Chongzhen and I became partners

Chapter 745 Shenwei Rifle
In June of the 20th year of Chongzhen, a large-scale Korean invasion occurred in a town near Pyongyang. Therefore, it triggered a large-scale mobilization of the Japanese army to the north, saying that it was to wipe out the Korean rebels in northern North Korea.

At the same time, the Jianlu cavalry army also entered northern North Korea and joined the operation to block the coastline, saying that it was possible to prevent the North Korean rebels from escaping into the island.

Such a big event, of course, quickly attracted Wu Sangui's attention.

All the North Korean rebels are under the control of the Daming Dongjiang General Army; the reason is very simple, the military supplies of the Korean rebels and some of the food are all provided by Dongjiang Town.

Therefore, Wu Sangui knew very well whether the North Korean rebels had launched a major offensive in northern North Korea.

For this reason, he also conducted a verification and confirmed that the North Korean rebels did not make any major moves. There is only one possibility. The events in northern North Korea should be directed and performed by the Japanese.And their purpose is also very clear, that is to transfer troops to North Korea.

As for mobilizing troops?Anyway, it can't be idle.

In response to this special situation, Wu Sangui paid attention to it, and at the same time sent news to the capital.

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On the grassland, the rotating Daming grassland cavalry suddenly had nothing to gain.

It was supposed to be the pasture of the eastern Mongolian tribe, but no trace of the eastern Mongolian tribe was found at all.Once or twice, similarly, the Ming army on the Guihua City side became vigilant. While paying more attention to the situation of the eastern Mongolian ministries, they also sent news of this abnormal situation to the capital.

On the Shanhaiguan side, Du Yinxi received a tip from the grassland.

In the past, the Mongolian soldiers who scattered back sent news that Jianlu had sent a Duoluo County king to the grassland to make all the tribes move eastward, and many cattle and sheep were sent to Liaodong. , The armies of all tribes must gather to obey the command of the King Doro.

After Du Yinxi received the news, he also sent the news to the capital.

On the Ministry of War side, the news received from various places will be summarized and archived in the cabinet.

The second assistant, Sun Chuanting, was mainly in charge of the military, and the news was finally collected on his desk.

If it's just these news, it may not be able to explain anything.

Just as Sun Chuanting was analyzing the news, Du Yinxi sent another urgent military report: Jianlu’s northern granary was transporting grain to the south on a large scale, and some North Korean firearms were also dispatched. Transfer to the south.

After Sun Chuanting received this news, together with the summary of previous news, he knew that Jianlu was likely to launch a large-scale attack with the Korean and Japanese troops, so he immediately asked to see Emperor Chongzhen.

"Your Majesty, if this news is true..." Sun Chuanting immediately said solemnly after presenting his salute to Emperor Chongzhen, "Then Jianlu, the Korean Japanese Army and the Eastern Mongolian Cavalry Army will launch a large-scale attack on the imperial court." Attack must be prepared in advance!"

"Oh?" Emperor Chongzhen was a little surprised when he heard it, so he took the memorial from Fang Zhenghua, the rotating eunuch, and after opening it, he smiled and said, "This news is true, this person named Xiaode , it is Kong Youde, who will use this code name to send back news when important things happen."

Kong Youde was originally in Dongjiang Town, but after he found that Dongjiang Town could not play a greater role, he was actually anxious and wanted to fight like Wu Sangui to regain the court's importance, so he took the initiative to ask for orders and sneaked back to Liaodong went.

All the Han people in the south of Liaodong moved to the north, and the Koreans were also in the north, so Kong Youde had to sneak to the north.

At this time, after Sun Chuanting asked the situation clearly, he solemnly played to Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, I estimate that the Jianlu and the Korean Japanese army are probably under the suppression of the imperial court, and they are a little anxious to jump the wall. We must be on guard." !"

After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen immediately smiled and said, "We originally planned to deal with the Jianlu in Liaodong and the Japanese in North Korea this year or next year. Now that they want to take the initiative to fight, it's not just right!"

Hearing this, Sun Chuanting nodded and said, "Since that's the case, it's better to transfer all the troops in the pass to Shanhaiguan to gather at Ningyuan, so as to prevent sudden incidents and suffer losses!"

Speaking of this, he thought for a while, and then immediately added: "My minister thought that if the coalition forces of Jianlu and Japan wanted to take the initiative to attack the imperial court, they had no navy, so they had to attack the Ningjin line. Its cavalry army is heading west along the grassland to support Ning Jin's battle. The imperial court can use this as a basis for deploying troops. Of course, the governor of Jiliao has to further verify the enemy's movements."

After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen immediately smiled and said, "You can take care of this matter, I believe you can handle it well!"

After finishing speaking, he said to Sun Chuanting again: "Qing came at the right time, let's go, accompany me to the military battle!"

Upon hearing this, Sun Chuanting knew that something good had definitely come out of the Bing Zhan Bureau.

Of course, he was looking forward to this very much, so he immediately followed Emperor Chongzhen to the military battle bureau.

It just so happened that the eunuch with the palm seal of the Bingzhan Bureau was Fang Zhenghua, the eunuch on duty today, so he introduced it as he walked, the most important thing, of course, was to listen to Sun Chuanting.As for Emperor Chongzhen, he already knew about it.

"Long Live God's new invention is a rifled flintlock gun and a rifled cannon!" Fang Zhenghua and Sun Chuanting both walked, and said as they walked, "Even if the line is carved in the barrel, the barrel of the flintlock gun is also good." , or artillery, the range and accuracy have been greatly improved!"

Regarding this, Sun Chuanting actually heard Emperor Chongzhen mention it before, but he has never had any idea.

He was thinking about it, when Fang Zhenghua took a look at the back of Emperor Chongzhen, and then continued to introduce to Sun Chuanting: "Long Live God has named this kind of rifled flintlock as Shenwei rifle and Shenwei cannon!"

"Shenwei?" Sun Chuanting couldn't help being surprised when he heard it, "Very powerful?"

Before Fang Zhenghua said that the range and accuracy had been greatly improved, he only had such an impression; but the emperor actually named it "Shenwei", this is definitely a very powerful firearm!

Out of curiosity, he immediately showed great interest, and hurriedly asked: "How high is the range and accuracy?"

When Fang Zhenghua heard this, he immediately smiled, but whetted his appetite: "Master Sun, don't worry, you'll know when you're at the test site!"

Sun Chuanting was a little anxious to hear this, but seeing the dead eunuch's appearance and Emperor Chongzhen's back, he knew that the emperor must be trying to whet his appetite, even if he asked again, he would not tell.

So, he hurriedly urged: "Hurry up, hurry up!"

Emperor Chongzhen, who was sitting on the dragon chariot, smiled happily when he heard it, but he didn't order to speed up.

After finally arriving at the proving ground of the Bingzheng Bureau and at the observation post, the craftsmen here naturally delivered Shenwei rifles.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't take it himself, but smiled and said to Sun Chuanting: "Sun Qing, let's take a look first!"

As for himself, Liu Weichao gave him the blueprints and parameters, and then he gave it to Bingzhanju, so he didn't even need to look at it to know what it was like.

Sun Chuanting was already very curious just hearing the name of this Shenwei rifle, and immediately stepped forward to check it.

He found that this Shenwei rifle was actually not much different from the flintlock guns he had seen before. The only difference was that there was a rotating engraved line in the barrel.

Just like this, can it be called a "Shenwei" rifle?

To be honest, Sun Chuanting was a little puzzled.

Then he discovered that the lead bullets of this Shenwei rifle seemed a little special.

So, he immediately put down the Shenwei rifle and picked up the lead bullets that came with it.

The lead bullets of ordinary flintlock guns are generally round lead bullets; but the lead bullets he is holding in his hand now are conical lead bullets, cylindrical, with a pointed end and a concave one at the other end. kind.And in this concave part, there is also a cork stopper.

This lead bullet is really strange!
After Sun Chuanting looked it over, he tried to load the Shenwei rifle with ammunition.He found that although the Shenwei rifle was engraved with rifling, the process of loading ammunition was not much different from ordinary flintlock guns, at least the loading speed was similar.

In the middle, there is also a small episode.

When Sun Chuanting loaded the lead bullet, he put the pointed end into the barrel first, but Fang Zhenghua at the side reminded him in time, so he turned around and put the pointed end upwards into the lead bullet.

After experimenting with the reload speed, it was time to shoot.

As a result, what Sun Chuanting did not expect was that the craftsmen of the military battle bureau actually placed the gun target very far away!

"This..." Sun Chuanting asked Fang Zhenghua in surprise after seeing it, "Is this too far? Could it be the longest shooting range? But if so, isn't the target too small?"

He didn't ask Emperor Chongzhen, because the posture that Emperor Chongzhen put on was obviously the kind of gesture where everything was under control, and he didn't even bother to answer such things.

When Fang Zhenghua heard this, he laughed immediately, and said with a good attitude: "Master Sun misunderstood, this is to test the effective range!"

When Sun Chuanting heard this, he was a little dumbfounded. Is this too far away?
He naturally didn't know that the Shenwei rifle named by Emperor Chongzhen had another name in the original history, which was called the Minie rifle.

This kind of rifle weighs 4 kilograms, has a caliber of 8 millimeters, and each bullet weighs 17 grams. The killing distance can reach 8 meters, and accurate hits can be guaranteed within 32 meters.And it's quite powerful.Tests conducted in 4 found that the Minie rifle could penetrate two two-thirds of an inch thick poplar planks 918 inches apart within 550 yards, or 1849 meters.

As for the effective flat shooting distance of a smoothbore gun, it generally does not exceed 300 meters. If the shooting accuracy exceeds 150 meters, it depends on luck.

(End of this chapter)