Chapter 47 Heavy Cannon Clipper

At present, the main guns of Seawolves are mainly six-pounder guns and 12-pound guns. Twelve-pounder guns are divided into long howitzers and short guns. In addition, there are some Franco machine guns. These guns have no problem dealing with pirates along the coast of China. It can even be said that they are quite powerful, but if they are placed on Western warships, these guns All of them are light artillery and can only be used as secondary guns.

This is also the reason why Yu Xiaotian has now decided to phase out the six-pound gun from the main battle ship. This thing is indeed too powerful. If it is used to deal with European sail warships, it is basically similar to itching and is impossible to penetrate their hulls.

The power of the 12-pound short gun is much higher than that of the six-pound gun. In addition, the standard 12-pound howitzer and the 12-pound long cannon, that is, that is, the cannon, has raised the firepower of the sea wolf's warship to another level, but it is still a little overwhelmed when dealing with the Western warship.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian decided to equip the sea wolf with larger-caliber artillery, so that it has stronger firepower to ensure that it can easily sweep China's coastal counterparts and deal with European warships.

In the past, the sea wolf had opened a set of 24-pound naval gun models, but only two were produced and equipped on the chicken cage turret. Because of the heavy weight of this kind of cannon, the sea wolf did not have a ship to carry at that time. It belonged to the category of cannons. It had a long range and strong power, but it consumed a lot of iron and was too heavy, so it could only be used as a shore. The use of cannons is of little use for the sea wolf fleet.

Now he must consider that while increasing the caliber and improving the power of the artillery, he should also control the gun weight so that it can be loaded on his current ship. Therefore, before that, he must be prepared to continue to strengthen the structural strength of his self-made ship so that it can carry larger and heavier artillery.

Now these newly built ships have made some changes and continue to greatly strengthen the structural strength so that they can be loaded with heavier artillery.

After looking at the structure and construction of these ships, Yu Xiaotian was satisfied. These boats were carefully made by boatmen, and the style is a bit like Western ships, but the construction technology is a common technology used by Chinese craftsmen. Many of the problems he thought were difficult to solve, but they were handed over to Guo Fu and others. After the boatmen, they can come up with a way to solve it. Yu Xiaotian did not dare to underestimate the wisdom of these old boatmen.

These boatmen are basically illiterate, but relying on the word of mouth and hand-in-hand teaching of the previous generation, they remember many skills and have considerable creativity. If they are not habitually sticking to the rules, these craftsmen can completely build better ships than Chinese sailing ships in this era. Only.

On the lap deck of one of the ships, Yu Xiaotian stood. This is the back deck of the mast, which belongs to the widest place on the ship. Generally, the ship opens here as the hatch to enter and exit the cabin, but the upper and lower hatches of the ship are adjusted to the front of the mast, leaving this place.

And here is also the place with the strongest hull deck structure and the strongest bearing capacity. The bottom is reinforced with beams and reinforced ship ribs, which is enough to carry a large amount of weight, including the thickness of the deck, which has doubled, making this place a fairly strong platform.

And according to Yu Xiaotian's design, this platform is now equipped with a round wooden outline. There is a gun rack on the outline, and there is a small wheel frame under the gun rack on the outline, which can easily turn the gun rack and point the gun on the gun rack in any direction.

The gun rack is a slide-type gun rack, which cancels the four small wheels under the gun rack. When the gun is fired, the recoil is directly transmitted to the rack rail, driving the gun rack to move backwards to offset the recoil. Then the gunner can push the gun rack back to the shooting position after loading, so that the operation The cannon has become simpler and faster.

But there are still problems. This kind of contour rotating gun rack covers a much larger area than the ordinary wheel gun rack, making it impossible to place more guns on the deck of the ship.

However, for this kind of dhow, its carrying capacity is limited. If you change to a large-caliber artillery, you can't put many artillery on the deck, which is not very big.

However, at present, the contour rotating gun frame of this ship has not been completed, and the artillery is not in place. However, the structure has been initially completed. The next step is to continue to adjust. After the artillery is in place, it can be loaded with the gun frame to test.

Yu Xiaotian is concerned about this thing, which is a way he has been thinking about for a long time, so that this kind of dhow can be loaded with a super-caliber cannon and obtain quite strong firepower.

After looking at the rotating gun rack, Yu Xiaotian praised Guo Fu's craftsmanship. At the beginning, he only drew a picture of the structure of this gun rack and let Guo Fu and others experiment, but he didn't expect Guo Fu and others to complete the design, modification and manufacture of this gun rack so quickly, which can be seen that These craftsmen are indeed capable, but they used to be too dogmatic and inhibited their creativity.

"Yes, this is what I want. You have done quite well, basically the same as what I thought, and there seems to be improvements. It's good! Ha ha!" Yu Xiaotian patted the gun rack that had not yet been equipped with cannons and laughed with satisfaction.

Guo Fu quickly said, "After the big master sent someone to send this picture over, the little ones did not dare to delay, so they quickly thought about it. First, during the festival, they made a model on the shore and tried to modify it several times. They thought it should be okay. Then they began to do it on the boat, but they didn't know whether it was suitable for the big master. It means that now that there is the words of the big head, the little ones will be relieved!"

Yu Xiaotian nodded and said, "I'm satisfied, I should be very satisfied!" You have done a pretty good job, and then we will wait for the cannon! Once the cannon is built, it can be transported and loaded on the ship immediately!

Well, I've seen it here. Guo Fu has done quite well, better than I thought, but now the shipbuilding speed is still a little slow. You can keep an eye on it and increase the speed of shipbuilding. These three ships can be launched within five days, hang the sails, and hand them over to the fleet to test the water!

As for what was said today, you can also arrange it as soon as possible and start! There is another batch of hard materials this month, which will be shipped from Nanyang, which can ensure that you will not have a shortage of hard materials in the next six months. In short, I want a ship. You can find a way to build more ships quickly and well. Naturally, I will not treat you badly!"

The Artillery of Tamsui City is also similar to the Nanri Island Artillery, a hot scene, but compared with the Nanri Island Artillery, the yard built here is more regular and larger than that of Nanri Island. Unlike Nanri Island, the initial shed was relatively small, and later To expand production, we had to build another shed, and the pattern was messy.

At the beginning of the construction, considering the expansion of output in the future, three large wooden truss structures were directly built. Outside the shed is the iron melting furnace. Several iron furnaces are lined up, and the chimneys pointed straight to the sky and spitting thick smoke.

It is rich in wood resources, which is not as shabby as Nanri Island. It is directly built with large wood. The load-bearing columns are directly deep into the ground, making it very strong. At least it has strong wind resistance. The walls of the field have large windows that can be opened at ordinary times, and the ventilation and light are not quite good. Wrong, it makes the shed bright during the day. Once there is a strong wind or typhoon, you can close the window and continue production in the shed.

In the shed, there is a casting platform. In the past, on Nanri Island, it mainly relied on manpower to carry the crucible to receive iron water, and then carried it to the casting table to pour iron water into the mold cavity for casting. It consumes a lot of manpower and is also dangerous. There was an accident, and two apprentices carrying iron water alone Be careful not to fall, but the iron water spilled out, and the person who fell was burned alive on the spot. The other person also splashed with iron water on his leg and was burned to be disabled, and almost lost his life.

So when Yu Xiaotian was building, he asked people to make several manpower cranes from hardwood, and a set of pulley sets were installed on it. Although it still needed manpower to operate, it was relatively safer. It can also hold more iron water at a time, making it more continuous when casting. In this way, it is produced. The quality of the artillery will also be better.

Making a pulley group is really not a problem for Yu Xiaotian. People who have been in junior high school can basically do it. As long as he produces a sketch, the craftsmen can naturally make it according to the sketch.

So in terms of scale, the scale of Danshuizhai cannons is much more than the scale of Nanri Island, at least two or three times more. However, the current output here can only be the same as that of Nanri Island. Part of the production capacity has not been exerted, and some iron melting furnaces and casting platforms have not been used yet. The key is that the number of craftsmen is insufficient. The number of gun models is not enough, so it can only reach the current level first. However, with the apprenticeship and the increase in the number of workers, the output here will definitely greatly exceed the output of Nanri Island cannons.

When Yu Xiaotian arrived at the time of the cannon, it was under production. Among the three large sheds, some casting tables had not started. The animal blowers outside the shed made a whirring sound under the guidance of the cattle. A large number of craftsmen in the shed were busy around some casting tables.

Some people are placing the gun mold in the pouring pit, and then burying it with sand to make it a stable casting platform. Some people are shouting horns, pushing manpower hanging, hanging a large crucible containing high-temperature iron water, moving towards the casting table, pouring red iron water into the casting mouth, and sparks flying. Splash, very lively.

Some people are digging up the sand under the casting platform, digging out the cast and annealed gun mold, hanging it out, placing it on the ground, knocking the iron mold piece by piece, exposing the cast iron cannon inside.

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