Supporting the body in the white blade, wandering in the red dust

Chapter 892

The military chaos in the Northwest subsided, and there was still a lot of money in the treasury, so Bailang began to spend to increase the salaries of officials——Old Zhu Baba is good at everything, but this old farmer's stinginess is really hopeless.If he works for his old Zhu family, he still has to pay the money. Even if he doesn't follow Da Song's high salary, he still has to give the minimum income, and he also needs to give retirement benefits.Bailang is not stingy, he is planning to give half of the internal funds and half of the treasury bank of the household department, and distribute money for the retirement of all officials.

Now outside the mouth and in some places inside the mouth, Bailang has come up with the method of harvesting and crushing silage after planting grass, and started to promote animal husbandry—mainly feeding cattle and sheep. Dairy products, cowhide, beef, and bones are all useful, and wool is also very useful for sheep. .As for the horses, they couldn't feed them well, but they were fine as a supplement—what Bailang wanted was not Mongolian horses, but two different kinds of horses.

One is war horses used by cavalry, either trying to introduce Mawari horses from India, or Bai Lang has to try to get horse breeds from Central Asia and Arabia, and spend time breeding Don horse-type war horses; Horses are used to drag logistics carts and gun carriages. Of course, the two can also be combined into one to breed a dual-purpose horse—such as the French Petesch horse.As for the infantry, Bailang is preparing to prepare firecrackers.

Although the little inventor Bai Lang once forgot a lot of knowledge, but when he became a master of internal scenes, he found it back bit by bit from his mind.So it's not a problem for him to get a flintlock gun—it's just that he has to get a lot of wrought iron firing, hydraulic boring machines, and the most troublesome high-carbon knife steel.The spring of the flintlock mechanism is fine.
Bronze cannons must be used, and the technology of iron cannons is still not up to par, so Bailang is going to take his time - now let's get rid of two to 3000 flintlock soldiers.As soon as they came up, a lathe was used to drill the barrel from the center of the forged iron hexagonal tube, so the strength of these muskets is still very good, plus the use of fixed bullets-bamboo tubes to calibrate the weight, plus lead Zier, Bailang felt that after training, soldiers should be able to fire at least two shots a minute.

Considering the heat dissipation, one shot per minute is fine. If you shoot at close range, you should be able to defeat the Jurchens rushing forward-after all, these soldiers are also equipped with half-body chain mail and helmets. In addition to a bayonet, they also have There is a serious waist knife.And the artillery firepower equipped for these people is even simpler-considering that the Jurchen savages or Mongolian Tartars are on the opposite side, then the classic Napoleon 1 six-pound bronze field gun is enough.

Bailang still remembers these things. It is enough to equip 3000 people with twelve six-pound guns. Each gun has five gunners, plus three spare gunners and auxiliary soldiers, plus a groom and a man who is responsible for carrying the shells. For gunpowder, these two artillery companies have nearly 200 people.Bailang will also bring more than 1000 cavalry and logistics troops equipped with three-eyed guns. The entire establishment has nearly [-] people, which can almost be called a division.

It takes time to produce these equipments——Bailang simply plans to finish drilling the six-pound guns with a boring machine, so there is no need to pour them.In the spare time these few years, let him, a little inventor, do it—and things like steam engines, which Bailang thinks are too troublesome. Now making guns and drilling holes, hydraulic machinery is enough.It is more important that he improved the furnace and method of making iron.

In short, at this time, Bailang was regarded by the courtiers as a craftsman emperor who was not doing his job properly, but they couldn't wait for it--at this time, Bailang was not so frightening, and he didn't talk about dragging so and so out all day long.And this period was also the time when children appeared in groups in the Ming court—one after another in this year, three children were born, two princesses and one prince.

Up to now, no child has died in infancy, and this emperor seems to want to have more children.

The replacement is proceeding in an orderly manner. The new hydraulic machinery is still very useful. The firing rate of the flintlock gun has reached [-]%, so it can be used. Of course, it would be better if it was raised to [-]%. Bailang ordered that there should be no such things in the gunpowder. The messy thing is saltpeter sulfur charcoal, and they are kneaded into very fine particles.The camps of the three major battalions were filled with gunfire all day long, and Bailang had already spent tens of thousands of taels of equipment money on these thousands of people.

Hundreds of flintlock guns have been broken, but the cannons are fine. Tens of thousands of catties of gunpowder have been consumed, and the soldiers have finally been trained a little bit. "Unfortunately, they are still not those lobster soldiers who can fire at extremely close range - given the current level of social development, even if they can be trained, they are probably one-off troops." Before the initial industrialization, the line infantry tactics could only be It's just the three-stage attack that Da Ming already had.

It's just that Bailang has a bronze six-pound gun, so he can start attacking the opponent's formation at a distance of 1000 meters, and then make sure that his soldiers will not break up at a distance of 25 meters and will fire according to the order—— Of course, this is in the case of standing still, and mobile combat may not be so good.

"That's enough. It's enough to kill those Jurchens. It's just that we need to equip cotton armor. It's just right to send troops in winter." Although Bailang still didn't get the war horse and draft horse he wanted, the Mongolian horses he had now were almost enough. .Immediately began to deploy grain and grass materials, first transported to Shenyang, and then went to conquer the Jurchens.In this era, Nurhachi has no strong men under his command, and his sons are still young.

"There will be no Huang Taiji." Bailang is now going to fight, and there is no one in the court who can object.He led these [-] people to the expedition, and took Li Chengliang's three sons as guides.Walking from Shanhaiguan to Liaodong, Bailang sent someone to ask Nurhachi, the commander of the left guard of Jianzhou, to bring his subordinates to report immediately, "You can save your head, or you will directly slaughter your whole family." Bailang's purpose is very simple.

Qi Jiguang was also in Liaodong at this time, and he had almost abolished and reorganized the original troops in Liaodong—although the old man was sitting on the wall, he was Ariake's best military strategist after all, and his methods were still sophisticated.His Zhejiang soldiers were stuck at the point, so Jianzhou Zuowei could only attack the savages, and could not do anything to Daming's territory and some Jurchen tribes that belonged to Daming.Now Bailang has arrived and brought a new army, and sent an envoy to ask Nurhachi to surrender immediately.

Bailang had seriously thought that the old wild boar skin would never obey and would come to sneak attack. Of course, it was more likely that he would give up Hetuala and continue fleeing into the old forest—but what Bailang never expected was that the wild boar skin would actually bring Then his son and his subordinates came like this, and they appeared in front of him unarmed
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