There are two major categories after bombs. The first category is guns.
In the eyes of Gao Pangshi, a later man, guns and cannons are two completely different categories. However, in the eyes of Ming people, this is not the case. In their eyes, muskets and artillery belong to the same category, but they are different in size.
Gao Pragmatic is too lazy to bother with this kind of problem. Anyway, in his plan, guns are guns and cannons are cannons. The divisions are clear and they develop separately.
In 1453 AD, the Ottoman Turks took just 40 days to capture the once impregnable Constantinople, ending the thousand-year rule of the Byzantine Empire in one fell swoop. At that moment, Europeans were directly affected by the "war" for the first time.
Shocked by "God", he began to have a huge interest in artillery, and eventually developed it to cooperate with navigation technology and open up the road to world colonization.
In fact, anyone who knows how to play chess knows that there is a cannon on the Chinese chess board that can shoot from across the mountain. It is a very powerful killer. With it, you can often "shoot the cow from across the mountain" and kill the enemy. However, if you pay attention
You will find that the cannons in chess are mostly next to the word "石". This is because the ancient "cannon" is composed of the characters "stone" and "包". According to the analysis of the principles of Chinese hieroglyphics, the early word "cannon" symbolizes the use of
A trebuchet that traps stones and uses the principle of leverage to throw the stones to kill and injure enemy soldiers.
In that distant era, if the distance was long during the war, or to attack the city, this kind of long-range weapon could be used. Specifically, a lever was installed on a wooden frame, with a big stone placed on one end of the lever, and a large stone on the other end.
Many "gunners" pull with ropes, accumulate a certain amount of elasticity, and throw stones far away to attack the enemy.
"Throw" and "gun" have similar pronunciations and similar meanings, so the trebuchet is the distant ancestor of modern cannon. But because it fired projectiles such as stones at that time, the ancients called it "cannon" at first. Later, gunpowder was invented
, people switched to using gunpowder to launch iron projectiles, so there was the "cannon" next to the word "fire".
Before the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's rebel army was the army with the highest firearms equipment rate at that time. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the development of firearms has never stopped, and its status and proportion in the army have been rising. By the Yongle period,
The Ming Dynasty even had a formal artillery establishment, which was subordinate to the Shenji Battalion of the later famous "Three Battalions".
At the beginning, the main task of the Shenji Battalion was to train the officers and soldiers of the Beijing Guard and the "escort cavalry officers and soldiers" in the use of various firecrackers and other firearms. In reality, it was more like an artillery training center.
Later, as the importance of the Shenji Battalion became increasingly important, it assumed the function of "defending the capital internally and preparing for external battles". It became a strategic mobile force under the direct control of the emperor. Zhu Di, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, was very interested in this military force specializing in guns and artillery.
The organization attached great importance to it and not only provided the Ming Dynasty's most advanced muskets and artillery equipment to the Shenji Battalion, but also introduced some foreign artillery from the Western "barbarians" to the Shenji Battalion, training and imitating them at the same time.
At that time, Shenji Camp was a large camp, with jurisdiction over Zuo Shao, Zuo Ye, Zhongjun, You Ye, You Shao and the Five Thousand Battalion. Only the Five Thousand Battalion had 5,000 good horses. Overall, it was equivalent to
In a Guards regiment that people in later generations are used to, the emperor appoints trusted eunuchs or nobles to serve as the highest officer of the regiment, that is, the admiral.
After the establishment of the Shenji Battalion, in addition to training a large number of gunmen and artillerymen for other troops, they often accompanied Zhu Di, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, on expeditions and galloped on the battlefield. During the battle, the Shenji Battalion used its dense firepower advantage to kill a large number of people.
enemy forces, thereby establishing meritorious service in winning victory.
Later, the proportion of firearms in frontier armies and local troops also gradually increased. Especially during the Jiajing period when Japanese pirates invaded the coast, the development of firearms made new progress. The Qi Jiajun recruited and established by Qi Jiguang also respected the application of firearms.
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Of course, the Qi family army is a force that combines hot and cold weapons and is fully developed. Qi Jiguang, with his outstanding military talents, fully considered the development level of firearms, and then cooperated with cold weapons to achieve the level of development of this era and the actual situation of the Ming army.
The situation was optimized.
However, Qi Jiguang has a very clear view on the development of firearms. He believes that the development of cold weapons has been close to stagnant so far, and human combat ability itself has its limits. If greater progress can be made in future military development, it will definitely
It can only come from the development of firearms, so Qi Jiguang is very concerned about the development of firearms, and even personally participates in the research and development, innovation, modification, etc. of various firearms.
In history, Qi Jiguang not only made many pioneering achievements in landmine weapons, but also made great achievements in the development of artillery. He personally built five types of Folan cannons for the Qi Army. Among them, the No. 1, 2, and 3 large Folan cannons
Used for the defense of naval guns and castles (similar to bunkers), the No. 4 medium-sized Fo Lang aircraft accompanied the army in mobile operations, and the No. 5 small Fo Lang aircraft was equipped for individual soldiers. According to the description in Mao Yuanyi's Military Preparation Chronicle, in principle, artillery was already available at that time
The size of the caliber is used as the base number to determine the relationship between the weight of the projectile and the change in the charge. This is a manifestation of the improvement in the design and manufacturing level of artillery in the mid-Ming Dynasty.
This idea is highly recognized by Gao Pragmatic. After all, the development of artillery in history, in addition to being distinguished by shooting methods such as howitzers and cannons, was mainly distinguished by different calibers, and the auxiliary standards were bullet weight and charge.
Since Gao Pragmatic had started making "goal planning" a few years ago when he just traveled through time, and he also clearly had a plan to enter the military industry, he would certainly not let go of artillery manufacturing. However, artillery is an extraordinary military weapon after all.
, he can't produce any real objects at the moment, and he needs to form a cyclic development chain of "nurturing new industries with the profits of old industries" in various industries in the future, so he must ensure future technological advantages in artillery production, no matter
Too many production technical elements may be leaked in advance.
This is very contradictory, because Qi Jiguang's application of artillery does not have big problems in terms of general ideas. Except for the giant cannon to defend the city, which Gao Pragmatic always thinks is problematic, other ideas are basically in line with his understanding. Therefore, Gao Pragmatic originally
The plan that only guided the artillery configuration and usage was defeated and bankrupted by Qi Jiguang's genius foresight.
After Gao pragmatic struggled for a while, he decided to improve the strength of Qi Jiguang's artillery from another aspect.
"Captain Qi." Gao Pingshi looked very sincere and said: "I can't help you much with the manufacture of artillery at the moment. I hope you can understand this."
Qi Jiguang said with a smile: "Even if Gao Shidu didn't say it, Qi also knew that after all, artillery manufacturing still depends on the skills of the craftsmen. The most we can do is make demands or give suggestions to them from other aspects. Really
How can you take action? It's like watching people competing in martial arts. The people watching are relaxed and commentating, as if they are masters of martial arts. If they really compete with each other, they will be knocked down by one punch. "
But Gao Pragmatic laughed: "That's not what I meant - I mean, although I can't help with the artillery manufacturing itself now, I can provide some help from another aspect."