Chapter 355: Strengthening the Army, "Imperial Expedition"

Last time, it was mentioned that Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen thought of using the method of the ancestor Zhu Chongba to quickly gather national strength, but found that there were too many displaced people, so they could only be channeled.

"Giggles, Your Majesty, it's late at night, it's time to rest, let the concubines come and serve you to sleep, Giggles." Tian Guifei is like a hibiscus out of the water at the moment, lying in the "red tent" on the dragon bed, charming and infinite, with thousands of manners, as long as she is a man with normal physiology, she will definitely not be able to resist the temptation and give in.

"Hehe, if the concubine is sleepy, just rest in peace, I still have a few pairs of notes to be approved." Emperor Chongzhen took a quick look while fighting at night. These are the "800 miles expedited" sent by various post stations across the country, which are basically the military dynamics on the northern border and the production of various localities to pacify hooligan organizations.

"Giggles, what did the emperor say? Serving the emperor is the duty of a concubine, how can she enjoy comfort alone? Tian Guifei frowned slightly, and suddenly Fu Ling's heart came, because she, as a "doppelganger", had already received instructions from the "deity", so don't disturb the "doppelganger" of Fujun first, because it will speed up energy consumption and become premature. However, the deity of Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen also gave instructions to this "doppelganger", review it as soon as possible, and then give birth to a baby!

About a quarter of an hour later, after the eunuch Wang Chengen asked the eunuchs on duty to move away all the stacks of folds that had been reviewed by the imperial pen of "Emperor Chongzhen", he asked several senior palace maids who were serving around the "dragon bed" to withdraw together, leaving only the emperor Laozi and the concubine Niangniang to enjoy the fish and water and cultivate people.

However, among these memoirs, there are a few memoranda from the "Ministry of War" that attracted the attention of Emperor Chongzhen, because the content mentioned that the "new army" should be used as a template to vigorously transform the traditional army structure so that it could quickly form combat effectiveness in a short period of time, so as to be used for the future northern expedition to the Mongolian steppe and the pacification of the Western Regions.

Among them, the most feasible way is to manufacture more cost-effective "multi-eyed Lianzhu guns" in large quantities to equip the "border army" and the "guard camps" in various places. At the same time, in view of the large decrease in the number of "military households" in the past 100 years, it is believed that it is necessary for the imperial court to unify the weapon system while recruiting a large number of "border troops".

These recitals were played by the "Military Department Shangshu", the "Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies", the "Jinyi Guard", and of course Xu Guangqi and others.

However, what makes Emperor Chongzhen feel practical is that he can replace the various "handcuffs" currently used by the "border army" and the "cantonment guards" by imitating the "rifled gun" model and mass-producing two kinds of rear-loading "smoothbore muskets" that are six feet long and three feet long.

Although the army of the Ming Dynasty was divided into two parts, the "Beijing Army", also known as the "Beijing Army" and the "Local Army", the "Beijing Army" was the elite of the national "Guards". Although the combat effectiveness of today's "Beijing Army" is declining year by year, and it is far inferior to the current "New Army," it is still victorious in numbers.

In the early years of Hongwu, there were 48 guards in the "Beijing Army" of Gongwei Yingtianfu. After Ming Chengzu Zhu Di moved the capital to Beijing, because the Beijing division was close to the front line of the Great Wall, the Beijing army had as many as 72 guards, and the three battalions of "Five Army", "Three Thousand" and "Shenji" were formally established. Among them, the "Shenji Battalion" has mastered all kinds of firearms, which is the focus of this reform.

In peacetime, the five military battalions practiced the "battalion formation", the 3,000 battalion commanders "patrol posts", and the Shenji battalion held "firearms", and they drove with them in wartime. In the future, the Beijing military system will be more relaxed. In addition, there are also 12 guards such as "Jinyi Guard" and "Jinwu", "Yulin", "Tiger Ben", "Fu Army" and other 12 guards, as well as 4 guard battalions such as "Wu Xiang and Teng Xiang" under the "Imperial Horse Supervisor". This shows that the "Beijing Army" is trustworthy in terms of equipment literacy and comprehensive combat strength.

However, since the decree was issued and transmitted to Liaodong, the border army generals led by Yuan Chonghuan firmly grasped the first batch of 100,000 trained "new troops" and used them as a force to attack the fortifications. At this time, if Emperor Laozi wanted to experience the "imperial expedition" to the Mongolian steppe, he had to start another stove to select elite soldiers.

However, if the 12 guards such as the "Jinyi Guard" and the "Jinwu", "Yulin", "Huben", and "Fu Army", as well as the 4 guard battalions under the "Imperial Horse Guard", such as the "Wuxiang Left" and "Tengxiang Left", can be armed with long and short "firearms" at the same time, plus "mortars" and "multi-eyed beads", the combat power will definitely be greatly increased.

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… The five self-deprecating "limerick poems" are as follows:

One of them is called "Graduation Elegy":

The peak loop turns to pearls, and the clouds are steaming and the jade meal.

Passers-by but asked Yao Tingyuan? I'll come to Jingjiang to play.

Last night, I dreamed of returning to the world, and this morning I broke my soul in Jinji Mountain.

Laughing and sighing for three years, sorrowful and sad to the four seas!

The second is "living in the moment":

The gentle spring breeze blows my face, and the autumn waves send you love.

I miss the love in the boudoir back then, and now I am lonely and sad!

Where is there no grass at the end of the world? The pole of the cape fries the house.

When the money is used, it is hated less, and the supply is cut off and it becomes a liar!

The third is "live for yourself":

Reading only for Yan Ruyu? Entrepreneurship and now bearded!

In the past, the green plum came out of the Western Regions, and now the bamboo horse is crying autumn chrysanthemum!

Laughing and sighing at the red dust is unreasonable, and the sad song is empty and the moon is self-entertaining!

If you don't show Ling Yunzhi in your life, a man has a seven-foot body in vain!

The fourth is "Woohoo lament":

If you are young, you will work hard and have great ambitions, and you will live up to your teacher when you grow up.

Twenty years of hard study was ignored, and once he became famous, his relatives and friends knew!

The mixed system of postgraduate entrance examination and doctoral studies is a trend of struggle.

The economic crisis is in the last days, and it is not wise to toss indiscriminately!

The mid-life nightmare has begun, and the debt is high and the life is overdrawn.

Don't dare to get sick or die, put down your dignity and do part-time work.

The courier delivers takeaways, desperately just for broken silver.

Rich immigrants are easy to avoid taxes, but it is difficult for the poor to make and eat!

The fifth is "see through the red dust":

Fu Lu Shou is happy, and the sun and the moon invite each other.

In the prosperous era of Taiping Song, where is the duckweed?

Love messes with the mind, talking about money hurts feelings!

Die with it? It's better to be ascetic!

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"Woo, Your Majesty...... What are you doing? As if you were dying? Could it be that the concubines did not serve well? Or does the emperor have a grudge against his concubines? ”

"Uh...... Don't cry for the concubine, it's wrong for me, I think about it for a while, and I actually imagine that controlling the concubine is a 'royal driving pro-expedition', I really can't stand my concubine! Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen suddenly looked embarrassed, after all, his actions were too rough, he only cared about his own well-being, and didn't care about the pain of others.

"Woo, the emperor won't allow this in the future, because the concubines are afraid, woo." Tian Guifei is already pear blossoms with rain, I saw pity, while whimpering softly, I threw myself into the arms of Emperor Chongzhen again, thinking that this time I got the emperor's "dragon seed", and I must give birth to a prince before my sisters, hehe.

"Hehe, don't cry your concubine, it's not beautiful to cry again." Emperor Chongzhen stroked the temples of Yiren in his arms, hugged her fragrant shoulder, and smiled with bad intentions: "Fang Cai, I was distracted for a while, my thoughts flew to the clouds, and I personally conquered all parts of the grassland, snatched countless beauties, and then ...... Hey. ”

"And then what? Your Majesty, are you going to say it quickly? I'm about to die of my concubines, it's really annoying! "Tian Guifei is Emperor Chongzhen's favorite concubine.

"Hehe, of course, it's to pamper all the prairie beauties and make them all pregnant with my 'dragon species', Quack." Emperor Chongzhen made a joke.

"Hmph, hate! Bad men, bad, I can't see other women's good, it's just bad! Watch and hit! ......As soon as the words fell, Tian Guifei broke free from Emperor Chongzhen's embrace, and at the same time picked up the pillow on the bed and threw it over. And Emperor Chongzhen was not used to her, so he also picked up a pillow and threw it over......

In this way, the young couple tossed in bed for half a night, anyway, it was a fight at the head of the bed and at the end of the bed, and finally hugged each other tightly like paint, and there was no longer the previous roughness, but it was Qingqing and me, you and me, and when Emperor Chongzhen felt sleepy, he fell asleep in the arms of the concubine.

The next day, Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen and his concubines came to the "Luban Gate", that is, the former "Xian'an Palace", to see what new things their half-brother Zhu Youxiao was tinkering with? However, when the emperor Lao Tzu and his concubines first appeared in the square at the entrance of the palace, they were immediately forced back by the heat wave.

"Huh? Dare to ask my brother, what are you ......" Zhu Youzhen and his concubines couldn't help frowning when they saw Zhu Youzhen spewing flames and calcining a pile of iron.

"Haha, brother, I have nothing to do for my brother, and suddenly I felt in my heart, so I thought of using spells to build weapons, and I wanted to try to see if I could make a powerful 'firearm', hehe." As a matter of fact, after receiving good feedback from the "multi-eyed and beaded guns," Zhu Youxiao decided to develop a "new weapon" on the basis of it.

This "new weapon" is very similar to the "multi-eyed bead gun" in appearance, but it has three layers of steel pipes superimposed on each other, from the inside to the outside are "six", "twelve", and "twenty-four", a total of 42 barrels, and it is also in breech loading mode, the difference is that its "sub-gun" has changed from "magazine" to "cartridge".

After Zhu Youxiao ran the methods of "penetration", "Tongxuan", "sprout", "spitting inflammation", "sitting on fire" and "vigorously", he used "leptospira" to transform his hands into various metal tools to make this object. In the process, Zhu Youxiao once transformed himself into an anvil, a hammer, a drill, and pliers.

In fact, this "new weapon" is an enhanced version of the "Gatling machine gun" that will appear in later generations. However, the strange thing is that in another time and space, this gunpowder weapon, which originally appeared on the battlefield in the mid-nineteenth century, was invented in advance, and it is still the ultimate version.

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For the first time, the Gatling gun used six 14.7 mm barrels in a circle, equipped with metal cartridge shells, and the shooter crank rotated the barrel and loaded it into the bullet to fire, and its maximum rate of fire at that time exceeded 200 rounds per minute. Around 1874 (the thirteenth year of Tongzhi of the Qing Dynasty), the "Gatling machine gun" was imported into China, and was called "Grimm Cannon", "Grimm Quick Cannon" or "Grimm Quick Gun", which was extremely powerful and very popular in the Beiyang Army.

After the 50s of the 20th century, the United States adopted the "Gatling principle" and reapplied it to firearms, small-caliber airborne aircraft guns and anti-aircraft guns, so that the rate of fire of newly developed guns and artillery weapons generally reached more than 1,000 rounds per minute, that is, at least 17 rounds of ammunition per second.

The "Gatling gun" was usually "bundled" in a circle of 6 to 10 14.7mm barrels, and when the shooter shook the crank, the barrel rotated rapidly, and as soon as the reload was successful, the ammunition of the incoming gun was automatically activated and fired, and at that time, its maximum rate of fire was usually 200 rounds per minute!

The mechanism of the "Gatling gun" was simple, with one shooter installing the "loader", and the other aimed and turned the crank. When a set of gears rotates around the main shaft, the spindle will drive the barrel, bolt and other parts to rotate with the barrel.

At this time, the bullets will automatically fall from the "loader" into the "draw slot" one by one, and the "bolt" will push the gun into the chamber. As the bolt moves forward, the spring is compressed by the pin's protrusion, and once the firing pin is released, the spring drives the firing pin forward, striking the primer and firing the bullet. This "machine gun" was designed and manufactured using the rotating tube firing principle, which was later popularly known as the "Gatling automatic principle".

This principle makes use of a set of transmission mechanisms that rotate several barrels around a common shaft to complete continuous firing. The "Gatling gun" is mechanical. Initially, the barrel rotation required manual rotation of the shaker, but later it was improved to be accomplished by electric motor or derivative gas power.

The advantages of the "Gatling machine gun" are its high rate of fire, its high power, and the way the barrels work alternately, so that it can maintain good sustained firepower, but the main disadvantage is that it is large in size and mass, and consumes more ammunition. In addition, the Model 1862 "Gatling Rotary Machine Gun" had two different configurations.

The first construction used a separate steel chamber (the chamber was separated from the barrel), the tail section of which was closed and equipped with a percussion cap. The shooter rotates the barrels, which are evenly arranged along the circumference, by shaking the crank, and the chambers filled with ammunition enter the latching slots behind each barrel from the feed hopper.

When the barrel is turned to a specific position, the firing pin fires the ammunition. And when the barrel is turned to another position, the chamber after the shot exits the machine gun.

The chamber can be reused, and the barrel rotation can complete the loading, firing and unloading of 6 rounds of ammunition for one rotation, reaching a rate of fire of 200 rounds per minute, but there are shortcomings such as gunpowder gas leakage, mainly because the most popular use in various countries at that time is still paper shell gun cartridges, and metal cartridge shells have not yet been popularized.

To solve the above problems, "Gatling" used a newly developed independent metal cartridge ammunition. And this ammunition structure was followed by all the designers of the machine guns that followed. The second construction of the "Gatling gun" used a 0.58-inch caliber copper shell, which was an edge-fire ammunition.

In overcoming the difficult problem of how to make the independent chamber coaxial with the chamber, the "Gatling" used a tapered chamber with a larger diameter at the rear of the chamber, which made it easier for the projectile to enter the barrel. Because of this, the Qing Dynasty also made many such "machine guns" according to its principles in the "Westernization Movement".

The "Gatling machine gun" was initially operated by a manual crank mechanism, with six barrels rotating around a central axis (some models had up to ten barrels).

Each barrel was fired once in the same position with each revolution. The barrel, carriage and lock cylinder were separated, all mounted on a solid steel plate rotating around the central axis, and the body was mounted on a rectangular fixed frame. Turning the crank when firing turns the shaft, there are grooves in the body of the gun, and holes corresponding to the barrel are drilled in the lock cylinder. This is the working principle of the "Gatling Machine Gun" in another time and space, and it was easily cracked by Zhu Youxiao in this time and space.

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