Qin Xiaobai looked at the dozens of bronze cannons in the shooting range.

The player in charge of the artillery commanded a group of NPC soldiers to fill the cannon with gunpowder and projectiles, ready to show Qin Xiaobai a live shell. The reloading process is somewhat complicated, and it takes several minutes to reload all the cannons.

Taking advantage of this period of time, he asked Qin Xiaobai to introduce the details of these bronze cannons, and said: "Boss, we have made a total of thirty bronze cannons for experiments, which are mainly designed for three purposes: ship-based, field-based, and defending the city.

The ten bronze cannons here are specially designed for ship-based ships, and are divided into three different weight classes: heavy, medium, and light. Heavy can be used as the main cannon of the ship, and medium and light can be used as auxiliary cannons. The ten cannons had a range of one to three kilometers, and mainly used solid iron and lead projectiles, which were penetrating enough to easily destroy enemy sailing ships.

There are also ten lightweight small-caliber light guns here, equipped with movable frames, which are small guns designed for field regiments. The advantage is that it is light, and it is easy to move quickly with a horse or ox, but the disadvantage is that the range is too short, only about a kilometer, and the power is not enough. This light artillery could only be used against the enemy in rudimentary fortifications, and it was difficult to destroy the castle.

There are also ten fixed bronze cannons of the order of magnitude, which are specially designed to defend the city. The artillery shells are specially made flowering shells, which can kill and injure soldiers in a large area, and can be used to deal with the siege of the group army. The firing range reaches about three kilometers, and the power is huge. It's just that the mobility is poor, it is not possible to transfer positions for flexible shelling. ”

If you want money, don't want to lead Qin Xiaobai to these artillery, and introduce them one by one.

Qin Xiaobai looked at these bronze artillery pieces and said with a smile: "The main force of our Zhoushui Alliance is the Zhoushui Fleet, not the 6th Army Corps, the most important thing at present is to get the ship-borne cannons out first, so that our warships can be transformed from cold-weapon sailing warships to hot-weapon sailing warships as soon as possible, so as to maintain the advantage of naval warfare." The most important thing for shipborne artillery is the requirements of range, firepower, and accuracy. The highest quality must be achieved. The best models were selected from all the experimental guns, and several three-masted battleships were first equipped, and then sent to the battlefield of naval warfare for testing. ”

He nodded his head to show that he understood.

They spoke for a while, and soon the soldiers had filled dozens of bronze cannons with gunpowder. An NPC soldier stepped forward to light the arquebus and fired at a target on the mound thousands of kilometers away.

The firelight flashed, and the sound of a boom. The earth seemed to shake a few times. A shell hit a mound a kilometer away. It stirred up a piece of gravel and dirt, but unfortunately it did not hit the target, and the deviation was at least tens of meters away.

Then, the second shot was fired.

Thirty bronze cannons, shelled in turn. Almost flattened the mound by one layer. One of the heavy guns was scrapped on the spot because of a jammed shell, and even injured several NPC soldiers. The rest of the ground artillery behaved normally. It's just that the quality is not equal, and the accuracy is not ideal. As the first experimental bronze guns, the quality was generally good.

It was a little embarrassing to ask for money and not to die in the face of the major "mistakes" that occurred in this shelling demonstration.

Qin Xiaobai didn't say anything, just said lightly: "Test a few more times, don't be afraid of spending money, select the best few shipborne guns, and focus on research and improvement." ”

After watching the artillery test firing, Qin Xiaobai asked for money and left the shooting range. Return to Tianjin City.

After returning to Tianjin. Qin Xiaobai immediately summoned important leaders such as sheep, nameless, green cattle who were obsessed with money, asked for money and did not want their lives, and became the king who stayed in Tianjin City. Ready to start production of new warships.

Bronze cannons, it's not just about pulling them onto a battleship. The ship's internal structure had to be modified to accommodate dozens of heavy bronze cannons and withstand the intense impact of the shelling.

Sheep are responsible for the military production of Tianjin, and the arquebuses and bronze cannons used for experiments are all produced by military factories in the interior of Tianjin. Nameless is in charge of business operations, and after the production of arms, he is directly responsible for the purchase and sale of arms. The Micai Qingniu is in charge of the Zhoushui Shipyard, in charge of the research and production of warships, and the old warships cannot be equipped with bronze cannons, so they must develop special new warships. If you want money, you don't want to be in charge of science and technology research, and he is responsible for the investment and operation of most of the new technologies in the Zhoushui Alliance. Cheng Wang is currently in charge of the defense of Jicheng, Tianjin City, Tanggukou Military Base, Zhoushui Walled City, and other Yan hinterlands, and the movement of the Tanggukou fleet is also controlled by him.

The production of a new warship involves almost all the departments of the Zhoushui Alliance.

Qin Xiaobai summoned the supervisors of all aspects together in order to coordinate the tasks of various departments and produce gunboats as soon as possible.

Although the gunpowder test of the Zhoushui Alliance is kept secret from the outside world, there is no impermeable wall in this world. If you only test the arquebus, the probability of leaking the news is low, but the earth-shattering sound of the bronze cannon firing can even spread more than ten miles away. Coupled with the fact that the vicinity of the shooting range was heavily blocked by the Zhoushui Alliance's local army and listed as a military restricted area, all this inevitably made those who were active around the shooting range guess something.

What else can this continuous rumble be besides artillery ?!

Soon, there was a sensation in the entire vicinity of Tianjin City. Tianjin City is an important military industrial town, and many of the people who live here are merchant players, and they are merchant players who buy and sell arms. They are extremely sensitive to the development of any new weapon. Gunpowder is the dividing point between cold weapons and hot weapons, and its value is incomparable with cold weapons.

The value of the hot weapons market is thousands of times that of the cold weapons market. Especially in the late game, the price of a battleship, an aircraft carrier, and a satellite is simply not affordable for a single player.

Gunpowder is all hot weapons.

Countless merchant players flocked to the vicinity of the shooting range. They wanted to see the truth, but they were blocked by the heavily guarded 10,000 NPC army, so they couldn't get any information.

The range was not a large number of troops, but it was very close to the city of Tianjin, where hundreds of thousands of hoplites and cavalry of the Zhoushui Alliance were stationed. If the shooting range is attacked, the army of Tianjin City will only need to reach the shooting range in a few moments, and no one will dare to make a mistake here.

Unable to obtain any information at the shooting range, the merchants and players rushed to the leaders of the Zhoushui Alliance in Tianjin, and insisted that the Zhoushui Alliance had developed and produced artillery, and they strongly demanded to buy it, regardless of the price. The first artillery must be sold to them.

You must know that there are a lot of rich people in this game, and they don't care about the price, but they want to play well. Just think about yourself driving dozens of bronze artillery, shelling a group of poor enemy soldiers brandishing swords and charging at the artillery position, a round of artillery fire down and blowing up thousands of people, dozens of artillery pieces lined up in a row, the siege of the city is invincible, in a smoke of gunpowder. Like a god of war, he ran over the enemy's corpse position. Invincible, not to mention that kind of majesty.

There is no need for any tactical content at all, even the most ordinary player with dozens of artillery pieces can easily defeat a relatively powerful army of cold weapons. This is the gap between the times and technology.

Merchant players know exactly what the rich want, so they are hungry for the Zhoushui Alliance's artillery.

Nameless is the head of the commercial department of the Zhoushui Alliance. Almost all the buying and selling went through his hands.

He smiled in the face of countless merchant players who begged for him, and neither refused nor agreed. Just said: "I can give you an accurate explanation, black powder, arquebus, and bronze artillery ground research has achieved initial success." However, further trials are being carried out to improve the performance, please be patient, and a small batch of arquebuses will come out in three days for you to try. ”

There was a merchant player who shouted.

"Nameless boss, what about artillery? When will the artillery be taken out and sold? You're not going to keep it all for yourself, are you? Sell me some more! ”

"I heard that our Chinese fleet is about to go to war with the Indian fleet, will these arquebuses and artillery be used on the Indian battlefield?"

"The Japanese battlefield is very fierce, I wonder if you will sell a batch of firearms to the Japanese islands? If you don't sell it, just contract me all the goods. I'll sell it. Those Koreans must have been more than happy to buy a batch of firearms. ”

Nameless shame. said: "I'm sorry, it's about the military department. I have no comment. ”

The production and trade of the military industry in the city of Tianjin has reached very high. There are not only a few large military factories in the Zhoushui Alliance, but also military factories, technology research centers and shops organized by thousands of players or scattered players.

The smelting and forging process of bronze and iron and steel is very good, and the products produced are very fine and numerous. It can be said that almost the most elite military production capacity of the entire Yandi is concentrated here.

As long as the casting process is reached, and a huge amount of money is invested in the research of artillery or arquebus, it is easy to produce cannons. The most difficult thing is the research of gunpowder, which cannot be developed with tens of millions of funds. This also requires the accumulation of basic chemistry and chemical technology, and the consumption of these accumulations is calculated in billions, and only those organizations with strong comprehensive strength can be developed.

With a bronze cannon weighing 3,000 catties, all the military factories in Tianjin can produce as many as 200 guns in a day. Arquebuses, producing tens of thousands of them a day are trivial and not worth mentioning.

The Zhoushui Military Factory firmly controlled the gunpowder formula and manufacturing process in its own hands, and entrusted other military factories to produce bronze cannons, projectiles and arquebuses of ordinary specifications, while producing the highest specifications of shipborne artillery by itself.

In a short period of time, Tianjin City has continuously produced a large number of thermal weapons. As long as they are paired with the black powder produced by the Navy Factory, these weapons can be used-

On the basis of the original three-yalou ship, a new type of three-masted warship was developed, which could carry 12 light guns weighing hundreds of pounds, and six guns were placed on the left and right sides of the ship, which could fire at the same time.