open sea

Chapter 679
It is very easy to make guns. As long as you know how to make them and ensure the quality of the raw materials, the blacksmiths in the village can make them. It is nothing more than time-consuming.

However, if Beiyang and Xuanfu want to use the method of Nanyang Military Bureau, it will take a long time to fix this process.

But it also has advantages. Xuanfu is an important frontier town, and there are a large number of military craftsmen who can be used as the origin of outsourced parts; Beiyang is adjacent to the canal, and the choice of outsourced parts is wider.

In the future, the manufacturing potential of the Beiyang Military Bureau in the field of bird guns will be higher than that of the Nanyang Military Bureau.

In fact, the weapon manufacturing potential of the entire Ming Dynasty has not been developed to half, and the disused military bureaus of the world's guards are useless. If this part of military craftsmen can be revitalized like the Nanyang Military Bureau, the manufacturing capabilities of Daming's military weapons will be improved by leaps and bounds. stride.

It's just that Chen Mu really doesn't have the ability to fully mobilize this power. His current ability can only influence the local area through like-minded commanders of the capital, such as Wei Rushu, the commander of the Shandong capital who is determined to forge ahead.

Over there, all the guards were mobilized to form a new army camp, and they were conducting drills in the Dengzhou Guard. The military output of the Weapons Bureau is not even enough to supply the Shandong New Army.

He only mobilized a total of troops to form a new guard army, named Leiden New Army Camp, and half of the guns, guns and armor needed were purchased from Beiyang.

But he is very smart, unlike the chief guards of Guangdong who directly exchanged old blunderbuss or iron ore for purchase, the iron ore was smashed into combined iron ingots and sent to Beiyang to exchange for a lower price, and he sent military craftsmen to the Beiyang Military Bureau to learn.

Now they can make flintlocks from old firecrackers and iron ingots by themselves.

Chen Mu once sent someone to take two samples from there, and some of them ordered him to check and accept them, and the quality was not bad.

If Wei Rushu can do these two things well, he will definitely be the commander of Shandong in the future.

As the Eastern Fleet set sail, the contact between the inner court and the Beiyang became more frequent. At the beginning, it was Chen Ju, the Imperial Horse Supervisor, who went back and forth, and specially sent people to set up a worship platform at the entrance of the sea, and the cargo carriage leading to the Beiyang Military Mansion at the port customs Beside the wooden rails.

Near the end of September, Feng Baodu brought the eunuchs to Beiyang.

Feng Baolai was also interested. He started to come all the way by boat, but when he arrived in Beiyang, he didn't ask anyone to inform him. The boat stopped in Tianjinwei for two days, and he sent someone to fetch the sword from the military battle bureau.

According to him, the military camp is very powerful, so he must also pay attention to etiquette.

"The imperial court has already made preparations. After five days, Sanqian Jinyi will enter Beiyang one after another. All the main roads along the way will be blocked. The navy in Shandong has also sealed off the sea area, and merchant ships and civilian ships are not allowed to travel."

Feng Bao looked like that with his saber on his shoulders. Before he stepped into Beiyang, he jumped up and said, "You can still hear the roar of artillery in the military mansion. Chen Shuai's Beiyang Cannon Mansion is well-deserved."

Beiyang Cannon House?

Seeing Chen Mu's puzzled face, Feng Bao said with a smile: "The court officials from the inner court and the outer court have never been to Beiyang, but they have all heard of Beiyang's prestige. —My lord, shall we go and have a look?"

Feng Bao's "We" is not what we mean. This word is not only a self-proclaimed name in the Ming Dynasty, but also a military term in Shanxi, which means the soldiers and horses of the headquarters. Therefore, eunuchs who lack masculinity are used to call themselves.

What is more intense is Chen Fo's kind of 'our men', whose masculinity is doubled.

Seeing that Feng Bao wanted to watch the infantry drill, Chen Mu naturally extended his hand to lead the way, saying: "This is the place for the infantry to practice. The outer circle is used for marching with heavy loads. Practice technique and footwork, practice spears and thorns with spears, practice precision and orders in target shooting, and dig trenches and lay wooden walls and other infantry homework."

Feng Bao was walking towards the infantry school field excitedly, when he heard this, he asked in surprise, "Do you still have to practice digging ditches?"

"The governor does not know that there are two types of trenches, infantry trenches and anti-scourt trenches. The trenches are divided into three grades according to depth: prone trenches, kneeling trenches and standing trenches, corresponding to different battle situations. The most common situation is to dig skirmishers. Pit, that's what it is."

Chen Mu pointed to the flag army lying in the shallow pit in the infantry school field and made a confusing cover to the front, and said to Feng Bao: "Killing generals, messengers, and scouts will always leave the army and be at the front of the battlefield. Can protect the flag army."

He said in general, but in fact most of the battles do not need trenches, just digging anti-scourt trenches is enough.

While he was talking, the bannerman holding the killer gun fired at the wooden target two hundred paces away. Chen Mu picked up the binoculars and glanced at the wooden target, but the tactical movement of the bannerman sniper was very good , Crawled back a step and quickly cleared the gun bore under the protection of the bunker, ready to reload.

Feng Bao stomped his feet secretly, losing his temper to himself without saying a word.

I warned myself before I came, there are many new things in the Beiyang Military Mansion, and there are also many things I don’t understand, so don’t ask questions, don’t ask questions!Why can't I control my mouth?
Be timid!
Although he still wanted to ask what the structure of the long blunderbuss with the eyepiece was, he held back, put his face on his face and clapped his hands lightly, looking left and right.

"It's great! It's great! It's a blessing for the country to have such a good general as Chen Shuai."

Seeing the second firing of the killer gun, Feng Daban raised his eyes and glanced lightly, and took a look at the binoculars from the hand of the eunuch who followed him, and said in surprise: "It really hit!"

Not to mention Feng Bao's surprise, even Chen Mu couldn't believe it—two hundred paces, 300 meters away, even if four threaded riflings were drilled out of the gun's bore, its bullets were still round lead pellets, and the role of rifling was not So obvious.

Round bullet, it turns with or without rifling.

Killing gun snipers are generally proficient in long-range shooting, and before they have summed up a set of effective sniper theories in practice, Chen Mu does not intend to let the Military Weapons Bureau produce long-pointed bullets with wooden corks on the tail. What the pill can do is to increase some stability.

"That's a very talented gunner. The gun's scope solves the problem of the shooter's lack of vision, but the accuracy of the gun is limited after all, and the aiming caliper on the gun is only third-class, and the farthest is only 150 steps."

In the era when telescopes were not yet used in the world outside the Ming Dynasty, as long as people 150 steps away had a camouflage, they really couldn't see if they didn't want you to see them.

What's more, shooting at a distance of more than [-] paces has nothing to do with the quality of the gun itself. It is not bad if the human eye can aim at [-] paces.

Out of a hundred paces, it's not even a matter of luck to hit a shot, even with the best guns.

Chen Mu tried it himself. He once fired a flintlock to a wooden target 150 steps away, and he had a record of missing ten times in a row.

The body shakes, the hand shakes, and even if you only need to use more force when writing brush characters horizontally and vertically instead of writing straight, you will still miss when you shoot the gun at the aiming caliper.

"In actual combat, the killer gunners are in a group of three, one shooter and two loaders with three guns, shoot the enemy general in the fastest and most accurate way, and then no matter whether they kill or not, the shooter has to retreat, like him A shooter like that will shine in Armorica."

Feng Bao turned his head: "When will it set sail and when will it be read?"

The corner of Chen Mu's mouth twitched, he remembered that the little emperor was looking forward to the voyage of the Eastern Fleet without reading, and said: "In late October, the imperial court held a grand review for three days. After three days, Chen directly led the fleet to sea!"

(End of this chapter)