Tuolin Town is very lively, and the open space in the center of the town is surrounded by three layers of people inside and three layers outside.

The new commander sent the adults to distribute money and food to the military households, and the military households in Tuolin Town, whether old or young, as long as they could still move, came and received the money and food, and the military households' faces finally became angry, but more were puzzled and puzzled.

Every time Lu Congbu distributed money and food to a household, he would say a few sentences: "The commander makes the lord benevolent, and when he can't see the military household hungry, arrange for the official to send money and grain, and when he goes back, remember that the commander makes the lord good, but he can't be ungrateful." ”

The military families responded randomly, and some couldn't believe it.

Could it be that there are really such good officials in the world who would care about these mud-legged soldiers?

But look at the copper coins in your hand, and then look at the bags of rice on your shoulders, this is not a dream.

Someone really cared about them and really sent them rice and money.

The soldiers laughed, mixed with joy and sorrow.

And when Lu Congliang was giving money and food to the military households, Li Chuan went out for a walk, found an opportunity to take out the mortars and shells that had been kept in the Taobao warehouse, and then took the family out to sea.

The green mountains are hidden in the water, and the grass in the south of the Yangtze River has not withered in autumn.

At the end of September, the scenery of Jiangnan is still beautiful.

The sparkling blue waves on the sea, the sea and the sky outline a unique scenery, and it is easy to arouse the desire to explore.

Huang Tianxiang led the sailors to control the ship and pulled the sails all the way south on the sea.

This time he went to sea, Li Chuan just wanted to find a place to test the power of mortars, and he wouldn't go too far, so he only brought 30 family members, and the target was Jinshan, which was only a dozen kilometers across the sea.

Jinshan is an island, facing Jinwei Mountain across the sea, and Jinshanwei is also named after it.

Jinshan is not big, but it is not small, and you can see it from the tower of Jinshanwei.

Of course, only a rough outline can be seen.

In ancient times, the speed of sailing ships was very slow, and if the wind and water were smooth, it would be good to be able to catch up with the morning exercise trot, and if it was combined, the average speed would be a little faster than normal walking, and it would be seven or eight kilometers an hour to the end.

The boat was boring, so Li Chuan fiddled with mortars on the boat.

Levin's service is very thoughtful, and he also got him this instruction manual.

Li Chuan had read it several times, and he was already familiar with the essentials and details of some operations, and commanded the servants to move the guns to the deck, and pulled several ropes to tie them to the horizontal axis supporting the gun mount, and fixed the gun mount.

"Young master, this cannon is really light!"

Zhao Tiezhu's face was full of suspicion: "I heard that the Hongyi cannon cast by the imperial court weighs thousands of catties, and ten men can't lift it." This cannon is so small, and it is so light, a small person can carry it, can it really shoot a cannon? ”

"Nonsense!"

Li Chuan rolled his eyes angrily and said, "You'll know in a while." ”

Zhao Tiezhu was skeptical, and he really didn't believe how far this kind of small cannon could hit the iron bullet.

As for saying that he can carry a mortar alone, it is not bragging.

The mortars made by Levin are all made of modern alloys, even with the gun mount, it is less than 100 kilograms, and for a person like Zhao Tiezhu, who is as powerful as an ox, it is not too easy to carry this mortar.

"Go, get me a cannonball."

Li Chuan commanded while debugging the mortar.

"Yes!"

A family member had already agreed, and with great interest he took a cannonball.

Seeing this cannonball, the family's eyes widened.

Not to mention that the cannons are all iron bullets, why is this shell not round, but pointed, and the shape is too peculiar.

Li Chuan adjusted the angle of the barrel, and then aimed at the optical sight for a long time, before nodding with satisfaction, got up and took the arm-thick grenade from the hand of the family, and while loading it from the muzzle, he taught the family: "Look, if you load the shell like this, you must not get the opposite direction, the pointed end should be pointed upward, and the flattened side should be loaded in first, and the firing pin must be locked before loading the shell." ”

There are two ways to fire mortars: after the shell is loaded from the muzzle, it is forced to fire by relying on the decline of its own mass, so that the shell is fired; The other locks the firing pin, and after the shell is loaded, the manual operation releases the firing pin to strike the bottom of the projectile for ignition.

For the first operation, for the sake of safety, Li Chuan chose the second launch method.

"Look!"

Li Chuan grabbed the buckle and said, "As long as you pull here, the shells will be fired." ”

"Young master, don't you need to light a fire?"

Zhao Tiezhu couldn't help but ask, all the family members were confused.

Although everyone has never seen the firing of artillery, the basic common sense still knows.

You can shoot shells out without ignition, and you have never heard of such artillery.

"Of course!"

Li Chuan nodded affirmatively and shouted, "Look at it." ”

The hearts of the family members jumped, and they hurriedly stared at the muzzle of the cannon with wide eyes.

Li Chuan's eyes widened, and he was a little excited in his heart, and he pulled down the bracket suddenly.

Rumble!

There is no imaginary roar, although the sound of the cannonballs made by modern technology and craftsmanship is not small, but compared with the artillery firing of this era, the sound is much smaller, and the sound of the cannons is like a car bursting the wheel, a little low.

The family only faintly saw that something seemed to be shooting out of the muzzle, but they didn't see it clearly.

As for the recoil, it is actually not as serious as expected.

Locks are installed on the wheels that support the gun mount, and the gun mount can be held in place by locking the lock when firing the shell. If it was on land, the gun carriage could be fixed directly on the ground, although the ship could not be fixed to death, but Li Chuan had already asked the family to tie the gun carriage to death with a rope, so it was only a shock on the deck, and the recoil was removed.

The family members were stunned for a few seconds before they hurriedly looked around, looking for cannonballs.

Li Chuan held a telescope and followed the cannonballs.

The rate of fire of the shell was fast, but after a few seconds, it plunged headlong into the sea.

There was a plank there, and I don't know where it came from.

Rumble!

The water was spraying and the shells exploded.

"Not a lot!"

Li Chuan secretly said that it was a pity, although there was an optical sight, but after all, it was the first time in his life to do this kind of work, and it was inevitable that he would miss a lot, and the place where the shell entered the water was at least twenty meters away from the wooden plank.

I readjusted the parameters and continued to load the shells.

Although this mortar has no technical content, the muzzle velocity and firing range can be adjusted, and the eight-kilometer range that Levin said is only the effective killing range, in fact, the maximum firing range is even higher.

Of course, if you blindly pursue the range, the hit of the shell will also be affected.

Eight kilometers is only the maximum firing range of a precision strike, and if the shells are fired more than 10 kilometers away, the error at that time will not be 10 meters or 20 meters, but in units of 100 meters, and it is not surprising that the shell will deviate by 1 kilometer.

It's another shot, but it's not as good as the previous one.

At least 30 meters away from the plank.

Li Chuan frowned, and continued to adjust without giving up.

The family members were shocked, their faces full of disbelief.