Australia and Song's self-produced artillery was about to be tested!
This news quickly spread to Gao Xiong and the officials.
Casting cannons was a thankless technical job. It was not something that could be cast by melting pig iron. The villagers did not expect this group of Aussies to be able to make their own cannons. For a moment, their impression of the Aussies became more positive.
The location of the artillery test was a wasteland two miles north of Gaoxiong. The trees and shrubs here had been cut down, the dead puddles filled up, and the mosquitoes driven away.
More than a dozen small wooden huts for road workers were neatly arranged beside a simple road. The hardened road was already five miles long, and there was still a certain distance from the entire length of nearly a hundred miles.
The villagers gathered their friends and walked in groups. Hundreds of people gathered around the test site, either bringing their own small stools, sitting on straw mats, or simply sitting on the ground.
The players from the Strategy Group and the Farming System also put down their work and rushed over to join in the fun. In the past, they had only seen the entire process of the cannon firing in the video. Today, they had to observe the entire process of the cannon firing until it hit the target.
The quick-witted peddler walked around the edge of the crowd with a pot of cold white tea, shouting loudly to see if anyone wanted to drink tea. If anyone was thirsty, they had to take out a copper coin to drink two cups to quench their thirst.
However, what could a pedestrian do without a teacup? He couldn't drink it in the air, because it was difficult to calculate the price of a single person. A certain strong man drank a pot of water in one breath, but only gave one wen. Who could he reason with?
It was not possible to drink directly from the mouth. The Australian people had clearly stipulated hygiene regulations. The habits that they were used to had to be changed!
There was a policy above, and there was a solution below. What could they do without cups? The hawker immediately opened the rattan box in front of his chest and took out a hollow bamboo tube. Originally, there was no need for passers-by to buy bamboo tubes, but now that they wanted bamboo tubes to drink tea, there was a need.
Although the peddler didn't understand the economic principle of creating demand when there was no demand, he used the method to make money directly.
"Dried fish, does anyone want to eat delicious dried fish?”
The hawkers from all walks of life shouted loudly. With the mentality of being completely integrated into the game world," Liu Qi " bought a plate of dried fish and oyster.
The peddler happily complimented him, while the surrounding villagers discussed and commented. Children played around at the edge of the crowd, like happy sparrows chirping. There were no pirates and bandits, no wars and taxes, and no death threats in the war.
This small town of thousands of people was like a paradise on earth. Liu Qi felt this reassuring harmony and warmth. This was probably the lively atmosphere of fireworks.
He couldn't help but look at all the villagers around him, staring at their faces. The complex emotions, joy, anger, sorrow, and joy were all present. It was as if they were not NPCs in the game, but living human bodies.
In history, the poor people also enjoyed the hardships of the long river of history. Unfortunately, the torrent of the times was about to sweep over. In the second year of Chongzhen, after the tenth month of the lunar calendar, the Jin Khan, Huang Taiji, led his army to break through Xifeng Pass and headed south to the capital.
If converted to the Gregorian calendar, the Later Jin army was already on the road. Go.
"He's here! The cannons are here!" " Pu Zhou " was like a fanatical fan who saw the beautiful girl idol that he had been longing for. He wanted to jump up and clap his hands in joy.
"The second battalion commander's Italian cannon is here!”"A real man should have sex crazily!
The cannons dragged by the horses slowly moved to their designated positions. Wooden targets were set up in the open space. Each target was 1.5 meters tall and 3 meters wide. They were placed at 400 meters, 800 meters, and 1200 meters respectively.
The crude cannon only had a crosshair on the body of the cannon. The gunner pushed the cannon and aimed at the wooden target 400 meters in front of him with the crude crosshair.
He loaded the gunpowder, pushed in the iron bullet, and then used the rod to gently compress the bullet. It could not be too tight or too loose. It had to be just right.
The gunner inserted an iron spike into the ignition port, punctured the ammunition pack, and then inserted a hard fuse into the ignition port.
"Prepare to fire!"
The gunner held a wooden rod tied to the fire rope and moved forward, maintaining a safe distance behind the cannon.
Before the order to fire was given, the players who were watching the show started shouting. Some even imitated Li Yunlong's voice and shouted," Fire!
At the same time, the officer also gave the order to fire. The gunner put the burning musket to the bow.| At the edge of the fuse, the fuse quickly burned and entered the cannon.
Boom!
In an instant, a cannonball that was hard to catch flew out of the cannon. The cannon retreated abruptly, like a thirty-year-old cigarette user who had been smoking for a long time, spurting out a cloud of thick white smoke with sparks.
The shell did not hit the four-hundred-meter wooden target. Instead, it landed in the mound in front of it, creating a small pit. The shell was still emitting hot smoke.
Although he did not hit the target, it was already considered above the passing line compared to everyone's estimated results.
"It's a success!"
"We've successfully developed it!"
" Cannon fire successful!" Even though they did not directly participate in the cannon test, the players cheered as if they had experienced it themselves. They hugged each other and shouted, as if the founding ancestors had finally succeeded in developing the country's important weapon after going through hardships and being surrounded by enemies.
From then on, they no longer had to fear the invasion of the Dutch East India Company! There was nothing that couldn't be solved with a single cannonball. If there was, then they would fire the cannons together!
Then, after a dozen rounds of angle testing, the artillery team obtained a large amount of test data. The effective range of the cannon was about 400 meters, and the maximum range could fly to a distance of 1,000 meters. However, there was no accuracy to speak of.
The effective range of 400 meters was already a weapon for the highly mobile 6-pound field artillery.
In the 17th century, there was no loose formation in infantry combat. The two-hundred-meter-wide range of the shotgun was simply a one-sided massacre.
After that, the transmigration group used the iron casting method to make a large number of cannons, 12-pound cannons, 24-pound siege cannons, 32-pound ship-borne cannons, and so on.
The 24-pound cannon and the 32-pound heavy cannon would be used on the " Big Kun Body " of the high-ranking official. A sea that can be used as a Longsong Cannon to defend against enemies. Get on the fleet.
The original Grand Official Commercial Building was unusable. As a temporary shelter, the Dutch never thought about carefully planning the layout from the beginning. They waited until the Commercial Building grew step by step before expanding in the periphery, causing the awkward situation of the Commercial Building being neither high nor low.
Therefore, Wang Kaizhi decided to rebuild a military fortress in the center of Shazhou. This place would become a military stronghold that would spread throughout Tainan. Any enemy ships would not be able to get within a kilometer of it, or they would face the wrath of the Longsong Cannons.
As for the former site of the commercial building, it was temporarily used as a warehouse and residential area.
Just as everyone was busy building the new fortress, a few unfamiliar ships appeared in the sight of the fishing players.
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