A brand-new artillery is mounted on a new gun carriage, the gun carriage is the carpenter these days and night to work day and night, according to Yu Xiaotian's requirements to create a new one, with the best hard materials, the workmanship is very fine, even the corners have been carefully trimmed by the carpenters, and there are not many places to touch.

Moreover, the gun carriage of this gun is also completely used in the four-wheeled guns used on Western-style ships, and the gun carriage is also equipped with iron rings, after being mounted on the ship, the rope can be threaded to the iron ring, and the gun can be reset relatively easily by pulling the rope.

As a veteran ship model fan, Yu Xiaotian, of course, knows very well what the gun carriage should use, in another famous naval battle in the West, one side of the ship used a gun carriage similar to the land artillery battery, while the other side of the ship used a convenient four-wheeled gun carriage.

As a result, the side that used the land cannon, after the cannon was fired, the gunners and sailors reinstalled the cannon, and it was very cumbersome and difficult to reset the cannon, which eventually led to their always losing the upper hand in the artillery battle.

As a result, the naval guns of the other side using the four-wheeled gun carriage opened fire quickly, and always had an advantage in firepower, and finally the side using the four-wheeled gun carriage won the naval battle.

In this era, the old artillery of the Ming Dynasty did not even have a gun carriage, and most of the guns used were fixed gun carriages, and sometimes when the guns were fired, the guns might even jump up and turn over under the impetus of recoil, injuring the personnel on board.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian would definitely not install a simple fixed gun carriage on this kind of newly built cannon and do such a stupid thing, so when he started casting the cannon, he already knew the size of the cannon, and personally designed the special four-wheeled gun carriage on the ship in advance, and asked the carpenter to build it in advance according to the pattern.

In order to ensure that the cannon can be directly loaded into the gun carriage after it is cast, and there will not be too much error, Yu Xiaotian even asked the carpenters to make a wooden model of the cannon of the same scale in advance, and put it on the gun carriage to test it first.

Now that the cannon has been cast, and the gun carriage has been prepared in advance, it is almost effortless to load this gun on the gun carriage.

This matter is undoubtedly a very important event for the sea wolf, and it is also a great joy, although Yu Xiaotian is not too public, but his subordinates still make this test very grand.

The installed cannon was covered with red and hung with colors by his subordinates, and the ropes were wrapped with red cloth, and eight strong men were selected, and the cannons were dragged with red ropes in front of the head.

Yu Xiaotian was a little speechless by these guys, but considering that the folk customs are like this, the big guys also want to ask for a lottery, and it is not easy to resist everyone's intentions, so they simply tossed it away, and he himself followed the team in a low-key manner.

But now he can't keep a low profile, who doesn't know him as a big boss on Nanri Island, and when the people who see him everywhere they pass see him, they cheer and cheer, and some of the people who have received his favor quickly kneel down beside the road and kowtow to him.

Now that Nanri Island is under his management, the people's livelihood is stable and the rules are strict, and few people dare to harm the residents of the island at will as before, so the farmers and fishermen on the island are now living much better, and they no longer have to live in fear.

Even when they went out to sea to fish, because their area was under the control of the sea wolves, no one dared to come to this area to harass them for fishing, so that the fishermen on the island now have a great improvement in their perception of these pirates, and they are no longer afraid of the sea wolves on the island.

These people are actually very pure-minded, they have a rod and scale in their hearts, who is good to them and who is bad to them, they know very clearly, this day is placed in the past when the Shark Gang is on Nanri Island, they dare not think about it, so of course they know who to be grateful to.

So as long as these fishermen and farmers passing by see Yu Xiaotian now, many people will quickly kneel down and kowtow to thank him, which makes Yu Xiaotian a little moved.

The common people are so simple, as long as you are good to them, they will know that they are grateful to you, but if you are not good to them, don't look at them under normal circumstances, silently endure, once they reach the limit, they rebound, it is even more overwhelming, so he is secretly vigilant in his heart, if he wants to sit bigger and bigger in the future, he must not easily offend these people who depend on him for a living.

Therefore, when Yu Xiaotian saw someone cheering or kneeling down to greet him, he often smiled and frequently returned the salute with his fists, which was quite a bit of a polite corporal.

The place to test the cannon was chosen on the hillside south of Dazhai, which has been martial law in advance, and the idle people are blocked far away, after all, this is the top secret of the sea wolf so far, ordinary people can know that the sea wolf has made its own cannon, but the specific performance, but it is better not to let more people know the way.

After Yu Xiaotian arrived at the site of the test gun, he glanced around, and after seeing that the surroundings had been emptied, he pulled the rope and began to measure the distance in the open space.

Every 100 meters, he had people pile up a mound of earth, which was a man high and more than two meters wide, which was already a relatively small target for the artillery of this era.

And the farther the distance, the bigger the mound will be, Yu Xiaotian didn't expect that at a distance of five hundred meters, he could hit a target the size of a human body, and if he could hit a house, it would be considered burning incense.

A group of people were busy on the shooting range, digging and measuring, and it took a small half a day to set up the shooting range.

Yu Xiaotian ordered several specially selected gunners to place the cannon in the designated position, and for the sake of safety, a bunker was also built, and two trenches were dug on both sides of the gun emplacement, as a place for the test artillery personnel to hide.

After everything was ready, several boxes of ammunition were also sent to the side of the gun position for the test gun and put into the bunker, saving the danger of the test gun.

Yu Xiaotian directly abandoned the loading method of bulk gunpowder, before the test of the gun, the night before, he ordered his subordinates to pack the gunpowder into a columnar fixed charge package with oil paper according to the centralized specifications of one and a half catties, two catties, two and a half catties, and three catties, and when using it, it only needs to fill the cartridge directly into the gun chamber, poke the oil paper from the fire door with an awl, pour in the primer or insert the feather or the letter tube of the thin bamboo tube, and then load the cannonball and launch.

Because of the first test gun, the big guy has no bottom about the performance of this gun, and if he ignites the gun directly, he is afraid that the gun will explode and hurt the personnel who test the gun.

Therefore, in this test gun, Yu Xiaotian asked people to wrap some leads in cotton paper and twist some leads, leaving a long enough lead, and put them into the fire door, after the test personnel ignited the leads, they could immediately hide in the trench behind the bunker, so that in case the cannon exploded, it would not hurt the test personnel.

So after everything was ready, Yu Xiaotian gave an order, everyone's eyes widened, and they began to hold their breath and quiet, just waiting to watch the test gun.

The selected gunners hurried forward and began to busily reload the guns, the operating procedures had already been determined, these shells were also carefully cast, and they were carefully polished by the craftsmen, and the tolerances were well controlled, so it did not take much effort to load.

Soon the first shell was loaded, the lead was loaded into the fire door, and the gunners carefully aimed the muzzle of the gun at the first mound a hundred meters away, and after completing the aiming, the gunner gave the order, and several gunners jumped into the trench of the bunker.

Only one gun commander remained, holding a flaming fire fold, waiting for orders.

"Ignition!" Yu Xiaotian shouted.

When the cannon commander heard the sound, he immediately lit the medicine twist, turned around and jumped into the bunker, leaving only the ignited medicine twist hissing with blue smoke and quickly burning towards the fire door.

Everyone nervously raised their hearts to their throats, staring at the new cannon with wide eyes, only to see a sudden flash of fire in the artillery bunker, and then the ground shook, and then a loud noise was heard.

The gun carriage was pushed a meter or two away by the recoil, and the surrounding area of the bunker was suddenly shrouded in a cloud of gunsmoke, and then in the shooting range, a black dot flew out like lightning, and the shell was almost invisible to the naked eye.

After the cannonball flew out of the mound, it smashed heavily into the shooting range, but it was a pity that the cannon did not accurately hit the first mound 100 meters away, but was a little higher, flew over the mound, and landed nearly 200 meters away, smashing a cloud of dust on the ground.

However, the cannonball was castrated, and after landing, it was bounced off by the ground, and continued to fly forward, jumping on the ground like a dragonfly and rolling past the second mound, and finally landed about 250 meters before completely stopping.

Some people shook their heads slightly and were a little disappointed, but more people cheered, because in their opinion, although this shot did not hit the target, it was not far from the target, and if it was lower, it would hit the target.

Yu Xiaotian was not too disappointed, after all, this is a new cannon, he can't ask the gunner to be familiar with the use of this cannon immediately, and it is already quite beautiful to be able to score such a result.

What's more, if this is a land attack on the enemy group, it is already considered good, it can definitely hit the enemy group with one shot, and open a bloody path in the enemy group, and the solid bullet is to kill and injure more enemies by ricocheting bullets, which is not a failed launch.

And what he is most concerned about now is not how accurate this cannon is, but whether this cannon is strong enough, whether it can withstand the high pressure of the gun chamber, and whether it will crack.

After the first cannon was released, Yu Xiaotian immediately personally pulled out his legs and ran towards the gun position, and the rest of the people also ran to the gun position.

Blacksmith Lei, Blacksmith Zhang and others also surrounded him, with a nervous expression, carefully observing the cannon from head to toe, and touching it with their hands again.

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