I was the emperor in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 622

At present, the main enemy of Ming Dynasty is the Mongols, and the most powerful of the Mongols is the cavalry.

The most effective thing against cavalry in the past was cavalry and artillery of the same size.

But the training of cavalry is more difficult and takes longer than any other arms. In this regard, the Mongols who grew up on horseback have the advantage that Ming can never catch up.

Although the cannon is extremely powerful, in this era when the casting technology is not yet mature, it is extremely difficult to forge a cannon that will not explode, and it takes more than a dozen to pass one.

Moreover, in order to ensure sufficient firepower, each artillery piece is often made extremely heavy, ranging from a few hundred catties to as many as several thousand catties. Transportation alone can kill most generals.

Under the constraints of various conditions, the application of artillery is severely limited.

This made the Ming army, which had already entered the semi-firearms era, finally chose to fight with cold weapons as the mainstream.

Artillery is also mostly used in the defense of the city walls.

Although this decision made Daming linger on for 200 years, but a flash in the pan is a prosperous overnight after all, not a big deal.

But the two blueprints that Li Tian gave Liu Baohe this time can completely change this situation.

Needless to say, the grenade is a close combat weapon, and it has a great effect whether it is defending or attacking.

The blueprint he gave Liu Baohe was modeled after the wooden-handled grenade used in World War I.

Combined with the phosphorus technology developed by the Tiangong Institute when it was studying matches, it produced a grenade that can explode with just a pull of the wire.

It can be said that it not only solves the ignition problem, but also makes the grenade better sealed, and the power of the explosion is at least double that of the previous one.

As for the artillery, Li Tian chose a 75mm Krupp gun.

This kind of gun is not only light, but its total weight is only more than 400 kilograms. After installing the wheels, it only needs two people or a horse to pull it, which is very convenient.

Its gun barrels are all made of steel forged by the arsenal itself. While bearing the same powerful shells, it is three to five times lighter than the previous cannons.

Although the cannon is easy to solve at this time, rear-loading shells is still a fatal problem.

So Li Tian still used the old-fashioned shot put iron ball as the shell, and lit the back hall.

Although the firing speed of such shells may not be as fast as the original Krupp mountain cannon at the end of the nineteenth century, it can still be fired twice or even three times a minute.

Although the shooting range is less than 4000 meters, it can reach at least one or two kilometers.

This kind of data is enough for the current Ming Dynasty.

More importantly, this kind of gun only needs a certain amount of fine steel for the barrel, and other parts can be cast with iron.

In this way, a gun of this kind only needs three to five hundred catties of fine steel, and with Daming's current capabilities, mass production can be achieved.

Only Chen Ji can produce [-] jin of fine steel in half a year, which is larger than Chen Ji, and the arsenal that will soon install steam engine forging hammers has no reason to be worse than them.

It's absolutely no problem to save up for half a year and a year and make three to five hundred doors.

At that time, hundreds of cannons will be lined up, even if there are tens of thousands of elite cavalry on the opposite side, they will not be able to shake such a steel Great Wall.

Besides, even if the artillery can't stop them and let them rush to the front, there are still trenches, new guns, grenades, barbed wire and other things waiting for them.

For these things, Daming has already mastered the core production technology at this time, and mass production is only a matter of time.

It only takes three to five years for Li Tian to proudly tell everyone in the world that the era of cold weapons is completely over.

At present, although the artillery of the arsenal has only produced three samples, there is no way to meet the needs of combat.

But after testing, they found that the yield rate was astonishingly high. After making four doors, three of them were completely up to standard, which surprised Li Tianxi.

Only then did I get the news, and I couldn't wait to put this thing in the new army.

In his future vision, a new army of 1000 men would have at least 5000 such artillery pieces, and [-] men would be a hundred.This is currently Li Tian's death order to Liu Baohe, requiring him to complete the installation within half a year.

The reason why he was so anxious to let the new army come out for training was to train a group of gunners as soon as possible.

Otherwise, even if there are cannons, it will be useless without gunners.

The test cannon can't be near the capital.

In order to test the performance of this mountain cannon, and to put some pressure on the enemies in Nanjing and the northern grasslands, he decided to divide the two thousand new troops that had just been deployed into two parts, the north and the south, for training.

The purpose of doing this is not only to test the capabilities of the new army, but also to test the performance of this field artillery, which can be said to serve multiple purposes.

And there is actually a reason why Li Tian is so anxious.

At present, the north is about to move, and the nobles in the south are not very calm.

Relying on superficial actions alone probably wouldn't be able to frighten them at all.

Only by showing a little real strength can we buy ourselves more time.

In fact, this can be regarded as driving ducks to the shelves, and it is a last resort.

However, in addition to the fact that the production of artillery can not keep up with the demand.

Other things are not a problem at all for the arsenal.

In particular, the melee weapon muskets and grenades, through the tacit cooperation with Tiangongyuan, they have had the opportunity to polish these two things to perfection.

With these two things alone, even if a well-trained new army encounters about five times as many enemies, they can easily defeat or even annihilate them.

This level of combat power can already deter most of the enemies.

This is also one of the main reasons why Li Tian dared to confess his feelings to Zhu Yong and Zhang Fu today.

Not long after, the three arrived at the arsenal.

Liu Baohe, who had heard the news a long time ago, had already led his people to wait at the door.

Accompanying Liu Baohe was a group of about 20 new army soldiers.

They are wearing new-style scarlet military uniforms and colorful feathers on their heads.

From a distance, it looks like big roosters competing for beauty.

This brightly colored military uniform was actually made by Li Tian.

Originally, he didn't plan to copy Napoleon, but after thinking about it, there are still hundreds of years before Napoleon's birth, so it doesn't matter who copied the other.

There is actually a reason why he made such a gorgeous new military uniform that people can't bear to look at directly.

This actually starts with the combat method of matchlock guns or even platoon guns.

(End of this chapter)