In 1410, when the conquest of Jiaozhi, Zhu Di of the Ming Dynasty set up a special artillery unit in the Beijing army, the Shenji Battalion, which was in a leading position in China and even all countries in the world at that time, and was about a century earlier than the Spanish musketeers (founded in 1510), which was the first in Europe.

The Shenji Battalion is the earliest firearms unit established in China and the world, and is a strategic mobile force under the direct command of the imperial court. The Shenji Battalion is different from the garrison of the guard station established in the early Ming Dynasty, and its highest establishment level is the battalion, with 2 commanders and ministers, 3 military attachés, and 2 chief officers in charge of the battalion; the battalion is composed of five armies, including the middle army, the left leg, the right sentry, the left sentry, and the right outpost, and each has 1 internal minister and 1 military minister. The battalion specializes in sharpshooters and artillery. Later, he had to supervise Tan Guangma 5,000 horses, called 5,000 battalions, attached to the Shenji battalion, and set up officers such as the armies below the Shenji battalion, and the battalion was organized into four divisions, each division set up 2 officers, and the task of the Shenji battalion was to be in charge of training firearms and accompanying escort horse officers and soldiers.

Compared with the previous dynasties, the war pattern of the Ming Dynasty has undergone very great changes, and the application of firearms has played a central role. If the application of China's firearms on the battlefield was embryonic in the Song Dynasty, then the Ming Dynasty was an era of great development, and the emergence of this situation is closely related to Zhu Yuanzhang's development process. Zhu Yuanzhang started near the Yangtze River, and at the beginning of his development, a man named Jiao Yu offered the firearms he developed, so Zhu Yuanzhang's team became the only rebel army in the Jiangnan Rebel Army that could be said to be the only firearm that became the standard equipment. The water network in the south of the Yangtze River, coupled with Liu Futong's Northern Expedition, the cavalry team that the Mongols were proud of could not play its due power, so Zhu Yuanzhang, who had firearms, soon tasted the sweetness, and in a series of battles with Chen Youliang, firearms played an extremely important role. In the offensive and defensive battle of Nanchang, Chen Youliang waved 600,000 troops to besiege Nanchang, but the Zhu army in Nanchang was unable to attack Chen Youliang for a long time with the help of firearms. In the subsequent Battle of Poyang Lake, Zhu Yuanzhang's army gave full play to the power of firearms, using the most advanced firearms in China at that time, such as "artillery, fire milling, rockets, thistles, large and small muskets, large and small general barrels, large and small iron cannons, and divine machine arrows", creating a precedent for bombarding enemy ships with "naval artillery" in water warfare. Firearms became one of the standard weapons of the Ming army, usually the composition of the Ming army was "milling ten, twenty knives, thirty bows and arrows, forty guns", and the proportion of firearms accounted for 10%.

The materials of the car battalion and infantry battalion compiled by Qi Jiguang may have been written in the military book and will be planned for implementation, but now it is for reference only:

Car battalion: 2,048 combat soldiers;

1,061 officers, miscellaneous servants, craftsmen, coachmen, etc.;

The battalion numbered 3,109 officers and men.

Equipment: 256 Franc machines (768 Franc operators);

512 branches of birds (512 birds);

8 large generals (heavy large-caliber artillery);

There were 1,320 firearms fighters, accounting for 64.2% of the combatants;

The others were pikemen, rattan players, and other soldiers armed with cold weapons.

Infantry battalion: 2,160 combat soldiers;

539 officers, miscellaneous servants, craftsmen, etc.;

The total number of officers and men in the battalion was 2,699.

Equipment: 1080 Bird Guns (1080 Bird Guns).

There were 1,080 firearms bearers, accounting for 50 per cent of the combatants.

The others were pikemen, rattan players, and other soldiers who were only armed with cold weapons;

Among them, there are 216 party rakes, equipped with a total of 6,480 rockets.

The proportion of firearms in the car battalion and the infantry battalion compiled by Qi Jiguang is so high, it is really unbelievable. It is said that the proportion of firearms in the Ming army at that time made the missionaries from Europe drool! If the emperors of Qi Jiguang during his lifetime were not Jiajing and Wanli, and the emperors who led Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan were not Tianqi and Chongzhen, but any of the Qin Emperors, Han Wu, Tang Zong, and Song Zu, then New York should be called "New Chang'an......

In addition, it should be explained that: 1. After the 3-eye gun is shot, it can be used as a hammer; 2. The Ming army's bird guns all carry a spear fork, which is the same as the arquebus of the same era in Europe, and the technical parameters are almost the same, so it can be seen that the power is not small; 3. In the Ming army's three-talent formation, there is a kind of cavalry called "jumping team," which is estimated to be a cavalry unit that uses a 3-eye gun; 4. The Ming army uses a large number of firearms, so the cavalry and officers are equipped with light armor; 5. The proportion of cavalry equipped with firearms in the Ming army reaches 48 percent Left and right, imagine that if a large number of cavalry suddenly rushed out and fired muskets, it would be difficult for the ordinary army to resist; 6. The cavalry of the Ming army was equipped with a very small number of bird guns, and was mainly equipped with multi-barreled melee muskets. 7. Qi Jiguang believed that the bird gun was also suitable for cavalry use, so he deduced that the musket cavalry of the Qi family army should be known for its accurate marksmanship; 8. The car battalion structure refined by Qi Jiguang should be closer to that of the Ming army during the Imjin War in Korea, and the proportion of the car battalion created by Sun Chengzong on the basis of the tactics of the Qi family army was no different from that of the modern armored division, and it was a sharp weapon for fighting the cavalry in the plain area; 9. Yuan Chonghuan's direct subordinate unit -- the most elite "Guanning Iron Cavalry" of the Ming Dynasty , all equipped with 5-eye arquebuses, their fire assault capabilities were invincible in the world at the time.

In August of the 5th year of the Apocalypse, Ma Shilong, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan under Sun Chengzong, Liaodong Jinglu, believed the words of the people and raided Houjin with light troops, and as a result, he was ambushed and suffered more than 400 casualties. On this ground, the eunuchs under Wei Zhongxian made dozens of recitals to impeach Ma Shilong and Sun Chengzong, and the Emperor of the Apocalypse sent Sun Chengzong to "return to his hometown to recuperate", and succeeded the eunuch Gao Di as the Liaodong Economic Strategy. After Yuan Chonghuan's death, Emperor Chongzhen let Sun Chengzong go out of the mountains to pass through Liaodong, but he encountered the defeat of the Daling River, Sun Chengzong stepped down again, and has been living idle at his home in Gaoyang. In November of the 11th year of Chongzhen, the Qing army entered Gaoyang, 76-year-old Sun Chengzong led the whole family to fight in the streets, 19 children and grandchildren died in battle, Sun Chengzong was captured, refused to surrender to the Qing, and was strangled to death by the Qing soldiers. Xiong Tingbi (framed and imprisoned by the eunuchs, killed in the fifth year of the Apocalypse, and "passed on the head to the nine sides"), Sun Chengzong, and Yuan Chonghuan all ended up! But knowing this, they still have to stand up, and this is exactly the integrity and spirit of the Chinese nation!

On November 20, the second year of Chongzhen, Yuan Chonghuan led 9,000 Guanning iron cavalry to fight 100,000 Manchurian Eight Banner soldiers without artillery support in the field of Beijing. After the death of Yuan Chonghuan, the division of Guanning Tieqi and the fifty Liao generals from the ancestor Dashou to the lower level collapsed step by step. Some of them were later transferred back to Guannai to suppress the peasant army, some fell on the battlefield against the Qing Dynasty (Later Jin), and the rest surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and became the vanguard of the Manchu invasion. Despite the different prospects, the Guanning Iron Cavalry, which is constantly diluted and weakened, will always be the best force in any faction. It was not until the rebellion of the three feudatories in the 20th year of the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty (1681) was quelled that the last trace of the bloodline of the army cultivated by Yuan Chonghuan disappeared. Looking at the history books in their hands, people in later generations can't help but sigh, if Yuan Chonghuan is immortal and leads this powerful force, what will history look like?

Compare the Manchu firearms establishment, how backward.!

During the Kangxi period, in order to attack Dzungar, the Qing Dynasty could only mobilize 8 or 90,000 people, and during the Qianlong period, the Qing army launched a general attack on the lair of Dzungar, the main force was only 5 or 60,000 people, the number of troops was small, and the equipment of the troops was even more backward, every 10 people had a very bulky and short-range musket, (which could not be fired in the rain), many troops did not have firearms at all, and the artillery of the Qing army was also imitated from the cannons and mortars of the West in the 1600s, which was 200 years behind the equipment of the same level in the West in the 1800s.

Attached Ship Information:

Net shuttle boat: ultra-small, shaped like a shuttle, bamboo mast and wooden sail, with a draft of seven or eight inches, with 2-4 people inside, equipped with two or three bird guns. During the war, two or three hundred ships were attached to the swarms and ants.

Eagle boat: light, two sharp ends, do not distinguish the head and tail, advance and retreat like flying, strong maneuverability. The surrounding area is covered with thatched bamboo, and there are eyes between the bamboos. Often rush into the enemy line and cooperate with the sand boats.

Serial ship: light, 4 zhang long, resembling a ship, but actually two ships. The front boat occupies one-third, the rear boat occupies two-thirds, and the middle is connected by two iron rings. The front ship has a number of large inverted whiskers, carrying fireballs, divine smoke, divine sand, poisonous fire, and fire guns, and the rear boat is equipped with oars to carry soldiers. In wartime, the front ship was nailed to the enemy ship, and all kinds of firearms were ignited, and the iron ring was released at the same time, and the rear ship returned, and the rear ship returned, and the flames of the front ship swirled, and the enemy ship was burned.

Mother and child ship: light, the length of the mother ship is 3 zhang 5, the front is 2 zhang, the rear is 1 zhang 5, only the two sides of the gangway, the inner space, there is a small boat, there is a cover plate, there are 4 oars to row, with a rope and the mother ship tied. The mother ship has firewood, oil, gunpowder and fire. During the war, the mother ship quickly approached the enemy ship, nailed it together, and set the mother ship on fire and the descendants returned in the sub-ship.

Fire Dragon Ship: Light, with three tiers. Protected by raw cowhide, with a hole on it, a knife board in the middle, a nail board, and a soldier in ambush. There were flywheels on both sides, 4 sailors. Defeat the enemy first, lure the enemy to board the ship, activate the mechanism, and make the enemy fall from the upper layer into the middle knife board nail board.

Red Dragon Boat: Light, with a dragon-like hull, divided into:

3rd floor, with firearms, knives and guns. The bow of the ship is like a dragon's head and its mouth open, and there is a soldier hidden in it to reconnoiter the enemy's situation. The dragon's back is nailed with bamboo chips, a small iron door is opened on the chest, and there is one mouth on each side for a soldier to paddle. There are 2 solid wooden frames, and the keel of the ship is lowered with iron to make the ship stable. The interior is not equipped with anything other than weapons, and two soldiers fire firearms in it, and one soldier is at the helm and sails. They often attack the enemy with a salvo of hundreds of ships.

Cangshan boat: small, 5 feet draft, equipped with 2 jack Buddha machines, 3 bowls, 4 Lumi guns, 40 spray cans, 60 chimneys, 30 fire bricks, 100 rockets, 4 medicine crossbows, and 100 crossbow arrows. There were 37 people on board, 4 sailors, 33 soldiers, and a third class. The first armor is a franc machine and a shotgun, the third armor is a firearm, and the second armor is a cold weapon.

Wheels: A warship that hits the water with a wheel, 4 zhang 2 long, 1 zhang 3 wide, 1 foot each with a virtual frame on the outside, 4 wheels on the inside, the head of the wheel enters the water about 1 foot, and the speed of the ship is much faster than that of the oar. The bow is 8 feet long, the middle cabin is 2 feet 7 feet long, and the stern is 7 feet long. There are slabs and nails, which are laid down on both sides, and each board is 5 feet long and 2 feet wide. During the battle, the sand and sand cylinders were first released, and then the planks of the ship were lifted, and the soldiers stood on both sides, throwing fireballs, rockets, and javelins at the enemy ships, and destroying the enemy ships.

Haicang boat: medium-sized, with a draft of seven or eight feet deep, maneuverable in the wind, and a lucky boat. Jack Franc machine 4

Door, 3 bowls, 6 guns, 50 canisters, 80 canisters, 10 artillery, 50 fire bricks, 200 rockets, 6 crossbows, 100 crossbow arrows. The crew was 53 people, 9 sailors, 44 fighters, divided into 4 armor. The first armor is a franc machine and a shotgun, and the fourth armor is a firearm armor.

Lucky boat: large, tall, the bottom is pointed up, the head is raised and the tail is upturned, the tree is 2 masts, the cabin is 3 floors, the ship is as high as a city, and there is a guard plate next to it. Soldiers take cover behind them and shoot arrows at enemy ships, throwing fireballs, fire bricks, and fire barrels. And with the wind and the river crashed and sank the boat. The bow of the ship is equipped with 1 Hongyi cannon, 6 jack Franc machines, 3 bowl-mouth guns, 20 thunderbolt guns, 60 spray canisters, 10 Lumi guns, 500 crossbow arrows, 10 gunpowder crossbows, 300 rockets, 100 fire bricks, and thousands of cold weapons. The crew was 64 people, 9 sailors, 55 fighters, and 5 armor. The first is the Franc mecha, which operates the ship's first gun and the Franc machine, and throws fireballs and fire bricks at close range; the second is the shotgun armor, which specializes in shooting bird guns; the third and fourth are javelin miscellaneous servants, and also operate the boat in close combat; and the fifth is the fire crossbow armor, which specializes in shooting rockets.

Centipede boat: large, imitation Portuguese multi-oared boat, pointed and wide, fast sailing, even against the wind, not afraid of wind and waves. There are thousands of pounds of Franc machine guns, fireballs, rockets, and rockets.

Three-masted gunboat: huge, the main force of the naval division, tall, with a high head and a tail, sailing quickly, not afraid of wind and waves. The tree is 3 masts, the main mast is 4 zhang high, the length of the ship is 20 zhang, the cabin is 5 floors, the ship is set up as high as the city, can accommodate 300 people, and is equipped with red artillery

8 doors, 40 doors of jack franc machine. Zheng Chenggong's naval division once defeated the fleet of the Portuguese East India Company and the Dutch colonial army, and the ship's construction style was lost, and only the wreckage was unearthed on Dongshan Island