In addition, the large-caliber Caron gun is placed on the gun carriage of the wooden slipway, and does not use the four-wheeled gun carriage commonly used by general naval guns, the recoil distance is short, and the pressure on the unit area of the deck is much smaller than that of ordinary naval guns.

Think about using a cannon shell weighing more than 20 catties or more than 30 catties, or even forty or fifty catties, even if it hits the enemy ship, the enemy ship is estimated to be difficult to bear, and the light ship is estimated to be broken up after a few shots, even against a strong large warship, the Caron cannon can easily smash the hull of the enemy ship.

Moreover, because of the large shells used in this cannonball, this cannon can also use explosive grenades, and when necessary, it is also quite powerful to bombard the land, and it can even be used as a siege gun in land warfare.

In naval warfare, the British fleet in history often used this large-caliber Caron cannon to blast the side of the enemy ship with solid shells, or simply directly loaded hundreds of scattered bombs as a sweeper to directly sweep the enemy on the deck of the enemy ship, which was quite powerful.

However, when this cannon was first invented, it was criticized and resisted by many officers of the Western navy, for the simple reason that the firing range of this kind of cannon was too short, and it could only be used within 400 meters at most, and the trajectory was curved, and it was believed that this kind of cannon could not play too high a role in naval warfare.

But later in a battle with the French, this opposition was overturned by the performance of the Caron guns, an English ship, equipped with a batch of large-caliber Caron guns, encountered a French warship at sea, in a disadvantaged situation, the British ship, playing their fine tradition, in the face of the enemy, rushed up to the French battleship, braved the fire of the French battleship, with their Caron guns close to the enemy ship.

The result was that the large-caliber Caron cannon, in the case of close range, exerted a very strong force, first smashed the stern of the French ship, and then aimed the hole in the stern of the French ship with scattered shells, and only one shot passed, the interior of the French ship was stirred, killing and wounding more than 100 French people on the ship, and directly disintegrating the resistance of the French ship.

After this battle, the Caron guns were even more valued by the British, so they built and equipped them with their navy in large quantities, and even specially transformed several large merchant ships into warships that all used Caron guns, which played a very important role in the battle with the enemy to dominate the sea.

Even when the British launched the Opium War, they also used a large number of Caron guns, in addition to destroying the warships of the Qing army, they also reached the coast and directly shelled the positions of the Qing army on the shore, causing great casualties to the Qing army, destroying many Qing army batteries, and effectively supporting the landing operation of the marines on the beach.

Yu Xiaotian has an understanding of this, he didn't recall this thing before, and when he was thinking about the problems of the fleet recently, he suddenly thought of building a Karon cannon, so he immediately began to design, but he did not hand over this matter to Nanri Island Cannon to do, but handed over the research and development of this cannon to Qiu Blacksmith, who made the newly built freshwater cannon.

The reason why he put this kind of Caron cannon on the side of the freshwater cannon for trial production is that the focus of the seawolf industry will be shifted to the freshwater side in the next step, second, the Nanri Island side will go all out to produce the twelve-pounder cannon in the near future, replace the six-pounder cannon currently used in the fleet, and equip the fleet as soon as possible, and third, the blacksmith Qiu has exquisite craftsmanship, good skills, rich experience, and steady work, so it is more appropriate to do this.

Of course, it is not a problem at all to manufacture the Caron cannon technique, the Caron cannon itself is much less difficult to manufacture than the twenty-four-pound long-barreled artillery technique, and the consumables are not large, the key is in the mold, as long as the iron fan is done well, plus the water-cooled casting process of the inner mold they have used at the moment, this kind of cannon should not be difficult to solve.

After looking at the cannons in the finished warehouse, Yu Xiaotian turned around and asked Blacksmith Qiu about the trial production of the new Caron cannon, and Blacksmith Qiu hurriedly took Yu Xiaotian to the last shed.

This shed is a freshwater cannon workshop dedicated to the production of iron fan, a number of skilled craftsmen are responsible for casting all kinds of iron cannon iron fan here, the quality of cannon casting is good, iron fan plays a key role, there can be no sloppiness, tolerance should be as small as possible.

Therefore, Blacksmith Qiu selected a few craftsmen with the best skills among the two artillery works and transferred them to this workshop to be responsible for doing this.

As soon as Yu Xiaotian entered this shed, he immediately saw that the craftsmen here were busy, and several sets of various artillery models had been placed on the shelves, including the cannon models of the newly made twelve-pounder guns, the cannon models of the light Franc machine guns, and some of the cannon models specially used to cast shells of various calibers.

And on a platform in this shed, at this time has been placed a bunch of iron fan parts, the iron fan of the cannon is not a whole piece of iron mold, but is composed of a lot of pieces of iron mold, when used to combine it to use, cast into an iron cannon, after the completion of annealing, but also to remove the outer mold one by one, in order to expose the cast gun body, the workload is relatively speaking, although it is simpler and easier than the mud fan, but it is also not easy, can not have the slightest sloppiness, let alone pretend to be wrong, Otherwise, there will be scrap.

"Big boss, this is the kind of cannon that you want the small ones to do, it is not difficult to say that the cannon is not difficult to do, but it is not easy to open the mold, it takes a long time, you have to first come out of the mud mold, and then turn out the iron mold, when you make the mud mold, it takes more time, this is not this set of cannon models just done, you are here! The little ones haven't had time to report this to the big bosses! Blacksmith Qiu smiled with a smile on his face, pointing to this set of iron fans and said to Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaotian immediately walked over and asked Blacksmith Qiu to assemble this set of guns, and after looking at it for a while, he nodded and said, "Yes!" That's what I want! I thought you should do it after the year, but I didn't expect you to make it now! I'm afraid it's going to be delayed! ”

Qiu blacksmith hurriedly apologized: "Please forgive the big boss, it's not the small ones who deliberately delayed, the small ones received the picture sent by the big boss a year ago, and they immediately started to do it, but during the New Year, the tide is not to say, it's a little cold, the mud mold is too slow to dry, the small one is in a hurry, and I want to use the drying method to dry the mud mold quickly, but accidentally the first set of mud molds cracked, the small ones didn't dare to make do, and quickly re-made a set of mud molds, and the result was delayed for a few days, and I hope that the big masters will forgive their sins!" ”

After listening to this, Yu Xiaotian understood why they were procrastinating, and wanted to reprimand them, but seeing the tired looks of these craftsmen one by one, it was obvious that they hadn't had a good rest for a long time, and they definitely didn't rest during the Chinese New Year.

And they definitely wanted to hurry up, but they did bad things with good intentions, and they couldn't eat hot tofu in a hurry, so instead of being able to hurry, they delayed it for a few days.

So Yu Xiaotian also held back his anger, considering that many things have accidents, in addition to the current technical conditions of the mud fan drying process, the temperature and humidity of the drying room is difficult to effectively grasp, even the master can ensure that there is no problem, if he is angry, I am afraid that the enthusiasm of these craftsmen will be discouraged in the future, and it will also curb their enthusiasm for future experimentation and exploration, and stifle their creativity.

After thinking of this, Yu Xiaotian was not angry, so he smiled: "That's it!" Don't plead guilty! I can understand your feelings, and no one can guarantee that everything will be done just right! A few days of delay is nothing! In the future, you should try to let go of the try, don't be afraid of delays, don't dare to try new things, failure is the mother of success, and now you have these crafts, isn't it all your ancestors and countless craftsmen continue to explore, only to accumulate experience?

So I don't want you to stick to the old rules in everything, hold on to the old things in front of you, and don't dare to try anything, only by constantly trying new techniques, we can make more and more things better than the current ones in the future!

I think the animal-powered horizontal boring machine you made during this period of time is very good, I just gave you an idea, and you will find a way to make it yourself, isn't it a good thing?

In the future, you will continue to try some new things, in addition to casting cannons, but also think carefully, how to use machines to replace human manuals, improve accuracy, speed, save time and effort! Don't be afraid of failure, just let it go! Even if you can't do it and do it wrong, it doesn't matter! I don't blame you or anything! ”

Yu Xiaotian knows that although he knows a lot of modern technology than the people of this era, but he alone knows, he can't support a complete set of industry, not to mention that industrial development also involves a lot of chemical things, these things are through the continuous exploration of countless people to gradually improve and progress, craftsmen must not stick to the old rules, clinging to the old system, in that case, can not promote the development and progress of industrial technology.

Although there are many capable people in the past dynasties, they have created quite brilliant science and technology, but by the end of the Ming Dynasty, China's scientific and technological development has begun to lag behind the Europeans, and has failed to form a set of scientific education system, but is still focusing on the eight strands of literature, so that it did not take long to completely lag behind the scientific and technological level of the Western world.

Of course, this also involved the entry of the Manchu Qing Tartars, which destroyed many of the science and technology and economic culture that were just in the embryonic state at the end of the Ming Dynasty, so that in the next 200 years, China's brilliant civilization was completely surpassed by other industrial civilizations in the world and thrown far away, so that China almost became synonymous with ignorance and backwardness, and suffered countless humiliations, until he came to this time and space, China could not completely turn over.

Although he is only a pirate leader now, he now has considerable resources, and more importantly, he has mastered a lot of techniques beyond this era, and he hopes that by opening the golden finger and within the scope of his ability, the craftsmen can be more innovative as much as possible, and can greatly promote and promote the development of the scientific and technological level of the Chinese.

It's still in its infancy, so he'll have to encourage his men to try new techniques.

(Today, I would like to thank two old friends, DENNISIE, for their generous tips, thank you very much!) By the way, ask for a few more monthly passes! ）