After a while, Wu Shengtian put down the binoculars and scolded: "Damn! These rebels are actually waiting for the artillery to come! This seems a bit of a hassle! This time, they didn't get it right, they brought in the Hongyi cannon! Next, I'm afraid we're going to have to invite the cannon out too! ”

Liu Wei also looked at it for a while, nodded solemnly, and said, "It looks good, damn bastard!" In order to deal with Lao Tzu, he brought all the Hongyi cannons! Our wall can't stand this kind of guy a few times! Grandma's! I'm afraid our cannon can't hide it this time! ”

"Come on, let Platoon Leader Dai come over!" Wu Shengtian and Liu Wei walked down the lookout and immediately ordered.

After a while, a young man rushed over, stretched out his hand and saluted the standard sea wolf military salute, and said loudly: "Artillery platoon Dai Fang has been ordered to report for duty!" ”

"This is not home, there is no need to be so polite, you go down and prepare, pull out the No. 5 short cannon and No. 3 long cannon, get it on the wall, get ready to shoot, the rebels may bring a Hongyi cannon immediately, you must destroy it before the enemy fires!" If it doesn't work, use the blossom bomb! In short, they can't be allowed to collapse the wall! ”

When Dai Fang heard this, his spirits were lifted, and his face showed joy, as an artilleryman, he came with the army this time, but he never had the opportunity to play with the artillery, and the few cannons transported here were only in a compound every day, with his subordinates for drills, but he did not dare to put them on the wall, that would be too ostentatious, at best, he only got two small improved tiger squat cannons to the wall, but the tiger squat cannon belongs to the leveling artillery, it is too small, and it is not fun to play.

These two rebels attacked, he and his subordinates did not get a chance to make a move, they could only stare dryly at the infantry, this time finally Wu Shengtian allowed them to get the cannon out, this time it depends on their ability.

So he responded loudly, ran down like a fly, beckoned his artillerymen, and called some village soldiers to help, ran to the courtyard of the Liu family, and got the two cannons out with a sigh.

Although the six-pounder gun is light, it has now been eliminated by the navy of the Sea Wolves, and only a small part is left for use as deck secondary guns, but for the army, the six-pounder gun has the benefits of a six-pounder gun.

First of all, the six-pounder gun is a long cannon, the body barrel is relatively large, it is a cannon, the firing range has an advantage, the direct firing distance is long, and the army's six-pounder gun is not much, but it is an improved type, the body barrel is lengthened again, and the gun wall is gradually reduced to a little thinner, reducing the weight.

In addition, the tail part of the gun is thicker, which can make it withstand more gunpowder, and the firing range has been increased a lot, and it is mounted on the standard wheeled gun carriage, which is relatively light in movement, and a horse can be dragged to follow the army.

As for the twelve-pounder gun, it is a short-barreled mountain howitzer, the trajectory is relatively high and curved, and the firing range is not too high, but when it is suspended, it can also hit two miles away, and the direct firing distance is short, but it can also be guaranteed to hit about 300 steps, and it can fire grenades and shotguns, and it is extremely powerful at close range.

These two cannons were dragged out of the Liu family's compound by Dai Fang, and they were dragged up the wall from an inner slope and placed on top of the two preset gun emplacements.

The walled wall is not thinner than the city wall, so the area of the gun position is not large, and it can not withstand the recoil when the artillery fires.

Therefore, on the gun position, the stake is reserved to fix the pulley group, and after the cannon is put on the wall, a set of pulley sets must be fixed to reduce the recoil distance of the artillery firing, so as to ensure the effective use of the artillery on the wall.

Dai Fang had already made preparations, and as soon as the two cannons were transported to the wall, he immediately led people to start installing the pulley block, fixed the cannon on the pulley block, and arranged it in the gun position.

The two cannons are wearing cannon jackets at this time, so that people can't see the cannon bodies covered underneath, but from the shape, discerning people can still recognize that these are two cannons, and those township soldiers have never seen such a big killing weapon hidden in the village before, so they all gathered around to see the freshness, and were coaxed aside by Dai Fang with a flat face.

As soon as the gun jacket was uncovered, the artillerymen immediately began to wipe and maintain the two guns, re-clean the gun chambers, and transport the ammunition boxes to the nearby ammunition depot, where they could be raised at any time for the cannons.

According to the requirements, the gun emplacements and the ammunition depot where the ammunition is stored should be separated, the ammunition depot should be set up in the safest place, next to the cannon, only safe solid shells and shotguns are allowed, and the powder pack and explosive grenades must be placed in the safe ammunition depot, in case the ammunition is killed in the battle, causing catastrophic consequences.

When it was used, the medicine bag and grenade were sent to the gun position by a special person, and the artillery operated by the gun was loaded and fired, which was obviously much more clever than the Ming army in this era.

As an artillery officer, Dai Fang is well versed in this, and the preparations are done in an orderly manner, and the gunners are also proficient in this way.

It took about more than half an hour, and the two guns were all ready, ready to fire, and the muzzle of the black hole pointed at the enemy outside the village.

At this time, there was also movement on the rebel side in the distance, and more than 200 people drove several mules and dragged a Hongyi cannon with a cannon mount weighing 2,000 catties from the rebel camp to Xishan Village.

Wu Shengtian held a telescope to carefully observe the situation on the rebels' side, and after seeing that the rebels had brought the Hongyi cannon, his face became a little tense.

Dai Fang was also holding a telescope with a higher magnification at this time, observing the situation of the Hongyi cannon on the rebel side, and after carefully identifying it for a while, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

In the eyes of the Ming army, this should be an absolutely advanced weapon, but in the eyes of Dai Fang, it is simply a piece of garbage.

This Hongyi cannon looks very majestic, the black barrel is thick and big, but the barrel is not very long, and the caliber can't be seen roughly how big, but it is estimated that it will not exceed the caliber of the twelve-pound cannon at most, and the weight of the projectile is within twelve pounds at best, but this kind of cannon is presided over by Sun Yuanhua and Xu Guangqi, and they hired Franc machine craftsmen to go to the north to guide the casting.

The iron used is also pig iron from Hebei, but because coal is mostly used in the north to make iron, China's coal mines are mostly coal with relatively high sulfur content, and the phosphorus content of iron ore is also relatively high, and the quality of pig iron smelted is far inferior to the quality of pig iron smelted from charcoal in Guangdong and Fujian.

This kind of pig iron in the north because it contains more phosphorus and sulfur that is not conducive to the quality of pig iron, in addition to being easy to rust, pig iron is also relatively brittle, so the quality of the cannon cast in the north is not too good, in order not to blow up the bore, can only thicken the cannon wall, so that the cannon made is relatively bulky.

The same twelve-pounder cannon, in the case of the same body-to-tube ratio, the sea wolf uses the iron fan casting method, plus the use of high-quality pig iron casting produced in Guangdong and Fujian, coupled with the use of internal mold water cooling technology, so that the thickness of the cannon wall is thinner, and the weight of the cannon is at least more than half or even more than the cannon of the Ming army.

Like the sea wolf's twelve-pound mountain howitzer, the total weight is only more than five hundred catties, the same caliber, the Hongyi cannon used by the Ming army here, but the weight is as high as 1,500 catties to two thousand catties, which is more than three times more than the mountain howitzer used by the sea wolf.

Therefore, the rebels' Hongyi cannon, the field march can be said to be a disaster, in addition to using more mules and horses to pull, but also to use many people to serve on the side, the marching speed is still very slow, this is also the main force of the rebels arrived for such a long time, their cannons were slowly transported.

After judging this situation, Dai Fang also roughly guessed the basic performance of this rebel's Hongyi cannon, the direct firing distance of this cannon is only slightly farther than the twelve-pounder howitzer they use, and if it is fired at a high angle of fire, it is not close, but it is not much more than the twelve-pounder howitzer used by the sea wolf, it can be said that the range and power are between the best.

However, the cannon casting of the sea wolf is made of standard iron casting, and the inner diameter of the gun chamber is standardized, and after the standard boring machine is polished and drilled, the inner wall of the gun chamber is smooth and the size is quite standard, which makes it much more convenient for the sea wolf's ammunition factory to make zuò shells.

However, all the solid bullets cast by the sea wolf themselves, the tolerance range is controlled to the minimum, which can be more tightly attached to the inner wall of the gun chamber, which effectively reduces the amount of deflation, effectively increases the firing range and muzzle velocity of the shell, and also has a good effect on the shooting accuracy of the cannon.

In contrast, the Ming army because the cannon is cast by the mud fan casting method, the inner diameter tolerance of the gun chamber is very large, and the inside of the cannon chamber is not smooth, and the casting shell can only try to meet the use of the smallest cannon chamber, the natural tolerance of the shell is very large, after filling into the cannon chamber, there is a large gap between the shell and the cannon chamber, and the result is naturally that when it is fired, a large amount of gas overflows from the gap when the gunpowder is deflagrated, and it cannot be effectively used to promote the movement of the shell.

The result, of course, is that the accuracy of the shells is very poor, the range is reduced, the power is weakened, and the cannons of both sides are not comparable in this regard, so don't look at the sea wolf's twelve-pounder cannon is short and concise, but it is not worse than the Ming army's big and stupid Hongyi cannon.

In addition, the Seawolf also equipped the twelve-pounder gun with a small number of flowering shells, that is, explosive grenades, although the charge is not much, but after all, it can explode after landing, even if it is blown into several petals, it is always more powerful than solid bullets, and it is more deterrent to the enemy.

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