The platoon training has ended, and the officers and men of the Praetorian Guard now have the most basic discipline and obedience and collectivist consciousness. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The focus is on physical training, which is already underway, from jungle crossing to wrestling, horseback riding, and weight running.

That is to say, the comprehensive training of the Praetorian Guard is about to come to an end, and the next step is to divide these 10 provisional battalions and reorganize them according to five categories: cavalry, infantry (firearms), artillery, baggage, and engineers.

Of course, before that, it did not mean that cavalry only had to learn to ride horses, infantry only had to learn to fire firearms, and artillerymen only had to know how to fire.

Before the reorganization, Zhu Youxiao and Lu Xiangsheng planned to let the soldiers first conduct a certain amount of basic training in the skills of all types of troops, so that the soldiers would not neglect the all-round ability because they were too professional while being more professional.

"Time is very tight, the newly made firearms and artillery must be delivered to the Praetorian Guard as soon as possible, and the Ordnance Department cannot be lazy," Zhu Youxiao said to Xu Guangqi as he walked towards the Ordnance Department.

At this time, the Ordnance Department of Nuoda was like a big steamer, and as soon as Zhu Youxiao came in, he felt that it was suddenly summer, but when he looked up, it was a blast furnace like a pavilion standing in the courtyard of the Ordnance Division.

The iron-making blast furnace with a wider bottom and narrower and thinner at the top is Song Yingxing's masterpiece, and it is also the stirring iron-making blast furnace that Zhu Youxiao asked the Royal Academy of Engineering to step up the development.

Under the operation of the iron rod stirrer developed by Song Yingxing, which requires human propulsion, the sound of molten pig iron turning can be heard, and soon, the fiery wrought iron can be seen falling out of the other port.

As soon as the wrought iron cooled, a special craftsman quickly made the iron slats, and under the sonorous thrashing sound, it was soon possible to see someone transporting the rolled barrels into another gunsmith's workshop.

Zhu Youxiao did not go to this workshop, and before the rifling was successfully drawn, it is estimated that there will not be much technical improvement in the gunsmith manufacturing of the Ordnance Division, and he is now more concerned about artillery.

It is difficult to resist a large-scale cavalry charge with good firearms alone, and even if it is theoretically possible, it is difficult to organize a decent resistance once people experience the shocking momentum of the cavalry.

Although it is possible to restrain soldiers through discipline not to be afraid of death and not to retreat, Zhu Youxiao is unwilling to take this risk.

The last time he was attacked, he had seen the combat effectiveness of Jianyu, so he felt that it was more reliable for him to let better artillery disrupt the cavalry formation first and then sweep with firearms.

Tang Ruowang and Sun Yuanhua didn't know that Zhu Youxiao was already standing behind them at this time, and the two of them were holding iron bullets and stuffing the front end of a new type of artillery that looked bigger than the big cannon but much smaller than the red-coated cannon, and the other was carefully measuring with the newly improved crosshair on the cannon with a thumb up, and said to the other auxiliary gunner who was helping on the side: "Rotate twenty degrees in the northeast and adjust the elevation angle fifteen degrees." “

"What kind of cannon is this?"

Zhu Youxiao asked, and Sun Yuanhua hurriedly put down the iron bullet: "Back to Your Majesty, this is our newly developed Ming six-pounder cannon, we are testing it, and we plan to see the effect, dozens of cannon barrels have been scrapped, look over there." “

Zhu Youxiao looked at it, but it was a mountain of scrapped barrels, and at a glance, he knew that many of them had exploded, and there were even iron bullets that could not be plugged out of the barrels.

"The main thing is that the barrel is not good, we invited several first-class craftsmen, and Song Yingxing and them discussed together, before re-adopting the alloy steel technology proposed by Song Langzhongxin, and now we are preparing for the test."

Hearing Sun Yuanhua say this, Zhu Youxiao was also interested, and put his hands in the pockets of his white coat and pushed it with an arrow.

And Lu Xiangsheng and Liu Ruoyu, who visited together, were busy blocking in front of Zhu Youxiao, afraid that something would go wrong for a while, last time His Majesty also wanted to see what Mao Yuanyi, who had just entered the Royal Academy of Engineering, did to do a continuous gun test, but as a result, the fire gun exploded directly as soon as it was fired, and Zhu Youxiao, who was close, was also slightly injured, although no one was punished later, but it still made them worry about the king of a country facing such danger.

"Boom, a cannonball slipped and quickly disappeared into the distance, but there was not a single cannon sound ahead!"

"Huh?" The stunned Sun Yuanfang and Tang Ruowang both ran forward, and saw that the straw pile in front of them that was the target of the bombardment was still there, and the shell was also falling on the straw pile and did not burst.

"It seems that the range and accuracy have reached the expected value, the gun has not exploded, and the barrel temperature has just been touched by Weichen boldly with his hand, and it is okay, but now I didn't expect this shell to have problems again."

Sun Yuanhua was talking, but Tang Ruowang's eyes were blood-red and said, "It must be the one surnamed Song who made a ghost!" Every time there is a problem with the part he is responsible for, either the barrel explodes or the cannonball can't explode, that guy must cut corners, Your Majesty, the minister wants to join him! ”

"How can you blame me, you Westerner obviously deliberately changed the gun gauge to cause the resistance to increase, I don't think you still look like taking out the real things of you Westerners."

Song Yingxing, who accompanied Zhu Youxiao and others, hurriedly defended, but at this time, Sun Yuanhua interjected: "This gun gauge was newly transformed by Sun, using eight centimeters and four silks, which is narrower than before, but the effect is still good." “

"Okay, don't fight anymore, I'll try", Zhu Youxiao said and walked towards the shell.

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng and Xu Guangqi hurriedly shouted: "Your Majesty, no!" ”

Everyone was afraid that the dumb cannonball would suddenly explode again, and that would be very dangerous for His Majesty.

Song Yingxing was even more old and strong, and he ran directly in front of Zhu Youxiao to stop him, but he knew that although the power of his newly made flowering bomb could not kill a large area like a modern cannonball, it was still possible to blow a person apart.

"Get out of here!"

Zhu Youxiao pushed Song Yingxing away with a loud shout, and after measuring the distance, he lay on the ground, and shouted to Bi Maokang: "Give me the apocalypse." ”

Bi Maokang ran over and handed the firearm to Zhu Youxiao, and personally filled Zhu Youxiao with the newly improved paper shell bullets.

Zhu Youxiao took the torch and aimed at the shell.

Thunderclap!

The cannonballs in the straw pile in front of them suddenly exploded into dozens of pieces of iron, and flew directly, and the straw also ignited.

Zhu Youxiao spat out the straw ash that had just been blown by the wind in his mouth, stood up, walked towards everyone, and said to Sun Yuanhua: "The shell is too thick, change the material, and I have to get it out within three days, the officers and soldiers of the Praetorian Guard can wait, but the cannon barrel should be fine, you can mass produce the cannon barrel first, and tell Mao Yuanyi that the four-wheeled carriage he improved must also be stepped up, and at least a hundred must be built for me." ”