open sea

Chapter 936
Bai Yuanjie has gained a lot of experience in Beiyang. In the early years, he and Chen Mu had joked about the kind of gun that was too long to kill the head of the thief with one shot, and it was made by Beiyang.

In fact, it is an imitation version of the Spanish heavy-duty matchlock gun. It started to be produced under the order of the Ministry of Industry.

Because this thing is useless, the hot weapon sequence of the main Ming army has passed the years of fumbling around.

Bird blunderbuss, killing general blunderbuss, small flag arrows, tiger squatting guns, Fran machine guns, Shenwei mechanism arrows, and two-pound guns constitute a series of armaments used by the Army Division, which can deal with near, medium, far, shelter, fortification, scattering, Rapid fire, direct fire, arc fire and all situations.

Heavy muskets are powerful, have a long range, and are limited in accuracy; the killer gun is an excellent substitute, and higher accuracy can also ensure accurate killing. There is no such thing as a large-caliber killer gun that can't be killed in one shot. .

At longer distances, direct aiming from light Francophones is a better choice.

But there is an order from the Ministry of Industry, the Beiyang Ordnance Bureau must make it; the Beiyang craftsmen are not happy when they make useless scraps, they are probably the military craftsmen with the most professional sense of honor-the Beiyang Banner Army takes the pieces they made Weapons conquer the world!

Then began a series of magic changes, in order to jump out of the disadvantages of overlapping use environment, thicken and lengthen the gun barrel, and then simply increase the caliber, which also confirmed the theorem of the researchers of Nanyang Jiaowu Hall. In fact, this theorem was said by Chen Mu. Yes, but more than one people learned from the study of Guan Yuangu, so it is called Guan's Gun System.

That is to say, under the premise of the same ammunition, the longer the barrel, the farther the shooting range before reaching the "Guan's length"; after reaching the "Guan's length", the longer the barrel, the closer the shooting range.

Then it became more and more out of shape. For two years, the military craftsmen of the Beiyang Military Bureau sacrificed part of their drinking and bragging time to build 27 heavy guns for the court. There were no two of them with the same shape—— In other words, there is no one shot that the craftsmen are satisfied with.

The armory is like a museum to Bai Yuanjie who was transferred from Nanyang.

There is a giant flintlock musket with a length of eight feet and a weight of 36 kilograms. It is installed on a light two-wheeled trolley and shoots seven and a half pieces of lead. It can pass through people when it is released two hundred steps away, but it is not called 'Half catty cannon'.

Another five-foot-long giant musket known as the Banjin Pao. Although the barrel is shorter, it has a larger caliber and weighs 26 kilograms. It not only has a triangular socket buttocks, but also refers to the Heishui Mohe sled in Majiagang. The gun frame uses a specially designed one-jin iron shell scatter, which has a strong penetrating power of thirty or fifty steps.

"This is the No.20 six-barrel heavy gun made by our company. The craftsmen don't want to continue to make it. It's useless. These things are useless. If you have this energy, it's better to make hundreds of bird guns."

The craftsman introduced this little monster to Bai Yuanjie in this way: "Very good, street fighting is of great use in defending the city. Three guns block a street, and let as many people come in as you want. Just be careful when firing the guns. Last time a craftsman was kicked back." The top is broken."

Bai Yuanjie originally wanted to try these new things, but she gave up after hearing this.

As for what the craftsman said, he can easily understand that weapons are not easy to damage, mass-produced, and easy to operate, in order of importance.

It is understandable why Bai Yuanjie made 26 after making 27. After all, it is Daming, and everything can be a machine.

These gigantic weapons that look powerful but are actually tasteless really do not arouse his interest in using them, let alone deploying troops. Nanyang is not needed, but Chen Mu's Dongyang may be of some use.

After all, the battle reports sent back from the Asian War have clearly stated that the Spaniards like to assemble a dense army formation, but it is only useful to some extent and does not have much effect.

It is inconvenient for a single soldier to carry it, and it is too clear to carry it on a mule or horse. Besides, it is generally too long, which makes the status of these weapons embarrassing. However, Qi Jiguang sent someone to Beiyang to look at these weapons a while ago, and took them with him after the test shooting on the school ground. Going back with the parameters, it seems that they want to get a batch of heavy weapons back.

Bai Yuanjie guessed that Marshal Qi might want to put these things directly on the Great Wall with cement?

What really made him curious was the flying fish.

Bai Yuanjie felt extremely novel about that terrifying thing with wings, a dragon head and a fish body that could fly.

This thing can actually fly!
In fact, not only him, since the birth of Flying Fish, all the eyes of the Beiyang Military Bureau have focused on this new type of weapon, which can strike enemies on the ground from all over the world. Beiyang pushed it into the army within five years.

Five years sounds like a long time, but it is actually very difficult for Ye Mengxiong. They still have too many problems to solve. The most important thing is that it is difficult to guarantee safety, and it is difficult to guarantee the accuracy of course control and delivery.

Those who are lucky burn the enemy's ship, and those who are unlucky burn their own ship.

However, the tactical innovation brought about by the complete development is naturally different, especially when it can be applied to land warfare, it flies up and mounts rockets and shoots down from the sky, projecting kerosene bottles over the enemy camp. This kind of tactics is exciting to think about.

In fact, Bai Yuanjie really wanted Beiyang Phase III to bring the flying fish to Dadongyang's Chen Mu. After all, in Bai Yuanjie's mind, Chen Mu was very good at these things.

As April approached, before the Hai Rui people arrived in the country, the letter had already been discussed in the imperial court. The request for the opening of the Songjiang Mansion was passed in the imperial court almost without any hindrance. The only thing worthy of debate was the Songjiang Mansion tax rate.

This matter has not yet been negotiated, and the imperial court's quasi-merchants have already issued an order to buy cotton cloth and sell it to Dadongyang. It's just that the goods of the third phase of Beiyang have already started to be shipped in Beiyang, and cotton cloth alone is difficult to meet the demand of Chen Mu. .

The imperial court came up with an expedient measure - to transfer more than [-] million pieces of cotton cloth from the real goods, and transport them to the East with the Beiyang Phase III. At the same time, Emperor Wanli, who planned to punish his grandfather, issued an edict to the East Army.

The emperor was not greedy at all, and said that these cotton cloths of various colors were "calling for sale". The market price is three coins per horse, which is 90 taels of silver. , to pay 180 million taels.

In addition, according to the two-year delivery of silver, 36% of the profit will be added, and an additional [-] taels will be input into the internal treasury.

A mighty cloth transportation team was sent from various places to Tianjin, and at the same time more than [-] blessing ships were recruited, so that the Beiyang Phase III could leave Hong Kong as scheduled.

In just two years, the merchant ships and cargo ships along the coast of Daming have shown a surplus. The people and coastal shipyards are endlessly building ships, while the ships needed for the New World route are close to saturation, and more ships are mostly sold to Southeast Asia.

The shipyards directly under the imperial court have stopped building new merchant ships.

They were thinking about bigger warships.

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)