"Ah, I really hit it! Finally hit! That's great! ”

When everyone reacted, they couldn't help but cheer!

I only hit once in the morning, and I was only fifty steps away from the goal, and I don't know how many rounds I had won with a bow and arrow, but it was precisely because it was not easy that I would feel so happy after success.

Yuan Yao's face was also very happy, and he was full of confidence, but he wanted to consolidate his experience, so he immediately raised his hand and shouted to the gunners: "Come again!" ”

"No." The gunners responded very impassionedly, as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and after a while, the reload was completed, Yuan Yao aimed with a smile, and then moved the trigger......

"Bang", it was the target again, and the result ushered in another cheer!

One hit may be a coincidence, but two in a row is unlikely to be a coincidence. However, Yuan Yao did not stop, and asked the gunners to continue loading. The third shot missed, but it was enough to get to the target; Then the fourth cannon hit; The fifth shot missed; The sixth run is ......

Yuan Yao tried back and forth for more than a dozen shots before stopping, except for the first few shots that were a little extraordinary, the overall average of the back can almost maintain a three-in-one hit rate, if you increase training, Yuan Yao believes that the effect will definitely be better.

Yuan Yao got up and left the ballista, and then beckoned all the gunners and said, "Come here, everyone, I'll tell you what's going on." ”

The 50 gunners had already put down their work and watched on the side for a long time, and now Yuan Yao rushed over to wait for Yuan Yao's explanation.

Seeing that everyone was around, Yuan Yao didn't talk nonsense, and said directly: "Everyone knows that the reason why we can't hit is because the ship is bumpy, but the reason why we can't overcome the bump is because the initial velocity of the ballista is too slow, which will cause everyone to raise or lower the shooting angle after pulling the trigger, so when everyone aims, they must budget the bump angle generated within this initial velocity, and they can't really aim in a straight line." ”

A gunner asked embarrassedly: "General, what is muzzle velocity?" ”

Hearing this, Yuan Yao came to a ballista and explained: "The muzzle velocity is the speed at which the stone projectile is ejected. You see, the ballista is two feet long, and in the time between the distance between the end of the ballista and the ejection of the ballista, the angle of the ballista changes due to the shaking of the ship, although it is only a small change, but it becomes a big change at fifty paces. Therefore, everyone should add this little change to the prediction and aiming, and let go of the distance at this angle, so that you can really aim at the target. ”

"Oh, I see!"

A few gunners showed a look of sudden realization when they heard Yuan Yao's explanation, but most of them continued to be inexplicable. Yuan Yao had no choice but to let everyone start trying to shoot, and then prepare one-on-one guidance on the side.

At first, only a few people among the gunners understood, and after a few attempts, some people began to hit the target, which aroused a burst of envy from the people next to him, Yuan Yao did not hesitate to praise and cheer and encourage, and then carefully taught those who did not understand. After a while, more and more people hit the target, from a few people to a dozen, then more than 20 people to more than 30 people, and finally there are so many people who can't figure out whether they live or die, then there is no way but to let them do other work, there are more than 30 qualified ballista gunners is already a very gratifying number, at least they prove that the galley catapult battleship can be used in actual combat.

What Yuan Yao had to prepare was a training plan, from a fixed position to a fixed target, to a mobile position to shoot a fixed target. Then open the distance to practice long-distance accuracy, from fifty to one hundred steps; Then from one hundred and fifty paces to the maximum range of the ballista of two hundred paces, try to find out the effective range of the ballista on the water.

Then there is the shooting of moving targets, and there is the training of various tactics, such as seizing the upstream T-shaped position; kite flying tactics; "Zigzag" walking position shooting; Ring encirclement shooting tactics and so on......

Yuan Yao plans to compile these training requirements into a book, and then teach them to others, otherwise it is absolutely impossible for him to understand these alone, and he can't easily go to the battlefield, especially in water battles, because if you lose the battle on the ship, you have nowhere to run, and diving is easy to be caught, unless your water nature is like a fish, there are only two options: surrender or fight to the death.

The so-called gentleman does not stand under the dangerous wall, even if Yuan Yao dares to go on the ship to participate in the war, his subordinates may not agree, because if something happens to Yuan Yao, then everything they have paid before will be in vain.

Yuan Yao looked at the sky and saw that there was still enough time and the crew was in good condition, so he decided to carry out the next step of training.

"Okay, everyone pretty much understands shooting in place, all that's left to remember is how to shoot. Like a bow and crossbow, five ballistas firing together is called a salvo; Shooting at random is called scattering. We're going to start with salvo fire now, but this time it's not a fixed target, it's a moving target, and you're getting ready to shoot target two......"

After speaking, Yuan Yao said to the herald beside him: "Herald: Move parallel to the No. 2 target." ”

According to Yuan Yao's instructions, the warship began to move towards the next target.

Yuan Yao prepared three fixed targets on the shore, but they were just haystacks in the shape of warships piled up with weeds, although they were very simple, but they were still very useful, and the stone bullets that hit the target might still be recovered, and the others were almost broken and could no longer be used.

When the battleship sailed past the No. 2 target, the prepared ballista fired a salvo in Yuan Yao's command, but it missed, Yuan Yao was mentally prepared so he didn't care, in the gunner's continued loading, the warship sailed past the No. 2 target, and the target was no longer visible in the firing range......

Yuan Yao frowned and ordered, "Continue to move towards the third target; The gunner changed to attack target No. 3. ”

The ship travels very slowly, and according to the loading speed of the ballista and the adjustment of the firing range, this distance should be able to complete two salvos, but everyone is new, so there is no way to expect perfection, and only one salvo is missed. Yuan Yao had no choice but to write down the problem first and prepare to explain it later. ”

The third target was still missed, but Yuan Yao believed that this was only temporary, and it would be good to train a few more times, so he ordered the warship to turn around again, and fight again from the target sequence of 321, and then repeat it back and forth until it was proficient.

Craftsman Zuo Sun Lu once said that when the test ship was built in the Wafu Lake in Shouchun, the gunner could achieve a hit rate of one out of 100 rounds in 100 steps with simple training, but now it seems unlikely, at least not with simple training. However, Wafu Lake is a lake after all, the mobility is not strong, and the waves are certainly not as big as the Yangtze River, so it may be relatively easy to train.

Yuan should believe that practice makes perfect, and if simple training cannot be achieved, he will train hard, and if he can't do it, he will find a way to increase the number of ballistas to improve his hit. You must know that there are at most hundreds of guns on the sail battleships in later generations, and now there are only ten ballistas on this catapult battleship, and the carrier is only a ship, and there is still a lot of room for improvement.

For Yuan Yao, the greatest significance of this catapult battleship is not how far the range is; how high the hit is; How strong the data is, but in the fact that it proves that a ballista and an oared galleon can be equal to a battleship!

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