Depending on the destination, the immigrants were trained to muskets in addition to discipline - Liang did not expect to train the peasants into elite soldiers in such a short period of time, as long as they could stand in the fortifications and shoot.

In addition to this, he also selected a few people who seemed to be more intelligent to learn how to operate the artillery, which was used to ensure that the future frontier had sufficient fire support.

Thankfully, artillery in this era could only fire directly because of technology, so it seemed relatively simple to learn how to operate artillery without even learning some knowledge related to ballistics like later artillery.

"These cannons are a little bit worse." After another roar, Liang En shook his head a little dissatisfied, looking at the stones embedded in the thick wooden planks and the spherical cannonballs that didn't know where to fly.

Judging from the previous shooting demonstrations and actual combat conditions, the bowl mouth gun can only fire two kinds of shells, one of which is a large cannonball made of stone or metal, and the other is a shotgun made of a large mess of stones wrapped in cloth, broken iron and so on.

Although it seems that there are many varieties of shells for this gun, this is not the case in practice, because of the short bore, lugs and crosshairs, these early primitive guns are not satisfactory in terms of accuracy and power -

Because these guns can only be fired on a pre-built earthen platform, it is basically impossible to use them to attack fast-moving targets, and because the barrels are too short, it is impossible to have much kinetic energy, and the shotgun cannot penetrate some heavily armored targets.

What's worse is that these guns can't be easily amplified to increase their power, otherwise the mobility will be reduced to zero when they are amplified to a certain extent, and their actual combat value will be greatly reduced.

If it weren't for the extra lethality of gunpowder for many extraordinary, and the fact that gunpowder weapons are easier to use and easier to maintain than traditional trebuchets or crossbows, it is estimated that no one would want to use these weapons.

"Who dares to make a big deal out of this?" As soon as Liang En's words fell, a roar like thunder was heard in the distance, and then an officer wearing armor strode over.

However, when he approached Liang En, he also discovered Liang En's identity, so his pace slowed down a lot, and the aura on his body did not look as aggressive as before, but there was still some anger on his face.

"Guerrilla Lee—" Liang En arched his hand and asked, a little puzzled. "What's wrong with what you just said?"

"I want to thank you for saving the lives of many of your brethren in the previous battles, but I still can't accept your disparagement of our artillery unless you can give me an explanation." After arching his hand to Liang En, Li Guerrilla said dissatisfied.

"In the previous battles, these cannons were extremely useful, and even had the same lethality as those low-level spells, I admit that they have some shortcomings, but how can they be considered very bad?"

"But these cannons don't work." After thinking about it quickly, Liang En felt that it was better for him to tell the truth to the straightforward soldier Li Guerrilla, and at the same time sell his artillery by the way.

"In my eyes, artillery should be able to destroy walls, sink warships, or destroy mighty war beasts. It's not a secondary target like just firing some stones and killing some enemy soldiers."

Although these words don't sound very good, they are also a fact, in Liang En's opinion, the artillery of this era is not only compared with those of later generations, but also compared with traditional war machines, such as trebuchets, bed crossbows, etc.

"You're right, but that's what the artillery looks like?" After hearing Liang En's words, Li Guerrilla breathed a sigh of relief, and then looked helpless.

"I've heard before that some cannons made by Confucian mages or cultivators are very powerful, and they can even erode the radius of the cannonball's landing point for tens of zhang, but those things can hardly be called artillery."

The powerful cannon he was talking about was not so much a cannon as a large magic weapon, so it naturally had the unique characteristics of a magic weapon - powerful and expensive at the same time, and could not be mass-produced.

Comparatively, those use black fire

Conventional artillery can be widely equipped, but the performance is a bit disastrous, so much so that there are constantly some people who think that those old war machines should be reused.

Liang En knew that this was not because the gunpowder weapons were not good, but because the gunpowder weapons of this era were too badly designed and completely failed to exert the power of gunpowder weapons.

"No, artillery shouldn't be what it is now." Liang En pointed to the bowl that had just been fired next to him and said, "Even with the current technology, I think we can make more powerful artillery."

"More powerful artillery, this—" Li Guerrilla wanted to say that it was impossible at first, but he soon realized that the muskets had been brought by Liang En, so it was really possible for Liang En to know about gunpowder weapons.

Thinking of this, his expression became serious, and at the same time, he asked Liang En a little nervously.

"Mr. Liang, do you know how to make more powerful artillery?"

"I do know some ways to make more powerful artillery." Hearing this question, a smile bloomed on Liang En's face, and then he took out a complete set of documents and a fully equipped 12-pounder Napoleon cannon.

The information was obtained from the machine shop when Liang ordered the steam engines, and the technical guide to the manufacture of Napoleonic artillery using 15th-century technology.

As for the artillery, it is a twelve-pounder Napoleon cannon made by Liang En when he practiced after making the universal golden fog, and it is also the top smoothbore cannon in history, which was first from the era of Napoleon III.

"Unlike today's artillery, there are obvious differences in the manufacturing process and the method of use, so it is not easy to make these guns and be able to use them."

After patting the bronze cannon lightly, Liang En looked at Lee's guerrilla introduction.

"But if you master how to use this cannon, you'll see that it's far superior to the old guns in terms of mobility, firepower, and accuracy."

After speaking, Liang En, after obtaining permission from Li's guerrilla, commanded his militia to complete the preparation for the firing of the artillery, and then lit the fuse of the artillery.

"Boom!"

With a deafening roar, a cannonball flew out of the flames and smoke and hit the farthest part of the range's plank, cutting a circular hole in it, and then striking a small column of smoke in the protective wall behind the target.

"This—this can even hurt dangerous sea beasts." After a few vertical leaps to the target, Li Guerrilla looked at the neat round hole on the target and the deep hole behind it that had been punched by a cast-iron cannonball, showing a surprised look.

In the following tests, he found that compared with the current artillery, the artillery brought by Liang En this time outperformed the known artillery in terms of accuracy, power and mobility.

"Great, this is simply amazing!" After the test was over, Guerrilla Li looked at the artillery in front of him with an excited face. "Mr. Liang, you're right, this is the real artillery, and we need it now."