"Master, the artillery battalion of the First Division has arrived." Xiaoyu came over to report. Xiaoyu is now twenty years old, she has long lost her girlish aura, and her body has become taller and taller.

The food in Yang Mansion is so good, and they often eat beef and drink milk. These young ladies are all very well developed. They are not less than 1.7 meters tall.

Xiaoyu is wearing a captain's military uniform, a straight serge cloth uniform, and horse boots, and short hair with her ears. She looks very heroic and savory. The military uniform that fits her figure even wraps her body with a bulge and a squint back, which is very hot and pleasing to the eye.

She rode a maroon Arabian horse and wore a black fur coat. This leather jacket, which is lined with raccoon fur, is very warm and has a waist-tight look. The collar of the coat also has an outward silver fox fur collar, and the needle fur is fluffy and soft, making the little jade-like woman look more beautiful than a flower.

Yang Fan couldn't help but take a few more glances. Xiaoyu suddenly felt a little fever on her cheek.

Because the wife will soon return to the new city. The wife and the second wife have agreed to let Xiaoyu and the twins accompany the master in the next days. After all, the master cannot be taken care of by his side for a long time without a woman.

"Well, let them line up in front. I'll watch them change the cannon stand." Yang Fan nodded and said.

This time, the fight against the Hokhotites exposed many problems.

After careful consideration, Yang Fan decided to replace the gun mount for the twelve-pound cannon and the six-pound cannon.

New gun mounts have been built long ago, all in the warehouse and have never been useful.

The new type of gun mount is all-steel structure, the kind of foot-opening gun mount in later generations. That is, when the cannon is discharged, the two legs are separated and fixed to the ground with a stationary hoe to offset the huge recoil force when firing the cannon.

When marching, combine the bipods and connect them to the ammunition truck into four-wheelers, and drag them with three rows of six pack horses.

Nowadays, borebore cannons are all retracted, that is, after firing, the recoil will cause the cannon to retreat.

After one round, the artillery needed to push the heavy artillery back to its original position and reload the next shell.

This is a waste of time and leads to a very low rate of fire.

The reason why the gun mounts in later generations opened their footshots was because the guns were all retracted. The gun mount did not move, and the barrel was back seat, and then the device was back in to push the barrel back.

Yang Fan has made little progress in hydraulic technology at present, and there is no hydraulic re-entry device.

But Yang Fan has high-performance springs. The springs removed from the chassis of the train car are very powerful. These springs used to dampen the shock of the train car are enough to cope with the recoil of the black gunpowder and maroon gunpowder ejection drugs at this stage.

Yang Fan dared to open the foot gun mount because he could use a spring-returned gun barrel to change the back-mounted gun to a simple spring-returned gun.

After all, the recoil of black gunpowder is small, and the range of artillery in this era is not large. There are not many launching medicines, and there are enough springs with great power.

Another reason is the elevation angle problem of the artillery.

We all know that the range of the cannon has a lot to do with the elevation angle. The range of the forty-five degrees is the largest.

However, Yang Fan's artillery is now designed based on the Napoleon artillery. The artillery mount cannot be adjusted. The elevation angle is normally only positive and negative five degrees, and the maximum can be adjusted to positive and negative ten degrees.

Modern gun mounts can be adjusted to forty-five degrees, and even truck guns can reach seventy-eighty degrees, almost the same as mortars.

The mountain cannon barrel has a shorter elevation angle.

Yang Fan's twelve-pound cannon has a length of 1.68 meters and a weight of about 550 kilograms. It is cast in bronze. Because of its excellent casting, double charge will not be damaged, and the safety factor is very high.

The spherical solid bullet weighs 5.44 kg and the emitted medicine is 1.13 kg.

At a fifth-degree shooting angle, it can hit 1480 meters away. If the shooting angle reaches ten degrees, it can hit 1910 meters away. However, due to the limitations of the gun frame structure, the maximum elevation angle of the Napoleon cannon cannot exceed 12 degrees.

If the elevation angle can be further increased, the effective range can continue to be improved.

During use, the animals in the artillery battalion successfully hit the cast iron spherical solid bullet 2,743 meters away by using the method of raising the cannon body.

Yang Fan was shocked. These animals were really talented, so that's OK.

Yang Fan decided to replace the artillery mounts and turn these artillery mounts into piped artillery. He saved the steps of artillery manpower to promote the artillery reset and increased the rate of fire.

At the same time, the gun mount supports a maximum elevation angle of 50 degrees and can also increase the range.

In the future, these animals will not be allowed to use local methods. They dare to think about any method.

After Yang Fan asked about the wooden house, he began to deal with the artillery matter.

Under Yang Fan's personal leadership, the army of the South Road destroyed the Heshuote people and occupied the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains. Tingzhou was already the territory of the Yang family.

This time, the army only brought 18 heavy artillery pieces of the Artillery Battalion of the First Division of the Infantry Division. All of these heavy artillery were twelve-pound cannons. The twelve-pound cannons are the largest heavy artillery that field troops can carry.

Because in this era, field guns were dragged by horses.

We often hear about the types of army artillery, such as field artillery, mountain artillery, and infantry artillery. However, we do not know clearly what the specific differences are between these artillery types.

The so-called field artillery is the full name of field artillery, which means that field artillery can be carried when field troops march. In modern times, because there are no cars and too heavy artillery, they cannot be carried along with the troops in field operations.

Too heavy cannons can only be used as fortress cannons and port cannons. They are generally used to guard cities and important places.

The artillery that can be used to pull the running cannons and can easily enter the battlefield is the field cannon.

Mountain cannons are artillery designed for mountain combat. The biggest feature of this cannon is its lightness.

Weight loss is the first priority. Because the mountain marching is too heavy and cannot be carried. Therefore, as long as the weight can be reduced, it must be reduced. It is best to carry it with a donkey.

A donkey climbing is easier to use than a pack horse. Donkeys can also walk freely on the plateaus of Afghanistan. Dapeng used a large number of donkeys in the eight years he was in Afghanistan.

The mountain cannon barrel is short and has a high elevation angle, which facilitates shooting at targets on the mountain.

Infantry cannons are super-small artillery that infantry can carry by manpower. They are generally placed at the battalion level for use, and are artillery that real infantry can use by themselves. Cannons larger than this must be requested to be supported by artillery fire.

In this era, Yang Fan's artillery scale has become the most powerful force in the entire Blue Star.

The division's artillery is the largest twelve-pound field artillery. The reason why it cannot be bigger is because of dragging horses.

Generally, the dragged pack horse can only be at most three rows in front and back, one row, two to three horses. This is the optimal solution obtained after hundreds of years of repeated practice. It will be extremely difficult to control it by more than three rows, or more than three horizontally.

It’s not that the more horses there are, the greater the drag force, the better.

Under complex road conditions, the driver cannot control it. There will be great chaos.

During the first battle, the field cannons to be towed with horses are generally 75mm and 105mm. The towed horses are in three rows, one row, two to three.
Chapter completed!