The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 73

只见战利品清单的第一页：此役缴获军马410匹，其中波斯骏马26匹。十一钱鸟铳390二支。噜密铳一千260支。狼筅一千140支。

Zhu Linming knows that even in the 21st century, the Middle East is still one of the best horse producing areas in the world.Many fine European horses are bred from imported Middle Eastern horses.

In this era of extremely inconvenient transportation, the price of importing military horses from Persia is absolutely outrageous.

In addition, he had already seen the firearms used by the Qing army yesterday. The so-called eleven-coin bird firearms should be the famous Spanish Mushcat heavy firearms in Europe.

This gun was originally produced to shoot through the cavalry plate armor widely used in Europe. Although it is heavy and troublesome to use, its firepower is absolutely strong.

There are also Lumi guns equipped by the Qing army, which are well-crafted and made of solid materials.Compared with the Lumi gun made by the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty, it is simply scum.

He turned to the second page of the list, and it was written that there were twelve Qianjin Frang machine guns and seventy matching guns.Fifteen doors of the No. [-] Frang machine, and [-] matching sub-guns...

These guns are a bit tasteless.Zhu Linmi shook her head slightly. The Fran cannon was developed from a European-style rapid-fire broadside gun for ships. Its main feature is its high rate of fire.

It adopts a unique method of rear-loading ammunition, and the end of the artillery barrel is enlarged, leaving a long and narrow gap.The so-called subgun is equivalent to the tail of a cannon without a barrel, which is pre-loaded with gunpowder and shells.

When in use, butt the sub-gun to the end of the cannon and fix it, which is equivalent to connecting the sub-gun to the barrel.After firing, you only need to replace another sub-gun to fire again, saving a lot of time for loading gunpowder and shells.

Although it is beautiful in theory, due to the limitations of processing technology in this era, it is difficult to connect the sub-gun and the main body of the artillery very tightly, and it will cause air leakage when firing.In addition, the blunderbuss must be nested inside the cannon, so the wall of the blunderbuss cannot be made too thick, resulting in a very low charge, otherwise the chamber will explode.

The result is that it can't hold much gunpowder but still leaks, resulting in a very low range.The Qianjin Frang machine fired about four pounds of iron balls, and its effective range was only more than half a mile, while the No. [-] Flang machine, which had a projectile of more than one pound, had a range of only two hundred steps.

In addition, due to the limitation of the heat dissipation technology of the barrel, even if there is no need to load ammunition, the barrel must be overheated after several shots, and the firing must still be stopped and waited for cooling.In actual calculation, it is about an average of ten to 20 seconds per shell.

This rate of fire does not have much advantage over the front-mounted three-pound cannon that fires every 20 seconds, but the disadvantage in range is very obvious. The three-pound cannon can easily hit a target one mile away, and the six-pound cannon is closer. A mile and a half of range.

Therefore, the two No. [-] Francophones of the Dragon Guards have now been assigned to the reserve battalion for training, and cannons are more practical on the battlefield.

Zhu Linmi almost wanted to just throw these Flang machines in Shangrao, but later she thought that there was a risk of being taken away by the Qing army, so she took them away with the army.Later things proved that the decision to bring these guns was very correct. As the saying goes, they are my treasures, and they soon have their own uses.

After Ke Yongsheng was eliminated, there was no main force of the Qing army in the entire north of Jiangxi.

Raozhou, Nankang, and Jiujiang prefectures have small groups of Qing troops active, but there are quite a few rebels in these three prefectures, with a total number of tens of thousands. It should not be a problem to deal with the Qing army.

That is to say, the Dragon Guards can almost walk all the way to the city of Nanchang, which is only one step away from the success of Zhu Linmi's Nanchang strategy.

This is indeed the case. Since leaving Shangrao, the Dragon Guards have traveled all the way to the vicinity of Wanyang County, Raozhou Prefecture, without a single battle along the way.

Zhu Linmi rode along the official road on a tall Persian stallion that had just been captured. The horse's shoulders were nearly one person tall, and it looked extremely majestic.

He was discussing the tactical plan for besieging Nanchang with Zhang Jiayu, Yu Xin and others, when he suddenly heard a burst of gunshots not far away, and there was a faint cry of killing.

After a while, the hussars who were in charge of guarding the surroundings reported on flying horses that a group of troops was fighting with six or seven hundred Qing troops at the mountain pass on the north side.

"Send the order to go to the reinforcements immediately." Zhu Linmi ordered, "Let the hussars expand the scope of investigation. Leave the first battalion of infantry and the first battalion of artillery to stand guard in case of fraud."

"Yes!"

Deng Shan and hundreds of his subordinates stared blankly at the scene in front of them, forgetting to wipe off the blood dripping from their foreheads.

Just a quarter of an hour ago, he thought that he would die outside the Hu family village today. His old wife and children would never be seen again.

Unexpectedly, there was a sudden burst of gunfire from the side and rear, and the Qing army's position on the opposite side immediately set off a bloody rain.

Afterwards, thousands of people gathered around from all directions, armed with blunderbusses with daggers at the front.The Qing soldiers wanted to resist at first, but in the end, they only fired two rounds of guns in unison, and then beat the enemy into a shattering mess, turned around and fled.

This was not over yet, and then another group of cavalrymen with their upper bodies wrapped in shiny steel armor lined up neatly, charged into the defeated army with long swords in their hands, stabbed and stomped, leaving hundreds of cavalry on the ground in just a moment. Corpses of soldiers.

The whole process is simply quicker than a cat chasing a mouse.

"General, is this Jade Shura's team?" After a long time, a man holding a machete with a curled blade murmured.

"It should be." Deng Shan nodded subconsciously, then shook his head again, "It seems not. How can Yu Xiuluo's people be so powerful, even have cannons?"

Soon, the Dragon Guards had taken away more than a hundred prisoners and began to clean up the battlefield.

Yu Xin and several guards came in front of Deng Shan and the others. Seeing that they were all dressed in Ming Dynasty costumes and had unshaven hair and braids, they knew that they were the ones who fought against the Qing army just now.

He cupped his hands and said, "May I ask which army you are from?"

Deng Shan wiped the blood from his face, and quickly saluted respectfully: "We are the rebels of Tieshan Camp. Thank you for leading the rescue, my lord, otherwise I would be dead by now."

As soon as he finished speaking, hundreds of soldiers from Tieshan Battalion around him also saluted one after another, and there was a sound of thanks.

Yu Xin hurriedly waved his hands and said, "You don't need to thank me, we are in charge... His Royal Highness King Chenzhou ordered me to come to help, you should thank him if you want to."

Seeing that the small Qing army had been wiped out, Zhu Lin was about to order the army to withdraw when she saw a tall man with a bandage on his forehead walking towards this side with a few subordinates.

The few people were still far away, so they knelt down and saluted, "Cao Min Deng Shan and the brothers from Yiying, His Royal Highness King Chenzhou rescued them with righteousness. I am very grateful. Please accept my obeisance!"

Zhu Linmei hurriedly stepped forward to help him up.Yu Xin saluted at the side: "Commander, they are the rebel army near Wanyang, named Tieshan Camp."

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