Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 739 The Age of Firearms (for Subscription)

There was the opening of the Zishui Stadium in the past, and the auction of the Ministry of Industry. These days, Yidu City is really very lively, especially after the timely news that Emperor Maode of the Shu Song Dynasty and his party have arrived in Jeju.It was even more heated discussion among the folks in Yidu.

The image of a great artist has once again been criticized and ridiculed by countless people, although they don't care at all.

Emperor Maode, that is, Zhao Fujin who is only sixteen years old.As a concubine entering the palace, there is no such grand ceremony as Fang Jinzhi. In fact, apart from the one-month extra money for the servants and maidservants in the palace, the only change in the Forbidden City is that the backyard is covered with red and colorful colors. day.It's just one day!
Zhao Fujin didn't even meet his ninth brother, but just saw a servant next to Zhao Jiu, and was sent to the cramped Forbidden City.It was Zhao Song's send-off envoy, He Li, who proposed to meet Zhao Jiu'er.

He Li was the number one Jinshi in the fifth year of Zhenghe and the number one scholar in Zhao and Song Dynasties.Secretary of the Liguan Provincial School Secretary, the following year, he was promoted to the Gyeonggi Academy, and was promoted to the master guest member Wailang, the living room, and then moved to the Zhongshu room and the attendant lecturer.It can be said that it is a deep appreciation of great artists.In the few years after the great artist's tour to the west, He Li's official career was still smooth sailing, but the gold content of his official title was greatly reduced. Now he is serving as a send-off envoy with the post of Yushi Zhongcheng, but in the eyes of the people of Yidu, he is not as good as a prefect.

"So that Zhongcheng can know that the new dynasty has never treated the prince badly. It's just..." The servant had an embarrassing look on his face, what else did He Li not understand?Isn't it just under house arrest, so it's inconvenient to move around?

Back home, still angry.The next day, he asked Song Qing to meet Zhao Jiu.Emperor Lu naturally reacted to this, and asked the sage scholar to imitate Zhao Jiu's handwriting and write a letter to He Li, but he still refused to meet him.He Li was extremely angry, but there was nothing he could do.

As for Zhao Jiu's handwriting, he naturally couldn't tell the real from the fake. He only knew that the county king had practiced Huang Tingjian's handwriting since he was a child.You can take it back to Chengdu and give it to the great artist for inspection.

Emperor Lu also knew that if he didn't let Zhao Gou show his face, it would be unreasonable.But Zhao Jiuren is already stupid, how can he really ask him to show up?
Originally, he wanted to punish Zhao Jiu properly, but this guy turned himself into a fool, so what's the use of torturing another fool?Regardless of losing his identity, Zhao Gou can't empathize with him, can he?

Emperor Lu was ruthless in pulling birds. He had just received Zhao Fujin's favor, and then passed down an oral order.Then Zhao Jiu, it's better to burn out.

This Zhao Jiumei is now a piece of chewing gum that has been chewed by others, and it only feels useless and disgusting to Emperor Lu. "Take care of the matter, don't show your flaws."

He didn't even bother to think about Zhao Jiu anymore, and left the matter to Zhu Gui.This is also to believe that Zhu Gui has the ability to smooth everything out.

In fact, Zhu Gui had already made a whole set of plans for this matter.When Emperor Lu gave an order, he made people ready.First, Honglu Temple delayed He Li, causing the latter to be furious, so he had no choice but to let go, and then Song Qing, an iron fan, invited He Li to Zhao Jiu's confinement to meet him.

As a result, He Li took a carriage out of the city and went west for twenty miles, arrived at the foot of Pang Mountain and entered a manor.This place got its name because Pang Boling, the feudal lord of the Yin Dynasty, enfeoffed here.The towering pinnacle forest protrudes on the top of the round mountain. From a distance, it looks like an ancient castle on the top of the mountain.Exquisite strange rocks and caves of various shapes are scattered all over the mountains and forests. It is like a huge bonsai stone, placed between the sky and the earth.

Zhao Gou's manor is at the foot of the mountain, so Fengshui is good.It's a pity that what He Li saw was the drunk and unconscious Zhao Jiu'er lying in the warm spring wind.

It was not until dusk and sunset that Zhao Jiufang "woke up". Hearing He Li's visit, he immediately ignored his own weakness of legs and insisted on seeing He Li quickly, and his voice was heard outside the water pavilion.Then He Li was at the water pavilion, and when He Li saw Zhao Jiu, Zhao Jiu got excited and threw off the supporting servant, and strode forward by himself, his legs softened, and he fell into the pool next to him inside.The servants and servants who followed behind rushed down to save the man, but when the man came up, they were already full of water.Then, under He Li's nose, a high fever struck and he died. 【Originally, I wanted to pass through Zhao Jiumei from another world, but after thinking about it, forget it, die early and be reborn early, this chapter is over.In the future, let's sharpen the great artist and Zhao Huan. 】

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Leaving aside the matters in Yidu, let's talk about the Liangshanbo Artillery Factory at this time.Bureau of Manufacturing officials have received feedback from many armies and navies.

The army generally recognizes the three-pound gun and the tiger squat gun. These two guns are light in weight and easy to carry with the army. The army naturally has no objection.They don't have much pressure to attack cities and villages now.But what about the sailor?But there were unsatisfactory feedback from time to time, that the power of the three-pound cannon and the five-pound cannon was too small.It takes a lot of rounds to turn a ship into a coffin floating on the sea.

In fact, the navy is indeed suspected of carrying small cannons.Now the generals of the navy not only dislike the small caliber of the artillery, they also think that their own gunboats are too small, and they think that the big pie called "Sail Battleship" drawn by Emperor Lu for them was slow to be made by the Ship Department.

However, the fact is that Ren Yufan's Meng Kang's hair is about to turn gray.

The "Sail Battleship" drawn by Emperor Lu is too different from China's shipbuilding skills at this time. Even a shipbuilding expert like Yufangan feels like a mouse pulling a turtle when he looks at the base map.

He had to build a ship model first, pass the wave verification, and then start to build a small sailboat, and slowly accumulate experience, so that he can play a big one.

If so, in order to cope with the urging and pressure of the navy, Meng Kang could only act as a coward.It is common for people to stay in the shipyard for several months without going home.

Also because the sailing battleship was really difficult to manufacture in a short period of time, they were forced to promise to the navy to build them a larger ship, a ship larger than the [-]-material giant ship.

Now everyone knows that in the confrontation at sea, whoever has the bigger ship and the more guns is more powerful.Just like the army never commented on the manufacturing bureau, they also knew that the thicker and longer the gun barrel, the more powerful the artillery would be.

If they can kill the enemy with one shot, they don't want to fire a second shot.

The sailor already holds a lucky boat of [-] yuan in his hand, and he hopes to have a bigger lucky boat of [-] yuan or [-] yuan for himself.Although they are not ignorant, in today's ocean, the Fuchuan gunboat with two thousand materials is the most cost-effective.

This is a bit like the third-tier sailing battleships in the history of European ocean hegemony, and the power in singles must not be as good as the second-tier and first-tier sailing battleships.But the cost of a first-class sailing battleship is enough to manufacture three or four third-class sailing battleships, which is obviously more practical for the latter.

But helplessly, San Ruan, Li Jun and the others still longed for bigger warships.Even because Emperor Lu said that Bagan has a lot of teak wood, which is a good material for making warships, San Ruan sent people to check it out early.

But when the news that the manufacturing bureau finally developed a qualified musket spread to the army, the army was not stable.

Many horse infantry generals have heard of the word musket, even if they haven't seen it with their own eyes, they have heard it to some extent.In the eyes of many generals, muskets are artillery that has been shrunk countless times.In fact, this understanding is not wrong.

Today's smoothbore flintlock guns have almost the same advantages and disadvantages as cannons.

The advantage is that it is powerful, within thirty or fifty steps, the armor-piercing power is beyond the table.Compared with a strong bow and crossbow, when shooting at close range, the power of the musket is violent!

However, it is slow to launch and has a certain degree of danger, which is higher than the risk factor of breaking the bowstring; the range is short and the accuracy is not high; it is also limited by the weather, and rainy days will be greatly restricted.

Even if the Emperor Lu asked the craftsmen to do it in one step, skipping the arquebus and directly entering the era of the flintlock, but in the face of heavy rain, the musket still had to stop.He does know about the flash cap gun and the word flash cap, but he doesn't know why, and expecting him to guide others in inventing the flash cap is just a daydream.

But even though the musket has many shortcomings, none of these shortcomings can cover up its shining brilliance.

It is only said that it can allow a person who has just held a musket for a day to kill a hundred-man enemy with outstanding martial arts with one shot. No matter how many flaws it has, it will be valued by some generals in the horse infantry.

Not to mention, some bigwigs in the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion also know about muskets. In addition to smoothbore guns, there are also rifled guns.

The rate of fire of the latter is much slower than that of the former, but the latter has far greater range and accuracy than the former.This is like an enhanced version of the divine arm bow, but the cost is much cheaper than the divine arm bow.

Just like what many people thought after seeing the power of the cannon for the first time, the musket was a newly born weapon, and it still had a lot of room for improvement, but its power was already inferior to the bow and crossbow.

As mentioned in the previous article, the Liao, Song and Xia Jin periods were the last peak moment of Chinese heavy armored cavalry.Every regime spared no expense to build its own heavy armored corps.

The heavy cavalry of the Khitan, Xixia and Jurchens, the heavy armored infantry of Zhao and Song...

In this era, facing the enemy's elite troops, everyone is faced with a common problem - how to penetrate the enemy's armor?

Strong bows and crossbows can't achieve very good results in the face of large-scale heavy armored troops. The collision of heavy armored soldiers on both sides makes swords and guns retreat to the second line, and blunt weapons are popular in the army.

At such a time, Lu Qi's military suddenly saw that muskets were cheap to manufacture and fast enough to manufacture—compared with bows and crossbows, and had good armor-piercing capabilities, no one would let them go.

It's like the West in official history.When muskets appeared, all forces relied on musketeers to kill the knights they were dealing with, so muskets were once called can openers.

Now the first batch of [-] muskets has been sent to the Jeju recruit training camp. Although the effect has not yet been seen, the leaders of the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion have already shouted for the manufacturing bureau to speed up.

This is not a need for war, but just a habitual cry.But this has already caused the Manufacturing Bureau to consider whether it is expanding its recruitment.

In Yidu City, in the deduction room of the Martial Arts Academy at this time, the deduction team that gathered more than half of the elite forces of the Martial Arts Academy was divided into groups, and the teachers and students were all working hard.

Repeated verification and derivation on the sand table.

Guyin a daunting task is falling on the shoulders of teachers and students.Emperor Lu asked them to deduce how to use the least amount of troops to defend a stronghold and control a piece of grassland on the road to conquest of the grassland in the future.

When it comes to this matter, perhaps many people will think of the Bastion.It is indeed a dazzling flower in human military science, but no matter how small a bastion is, it costs a lot of money, and the huge amount of earthwork is something that Lu Qi does not have to bear today.

To be clear, what Emperor Lu wanted was to control the depths of the grassland, and to build a bastion there, he was insane.

Not to mention the waste, it’s also completely unnecessary!
The backdrop for the birth of the Western Bastion was the fall of Constantinople.The Ottoman Turks used cannons to prove that the old city defenses were useless in front of cannons.No matter how strong your city defense is, one cannon can't beat it, ten cannons can't beat a hundred cannons, but what about thousands of cannons?Dripping water wears away rocks, and they can always be pried open.

Thus, the West was born a bastion.A means of defense that directly changed Western military and political power.Let's not mention this, just say that the current Emperor Lu doesn't need to consider the power of the cannon.The whole family of the Qi army has cannons, and the Mongols on the grasslands are not even equipped with scimitar armor. For a hundred years, there is no need to think about their large-scale heavy artillery.

Under such circumstances, the emperor of Bastion Land didn't need to use it, but the traditional block siege didn't seem to be able to fully exert the defensive power of guns.Emperor Lu then handed over this problem to the staff of the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion, as well as the Wulue Academy, the number one military academy in China.

(End of this chapter)