"Master Sun is from Daizhou, Shanxi?"

After half a year, Sun Chuanting heard the question of the Son of Heaven, and did not ask about his resume as an official, but talked about his hometown.

"Back to Your Majesty, the Chendai Prefecture Zhenwu Guard."

"Oh, I wonder if Lord Sun has any experience in marching and fighting?"

When Sun Chuanting heard this, he was a little confused, in addition to serving as a magistrate, and then serving in the Ministry of Officials, he had no experience in leading the army, I don't know why the Son of Heaven asked this, is it because he is from the defense office?

Sun Chuanting didn't understand very much, so he could only follow the Son of Heaven and say it.

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister has never led the army, although he is from the border guard, he is a young man who has not participated in martial arts."

"Hahaha, it's okay."

Seeing that Sun Chuanting was unclear, Zhu Youzhen smiled dumbly, and then went on to explain.

"I want to change Qing to the post of Generalissimo Mansion Experience Division, I don't know what Qing wants?"

Sun Chuanting was stunned when he heard this, he knew about the experience of the various yamen in the capital, and it was generally from the official position of the fifth grade, but what kind of yamen was the Generalissimo's Mansion, why had he never heard of it before.

Because of Zhu Youzhen's deliberate low-key, except for high-level Beijing officials, few people in the Generalissimo's Mansion know about it, let alone Sun Chuanting, who resigned and went into hiding.

"Your Majesty, forgive the ministers for being ignorant, dare to ask where this generalissimo's mansion is the yamen, and what is the position of the head of this experience?"

"The Generalissimo's Mansion is a new institution established by me in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, mainly responsible for the affairs of organizing and training the new army, and the main force of the new army in Guizhou to quell the rebellion is from the Generalissimo's Mansion."

When Sun Chuanting heard this, he understood a little, he had learned about the counterinsurgency in Guizhou, and he had also heard a little about the combat effectiveness of the new army.

Zhu Youzhen continued: "In addition, this experience department is mainly to cooperate with the Shangguan to do a good job in the training of the new army, and the current generalissimo in charge of the affairs of the new army is the governor and the governor Lu Xiangsheng, that is, your Shangguan. ”

Sun Chuanting nodded when he heard this, the Son of Heaven let himself train the new army, thinking of this, Sun Chuanting remembered the soldiers he saw at the palace gate before, that should be the new army.

Transferring a new army to guard the palace, it seems that the Son of Heaven attaches great importance to this new army.

"Sun Aiqing is from the border area, you must know some about the situation of the officers and soldiers over the years, the generals eat empty salaries, raise private soldiers, the soldiers are not full, and they lack basic training and necessary equipment, and the officers and soldiers are already unbearable."

Sun Chuanting came from the border guards, what those guards were like, he knew better than the Son of Heaven, and when he heard the Son of Heaven say this, he nodded cooperatively.

Zhu Youzhen stood up, paced out the imperial case, and continued.

"In recent years, the dynasty coincided with an eventful autumn, surrounded by Jurchen and Mongol strong enemies, and there were disasters and rebellions inside.

Zhu Youzhen walked down the imperial stairs and came to Sun Chuanting and said.

"Because of the various shortcomings of the official army, its generals I did not dare to use it to train the new army, although the Ming Dynasty is big, but good generals are hard to find, I want to follow the example of the Han and Tang Dynasties, and promote outstanding people and children of good families to enlist in the army, in order to revitalize the prestige of our Ming army."

"Therefore, I build martial arts, recruit aspiring talents to join the army, and recruit the world's virtuous ministers as generals, I have a good understanding of the world's talents, Qing has an upright temperament, has the style of an ancient minister, and wants to be with the important task of Qing, I don't know if Qing can help me revive the prestige of the Ming Dynasty?"

As he spoke, Zhu Youzhen patted Sun Chuanting twice on the shoulder.

With such courtesy, Sun Chuanting was already very moved, and hurriedly knelt down and asked for his life.

"The border ministers, lonely and unheard, fortunately met the blue eyes of the Ming monarch, the ministers dare not obey their orders, now Your Majesty wants to revive the prestige of the Ming Dynasty, the ministers are not talented, and they will serve to help Your Majesty to prosper the Ming Dynasty."

Seeing this, Zhu Youzhen hurriedly helped Sun Chuanting up, and then ordered Liu Ruozai to draft an edict.

Until Sun Chuanting received the holy decree, he didn't understand where the Son of Heaven knew that he had the talent to lead the army.

And after sending Sun Chuanting away, Zhu Youzhen didn't feel that the ancient emperor bought people's hearts so simply, two words of encouragement can move the scholars, this Confucian idea of loyalty to the monarch is really not blown.

In fact, Zhu Youzhen didn't expect another aspect that his simple Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting were famous loyal ministers in the original history, even if the emperor failed the two again and again, the two were the last to die to repay the king.

The personalities of the two are like this, so at this time, seeing Zhu Youzhen treating him sincerely, with the country's scholar Xu Zhi, how could the two not be more grateful.

It's ridiculous that someone still boasts of a charismatic personality.

After Sun Chuanting came to Xishan, Lu Xiangsheng was a little less stressed and began to spend most of his energy on the training of the new army.

In order to cope with the possible coming big war, Zhu Youzhen improved the Huzun cannon in order to strengthen the firepower allocation of the new army while casting artillery.

It is impossible to verify who first invented the tiger squat cannon, but it was indeed carried forward in the Qi family's army, and Qi Jiguang's "Actual Record of Military Training" also recorded the improvement process of the tiger squat cannon.

"The bowl mouth has a small belly and a big mouth, the item is short and the medicine is few, the child is heavy, the hair is weak, and it is unbearable. If it is used, it must be more than three feet long in the abdomen, and the lead is sent to the bottom of the abdomen to be sent out, which is urgent and medium. Among the fifty people, one can be prepared, in case of the conflict of the general situation on the road, now named the tiger squat cannon. ”

The tiger squat cannon of the Ming army is about 2 feet (about 70 centimeters) long, there are seven iron hoops around the body, the head of the cannon is erected by two iron claws, and there are iron stumbling, and the total weight is more than 30 catties.

Before firing, the cannon body must be fixed to the ground with a large iron nail through an iron trip, which is shaped like a creeping tiger, and is named after the tiger squat cannon.

Each launch can be loaded with 5 yuan of small lead or 100 small stones, with a pound of large lead bullets or large stone bullets on the top, the size of the bullets fly out when fired.

The lethality and radiation range are very large, especially suitable for bombarding the enemy's dense combat formation in the field, which can effectively suppress its frantic offensive.

Depending on the amount of charge and the use of projectiles, the Tiger squat cannon has a firing range of between fifty and five hundred meters.

If an iron bullet weighing more than one pound is simply fired, the projectile range can reach 500 meters while maintaining the situation of firing from the back.

In fact, when Zhu Youzhen saw the tiger squat cannon for the first time, he remembered the mortar he had seen in his previous life.

It is also a sixty or seventy centimeter barrel, and then there is a bracket to erect it for projectile, and the range is actually about the same, but the difference is that the mortar fires a bomb, but this tiger squat cannon can only fire iron bullets, and the lethality is reduced all of a sudden.

Zhu Youzhen, who has the memory of the power of mortars in his previous life, feels that there is no point in this kind of cannon for long-distance projectiles.

Sending a one-pound iron ball to a distance of 500 meters in the form of a projectile can be limited, even if it can concentrate the target.