Go back to the end of the Ming Dynasty to be a soldier

Chapter 275
On the way back, Ji Dong took out the hard-won book "Illustration of Military Weapons" during the rest time to read.

This is a workshop engraved book. The publishing of books in the Ming Dynasty is different from that of later generations. There are mainly three types of official engravings, workshop engravings and family engravings.The typesetting of this book is also very neat, exuding an antique flavor. It was written in the 30s, and there are many ancient characters in it.

This should be the preserved copy of Bi Lao, with his seal stamp on it, and you can also see the punctuation of Bi Lao's own handwriting in the browsing, and some places he added notes with handwriting, which may be some subtleties after publication Needs to be more refined.

In addition, the value of this book is the combination of pictures and texts, which is the best commentary on ancient Chinese characters and classical Chinese.Ji Dong has been traveling for a few years. Before traveling, he had some cultural knowledge of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Coupled with the influence of the environment in the past few years, although he has never fought wars, he has also had a lot of contact with cultural people. For example, he was with Lu Xiangsheng. For a period of time, Governor Lu also presented him with several books, so Lin Yi could comprehend this kind of books with rich pictures and texts very smoothly and naturally.

It takes more than ten days to go from She County in Anhui to Jingzhou even by water. In the past few days, Lin Yi has opened this book twice.The book records a variety of weapons, focusing on two kinds of firearms, one is the self-generated suifa gun and the other is the pear flower gun, and the manufacturing methods, usage methods and power of these two types of firearms are attached.

The spontaneous fire gun replaced the arquebus, and it was not affected by wind and rain, and more importantly, this gun could buy time for shooting.It takes time for the matchlock gun to burn, but this kind of gun only needs to pull the trigger to ignite naturally and ignite the gunpowder, which obviously improves the efficiency. On the battlefield, the gunner only needs to aim and then fire the gun. There is no need to ignite the match, which improves the shooting accuracy of the soldiers, that is, improves the combat effectiveness.

This step from matchlock to suifa has been used in China for hundreds of years, that is to say, this technology has been available since the end of Ming Dynasty, but it was not really popularized until the end of Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.

During this period, swords and spears were mainly used to fight, and muskets and red cannons were at most an auxiliary or embellishment.

Ji Dong thought about this, and felt that these ancient people were both smart and ignorant. If they were smart, they could reach the pinnacle of the world, but if they were ignorant, they could also be ridiculously ignorant.

There are new technologies, but if they are not promoted and applied, they are led by the European powers. No wonder they will be beaten when they fall behind.Look at the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Boxers, and the war scenes when the big powers invaded China. They kept weapons and even despised Western firearms. They just blindly flaunted their bravery and martial arts, even relying on their numbers. A lot of feudal superstition was practiced, and as a result, the two armies encountered each other, and the flesh and blood were really vulnerable to firearms.

Isn't this the case with the current Chongzhen court?Such a good invention of advanced technology existed in the 30s, but Emperor Chongzhen turned a blind eye to it, saying that he was an idiot who could not be supported, and did not wrong him at all.

After returning to Jingzhou, the round trip took more than 20 days. Zu Keyong reported how far he took the generals out of the city. In the welcoming team, there were still a few flowers. With two personal maids and several female battalion soldiers, all of them are heroic and valiant, especially Zhe Zhe, who is as beautiful as a fairy in the moon palace. Also filled with flowers, to show grand.

The entire Jingzhou City is clean and water-splashed, and the posture of the loess padded road is similar to welcoming the emperor. Lin Yi has been stationed in Jingzhou City for a long time. Zebang, especially for those poor people, also opened a porridge factory to provide regular relief, rewarding food and clothing, which won the hearts of the people. The people have never seen such a good army.

So when they heard that they were going to welcome Master Lin back to the city today, they flocked to the streets, and the alleys were empty, wanting to see Master Lin's demeanor.

Faced with the enthusiasm of the common people, Lin Yi kept waving his hands, and if he couldn't walk in some places, he got off his horse and led them on foot.

Back at his Grand Master's Mansion, or the yamen of the Commander's Mansion, Zu Keyong and Hao Yaoqi reported the situation of each battalion during this period, and Lin Yi was very satisfied.

During this nearly one month period, the imperial court indeed allocated another 20 taels of silver and 10 dans of grain and grass to him, and urged him to step up sending troops to suppress the bandits.

20 taels of silver are used to transform muskets, which is completely enough.

Lin Yi sent an order that the battalions continue to step up their military training, and then ordered Zhang Hua to recruit skilled craftsmen, mainly blacksmiths, in Jingzhou City. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Lin Yi ordered people to copy a few more books like this book, which is a must As a backup, if there is only one copy, if it is damaged, then go to Anhui, it is difficult to open your mouth when you meet the Bi brothers, and it will take a lot of trouble.

As long as they are willing to contribute money and food, it is very easy to find such people in such a large Jingzhou city, and a group of them were quickly recruited.

After Lin Yi verified their identities, these people must not be undercover agents of thieves, or spies of Tartars, even for the purpose of the court, they must be innocent and genuine ordinary people.

Then I found a top-secret place. From this day on, all these people lived and ate here, and the soldiers outside guarded it strictly, and no one was ordered not to enter or leave without authorization.

The required ironware, coal, muskets, and bellows stoves for blacksmithing are all ready, and this place has become a military workshop, or simply called an arsenal.

The person in charge here is of course Dong Sheng, the leader of the Musket Battalion, and then handed over the book to Dong Sheng, and Dong Sheng taught the skilled craftsmen who did the specific work. They put forward a request to let them understand the map first, and then study improvement plans, specific operations, and so on.

From this day on, in addition to insisting on practicing kung fu every day, Lin Yi went to the training grounds of each battalion to supervise everyone's training situation, and another important task was to go to the military factory to see the progress of the new guns.

A few days later, the good news came that the first self-generating flintlock was finally released.

Dongsheng excitedly asked Lin Linyi to test the gun. Li took the gun. It was heavy. The total length of the gun was about one meter. It is somewhat similar to the rifles of later generations.

In order to meet the needs of close combat, according to Ji Dong's request, the gun has a bayonet on it. When not in use, the bayonet can be lowered or folded on the gun.

Ji Yi saw that these basic styling functions are all right, but the key is to see how the improved flint will look like.

He put the bullet in, pressed the gunpowder, and then raised the gun to aim. There was a pre-placed target 200 meters away.

Ji Dong looked at the barrel and front sight of the gun. For an elite of the special forces in later generations, he was too familiar with guns. As long as there was nothing wrong with the gun, he didn't need to aim at all, and he could shoot with the gun.

But the premise is that he must be familiar with this kind of gun. After all, this is not the kind of advanced gun in later generations, the difference is too big.

Therefore, Ji Dong did not act recklessly. He aimed for two or three seconds in advance, and then pulled the trigger. When the spring hit the flint inside, there was a light snap, which ignited the gunpowder, and then made a sharp sound, ejecting the bullet. Outside the hall, the sound was like a firecracker being set off, a puff of white smoke dissipated, and the general who reported the target over there shouted: "Hit the bull's-eye, Mr. Lin shot!"

Xiaoying, Zhezhe, Zu Keyong, Zhang Hua, Dongsheng and others present also applauded.

Ji Dong felt that it was not enjoyable, so he reloaded and fired three more rounds, and all three of them hit the target, and the aiming was obviously faster. It was obvious that one shot was more proficient and faster than one shot. Even shooting as soon as the gun is raised, there is no pause in aiming at all.

All the people present fell silent, and it took a while for thunderous applause and cheers to erupt.

We all know that their adults are highly skilled in martial arts, and they are well-deserved invincible in terms of kung fu.I have also fired matchlocks before, although I thought it was just a coincidence when I hit it, but now these few shots are more exciting than the last one.This can no longer be explained by coincidence, as far as Master Lin is concerned, no one can match his level of shooting, not even the sharpshooters in the musket battalion who have used muskets for many years.

Therefore, including Dong Sheng, the commander of the Musket Battalion, they were all stunned. They didn't know where the adults learned these skills. From the extraordinary martial arts to shooting, the martial arts bar practiced every day, but they didn't see how he practiced shooting. However, it seems that their Master Lin is really a born god of war.But why didn't they notice it when they were frontier soldiers together?
Dong Sheng, Zhang Hua, Wang Jian, Wang Qi, Lin Yi's old comrades in the frontier army, couldn't figure it out, but now they don't think about it anymore, and now they clap their hands and applaud vigorously.

The self-generating flintlock finally succeeded, earlier than the Europeans. This is a great joy, and the significance is even more extraordinary. Ji Dong was also very excited and excited. After the applause and cheers died down.

Ji Dong also pointed out some flaws about this gun. For example, the stock of the gun needs to be heavier so that it cannot be top-heavy, and the barrel should be thicker to avoid continuous shooting, and the temperature is too high to cause the chamber to explode.Another point is safety measures, that is, in order to prevent misfires, a safety must be installed on the gun. When using it, the safety should be opened before shooting, just like the later generations began to design the bolt before the bullet can be loaded.

Dong Sheng and the skilled craftsmen present took down all of Lin Yi's opinions one by one, and after another ten days, the improved flintlock gun was made again. Lin Yi was very satisfied when he tried the gun again this time, After firing more than a dozen bullets, he touched the barrel of the gun, but it was slightly hot. He put the bayonet on it and waved it a few times. He was very satisfied and said, "That's it, let's start mass production, the first batch of 500 pieces!"

(End of this chapter)