Chongzhen revived the Ming Dynasty

Zhu Youjian was very concerned about the Korean War. His idea was to use Korea to contain the Jianlu and give the Ming Dynasty more time to improve its strength.

Therefore, after Cui Nanyi's ambush failed, he immediately ordered the Jinyiwei Military Intelligence Department to collect all the information about the ambush during this period and hand it over to the Academy of Military Sciences for analysis.

The Academy of Military Sciences is a branch of the Royal Academy of Sciences, and is now also managed by Xu Guangqi.

The person in charge of the specific matters is his disciple Han Lin.

This man is the brother of Han Yun, the chief engineer of Dalinghhe Fort. He is not only proficient in city construction, but also in military tactics and firearms.

Following the emperor's firearms idea, Han Lin proposed the following tactical improvement plan:
"The ambush failed because the range of the muskets was insufficient and the terrain restricted them too much."

"If the firearms used had a longer range, ambushes could be carried out in more places."

"I think we can develop a 20mm heavy rifled musket in addition to the 12mm light rifled musket, just like the smoothbore musket."

"This will greatly increase its power and range, enough to snipe from a thousand meters away."

Upgrade the 12mm rifled musket currently used by the sniper team to a 20mm rifled musket.

When Zhu Youjian heard this, his expression was extremely interesting:

"The 12mm sniper rifle is already big enough, but I didn't expect you to use a sniper cannon."

"This really doesn't have enough power, so I make up for it with caliber."

"And can accuracy be guaranteed beyond a thousand meters?"

Zhu Youjian was very suspicious about this and asked Han Lin:
"For a distance of a thousand meters, there are many things to consider, such as wind speed, wind direction, etc., which will affect the accuracy."

"And can a sniper's eyes see that far?"

"Did the Equipment Institute make the scope?"

Han Lin was surprised for a moment, because he had no idea that the Equipment Institute was developing a sight.

Hearing the emperor mention it, he knew there was such a thing. This made him very excited and said:

"If there were scopes, more people would be able to snipe from a distance."

"But before that, I think we can select people with good eyesight and let them serve as snipers."

This was his idea, and also the reason why he proposed to develop a 20mm sniper rifle.

With so many people in the Ming Dynasty, there are always people with better eyesight than others. Firearm training is simple, and Han Lin thinks that these people can be sent to the front line after training.

Zhu Youjian was not optimistic about this, because long-distance sniping involves many things. Wind speed, wind direction, air pressure changes, etc., may affect accuracy. It takes a long time to explore and perfect it, just like a scope.

Now that Han Lin wants to do it, he can guide the new army's sniper team to select people and make preliminary preparations.

But it is obvious that we cannot rely on it in the Korean War. Even if we train long-range snipers, the number will not increase.

What Zhu Youjian hoped to see more was a cold gun and cold artillery campaign similar to the large-scale sniping in the Korean War. After thinking about it, he said:
"Long-range sniping is not easy and cannot be popularized on a large scale."

"The most important thing is to mobilize the North Korean people and get them involved."

"The range of the flintlock smoothbore musket is longer than that of the bow and arrow, so it won't be easy to suffer a loss when fighting against a small group of Jianlu troops."

"Your Academy of Military Science should compile a 'Militia Training Manual' as soon as possible, and use the simplest methods to train the North Korean militia, so that they can learn how to use muskets and grenades."

"The flintlock muskets produced in Caofeidian will be shipped to North Korea as soon as possible after inspection."

Before Korea was invaded by the Jianlu, Zhu Youjian instructed the Jinyiwei to transport as many Korean craftsmen as possible.

After Huang Taiji led his army into Korea, the scale of transportation became even larger. Even when the Korean king and his ministers fled Seoul, the craftsmen of the Gundam Temple were packed up and transported over.

Now, under the leadership of Xu Litie, these people have entered the newly built workshop in Caofeidian. Their task is to forge the newly finalized flintlock muskets to support the Korean army and civilians in the war.

Inspired by the military industry to save the nation and the honors, these Korean craftsmen were very active. Under the organization of Song Yingxing, they had already started trial production.

Zhu Youjian even planned to produce some artillery pieces that did not require high confidentiality there and also ship them to Korea.

He instructed Han Lin:
"Select gunners from the new army and send some light and portable artillery to Korea."

"Most of these artillery pieces have a longer range than muskets. Let the North Korean soldiers try them out and see which one is suitable for an ambush."

"If we can use shrapnel bombs to bomb the Jianlu, they will have more things to worry about when they march and set up camp in the future."

Transform the longer-range sniping proposed by Han Lin into cold gun and cold cannon tactics.

The purpose was not to accurately kill the Jianlu, but to keep the Jianlu on alert and consume their usual energy.

To this end, Zhu Youjian sent some of the newly developed rocket launchers with very poor accuracy to North Korea, so that the Jianlu could taste the pain of rocket attacks.

He also sent some of the new army's mortar-using teams to North Korea to train the Koreans to use mortars and launch long-range attacks from behind mountain ridges.

It can be said that after various new weapons were developed, he began to try to use everything he heard and saw from later generations.

For this reason, Zhu Youjian specifically said:
"The Korean War does not require victory, as long as the Jianlu suffer losses, it will be a meritorious service."

"Also, let the Korean people try to take back or burn the looted materials, and don't let them take them out of Korea." "Let Hong Chengchou formulate a method for this. Rescuing Korean people and taking back the looted materials will also be rewarded."

The requirement for meritorious service was set low; the goal was to seal off North Korea's land.

The Jianlu will soon find that the attacks they face will be endless, and that new equipment and new tactics of the Ming Dynasty will emerge in an endless stream. One day in the future, something will appear that can restrain them.

The Academy of Military Science has a special tactical research institute that conducts specific analysis of the tactics and tactics data collected by the Military Intelligence Department.

There are also war history research institutions that collect and organize various historical battle data, learn from history and find useful things from it.

Other research institutions in the fields of strategic planning, actual combat exercises, command, training, logistics, equipment, fortifications, military medicine, veterinary medicine, communications, and management are also being established.

The Ming Dynasty's war machine is becoming more and more scientific, and it is crushing the Jianlu with a comprehensive attitude.

While Zhu Youjian regarded the Jianlu as his biggest enemy at the moment, he also planned to use the Jianlu as a whetstone to refine and perfect the Ming Dynasty's war machine for global conquest.

In this era when the world empire began to emerge, the Ming Dynasty would no longer be confined to the traditional sphere of influence. Some of them, under the guidance of Zhu Youjian, had already set their sights on the world.

Navy Brigade General Zheng Zhihu was one of them.

As a person who reads newspapers frequently, he often sees various introductions to overseas affairs in the geography column of Ming Pao.

There are also various notes left by people traveling with Zheng He on his voyages to the West.

It contains stories about Western countries and the conquests of Zheng He's fleet.

This made him very eager to travel around the world and conquer the four seas.

However, he is in the navy and is now only responsible for logistics.

Although he was awarded the hereditary baron and first-class baron by the emperor for transporting supplies to Dalinghhe Fort, his official position was also promoted to brigade general.

But he still felt unhappy in his heart.

As a man who aspires to conquer the ocean and establish vassal states overseas, he was unwilling to just be in charge of transportation in the rear and rely on accumulated merits to rise to the top.

So after hearing that Korea conferred titles based on the number of heads headed, with very clear standards, he asked Admiral Yu Zigao to lead troops to Korea.

He planned to kill a few more Jianlu and raise his title as soon as possible.

Anyway, there is no requirement for victory or defeat in this war. As long as we get the head, it will be considered a meritorious service.

Even for armies that have various merit-giving personnel, as long as the kill can be confirmed, the corresponding merit can be recorded.

His request was approved by Yu Zigao, and after the Daling River froze over, the Privy Council also agreed to let him lead troops to Korea.

Zheng Zhihu therefore wrote a letter to his elder brother, asking him to recruit more people and send them to Korea to help him achieve merit.

Zheng Zhiyan, who was helping Jiang Yueguang recruit ronin in Japan, thus got an opportunity. He was ordered by Zheng Zhilong to take the recruited soldiers to Korea to help Zheng Zhihu make achievements.

Some of these Japanese were good at using iron cannons and were able to adapt Ming firearms. They could be called the Koreans' teachers in firearms, and they could do what the Koreans could do.

For Joseon, which was in urgent need of troops, Zheng Zhihu's help should be accepted. However, the Joseon monarch and his ministers firmly rejected this proposal:

This is not only because North Korea and Japan have a long-standing feud and do not want to accept help from Japan.

They were also worried that there might be spies from the Edo Shogunate among them, who could find out the strength of Korea and give rise to thoughts of invasion.

By that time, if the northern barbarians and the southern Japanese rebel together, even with the help of the Ming Dynasty soldiers to suppress them, the Koreans will suffer a lot.

Therefore, the Korean monarch and his ministers very firmly rejected the Japanese musketeers, and even the Japanese consulate in Busan was temporarily closed by them.

Zheng Zhihu's desire to gain promotion through meritorious service was thus dealt a heavy blow.

Jiang Yueguang's idea of ​​using the Japanese soldiers to gain merit was also suppressed by the Korean monarch and his ministers.

The two were very unwilling and even wanted to use their connections to force the Korean monarch and his ministers to agree.

But a piece of news from the court forced them to give up this idea:
Because the court decided to send the cabinet's second assistant Shi Fenglai and the Lifanyuan's deputy director Zhou Yongchun to preside over the enthronement ceremony of King Sunin.

This shows the importance the court attached to Joseon, and also means that even if King Sunin could not compare with the royal family princes, he would still have a high status in the court like King Sunryeo.

This forced them to give up and send the recruited Japanese soldiers to Southeast Asia.

Soldiers were also needed there, and Matsumae Munehiro, who was granted the title of Viscount, had already led the samurai there.

While the Ming Dynasty was fighting the Jianlu in the north, the war in Southeast Asia did not stop at all. Zheng Zhilong, Li Guozhu and others had already begun to establish fiefdoms in Southeast Asia.

The war in the southwest to quell the She'an Rebellion and the war in the northwest to eliminate bandits have also been ongoing.

It can be said that the Ming Dynasty encountered another year of war in the year of Jisi. Wars were taking place in all four directions.

The Privy Council was therefore extremely busy, with many orders being issued every day.

Zhu Youjian had to be thankful for this, as fortunately he had set up a special Privy Council.

Otherwise, the Ministry of War alone would be too busy to handle everything. (End of this chapter)