the quality of the artillery by more than fifty pieces, which made Zhang Qiang very happy, and immediately ordered to reward him, and improved his craftsman level, originally he was only a second-level craftsman, this time he was promoted to the third-level, no need to take the exam.

However, this will not increase the gun's attack power much.

Zhang Qiang thought about how to improve the accuracy of the artillery, and wanted to engage in rifling, but the rifling and the round solid shell could not be matched, so he could only brush a layer of paint and grease on it to solve the problem and achieve the effect of sealing.

Zhang Qiang was a little depressed.

He took the men on a trip to the ironworks, which had already refined a lot of high-quality cannon iron, and was casting small quantities of artillery in the most economical way.

To build artillery for the army on the front line, because many of the artillery of the naval division are new, because Zhang Qiang sold a large number of ships, many artillery pieces of previous years have been dismantled and sealed, and the naval division does not need new ones to replace the old guns, anyway, there is not so much war, and the most intense movement of thousands of warships is a patrol at sea for several months.

By the way, fire a few cannons on the way to make new recruits and veterans not forget the sound of cannons, just familiarize themselves with the craft, how many old cannons can be worn out in this way?

Only the First Fleet had a lot of battles and wanted a lot of guns, but this time it sold a lot of warships and warships, and dismantled a lot of artillery and sold them to Zheng Chenggong's warships and battleships.

Originally, the first-class battleship had 110 guns, that is, a battleship of more than 1,300 tons, and after several transformations, a lot of artillery was added in many places, but this time it was demolished, and the whole battleship was actually left with only 68 guns, and the bow and stern, and the heavy guns at the bottom were replaced with 18-pounder guns, and the top was reduced in turn, all of them were replaced with 9-pounder guns, 6-pounder guns, and the largest gun installed in the bow was an 18-pounder gun.

As for the artillery above twenty pounder guns, the Huaxia Kingdom would not sell them to Zheng Chenggong, in case he dismantled a seaside garrison camp used to attack the treasure island, wouldn't the Huaxia Kingdom find its own death?

The dismantled heavy guns were placed in the harbor batteries that were built one after another to serve as shore guns.

The accuracy of the guns on the ship is something that Zhang Qiang has always been worried about, and the range of the guns is also something that Zhang Qiang is very embarrassed about.

With Du Ge's rebellion, the old gunners he recruited from the former Xianju County had already copied the same artillery in Siam as the Huaxia Army, and a recent document shows that in addition to being inferior to the Huaxia Kingdom in quality, the artillery now equipped on the Dutch and British ships is actually very close to the artillery of the Huaxia Army five years ago.

Five years ago, now, in fact, the Huaxia Army's artillery research has not progressed, only some small details have been changed, the artillery carriage has been changed, the improvement is not large, the rate of fire of a shell, the accuracy rate has increased by 5 percent, which is almost 12 percent more accurate than the previous Huaxia Army artillery, if it encounters a large-scale naval battle, it will not be able to change the situation of the war at all.

Naval artillery is generally at a distance of more than 200 to 300 meters, and if a Westerner B-class battleship comes over, the range of the 24-pounder gun can reach 2,400 meters, and the direct fire can reach 350 to 400 meters.

The actual distance of the sea bombardment is 300 to 400 meters, the direct shooting distance.

The general battle distance is about 300 meters, this is for the British, the Spaniards are only 180 meters away, the Dutch are about the same, if you do not send a larger level of artillery with more than 18 pounds, then the general battle distance is 180 meters to 200 meters, this is now the British and Dutch, the Spaniards the farthest distance.

But after the emergence of the Huaxia Kingdom, the technology of the Huaxia Army has flowed out, and the enemy's technology has also improved, and it must be faster than the technology in the land of the Ming Dynasty, and now the Qing Dynasty can not make the advanced artillery of the Huaxia Army, and can only be upgraded to the technical level of the Ming Dynasty, and the weapons and equipment of the imitation Huaxia Kingdom are only upgraded to the level of the early Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, the Qing army is actually not the main opponent of the Huaxia Kingdom at sea or on land, the main opponents of the Huaxia Kingdom are now the traitors and the Taixi, and the Spaniards are fine, basically ignoring the affairs here, just trading with Japan, or trading with Southeast Asian countries, the British, and the Dutch, and accepting some goods brought out by Nanyang smuggling merchants from the Huaxia Kingdom, and the others are basically not in a tough confrontation with the Huaxia Kingdom.

This has a direct relationship with their decline in the West, and now that they are almost in the eighteenth century, they are basically busy fighting wars with the British, fighting with the French, playing with the Holy Roman Empire, the Thirty Years' War.

With the fall of Spain, the British began to rule the world, and their footsteps were getting closer and closer to the Kingdom of China.

(End of chapter)