Chapter 131 [Legends Can't Be Taken Seriously]

The next day, Ao Bai proposed to Emperor Chongzhen to develop a new type of firearm. **UC e-book provides free txt e-book download**

Chongzhen smiled: "Xu Guangqi brought it up? Do you think those things really work? ”

If it weren't for the lack of people in the court, Chongzhen would not have recalled Xu Guangqi, an old man who likes Western gadgets, back to Beijing at all. He was not interested in firearms exhibitions.

Ao Bai said: "The Ming army is inferior to the Eight Banners Army in combat effectiveness, if we can take the lead in weapons and make up for the shortcomings of the soldiers, we will be able to win in the field, otherwise it will be difficult to level Liao." Now there is no situation in Jinguo, and it is just the right time to take this opportunity to conduct research. Wait until it becomes clear that the weapon is really useful, and then proceed to mass production. I think Master Xu's suggestion can try it, if the effect is not good, just stop, and you can't waste much money. ”

Chongzhen smiled bitterly: "You don't know how much money the people in charge of these things in the army have wasted, and the things they make are not very useful in battle, I have already gone to the Ministry of Industry to see, you will understand if you go and see it." It is not the first time that someone in the army has made such a suggestion, and they just want money, but they have not achieved anything. ”

In Aobai's impression, the firearms technology of the Ming Dynasty was already very advanced, even if it was not as good as the West, it would not be too far behind. He has always wondered about this dynasty, which had advanced weapons but failed to win the Eight Banners Army and the Peasant Rebel Army. He felt that Chongzhen said that there was no result, and he must be ignorant of the goods.

A few days later, Ao Bai asked Xu Guangqi to go to the Ministry of Industry to see the existing firearms of the Ming Dynasty. Guo Kai, a waiter from the Ministry of Works, led the two to visit the firearms. Xu Guangqi's statement is similar to Chongzhen's, and he has little confidence in the firearms developed by Daming himself, and what he hopes is to invite a few foreign experts to guide craftsmen and imitate foreign advanced weapons.

Ao Bai quickly agreed with this, the weapons made in the Ming Dynasty really don't know if you don't see it, and you are shocked when you see it.

Ao Bai saw a giant cannon similar to the Hongyi cannon, of course, you can't fire a cannon to show them here. Guo Kai introduced: "Two adults, please see, this is our own imitation of the Hongyi cannon, but there is still a gap between the range of the Hongyi cannon we bought. ”

Ao Bai didn't believe it at all, the original Hongyi cannon only had a range of five miles, which already shocked Jin Guo. I went back to do research desperately, and I killed a lot of people by blowing up. If the battle of Ningyuan could have lasted ten miles, their camp would have been destroyed long ago. And if the range can really hit ten miles, how did these people know that Nurhachi was killed? Is there a holographic radar in Ningyuan City?

"When will there be artillery drills, let's see the effect."

Guo Kai said: "Of course this is possible, the first emperor has also seen the drill before." == .first. Fa == adults don't believe it, you can take a look at the record of the power of the Hongyi cannon, I'm not making it up. ”

Xu Guangqi sighed, his face was a little red, and he didn't know what was going on in his heart. Ao Bai looked at the so-called records.

The note written by Shen Defu of the Ming Dynasty "Wanli Ye Won the Red Maoyi" records the Hongyi cannon cast by the Dutch: "The first time I saw a wisp of green smoke, these hands were rotten, and there was no trace to be found. ”

Nan Juyi, the governor of Fujian in the Ming Dynasty, recorded in the recital of "The Beginning and End of the Affair of Chen Fujian": "Seeing the surging sea, all difficulties are encountered. The boat is strong and big, and it can poison people ten miles away, and my boat deserves to be shattered. That is, there are 100,000 water rhinos, and there is nothing to do. ”

Chen Jiru's "Evening Xiangtang Collection" Volume 3 "He Fujian Nanda Zhong Chengping Hongyi Preface" recorded: "The giant gun is the long skill of Hongyi, and it can poison people twenty miles away. ”

Mao Ruizheng's "Huangming Xiangxu Lu" volume 5 "Helan" recorded: "The Dutch big gun is more than two zhang long, and the middle void is like a four-foot wheel cloud, which can be a cave stone city, shaking dozens of miles. ”

It can be seen from the above official records and recitals that at that time, the Hongyi cannon penetrated the city fiercely, and the firing range was as far as 20 miles away, and it was generally above 10 miles, but it could be a cave stone city, and it shook dozens of miles...... It's a missile, right? Tony Stark traveled to the Netherlands to figure out what to create?

However, these nonsense things can still be written in a serious way and presented to the Ming Emperor in the fold, and it is said that the Emperor of the Apocalypse also personally watched the Portuguese soldiers cast the Hongyi cannon on the spot, he must know the true power of the Hongyi cannon, is the emperor and the minister so stupid that they don't even know how far away it is? However, no one in the Ming Dynasty was convicted of bullying the king because of the fact that the cannon "shook dozens of miles" and "can poison people twenty miles away" because of the imperial court.

The atmosphere of the Ming Dynasty is to run trains with a mouth, and before the Eight Banners Army attacked the DPRK less than 100,000 people, it could be said that it was 200,000, and the defeat could also be said to be a great victory, and the official records were all like this, not to mention other civilian records.

Ao Bai just looked at the cannons, and he lost a little confidence in the firearms of the Ming Dynasty. Looking at the rest, apart from disappointment or disappointment.

The effective range of this weapon is only 30 meters, and it has a strong power at a distance of only 10 meters, and it can't be aimed, and the biggest advantage is that if you can't hit the opponent, you can pick it up as a mallet and smash people, and you will definitely die very ugly against the cavalry with this. Imagine that.

The big bowl mouth gun is more exaggerated, known as a cannon, but the range is only 100 meters, the usage is to tie one at each end of a large stool, when one door shoots when the other is loaded, after the shot the stool is redirected, you can repeat a shot, solid bullets, bench guns, the power can not be called a cannon at all.

There is also the Ming Tiger squat cannon that the Ming army is very proud of. The tail of this cannon is two feet long, and the body is equipped with an airway iron hoop, and the cannon head is erected by two iron claws, and there are iron stumbling blocks. Before firing, the cannon body must be fixed to the ground with large iron nails, and each shot can be loaded with 100 small lead or small stones weighing five coins, and a large lead bullet or large stone bullet weighing 30 taels must be pressed on the top. When fired, bullets of all sizes flew out at once. Qi Jiguang used this weapon to make the Japanese suffer a lot in the field battle.

But how can a stone be called a cannon? In the eyes of modern people, this is all rubbish. And these two rags are the so-called heavy artillery of the Ming Dynasty themselves.

There are also imitation foreign cannons, the small Franco, the rear-loading Daxi, and the rear-loading Daxi, which are finally much larger than their own and more powerful, with a firing range of up to 500 meters.

Ao Bai said to Guo Kai, who was introducing him with relish: "Lord Guo, I don't think these things need to waste money to recreate, right?" It's better to use a big knife and cut it. ”

Xu Guangqi sighed, he didn't know what to say, he also wrote some exaggerated articles, hoping that the imperial court could learn foreign technology, and the Ming army's own Ming things were too backward.

Ao Bai now knows why the Ming Dynasty has firearms, but it can't do the Eight Banners Army, which mainly relies on cavalry shooting. These firearms are not as divine as those boasted by later generations, and you will understand it after a little thought.

For example, on the battlefield, the cavalry charged, and the distance was five hundred meters. The firearms of the Ming Dynasty army began to fire, except for the cannons used to defend the city, the farthest distance was only 500 meters, which was the best distance.

During the time when the cavalry rushed over, how many times could the Ming army shoot? According to the degree of charge, the cavalry can fire a little more than one round, and the infantry is three and a half rounds, which cannot guarantee the accuracy and limited lethality. Okay, these weapons are all the opponent's, if the opponent sees it......

The Ming army also had some "multi-piped" firearms, but they were different from the "companies" of pistols and spears that Ao Bai knew, and the shape was too different. The "multi-tube company" is to bundle the barrels of the loaded ammunition into a bundle and ignite them sequentially, at the expense of accuracy and range to improve the firing efficiency, which is a smart choice. But it's still impossible to do cavalry.

After all, it's better to use a bow and arrow, at least it's fast and easy to carry.

He also saw some very new things.

Guo Kai pointed to what looked like a crow and introduced: "This is a divine fire flying crow, which is made of fine bamboo or reeds, filled with gunpowder, and two fires are installed on both sides of the crow's body, and the bottom of the fire cartridge is connected with the gunpowder medicine wire in the crow's body." During the battle, the thrust of the fire is used to shoot the crow 100 feet away, and the gunpowder contained inside the crow is ignited and exploded when it lands. ”

"Are you sure this thing can fly a hundred feet and then explode, not fifty feet and then explode, or just ignite and blow itself up?"

"This ...... No. So it's still improving, and it's not going into the war. ”

Guo Kai pointed to a large dragon head and said: "This is the flying dragon out of the water, under the dragon head, on both sides of the dragon's tail, each with a half-kilogram powder keg, the four rocket fuses are gathered together, and connected with the rocket fuse in the belly of the fire dragon, during the water battle, in the face of the enemy ship, three or four feet above the water, ignite the four powder canisters installed on the dragon, can fly three miles to four miles, attack the enemy ship." ”

Ao Bai was dumbfounded. This thing has crossed the level of the earth, is it man-made by Tianding Star, right? Brought back from Battlestar, right? Four skyrocketing monkeys push a large cylinder to fly two kilometers on the surface of the water? It is clear that this thing is also being improved, and it has not been combated.

Ao Bai suddenly remembered a story that the Ming army's flowering bomb appeared in the ruins of Zuo Zongtang's northwest fortress. So he asked, "Don't we have bombs in our army to defend the city?" I heard there's a kind of flowering bomb? ”

"Blossom bombs, what's that?" Guo Kai was stunned and said, he had never heard of it.

Ao Bai was completely dizzy. Let's practice the golden bell jar, the idea of relying on firearms to deal with madness has come to naught. Could it be that the Manchus did not promote some Ming Dynasty firearms, but that there were no such things at all? There are no flowering bullets, only nonsense?

In fact, the firearms of the Ming Dynasty have lagged behind the West too much, if they are so powerful, why buy cannons like foreigners? As long as your own casting skills are passed, you don't need to look for the Portuguese.

Ao Bai has lived in the 21st century, and it is of course very simple to be able to compare more advanced things, but in fact, it is too difficult to come up with something that no one has ever seen or even thought about without any reference imitation. The people of the Ming Dynasty were able to make these not very practical things out of thin air, which is admirable enough.

It's easy to find faults, but it's not so simple to develop them. Ao Baixin said: If I tell them some ideas, can this group of people have ideas, can they understand them?

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In the first chapter today, the firearms of the Ming Dynasty have been debated a lot, and many people say that they are miraculous, and they can't wait to say that the Ming Dynasty even has a heavy machine gun. I also read a post saying that the Eight-Nation Alliance Army has an abandoned armory, and the weapons in it have completely exploded the Eight Banners Army. I'm curious if anyone will believe this? If anyone believes it, is the truth about the Wang Gongchang explosion a nuclear test?

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