Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 600 Zhaowu Second Style, Wanting to Kill the Qing Prisoners!
In a blink of an eye, it's winter.

On the third day of December in the second year of Zhaowu, Zhu Wei went to the firearms department of the Nanjing Military Bureau to inspect.

In fact, most of the staff of this firearms station were transferred from Chengdu, and the director was still Zhao Yan.

The main task is to develop and improve firearms.

"Look, Your Majesty, this is nitrocellulose and a cap."

After Aimee Zhu came to the firearms institute, Zhao Yan first showed off the two major contributors to this breakthrough in the development of firearms.

Although it was the result of the ammunition research institute, he didn't feel any jealousy. Instead, he was very happy, because he knew very well that if the ammunition made a breakthrough, the firearms development would naturally also have a breakthrough.

Auntie Zhu just glanced roughly, then looked away.

In later generations, nitrocellulose and fire caps would not be invented until the middle of the nineteenth century.Since she can obtain the technical support of future generations, she will naturally not let the Ming people develop it step by step, but take out the materials and let the ammunition factory make it according to the plan.

Therefore, although the nitrocellulose and flash caps were manufactured, the Ammunition Research Institute knew about them but did not know why.

If Daming wanted to truly master the relevant technologies, he had to wait until he had cultivated real chemical talents and established a certain chemical foundation.

Therefore, Aimee Zhu was not very happy about it.

Zhao Yan didn't think as much as Aimee Zhu thought, so he was still very happy at this time.

He went on to say: "With the nitro-paper, we can make paper-loaded ammunition, just put the ammunition wrapped in nitro-paper into the barrel of the gun, instead of biting open the paper shell to pour gunpowder into it like before, and we don't have to clean the gun after firing. The residue in the tube was gone.

This would at least double the reload speed of current muzzle-loading flintlock guns.

In the past, a skilled musketeer could load at most three rounds per minute, but now he can load five or six rounds! "

As he spoke, he picked up the musket in the long wooden box and handed it to Liu Zhu, and Liu Zhu handed it to Aimee Zhu.

He went on to introduce: "This Zhaowu [-]-style flintlock gun also uses the cap and needle point ignition technology, which greatly improves the success rate of ignition.

In the past, the success rate of flintlock flintlock guns was only about [-]%, but now it can reach more than [-]%! "

The improvement of the success rate of firing is very important.

Although the research and development of the Ammunition Research Institute and the Firearms Research Institute took a chance, there is no doubt about the improvement of the combat effectiveness of the Ming Musketeers.

Even Aimee Zhu couldn't help smiling when she heard the words, and praised: "Good."

Then, Zhao Yan took another small wooden box from his subordinate and opened it, revealing a pistol.

Yes, in Hao Guangming's opinion, this gun is small and delicate enough to be called a pistol instead of a short blunderbuss.

"This is a front-loading revolver manufactured according to the design drawings given by His Majesty. It also introduces the technology of flash cap and needle point ignition, as well as a cheap compaction mechanism."

As he spoke, Zhao Yan picked up the revolver and showed it to Aimee Zhu.

He didn't dare to actually reload in front of the emperor, but made a fake reloading action, mainly to demonstrate the joystick for compacting the elixir.

Auntie Zhu looked at it and nodded slightly again, and said, "I want to try the performance of this revolver."

After speaking, he took the revolver to the shooting range, reloaded and shot.

It turned out that the revolver had a range of up to 40 meters, and its effective range was [-] meters, which is more than [-] steps.

Compared with the previous short guns, the shooting range has not improved much, but the shooting accuracy has improved.And its biggest advantage is that it can load six bullets at a time for six bursts!

Even after the six rounds are over, the loading efficiency is higher than that of the previous short gun.

After testing the gun, Zhu Yuxi was very fond of the revolver and said, "This gun hasn't been named yet, has it?"

Zhao Yan cupped his hands cleverly and said, "Please give me your name, Your Majesty!"

"Let's call it the Zhaowu front-loading revolver."

Zhao Yan heard that Auntie Zhu directly named his gun "Zhaowu", and without any distinction, he knew that Auntie Zhu was already looking forward to the follow-up breech-loading musket.

However, as a person who studies firearms, Zhao Yan also knows that the development of Daming's front-loading flintlock has reached a bottleneck, and it is indeed time to break through the breech-loading technology next.

On the way back to the Forbidden City, Hao Guangming was also talking about the development of firearms with Zhu Wei.

"Relying on our technology, the development of firearms in Ming Dynasty is very fast. Now the development of front-loading guns has reached a limit, and in the future, it is time to develop breech-loading guns and repeating guns with magazines.

Oh, by the way, there is also a machine gun. If this thing is developed, the ethnic groups and tribes on the grassland will no longer be foreign enemies that threaten Ming Dynasty, but will become good friends who can sing and dance. "

At the end, Hao Guangming couldn't help laughing when he thought of the enthusiastic singing and dancing of the grassland people.

Auntie Zhu also laughed.

Then he said: "The development of the rear-loading gun is not going to be carried out so fast. After all, there is still a certain difference between the tactics of the rear-loading gun and the front-loading gun.

And now even the frontier guards in the Ming Dynasty have not all equipped with front-loading flintlock guns, and then equipped with breech-loading muskets, the changes are too fast for them, and they may not be able to adapt.

In addition, with the performance of the current Zhaowu Type II front-loading flintlock, even against the most advanced European muskets at this time, it still has a lot of advantages, right? "

Historically, due to the large number of countries and continuous wars in Europe, the development of weapons has progressed rapidly. During the Chongzhen period, Europe's top gun technology surpassed that of Ming Dynasty by a lot.

However, not all top guns can be widely used, and many of them can only be used on a small scale due to cost-effective and other reasons.

According to the historical data of later generations, the current European muskets are still dominated by matchlock guns, followed by front-loading flintlock guns also occupy a certain proportion.

But in terms of stability, the front-loading flintlock guns in Europe at this time are not as good as matchlock guns, and the cost performance is even more incomparable, so matchlock guns still dominate the mainstream.

Therefore, Aimee Zhu felt that there was no need to advance so fast in the development of weapons.

With too advanced weapons, she was afraid that Da Ming would not be able to grasp them.

And she is still young, there will be plenty of time to bring more advanced weapon manufacturing technology in the future...

a few days later.

Aunt Zhu convened all the ministers of the Military Affairs Academy in the Hall of Wuying, and held a military meeting on "crushing against the Qing captives".

"After the first and second years of Zhaowu, although the northern provinces of our Ming Dynasty still need to continue to recuperate, many southern provinces have achieved a bumper harvest of grain for two consecutive years, especially Sichuan.

With the food and grass accumulated by the imperial court in Taicang and the money in the treasury, it is enough to carry out a crusade against the Qing captives.

This time, I am determined to mobilize the land and sea armies after next year's spring planting, and simultaneously attack the puppet Pingxi king Wu Sangui and the puppet Pingnan king Geng Zhongming.

Even if the Qing prisoners cannot be completely wiped out in the end, the two traitors and lackeys must be cut off! "

This is a big decision for Ming Dynasty's military operations next year, and it's fine for Auntie Zhu to say it out, and there is no need to hand it over to the officials of the Military Affairs Academy for discussion.

Therefore, when Auntie Zhu finished speaking, Li Yan, the supervisor, and Zhu Dadian, the assistant, discussed the specific deployment and deployment of troops.

Speaking of which, there are still three or four months before the end of spring planting next year, but for such a large military operation, many things must be arranged in advance. After all, it will take some time to mobilize the troops, food and grass below.

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After the military meeting ended, all the ministers withdrew.

Auntie Zhu was about to go back to the old house in Zhulin to rest when she saw Liu Shuying hurriedly coming from behind with a message in her hand.

"Report to Your Majesty, Li Dingguo, Admiral of Guangxi, has sent a telegram, requesting to launch an extermination operation against Sun Kewang's troops in ten days' time."

"Oh?" Aunt Zhu was surprised, took the message and looked at it.

Li Dingguo and his superintendent arrived in Guangxi at the end of July. He had to adapt the town to the southwestern climate and reorganize the local army. Logically speaking, it would take a lot of time.

Therefore, Aimee Zhu estimated that the time when Li Dingguo will attack Sun Kewang's troops is next autumn.

Now, it only took Li Dingguo four months to prepare to do it, and Auntie Zhu was still quite worried.

Only after reading the telegram did she know why Li Dingguo acted so quickly.

First, Dubiao Town's adaptation to the southwest climate and the reorganization of the army have been completed to a certain extent.

Among them, Guangxi governor Qu Shixu and his student Zhang Tongchai, as well as the inspector and royal envoy Zhang Jiayu, all played a positive and auxiliary role.

Second, according to the information transmitted by the spies of the Military Intelligence Department and Jinyiwei North Town Fusi, Sun Kewang has already contacted Shadingzhou, Yunnan.If it is not wiped out as soon as possible, the two are likely to join forces in the spring of next year to fight against the imperial court together.

　Second more.

　　Good night~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)