The whole cannon looks short and fat, and the ratio of the length of the cannon to the inner diameter of the cannon is roughly six to one, and the tiger's head is actually a bit cartoonish, but when it is displayed there, no one suspects that this thing is a very scary guy.

"Good! That's what I want! How's it going, have you weighed it? How much does this guy weigh? "Yu Xiaotian is most concerned about the weight of this cannon, if it is too heavy, there will be some trouble in loading the ship, otherwise, this kind of cannon will not be practical, but will become a new kind of chicken ribs, put on land is very powerful, but the range is short, when the shore gun is not suitable to use.

If it is used as a siege artillery, it is too heavy, and on the premise of not solving the problem of towing horses, it is a disaster for any army to tow more than 1,000 catties of heavy artillery to march, especially for the sea wolf war barracks, which belongs to the elite route and does not use the tactics of crowds.

"It's been weighed, the weight of this cannon is not too big, it can't even reach the weight of the No. 5 long gun, it is only a little heavier than the standard No. 5 gun, the total weight is 830 pounds, not counting the weight of the gun carriage!

There must be no problem with loading, as long as the ship that can be loaded with the No. 5 long gun, there is no problem with this, but at the moment, I don't know how the recoil of this guy is, and whether the ship with the No. 5 long gun can withstand the recoil of this guy, so the recoil of this cannon is too great, and the ship board is shattered when the cannon is fired!

It is rumored that during the Wanli period, the large hair basket used by the sailors was loaded on the naval warship, and the ship was shattered with a single shot, and the last resort could only be behind the warship, dragging a large raft to enlarge the hair.

The power of this thing is estimated to be much more powerful than that of Dafa Xi, and I'm afraid the ship can't stand it! Blacksmith Qiu hurriedly said to Xiaotian.

After hearing this, Yu Xiaotian felt quite satisfied, the weight of the thirty-two-pounder Caron gun did not exceed the weight of the twelve-pounder cannon, which created conditions for a large number of sailors to equip it, once the recoil of this gun was tested, if the modified Fu ship could be equipped, then it was a huge leap for greatly improving the firepower of the Chinese warship.

In the previous Chinese warship, let alone a thirty-two-pound cannon, even if it is a twelve-pound cannon, it is difficult to mount, the early Ming Dynasty made a big hair is a typical example, that thing is thick and stupid, the caliber is not too big, not even the power of a six-pound gun, the weight is only five or six hundred catties, in the world of the same artillery, at best it is only a light artillery, but this can not be used on the naval warship, as soon as the cannon is fired, the deck will be cracked, and when it is used, The cannon had to be hoisted from the ship onto a large raft towed behind the stern of the ship before it could be loaded and fired.

Such a cumbersome way to use, Yu Xiaotian didn't dare to imagine what a disaster it was for the user, all kinds of situations on the battlefield are changing rapidly, who can wait for you to slowly lift the cannon, and then aim at it on the raft and fire!

And as far as he knows, the Ming Dynasty has never carried out any effective transformation of the naval division's warships for so many years, and when the western plywood ships were rampant along the coast of China, the Ming naval division suffered a lot of losses, but no one has ever proposed to follow the example of Western ships and transform their own warships.

Therefore, some historians of the Daming Sailors are blowing the sky, but after this era, Yu Xiaotian found that it was the old Yellow Calendar at all, and the current Daming Sailors have long been far behind the times in terms of technical equipment and training.

The Daming Sailor is also equipped with a lot of firearms, but in fact, it is still completely in the initial stage, more often firearms are just used by them to show off their strength, play a role in strengthening their courage and deterring the enemy, when they really encounter a more powerful enemy, in addition to the use of old-fashioned jumping gang to engage in broadside combat, they can only use the numerical advantage, plus the use of fireship attack to carry out fire attack, in order to achieve a little effect.

Now the Daming Water Master is in the eyes of Xiaotian, after the battle between Nanri Water Village and Puxi Institute, he has been completely scorned by Yu Xiaotian, if the Daming Water Master comes to trouble him, if he does not come up with five or six times his troops, it will not be his opponent at all.

Now what he has to deal with is no longer the sailors of the Ming Dynasty, and the main ones he will have to deal with in the future are his peers, especially Zheng Yiguan, as well as the Dutch, Spaniards and other maritime forces with strong firepower.

The thirty-two-pounder Caron cannon is undoubtedly his current artifact as a weapon to break through his own firepower limitations, as long as the test is successful, then he can give a large number of equipment to the sea wolf's warships in the future, even if he really fights face to face with the Spaniards and Dutch at sea in the future, he has the ability to compete with them at sea, and will not be beaten by the opponent's firepower.

Under Yu Xiaotian's order, the cannon immediately loaded the newly cast Caron cannon onto an ox cart and transported it to the shooting range, where he began to prepare for the test cannon.

In order to prepare for the test gun, the artillery shell yard specializing in the production of projectiles has cast twenty or thirty thirty-two-pound shells in advance according to the data given by the gun, as the purpose of testing this kind of cannon in advance, and if this kind of cannon is to be put into production in the future, then the shell workshop will begin to cast this kind of shells in large quantities.

A group of people, escorted by the soldiers, drove to the shooting range, where a group of shipwrights had arrived ahead of schedule and were busy building a bench.

In the future, the Caron gun will be mainly used as a naval gun, and the most critical question is to test his recoil, whether the deck of an ordinary ship can withstand it.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian did not adopt the old method to test this gun, but tried it on the ground, he asked people to go to the shooting range in advance, and built three simulated batteries according to the structural strength of the ship's deck.

The Caron cannon will be mounted on these simulated slipways for test firing to see if the slipway can withstand its recoil, which is also a test that must be done before the other guns can be put on board.

After the Caron cannon arrived at the shooting range, the people from the sailor division also rushed over, and the main thing currently stationed in Tamsui City is the sailor training camp, because the new battalion is located in Tamsui City, and the new Ding can only be assigned after the initial training, and most of the new Ding must be assigned to the water division.

Therefore, the sailors also built a special training camp here, receiving new sailors from the new battalion and training them professionally, although they also had to conduct queue and combat training, but the intensity of such training was far from catching up with the war barracks, because these new sailors had more time to be carried out on various training ships.

There are many types of training boats, from the smallest sampan to the slightly larger long dragon boat, as well as dhows, two-masted bird boats and even a medium-sized fortune boat.

The new sailors had to train on various boats, rowing, rocking, masting, operating sails, learning gunnery, and so on, and the training time was now as long as three or four months, before the initial training in the training camp could be completed, and the qualified personnel could be assigned to serve in the fleet.

If the first assessment fails, they can stay in the training camp and extend the training for another month, if the second assessment is not qualified, then they will be eliminated and assigned to work elsewhere, but they will definitely not be able to get on the boat in the future, at most they can go to the migrant village, be a supervisor, and be responsible for bringing some village warriors.

And the commander of the sailor training camp stationed in Tamsui City is named Chen Sheng, and he is also a person who came out with Yu Xiaotian earlier, this person is in his thirties, much older than Yu Xiaotian, and was a small leader of the sailors in Quanzhou at the earliest, and he was in charge of steering on the ship.

This person also has a lot of sailing experience, and has a certain foundation for a military career, and knows the situation of the old Ming army very well, and later because of special reasons, he became a fugitive, and then fled to Nanri Island, worked under Zhang Hu, and later followed Wang Hong to Yu Xiaotian, and has always been a leader.

This person has a flexible brain and is good at learning, and after a year or two of tempering, he was promoted from a gun commander to a captain, and later in the fleet, he became the captain of a detachment.

This time the sailor training camp was established, and when Yu Xiaotian was selecting people, this Chen Sheng stood out from many candidates, and finally became the leader of this training camp.

Chen Sheng has a stable personality, is good at observing and learning, and is also very good at summarizing experience, coupled with rich experience, bold and careful, he is very suitable to be the leader of this training camp.

And his biggest advantage is that he is very serious in his work, and he is also very strict with his subordinates, such a person will naturally be reused among the sea wolves, and now he is doing quite well here.

Knowing that Yu Xiaotian was going to test the new cannon used by the water tester, Chen Sheng immediately rushed to the shooting range to observe the test gun.

Under the order of Xiaotian, the Caron cannon was first erected on the first simulated bench, although the Caron cannon is very heavy, but the charge is not large, thirty-two pound shells, the actual charge is more than three catties.

Someone weighed three catties of gunpowder and loaded it into the barrel, and then the gunner worked together to pick up a shell with a special clip, load it into the chamber, and then send the shell into the bottom of the chamber according to the conventional gun manipulation method.

With a roar, the cannonball rose into the air in the smoke of flames and gunpowder, flew out of the chamber, and the hot cannonball made a shocking sound and smashed into the distance.

It is very appropriate to use smashing to describe this kind of shell, the shell of the Caron gun is heavy, the barrel is short, the charge is small, and the trajectory will naturally not be straight, it is a bit like the trajectory of a mortar, but it is straighter than the trajectory of a mortar, at least he has a flat firing distance of tens of meters, and a mortar or mortar can only shoot in a curve.