Chapter 32: Making Artillery (Ask for Collection)
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"Ha Lu Ha! Are you two finally getting married? That's a great thing! Don't worry, this matter will be presided over by us old guys, and we will ensure that it will be done beautifully! Zhao Yida, the logistics officer of Flying Fish Company, said with a smile. The matter between Long Yufei and Luo Sangu is known to almost everyone on Flying Fish Island, and everyone is optimistic about it. Luo Sangu has paid so much for Flying Fish Island, and everyone hopes that she can be happy. If there are many people on Flying Fish Island, who can be worthy of Luo Sangu, I am afraid it must be Long Yufei.
However, there are also some people loyal to the Luo family who are worried that after Long Yufei and Luo Sangu get married, the Flying Fish Company may all fall into Long Yufei's hands. Even if Long Yufei is in power in Flying Fish Company now, Luo Sangu is the nominal commander after all. Don't forget, Luo Sangu also has a younger brother, Luo Yuhu! Chinese have always paid attention to the inheritance of their father's business, and because Luo Yuhu was too young, Luo Sangu took over as the head of Flying Fish Island. In the eyes of many people, when Luo Yuhu becomes an adult, Flying Fish Island should be handed over to Luo Yuhu. However, the current Flying Fish Island has developed into the Flying Fish Company, and the huge scale has exceeded the expectations of all the pirates of the Flying Fish Island. And in this process, Long Yufei's achievements are well known. Not to mention anything else, most of the senior executives of the Flying Fish Company have already stood on Long Yufei's side. Therefore, many people sigh that from now on, the Flying Fish Company may have the surname Dragon!
Long Yufei didn't notice this phenomenon, perhaps, he didn't care at all. People are realistic, whoever can lead the Flying Fish company to a stronger place, the rest of the people will support whom. Long Yufei believes in his influence over the Flying Fish Company, and no one can pose a threat to his position. As for the relationship between him and Luo Sangu, at the beginning, there may still be a trace of interest mixed in it. But with Luo Sangu's unreserved support for him later, Long Yufei's feelings for Luo Sangu also became more pure!
The marriage between Luo Sangu and Long Yufei has become a major event for the entire Flying Fish Company. The entire Flying Fish City is full of joy. At this time, the total population of Flying Fish City has moved towards the 30,000 mark, and with the influx of more and more Chinese people into Flying Fish City, Flying Fish's position in Mindanao has become more and more stable!
Luo Sangu and Long Yufei didn't like the wedding to be too cumbersome, and asked everything to be simple. Therefore, the wedding was officially held a week later!
On December 18, 1835, the twenty-seventh day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, the wedding of Long Yufei and Luo Sangu was held in the unfinished Flying Fish City. All the Chinese throughout Flying Fish City attended their wedding. The wedding was in the traditional Chinese way, and under the auspices of the political official Li Decheng, after worshipping heaven and earth, Long Yufei and Luo Sangu became a legal husband and wife.
Next, the entire Flying Fish City set up a feast, and the whole city participated in the feast. Prior to this, the political officer Li Decheng mobilized thousands of people to prepare for the banquet. In terms of the status of Long Yufei and Luo Sangu, the wedding of the two of them can be regarded as the top priority in Flying Fish City!
In the midst of everyone's congratulations, Long Yufei and Luo Sangu completed all the ceremonies and became a legal husband and wife. After sending the bride into the cave room, Long Yufei began to toast from table to table. When participating in the wedding banquet, it is undoubtedly the most relaxed time for everyone, especially the high-level people in Flying Fish City, almost all of them are pirates from Flying Fish Island, and everyone is even more unscrupulous at the wine table, so that Liu Mingde, Wu Yongxing and others, who later joined the Flying Fish Company, secretly guessed what the origin of the Flying Fish Company was.
Long Yufei was poured a stomach full of wine, and he was so dizzy that he almost didn't fall down. If it weren't for the fact that tonight was the night of Long Yufei and Luo Sangu's cave room, everyone was afraid that if Luo Sangu was angered, Long Yufei would have been poured more wine. However, this also shortened the distance between Long Yufei and everyone. Especially when he toasted the ordinary soldiers of the Flying Fish Army and the ordinary people of Flying Fish City, everyone was deeply moved. If Feiyu is already a small country, then Long Yufei is the king of this country. He has no frame at all, which makes people feel incredible, and at the same time, the support and favorability of him have also risen sharply!
On the wedding night, Long Yufei was naturally very proud, and it was a lot of ups and downs to hug Luo Sangu. It was rare that I didn't get up early to go to the factory the next day, and the rest of the Flying Fish company also understood this. After all, people have just gotten married, so they can't just let go of their delicate wives and put them into work! It's human nature!
Luo Sangu's younger brother Luo Yuhu also lived with them, this boy who was only fourteen years old, gave birth to a tall cow and a big horse. However, he is very upright and has no city government, which makes Long Yufei very satisfied. With such a brother-in-law, he doesn't have to worry about causing trouble. Moreover, Luo Yuhu was very interested in leading troops to fight, and kept pestering Long Yufei to send him to the army. In the end, Luo Sangu spoke, and waited until he was sixteen years old to join the army, so Luo Yuhu was sent away!
Long Yufei's wedding vacation did not last long, and on the third day after the wedding, he devoted himself to work. Now the Flying Fish company is developing at a high speed, and it cannot be delayed for a day.
December 25, 1835, Christmas in the West. This day is a very important day for the Flying Fish Company and the Flying Fish Army. The top management of the Flying Fish Company and the officers above the company commander of the Flying Fish Army all came to the shooting range located on the seaside. Today is the day of test firing of the artillery produced by the Exocet Arsenal, and everyone attaches great importance to it.
After several months of hard work, the first gun of the Exocet Arsenal was finally developed. This is an artillery developed under the leadership of Long Yufei, and it is named the 'Thunderbolt' mortar! The Thunderbolt mortar has a caliber of 60 mm, weighs 22 kg, the shell weighs 1.5 kg, the rate of fire is 5 rounds a minute, the firing range is 50 to 1000 meters, and the effective killing radius is 5 meters. This was mainly due to gunpowder, which could be improved if smokeless explosives or even better explosives could be developed.
Two mortars were visited at the range, the Flying Fish Arsenal's masterpiece of the month. Zhao Xingkai, as the director of the arsenal, would like to introduce the performance of the 'Thunderbolt' mortar. The senior management of the Flying Fish Company and the officers of the military all looked at the two mortars with bright eyes. The fact that the Exocet Arsenal was able to survive the rifle was already very satisfying to them. I didn't expect that even artillery could be produced now, which was even more unexpected for them. Especially those who have just joined the Flying Fish Company and the Flying Fish Army, their eyes are full of shock!
"Xingkai, stop talking nonsense, let's shoot a few shots first!" The military officer, Niu Meng, urged. In order to improve the firepower of the infantry, Long Yufei led the arsenal to develop a wooden-handled grenade. It's just that although this thing is easy to use, it is too powerful after all, and at the same time, it can only be thrown dozens of meters, far from catching up with artillery. Now, if this kind of light weight and maximum range can reach thousands of meters of artillery, if it can be equipped with troops, this will inevitably make the attack power of the Exocet Army a higher level!
Zhao Xingkai looked at Long Yufei, and it wasn't until Long Yufei nodded that he ordered the personnel of the arsenal to operate the two mortars. The mortar was assembled, and the muzzle was aimed at the target at a distance of five hundred meters. Next to both mortars, several shells were placed. Unlike the spherical shells used in conventional artillery, mortars use conical shells with a fixed tail at the back. All this is so new to the high-level officials of the Flying Fish Company and the officers of the Flying Fish Army.
The operators picked up the shells, put them through the muzzle of the mortar, and immediately lowered their heads and lay on the ground next to the mortar. Hearing only the sound of "bang", black gunpowder smoke came out of the muzzle, and the shells were already flying away quickly. **It is loaded by the muzzle, relying on its own gravity to slide, and hitting the bottom firing pin at the bottom of the gun chamber at a certain speed to make the bottom fire on the bullet fire, from which the word mortar originates. This is completely different from a traditional breech gun.
"Boom! Rumble! Two explosions were heard, and two fireballs erupted on the beach more than five hundred meters away. After the explosion, two craters with a radius of several tens of centimeters were left on the beach. Although, the level of shelling of the manipulators was too rubbish and did not hit the target. However, no one cares about this anymore, and both mortars have been successfully test-fired, which makes the senior management of the Flying Fish Company, especially the officers of the Flying Fish Army, very satisfied!
"Ha Lu Ha! All right! I didn't expect this thing to be really good, and the power is not small! Xingkai, how many cannons can be made in the factory every day now? We're all waiting to use it! Niu Meng said with a smile, it can be seen that he is very satisfied with the 'Thunderbolt' mortar!
The reason why Long Yufei chose to manufacture mortars is mainly because the mortar's trajectory is curved, the landing angle is large, the dead angle and the dead boundary are small, and it is easy to choose a firing position. Small mass, simple structure, easy to disassemble, good mobility, can shoot at close range. High firing speed, one reload, eliminating the need to unshell, latch and firing action. The shells are economical. The price of the projectile material and charge is low. This can be said to be a tailor-made artillery for the Exocet Army that is about to start a jungle operation. In the dense jungle, heavy artillery could not be transported at all. But a mortar weighing only 22 kg, a big man will be able to carry it away!
"Brother Niu, how many doors do you produce every day? You say that, too! Because we are not yet proficient in technology, we produce up to 10 per month! Zhao Xingkai said speechlessly.
"I don't care about this! We're going to do it to the natives soon, and the arsenal needs to have enough mortars and shells for us! Niu Meng said directly!