Chapter 43 Test 1

A brand-new artillery was installed in a cluster of gun carriage. The gun carriage was newly built by carpenters day and night in accordance with Yu Xiaotian's requirements. It was made of good hard materials and the workmanship was very fine. Even the corners were carefully repaired by the carpenters, and there was not much place to touch.

Moreover, the gun frame of this gun is also completely made of the four-wheel gun used on Western ships. The gun frame is also equipped with an iron ring. After being installed on the ship, you can put the rope on the iron ring. Just pull the rope to reset the gun relatively easily.

As a senior ship model fan, Yu Xiaotian certainly knows what the gun rack should use. In another famous naval battle in the West in history, one side used a gun truck similar to the gun rack of the land cannon, while the other ship used a convenient four-wheel gun truck.

As a result, the side that used the land cannons, after firing, the gunners and sailors restored the cannons after reinstalling the cannons, which eventually caused them to be at a loss in the artillery battle.

As a result, the other side of the four-wheeled gun truck fired quickly and always occupied the advantage of firepower. Finally, the party using the four-wheeled gun truck won the naval battle.

In this era, the old artillery of the Ming Dynasty did not even have gun trucks. Most of them used fixed gun racks. Sometimes when the gun was fired, the artillery may even jump up and turn over under the impetus of recoil, hurting the people on the ship.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian will definitely not install a simple fixed gun frame for his newly built cannon and do such a stupid thing, so when he started casting the cannon, he already knew the size of the cannon and personally designed the special four-wheeled gun truck on the ship in advance, so that the carpenter could build it in advance according to the pattern.

In order to ensure that the cannon can be directly loaded into the gun truck without too much error, Yu Xiaotian even asked the carpenters to make a wooden model of the same proportion of the cannon in advance and first installed it on the gun truck for testing.

Now the cannon has been cast, and the gun truck has been prepared in advance. Basically, the cannon has been installed on the gun truck without difficulty.

This matter is undoubtedly a very important event for the sea wolves, and it is also a great happy event. Although Yu Xiaotian was not too publicized, his men still made this test very grand.

The installed gun was hung in red by his men, wrapped a rope with red cloth, selected eight strong men, and dragged the cannon with a red rope in front of his head. Li Gouzi even found a few drummers and made the drum horn to blow in front of his head all the way, making it as lively as marriage.

Yu Xiaotian was really speechless by these guys, but considering that folklore is so, the big guys also want to win a prize, and it's not easy for everyone's meaning, so he simply let them toss around, and he himself followed the team in a low-key way.

But now he wants to keep a low profile. Who doesn't know him as the big boss on Nanri Island? As soon as the rare people see him, they cheered, and some people who have received his favors quickly knelt down and kowtowed to him.

Now, under his rectification, the people's livelihood is stable and the rules are strict. Few people dare to harm the island's residents at will as before. Therefore, the farmers and fishermen on the island are much better now, and they don't have to be worried about living.

Even when they went to sea to fish, because their area was under the control range of sea wolves, few people dared to come to harass them to fish, so that the fishermen on the island now have greatly improved their perception of these pirates, and they are no longer afraid of the sea wolves on the island.

These people are actually very pure in their minds. They have a scale in their own hearts. They know very well who is good to them and who is bad to them. When the Shark Gang was on Nanri Island in the past, they dare not think about it, so of course they know who to be grateful to.

So as long as these fishermen and farmers passing by now see Yu Xiaotian, many people will quickly kneel down and kowtow to thank him, which makes Yu Xiaotian a little moved.

The people are so simple. As long as you treat them well, they will know that they are grateful to you, but if you are not good to them, they usually don't say anything and endure silently. Once they reach the limit, they will rebound, which is even more like a typhoon, so he is secretly alert. If If he wants to sit down more and more in the future, he must not easily condemn these people who depend on him for a living.

So when Yu Xiaotian saw someone cheering or kneeling down to greet him, he often smiled and frequently held his fists to return the salute, which was quite a little like a virtuous sergeant.

The test place was selected on the hillside south of Dazhai. It has been martial law in advance, and idle people have been blocked far away. After all, this is the highest secret of sea wolves so far. Ordinary people can know that sea wolves have made their own cannons, but it is better not to let more people know the specific performance.

After Yu Xiaotian arrived at the test site, he glanced around and saw that the surroundings had been emptied, he pulled on the rope and began to measure the distance in the open space.

Every 100 meters, he makes people pile up a mound. As the target, the mound is one person high and more than two meters wide. For the artillery of this era, it is already a relatively small target.

And the farther the distance, the larger the mound will be. Yu Xiaotian did not expect to hit a human-sized target at a distance of 500 meters. If he could hit a house, it would burn incense.

A group of people were busy on the shooting range, digging and measuring. It took a long time to arrange the shooting range.

Yu Xiaotian ordered several specially selected gunners to place the gun at the designated position. For the sake of safety, a shelter was built, and two trenches were dug on both sides of the gun position as a place for testers to hide.

After everything was ready, several boxes of ammunition were also sent to the side of the gun position and put into the bunker to avoid any danger during the test.

Yu Xiaotian directly abandoned the loading method of bulk gunpowder. Before the test, the night before the gun, he ordered his men to pack the gunpowder into a columnar fixed package with oil paper according to the concentrated specifications of one and a half catty, two catties, two and a half catties and three catties. When using it, they only need to fill the medicine bag directly into the gun and use a cone to get out of the fire. Open the oil paper at the door, pour in the medicine or insert the letter tube of feathers or fine bamboo tubes, and then fill in the shells to fire.

Because of the first test gun, the big guys are not sure about the performance of this gun. If they directly light the gun, they are afraid that the gun will explode and hurt the personnel of the test gun.

So in this test, Yu Xiaotian twisted some leads wrapped in gunpowder, leaving enough leads and installed them into the fire gate. After lighting the lead, the test crew can immediately hide in the trench behind the bunker. In this way, in case the cannon explodes, it will not be hurt. And testers.

So after everything was ready, at Yu Xiaotian's order, everyone opened their eyes wide and began to hold their breath and calm down, just waiting to watch the test.

The selected gunner rushed forward and began to fill the artillery. The operation procedure has long been determined. These shells are also carefully cast and carefully polished by the craftsmen. The tolerance has been better controlled, so it takes no effort to load them.

Soon the first shell was loaded, and the lead was also loaded into the fire gate. The gunners carefully aimed the muzzle at the first mound 100 meters away. After aiming, several gunners jumped into the trench of the bunker with an order from the gunner.

Only one gunman was left holding a flared fire fold waiting for the order.

"Ignite!" Yu Xiaotian shouted sharply.

The gunner immediately ignited the medicine twist when he heard the sound, turned around and jumped into the bunker, leaving only the ignited medicine hiss with blue smoke and hiss quickly burning towards the fire gate.

Everyone was so nervous that they raised their hearts to their throats and stared at the new cannon. Suddenly, a fire flashed in the gun bunker. Then the ground shook, and then a loud noise was heard.

The gun vehicle was pushed one or two meters away by the recoil force, and the bunker was suddenly shrouded in a mass of gunpowder smoke. Looking at the shooting range, a black spot flew out like lightning, and the shell could hardly be seen with the naked eye.

After the shell flew out, it hit the shooting range heavily, but unfortunately, the gun did not accurately hit the first mound 100 meters away, but slightly higher, flew over the mound, fell nearly 200 meters away, and smashed a mass of dust on the ground.

However, the shell was not exhausted. After landing, it was bounced up by the ground and continued to fly forward. The dragonfly jumped on the ground and rolled past the side of the second mound, and finally landed about 250 meters before completely stopped.

Some people shook their heads slightly and were a little disappointed, but more people cheered, because in their opinion, although the shot did not hit the target, it was not far from the target. If it was lower, it would hit the target. If it was a boat, the shot would hit accurately, left and right. The difference is very small, and the accuracy is already good.

Yu Xiaotian is not too disappointed. After all, this is a new cannon. He can't ask the gunner to be familiar with the use of this cannon immediately. It is quite beautiful to achieve such a result.

What's more, if you fight against the enemy group on land, it is already good. You can definitely shoot into the enemy group and open a bloody road in the enemy group. The solid bullet is to kill more enemies by jumping bullets, which is not a failed launch.

And what he is most concerned about now is not the accuracy of the gun, but whether the gun is strong enough to withstand the high pressure of the barrel, and whether it will crack.

After the first shot was released, Yu Xiaotian immediately pulled out his legs and ran to the gun position, and the rest of the people also ran to the gun position.

Lei Blacksmith, Zhang Blacksmith and others also gathered around, with a nervous expression, carefully observed from head to toe around the cannon, and touched it again with their hands.

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