Chapter 244: A New Type of Artillery.
It stands to reason that after Zhu Youxiao finished talking about the expansion of the infantry, it was time to expand other armies.
Because those troops just now were all knives in Zhu Youxiao's hands, Zhu Youxiao still needs a set of hard armor now.
Not to mention anything else, let's just say that the current Beijing camp is completely useless, and one-third of the soldiers in the Beijing camp who committed crimes have been slaughtered by Zhu Youxiao's order.
The remaining part of the soldiers of the Beijing camp who did not make mistakes have also been eliminated, and a considerable number of the old, weak, sick and disabled, there are still more than 21,000 people left, and it depends on how Zhu Youxiao will be settled.
Wang Tiqian, the commander of the warrior battalion under Zhu Youxiao, and Yang Qicong, the commander of the Absolute Sound Guard, all looked at Zhu Youxiao with some expectation. Eight Chinese Net
Sure enough, Zhu Youxiao did not disappoint them, only to see Zhu Youxiao continue: "The warrior battalion has been expanded to 30,000 people, responsible for the defense of the capital, and the admiral eunuch is still the king's body. ”
"The Absolute Sound Guard expanded the army to 30,000 people, responsible for stationing in Xinfeng County, defending the arsenal in Xinfeng County, and commanding the envoy to Yang Qicong."
The civil and military generals present were all a little emotional when they heard what Zhu Youxiao was going to say.
Zhu Youxiao's one is really a bit generous, and he directly expanded the original 30,000 guards to 190,000 at once, which is not counting the original auxiliary personnel, if you count the auxiliary personnel, the number will soar to 200,000.
I don't know if Zhu Youxiao's steps are so big, will he pull the egg.
Zhu Youxiao is naturally not afraid of this kind of thing, because from the current point of view, he does not have any enemies who can pose a great threat to him militarily.
The Mongolian tribes have not taken care of themselves, and if they want to invade the Ming Dynasty, it is definitely impossible.
And those Jianzhou Jurchens were defeated by them outside the Xifeng Pass, which really hurt their vitality, if it weren't for Zhu Youxiao, and now there is no leisure to wipe them out, I'm afraid that the Jianzhou Jurchens will usher in a catastrophe.
They could only return to Liaodong to lick their wounds, and Zhu Youxiao also received a lot of news, that is, many of the Mongolian tribes who had taken refuge in Jiannu had also begun to turn back.
After all, the number of Jurchens is less than one-third of the original, and it would be strange if those Mongol tribes did not hurry up and rebel.
The current Jianzhou Jurchens are obviously too busy to take care of themselves, and they can only defend while waiting for an opportunity to counterattack.
If they want to attack the Ming Dynasty, they will not have this opportunity for at least five years.
Five years!
How could Zhu Youxiao give them five years to directly recover from their wounds, I am afraid that as long as a year or two have passed, the 19 armies and 10,000 troops under his command will be trained well.
When the time comes, he will learn to become an emperor.
In the third year of Chenghua, Zhu Jianshen of the Ming Xianzong ordered to enter the Jianzhou Jurchens, and the order issued was: "Smash its nest and eliminate its species." The general Zhao Fu was appointed to lead an army of 50,000 troops, and the troops were divided into three ways to attack the Jianzhou Jurchens. At the same time, Zhu Jianshen ordered Korea, a vassal state at the time, to send troops to fully cooperate with the Ming army.
After a month of encirclement and suppression, the Ming army beheaded more than 630 people, captured more than 240 people, and Li Manzhu and his son were beheaded by the North Korean army. Another leader, Dong Shan (the leader of the right guard of Jianzhou, the fifth ancestor of Nurhachi), was also captured by the Ming army, and Dong Shan tried to escape and was killed during the escort.
Zhao Fu, the chief general of the Ming army, described in his "Pingyi Fu": "If the strong are killed, the old and childish are captured, if the earth collapses and the fire is extinguished, it still disintegrates and the ice disappears, the empty hide and the pig hides its house, the hole is empty and the nest is empty, and within ten days, the captivity is depressed." "After a month of slaughter, more than 1,000 Jurchens in Jianzhou were killed, more than 1,000 slaves (i.e., Aha) were recaptured by the Ming army, four or five hundred villages were destroyed, and the savings of cattle, horses, and livestock were also wiped out.
This military campaign, known in history as the "Chenghua Court", dealt a heavy blow to the Jianzhou Jurchens, and this battle won a moment of peace for the rule of the Ming Dynasty. After that, until the rise of Nurhachi, for nearly a hundred years, the Jurchen tribes in Liaodong no longer dared to provoke the Ming court.
Zhu Youxiao on this side is still thinking about his "Apocalypse Court", if this thing can be successful. Then don't say anything else, he, Zhu Youxiao, will also shine through the ages with the "Apocalypse".
It's just that Sun Yuanhua next to him is worried about another thing.
"Your Majesty, there are definitely a lot of 180,000 troops, and there are still a lot of weapons and armor to be purchased, and more muskets and cannons have to be cast."
Who knew that Zhu Youxiao waved his hand, and he naturally understood what Sun Yuanhua was worried about.
That's right, Zhu Youxiao originally had plans to expand the army, but his current silver taels were indeed a bit stretched.
The weapons of 180,000 people still have armor, and Zhu Youxiao has a lot of pressure.
In addition, Zhu Youxiao was actually not satisfied with the current power of the musket artillery of the Guards.
But fortunately, since he came back, we, Zhu Youxiao, have brought Sun Yuanhua a technical improvement plan for muskets and artillery.
First of all, he changed the route plan for Sun Yuanhua's artillery, and the first one was internal and external self-tightening technology.
The so-called internal and external self-tightening technology is to create two barrels, and then the inner diameter of the larger barrel is slightly smaller than the outer diameter of the other barrel.
Then heat the larger barrel, and directly use the principle of thermal expansion and cold contraction, and directly drive the barrel with a slightly smaller inner diameter into the larger barrel, which is one of the methods.
Another way is the alloy improvement technology that Zhu Youxiao took out, he obtained some methods that can be used in this era from the knowledge of his previous life, and added some alloys that can be found in this era, so that the weight of the barrel produced will be directly cleared by one-third compared with the original.
Don't look at the weight is only a third less, that's a big deal.
Not to mention that the artillery made in this way can withstand greater bore pressure.
Originally, the plan of nitrocellulose as a propellant that the Emperor of the Apocalypse could not implement at all without the golden gun could finally be implemented.
At the same time, the improved technology that Zhu Youxiao wanted to give the musket was the legendary improved technology, which could improve the smashing of the fortune stone on a large scale. At the same time, the temperature reduces impurities, and the practice of interior and exterior decoration is still adopted, so that the weight of the musket is directly reduced by half, and it is no longer the original cavity, and it can be operated and used by one person, and the important thing is that this musket can also change bullets and shoot from the horse, which is simply an epoch-making product.
After getting this new type of artillery and new muskets. Zhu Youxiao did not engage in the previous saucy operation, and directly helped them change their names to the Apocalypse 24 Artillery and the Apocalypse 34 Musket.
In addition, Zhu Youxiao directly allocated 5 million taels of silver, and demanded that Sun Yuanhua must produce 15,000 muskets per month and 15,200 guns every year, no matter what the price is
Such a requirement can be described as very terrifying, such a production capacity cannot be made even in the general arsenal of later generations, let alone the productivity of this era.
"Brother Shen!"
"Hmm!"
Shen Changqing walked on the road, and when he met someone he knew well, he would say hello to each other or nod his head.
But it doesn't matter who it is.
There was no superfluous expression on everyone's face, as if they were very indifferent to everything.
on this.
Shen Changqing is used to it.
Because this is the Demon Suppression Division, it is an institution that maintains the stability of Great Qin, and its main responsibility is to kill demons and monsters, and of course there are some other side jobs.
Arguably.
In the Demon Suppression Division, everyone has a lot of blood on their hands.
When a person is accustomed to seeing life and death, then he will become indifferent to many things.
When he first came to this world, Shen Changqing was a little uncomfortable, but over time he got used to it.
The Demon Suppression Division is huge.
The people who can stay in the Demon Suppression Division are all powerful masters, or people who have the potential to become masters.
Shen Changqing belongs to the latter.
Among them, the Demon Suppression Division is divided into two professions, one is the town guard and the other is the demon exterminator.
Anyone who enters the Demon Suppression Division starts with the lowest level of demon slayer.
Then step by step, he is expected to become a town guard.
Shen Changqing's predecessor was a trainee demon slayer in the Demon Suppression Division, and he was also the lowest level of the demon slayer envoys.
Have memories of the predecessor.
He is also very familiar with the environment of the Demon Suppression Division.
It didn't take long for Shen Changqing to stop in front of an attic.
Unlike other places full of slaughter, the attic here seems to stand out from the crowd, and in the bloody Demon Suppression Division, it presents a different tranquility.
At this time, the attic door is open, and there are occasional people entering and exiting.
Shen Changqing only hesitated for a moment, and then stepped in.
Access to the attic.
The environment has changed in vain.
A burst of ink fragrance mixed with the faint smell of blood came to his face, making his brow furrow instinctively, but quickly stretched.
The smell of blood on everyone's body in the Demon Suppression Division is almost impossible to clean.