CHAPTER XV
After having firearms, Zhu Di gradually mastered firearms, and after he compared them with actual combat, of course he knew the military significance and military changes brought about by this firearm. The gun is simple and easy to use, the lethality is large, the production cost is low, the time is short, the material is easy to obtain, the maintenance cost is low, and it can be used as a standard for the army, but the disadvantage is that the firing range is shorter, the accuracy is a little worse, the charging step is too cumbersome, and it cannot be used in rainy days......
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But Zhu Di was not intimidated by these shortcomings of the firecracker, or he was really discerning, or he was really a hundred years ahead of his military thinking, or he was ...... He's crazy.
So one of the three major battalions of the Beijing battalion was established, each battalion was composed of 5,000 people, 3,600 firearms, 400 gunners, and 1,000 cavalry into a battalion. After slowly figuring it out, I learned that the level of this Beijing camp is a main group army, with three main battle corps, if the emperor personally marches to lead the Beijing battalion, when the expedition is centered on the emperor's camp, from the inside to the outside is the infantry corps (five military battalions), the cavalry corps (three thousand battalions) and the firearms corps (Shenji battalion). Well, there is a highlight, the highlight is that the Shenji Battalion is independent from the five military battalions to form an army, and the style of play has also changed to a firearms attack first, and then the cavalry catches up and cuts, and the infantry cleans up the mess and cleans the battlefield.
Zhu Di used this "tattered" fire gun to fight in the south and the north, so that Zhu Di was afraid of the Tatar Taishi Arutai after several northern expeditions, after getting the news of Zhu Di's personal expedition, he directly informed the younger brothers to pack up their things and run away, after several battles with Zhu Di, Arutai figured it out, anyway, he can't beat you, it's better to retreat first to preserve his strength, the Mongolian steppe is big, find a place to hide, you can't see me, you can't find me, you can't beat me, you should withdraw when you finish eating the food, wait for you to withdraw, I'll continue to go to your border to find food, what can you do with me? This is simply the essence of guerrilla tactics, and the strategic retreat of Arutai made Zhu Di's Northern Expedition unable to achieve the strategic goal of annihilating the main Tatar force, and thus became a publicly-funded tour that cost the people and money.
Therefore, seeing the conversation record of Yao Guangxiao and Wang Wenle, Zhu Di's eyes lit up, and the court that had already engaged in the elimination of the main forces of Tatar and Warat as a strategic goal was full of complaints...... Say anything. You say why don't these sour Confucians understand that when this wolf doesn't eat meat, I don't want to leave this hidden danger to future generations, I want to pull out their teeth, but the previous two Northern Expeditions have not achieved their goals, although Warat and Tatar have successively called the ministers and pay tribute, but according to what I have seen, they have not hurt their vitality, and they will show their fangs again in a few years, and my father saw the key to the problem, and it is impossible to surround and annihilate it on the grassland, so it is better to use the grassland as a chessboard and practice the method of attack. It's just that what I didn't expect was that my father and the young master actually had a bigger appetite than me, and they wanted to eat the whole of Mongolia.
The purpose is very clear, start training now, four years later in the Northern Expedition, I led the Beijing battalion to the north from the Beijing Division with regular soldiers, and had a head-to-head confrontation with the main Tatar force in the east, and the young division commanded and commanded a few cavalry to stab its ass in the west, so I just need to advance slowly in the east, absorb the main force, and buy time for the west, and when Arutai knows that his ass is on fire, it will be too late, hehe, it is really happy.
As for the issue of the title fief outside Guanwai, it is not a big deal here in Zhu Di, Zhu Di is an emperor who treats meritorious heroes well, Zhu Di does not understand the truth that the emperor is far away, just take this Jiaozhi rebellion as an example, if the distance was a little closer and let it toss for so long, it would have been flattened a long time ago. Therefore, Zhu Di also agreed that the emperor and scholars governed the Guannei, and the lack of real fiefdoms in the Guannei was to prevent the troubles similar to the Eight Kings Rebellion and the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion in history. As for the land outside the Guan, the Ming Dynasty has no time to take care of it, in fact, it can't take care of it, because it is not suitable for applying the management method of the Ming Dynasty. This is caused by the difference between farming life and nomadic life, do not underestimate the wisdom of the ancients, the Han Dynasty's Western Regions Protectorate and the Tang Dynasty's Anxi Protectorate, Anbei Protectorate has provided a good solution, the county system of the land within the Guan, the separation of powers, the metropolitan supervision system outside the Guan, and the concentration of powers. And Zhu Di's principle of treating heroes is that as long as you are loyal to the monarch and do not violate the heinous law, everything is easy to talk about and discuss. Therefore, Zhu Di also has the purpose of agreeing and trying, after all, as early as the Han and Tang dynasties, these places have been included in the territory of China.
And Zhu Di is looking forward to the most this long gun, in fact, is the earliest arquebus, compared with the Ming Dynasty's gun, the barrel is more slender, the ratio of caliber to the length of the barrel is about one to seventy, increase the front sight and the door on the barrel, and add several devices, the arquebus, the powder pool, the clamp that fixes the arquebus, and the plate machine and the gun holder that can lift the fire rope to the powder pool, the most difficult of which is the manufacture of the barrel, but according to the current process of the Ming Dynasty, there is actually no problem at all, the biggest problem is the lack of ideas, With this holistic approach, it's a matter of time before the finished product is manufactured. The function of the arquebus device is to hold the gun with both hands, plus the front sight and the door, and there is a gun holder to stabilize the gun body, the shooting accuracy is very different from the fire gun, and then the effective range has reached 100 steps, and it can penetrate heavy armor within 50 steps.
Zhu Di's voiceover: "Hey, stinky boy, didn't my father say that the effective range is 200 steps, and the heavy armor can be penetrated within 100 steps?" ”
That's an arquebus that has been completely finalized, and we're making the first generation of arquebuses now, can this be compared? Yongle Emperor, don't think about one step to the sky, technology needs to be accumulated, every subsequent improvement has higher requirements for process technology, of course, if the improvement is successful, the reward is a larger range, stronger lethality and faster reloading speed. In addition, I should also explain that one step of my Ming is one and a half meters, and I am not good at learning, and one step is calculated according to one meter.
Zhu Di's voiceover: "I rely on ~ You also reduced the range by one-third for me after a long time, don't think that you are useless, I am reluctant to kill you...... I~ can castrate you......"