Antiba felt that something was wrong with him in the past few days, and somehow, he just couldn't lift his spirits, he was soft, and he yawned from time to time. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info He thinks maybe it's because he's been floating on the boat for so long, and now he's in a new place, so it's inevitable that he's a little uncomfortable. So he went to Yuri and planned to order that magic medicine again.

"Brother Yuri, what other blessing do you have there. Longevity. Ointment? I'm a little uncomfortable, give me some. When I get back, I'll give you the money. Antigua yawned.

"Brother Amba, it's the first time you've gone out on a sea boat, and it's common for you to be a little uncomfortable, isn't it? It's okay to hold it up. How can there be a reason to eat medicine as a meal in this world? It's not that I won't give it to you, brother, it's really that this thing is medicine, this meal can be eaten blindly, this medicine can't be eaten blindly, right? I've heard that the ginseng in your old forest is the best medicinal herb. But if someone eats three or five of his sticks every day when he is fine, will his body get better and better? Yuri shrugged.

This example is very revealing, and Amba also thinks that what Yuri said does have some truth. If someone really eats three or five ginseng sticks every day, not to mention whether they can afford to eat it or not, even if they can afford it, I'm afraid they will have a nosebleed and die of fire, right?

"And Brother Amba, my blessing here. Longevity. There's not much left of the anointing, and you see we're going to have to take a boat when we get back, don't we? If you use it now, and when you go back, it's gone, and the sea will be more and more uncomfortable, right? Brother, when you arrive in a new place, there will always be a few days of discomfort, and it will pass by quite well. Yuri added.

Amba was persuaded by Yuri. After a few days, the uncomfortable feeling gradually disappeared. Although Antigua and Barbuda is still very aftertaste absorbing. Longevity. The feeling of ointment. After Antigua and Barbuda's body returned to normal, the "Dutch East India Company" was also ready to test the gun. Early that morning, Amba, Lee Chung, Yu Rui and others came to the front of a section of the city wall of Jeju City. A group of red-haired men had mounted an 18-pounder long-barreled cannon there, the cast-iron barrel glistening faintly in the sunlight.

An Ba and Li Zhong wanted to go over and have a look, but a man who looked like an officer stopped them, muttering and not knowing what to say.

Yuri walked up and spoke to the officer. The Nanban interpreter was standing next to Amba, and Amba asked, "What is that guy talking about?" ”

"He said the Governor didn't allow us to get close to the cannon." The Nanban interpreter replied.

"Didn't the Governor allow us to watch the cannon fire?" Antigua asked.

"Mr. Eurry said the same thing, but the soldier refused to let go, saying that the Governor only allowed us to watch them drill the cannons, and did not say that we could approach the observation cannons, and only when the Governor was present and personally approved, he allowed us to approach the cannons."

"TMD, it's just a small soldier, it's ...... like this," Li Zhong couldn't help but scold.

At this time, they saw Yuri take a pill out of his pocket and stuff it into the soldier's hand, and the soldier took it, put it under his nose and sniffed it, then nodded, said something, and stepped aside.

"Malegobi! I knew these guys were asking for money. Li Zhong scolded.

Several people walked up to the cannon, Li Zhong looked at it carefully, and then asked: "This cannon seems to be made of iron, but can iron also make such a big cannon?" ”

"Why can't iron be made into cannons?" Antigua asked.

"Pig iron is hard, but it's brittle, and it's easy to blow up. Wrought iron is too soft. Li Zhong explained, "And if you don't blow up the bore, you have to make the cannon very thick, so that the cannon is so heavy that it can't move at all." And if the iron is hot, it will cool down more slowly than the copper cannon, which will become more and more unusable. ”

"But no matter how I look at it, this cannon is lighter than your Wuzhen Hachao's cannon." Antigua said.

"I don't know how they do it. In short...... "Li Zhong" was "in short" for a while, but he couldn't say anything.

At this time, several soldiers of the "East India Company" began to demonstrate how to use artillery to bombard targets. On the city wall about a thousand paces away from the cannon, the soldiers of the "East India Company" had already marked a target with lime, and several soldiers quickly pointed the muzzle of the cannon in the direction of the target, and then, under the command of the officer, quickly adjusted the angle of the muzzle, then loaded the gunpowder, then loaded the cannonball, and loaded the ignition powder......

Seeing that the Dutch had put so much gunpowder into such an iron cannon, Li Zhong couldn't help but want to retreat, but a genuine Eight Banners master like Amba hadn't retreated, so how could he really retreat? He was about to tell Antigua and Barbuda that these cannons were loaded with so much gunpowder that they were going to explode, and it was better to retreat a little farther away, when the soldiers of the "East India Company" fired the first shot. The roaring sound of cannons suddenly blocked all the words behind Li Zhong.

The shells hit the target quite accurately, and debris flew on the walls of Jeju Fortress made of volcanic rock.

"What an accurate shot!" Antigua said.

The Dutchman quickly reset the bubble and cleared the chamber...... After a while, another shot was fired, and it hit the target again.

"Look at other people's actions, it's much faster than your Wuzhen Hachao! I watched people shoot three shots, and you Wuzhen Hachao only fired one shot, you are really useless. Seeing that the soldiers of the "East India Company" quickly completed the preparations before the launch again, Anticipa couldn't help but say this to Li Zhong.

"My lord, don't look at it, how many people are serving a cannon. The number of gunners in this cannon is more than twice as many as that of our Wuzhen Hachao, isn't this faster than us, is there still heavenly reason? Li Zhong hurriedly argued. You must know that there are still a lot of people in the Eight Banners who accuse Wuzhen Hachao of being useless and spending too much money.

"Give you a few more men for each cannon, and you can shoot so fast?" Antigua asked.

At this time, the Dutch fired a third shot, and hit the target accurately again, and in the debris splash, Li Zhong and Amba saw that the rocks on that section of the wall of Jeju Fortress began to collapse.

"Like this, with a few more cannons, this wall will be blown out, right?" Li Zhong looked at the city wall and thought like this. At first, he had a lot of doubts about such an iron cannon, suspecting that it might be as powerful as the Furlong machine. However, judging from these cannons, the power of this cannon is no less than the strongest artillery in the hands of the Qing Dynasty, and the cannon of the "Dutch" is obviously much lighter, and it is cast from much cheaper iron.

"It's been a couple of shots, and it stands to reason that they're going to have to slow down their firing, or they'd be too hot to use." Li Zhong thought so.

However, since then, although the speed at which the "Dutchman" fired his cannon has decreased, it is still much higher than that of the Uzhen Hachao. After several rounds of shelling, that section of the city wall finally collapsed with a bang.

"That's good!" An Ba nodded and said, as soon as he turned his face, he saw Li Zhong again, and immediately remembered the question that was interrupted by the sound of the cannon just now, so he asked again: "Li Zhong, give you a few more people for each cannon, can you fight so fast and accurately?" ”

"If you go back to your master, I'm afraid you can't, if our cannon hits like this, the barrel will already be too hot to put gunpowder. Therefore, there will be so many fewer people in each cannon than them, because even if we have more people and move faster, we will have to wait for the barrel to be cold before we can shoot again. Li Zhong explained.

"Oh, then why do their barrels get cold so fast?" Antigua asked again.

"If you go back to your master, I see that their gun barrels are much thinner than ours, so they naturally get cold quickly." Li Zhong said that he knew that Antigua and Barbuda would definitely ask, "Then why don't we make the barrel a little thinner," so he hurriedly explained: "Our barrel can't be made so thin, otherwise it will explode." As for how they managed not to blow up, the minions don't know. Maybe it's because their iron is not the same as iron in general. ”

This answer is probably the most desperate answer. Even in later generations, material problems are often the most difficult problems to solve. Antigua knew that this meant that there was no possibility of copying this kind of cannon in the Qing Dynasty, at least for a short time, and the cannon needed could only rely entirely on purchase.

"It seems that Brother Yuri really didn't brag, this cannon, the Taixi people are still much stronger than us." Antigua thought so.

However, some people now object to this sentence, but this person is not in Jeju Island, but in Taiwan.

"Of course, the British cast iron cannon is very advanced, but I hired you to come to Taiwan, not to reproduce the exact same cannon as his, but to surpass it. To this end, our Zheng family has prepared enough gold to support everyone's experiments of burning money again and again. I have a few basic scenarios here......"

Just when the fake "Dutch East India Company" was bullying the Koreans on Jeju Island, the first artillery craftsmen recruited by the Zheng family from Europe had already arrived. They were sent directly to a place jutting out of the sea near North Harbor, close to a peninsula. The Zheng family had already built a number of houses here, and stationed a team of factory guards composed of orphans among immigrants.

Although the soldiers of these guards are only half children, their treatment and training are even higher than those of the elite units in Europe. As soon as the affairs of Jeju Island were handed over to Li Guozhu and them, Zheng Sen immediately returned to Taiwan and devoted almost all of his energy to this small peninsula.

Zheng Sen knew that his own strength was the most important, although he was not opposed to using some intrigues and tricks, and even while seizing Jeju Island, he also asked people to sell Fu to the Manchus in line with the idea of beating rabbits with grass. Longevity. Paste. However, Zheng Sen also knows that these are small paths. The success of the conspiracy depends on the mistakes of the other party. Good fortune. Longevity. After all, the side effects of the ointment are too obvious, and now the leader of the Manchu Qing is Huang Taiji, one of the most powerful kings in the history of the Manchu Dynasty. Zheng Sen felt that he would definitely not sit idly by. Longevity. The anointing is overflowing, and the organizational ability of the Eight Banners under his leadership will definitely be able to play a story such as the sale of cigarettes in Golden State. Therefore, this kind of small trick is at most just to cheat some funds from the Manchus.

"The real key is the power in your own hands." Zheng Sen thought so.