Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 380
By the Yalu River, Gao Ning carefully opened the bolt of his rifle and repeatedly checked his new weapon.

Li Wan, who was beside him, shouted: "Battlefield Commander Gao, you are already a battalion commander! Are you still thinking about how to use a rifle? You should think more about tactics and deploying these things. It is almost impossible for you to have the opportunity to fight on the battlefield in the future." Shots fired."

Gao Ning replied, "I don't even know what kind of weapons the soldiers use and what kind of effectiveness they have. What kind of battle can such a commander fight? I think it is a mistake for the organization to promote you as the deputy battalion commander. You kick it back and remake it."

"What reformation! Do you think I'm a prisoner?" Li Wan would bicker with himself every now and then.

Gao Ning held the M4 bolt-action rifle in his hand, and said, "This new weapon, the M4, is equivalent to giving our Ming Army another revolutionary advancement. Its speed, range and safety are far superior to the M1 rifles that our army equips on a large scale. Although Ming’s enemies can’t even deal with M1, M4 is indeed a good weapon.”

Bai Mingxiu has indeed obtained a lot of weapons from the end of the 19th century, such as Spencer, Henry M1860, Springfield M1873, and even the Hanyang-made weapons seized from Fei Yanggu's new army.It can be said that Bai Mingxiu is very familiar with the history of the evolution of muskets.Although theoretically the next generation of the paper case rear-loading rifle should be something like Spencer, Bai Mingxiu hopes to directly enter the rotary rear-loading rifle from the paper case rear-loading rifle, that is, the bolt-action rifle. rifle.

M4这款武器，实际上是大明的军工工程师在仿照毛瑟71、毛瑟98、毛瑟88（汉阳造）、M1903、莫甘纳辛等一系列白明修提供给他们的概念图或者实物的基础上自行设计开发的。从外表上看倒是非常类似毛瑟98或者美版毛瑟M1903了，不过细节上还是有诸多不同。

It uses smokeless gunpowder, uses brass shells, has clip loading, and the caliber uses the 7.8*52mm ammunition of the new Ming Dynasty standard.In the era of paper shell bullets, the unified caliber can only be regarded as a rough unification. After the restoration of the Ming Dynasty, the military began to standardize the real ammunition.

Rifle full-power bullets are 7.8*52mm, pistol bullets 9*19mm, and heavy machine gun bullets 12.7*99mm. Under this standardized bullet caliber system, the Ming Military Industry is still trying to develop light machine guns with standard rifle calibers and submachine guns with pistol calibers. .

Because of the mastery and improvement of industrial power, the Ming military industry can also think about making very convenient and useful weapons such as mortars and rocket launchers, and other artillery technologies have also improved to a certain extent.

It is not a particularly urgent matter to completely replace the early weapons of the existing 60 Ming army. The Ming army hopes to equip some troops with new equipment, and other troops will gradually change their equipment in order.In fact, a lot of equipment has not yet been developed, such as mortars and light machine guns, so the Ming military hopes that the new batch of standard weapons can be replaced within 15 years.

At the same time, what was going on also included the export of Daming weapons.Earlier this year, the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry officially approved the sale of M1 rifles and old-fashioned bronze smoothbore Napoleon guns to the Portuguese by the military factory of Ming Dynasty. An era of weapons technology.

Since Bai Mingxiu let Fei Yanggu, the wolf, go to Europe, he should at least give the Europeans the ability to defend themselves.

In the army currently entering the DPRK, the relevant troops of the garrison regiment are all original weapons, and the infantry regiment of the Eighth Infantry Division to which Gao Ning belongs has been fully equipped with M4 bolt-action rifles, and other weapons are still the same. Earlier.

"This time more than 1 Ming troops entered the DPRK, the court definitely hoped to settle the situation in North Korea in one fell swoop. There are differences within North Korea regarding the acceptance of the Xuanfu Division of the Ming Dynasty. Otherwise, there would be no rebellion. Your Majesty's determination has always been firm, yes We must directly govern North Korea." Gao Ning talked about politics.

Li Wan was not interested in these things, he said: "If you want me to say, it would be good to directly demarcate North Korea as a province, just like Jiaozhi."

Gao Ning rolled his eyes at him and said: "Jiaozhi used to be the chief envoy of Ming Dynasty, and now it is restored. Moreover, Jiaozhi is adjacent to Guangdong and Guangxi, and has close contacts. Jiaozhi Province has also received a large amount of financial injection from the imperial court to develop agriculture, mine coal mines and The development of maritime trade is much better than that of North Korea. North Korea’s economy is now in decline, and it borders on the Ming Dynasty and Liaodong, which also has little economic activity. The imperial court certainly does not want to directly invest in North Korea.”

Li Wan said with a smile: "The gentlemen in the court hall are too scheming."

Their troops soon crossed the Yalu River, passed the North Korean official road, and came into contact with the North Korean army.The North Korean officers and soldiers above the fortress can get a general look from below the city with binoculars. They all look sallow and emaciated, and they don't have much energy.

Seeing the flags unfurled by the Ming army, the generals of the court army were amazed.

"I don't know why Wang Shi entered the court?" Guan Shangchao general asked.

Gao Ning said at the foot of the city: "Wu Na North Korean soldiers, don't you know that your country Cui Xiandong's rebellion has besieged our Daming Mission? Peace, wait for the switch as soon as possible, otherwise it will be regarded as joining the rebel army and making enemies with the Great Ming Dynasty."

When the North Korean general heard this, he immediately faltered. The Daming army that was shut down seemed to be in a state of great strength. He didn't dare to make mistakes, and immediately opened the city gate to welcome Gao Ning and others to enter.

After the Ming army entered the pass, they simply said hello and went to Seoul non-stop. However, this pass was directly taken over by a part of the garrison army, and the North Korean generals did not dare to stop it.

The troops of the Ming Dynasty were marching, and the common people in North Korea were very shocked to see such an army. After seeing the flag of the Ming Dynasty clearly, many people actually shed tears.As the Ming army walked on the main road, some people knelt down on the side of the road and kowtowed to the flag of Ming Dynasty.

Li Wan watched this scene and said, "I never thought that the North Korean people would admire me, Daming, so much."

Gao Ning said a big truth: "Culturally, China has had a huge influence on neighboring countries for thousands of years. North Korea, Cochin, Japan and other countries are all proud of being like China. But these small countries are not fools. They have their own ambitions and interests, and when China is weak, they also want to take advantage of us. For example, North Korea regards itself as the descendant of Goguryeo, and often covets my land in Liaodong."

Li Wan nodded and said: "So Your Majesty's approach is very correct. Treat these small countries with kindness and power. Just using a magnanimous and gentle policy will only increase their arrogance; only showing strength but losing too much strength."

(End of this chapter)