Although Xu Guangqi was a little stunned, he still hurriedly reached out and took the gun handed over by Wang Chengen, and after a few glances, Xu Guangqi found that this kind of gun was unusual. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Not only does the barrel have a spiral line inside, but the loading area is still behind.

"This is a breech-loading rifled flintlock pistol!" Emperor Chongzhen pointed to the barrel of the gun and said, "This is called rifling!" ”

Then Emperor Chongzhen turned on the mouth escape mode, talked about all the advantages and structures of this gun, and only stopped when he said that his mouth was dry, took a sip of tea, and said to Xu Guangqi: "Aiqing, do you understand?" ”

Xu Guangqi nodded again and again and said, "This is much more advanced than John Tang's flintlock pistol!" ”

Emperor Chongzhen nodded, of course, this must be much more advanced than Tang Ruowang's front-loading smoothbore flintlock pistol. Not at all at a tactical level, without the slightest comparison.

"Your Majesty, the minister needs to study it carefully for a few days, and now the minister is upset and has no ideas!" Xu Guangqi bowed and said to Emperor Chongzhen.

Nodding slightly, he agreed with Xu Guangqi's statement, and Emperor Chongzhen didn't think that Xu Guangqi would be able to come up with any way in a short time. Even Emperor Chongzhen doubted that with the current methods of the Ming Dynasty, he could make a replica of the Ferguson rifle.

However, this is a research direction, and it is also beneficial to the current firearms research of the Ming Dynasty, at least to get out the problem of front-loading rifled guns!

The Ferguson rifle uses a spiral rifling, which is not suitable for front-loading guns, although the spiral rifling can make the long lead shot rotate when fired, and the flight is stable after discharge, which improves the shooting accuracy and increases the range.

But it has a very big disadvantage, that is, this kind of rifled gun front loading is very time-consuming, so it was not until the rear loading gun was really developed that spiral rifling was widely adopted. There is another reason that cannot be ignored, and that is that this gun is very expensive.

Emperor Chongzhen checked the information, and in this period, some European countries have begun to equip flintlock pistols on a large scale.

Most of them are front-loading smoothbore guns, of course, there are exceptions, such as Denmark, they are equipped with front-loading rifled grabbing, but the rifling is not a spiral rifling, but a straight rifling. Although the rifling of the straight type is not as accurate as the rifling of the spiral type, the loading speed is much faster.

Unless it is a sniper operation that requires accuracy, the front-mounted straight rifled gun is very practical in terms of cost and use.

What Emperor Chongzhen wanted to equip was this front-loading straight-line rifled gun, which was the famous rifle. Of course, the straight rifled gun can only be regarded as a semi-finished product, and in addition to the effective increase in range, the improvement of accuracy is very limited.

However, in large-scale wars, if the firepower coverage is sufficient, accuracy can be ignored to a certain extent.

"Let's put the guns aside first, let's talk about the topic just now, I'm very interested!" Emperor Chongzhen turned his gaze to Sun Chengzong and said with a smile: "Let's talk about the Qi family's army!" ”

Suddenly it rained outside, the sky was overcast, and the cold wind blew in through the windows, causing everyone present to shiver. Wang Chengen hurriedly beckoned people to close the window.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at the sky outside and smiled slightly: "It's raining, let's take advantage of the rain to have a good chat." Cai Mao, who was on the other side, commanded: "Cai Mao, let people prepare meals, prepare two jars of good wine, and I want to accompany a few Aiqing to discuss the army!" ”

Sun Chengzong and Wang Zaijin glanced at each other, bowed down and said, "Yes, Your Majesty!" ”

The wine and food were quickly served, and Emperor Chongzhen sat in his seat, picked up the wine glass and said, "Everyone, Aiqing, drink this cup together!" ”

Everyone drank a glass of wine, and Emperor Chongzhen didn't rush to ask about things, just drank and ate, and felt that the time was almost over, so Emperor Chongzhen asked: "Sun Aiqing, tell me why the Qi family army can not win!" ”

Sun Chengzong sighed, knowing that today's events couldn't be avoided, so fortunately, let's just say it!

"Speaking of Qi Jiajun, let's first talk about Qi Jiguang, Qi Jiguang is a very talented general!" Sun Chengzong said in a deep voice: "Therefore, the most important thing in training is to choose generals, and it is very important to choose a general who can fight well and has his own ideas!" ”

"What Master Sun said makes sense, after the selection of generals, it is time to select soldiers!" Wang Zaijin put down the wine glass in his hand, took over the conversation and said: "Qi Jiguang did not lead the Qi family army at the beginning, but the soldiers of the guard, who once fought against three thousand against three hundred, but returned with a big defeat, which was regarded as a shame in Qi Jiguang's life!" ”

Emperor Chongzhen nodded, at that time, let alone three thousand against three hundred, dozens of wouldn't dare to go to the city to show off their might.

"Although the soldiers are brave, the source of elite soldiers needs to be good, and the training needs to be good, so that's okay!" Wang Zaijin saw that Emperor Chongzhen agreed with the words of the two of them, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and then said: "So Qi Jiguang finally organized a new army by himself!" ”

"The main body of the Qi family's army is some farmers and miners, and these people joined the army to protect the territory and the people, and at the same time, they also want to have a future."

Wang Zaijin fell silent when he said this, Emperor Chongzhen smiled slightly, what he said was already a little explicit, in the past, this could never be said, because this was against Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang's military household system.

The military household system of the Ming Dynasty was hereditary, not a conscription system, and those soldiers cultivated their own fields, and after so many generations, they were already overwhelmed. In addition, the phenomenon of officers in various localities eating empty salaries is serious, and in many places there are only 7 or 800 people in 1,000 households, and even 3 or 400 people in as few as 3 or 400 people, and they are not satisfied with the number at all.

In addition, the training was wasted, the equipment was slack, and it was strange to be able to fight, so in order to deal with the Japanese invaders, a conscription system had to be adopted, and the representative of it was the Qi family army.

In Emperor Chongzhen's view, the conscription system is undoubtedly advanced, and there is no room for negotiation at all. When he has mastered the military power and really controlled the country, he will definitely abolish the military household system and completely change to a conscription system.

"In addition to these, the Qi family army has a lot to do with their extensive use of firearms!" Sun Chengzong saw that Wang Zaijin stopped talking, and Emperor Chongzhen also understood what Wang Zaijin meant, so he spoke again: "There were 30,000 people in the Qi family army at its peak, and they were equipped with 5,000 tiger squat cannons alone, not counting other firearms. ”

"Five thousand?" Emperor Chongzhen was stunned, so much? Not to mention the war, 5,000 shells will hit it, and no cavalry can stand it! No wonder the Qi family army dared to fight a field battle with the Mongolian cavalry, the original reason was here.

Xu Guangqi nodded and added: "30,000 are soldiers, 2,700 cavalry are equipped with an artillery battalion, and an artillery battalion of 180 people is equipped with 60 tiger squat cannons!" ”