Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 742 The History of the Empire

That is to say, Emperor Tianzuo and the Jurchens were beaten. The Southern Song Dynasty and Nanyue were still hanging in the south, and there were many internal affairs. The follow-up treatment of evil gentry and rapists.

The Emperor Lu is busy flying, and he is making trouble for himself.Now that he is sitting in the Central Plains, he has a strong army and horses, so he can take it easy.You have to be so tired that you vomit blood, but why bother?

Now news broke out in the battle of Jinzhou that the army needed longer and thicker cannons to destroy the city, but the cannons were for the navy...

Why is there a faint sense of disobedience?
Emperor Lu held the memorial delivered by Song Jiang's messengers, suppressed the discomfort in his heart, and thought about it carefully.

The road ahead is hard, and I have to walk on my knees.Although he chose it himself at that time?Fortunately, everything has been completed, and after the finishing work was completed, he felt relaxed in the second half of the year.Because when he woke up, the arrangements for the first half of the year were already ready, so he could only proceed as planned, but many things in the second half of the year were stopped by him.

Turning the topic back to Jinzhou, this battle is indeed a bit tricky.

This Jinzhou City is located in the north of the Xiaoling River. Outside the south city wall is the Xiaoling River. Its widest point is four or five miles wide.Not to mention stone cannons, even the existing artillery does not pose a threat to Jinzhou.

The only thing that can threaten Jinzhou is the navy gunboat that runs from the mouth of the Xiaoling River in Liaodong Bay to the city of Jinzhou along the river.It's a pity that the latter's three to five catties of artillery hit the Jurchens' consolidated Jinzhou City Wall, which was just scratching an itch.

The Liangshan Cannon, which could still pose a threat to Jinzhou City, could not reach the north bank of the river, and the artillery that could hit the Jinzhou City Wall was somewhat weak.The two generals on the front line were clamoring for longer and thicker cannons, and the longer and thicker cannons were for the navy, that's what happened.

Lu Qian tried his best to recall the topography of Jinzhou. He remembered that Jinzhou City was located in the mountains and rivers.Seven miles to the west from Jinzhou City is the famous North Putuo Mountain.

Many people in later generations know about Putuo Mountain in the south, but they don't know that there is also a Putuo Mountain here in Jinzhou.It is the Avalokitesvara's manifesting dojo in the north, which has a history of hundreds of years. It looks south to the sea, north to Taiji, purple air comes from the east, and life is boundless.It is known as "the first cave in the east of Liaodong" and "the first Foshan outside the pass".

North Putuo Mountain is about [-] miles long from north to south, and to the west is a land of ravines and mountains. It can be detoured, but it is obviously not safe.Because there is a Xiaoling River running between the mountains and ravines.Who dares to say that the Jurchens didn't ambush people there?They are genuine fishermen and hunters.

From Jinzhou City to the east is the so-called Nanshan Mountain, which is composed of Jiazi Mountain and Daling Mountain, and to the north is Beishan Mountain composed of Zijing Mountain and Baihua Mountain, with Xiaoling River passing through the middle.Even if the Xiaoling River broke through the last barrier and entered the coastal area, the Liaohai Sea is close to the east of the North and South Mountains.In later generations, the land here is flat and fertile, and the water source is abundant, so it is naturally a good place.But now there are puddles and swamps all over here, just like the unmodified east of Shanghai and Hong Kong, where the sea tide rises and flows back and forth, without the evolution of time, or building dams to isolate the backflow of sea water, it is impossible for people to settle here , It is even more impossible to teach the army to march.

It can be said that Jinzhou's geographical terrain is indeed easy from north to south, and difficult from south to north.

After considering this clearly, Emperor Lu ordered the manufacturing bureau to quickly transport the heavy artillery to the Jinzhou battlefield.There are large-caliber heavy artillery in the Liangshan Bo Artillery Factory. Although the number is not large, these experimental cannons are of high quality and trustworthy.The wide river surface outside Jinzhou City is not an insurmountable chasm in front of them.

The current amphibious artillery of the Qi Army is mainly three-pound cannons and five-jin cannons, but the Liangshan Bo Artillery Factory not only has eight-jin cannons and larger-caliber ten-jin cannons, but also twelve-jin cannons, fifteen-jin cannons and twenty-jin cannons. Keep all the cannons.Although the latter's magnification - that is, the ratio of barrel length to caliber, which is an important indicator of the power of a gun, that is, the larger the magnification, the greater the range - is already infinitely close to 10.

This seems to be a very small number of multiple diameters, which means that this kind of cannon is still unqualified in the Qi army.

You know, the Emperor Lu set a number of multiple diameters for the artillery, between 12~~15, but this limit is not without reason.Emperor Lu clearly remembered the 14.3-pound bronze cannon that was shining during the American Civil War in his previous life - the Napoleon cannon, which had a diameter of [-].

It was precisely because he only memorized the exact multiple diameter of this Western smoothbore gun that he insisted on it.And because Napoleon's cannons were bronze cannons, Qi army's cannons were iron cannons.That's why he relaxed the numbers a bit.Lu Qian, who knew little about artillery, insisted on this point.

But he would not build the Hongyi cannon. Most of the famous Hongyi cannons in the history of Ming and Qing Dynasties were about 3 meters long, with a caliber of 110-130 mm and a weight of more than 2 tons.

This kind of artillery is a standard heavy artillery, and it can also be regarded as a siege artillery.The ultra-high multiple diameter brings it an ultra-long range.For heavy artillery, range is indeed an important part of measuring its performance, even in later generations.Zhu Ming, a scholar-bureaucrat, said that Hongyi cannons can "corrode dozens of miles with one cannon", which is of course a bit of nonsense.It once became ironclad evidence on the Internet that later generations laughed at the unreliable scholar-bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty.

However, it is not impossible for the Hongyi cannon to have a range of ten miles.

The performance of the same type of artillery in the West proved that this data is reliable-at that time, Western European countries had the concept of territorial sea, and the territorial sea at that time was determined by the range of coastal artillery. In 1703, the Dutch jurist C. van Binxhoek proposed that land power ends where the power of arms ends.At that time, the range of the cannon was about one league, that is, three nautical miles. Therefore, many people believed that the width of the coastal sea controlled by a country should be three nautical miles.And the length of three nautical miles is 5.5 kilometers.

But that kind of heavy artillery is a problem that the Chinese emperors will encounter in the future. Now only China in the world has lighted up firearms manufacturing, and China has no rivals in this regard.However, these are not excuses for the shortened diameter of the Qi army's current large-caliber artillery.

In the eyes of Emperor Lu, such a large-caliber artillery is only China's technical reserve, and it is the foundation of the empire's prosperity.He doesn't need high-caliber cannons now, and the Qi army, which has just lit up the art of artillery, is still in the process of accumulating this technology.Lu Qian was not in a hurry for success.

He has plenty of time to wait for the cannon to pass!

It's just that the book that was suddenly delivered to him at the moment gave Emperor Lu a sense of urgency.In other words, he felt that it was necessary for him to focus on the manufacture of mortars while accumulating artillery technology.

Many people in later generations know that the Battle of Constantinople broke out in 1453 in the Western calendar. The Ottomans smashed the solid defense of Constantinople with a super cannon.In the military history of the West, this represents the complete decline of fortifications in the cold weapon era.Because Constantinople is the pinnacle of the Western cold weapon fortress.

After that, until the bastion appeared, artillery, large-caliber heavy siege guns, became a nightmare for the defenders.

What Lu Qian is thinking now is, does he need to build a few super cannons of his own?Even if it is used as a trump card, it is also good.

Mehmet II used Hungarian cannon-casters to creatively create a "17-foot-long (about 5.18m), weighing 17 tons, and a barrel thickness of 8 inches (about 20cm) in order to withstand the huge fire when the gun was fired." Impact force), the caliber is as high as 30 inches (about 762mm), enough to hold a man, and the granite shells used can weigh up to 1500 pounds (about 680 kg)" Urban cannon.Lu Qian felt that he didn't need to make it so big, but he also needed to take a fatal blow when necessary, didn't he?

Just like the current situation in Jinzhou.

In Emperor Lu's overall arrangement, the Battle of Jinzhou was not very important, but it was not completely unimportant either.If he doesn't capture this place, how will Emperor Lu pose a more direct threat to Liaodong next?

After the battle of Yanyun, he no longer regarded Aguda and Jurchen as his main opponents, but that didn't mean that in his eyes, Aguda and Jurchen were not as good as Emperor Tianzuo who had returned from the dead?
In fact, Emperor Lu has changed some of his ideas now, such as the quick victory of Emperor Tianzuo earlier.Now he hopes that Emperor Tianzuo will take the prairie cavalry to fight against the insufficient Qi army, just like he hopes that the Jin and Qi armies will continue to fight and consume in Liaodong.Both sides are exhausted, Lu Qian may not care about his own casualties, but the grassland people and the Jurchens will definitely not be able to bear it first.

In his mind, the future Liaodong battlefield will be a bleeding wound for Jurchen.Only by letting the Jurchens shed enough blood before they fled north and returned home, would he have enough foundation for cleaning up the Yan Jurchens in the future.At the same time, the vast prairie to the north of the Yin Mountain is also destined to be a sad place for the nomadic people of the prairie.

The Battle of Jinzhou also gave rise to another problem. The navy needed to build larger warships to carry larger and heavier artillery.

The battle situation in Jinzhou made the navy also wary.

Hun Jianglong is the core figure of the navy, so he naturally knows the grand cause of Emperor Lu, and is different from the three heroes of the Ruan family who "have no ambitions" and always want to conquer cities and land, and are happy and at ease. people on one side. "The bigger the heart, the bigger the world will be!"

Although Emperor Lu had promised to divide the land, many of the civil and military ministers in the court had already expressed to him that they were unwilling to go abroad and only wanted to serve Lu Qi in this life.

For example, Li Tieniu is one, and so are generals in the army such as Lin Chong, Hua Rong, Xu Ning, and Chao Gai.Zong Ze, Zhao Mingcheng, Song Jiang and other civil servants also looked like this.Don't look at the many knights released by Emperor Lu when he conferred on his officials, but in fact, it is not that there are no ones who are willing to go overseas, but by no means there are too many.

What is the reason inside, they must have their own considerations, but anyway, they chose the latter between becoming a vassal overseas and taking root in the Central Plains.

Now Lu Qian can see very clearly that those who are willing to go out, except Fang La and other outsiders who must go out, are Hu Cheng and Cheng Wanli, the family of concubines, and finally Wen Huanzhang, Chai Jin, and Li Jun.

I am afraid that only one Southeast Asia can accommodate them all.

In the eyes of Hunjiang Long, who knew the plan, his enemy was never a mere Jurchen, but Japan, but Nanyang, but Tianzhu, the birthplace of Buddha, or even more distant Tianfang.

There are no barbarians there. Tianzhu and Tianfang are also places where a brilliant civilization was born.Among other things, Li Jun did not dare to underestimate him because of the astronomical number born in India.

The numbers changed by Emperor Lu, and the punctuation marks that were ordered by Emperor Lu together, brought them so much convenience.

How could those places not have a city comparable to Jinzhou City?Could it be that their navy will be the bystander by then?

If so, while the army is going to attack the city with heavy artillery, the navy is also clamoring for heavy artillery and big ships.

But in fact, the heavy siege artillery that the army wants is not mentioned, and the artillery that will be strengthened at the same time is actually the five-pound cannon that can often be seen on naval gunboats.But the navy's so-called bigger ships and larger caliber naval guns are just talking nonsense.Ask Li Jun himself to say, what size warship the navy wants and what caliber artillery it wants, he can't tell why.

It's just that Emperor Lu knew that both the Manufacturing Bureau and the Shipping Department would have troubles in the next few days.

But no matter how troubled the money leopard and the jade flag were, the Qi army won the undisputed victory on the Jinzhou battlefield with strong reinforcements from the rear.

(End of this chapter)