Chapter Seventy-Nine: Cannons

Gangzi was taken aback, this is a talent! How to go to sea with my brother, what if I bump into it, even if I don't bump into it, won't going to sea with it affect the output of iron ingots and artillery? This lesson should be learned, and special talents must stay in the port, even if there is a shortage of ships, they cannot be brought in to make up the number.

The intermediate blacksmith skill book is not difficult to collect, and the refined iron refining furnace and other territories can be upgraded to the county seat to build, think about the fact that you are about to be able to cast the fine iron smoothbore cannon, and the heart of the beauty is bubbling, and when the iron smoothbore cannon market is saturated, my brother will follow the navy to ceremoniously release the fine iron cannon to eliminate all the iron smoothbore cannons, and you can scavenge another round, hahaha......

Gangzi praised the other party greatly, and then Liang Hong came closer, and before he could stand still, he was attracted by the cannon in front of him: "This ...... It's all 16-pounder guns? ”

Sure enough, Liang Hong knew the goods, and he could see the difference between this cannon at a glance, and after appreciating Liang Hong's surprised face with satisfaction, he asked what was going on with his 16-pounder gun.

Liang Hong came back to his senses and replied.

Artillery is divided into iron smoothbore guns, iron smoothbore guns, steel smoothbore guns, stainless steel smoothbore guns and the top alloy smoothbore guns according to materials

If you divide it into 9-pounder guns, 12-pounder guns, 16-pounder guns, 22-pounder guns, 26-pounder guns, 32-pounder guns, 36-pounder guns, and the top 48-pounder guns according to the weight of the shells.

These two divisions correspond to each other, that is, all iron smoothbore guns are 9-pounder guns, and fine iron smoothbore guns have two calibers due to slightly better materials, namely 12-pounder guns and 16-pounder guns; Steel smoothbore cannon is also called the general cannon is divided into two kinds of 22-pounder guns and 26-pounder guns, the above is the main caliber of artillery in various countries, the stainless steel smoothbore cannon refining is extremely difficult, and the manufacturing process is also in the hands of several large countries, divided into 32-pounder guns and 36-pounder guns, all used to defend the imperial city; The alloy smoothbore cannon is a legend, and all countries are studying it, and I haven't heard of anyone who has successfully researched it.

Caliber represents the power of artillery, for the defense of the main battleship of the navy of various countries, the three-masted battleship, the 9-pounder gun is not enough to cause damage to it, and the 12-pounder gun can effectively and limited damage to the three-masted battleship; The 16-pounder gun already had a certain threat; The 22-pounder cannon could inflict serious damage, the 26-pounder cannon could inflict fatal damage, and all the defenses of the three-masted battleship were mediocre under the attack of the steel smoothbore guns.

Therefore, if you want to fight a three-masted battleship, a 16-pounder gun is the effective damage standard. However, the 16-pounder gun is lower than the 12-pounder gun in terms of rate of fire due to its size and weight, and the general opponents of the brigs of various countries are also brigs, so they are generally equipped with 9-pounder guns and 12-pounder guns with a high rate of fire, and the 16-pounder gun is the standard configuration of the three-masted battleship; The steel smoothbore cannon itself has limited production, and priority is given to the deployment of city defense, so it can be assigned to the navy is extremely limited, and generally only the flagship of the fleet is qualified to equip it.

Mack's battleship, the three-masted battleship, had steel smoothbore guns that could not be obtained by a merchant, and his preparation of a batch of 16-pounder guns was also in line with his abilities.

Looking at the rows of 16-pounder guns with a total of 44, which happened to be the standard configuration of a three-masted battleship, he stroked the gun body and laughed up, "Wowhahaha, with this batch of 16-pounder guns, I can equip the heavy firepower of two two-masted battleships, in terms of attack power at sea, who will compete in the rise of the country." Bring all these guns to the ship, call the Sea Lion and the Horse to come, empty the cargo hold for me, throw all the broken things I have picked up into the sea, these guns are on the ship, and the ammunition is prepared for the regiment commander, I see who dares to give me a shout. ”

"What's your name?"

The junior blacksmith said: "Little Guo Da Niu." ”

"Da Niu, you have made meritorious service today, the head of this regiment awards you to be the leader of the military ironsmith workshop, and you will continue to work hard in the future, work hard to rush skills, and give the intermediate blacksmith skill schoolbag to the head of the regiment, and after you are upgraded, the head of the regiment will also give you processing money."

"Captain Xie!"

"Work."

When all the sailors on the Sea Lion and Bang Ma went ashore to carry artillery and ammunition, the Black Sail Pirates came to change their guns for a shotgun change, and the brand-new fine iron 16-pounder guns on the Sea Monster and Sea Lion were put on a slick display, and the replaced fine iron 12-pounder guns and iron 9-pounder guns were all loaded and kept for backup.

The other materials did not move again, first, they were not eye-catching, second, the cabin was not enough, and third, there was a ready-made supply point when they went to the ocean in the future, and the hole was camouflaged again, and the Black Sail Pirate Fleet returned.

There is no need to go to other supply points, it is estimated that the things inside must be similar, although the 16-pounder cannon is tempting, but the state of the Black Sail Pirate Fleet is too poor, in case of a storm, Gangzi does not think that he can come out alive, and he will have the opportunity to see it again in the future.

The artillery of the Black Sail Pirate Fleet was strengthened by two orders again, but the returning Gangzi did not choose to take a shortcut through the Fusang Sea, although the players of the Three Kingdoms were afraid, Gangzi was also scared, and now the ship is loaded with artillery and ammunition, and the load of the damaged hull has reached the limit, and the speed of the ship has slowed down, so it will not be so easy to run out in case it is blocked again.

It went all the way south, then turned west, returned to the East China Sea of Dahan through the Ryukyu Islands, turned north, and finally returned to Heifan Island in the Yellow Sea.

It's not easy, it's finally back.

Arrange for three warships to enter the dock for overhaul, and Gangzi immediately sent Donglai cannonballs to the navy to find Cui Shi.

Under the gaze of a group of players, Gangzi walked in with his head held high, and then sat opposite Cui Shi, picked up the teacup and drank a pot of tea before saying: "The Goryeo Navy in the Yellow Sea has retreated, my task is completed, hurry up and cash in on the merits and rewards, it is estimated that there is no problem with this promotion to captain, Brother Cui is waiting to call me sir, hahaha......." ”

Cui Shi slowly refilled a pot of tea for Gangzi and said, "Brother Gangzi, the withdrawal of the Goryeo West Sea Fleet is because Fusang may invade it, and it has nothing to do with you, right?" ”

Gangzi said loudly: "Why has nothing to do with me, I have found out clearly on the way back, and the withdrawal of the Goryeo West Sea Fleet to the mainland has a direct relationship with me?" ”

Hearing what Gangzi said, Cui Shi also became interested: "Oh? Originally, I didn't have any hope for this task, but I didn't expect the Gangzi brothers to be able to complete it? It's really a surprise for my brother, so tell my brother what the situation is? As long as the Goryeo West Sea Fleet withdraws from the Gangzi brothers' actions in Fuso, the elder brother will be in charge and you will be done. ”

Gangzi said with disdain: "What is the edge, brother, didn't I complete the task that time?" For this mission, in order to relieve our Donglai Navy, the brothers went bankrupt, did their best, and poured out of the nest, taking all the horses from Jeju Island to Tsushima Island, and from Tsushima Island to Kyushu and Shikoku, and then along the Fusang Sea all the way to the north. ”

Cui Shi choked on a sip of tea and coughed again and again: "Ahem, cough, ahem, point, point!" ”

Gangzi also felt that he had blown too much, and said as a whole: "The younger brother took a group of people and horses to the Fusang Sea, considering that his own ships could not scare the Goryeo Navy at all, so he thought of a strategy to lure the tiger and scare the sheep, and the younger brother concentrated on attacking the Fuso merchant ships in the Tsushima Strait, causing them great losses, and then went north to continue to attack them, and finally led out a fleet to encircle and suppress the younger brother." In the face of several times his own troops, the younger brother thought of Brother Cui, thought of the Admiral, and thought of the many brothers of the Donglai fleet, so the younger brother doubled his strength, took the lead, waved the flag, was invincible, won more with less, and the Fusang people who fought abandoned their armor, cried for their fathers and mothers, and fled in the wilderness. ”

When it came to Xing, Gangzi picked up the teacup and slapped the frightened Cui Shimeng, Gangzi smiled and continued: "This battle is really a battle of heaven and earth, Xiaoxiao is cold, the Fuso Navy naturally did not dare to make a noise this defeat, so he sent a larger fleet to fight with the younger brother, the younger brother saw that they took the bait and did not have the heart to defeat them again, so the younger brother attacked a small port in Goryeo under the banner of pirates, and the Fusang Navy fleet moved westward, of course the Goryeo Navy thought that the Fusang invasion was difficult to protect the homeland, Naturally, he didn't dare to stay in our Yellow Sea. ”

Gangzi laughed as he spoke, as if what happened was really his plan, and if he added a feather fan, it would really taste like hindsight.

Of course, Cui Shi didn't dare to believe what Gangzi said, this guy has always blown three points to twelve points, and there are too many mysterious and mysterious contents in it that people don't know which one is true and which one is blowing. Forget it, anyway, I can't pick out anything too real from Gangzi's mouth, so let's look at the logbook.

After taking Gangzi's log, a long list of unknown sunk and wounded, Cui Shi couldn't believe his eyes, although most of them were small sailing ships and merchant ships, but the record of the brig battleships was particularly dazzling, two sunk, two captured, one damaged, plus more than a dozen dhows, such a beautiful record may only be forged, right?

But the logbook can't be faked, this is a real record, Cui Shi can imagine how fierce the battle situation was at that time, far from the autumn wind sweeping the leaves described by Gangzi, and looking at Gangzi's eyes became more and more solemn. He closed the log and asked carefully: "How many warships did the Gangzi brothers dispatch this time, what level are they all, and what is the scale of the Fuso Navy?" ”

Cui Shi had never asked Gangzi this kind of question, but this time he finally couldn't help asking. Gangzi didn't mean to hide it, the strength was weak to hide clumsy, and the strength of the strong might be able to get unexpected benefits by showing off the muscles appropriately: "Four brig-class warships, three of which are brig-class warships, one is a military fortune ship supported by Brother Cui, and the Fuso Navy has a total of ten brig-class warships, including eight brig warships and two Ataku ships." ”

After that, Gangzi cried in a sad voice: "To tell the truth, Brother Cui, this battle was miserable, although the opponent's two brigs were captured, but they were quickly sunk by the other party, not only that, but I also lost another brig, and the other ships were seriously injured, and it was the blessing of Brother Cui to run back alive, Brother Cui should take a good look at the little brother this time." ”

This time Cui Shi believed Gangzi's words, four against ten ships to be able to withstand the pressure to remain undefeated and force the enemy back is already a commendable record, the loss of a few warships is reasonable, as for how to compensate Gangzi? Cui Shi can't be too big a master, since Lord Admiral plans to cultivate the other party, let's leave this issue to Lord Admiral to deal with!

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