There are muskets, but not enough, artillery is also a weapon that must be equipped.

There are two main artillery currently equipped in the Ming Dynasty army, one is the tiger squat cannon and the other is the Folang machine cannon.

The tiger squat cannon was mainly equipped with artillery for the Qi family army. In order to facilitate shooting, the cannons were placed in a fixed position, which looked like a tiger squat, hence the name. With Qi Jiguang's "Fighting in the South and North", the tiger squat cannon had been widely equipped by the Ming army.

The tiger squat cannon is not very powerful. Similar to today's mortars, it is a cannon that is mainly curved. The cannon barrel is thin. The lightest model weighs only 36 kilograms. The heaviest model is more than 50 kilograms. The range is not far. The maximum range is only 500 meters. It is suitable for combat areas such as mountains, forests and paddy fields that hinder the maneuverability of cannons. It is maneuverable and flexible.

The Flor cannon was invented by European countries and was introduced to China from Portugal during the Jiajing period. It is named "Florian".

In the third year of Jiajing (1524), the Ming court successfully copied the first batch of 32 Franco cannons, each weighing about 300 kilograms, the mother gun was 2.85 feet long and equipped with 4 sub-guns. Later, the Ming court successively copied various Franco cannons of different sizes and sizes, and equipped the northern and coastal armies.

The Folang machine cannon is an iron rear-mounted smoothbore cannon. The entire cannon consists of three parts: the barrel, the abdomen of the cannon, and the sub-cannon. When firing, the gunpowder projectiles are first filled into the cannon, and then the sub-cannon is put into the abdomen, igniting the cannon fire door for firing.

The structure of mother gun and son gun is adopted. The mother gun is the cannon barrel. The son gun is actually a small fire gun. Each mother gun is equipped with 4 to 9 son guns. Each son gun is loaded with ammunition in advance for use.

During combat, one sub-gun is first loaded into the bullet chamber of the mother gun, and after firing, the hollow sub-gun is withdrawn and replaced with another. Since the sub-gun can be replaced in turn, the time for temporary ammunition is reduced and the shooting speed is greatly increased, so it is also called the "sub-gun cannon".

The Folang machine cannon also has a sight, which increases the range and improves the accuracy. It has initially possessed the basic characteristics of modern artillery and is the most advanced artillery in this era.

However, due to the technical level of this era, the Flang cannon also has an insurmountable disadvantage: the gap between the sub cannon and the abdomen is large, causing gunpowder gas leakage. Even the heaviest type of Flang cannon has a maximum range of only two thousand meters, and the range of most Flang cannons is within one thousand meters.

Simply put, the tiger squat cannon is a light cannon, which is flexible and has a relatively close range. The Folang machine cannon is a medium cannon and also a rapid-fire cannon. Compared with the tiger squat cannon, it has a longer range and is more powerful.

The Ming Dynasty army had advanced artillery, so Fangnan's army naturally had to be equipped with artillery. The range of tiger-headed guns was farther than that of bird guns. Even when facing tiger squat cannons, they could shoot the enemy outside the range of artillery. However, they would not work when encountering Folang machine cannons. Folang machine cannons had a longer range and could only be bombed.

Fang Nan originally wanted to develop a large-range cannon, but after careful consideration, he found that with the current situation in Hutouzhai, it was impossible to build a cannon that was more advanced than the Folang machine cannon, and even the Folang machine cannon could not be built, because building the Folang machine cannon requires a lot of steel and is inconvenient to transport.

In the end, Fang Nan decided to build a tiger squat cannon, and personally led students and blacksmiths to improve the tiger squat cannon. He finally created a practical light cannon weighing 41 kilograms, but his maximum range was 700 meters, and his performance was much higher than that of the tiger squat cannon used by the Ming army.

Like the tiger head gun, this cannon is named the tiger head gun, but the difficulty of building a tiger head gun is far less than that of a tiger head gun. As long as there is enough steel, the speed of building a tiger head gun is faster than that of a tiger head gun, but in the end, it only takes one tiger head gun every two months on average.

The range of the tiger-headed cannon is not as good as that of the tiger-headed gun, and it also requires a lot of steel. If it weren't for the tiger-headed cannon, it would be useful in combat. If it weren't for the tiger-headed cannon, it would be a little useful. By the way, the artillery would be trained, otherwise the tiger-headed cannon would not have been built.

In addition, there is another reason why the tiger-headed run is not built more, because the tiger-headed cannon consumes too much gunpowder, which is not as cost-effective as the tiger-headed gun. In this deep mountain, saltpeter is too difficult to obtain.

Two years ago, Fang Nan began to use silver to purchase saltpeter from villages that could be contacted in the deep mountains. Other villages collected frost and obtained saltpeter after processing. This was not enough. Fang Nan arranged for people to purchase saltpeter in some villages outside the mountains. Even so, they could not withstand the consumption of gunpowder by too many artillery gunpowder.

On average, it is two months old. Fang Nan has saved eleven tiger-headed cannons in his hand. Except for one tiger-headed cannon that is often fiddled with, the remaining cannons are piled up in the warehouse.

In three years, Fang Nan made preparations for rebellion not only to build tiger-headed guns and tiger-headed cannons, but also formed a Qingshanzhai guard team with Hu Zhuang, He Yan, Zhou Yi, Wang Shengrong and other students who studied military knowledge, and some adult men under the age of 25 in Qingshanzhai.

There were very few people, only fifteen people. Hu Zhuang, who was only twenty-one years old, served as the captain of the guard team. All fifteen people learned to use tiger-headed guns, but He Yan led four people to focus on using tiger-headed guns.

Three years ago, the people in Qingshanzhai knew that the younger generations in the village wanted to rebel and overthrow the Ming Dynasty, but they were all persuaded and had no objection.

In the past three years, Fang Nan has cryptically conveyed something to his elders through his students: as long as the rebellion can be successful, the Qingshan Village will be able to use all the common characters and can also be simple arithmetic, at the worst, and can become a small official and live a life of food and clothing without worries.

Seeing the power of tiger-headed spear and tiger-headed cannon, the younger generations would be implicated if they wanted to rebel. They also knew from the younger generations that what Fang Nan had conveyed in vain. After careful thinking, the elders had basically made a decision, actively approached the side of the Fang Nan village master, and followed the Fang Nan village master on the road of rebellion.

It can be said that Fang Nan's identity as the leader of the village has gained a lot of power in Qingshan Village, but it is a gap in seniority, and it will take some time to transform into a gap in status. Older people do not easily obey the instructions of young people. Fang Nan has achieved this level in the past six years of hard work.

Fortunately, Qingshanzhai is not a big family with the same surname. If it is in a big family, the blood lineage and generation relationship will be more serious and it will be more difficult to change.

From a small village in the deep mountains that only wanted to eat and wear, to the fact that most people in the village decided to rebel, Qingshanzhai's change was very big. It was also under this change that Qingshanzhai's guard team was established. However, the guard team has not had a chance to take action since its establishment. At most, it was to fight wild beasts in the mountains and forests.
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