Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 90 Artillery
The queue training has ended, and the officers and soldiers of the Imperial Guard now have the most basic sense of discipline, obedience, and collectivism.

The following focus is on physical training, which is already in progress, and the training of the most basic skills of individual soldiers, from jungle crossing to fighting, wrestling, horseback riding, and running with weights, has also begun at the same time.

In other words, the comprehensive training of the Guards is about to come to an end, and then the ten temporary battalions will be divided into five categories: cavalry, infantry (firearms), artillery, luggage, and engineers. Special training for each branch is required.

Of course, before this, it is not that the cavalry only needs to learn how to ride a horse, the infantry only needs to learn how to fire firearms, and the artillery only needs to be able to fire cannons.

Before the reorganization, Zhu Youxiao and Lu Xiangsheng planned to let the soldiers have a certain amount of basic training on the skills of various arms, so that the soldiers will not ignore the omnipotence because they are too professional while being more professional.

"Time is tight. Newly made firearms and artillery must be delivered to the Imperial Guards as soon as possible. The Ordnance Department cannot neglect." Zhu Youxiao walked to the Ordnance Department while talking to Xu Guangqi.

The Nuoda Ordnance Department was already like a big steamer at this time, Zhu Youxiao felt that it was summer when he came in, but when he looked up, he saw a blast furnace like a pavilion standing in the courtyard of the Ordnance Department.

The iron-making blast furnace, which is wider at the bottom and narrower at the top, is Song Yingxing's masterpiece, and it is also the stirring iron-making blast furnace that Zhu Youxiao asked the Royal Academy of Engineering to develop.

A raging fire was erupting from under the huge hearth at this time. Under the operation of the iron rod stirrer developed by Song Yingxing, which required manpower to propel, one could hear the sound of turning molten pig iron, and soon, a fiery red fire could be seen at the other port. Wrought iron fell out.

As soon as the wrought iron cools down, special craftsmen quickly make iron laths on it. Under the sound of clanging and beating, you will soon be able to see someone transporting the rolled barrels into another responsible person. Gunsmith workshop.

Zhu Youxiao did not go to this workshop. Before the rifling was successfully drawn, the gun manufacturing of the Ordnance Department would not have much technical improvement, and now he is more concerned about artillery.

It is difficult to resist a large-scale cavalry sprint with good firearms. Even if it is theoretically possible, once people experience the overwhelming momentum of cavalry, it is difficult for people to organize a decent resistance.

Although discipline can be used to restrain soldiers not to be afraid of death and not to retreat, Zhu Youxiao is unwilling to take this risk.

The last time he was attacked, he had seen Jianlu's combat effectiveness, so he felt that it would be more reliable for him to use better artillery to disrupt the cavalry formation first and then sweep with firearms.

Tang Ruowang and Sun Yuanhua didn't know that Zhu Youxiao was standing behind them at this time, and they were holding iron bullets and stuffing them into the front end of a new type of artillery that looked larger than the Ming cannon but much smaller than the red cannon. One carefully measured with the newly improved front sight on the artillery with his thumb up, and said to the other auxiliary gunner who was helping: "Rotate [-] degrees to the northeast, and adjust the elevation angle by [-] degrees."

"What kind of cannon is this?"

When Zhu Youxiao asked, Sun Yuanhua hurriedly put down the iron bullet: "Return to Your Majesty, this is our newly developed Ming six-pound gun. We are testing it to see the effect. Dozens of barrels have been scrapped. Take a look." there."

Zhu Youxiao took a good look at it, but there were piles of discarded gun barrels, and at a glance, he knew that many of them had blown up, and there were even iron bullets stuck in the barrel mouth that could not come out.

"The main reason is that the gun barrel is not good. We invited several first-class craftsmen to discuss with Song Yingxing and others, and then re-adopted the alloy steel technology newly proposed by Song Langzhong. Now we are preparing to test it."

Hearing what Sun Yuanhua said, Zhu Youxiao also became interested, put his hands in the pockets of his white coat and pushed him away.

Lu Xiangsheng and Liu Ruoyu, who were visiting together, hurriedly stood in front of Zhu Youxiao, fearing that something might go wrong. Last time, His Majesty also wanted to see Mao Yuanyi, who had just joined the Royal Academy of Engineering, do a bursting blunderbuss experiment. The bomb exploded directly, and Zhu Youxiao, who was nearby, was also slightly injured. Although no one was punished later, they still worried about putting the king of a country in such danger.

"There was a bang, and the cannonball quickly disappeared into the distance with a bang, but there was no cannonball in front of it!"

"Eh?" The astonished Sun Yuanfang and Tang Ruowang both ran forward, and saw that the straw pile that was targeted for bombardment was still there, and the shell was also falling on the straw pile without exploding.

"It seems that the range and accuracy have reached the expected value, the gun has not exploded, and the temperature of the gun barrel was touched by Wei Chen with his hand just now, and it is okay, but now I did not expect that there is something wrong with the shell again."

Sun Yuanhua was talking, but Tang Ruowang said with blood-red eyes: "It must be the surname Song! Every time there is a problem with the part he is in charge of, either the barrel explodes or the shell fails to explode. That guy must cut corners , Your Majesty, I want to join him!"

"How can you blame me for this? You, a Western fan, obviously changed the gun rules on purpose to increase the resistance. I think you still don't want to show the real stuff of your Westerners."

Song Yingxing, who accompanied Zhu Youxiao and others, hurriedly defended himself, but at this time Sun Yuanhua interjected: "This gun gauge was remodeled by Mr. Sun, and it uses eight-inch four wires, which are narrower than before, but the effect is still the same. Not bad."

"Okay, there's no need to argue anymore, I'll try it," Zhu Youxiao said and walked towards the cannonball.

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng and Xu Guangqi hurriedly shouted: "Your Majesty, no!"

Everyone was afraid that the dumb cannonball would explode again suddenly, wouldn't it be very dangerous for His Majesty.

Song Yingxing was old and strong, and ran directly in front of Zhu Youxiao to stop him. He knew that although the power of his newly made explosive bombs could not kill a large area like modern artillery shells, it was still possible to blow up a person to pieces.

"Go away!"

Zhu Youxiao yelled and pushed Song Yingxing away, and after visually measuring the distance, he lay down on the ground and shouted to Bi Maokang, "Give me the Apocalypse."

Bi Maokang ran over and handed the firecracker to Zhu Youxiao, and personally filled Zhu Youxiao with the newly improved paper shell bullets.

Zhu Youxiao took over the gun and aimed at the shell.

A thunder!
The cannonballs in the pile of straw in front immediately exploded into dozens of iron pieces, and immediately flew up, and the straw also ignited.

Zhu Youxiao vomited the straw ash that had just been blown by the wind in his mouth, stood up, walked towards the crowd, and said to Sun Yuanhua: "The shell casing is too thick, change the material again, and I have to get it out within three days The officers and soldiers of the imperial guards are all waiting, but the gun barrel should be fine, we can mass-produce the gun barrel first, and tell Mao Yuanyi that his improved four-wheeled carriage must also be stepped up, at least a hundred of them must be built for me. "

　Zhu Youxiao spent money to support this group of scholar officials and craftsmen. It is time to submit the answer sheet. However, since I am not an engineering major, it is difficult to perfect the details of the technology tree. If there is any shortage, please forgive me. Welcome to provide specific technical improvement suggestions

　　
　
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