Seeing that Ou Zhiguo couldn’t wait and couldn’t wait to study gunpowder, Zhu Pingan kindly got up to take his leave.
Next stop, Zhang Hong.
The same process, the same routine, the same courtesy, the same warmth and nagging, and then inadvertently revealed that he had been in charge of the Hanlin Academy Library, which contains hundreds of firearms books, as well as a collection of the latest, the most sophisticated, the most confidential research and development of a country of the Ming Firearms books, and of course, there are more than a dozen books carefully collected on the Europas, the Franco-Romanian, red razor barbarians, and other foreign barbarians of the Firearms books.
“More than ten books of firearms books about Europa, Franco-Brazilian, Red Maoyi? Can any of them be on artillery?”
Once he heard that the Hanlin Academy library cabinet has more than ten books on Europa, Franco-Japanese, red barbarians and other foreign barbarians of firearms books, Zhang Hong end of the tea cup hand can not stop shivering, tea are swung out, the excitement is not weaker than the Ou ZhiGe.
He is a person who once went down to the South Seas to steal the artillery of the Red Barbarians, in the South Seas to steal the artillery for a period of time, know that the Red Barbarians and other barbarians, do not know the etiquette, but their cannons, artillery is greatly ahead of the Great Ming.
“Of course there is, among them there is also a book dedicated to the study of a gun called the Franco-German cannon, the book records ‘the cannon hair bomb fell like rain, invincible, its cannon with copper casting, because it is cast by the Franco-German, so it is called the Franco-German cannon’. I am quite interested in the cannon, before the cannon, my Ming artillery have to front-loaded gunpowder, and can not be fired continuously, after a shot need to wait for the cannon to cool down, the actual use of the limitations of the cannon, and the cannon has a cannon, the cannon will be loaded with gunpowder into the mother cannon, after the launch of the child cannon will be abandoned to exit, and then launch another child cannon, a few quick replacement of the child cannon, greatly increasing the speed of launching in the actual battle of the cannon.It is a great benefit in actual combat. Oh, there is also a book recorded a gun called the red barbarians cannon, more than two feet long, weighing two or three thousand pounds, a cannon miles, great power.”
Zhu Pingan returned without hesitation, and at the end, he also mentioned the Red Barbarians Cannon.
After listening to the words of Zhu Pingan, Zhang Hong was so excited that he couldn’t help himself, Zhu Pingan’s description of the Frankenstein artillery was completely correct, and when he was stealing the artillery of the red razor barbarians in Nanyang, he once saw the “red razor barbarians” described by Zhu Pingan on the bow of the red razor barbarians’ ship, although he didn’t know that the cannon was called a red razor barbarians cannon, but at that time, the three-foot-long cannon gave him an impression of the red razor barbarians’ artillery.Although he did not know that the cannon was called the Red Barbarians’ Cannon at that time, but at that time, the three-foot-long cannon left a deep impression on him, which showed that there were really books about the artillery of the foreign barbarians, such as Europa and the Red Barbarians, in the Hanlin Academy’s Book Depository.
In order to improve his artillery skills, he was able to leave his hometown and hang out in the South Seas, learning from the Red Barbarians to make artillery.
Although he racked his brains, exhausting means, in the red razor that learned a lot of technology, but after all, it is stealing from the master, not the red razor comprehensive guidance, he still did not learn the art of firearms such as the Franco-German cannon in place.
If he let himself evaluation, probably only learnt about fifty percent. His imitation of the Franco-German cannon is far less than the real Franco-German cannon made by the red hairy barbarians, so he was very upset.
Now that he heard that there are more than a dozen books about Europa, Red Maoyi and other foreign barbarians’ firearms in the Hanlin Academy’s library, how can he not be excited.
“Although it is a bit abrupt, but I wonder if your lordship could study these tomes at that time, and can still remember the contents today.”
Zhang Hong asked excitedly.
Zhu Pingan said the words to Ou Zhiguo to Zhang Hong once again, what he has a good memory, at that time more time, flipped through several times, still remember about 70% to 80% of the content and so on.
“also please adults teach me the knowledge related to foreign artillery, I Zhang Hong this life only adults look forward to, adults have words, do not dare not from.”
Zhang Hong is also the same as Ou Zhi Ge, excitedly plopped down and knelt down, showing loyalty to Zhu Ping An, begging to teach Zhu Ping An.
The reason why Zhang Hong and Ou Zhi Ge are kneeling down to show their loyalty, or because they are from humble origins, they have no body, only sell their body to join them, is the only chips they can get out of it.
“Zhang smith is overstated, quickly please get up, Zhang smith is my zhejiang army smith, I naturally know everything about everything ……”
Zhu Pingan helped Zhang Hong up and said what he said to Ou Zhiguo to Zhang Hong again to settle his mind.
“I still ask for your guidance, I, Zhang, will live up to your expectations.”Zhang Hong clasped his fists with a serious face and said.
“About artillery, I read a lot of content, and time has passed for so long, there is some confusion for a moment, so let’s talk about wherever I think of, in the future, I will often come to discuss with Zhang smith. I think that the female cannons of the Franco-German cannons are fitted with illuminated doors on both sides, which have the effect of assisting in aiming and increasing the hit rate, surely Zhang smith must be aware of this.”
Zhu Pingan took a sip of tea and slowly said.
“Yes, the red-haired barbarians had the whimsical idea of adding a shining door to the cannon, greatly increasing the hit rate. Our dynasty’s artillery has never had this device, it can be borrowed and carried over to other artillery in order to increase hits.”
Zhang Hong nodded vigorously and returned.
“Not bad, some of the ideas of the red hairy barbarians are still of great value, for example, its addition of steel hoops to the gun body, like a hooped barrel to hoop the gun body, which according to its book can be an effective imitation of artillery blowing up.”
Zhu Pingan gave another example and said.
“Oh, it makes sense, you can increase the steel hoop to prevent the artillery from blowing up ah, although it can not be 100% prevented, but it can certainly greatly reduce the artillery blow up ……”After hearing this, Zhang Hong was deeply inspired and nodded his head repeatedly.
“About the gun, my Ming latest, the most sophisticated artillery books also have research, for the gun, my Ming capital Bureau of war also many tests, innovation, came up with a number of practical results, specific I do not quite remember, only remember three points, the first is that the child cannon must be close to the mother of the cannon; the second is to use the gun with the gun to aim at the door to use the three-point-one-line method, that is, the door, the collimator and the mother cannon.The second is that when aiming with the flange gun, the three-point-one-line method should be used, i.e., the gate, the collimator, and the target should be in a straight line; and the third is even more practical, to add a wooden handle to the child cannon to make it easier to load and unload and fix it.”
Zhu Pingan continued.
“The point that the child cannon fits the mother cannon I also noticed, three points and one line, the child cannon is fitted with a wooden handle ……Worthy of being the Bureau of Military Warfare in the capital, it truly lives up to its name.”Zhang Hong said with a face of admiration, he was deeply inspired.
“Regarding the Franco Cannon, the body of the cannon to add lugs to facilitate the transfer of these superficial reasoning I will not say more, there is one thing I do want to say with Zhang smith.”Zhu Pingan’s tone became serious.
“Please also teach me, my lord.”Zhang Hong cupped his fists and said with a deep salute.
“There are more than ten firearms texts from Europa, Francois and other foreign barbarians, many of which mention the artillery doubling technique, saying that it is one of the fundamental guidelines for artillery, and that the production of artillery must follow that technique.”Zhu Pingan said with a solemn face.
“Artillery multiplier technology? A fundamental guideline of artillery that must be followed to make artillery?”
Zhang Hong heard the term ‘artillery multiplier’ for the first time in his life and opened his mouth wide in surprise, as if he was hearing heavenly books.
