Chapter 81 Shooting Range Test

The whole cannon looks short and fat, and the ratio of the length of the gun and the inner diameter of the gun is about six to one. The tiger's brain actually feels a little cartoonish, but when the black is displayed there, no one doubts that this thing is a very horrible guy.

"Good! That's what I want! How's it going? Have you weighed it yet? How much does this guy weigh? Yu Xiaotian is most concerned about the weight of this kind of gun. If it is too heavy, there will be some trouble in loading the ship. Otherwise, this kind of gun will not enter practicality, but will become a new chicken rib. It is very powerful on land, but the range is close, so it is not suitable to use the shore gun.

If it is used as a siege gun, it seems too heavy. On the premise of not solving the problem of pulling horses, it is a disaster for any army to lead more than 1,000 catties of heavy artillery, especially for the sea wolf barracks, which belongs to the army that takes the elite route and does not use sea tactics to transport one door. Heavy artillery, the force to be occupied, allows the barracks to collapse.

"It has been weighed. The weight of this gun is not big, and it can't even reach the weight of the No. 5 long gun. It is only a little heavier than the standard No. 5 gun, with a total weight of 930 jin, not the weight of the gun rack!

There must be no problem loading the ship. As long as the ship can be loaded with the No. 5 cannon, there is no problem with this, but I don't know how the recoil of this guy is at present. Whether the ship equipped with the No. 5 cannon can withstand this guy's recoil, the recoil of the gun is too large, and the ship's plate is shattered as soon as the cannon is opened!

It is said that during the Wanli period, the sailor's big hair was installed on the sailor's warship, which cracked the ship with one cannon. As a last resort, he had to to tow a large raft behind the warship and specially enlarge the hair.

The power of this thing is estimated to be much more powerful than Dafa, but I'm afraid the ship can't stand it!" Qiu Blacksmith quickly said to Xiaotian.

After listening to this, Yu Xiaotian felt quite satisfied. The weight of the 32-pound Karon gun did not exceed the weight of the 12-pound cannon, which created conditions for a large number of sailors to equip it. Once the recoil of this gun is tested, if the modified lucky ship can be equipped, then the Chinese style will be greatly improved. In terms of the firepower intensity of the warship, it is a huge leap.

In the previous Chinese war ship, not to mention the 32-pound cannon, even the 12-pound cannon is difficult to install. The big shot made in the early Ming Dynasty is a typical example. The thing is thick and stupid, and the caliber is not too big. It doesn't even have the power of the six-pound cannon, and the weight is only five or six hundred. Jin, among the world's equivalent artillery, is only a kind of light artillery at best, but it can't be used on the marine warship. As soon as the gun is fired, the deck will crack. When it is ready to be used, the cannon must be hoisted from the ship to a large raft dragged behind the stern before loading the cannon.

Yu Xiaotian can't imagine how big a disaster it is for users to use such a cumbersome method. All kinds of situations on the battlefield are changing rapidly. Who can wait for you to slowly hang up the cannon and then aim at the raft to fire!

And as far as he knows, Daming has never made any effective transformation of the warships of the navy for so many years. When the large Western splint ships were rampant along the coast of China, the Daming navy suffered a lot of losses, but no one has ever proposed to follow the Western ships and transform their own warships.

Therefore, some historians of Daming's sailors boasted about the sky, but after this era, Yu Xiaotian found that it was simply the old calendar. Now Daming sailors are far behind the times in terms of technical equipment and training. .

Daming sailors are also equipped with a lot of firearms, but in fact, they are still in the initial stage. Most of the time, firearms are only used by them to show off their force and play a role in strengthening and deterring the enemy. When they really meet more powerful enemies, they also use old-fashioned jumping to take over the battle. , can only use the quantitative advantage, coupled with the fire ship's attack method to carry out fire attack, can achieve a little effect.

Now in the eyes of Xiaotian, the Daming sailor has been completely sneered by Yu Xiaotian after the battle between Nanri Shuizhai and Puxi. If the Daming sailor comes to trouble him and does not take out five or six times his troops, it can't be his opponent at all.

Now he is not dealing with Daming's sailors, and what he will deal with in the future is mainly his peers, especially Zheng Yiguan and the Dutch, Spaniards and other maritime forces with strong firepower.

The 32-pound Kalong gun is undoubtedly his current artifact to break through his own firepower limit. As long as the test is successful, it can give a large amount of equipment to the sea wolf's warships in the future. Even if he really fights face to face with the Spaniards and the Dutch at sea in the future, he has the ability to compete with them at sea, not I can't lift my head by the other party's firepower.

Under the order of Xiaotian, the cannon immediately loaded the newly cast Caron cannon on an ox cart, transported it to the shooting range, and began to prepare for the test.

In order to prepare for the test gun, the projectile field specializing in the production of projectiles has cast 20 or 30 32 pounds of shells in advance according to the data given by the gun operation, as an early use of this kind of gun test gun. If this kind of gun is to be put into production in the future, then the shell workshop will begin to cast this kind of shell in large quantities.

A group of people, escorted by soldiers, drove to the shooting range. Here is a group of boatmen who have arrived early and are busy building a platform here.

The Karon gun will be mainly used as a naval gun in the future. The most critical question is to check its recoil and whether the deck of ordinary ships can withstand it.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian did not take the old method to test this gun on the ground. He made people go to the shooting range in advance and built three simulated turrets according to the structural strength of the ship's deck.

The Calon gun will be tested on these simulated platforms to test whether the platform can withstand its recoil, which is also an experiment that must be done before other cannons board the ship.

After the cannon arrived at the shooting range, the sailors also rushed over. At present, the main stationed in Tamsui City is the sailor training camp, because the new camp is set up in Tamsui City. Xinding can only be assigned after preliminary training, and most of the newding will be assigned to the sailors.

So the sailors have also built a special training camp here to receive new sailors assigned from the new battalion and train them professionally. Although they also have to carry out queue and fighting training, such training intensity is far less than that of the barracks, because these new recruits have more time on various training ships. On the way.

And their training boats have many kinds, including the smallest sampan, a slightly larger long dragon boat, a slinger fishing boat, a double mast bird boat and even a medium-sized lucky boat.

The new marines have to drill on various ships, such as rowing, rowing, masting, operating sails, learning artillery skills, etc. The training time now takes up to three or four months to complete the primary training in the training camp, and qualified personnel can be assigned to serve in the fleet.

And each newcomer has two assessment opportunities. If the first assessment fails, they can stay in the training camp and extend the training for another month. If the second assessment is not qualified, they will be eliminated and assigned to work elsewhere, but they will definitely not be able to board the boat in the future. At most, I can go to the immigrant village and be a supervisor, responsible for leading some brave work.

Chen Sheng, the leader of the sailor training camp stationed in Danshui City, is also a person who came out with Yu Xiaotian earlier. He was in his 30s and much older than Yu Xiaotian. He was first a small leader in the sailor in Quanzhou and specialized in steering on the boat.

This person also has rich navigation experience and has a certain foundation for a military career. He has a good understanding of the situation of the old Ming army. Later, for special reasons, as a fugitive soldier, he fled to Nanri Island and worked under Zhang Hu. Later, he followed Wang Hong to Yu Xiaotian and has always been a leader.

This man is flexible and good at learning. After a year or two of training, he was first promoted from a gun commander to a captain, and later became the captain of a detachment in the fleet.

This time, a sailor training camp was established. When Yu Xiaotian was selecting people, Chen Sheng stood out from many candidates and finally became the leader of this training camp.

Chen Sheng is stable, good at observation and learning, and good at summarizing experience. In addition, he has rich experience, bold and careful, which is very suitable for the leader of this training camp.

And his biggest advantage is that he is very serious and demanding of his subordinates. Naturally, such people will be reused among sea wolves. Now he is doing quite well here.

Knowing that Yu Xiaotian was going to test the new cannon used by the sailor, Chen Sheng immediately rushed to the shooting range to observe the test gun activity.

Under the order of Xiaotian, the Karon gun was first set up on the first simulation stand. Although this Karon gun is very heavy, the amount of charge is not large. Thirty-two pounds of shells, and the actual loading capacity is more than three catties.

Someone weighed three catties of gunpowder and loaded it into the gun barrel. Then the two gunners cooperated, picked up a shell with a special clip, loaded it into the gun barrel, and then sent the shell to the bottom of the gun barrel according to the conventional method of gun operation.

Hearing a roar, the shell rose into the air in the flame smoke and flew out of the gun barrel. The hot shell made a shocking sound and hit the distance.

It is very appropriate to describe this kind of shell. The shell of the Karon gun is heavy, the barrel is short, and the amount of charge is small. Naturally, the trajectory will not be straight. It is a bit like the bulletway of the mortar, but it is more straight than the bullet path of the mortar. At least he has a flat shooting distance of dozens of meters. The mortar or mortar can only be a curved shot. Hit it.