Chongzhen revived the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 560 Breech-Loading Rifle Gun

Just as Huang Taiji led his army to attack Dalinghhe Fort, the war in Korea was still going on.

Amin did not give up the idea of ​​establishing independence in Korea, and Huang Taiji also needed Amin to hold back Dongjiang Town to prevent Mao Wenlong from attacking his lair when he attacked the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Amin's Bordered Blue Banner was still allowed to fight in Dongjiang, and Hauge's Bordered Yellow Banner also began to be transferred back to Liaodong to guard against sneak attacks by Mao Wenlong's subordinates.

However, it was easy to go south, but difficult to go back, especially when Hauge waited until the autumn harvest was completed and wanted to transport the looted grain back, it became even more difficult.

After a period of small-scale fighting, the Dongjiang leader had found the most effective way to fight the Jianlu. That was to ambush in the hills and forests around Tieshan and Xuanchuan, using the advantage of the long range of arrow-shaped bullets to shoot the Jianlu from a distance and then hide.

If the Jianlu people south of Xuanchuan wanted to transport the looted grain back, they would have to suffer at least a lot on the way.

Sometimes they were even robbed by the troops of the Ming Dynasty and Korea, who took back the food and property they had looted.

This section of the journey was also called the Road of Death by the Jianlu, and people were almost terrified at the mere mention of it.

As a member of the sniper team, Cui Nanyi is now ambushing on this road.

He already has nine kill records and is a well-known elite sniper in the army. If he kills one more, he will become an ace.

He also became an object of worship for many North Korean soldiers, and some North Korean sharpshooters who originally only believed in the bows and arrows in their hands also began to learn shooting from him.

On this day, Cui Nanyi returned to Xuanchuan City with his team to rest, and suddenly heard good news from his comrades:

"Nan Yi, you can be promoted to an officer!"

"The Ming Emperor awarded all Korean soldiers who participated in the war one year of merit. Add to the original nine, and you will have ten years of merit."

"After ten years of service, you will be promoted to an officer. You will be promoted to the rank of ninth lieutenant!"

One kill record is worth one year of merit, this is a very clear standard.

If a Ming soldier has three years of service, he will be eligible to be recommended to study at the military academy and become a commanding officer. Even if no one recommends him, he will be awarded the ninth rank of honor when he has five years of service, and he can take the initiative to apply to study at the military academy and become an officer.

But Choi Nam-yi was a Joseon soldier, and the number of years of service he needed was twice that of a Ming soldier. Only after adding this number of years of service could he obtain the ninth rank of honor and be guaranteed to become an officer.

This made Cui Nanyi very happy, and he said to his observer Zhang Song:

"Zhang Song, you also have three years of merit!"

"You can complete your service and become a citizen of the Ming Dynasty."

As his observer, Zhang Song could share 20% of his merits and rewards.

With this amount of merit, Zhang Song, who has 2.8 merits, can apply to become a citizen of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhang Song's goal in joining the army was to get rid of his status as a pariah. He was very happy to hear this, and he bowed towards the direction of the Ming capital to thank the Ming Emperor for his grace.

Then he asked Cui Nanyi:

"Nan Yi, don't you want to be an officer of the Ming Dynasty?"

"Ming Dynasty military officers have at least the ninth rank of honor, which is higher than the unranked public servants."

"You don't need to make any donations to become a lord above the level of a public official!"

"When you earned three years of merit, you should have applied to become a citizen of the Ming Dynasty. Then you could become an officer after five years of merit."

This was something he didn't understand at all. He didn't know what Cui Nanyi was thinking for not applying to become a Ming citizen after he had obtained three years of merit.

Otherwise, he would be a member of the Ming army and an officer now.

Only Choi Nam-yi knows what he is thinking.

As a descendant of the original yangban nobility, Choi Nam-yi's purpose in making achievements is not only to get rid of his pariah status, but also to restore the family's honor.

When he successfully shot and killed three Jianlu, he thought about becoming a citizen of the Ming Dynasty immediately and getting rid of his previous status as a pariah.

However, his loyalty to the Joseon royal family made him decide to wait and see. He asked someone to bring this news to his father's friends, hoping that they would intercede in front of the king and pardon his family's sins.

At that time, he would definitely choose to be loyal to the royal family and pass on the shooting techniques he learned from the Ming Dynasty to Korea, so that Korea would have a firearms army and no longer fear the Jianlu and Japanese pirates.

So he kept waiting, hoping the pardon document would arrive.

However, until today, he has not heard any news.

This made him, who had ten years of experience, feel melancholy:
"I originally turned my heart to the bright moon, but the bright moon only shines on the ditch."

"Why can't you see my loyalty, my Lord?"

When the squad leader Xie San asked him if he was willing to become a Ming officer and serve as his deputy squad leader, Cui Nanyi was silent for a long time and said to Xie San:

"I want to become an officer based on my own merits and kill another enemy."

I plan to wait for a while and give the King of Korea a chance.

Xie San was obviously unhappy when he heard this. He could see that Cui Nanyi seemed to have other thoughts, and said earnestly:

"The opportunity to become a Ming citizen is rare. Maybe I can only become a foreign officer in the future."

"You must seize the opportunity and don't ruin your future!"

Then he told him another piece of news:
"Your good friend Xu Litie is here, and he has brought new firearms for the sniper team."

"You can go and try to pick out a new musket."

This is the latest weapon shipped to the Ming Dynasty after receiving feedback from the battle of Dongjiang Territory.

It is very suitable for use in Dongjiang Territory, especially for ambushes.

Cui Nanyi was very happy about the arrival of her friend, but she was also a little puzzled:

"Isn't Xu Litie a craftsman valued by General Zhou and General Cao?" "Why was he sent to the front line?"

Xie San smiled mysteriously and said to him:

"You'll know if you go and see for yourself."

"The latest firearms need someone like him to repair them."

This made Cui Nanyi very curious. He wondered what kind of firearm required a craftsman like Xu Litie to repair it.

It was not until he saw a strange-looking musket that he was so surprised that his mouth could not close:
"Aren't muskets loaded at the front?"

"Why does this have to be loaded from the back?"

I feel very uncomfortable with this kind of musket that is loaded from the back.

Xu Litie was very happy to see his friend and said to him with a smile:

"There are breech-loading muskets, right?"

"Some officers use revolvers."

"This time, we also distributed some short guns to be used on the city walls instead of the thunder guns."

This is the use of the revolving musket discovered in the Battle of Dalingh River.

Ming soldiers found it very suitable to replace the five-barreled thunder gun as a weapon for rapid and continuous firing when the Jianlu approached.

Therefore, some of them were transported to Xuanchuan to be used as weapons for defending the city.

However, the new type of musket used by the sniper team is obviously not this, because the revolver musket has too serious air leakage, which makes its range not far enough.

Snipers who pursue single-shot hits do not pay much attention to the continuous firing ability of the musket.

Cui Nanyi thought of the revolver pistols that some Ming Dynasty officers were equipped with, and then looked at the breech-loading musket in front of him, wondering:
“Won’t it leak?”

"Will the range be very short?"

Xu Litie laughed loudly upon hearing this, grabbed a breech-loading musket, pulled the bolt, and said confidently:

"Look, it's the same rotating breech block as the Lü Gong Cannon, and the air leakage is very slight."

"And it can be loaded with new ammunition from the back, giving it a longer range than the Fletch."

Having said that, Xu Litie was too lazy to continue explaining. He stuffed a breech-loading musket into Cui Nanyi's hand and took him to the shooting range to test it.

Cui Nanyi watched in surprise as Xu Litie pulled open the bolt, took out a round of paper-wrapped ammunition and stuffed it directly into the chamber.

Then he pushed the bolt and locked it tightly. He took out a special pointed medicine bottle and poked it in the ignition hole before opening it and pouring the ignition powder into the medicine pool.

After winding up the spring wheel, Xu Litie pulled the trigger, and the gunpowder was ignited. The bullet in the chamber was fired with a "bang".

Cui Nanyi, who had good eyesight, was surprised to see that Xu Li hit the 300-meter target with one shot.
"When did you get so good at shooting?"

"You can hit the target directly at 300 meters!"

In the past, only sharpshooters could achieve this result.

Cui Nanyi also thought of one thing, that is, Xu Litie did not use arrow-shaped bullets, which made him anxiously ask:
"Has there been a new bullet with a longer range than the arrow-shaped bullet?"

Xu Litie's face was full of smiles, and he responded with a smile:

"It's new bullets and new muskets."

"It can only be used on a breech-loading rifle like this to exert such powerful power."

Let Cui Nanyi look carefully at the barrel of the musket in his hand. There are four right-hand rifling grooves inside.

The caliber is also relatively small, and seems to be the 12mm caliber used for light muskets.

Cui Nanyi was very puzzled by this. Xu Litie took the paper-wrapped bullet in his hand, pulled out the bullet head and said:
"This is a new type of lead bullet with a round head and a long cylindrical shape. It is called a round-head bullet."

"Because it is relatively slender, a 20mm caliber bullet would be very heavy, so we use a 12mm caliber."

"It weighs about 30 grams, or eight cents. It is more than twice the weight of the original 12mm light musket lead bullet and more than half the weight of the 20mm lead bullet."

"It's heavier than the arrow-shaped bullet used in the 20mm heavy musket, and has a longer range."

The specific gravity of iron is lower than that of lead, and the arrow-shaped bullet is a sub-caliber ammunition. Although it is relatively slender, it is not heavy.

The arrow-shaped bullets used in the 20mm heavy muskets usually weigh half a liang and are fired with one liang of gunpowder. This is the best matching ratio calculated by the Ming Dynasty Equipment Institute.

Its power was enough to penetrate the armor of the Jianlu at a distance of 300 meters, and penetrate deep into the flesh, leaving those who were hit basically helpless. If it were not for the fact that the accuracy would deteriorate at a longer distance, the effective range would be much longer.

Cui Nanyi was very fond of this kind of ammunition. Most of his victories were achieved by firing arrow-shaped bullets from muskets. The bow and arrow, which he was good at before, was rarely used now.

He had thought before that if the king pardoned his family's sins, he would persuade Xu Litie to help him imitate this arrow-shaped bullet and present it to the King of Korea.

Now seeing Xu Litie boasting that the new round-nosed bullet had an even longer range, he said with a skeptical attitude:
"How can its bullet have a longer range than an arrow if its tip is so round?"

"And even if it can hit the target, can it guarantee armor penetration?"

Xu Litie had some doubts at first, but after the experiment he put his doubts aside and said to Cui Nanyi with a smile:
"The effective range of this musket is 400 meters, but I think it can be fired farther."

"Within the effective range, it will definitely penetrate the Jianlu armor. Don't worry about its power."

"I can guarantee that after you use this musket, you will love it so much that you will put the musket you were originally using aside."

Let Choi Nam-yi use it himself to experience the range and power of the breech-loading rifled musket. (End of this chapter)

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