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Chapter 137 Overwhelming new weapons!

The political system of the northern barbarians is very primitive.

Although there is also a ruler who dominates the whole situation, the Great Chanyu.

But it is different from the centralized Ming Dynasty.

The northern barbarians are still a means of ruling by the tribal system.

Dadan came from the ruler of the Borjijin tribe.

And the Borzhijin tribe is the most powerful and powerful tribe among all the grassland nomads.

Relying on their own force, the Borjijin tribe once again unified the Northern Man after hundreds of years of division.

More than 100 years ago, a macho man from the Borzhijin tribe united all the nomadic tribes on the grassland, and held a Kuriltai meeting at the source of the Onan River to succeed the Great Shanyu!

However, the unity of the Borzhijin tribe is only to make all the tribes on the grassland and desert obey the orders of the Borzhijin tribe.

Under the Great Chanyu, there were a total of eight Khan kings, who respectively commanded eight tribes second only to Borjijin.

Under the Eight Great Khans, there are more than 20 medium-sized tribes, obeying the orders of the Eight Great Khans.

Further down, there are the lowest small tribes, and there are countless.

It is a bit similar to the enfeoffment system in early China, and it was not completely centralized.

Speaking of it, although the Northern Man has been ruled by countless generations of different tribes for thousands of years, and even the nation has changed several times.

But Huaxia has always referred to the nomads in the north as the Northern Barbarians.

After the northern barbarians captured China, they imitated the culture of China, and a "Yuan" dynasty was established here by the prince of the Borjijin tribe.

However, Daming does not believe that this thing belongs to the orthodox dynasty of China.

Up to now, they are all called Beiman, and the "Yuan" dynasty does not appear in any official books.

During the period of being ruled by the northern barbarians, in the history books, it is uniformly recorded as "XX year of Xiangxing in the old Song Dynasty"!

After Beiman was driven out of the Great Wall, the ruling tribe of Beiman, the Borjijin tribe, shifted its focus to the west west of Mobei.

The main forces of the northern barbarian army were all transferred to the west, and they didn't want to continue to fight against the increasingly fierce Ming army on the Great Wall.

However, in the Monan area, that is, the grassland outside the Great Wall, there were still four major tribes left to rule, and the soldiers who resisted the Ming army pressed the Ming army near the Great Wall.

These four tribes are Tatar, Taichiwu, Mierqi, and Naiman.

Every tribe has at least [-] string controllers, and every one of them is also a cavalry master!

Although nearly half of their soldiers have gone west with Borjijin, they still have at least [-] elite soldiers in their headquarters.

In addition, there are still many small and medium-sized tribes under their control living on the Monan grassland.

In the entire Monan grassland, the Beiman has about 30 fighting troops!

Twenty years before Hongwu, Daming and Beiman were basically in a situation where neither could do anything to the other.

If the Ming army sent troops to go deep into Mobei, they would be beaten by hundreds of thousands of cavalry from Beiman who were highly mobile.

Even with steam armor and various cannon firearms, it is still difficult to win under the high-mobility harassment of the northern barbarian cavalry blessed with mana shields by the northern barbarian priests.

After all, it was difficult for larger caliber heavy firepower weapons to accompany the army before.

But the northern barbarians don't want to get close to the Great Wall!
Once the northern barbarians want to play offensive and defensive battles with Daming, positional battles.

The turrets along the Great Wall are no joke.

The artillery arranged on the Great Wall, the smallest is a five-inch cannon, and the largest is a twelve-inch cannon!
It can be said that it is a line of defense armed to the teeth. The hundreds of thousands of northern barbarians could not rush to the foot of the Great Wall against the artillery fire.

Say so!

20 years before Hongwu.

On the grassland, the Northern Man is king.

In the land of farming, Ming is invincible!

But it is different now.

In the 21st year of Hongwu, airship technology was conquered, and Daming had long-range airborne artillery support!

In the 23rd year of Hongwu, the [-] sets of steam armor and weapons that were inscribed with talismans by the Qi refiners have all completed the final process and are officially deployed to the frontline troops!

In the 25th year of Hongwu, the latest generation of rifles was put into service, which can increase the rate of fire of soldiers' bullets by five times per minute!
In the same year, the first test machine of the steam tracked combat vehicle was successfully tested and put into full production!
In the 26th year of Hongwu, the same year when Peng Ke took over Jinyiwei, under his suggestion, the mortar was developed and a large number of troops began to be deployed!
In addition, in the past eight years, there have been many non-standard new equipment and heavy weapons of war, which have been continuously installed in frontier troops.

Such as steam mechanical dogs, large steam mobile war fortresses, armored trains...

And the water-cooled machine gun that has been designed and is being tested, the one-inch caliber howitzer, the revolver for close combat self-defense, the half-cannon and half-gun, and the 1.5-inch near-defense gun with a fast rate of fire!

These equipment are about to enter the army uniform service.

With the blessing of these equipments, the firepower of Ming soldiers will be more than ten times that of Hongwu 20 years ago!

The rate of fire of the rifle is five times higher than before. When the enemy approaches, there is also a revolver for rapid shooting. If the enemy is too close, there is also a one-inch caliber howitzer!

Plus a water-cooled machine gun for fire support, and a 1.5-inch near-anti-aircraft gun that can basically fire every two seconds and keep firing!

Even if it is a Ming army of about a thousand people, if it encounters the cavalry troops of the Northern Man on the grassland, as long as it can set up machine guns and close-in artillery.

That was the beginning of a nightmare for these nomads.
It wasn't the appearance of the rifle that made the nomads sing and dance.

Before World War I, even though matchlock guns and flintlock guns had been around for hundreds of years, artillery had already become mainstream equipment.

But the cavalry is still active all over the world, and the cold weapon troops are still very useful.

After all, whether it is shooting or firing, it takes a reaction time. The cavalry can quickly approach you before you have fired a few shots.

But when the rapid-fire machine guns and near-defense guns appear, then these nomads can really withdraw from the stage of history.

As long as the Ming army's fire coverage net is set up, there is no need to aim, just hold down the trigger and shoot wildly.

Namo Gatling Bodhisattva, six clean depleted uranium bombs.

Three thousand six hundred revolutions in one breath, great compassion and great compassion to transcend the world.

Even if the priests can bless various mana shields to strengthen the defense of the northern barbarians, thousands of bullets can completely break the defense with violence and physics!

Then these northern barbarians must learn to sing and dance!
To be honest, the progress of the Ming army's equipment has scared the generals of the five armies.

The advancement of technology is really too fast!

After the Mohists of the Mo Academy clicked out the technology trees of smokeless gunpowder, thunder mercury, and material science, the speed of improvement in various firearms of Daming was like a wild horse running wild!
New weapons appear almost every year, and the power of new weapons is increased several times!

This made the senior generals of the Ming army a little overwhelmed.

The weapons of war in the past may not have changed or upgraded much for hundreds of years.

You have never seen such a situation!

When they first joined the army, they were still using matchlock guns!

But 30 years later, matchlock guns are like the fire sticks of primitive people, and they are not even worthy of being mentioned!
Everyone thought of a sentence that the former Mohist tycoon often said on his lips.

"Science is the primary productive force!"

　The Mongols are composed of descendants of tribes such as Tatar, Taichiwu, Mierqi, Naiman, Kelei, Wanggubu, Eniron, and Dielekin.

　　In 1206, Temujin unified the Mongolian ministries.

　　History has been changed by me.

　　The 1.5-inch near-defense gun is actually the original and backward version of the 40mm rapid-fire gun.

　　Catching savages is just a small matter.

　　The real exciting dimensionality reduction blow had to be a fight with Beiman.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)