Zhu Changhao asked the fleet to escort Wu Keshan north, on the one hand, he was really afraid that these ordnance would fall into the hands of Lin Dan Khan, especially the tiger squat cannon, which was a militaristic killing weapon, although it was equipped with 300 projectiles, I believe that Lin Dan Khan did not have the ability to make projectiles, so he couldn't help but guard against it. "Words, feelings, first, http://www.Klxsw.com

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According to the news from Eagle Eye, in the sixth year of the Apocalypse, Huang Taiji found a bronze cannon on the coast of Liaoxi, and later the wild boar Pinurhachi didn't initiate the Battle of Ningyuan? Yuan Chonghuan, the defender of the Ming Dynasty, defeated him with Portuguese-made Hongyi cannons, and this war made the Later Jin people realize the power of artillery.

Later, in September, Nurhachi died, and Huang Taiji began to make cannons in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, and now copper cannons have been made, which are said to be of poor quality. Later, Fan Wencheng gave Huang Taiji advice and sent Sonny to Macau to negotiate with the Portuguese to buy artillery.

Another one is to get in touch with Mao Wenlong, and by the way, in Mao Wenlong's Phi Dao team, he inserted his own people, gradually put Mao Wenlong in the air, and even directly borrowed Yuan Chonghuan's hand to kill this person. After all, from the original historical time and space, Mao Wenlong was not a staunch anti-Qing faction, but only an opportunist. Zhu Changhao felt that Phi Dao was such an important place, and it was a little uneasy to let an opportunist preside over it, so it was better to replace it with his own people.

This time, Zhu Changhao planned to let the director of the Baihe County Inspection Department, the company commander Zhao Yuanyi, and the deputy company commander Bian Shanhu escort the ordnance to the north this time, after all, in addition to the long knife, artillery, iron pot, salt, and tea bricks, there are also some things that Wu Keshan purchased along the way that he thought would be useful to Horqin, including books, medicinal materials, cloth, and even a lot of rouge gouache.

King Rui prepared thirty sailing ships for Zhao Yuanyi and them, including two Cangshan boats, which sent 100,000 catties of grain to Mao Wenlong in addition to the necessary firearms for the escorts.

After all, there are more than 100,000 people in the Ming Dynasty on Phi Island, and Zhu Changhao's 100,000 catties of grain, although it is a drop in the bucket, can be exchanged for the support of many people and soldiers on Phi Island.

In fact, although the Dongjiang River occupied by Mao Wenlong was enough to contain the Houjin, his own strategy was limited, and the annual wasted military salary could not be calculated, and he only cared about recruiting merchants and selling forbidden goods, nominally aiding North Korea, but in fact he went out of the border fortress in vain, and when there was no military, he sold ginseng and cloth as his ministry, and when there was a war, he rarely got his function. In the matter of engineering, Pan Shiwen impeached Mao Wenlong for wasting military pay and killing prisoners indiscriminately, and Shang Baoqing and Dong Maozhong requested that Mao Wenlong's troops be withdrawn and the troops in Shanhaiguan and Ningyuan should be rectified. The military department discussed and decided that it would not work.

In Zhu Changhao's eyes, this is not a big deal. Just the year before last, that is, in April of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, Nurhachi led a large army to conquer Mongolian Khalkha, "enter the Xila wooden wheel and get its livestock", Daming was afraid that after Nurhachi conquered Khalkha Mongolia, he would strengthen his strength, so he asked Mao Wenlong to send troops to stab Houjin's ass.

In May, Mao Wenlong attacked Anshan, and Nurhachi received an urgent report from Shenyang, so he had to give up halfway, only conquering Horqin, and Chahar had not had time to clean it up!

Moreover, Mao Wenlong also created Dongjiang Town, an important military town, and made great achievements in the war with the Later Jin.

Historically, this Dongjiang town includes the occupied area east of the Liaohe River, and actually owns the islands of the Bohai Sea, Fort Arthur, Kuandian Fort, Tieshan, Changcheng and other cities, which is dead on the chrysanthemum of Houjin to prepare a string of poisonous dragon drills, so that Huang Taiji and they shrink back, that is, to attack the Daming Pass, but also to guard against Mao Wenlong and them.

It's just sky-high

(This chapter is not finished, please turn the page) the emperor is far away, perennial on the Phi Island, there are many people, and Mao Wenlong is arrogant, and he is exaggerated and asks for too much money. This also laid the foundation for the disaster that was later beheaded by Yuan Chonghuan's edict.

After the matter of this escort was settled, Zhu Changhao took Wu Keshan and his entourage to the Anmin camp to practice how to fire artillery.

Although Wu Keshan knows about the return cannon, however, for a small cannon like the Tiger Squat Cannon, to be honest, it still feels very fresh.

At the Beishan shooting range, Zhu Changhao immediately asked Sun Chuanting and them to come, and then asked the commander of the artillery division, Sun Yuanhua, to come over, on the one hand, to check the current formation of the artillery division, and on the other hand, to see if Sun Chuanting and Sun Yuanhua could have the concept of coordinated infantry and artillery operations.

By the way, in the past half a month, has Lu Xiangsheng's rack been erected in the White Tiger Army, how is the training now?

Anmin camp, Beishan shooting range, this is the place to test firearms, artillery, firewood warehouse, grenades, this Beishan, is a stony soil block mountain, is the Qinling Mountains remnants, the mountain is heavy, not afraid of the bombardment of many firearms.

After Zhu Changhao recruited Wu Keshan, Sun Chuanting, Sun Yuanhua, Lu Xiangsheng and others to his regiment commander's room, he began to let people prepare artillery, and in addition, he also asked Sun Yuanhua to perform martial arts today, and finally what does the White Tiger Army look like?

A quarter of an hour later, the artillerymen of the three companies arrived at the shooting range with nine tiger squat guns and a Franc machine gun pulled by horses, and Zhu Changhao immediately stepped forward and asked the artillerymen to explain to Wu Keshan, what should we pay attention to in this da artillery?

Note that the content is nothing more than a bomb? Cleaning? How to deal with general faults? What the artillery should do when firing and so on.

Wu Keshan listened very carefully, and some detailed operation essentials were written down by him with Mao.

Three companies, each company sent people to operate two tiger squat guns, and the remaining three, according to Zhu Changhao's requirements, were all handed over to Wu Keshan for practical experience.

This time, Zhu Changhao used yellow gunpowder, which is a more powerful gunpowder than black gunpowder, and the purpose is to let Wu Keshan see the power of the artillery.

Finally, I want to show Wu Keshan the Franc cannon that has just been developed by the Ordnance Superintendent, this kind of cannon weighs almost a thousand catties, and the firing range is one mile, and the barrel of the cannon body, as well as the gun chamber, has been changed from copper by Sun Yuanhua and Song Yingxing, and some craftsmen have changed it to steel forging, in order to forge this cannon chamber, Sun Yuanhua directly let people create a spindle-shaped anvil iron, and then the blacksmiths continue to forge, anneal, and then forge, repeatedly, it took seven days, no rest, Only then did he hammer out a cannon chamber.

After the barrel was also poured out of the guò mold, it was fed on a five-inch cylindrical anvil, and finally the barrel and chamber were melted and hammered together.

Then through the guò file, polished, polished, before it becomes a cannon.

Now, the muzzle of this Franc cannon is five inches, and because it is forged as a whole, it is melted, and the air tightness is the best.

Place it on a gun rack and walk with two horses pulling it.

Zhu Changhao visually inspected this Franc cannon, according to the effect of steel hammering, hardness, toughness, and ductility, it is definitely much better than the copper Franc machine, and it can even achieve the effect of a red-clothed cannon.

According to the records of the "Wubei Zhi", the firing range of the Franc cannon is only more than 1,000 feet, at most one mile.

The red-coated cannon weighed three thousand pounds and was more than ten feet long

(This chapter is not finished, please turn the page) Cheng is a little more than two miles.

Now Zhu Changhao asked Sun Yuanhua to forge the Franc machine with steel, the gun body is lighter, the barrel is shorter, and the firing range effect is the same as that of the red-coated cannon, and even due to the overall forging, the air tightness is superior to the red-coated cannon.

Zhu Changhao will never do it with copper cannons, after all, copper is now the metal auxiliary currency of the Ming Dynasty, and using copper to cast cannons is simply burning money, not cost-effective.

After the artilleryman explained, he began to aim, fill and bor, ignite, and fire one by one.

When firing, be sure to crouch down and open your mouth to prevent damage from the explosion, as well as to protect your ears.

After three rounds of projectiles are fired, the barrel is lubricated with a brush dipped in lard and then fired.

Wu Keshan couldn't help it, and when it was their turn to practice, he personally ignited and launched, and the projectile directly penetrated three layers of two-inch thick wooden boards.

Wu Keshan and the people he brought directly finished firing twelve shells before they quieted down, but their red faces, like hens that had just laid eggs, were full of excitement.

Zhu Changhao ignored it, and said directly to Sun Yuanhua, "Look at our new Franc cannon, use the flowering bomb that has just been made, and replace the wooden target in front of me with ten sheep."

"Yes, lord."

Suddenly, the artilleryman's flag turned and directly pushed the Franc cannon to the front.

Wu Keshan found that the projectile used in this Franc machine gun was different from that of the Tiger Squat Cannon. The Franc cannon looked large, and the barrel was dark and shiny, and the projectile was spindle-shaped, like a turtle shell, covered with patterns.

About two quarters of an hour, the sheep were brought in by the cooking class of the Qinglong Army, and two miles away, ropes were tied together and pressed against a hundred-pound boulder.

After a qiē was ready, the Franc cannon fired decisively, and the flowering shell hit the sheep directly.

Zhu Changhao, Wu Keshan, Sun Chuanting, Sun Yuanhua and others rode towards the flock.

Seeing that all the sheep were dead, many of them were torn by shrapnel, and the legs and heads of the sheep were scattered all over the ground, which was terrible. Even Wu Keshan, who kills sheep all year round, couldn't help but take a breath of cold air when he saw this scene.

Then, the two flowering bombs in the back were all fired at the cliff, and the result was dusty, and a large crater with a diameter of about ten feet (three meters) was directly formed on the cliff, and the problem was that the cliff was stony, granite to be precise.

After watching this scene, Wu Keshan wanted to open his mouth to ask Zhu Changhao for such a Franc cannon and flowering shell, but Zhu Changhao seemed to know his thoughts, and without him opening his mouth, he said, "Uncle, this king has this Franc machine gun, and the projectile is only three rounds, and it is being tested, don't make up your mind, even if I give this cannon to you now, there will be no shells." ”

After listening to this, Wu Keshan wanted to say something more, and then smiled wryly.

Zhu Changhao has to look at the formation of the White Tiger Army, but the sky is already dark, and Wu Keshan is present, so he has to postpone it until tomorrow.

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