However, putting aside this new type of artillery, the application of rifled guns alone has once again made the combat effectiveness of the armies of the Great China and the DPRK unprecedentedly enhanced.

The first to taste its power was a Mongolian tribe, a Mongolian tribe because it was dissatisfied with the large Chinese and North Korean troops occupying their pastures to establish a military station, and the result was that hundreds of Mongolian cavalry, when attacking this small military station, the defenders of less than 50 people in the military station used this 13-style new rifled gun, and they were defeated, and it can even be said to be a massacre.

The tribesmen of this Mongol tribe did not understand the power of this new musket, and according to their old habit, they assembled at a distance where the previous smoothbore guns could not shoot effectively, and then launched an attack, but they were still in the assembly period, and they were shot by the defenders of the large Chinese army at the military station, and the result was that a large number of Mongols, even at the assembly site, were directly shot by accurate Minne bullets, and even a bullet pierced two people.

In a panic, they had to hurriedly begin to charge the station, but under the accurate rifled gun fire, they were killed and wounded half before they could reach the bottom of the station, and the rest immediately turned around and fled, but the defenders of the station still did not relentlessly fire at their backs, and knocked them to the ground from a distance.

With the increasing number of new rifle equipment, those forces that tried to compete with the Great Chinese and North Koreas experienced the strength of the Great Chinese Army more and more, so they could only be killed in batches in addition to expressing their submission, so that the situation in the border area became more and more stable.

In the fourteenth year of Tianyuan, the Northwest Military Region of the Dazhong Army, with only 3,000 troops, defeated a force of nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses in Turpan, so that the Turpan Khanate no longer dared to oppose the Dazhong Dynasty, and completely declared its submission to the Dazhong Dynasty.

In addition, in other industries, under the guidance of Xiao Tianjian's cheat, the Dazhong Dynasty began to gradually establish many factories that did not exist before after the fifth year of Tianyuan.

A royal glass factory, cement factory began to be put into production, these things in addition to greatly meet the needs of the Middle and North Korea, with the continuous improvement and development of the glass industry, the original Westerners to China to export glass products has gradually become a thing of the past, the glass industry of the Great Middle and North Korea in a very short period of time, it greatly exceeded the quality of the glass products of the Westerners, originally regarded as a forbidden glass production process by the Venetians, was soon surpassed by the Great Middle and North Korea, all kinds of glass products not only no longer need to be imported from the hands of Westerners, Moreover, large-area glass mirrors also began to be produced, and became a new export commodity, at a lower price, quickly replaced the Tunisian glass mirrors, and began to be sold back to European countries, for the greater China and North Korea began to earn more profits.

In addition, the successful trial production of cement, in addition to allowing the construction industry to obtain a very good material, also played a very good role in the military.

With cement, the construction of military stations in the border areas of Dazhong and North Korea has become much more convenient and efficient, and the strong military station fortresses have been built with cement, and once solidified, they are extremely solid, which has stabilized the submission of the ethnic minorities in the border area to the Dazhong and North Korea, and greatly reduced the border problems of the Dazhong and North Korea.

Therefore, after a large number of new Type 13 rifled rifles were replaced, coupled with the establishment of a large number of border fort military stations, the control of the Northwest Frontier Area by the Great Chinese and North Korean Powers became stronger and stronger, and the combat effectiveness of the Great Chinese Army became stronger and stronger.

For this reason, the Dazhong Dynasty no longer needed a large number of troops to maintain stability in the territory as before, and after the 14th year of the Dazhong Dynasty, the Dazhong Korea Land Division was once again greatly reduced.

Originally, the Dazhong-DPRK land division had nearly 700,000 troops, but this time it cut more than 200,000 at once, and the land division only retained less than 500,000 troops.

In addition, after the army division has been streamlined, the original structure has not been abolished, but the original structure has been reduced, and many elite backbones have been retained; once a large-scale war breaks out and it is necessary to expand the troops, the Great China and the DPRK can expand their recruitment at any time, quickly make up for the lack of members of the troops, and under the leadership of the backbones, they will soon be able to greatly enhance their combat effectiveness.

However, unlike the Army, the Navy did not downsize in any way, but only eliminated some old ships and replaced them with newer ones.

At the same time, at this time, Xiao Tianjian borrowed the methods of the British Navy in the old time and space, and carried out a rearrangement of the navy's ships, dividing the navy's ships into five classes according to their different displacement and the number of guns loaded, and setting up five types of ships: battleships, cruisers, destroyers, frigates, and patrol ships, so as to improve the formation and tactics of the navy's ships.

In addition, in addition to the sequence of combat ships, transport ships (including personnel carriers and material transport ships), supply ships, water supply ships, and other types of ships have been added, clearly distinguishing the use of various ships.

As a result, the fleets of the Great China and the DPRK have become much more capable, and their combat effectiveness has naturally become much stronger, and they have become the world's strongest maritime force in this era, and finally have the strength to compete with Western countries in an all-round way at sea.

In August of the fifteenth year of the Dazhong Dynasty, Xiao Tianjian, the emperor of Dazhong, suddenly set out from Beijing, first arrived in Nanjing, and attended a grand ceremony of the ship's entry into service at the Zhonghua Shipyard in Nanjing.

The ship launched this time is a first-class battleship newly built by Dazhong and the DPRK, with a displacement of nearly 1,500 tons, a total length of nearly 70 meters, a width of nearly 15 meters, a draft of 8 meters, a ship with three masts, a displacement of nearly 2,000 tons, a total of three layers of gun deck, can carry as many as 110 guns, can carry a crew of 800 people, gunpowder alone can carry more than 30 tons, and artillery shells can reach more than 100 tons.

Although for Xiao Tianjian, a person from the old time and later generations, such a ship is really not a big guy, among the warships, it can be regarded as a corvette at most.

But in this era, such a ship can definitely be called a giant ship, even compared to Zheng He's treasure ship back then, it is not far behind in terms of displacement, and more importantly, this kind of battleship, loaded with artillery, has caught up with the most powerful battleships in Western countries, and it is definitely a hegemon-level existence on the sea in this era.

What's more, the artillery technology of the Great China and North Korea is far ahead of other countries, and more than half of the ships loaded are 24-pound breech-loading rifled guns, if they encounter an enemy ship with a similar displacement at sea, this battleship of the Great China and North Korea can definitely easily destroy it, and it will not give the other side a chance to fight back at all, so when it is launched, it also declares the hegemony of the Great China and North Korea in the sea.

However, the side effect of building such a large ship is the rise in its cost, and the cost of this ship has reached an astonishing 400,000 dragon coins.

However, it is now different from the early years of the Great China and North Korea, with the expansion of the maritime interests of the Great China and the North Korea, the Great China and the North Korea have now completely controlled the entire South China Sea and even extended their influence to the Indian Ocean and the east coast of Africa.

Therefore, with the success of the trial production of this new type of battleship, the navy placed an order for fifteen ships at once, and if all of them were assembled and pulled to Europe, plus second-class cruisers and third-class destroyers, even the British Navy, which had risen at present, and the Dutch, an old maritime power, could only be afraid of the fleets of China, China and North Korea, not to mention the Spaniards and Portuguese, who had just begun to develop, and the French, who had just begun to develop, it is estimated that they could be scared enough.

However, now Xiao Tianjian is not interested in assembling a fleet to expedition to Europe and grabbing territory with European countries, now he has more important things to do, and it is urgent.

The news brought back from the maritime trade group company, Xiao Tianjian learned that the Dutch and the British in Europe are now in tension because of the friction of maritime trade, and the two sides are fighting each other, although because of the speed of news transmission, it is not known whether they have started fighting, but it can be expected that the two sides are now in a state of war, and their attention is on the Euro-Atlantic, and there is no time to come to Asia to find trouble with China, North Korea.

At this time, there was a power vacuum on the sea, and China and North Korea had to seize more colonies as soon as possible, otherwise, they would have to face a war with the British Empire fleet all over the world in the future.

So Xiao Tianjian personally drove to Nanjing to participate in the battleship commissioning ceremony this time, of course, this time his southern tour was not just to participate in the new battleship commissioning ceremony.

After Xiao Tianjian held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the battleship that had been named Longquan, Xiao Tianjian then personally took this latest warship of the Great China and North Korea, set sail at Nanjing Wharf, and sailed to Ningbo Port.

When Xiao Tianjian arrived at Ningbo Port, it was already a place where flags were displayed, warships were gathered, and when he learned that the emperor had come to Ningbo Port in person, the generals of the Southeast Military Region and the main generals of the North and South Fleets also rushed to Ningbo Port in advance, waiting for Xiao Tianjian's arrival here.

The reason why so many military personnel gathered in Ningbo this time is not because the navy and army of the Great Chinese Army are going to launch any large-scale offensive on the outside world, but because on this day, the Great Chinese and North Korean will send a formation to start sailing again to explore the land that the Chinese once unknown to the Chinese in the depths of the sea.

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