The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 270 Weapon Upgrade
Taking advantage of the high enthusiasm of the craftsmen, Zhu Linmei immediately announced that the Fujing Military Bureau would carry out the process standardization reform.

"The specific rules will be sent to you later, and will be taught in detail in the technical school.

"Let me briefly mention here that there are four main aspects of process standardization: unified teaching, unified weights and measures, unified process flow, and unified verification and acceptance."

After the meeting was over, the craftsmen left happily, but Xu Erlu held Song Yingxing aside and said, "Mr. Song, I can think of one or two benefits of setting up a technical school.

"It's just that this process is standardized and reformed... I have read the regulations, and the terms are extremely detailed.

"For example, when making a blunderbuss, let alone the size of each part, there are rules for how many times a position is measured with which tool.

"His Royal Highness wants to implement this set of regulations in the state capitals, which will definitely stop the factory for a long time, or at least slow down the speed of manufacturing. But I don't know what the purpose of this standardized reform is?"

Song Yingxing spread his hands, "Your Highness is far-sighted, how can you and I figure it out? All I know is that it is right to take care of it according to His Highness's instructions."

In a study room of the Military Weapons Bureau, Zhu Linmi looked at the detailed standardization process in front of her, with mixed feelings in her heart.

In the Battle of Shanguan, although the Ming Dynasty won the victory and wiped out tens of thousands of Jianlu, it cannot be ignored that the Dragon Guards and Polu Battalion also suffered heavy casualties.

Strictly speaking, Daming currently only has two provinces, with a population of only a few million.And this little territory has just suffered from military disasters and drought in southern Fujian, so the current tax revenue of the court can be described as bleak.

On the other hand, Jianlu not only sits on the seven provinces of Jiangbei, but also the Northeast and southern Mongolia. Regardless of its human or financial resources, it is far beyond what Nanming can match.

Fortunately, Dorgon was too arrogant before, dividing his troops everywhere and fighting on multiple fronts, which made Tai Zhengchao breathe a sigh of relief.

If Dorgon wanted to destroy Daming desperately, at the limit, he could at least gather 20 to [-] Manchu, Mongolian, and Han Eight Banners soldiers, plus more than [-] Green Battalion soldiers.

Zhu Linming was very clear-headed. Even though the combat power of the Dragon Guards and Polu Camp was much stronger than that of Jianlu, they still had fewer numbers.If Jianlu's nearly 30 troops go south at this time, the Ming Dynasty is still very likely to be destroyed.

Taking a step back, even if Dorgon did not put all his eggs in one basket and only mobilized [-]% or more than [-] horses to attack Fujing, according to the casualty ratio in the Battle of Shanguan, even if the Dragon Guards and Poluying could repel the captives with all their might, they would definitely be defeated. There will be heavy casualties.

And such a large casualty Zhu Linmi is absolutely unacceptable.

Not to mention how many more Ming soldiers will be sacrificed in the future when the Northern Expedition to Nanjing and then capture Beijing is even more difficult to estimate.

But the great cause of expelling the Tartars must not be interrupted.

There is only one way to reduce casualties - to increase the combat effectiveness of the army.When the combat power crushed the Jianlu, the losses of the Ming army were greatly reduced.

There are usually only three ways to improve the combat effectiveness of the army: increase the number of troops, improve the level of training, and equip more advanced weapons.

Among the three, the increase in the number of troops is limited by logistical supply capabilities and national financial resources.Especially in the Ming Dynasty, transportation, food storage, etc. were all problems.Blindly increasing troops regardless of logistics will not only fail to improve combat effectiveness, but may even cause morale to be low due to poor supply of food and grass.

The reason why the Dragon Guards had never had to worry about food and grass in previous battles was that apart from the commercial supply system, it also benefited from the small number of people.Based on the current situation in Ming Dynasty and the consumption level of Zhu Linmi's new army, the Dragon Guard Army and Polu Camp can expand to 5 to [-] troops at most.

If you increase the number of troops, the supply standard of the soldiers will drop rapidly.In fact, Zhu Linming's planned Daming field force only has more than 3 people, 2 Dragon Guards and more than [-] Polu Battalion.After the imperial court regains control of Guangdong, Guangxi, Huguang and other places, this number can be further increased.

In terms of military training level, it is even more difficult to make a big improvement.The training level of the Dragon Guards is definitely the best in this era, even the Polu Battalion can beat Asia and Europe.

Only when a large number of students graduate from the two military academies in Longnan and Jian'an, it may be possible to improve the training level of the Ming army.

Therefore, if you want to improve the combat effectiveness of the army, the fastest and most effective way is to equip more advanced weapons.Just like the Gulf War in later generations, American soldiers armed with various cutting-edge weapons suffered negligible casualties, and most of them were accidentally injured by friendly forces.

Although the flintlocks equipped by the Dragon Guards surpassed the Jianlu's by a whole generation, judging from the casualties at Shanguan, it was still unable to completely make up for the gap in national strength between Daming and Jianlu.

Not to mention that the Polu camp used only slightly more advanced bird guns than Jianlu, and it was not even able to completely abandon the cold weapon of the spear.

However, Zhu Linmei has a comprehensive plan on how to improve the level of weapons and equipment.

The first step is to popularize rifled guns in large numbers.The Type [-] Jaeger Gun had performed well in previous series of battles, not only had a qualitative leap in shooting accuracy, but also greatly improved its range and power.

It is calculated according to the hit rate of flintlock 20.00% and the hit rate of rifled gun 60.00%.Under the condition that other conditions remain the same, allocating Type [-] Jaeger Guns to the whole army will directly increase the combat effectiveness by three times!

At the same time, the previous situation in which four thousand soldiers formed a salvo of infantry and only killed three or four hundred enemy troops will no longer occur.

Four thousand infantrymen wiped out thousands of prisoners in one volley. What a terrifying lethality!

Fighting against the same number of Jianlu, they were all killed by the Dragon Guards before they entered the range of the bird guns.

Moreover, Zhu Linmi planned to completely re-equip the Ming army this time. The entire army, including the Polu Battalion, was equipped with [-] rifled guns.Coupled with a large number of new types of artillery, the Northern Expedition Jianlu and the recovery of the two capitals must be invincible!

However, rifled guns are not like flintlock guns, which can be made by any gun-making workshop as long as they get the blueprint.

Rifled guns have extremely high requirements on processing accuracy, and all gun barrels must be of the same size, with a difference of no more than 0.1 mm.

The barrel is too thick, so that the edge of the Minie bullet cannot be embedded in the rifling, so it is no different from the bird gun.

If the barrel is too thin, the bullet cannot be loaded smoothly. Even if it is barely inserted, there is a great risk of explosion.

The more than 200 hunting guns equipped by the Dragon Guards before were made from more than 200 gun barrels of similar thickness selected from [-] gun barrels.And according to the response of the Hunter Company, many of them had problems.

Craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty made utensils, basically behind closed doors.Everyone has a different background, and the method of making things is very different. From the selection of materials to the measuring tools, they are all self-contained.

(End of this chapter)