Depending on the caliber of artillery, the carpenter's office created four gun carriages of different models.

The short blacksmith, on Donner's orders, led a few men from the carpenter to pull the gun carriage over with a wildebeest.

It wasn't long before Jasmine, Hans, and Mike came over.

Donner was directing a few people to place the cannon on the gun mount, the cannon was a little heavy, and several people were a little trembling when they lifted it.

Hans and the three came over to salute and said, "Commander, are you looking for us?"

"Hmm!" Downer nodded, and said to the man who carried the artillery, "Be careful, take your time and don't rush." ”

A four-kilogram cannon weighs nearly 1,000 kilograms, and if you accidentally don't lift it and hit your foot, it can definitely crush the bones of the entire footboard.

"Hans, you go to the training camp and pick a few people to come over. Seeing that the artillery was safely placed on the gun carriage, Donner's heart relaxed, "Remember, the team members found must have a steady and careful personality, and be able to read and count." ”

Literacy education has always been carried out in the training camp, and now almost all members of the escort team already know common words, but in terms of arithmetic, there are not so many people who know it.

Donner also has a bit of a headache, but this is an IQ problem, and he doesn't have a good way, so he can only cramming illiteracy, and he can learn as much as he can.

This is true not only for the training camp, but also for the residents who work in other workshops.

There is still a long way to go in universal education, some people are smart, learn things quickly, and can draw inferences, while others are relatively stupid and need to remember many times.

Therefore, we can only teach first, and then talk about it, so that those who have learned can slowly teach those who have not learned, so as to achieve the success of literacy eradication on the whole island.

Now that Hans was accustomed to obedience, he immediately carried out the order and returned to the training camp without asking, while Jasmine and Mike stayed quietly aside.

The whole gun carriage is composed of two parts, the first half is called a tractor, which is suspended on a horn horse, and the second half is the gun carriage.

Both the tractor and the gun carriage have wheels, the wheels are a meter in diameter, made of selected sturdy trees, and the joints at key points are riveted with iron bars and steel rivets.

A wheel may seem simple, just a circle, but in this era, it cannot be built without experienced old carpenters.

The horn pulled the tractor, and the tractor dragged the gun carriage where the artillery was placed, and Donner had the wildebeest led around twice.

The wildebeest was docile, pulling the gun cart and creaking to crunch shallow rut marks in the dirt, and Donner nodded with satisfaction.

"That's right!" it occurred to Donner, the gunpowder was not ready.

He took out a quill pen, took out the paper he had with him, wrote a warrant, signed his name, and handed it to Mike: "Mike, take this order to get the gunpowder." ”

Half an hour later, Hans arrived at the cannon casting site with the gunpowder retrieved by the man and Mike.

The four gun mounts were already loaded, just waiting for them, Donner waved his hand: "Let's go, go to the training camp." ”

The training camp was built next to the hill on that side, and the surrounding area was originally wasteland, but now it has been completely reclaimed and used as a training ground for the escort team.

The area over there is large, the terrain is relatively wide, and the secrecy is good, which is suitable for the test firing of artillery.

The group led the wildebeest, covered the artillery carriage with cloth, and walked towards the training camp.

When he arrived at his destination, Donner was a little worried, he only knew the principle of the operation of the artillery, but the actual operation was another matter.

The artillery has to go through a set of tedious operations from the state of being converted to a ready fire to the successful launch.

A group of people looked at him, waiting for his order, and Donner said with a little embarrassment: "Pull the artillery to that position first, face that side, and arrange them side by side." ”

Donner pointed to the position ahead, opposite the empty training field.

The horned horses lined up with the gun wagons, and stopped, Donner thought for a moment and said, "You listen to my arrangement and do what I say." ”

This was said to a few selected gunners, the operation of the gun is not a simple matter, it requires three to five people to work together.

Donner walked up to the gun carriage and beckoned to a few people. Several gunners came to him.

Downer pointed to several key positions in the gun carriage and said, "This is the pin, this is the hook, this is the pusher and the support ......"

The gun carriage has never appeared in the Holy Light Continent, and no one has seen it, so Donner has to explain some of the general structure of the gun carriage to a few gunners first.

Hans selected a total of nine people, and after the explanation, Donner casually called five out: "Wait a minute, you five will do what I say, step by step, don't be in a hurry, don't know how to bring it up now." ”

The five nodded.

"Alright!" Donner nodded slightly, "we'll start now." ”

Following Donner's order, the five men first pulled out the pin connecting the towing vehicle and the gun mount, pulled up the hook, pushed the push hand on the gun mount, moved to the firing point ten meters in front, and then dropped the support.

Since it was the first time for the five people to operate, there was still some rustiness between the cooperation, but the whole action still succeeded in separating the tractor and the gun carriage, from four wheels to two wheels, and the heavy gun carriage was also removed from the gun carriage.

"You've all been trained to shoot muskets!" Donner asked the five gunners, "this thing is called artillery, and the principle is similar to that of muskets, and the loading of ammunition and so on is similar, but the power is much greater than that of muskets." ”

Artillery is a musket magnified by more than ten times, and of course Willy is magnified by a hundred times.

The five of them looked at each other, a little excited. They have been trained in muskets, and they know the power of muskets.

But they all knew that the selection of musketeers was extremely strict, not to mention anything else, just in the convoy, the people who could enter the musketeers were all those who had undergone strict political trials and were extremely loyal to the commander.

Now that the regimental commander has asked a few of them to use artillery that is more powerful than the musket, does it mean that the regimental commander will value himself more?

"That's it!" Downer thought for a moment and said, "Let's not reload the ammunition first, but rehearse the action, and then fire live ammunition after we are familiar with the action." ”

Then, following Donner's instructions, the five of them worked together crappily.

Unlike muskets, more powerful guns are more difficult to care for. Although reloading is similar to a musket, artillery firing requires the cooperation of five people at the same time, which increases the difficulty and requires the skillful cooperation of five people.

After an hour or two of rehearsing according to the movements, Donner saw that the movements of the five people had been slowly compatible, so he said, "Next, let's load gunpowder and shoot live ammunition." ”

Donner glanced at the five of them and solemnly instructed: "You must operate according to the action just now, don't be sloppy, and don't light the fuse if something is wrong." ”

This artillery is not fun, and in the event of danger, it can kill people.

"Let's get started!"

The five began to load their ammunition, Donner stared at them, and after the five finished their movements, they said, "Commander, it's ready, request ignition and launch." ”

"Allow shooting!" Downer said in a deep voice.

The five lit the fuse at the mouth of the fuse, and the fuse rattled, followed by a large amount of black smoke and a violent burning of gunpowder in the barrel......

"Boom!" There was a loud bang, and the first cannon sound sounded in the other world, which came from the cannon sound of liberation.