Chapter 479: High-level defense
Besides, he said his thoughts, his idea is basically a large firecracker, but after the firecracker explodes, it is not a gorgeous firework, but a polished sharp piece of broken iron, which can also be called a prefabricated fragment, and there are also lead shots, but there is still a difference between * and *, and the structure of the firing is different.
Sun Hu was stunned for a moment, he didn't understand at all, it seemed that he was speaking Mongolian, and it was a suburban accent, but he still looked at it with a look of admiration: The power is great, it is indeed good, you can think nonsense.
Besides, he immediately returned to his Chinese army tent and wrote a letter to Zhang Juzheng, in which he drew a diagram of the structure of the two types of firearms, and asked Zhang Juzheng to go to the Ordnance Bureau to find those skilled craftsmen to try to see if he could make the secret weapons he needed.
Besides, he knew that his idea was not mature enough, and it was just an idea, but those skilled craftsmen would definitely be able to perfect his idea, and the thing he would make would be more practical and elaborate than he thought. His rainstorm pear flower needle is a modified version carefully created by the Ordnance Bureau.
The scale of the Ordnance Bureau of the Ming Dynasty was extraordinary, and it could be regarded as a super arsenal in the era of cold weapons, and all the standard weapons used by the officials and soldiers were manufactured by the Ordnance Bureau. The Ordnance Bureau is home to countless skilled craftsmen recruited from all over the country, and there are almost no equipment that they cannot make. Moreover, the ideas provided have a certain degree of feasibility, and they will soon bear fruit when they arrive at the Ordnance Bureau.
Moreover, he was not the first person to provide ideas, Qi Jiguang invented a lot of firearms, and after putting forward the idea, the Ordnance Bureau perfected and then manufactured, and Qi Jiguang then formed various formations of these firearms together with bows and arrows. The reason why Qi Jiguang was able to win every battle was that his advanced military concept played a decisive role.
It is very easy in later generations, not to mention the country's largest arsenal, which can be manufactured by even a rural workshop, but in the Ming Dynasty, this thing is still a cutting-edge technology, which can be called a great invention.
The Ming Dynasty firearms manufacturing was actually very advanced, the artillery technology of the early Ming Dynasty was at the forefront of the world at that time, Yongle relied on two magic weapons with soldiers all his life, one is the firearm pressure array, the other is the Mongolian cavalry as the vanguard, invincible in his lifetime.
However, since Xuanzong, the invention and manufacture of firearms has shown a regressive trend, and in the late Ming Dynasty, compared with the firearms technology of the early Ming Dynasty, it is like two dynasties, which is also a major mystery of the Ming Dynasty. If according to Qi Jiguang's firearms manufacturing technology at that time, as long as it continues to develop step by step, in the Chongzhen period, the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty should be a neat and uniform firearms unit.
Why did the Ming Dynasty fail to do this, first of all, it may be the serious lag of military theory, after all, Qi Jiguang has only one, and there has never been such a military talent after that, the second is the economic problem, ten years after Shenzong Wanli, as soon as Zhang Juzheng died, the economy of the Ming Dynasty gradually declined, and finally in the last years of Shenzong, it was almost on the verge of collapse.
The economy is not good, and if we want to develop firearms in all aspects, which cost a lot of resources and huge amounts of money, we naturally have the heart but are powerless.
Sun Hu didn't understand what he was saying, he just felt that it sounded very powerful, and as soon as he left, his mind was empty, and he didn't want to do it.
After spreading the thistle terrestris all over the dug trench, Sun Hu found that the thistle terrestris was seriously insufficient, so he thought of a trick and immediately ran to ask for advice.
"My lord, the thistle terrestris is still not enough, can you bury our arrows at the bottom of the trench, although it is more troublesome, but the effect must be very good, and it will not be wasted." Sun Hu asked.
Moreover, the campsite occupies too large an area, and the trench dug around the camp is naturally very long, and the original estimate of thistle terrestris is enough to cover the bottom layer of the trench, but now it seems that the estimate is still wrong.
"Yes, bury some of the arrows of the crossbow in there, and the arrows are pointing upwards." Besides.
"Yes." Sun Hu's suggestion was adopted, and he ran away happily.
When he returned, he took many arrows from the ordinary bow and arrow, as well as arrows with strong crossbows, and buried them at the bottom of the trench, and the arrows naturally went upward, and if anyone fell down, his body would be pierced.
After all this was done, and after a round of inspection, I was very satisfied, and this campsite can now be said to be impregnable.
"Is the drawbridge ready?" And think of the last step.
"It can be done tonight." Sun Hu replied.
Besides, he nodded. Now that the trench has completely isolated the camp from the outside world, although the people outside can't get in, and the people inside can't get out, maybe only Murong Yanran's master and apprentice can enter and leave freely, and no one else has the ability to fly across the twenty-zhang trench.
The fly in the ointment is the lack of water, and if the trench is full of water, it will be perfect.
However, this is outside the plug, and no one can bear to waste the hard-won water source, which will be damned.
While they were doing all this, there were already many people outside, all watching curiously, but no one dared to cross the trench.
At this time, when they saw that they had come out to inspect, some people shouted, "Aren't you going to auction?" Why not let people in? ”
Sun Hu said loudly: "The auction is scheduled for three days later, and there are still many people who have not arrived, so you can wait patiently outside." ”
"Why do we have to auction it now in three days." One man shouted.
"yes, I just want those people to fly on the grass." Another humane.
"You don't understand the auction, it's just that everyone bids together, whoever has the highest price will go to whom, and there are many buyers who haven't arrived, of course you can't start the auction." Sun Hu opened his voice and said loudly.
Of course, those people outside understand, they just want to auction in advance, and then take advantage of the small number of buyers, so that they can sell at a lower price.
Auctions are nothing new, and the slave trade is a bidding method, just selling as it goes, and it is not so rigorous.
The reason why auction was rare in ancient China was because the slave society ended too early in China, not only was the slave trade rare, but the prostitution system was only restarted after the Tang Dynasty, and it was interrupted for nearly a thousand years.
Of course, human trafficking has always existed in ancient societies, and Renyazi is an officially licensed human trafficking operator, but if you look closely, you will find that human trafficking in ancient Chinese society is different from the population management system of slave society.
Take the Ming Dynasty as an example, it established a humanistic society dominated by civil officials, while the nomadic people outside the Saiwai were basically still in the period of slave society.
The most significant point is that the Qing Dynasty, after fully inheriting the advanced civil official system of the Ming Dynasty, still retained the most primitive and darkest Eight Banners slave system, which directly brought China's advanced civilization back to hundreds of years.
Later generations said that the Qing Dynasty was more politically clear and socially prosperous than the Ming Dynasty, but in fact it was an illusion, and the Qing Dynasty was not progressing, but regressing, and it was the darkest page in China's modern history.
As for the history of the existence of the Qing Dynasty for nearly 400 years, there are also problems with this judgment, in fact, since the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period, the real Qing Dynasty has perished, and the political power has basically fallen into the hands of Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang, Zuo Zongtang, Zhang Zhidong, and several Han bureaucratic groups, so the real Qing Dynasty power is maintained until the Xianfeng period. It's just that these Han bureaucrats hinder each other, and no one wants one family to be dominant, so that the dead Qing Empire can remain dying until Pu Yi ascends the throne, and in the end, Yuan Shikai just pushed lightly, and the Qing Dynasty was wiped out.
The people from all walks of life who came were basically from the rivers and lakes, that is, the people from the mainland who entered the rivers and lakes from the mainland, and they fled to the desert for a long time because they could not survive in the rivers and lakes in the mainland for various reasons.
This is not to say that they are bad people, after all, his father Guo Zhong practiced medicine outside Cyprus for several years because of the pursuit of the enemy in his early years, in fact, it was to avoid trouble, and Xiaojun also fled all the way to the court of the king of Alta under the pursuit of the opponent.
These people are all coming with great momentum, thinking that as long as they get here, they can force them to hand over people happily with some silver, after all, they are all extraordinary people, and they always feel that they have paid for them, which is already very face-saving.
When they saw the wide, twenty-zhang wide trench, they were immediately discouraged, and dismissed their original thoughts, because this distance could not be crossed at all, and even if a few people with light skills could fly over at once, they would fall right under the noses of a row of archers standing opposite.
It would be even worse if you were shot by an arrow in the middle of the leap and you would inevitably fall into the trench, and there would be thistles and sharp arrows all over the place, and no one would be able to recognize who it was if they fell and were carried up.
During this day, there are also some people from small tribes who come here without any noise, honestly pitch their tents outside, and wait for the auction to begin.
At this moment, a man suddenly ran a few steps on the other side of the trench, and then leaped forward and flew towards the side of the trench.
"Be careful, sir." Sun Hu was stunned, his brain was congested for a while, what kind of person is this, it's just a deadly rhythm at all.
"Shoot the arrows!" Ji Chang shouted loudly.
In fact, these archers had already begun to shoot arrows without his orders, and they were given orders to shoot down as soon as someone tried to leap over the trench.
This man is also a master, the so-called high-spirited type, he may think that it is easy to leap over the trench, and the arrows fired by those archers only tickle him.
This is really a dead mouth, drowned in water.
This man became the first person to eat crabs, but of course his results were doomed to tragedy.
More than a hundred bows and arrows shot at him, this person was stunned at this time, he had already crossed a trench twenty zhang wide, which showed that this person could really be ranked among the top masters, even if it was not as good as a master like Murong Yanran, it should not be much worse.
Unfortunately, some things almost didn't work, this man waved his robe sleeve and broke a dozen bows and arrows, which was already remarkable, but he was still shot by dozens of arrows, and not only became a hedgehog, but also fell into a trench that had just been laid out full of thistles and arrowheads.
When the man began to leap, the people on the other side let out a cheer, and when they saw what happened to him, the cheers immediately turned into exclamations, and then they all fell silent.