While vigorously promoting reform, the Qing army, which had suffered defeat, also began to comprehensively improve the construction of its own army. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In the early days of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, there was no sense of superiority of the so-called "Celestial Empire", and even the military strength of the Han people had always been in an attitude of learning and imitating.

In this battle to the south, the cavalry of the Qing army did almost nothing, especially after crossing the Yangtze River, it was difficult to give full play to the advantages of the cavalry.

Therefore, in order to deal with the Southern Ming Dynasty, the Qing army decided to increase the research and development and assembly of firearms.

Through the captured grenades, the Qing army quickly developed a simplified version of the spherical grenade ignited by an open flame, which was actually a light "10,000 enemies".

The artillery units of the Qing army were not only equipped with a single Hongyi cannon, but added a lot of Furlong rear-loading guns, which were used as the main artillery to kill and injure the enemy infantry in future artillery battles.

At the same time, the Qing army also began to form the Shenji Battalion, and the flintlock pistol became the long-range output equipment of the Shenji Battalion, and with the medium-range archers, its firepower output density was not much worse than that of the Ming army's all-firearms troops.

In addition, the firearms unit was formed very quickly, and the recruits could go to the battlefield to kill the enemy after two or three months of training, which made the Qing army see the method of rapid violence, and under the full effort, in just half a year, the Qing army once again recovered the strength of a million-strong army.

In terms of the water division, since Zheng Zhilong handed over the military power, the Ming water division returned to the hands of the imperial court, and the Yangtze River waterway was recaptured by the Southern Ming Dynasty again, and the Qing army knew that the water division of the Ming army could not be broken, and it would never be able to go south smoothly.

Therefore, the development of naval divisions became the top priority of the Qing army, and shipyards were established in Yingkou, Huludao, Qinhuangdao, Dalian, Weihai and other places, and vigorously trained officers and soldiers of naval divisions.

This time, the Qing army no longer used modified warships, but directly hired craftsmen to build real warships.

The Qing army now occupies most of China's territory and gathers the strength of the whole country to develop the military, and its speed is naturally much faster than that of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

Fortunately, Li Hongfei opened the golden finger in advance and has established a complete heavy industry system in Baoshan Town, coupled with a series of preferential policies for craftsmen and inventors, so that Suzhou Heavy Industry has been at the leading level in the country, and it can be guaranteed that at least within three years, the Manchu Qing Dynasty will not be able to surpass Nanming.

In the current situation, both sides are actively expanding their armaments, and it depends on who accomplishes the set goal first and launches the initiative to attack..............

Suzhou Baoshan Town Industrial Zone, after the reform policy was officially issued, it became a natural place to become a recruit training base for the First Group Army of the Ming National Defense Army.

Except for the Suzhou area, which did not recruit soldiers due to population reasons, Li Hongfei recruited 80,000 recruits from other prefectures and counties at one time, and concentrated them in Baoshan Town for recruit training.

Among the 80,000 recruits, there are both army and naval divisions, and after the army recruits complete their training, they will be sent to Guo Sheng's First Army stationed in Jiangyin County, Zhang Chao's Second Army stationed in Ningbo, and Shi Dewei's Third Army stationed in Baoshan.

After the training of the new recruits of the naval division, they will be directly transferred to the five hundred naval division warships stationed on Chongming Island to serve, because the Ming Dynasty naval division, there is no independent army, Li Hongfei can only be divided into a staff general management, it just so happened that Yan Yingyuan led the crowd to join the army, Li Hongfei finally transferred Yan Yingyuan to Chongming Island, to manage the Yangtze River naval fleet.

With regard to military training, Li Hongfei had already drawn up a complete set of training programs for recruits a year ago, and more than 20,000 recruits who had experienced actual combat were responsible for training.

In addition to the professional training of soldiers, the most important thing in the thermal weapons unit is the research and development of weapons, so during this time, in addition to accompanying Chen Yuanyuan at home, Li Hongfei was at the weapons research institute of Suzhou Heavy Industry to accompany the two old men to do research.

Nowadays, the firearms of the Ming Dynasty have reached the peak of front-loading firearms, and if they want to continue to develop, they must be improved in terms of rear-loading firearms.

And then the firearm, today there are two most difficult projects to achieve, one is the invention of the primer, and the other is the manufacture of metal cartridge shells.

Although there is a lack of safety, foreigners have used it for more than 100 years, as long as they pay more attention, they can still avoid safety accidents as much as possible.

Moreover, compared with the large number of casualties on the battlefield, the safety accidents caused by this thunder mercury are almost negligible.

In fact, the biggest difficulty in inventing the rear-loading gun lies in the production process of metal cartridge casings for bullets.

Brass has long been synthesized by Song Yingxing, although the extensibility is good, but it is almost impossible to make brass into a thin metal bullet case, with today's technological means.

Metal cartridge casings could not be manufactured, so they had to find another way, and Bi Maokang was inspired by the revolver and spent more than half a year to finally develop a new breech-loading rifle.

The bullet case of the gun is also a paper case filled with propellant, but the hardness of this paper case is relatively high, and it adopts a multi-roll paper type, which is not much different from the firecracker paper bag of later generations.

The primer filled at the bottom of the roll paper is the thundermercury primer invented by Song Yingxing, and the primer is truly three-in-one between the primer and the propellant and the projectile.

Firecracker-like bullets are fully enclosed, and since it is impossible to ignite the flint fire in the medicine pool, the needle firing device can only be used for impact ignition.

The bolt structure of this rear-firing gun is relatively simple, including the bolt, the firing mechanism, and a steel block attached to the receiver.

To reload, press a trigger-like spring hook under the handle to open the bolt, then lift the bolt upwards so that the muzzle slopes upward.

After that, the chamber is loaded with "firecracker-type" fixed ammunition, and the fixed ammunition is pushed to the deepest part of the chamber with your fingers, and the bolt is locked, and the firearm is in a state of readiness.

This design is not much different from the revolver, but the revolver is a honeycomb design that can be loaded with six bullets at a time, while the new rifle can only be loaded with one at a time.

Because the biggest defect of the gun is the gap between the bolt and the barrel, which will cause too much gunpowder gas to leak out, which will seriously reduce the range of the weapon.

Therefore, the final finalized rear-loading rifle has a caliber of 13.2 mm, a barrel length of 572 mm, a weight of 12 kilograms, and a conical warhead, with an effective killing distance of about 170 meters.

Such a weight is already the limit of individual manipulation, and it is simply impossible to use a honeycomb structure magazine.

Fortunately, the rear-loading rifle has a very fast rate of fire, and if you practice more, the reloading speed of this rear-loading rifle will be about twice as fast as that of a standard front-loading flintlock pistol, and the rate of fire can also reach 12~15 rounds per minute.

PS: I've been adjusting the status lately, so the update is very slow, but I can guarantee that starting tomorrow, two more will be resumed, after all, the results are too poor, and if you can't even mix full attendance, it's really over.