Great Song Pirate

Chapter 376

After everyone had seen the power of copper cannons, Xu Yi showed them some cold weapons, such as various bows and crossbows produced by Gongnufang, various swords, guns and weapons produced by Iron Works, etc., and he also specially showed them He bought a three-edged gun head specially made by Tie Zuo, and let the guards hold the gun to perform an assassination demonstration. The gun head with the same weight, this kind of three-edged gun head showed abnormal toughness and penetrating power, which made everyone Once again, I saw the horror of this gun head.

Afterwards, Yang Zaixing and Gao Jun commanded the youth army and the Danshui Village garrison to enter the arena, and performed an infantry offensive and defensive battle for everyone. Although the battle was less than a thousand people, both sides showed extremely strong combat effectiveness. The formation is well-organized. Under the leadership of Yang Zaixing and Gao Jun respectively, the performance of advancing and retreating is moderate, and the offense and defense are not chaotic at all. The battle formation composed of hundreds of people, when they charge forward together, makes people feel irresistible , This is the infantry they have just practiced for several months. If they are given more time, no one doubts that they will not be able to create an iron-blooded army.

Xu Yi is very satisfied with this military exercise. Through this demonstration, he showed everyone a brand new method of warfare. If the weapons he developed can be used on the battlefield, he believes that it will completely change In the form of warfare in today's world, how to do it is not something he needs to consider. He can invent weapons for everyone, but if he really wants to exert the greatest power of weapons, he still has to rely on everyone to find out practical and effective weapons in actual combat. The only way he can use it is to guide everyone to have a thorough understanding of these weapons.

After the martial arts performance was over, Xu Yi asked everyone to return to the pier, handed over their respective ships to Gong Zhen for modification, and explained to Gong Zhen in detail the requirements for artillery installation and deck reinforcement. Yi's requirements were quickly fully understood, and he immediately arranged for his craftsmen to board the ship and start the renovation project.

Xu Yi took everyone to continue to visit the nearly complete shipyard. The shipyard here is obviously much larger than the two shipyards in Hangzhou and Yangzhou, and the specifications of the docks here are far beyond that. The specifications of the docks of the two shipyards, according to Gong Zhen's design, such a dock can at least build a large ship above the Wanshi level. With such a dock, it is estimated that they may use a real ship within a year. At that time, it will be difficult to find a force that can compete with them on this sea.

A large amount of timber felled from the upstream has long been piled up in the stockyard of the shipyard. These timbers are classified and screened here, and then according to different materials, they are untied by carpenters into various shipbuilding materials. As long as the shipyard is put into operation , these materials can be quickly transported to the shipyard for assembly, and those attached workshops are also continuously preparing various materials for the shipyard that is about to start construction. It can be said that everything is basically ready for the shipyard now. It was officially put into production, and this time taking over the refitting project of the naval commander's ship was just an early rehearsal for them, and it didn't bother them master shipbuilders at all.

Since the cannon foundry switched to iron molds for casting cannons, the production efficiency has increased several times compared to when clay molds were used before. In just a few months, since they cast the first bronze cannon, any Bin cast as many as a hundred copper cannons of the same specification. Even Xu Yi felt that there was nothing to say about such a production efficiency. After he tried the cannon many times, there was no incident of the copper cannon blowing up again. This is what Xu Yi is most satisfied with.

In the next few days, Xu Yi and his brothers stayed in the barracks all day long, and followed the gunners they selected to receive artillery training from Xu Yi's personal guards. Fortunately, Xu Yi had worked out a whole set of procedures for operating artillery through a lot of practical operations before, paving the way for these brothers, allowing them to thoroughly understand the gun in just a few days. The performance of the current copper cannon also allowed them to roughly summarize some effective practical tactics. According to their cognition, if you want to effectively exert the power of artillery at sea, a too long range is basically useless Yes, only within one mile can they fully display the power of the artillery. On this point, the conclusions drawn by these veterans of water warfare are basically the same as Xu Yi's. Everyone's opinions are surprisingly unified. Bombardment will be the most effective method of warfare.

In order to test this method of warfare, these weapon fanatics boarded the first water cat ship and went to sea immediately after it was refitted. They also got a broken ship as a target ship and conducted a drill similar to actual combat. All of a sudden, the sound of cannons rumbled on the sea outside the Tamsui River, and the fight was very lively. Xu Yi, as the organizer, commanded a group of commander-level super-advanced artillerymen to start firing test shots from a few miles away, until they were within a hundred steps. Thoroughly tested their previous views, based on their current copper cannon, if they want to fully exert their power, they can only be fired within one mile, and if they are further away, they will lose their accuracy. After reaching this conclusion, everyone has completely settled on the basic principle of firing artillery in sea combat, that is, artillery battles can only be carried out within one mile, and must not exceed one mile, so that the power of artillery can be truly exerted , A target ship let them smash it into pieces until it disintegrated into pieces at sea, let these senior gunners each have their own addiction to being gunners, this time Xu Yi was not stingy, if a commander If they don't know how to use the artillery, even if they are equipped with such super-era weapons, I'm afraid they don't know how to use the artillery's power. Now he seems to have achieved this goal, at least he, the naval commander We have mastered the application of artillery, and it is really nothing to waste some shells.

And these days, Yang Zaixing and the others are also exploring how to use artillery on land. For the ten land artillery that Xu Yi handed over to them, they selected a hundred capable men to form the first Fubo army artillery, and began to fight against Xu Yi personally. Drilling under the guidance of Wei, these ten bronze cannons are different from those on the ship. Xu Yi specially designed these bronze cannons to adjust the height of the muzzle for aiming. This technology has greatly surpassed history. The progress, but now Xu Yi can't take care of this. He can produce good things. He can't control whether he interferes with the historical process. If the current technology is not limited, he even wants to give the artillery Get it out, let alone add a high and low machine to it!

And the application of this kind of high and low aircraft makes the artillery a field equipment, which can be said to have far surpassed the development process of history, and the hundred gunners selected by Yang Zaixing, Xu Yi also taught them very hard, these people will be The seeds of the Fubo infantry artillery, and these seeds will completely change the way of warfare in the near future, so Xu Yi has no regrets about gunpowder and shells, and let them fight wantonly until they fully master the operation of artillery, according to Xu Yi Yi's order was to let them fight until they could use the cannon with their eyes closed, and until they felt sick when they saw the cannon.

The Danshui Village, which was originally quite quiet, immediately became lively after Xu Yi brought this group of people. The entire barracks was rumbling non-stop all day long, causing the nearby immigrants to go to the village if they had nothing to do. The barracks ran, wanting to find out what was going on, to see what was making such a big noise, and the rumors that were originally in Jilongzhai also began to spread here with their arrival.

After the water cats and the others led by the water army had all been remodeled, Xu Yi's first batch of artillery production was completely divided up, and the water cat became the biggest beneficiary again, because his ship was the largest and strongest, and only he My own ship scraped off twenty cannons, and installed ten on each side, as if it had become a gunboat, while the other guys could only sigh in amazement, scraped off ten cannons each, and installed them on the ship. Their respective boats were significantly lower than the water cat's boat, but no one expressed dissatisfaction. After all, the water cat can be regarded as the most experienced big brother among them, and what he does is far lower than that of the water cat. Others are more dangerous, they can understand Xu Yi's eccentricity, so no one cares about anything with Water Cat.

However, as a special case, Xu Yi specially equipped Qian Laoben of Dulong Island with [-] cannons, and asked him to bring them back to Dulong Island for the training and defense of the navy rotation training team. After having this guy, I believe that Dulong Island is even more impenetrable Now, if you just put a few doors on the Hukou Cliff, it will be absolutely impossible for anyone to open them. They really don't have to be afraid of anything anymore.

After discussing with everyone, Xu Yi decided to relocate the naval training team and the orphan school that were originally located on Dulong Island in consideration of the development momentum of Liuqiu Island and to make it easier for Xu Yi to deploy in the future. To Danshui Village, the Fubo Army Naval Academy was formally established here to train junior naval officers for various fleets. Qian Laoben nodded and agreed. After all, Dulong Island has limited resources, and the current Various conditions and facilities are indeed more suitable for them to become their future base camp. No one expressed any objection to this point. Everyone has seen the development here during the Spring Festival, and they have already regarded this place as their lair. Xu Yi's consideration It also got the support of everyone.

When everyone's boat passed by Gong Zhen's group of master shipwrights who worked day and night and successfully completed it, the group of leaders had long been familiar with the use of artillery, and the Spring Festival was full of excitement under their busy schedule. When it was over, Xu Yi took everyone back to Jilong Village, and then asked everyone to take his handbook and go to the warehouse to get all the weapons they needed. Although everyone didn't get too many artillery pieces, this time it was enough. The ballistas distributed to them in large quantities are enough to keep them entertained for a while, and they each have enough bows and arrows, as well as enough kerosene bombs, and even Xu Yi generously rationed each of them Hundreds of iron and stone thunderbolts, this thing is absolutely advanced for those country bumpkin opponents. Searching for what they need in the arsenal, for them, this year's Chinese New Year can be regarded as a super bumper harvest, making a bunch of war fanatics grin their teeth with joy.

After seeing a group of guys looting all the weapons he had hoarded for more than half a year in one fell swoop, Xu Yi scolded them with a smile, sent them out of Danshui Village, left Liuqiu Island by boat, and returned to their respective bases Xu Yi believes that after they have such artillery, they will definitely increase their combat power by a large margin again, and also give these good brothers an extra amulet. Now these fleets of his have become truly proud of the sea. Let alone the bumpkins and pirates, Xu Yi believes that even if he goes to a head-to-head battle with a country's navy, Xu Yi believes that he will never lose.

When sending Xue Tu and Lin Xiong away, Xu Yi and Xue Tu secretly discussed for a while, telling him to pay more attention to the situation in the north and Bianliang, the capital city, especially the situation of the seventh prince, King Ji, if there is any change in the north It is necessary to inform Xu Yi as soon as possible. When sending them to board the ship, Xu Yi suddenly found that Lin Xiong was somewhat unhappy. When distributing the artillery, because Lin Xiong was in charge of Escort affairs, the Escort escort fleet under his command was basically stationed on land. For the sake of confidentiality, he was the only one who did not get the artillery. He could only stare blankly at such a good thing Looking at the greedy eyes, but no blessings to bear, anyone would feel depressed when thinking about it, and not only cannons, Lin Xiong can't even equip too many crossbows, so as not to lose the secret of the Fubo Army, it is really embarrassing He got home depressed.

Xu Yi saw Lin Xiong's emotions at a glance, so he pulled him aside and whispered, promising him that once the Fubo army started a war with others, he would be transferred to join the battle, and Lin Xiong turned his worries into joy , cheerfully followed Xue Tu to board the boat and leave.

After the commanders of the Fubo Army and Navy left the Jilongzhai wharf with the fleet they came with, the Jilongzhai became calm again, and the people also recovered from the celebration of the Spring Festival, so there was no need for Xu Yi to urge them , the managers of each workshop immediately summoned their craftsmen, and each workshop also put into busy production again, and Xu Yi immediately adjusted his mood accordingly, and began to re-invest in the things he was concerned about. Among things, although this Spring Festival is busy, Xu Yi is in a really good mood. Through this Spring Festival, Fubo Army can be said to have moved forward again, and he has been completely relaxed at any rate. He got down to business.

(End of this chapter)