Beiliang Dading, the war has passed more than a month, and Beiliang once returned to calm; Next! Dongfang Yu Jiang's energy is committed to the construction and development of Beiliang, and how to make Beiliang strong and rich has become the primary responsibility at present.

And Bei Liang! ushered in the spring ploughing period in full swing, the people went to the fields, reclaimed wasteland, built new water conservancy channels, irrigated, everything was carried out in an orderly manner, and the whole Beiliang was a thriving scene.

Of course! To have today's scene, it is indispensable to the contributions of Dongfang Yu, Tian Ping, Xu Meng and others.

But since the last war, after analyzing the degree of casualties on both sides of the enemy, this situation of injuring 10,000 enemies and losing 8,000 makes Dongfang Yu worth pondering.

There are a lot of soldiers, it's useless! Since ancient times, there are not many soldiers but fine, just like last time, all armies and battalions have losses, but only the Xuanjia army has not been killed. In addition to being well-trained and powerful, the Xuanjia Army has three layers of light armor, and it is difficult to insert knives, guns, and arrows, but to assemble such an army, it costs a lot of money and is difficult to build! Dongfang Yu can't train everyone into the Xuanjia Army!

After his repeated contemplation, he had to start with technology. Right now! It was the time for his brain to show its might.

All the equipment, he is ready to follow the Ming Dynasty on the premise of increasing the improvement of weapons.

For example, the Frankie cannon, the Hongyi cannon, and the tiger squat cannon, these three cannons belong to the three most advanced artillery pieces of the Ming Dynasty; In the firearms category, there are three-eyed guns, fast guns, target guns, magic guns, and bird's beak guns, but in the late Ming Dynasty, the arquebuses invented by the Portuguese were the most favored by Dongfang Yu.

Of course! Compared with firearms, Dongfang Yu still pays more attention to the major artillery, and the three cannons are undoubtedly much more advanced than Dawu's Shenwu cannons.

The first is to build an arsenal, on the basis of the original, increase the scale of the previous arsenal, move the previous arsenal out of the mountain pass, and build a new arsenal outside Qin County that specializes in making artillery fire; There is no way, the conditions in Liangzhou are limited, so we can only temporarily set up an arsenal, and then prepare to build a science and technology institute after a little time to push back and gradually stabilize the economy.

Although Beiliang deviates from the political center and is the center of commercial prosperity, Dongfang Yu intends to build Beiliang into the second largest state after Yunzhou.

After all! Beiliang is vast, and the mineral resources are still very rich, but! The geographical location of Beiliang is special, backed by the grassland departments, the danger is great, and the emperors of Dawu have never thought of developing Liangzhou since ancient times.

Beiliang Arsenal...

In the past half a month, other generals have been training, and most of the recruits have been recruited from prisoners and Pei Hao's department, and on the basis of the original training, they have been incorporated into the new system; And Dongfang Yu almost soaked in the arsenal, studying the manufacture of Frankie's cannons, and following the memory, the drawings are available, even if they are just manufactured, it is still a little troublesome and cumbersome.

This is not! Dongfang Yu, Xu Meng, Wang Pu, and Ma Jun began to discuss the manufacture and performance of Frankie's cannons.

After all! This Franky cannon, he only saw the rough process of manufacturing in books, as well as the need for parts and structures, and he did not personally manufacture and practice.

But! A few days ago, the basic model of the Frankie cannon was built, and the first Otherworldly version of the Frankie cannon was roughly formed.

"This Frankie cannon, if it is really as His Highness said, if it is produced in large quantities, it can be used as a sharp weapon for our army, greatly reducing the casualties of our army. Even if it is the most advanced Shenwu cannon in the Martial Kingdom, it is not as good as that! After Xu Meng looked at the drawing carefully, after listening to Dongfang Yu's detailed explanation, his eyes suddenly lit up and he was excited.

If the energy produces one hundred and eighty doors and a salvo is arranged, the enemy army must not be blown into a sieve. After all! Frankie's performance in many aspects is much better than that of the Tiger Squat Cannon, which is suitable for close combat, and within 500 meters, it is extremely powerful. And Frankie can cover two kilometers of artillery fire, as long as the ammunition is sufficient, even if the enemy army has thousands of troops, it will not be able to withstand the fierce bombardment of Frankie's artillery.

The Franc cannon (the upper is the sub-gun, the lower is the mother) The Franc cannon was invented in Europe, and was introduced to China by Portugal in the first year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1522), according to the name of the country, it became the artillery of the middle of the Ming Dynasty in China. In the third year of Jiajing (1524), the Ming court successfully imitated the first batch of 32 Franc machines, each weighing about 300 catties, and the mother gun was 2.85 feet long, equipped with four sub-guns. Later, the Ming court successively imitated various types of Franc aircraft of different sizes and models to equip the northern and coastal armies.

The Furlong Cannon was an early reloader smoothbore cannon. It is composed of a mother and a child gun.

The female body is slender and has a small caliber, and the body is equipped with a front sight and a light door, which can aim and shoot at long-distance targets. There are gun lugs on both sides of the gun body, which can be placed on the bracket and can be tilted to adjust the firing angle.

The rear part of the gun is thicker, and there are long holes and grooves to fill the guns.

The sub-guns are similar to the small firearms, each female gun is equipped with 5 to 9 sub-guns, which can be pre-loaded with ammunition for backup, and the mother guns can be loaded and fired in turn during battle, thus increasing the firing speed.

As for the origin, the Franc cannon is a new type of artillery introduced from the West during the Ming Zhengde period (early 16th century), that is, the short-barreled cannon. Franco, originally the Ming Dynasty to the Portuguese, the Spaniards collectively named. In the last years of Zhengde, He Ru, the inspector of Baisha, saw Western artillery on a Spanish ship in China, and its performance was better than that of Chinese artillery at that time, so he mobilized the Chinese gunsmiths on the ship to go ashore and imitate the first batch of Western fires for our country.

According to the "History of the Ming Dynasty", Franky: copper is five or six feet long, and the big one weighs more than a pound. The small one is one hundred and fifty pounds, with a huge belly and a long neck, and the abdomen is repaired by the merchant, and five pieces of medicine are placed in the abdomen, and the hair is more than 100 zhang. "The advantage of this type of artillery is that it has a pre-storage of ammunition with a sub-gun, which does not have to be temporarily reloaded, which can speed up the fire.

The disadvantage is that the body barrel is shorter, and compared with the Hongyi cannon, it cannot have a long range.

According to European sources, the short cannon has a range of between 340 and 2000 meters, and the highest hit rate is at six or seven hundred meters.

However, because China rarely encounters such a powerful maritime opponent as Europe, the imitation ship Franc cannon shells are relatively lightweight, and the firing range of the thousand-pound cannon can be compared with the Hongyi cannon, reaching two or three thousand meters.

There are historical records that the range of Hongyi artillery can reach ten miles, that is, five thousand meters, and it is estimated that it is set up on the high city, and it is difficult to achieve it in field or naval battles.

Thus! Frankie's cannon is not as good as the Hongyi cannon in terms of range and power, but it is still not to be underestimated.

Dongfang Yu has been focusing on future wars in the future, especially against the Xiongnu, with a general focus on hot weapon warfare. Cold weapons are used as auxiliaries, and hot weapons are the dominant force in warfare.