open sea

Chapter 1537
Chen Mu's obsession with Ottoman muskets was probably his last obsession before returning to the court to report on his duties.

Its manufacturing technology is the last link of Ming Dynasty in this era. With this, Da Ming has all the craftsmanship of making guns in the world.

Of course, this last link actually has no objective effect on today's Ming Dynasty. Without it, military capabilities will not be weakened, and with it, it will not be strengthened.

But Chen Mu just wanted to collect.

The barrel, the barrel is the core technology of the country's armed forces in this era.

The most simple and crude way to make muskets in the world is in England in the past. A rectangular wrought iron plate with calculated length and width is struck from the middle with a convex hammer, and the two sides are knocked up and rolled together. The concave hammer continued to strike, and finally knocked into an iron pipe.

Then use a simple lathe to bore, repair the bore, polish the outer edge, and drill a hole at the fire door, which is a gun barrel.

Bombs are often exploded. The British have used this craft for nearly 300 years. They themselves said that more fingers were broken than people died in a battle.

Although the barrels are fragile, they are not useless. Their tails are handled very well, and the tails are sealed with tapped iron threads.
Daming was born in the making of short guns, and later imitated Portuguese muskets through physical objects. The earliest technical theory and practice was to combine three short guns together to form a long gun.

Later, people chose to use a piece of iron plate to make an iron pipe, then put on a layer, and then put on a layer of multi-layer standard nesting. Each layer should be thinner, and there will be cooling when the red-hot iron plate is nested. The self-tightening effect is also used in Spain and France.

There is also a kind of oblique nesting in the world. After an iron plate is knocked out of the inner tank, it is knocked up with a red-hot narrow iron bar in a circle, and then knocked in reverse with another narrow iron bar. It also has self-tightening. The effect, the quality is very good.

Chen Mu has a few of these muskets in his hands, which are Ottoman's craftsmanship, especially the most exquisite barrel inside, which has the precision productivity overflowing from a powerful country, and its barrel even has a folded and forged pattern.

Chen Mu wanted this. As for those gunsmiths, goldsmiths and silversmiths, it was a windfall. It doesn't matter if they are good or not.

Because this is just his small personal collecting hobby, and it will not affect the development of Daming's military equipment.

They also have no intention of turning the clock back in history and getting an Urban cannon to be placed in the Forbidden City.

The next era is the era of long-barreled, medium-caliber, and leaded flower bombs.

But not necessarily.

On Mount Mubin, which symbolizes the suppression of the national destiny of the Western Kingdom, 43 heavy generals of Zhenshuo roared in unison. Brother Acosta kissed the silver cross and kowtowed devoutly to hope. Demonstrate the art of war.

The over-charged Golden Lion was surrounded by the defeated army at a speed far exceeding the routed enemy's, so that the army was defeated and lost. It was only after being mixed with the refugee tide that it recovered its life and became a beggar in Nizhny Novgorod.

Immediately afterwards, he was recruited as a patrol guard, and communicated with the envoy sent by Qi Jiguang for peace talks, and opened the city gate as agreed.

A flood of Mongolian riders rushed in and burned the bustling town.

Like an endless cycle of reincarnation, on the vast permafrost thousands of miles away, the Rakshasa army once again suffered an unprecedented defeat.

They have no depth, and the tsar with a problematic mind cannot provide the slightest help for state affairs. Facing external threats, he ignorantly orders the assembly of the national army to fight eastward.

The four major regents no longer divided gangs, and gathered tens of thousands of troops at the fastest speed, trying to drive the Ming army out of Nizhny Novgorod before winter came. Ladimir.

The battlefield for the decisive battle was chosen to be [-] miles east of Vladimir, where there are undulating hills and rivers running through them, which can create favorable conditions for cutting off the back of the Ming army to the greatest extent.

Indeed, the battlefield is very beneficial to Rakshasa.

The cold weather made Qi Jiguang unwilling to continue to venture westward, but he had too many troops under his command. The number of nomadic riders rushing all the way from the Mongolian steppe to the west of the Ural Mountains had already exceeded the maximum force he could command.

Countless teams of thousands of people sang and strode across the Volga River in the wilderness, searching for any signs of human existence and destroying them.

They don't need muskets and cannonballs. They only need bows and horses to restore the glory of their ancestors and make the world full of horse farms.

But in fact, their talents are far from comparable to the army of their ancestors who defeated all enemies.

After all, stragglers can't compare with a well-organized regular army. The eight legions of the Raksha Kingdom Chen Bing at the entrance of the valley blocked the nomadic infantry surging forward in the valley. The power of muskets and artillery made it difficult for them to move forward. One-sided massacre.

When they win, they rush forward, and when they lose, the battle lasts only two days. The front flees and the back is blocked. A rain mixed with icy edges falls, and an unknown number of people are frostbitten and frozen to death, leaving tens of thousands of bodies behind. dead body.

Grand Duke Belisky of the Raksha State, who had been in a panic all the way, finally elated, led his army into the valley, and pursued for another three days, defeating the nomadic vanguard, and even the great chief Karacha of the Siberian Khanate died in the battle .

For a while, only the heavy cavalry of the Chaohua Department remained in the valley because they did not join the battle and had spare strength.

It's just that even Chaohua himself has some doubts. At this time, his cavalry, which is more elite than ordinary herdsmen soldiers, can help turn the tide of the battle.

Tens of thousands of nomadic soldiers were frightened by the simultaneous bombardment of muskets and cannons. When he led his army westward in an attempt to maintain the second line of defense and allow the leaders of the various ministries to reorganize the army, Chaohua saw hundreds or even thousands looting the army more than once. Scrambled picture.

They were all troops defeated by the Rakshasa army in the front, but they fought in the rear because of the distribution of the previously looted goods. There is no doubt that there is nothing more ironic than this in the world.

The last hope of Chaohua is Qi Jiguang.

He believed that Qi Jiguang would definitely send troops to help the front line. They still had at least 50 million troops. As long as tens of thousands of people were sent into the valley and swept towards the enemy's rear, they would surely be defeated.

Qi Jiguang did come, but he did not lead the army, but sent Chechen Khan to lead the army to the right flank, and only a few thousand people from the headquarters supported the front line.

This kind of person can't even turn a flower in this valley of the dead.

Chaohua is planning to withdraw his troops, but he can't beat them.

But Qi Jiguang didn't allow him to withdraw his army, and asked him to gather the defeated army, only 3000 people.

array.

On that day, in the valley full of frozen corpses, the Raksha National Army stepped on the corpses of nomadic cavalry through the valley brazenly, mocking the ancient tactics of nomadic warriors with words that people could not understand, and some even used muskets Fired a gun into the sky to vent the tyranny in his heart.

On the sloping ridge full of birch trees and coniferous forests, hundreds of Zhejiang Army soldiers set up Shenwei arrow carriages, and 36 dangling flying fish slowly rose from the foot of the mountain, swaying their huge tails, Like a red cloud flying over the enemy's head.

In the tail flames of rockets launching into the sky, the stamens of the God of War bloomed on the cold ground, blooming lush flowers of flame.

　good afternoon!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)