The cannon foundry was on a secluded barren hill, there was not even a tree within a few hundred meters of it, the blue brick wall was as high as a battle, and there was an arrow tower not far away, and a hundred heavily armed soldiers led the big wolf dogs on non-stop patrols.

Li Kui raised his eyes to look at this piece of cannon foundry, and sighed: "The little fierce son is developed, and he is even more powerful than me Li Kui, when he has time to drink, he must let him invite me, this guy is always picking on the door." ”

Everyone laughed, Xu Meng, as the most mysterious person in Jeju Tuanlian, was very busy with his work, and due to the need for secrecy, he rarely went out freely even when he was resting.

Chao Gai said: "Why don't you stay here and drink, and I'll take Bao Xu to Black Dragon Island to fight?" ”

Li Kui said: "I don't stay, Xu Meng's guy is stuffy, what's so fun about a factory." ”

As he was talking, he arrived at the door, and the guards strictly checked the waist card before letting everyone in, and as soon as he entered the door, Xu Meng arrived, and said, "Brother came so fast, I was still preparing to greet him at the door." ”

Xu Meng spoke like a thunderbolt, Chao Gai sighed, it's over, I broke my ears during the test.

Li Kui said: "What do you kid shout when you speak." ”

Xu Meng said, "You want to invite me to drink?" ”

"Believe it or not, I'm going to beat you." Li Kui said.

"Let's go, I'll invite you." Xu Meng said.

Chao Gai said, "What is wrong with your ears?" ”

Xu Meng said: "My ears are a little shocked, it's okay to deliberately tease Li Kui just now." Recently, the foundry has not had any R&D tasks, and has been producing tiger squat cannons and casting solid cannonballs, so I pondered something and asked my brother to see if it was useful. ”

Chao Gai said: "I was always worried that the cannon foundry was too busy so I didn't come to bother you, but I didn't expect you to call me over, take out something new." ”

Everyone came to the test site in the factory, Xu Meng waved his hand and shouted: "Take out the new guy we made." ”

Ten workers immediately came out and brought out five long guns, yes, they were indeed long guns, the thick barrel was thicker than the Bartlet, the barrel could be one meter eight long, the front was provided with a bracket, and the back had a solid wooden butt. The structure is very simple, consisting of two parts, the barrel and the butt. Two iron hoops are used to link the barrel to the butt. But Xu Meng called this a cannon.

Xu Meng took a shot and handed it to Chao Gai, it was really heavy, at least thirty catties.

Xu Meng said: "This is cast in cast iron, the diameter is 15 millimeters, the front pipe wall is slightly thinner, and the back is very thick, which can effectively prevent explosions." The firing method is similar to that of the Tiger Squat Cannon, which is charged through a small hole in the back, and an iron egg pellet is installed in the front, and the fuse is ignited with an arquebus. ”

Chao Gai took it and studied it for a long time, this thing was still in the countryside in the eighties, it belonged to the earthen foreign cannon, generally called the big lifting rod, two people cooperated to take it to the lake to fight a flock of wild ducks, and a cannon could hit more than a dozen.

"How's it powering?" Chao Gai asked.

Xu Meng said proudly: "I just like powerful guys, don't look at this small, there is little ammunition, but the range is not bad." Breaking iron sand can hit a hundred meters, and at this distance it can break the cowhide armor, and if you hit the enemy, you will be seriously injured if you don't die. If the matching iron bullet can hit 200 meters, even a war horse can be knocked down with a cannon, the main thing is that there is a solid wood handle behind it, which can be aimed and the accuracy is much better. ”

Chao Gai was very surprised, he didn't expect that this big pole would have such a long range, the distance of two hundred meters is very good, with this distance can completely suppress the enemy cavalry. If you want to put this thing in the future, it will be scum, but now it is the Great Song Dynasty, this is a treasure.

"Try it a few times." Chao Gai said.

Xu Meng immediately asked everyone to put on cotton ball earplugs, and there were three scarecrows in clothes standing 200 meters away. Then the workers skillfully charged, loaded the projectile. One person holds a wooden tray to aim, and the other takes a fire rope and lights the small hole, pop, pop, snap, snap. The crisp sound is much quieter than that of the Lying Cow Cannon and the Tiger Squat Cannon, and the smoke emitted is much less. Pang Wanchun had good eyesight and said in surprise: "I hit two scarecrows." ”

Everyone went over to take a look, and sure enough, the solid projectile broke the clothes and got into the straw, which is not bad at this distance.

Chao Gai asked, "Xu Meng, why did you come up with the idea of making this?" ”

Xu Meng said: "Whether it is a lying cow cannon or a tiger squat cannon, it is quite powerful, but the weight is too heavy, and the smallest lying cow cannon is also sixty pounds, and it needs the cooperation of three people to use it normally." So I wanted to make a smaller cannon, so I tried to make this, I didn't know whether to use it, I didn't dare to build more, only 20 were made, so I asked my brother to come and see, if it can be used, we can equip soldiers and we will produce it in large quantities, if it can't be equipped, then we won't produce it. ”

Chao Gai asked again: "What is the rate of fire when you are proficient?" ”

"This cannon is small, with little ammunition to load, and if you are proficient, you can reload it in twenty seconds and then fire." Xu Meng said.

This speed is fast enough, but whether a weapon is suitable for Chao Gai did not dare to make an arbitrary decision, and said, "Is there anything important in your factory recently?" If it weren't for you with skilled gunners and these twenty new weapons, we would have taken a trip to Black Dragon Island, where the war was going on, and we would have tested the power of this weapon on the battlefield. ”

Xu Meng touched it, the Lying Niu Cannon has matured as a melee artillery, the range of the Tiger Squat Cannon is much farther, but the weight is very heavy, these two artillery technologies are mature, and it is not difficult to make any breakthroughs in research, this newly researched small-caliber arquebus may have a good performance on the battlefield, and immediately said: "The factory produces step by step, I should go out for a walk, otherwise it will really become a closed-door car, and the things made are not suitable for the army." ”

"Okay, then you pack up, bring your weapons and dozens of people, and let's go immediately." Chao Gai said.

Xu Meng is also a resolute person, immediately packed his bags, took twenty people, and came to the port with Chao Gai to take the Bird Mall.

The sea road is not lonely, the fleet is driven by the shore of the mainland, Chao Gai and others are on a steamship, although the speed is not fast, but it is better than stability, on the whole it is better than a sailboat.

Day 4, Evening. Xu Guanzhong looked at the weather, came over and said to Chao Gai: "Look at the weather, there may be a heavy storm and rain tonight, the fleet needs to dock, in order to be cautious, it is best to camp on the shore during the period of strong men and infantry." ”

Li Kui said: "What are you afraid of when it rains, you have to be busy for half a day when you go ashore to camp." ”

Chao Gai said: "You are the person in charge of the fleet, and you will listen to it." "There is no weather forecast for these years, Xu Guanzhong only judged that there was a heavy storm and rain at night according to the change of the sunset, but things like heavy storms and rains are still very scary, because there are hundreds of people on each boat, and once there is a dangerous situation, the loss is very large. Immediately, Chao Gai led the soldiers and strong men to the shore, this is a deserted beach, Luo Yun led a hundred cavalry to search the nearby places for more than ten miles but did not find anything.

When the sun was about to set, the seagulls on the beach were chirping. Li Kui instigated Xu Meng and said: "I'm tired of eating fish and shrimp every day, how about we change the taste?" ”

Xu Meng said: "If you want to change the taste, you go to the room and say, I am not responsible for cooking." ”

Next to him, Bao Xu said: "He is worried about your arquebus and wants to take him to shoot birds." ”

"Doesn't your battalion have a cow cannon?" Xu Meng said.

Li Kui said: "I'm not stupid, I use the cow cannon to fight birds, and my ass must not open flowers." Let's go and tell my brother that we want to test the power of the arquebus, and my brother agrees. ”

Xu Meng was very tempted, and went over to tell Chao Gai, but he didn't expect Chao Gai to agree.

Xu Meng brought two Vulcan cannons and four workers, and went out with Li Kui and Bao Xu, and it was actually very taboo to fire cannons indiscriminately near the barracks, which was easy for the soldiers to be unable to distinguish the situation and cause chaos, so they had to report to Chao Gai in advance.

The beach is full of fine sand, and when the tide rises and falls, there are many shells, small fish left on the beach, and flocks of seabirds eat on the shore.

Xu Meng asked everyone to load the cannon, and added two taels of gunpowder and two taels of iron sand. The bracket set up the arquebus and aimed it at the flock of birds on the beach. Poor flock of birds were happily eating, who knew that they were targeted by artillery, boom, boom, two muffled sounds, thick smoke rose everywhere, dozens of meters away sea birds fell to the ground, at least a dozen killed.

Li Kui said: "It's time to catch up with the Lying Niu Cannon, it's powerful." ”

Xu Meng scratched his head: "It's worse than expected, the fan I shot in my budget should reach twenty meters, after all, the iron sand is divergent." Let's test a few more projectiles. ”

A few more people sent a few more projectiles, and when the projectiles were fired, only three projectiles were put at a time, the size of peanuts, but unfortunately they didn't find out where they hit at all.

After Xu Meng went back, he went to find Chao Gai and said: "When I hit the iron sand, the fan is not wide enough, and the power is weaker, that is, a hundred meters." I plan to lengthen the barrel and increase the amount of gunpowder. ”

If the arquebus is lengthened, won't it become a big pole for the Yanling team, and it is good to shoot scattered bullets against infantry, but it is worse to deal with cavalry.

Chao Gai said: "Let's make a decision after the actual battle, shoot scattered bullets or lying bull cannons, this arquebus is still mainly to hit solid iron projectiles, we have to deal with the cavalry charging in groups, cavalry bows and arrows can shoot more than 100 meters, so this arquebus is required to hit a distance of 200 meters, not to put the enemy within a hundred." ”

Xu Meng nodded and said yes, a weapon always depends on the battlefield performance.

It was a stormy night and the boat on the beach shook so badly that it would have been uncomfortable to spend the night on the boat. The next morning, the sky brightened, and the camp was set up and rushed to Heilong Island. Three days later, the huge fleet finally arrived at Baiyu Port on Heilong Island. Under the guidance of Yan Kuohai, the sailor of Baiyu Harbor, the fleet docked. Wang Lun, Liu Tang, Lu Fang and others were very happy to see that the fleet was coming again, and ran to the dock to greet them. Liu Tang saw Chao Gai from afar, and said excitedly: "Brother, it's my brother who is here." ”

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