The heavy and clumsy artillery often cause great difficulties to the army's mobility, so whether its carrier, namely the vehicle carrying the artillery, is extremely important.

In this era when there were no motor vehicles, although Zhu Youxiao could buy it, there was no sky-high property to consume it, so he could only use a carriage as a cannon carrier.

In a large workshop west of the Royal Academy of Engineering, hundreds of carpenters and craftsmen who used to work in jewelry stores and horse craftsmen, led by Mao Yuanyi, who had been awarded the Ministry of Works by the imperial court, are striving to create the improved four-wheeled carriages and unicycles required by Zhu Youxiao.

The artillery of the Ming Dynasty cannot be suppressed by absolute suppression of cavalry. In addition to the inability to keep up with the shooting accuracy, mobility is also a major problem.

The main reason is that the vehicle is not mobility, because traditional carriages generally do not have a steering differential, and even four-wheeled wheels cannot change directions at will, which makes it difficult for the artillery to turn rapidly.

Although wheelbarrows are the most convenient means of transportation in complex terrain and small artillery is most suitable for carrying with this tool, the wheelbarrows in the Ming Dynasty today do not have rolling bearings, and the wear and resistance caused by sliding friction and increase in resistance, which makes the wheelbarrows light and flexible not fully utilized.

"File them carefully and file them according to the drawing!"

While instructing a few skilled craftsmen who were found from the jewelry store, Mao Yuanyi touched a newly formed carriage with his hands. As long as the most critical steering gear is installed, the new four-wheeled carriage can drive flexibly.

Even he himself was somewhat expecting it. He could believe that no one could have built such a carriage in the Ming Dynasty. Although many of them were technical information given to him by His Majesty, his ability to build it according to technical information is an achievement.

However, Mao Yuanyi did not simply copy it according to the technical information provided by Zhu Youxiao. He also made another kind of carriage and added his own creativity to the carriage. According to his drawing requirements, the entire carriage was covered with a welded iron guide rail.

Each foot of a triangular gun mount is a rolling bearing made by a craftsman. The bearing is mounted on the guide rail and can rotate at 360 degrees. That is to say, if it is in war, the muzzle can be immediately turned without turning the carriage.

But Mao Yuanyi only built this one, and it took nearly half a month to carry small cannons. Once the barrel is too heavy, the friction on the guide rails will increase and the resistance will increase. In this era when the rails and bearings cannot be guaranteed to be absolutely smooth, once the resistance is too high, it will not be able to rotate directly. In this way, the weight bearing of the carriage will be increased.

Zhu Youxiao was shocked after seeing Mao Yuanyi's invention, but he did not object to his bold development. Instead, he had to make a bold attempt at improving the technology of four-wheeled carriages and unicycles and being able to mass-produce them.

However, now the period when the Imperial Guards are about to start group-based comprehensive equipment training and group-based special training, Mao Yuanyi dared not delay His Majesty's major affairs, so he devoted more attention to how to increase the output of improved four-wheeled carriages and improved unicycles.

Even working overtime is a rush to work.

Because Zhu Youxiao gave these craftsmen very high salaries, even 10% more than the officers of the Imperial Guards, these craftsmen worked very hard and did not feel resentful because of this.

Almost ten days later, hundreds of mules and carriages were successively pulled by hundreds of long and large boxes and hundreds of new four-wheeled carriages that seemed to be much lower and entered the arsenal of the Imperial Guards.

And on the day when the firearm drill began, these equipment and supplies were placed on the school ground.

And just under the eyes of all the officers and soldiers of the army, in front of Zhu Youxiao, hundreds of boxes were opened. Suddenly, tens of thousands of shiny muskets and hundreds of canvases were pulled, and the yellow and shiny new six-pound cannons, three-pound cannons, as well as other artillery pieces such as the original tiger squat cannons in the Ming Dynasty.

Like cannons, the muskets are not all Apocalypse Flintlock rifles, and there are only 3,000, which were made by the Ordnance Department overnight.

Therefore, the others are still improved versions of bird guns and some firearms with some special functions such as three-eyed guns.

According to Zhu Youxiao's plan, he could only mix and equip his own imperial guards first and gradually replace the clamp guns in full. However, bird guns must continue to be manufactured now, especially some junior craftsmen could not make flintlock guns at the beginning, but were sent to learn to make bird guns.

But even when making bird guns, Zhu Youjiao had to establish a junior craft school, the Second Manufacturing School of the Capital, directly under the Royal Ordnance Department, and recruit young refugees for training.

The reason why it is called the Second Manufacturing School is because the First Manufacturing School specializes in training craftsmen with certain memory of craftsmen and prepares for the development of more advanced equipment technical craftsmen.

However, students from the Second Manufacturing Academy can choose the best to enter the First Manufacturing Academy.

Let’s talk less, just say that when the officers and soldiers of the Imperial Guards saw these most advanced main equipment in the Ming Dynasty, they were just as bright as we saw all kinds of main station weapons in the military parade, and they wanted to try it now.

"Your Majesty, there are more than 5,000 muskets in total, including 3,216 Tianqi No. 1, 769 bird guns, more than 1,000 other muskets, twenty-one Daming No. 1 (six-pound cannon), sixty-four Daming No. 2 (three-pound cannon), and thirty-seven other cannons, and now the inspection has been completed."

Liu Ruoyu said that and submitted a list.

Zhu Youxiao looked at it and nodded, "First distribute it to each battalion evenly, and let the commanders of each battalion bring their own soldiers to lead the commanders."

"Yes!" Chief instructor Lu Xiangsheng responded and conveyed Zhu Youxiao's meaning. At the same time, he and Zhu Youxiao also walked down together and personally distributed weapons to them.

"This is a butt stock, this is a high-quality chicken wenge. It was created to offset the damage caused to you by recoil, and it was designed by Your Majesty himself. As for what recoil is, when you attend Secretariat Xu's class, Secretariat Xu has told you. If you don't understand, ask Secretariat Xu!"

"Then, this is a bolt. The top of the bolt is a hammer head, the firing iron sheet and the spring. The long pipe in front is the barrel. The knife above can be stuck or removed. It is different from the large blade behind you. This is specially used for stabbing, called a bayonet. Do you understand?"

Chang Yanling, who had been trained in the Ordnance Department, said and took out another long paper roll: "This is called a paper shell bullet, which is more convenient than you used to fill medicine with a bird gun. After biting it, pour some gunpowder into this place called the induction pot, then cover the induction pot, stuff the remaining paper bag into the front barrel, compact it with a strip, and then you can move the iron sheet to the firing state."

As he said that, Chang Yanling shot the uninhabited place, and then a stream of white smoke appeared, and soon a sparrow in front of him had landed on the ground.

While marveling at Chang Yanluo's sharp shot, the officers and soldiers of the first battalion were even more interested in the Apocalypse One.
Chapter completed!