Chapter 41: Flintlock pistols
Want to go home to farm and write a book?
If you want to be beautiful, how will I let you succeed?
However, in Tongzhou to train troops, Zhu Youxiao felt that he could.
Of course, it's not enough to just train the soldiers, you have to get involved in this matter, otherwise let those people in the Donglin Party mix it up, what kind of soldiers are you training?
As for the current secretary of the military department is Cui Jingrong, what does this person say? Decent way.
The point is that the current ministers of the DPRK and China have nothing to do at all, and the reason is very simple, the Donglin Party has been jumping up and down.
The Donglin Party, which controls the official of Kedaoyan, has been very happy in recent years. Or from this time onwards, until the fall of the Ming Dynasty, this situation has always existed.
The officials who say that they do things make the officials make big mistakes, small mistakes, and simply don't do it, and if they don't do it, they will be impeached at most a corpse.
Anyway, in Zhu Youxiao's view, the official of the science and Taoism must be changed. It is these people who pride themselves on being clear and jumping up and down, making the Ming Dynasty miserable.
Cui Jingrong is in this situation, basically he doesn't dare to say anything, he doesn't dare to do anything, and he doesn't dare to express his opinions on the affairs of Liaodong.
Of course, there is a key reason, Cui Jingrong is also a Donglin Party.
In the original history, Cui Jingrong was deprived of his post for sheltering Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and other famous "Six Gentlemen of Donglin", so he resigned and returned to his hometown.
"The brainwashing and moral kidnapping of the Donglin Party played really well." Zhu Youxiao sighed softly, political correctness is unacceptable!
Not to mention that in this era, even in some so-called big countries of people and pigs in later generations, what has become of those extreme political correctness? Blacks, transgenders, are simply invincible.
Zhu Youxiao thought about it, this needs to be changed.
Of course, for Zhu Youxiao, the formation and training of the new army is the most critical thing at hand.
What's the use of talking without a gun in your hand? The emperor spoke like a fart, and the biggest reason why the local government was out of control was that the central government had lost its authority.
How did the authority of the central government come about?
The answer is as simple as that, the central army can't fight, and when your army can't fight, then what authority do you have?
"Chen Hong, summon Xu Guangqi to Beijing." Zhu Youxiao didn't even think about it, and directly let Xu Guangqi enter Beijing.
It is impossible for this person to return to Tianjin to farm, and now is the time to employ people, how can Xu Guangqi let it go?
Don't think about it when you go back to Tianjin, come and come, come to my bowl, don't you want to train the army? I'm just here to train my troops.
Since he thought of Xu Guangqi, Zhu Youxiao naturally thought of another person, this person is called Bi Maokang.
Bi Maokang, the word Menghou, the eastern suburbs, the passer-by of She County. Chinese Ming Dynasty official and weapons expert. He wrote "Illustrated Descriptions of Weapons", which listed all kinds of firearms and crossbows, and described the manufacture, use and power of weapons with pictures and texts. In the book: "The people who are most afraid of China are also firearms." This book was banned in the 46th year of Qianlong.
This person Zhu Youxiao was naturally more needed, and Bi Maokang first introduced the flintlock pistol (called the self-generated fire pistol in the book) in his "Illustrated Description of Weapons".
The device of arquebus ignition was improved to use flint as the ignition device, thus overcoming the weakness of arquebus ignition that it was afraid of wind and rain.
When the flintlock pistol is placed on the firing device to fire, the shooter pulls the trigger, and the faucet placed on the trigger is struck by friction with the flint to form a fire, and the spark falls into the charging chamber, so that the gunpowder burns, produces gas thrust, and shoots the projectile out.
This kind of gun can be fired as long as the bolt is continuously pulled and the flint is struck, thus simplifying the firing procedure and increasing the rate of fire.
The flintlock pistol was a major improvement of the individual pistol, and its modification and completion were roughly the same period as in Europe, but it was not popularized in China in time, and it was only used as the emperor's hunting rifle during the Kangxi reign of the early Qing Dynasty.
How could Zhu Youxiao give up the flintlock pistol?
In Zhu Youxiao's opinion, his new army should simply stop playing those virtual ones, and go directly to the golden finger!
A small steel cannon with a flintlock pistol is matched with Qi Jiguang's chariot.
The principle of the chariot battalion chariot is very simple, that is, the chariot is used to stop the attack of the enemy's cavalry, which is used to limit the speed of the horse.
Fighting in Liaodong, in Zhu Youxiao's opinion, there is no need for cavalry at all, how big is Liaodong? Running back and forth with cavalry?
Liaodong is not a grassland, as long as the chariot battalion is pushed up, the cavalry is used as a scout and escort wing, and the platoon guns with small cannons and flintlock pistols can withstand the fight?
Of course, this is just Zhu Youxiao's speculation.
I don't know the effect because I haven't gone through actual combat, but Zhu Youxiao still feels that he has to do it.
The reason is very simple, according to the original way, it proves that it is not good at all, it stands to reason that people like Lu Xiangsheng, Zu Dashou, etc., these people are all famous generals, but they just can't win, and Zhu Youxiao also feels that he has seen a ghost.
Anyway, it doesn't matter, the big deal is to die in the country, and dying in Chongzhen's hands is the same as dying in his own hands, just reckless, this is what he did.
"Chen Hong, do you know Bi Maokang?" Zhu Youxiao looked at Chen Hong, and then asked.
"Emperor, Bi Maokang is the governor of Shuntian Mansion." Chen Hong looked at Zhu Youxiao cautiously, for fear that the emperor of his family would lose his temper.
Shuncheon Fucheng?
This Zhu Youxiao really didn't expect that he was actually Shuntian Mansion?
Shuntianfu is well understood, and the government located in Jingshi (present-day Beijing) is an establishment. He was in charge of the punishment of Gyeonggi and Qian Valley, and was in charge of welcoming spring, entering spring, sacrificing to the god of Xiannong, plowing and hunting with the Son of Heaven, supervising the township test, and supplying examination equipment. Shuncheonfu Cheng is the adjutant of Suncheonfu Yin.
"Summoned to the palace." Zhu Youxiao nodded, it will take a little time to summon Xu Guangqi, after all, this person is in Tongzhou. Of course, Tongzhou is not far away.
But in comparison, this Shuntianfu Yamen is much closer, since Xu Guangqi can't come for the time being, it's better to summon Bi Maokang first!
Zhu Youxiao sat on the chair, still thinking about his explosive plan in his heart.
The flintlock platoon has one greater advantage over the cavalry, that is, it is a good explosive soldier.
A good cavalryman is difficult to train, not only to be proficient in horsemanship, but also to be proficient in bow and arrow martial arts; But a flintlock musketeer, as long as he is trained to stand in line, he can load a bullet and pull the trigger.
Once the industrial capacity keeps up, the speed of the rioters is definitely not comparable to that of the cavalry.
What is the advantage of Daming?
The answer is simple, there are many people.
The grain can keep up, the military industry production capacity can keep up, how many soldiers can the people explode?
In Zhu Youxiao's opinion, it's not a problem to explode him for five million, right?
Of course, here we are talking about professional soldiers, five million professional soldiers, armed with cannons and flintlock pistols, where can they hit?
Zhu Youxiao felt that he could hit the sky.
"If you don't have money, you can't train soldiers, if you don't have soldiers, you don't have power, if you don't have power, you don't have money, it's a dead cycle!" Zhu Youxiao sighed lightly: "No wonder the emperor of the Ming Dynasty has to use eunuchs to get money!" You can't do anything without money, it seems that you have to learn from the emperor of the Han Dynasty! ”