On the morning of the next day when Chen Dexing and Li Cuixian exchanged their love tokens, they were on the side of the Grand Canal outside Dongguan City, Yangzhou.

"Qingzhi, why don't a real man have no wife... Oh, why don't he have no concubine? When I returned to Lin'an, I, Huang Baiwan, came forward to help. What kind of courtesan can't get the courtesan?"

Huang Zhishen was wearing a double-breasted shirt, a Dongpo scarf, and slapped hard with a Japanese fan in his hand. He followed Chen Dexing, panting while saying words to comfort his good brothers.

Huang Zhishen is a martial arts student in Lin'an. He practiced martial arts with Chen Huaiqing. He could pull a hard bow with a stone, and could play a big knife on the horse's back. He was also quite strong. Even so, he couldn't take much effort to get rid of the high-intensity training of Chen Dexing's artillery Army. He ran all the way from the artillery army camp. He was exhausted and sweaty and panting, not to mention the Ren Dao Master who was not very diligent in all limbs. Now he doesn't know where the cat is going to rest. From this, it can be seen that the level of Lin'an martial arts coached by Chen Huaiqing is.

Chen Dexing glanced at his old friend and shook his head gently.

Huang Zhishen said: "Qingzhi, if you only like Madam Cui, Zhishen can also help you. I will go to Mingyu Pavilion tonight and I will prepare a generous gift for you."

Huang Zhishen has the nickname "Huang Baiwan". His family is rich and is the top 20 rich merchants in Quanzhou. In this era, Quanzhou, Fujian was not in the 21st century, but the richest industrial and commercial city and trade center in the world. There are countless rich merchants with a family of millions of chunks (copper coins)! Huang Baiwan's family has more than 200 sea ships that can conduct overseas trade alone. They specialize in Sino-Japanese trade. They have wharves and warehouses in Hakata, Japan.

In his opinion, Cui Yue'er was just a firework woman. As long as she threw out a lot of copper coins, she wouldn't be able to get it?

Chen Dexing smiled bitterly and shook his head and said, "Million, now my mind is not on Cui Yue'er at all. There are tens of thousands of Northern Barbarians outside Yangzhou City... The war may reopen at any time, and it will be time for the artillery army to show its skills. I don't have much time left, so it's a bit difficult to train the artillery army. Fighting artillery is more complicated than I originally thought!"

Things are always like this. It is easy to think about it, but harder to do it! Training the artillery army is no exception.

Huang Zhishen turned his head and looked at the cannon trucks that were dragged by the old yellow cow and the artillery generals, and were parked crookedly on the edge of the canal. He also felt that it was a little unreliable, so he lowered his voice and said to Chen Dexing: "Then... I practice hard for a while, well... I really can't do it. I can practice half of the artillery team."

Chen Dexing took a deep breath and said, "It's hard! This artillery army is a first-time building, so he can only explore it slowly. Moreover, the artillery army cannot fight alone, so it needs to cooperate with the army... it's hard!"

This is indeed not easy. The difficulty of the artillery army making achievements does not lie in building a stone generator, but in practicing artillery soldiers who can turn the stone generator into a military weapon. This is not a problem that can be solved by hard training. It involves a lot of measurement, calculation, and exploration of data and experience. If Chen Dexing could be given two or three years, it would be able to make the artillery army really sharp, but now it may not be even three months.

Huang Zhishen narrowed his eyes and said, "Everything is difficult at the beginning! Fortunately, the Beilu never saw the artillery army, so it is still possible to hit them by surprise. This... It seems a bit difficult to aim in between, and I can't even play with it at once. When you go to the battlefield, you can only come. More than 60 artillery cannons are used in a concentrated manner. After aiming, the problem is that each stone generator has different strengths... and it is to quickly dispatch and unfold, which is the key!"

Although Huang Baiwan did not intend to be a military officer, his military strategy was real and not used to write strategies and explain the principles. After staying in the artillery army for less than a month, he had already figured out some tricks.

Chen Dexing looked back and saw that the thirty-two stone-acting machines of the four artillery teams that followed him out to "train" today were already arranged by the canal. The soldiers were under the command of the generals and the generals to unload the stone-acting machine from the canal. Lu Ehu, who was commanded by the Left Army of the School Quanfa, held half of the lit line in his hand and cursed like a fierce and evil spirit.

"Damn it, aren't you full? Why are you so slow? Half of the incense stick is almost over, and the cannon has not been set up yet... After you go back, you will be served by all the military sticks!"

Chen Dexing thought to himself: "This evil tiger is a good person. With him as a great evil person, he can continue to play the role of loving soldiers like a son. In the future, when the team grows, you must pay more attention to this point. Every unit must have someone to be a villain and someone to be a good person, so that you can soothe the morale of the army."

Thinking of this, he raised his voice and shouted: "Brothers, work harder, practice adding food tonight, each person has a big fat piece of meat!"

"Thank you, the councillor! Everyone, add more effort!" The people below suddenly became excited, their morale was much higher, and their movements accelerated a little.

On one side is a military stick, on the other side is a big meat... The effect is indeed good. In addition, Chen Dexing also plans to establish a political war system in the army, proclaiming national justice, but it is not the moment, but after he has the opportunity to stand alone - what scriptures this political cadre recites can be related to who the team will be loyal to!

Thirty-two stone generators were quickly set up, all facing the other side of the Grand Canal. Gao Da had already brought a team of soldiers to the boat and placed scarecrows of different colors on the opposite bank of the empty river as targets. The distance from these stone generators was 200 steps, 180 steps, 160 steps...60 steps. The torque stone generator designed by Chen Dexing was simple in structure and did not have a device to adjust the launch angle to obtain the shooting point at different distances. There was only one way to control the range, which was the bullet weight. To put it simply, it was the problem of adding a few iron cannons and stone bullets.

This is not an easy task. Although under Chen Dexing's strict supervision, the components of each stone generator are interchangeable, there are still subtle differences. For example, the tendon strings used by different stone generators cannot be exactly the same - these tendon strings were not produced by the artillery army, but were products from the Yangzhou Duzuoyuan. They were originally used for bed crossbows. Because there is an error in the torque provided by the tendon strings, the propelling force that each stone generator can provide is also different.

If all the stone-generating machines in the artillery army can obtain the same range, they can only use "bombs" of different weights. Therefore, in addition to the iron cannons with the same weight (measured), Chen Dexing also ordered the Artillery Army to produce some stone-generating bombs for counterweights. Whether the ground used to install the stone-generating machines has a slope will also affect the use of the stone-generating machine. This requires the artillery soldiers to manually find a horizontal plane by digging the depth of the hoe pit (the cannon stand). In addition, the wind speed and wind direction of the day will also affect the accuracy of the stone-generating machine, which needs to be calculated and considered... In short, this stone-generating machine is really complicated to operate! Without a group of high-quality gunners, they cannot play.

This is probably because the torque generator did not go to the battlefield after gunpowder was introduced to Europe, right?

“200 steps away!”

"The goal is right ahead!"

"The pull rod...beat it...shot it!"

"Peng..."

With Lu Ehu's loud voice, the test firing of the artillery army began. However, it was not a volley of thirty-two stone-acting machines, but a separate test firing. Gao Da, the deputy commander of the left army of the artillery army, and with a few soldiers, he was cat in a bunker on the other side of the river. After one stone-acting machine was shot, they would come out to check and record the distance from the target for reference.
Chapter completed!