Today was the sixth day of Yang Feng's return, but he still vividly remembered the bright light in the eyes of the officers under his command when they saw the cold glow of Napoleon's artillery on a door he dragged out of the warehouse. Like Geng Bingyi, Huang Zhenye, Cao Yingmao and others rushed directly towards the artillery, and for a while, the 16 12-pounder guns and 28 6-pounder guns also became the treasures that everyone competed for.

Even Yang Feng didn't expect such a scene, and he didn't expect that everyone would react so strongly after seeing the artillery, such a situation was something Yang Feng never expected.

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

In the late Ming Dynasty, the Ming court purchased a large number of front-loading smoothbore cannons from the Dutch East India Company and the Portuguese, because many people thought that the Hongyi cannon was imported from the Netherlands, so these cannons were called Hongyi cannons, the so-called "Hongyi", the Hongmao Holland and Portugal also.

The Ming army's attention to artillery is also unprecedented, after the introduction of European artillery, the Ming army imitated a large number of artillery itself, and most of these artillery pieces were transported to the nine sides to resist the Mongols and Manchus, but the Ming army's own imitation of artillery compared to the Western artillery in terms of range, accuracy and weight has lagged behind the West, but even so artillery is still the most valuable strategic weapon of the Ming Dynasty, and the general Ming army is not qualified to equip at all. Even more so for guards like Jiang Ningwei, almost all the officers were red-eyed when they saw the artillery that Yang Feng had gotten.

Later, Yang Feng spoke, and ordered the 44 artillery pieces to be gathered together to form an artillery battalion, but after searching the entire Jiang Ningwei, there was not even a person who could shoot artillery, after all, for Jiang Ningwei, artillery is a new thing, and artillery is a technical arm, Jiang Ningwei no one will fiddle with this thing at all, if it is changed to another person, it is estimated that it will be blind, but this is not difficult for our Lord Yang, as long as there is a computer in another time and space, most of the information can be found.

Yang Feng tinkered for less than half a day, and even got the operation video and essentials of Napoleon's cannon, and then Yang Feng began to draw gourds in the same way, and began to try to gather all the officers according to these materials and began to teach them how to control the artillery, and at the same time he was also observing to see if anyone had this talent. And what happened next did make Yang Feng and many people fall through the eyes, in the next training, there was a person who began to stand out in the training of artillery, and showed amazing talent in manipulating artillery, in a live firing, the artillery he controlled fired ten times in a row, and seven times accurately hit the target hundreds of meters away, and this is not someone else, it is the usual timid and sleek Qiu Disheng.

After this incident happened, the glasses were shattered, everyone didn't expect that Qiu Disheng, who was always timid and afraid of things on weekdays, had such a high talent in artillery control, Yang Feng changed an artillery gun with some disbelief and asked Qiu Disheng to retest it again, and this time it was even more unexpected, Qiu Disheng's score was eight out of ten, and afterwards Yang Feng appointed Qiu Disheng as the commander of the artillery battalion without saying a word.

Not only that, Yang Feng also handed over instruments and materials such as gun gauges, gun rulers, and moments to Qiu Disheng, so that he could learn them well and then teach them to the rest of the gunners.

Don't be petty about these things, although these things are inconspicuous, they are the eyes and ears of artillery, and they are also the multiplier of combat effectiveness. In this regard, the gap between the Ming army and the West is the largest and the deadliest of all gaps! It is an exaggeration to say that this is a super military secret of the West in this era, although the Westerners sold artillery to the Ming Dynasty, but they never sold instruments such as gun gauges, gun rulers and moments to the Ming army, let alone teach the Ming army how to use these things, and the Western missionaries left a hand in key places when teaching artillery technology to the Ming Dynasty.

Before a gun fires, the gunner must know how far away the enemy is, although the size of the target can be seen from the telescope or the distance of the target can be guessed by feeling, but it is easy to shoot a gun based on feeling and guessing alone. However, if you use moments, you can accurately measure the distance between yourself and the target.

Unlike the West, the Ming gunners of this era fired their guns based on experience, and there was no standard to regulate the behavior of the gunners, which was also the biggest difference between the Ming gunners and the West in this era.

In order to maximize the power of each artillery, Western gunners paid attention to the size of the shells and the amount of gunpowder used. The function of the ruler is to measure the amount of gunpowder that the gun should be loaded. When the weight of the shell was determined, Western gunpowder experts believed that there should be an ideal value for the gunpowder to be loaded. The most appropriate situation is to push the shell to the nozzle at the moment when the gunpowder is completely burned, which is the essence of "proportionality of the projectile".

On the other hand, at this time, the Ming Dynasty did not have the concept of ammunition proportionality, and there were gunners who used empty guns (symbolically filled with gunpowder) and were severely punished, so the later gunners were full of ammunition, which could easily lead to the explosion of the artillery breech, and the Ming army has repeatedly occurred that the gunner charge was too much and the bore was blown up and caused many gunners to be killed or wounded.

More importantly, today's Ming Dynasty does not have an accurate unit of measurement, which is easy to be confused with the Western unit of measurement, and there is no way to accurately grasp the dosage of medicine, which also leads to the gunners of the Ming army can only use the artillery as a flat-fire weapon, and let the artillery fire shoot upward, the gunner does not even know where the shell falls after firing the cannon, so how can it hit its cavalry outside the range of the enemy's bow and arrow?

In view of the backwardness of the Ming army's artillery technology, Yang Feng not only downloaded a lot of artillery information on the Internet, but also personally purchased three retired Type 63 8 times artillery mirrors at a high price on a treasure network, this kind of artillery team mirrors can not only be used to measure the direction angle, high and low angle and distance of the target, but also can be used to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, terrain, determine the deviation of the explosion point, and observe the shooting effect, it can be said that with the help of these 63 Type 8 gun mirrors, as long as it is trained for a period of time, Qiu Disheng and his gunners will become the sharpshooters of every shot.

Just when Yang Feng was hurrying to train the troops, someone came to report to him this morning, saying that there was a woman with a masked face outside the barracks claiming that there was an urgent matter to ask to see him, when Yang Feng, who was a little puzzled, sent someone to bring the person to the living room, he couldn't help but be taken aback when he saw the person who took off the face towel, and said in a lost voice: "Zheng everyone, why are you here?" ”[.]