Artillery is heavy and clumsy, which often makes great difficulty in the mobility of the army, so it is extremely important whether its carrier, the vehicle carrying it, is light. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In this era when there were no motor vehicles, although Zhu Youxiao could buy them, he did not have the same amount of goods as the sky-high price to consume, so he could only use horse-drawn carriages as artillery carriers.

In a large workshop that looks like a shed to the west of the Royal Academy of Engineering, hundreds of carpenters and craftsmen who used to work in jewelry shops and carriage and horse shops, under the leadership of Mao Yuanyi, who has been awarded the title of Wailang of the Ministry of Works by the Imperial Court, are working hard to make the improved four-wheeled carriages and wheelbarrows requested by Zhu Youxiao.

Nowadays, the artillery of the Ming Dynasty cannot form an absolute suppression of the cavalry, in addition to the accuracy of shooting can not keep up, mobility is also a major problem.

The main reason for this is that the mobility of the vehicle is not high, because traditional horse-drawn carriages generally do not have steering differentials, and even if they are four-wheeled, they cannot make the front and rear wheels change direction at will, which makes it difficult for the artillery to turn quickly.

Although the wheelbarrow is the most convenient means of transportation in complex terrain, and small artillery is the most suitable for carrying this tool, the wheelbarrow of the Ming Dynasty today has no rolling bearings, and the wear and resistance caused by sliding friction increases, which makes the lightness and flexibility of the wheelbarrow not fully exerted.

"File carefully, file according to this drawing!"

Mao Yuanyi instructed a few skilled craftsmen from the jewelry store to touch a new horse-drawn carriage that had been preliminarily formed, as long as the most critical steering gear was installed, this new four-wheeled carriage could move flexibly.

Even he himself has some expectations, he dares to believe that no one in this Ming Dynasty has been able to build such a carriage, although many of them are technical information given to him by His Majesty, but he can build it according to the technical information itself is an achievement.

However, Mao Yuanyi did not simply copy according to the technical information provided by Zhu Youxiao, he also made another kind of carriage, and added his own ideas to this carriage, according to his drawings, the entire carriage was a welded iron guide rail.

A triangular gun carriage has a rolling bearing under each foot that is hand-filed by a craftsman, and the bearing sleeve on the guide rail can be rotated at 360 degrees, that is, in wartime, the muzzle of the gun can be turned immediately without turning the wagon.

But Mao Yuanyi only built this one, and it took nearly half a month, and it can only carry small artillery, once the barrel is too heavy, it will make the friction at the guide rail become larger, resulting in greater resistance, in this era of no way to ensure that the rails and bearings are absolutely smooth, once the resistance is too large, it will not be able to rotate directly, in this way, it will increase the weight of the carriage.

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but be stunned after seeing Mao Yuanyi's invention, but he didn't object to him to develop it boldly, but asked him to first make a bold attempt on the premise of ensuring that the technology of improving four-wheeled carriages and wheelbarrows was skilled and could be mass-produced.

However, now is the period when the Praetorian Guards are about to start grouping for comprehensive equipment training and special training in groups, Mao Yuanyi did not dare to delay His Majesty's major affairs, so he spent more attention on how to increase the production of improved four-wheeled carriages and improved wheelbarrows.

even did not hesitate to work overtime to catch up.

Because Zhu Youxiao paid these craftsmen very highly, even more than the officers of the Praetorian Guard, these craftsmen also worked very hard, and they did not feel resentful because of this.

Almost ten days later, hundreds of mule carts pulled hundreds of large long boxes and hundreds of new four-wheeled carriages that seemed to be much lower entered the arsenal of the Praetorian Guard barracks.

And on the day of the beginning of firearms drills, these equipment and baggage were placed on the school grounds.

And under the noses of all the officers and soldiers, in front of Colonel Zhu You, hundreds of boxes were opened, and you saw tens of thousands of shiny firearms, as well as hundreds of canvases, and you also saw yellow's shiny new six-pounder guns and three-pounder cannons, as well as other Ming original tiger squat cannons and other artillery pieces of the Ming Dynasty.

Like artillery, the firearms were not all Apocalypse flintlock pistols, and there were only 3,000 of them, which were made by the Ordnance Department overnight.

Therefore, the others are still improved versions of the bird gun and some firearms with some special functions, such as the three-eyed gun.

According to Zhu Youxiao's plan, now he can only mix and equip his own Janissaries first, and gradually replace the arquebus, but now the bird gun has to continue to be manufactured, especially some junior craftsmen can not make flintlock pistols at the beginning, but are sent to learn to make bird guns.

But even if it was a bird-making gun, Zhu Youxiao had to establish a junior craft school, that is, the Second Manufacturing School of the Beijing Division, which was directly under the Royal Ordnance Department, and recruit young people from the displaced people for training.

The reason why it is called the second manufacturing school is because the first manufacturing school is dedicated to training craftsmen with a certain craftsman memory and preparing for the development of more advanced equipment technology craftsmen.

However, students of the Second Manufacturing School can enter the First Manufacturing School on the basis of merit.

Without further ado, just to say that at this time, when the officers and soldiers of the Praetorian Guard saw these most advanced main equipment of the Ming Dynasty, their eyes lit up one by one, just like we saw all kinds of main station weapons in the military parade now, and they couldn't wait to try it now.

"Your Majesty, there are more than 5,000 guns, including 3,216 pieces of Apocalypse No. 1, 769 pieces of bird guns, more than 1,000 guns of other guns, 21 guns of Daming No. 1 (six-pounder guns), 64 guns of Daming No. 2 (three-pounder guns), and 37 other guns, which have been checked."

Liu Ruoyu said and presented the list.

Zhu Youxiao looked at it and nodded: "First distribute it evenly to each battalion, and let the commanders of each battalion bring their own soldiers to collect it." ”

"Yes!" The chief instructor Lu Xiangsheng replied and conveyed Zhu Youxiao's meaning, and at the same time, he and Zhu Youxiao also walked down together and personally issued weapons to them.

"This is the butt of the gun, this is a high-grade wenge wood, in order to counteract the damage caused by the recoil to you, and it was designed by His Majesty himself, as for what is recoil, when you took Xu Shilang's class, Xu Shilang told you, if you don't understand, ask Xu Shilang!"

"And then, this is the bolt, above the bolt is the hammer head, the firing iron plate and the buckle spring, the long tube in front is the barrel, and the knife on it can be snapped on or removed, unlike the big blade behind you, this is specially used to stab, called a bayonet, understand?"

Chang Yanling, who had been trained in the Ordnance Department, took out a long roll of paper as he spoke: "This is called a paper shell bullet, which is more convenient than you used to use bird guns to fill the medicine, after biting it, pour some gunpowder into this place called the primer pool, and then cover the primer pool, stuff the remaining paper bag into the barrel in front, compact it with a whole strip, and then you can dial the iron sheet to the firing state." ”

As he spoke, Chang Yanling fired a shot at a place where no one was around, followed by a puff of white smoke, and soon a sparrow in front of him had fallen to the ground.

The officers and soldiers of the first battalion couldn't help but be more interested in this Apocalypse No. 1 while marveling at Chang Yama's divine marksmanship.