"It's a pity... We in the Ming Dynasty have too few elites like this." Luo Hengxin, the governor of Xuanda, who was standing on the high platform of the military camp with Zhu Qizhen in bright yellow armor, wearing official robes and looking at
Looking at those heroic and high-spirited soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, they couldn't help but sigh like this.
Looking at the pro-army officers and soldiers who looked so brightly dressed in leather armor inlaid with armor plates, bright red battle coats, iron helmets on their heads, and leather boots on their feet, they lined up in a procession of cutting swords and axes, marching neatly.
They filed out towards the gate of the military camp, with every five hundred people forming a queue. The head and tail of the team were both sword and shield soldiers, while the two sides were all spear soldiers, and those closer to the middle were the fire gun soldiers.
These fire musket soldiers should now be called musketeers, because since last year, Zhu Qizhen spent a lot of money and recruited skilled craftsmen, which finally greatly improved the smelting level of Xuanfu.
The important thing is that it is no longer the kind of personal workshop-style steelmaking.
Instead, large-scale steel-making was adopted, and the steel-making technique naturally adopted the steel-frying method, which was the most excellent smelting method of the ancient Chinese people. This smelting method continued to be used in later generations.
In addition, the materials for making steel are no longer as messy as in the past, but coke is completely used. Don’t believe it, during the Song Dynasty, the coking technology had already been produced in the Central Plains, and there were
record.
Through the Yuan Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty, coking technology has also progressed and developed, making the coking technology more and more perfect, and the coking carbon closer to the ideal level.
Xuanfu is close to Datong, and the few masters who were recruited with huge sums of money happen to know how to make coke. This is why Zhu Qizhen frantically purchased coal from Datong. Even in the 21st century,
Coal is still the most important raw material for steelmaking.
With the same standard of smelting methods and the same specifications of fuel, the quality of the steel produced by Xuanfu Iron and Steel Plant has reached an unprecedented height. This made Zhu Qizhen lament that money can make the world go round.
, and I have to admire the wisdom and ability of those Ming Dynasty craftsmen.
The thick and bulky fire muskets in the past have been improved. In addition, Zhu Qizhen is a time traveler after all, so he naturally knows that the length and smoothness of the barrel are powerful guarantees for the accuracy and range of the musket.
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Zhu Qizhen naturally transferred this concept into the minds of those skilled craftsmen. Therefore, the muskets held by Zhu Qizhen's pro-army troops today have all changed significantly from the muskets of the Ming Dynasty, and are closer to them.
The appearance of muskets in later generations, and any military mi who have seen flintlock rifles in videos and pictures know very well that making a flintlock gun should not be too simple.
After a short period of hard work, the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty mastered the technology of making springs from mild steel. Although they were made by hand, they strictly followed the standardization and flow production mentioned by Zhu Qizhen from the beginning. Soon,
The simple flintlock machine came into being. And it was applied to the firearms of Zhu Qizhen's pro-soldiers as quickly as possible.
In the past, the muskets used by the Ming Dynasty were mostly made of incense, and sometimes they simply used fire incense. Seeing this scene, Zhu Qizhen was really speechless, but
He couldn't help but feel a little complacent. If he hadn't done it himself, the improvement of firearms in the Ming Dynasty might have been pushed back another hundred years.
This kind of infantry musket that uses a flintlock machine and paper ammunition has a theoretical firing speed of three times per minute. However, under strict and even cruel training, Zhu Qizhen's pro-army musketeers had a firing rate of three times per minute.
It has reached a firing speed of five times a minute. In other words, if the musketeers are arranged in three teams, then almost every five seconds, a barrage of fire will be formed, effectively killing the enemy.
Zhu Qizhen was extremely proud of this. Only such musketeers could be called professional soldiers. They had to reload ammunition, aim, and fire more than a hundred times a day, but all of them were filled with white money.
Got up.
It was precisely because of Zhu Qizhen's investment regardless of cost that they were able to meticulously maintain their formation, shoot and reload amidst the deafening sound of artillery fire and the rain of arrows flying all over the sky.
ammunition.
There are only 150 musketeers in each battalion, but they are able to provide their comrades with more powerful fire cover than in the past.
At the very center of the team, in addition to twenty carriages, there were also artillery, and these artillery were all pulled by two horses. Each battalion had four cannon, and these cannons were no longer what they used to be.
The style of the Ming Dynasty's artillery has undergone significant changes. The barrel has become thinner and longer, and more importantly, the size of the gun has also become lighter. This caliber is two
A .5-inch artillery can fire shells weighing six and a half kilograms (one kilogram). The weight of the artillery is only more than five hundred kilograms. It is more convenient and flexible to move. Two horses can pull this kind of artillery briskly on the flat ground.
Go forward quickly.
One hundred and fifty musketeers, one hundred sword and shield bearers, one hundred pikemen, and fifty artillerymen, plus fifty cavalry and fifty baggage soldiers, this is the equipment of a standard infantry battalion.
Zhu Qizhen's pro-army troops now number more than 6,500, divided into six infantry battalions, one artillery battalion, two baggage battalions, and four cavalry battalions.
The artillery battalion has twenty artillery pieces, and the caliber is larger than the artillery used by the infantry battalion, which is 3.25 inches, and the weight of the artillery shells used weighs thirteen kilograms. Although there are only twenty pieces, it has been seen that
Zhu Qizhen, who has experienced the power of this kind of artillery, knows very well that the lethality and deterrence brought by these twenty artillery pieces are definitely no less than the heavy artillery on the top of the city of Beijing.
Because Zhu Qizhen made strict regulations, the caliber multiple of the artillery was always eighteen, and the weight of the heavy artillery used by the artillery battalion was almost twice the weight of the artillery of the infantry battalion, and the caliber multiple of four
After the war horse is pulled, it can still keep up with the speed of the team.
The range of this type of heavy artillery has also been improved accordingly. The range of infantry artillery is about more than one mile, while the effective range of artillery battalion's heavy artillery reaches one and a half miles. Regardless of whether it is the artillery battalion's heavy artillery or the infantry battalion's artillery,
They are equipped with three types of ammunition, solid bullets, shells and shotgun shells.
With the cheating help of Zhu Qizhen, a time traveler, the shape of the shotgun was improved. It used a cylindrical thin iron box like a can, which was naturally filled with small shotguns with a standard weight of eight qian, so
The small shotshells are exactly the ammunition used by Zhu Qizhen's pro-army musketeers, which makes supply easier.
Moreover, if a heavy artillery is used, this kind of shotgun shells can have a range of one mile. Even the infantry cannon has a range of three hundred meters. At a distance of three hundred meters, it can still easily penetrate armor and penetrate deep.
The human body makes it possible to kill enemies in large areas over long distances. Especially for fighting groups like nomads who pay attention to the group charge as fast as the wind, it has terrible lethality and deterrence.
The Ming Dynasty has always attached great importance to the production and maintenance of artillery. Therefore, the types of artillery in the Ming Dynasty are also extremely complicated, ranging from large general cannons to small tiger squatting cannons. In short, if they were all displayed, it would be enough to open an artillery museum, and there are so many different types of artillery.
This type of artillery will also bring great burden and trouble to logistics, and maintenance is also disadvantageous.
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Therefore, the Qinjun that Zhu Qizhen carefully built completely abandoned the past firearms equipment model, and completely produced based on standardization and flow operations, making the calibers of the firearms produced more consistent and reducing errors.
Spend.
Moreover, the supply of ammunition has become more convenient. Just like in the baggage, you only need to reserve enough ammunition of the same specifications, so that soldiers and artillery in several battalions can be transferred and used with each other.
More importantly, the improved artillery and ammunition can be said to have reached a new level by leaps and bounds. The tens of thousands of shotgun pellets fired by twenty artillery can cover a city nearly two miles wide.
space, forming a terrible sector of destruction.
It was precisely because of the appearance of such artillery that the Xuanfu government finally understood why Zhu Qizhen valued artillery so much, and strongly requested Zhu Qizhen to increase the production of such artillery to supply Xuanfu border troops.
Each town and fort has its own guard.
Zhu Qizhen, who wholeheartedly hopes to improve the combat effectiveness of the Ming Dynasty army, will certainly not refuse, but the current output is really difficult to increase for the time being. After all, no matter how big the Xuanfu is, all the craftsmen he can recruit have already been recruited. If he wants
To expand production, we can only find ways to recruit from other border towns or Tianjin near the capital.
In Xuanfu, Zhu Qizhen passed the tea-horse market trade and obtained the number of horses, which enabled him to turn the baggage camp into a fast mobile force that completely used horses and carriages, and could move with the large army. Moreover, this
The soldiers in the supply camp are not like in the past, they were just civilian servants recruited temporarily. Instead, they are all soldiers who have also undergone strict military training. If anyone dares to underestimate them, then it is equivalent to sending himself into the army.
Sheepskin in the wolf's mouth.
In addition, the cavalry of the four cavalry battalions, like the cavalry of the infantry battalion, are all equipped with three horses. This luxurious equipment gives them sufficient mobility to even carry out longer-distance raids and raids.
blow.
Moreover, each cavalry battalion is also equipped with one hundred and fifty musketeers. This was designed by Zhu Qizhen, a mi of the Empire Age game, based on the Spanish lancers in order to satisfy his little dream.
The only regret is that it will be more troublesome for these musketeers to load ammunition on horseback. Therefore, although the caliber of cavalry muskets is the same as that of infantry muskets, the barrels are much shorter to facilitate loading.!
