Chapter 666: Junk's Firearms Battalion
When Lu Hanqiang saw this pile of rags, and learned that his eldest brother Lu Xiangsheng directly found his shopkeeper in the capital and asked for 1o thousand taels of silver, he couldn't cry or laugh. In Lu Hanqiang's view, 100,000 taels of silver plus a good heart just gave him a pile of garbage and an unrealistic outlook.
It's not that Lu Hanqiang has to stubbornly think that in the war of feudal society, it must be a battle of spears, swords, armor and shields, he also knows that it is a general trend in the world to replace cold weapons with hot weapons, or how to say that he is a traverser? If you don't even understand this little bit of superficial knowledge, then as a traverser, you can just wipe your neck and hang yourself.
Of course, Lu Hanqiang knows that in the Ming army, firearms have accounted for half of the entire army, and it can be said that it is at the forefront of the world's army of hot weapons and cold weapons, but the manufacturing technology of the Ministry of Engineering of the Ming Dynasty is indeed worrying.
I think that at the beginning of the battle of Sarhu, the fire commanders in the forefront of the Ming army did not train in peacetime due to their lack of experience in facing the enemy, and they did not wait for the enemy to enter the firing range, and they didn't know who was nervous, so they put their guns indiscriminately.
As a result, there was no rifling in the fire system at that time, the bullets were still round, and the ****** was still inferior and full of moisture and other impurities. The bullet hit the moon more than the other party, and as a result, Jiannu on the opposite side did not suffer any casualties at all, and rushed over with a bang.
Everyone said, then put the second batch of platoon guns!
Pull it down! First of all, the soldiers usually have no gunpowder lead training, at this time, the battle formation is nervous, the hands and feet are stiff and numb, and it takes the old nose to reload once, and in the face of the roaring Jiannu cavalry, there is no second chance to reload, and there is a key problem, or the quality of the fire system and the quantity of gunpowder loading at that time, at that time, there was no fixed charge package, how much gunpowder was loaded, completely dependent on the experience of the soldiers, and just the soldiers have no experience, you have to dare to load the second row of gunpowder, that is definitely not to kill the enemy, It is definitely suicide, and a sudden explosion is an inevitable result, and there is no second way out at all. At this time, the fire commander after putting a row of guns became a pile of waste, and he simply became an object of slaughter.
And the fire commanders who became wastes waved a most fatal second role, that is, the fire commanders who couldn't put the second gun turned around and ran away in order to survive, directly disrupting the sword and shield of the formation, and becoming a good helper for the enemy, especially their unprepared performance, which completely collapsed the morale of the Ming army, which still had the strength to fight.
This was the current situation of the firearms unit at that time in the Ming Dynasty.
Due to the above problems, Lu Hanqiang resolutely did not join his own army and chose a suicide firearms battalion as one of the formations.
It's not that he doesn't want to make the hot weapon exhibition the direction of his future exhibition, but it is indeed because the production process at that time restricts him.
In order to solve these fundamental problems, it is definitely a systematic project, not something that can be taken for granted.
As a traverser, I have a clear understanding of the direction of the military exhibition in history, firearms replace spears and swords, and the cannons of the god of war go to the battlefield, which is the trend of the future exhibition, but at this time, the manufacturing process of the Ming Dynasty has become the bottleneck of this exhibition.
The first thing that restricted the military industry exhibition at that time was steel.
At that time, the Ming Dynasty already had steel, but the process was extremely complicated, labor-intensive, and the quantity was low, so those inferior iron materials became the main raw materials in the Ming army, plus the eunuchs and officials of the Ministry of Industry were stripped and deducted, and the craftsmen were lazy and lazy, so what kind of good products could there be?
For example, the 30,000 fires that Lu Xiangsheng got for Lu Hanqiang this time, not to mention the poor and rough workmanship, the barrel is rusted and bent, and the caliber is different.
In view of this situation, when Lu Hanqiang was in Ping 6, he wanted to build his own steel plant in the real sense as the basis for his military industry.
And this steel plant with mass production capacity, with Lu Hanqiang's current situation, he can't do it yet, at least not at present.
Even if Lu Hanqiang now has good steel, he can't rely on the craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry to make good firearms.
As we all know, the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty adopted the military household system, hundreds of years of inheritance, low status and poverty, being enslaved and exploited, has become the norm, even if you have the ability to pass through the sky, in the eyes of those corrupt officials and cool officials, you are just a lowly craftsman, your children are born to continue to inherit their professions, even do not have the qualifications to study the imperial examination, this can really mobilize the enthusiasm of these craftsmen?
Therefore, sabotage and shoddy work have become the norm. If a craftsman doesn't get you a year or two to make a bow and arrow, he will be sorry for all his companions, and the only thing that can be made is to see who is worse.
Therefore, in terms of workers and technicians, they still need to be trained by themselves, but talents cannot be cultivated in a day or two, and it takes time and opportunity.
At this point, Lu Hanqiang took the lead in his heart, that is, to befriend the top scientists in the Ming Dynasty - Xu Guangqi and Sun Yuanhua, especially Sun Yuanhua.
Under the auspices of Sun Yuanhua, there were more than 100 Western Hongyi craftsmen in the Shandong Dengcheng Cannon Casting Institute, and the best technicians of the dynasty that he had worked hard to cultivate, and now these foreign and domestic technicians were looted by Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming, and they were ready to use them to ask Huang Taiji for merit and reward, and change them for a red top.
But now the situation has changed, because Lu Hanqiang helped Wu Xiang directly reinforce Denglai Water City from the sea, so that Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming broke the water city, and the plan to loot the warships and ships went bankrupt, and at the same time, they were also defeated by Wu Xiang and Wu Sangui father and son and fled, these craftsmen and technicians were still in the remnants of Kong Youde Geng Zhongming's defeated army, and they were brought back for their own use and Lu Hanqiang put them in the plan.
Take-it-or-leave-it doctrine is always the simplest and most effective way.
If you want to show your own strong firearms army instead of a junk army like the current one, you must achieve the above goals, if you can't make your own good firearms, then you should use a broadsword to pierce a gun and a longbow.
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