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Chapter 150 Tiger Crouching
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In the spring of the third year of Longqing, Xiangshan Institute.

Sun Ao had just recruited three banner troops from one hundred households for four months of training. The banner troops who had replaced thirty old bird guns and fifteen new ones were still practicing routinely when they suddenly heard a gunshot from the direction of Xinjian Tiefang. The noise frightened the Banner Army who was used to begging for life on the river.

"Qianhu, it can be used, we have all the guns in Xiangshan!"

In front of Chen Mu, two cannons of different shapes were quietly mounted on the cannon carriage, and gunpowder smoke came out from the muzzle of one of them.

"It didn't explode."

Chen Mu, who was standing far away, gritted his teeth slightly, raised his hand and wiped his face. There was no sorrow or joy on his face, he just opened his mouth slightly and took a deep breath, then nodded with determination and said, "Ride a horse to find the location! Clear your chest , and then fill it with a flat amount of five catties of medicine for test shooting!"

Cannons are iron cannons, and copper cannons are more expensive and more difficult to make. The Flang robot made copper cannons in Haojing. If Xiangshan wants to build its own, it will have to wait for those gunsmiths to learn something.

With Daihatsu's standard, the ink line is used to determine the front sight, and the shape of the new Guan gun is thinner at the front and thicker at the back, which makes the gun body more beautiful and lighter in weight.

Chen Qianhu played a vital role in this design improvement process. If he hadn’t been involved at the beginning, he should have been able to save two cannons from being blown up—this is already the fifth cannon made after the bombing. up.

The new cannon is four feet two inches long, weighs 370 jin, and fires five jin ammunition. It has an extremely long range and great power.

It is the small cannon that Chen Mu intends to put on the newly-built hundred-material warship in Xiangshan. Of course, it can also be used as a land battle cannon, but it needs to be pulled by a horse-drawn carriage, which requires high road conditions. It is more convenient in the north, and the march in the south is more limited. .

The Southern Land War should be guarded against Japanese pirates, and to deal with Japanese pirates, Marshal Qi’s tiger squat cannon is the best choice. Although Chen Mu thinks that this thing either has a short range or too low damage, it covers a large area and generally has no armor. But the Japanese pirates can reap all the merits.

So in order to welcome Zeng Yiben, he imitated the Tiger Crouching Cannon.

The tiger crouching cannon made by Qi Jiguang has different shapes because some of them are rebuilt from old Zhejiang cannons and some are newly made of wrought iron.There are only two ways to use it, one is to pursue the range, throwing at a large angle to hit two or three hundred steps down to kill unarmored enemies;

Chen Mu only chose a tiger squat model from the Guangzhou Military Weapons Bureau to imitate. It weighs 77 catties, has a deep and wide muzzle, and fires fifty one-two lead pellets, which are heavy on damage but light on shock.

"Thousand households! Take three or four hundred steps, and the humble position embedded in the tree cannot be removed!"

Chen Mu patted his forehead, he shouldn't have asked someone to ride a horse to find him, and shouted: "You go over again, and the two of you follow him, take two paces to measure how far it is, and then do a counting technique Yes, measure slowly!"

"Guan Jiang." Chen Mu shook his head and said tiredly: "Hurry up and make the tape measure, make a log shell, there is a rotating rod in the middle to retract and release the tape measure, it must be at least ten steps long, otherwise it will be exhausting to measure the distance of the gun all day long .”

Guan Yuangu thought it was true. Chen Mu told him to make this thing called a tape measure, but recently the best craftsmen were busy making guns, and other things were delayed.

Not long after, the test firing distance of the new cannon was calculated to be 290 seven steps, deeply built into a waist-thick tree.

The test firing is still going on, and the angle of the gun position is adjusted one after another. Finally, it is calculated that the highest angle can hit 280 steps. However, aiming at that angle and distance has no effect. One hundred steps can have at least [-]% accuracy.

From [-] steps to [-] steps, the accuracy rate drops to [-] to [-]%, and the landing point is still between the round cloths.

From [-] steps to [-] steps, the target with a radius of one zhang is no longer enough, and the landing point is roughly within three zhang.

"This system can meet the needs of warships."

Chen Mu nodded in satisfaction. From the sun up to the afternoon, they were busy working on this cannon, and now they can finally have a good meal after calculation. To celebrate, a pig was slaughtered for the craftsmen and banner soldiers inside and outside the office. Everyone is happy.

It will not be so troublesome to test the tiger squat gun in the afternoon. The tiger squat gun is already a relatively mature form here, not to mention that it is a small gun that shoots shotguns.

It is enough to fire three shots to test the high-angle range kill and low-angle kill respectively.

From 140 paces to [-] paces in Dajiao, fifty bullets are scattered so that even the gunners don’t know where they will hit. Lead bullets penetrate nearly an inch deep in the soil; The wooden plank was directly smashed, and the depth and depth of the damage were uneven, but the damage was astonishing.

Much stronger than a bird gun.

"Guan Jiang, if there are enough iron pipes for these two kinds of cannons, how long will it take for the craftsmen to be able to make one after they are proficient?" Chen Mu bit his lips and narrowed his eyes, looking across the sea not too far away, "Let's not build cannons first, This cannon is the same as the blunderbuss, it is also called off the cannon, and it should be enough for a while with the tiger crouching."

Chen Mu likes this kind of thing, and his military thinking is only one - let the enemy die on the road of attack.

The long-range firepower has been superimposed, and even in the training, the attack level of the Banner Army has been adjusted very clearly, which means that his Banner Army will also add artillery to the drill in the future to further increase the combat sequence.

[-] paces away, turn off the cannon and blast for a while, close to [-] paces and then fire for a while, followed by the routine operations of firing rockets and shooting bird guns. It's not necessary for Deng Zilong to risk himself.

But what Chen Mu didn't expect was that Guan Yuangu was dumbfounded by his question. The old man looked at the two tigers squatting and shut down the cannon, and asked, "Qian, Qianhu, these three cannons cost more than 100 labor, not counting." A thousand catties of iron are loaded on the waste cannon, and you still want to hit it again?"

A worker is a craftsman for a day.

It is not enough to play three games, but also to continue to play, but also to make the craftsman proficient?
How much do you have to fight?
Guan Yuangu swallowed his saliva, looked at the big iron cannon worriedly, and said: "The working hours are nothing, it's too much work!"

The iron stored in Xiangshan, counting the seized and Bai Yuanjie's transported iron, is only about ten thousand catties, and less than half of it is consumed for shooting bird guns. If the ram angle is added below the waterline of the newly built warship, the iron stored in Qianhu will not be enough!
"Let's hit it skillfully and normally. It will take less than five hundred catties of iron. As for saving iron, hey."

Chen Mu patted the cannon off, listening to the dull and then clear echo, he felt very beautiful, "I have a way to get it!"

He planned to ask the Banner Army to go to the surrounding guards to inquire about something, such as exchanging old for new, a thousand catties of iron for cannon... He didn't know if other guards could do it, but the two guards of Guanghai and Nanhai were waited by Zeng Yiben. The thieves disturbed the grass and trees like soldiers. At this time, they had iron in their hands, and Chen Mu felt that they could get it.

But the joy didn't last long.

Because it's smoking.

The beacon tower in the distance is smoking.

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