The Rise of the European Emperor

"9 out of 10, he's still not satisfied?" Liu Meng asked in surprise.

Kong Tai smiled awkwardly, and he didn't know why the artillery commander Jacob was so harsh. In fact, the artillery commander Jacob was too nervous. After all, before departure, Marin repeatedly stressed the need to behave well in front of Ming officials. That's why I was so excited when I saw the eighth gun missed.

This situation is somewhat similar to the military parade of later generations. Usually it's okay if you're out of shape, but at the military parade in the square, if you make a fool of yourself, that's a big problem. Based on this consideration, Jacob was in a hurry to draw the observer of the eighth cannon.

However, Jacob's hand stunned the officials and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty - Nima, the artillery of this Beihai Kingdom is so powerful? 9 out of 10 are not satisfied? Does it have to be a full hit to qualify? That's a hundred steps away!

Therefore, this unexpected scene made the artillery and artillery of Beihai Kingdom suddenly become higher in the eyes of Daming officials and soldiers. Even, many civil servants of the Ming Dynasty are thinking - although the Beihai Kingdom is a small barbarian country, its artillery skills are still quite powerful...

You must know that in the Ming Dynasty of the same era, because the artillery did not have sights such as Wangshan and front sight, whether it hit or not depends on the individual quality of the artillery. In other words, completely follow the artillery's feeling. And most of the soldiers in Daming were illiterate, they didn't know the angle or anything, and they didn't have sights for them. Therefore, within 20 steps, these artillerymen may still be able to measure a little more accurately with their eyes. 50 steps away, it is more difficult. At a distance of 100 paces, the novice artilleryman basically has a lot of graying machines, and the hit is definitely counted. Even those artillerymen with more than ten years can achieve the level of ten shots and five or six shots.

Of course, if it's on the battlefield, the hit rate doesn't really matter. Because the enemy army must be a swarm. As long as the muzzle angle is okay. As long as you shoot flat in front of you, you can definitely hit the enemy...

Therefore, the artillery of the Ming Dynasty paid the most attention to the vertical angle of the muzzle, and did not pay much attention to the specific hit rate. Anyway, as long as the muzzle is aimed at one side of the enemy, how can a few unlucky people be hit. "Mistakes in the sub-car" or something, in the era of soil guns, it is not uncommon at all.

However, without contrast, there is no harm. You old artilleryman is only five or six out of ten, and a group of young people are still beaten in nine out of ten. The gap is a bit big...

So Liu Meng asked curiously:

"Why is your artillery so accurate?"

Kong Tai is here to offer artillery, so naturally he has to brag about artillery:

"Without him, the gun has excellent ears!"

"Could it be tried by the Daming Artillery?"

Kong Tai rolled his eyes,

The heart said that it was originally here to offer guns, so naturally:

"Of course! Since these cannons are paid to Daming, the adults can naturally control them at will!"

Liu Meng nodded and said:

"That's good."

Then, he turned to Xu Yong and said:

"Call a few skilled old artillerymen over here and learn how to handle the artillery from those people. In addition, those artillerymen don't understand the language, so I asked the messenger to help translate it."

Kong Tai nodded, but added:

"My lord, I'm afraid that the artillerymen can't speak Mandarin..." His concern is not unreasonable, those soldiers are all illiterate people, and basically can't speak the famous Mandarin. However, there are too many differences between the dialect and Mandarin of Guangdong and Guangxi, and it is indeed difficult to communicate.

Liu Meng thought for a while, then waved his hand and said:

"Liu Xiucai, you accompany the messenger for a walk!" Liu Xiucai is a local and is Liu Mengzhao's personal staff, that is, the master. Xiucai naturally speaks Mandarin, and as a local, he doesn't have to speak the native language, so he just used it as an interpreter.

Xu Yong quickly selected five old gunners in their 30s and 40s from Guangzhou's avant-garde firearms battalion, and brought a group of young gunners to help them.

With the help of Kong Tai and Liu Xiucai to translate, Jacob explained the use of the Fran cannon in great detail to these old Ming old cannons. Then, let a few old Ming artillerymen try it out. However, before the test gun, Jacob repeatedly emphasized that multiple charges are never allowed. Even Jacob took out a wooden spoon and stipulated that the charge could only hold three spoons. Moreover, when filling the medicine, the powder is not allowed to come to the edge, and it can only be flush with the edge of the wooden spoon.

This was actually Marin's idea. As a liberal arts student who was familiar with history, Marin knew very well what the artillerymen and musketeers of the Ming Dynasty were. For these illiterate ancient artillerymen and deteriorating musketeers, the charge is purely a matter of feeling. When loading more and less, you can see if your hands tremble when loading.

Therefore, it is best to provide them with a container for measuring gunpowder powder, and strictly regulate the amount of powder in order to control the amount of charge.

This idea was something Marin had personally experienced in his previous life. Of course, it is not the experience of shooting, but the experience of cooking. Marin's cooking skills were poor at the beginning, mainly because he had poor control over salt and sugar. Often the hand shakes, too much salt, or too much sugar...

Later, he went to the supermarket to buy a very small spoon to measure the seasoning. For example, in a pot of vegetables, add two tablespoons of salt and three tablespoons of sugar... After repeated practice, Marin never had the problem of adding more salt and less when cooking...

And this method, used to restrain the ancient artillerymen and musketeers, is also the best. For this, Marin had carpenters make special wooden spoons. The artillery used a large wooden spoon and charged three spoons of medicine. Musketeers use a small wooden spoon with a small spoonful of charge. In this way, you can control the loading amount.

Of course, in the late Ming Dynasty, the musketeers deliberately reduced the charge, and the musketeers cannot be blamed. Because the muskets made by the Daming Ministry of Industry are so rubbish. If enough medicine is loaded as required, it will easily explode and kill the musketeer himself. Therefore, in the late Ming Dynasty, the musketeers were also forced to charge less. However, in this way, the musket has really become a bird gun, and it can only kill birds, not people...

To this end, Marin intends to help Daming introduce a system of engraving names on the barrels of guns. That is, each barrel is manufactured, and the craftsman must engrave his name and job number on it. Once the chamber is bombed in the future, the responsible person will be found based on the name and job number, and then severely punished...

In this way, those craftsmen would not dare to deal with it casually. Of course, if there is a problem with iron materials, it can also be traced back through the craftsmen, and the officials responsible for supplying iron materials can be traced. After all, if there is a problem with the raw materials, then there will be problems with that batch of barrels.

Through this strict accountability system, Europe effectively controlled the quality of the barrel and avoided the sorrow of the musketeers in the late Ming Dynasty.

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It only took an hour of work, because the strict regulations were formulated, and the artillerymen themselves were veterans, and the foundation was very good. The five veteran artillerymen of Daming quickly mastered how to control the Fran cannon.

Then, with the assistance of their apprentices, the five old artillerymen of the Ming Dynasty started to shoot artillery in person...

"Boom-boom-boom..." After a few shots, the officials and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who were present were surprised to find that these five old gunners all hit the target a hundred paces away...

"It's so evil? Let's take a look again!" Liu Meng, the political envoy on the right, exclaimed in surprise.

Then, the five old gunners fired a few more shots. As a result, the 5 veteran gunners fired a total of 25 shots in 5 rounds, and only one shot was missed.

The Daming officials and soldiers present were all shocked...

What shocked them was not only the high hit rate of this type of artillery, but also its rate of fire, which shocked the experts present...

Because Liu Meng and other experts were shocked to find that these old gunners actually fired 5 shots within 50 breaths, and fired once every 10 breaths on average...

What kind of speed is this? It simply stunned the connoisseurs present...

You must know that Daming's earthen cannons take an average of about 120 breaths (that is, two minutes) to fire a cannon for each shelling. And this Fran cannon can actually reach 10 breaths per shot, which is simply too terrifying...

Of course, that's not how it counts. According to Kong Tai's explanation, this is because all 5 sub-guns are loaded, so that the shot can be finished in one go. Counting the reload time of the sub-guns, it's not that fast. Moreover, according to the rules of artillery handling, after each round of 5 sub-guns is fired, the artillerymen must use wet sponges to completely cool the gun body and sub-guns to prevent the barrel from overheating and causing the chamber to explode. After that, use a dry sponge to absorb water and dry it again...

In this way, in fact, the Fran cannon fires three or four shots per minute on average. That is, about 20 breaths to fire a shot.

Despite this, Liu Meng and Xu Yong, a group of savvy Daming officials, were still stunned by this rate of fire. Because this rate of fire is six times that of the Daming Cannon...

Moreover, after testing, this Fran cannon can indeed hit two hundred steps (300 meters), and the range is twice that of the Daming earth cannon...

(Note: The 300 meters here is the effective range, excluding the final range without damage. If you calculate the full range, it should be farther. As for the historically recorded range of the Fran cannon of 2,000 feet, which is 666.7 meters, it should be The total range, including the powerless range at the end after the effective range. Because most of the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty did not understand artillery, when recording the range, it was only based on the total range, not the effective range.)

"Such a sharp artillery, the old man must strongly recommend it to the court!" Liu Meng shouted excitedly! Changed to the expression of the later Internet literary circles, it means "the old man wants to help you get on the top ranking list"...