Chapter 261: The roar of the 10,000-pound cannon

After the cannon casting was completed, Boyan was very happy in his heart, and he summoned the generals and officials of the army to gather at the school field to prepare for a very grand artillery test ceremony, just to boost the morale that had been low recently.

Unveiled the red cloth covering the true face of the 10,000-pound cannon, just the huge cannon body of five feet long shocked the Yuan soldiers in the audience, and the whole school field was thunderous, and the Yuan soldiers and generals all cheered and jumped. During this time, he was scared by the artillery in Guangzhou, and so many people were killed and injured, and the Yuan soldiers had long been discussing in private, why they didn't have artillery to fight against the Song army, and now they finally saw the real guy, can they not be happy.

"God bless the Great Khan, God bless the Great Khan!"

"Kill all the Song troops in Guangzhou!"

"What a mighty guy, this cannon will cost dozens of catties of gunpowder, and it won't collapse the sky into a big hole!"

Beneath this cannon is a cart with sixteen wheels, and it takes sixteen horses and forty or fifty soldiers to move it, and if there is a puddle or something in front of it, soldiers need to be sent to clear it before the cannon can pass safely.

Under the fiery gaze of several thousand people, the soldiers began to fill the chamber with gunpowder, and as the twenty catties of improved gunpowder were filled little by little, the one-foot-wide muzzle was filled with a solid cannonball of forty-six catties.

The craftsman who led the cannon casting sat behind Boyan, and as the time for the test of the cannon was approaching, the expression on his face became more and more solemn, because this was also the moment that decided his fate, and he had been nervous about sitting in a sedan chair with no bottom.

The original seven-foot cannon with a chamber of Shen Yong, the firing distance and power were seriously insufficient, and could not form an effective threat to the city, and the later plan was changed several times, but Boyan was not very satisfied, and finally the plan to lengthen the cannon body and expand the caliber and launch a solid iron bullet was passed.

This is also the continuous evolution of the enemy, which will promote the progress of the other side, that is, Boyan's decision to use the scheme of solid iron bullets, which are all technologies hundreds of years in advance. The mature technology of firing solid artillery shells was also developed in the middle of the Ming Dynasty after the Yuan Dynasty, and the real large-scale actual combat was already in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

This is the power generated by military competition, in ancient times, science and technology can be developed proudly, and it can also be applied to military purposes, and the party in power will invest manpower and material resources to research, just like today's Boyan.

"The hour has come, the cannon has been adjusted, the prime minister has ordered!"

Boyan got up and left his seat, rode on his war horse and trotted a few steps before coming to the side of the giant cannon, and with eyes full of expectation and appreciation, he glanced at the dozens of soldiers surrounding the giant cannon.

Serving this cannon is not a good job, everyone knows that this is the first cannon after changing the size, the technology is not mature, and the charge is very large, once there are dangerous consequences, they will not even have a chance to run.

"Hard work, true warriors of my Mongolian tribe, the Great Khan blesses you!"

Boyan looked at the crowd a hundred steps away and shouted with confidence.

"Fire!"

The fuse was left very long, and for the first time today, to ensure that Boyan had enough time to leave after it was ignited, the forty gunners also had to flash to the bunkers on the left and right, and quietly waited for the cannon to be fired.

Thousands of people gathered around the cannon, and the nearest one was a hundred paces away, and during the waiting time, people deliberately lowered their voices and held their breath, for fear that the noise would affect the attention of others.

The silence and silence were depressing, and the entire school yard was silent, and the soldiers behind the bunkers on the left and right sides of the cannon could even hear the soft snort of the fuse burning.

"Boom!"

There was an earth-shattering loud noise, and the gun carriage, which seemed to be very solid, made a loud Kerala sound almost at the same time as the cannon, and it was shattered like a papier-mâché shelf, scattered on the ground.

Zhao Tianyou, who was discussing the art of war with the students in the lecture hall, suddenly put down the teaching materials in his hand, rushed out of the lecture hall with a serious face, turned over his horse and galloped towards the north city gate.

After the cannon sounded, there were already more than a dozen teams of fast horse scouts, looking for the impact point along the direction of Guangzhou, where the muzzle of the cannon was aimed, and the firing range was determined, so as to judge the true power of the cannon.

However, this mess on the scene can be regarded as a failure, and the recoil of the 10,000-jin cannon is not estimated enough, and it seems that it is necessary to continue to spend brains on the study of the smooth movement of the cannon.

"Roar, roar!"

Many soldiers and generals were silent for a while before they woke up from the shock and shouted loudly around to celebrate the successful test firing of the 10,000-pound cannon.

Boyan had a smile on his face, and while greeting his subordinates who came to congratulate him, he arranged for his subordinates to prepare a banquet and prepare for a banquet tonight to celebrate the successful test launch of the 10,000-pound cannon.

But he was very worried, for the same reason that the gunsmith who had been behind him had worried.

The sound of the cannon and the power go hand in hand, this cannon has a very great power, there is no doubt about this problem, the amount of charge and the weight of the shells are the first in the whole world, no one can doubt it.

But what Boyan saw was not only the superficial problem of the gun carriage, but also the retargeting as soon as possible after firing, and the cleaning of the chamber from the new charge to the ability to fire a second shell, which had many difficult problems to solve.

After paying such a huge price and gathering manpower and material resources to go through hard work, it was not a joke if it could only be fired once in a war? But Boyan himself doesn't dare to raise it now, as long as it is a problem that anyone with a discerning eye can find, this responsibility has to be borne by Boyan himself.

Blindly expanding the muzzle diameter, in order to achieve the increase in power and the extension of the firing range, the mobility of the cannon was abandoned, according to the current power, even if it was built an iron-framed gun carriage, it may not be able to last long.

Such a problem was also made in the Manchu army in later generations, but the giant cannons cast at that time were shore guns with fixed gun positions, and they defended the fleet of ships outside the port. At that time, the Manchu Qing Dynasty also built a lot of huge forts, but it was a pity that they were blindly mounted on the horses, and when the time of the war was tested, they were all shoddy projects that lacked catties and short taels, and the firing range could not even be hit for a mile, and it did not pose a threat to foreign warships.

Zhao Tianyou stood at the head of the city, but his eyes were already looking miles away, and he felt that the group of Yuan soldiers scouts were all looking down on the ground carefully, as if they were searching for something.

"General Zhao, there was a cannon sound in the distance just now, and the sound has a large charge, it should be the Yuan army testing the cannon, and the power should not be underestimated!"

Liu Changhai, who trotted over from the distant artillery position, reported in a low voice beside Zhao Tianyou.

"Well, their cannon was cast, hehe, such a blatant cannon, I really didn't take our Guangzhou seriously! Changhai, you give me two shots at the forest to suppress their momentum. “

"Yes! General, just look at it. ”

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