Yang Fan carefully observed the Heshuote camel cannon with a telescope.
Knowing yourself and the enemy means you will be victorious in any battle. Only by understanding the performance of the enemy's equipment can you defeat them.
About half a century later, Galdan's Junggar cavalry also drove camels and carried camel cannons. They pushed all the way and successfully annexed Monan Mongolia and Mobei Mongolia, and began to attack Eastern Mongolia.
At this time, he had controlled most of Central Asia and Mongolia, except for the Nen River area and Horqin area. In fact, he had unified 90% of the Mongolians.
Kangxi was facing tremendous military pressure at that time.
Once Galdan completes control of Mongolia, Manchuria will soon be unprotected. Their hometown will be taken away. If the Han Dynasty cannot occupy it, they will have nowhere to go.
Thinking about the outrageous things they did in Han Dynasty, I'm afraid they are in danger of following in the footsteps of Wu Huan Hua.
In fact, Kangxi prepared for more than ten years in order to fight the decisive battle with the Junggar people.
Including ceding the Lake Baikal area to Tsarist Russia, and even giving up the areas outside the Xing'an Mountains. This was in exchange for time to prepare for war.
Maozi was eager to digest the vast Siberia, so he did not have much power to support Galdan. Moreover, their original relationship was not good. The transportation conditions in Central Asia were better than those in Siberia, but they were occupied by the desert Mongolia.
Based on the strategy of making friends far away and attacking closely, Central Asia is the focus of their invasion.
Kangxi had been in contact with Western missionaries since he was a boy, mainly to learn their techniques. Because the Ming Dynasty used advanced matchlock guns and red cannons introduced from the West to kill their great ancestors. At the same time, they caused many problems.
Heavy casualties.
And they have never been able to attack the fortified city.
It was not until the Shandong Denglai Incident that Kong Youde and others rebelled and took the only firearms unit of the Ming Dynasty that Sun Yuanhua had worked hard to build to Liaodong, so that this shortcoming was made up for.
It is impossible for Kangxi not to know what enabled the Qing army to successfully move south.
In addition to Hong Chengchou and other traitors pointing out the internal reality and path of the Han people, and Wu Sangui opening Shanhaiguan, this Han firearms force played an important role.
They can cast heavy cannons and have the casting ability of red cannons.
Going south from Beijing to Yangzhou, then to Guangzhou, Fuzhou... the city gates and walls were all blown open by heavy artillery.
The mathematics and metallurgy knowledge required to cast heavy cannons was available to missionaries.
In fact, there is a misunderstanding in our understanding of history, that is, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was closed to the outside world and knew nothing about the world. The emperors were ignorant and the ministers were rigid and conservative, which led to them being defeated by the West like idiots and fools.
Actually, this is not the case at all.
According to the decrypted reports of secret service agencies such as Sticky Stick Department and Xuediaozi, Emperors Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong and other emperors have been closely following the technological and technological development of European and American countries. A large number of spies are in European and American countries and understand the situation in great detail.
There are also research reports pointing out the pros and cons.
The emperors were very aware of the explosion of humanistic thought and science and technology in Europe.
Whether it was the British Industrial Revolution, the French Revolution, the Thirty Years' War of Religion, or the War of Spanish Succession, they were all familiar with it. They also knew clearly what impact these changes would have on the world.
The reason why they chose a conservative strategy was to make a decision between the country being left behind and being beaten in the future and being prepared for the Han people. Because the conservative strategy was in line with their ability to occupy the country to the greatest extent, seize the greatest benefits, and maintain them for the longest time.
Only by guarding against the Han can we maximize our interests.
They knew clearly that they got lucky and got the Han people's wealth in vain. If they could take advantage of it, they would make a day's profit. Everything else was nonsense.
They never regarded China as their motherland, nor did they regard the Han people as their subjects.
They are more like venture capital companies, everything is aimed at maximizing profits.
Therefore, Cixi said that she would rather be a foreigner than a domestic slave. This is their common mentality. From Shunzhi to Puyi, it is the same strain.
What are the foreign powers? They are the original Mongols.
He is an investor, he is a shareholder, he is a partner.
When the Anglo-French Allied Forces and the Eight-Nation Allied Forces came, for them, it meant that new shareholders came to buy shares. If the company really failed, they would increase capital and expand shares. Try to negotiate a good price for yourself.
Therefore, Brother Pao said that the imperial court had become the imperial court of foreigners and they must be overthrown.
People in the Sichuan road protection movement said that we are not opposed to state-owned railways, but we are opposed to them being called state-owned but actually owned by foreign countries.
When the Japs came, they had the same mentality, so Puyi insisted on going to the Northeast to become emperor.
Kangxi's preparations were not in vain. He cast a large number of light artillery, which were small artillery that could be towed to the battlefield in the field. It was these small field artillery cast under the guidance of Western missionaries that completely defeated Galdan's camel cannon.
In fact, Kangxi's cannon was called the Zimu Cannon, and it was not much larger than the Camel Cannon, but this difference was enough to defeat him.
Yang Fan carefully studied the origin of the camel cannon.
The European Karagallon sailing ship came to Egypt. The Mamluk cavalry saw the small revolving cannon on the side of the ship. They had an idea and thought that they could also be equipped with camels, so they brainstormed and came up with it. As a result, this 35mm caliber
Small cannon, it just so happens that the camel's bones can withstand the recoil.
It has a longer range than a matchlock gun and is more powerful than a matchlock gun. It can also move with the cavalry troops.
Soon this useful weapon spread throughout the Arab region, from North Africa to the Arabian Peninsula. Then it was learned by the Turks who conquered the Arabs, that is, the Ottoman Turkish Empire. Then, it was used during the war between the Ottomans and the Persians.
Captured, and then the Persians also learned it.
After the Persians attacked India, now even the Mongolian rulers of the Mughal Empire saw the benefits, and they immediately followed suit. In the end, the revolving gun even spread to Indochina.
In this process, Central Asia, where Turks make up the majority, naturally gained popularity. As the rulers of Central Asia, Mongolia Mongolia soon also had this weapon.
But Desert Mongolia's camel cannon and Yang Fan's camel cannon are not the same thing at all.
Yang Fan's camel cannon is the result of his imagination and is much more advanced because his thinking is modern. His camel cannon does not have the ability to shoot while traveling.
The camel is just a carrying tool. It does not need to bear the recoil force. The recoil force is provided by the four-legged gun mount supported on the ground when the camel lies down.
He miniaturized breech-loading cannons such as the Fran cannon and used them as camel cannons to provide cavalry units with accompanying fire support that could keep up with troop movements. He used three-pounder cannons with infantry, which could be pulled by two people.
The same principle applies to infantry's direct-fire weapons.
That is, to provide cavalry and infantry with small artillery that can accompany marches and battles.
It is impossible for heavy artillery to go down to the company level. Heavy artillery can only be found at the division level at least.