There was a model of a cannon on Lu Xiyue's desk, although it was only a foot long, but the details were complete. This was intercepted by his people from the workshop, and Lu Xiyue looked at it and praised it, this young man named Yang Cheng was really a genius in firearms.

Yang Cheng is a calm friend, he went to Swallow Island and devoted himself to transforming his firearms, and his dream was to play with this wholeheartedly. But turning the mold casting is a problem, and it's not about hitting a kitchen knife and hoe. Not to mention the need for a professional forge, the work of making weapons alone is not something that ordinary blacksmiths can do, let alone firearms.

Looking at his small model, Yang Cheng was simply eating and sleeping and thinking about how to cast it and use it, so he ran back to Nanquan, wandered around the barracks all day long, and successfully befriended several hundred households, and had the opportunity to enter the army forge.

When Yang Cheng thought that he was familiar with the foundry master, he expressed that he wanted to ask them to see if he could take a private job, and the salary was good, and the guards who had already prepared rushed up like wolves and tigers to put the obsessed Yang nerd in prison.

Yang Nerd's ability Yan Yun also appreciates it very much, and he can't put down this model. The Frankie naval guns under his command were very coarse, weighing thousands of pounds, and could hardly be moved on a ship, which was very difficult to operate, and was only suitable for defending the city, that is, loading a few ships for show. I've heard that the craftsmanship on Frankie's current ironclad ships is more sophisticated, and not to mention whether the vassal is reliable, just looking at the model of Swallow Island shows that the artillery has been greatly improved. The gun body is slender and compact, the amount of copper used is only half of the past, and it is not easy to blow up.

These are not the key, the key is that Yan Yun saw the newly equipped front sight of the cannon body and knew that the people of Swallow Island should have mastered the degree plate technology. It's like a royal secret! At the beginning, General Jinghai did not use 100,000 taels of silver to use the scale plate technology from Monk Fran Jiyang.

The so-called use of the scale plate, also known as the technique of point release, is to use instruments such as gun gauges, gun rulers and moments to measure the firing distance and load ammunition. The Frankies relied on this technology to achieve accuracy in firepower, while the current dynasty could only rely on the gunner's naked eye and experience to estimate.

Artillery is the most powerful to be reloaded with gunpowder shells. Because of the amazing power of the artillery, many timid gunners who were afraid of death filled the empty cannons, and the situation improved after Yanhou dealt with it several times with military law, but it turned to the other extreme: the gunners filled up the ammunition to the brim, which was too easy to blow up.

The mighty general above Yanhou once stubbornly believed that the more gunpowder was loaded, the more powerful it was, and it must be overfilled, but as a result, a Frankie cannon was blown up on the spot, killing four gunners and seriously wounding three, and the general himself had two fingers cut off by shrapnel. Since then, people have regarded firearms as a fearful path.

The Frankies, on the other hand, were able to use measuring instruments to calculate the appropriate amount of gunpowder, and the ammunition was proportionate and the target was accurate. Although the military department has been able to make its own Frankie cannon, the operation has been stagnant. If you really master the skill of putting points on Swallow Island-

"Swallow Island and Governor Luzon Frankie have always been friends, and Luzon is Frankie's largest overseas vassal, so presumably the technology came from there." Lu Xiyue said.

"I heard that their name in charge of equipment and firepower is Li Chun, and they can speak Frankie, which is considered a collaborator with the enemy?" Yan Hou played with this artillery model and said lightly for a long time.

Lu Xiyue lowered his eyes, he understood why Yan Hou said this, just like he had said Swallow Island as an "overseas rogue" before. Now the country is stable, there is no rebellion by the vassal king, and there is no friendship with each other, the prince is from the queen, both long and long, impeccable; There are no droughts or floods, and there are no loopholes in the riverworks and salt roads that are most prone to baskets. Yushitai is a dry person's mouth, and the bird is idle early.

Wenchen is okay, but the military generals are sad, where to save military merit and be promoted? From time to time, there are nomads in the northwest who have a fight, loose and fast, and those colorful Miao Dong barbarians in the southwest have been educated by the king and calmed down; The southeast Japanese were frightened by the previous generation of Jinghai generals, and they were beaten and convinced, and they all stopped.

But, but our waist knives are so hungry and thirsty—Yan Hou can almost hear the shouts of his subordinates.

Civilizing and submissive a group of outcasts and profiteers and exterminating a group of pirates is clear at a glance as to which merit is higher or lower.

The dignified, talkative middle-aged man in front of him is not a wreck who only sticks his head in a woman's crotch, he has his own ambitions and calculations.

"Master Hou, I have something I want to report."

Yan Yun glanced at him and motioned for him to say. Lu Xiyue said slowly: "Li Chun, I have met once, and his situation is a little special. ”

Yan Yun lowered his body to the backrest, revealing a leisurely posture, and the meaning exuded was obvious: So what? Is he a talented and beautiful general? Or is there an unspeakable hidden life experience? As long as he is not a prince, the hat of Liukou will be buttoned.

Lu Xiyue knelt down: "What I said next will offend Hou Ye, but Li Chun has been in Nanquan for many years, and the people who have seen him are not only in the next one, Hou Ye can verify that what he said is true." ”

Lu Xiyue's words really made Yan Yun's eyes narrow, he looked very similar to him? What do you mean? The age is also comparable, "If the little son who was the eldest son of the Hou Ye is still alive, it should be the same size as him." ”

Yan Yun laughed, and turned into a cold anger: "You are so bold. ”

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There was only a bed and a stool in a small room ten paces long and five paces wide, and there were guards in front of the door and window. Every morning at a fixed time, someone comes to collect the toilet and deliver breakfast, and in the afternoon it is another meal, but not in the evening. The food is not bad, there are meat and vegetarian rice, but Yang Cheng's mind is never on food and housing, and he doesn't even care about life and death, he is just afraid of boredom.

There is nothing to do outside of such an accurate measurement of the size of the room, Yang Cheng is not a person who can speak well, if it is Li Chunshao, he has to have a hippie smile with the people who are guarding outside, he only screamed twice to the outside, and no one paid attention to it and sat on the edge of the bed in a daze. After four days like this, when he woke up in the morning, he suddenly found a few pages of paper on the stool, and Yang Nerd's face was not washed and picked up like a hungry look, huh?

"The know-how of gunpowder machinery was first chiseled from the West and the South, and then to China. Ever-changing, the day is full of new moons. Although the living people have ingenuity, Wu can be extremely extreme" Ah, ah, Yang Cheng shouted, threw himself on the door panel and patted it, "This is a good soldier made of heaven, kind uncle, please show me the rest of the part, I want to finish reading, please, I will say whatever you want me to say."

No one paid any attention to him. Every three or four days, a few pages of paper appeared on his stool, sometimes the remnants of some drawings. The room, which was as quiet as a chicken, was screaming from morning to night. "Ah, I see" "Oh my God, I've never seen this picture" "Give me a pen and give me paper!" If you don't give a charcoal strip sand table, you can also do it! Please!! ”

"Ahhh Ask for everything, I want to know everything."

"It is tightly wrapped with a thick rope, and the cover is injected into the mold with hot copper, and the rope body will turn into ashes. Oh my God, the little ones can do anything, let the little ones read this book. ”

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The guards on guard were all told that no matter what the people inside did, they were not allowed to care, even if he killed himself. Every day, I hear the shouting inside, the voice is so eager to cry, and the sound of grabbing the hair and hitting the wall can't help but look at each other, that weak Lord Lu is really powerful, he doesn't beat or scold people and just locks people up like this and wins a big victory, and the one who punishes the heart is the best.