Reborn Regent of Ming Dynasty

"So it's General Chen Shao, I'm sorry."

Chen Yongfu's son is called Chen De. Zhang Shouren has read some literary works of later generations, and he still has some impressions.Chen Fu can be regarded as a tiger father but no dog son. Judging from the performance in front of him, he is quick-witted, smart, and generous in his answers. He looks like a smart young man.And to be on the defensive in his twenties, although it is due to the elements of hereditary grace, it also shows that Chen De is a young man who can come and do things.

"The final general has seen Zhenglu!"

Chen De was indeed very generous. After greeting him, he and several Fushan generals who were in charge of receiving them asked and looked around.

When he saw the equipment of the car artillery battalion, he was obviously taken aback. [

"This child really has never seen the world..."

Seeing Chen De's appearance from a distance, Chen Yongfu still felt a little ashamed, seeing something incredible, is this behavior revealed?

But when he approached by himself, it was also a conquest, and all the generals of Kaifeng City who came out wearing the costumes of third-rank and fourth-rank military officers were all conscripted.

The Che Pao Battalion has more than [-] carts. Apart from carrying some food and their own luggage, most of them are combat units mixed with people and artillery.

What Chen De saw was the chariot of the Chariot Battalion.

The carriage on one side is reinforced with iron plates, which can be moved and disassembled. In wartime, the fixed gun positions in the chariot can be exposed, and the carriage plates can be inserted into the ground to protect the musketeers and chariot soldiers from being attacked by bows and arrows. Harm.At the same time, the chariot has hooks and rings that can be connected to each other, which is equivalent to a moving Great Wall. At the same time, it carries clothing, food, and equipment, and has antlers for defense in front of the chariot.

Each car has two tiger crouching guns or Frang machine guns with sub-guns.

The calibers are all about the same size, and they are all shot. The guns of the tiger squatting guns are packed in cloth bags, and can be fired after being stuffed. The Francois machine is a molecular mother gun, and the sub guns are loaded into the mother gun to ignite and fire. , What are shot are dense iron sand and lead shot.

It is not surprising that Chen De, Chen Yongfu and others were taken aback by seeing a row of well-built chariots stretching beyond the horizon, and seeing brand new and well-maintained artillery in each vehicle.

With so many cannons, even if it is the Frang machine and the tiger squatting cannon, an ordinary military town cannot produce them.

Fushan's car battalion is an enhanced version of Qi Jiguang's car battalion.

When he was in Jizhen, Qi Jiguang organized a battalion of chariots. Each battalion had 250 officers and soldiers, 120 and six Flang cannons, and eight general cannons. Each battalion had [-] chariots. Equipped with two Francophones, four bird guns, four rocketmen, and one cannon for every twelve soldiers. When going to war, the muskets, cannons and rockets take turns to shoot non-stop, with different ranges. From [-] paces to [-] paces, bombard and kill the incoming enemy in turn.

At the same time, he also compiled a cavalry battalion of 700 people. Each cavalry battalion had a large number of war horses and brave cavalry, and at the same time compiled [-] tiger squatting cannons.

The Benlei Battalion in Fushan is made of sudden cavalry, and the accompanying tiger squatting cannon is also an enhanced version of Qi Jiguang's cavalry camp.

In fact, the ancients possessed the wisdom of war that is not inferior to that of later generations, at least in the hands of Qi Jiguang who is against the sky. The system of warfare was invincible in his era. Before Qi Jiguang took office, the Mongolian tribes who invaded the border every year hardly dared to look directly at the defense system of the Ming army during the ten years of Qi Jiguang's guarding. , his beheading is limited, without beheading, there is no such thing as generals in the Ming Dynasty's teaching system.

Zhang Shouren's car and artillery battalion had twice as many vehicles as Qi Jiguang and Sun Chengzong's systems, doubled the load, and almost doubled the artillery.

He didn't carry the general's national artillery. This time, the target of the battle was the peasant army. There was no heavy armor or city defense, and the heavy artillery was almost useless.

Moreover, after the Battle of Jinan, Zhang Shouren also discovered that the power of the Hongyi cannons of this era really needs to be improved. It can be used in naval battles and sieges. The five-thousand-jin Hongyi cannon, which can destroy ten miles in one cannonball, is completely the imagination of a literary rookie who has never been on the battlefield.

At that time, the Hongyi artillery of the Ming army or the Qing army were all four to five thousand catties to hit ten catties and eight catties of shells, and the gunpowder was not granulated, so the power was very limited. Of course, it was an out-and-out artifact in that era. . [

However, Francophones and tiger squat cannons can play a great role in killing. Granules and fixed gunpowder solve the technical problems of short range and low power of this small gun, while fixed guns and shotguns greatly strengthen the firing frequency. .

At the same time, there are quite a few tiger squatting guns without fixed mounts, because once the tiger squatting guns are fixed, it is inconvenient to load ammunition and ammunition, and there is no way to adjust the shooting angle, so except for a few tiger squatting guns that are fixed on the car, Most of the tiger crouching guns are equipped with the classic two-wheeled single-leg gun mount like the Frang machine.

With the gun mount, although the weight has increased, the whole artillery is still less than [-] catties. It can still operate like flying in southern terrain such as rice fields and mountains, which is very convenient and fast. doubled.

This kind of small cannon was originally Qi Jiguang's improvement on the Zhankou Cannon. Although the caliber of the Zhankou Cannon is large, it does not have a copper gun barrel, so it cannot carry too much gunpowder. The improved tiger squatting guns performed well on the Korean battlefield. In the first battle of Pyongyang, the Ming army's tiger squatting cannons smashed the city's rocks into pieces, and the Japanese army could not gain a foothold. They made great achievements in the siege.

On the Liaodong battlefield, the tiger crouching cannon was also a powerful weapon to assist the Hongyi cannon. In the few years from the end of Wanmo to the early years of Tianqi alone, the Ministry of Industry recorded more than [-] tiger crouching cannons shipped to Liaodong.

And Fushan’s tiger squatting cannon has been improved again. In the past few decades, only the Hongyi cannon has improved in detail among the firearms of the Ming army. The generals did not like expensive weapons, and local firearms were cut corners. All kinds of bad habits accumulated, causing soldiers to dare not use firearms, or to have scruples when using them. As a result, the prestige of firearms in the Ming army was no longer valued except for artillery.

Zhang Shouren is determined to reverse this illusion and bring the development of firearms in the Ming Dynasty back on the right track!

There are now a total of 320 side-car tanks, each weighing 100 jin, with ten members, plus logistics personnel, the total number of members of the chariot battalion is [-].

Each vehicle has two cannons, that is, more than 640 shotguns. The effective range is two hundred steps away, far exceeding the range of the firecrackers, and it is a terrifying medium and short-range firepower output unit under the Hongyi cannon.

In addition to more than 280 small artillery pieces, the Che Pao Battalion still has 180 firecrackers, including [-] ordinary flintlock blunderbusses and [-] Lumi blunderbusses.

This kind of firearm was requested by Zhang Shouren from the Ministry of Industry of the imperial court, and he did not build it himself. In the manufacture of firearms at that time, the Lumi blunderbuss was the most glorious product of the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty. It had a long range, high precision, and strong penetration. The fire blunderbuss is already an improved model of the [-] model, but it is still far behind the Lumi blunderbuss in terms of range and accuracy.

The Ministry of Industry sent a total of more than [-] guns. Except for the artillery battalion, they were distributed to the fire gun teams.

The whole battalion carried [-] catties of gunpowder and more than [-] lead bags weighing eight qian. In addition, each gunner was also issued with hand-held firecrackers, that is, flintlock handguns.

Compared with the matchlock firearms of the Ming army, flintlock handguns can be charged and ready to go. After encountering an alarm, they can fire at close range and shoot very quickly. They are effective self-defense weapons issued to artillery gunners.

If conditions permit, Zhang Shouren intends to distribute firearms to all officers and cavalry, but that may be a year or two away.

After the battle of Jinan, the main energy of the general office was spent on improving the artillery. The large-scale artillery was developed to be lighter, the weight of the Hongyi cannon was reduced as much as possible, and the delivery system such as the gun mount was further improved. At the same time, efforts were made to improve the artillery shells.

More energy is tilted towards medium and short-range small artillery, and most of the materials and manpower are spent on the casting and research and development of tiger squat guns and Frang machines.

The results in front of me are the crystallization of the hard work of the office for more than half a year.

It is enough to amaze any commander-in-chief of any military town, and as Chen Yongfu and others are now showing, they are mesmerized, immersed in wonderful emotions and cannot extricate themselves.

"Chen Junmen?"

"Ah, ah!" Amidst Zhang Shouren's call, Chen Yongfu opened his mouth wide and exclaimed, "It turns out that there are so many elite soldiers under Zhenglu's command, and besides so many horses, there are still so many horses." cannon!"

Although the tiger crouching cannon is a small cannon, it looks like a toy in the eyes of later generations, but in the eyes of Ming Dynasty people, it is an out-and-out cannon, and it has always been called a cannon in the army. [

The more powerful ones are the general cannon, the second general cannon, and the Hongyi general cannon, which are distinguished from ordinary "cannons".

Hearing Chen Yongfu's words, Huang Shu also said sincerely: "This trip to recruit captives will be invincible, and the Shaanxi bandits will have nothing to do. From last year to this year, the famine was severe. There are millions of people in Henan and southern Shandong. The hungry people, the lower officials have been worried that the invasion of Shaanxi bandits will cause a big chaos that is difficult to deal with! Looking at the general camp, even if there are bandits entering Henan and Shandong, there is no one who can be the leader. So, go home tonight, the lower officials can Sit back and relax, and sleep well."

Huang Shu also accidentally told the truth. Hungry people are everywhere. It is impossible for a local official like him who is capable and knowledgeable to understand the seriousness of the situation. The land of Henan is like a big frying pan. No one takes the lead, once there is a big wave of famous thieves rushing in, the hungry people have a backbone, just like a group of sheep led by a lion, usually harmless, at that time they have violent power, enough to stop them All obstacles are torn to pieces!