Chapter 1800: Flat cannon
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There is no cost for clay moulds. After all, mud does not cost money. The biggest cost is actually labor and time. But in the Ming Dynasty, the least valuable was artificial. As for time, it's also worthless.
After all, the Ming dynasty was still in the ancient times of "the carriage was very slow, the correspondence was far away, and the whole life was a double (the last sentence is foolish)", and there was no time to spend it. Probably, only in the modernized factories in Beihai will the pursuit of "time is efficiency".
After the 12-pound Napoleonic cannon was cast, Zhang Yong immediately ran to the Emperor Zhengde. Zhengde was already belligerent, so he happily went.
Because the range of the artillery was too far, the city was definitely unable to test fire. Therefore, Zhang Yong put the test shooting venue in the Xishan Camp outside the city.
Zhengde, with Gu Dayong and others, followed Zhang Yong to the shooting range of Xishan Daying with great interest to watch the effect of the new artillery.
Zhang Yong is also an elite. He knows that Zhengde Emperor is most keen to attack Mongolia. In the original history, two years later, in 1517, the Emperor Zhengde would also fight the battle and fight against the little prince of Mongolia in Yingzhou.
The master has the idea of dealing with Mongolia, of course Zhang Yong is in his favor. Therefore, during the test shooting, Zhang Yong did not take out the wooden boat model suggested by Kong Tai as a target for shooting, but selected 30 retired old horses from the army.
These horses are either old or crippled. In short, it can no longer be a horse of war. Their end is not to go to retirement, but to be slaughtered and made into horse meat ...
Zhang Yong has long been in charge of the twelve regiment camp and the Shenji camp, and naturally knows this. Therefore, 30 retired old or lame horses were found from the twelfth regiment camp, and a straight line was shot on the shooting range. The artillery is facing this straight line ...
Because Kong Tai said that the Napoleon cannon can penetrate the entire column at a distance of 600 yards. Therefore, Zhang Yong boldly increased the distance between the 30 horses and the artillery to more than 300 meters-this is the effective range of the Fran cannon.
The new artillery, of course, is to show superiority over the old artillery. Zhang Yong knew the characteristics of his master's great joy, so naturally he had to fully demonstrate the superiority of the new gun. Otherwise, how do you get your credit? You must get a "Dragon Face Joy" ...
"So far? Are you sure?" Zheng De Di Zhu Hou Zhao frowned and asked. Although he was very happy, he did his best in the military. He had operated the Fran machine gun and the matchlock gun from Marin before, knowing those attributes.
"Emperor, just look at it!" Zhang Yong waved his hand proudly, signaling Zhang Daniu, the chief gunner of Shenjiying, to fire.
As the chief gunner of the Shenjiying camp, Zhang Daniu actually test-fired dozens of times yesterday. Today, he is actually very skilled at performing.
He calmly directed the men of the artillery squad, tore open the oil-paper bag containing a fixed amount of gunpowder, poured the gunpowder into the muzzle, and stabbed it in with a wooden stick and oil-paper bag. Then, another gunner took the iron ball, tucked it into the barrel of the gun, and thrust it with a wooden stick to compact it ...
These processes were taught by the gunners of the North Sea country, including using gun paper to pack gunpowder. Even the gunpowder is granulated gunpowder, which is made of rice soup (mainly the powdered gunpowder is easy to layer in the oil paper bag, it must be stirred before use, trouble). The iron ball shells naturally adopted the sandbox casting method of Beihai, which is very simple to manufacture.
The final aim was naturally Zhang Daniu. He passed the mountain and aimed at the 30 horses in front. Then, he raised the muzzle slightly ...
After the adjustment, Zhang Daniu stepped back and stood up, ordering loudly:
"ignition!"
Then, a wooden stick wrapped around a burning fire rope leaned towards the fuze ... A moment later, the artillery began to roar ...
"Boom--" After a loud noise, the 12-pound iron ball shell accompanied by the shock wave of the air, rushed to the unlucky horse more than three hundred meters ...
"Puff-puff-puff -..." There was a short and "puff" sound from a distance. Then, on those unlucky retired war horses, large blood holes appeared, and then, blood arrows soared ...
It wasn't until the blood spray began that those unlucky retired horses felt great pain. As a result, they began to wailing and tumbling, and their blood stained the ground. At the same time, the intestines of these unlucky war horses also flowed to the ground. Even the intestines of some war horses have been shredded by iron ball shells, and they are all over the ground ...
Regardless of the tragedy of these war horses, the 12-pound iron ball shell penetrated all 30 war horses in one breath, without castration, and flew directly for another two hundred meters before falling to the ground. There is no way to penetrate 30 horses and consume a lot of energy. After all, horses are wider than humans and have greater resistance to shells.
But when the iron ball shell landed, it was covered with blood from the war horse, and even there were many **** flesh of the internal organs of the war horse ...
Gu Dayong and other weak people looked at it and couldn't help vomiting. I really like the virtue of war, including Zhang Yong, who has been in the army for a long time.
"It's awesome, I can still penetrate 30 horses so far! If you put a row of such artillery against Mongolian cavalry ... hehe ..." Zhengde Emperor Zhu Houzhao was immersed in yy.
But Zhang Yong had to remind:
"Emperor, this artillery is powerful, but unfortunately it is difficult to move!"
"How difficult is it?" Zheng De asked with his head tilted, a little unhappy.
Zhang Yong bit his face and said:
"Emperor, this gun weighs 1,100 pounds, and usually a few big men can't lift it. It is very difficult to deploy this gun quickly before the battle ..."
Zhang Yong had to explain clearly first, otherwise it would be bullying.
At this moment, the gunner Zhang Daniu suddenly said:
"Your Majesty, Grandpa Zhang, the villain has a way to drive this gun!"
Zhang Yong gave Zhang Daniu a frightened look and scolded:
"Zhang Daniel, in front of the emperor, are you talking?"
But Emperor Zhengde shined, saying:
"Let's talk quickly, is there any way to deploy this gun before the battle? If the method works, I'm rewarded!"
Zhang Daniu summoned his courage and suggested:
"Your Majesty, please see ... This artillery has a smooth body, like a cylinder. I remember from the bottom of my mind that when logging down a thousand-year-old giant wood, when loading a huge giant wood in a car, it is generally not necessary to lift it, but it is directly built with several wooden sticks The slope. Then, let a few people push the round giant wood into the cart ... "
"So, think about it, since this heavy cannon is difficult to carry, why not remove the obstructing ears and make it directly into a cylinder, and look at the mountain behind the gun body, and then install it before starting ... Then, when loading and unloading this When using the cannon, you can use a solid thick wooden board as a **** to roll the cannon up and down ... "
Zheng Hou, the emperor of Zhude, is still in a daze. He has no idea about the handling of heavy objects. After all, he grew up in the deep palace, had less experience, and had never seen hard work.
Zhang Yong, who was on the side, was shining, but he often supervised the work of the sergeants, knowing that Zhang Daniu was right. So he quickly ordered someone to get a wire saw and saw off the two hindering ears behind the gun body. Then, I found the cart, and used a few thick pieces of wood side by side to build a simple slope. Subsequently, Zhang Yong was pleasantly surprised to find that-as long as the **** was long and slow, three or four strong men could easily roll the 1,100-pound Napoleon gun from the car ...
"Okay ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ This is well done! Zhang Daniu, isn't it? I'm enclosing you as a **** machine battalion and battling a hundred households, but it's hereditary. In addition, rewarding Qian Qianliang!" Seems to see the Mongolian cavalry shaking and wailing in front of this powerful artillery ...
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But Zhengde didn't have enough yy, Jinyiwei sent an urgent report over there:
"There is a secret report from Hu Jian-Little Francois (Portugal) has dispatched 30 large battleships full of Franc cannons to Manchuria (Malacca), ready to invade the coastal areas of Daming Guangdong and Hu Jian ... … "
Emperor Zhengde was stunned. After thinking for a long time, he finally gave up the idea of shipping the first batch of 107 12-pound guns to the border of Xuanda (Xuanfu and Datong). Yu resists the invasion of the Little Franco (Portugal) ...
However, due to the fierceness of the new artillery, Emperor Zhengde was dissatisfied with the original name of the "12-pound Napoleonic artillery". Because, in Chinese, Napoleon sounds similar to "that broken wheel (zi)", and it sounds very obscure. Therefore, Zhengde Emperor gave a new name to the 12-pound Napoleonic gun-Pingru Cannon! The so-called captives in the Ming Dynasty naturally refer to the "Northern Captives" of the Mongolian ministries. Emperor Zhengde named the 12-pound Napoleon cannon as a "flat road cannon", which also showed his determination to sweep the grassland ...
