The Great Industrial Ming Dynasty Started from Beiping

Chapter 248 Miyun Situation
In the 28th year of Hongwu, three months after the death of King Qin, because of the need to deepen the cooperation between China Heavy Industry and the Weisuo.

Proposed by Zhu Gaochi and approved by Yan Wang Zhu Di, the Military Industry Joint Office was established to be fully responsible for the management of affairs between China Heavy Industry and the Guards.

In the sixth month of King Qin's death, under the leadership of the Military-Industrial Joint Office, with the cooperation of the Research Department, two places were selected to train new troops.

One is Shixia Camp in Miyun District, and the other is Jinzhou Zhongzuo of Jinzhou Guard.

September of the 28th year of Hongwu.

Zhu Gaochi took the railway carriage and led the entourage and guards to Miyun Station before arriving.

On the platform, two rows of one hundred soldiers each stood neatly.

This is Zhu Gaochi's second visit to Miyun.

There is no government office in the Miyun area, that is to say, there are no officials. Guo Ying, the commander of the Miyun Guard, Zheng Heng, the commander of the Miyun Guard, Qiu Fu, the garrison of the Shixia Camp, and other officers invited from the Beiping Guards, have already been there. This is waiting.

Compared with Zhu Gaochi's first arrival in Miyun, the specifications this time have been improved several times, and people's expressions are even more respectful.

The prince does not have such great prestige, nor does he have such great power, but who made Zhu Gaochi's actions unique in the whole world.

Under Yan Wang's "indulgence", Zhu Gaochi's power has no limit, especially the establishment of the China Heavy Industry System, which has increased the prosperity of Beiping several times, and the population has also increased significantly. How many people have benefited from it has also become a problem for many people. The "bridle" that is not obedient will end badly.

"coming."

Seeing Zhu Gaochi's special train from afar, people started to move, and the low-level ones took the initiative to go forward.

When the railway carriage came to a complete stop, a few guards came down first, and then Zhu Gaochi. After Zhu Gaochi got off the carriage, the entourage poured out continuously.

There are officials from the Capital Division, managers from the China Heavy Industry Department, officials from the Changshi Mansion, and even a few businessmen from the south.

"Meet the little prince!"

Everyone came forward to salute.

"Free gift!"

Zhu Gaochi is now the eldest son, and his name has changed from before. It is justifiable to call him the little prince now.

After everyone exchanged greetings, Zhu Gaochi refused to take the sedan chair or the carriage, and rode directly to Shixia Camp with the others.

Shixia Camp is a local permanent military camp, not temporary, so the camp is a well-built military fort with complete facilities.

The funds allocated by China Heavy Industry were provided to Shixiaying, and a banquet was prepared.

during the banquet.

Chicken, duck, fish, cakes, rice wine, delicacies from mountains and seas, everything is available.

In the middle of the process, the generals took turns to toast at the main table, and the first toast was Zhu Gaochi, and Zhu Gaochi personally led the transfer of many generals.

For example, Zhang Wu, a thousand households of Zhending Wei, stood in front of Zhu Gaochi excitedly holding a wine glass. The old Zhu Gaochi was no smaller than Zhang Wu.

Moreover, Zhu Gaochi's figure is not thin. He was a fat man in history. Now he is not fat, let alone strong, but he is not weak like ordinary young people.

"My lord, Zhang Wu is under the bid." Holding a glass of wine, Zhang Wu introduced himself nervously.

Although he was born in Yanshan Guard, among the three guards of Yanshan, there are 300 people in a hundred households alone, and there are twelve guards in Beiping City with the guard office.

So there are not many lucky people like Zhu Neng who are kept by the little prince to do things, obviously Zhang Wu is not among them.

Zhu Gaochi picked up the clear rice wine and looked at Zhang Wu with a smile.

Zhang Wu is a person he valued, and he is on his key training list, because this person is the No. 12 hero of Jingnan in history.

His talent is unquestionable and tested.

However, over the years, a lot of talents have emerged enthusiastically, coupled with the lack of luck between the two, under the premise that Zhu Gaochi did not make a special arrangement, the intersection of the two is very little.

"I remember you." Zhu Gaochi said with a smile, "You have gone to Zhendingwei, you have to do things well, and don't disappoint your father's expectations."

Following the words of the little prince, many people secretly glanced at Zhang Wu, remembering the appearance of this person, as long as this person does not make mistakes, he will jump up sooner or later.

Zhang Wu hadn't drunk the wine yet, his face was already red, he was incoherent with excitement, and finally drank the wine in his hand.

Zhu Gaochi took a sip with him, and Zhang Wu held back what he wanted to say, knowing that there were still many people waiting behind him, so he resigned regretfully.

The banquet lasted for an entire hour, and after the end, Zhu Gaochi returned to the room prepared for him by Shixia Camp to rest.

The little prince has rested, and the Shixia camp cannot rest.

All preparations are being reviewed intensely, for fear of accidents in the afternoon.

Zhu Gaochi slept for less than half an hour. When the time came for the clerk, he came in and carefully woke up Zhu Gaochi. Zhu Gaochi yawned and got up.

on the school field.

There is a row of long tables, on which are neatly placed four types of firearms: bird blunderbuss, three-eyed blunderbuss, heavy cannon, and light cannon.

Of course, in order to avoid accidents, the gunpowder and buckshot are looked after by trusted men.

Zhu Gaochi and the others sat in the stands, and Qiu Fu was also with him. Seeing that everyone was present, he asked Zhu Gaochi for instructions, and then issued an order below.

The officer below saw the flag on the stage, and then walked to the soldiers. Under the order of the officer, ten soldiers picked up the bird guns on the table.

"ready, go."

Ten soldiers moved.

First wash the gunpowder, and then load the gunpowder, because the paper gunpowder has been prepared in advance, so the soldiers saved a lot of time.

After compacting with a stick, add another projectile, and continue to send it down the barrel with the stick.

Not yet finished, the projectile is loaded, continue to use a piece of paper to form a ball into the gun tube, and use a stick to feed it in to plug the projectile, so as to prevent the projectile from slipping out when the blunderbuss is down.

Open the fire door, and pour the fine gunpowder that is also contained in the tin turtle (a turtle-shaped medicine storage tank melted with tin) into the bird gun fire door for triggering.

After completing these actions, the soldiers held the bird guns in their hands, shook the muzzle upwards, and the gunpowder entered the wire door and closed the fire door.

Finally, install the matchlock into the tap of the bird gun trigger, and all the loading work is considered complete.

Ten soldiers hold the middle part of the gun body with their front hands, and open the fire door with their back hands, that is, hold the rear tail of the gun, put their faces on the rear tail, and use one eye to see the rear sight. The front sight is aligned with the front sight 150 steps away. target.

"put!"

Another soldier on the side shouted loudly.

The soldiers used their right index fingers to pull the trigger backwards, and pressed down the matchlock clamp holding the burning matchlock until it touched the medicine chamber, and then the gunpowder fired.

"Bang bang bang."

Among the soldiers, a puff of smoke rose and then drifted into the wind.

The accuracy of the bird gun is not low, but it is not as accurate as the rifles of later generations, but there are still many bullet points on the target.

This achievement moved the faces of the generals.

Such a distance, such power, and such accuracy are quite different from previous firearms, and have undergone a qualitative change.

Soldiers repeated three rounds to make the score more convincing.

More than a dozen unloaded blunderbusses were sent to the stage, and the generals inspected them in person, with someone explaining them to them.

"Here is the bolt guard."

"This position is called the snake pole."

"Here's the main spring, here's the link arm, here's the opening where the link connects to the link arm, here's the matchlock clip, here's the trigger lever..."

"The ratio of the length to the caliber of the bird's gun barrel is about fifty to one to seventy to one, which is larger than the ratio of the existing firecracker's barrel to the caliber."

"The length of the gun barrel can make the gunpowder fully burn in the gun chamber, generate a greater thrust, and make the projectile have a greater initial velocity after it exits the chamber, obtain a straight ballistic trajectory, and hit a farther target."

The technician on the side said proudly: "Of course, this kind of structural design requires high manufacturing process of the bird gun. Since the barrel is required to be straight and smooth, it takes a long time to drill the barrel during manufacture. Therefore, the manufacturing of the bird gun The cost is relatively high."

"However, due to the use of steam engine power, the manufacturing cost has reached the lowest level."

"The materials needed to make the bird gun, ten catties of iron can produce one catty of refined iron, and various technologies are needed to improve production efficiency."

"Currently, only I, China Heavy Industries, has the ability to manufacture massive quantities, and the whole world can't keep up."

Zhu Gaochi did not refute the pride of the technicians.

In the Jiajing Dynasty in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, only [-] rods of bird guns were produced a year, while the current China Heavy Industry can also manufacture [-] rods a year, and it is still just in production.

If necessary, Zhu Gaochi can build a second, third, fourth, fifth... because of the development of mineral resources, he has the confidence.

"The matchlock used for the bird's gun is made of hemp rope. It is soaked in salt water and other special medicines to dry. After being ignited, the burning speed is very slow, and only three deposits are burned in half an hour."

Everyone looked over, and sure enough, there were faint sparks on the match rope, which were in a state of burning.

These technologies, except for the steam engine technology, are all technologies of the middle and late Ming Dynasty, including spring components and special matchlocks.

Zhu Gaochi didn't think there was anything unusual, but his only dissatisfaction was that he was a little dissatisfied with the loading speed.

Just now he secretly calculated that the interval between each round of firing is about one shot per minute, and the Qi's army's reloading speed in history is three shots per two minutes to be considered qualified.

However, in the military, Zhu Gaochi has no shortage of talents. After all, it is the early Ming Dynasty, and most of them are generals who grew up in the flames of war.

It was soon suggested that the three-stage shooting method could be used to increase the firing rate.

The three-stage shooting method was invented by Mu Ying, who is currently stationed in Yunnan.

The earliest record of European three-stage strike tactics was the British Civil War, the Battle of Clodden in 1746, which was hundreds of years later than the Ming Dynasty.

Using the three-stage shooting method largely solves the disadvantage of slow reloading of the arquebus.

With everyone's words and glances, a lot of ideas for new firearms were born, and the existing military technology was transferred to the bird gun.

A chariot mode was even proposed.

Arrows are not as powerful as gunpowder, and the bullets of the blunderbuss can shoot through many obstacles, but the soldiers of the Ming army behind the carriages can block the arrows, so they are invincible.

It may be a coincidence, or it may be inevitable, it happens to be one of the tactics used against chariot soldiers and gun soldiers in Qi Jiguang's military book.

(End of this chapter)