Yuan Yao turned around and was about to leave the oars' room, which was already on the right track, but saw the tun commander who had commanded the oarsmen before, crying and bewildered on the side, so he couldn't help but comfort: "You don't have to be discouraged, this kind of new ship has never appeared, and you can't operate it." Moreover, this kind of ship has high technical requirements, so it will be easier for people who know how to write to get started, and you can go back to the original army and continue to be your commander, and I will not demote you. ”

"General Xie's grace of innocence!"

The tun chief was first grateful for the gift, and then suddenly gritted his teeth and knelt down and said, "Small...... The little one also wanted to ask the general to give the little one a chance, and the little one wanted to learn to command this new ship. ”

Yuan Yao was stunned and said, "Why? ”

The tun chief said resignedly: "The little one just heard the general say...... Whoever learns first will be in a high position, so ......"

"Flutter!"

Yuan Yao couldn't help but smile and said: "You are a good ear, and it is not impossible to learn if you want to, but are you willing to give up the position of tun chief?" ”

Tun Chang was stunned for a moment, but immediately said with a ruthless face: "The little one is willing!" ”

”！！！“

Yuan Yao finally got up when he heard this, because a person who can't read big characters and has no identity, it is not easy to get mixed up with the commander of a hundred people, he must be a person who has made military merits, and it is even more difficult to be willing to give up, so Yuan Yao is a little impressed by this person.

"Zishan, you changed your armor and robes with him......"

Yuan Yao first commanded Yuan Hong, and then said to Tun Chang: "From today on, you will be one of my personal soldiers." Everyone in my barracks knows how to read, and all of them have read military books, so you can ask them for advice at ordinary times, and how much you can learn depends on your perseverance and determination. I hope that one day you will be like Yuan Hong, and you will stand in front of me and tell me your name! ”

Hearing this, the tun chief looked excited and said, "General Xie cultivates!" ”

"Call the lord!" Yuan Yao said with a smile.

"No, thank you!"

Tun Chang was even more excited, because in the Han Dynasty, the title of "lord" was lower than the title of "general", and letting him call him a low-level title proves that he is his own! In other words, he will not be a helpless and ordinary good family from now on.

Yuan Yao nodded to the tun chief, then turned to the other three guards and said, "You are the same, if you want me to remember the name, show your real skills." ”

"No!" The three guards replied in unison.

Yuan Yao stopped talking nonsense and reflexively walked up the deck, but he did not return to the flying house, but walked into the room where the ballista was placed. Although the navigation problem of the ship was solved, the key was to solve the problem of the ballista's hit, so Yuan Yao's next step was to find out where the gunner's inability to hit the target was.

When he came to the room, Yuan Yao stood aside and observed the operation of the gunners, but he didn't find anything wrong with the gunners, but after five or six shots, he couldn't hit. Now the battleship is only fifty steps away from the target, and if this distance can't be hit, then this so-called battleship may be useless, which is something that Yuan Yao never wants to see.

"Why don't you always win?" Yuan Yao couldn't stand it anymore and asked a gunner who was in charge of aiming.

The gunner said with an aggrieved face: "General Qiyu, this ship is shaking too much, we are either high or low, it is always a little bit worse, but the small one will definitely be able to hit it if he practices a few times!" ”

Yuan Yao nodded and motioned for him to continue, then turned to a few guards and said, "You take the extra stone bullets here to the oars room below, and then press them on this central axis...... It's the straight line in the middle, don't care why, go quickly. ”

"No." Although the three guards and the tun chief who had just joined didn't know what Yuan Yao meant, it was always right to carry out orders.

Yuan Yao watched the gunner's test firing for a long time, and he already understood that the main reason for the failure to hit, as the gunner said, was that the ship's bump was too large.

There are many reasons why ships are bumpy, but most of them are problems that cannot be solved in this era. For example, the boats at this time are all flat-bottomed boats, and they are born to love to swing, which is a problem that there is no way.

It would be much better if it was a sharp-bottomed boat, the center of gravity would be lower, and it would be on the central axis, so that the shaking would be greatly reduced. But now there is no technology for a pointed bottom boat, so we can only try to use ballast stones to see if there is some relief.

In addition, the oarsmen also sit on both sides of the boat, which will cause the center of gravity of the boat to be scattered to both sides, and it is naturally easy to shake from side to side. It would be nice if I could all sit in the middle, but then I won't be able to paddle, so I can't solve it.

The remaining problem is that in order to protect the safety of the gunners, Liu Ye kindly added a chamber to the battleship, which inevitably raised the center of gravity of the ship.

Previously, when Yuan Yao designed the battleship at the beginning, he clearly stipulated that the superstructure should be canceled in order to avoid the center of gravity being too high and causing bumps, but now that I think about it, it is a bit of a matter of course. If there is no room, the gunner will definitely be shot to death by the enemy ship in the first time in wartime, so it is useless for the warship to be turbulent, so Yuan Yao now supports Liu Ye's decision, but he still has to think of the law to offset the problem of too high a center of gravity.

"I'll try!" Yuan Yao looked at it for a while, and when he saw that there was no progress, he couldn't help but come to a ballista and prepare to try it himself.

The gunner in charge of aiming moved out of the way, and the remaining gunners reloaded the ballista, and Yuan Yao raised the tail of the ballista and began to aim......

The ballista can be adjusted to aim, and even move left and right, but the space of the ship is limited, and the angle of rotation is very small, so the ship is required to be parallel to the target, otherwise it will exceed the firing range and cause it to be unable to aim.

The rules for ballista aiming are also three-point-one, so the hit rate requires a lot of personal experience from the gunner. Yuan Yao held the ballista and calmed down, feeling the shaking law of the ship, and slowly aimed at the target and moved the trigger......

With a "whoosh", the stone bullet flew straight towards the target, but the result was still flying, and it was even worse than the accuracy of other gunners......

Soon the second cannon went out again, this time a little closer to the target, but Yuan Yao stopped and looked thoughtful, as if he had made some new discoveries in his heart, and after a while he came back to his senses and ordered the gunner to continue loading......

The third shot Yuan Yao aimed very cautiously, and his expression became more and more serious, and the people around him became nervous......

"Smack" Yuan Yao moved the trigger; The "whoosh" stone projectile flew towards the target......

"Ah, what a pity!"

After the stone bullet flew out, there was a sigh and stamping sound around the area, because this shot could be said to be the closest to success among all the test shots, almost flying close to the target, almost hit, so everyone couldn't help but stomp their feet.

But when others felt sorry, Yuan Yao's face showed a sudden look, and then he ordered the gunner to continue loading, this time Yuan Yao pulled the trigger cleanly, and the stone bullet hit the target with a "bang" when everyone had not yet reacted!

"Ah, hit!!" Everyone was taken aback by the sudden situation.

"Ha, I see!" Yuan Yao also shouted happily, but the reason for being happy was completely different from others.

“……”