Chapter 71: The Rise of the Empire (8)

After playing with the flintlock pistol, Chongzhen still couldn't hold back his love for firearms after all, and personally went on the field to shoot a few bullets, and was happy, of course, he didn't use those goods that were mass-produced for the army, but the new owner of the War Bureau, the little eunuch, in order to please himself, specially customized, carved dragon gilt flintlock pistol, the whole firearm looks golden with a black barrel, which is quite eye-catching, so Chongzhen unceremoniously took this firearm into his own possession. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The power of the flintlock pistol is enough, but unfortunately the output is hard, and if you want to equip the army on a large scale, don't think about it in a few years, but at present, you can form a 3,000-person Shenji battalion, and just thinking about the Shenji Battalion, Chongzhen saw Sun Chuanting in the distance with a group of people, walking briskly towards the military battle bureau.

"Minister, Sun Chuanting has seen the emperor" After Sun Chuanting saw Chongzhen, he immediately stepped forward to salute.

"Sun Aiqing, why did you come to the war today" Chongzhen didn't have any idea about Sun Chuanting's here, but he just felt a little strange.

"Back to the emperor, the War Bureau will provide a batch of artillery to Weichen every once in a while, and today is the date of artillery delivery" Chongzhen thought about it, he had given this order at the beginning.

"You get up first, just come here to see if these new weapons in the War Bureau are suitable for use on the battlefield" After all, I have never been on the battlefield, and there are some things that these battlefield veterans know better than themselves.

"Look at this carriage, it was specially made by me, you said that if you form a chariot formation and meet the Jurchen cavalry, you have a chance of winning" In front of you is a four-wheeled carriage, in front of the carriage are four heavily armored war horses, the chest armor of the war horses is special, covered with spikes, the carriage is surrounded by 80 centimeter-high guards, four huge wheels more than one meter high, four sharp knives are inserted in the wheels, after spinning at high speed, it will definitely make the enemies close to it frightened, the back door can be opened down, used as a step.

"Your Majesty, the impact of the chariot array is not comparable to the cavalry, especially the emperor's four-wheeled carriage, but such a carriage is not suitable for urban combat, if you want to play the power of the chariot array, you must be in the plain area to exert its power, a large number of chariots in an area similar to the prairie and cavalry encounters, for the cavalry it is a disaster, large-scale cavalry column charge, flexibility is not much stronger than the chariot, the key is that the adaptability to the terrain is much stronger than the chariot, in terms of speed, the four-horse chariot, It will not run worse than cavalry" For chariots, Sun Chuanting concluded that as long as the terrain is suitable, the power of chariots is much stronger than that of war horses.

"Then look at these modified chariots," Chongzhen asked, pointing to all kinds of new chariots, to Sun Chuanting.

Sun Chuanting looked at it, the chariot was still the original chariot, but there were more weapons on the chariot "Aiqing, you see this is a hundred and fifty catties of small Fran cannon" Chongzhen pointed to a carriage in front of him and fixed the Fran cannon and said excitedly to Sun Chuanting, compared with the red-coated cannon, this kind of small rapid-fire rear-loading Fran cannon is a greater threat to the cavalry, especially the Fran cannon that can be pulled around on the carriage.

"And these, this is a continuous bed crossbow, six crossbow arrows can be fired at a time, and the power can reach five hundred steps (0.4-0.5 kilometers)" These bed crossbow arrows are installed in the bamboo tube, a bed crossbow is installed with six bamboo tubes, and a crossbow arrow can be installed in each bamboo tube, and up to six crossbow arrows can be fired at the same time, but in this way, the power of the bed crossbow is greatly weakened, and the range is only more than 400 meters, but the use of bamboo barrels can increase the launch speed a lot.

"This is a single-shot bed crossbow, and the longest range downwind can reach 1500 meters" Compared with the multi-shot bed crossbow, the single-shot bed crossbow focuses on range and power, and was originally intended to be used to assemble on the battleship with ceramic hollow crossbow arrows to burn the sails of the enemy ship, but it was also installed on the four-wheeled carriage by Chongzhen.

"When the time comes, the chariot is equipped with musketeers, spearmen, and chariot formations to cooperate with each other, how does Aiqing think" Chongzhen was excited like a child, and Sun Chuanting continuously introduced his new weapons, these are the new chariots that Chongzhen painstakingly came up with to fight against the Jurchen cavalry, and an agrarian country like the Ming Dynasty wanted to defeat the Jurchens on cavalry, and the Jurchens who grew up on horseback were born out of disadvantage, without five or six years of preparation and training, their cavalry could not suppress the Jurchens on the frontal battlefield, However, although the cavalry of the Ming Dynasty is not good, for the use of various weapons and tools, the group of barbarians of the Jurchens cannot match the Ming Dynasty.

As he spoke, Chongzhen, who was too excited, suddenly spurted a stream of blood from his nose, this scene frightened the eunuch who followed Chongzhen to change Sun Chuanting's soul, but the person Chongzhen's idea was that what did the group of imperial doctors eat for themselves, and they actually made up for their nosebleeds.

"Emperor" Sun Chuanting saw Chongzhen, who had just introduced his ambition with great interest to him, suddenly spurted nosebleeds, was scared half to death, and immediately stepped forward to support Chongzhen.

"What are you still in a daze, go and pass the imperial doctor, if something goes wrong with the emperor, our family wants your head" Liu Jiguang shouted loudly to the guards around him, and when he saw the guards leading the order and rushing away, he immediately slapped his own mouth, "What do I say with the most crow mouth, the emperor will definitely be fine" But the voice of this voice couldn't stop trembling.

"Don't get excited, I just have a little nosebleed, it's not a big deal, you take out your handkerchief and help me get the nosebleed" Chongzhen said to a little palace maid who was standing on the side and was scared silly, hearing Chongzhen's order. The little palace maid who reflected it immediately took out the handkerchief she carried with her and stepped forward to gently help Chongzhen wipe the blood off her face.

"It's okay, who is it, you go and take out the hot air balloon I want, I want to take a good look" Chongzhen didn't care that he still had blood on his face, he was full of interest and wanted to see the hot air balloon he had people prepare, for the hot air balloon, Chongzhen had high expectations.

Under Chongzhen's compulsory order, everyone finally acted according to Chongzhen's wishes, and the hot air balloon on the school field finally slowly rose into the air, but there was still a thick rope hanging under the hot air balloon tied to the carriage below, "What's the matter" Chongzhen looked at the little eunuch in charge of the War Bureau.

"Your Majesty, although this hot air balloon was made according to the emperor's orders, but after the little ones let this big guy take off into the air, there is no way to control its direction, and it is easy to be blown away by the wind without tying it with a rope" Hearing this, Chongzhen found that he didn't seem to be able to solve this problem, could it be that his dream of the Air Force was shattered like this.

"Aiqing, you see that such a hot air balloon that can only be lifted into the sky is still very useful", if you can't control the direction of the hot air balloon, the value of the hot air balloon will be greatly reduced.

"Your Majesty, this kind of tool is used to observe the deployment of troops in the city when attacking the city, it is very good" Sun Chuanting was very interested in the hot air balloon, Chongzhen was a little gloomy, and sure enough, there was only one reconnaissance role left.

At this time, the imperial doctor in the distance was running towards Chongzhen briskly under the pull of several little eunuchs. Sun Chuanting didn't know why the emperor, who was still in high spirits just now, suddenly became listless, looking at Chongzhen's immature face with a trace of blood, Sun Chuanting suddenly felt a little distressed about the little emperor in front of him.