Early in the morning, Sun Yi ran to Bu 19's sailors to study the tiger squat cannon that had just been equipped on the armored raft. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In Qi Jiguang's era, the tiger squat cannon belonged to heavy firepower, and in the Chongzhen period, the tiger squat cannon had been reduced to a small cannon in the army.

The tiger squat cannon in the Chongzhen period was larger than the tiger squat cannon in Qi Jiguang's era in terms of size and weight. The barrel of the tiger squat on the armored raft is two feet long, with five hoops, a caliber of two inches and three points, and a weight of 95 catties. It can fire lead bullets with a total weight of one pound, and if you fire solid lead bullets, you can hit five or six hundred steps.

The official name of this tiger squat cannon in the Ming Dynasty was called the exterminator cannon. Because Aixinguo taboos this name, it was renamed the old name Tiger Squat.

The three guns were equipped with a wooden roon with a wheel eight feet long and three wooden wheels, two of which were two feet six inches in diameter in the front and one in diameter of one foot five inches in the rear.

The total weight of the three guns of the rolling car company is 300 catties, and it can be pulled and run when marching, and when it is flat on the ground, the extinguishing cannon just forms a firing angle, and the three cannons can be fired at the same time.

If the terrain is not easily accessible by the rolling car, the gunner can dismantle the cannon, cover the cannon with an iron hoop, and fix it to the ground with a large iron nail a foot long, and use it alone like a crouching tiger.

Now the Tiger Squat Cannon installed on the raft has been easily modified, and the original arquebus ignition has been changed to battery ignition. It was still a ro-ro with three guns, but the front and rear wheels of the ro-ro were removed, the wheels were truncated, and the smaller rear wheels were installed at the front wheel position, and the wheels were no longer installed at the rear wheel position, and they were directly pressed against a large wooden board at the bottom of the raft's cabin.

The Tiger Squat Cannon on the raft is mainly used to fire shotguns. Doing so sacrifices range, but increases the accuracy of hits. In the best case, a single shot can form a barrage of five or six feet from a distance of 300 paces.

However, Bu Shijiu, the deputy commander of the naval division, did not intend to use the tiger squat cannon like this. He believed that the 300-step range Tiger Squat Cannon must be fired at the sky like an arrow shot, and the barrage with a radius of five or six zhang was blank in the front, back, and left and right of the barrage. On a fluttering raft, such a launch could not hit the target at all, and it was a complete waste of gunpowder.

Bu 19 wanted to use the ship-borne Tiger Squat Gun in the same way as using the Three-Eyed Gun: the gunner turned the rolling cart in the raft to point at the target, and took advantage of the characteristics of the battery to fire directly at the enemy, sweeping all obstacles in the path of the shells.

As a result, the effective firing range of the ship-borne Tiger Squat Cannon was reduced from 500 paces to 250 feet. Therefore, Bu 19 has always regretted that the only general cannon of the coalition army could not get on the raft because of the recoil.

The general was arranged on the shore, with a barrel three feet long, seven hoops, a weight of two hundred and sixty pounds, and two pounds of lead bullets. After the gunpowder is loaded, it is compacted, a wooden horse is put in first, and then buckshot is put in.

The so-called Trojan horse is actually a wooden plug that is slightly smaller than the inner diameter of the barrel. When the gunpowder in the barrel is ignited, it relies on the Trojan horse to hold back the expanding gas, and finally releases the energy at once, and flies out with a lead bullet.

When Sun Yi was observing the tiger cannon around the raft, Bu Jiu was looking at the general cannon that could not be on the raft like his wife on land, and a Liaodong gunner who did not know the deputy commander of the naval division spit on the stars and taught the knowledge of artillery to this old man.

This general cannon, which is amazing in the eyes of Bu Jiu, can only rank third in the ranks of generals, and it is called the third general cannon.

Naturally, the second general is bigger than the third general, and the weight of the second general's cannon can reach five or six hundred catties.

Bigger than the second general is naturally a general, and a general's cannon weighs around a thousand catties!

Whether it is a captive cannon or a tiger squat cannon, they can't be ranked in the ranks of generals at all, and they are very common.

As common as the tiger squat cannon, there is also a small cannon called the Furlong machine, a Furlong machine can carry a lot of guns, and when the cannon is fired, it can be constantly changed, and there is no need to load gunpowder like a guncannon.

At the beginning, the Ming army also had a very heavy Furlong machine, but because the air leakage between the mother and child guns of the Furlong machine could not be far, the heavy artillery was all changed to a general cannon, and the Furlong machine was only used as a small cannon.

"If you want to say the most powerful cannon", the Liaodong gunner elongated his voice like a guanzi, "You have to count the Hongyi cannon made of red hair!" The people who love the new country hate the word Yi, so they change it to the red-coated cannon! ”

"Tell me, what's the best way to use the red-haired cannon?" , Deputy Commander Bu Nineteen waited like a child with his mouth half-open to listen to the story.

The Liaodong gunner coughed and said, "Do you know how much a Hongyi cannon weighs?" Telling you can scare you to death! At least 3,000 pounds! ”

"The barrel of the Hongyi cannon is seven or eight feet long, the wall of the tube is thick, and it slowly thickens from the head to the tail, like a slender mallet, but the caliber is only about four inches."

"The farthest distance of an ordinary general's cannon is only three miles, and the Hongyi cannon can easily hit seven or eight miles, and ten miles is not a problem."

"If you want to talk about this Hongyi cannon, it was Xu Guangqi who donated money from several adults at the earliest, and went all the way to Guangdong to buy four of them from Hongmaozi. It took a year to bring back the Beijing division and give the emperor a drill, and the emperor Shengming immediately bought it with silver, and bought a total of thirty people in one go. ”

"Thirty Hongyi cannons, the emperor left eighteen guards in Beijing, eleven of them were all transported to Liaodong, and I heard that there was another one, and for some reason he blew up his chamber."

"The eleven Hongyi cannons in Liaodong showed their might, and at that time, the old slaves of Aixinguo fought all the way to Ningyuan, and were bombarded by the Hongyi cannons of Yuan Inspector's division! What are you talking about, the Hongyi cannon that blew up the old slave is the one that Lord Xu Guangqi bought with his own money! ”

"The emperor knew that this Hongyi cannon was a heavy weapon in the army, so he ordered people to spend a lot of silver in Shandong to imitate it. It's no wonder that you say it's not weird, our Shandong side has just been successfully imitated, and Aixinguo has picked up one on the beach. ”

"How can it be such a coincidence? This must be some traitor in the court who took the lives of the soldiers in front of us seriously, and secretly sold the red-haired cannon to Aixinguo. The Great Khan of the Aixin Kingdom jumped up from his sleep happily, and gave this Hongyi bronze cannon a dragon tail general of the town country. Let me tell you, the general is not the same as the general of Zhenguo Longwei, people have a name, and these things are famous, if you give us a long time as a people's husband, you will slowly understand. ”

"This Great Khan of the New Kingdom took shit luck, took this Hongyi bronze cannon as a mold, and actually cast it into a red-haired cannon by himself, and cast forty people in one go, and made it a heavenly blessing to cheer the general cannon."

"Ai Xinguo pulled forty Hongyi cannons to attack our Dalinghe City, tell me, how can we defend it? That guy, others can hit us, but our cannons can't reach others. Seeing that one enemy platform after another was defeated by Hongyi artillery, there was no way. ”

"Let me tell you, don't look at the Hongyi cannon can hit as far as ten miles, and it's not so useful to fight. Why do you know no? Because I can't hit it accurately. Ai Xinguo pulled the Hongyi cannon to a position of 1,000 feet from the enemy platform, that guy, the cannonball hitting the enemy platform is like smashing walnuts directly with a sledgehammer, and the dead person is called a miserable, and it is impossible to see it. You people who haven't fought can't even think of coming! ”

At this time, the king stuffy man trotted all the way,

"Commander Bu, General Yang invites you and Lord Lidel to go to the General Staff."

Bu Jiujiu hurriedly turned around and explained to the old army of Liaodong as he walked,

"You wait for me, when I come back from my errands, you will continue to speak, you have a very interesting conversation."