In the twenty-eighth year of Hongwu, three months after the death of King Qin, because of the need to deepen the cooperation between China Heavy Industry and the Health Institute.

Proposed by Zhu Gaochi and approved by Zhu Di, the king of Yan, the joint office of the military industry was established, which was fully responsible for the management of the affairs between China Heavy Industry and the health institute.

In the sixth month after the death of King Qin, led by the Joint Office of Military Industry and with the cooperation of the Research Department, two new armies were selected for training.

One is the stone box camp in Miyun District, and the other is the Jinzhou Zhongzuo of Jinzhou Wei.

September of the twenty-eighth year of Hongwu.

Zhu Gaochi took a railway carriage and led his entourage and guards to Miyun Station, before arriving.

On the platform, two rows of 100 soldiers stood neatly.

This is Zhu Gaochi's second visit to Miyun.

There is no government office in the Miyun area, that is, there are no officials, Guo Ying, the commander of the Miyun Guard, Zheng Heng, the commander of the Miyun Guard, Qiu Fu and other generals of the Shiqiao Battalion, as well as the officers invited from the Beiping Zhuwei, everyone has been waiting here.

Compared with Zhu Gaochi's first arrival in Miyun, the specifications this time have been increased several times, and people's expressions are more respectful.

The prince does not have such great prestige and does not have such great power, but who made Zhu Gaochi's approach the only one in the world.

Under the "indulgence" of King Yan, Zhu Gaochi's power was boundless, especially the establishment of the China Heavy Industry System, which increased the prosperity of Beiping several times, and the population also increased significantly.

"Here we are."

Seeing Zhu Gaochi's special train from afar, people moved, and those of low rank took the initiative to move forward.

When the railway carriage stopped, a few guards came down first, and then Zhu Gaochi, and after Zhu Gaochi got off, the entourage continued to pour out.

There are officials of the capital department, the manager of the China Heavy Industry Department, the officials of the Changshi Mansion, and even a few businessmen from the south.

"Meet the little prince!"

All the people marched forward in unison.

"Excuse me!"

Zhu Gaochi is now the son of the world, and his name has changed from the past, and now it is justified to call him the little prince.

After everyone exchanged pleasantries, Zhu Gaochi refused to take a sedan chair or a carriage, and rode directly to the stone box camp with everyone.

The stone box camp is a permanent military camp in the local area, not temporary, so the camp is a well-built military fort with complete facilities.

The money was transferred by China Heavy Industries, provided to the stone box camp, and a banquet was prepared.

During the banquet.

Chicken, duck and fish, pastries, rice wine, delicacies from the mountains and seas, you name it.

Halfway through, the generals took turns to toast at the main table, and Zhu Gaochi was the first to salute, and the transfer of many generals was personally led by Zhu Gaochi.

For example, Zhang Wu, a thousand households of Zhendingwei, stood in front of Zhu Gaochi excitedly with a wine glass, and Zhu Gaochi, who was already eighteen years old, was not lower than Zhang Wu.

And Zhu Gaochi's figure is not thin, he was fat in history, and now he is not fat, let alone strong, but he is not as weak as ordinary young people.

"Little Wangye, it's Zhang Wu under the mark." Zhang Wu, who was holding a wine glass, introduced himself nervously.

Although he was born in Yanshan Wei, among the three guards of Yanshan, there are two or three hundred people in one hundred households alone, and there are twelve guards in Beiping City in Weisi Yamen.

Therefore, there are not many lucky people like Zhu Neng who are left by the little prince to do things, and it is obvious that Zhang Wu is not among them.

Zhu Gaochi picked up the clear rice wine and looked at Zhang Wu with a smile.

Zhang Wu is what he values, and he is in his list of key training, because this person is the twelfth person in history.

His talent is unquestionable and tested.

However, over the years, a lot of talents have come out, and there is a lack of luck between the two, under the premise that Zhu Gaochi has not specially arranged, the intersection between the two is very little.

"I remember you." Zhu Gaochi said with a smile, "You went to Zhendingwei, you have to do things well and don't live up to your father's expectations." ”

With the words of the little prince, many people secretly glanced at Zhang Wu and remembered the appearance of this person, as long as this person did not make a mistake, sooner or later he would rise up.

Zhang Wu hadn't drunk the wine yet, his face was already red, he was incoherent with excitement, and finally drank the wine in his hand.

Zhu Gaochi took a small sip, Zhang Wu held back what he wanted to say, knowing that there were still many people waiting behind, and regretfully retired.

The banquet lasted for a whole hour, and after it was over, Zhu Gaochi returned to the room prepared for him in the stone box camp to rest.

The little prince rested, but the stone box camp couldn't rest.

All preparations are being reviewed intensively, for fear of an accident in the afternoon.

Zhu Gaochi slept for half an hour, and when the time came, he came in and woke Zhu Gaochi carefully, Zhu Gaochi yawned and got up.

On the school grounds.

There is a row of long tables, on which are neatly placed four types of firearms: bird guns, three-eyed firearms, heavy artillery, and light artillery.

Of course, in order to avoid accidents, gunpowder and lead bullet are taken care of by trusted people.

Zhu Gaochi and the rest of the people sat in the stands, and Qiu Fu was also accompanied.

The officers below, seeing the flags on the stage, walked up to the soldiers, and under the officer's orders, ten soldiers picked up the bird guns on the table.

"Ready, begin."

Ten soldiers moved.

First the guns were washed, and then the gunpowder was loaded, because the paper gunpowder was already prepared in advance, so the soldiers saved a lot of time.

After compacting with a cane, reload a projectile and continue to use the cane to send it down to the tube.

It's not over, load the projectile, continue to use a piece of paper to form a pellet into the barrel, and use a cane to plug the projectile to prevent the projectile from slipping out when the gun goes down.

The fire door was opened, and a fine gunpowder containing a tin turtle (a type of turtle-shaped storage jar cast with tin) was poured into the bird fire door for initiation.

After these actions, the soldiers took the bird gun in their hands, and the gun shook upward, and the gunpowder entered the line door and closed the fire door.

Finally, the fire rope is inserted into the faucet of the bird trigger, and all the reloading work is completed.

Ten soldiers hold the middle of the gun with their front hands, and open the fire door with their back hands, that is, they take the back and tail of the gun, and put their faces on the top of the back tail, and use one eye to see the rear light door and aim at the front crosshair, which is aimed at the target 150 steps away.

"Put!"

Another soldier on the side shouted loudly.

The soldiers pulled the trigger backwards with their right index fingers, and the arquebus clips holding the burning arquebus pressed down, touching the medicine chamber, and then the powder burned.

"Bang bang."

Among the soldiers, a puff of smoke rose and then drifted away in the wind.

The accuracy of the bird gun is not low, but it is not as accurate as the rifles of later generations, but there are still a lot of bullet points on the target.

This achievement moved the faces of the generals.

Such distance, such power, and such precision are very different from previous firearms, and there has been a qualitative change.

The soldiers repeated three rounds to make the results more convincing.

More than a dozen unloaded bird guns were sent to the stage for the generals to examine in person, and there were people on the side to explain.

"This is the bolt guard."

"This location is called the snake rod."

"This is the main spring, this is the linkage arm, this is the opening where the linkage is connected to the linkage arm, this is the arquebus, this is the trigger lever......"

"The ratio of the length to the caliber of the bird gun tube is about fifty to one and seventy to one, which is greater than the ratio of the existing fire gun pipe to the caliber."

"The length of the gun tube can make the gunpowder fully burn in the gun chamber, produce a large thrust, make the projectile have a large initial velocity after being discharged, obtain a straight trajectory, and shoot at a distant target."

The technician on the side said proudly: "Of course, this kind of structural design has higher requirements for the manufacturing process of the bird, because the pipe is required to be straight and smooth, and the time spent on the drill barrel is long during manufacturing, so the cost of manufacturing the bird's gun is relatively high." ”

"However, because of the use of steam engine power, the manufacturing cost has reached the lowest level."

"The materials needed to make bird guns are ten catties of iron to produce one catty of refined iron, and various technologies are needed to improve production efficiency."

"At present, only I, China Heavy Industries, have this ability, which can manufacture in large quantities, and the whole world can't catch up."

Zhu Gaochi did not refute the pride of the technicians.

In the Jiajing Dynasty in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the bird gun only made 10,000 rods a year, and the current China Heavy Industry can also make 10,000 rods a year, or when it has just been put into production.

If necessary, Zhu Gaochi can build the second, third, fourth, and fifth ......, because the development of mineral resources gives him this confidence.

"The fire rope used in the bird gun is made of hemp rope, soaked and dried with special medicinal water such as salt water, and after it is ignited, the burning speed is very slow, and only three are burned in half an hour."

Everyone looked over, and sure enough, on the fire rope, there was a faint spark, in a burning state.

These technologies, except for the steam engine technology, are all technologies in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, including spring parts and special fire ropes.

Zhu Gaochi didn't think there was anything unusual, but he was dissatisfied with the reload speed.

Just now, he secretly calculated that the interval between each round of firing is about one round per minute, and in history, the reloading speed of the Qi family army is only qualified if it is three rounds in two minutes.

However, militarily, Zhu Gaochi has no shortage of talents, after all, it is the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, and there are many generals who grew up in the war.

Soon it was proposed that the rate of fire could be increased using the three-stage shooting method.

The three-stage shooting method was invented by Mu Ying, who was currently stationed in Yunnan.

The earliest record of three-stage tactics in Europe is during the English Civil War, when the Battle of Cloden appeared in 1746, hundreds of years later than the Ming Dynasty.

The use of the three-stage shooting method largely solves the disadvantages of slow arquebus reloading.

Everyone has a lot of ideas for new firearms, and the existing military technology is transferred to the bird.

A combat vehicle mode was even proposed.

The power of arrows is not as good as gunpowder, and bird bullets can penetrate a lot of obstacles, but the Ming soldiers can block arrows behind the carriage, so they are not invincible.

It may be a coincidence, or it may be inevitable, it happens to be one of the tactics used against the chariot soldiers and the gun soldiers in Qi Jiguang's military book.

(End of chapter)