On the morning of September 20th, the sixth year of Tianxuan, Qu Mao, Kong Ming and Xuande watched the sunrise at the highest peak of the Midway Twin Islands, overlooking the large and small islands of the Midway Twin Islands, and during the period they reached some agreement on firearms

Agreement on university admissions and training of workers in the new military industry.

After the three people came down from the highest peak of the big island, they still did not go to Li Xiang. Although the firearms army's playground had not been built yet, the three of them went directly to the military camp to find the current commander of the firearms army.

At present, the number of firearms troops on the Twin Islands is not large. Counting the new recruits who landed on the island in September, the total number does not exceed 6,000. Therefore, when Qu Mao, Kong Ming and Xuande approached the commander of the firearms army, they asked to inspect the firearms.

When he was in the army, the commander of the firearms army immediately took out a copper whistle and blew it as hard as he could.

Upon hearing the whistle, the entire Firearms Army mobilized, and many Firearms Army soldiers either pushed cannons or carried muskets and gathered towards a large open space outside the military camp.

Qu Mao, Kong Ming and Xuande looked at the flat open space and secretly judged that this was the area where a playground or actual shooting site would be built in the future in the firearms army headquarters. Otherwise, it would not be so big or so flat.

At 9:30 in the morning, the entire firearms army was assembled. The commander of the firearms army commanded nearly 6,000 soldiers. They lined up one by one in front of the high platform where Qu Mao, Kong Ming and Xuande were standing. Then the artillery team soldiers fired 30 guns of three specifications.

The artillery was divided into three rows and pushed in front of the high platform. The muzzles of the guns faced the sea, but the coastline was at least two kilometers away.

Kong Ming glanced at Qu Mao, and then said to the commander of the firearms army: "It's time to start."

The commander of the firearms corps ran back to the 30 artillery pieces, held the red flag high in his right hand, and waved it down vigorously.

The sound of "boom, boom, boom" was heard endlessly. Qu Mao was very satisfied when he saw that not a single shell landed on the big island.

There are no problems with the range and shooting accuracy of the three different specifications of artillery in Qu Mao's opinion, because none of the artillery shells has a range of less than 2 kilometers.

However, Qu Mao frowned involuntarily when he saw the artillery team soldiers began to carry 30 artillery pieces to evacuate from the high platform after each fired three rounds of artillery shells.

When these 30 artillery pieces are fired, sandbags are still used to cushion the bottom of the barrel mouth.

The scene in front of him made it difficult for Qu Mao to overlap the image of artillery from another world in his mind.

While Qu Mao was frowning and dazed, the soldiers of the musketeers had already begun to arrange wooden targets 300 meters away from the high platform. The soldiers in charge of the shooting demonstration of the musketeers were standing below the high platform, which meant that the musketeers were about to perform a target 300 meters away.

Target practice.

Qu Mao had to pull his thoughts back from the artillery unit in another world and signaled to Kong Ming that he could start.

Following the command of the commander of the firearms army, the sound of frying beans could be heard again.

The sound of the bolt being pulled when rear-loading was very pleasant to Qu Mao's ears.

The soldiers in this world are really serious, and their training is very effective. Qu Mao found that the sight on the gun barrel has not been designed, but there are at least 20 soldiers in each row, and each soldier must shoot at least 3 rounds of bullets. There are already

No less than 5 platoons of soldiers fired, and not a single bullet missed the target.

And during the entire shooting process, not a single gun malfunctioned. You must know that the research on muskets and artillery has not been completed in Yi Gong's territory for more than a year.

With the performance of today's muskets, they can still hit the target at a distance of 300 meters. They are all sharpshooters.

The review of the firing of the Firearms Army lasted for more than two hours. At noon, Qu Mao, Kong Ming and Xuande ate together with the Firearms Army soldiers in the temporary canteen of the Firearms Army. However, Qu Mao, Kong Ming and Xuande ate together.

Eating alone at a table, not even the commander of the firearms army was sitting at the same table with Qu Mao and others.

During the meal, Qu Mao, Kong Ming and Xuande were also discussing the results of the firearms army review in the morning. The overall results were very satisfactory to all three of them, whether it was the performance of the firearms or artillery or the military quality of the firearms army soldiers.

Perfect.

Seeing that the soldiers in the cafeteria had already left, Kong Ming asked in a low voice: "Sir, since you are very satisfied, my subordinates noticed that during the review, you seemed a little worried."

Qu Mao shook his head and said: "I am not dissatisfied with the firearms soldiers, but I am a little dissatisfied with our muskets and artillery."

Kong Ming looked at Qu Mao doubtfully, and Qu Mao took out a pen and paper from his backpack.

Upon seeing this, Kong Ming immediately took out a pen and paper from his backpack, and looked at Qu Mao like a primary school student with a thirst for knowledge.

Qu Mao rolled his eyes at Kong Ming and said while drawing a picture: "Let's talk about a simple gun first. I think that a front sight should be set in front of the barrel and a ruler should be set at the back end. When it is three to one line with the shooting target, the trajectory of the bullet will just hit the target.

The position where the target is aimed should enhance the precision of the shot."

Kong Ming originally looked at Qu Mao's drawings and learned to draw by himself, but after comparing them twice, Kong Ming directly grabbed the drawings drawn by Qu Mao and said: "I will go back to study, and I will go back to the lord's cabin.

There are still a few days left.”

Qu Mao glared at Kong Ming fiercely, obviously dissatisfied that Kong Ming had just painted a quarter of the area on a piece of paper. He placed a new piece of paper, and while drawing, Qu Mao said: "Kong Ming, our Yi Gong

The territory was still in the Yicun territory era, and wooden carriages were manufactured in the carpentry workshop behind the lord's cabin.

So I was thinking just now, since we already know how to make a wooden carriage, why can't we add two wheels under the barrel, which will not only facilitate the transportation of our artillery, but also serve as a support for our artillery shells when firing.

Of course, this has certain requirements for our wheel manufacturing technology. Wooden wheels should not be able to bear the weight of our artillery.

Even if it can withstand the weight of our artillery, I'm afraid it can't withstand the recoil when our artillery fires. Therefore, the wheels and frame must all be redesigned. It can have metal wheels and the springs I told you before. I think

That should solve the problem."

As a sketch of Qu Mao's sketch was drawn, Kong Ming took the drawing drawn by Qu Mao. While looking at it carefully, he gave a thumbs up and said: "Sir, my subordinates have said that if you are fine, you should go to the middle of the road more often."

Island run.

I think this improvement seems very simple, but without your advice, we don’t know when we would have thought of it."

Xuande looked at the actions of Qu Mao and Kong Ming, and suddenly felt that the food was not very fragrant, and said with some resentment: "No wonder the whole territory says that you are the chief scientist of our Yi Gong territory, it's just that simple...

"

Kong Ming said angrily: "Xuande, go and do your own business. Don't interfere with my discussion of technological innovation with adults."
Chapter completed!