Chapter 90: Practicing the Gun

"You're saying a good thing, you're saying it perfectly."

Min Yuanqi heard half of it and knew that the news in front of him was not simple, and the things involved were real management things, Min Yuanqi had been thinking about the management of the barracks and various construction sites and salt farms for a period of time, but he had not sorted out the real usable clues.

In later generations, Min Yuanqi was just a small civil servant, and he knew a little about management, but it was not something he was good at, but he was good at it, but he didn't finish talking about Min Yuanqi and knew that what this person said was very reasonable.

There are many hundred households who have the ambition to build their own salt ponds, but they lack capital, and they don't have any manpower, material resources and silver, but these people may not cooperate with powerful big men such as Li Kecheng, and they are not Wang Sanyi and Li Guoding, these two hundred household officials have the best support for Min Yuanqi, the relationship is the closest, and they get the most benefits, and the rest of the hundred households do not have so many benefits, and their minds are different, and Min Yuanqi cannot give them much benefit at this time, the more they give, the more these people will be insufficient, and people's hearts are greedy. Min Yuanqi is well aware of this.

"Just do as you say," Min Yuanqi thought for a while and said, "Tomorrow I will officially appoint you as a promotion officer, specifically responsible for the promotion of labor at the Yanchi construction site. Chen De is in charge of technology in the craftsman, you don't have to worry about this piece, everything such as calculation and planning, planning and settlement are entrusted to you with one hand. ”

This is the result that Zhu Wen wanted, he hurriedly stood up and arched his hand: "The villain is just a pawn, I'm afraid I can't afford such a big responsibility." ”

"Jidian is also the number one person in the county, and he has been wronged in our health center." Min Yuanqi seemed to have a smile on his face, he looked at Zhu Wen, and said in a deep voice: "If a capable person has no ambition, he is just an ordinary follower. Ambitious people are powerless and will only invite disaster. Those who are ambitious and capable can make a career. This official doesn't hate capable people, but he hates ambitious incompetent people, do you understand what I mean? ”

A cold sweat broke out on the corners of Zhu Wen's forehead, and he already fully understood what Min Yuanqi meant.

"The villain will do his best." Zhu Wen said: "After discussing with my colleagues tomorrow, I will make a detailed regulation for adults to read." ”

Through this period of contact, Zhuwen also understood that the most important thing for Min Yuanqi is the regulations, although the previous regulations were quite sloppy and even full of loopholes, but Min Yuanqi's words were very inspiring to Zhuwen: no matter how bad the rules are, it is better than no rules.

It is precisely because of this sentence that Zhuwen has seen and thought more during this period of time, and has also discussed with a few companions, and there are frequent changes today, this is the best time, and it is also the best time for Zhuwen to take the liberty of coming tonight.

Now, the results are pretty good.

……

"Bang, bang, bang, bang......"

The continuous gunfire rang out on the west side of the school field, and there were more than a dozen targets standing under the gentle slope fifty paces away.

Min Yuanqi himself is also holding a bird gun, the self-generated fire gun has been handed over to Shen Yong to study, Min Yuanqi is a serious bird gun used by Zhejiang soldiers, the gun tube is thick, exuding a metallic luster, due to the use of many years, the body guard has been dull, and there are many damages.

Fortunately, the gun tube is still quite solid, the faucet trigger has been polished by Shen Yong and refreshed, after the shooting, primer and bullet, the faucet clamps the ignited fire rope, pulls the trigger, the burning fire rope ignites the primer, the primer ignites the projectile, and the kinetic energy of the gunpowder burst pushes out the lead bullet, and the whole process of shooting is over.

Min Yuanqi is no stranger to playing with a musket.

When he was a teenager, he lived in a coastal village, and although there was no big game in the vast and sparsely populated countryside, there were not many wild animals such as rabbits and pheasants, and there was no strict ban on guns in the country at that time, and it was not uncommon for a village to have multiple muskets.

Min Yuanqi's grandfather has an old smoothbore, at least more than a hundred years of history, at that time China after a hundred years of war and civil weapons have a lot of weapons, to Min Yuanqi when he was a teenager, most of the militia's automatic weapons were confiscated into storage, some double-barreled and single-barrel shotguns, old-fashioned muskets have been preserved in the people, people use these muskets to fight rabbits and pheasants, and birds, at that time, the laws and regulations are not so strict, and people do not have much awareness of protecting the environment.

Min Yuanqi often followed his grandfather to shoot pheasants and wild ducks in the middle of the night to dawn, the old smoothbore is estimated to be the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China imitation British flintlock pistol, the maintenance is quite good, it should be able to use paper to package the bullet, but the rural wild animals pay attention to range killing, so they are all shotguns, that is, small steel ball bullets, plugged gunpowder and bullets after pulling the trigger can be fired. The dragon struck the reed, ejecting a large spark into the fire door, and then the handguard shook, and the fire splattered out from the gun, and a large bullet inflicted an area of effect on the small prey within fifty paces.

Every time he went out in the middle of the night and came home at dawn, Min Yuanqi always had strings of ducks and pheasants hanging around his neck, and of course, hares.

Min Yuanqi also saw his grandfather use the grinding bullets to hit roe deer and other big prey, but the accuracy of the old smoothbore was too poor, and the bullets hit by the trees a hundred steps away could still penetrate deep into the trunk of the trees, and the sawdust flew sideways, but more than fifty steps, no matter how good the hunter was, he could not guarantee that he could accurately hit the prey.

At that time, Min Yuanqi didn't like the old gun very much, he liked the double-barreled or single-barrel shotgun held by young people, and he always dreamed that he could have a good gun, even if it was an air gun.

It's a pity that this gun dream woke up soon, one was a family accident, and the other was the country's strict ban on guns, and the men's dream of playing with guns was shattered at that time.

When he held this most sophisticated firearm made by the Ming Dynasty, Min Yuanqi's heart was full of helplessness.

The shooting accuracy does not exceed thirty steps, and if you exceed this distance, don't think about the accuracy.

The power is acceptable, about 50 steps can break the thick wooden target, that is to say, at this distance, even the iron armor can not guarantee not to be seriously injured or killed, more than 50 steps to 100 steps, can still make deep or shallow marks on the board, indicating that at about 100 steps, the target without armor may still be injured by a hit or even hit the vital point and die.

Beyond one hundred and fifty steps, the bullet will basically not cause any damage to the object, and it will be almost completely useless.

Bows of this era also differed in size and power. For example, the effective killing and accurate shooting of the small tip bow does not exceed fifty steps, and the Kaiyuan bow does not exceed seventy steps, and it is just a matter of luck to exceed this distance. The clear bow is much stronger, and the effective killing and accurate shooting can reach about 70 to 100 steps, and beyond this distance, it can only be a projectile, and the salvo projectile method is used to carry out range killing.

Some hunting bows only have a dozen steps of accurate shooting and effective killing, and when encountering large prey, they have to shoot all over the prey before they can shoot it.

No matter how dissatisfied with the bird gun in the opponent, Min Yuanqi knew that he was still holding a sharp weapon of this era, a seven-pound firecracker, three feet long, four dollars of gunpowder, and three dollars of bullets. If you want to talk about accuracy, then maybe two to three months is enough.

A banner army has never been in contact with a bird's gun, and three months is enough time to go from a superficial fight to being able to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy.

And an elite archer, if he wants to achieve five out of ten shots, he has to train hard for at least three years. It takes at least ten years of hard work to shoot accurately on the battlefield, even to gallop left and right on a horse, and to use light and heavy arrows freely.

In this regard, the nomads and fishing and hunting peoples have a natural advantage, although the current northern captives have been weakened and reduced to the vassals and accomplices of the Jurchens, but it is not that the Mongols forgot to ride and shoot, but they have exhausted their courage in the war with the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, lack of iron weapons and war reserves, plus division and civil strife, as well as the spread of Lamaism, this gang of extremely vicious people only went south to loot when they were hungry and crazy, and they usually had no ambition to attack the Han land in the south.

The Jurchens are different, they rise between the white mountains and black waters, the more difficult and harsh environment makes them more tenacious, and the trade with the Ming Dynasty makes them half fishing, hunting and half farming, and the long-term dealings with the Ming army in Liaodong make them learn the Ming army's array tactics, learn to build weapons and armor, when they end the internal division and condense into a whole, the combat effectiveness rises sharply, and the Liaodong Ming army at the same time was weakened because of the long-term neglect of Shenzong and the war to aid the dynasty, and the next thing is the continuous defeat of the Ming army, the Ming giant, staggered, Finally, it has come to this threshold of final destruction.

Seeing the poor results of shooting, the banner troops around them made a noise of frustration.

Most of the firearms players who were singled out were shorter, thinner bannermen, less qualified to be sword players, not even front-line spears, most of them were boring handles, guarding and picking up leaks in the back, and also back-row spears, standing on relatively safe and less important flanks when the array was swinging out.

Now there is no position of archers in the entire Baihu trained banner army, and the general array of the Ming army is the front row and the front of the left and right wings standing with sword cards, the pikemen in the center, and the archers behind the two wings, covered by spears and sword cards. In battle, the archers cover in front, and when the enemy approaches, they retreat, and the swords and spears come forward, and the archers retreat and continue to shoot.

Because the Ming army has long used firearms, the ration of twenty archers per hundred households in the early Ming Dynasty gradually disappeared, and when Qi Jiguang formed his army, the position of the archers was directly given to the firecrackers, and the facts also proved that as long as the firearms were well-made and the guns were strictly trained, the role of the firearms had surpassed the bow and arrow when facing the enemy.

Huaxia has always used bows and crossbows in history, and there is no trace of strong crossbows in the Ming Dynasty.

"Collect the guns, clear the chamber!"

All the guns placed the fire guns in front of their feet, and then pulled the squeeze from under the guns, and there was a sound of cleaning the guns around them.