Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 91 Application of New Technology
The artillery is heavy and clumsy, which often causes great difficulties for the mobility of the army. Therefore, whether its carrier, that is, the vehicle carrying the artillery, is extremely important.

In this era without motor vehicles, although Zhu Youxiao could buy them, he didn't have the expensive property to consume, so he could only use horse-drawn carriages as artillery vehicles.

In a large workshop that looks like a big shed to the west of the Royal Academy of Engineering, hundreds of carpenters and craftsmen who used to work in jewelry stores and carriage dealers are working hard under the leadership of Mao Yuanyi, who has been awarded the Ministry of Industry by the court. Manufacture the improved four-wheeled carriage and unicycle requested by Zhu Youxiao.

Today's Ming's artillery can't form an absolute suppression of cavalry. In addition to shooting accuracy, mobility is also a big problem.

The main reason is that the mobility of the vehicle is not high, because the traditional carriage generally does not have a steering differential, and even with four wheels, there is no way to change the direction of the front and rear wheels at will, which makes it difficult for the artillery to turn quickly.

Although the unicycle is the most convenient means of transportation in complex terrain, small artillery is most suitable to be carried by this tool, but the unicycles of the Ming Dynasty today do not have rolling bearings, and the wear and resistance caused by sliding friction increase, which also makes the unicycle light and flexible. Not fully played out.

"File carefully, file according to this blueprint!"

While instructing a few skilled craftsmen from the jewelry store, Mao Yuanyi touched a preliminary new-style carriage with his hands. As long as the most critical steering gear is installed, this new-style four-wheeled carriage can move flexibly.

Even he himself was looking forward to it. He dared to believe that no one could build such a carriage in the Ming Dynasty. Although many of them were technical materials given to him by His Majesty, it was a great achievement for him to build them according to the technical data. an achievement.

However, Mao Yuanyi did not simply copy the technical information provided by Zhu Youxiao. He also made another carriage and added his own creativity to this carriage. According to his drawing requirements, the entire carriage was welded to death iron rails.

Each foot of a triangular gun mount is a rolling bearing manually filed by a craftsman. The bearing sleeve can rotate 360 ​​degrees on the guide rail. That is to say, in wartime, the muzzle can be turned immediately without turning the carriage. .

But Mao Yuanyi only built this one, and it took nearly half a month, and it can only carry small artillery. Once the barrel is too heavy, it will increase the friction at the guide rail and cause greater resistance. In the era when there was no way to guarantee the absolute smoothness of the rails and bearings, once the resistance was too high, they would not be able to move directly. In this case, the carriage would be more loaded.

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help being speechless after seeing Mao Yuanyi's invention, but he didn't object to his bold development. Instead, he asked him to do it under the premise of ensuring that the improvement of carriages and unicycles is proficient and can be mass-produced. Be bold.

However, now is the period when the imperial guards are about to start grouping for comprehensive equipment training and grouping for special training. Mao Yuanyi did not dare to delay His Majesty's important event, so he spent more time on how to improve the improved four-wheeled carriage and improved unicycle production up.

Even at the expense of working overtime.

Because Zhu Youxiao paid these craftsmen very high salaries, even [-]% more than the officers of the Imperial Guard, these craftsmen also worked hard and did not feel resentful.

Almost ten days later, hundreds of mule-drawn carts pulled hundreds of large long boxes and hundreds of new four-wheeled carriages that seemed to be much lower into the Imperial Guard barracks. arsenal.

And on the day when the firearms drill began, these equipment and baggage were placed on the school grounds.

And under the noses of the officers and soldiers of the whole army, in front of Zhu Youxiao, hundreds of boxes were opened, and suddenly tens of thousands of shiny firecrackers were seen, and hundreds of canvases were pulled, and yellow shiny The new six-pound cannon and three-pound cannon, as well as other artillery such as the original tiger squat gun of Ming Dynasty.

Like artillery, not all firecrackers are Apocalypse-style flintlock guns, and there are only [-] of them, which were produced overnight by the Ordnance Department.

Therefore, the others are still improved versions of bird guns and some firearms with some special functions such as three-eyed guns.

According to Zhu Youxiao's plan, now he can only mix and equip his own guards first, and gradually replace the matchlock guns, but now the bird guns have to continue to be manufactured, especially some junior craftsmen can't make flintlock guns at the beginning , but was sent to learn how to make bird guns.

But even for bird-making guns, Zhu Youxiao had to establish a junior craft school, the Second Manufacturing School of the Capital directly under the Royal Ordnance Department, and recruit young refugees from among the refugees for training.

The reason why it is called the second manufacturing school is because the first manufacturing school is dedicated to training craftsmen with a certain craftsman memory and preparing for the development of more advanced equipment technology craftsmen.

However, students from the Second Manufacturing School can enter the First Manufacturing School based on merit.

Let’s not gossip, let’s just say that when the officers and soldiers of the Imperial Guard saw the most advanced main equipment of Ming Dynasty, their eyes lit up like we see all kinds of main station weapons in the military parade now. Go ahead and try it out.

"Your Majesty, there are a total of more than 210 firecrackers, including 760 and six for Tianqi No. 21, 64 and nine bird blunderbusses, more than 37 other firecrackers, [-] Daming No. [-] guns (six-pound guns), [-] Daming No. There are [-] guns (three-pound guns) and [-] other guns, and the inspection has been completed."

Liu Ruoyu submitted the list as he spoke.

Zhu Youxiao looked at it, then nodded and said: "First distribute it to each battalion equally, and let the commanders of each battalion bring their own soldiers to pick it up."

"Yes!" Chief Instructor Lu Xiangsheng responded and conveyed Zhu Youxiao's meaning. At the same time, he and Zhu Youxiao also walked down together, and personally issued weapons for them.

"This is a gun stock. This is high-quality chicken wing wood. It was made to offset the damage caused by the recoil to you, and it was designed by His Majesty himself. As for what recoil is, Xu Shilang told you when you were in Xu Shilang's class Yes, if you don’t understand, ask Xu Shilang!”

"Then, this is the trigger. Above the trigger is the hammer head, the firing iron piece and the buckle spring. The long pipe in front is the barrel. The knife on it can be attached or removed. It is the same as the one behind you. The big blade is different, it is specially used for stabbing, it is called a bayonet, understand?"

Chang Yanling, who had been trained in the Ordnance Department, took out another long paper roll as he spoke: "This is called a paper shell bullet. It is more convenient than you used to fill the gunpowder with the bird gun. After you bite it, pour some gunpowder into this called the priming pool." place, then cover the primer pool, stuff the remaining paper pack into the front barrel, compact it with a cleaning rod, and then you can move the iron sheet to the firing state.”

As he said that, Chang Yanling fired a shot at the place where there was no one, followed by a puff of white smoke, and soon a sparrow in front had already landed on the ground.

The officers and soldiers of the first battalion couldn't help being more interested in Tianqi No. [-] while marveling at Chang Yanluo's sharp shot.

　Thank you book friends etjojo, Mao Wuye, and happy*angel for your rewards. I got off work late today, so I can only make one update. I will make up for the owed one tomorrow, sorry.

　　
　
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