The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 100 Luo Mingshou's "Big Ship"

After testing the cannon, Luo Mingshou followed Zhu Linmi back to Suji Iron Field.

After entering the gate, Luo Ming looked around at the wide iron yard covering an area of ​​more than ten acres, and saw black smoke rising from the chimneys everywhere, thinking that it is no wonder His Royal Highness Chen looked disgraced, it seems that he has been here before at.

He slowed down two steps, and asked Shi Lin's soldiers in a low voice, "What is His Royal Highness Chen doing here?"

The soldier took it for granted, "Your Highness naturally made the cannon here."

"Casting cannons?" Luo Mingshou had just arrived in Jiangxi and had not heard about Zhu Linmi's casting of cannons. "Your Highness can cast cannons?"

"Of course." The soldier glanced at him, with the words "what a fuss" clearly written on his face, "The heavy cannon on the river beach just now was made by His Highness."

"That cannon is..." Luo Ming was startled, "His Royal Highness Chen Wang actually has such a magical skill?!"

"Your Highness was once instructed by the immortal, and his skills are amazing." The soldier said very firmly, people of this era firmly believe in the theory of ghosts and gods.However, Zhu Linming's performance in the past half year can only be explained by this reason.

Luo Mingshou immediately remembered that King Chen's warning that there would be thieves and captives burning the ship had come true, and he immediately took it seriously. It seems that His Highness Chen Wang really possesses immortal skills, and he can pinch and count.

After entering the waiting room of the iron yard, Zhu Linmi asked Luo Mingshou to watch the seat, and Chanyi then served hot tea.

Only then did Shi Lin hand over the gift list Luo Ming received to Zhu Linming.The latter opened it and took a quick glance, only to see that there were a lot of antiques, jewels, jades, silks and satins on the booklet, and the estimated value was around [-] taels.

"Why does Luo defend so much?" Zhu Linmi closed the gift list and said with a slight smile.

"Your Highness's grace for saving your life, this thing is too rare!" Luo Mingshou also laughed, "But the official is a rough person, he can only think of these vulgar things, and it is difficult for His Highness to see. Oh, these things are now It's still on the boat, Your Highness will tell me where to unload it."

Zhu Linmi thought about it, but she was not polite to him, "Don't worry, let's unload it in Nanchang."

Zhu Linming knew that for this kind of hero, not accepting his things would make him feel that you looked down on him, and there was a big battle to be fought soon, so he simply left these gifts to Yang Tinglin as military expenses.

"Your Highness is refreshing!" Luo Mingshou said happily, "I just knew that His Highness asked me to unload it in Nanchang, so I don't need to bother to ship it this way, haha."

Zhu Linmi heard the word "shipping", and suddenly remembered the scene of pulling the 24-pound gun back to the iron yard just now.A total of sixteen horses dragged the heavy artillery cart, but the speed was only faster than walking. If the artillery was transported to Nanchang in this way, it would take more than half a month on the road.

But if these cannons can be loaded on a ship and transported along the Ganjiang River to Nanchang, then three or four days will come.Thinking of this, he said to Luo Mingshou: "Speaking of which, I still need Luo Shoubing's help."

"As Your Highness orders."

"The artillery that was just test-fired, please ask Luo Shoubing to send a few larger ships to help me transport it to Nanchang."

Luo Mingshou immediately clapped his hands and said: "It's just a coincidence, the official has brought a total of five large white-bottomed boats here, so it should be applicable."

This white-bottomed boat is also known as a tangle boat, it is a kind of lucky boat, and it is considered a larger type of warship in the Daming Navy.He brought out so many main warships with great fanfare this time, just to show his grandeur and make Chen Wang feel proud.

"So good!"

The next day, the first 24-pound gun was towed to the dock.

In front of Zhu Linmi's eyes were five two-masted hard-sail wooden boats nearly ten feet long and two feet high, each with a Franc machine gun at the bow and stern, exuding the unique quaint beauty of old-fashioned sailing boats.

Luo Mingshou introduced from the side: "Your Highness, each of these five warships can carry more than [-] loads of weight, so there should be no problem in transporting the cannons that are less than [-] kg."

Tomorrow, a load is a hundred catties, which means that these ships can carry more than 20 catties.

It's just that it took a lot of effort to get the cannon on board.Just to keep the hull from tilting too much when dragging the cannon from the side of the ship to the ship, a group of nearly 200 people was busy for most of the day.

In the end, thousands of catties of stones were added to the other side of the ship to barely move the cannon onto the ship.

Zhu Linmei couldn't help but feel a headache when she thought of the troubles of unloading the cannon from the ship after it arrived in Nanchang.

Turning his head, he saw the Fran cannon mounted on the stern of Luo Mingsuo's seat, and suddenly an idea flashed in his mind, why move the cannon to land again?
Nanchang City is next to the Ganjiang River, so it would be just right to drive the warships under the city and blast the city walls with the cannons it carried.Thinking of this, he smiled wryly and shook his head. The cannon is heavy enough, but the ship is far from being a giant ship.The Daming navy is still very superstitious about jumping gang battles, and the design of warships has not given much consideration to equipping a large number of heavy artillery.

On the other side of the world, Britain has now built a giant battleship HMS Sovereign, with a displacement of nearly 1200 tons. The three-story gun bay is equipped with 8 thirty-pounder guns and 32 eighteen-pounder guns.Compared with it, Luo Mingshou's ship with a displacement of less than 200 tons is like a floating leaf in the sea.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty also had a treasure ship with a displacement of more than 2000 tons, but due to different design concepts, the treasure ship with only one layer of gun bays could not carry a large number of artillery.

However, if Luo Mingshou's warship was equipped with only one 24-pounder gun, it should still be able to shoot stably with the ship's gun mount.

Zhu Linmi immediately returned to the iron yard, and after simple calculations, quickly drew a pair of the most common wooden four-wheel gun mounts in the [-]th century, and then immediately called a carpenter to start making.

This thing is actually a thick wooden base with four small wheels, but an extra cannon wedge is installed at the rear to adjust the height of the muzzle.

But it is this humble gun mount that makes it possible for such a big guy like the [-]-pound gun to board the ship.

If a fixed cannon base is used, the 200-pound cannon is fired once on the side, and the recoil can make the wooden sailboat of about [-] tons shake violently for a long time.But with this gun mount with small wheels, the entire gun will roll backwards after firing, gradually dissolving the recoil, and the hull can always remain stable.

The craft of the gun mount is simple, and it was already transported to Luo Mingshou's ship by noon the next day.Everyone set up the triangular wooden frame, and hundreds of sailors worked together to hoist the heavy cannon and place it on the gun mount.

Luo Ming was ordered to remove the bow of the Fran machine gun again, and pushed the 24-pound gun over.

The gunners on the ship were fairly proficient, and quickly filled the gunpowder into the barrel, and it was solid, and two more people worked together to put the shells in.

To be on the safe side, Zhu Linmei only asked them to pack five catties of gunpowder. Even so, when the lighter ignited the gunpowder, the loud roar of the artillery still made the whole ship tremble slightly.

With a puff of smoke, the cannon retreated suddenly, retreated half of the ship, and stopped after straightening all the fixed ropes.The ship shook again.

Luo Mingshou used the binoculars to see the huge waves splashing on the river in the distance, and couldn't help saying: "If every boat is equipped with this kind of heavy artillery, let's see who else dares to refuse?!"

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