Dading, Beiliang, the war has passed for more than a month, Beiliang once returned to peace; next! Dongfang Yu will devote all his energy to the construction and development of Beiliang. How to make Beiliang strong and wealthy has become the primary responsibility at the moment.
And Beiliang! The spring plowing period is in full swing. People are going to the fields, reclaiming wasteland, building new water conservancy channels, and irrigating. Everything is going on in an orderly manner. The entire Beiliang is a prosperous scene.
certainly! Today's scene is indispensable to the contributions of Dongfang Yu, Tian Ping, Xu Meng and others.
But since the last war, after analyzing the losses and casualties of both the enemy and ourselves, this situation of injuring the enemy by 10,000 and losing 8,000 by itself makes Dongfang Yu worth pondering.
Too many soldiers are of no use! Since ancient times, soldiers have not been numerous but refined. Just like last time, all armies and battalions suffered losses, but no one from the Xuanjia Army was killed. In addition to being well-trained and powerful, the Xuanjia Army also has three layers of light armor, making it difficult for swords, guns, and arrows to penetrate. However, assembling such an army costs a lot of money and is difficult to build! Dongfang Yu can't train everyone to become a black armor army!
After repeated contemplation, he decided to start with technology. Now! It's time for his brain to show its power.
For all the equipment, he planned to increase the improvement of weapons while following the example of the Ming Dynasty.
For example, Frankie cannon, Hongyi cannon, and Tiger squat cannon. These three cannons are the most advanced three types of artillery in the Ming Dynasty. In the category of firearms, there are also three-eyed blunderbuss, quick guns, target blunderbuss, sharp guns, and bird beaks. Guns, but in the late Ming Dynasty, the matchlock gun invented and made by the Portuguese was the most favored by Dongfang Yu.
certainly! Compared to firearms, Dongfang Yu focused more on cannons. The three cannons were undoubtedly much more advanced than Dawu's Shenwu cannon.
The first is to build an arsenal. On the original basis, increase the scale of the previous arsenal, move the previous arsenal out of the mountain, and build a new arsenal outside Qinjun specifically for artillery production; there is no way, Liangzhou's conditions are limited, so it can only be set up temporarily The arsenal will be postponed for a while and the economy will gradually stabilize before planning to build a science and technology institute.
Although Beiliang is far away from the political center and the center of prosperous commerce, Dongfang Yu intends to build Beiliang into the second largest state after Yunzhou.
after all! Beiliang is vast and rich in mineral resources, but! Beiliang has a special geographical location. It is backed by grassland tribes and is extremely dangerous. Emperor Dawu has never thought of developing Liangzhou since ancient times.
Beiliang Arsenal…
In the past half month, other generals have been training their troops. Most of the new soldiers were recruited from prisoners and Pei Hao's troops, and were incorporated into the new system based on the original training; while Dongfang Yu was almost all in the arsenal, Studying the manufacture of Frankie's cannon, I found the blueprints from memory, but it was still a bit troublesome and cumbersome just to make it.
No! Dongfang Yu, Xu Meng, Wang Pu, and Ma Jun began to study the manufacture and performance of Frankie's cannon.
after all! He had only read about the rough manufacturing process of this Frankie cannon, as well as the required components and structure, in books, but he had never made it himself.
but! A few days ago, the basic model of the Franky Cannon was produced, and the first alien version of the Franky Cannon has roughly taken shape.
"If this Frankie cannon is true as His Highness Ruo said, if mass-produced, it can be used as a sharp weapon for our army and greatly reduce our army's casualties. Even the most advanced Shenwu cannon in the Wu Kingdom cannot compare to that!" Xu Meng elaborated. After looking at the drawing carefully and listening to Dongfang Yu's detailed explanation, his eyes suddenly lit up and he was very excited.
If there were a hundred or eighty gates of energy produced and fired in volleys, the enemy troops would not be able to be blown into pieces. after all! Frankie's multi-faceted performance is much more advantageous than the Crouching Tiger Cannon. The Crouching Tiger Cannon is suitable for close combat and is extremely powerful within 500 meters. Frankie can cover two kilometers of artillery fire. As long as there is enough ammunition, even if the enemy has thousands of troops, they will not be able to withstand the violent bombardment of Frankie's cannon.
The Franco machine gun (the upper part is the child gun, the lower part is the mother gun). The Franco machine gun was invented in Europe. It was introduced to China from Portugal in the first year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1522). According to its country name, it is called "Flang machine gun". ", became an artillery piece in the mid-Ming Dynasty of China. In the third year of Jiajing (1524), the Ming court successfully imitated the first batch of thirty-two Franco guns. Each door weighed about three hundred kilograms. The mother gun was 2.85 feet long and equipped with four sub-guns. After that, the Ming court successively imitated various Franco machines of different sizes and equipped them with the northern and coastal armies.
The Fran cannon was an early breech-loading smoothbore cannon. It consists of a mother gun and a child gun.
The mother gun has a slender barrel and a small caliber. The gun body is equipped with a front sight and a rear sight, which can be used to aim and shoot at long-distance targets. There are lugs on both sides of the gun body. The gun body can be placed on the stand and the shooting angle can be adjusted in pitch.
The rear part of the gun is thicker and has a long slot for loading the gun.
The sub-guns are similar to small fire guns. Each main gun is equipped with 5 to 9 sub-guns, which can be loaded with ammunition in advance. During battle, the main gun is loaded in turn and fired, thus increasing the firing speed.
As for its origin, the Folang cannon is a new type of artillery introduced from the West during the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty (early 16th century), that is, a short-barreled cannon. Folangji was originally the collective name for the Portuguese and Spanish in the Ming Dynasty. In the last years of Zhengde, He Ru, the inspector of Baisha, saw Western artillery on a Spanish ship coming to China. Its performance was superior to the Chinese artillery at that time, so he mobilized the Chinese gunsmiths on the ship to go ashore and imitate the first batch of Western artillery for our country. , named Folangji.
According to the "History of the Ming Dynasty", Frankie said: It is made of copper and is five or six feet long. The larger one weighs more than a kilogram. The small one weighs one hundred and fifty kilograms, has a huge belly and a long neck, and has a hole drilled in the abdomen. Five blunderbuss are used to store medicine in the abdomen, and the hair reaches more than a hundred feet. “The advantage of this kind of artillery is that it uses blunderbuss to pre-store ammunition, so there is no need for temporary loading, which can speed up the firing speed.
The disadvantage is that the barrel is shorter and cannot have a longer range than the Hongyi Cannon.
According to European data, the short cannon's firing range is between 340 and 2,000 meters, with the highest hit rate at six to seven hundred meters.
Because China rarely encounters powerful naval opponents like Europe, the imitation ship-made Fran machine shells are relatively light in weight. The range of the Qianjin cannon can be compared with that of the Hongyi cannon, reaching two to three thousand meters.
There are historical records that the range of the Hongyi Cannon can reach ten miles, or five thousand meters. This is probably because it was set up on a high city, making it difficult to reach in field battles or naval battles.
It can be seen from this! Although Frankie's cannon is inferior to the Red Barbarian cannon in terms of range and power, it is still not to be underestimated.
Dongfang Yu has focused on future wars, especially the war with the Huns, generally focusing on thermal weapon warfare. With cold weapons as the auxiliary, hot weapons as the dominant force in the war.
