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Chapter 1050 General Qi is injured

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    Zhao Hao left the capital on the first day of September.

    When passing by Dagukou, he inspected the progress of the Tianjin Port project.  I saw five rough stone and concrete trestles, like an open palm, extending from the shore to the quiet harbor.

    Bohai Bay is an inner bay with calm waves, which is very beneficial to construction.  More than four months later, the main project of the dock has been completed.

    On one side of the pier, rows of granaries and warehouses have been built, and workers are busy cleaning and finishing.  In a few days, the first batch of officially shipped grain will arrive at Tianjin Port.

    At that time, a grand arrival ceremony will be held. Ma Butang, Minister of Household Affairs, and Pan Zhongcheng, the newly appointed Prime Minister of Hecao, will all attend.

    But Zhao Hao didn¡¯t plan to wait any longer. Although he was the top leader of the Ming Dynasty Royal Shipping Company, showing his face on such an occasion would only embarrass the adults.

    "What the big shots want is face. It doesn't matter how they lick Mr. Zhao in private."  But in public, it¡¯s really hard to pull off that face.

    So Mr. Zhao planned to meet Qi Jiguang at Hu Shouren's place and then set off.

    "Seeing each other again, Qi Jiguang finally regained his charisma as a commander, with a majestic and graceful appearance, and a slightly higher tone.  He is no longer the same General Qi who was dizzy and cautious before.

    He is now the prime minister and chief military officer of Jizhen. The officers and soldiers of Jizhou, Changping, and Baoding are all under his control. His immediate boss, Governor Jiliao, is his Bole Tan Lun, the bachelor in charge of military affairs. It is his benefactor who advises Juzheng.  .  Qi Jiguang finally had no constraints at all and could flex his muscles and do a great job.

    Of course, real problems cannot be solved by just relying on spirit. You have to rack your brains to find a solution.

    Qi Jiguang, the commander-in-chief of Jizhen, was mainly on guard against the three guards of Duoyan and the remnants of Wala in Liaodong.  One of the biggest problems he encountered was that the enemies were all cavalry, while the Ming army was mainly infantry, so they could only defend passively.  Moreover, the Yuanyang Formation for which he was famous also lost its power in the face of the Mongolian cavalry that came and went freely.

    Qi Jiguang discovered that when fighting in the north, he relied much more on firearms than when fighting against Japanese invaders in the south.  However, Ming Dynasty's firearms were not enough to make soldiers trust them.

    Cannons have poor maneuverability and cannot be used in field battles. The dazzling array of muskets are not only easy to explode, but they usually only have lethality within fifty steps.  In panic, the soldiers often opened fire when they were out of range. It was too late to reload, and they could only watch the Tatar cavalry rushing over

    Only the imitation bird-bill gun has a far enough range, but the firing steps are cumbersome.  The soldiers were fine during training, but once they went to the battlefield and faced the overwhelming cavalry charge, they would immediately become confused. They often failed to fire two shots and were attacked by the cavalry The bird-bill blunderbuss in their hands, which was made with a lot of money, became a fire hazard.  stick.

    In order to improve this problem, Zhao Hao was entrusted by Zhang Juzheng to supervise the Nanjing Ministry of Industry's Ordnance Bureau to improve firearms as a member of the cabinet.  Only then could he legitimately recruit skilled craftsmen from the Nanjing Ordnance Bureau, establish a firearms research institute on Xishan Island, and legitimately manufacture guns and cannons.

    Although the quantity he made is quite large, in the year since the Longqing style was finalized, he has made a total of 3,000 pieces, and it is a standardized production with interchangeable parts.

    Can the Firearms Research Institute always take advantage of the imperial court and produce no results?  What's more, Zhao Hao also sincerely wanted to help the Qi family army to pacify the northern Xinjiang as soon as possible so that the people of the Ming Dynasty would suffer less.  So for this meeting, he specially prepared a hundred Longqing rifles and gave them to Qi Jiguang.

    ¡° He had no intention of keeping this first-generation self-produced flintlock gun secret from the court from the beginning, otherwise he would not have named it ¡®Longqing style¡¯.  What's more, there is no way to keep it secret. The security team has basically completed the Longqing ceremony, so there is no guarantee that a few shots will be leaked.  When the time comes for the court to ask questions, things will get serious.

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    Qi Jiguang really knew what he was selling, so he immediately picked up a Longqing style and went outside the house.  According to the process described by Zhao Hao, he received a paper-cased fixed bullet, bit the tail of the bullet with his teeth, poured the gunpowder into the primer pot, and closed the pot lid.  Then unplug the purge bar, feed the bullet into the barrel, and compact it with the purge bar.

    Collect the ticket, raise the gun, aim, and shoot!

    With a bang, a poor little house sparrow fell from the willow tree a hundred steps away. It was beaten to death.

    But Qi Jiguang did not stop shooting and continued to repeat the above actions until he fired five shots in a row and the whole yard was filled with white smoke. He then retracted the gun and cleared the chamber while praising: "Good gun, saves two steps.  It¡¯s much faster than a bird-bill gun. And if it doesn¡¯t fire once, it can be fired again, which is a huge improvement. And it should be able to fire even if it rains, right?¡±

    "The commander is really wise, and this gun is indeed not afraid of wind and rain." Zhao Hao nodded with a smile, but involuntarily glanced at the left side of Qi Jiguang's forehead, where there were severalnbsp; In fact, the Frenchman Mahan had invented this percussion flintlock gun twenty years ago, but many French generals opposed equipping flintlock guns on the grounds that, of course, "the musket must be ignited with an open flame, and the sparks from the flint will  How can one ignite black powder?  ¡¯

    It was not until decades later that they gave up their obsession with matchlocks after they suffered heavy losses from Spanish flintlocks.  It was not until the middle of the seventeenth century that European armies completely eliminated matchlocks and replaced them with flintlock muskets, which were used until 1848 AD.

    When the British devils launched the First Opium War, the Brown Bess rifles listed were essentially no different from the Longqing type. They were all flintlock rifles with smoothbore front loading, fixed bullets, and bayonets.

    Zhao Hao gave such a weapon to the Ming Dynasty, which can be regarded as the most benevolent and righteous thing.  If you still can't defeat the Tatars, then it's really a systemic problem

    In fact, the institutional issue is also a false proposition. In the final analysis, it is still a lack of combat power.

    Namo Gatling Bodhisattva, with six large clean pipes, can sieve anything from Li Chuang wild boar skin.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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