In the winter of the first year of Wuding, when the emperors and ministers of Hongguang were pushing for the second Northern Expedition, the army and people of Daqi were preparing for war with all their strength, and were ready for a war, a big war.
All peasant associations and chambers of commerce in Shandong were mobilized, and more than five million people tried their best to push this war machine forward.
Emperor Wu Ding asked everyone in Da Qi to contribute to the upcoming Liaodong war.
The emperor's target is not only Du Du and his Eight Banners of Manchuria. Du Du, a young boy of 25, is definitely going to die, and his death will be spectacular. In addition to the Manchu Eight Banners, Liu Zhaosun would not let the Maozi who came all the way from Moscow to die in Russia safely. At least they would have to leave one or two legs.
Li Sanguang, Xu Xiake's disciple, left an arm in the Cossacks' iron pot on Sakhalin Island. The Cossacks cooked the hand thoroughly and enjoyed it.
After Emperor Wu Ding heard about this, he decided to remove one leg of all Russian prisoners on the battlefield.
If there was a chance, he would cut off the Tsar's arm, and then throw the Tsar into the wolves and let them be eaten. This was the emperor's latest punishment invention - wolf execution.
As for the profiteers of the East India Company who participated in the Qi-Qing War and tried to fish in troubled waters, there is no need for soldiers to take action. That is a matter for the Navy. I believe Wu Aheng will arrange these red-haired barbarians clearly.
At the beginning of December, in the six prefectures and counties, a family of four must have one person to serve in politics. Those who cannot pass the military examination can serve as auxiliary soldiers or enter the workshop to drill gun barrels and weave armor. In short, one person must be from each family.
The furnace in the workshop is kept open day and night, and workers work in three shifts to drill and carve rifling on gun barrels. Even children and pregnant women have to enter the workshop to work.
The polishing of mini bullets requires a large amount of labor and is a labor-intensive production activity.
After five years of repeated trials and polishing in the workshop, the mini bomb was the first to achieve a breakthrough in the Linqing workshop.
This invention made it possible for rifled guns to fully counterattack smoothbore guns.
By carving rifling lines on the inner wall of the barrel, the projectile rotates at high speed after exiting the barrel. The gunpowder exerts a huge thrust on the axial direction of the projectile, forcing the projectile to embed in the negative line of the gun bore in the radial direction, and at the same time, it is reversely embedded by the yang line. The projectile is rigidly constrained and forced to rotate along the rifling path while advancing, which gives the projectile its initial attitude when leaving the chamber. The diameter of the cylindrical part of the mini projectile is smaller than the caliber of the barrel, so it can be loaded smoothly from the front chamber. And because the projectile is made of lead and has a concave cavity at the bottom, it is easy to expand due to heat under the impact of gunpowder gas. The conical bottom expands the bullet and bites into the rifling, which plays the role of centering and air-holding.
The flash cap set on the firing anvil ignites the propellant through the fire channel inside the anvil, avoiding rain, moisture, strong wind and other factors that may interfere with the firing.
From matchlocks to flintlock muskets, from flintlock muskets to percussion guns, the firearms produced in the workshop are constantly updated, with major progress made every three years.
In the era of queuing to kill, the output speed of a flintlock or matchlock gun is far more important than accuracy - the theoretical rate of fire of the Kaiyuan Type 25 flintlock gun is 5 rounds per minute, but it is still the ultimate speed of a skilled firegunner, and the speed of two hundred paces In terms of fire distance, after the fourth shot is fired, the two sides will close to within ten steps and start hand-to-hand combat.
The emergence of mini bullets has made the dynamic balance axis always move closer to the ballistic tangent, greatly enhancing the stability of the projectile. The conical bullet has achieved accuracy and range that spherical bullets do not have. Due to the improved loading speed and hit rate, mini bullets have greatly improved the actual combat value of rifled guns.
However, the first batch of Mini bullets produced by the workshop also had some unsolvable problems. It could only be made of very soft lead. The warhead was easy to expand and was soft. It would deform immediately after hitting the target. Although it was powerful, it did not penetrate the target. The penetrating power is too weak, so it is ineffective against lightly armored and unarmored enemies. Finally, when encountering heavy armor, you still have to use spherical projectiles.
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After entering the twelfth lunar month, military camps in Linqing, Dengzhou, and Jinan urgently expanded their troops. The fourteen battalions of the Guards were crowded with peasant trackers who came from various states and counties to enlist in the army every day.
The purpose of the new army expansion plan is to be lenient in and strict out. The previous standards of "New Book of Records" and "Records of Military Training" have been abandoned. As long as they are not spies sent by the Manchu Qing and Nanming (this possibility is extremely low), as long as they can Gasping, all allowed to join the Guards.
Although there is no threshold for joining the army, it is not that easy to stay. The training for new recruits is so rigorous that it is said that people are exhausted to death every day.
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While the army was going crazy, the navy was also not idle. Many parts of the Bohai Bay were frozen during the twelfth lunar month. The East India Company's assistance to the Manchu Qing Dynasty had not stopped. Wu Aheng led the remaining 13 warships of the Liaodong Fleet to guard the Bohai Bay. A fierce naval battle broke out on the Liaohai Sea Channel with the Shikoku East India Company fleet. The two sides were indifferent to the outcome, but the artillery supplies transported to southern Liaoning had been greatly reduced.
On the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, the day before Emperor Wuding's Longevity Festival, Meng Jinbao led the Weiyuan and captured a British sailor, Gu Min, in battle.
According to the confession of a captured British sailor, the Eight Banners of the Qing Army had occupied all the forts in the city except Shenyang, and all the fortresses outside Shenyang had fallen in mid-November. As for the casualties of the Qing army, the sailor did not know.
In December, the 14 Guards armies went crazy, and their strength increased from 45,000 in November to 65,000. The newly recruited soldiers were trained rigorously every day, and the training intensity was much higher than before in Kaiyuan. Even bigger, it reached an astonishing rate of one fuck every two days, and people were exhausted to death every day.
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On the twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month in the first year of Wuding, the small year of the lunar calendar, we were on the shore of Daming Lake in Ximen, Jinan.
The cold wind was biting, and the knife-like cold wind was blowing on people's faces. The instructor raised the loudspeaker, and the thousands of farmers and refugees below immediately fell silent and all looked over.
"Join the Guards, and you will get three taels of silver and one stone of rice per month. If you die in battle, you will get money as a pension. If you join the Guards, you will be responsible for the country in the future!"
Three taels of silver was enough to feed a family of four for a month. The conditions were very attractive, and everyone was whispering to each other.
"His Majesty the Emperor has mercy. Today he is recruiting five hundred soldiers. Those who pass the test will report to the camp officer!"
The so-called test is long-distance running and weight lifting, running around Daming Lake and lifting a hundred kilograms of earth bags.
The emperor did not want to train long-distance running champions and weightlifting champions, but there must be a standard for selecting soldiers. Since Qi Jiguang's method was too troublesome, he decided to be more straightforward. Endurance and physical strength were the criteria for selecting soldiers, and they were also an effective way to test the willpower of new recruits.
On the 27th of the twelfth lunar month, Emperor Wuding inspected Qiu County to review military training matters, and the county magistrate Lu Xiangsheng followed him.
The monarch and his ministers stood in front of the new barracks in Qiu County. As the county magistrate, Lu Xiangsheng had no power to interfere with local recruitment and training. The recruitment and training of soldiers in each county were responsible for the officers of the Guards stationed in the county.
He looked at the flow of people in front of the military camp. Many old, weak, sick and disabled people were running out of breath. They might die suddenly in the next second.
Lu Xiangsheng hesitated for a long time before finally saying: "Your Majesty, I have something to say and I don't know whether to say it or not."
"Then I won't talk about it."
Emperor Wu Ding waved his hand, and Lu Xiangsheng was speechless. He was stunned for a while, and then he said:
"Your Majesty, I look at these newly recruited soldiers. Although many of them can barely stand, they are swaying around, let alone riding horses. Moreover, it is the middle of winter, Wendeng is extremely fortress, the wind is blowing, and the snow is biting and chilling. I am wearing heavy clothes. Qiu, I still feel cold. These soldiers have thin clothes and weak constitutions. They don’t even have enough to eat. Running like this will kill people..."
Emperor Wu Ding seemed to have heard a very funny joke. He laughed for a while and then said:
"People are always going to die. Jiannu are killing people in Liaodong, rogue bandits are blocking Shanhaiguan, the country is in danger, men are wrapped in horse leather, and I don't have so much food and grass to give them. In troubled times, it's good to be alive. If you want to live, you have to work hard. "
Lu Xiangsheng was stunned.
High-intensity exercise may cause sudden death.
After running less than two miles, some old, weak, sick and disabled fell to the ground, trembling all over, gasping for air, and could no longer stand up.
Liu Zhaosun looked at the squirming man on the ground without any pity.
"In the future, when you chase Jiannu, you have to run faster! You can't run this far, so what's the use of you!!"
Emperor Wu Ding's voice was hoarse, and the cold and biting air poured into his lungs, choking the emperor's tears, crocodile tears.
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