Chapter 52: The Longwei Cannon

[Today's third update]

Zhang Shicheng saw Deng Haonan and Ma Cheng singing and harmonizing on the side, and Yan Siqi was confused, only caring about laughing, and immediately felt angry, and suddenly said: "The fourth child is really capable!" Not only can he buy back the cannon at a low price from the Fran man, but he is also the leader of the training soldiers. It's just that at the moment, the second brother still lacks a lot of artillery, and the fourth brother needs a lot of help! ”

As soon as the artillery was mentioned, Yan Siqi was very happy, the artillery he bought back for 3,000 taels of silver had the same performance as the one he bought for 5,000 taels or 8,000 taels of silver before, of course he was happy!

So he said: "The fourth child works a lot!" If you get them back some more cannons and sharp weapons, they will go to sea to hunt in the future, and the booty they get will not forget the merits of the fourth child! ”

Deng Haonan said yes again and again. The heart of Lao Tzu is worried about running out of money! You're just in time to send it to your door!

Seeing that Deng Haonan agreed, Ma Cheng also came to join in the fun and asked Deng Haonan to get him more. In this way, both of them wanted to expand their strength and had to change their attitude towards Deng Haonan.

In this way, after several people discussed, Yan Siqi finally made a decision, as long as Deng Haonan used it to buy artillery, gunpowder and weapons for his brothers, he could go directly to the account to pay the money, and there was no need to ask a few of them. As a result, the real power of Deng Haonan, the four leaders, finally jumped out of this camp and could reach out to the tent.

Deng Haonan was secretly happy in his heart, and now that he was secretly building a naval base, he was short of silver! This is really in response to that sentence, what do you want!

Deng Haonan immediately said that as long as there are enough funds or materials, Deng Haonan will spare no effort to help them make artillery and gunpowder.

Seeing that the matter had calmed down, it was no longer interesting for Zhang Shicheng and the others to take it down, so they said goodbye and left immediately.

Yan Siqi was very curious when he saw Deng Haonan's saber, and when he opened it, he saw that it was a first-class foreign product, and he couldn't put it down at the moment. Deng Haonan was speechless, knowing that this girl only wanted her own saber, so she had to endure the pain and give it to him generously.

Yan Siqi saw Deng Haonan's generous saber given to him, and his heart was suddenly happy, and his wariness of Deng Haonan was swept away at the moment.

After staying for a while, after visiting enough, he left with Yan Siyu and others.

Before leaving, Yan Siyu suddenly came to Deng Haonan's side and said, "What a beautiful saber!" You're willing to spend money! ”

Deng Haonan saw that Yan Siyu finally spoke to him again, and said with a smile: "It's all the filial piety of his brothers!" How? You're willing to talk to me! Just don't be mad at me? ”

"You're less smelly and beautiful!" Yan Siyu glanced at Deng Haonan and said, "I'll settle accounts with you in the future!" ”

As she spoke, Yan Siyu waved her right hand in front of Deng Haonan's eyes, and a delicate handcuff spun quickly on her thumb, and said with a smile: "This handcuff is really good!" Thank you very much! ”

After speaking, Yan Siyu giggled again, turned around and put the handcuff on the top of his head twice.

Deng Haonan was stunned for a moment, looked at the familiar handcuff, and looked down to see that the holster on his waist had been opened, but the handcuff was gone.

Ya, Deng Haonan rolled his eyes angrily, I didn't expect Yan Siyu, a little girl, to have this hand? Seeing Yan Siyu turn to leave, Deng Haonan subconsciously called her.

Yan Siyu stopped, turned to look at Deng Haonan, and said with a smile: "What? Give me a handcuff and you'll feel distressed? ”

"That-" Deng Haonan shook his head and smiled bitterly, it seemed that this girl was determined to take away his handcuffs, and gave up the idea of recovering them at the moment, and changed his words: "That's a new French handcuff, and the bullet caliber is different!" ”

As he spoke, Deng Haonan took off the holster, walked up to Yan Siyu, handed it to her, and said, "There is no special bullet, your handcuff is just an ornament!" ”

Yan Siyu took Deng Haonan's holster, and took a closer look, there were two small boxes next to the holster, one was filled with gunpowder and the other was filled with projectiles, which were really different from the projectiles of other handcuffs.

At the moment, he tilted his head happily left and right, and said with a smile: "Give it to me?" ”

Deng Haonan smiled bitterly and said, "Do I have a choice?" ”

Yan Siyu glared at Deng Haonan, obviously dissatisfied with Deng Haonan's answer.

"It's insincere when I look at you! Cheapskate! Yan Siyu pretended to be dissatisfied, but he didn't return it to Deng Haonan and turned to leave. At the moment of turning around, he couldn't help but sigh, and then quickly chased after Yan Siqi, leaving Deng Haonan stunned on the spot.

After a long time, Deng Haonan came back to his senses. One took away his own saber, the other took his own matching gun, and sure enough, they were brothers and sisters, born a pair of robbers. Turning his mind and smiling bitterly, aren't they robbers?

※※※

With Yan Siqi's nod, Zhang Shicheng and Ma Cheng also chose to acquiesce, and Deng Haonan could finally withdraw the funds for the purchase of weapons directly from the tent.

The construction of the Xiaonanshan Naval Base in the Ryukyus was in full swing, and Huang Zupei presided over the construction of the base, and led 2,500 disciples of the Martial Arts Hall to build the base with extremely high efficiency.

Sigou was fully responsible for the procurement of the base, and in order to maintain secrecy, all the items needed for the base were purchased from Shandong and Gyeonggi, and all kinds of craftsmen were secretly recruited from all over the country to go to the base.

Here, Deng Haonan is not idle.

On the one hand, he sent people to contact the Governor of Macao, Colonel Maersk Ruye, to ask when the European arms dealers would arrive in Macao, and to make reservations with them in advance. Of course, having Colonel Maersk Ruyer come forward would make things easier, but it was indispensable for the filial piety that was given to him. At the same time, Deng Haonan also ordered John, the captain of the battleship "Pallas," to find a way for someone else to contact and negotiate the purchase of arms.

On the other hand, Deng Haonan continued to begin his work on casting cannons and arranging gunpowder. With the acquiescence of Zhang Shicheng and Ma Cheng, and with the financial support of Yan Siqi, Deng Haonan quickly recruited a group of craftsmen.

At this time, the court was very annoyed by the Dutch's attack, so its attitude towards the Twenty-Eight Brothers Alliance began to ease. From the previous vigorous suppression, to today's choice of acquiescence. Their purpose was simple, to get the alliance of brothers to deal with the Dutch, and to achieve the goal of the court to profit from it.

The local government of Fujian eased its crackdown on the fraternal alliance, allowing many raw materials for artillery and gunpowder to enter Kinmen Island. Deng Haonan just caught up with this opportunity, rebuilt the gunpowder workshop and the cannon casting yard, and personally supervised the manufacture of artillery.

At this time, Deng Haonan already had enough technology and experience in manufacturing ancient artillery, and the efficiency of directing craftsmen to cast cannons and refine gunpowder was also greatly improved.

Because Deng Haonan adopted the assembly line artillery system, in more than a month, he supervised the manufacture of 20 thousand-pound tiger cannons, breaking the record of Zhao Shizhen of the imperial court supervising the construction of 12 Furlong machine guns in January.

And Deng Haonan himself was not idle, he imitated the 32-pound redcoat cannon weighing two tons, and successfully built three. Each weighs 5,000 catties and is named Longwei Cannon. However, when Deng Haonan was at the limit of the bore pressure, a Longwei cannon blew up.

In the end, Deng Haonan determined that the maximum firing range of the Longwei cannon was about five miles when it was loaded with live ammunition, and when it was loaded with loose bullets, the effective firing range was 500 meters, which could block the fan-shaped front with a width of 300 meters, and the lethality was amazing.

Deng Haonan left these two guns alone and assembled them on his three-masted ship, one in the bow and one in the stern. The twenty thousand-pound Huwei cannons with an average cost of 500 taels of silver were handed over to Zhang Shicheng and Ma Cheng for 1,000 taels of silver each, but Deng Haonan took half of the profits, and 10,000 taels of silver was lightly received, and he did it unknowingly.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

[Add a more chapter, thank you for the generous reward of the book friend (scarecrow) children's shoes!] 】