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

Comté smiled awkwardly, he didn't know why the artillery commander Jacob was so harsh. In fact, the artillery commander Jacob was also too nervous. After all, before leaving, Marin repeatedly emphasized that he had to behave well in front of Ming Dynasty officials. That's why I was so excited to see that the eighth cannon was missing.

This situation is somewhat similar to the big military parade in later generations. Usually you don't have a problem, but at the big military parade in the square, if you make a fool of yourself, then it's a big problem. Based on this consideration, Jacob angrily drew the observer of the eighth cannon.

However, Jacob's hand frightened the officials and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty - Nima, the artillery of the Beihai Kingdom is so powerful? Not satisfied with 9 out of 10? Do you have to hit all of them to qualify? That's a hundred steps away!

Therefore, this unexpected scene made the artillery and artillery of the Beihai Kingdom, in the eyes of the Ming officials and soldiers, suddenly high. Even, many Ming civil officials are thinking - although this Beihai country is a small barbarian country, this artillery technology is 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 crosshairs, whether it hit or not depended on the personal quality of the artillery. Or rather, completely follow the feeling of artillery. And most of the soldiers in the Ming Dynasty were illiterate, they didn't know the angle or anything, and they didn't have sights for them. So, within 20 paces, these artillerymen may be able to measure a little more accurately with their eyes. 50 steps away, it's more difficult. And at a distance of 100 paces, the novice artillery basically has more handshots, and the hit is definitely a fool. Even those artillery officers who are more than ten years old can achieve the level of five or six out of ten.

Of course, if you are on the battlefield, the hit rate is not really important. Because, the enemy army must be swarming. As long as there is no problem with the muzzle angle. As long as you shoot at the front, you will definitely be able to 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 you ensure that the muzzle of the cannon is aimed at one side of the enemy, how can you catch a few unlucky eggs. "Mistakenly hit the sub-car" or something, in the era of earth artillery, 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, and the gap is a bit big......

So, Liu Meng asked curiously:

"Why is your artillery so accurate?"

Kong Tai is here to present artillery, so naturally he wants to brag about artillery:

"Without him, the cannon is fine!"

"Can you let the Ming artillery give it a try?"

Kong Tai rolled his eyes, and said in his heart, he was originally here to offer cannons, so naturally he could:

"Absolutely! Since these cannons are paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty, adults can naturally dispose of them at will! ”

Liu Meng nodded and said:

"That's good."

Then, he turned to Xu Yong and said:

"Call a few veteran artillerymen who are familiar with them and learn how to operate the guns from those people. In addition, those artillerymen did not understand the language, and they bothered the messenger to help translate it. ”

Kong Tai nodded, but then said:

"My lord, I'm afraid that those artillerymen can't understand official language......" His worry is not unreasonable, those soldiers are all uneducated people, and they basically can't speak the official language of the daimyos. However, the local language and official dialect of the two Cantonese are too different to be communicated.

Liu Meng thought about it, beckoned, and said:

"Liu Xiucai, you accompany the messenger!" Liu Xiucai is a local, Liu Mengzhao's personal staff, that is, the master. Xiucai naturally knows the official language, and as a local, he doesn't have to speak the local language, so he just uses it as a translator.

Xu Yong quickly selected five veteran gunners in their thirties and forties from the avant-garde firearms battalion in Guangzhou, and brought a group of young gunners to help them to the Fulong machine gun to receive training from the Beihai artillery.

With the help of Kong Tai and Liu Xiucai, Jacob explained the use of the Furlong cannon to these old Ming cannons in detail. Then, let a few old Ming artillerymen try it out. However, before the test gun, Jacob repeatedly stressed that no more charges would be allowed. Jacob even took out a wooden spoon and stipulated that the charge could only hold three spoons. Moreover, when charging, the powder is not allowed to be sharp, and can only be flush with the edge of the wooden spoon.

This was actually the idea of Ma Lin, who, as a liberal arts student who was familiar with history, knew very well what virtues the artillerymen and musketeers of the Ming Dynasty were. For these uneducated ancient gunners deteriorated musketeers, the charge was purely a matter of following the feelings. Loading more and less, it all depends on whether the hand is shaking when charging.

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

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

Later, he went to the supermarket and bought a very small spoon to measure the spices. For example, add two spoonfuls of salt and three spoonfuls of sugar to a pot of vegetables...... After repeated practice, Marlin never had the problem of putting too much salt and too little salt when cooking......

And this method, used to restrain the ancient gunners and musketeers, is also very good. For this purpose, Marin had a carpenter make a special wooden spoon. Artillery with a large wooden spoon, three spoons of charge. The musketeers used a small wooden spoon and a small spoon of charge. In this way, the charge can be controlled.

Of course, the musketeers in the late Ming Dynasty deliberately had fewer charges, and the musketeers could not be blamed. Because, the musket made by the Ming Ministry of Industry is too special and rubbish. If you fill the medicine as required, it is easy to blow up the chamber and kill or injure the musketeer himself. Therefore, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the musketeers were also forced to charge less. However, in this way, the musket really becomes a bird's gun, which can only kill the bird, not the person......

To this end, Marin planned to help Daming introduce a system of inscribed names on the barrel of the gun. In other words, each barrel is made, and the craftsman who makes it must engrave his name and work number. Once the chamber is blown up in the future, the relevant responsible person will be found according to the name and work number, and then severely punished......

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

It was through this strict accountability system that Europe effectively controlled the quality of the barrel and avoided the sorrow of the musketeers at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

……

It was only an hour's work, because strict specifications were formulated, and those artillerymen themselves were veterans with a good foundation, and the five veteran artillerymen of the Ming Dynasty quickly mastered how to control the Furlong machine gun.

Then, with the assistance of the apprentices, these 5 old artillerymen of the Ming Dynasty began to fire their guns in person......

"Boom-boom-boom......" After a few shots, the Ming officials and soldiers present were surprised to find that these five veteran gunners all hit targets 100 steps away......

"So wicked? Check it out a few more times! Liu Meng, the political envoy of the right cloth, was surprised.

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

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

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

Because, Liu Meng and other experts were shocked to find that these old gunners actually fired 5 shots in 50 breaths, and fired an average of 10 breaths......

How fast is that? It simply stunned the connoisseurs present......

You must know that the earth cannon of the Ming Dynasty, every time it is shelled, it takes an average of about 120 breaths (that is, two minutes) to open a cannon. And this kind of Furlong cannon can reach 10 breaths a cannon, which is simply terrifying......

Of course, that's not how it counts. According to Kong Tai's explanation, this is because the five sub-guns are all loaded, so they can be finished in one go. Counting the reload time, it's not that fast. Moreover, according to the rules of artillery operation, after each round of 5 guns, the artillerymen must use a wet sponge to cool down the gun body and guns in an all-round way, so as to avoid overheating the barrel and causing the bore to explode. After that, it is necessary to use a dry sponge to absorb water and dry it again......

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

Despite this, a group of knowledgeable Ming officials such as Liu Meng and Xu Yong were still stunned by this rate of fire. Because, this rate of fire is six times that of the Daming earth cannon......

Moreover, after testing, this kind of Furlong cannon can indeed hit 200 paces (300 meters), and the firing range is twice the distance of the Daming earth cannon......

(Note: 300 meters here is the effective range, not including the final range that does not kill.) If you calculate the full range, it is further. As for the firing range of 2,000 feet, that is, 666.7 meters, recorded in history, it should be the total firing range, including the weak firing range at the end of the effective range. Because, most of the Ming civil officials did not understand artillery, and when recording the firing range, they only based on the total firing range, not the effective firing range. ）

"Such a sharp artillery, the old man must highly recommend it to the imperial court!" Liu Meng shouted excitedly! In the later world, the meaning of the online literary world is "the old man wants to help you get on the list"...... 8)