Three thousand men and horses were drawn from the base area, and the total number of regimental artillery accompanying the army was as high as thirty to sixty.
If a concentrated volley is used to counter the intensive charge of the enemy's cavalry, 3,000 to 6,000 iron balls and lead bullets weighing three or four cents can be fired at one time.
This is literally a hundred steps, forming a rain of bullets at a distance that the bows and spears of the cold weapon cavalry cannot reach.
When the Tatars and Jiannu fought with the Ming army infantry, they would not directly attack the well-formed military formation at first.
Because the Ming army had chariots and camps, muskets, artillery, as well as divine fire flying crows, swarms of bees and other imaginative firearms.
The Jiannu and Tatar cavalry all used the method of constantly circling around the Ming army's array, shooting arrows and throwing spears to tire out the Ming army.
The Ming army's bird cannons and the tiger squatting cannon that fired shotgun shells had an effective killing range of less than a hundred steps, and their rate of fire was much slower than that of bows and arrows.
They continued to suffer losses during the shooting, and the vast majority of the Ming army had no faith and belief, but they had resentment towards the court and their superiors.
In a disadvantaged situation, unable to defeat the enemy, but seeing Paoze being shot constantly, he couldn't hold on for long before he collapsed.
The regimental artillery that can kill a large area at a hundred steps is completely different, and the enemy will suffer heavy losses without being able to hit its own side.
Dare to go around in circles and diffuse, even people and horses will be sieved by him.
Theoretically, the regimental artillery can fire two shells per minute.
Huang Yi has strong national self-esteem and firmly believes that anything Europeans can do, Han Chinese can do, and even do better.
People can train artillerymen who can fire two rounds in one minute, and the base area can train Han artillerymen who can fire two rounds in less than a minute.
Huang Yi wrote the base area artillery drill with reference to the information on his mobile phone, and selected two teenagers who were better at arithmetic and could already write five hundred Chinese characters to learn and train in sighting and shooting.
These teenagers are all Han slaves liberated from the Mongolian tribes, and they are all very able to endure hardships and endure hardships.
After being rescued, they were able to have enough food and clothing, and they were all grateful to Huang Yi. Every time Huang Yi gave them lessons and told stories, all the teenagers watched and listened intently...
They were very excited when they learned that they had learned how to fire cannons and that they could fire accurately. Maybe with one cannon, they could kill or injure dozens of Buddhist slaves and Tatars.
Without him, every Han Chinese who has ever been a slave has unforgettable hatred buried in his heart. Being able to kill the slaves and fight the Tatars is his lifelong wish!
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The base area did not adopt the clay mold casting method.
This method was widely used at this time because each hand-made clay mold was unique, so the resulting cannon was also unique.
Therefore, when a certain cannon is deployed, a gunner who has used it and is accustomed to the temperament of the cannon must also be dispatched.
The method of casting cannons in the base is to recycle steel molds.
The unified standard steel modules are combined into cast gun steel molds lined with quartz sand for repeated use, which saves man-hours and costs, and is also conducive to standardization.
The internal mold water cooling method invented by Thomas Rodman was also adopted, and the entire mold was buried in fine sand to slowly cool it.
Therefore, the smoothness of the inner walls of the cannons cast in the base was far ahead of this era. Cannons of the same caliber and specifications were all carved from the same mold and were basically the same.
There is no such thing as every cannon having its own temperament.
As early as when the base area began to produce industrial products, Huang Yi announced the units of measurement and unified measuring tools and rulers.
The parts and components in the base area have unified standards. The Lumi gun produced in the past and the flintlock gun now mass-produced can completely replace each other's parts.
After all, the artillery is a big thing, and it is easier to unify the size of the parts.
In theory, artillery trained in the base area can skillfully use artillery produced in the base area of any specifications.
Unfortunately, limited by steel production, there are too many places in the base that need steel, so cannon casting can only be done slowly.
First, four or five guns were cast for a month, and the focus was on casting three-pound regiment cannons.
Slow work yields fine work, and there are benefits to taking your time.
Great craftsmen such as Liu Han gradually merged with young craftsmen who can write and calculate. As the level of craftsmanship gradually improves, the yield of finished products can be improved, waste reduced and production increased.
Huang Yi, who returned to the base area, is still very busy, not only busy with military affairs and civil affairs, but also busy with golden fingers.
Every ten days and a half, we will discuss with the most skilled blacksmiths, carpenters, cobblers, glaziers, jade masons, etc. in the base area headed by Lan Jinkui on how to finalize the luxury passenger carriage.
There is no way, the base needs flagship products to make huge profits.
Tuanpao is a good thing. If it is exported as a product, it will definitely make dozens of times the profit.
But can such a big killer be sold?
If the enemy has group artillery, Huang Yi may be killed by one shot during the charge, because body armor and stab-proof clothing will definitely not be able to withstand dozens or hundreds of bullets!
So you can only make big money from luxury accessories by packaging luxury carriages!
Huang Yi draws drawings to design, and the craftsmen will brainstorm during the manufacturing process. Usually, they modify the drawings and leave the work of perfecting the design to Qi Xiaoshan.
The base area not only gave preferential treatment to soldiers, but also to great craftsmen.
Governor Xuanda signed a special order to transfer the thirteen families of craftsmen who were forced to have no choice. They all felt that the future was unpredictable, and they all thought that the whole family was going to die outside the customs.
Who knew there was such a big stone city outside the customs, and they all lived in a small courtyard with three to five brick houses, the kind with a small second floor.
He Shouye, Zhang Shi, Qi Dashan, and Lan Jinkui were responsible for contacting and arranging these great craftsmen.
Because I don’t know whether their craftsmanship is solid, for the time being, they are only given two taels of silver and four buckets of grains per month according to the treatment of ordinary craftsmen.
The monthly salary given to the great craftsmen in the base area is equivalent to that of a seventh-grade general flag officer, five taels of silver and one stone of millet per month.
Ordinary strong laborers with no craftsmanship and only brute strength earn a monthly salary ranging from one to two taels!
There is no way to equalize wages. If they were equal, it would cause the greatest unfairness.
Just like in the planned economy era, fixed wages were paid without being paid according to work, which resulted in overstaffing.
Even if it is purely physical work, those with great strength and endurance may mine twice as much stone as those without any strength.
Of course, the base area must adopt a piece-rate wage system to encourage more work and more rewards!
Is there anyone who hates working and is passive and slack in work?
So far, no, because human rights in base areas are relative. People who are so poor that their families have no overnight food and still live in idleness cannot be considered human beings and have no human rights.
It's not enough to behead all the lazy people, just drive them away!
But this kind of thing has not happened so far. The people in the base area work hard in order to get more rewards and live a good life with wives and children on the hot bed.
