Chapter 66: The Flintlock Pistol Comes Out
It is natural for those who tend to win, seek profit and avoid harm. The Later Jin Dynasty has been defeated this year. The hostile forces around him will take advantage of the situation and immediately take advantage of the situation, but it is inevitable to despise him.
If the decline cannot be reversed, some force may be ready to move. Nurhaci cannot predict possible changes, and his worries and impatience are also normal thinking.
In the eyes of Nurhaci and Huang Taiji, using Han troops and preparing firearms is a good way to seize the skills of the Ming army and reverse the passive trend.
But in Zhu Youxiao's view, the decisive factor in the outcome of the Ming and Qing wars in history was not advanced and new weapons, but caused by the corruption of the Ming Dynasty.
After all, weapons are important, but without forming a crushing advantage, talents are the key factors that determine the outcome of a war.
However, with the current technology and manufacturing level, aircraft, cannons and machine guns cannot be made. To defeat the Donglu, you must work hard on the officers and soldiers.
With the advantage of the Ming Dynasty's manpower, even if it is only equipped with a big sword and a spear, as long as the army fights bravely, it is enough to defeat the disabled Donglu?
Of course, if the ability allows and the weapons are advanced, it is best to lead the world trend, which is also the urinary nature of time travelers.
Zhu Youxiao is a master of the Supreme Emperor of the Nine Five, and he has many talents in charge of the sky, earth and air. As long as he uses it well, as long as he proposes ideas, someone will naturally help him complete it.
Holding the new musket presented by the Gunpowder Weapon Bureau - the self-produced musket, Zhu Youxiao was excited and excited.
Although his wooden spear played a good prompt, Sun Yuanhua and others did not know how much hard work they had to turn into a real thing.
The structure of the flintlock gun and the flintlock gun is roughly the same, but the difference in the firing device.
The fuse must be fixed to the fuse clamp (that is, the hammer of the gun later), pull the plate machine, let the fuse fall down, light the lead-in medicine, and then ignite the ejection medicine.
The flintlock rifle replaces the flint with a polished flint piece. There is a one-strike anvil next to the fire transmission hole, which pulls the trigger. Under the action of the reed, it hits the flint heavily on the edge of the fire door, sparks appear, and ignites gunpowder to fire.
One is open flame, which does not require much power to the hammer; the other is that it produces Mars by hitting friction, so it must have greater force.
This is what Zhu Youxiao believes in the technical difficulties, springs or steel sheets with strong elasticity.
Although crucible steelmaking is successful, long-term testing is still required to find appropriate ratios and processes to create elastic steel with relatively stable quality.
Pulling the hammer, Zhu Youxiao aimed the gun and pulled the plate machine.
The flint piece hit hard on the anvil, and a few sparks burst out, as if the light flashed in the dark night illuminated the emperor's eyes.
"Okay, very good." Zhu Youxiao took a deep breath and breathed a sigh of relief. Although he did not have gold and jade inlay, he still took care of the sample gun and asked the palace servants to put it away.
Looking up at the two people standing solemnly in the hall, Zhu Youxiao was excited and maintained the emperor's reserve, although his voice changed a little.
"Sun Qing, Bi Qing. This will be the best New Year gift for me." Zhu Youxiao praised it, turned his head to look at Liu Ruoyu, and ordered: "Issue: Sun Yuanhua was appointed as Zizhi Yin (the third rank of Wenxun), promoted to Tongyi Doctor (the third rank of Wensan), and was given flying fish clothes, Guiyu, and a reward of 200 taels of silver;"
"Bi Maokang was promoted to Zhiyin (the fourth rank of Wenxun), promoted to the title of Zhongxianfu (the fourth rank of Wensan), given a bullfighting uniform, and rewarded with 100 taels of silver..."
"I thank you for your kindness and reward." Sun Yuanhua and Bi Maokang knelt down and kowtowed to thank you.
Bi Maokang was a Jinshi in the 26th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty and was appointed as the Minister of the Central Secretariat. Later, he was promoted to the Guangxi Dao Supervisor Censor, the Right Chief Censor, the Shaanxi Inspector, and the Shandong Inspector Salt Censor.
But his reputation in history was "Military Arts and Illustrations" edited more than ten years later, which introduced the flintlock rifle (called self-generated musket in the book).
Now, with the recommendation of Xu Guangqi and Sun Yuanhua and the appreciation and promotion of the emperor, Bi Maokang abandoned politics and worked as a labourer, and built a flintlock musket more than ten years in advance, which can be listed in history.
Zhu Youxiao laughed, not hiding his joyful mood, and said, "There will be a decree in the future. Sun Qing and Bi Qing, come back and wait."
After Sun Yuanhua and Bi Maokang thanked each other again, they left.
Yes! Zhu Youxiao waved his fist hard, flintlock rifle and bayonet, and he was leading for nearly a hundred years! Donglu, Jiannu, what are you going to fight me?
The emperor stood up excitedly and paced back and forth in the hall.
Next is mass manufacturing and equipment, plus paper-carrying ammunition, it is said that well-trained soldiers can reach a speed of five rounds per minute.
Well, well! The equipment of the flintlock rifle also means a change in tactics, and requires retraining and adaptation from the army.
Moreover, if it is not particularly rainy and snowy days, the flintlock rifle can be used as usual. This undoubtedly enhances the field capabilities of the infantry, and the large counterattack also has a foundation for victory.
In just one year, Zhu Youxiao estimated the time required for manufacturing, equipment, training, etc., as well as the manufacturing scale of field artillery, and set a new timetable.
It’s a good New Year! Zhu Youxiao is looking forward to it and consciously has done his best to prepare.
Ning Yuan and Juehua don’t have to worry too much. The bastion and the red cannons are the ones that Jiannu is coming, it depends on how many they can be killed.
The headquarters of Dongjiang Town is also basically safe. At worst, it is impossible to temporarily give up the land military farmland and retreat to the island. What can Jiannu do?
Only Zhu Youxiao was worried about recovering the short-term Lu University. For this reason, he dispatched a group of artillery and sent artillery officers who graduated from martial arts to strengthen the defense power in the Lu University area.
Although they are all old artillery, such as Franchise, Tiger Squat Cannon, etc., they are still powerful and used for position defense and will also play a great role.
As for the Red Barbarian Cannon, except for Ning Yuan's more than a dozen more remittances, Zhu Youxiao will not deport to the army for the time being, but will make every effort to supply the navy and coastal fortresses.
In addition, Zhu Youxiao also asked Yuan Keli and Bi Ziyan to make preparations to reinforce the Exploration University and continue to transport food, grass and ammunition to the Exploration University.
It should be fine, it will definitely be able to defend it, and Jiannu can't afford such a large casualty.
Zhu Youxiao repeatedly cheered himself up and strengthened his confidence.
Don't say, this trick works very well. When the emperor fiddled with the flintlock rifle again, he was in a good mood and laughed happily.
Should I go out and fire a few shots? Zhu Youxiao walked to the door with a flintlock gun. Before he made the final decision, the shoveler hurried in.
"Emperor, I didn't find the White Lady." The girl gave a hurried salute and reported to the emperor anxiously.
Didn't find it? Could it be that Ye Hei's shameless man who relied on his persistence to pester and beat him up and rid his White Lady of the Family?
Zhu Youxiao thought that using Ye Hei to practice marksmanship was also a good choice. But when he frowned and thought about it, he looked up at the "tee shoveler", he couldn't help but feel moved.
Chapter completed!