Reborn Regent of Ming Dynasty

Moreover, the love for weapons in the soldiers' bones is also passed down from generation to generation, and it will not disappear all at once.Grain-grain-net-first-post www>

"Is this the Tiger Crouching Cannon?"

Aside from cold weapons, Zhang Shouren was also particularly interested in the firearms of the Ming army.

In his original impression, the ancient Chinese army was full of swords and long spears. When a battle was fought, the drums under the Shuai's flag rumbled, and the soldiers charged with swords and guns, shooting bows and arrows. But after the Ming Dynasty, he realized that his memory was wrong. .

The Ming army had a lot of firearms in the early years of the founding of the country. After the middle and late stages, thanks to the convenience of ocean trade, many Europeans came to China from thousands of miles away, and they brought a lot of new firearms. , was imitated in large quantities by the Ming army, and at the same time imported machine tools from Europe and cast them by themselves. [

Up to the tenth year of Chongzhen, the Ming army has cast a lot of cannons weighing more than [-] jin. In Denglai not far away, there were dozens of cannons during the war, and at least one or two thousand shotguns and firecrackers. .

As for fighting against the Qing army entrenched in Liaodong, the Ming army had even more firearms and equipment. When Sun Chengzong was in Liaodong, there were hundreds of cannons in a car artillery battalion, and over a thousand guns of various types, but the quality is beyond words. up.

There are two tiger squat cannons in front of him, about one meter long. Zhang Shouren reached out to hug them, weighed them, and said with a smile, "It's less than forty catties."

"That's right." Zhang Shifu smiled and said, "36 catties!"

This general flag is, speaking of, the deputy chief of this castle. It is a hard job to urge the payment of military rations and taxes. It is hard to get any benefits. There are many times when people poke the back. If it is not hereditary, it is true Few people are willing to do it.

But Zhang Shifu is quite competent, at least he knows a lot about military affairs.

Zhang Shouren nodded, and looked at the quaint iron cannon with his heart.

There are seven iron slaps on the short body of the gun, which are the protection to prevent the gun from exploding after firing. There are two iron grips under the muzzle, which are used to fix the gun body when firing.

Next to the cannon is a cloth bag, which contains more than a dozen catties of iron fragments. This small cannon can hold a catty of fragments in the gun body after being filled with primers. After ignition and eruption, these fragments are shot out If the medicine is filled enough and the distance is close, the power is not small.

Looking at it, Zhang Shouren felt very itchy in his heart, but he couldn't just waste gunpowder and saltpeter. The Ming Dynasty used a lot of these things in Liaodong, but there were not many of them here in Shandong, so they should be used sparingly.

Looking at the cannon, it is a bird gun.

This bird gun is a big disappointment.

It is a defective product made in recent years. The barrel is very long, but it is made of three or four pipes spliced ​​together. Does the gun go off, or a second shot?

Pick it up again and see that a firecracker only weighs five or six catties. According to Zhang Shouren's own memory, this kind of light and flimsy birdcage can't hold too much primer, and it can't even pierce paper a hundred steps away. Its strength is too poor. On the other hand, shooting birds in the woods at a distance of twenty or thirty paces, because it is shot, the effect is not bad.

The name of the bird gun comes from here.

"It won't work."

Looking at the ten firecrackers, Zhang Shouren felt a little distressed.

After all, he is an officer who was born in the era of hot weapons, and the original Zhang Shouren didn't know much about the battle, so this time to deal with pirates, the original idea was to use firearms, but the cold weapons in front of him are still easy to use. A small cannon is also considered quite satisfactory, but these ten firecrackers don't seem to be any better than fire sticks.

In fact, he thought it was too good at first. Firecrackers are important military weapons, military supplies as important as armor, such as knives and guns. There may be some good ones in the arsenal here in Shandong. Firecrackers and armors are simply impossible. The good ones survived, and all of them were transported to the important town of Jiubian long ago. [

"How many people in our hundred households can make bows and arrows?"

The black heads in front of me are at least young and strong, and all the stove households who boil salt by the sea every day have come.Putting aside the five or six catties of useless firecrackers in hand, Zhang Shouren asked the crowd.

When he asked the past, he looked at each other in blank dismay, and no one could answer him.

After a long silence, Sun Liangdong blushed and said: "I can hit the target at a distance of twenty or thirty steps. I learned how to play with others when I was playing in Jimo camp the year before last."

Zhang Shouren was very disappointed, shook his head, and said, "If you can't shoot a target, you can't be considered good at archery."

According to Zhang Shifu's old Hongwu rule, a hundred households must have thirty archers. Now after more than 200 years, this one hundred households has at least two hundred strong men, and as a result, they can't even pick out three archers.

Even Zhang Shouren himself, who can hit the target with a bow and arrow within dozens of steps, is a military officer after all, and has learned archery since elementary school.

Military officers in the Ming Dynasty were originally required to take an examination, but now that the system is corrupt, they can be attacked without the examination, but it is still necessary to prevent a certain big boss from being interested in evaluating these low-level military officers one day.

So Zhang Shouren has learned the basic skills of archery, but it is only limited to shooting fixed targets.

As for moving targets, not to mention shooting birds and rabbits, even buffaloes that are walking every few dozen steps can't be hit.

Archers have to shoot arrows according to the weather, wind, and the speed of the target's movement. Small-scale battles are separated by one or two hundred steps. Archers must accurately hit the target to be considered qualified.

Zhang Shouren's level is of course not an archer.

Asked about the bow and arrow, and then asked about the knife card, as expected, there was no one.When asked about spears, 27 or eight people stood up, including Zhang Shifu and others, all of whom had learned spear skills.

The pikemen of the Ming army were the cheapest type of soldiers, they were used to send people to death on the battlefield. These poor soldiers of the lowest class learned this worst way of fighting.