The New Life of the Remnant Tribe's People (Seeking Votes and Subscriptions)

The artillery tests ended, and all the standard parameters were soon finalized. Luo Chong quickly ordered mass production to begin, starting with two hundred standard twelve-pound cannons. That was right—standard models, with no distinction between land and naval guns. They would all use the same design.

Luo Chong planned to use 120 of them to outfit a gunboat for rapid support wherever needed. The Han Tribe's current territories—whether the great lake beside Kaiyuan Commandery, the river mouth near Tang Tribe, or Bamboo Island overseas—could all be reached by ship. Deploying such a mobile source of firepower was therefore essential.

Of the remaining eighty guns, twenty would stay at the main settlement, while the other sixty would be deployed to Kaiyuan Commandery on the grasslands. Some would serve as fixed artillery emplacements on the city walls for defense, while the rest would be mounted on matching gun carriages for mobile field operations.

The gun carriages had already been produced; only the mounts for fixed positions remained undeveloped. Such mounts could be used on either city walls or ships. Their sole difference from gun carriages was that they could not move, but their recoil control and resetting mechanisms still needed further optimization. Field gun carriages, meanwhile, placed greater demands on load-bearing capacity and mobility. The two designs had entirely different requirements.

Fixed artillery positions generally featured steel rails that restricted the gun carriage to forward-and-back movement along the track. Ropes and pulleys also had to be installed on the protective wall in front of the position, making it easier for gunners to work in the cramped space.

After spending several days producing the rails and gun mounts, Luo Chong took several cannons and sample mounts to the shipyard in Liuyang Commandery. The Han Tribe had already begun trial production of an eighty-meter-long