If it weren't for the fear that these artillery would really explode and therefore refuse these precious technical talents to enter the shooting range, these craftsmen would have to lie on the cannon and carefully investigate.

"Let it go!" With the order of the artillery officer.

The gunpowder lead on the body of the first cannon was ignited, and as a burst of white smoke continued to rise, the lead disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Bang!" With a shocking sound, dust flew on the shooting range in an instant.

Everyone stretched their necks and looked at them.

I saw the 12-pound cannon on the gun position was located there without any damage.

"I hit it, I hit it."

The first thing I realized was the gunners in the other four artillery positions.

They shouted loudly and hit.

I saw a large piece of earth wall about one mile away collapsed.

The earthen wall was one zhang long and about six feet high, but it was smashed to pieces by one shot.

When the gunner shouted that he hit him, the firearm masters who were lying on the wall peeking at him also breathed a sigh of relief.

These five cannons were cast in two months.

Moreover, the Ming army civil and military officials present were all there. If something really happened, they would not be able to bear it.

Fortunately, the first artillery was successfully tested.

"Sir Xiao, look." Liu Yu smiled and pointed to the earth wall in the distance and said.

"Not bad, not bad." Xiao Wu nodded quickly.

"This cannon is not weaker than the red cannon." Xiao Wu also nodded frequently to praise him.

"In the past, we could only buy red cannons from the English, but now we finally don't have to look at the faces of these red-haired ghosts." Xiao Wu sighed.

"Now, the Ming court has expanded the iron smelting plant in Lavag and Vigan. Luzon has a lot of wood, so there is no shortage of charcoal. Compared with the Qing court using coal, our Luzon Ming court used charcoal to smel, the quality of pig iron is far better than that of it." Huang Youde, who was beside him, said hurriedly.

"If the Qing people cast a cannon, three or five of the ten gates would explode, and none of our troops would explode." Huang Youde was also full of confidence and promised in front of Xiao Wu on the spot.

"Oh, is that?" Xiao Wu also looked at the four cannons not far away in front of him with interest.

"Then let's continue to start." Liu Yu nodded and signaled to continue the lieutenant Brewster.

The subsequent four artillery guns were also tested one by one.

None of them exploded.

The successful test of the five artillery artillery made the Ming soldiers present cheer.

Especially the last two double-decker iron cannons not only successfully tested, but also hit the earth wall more than two miles away, which surprised the Spanish gunners present.

In the 16th and 7th century, most of the artillery used by Westerners were bronze cannons.

During the same period, the Ming people's cast iron cannon technology was far superior to the West.

Even when Westerners at that time cast iron cannons, they had to invite Ming people's artillery technicians to come.

If China's iron ore problem and the use of coal smelting made the pig iron of the quality was not as good as the West, the artillery casting technology of the Ming Dynasty in the 16th and 17th century was not weaker than that of the West. The real cause of Chinese artillery technology was still after the Qing Dynasty took over China.

Therefore, at this time, the Ming craftsmen cast iron cannons, using local iron ore in Luzon as materials, and charcoal burned from the endless firewood in the South Ocean as fuel. The high-quality pig iron and cooked iron cast cannons smelted were naturally not inferior to the current Western artillery.

Captain Brewster was also shocked. As an artillery officer, he knew very well how terrible these five artillery guns were.

You know, this is enough to destroy any city wall in this era.

Brewster even believed that if the Ming people pulled these five cannons under the city of Manila, then these five twelve-pound long cannons would be enough to collapse the walls of Manila.

"My Ming court has such a magical weapon, why worry about the Ming Dynasty's failure?" Xiao Wu stood up and looked at the five cannons in the distance and burst into tears for a moment.

"If such a powerful weapon is equipped on the naval warship, it will definitely sweep across the South China Sea." The generals of the Navy Town who accompanied him immediately saw the purpose of these artillery in naval battles.

At this time, the Ming army owned several towns of naval troops and had no less than a hundred warships.

But he has always suffered from the lack of advanced heavy artillery.

Therefore, the smaller caliber Fran machine cannon, falcon cannon and stone cannon have to be temporarily used.

There are only a few lucky ships equipped with a few red cannons.

But most of these artillery were used to buy out the old goods from the Englishmen in the Zheng family.

Originally, the Englishman dismantled it from his own armed merchant ship and sold it to the Zheng Group in Taiwan.

The artillery is too old and is mostly corroded by sea salt in the wind and sun, and is rusted.

And if these new artillery were paired on the Ming army's lucky ship, it would be a wing.

Not to mention the pirates outside Luzon, even the Spanish fleet has been slapped for you.

"Sir, the test firing of the five artillery pieces has been completed. Please review it." Captain Brewster respectfully led the Spanish gunners to stand in front of the five artillery pieces.

The artillery of the Ming people shocked them, and they couldn't help but admire the Ming Dynasty.

Seeing these thousands of pound copper cannons, iron cannons, Liu Yu and others were also extremely shocked.

You know, it’s only been several years since they went south to Luzon.

In just a few years, the Ming people in Luzon were able to create such an advanced heavy artillery.

"Please give the name of the cannon." Huang Youde hurried forward and asked Liu Yu to give the name of the cannon.

Liu Yu thought for a while, then looked at the Spanish gunners around him, and smiled and said, "Just call it General Zhennan's cannon!"

"General Zhennan, okay!" After hearing this, all the generals applauded.

"Huang Youde, how many cannons can our army produce such a person now?" Xiao Wu asked immediately.

Huang Youde looked puzzled and said, "It is time-consuming to cast such artillery. It took two months for the craftsmen in the Firearms Artillery Factory to create these five artillery pieces."

"Not only human power is just about material power." Huang Youde knocked on the cannon's body.

"If it is an iron-core copper-body cannon, it will take a lot of copper. Now the mining department has been mining copper mines in Luzon, but the price is still quite high."

"What if it was an iron cannon?" Xiao Wu asked again.

"Iron Cannon?" Huang Youde stammered again.

"Didn't you say that the quality of the iron smelted by our army is far higher than that of the Qing court?" Xiao Wu said angrily when he saw Huang Youde's desire to speak but stopped.

"Sir, the quality of pig iron smelted by the Ming court is indeed better than when I was in Taiwan before."

"But now we need to use iron everywhere. Our army's muskets and gun barrels need high-quality mature iron. Ming people's battle knives and armor also need to be polished."

"Not to mention that the Luzon Ming court has established county and farming everywhere, and there are hundreds of farm tools and iron tools required. Luzon iron smelting plant smelting pig iron, and the ripe iron is not available all year round, not to mention that our army also has large and small Franco machine cannons and various other artillery needs to use iron and copper."

Huang Youde's words are correct, but there are many places that the Ming court needs to use iron tools.

Whether it is army firearms, swords and armor, or iron tools needed by farmers to plow the fields, farm tools, etc., they are inseparable from iron.

As for copper, let alone, they are all scarce items.
Chapter completed!