Chen Rui and Liu Meng, the two governors, were just watching the big ship, but they didn't notice what the batch of guns and cannons they gave to the Ming Dynasty looked like. Although there were cannons on the ship, they were all installed on wooden four-wheel cannon mounts, and there was nothing strange about them.
When the gunners of the Grand Duchy of Beihai pushed 40 Franco cannons to the shooting range with the help of the Ming soldiers, Chen Rui and Liu Meng were surprised to find that these cannons had wheels installed...
"Hey, these cannons of the ghosts are so unique, and they even have wheels installed. In this way, the transportation of cannons is much more convenient. Unlike the artillery of the Ming Dynasty, it requires several people to be carried to deploy." Liu Meng, the right governor who has a little understanding of military, said in surprise.
"It's a bit tricky and adaptable!" Chen Rui also agreed.
"Oh, I'm so pretty when I look at these Western artillery!" Looking at the golden bronze cannons, Guangzhou Avant-garde commander Xu Yong said with a gaze.
Because they were to pay the artillery to the Ming Dynasty, all of the 50 Franco bronze cannons were polished. Therefore, it seemed that the bronze cannons emitted a slightly dim golden light. Unlike the bronze cannons on the ship, they were not polished and their colors were dim.
Xu Yong, a general who drinks blood, cannot see anything of the same color as copper coins. Seeing these 40 shiny bronze cannons, Xu Yong's eyes were full of copper coins at this time...
And the left governor Chen Rui nodded and said:
"This Beihai Kingdom is so obedient. Just these forty bronze cannons are costly!"
As a governor, he was in charge of money and food for a single savings, so he was naturally more sensitive to cost. In Shen Rui's view, each of these forty copper cannons weighed hundreds of kilograms and was worth tens of thousands of copper coins. Forty gates alone, the price of copper is more than 2 million copper coins, equivalent to more than 2,000 taels of silver, which is definitely a tribute of conscience. Unlike some vassal states, the ivory, spices and other contributions contributed by them, although they were also very valuable in the Ming Dynasty, they were actually ordinary goods in their own country. For example, ivory, if you send a team of soldiers to hunt a group of elephants, you can easily obtain it, which is just bullying the Ming Dynasty for lack of such things.
Since Chen Rui became the Guangdong governor and in charge of the Guangzhou Maritime Control Bureau, he naturally had the inside story of the vassal states who gave tribute to those vassal states. Those who actually gave dozens of bronze cannons like the Beihai State were definitely tributers with conscience.
In fact, most of the diplomatic officials in the Ming Dynasty knew very well that the so-called tribute trade was simply a scam. Specifically, it was the scam where those vassal states brought a group of local specialties to the Ming Dynasty and scammers and then brought back a lot of rewards.
However, even though I knew it was a scam, the Ming Dynasty still flocked to it. Why? Because in the Confucian tradition, "all countries come to tribute to the court" is the only weapon to whitewash the world and the country's prosperity.
Therefore, the two governors of Men Qing were all arrogant when facing the so-called tributers. Because they knew that these were a group of profit-seeking scammers.
The Beihai Kingdom did not use cheap local specialties to fool the Ming Dynasty, but instead made Chen Rui, the left governor, feel good about it.
However, Liu Meng, the right governor, said disapprovingly:
"So what? Wen Jingong, my dynasty wants to treat foreign countries well. Although the Beihai Kingdom has tributed 40 bronze cannons, although it is of high value, how could the Ministry of Rites return gifts lightly? In short, it will definitely make them return satisfied."
"Brother Zixian's words are reasonable!"
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Just as the two governors were talking, 40 artillery pieces were ready to be in place...
"The Western artillery is arranged so quickly!" Liu Meng, who was a little familiar with military affairs, exclaimed.
Just as they were chatting, 10 of the 40 artillery guns had been deployed to the predetermined position and aimed at the target. This speed was incredibly fast in Liu Meng's eyes.
You should know that the artillery of the Ming Dynasty was a thick artillery barrel. On the battlefield, the soldiers of the artillery battalion had to first use a shoulder pole and a rope to lift the thick artillery barrel to the front of the position. Then, dig a hole with a shovel before they could arrange the artillery.
But the arrangement of these copper cannons in Beihai Kingdom was extremely simple because of the wheels. The artillery pushed the cannon chariot and came to the front of the formation. After putting the hoe behind the cannon stand on the ground, then began to visually aim.
Of course, the stationed hoe of this era is different from the stationed hoe of modern artillery. Because modern artillery has stationed and retreating aircraft and muzzle retractor to offset the recoil, the stationed hoe of modern artillery often needs to be fixed on the ground. Before deployment, dig a hole to fix the stationed hoe to avoid the movement of the artillery god after the artillery is attacked and affecting the secondary shooting.
But the artillery of this era obviously does not have hydraulic stationary retreat aircraft and muzzle retreat devices. Therefore, after each shelling, the huge recoil will be transmitted to the gun stand and finally to the point where the stationary hoe and the ground contact. In the end, the artillery will retreat as a whole.
Therefore, after the artillery is bombarded, the artillery needs to push the artillery back to its original flavor. This method is called reset...
Whether it is infantry guns or naval naval guns, there is this process. Of course, naval naval guns will use ropes to pull the gun mount. The huge recoil generated by the naval gun fire will break the rope. This process will offset the recoil of most gunboats. Otherwise, the recoil of the gun mount may be very large.
However, infantry cannons are not that troublesome. When deploying, there will be several conical iron components similar to nails where the hoe touches the ground. When deploying, these "nails" will plunder the soil. When the cannon is bombarded, the gun mount will retreat, and the contact points will use friction with the earth to offset the recoil force and reduce the distance of the cannon truck's retreat.
The reset of this kind of infantry cannon is very simple - just return to its original position. Before firing, the artillery will use lime to draw a white line at the initial deployment location. After the artillery is bombarded, the artillery cannons cannons be pushed back to the white line position, which is extremely simple.
Re-aiming is relatively simple. Why? Because artillery in this era is generally flat-fired. The enemy is usually only two or three hundred meters away. This distance does not require calculating the ballistics. Just aim the muzzle directly in front, and at most it can lift the muzzle slightly up. The function of the mountain and the sight star is to let the artillery see the target in front and the muzzle aligned...
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! According to the agreement, the soldiers of Qianhu Institute erected several breaking doors hundreds of steps away from the shooting range as targets for shelling. If they could hit the breaking doors a hundred steps away, they would definitely be an extremely powerful old cannon... Ah, they are old gunners...
In Guangzhou's avant-garde, gunners who can accurately hit targets with guns on the shooting range with a hundred steps can count them with one hand. Moreover, those who can do this are basically middle-aged people of the uncle level.
However, the Beihai artillery brought by Kong Tai this time was all young, not even a middle-aged man who seemed reliable.
According to the traditional concept of the Ming people - "no hair on your mouth and no hard work", can these young gunners really hit targets a hundred steps away?
As the Ming officials and soldiers were looking forward or watching jokes, the artillery soldiers of the Beihai Kingdom were preparing in an orderly manner...
Because it was a cannon for the Ming Dynasty, powdered gunpowder was naturally used instead of granular gunpowder. For this reason, the North Sea artillery soldiers were busy with one thing before firing the artillery - stirring gunpowder...
This is because black gunpowder is actually a mixture of saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal, rather than a single compound. The density of the three substances is different. After long-distance transportation, after bumps, it is easy to delaminate - the dense ones fall to the lower layer, and the light ones rise...
Therefore, in the era of powder gunpowder, artillery soldiers must first use a wooden spoon to gently stir the gunpowder powder evenly before they can charge the medicine. This is also the case if they were musketeers.
After the gunpowder powder is stirred, it is officially loading ammunition. The loading method of the Franchise bronze rear-loading gun is very strange because - it is rear-loaded...
A Fran machine cannon is usually equipped with several sub-guns. What is a sub-gun? In fact, it is similar to the copper-shell bullets in later generations. Of course, unlike the copper-shell bullets in later generations, the copper-shell bullets were installed long ago. The sub-gun of the Fran machine cannon needs to be loaded on site.
With the surprised eyes of Ming officials and soldiers, the young gunmen of Beihai Kingdom easily loaded all five sub-guns into gunpowder, pressed the iron ball shells, and stuffed them with rags to hold their breath. Of course, they also inserted fuses into the eyes of the sub-guns...
After a series of preparations, the gunners of the Beihai Kingdom began the performance...
"Recharge-"
With the commander's order, the artillery soldiers put the first sub-gun into the Fran machine cannon. In order to close, the front end of the sub-gun is embedded in the cannon barrel. Therefore, after the sub-gun is put in, there will be a forward pushing action so that the sub-gun and the cannon barrel will be more in line. Then, a wooden bolt will be placed behind to prevent the sub-gun from retreating and affecting the normal artillery attack...
After loading the gun, the loader immediately stood attentively to salute, indicating that the loading was completed...
Seeing that all 10 loaders saluted, they said that they had all loaded. The commander pulled out his command knife and shouted:
"Open fire!"
At the same time, the command knife slashed heavily. Of course, the chop was air...
Suddenly, 10 torches leaned against the fuse...
In fact, when fighting in Europe, artillery soldiers did not use torches, but torches. But in the era when the Ming Dynasty had not yet obtained the technology of a clamp gun, Marin felt that using torches was more down-to-earth...
Soon, the fuzes of the 10 artillery pieces burned. Then, there were waves of continuous shelling sounds of "bang-bang-bang-bang-bang-bang..."...
After the smoke of gunpowder spread, everyone turned their attention to the field...
The officials and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were surprised to find that 6 of them were broken up when they were used as targets...
"Six out of ten, it's amazing!" Liu Meng, who understood a little, exclaimed.
But soon, the famous soldiers sent to observe the results of the battle sent back more amazing news - the four broken doors that were not broken were broken, and there were three round holes on them... Obviously, this was hit, but the quality of the breakout was good, and it was not broken...
In this way, in this round of artillery, 10 Franco cannons actually made 9 of 10. Among the Ming artillery, this is definitely a great achievement...
But what stunned the Ming officials and soldiers was that when they learned that the eighth Fran machine cannon had missed, the artillery commander ran to the eighth cannon in anger and slapped a big ear to the artillery observer who was responsible for aiming...
Chapter completed!