I, the Ming Dynasty, can still save me

Chapter 51 I’ll give it a try myself

After hearing the emperor's inquiry, everyone knelt down and looked at each other, then saw Xu Guangqi coming out and saying:
"Your Majesty, I transported two Hongyi cannons from the Ordnance Bureau yesterday. In order to ensure everything is perfect, we are still doing final inspections. Please go to the platform to rest for a while. We can test-fire when they are ready."

Zhu Youxiao saw the cannon being debugged from a distance, and he was curious and thought about going over and taking a look in person.

"No need, I will go over now to see how this Hongyi cannon is doing."

This statement shocked Chen Liangbi and others. They knew the quality of the imperial firearms as if they were a mirror. Although the ones that could be taken for test firing now had been carefully selected by Xu Guangqi, Sun Yuanhua and others, even so, they still could not I can guarantee there will be no accidents.

"Your Majesty, you can't do that. There are a lot of firearms over there. It's very dangerous. I cannot agree to this."

Chen Liangbi immediately knelt down after hearing the words, trying to persuade Zhu Youxiao not to go. Xu Guangqi and others also knelt down after hearing the words and stopped them one after another.

He Ning, who was behind Zhu Youxiao, saw this situation and thought that Zhu Youxiao was stubborn and had to do whatever he wanted to do. He had also experienced the consequences of opposition. Now that the emperor was in high spirits, wouldn't Chen Liangbi do this to displease the emperor? of interest.

"Long live God"

He then bowed to Chen Liangbi and others and said:
"My lords and father-in-law, your Majesty has been thinking about the power of this Hongyi cannon these past few days. In order to watch these test firings, he has postponed all the talks.

Now that the Hongyi Cannon is in front again, it actually doesn't hurt to take a look, but your lords also have His Majesty's sake in mind.

Your Majesty, I dare to have an idea. The Hongyi cannon is already big and cannot be dragged away, so it is better to check it first.

Long Live Lord, you can go to the platform first and let Mr. Chen and Mr. Xu bring up those firearms so that His Majesty can get his hands on them. After the Hongyi cannon is tested for firing, Your Majesty can take a look in person. "

"Your Majesty, I think this is very good. Please go to the platform first. Your Majesty and Master Chen will bring the firearms over for your Majesty to play with."

Wang Boyu was the first to react, thinking to himself that he had underestimated He Ning before. He was so able to guess the emperor's heart, and his future prospects were limitless.

Chen Liangbi and others felt that He Ning's method was more appropriate now. Otherwise, it would not be good to continue to oppose it, and they could only agree with it.

Zhu Youxiao saw that the situation was like this and felt that it was not impossible. Let's do this for now.

"Okay, let's do this first. I'll go to the platform first, and you guys can bring over your firearms and have a look."

After saying that, Wang Boyu led him down to the platform.

So Chen Liangbi, Xu Guangqi and others took people to the shooting range to pack up some lighter firearms, remove the gunpowder, and then bring them to the platform.

Zhu Youxiao could finally play with the firearms of this era.

Firearms have always been popular in the Ming Dynasty, and one-third or even one-half of the army was equipped with firearms.He was also curious to what extent the firearms of the Ming Dynasty had developed.

After a while, Xu Guangqi and others came up, followed by soldiers carrying firearms.

Chen Liangbi was born in Wuxun and served as the governor of Beijing Camp. He knew a lot about firearms. He first took a musket and presented it to Zhu Youxiao.

"Your Majesty, this is a blunderbuss. This gun was originally owned by Fo Langji, and was later introduced by the Japanese. During the Jiajing period, the court suppressed the Japanese rebellion, and our court repeatedly gained something and improved it. This gun has accuracy and a rear sight. It has a long shooting range and can shoot birds ten times as fast as a quick gun and five times as fast as a bow and arrow, so it is called a bird gun."

Zhu Youxiao took it and took a closer look. This musket was about 1.5 meters long. It had an accurate sight and a rear sight.He picked it up and weighed it, and found it was quite heavy.

Isn't this a matchlock? The matchlock is a milestone in the history of firearms development and is the direct prototype of the modern rifle.

Zhu Youxiao weighed it up.

"How much does this cost?" Chen Liangbi couldn't answer for a while. Thanks to Xu Guangqi, who was in charge of the Ordnance Bureau, he knew this relatively well.

"Your Majesty, I once looked through the accounts of the Bureau of Arms and found that in the 35th year of Wanli, a bird gun was made in half."

It's okay, not particularly expensive, Zhu Youxiao thought.

"If there are any gunpowder bullets, let me try them."

Chen Liangbi and others looked bitter, and the bottom line was lowered bit by bit. Now that the emperor had taken advantage of it, they couldn't refuse another shot.

So Chen Liangbi could only ask people to bring match ropes and gunpowder pellets, load them in front of Zhu Youxiao, and hand them to Zhu Youxiao personally.

"Your Majesty, just light the match rope and wait for a while before it starts shooting. In addition, the fire will be dazzling when shooting. Your Majesty, please remember to close your eyes when shooting."

Zhu Youxiao took it and signaled Chen Liangbi to light the match rope, put the handle of the gun on his shoulder, and aimed toward the sky.Everyone's thoughts were also raised in their throats, silently praying that nothing would happen.

"Oh!"

A burst of smoke spurted out from the end of the musket, filled with the smell of gunpowder. Everyone hurriedly looked at Zhu Youxiao, but he looked at the sky with interest, and then weighed the musket.

"This gun is very good, but it's a little troublesome to load, and the smoke is quite large."

"What your Majesty said is true. Although this gun is accurate, it is troublesome to load. Soldiers need constant training to be able to fire two or three shots within a hundred steps of the enemy.

If training is insufficient, the enemy will be able to walk to the front of the formation after one shot.At the same time, the smoke is very large. If a hundred people come together, the smoke will be so dense that it will be impossible to see.

Therefore, although Qi Shaobao and Yu Wuxiang (Yu Dayou) both ordered the army to equip the army with a large number of bird muskets at Jingji and Datong, and required each battalion to prepare such weapons, due to these shortcomings, they were not actually used much. "

Because Chen Liangbi had recently trained the Beijing camp according to Qi Jiguang's method, he also knew a lot about muskets.

There are many types of bird guns, including Indian and British matchlocks, Spanish and Portuguese matchlocks, etc. At that time, no matter which country's muskets and artillery had their chambers exploded, incidents occurred frequently.

But Zhu Youxiao does not think that the advantages of the bird gun (matchlock gun) cannot be ignored. It is stable, powerful and highly accurate.Although there are also shortcomings, they cannot be ignored.

"Qi Shaobao cannot be unaware of these shortcomings of this matchlock gun, so why would he equip it on a large scale? I guess he has a way to deal with it."

Chen Liangbi naturally knows this.

"Your Majesty, although Fire Gun is afraid of enemies approaching and killing them, there are ways to deal with them.

Qi Shaobao created a chariot camp at that time. When defending against the enemy, he surrounded the chariots as a camp. The chariots were equipped with small cannons and fire crossbows. When the enemy was far away, he used firearms, and when the enemy was closer, he used bows, crossbows and firecrackers to prevent the enemy from approaching.

When the enemy joins the battle, let the bird blunderbuss carry the blunderbuss knife, and then turn the fire blunderbuss into a spear for fighting.There are cavalry at the rear to randomly harass enemy troops. "

What he said made Zhu Youxiao understand. Zhu Youxiao had heard about the chariot camp method for a long time. To put it bluntly, the chariots prevented bows and arrows from muskets, used their own cannons and muskets to bombard the enemy to keep them from approaching, and finally used cavalry to finish.

However, this method of combat is extremely expensive and requires high combat quality of soldiers and weapons.In the late Ming Dynasty, when military pay was arbitrarily withheld and the quality of weapons could not be guaranteed, it was not yet known how useful the carriage camp could really be.

He remembered that there was now a Zhejiang army in Liaodong that was trained according to the methods of the Qi family army. The general was Qi Jin, a member of Qi Jiguang's clan. Historically, it showed great glory in the bloody battle of Hunhe River next year, but was outnumbered and was eventually defeated.

But now that he is here, he must change this history.

　The method of car formation is just a brief description, please forgive me if there are any mistakes!
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