"Is there really not the slightest trace of the development of firearms in the Ming Kingdom?"

Lin Haoda asked solemnly.

"No, in the mouths of those Ming sailors, their emperor Qin Feng did not have any actions that did not conform to this era, at most even if he was a corporal of Lixian, and he was very accurate in employing people, except for military and financial power, almost all other rights were delegated to the chief officers of various ministries, and only some general direction was grasped, and this Qin Feng was very open-minded, and he was very enthusiastic about any new things and new inventions, as long as it was a practical thing, he spared no effort to promote.

Nowadays, the Ming Dynasty is building a kind of horse-drawn railroad track on a large scale, which is actually a railway transportation system that does not rely on steam power, but relies on horses, and the Ming Kingdom's research on steam engines is almost zero, and no relevant information has been found. Xu Fu reported to Lin Haoda.

Lin Haoda tapped his fingers on the table, and thought in a slow tone: "Open-minded and willing to promote new things, but he has not developed a steam engine with a complex principle and structure, even if he has not used the original steam engine power, and even the horse-drawn railway has been developed, but there is no trace of gunpowder weapons!"

It seems that this Qin Feng is not the time-traveler I imagined, at least, he does not have the knowledge and memory that the time-traveler has, otherwise, the power of gunpowder weapons and the productivity changes brought about by the industrial revolution of the steam engine cannot be without traces in the Ming Kingdom, which is about to unify the continent, and no traveler will let go of this harmless knowledge golden finger. ”

After some reasoning, Lin Haoda's confidence in his heart suddenly became sufficient, as long as Qin Feng did not have the memory reserve of a traverser, no matter how wise and martial he was, under the pressure of the generation gap in science and technology, he would definitely lose!

Moreover, without the technological innovation brought about by the basic industrial revolution, even if the Ming army captured weapons such as Maxine heavy machine guns and grenadiers, they could not be imitated, and even Lin Haoda suspected that the Ming State could not even make the most basic black powder!

In the previous naval battle, Lin Haoda deliberately let people disassemble a captured iron box weapon that threw red iron bullets, which has complex gear mechanical transmission technology, all gears are artificially created, and it is the use of this conveyor belt technology that the iron box can be shaken by external force, and the iron ball can be sent into the 'greenhouse' to be heated and red, and then transported to the back throwing arm, using hand-made mechanical spring throwing and kinetic mechanical force inertia homing.

The precision of the whole machine is no less than that of the products of the Industrial Revolution, the only difference is that these iron boxes are all made by manpower, not steam power!

As for the kind of repeater, the reason why dozens of slender crossbow arrows can be fired continuously is also the use of precision gear transmission technology, automatic loading, dozens of crossbow arrows are arranged in each arrow box according to a certain law, and in the square crossbow machine, the crossbowman only needs to shake the handle back and forth, so that the crossbow arrows in the arrow box continue to shoot out continuously until the entire arrow box shoots out!

When the time comes, you only need to replace a pre-filled arrow magazine to continue attacking, no wonder it can become a machine gun in the era of cold weapons.

Without the advent of gunpowder, this crossbow structure would simply be an artifact of war, and it could easily smash the dense infantry phalanx attack at close range!

The Ming captives called the equipment that could shoot burning red iron bullets a thunderbolt, and the crossbow machine called a new type of repeater, which had become the standard equipment of the regular army of the Ming Kingdom, and almost every Ming field battalion was equipped with it.

Lin Haoda could see at a glance the huge role of thunderbolt fire in siege warfare in the cold weapon era, most of the buildings in this era were wooden or even wood and stone structures, and the red-hot iron ball could easily cause a fire when smashed over, which was definitely a nightmare for the defenders.

Of course, there is no comparison between the Thunderbolt and the Grenadier Barrel, which can crush the Thunderbolt in terms of explosive power and effective range.

That new repeater is even more of a joke in front of the Maxine heavy machine gun.

Therefore, those captured weapons of the Ming Kingdom were useless except for making Lin Haoda sigh that the ingenuity of the craftsmen of the Ming Kingdom had distorted the technology tree.

If such a sophisticated weapon of war had been created by hand, it might not have been difficult to produce a repeating firearm if a steam engine and gunpowder had been developed, at least it would have been easy to enter the era of queuing to shoot.

"Let's talk about the military system of the Ming Kingdom." Lin Haoda jumped away from the topic and said.

"The specific military system of those sailors do not know much, they only know that in the Ming State can be roughly divided into the county soldier system and the field force system, the county soldiers are the regular army of the Ming State that guards the place, has the responsibility of defending the territory, belongs to the second-line combat troops of the Ming State, and will be transferred to the front line to give the field troops a hand when the war is urgent, and the field troops are the head regiments of the battalions with names and numbers, and the Ming Kingdom now has about 200,000 field troops, some of which are adapted from elite veteran prisoners of war who were defeated under Qin Feng. Some of them are expanded from the old brothers of the death battalion, and some are the expansion of the county soldier system and hardcore elements that originally followed Qin Feng, after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, they basically fought every year, coupled with the standard of selecting the best of Qin Feng's best, the combat effectiveness of each field army battalion is an elite that can stand alone!

There is a huge gap between the salaries of the field troops of the Ming Kingdom and the soldiers of the local county garrison battalions, and the welfare of soldiers in the field troops is very high, completely reaching the level that one person is a soldier and the whole family is fed, which is only the lowest treatment of small soldiers in the field army!

Qin Feng took the route of an elite soldier, and he was invincible in successive battles, coupled with the high salary and treatment, and the widespread propaganda of the idea of loyalty to the monarch in the army, both in terms of combat effectiveness and loyalty to the Ming State were quite terrifying.

The most important thing is that Qin Feng of the Ming State does not implement a lifelong military system like the traditional Qi Chu and other countries, but adopts a veteran retirement system, all veterans who have served for more than three years and have not been promoted to officers are all forced to retire, and can take away the weapons and armor they use, these people are all veterans who retired in the prime of life, and they only need Qin Feng's order, they can be dressed and reorganized into a force composed of veterans to step on the battlefield!

What's even more terrifying is that in Qin Feng's decree, many retired veterans will teach young and strong people to conduct systematic military training during the slack period, and the local government will give military subsidies during the training period. ”