Chapter 168: Firearms (I)

June of the sixteenth year of the reign of the Emperor

Wang Hongyi incorporated Nanjun and Zhangling Counties, and built another 30,000 establishments.

The number of troops in Jingzhou has reached an unprecedented 150,000, of course, this is only the system, and it will take at least three months to fully train and mature.

In other words, when it comes to Wang Hongyi's current position, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is more than 10,000 yuan, and it is not wrong to say that it is strategic.

According to the Ming Dynasty's "Manuscript of the Ministry of Rites", Zhu Yuanzhang repeatedly issued edicts prohibiting red tape and reducing cases, advocating that "the literature is noble and plain, and do not take false words as beauty".

In December of the ninth year of Hongwu, Ru Taisu, the director of the Criminal Department, submitted a letter of Chen Shiwu, which was 17,000 words long and said a total of five things. Zhu Yuanzhang asked Zhongshulang Wang Min to read it to him. I have read 6,300 words, and I have not yet gotten to the point.

Zhu Yuanzhang was furious, and he made Ru Taisuting cane, and then ordered: "The false words are untrue, the clever text is true, and I am very disgusted with it." From now on, there are those who enter and leave the court with red tape, and they are guilty!"

Wang Hongyi also ordered: "In the future, the text will be folded, the text will be noble and plain, don't take false words as beauty, and after the text is finished, then say its jīng refining in a few sentences." ”

"Summarize to Lone, and then pass it on to the Secret Pavilion, which will review and draft the handling opinions, and be handled by Lone Reading. ”

In the future, the three paragraphs of the chapter were born from this - the main text, jīng refining, and the ticket drafting.

In this way, the speed of processing official documents is greatly improved, and the efficiency is also greatly improved.

Half a month after the surrender of Zhangling County, it quickly entered the state, and everything was in order.

Gangneung, Chuankou County, Xue Yuan

Xue Garden is a famous garden in Jingzhou, the corridor is surrounded by pavilions, the pile of green is like a screen, the hall of the house, the gravel xiǎo path, but it is extremely beautiful, although Jiangling is now changing hands, but there is no damage to the prosperity.

Melodious music is faintly heard in the garden, and the path suddenly opens up as you follow the music.

A large pavilion sits and stands with several people, the fragrance of tea is revealed, but several people are talking about big things.

"Nanjun and Zhangling County have been surrendered, and the Duke of Shu has set up a new camp, and the old soldiers have been transferred to fight Luàn training......"

"The Taishou of Nanjun and Zhangling County have given thousands of acres of land and a silver medal, and the two of them have recorded their merits to praise their loyalty. ”

"When the sailors arrived in Xiangyang, it was only half a month, and the Lu family, the Li family, and the Cui family were able to donate big boats, and they recruited sailors from various counties and counties to gather in one place, and there were 20,000 sailors in a short period of time. ”

"The land of Wu Guoben's imperial court, prosperous as fire, but few soldiers, although there are 200,000, but the battle is only afraid of no more than 100,000, Jingnan was initially decided, it is great to be able to gather 30,000 infantry, so that the sum is only 150,000. ”

"The Duke of Shu is now in charge of 150,000 troops, although the soldiers are not familiar with the soldiers, and the order is not stable, but in the same way, there is still a county in Jingnan that has not been lowered, and Wu is also, but the so-called strength is equal. ”

"I think the three sides must cultivate, but I'm afraid that September is the season of the big war. ”

"Not necessarily, the three parties have to cultivate, but the focus is different, this battle is a water war first, the Shu State Water Division is at most 20,000, and the soldiers are not familiar, and the Wu King and the Chu Marquis coalition army, there are 40,000, and there may even be 50,000, so I expect that Wu Di will be flat, Jingnan will be a little settled, and a joint water war will be launched. ”

"Meet, it makes sense, neither King Wu nor the Marquis of Chu will allow the Duke of Shu to train the water army. ”

"But at the same time, the Duke of Shu will be able to send troops by land to attack Nanyang and Jiangling, depending on the time, once it is launched, the water war will also be carried out. ”

"Everyone has said their opinions, by the way, have you seen the Duke of Shu, what do you see?"

Most of these people were monks with star-crowned green robes, and there were also a few people who wore regular robes.

"I've seen it, the fate of the Duke of Shu is unpredictable, just from the physiognomy, but the physiognomy of the noble fortune, the main side of the town, but its atmosphere is like a canopy, sè green and pure, the crown is drooping, five sè equipment, like a dragon and clouds, although not the son of heaven, there is also a royal spirit. ”

"The number of lives of this person is strange and unfathomable, and my cultivation is shallow, and I can't see clearly where his foundation lies. ”

When they heard this, they were silent.

"Where is Chu Hou?" After a while, someone finally said.

"After the Duke of Shu won Xiangyang, he was like a tiger with wings, not only the situation in Shu was stable, but the original potential of the hidden dragon in Jingzhou could not suppress him, except for King Wu, no one in the south could compete with the Duke of Shu for Jingzhou. Even if it is King Wu, it is difficult to deduce who killed the deer. ”

"Even if the Wu and Chu coalition forces win against the Shu army, the biggest victor is also the king of Wu, unless the king of Wu and the Duke of Shu die together, but how is this possible?" A middle-aged Taoist narrowed his eyes slightly, and said slowly: "I think our support for the Marquis of Chu will come to an end, anyway, we are not deeply involved, and we have no time to do it." ”

After hearing this, everyone in the pavilion frowned.

Although chā is not deep, but it has also been in business for more than ten years, once abandoned, the loss is not xiǎo, this Shu Guogong's luck is really so powerful?

Although the Duke of Shu has firmly sat on the throne in Shu, but now the world is big, there are many heroes, under the whole world, which prince is not constantly devouring the surrounding forces, although the Duke of Shu is rising rapidly, but how far can it go, who can say clearly?

The tug-of-war of the princes is afraid that it will not be settled within ten years.

The middle-aged Taoist saw that everyone was deep in thought, and he did not interrupt.

At this moment, another bird, chirping, flew in from outside.

"News sent again?" The middle-aged Taoist felt a little uneasy in his heart, his eyebrows furrowed slightly, and he stretched out his palm to let the bird perch on it.

xiǎoxiǎo The bird tilted its head, confirming something.

A moment later, with a "chirp", it fell, and on it was a letter.

"Is it the intelligence of the Shu army again?" Several people in the Xiǎo Pavilion couldn't help but change slightly.

At this time, the middle-aged Taoist opened the letterhead at a very slow and fast speed, and after seeing the content of the letterhead clearly, the middle-aged Taoist's face changed.

"What's going on?"

"It was the news of the Shu army, after Nanjun and Zhangling County took the initiative to surrender, the Duke of Shu sent an envoy to Nanyang County. The middle-aged Taoist couldn't help but sigh: "It's really ...... to be annexed so quickly."

The middle-aged Taoist said, handing the letterhead to the person opposite.

"What? Nanyang County is also unstable, and you want to surrender to the Shu army?" the man said in surprise: "The luck of the Duke of Shu has reached this level?"

The half-squinted eyes of the middle-aged Taoist opened, and the trace of indifference on his original face disappeared, becoming very dignified.

Thinking back to the losses of his Mén faction for more than ten years, the middle-aged Taoist let out a long sigh: "If Nanyang County loses again, I am afraid that the trend of Jingbei will be irreversible, and the support for Chu Hou must be decided quickly." ”

Hanjin County, Jingzhou

Hanjin County is located on the west bank of the Han River, and in ancient times, there was an official ferry here, known as "Xiǎo Hankou".

Although it is a county seat, it built a giant castle and became an official ferry.

There is a lot of traffic here every day, thousands of sails are competing, people come and go, the river is endless, and it is a prosperous scene.

In the port of Hanjin, 50,000 troops were gathered at this moment, including 20,000 foot soldiers, 1,000 cavalry, and 20,000 sailors.

Wang Hongyi inspected the sailors, and the left and right secretaries' pavilions and personal guards performed their duties and followed closely.

"Report!" a cavalryman came quickly, and when he was a hundred paces away, he dismounted, and after being examined, he came forward and bowed to the ground.

"Lord, this is the information of the young eunuch, please take a look!" said the cavalryman, raising his hands in the air, and in his hands was a secret letter.

"The young eunuch's urgent information?" Hearing the words of this cavalryman, Wang Hongyi's heart immediately moved.

When the soldiers arrived in front of the cavalry, Xiǎo took the secret letter with great care, checked it, walked in front of Wang Hongyi, and handed the secret letter to Wang Hongyi.

Opening the secret letter, Wang Hongyi quickly looked at it.

But in a moment, a smile appeared on Wang Hongyi's face.

"The handcuffs have already been made?"

The handcuff is slender and tubular, with a diameter of 1.5 cm and a total length of 35 cm, due to Wang Hongyi's guidance, it was changed from using a fire rope to directly enter the ignition hole to ignite it, and then using the fire rope to ignite it, so to speak, it basically evolved directly into an arquebus.

Of course, this shè is very low, only twenty paces, which is effective on the ship, because the guns are placed across the boat, but it is basically ineffective in foot combat, because the enemy army is twenty steps away in a blink of an eye, and only the part of being tortured and killed.

"And hand bombs. ”

Hand fire bombs, which are the modified version of Taurley, are generally round, and have several raised horns, which fall on the opponent's ship, so that they will not be too slippery and roll out.

It is equipped with oil fire and fire yào, and there is a xiǎo mouth on the body surface to place a fuse, which falls to the opponent's boat after ignition, causing a xiǎo scale explosion and causing a raging fire, which can be thrown by hand, and can also be used with a bamboo pole, or with a miniature stone thrower.

"Finally reached the level of Zhu Yuanzhang's water war in the Ming Dynasty. Wang Hongyi couldn't help but look up to the sky and laugh.

Although the naval division has now expanded to 20,000 troops, it is still rudely built, far inferior to Wu Chu's naval division, which Wang Hongyi is quite clear about, and the only way is to use "sharp weapons".

When Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Shicheng competed for hegemony, they used a lot of firearms, and the process was very jīng彩.

There are mainly fire guns, large xiǎo general barrels, large xiǎo iron cannons, large xiǎo muskets, rockets, divine machine arrows, fire thistles and burning xìng firearms "helpless".

The firebolt is the basic equipment of the sailor, but at this time, the firebolt is relatively slow to reload and cannot be continuously shot.

The result of Wang Hongyi's three standards of truth is: "formulate standards, form standard equipment, remove huā samples, and unify production"

Considering the actual situation, it is too late to produce cannons now, so only fire guns and fire thunder will be concentrated, and this fire bomb is actually a variant of fire thistle.

This is also the extent to which technology can now reach.

It was only the transcendent insight that played a major role, first of all, the "arquebus" of the handcuff, which greatly reduced the reloading time, and the "three-stage shè" could be implemented.

The second is the hand fire bomb produced by the combination of fire yào and oil fire hún, which is a sharp weapon against wooden ships.

With these, he was finally relieved, and Wang Hongyi ordered: "Order the young eunuch craftsmen who rushed to Xiangyang to immediately unify the manufacturing at any cost." ”

I suddenly remembered something in my heart, that is, before the war, Zhu Yuanzhang sealed the boat and ladder, so that the officers and soldiers of the navy had no way to escape, but to fight to the death or die in battle, so I decided to adopt such a method in my heart.

Under such a method, the sailor will either win a big victory, or the whole army will perish, but such a whole army will perish, even if it fails, the Wu Chu sailor will only have heavy casualties - this is the sailor's version of the last battle.

In fact, even if there are firearms, Wang Hongyi's confidence is not very strong.