Han Yongning trembled in his heart, realizing that a great opportunity to change his career and destiny was coming!

If what Fang Cai did at the gate of the city was a small vote, then now that Dong Ce asked himself this sentence, he would have the opportunity to make a very weighty vote.

He hurriedly said: "The last general is very clear. ”

"Okay."

Dong Ce laughed, clapped his hands lightly, and said, "Let's go, let's go to the section of the city wall where Han Yongning is stationed, this city wall defense is the most important thing, and there is no room for mistakes." If there is a bad pool there, then inside and outside this victory fort, I am afraid that there will be no boundary that cannot go wrong. ”

He still didn't say a word: If there are really so many mistakes, then Lord Huang, you will stay in this victory fortress today, and you want to go home? That's hard! Today's handover is not so smooth.

Listening to Dong Ce's words, Huang Wan's face turned cold, and he glared at Han Yongning fiercely, with some warning in his eyes. This look was naturally telling Han Yongning: "Don't talk nonsense, you kid." ”

Han Yongning looked at the ground with his eyelids lowered as if he hadn't seen Huang Wan's eyes at all, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Huang Wan's face sank, and he secretly had some plans in his heart.

Dong Ce left the lobby first: "Let's go!" ”

Everyone followed, and Huang Wan walked behind with a chirping, but before leaving the lobby, he gestured to the little guy who had been following him. The little guy understood, and did not go out with him, but went to the back hall with a smoke.

The group followed Dong Ce and began to walk towards the West City Gate, and when they arrived at the West City Gate, they followed the horse road to the city wall. The walls of Fort Victory are tall and strong, and they are also counted in the entire town of Datong. The city wall is as high as three feet and eight feet, which is only a little inferior to the town of Datong.

Climbing the city wall, Dong Ce glanced around, suddenly his eyes lit up, and he walked straight to one place.

And after seeing what was at the end of the direction he was walking to, Huang Wan's face suddenly became extremely unnatural.

Dong Ce's goal was a cannon placed on the city wall.

Speaking of which, this is the first time he has seen a cannon since he came to this era. After all, in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, such heavy artillery was a very important strategic material, and the general county town would not have it, only in some important border towns.

Dong Ce walked in front of the cannon and looked at it carefully.

The length of this cannon is about two and a half meters, and looking at the thickness of the cannon wall, it should not be particularly heavy. The cannon is placed on top of the gun carriage, and the wooden gun carriage has a steering device, and the muzzle of the cannon should be able to rotate around. The muzzle of this cannon is relatively thin, and the belly of the cannon is relatively thick, and on the side of the abdomen, there is a long opening.

As soon as Dong Ce saw this, he knew what this cannon was, after all, he was still very good at studying the cannon in the last years of the Ming Dynasty.

This kind of cannon with a hole on one side of the abdomen is a Franc machine gun. The long opening is used to fill the gun.

The Franc cannon can be regarded as a relatively early smoothbore cannon, which is reloaded, that is, its shells are not stuffed through the muzzle, but from the belly of the cannon. Instead of firing shells directly, the Franc cannon fires sub-guns.

The Furlong cannon obviously looked relatively new, about eighty percent new, with no rust on the barrel, and it looked well maintained, flashing metallic.

This cannon cannot be compared with the super-heavy guns of later generations, which often reach a caliber of four or five hundred millimeters or even eight hundred millimeters, and the length is close to or even more than ten meters. But at this time, the light emitted from this Franc cannon, the appearance of the cannon body, and the texture of the metal were incomparable in the beauty in Dong Ce's eyes, giving Dong Ce a rather shocking feeling.

This is the most powerful weapon of this era!

Artillery, in this 16th and 17th centuries, in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties in East Asia, such weapons are undoubtedly extremely powerful.

Of course, the premise is to use it well.

Dong Ce smiled, turned back to Han Yongning and said, "Yo, is this cannon not badly preserved?" ”

Han Yongning hurriedly smiled and said: "My lord has won the prize, this cannon is covered with oilcloth, if it is rainy and cloudy, it will be dragged into the city gate building and placed, and it is often wiped with oil in Suri." It's sunny today, and that's what pulls it out to dry. Although it is cast of copper and iron, it should also be basked in the sun, right? ”

Dong Ce smiled slightly and nodded: "You, you can speak." ”

In fact, Han Yongning didn't say something, the reason why they maintained this cannon so well, and the reason why they treated the cannon so carefully, was entirely because of Huang Wan's orders. And why did Huang Wan tell them to do this?

Han Yongning privately speculated that this might be because Huang Wan wanted to maintain the Franc cannon as well as possible, so that it would be easier to sell it when it was taken out. Of course, this matter is too big for him to say now.

Dong Ce patted the heavy cannon body, and said with a sigh: "Yes, this cannon is really good." ”

In fact, in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, among all the cannons, the Franc cannon could be ranked second at most, and there were red-coated cannons on it.

The red-clothed cannon, in fact, the correct reading should be the Hongyi cannon, the Yi of Yidi.

The Ming Dynasty people got this kind of cannon casting technology from the Dutch and Portuguese, perhaps because the Dutch and Portuguese who dealt with the Ming Dynasty people were mostly red-haired, so they had the name of such a Hongyi cannon. Later, in order to show the majesty of the cannon and the grand scene, many officials often let people put red cloth on the cannon, just like wearing a layer of red clothes, so it was slowly transformed into a red-coated cannon.

In fact, this is nothing, the Ming and Qing dynasties all love to name cannons, what are the names of generals, and wearing a layer of red clothes is also ordinary.

Although Dong Ce has been in the Ming Dynasty for a short time, so far, he has not seen a red-clothed cannon, but from the notes and documents of the Ming Dynasty people he read in his previous life, he can occasionally glimpse some of the faces of this red-clothed cannon. In the pen of some Ming Dynasty people, the red-clothed cannon is two zhang long and weighs more than 3,000 catties.

Of course, there is definitely an exaggeration in it, with the current mid-seventeenth century, the casting technology and scientific and technological level of the cannon in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, it is still possible to hit it out in three or four miles or even ten miles, and it is indeed a bit exaggerated to say that it is dozens of miles. Moreover, most of the red-coated cannons cannot be as long as two zhang, and it is still a little difficult for the scientific and technological level at this time to cast such a large cannon.