Today is the sixth day of Yang Feng's return, but he still clearly remembers the light emitted by his eyes when his officers saw the Napoleon cannon shining with cold light that he dragged out of the warehouse. Like Geng Bingyi, Huang Zhenye, Cao Yingqiao and others rushed towards the cannons directly. For a time, the 16 12-pound cannons and 28 6-pound cannons also became the treasures that everyone was competing for. For the sake of these cannon scenes, they would have to fight if Yang Feng had to come forward to suppress the crowd.

Even Yang Feng did not expect such a scene, nor did he expect that everyone's reaction to the cannon would be so strong. This situation was unexpected by Yang Feng.

In fact, what Yang Feng didn't know was that as early as 1163, the Chinese Southern Song army invented the earliest artillery - the flint cannon (Pierre cannon). The second year artillery of the Yuan Dade in Heilongjiang, which was unearthed in later generations, was the earliest artillery cultural relic.

In the late Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty purchased a large number of front-mounted smoothbore cannons from the Dutch East India Company and the Portuguese. Because many people believed that the red-barred cannons were imported from the Netherlands, they uniformly called these cannons Red-barred cannons. The so-called "red-barred" are also the Red-barred Netherlands and Portugal.

The Ming army attached unprecedented importance to artillery. After introducing European artillery, the Ming army imitated a large number of artillery themselves, and transported most of these artillery to the nine sides to resist the Mongols and Manchus. However, the artillery imitated by the Ming army lags behind the West in terms of range, accuracy and weight compared to Western artillery. Even so, artillery is still the most precious strategic weapon of the Ming Dynasty. The general Ming army is not qualified to be equipped at all, let alone the garrisons like Jiangning Guards. Therefore, when they saw the artillery Yang Feng, almost all officers were red-eyed.

Later, Yang Feng made a speech and ordered the 44 artillery to be gathered together to form an artillery battalion. However, after searching all the Jiangning Guards, there was not even a single person who could shoot artillery. After all, artillery is a new thing for Jiangning Guards, and artillery is a technical force. No one in Jiangning Guards can fiddle with this thing. If someone else is used, they will probably be blind. However, this is not a problem for our Lord Yang. As long as there is a computer in another time and space, most of the information can be found.

After less than a long time, Yang Feng got the operation video and key points of the Napoleon cannon. Then Yang Feng began to draw the same trick, and according to these materials, he began to try to summon all the officers to teach them how to control the cannons. At the same time, he was also observing whether anyone had the talent in this regard. What happened next did make Yang Feng and many people fall into the eyes. In the following training, one of them began to stand out in the training of the cannons and showed amazing talent in controlling the cannons. In a live-fire shooting, the cannons he controlled shot ten times in a row, and seven accurately hit targets hundreds of meters away. This was not someone else, but the timid and slick Chiu Disheng on weekdays.

After this incident, the glasses were broken all over the floor. No one expected that Qiu Disheng, who was always timid and afraid of things, had such a high talent in artillery control. Yang Feng disbelief and replaced a cannon and asked Qiu Disheng to test it again. This time, it was even more unexpected. Qiu Disheng's score was eighth in 10 shots. Afterwards, Yang Feng appointed Qiu Disheng as the head of the artillery battalion without saying a word.

Not only that, Yang Feng also handed over instruments and materials such as gun rules, gun rulers and torques to Qiu Disheng, and asked him to teach them to the other gunners after learning it well.

Don’t be too careful about these things. Although these things are not eye-catching, they are the eyes and ears of cannons, and they are also multipliers of combat effectiveness. In this regard, the gap between the Ming army and the West is the largest and the most deadly of all gaps! To be exaggerated, this is the super military secret of the West in this era. Although the Westerners sold cannons to the Ming army, they never sold instruments such as gun rules, gun rulers and rulers to the Ming army, and they would not teach the Ming army how to use these things. Western missionaries kept a hand in key places when teaching artillery technology in the Ming Dynasty.

Before a cannon is opened, the gunner must know how far the enemy is. Although the size of the target can be seen from the Qianli Miles Miles or the distance of the target can be guessed by feeling, it is easy to have a "small difference, a thousand miles" situation when shooting a cannon based on feeling and guessing. However, if you use the torque, you can accurately measure the distance between your side and the target.

Unlike the West, the Ming army gunners of this era rely on experience to fire artillery, and there is no standard to regulate the behavior of gunners. This is also the biggest difference between the Ming army gunners of this era and the West.

In order to make each cannon exert its maximum power, Western gunners pay great attention to the size of the shells and the amount of gunpowder. The function of the gun ruler is to measure the amount of gunpowder that the cannon should be loaded. When the weight of the shells is determined, Western artillery experts believe that the gunpowder required to be loaded should have an ideal value. The most appropriate situation is to push the shells to the pipe port at the moment when the gunpowder is completely burning, which is the key to firing the cannon with "meaning of medicine and bullets".

On the other hand, the Ming Dynasty did not have the concept of ammunition proportionality. A gunner used empty cannons (symbolically filling gunpowder) and was severely punished, so the gunners later filled the ammunition, which easily led to the explosion of the artillery chamber. There have been many cases of gunners loading too much and the explosion of the chamber and causing casualties among many gunners.

More importantly, the Ming Dynasty does not have an accurate unit of measurement today, which is easy to be confused with Western units of measurement, and there is no way to accurately grasp the amount of medicine. This also led to the gunners of the Ming army who could only use artillery as flat-fire weapons. If the gunners fired the artillery backfire, they didn't even know where the shells fell after firing the cannon. How can they attack their cavalry outside the range of the enemy's bow and arrow?

In view of the backward artillery technology of the Ming army, Yang Feng not only downloaded a lot of artillery information online, but also personally purchased three retired Type 63 8-time artillery mirrors on Taobao at a high price. This type of artillery mirror can not only be used to measure the direction angle, high and low angle and distance of the target, but also to detect enemy situations, terrain, measure the deviation of the explosion point, and observe the shooting effect. It can be said that with the help of these Type 63 8-time artillery mirrors, as long as a period of training, Qiu Disheng and his gunners will become the magic gunners who will hit every shot.
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