In June of the 20th year of Chongzhen, a large-scale Korean invasion occurred in a town near Pyongyang. This triggered a large-scale mobilization of Japanese troops to the north, supposedly to wipe out the Korean rebels in northern Korea.
At the same time, the Jianlu Cavalry also entered northern Korea and joined in the operation to block the coastline, saying that it was to prevent the possibility of the Korean rebels escaping into the island again.
Such a big thing, of course, quickly attracted Wu Sangui's attention.
All Korean rebels are under the control of the Dongjiang General Army of the Ming Dynasty. The reason is very simple. The Korean rebels rely on Dongjiang Town to provide their weapons and some food.
Therefore, Wu Sangui knew very well whether the Korean rebels had launched a major offensive in northern Korea.
For this reason, he also conducted verification and confirmed that the Korean rebels had not made any big moves. There was only one possibility. The events in northern Korea should have been directed and staged by the Japanese. And their purpose was also very clear.
That is to mobilize troops to northern Korea.
As for deploying troops for what? Anyway, they can't be idle.
In view of this special situation, Wu Sangui paid attention to it and conveyed the news to the capital.
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On the grassland, the rotating cavalry of the Ming Dynasty grassland suddenly lost nothing.
It was supposed to be the pasture of the Eastern Mongolian tribes, but no trace of the Eastern Mongolian tribes was found at all. After one, two, and two times, the Ming army in Guihua City became alert, paying more attention to the situation of the Eastern Mongolian tribes.
He also sent news of this unusual situation to the capital.
At Shanhaiguan, Du Yinxi received a tip from the grassland.
Previously, some of the Mongolian soldiers who had dispersed back reported that Jianlu had sent a Duoluo prince to the grassland, asking all the tribes to move eastward, and that many cattle and sheep had been sent to Liaodong.
, the armies of each tribe must assemble to obey the command of the Doro prince.
After Du Yinxi received the news, he also sent the news to the capital.
The Ministry of War will summarize the news received from various places and archive it in the cabinet.
The second assistant, Sun Chuanting, was mainly responsible for the military affairs, and all this information was finally summarized on his desk.
If it were just these messages, it might not be able to explain anything.
Just as Sun Chuanting was analyzing the news, Du Yinxi sent another piece of urgent military information: Jianlu's northern granary was transporting grain on a large scale to the south, and also dispatched some Korean gun soldiers.
Transferred to the south.
When Sun Chuanting received this news, and combined with the previous information, he knew that Jianlu was likely to unite with the Korean Japanese army to launch a large-scale attack, and immediately asked to see Emperor Chongzhen.
"Your Majesty, if this news is true..." Sun Chuanting said seriously immediately after paying tribute to Emperor Chongzhen, "Then the Jianlu, the Korean Japanese army and the eastern Mongolian cavalry will launch a large-scale attack on the imperial court.
Attack must be prepared in advance!"
"Oh?" Emperor Chongzhen was a little surprised when he heard it. He took the memorial handed over by the eunuch Fang Zhenghua. After opening it, he smiled and said, "This news is true. This person signed by Xiaode
, it’s Kong Youde, who uses this code name to send back news when something important happens.”
Kong Youde was originally in Dongjiang Town, but after he found that he could not play a greater role in Dongjiang Town, he was actually anxious and wanted to work hard like Wu Sangui to regain the importance of the court, so he took the initiative to ask for help and sneak back
Went to Liaodong.
All the Han people in southern Liaoning moved to the north, and the Koreans were also in the north. Kong Youde had no choice but to sneak to the north.
At this time, after Sun Chuanting inquired about the situation, he solemnly told Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, I estimate that the Jianlu and Korean Japanese troops may be a little impatient under the suppression of the imperial court, so we must be on guard.
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After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen immediately smiled and said: "We originally planned to deal with the Jianlu in Liaodong and the Japanese army in Korea this year or next year. Now that they want to take the initiative to fight, that's not right!"
Hearing this, Sun Chuanting nodded and said: "In this case, it is better to transfer all the troops in the pass to Shanhaiguan and assemble on the front line of Ningyuan. This can also prevent sudden disaster and losses!"
Having said this, he thought for a moment and then immediately added: "Wei Chen believes that if the coalition forces of Jianlu and Japan want to take the initiative to attack the imperial court, they have no navy, so they can only attack the Ningjin line, at most
The cavalry is heading west along the grassland to support Ning Jin's war. The imperial court can use this as a basis for troop deployment. Of course, Governor Ji Liao also needs to further verify the enemy's movements."
After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen immediately smiled and said: "I will take care of this matter, I believe you can handle it well!"
After he finished speaking, he said to Sun Chuanting: "You're here at the right time. Let's go and accompany me to the military battle station!"
As soon as he heard this, Sun Chuanting knew that there was definitely something good coming from the Bingzhan Bureau.
Of course, he was looking forward to this very much, so he immediately followed Emperor Chongzhen to the War Bureau.
It just so happened that the eunuch in charge of the Military War Bureau was Fang Zhenghua, the eunuch on duty today. Therefore, he introduced him as he walked. The most important thing, of course, was to tell Sun Chuanting. As for Emperor Chongzhen, he had known about it for a long time.
"This newly invented by Long Live Master is a rifled flintlock gun and a rifled artillery!" Fang Zhenghua and Sun Chuanting were both walking, and they said as they walked, "It is just a line carved inside the barrel, so the barrel of the flintlock gun is also good.
, or artillery, the range and accuracy have been greatly improved!"
Regarding this, Sun Chuanting actually heard Emperor Chongzhen mention it before, but he never had any idea.
While he was thinking, Fang Zhenghua glanced at Emperor Chongzhen's back, and then continued to introduce to Sun Chuanting: "Long live the flintlock rifles with this kind of rifles as the Divine Rifle and the Divine Cannon!"
"Divine power?" Sun Chuanting couldn't help but said in surprise, "Very powerful?"
Previously, Fang Zhenghua said that the range and accuracy had been greatly improved, but he only had this impression; but the emperor actually named it after "Shenwei", which is definitely a very powerful firearm!
Out of curiosity, he immediately showed great interest and quickly asked: "How high is the range and accuracy of this shooting?"
After Fang Zhenghua heard this, he immediately smiled slightly, but his appetite was offended: "Master Sun, don't be anxious, we will know after a quick look at the test site!"
Sun Chuanting was a little anxious when he heard this, but looking at the dead eunuch's appearance and the back of Emperor Chongzhen, he knew that this must be the emperor trying to whet his appetite, and he would not tell him even if he pressed again.
So, he quickly urged: "Quick, go faster!"
Emperor Chongzhen, who was sitting on the dragon chariot, actually smiled happily when he heard this, but he did not order to speed up.
After finally reaching the testing ground of the Military War Bureau and the observation post, naturally the craftsmen here presented the Divine Rifle.
Emperor Chongzhen did not go to get it himself, but smiled and said to Sun Chuanting: "Sun Qing, let's take a look first!"
As for himself, Liu Weichao gave him the drawings and parameters, and then he gave them to the Bingzhan Bureau. He didn't even need to look at them to know what they were like.
Just hearing the name of this divine rifle, Sun Chuanting became very curious and immediately stepped forward to check it out.
He discovered that this divine rifle was not much different from the flintlock rifles he had seen before. The only difference was that there was a rotating engraved line inside the barrel.
Just like that, can it be called a "Shenwei" rifle?
To be honest, Sun Chuanting was a little confused.
Then he discovered that the lead bullet of this Shenwei rifle seemed to be somewhat special.
So, he immediately put down the Divine Rifle and picked up the matching lead bullets and started looking at it.
The lead bullets for ordinary flintlock guns are usually round lead bullets; but the lead bullets he is holding now are conical lead bullets, cylindrical, with one end pointed and the other end concave.
Seed. And in this concave part, there is a cork plug.
This lead bullet is really strange!
After Sun Chuanting looked at it, he tried to load ammunition for the Shenwei rifle. He found that although the Shenwei rifle had rifling engraved inside, the process of loading ammunition was not much different from that of an ordinary flintlock rifle, at least in terms of loading speed.
All pretty much the same.
There is a small episode in the middle.
When Sun Chuanting was loading lead bullets, he put the pointed end into the gun chamber first. Fortunately, Fang Zhenghua on the side reminded him in time, so he turned around and put the lead bullets upward.
After testing the reloading speed, the next step is shooting.
What Sun Chuanting didn't expect was that the craftsmen of the Bingzhan Bureau actually placed the gun target very far away!
"This..." Sun Chuanting asked Fang Zhenghua in surprise when he saw it, "Is this too far? Is it measuring the farthest range? But if that's the case, isn't the target too small?"
He did not ask Emperor Chongzhen, because the posture that Emperor Chongzhen put up was obviously that he had everything under control, and he was too lazy to answer such a thing.
After hearing this, Fang Zhenghua immediately laughed and said in a good manner: "Master Sun misunderstood, this is to test the effective range!"
When Sun Chuanting heard this, he was a little dumbfounded. Is this too far?
Naturally, he didn't know that the divine rifle named by Emperor Chongzhen had another name in its original history, called the Minie rifle.
This kind of rifle weighs 4.8 kilograms, has a caliber of 17.8 millimeters, and each bullet weighs 32.4 grams. The killing distance can reach 918 meters, and accurate hits can be guaranteed within 550 meters. It is also very powerful. It was carried out in 1849.
The test found that the Migne rifle can penetrate two two-thirds-inch-thick poplar boards within 15 yards, which is equivalent to 14 meters, and the two boards are 20 inches apart.
As for the effective horizontal shooting distance of the smoothbore gun, it generally does not exceed 300 meters. The shooting accuracy exceeds 150 meters and depends on luck.