After Emperor Chongzhen gave the order, Cao Bianjiao, Zu Keyong, and Hou Tianxi quickly went to inspect and measure.

It's not that Emperor Chongzhen didn't believe the reports of Bi Maokang, Sun Yuanhua and others.

But the effective range of this rifled musket can exceed the effective range of the Jurchen Eight Banners Infantry Bow and Light Arrow, the relationship is too great.

If its average effective range can exceed the maximum range of light arrows used by the Jurchen Eight Banners Army's infantry bows, then after equipping it with various officials and troops of the imperial court in large quantities, the various officers and troops of the imperial court will have an overwhelming advantage when facing the Jurchen Eight Banners army.

Then, the situation in which the enemy and the enemy confronted each other and the official and military attacks were weak on the battlefield in Liaodong could be completely changed.

At that time, now Emperor Chongzhen's dream of driving a personal expedition and destroying Jianyu can become a reality.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at Zu Keyong and the three of them who were striding back from the direction of the target trench to measure the effective range in the distance, and waited anxiously for the results of the measurement.

Soon, Zu Keyong, the tallest of the three, strode back to the review stand, knelt down on one knee and said loudly:

"Your Majesty! All 10 muskets hit the target! Ten skin shield targets, all penetrated! ”

After Zu Keyong finished saying this, Cao Bianjiao and Hou Tianxi also returned, and like Zu Keyong, they knelt on one knee, and followed Zu Keyong's words one after another:

"Your Majesty! All 10 muskets hit the target! Preset skin shield targets, all through!

"Weichen and the other three have different strides, measured by Weichen's stride, and the shooting position and the target position are two hundred and eight steps apart!"

The last one to come but the first to say the distance was Hou Tianxi, the young general who beheaded An Bangyan that year.

Hou Tianxi is already very tall among his peers, but compared with Zu Keyong and Cao Bianjiao, the two tall and burly border army men, they are much inferior.

If Hou Tianxi is a tiger's back and a bee's waist, then Zu Keyong and Cao Bianjiao are all tigers and bears.

After Hou Tianxi finished talking about the measurement results, Zu Keyong immediately said: "Weichen's steps are a little bigger, and the distance between the two sides is one hundred and eighty-nine steps!" ”

At this time, Cao Bianjiao also hurriedly said: "Your Majesty! Weichen measured with his footsteps, and he really got one hundred and ninety-two and a half steps! ”

"Smack! Syllable! Syllable! Syllable! ……”

After listening to the reports of these imperial attendants and military attachés, the apprehension in Emperor Chongzhen's heart suddenly disappeared, and he applauded involuntarily, and at the same time said in his mouth:

"That's good! Very good! ”

Emperor Chongzhen smiled and was the first to applaud, and the other court and inner court officials who were driving on the side looked at each other at first, and then they didn't know who took the lead, and everyone applauded together.

Celebrating, approving, or appreciating by clapping is certainly not the thing of this era.

But the emperor has done this, and if others don't follow suit, doesn't it seem that he can't be a man?

And when they followed the emperor to do so, they quickly understood the meaning and applauded vigorously.

At this time, the results of the test firing had also been fed back to Liu Mu, the general of the mine camp who was in front, and he was overjoyed to learn that this time he had achieved better results than before, not only hitting all ten targets, but also running through all of them.

Seeing a round of applause in the distance, Liu Mu, who didn't know why, immediately ordered all the assembled mine camp soldiers to turn around and kneel in the direction of the review stand where Emperor Chongzhen and the accompanying ministers were:

"God bless the Ming! God bless my emperor! Long live my emperor, long live, long live! ”

There were about 1,000 miners in the middle of the shooting range, which was not a lot of people, but the voices of these people shouting in unison in this sunken col resounded through the world, as if thousands were shouting long live.

The ministers of the interior and foreign who were originally clapping around the emperor, after hearing this voice, led by Sun Chengzong, Bi Maokang, and Sun Yuanhua, together with the soldiers on guard around them, knelt on the ground with a hula la, and shouted long live in response to the mountain in front of and behind.

At this time, no matter what, the test firing of the rifled musket was declared a success.

In the afternoon of the same day, at the shooting range of the No. 3 Gun Factory of Baiyecheng of the Armed Forces Institute, Emperor Chongzhen held a binocular, and also watched the rifled cannon test firing of the mine battalion soldiers.

I saw with my own eyes that on the hillside at least three miles away from the shooting range, a huge red brick wall painted with white ash was destroyed by a Hongyi cannon with a rudimentary rifling cast on the inner wall of a cannon barrel.

Emperor Chongzhen thought about it a little and knew that the engraved rifled Shenwei Invincible General Cannon, that is, the heavy Hongyi Cannon, could accurately hit that piece of wall from such a distance, and it must have been repeatedly measured, tested, and corrected by the Third Gun Factory of the Armament Institute before it could be hit.

This kind of repeated correction in advance is not accurate for testing the accuracy of the Kamui Invincible General Cannon.

However, being able to throw an iron projectile weighing 18 catties out at a high speed from a distance of two or three miles, and can also instantly collapse a wall made of cement and red bricks by virtue of the kinetic energy that continues to decay after the projectile is discharged, which is enough to show that the rifled cannon engraved on the inner wall of the barrel has a longer range than an ordinary smoothbore cannon.

Because the heavy Hongyi cannon of this era, although it was already the most powerful and powerful cannon, its range was always a problem.

Resting on the high city wall fort, the projectile shot can certainly have huge kinetic energy and range, and if the terrain is open, it can even hit a distance of more than ten miles.

However, its effective range, that is, the distance at which the projectile can fire directly at the ground and destroy a wall, is only about 1,250 steps, that is, about 1,250 meters.

This is also a result of repeated tests by the Tongzhou Gun Factory of the Armament Institute, after improving the gunpowder formula and using cast steel to make cannons to improve the performance of the Shenwei Invincible General Cannon.

As for its accuracy, it doesn't need to be mentioned, anyway, it's not a point, it's a surface.

After watching the rifled Shenwei invincible general's cannon test firing drill commanded by Song Yingxing and Qiu Yue in the mining camp, it was already dusk.

Emperor Chongzhen originally intended to go down in person and try the power of this latest front-loading flintlock rifled gun of the Armed Forces, but in view of the fact that it was getting late at this time, he finally obeyed Sun Chengzong's persuasion, and after simply meeting with Liu Han, the promoter of the Third Gun Factory of the Armed Forces, Song Yingsheng, the civil official of the Baiyecheng Mine Battalion, and Liu Mu, the general of the mine battalion, Qiu Yue and others, the activities of the day at the shooting range of the Third Gun Factory were ended.

In the morning of the next day, Emperor Chongzhen's imperial driver once again came to the No. 3 Gun Factory of the Armed Forces Institute outside the south gate of Baiye City, and first inspected the large workshop of barrel casting and vertical rifling engraving of the Third Gun Factory, and then inspected the large workshop of barrel casting and vertical rifling engraving of the Gun Factory.

After the end of the inspection, Emperor Chongzhen officially named the engraved Shenwei Invincible General Cannon as "Shenwei Kryu General Cannon", and named the latest front-loading flintlock rifled gun engraved with eight Yin straight rifling lines as "Chongzhen Four-type Front-loading Fusilier Rifled Gun", which was finalized and manufactured from now on, and was mass-produced by the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

At the same time, in the No. 3 Gun Factory of the Armed Forces Institute outside the south gate of Baiye City, Emperor Chongzhen once again summoned Liu Han, the promoter of the rifled gun affairs of the Gun Factory, and also summoned Song Yingsheng and Liu Mu, the civilian and military generals of the Baiye City Mining Battalion, and rewarded and promoted the meritorious personnel reported by the Ministry of Industry and the Armed Forces Institute.

Liu Han, the promotion officer, was included in the non-commissioned officer of the Ministry of Works, and was promoted to the rank of Wailang, a member of the Arsenal Division of the Ministry of War, and was promoted to the superintendent of the Firearms Bureau of the Armament Institute, and still served as the promotion of the Third Gun Factory in Baiyecheng.

Liu Han was born in a craftsman's family, and he didn't even have a talent or even a child's fame in his life, and he was meritorious in participating in cannon casting in Tongzhou, and was promoted by Emperor Chongzhen to the head of the Arsenal Firearms Bureau in one fell swoop.

This time, because of his meritorious work in carving rifling, he was promoted by Emperor Chongzhen to be a member of the Ministry of War's Economic Department, that is, the Arsenal Clearance Division.

In addition to rewarding this Liu Han, Emperor Chongzhen announced to the imperial ministers who accompanied him, as well as Song Yingsheng and Liu Mu, who were ordered to meet him, that all the remaining soldiers of the Baiyecheng Mining Battalion would be merged into the Shenji Battalion as the Shenji Zuo Battalion from now on, and they would still be stationed in the Baiyecheng camp and be responsible for the defense of the Baiye City area.

At the same time, Liu Mu was reappointed as the officer and general of the left battalion of the newly formed Shenji Battalion, and Song Yingsheng was promoted to the post of Shi Langzhong of the Baiye City Engineering Department and concurrently served as the deputy envoy of the left battalion of the new Shenji Battalion.

For Emperor Chongzhen's arrangement, Liu Mu and Song Yingsheng were both overjoyed.

First, the remaining team of the mine camp in Baiye City finally took this opportunity to get rid of the embarrassing position of being reduced to a reserve army, that is, an irregular army.

Second, although they were not promoted to the Guards sequence that the soldiers of the mine camp hoped for, they directly became part of the Shenji Battalion of the Son of Heaven's pro-army.

Although they will still be stationed in the area of Baiye City, which is three or four hundred miles away from the capital division in the future, their identities have been very different, at least the treatment and future of the soldiers in the battalion are very different.

Liu Mu and Song Yingsheng, one is a Wu Jinshi from Jiangxi, and the other is a Wen Jinshi from Jiangxi, because both of them are from Jiangxi, so after Zhongjinshi, they entered Li Banghua's field of vision and were successively transferred to the mine camp in Baiye City.

Also because, both of them were born in Jiangxi, Song Yingsheng and Liu Mu Yiwen and Wuwu cooperated very well, and after Li Banghua went to the northwest to supervise the war, the two of them worked together to manage the 2,000 people left behind in the mine camp in an orderly manner, and the daily training also maintained the standards of the past.

Emperor Chongzhen came to Baiye City and learned that the civilian and military generals who were currently guarding the mining camp were these two people, so he was more at ease with this team, and they acted neatly and skillfully, which was exactly what the Shenji Battalion needed.