"No, the imperial envoy said it very clearly in the details. If the sky is not getting dark, the exercise must continue."
Yang Rang answered without hesitation that he never bargained at this point.
Seeing this, the team officer stopped persuading him, and quickly nodded and left in a bad mood.
The shelling continued, but a group of people appeared on the position, which made people feel a little surprised.
Although these people also wore military uniforms, their military uniforms were different from others. What was different from others was that they were walking everywhere with wooden slips and pens. They looked here, there and then, and sometimes they would go with the team.
The officials were talking to each other, and the conversation between them was very fresh.
"Sir, is there any problem with this smoothbore cannon?"
"There are quite a lot of them, and it's too troublesome to fill them, especially gunpowder. It was indeed much more convenient to fill them with your gunpowder packs, but the power is not as great as the bulk ones. There is also the problem with the fireworks.
Not small, after one shot, the barrels were burned red…”
This complaining tone did not make these strange people look embarrassed or dissatisfied. They carefully wrote records on the wooden slips with pens, and put some of the shortcomings mentioned by the team officials in their original form.
Record it, mark all the problems and causes, and then carefully store the wooden slip.
These people are the legendary firearm workshops. In the Ming Dynasty, firearm workshops were not allowed to be established at will. Only one place allowed, that is Lianzhou. Therefore, the entire Lianzhou has dozens of firearm workshops of all sizes, both large and small.
However, even in Lianzhou, the supervision of firearm workshops is very strict. Not everyone wants to build them. There are also Jinyiwei and the government stationed in the workshops to ensure that these workshops will strictly abide by some rules of the court.
Most of these workshops were built by big merchants, and they consumed a lot of money. Of course, their profits were also huge. Their income was mainly divided into two types, one was sales to the vassal states, due to the huge disputes in Southeast Asia.
Therefore, countries are rushing to buy first, and the export price is extremely high and the oil is abundant. It is considered to be the biggest source of wealth for firearm workshops.
As for the second source of wealth, it is the purchase of the new army and the caravan, especially the purchase of the new army, which is more than a hundred gates at a time, and the profit is also huge. Coupled with the consumption of gunpowder and artillery shells, these are all profitable.
It is not easy to take on such a big business. Although the new army's firearms do not care about silver, they must require excellent firearms. Your artillery has a longer range than others, higher accuracy than others, and greater power than others.
Only then can you take on huge orders from the new army, but if you are inferior to others everywhere, you can only sigh.
Therefore, meeting the requirements of the new army has become the target of almost all firearm workshops. What the new army needs and what it needs to improve is not to be ignored. Only by being more advanced than other people's firearms can you eat this piece of fat.
So, a special group was born. These people stood out from ordinary craftsmen and were very proficient in the principles of firearms. They enjoyed extremely high salaries. They gradually became different from ordinary craftsmen. What they did was no longer step by step.
They trained steel and cast gun barrels, but jumped out of it and specially improved and designed the artillery. They were the targets of everyone's competition, and almost everyone was the soul of each workshop.
Only by being more accurate and powerful than others, the longer the range, can you defeat your opponent. This is what these people do. No matter what methods or means they use, they must be more far-sighted and have higher wisdom than others.
Although all these years are inferior, only those who study harder; but gradually, because of the demand in the market, the social status of these people has been greatly improved, especially in Jiangnan, Lianzhou and other places, the salary they receive is often the same as scholars.
More than ten times, with bright clothes and angry horses, and people flattering them everywhere, they have become the object of envy.
This is the person who shuttles back and forth in the artillery position. This so-called training is called training recruits. For these people, it is also an opportunity to discover problems and find solutions. Therefore, they came with the army and obtained
The author of the imperial envoy not only observes the shocking power of the firearm, but also hopes to find the direction for improvements required by the artillery in actual combat.
Where the problem lies, solve it, until it is farther away, more refined and stronger.
Driven by interests, these people seem to be more serious than others. While thinking in their minds, they use their various understandings of firearms to solve problems that arise, or even have sudden ideas, and think of ways to cure them.
When they finish this information and after the war is over, they will return to their workshops and conduct targeted experiments with the support of their boss to prepare for the production of more sophisticated firearms.
Military officers and veterans respect these people very much. After all, the sudden whim of these people has made the weapon in their hands. More importantly, they are often very proficient in artillery. If something goes wrong, they all
When it is possible to point out the artillery battalion immediately, even some artillery battalion officers need to absorb some experience from their mouths.
For the artillery battalion outside the city, this may be just a drill, but for the rebels in the city, it was a heart-wrenching torture. This kind of passive beating was not pleasant. After a few hours,
Under the continuous repeated artillery attacks, thousands of people had been killed and injured. More importantly, there were gaps after gaps on the city wall. No matter how thick the bricks and stones were, they could not stop the power of this powerful weapon in the siege, especially
The rumbling sound of cannons and the shocking scene of the cannonball falling like a meteor left too many shadows to the defenders.
However, King Ning cannot let these defenders retreat from the city. Under artillery attack, withdrawing the defenders can certainly reduce damage, but the problem is that if the defenders evacuate the city wall and the official army will attack the city in large numbers.
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Therefore, even if the damage was extremely serious, Zhu Junjin did not dare to take this risk. Instead, he gritted his teeth and tried his best to urge the military officers to rush back the military horses they wanted to withdraw, and even killed several deserters on the spot in the name of military law.
It's all you can do.
You must never retreat. Once you retreat, it is equivalent to sending Nanchang to the official army completely. However, if you do not retreat, you will be passively beaten. The whole of Nanchang is full of complaints about King Ning. If there were many people who used to be against Ning.
The king still has some love, but now the order of Ning Wang, who drives people to be targets, finally angers everyone. However, most people still dare not speak out. However, after the training of the new army was over in the evening, the whole thing was
After quieting outside Nanchang City, King Ning summoned the rebel generals from each battalion to discuss countermeasures. Several rebel generals plucked up their courage to put forward their own ideas.
"Prince, the official arms are sharp. In today's battle, we did not hurt him alone, but our injuries were as high as a thousand. Now the whole army is in a low morale. No one dares to step closer to the city wall, even the people in the city will be the same.
Rumors have spread everywhere, and they are inexplicably frightened. If the fight continues, the government army will just use artillery to attack the city, but they are afraid... they are afraid..."
Ning Wang Zhu Junjin smiled coldly. At this moment, he no longer had his former demeanor. It was obvious that he began to be afraid. After losing his son, after failing the raid, and after seeing the strength of the new army, Zhu Junjin
Obviously he no longer had much confidence. He now realized that the so-called defense and fortifications he had prepared were vulnerable in the eyes of the official army. In fact, the concerns raised by these people are not unreasonable. In the current situation, the official army
It is only a matter of time to break the city, and the daytime artillery battle left everyone with too much shock. Although they knew that firearms could exert great power when used, only when they saw this scene of tens of thousands of cannons firing at the same time could they make
People truly see the power of firearms. This power is like a mountain collapse and a ground break, and it is no longer something that ordinary people can resist.
If they knew that the government troops outside the city were just training, they really didn't know how to think about it.
In fact, it is not just these people who are afraid of war, but Zhu Junjin is not the case? He has worked hard for so many years and originally thought that he could destroy it, but in the end he was defeated. Later, he was confident that he could rely on his hard work.
Fortifications are stubborn, but now it seems that the so-called fortifications are no different from paper-paste. But now, what choice can Zhu Junjin have?
"What are you afraid of?" Zhu Junjin looked at the person who was talking and said coldly.
"I'm afraid... I'm afraid... I'm afraid... I'll sooner or later, the city of Nanchang is broken, and the official army enters the city, the prince's life will be lost, and the villain is... So the villain asks the prince to be kind and surrender to the court, and the court will remember the prince's royal family.
I will definitely deal with it with ease..."
This sentence expresses the voice of many people. Resistance is a delusion. The only way now is to surrender, and perhaps there is still a glimmer of hope.
"Prince, General Zhao said that since he had a desperate end, it would be better to surrender to the court simply."
"Yes, even for the sake of the millions of Nanchang people, we can't resist stubbornly."
In the hall, there were sounds one after another. When these people saw someone making a head start, they were naturally willing to agree, hoping to gain a chance to survive.
Zhu Junjin's face changed drastically, and then he couldn't help but become ferocious. His eyes stared at these weak-willed subordinates, and then said coldly: "Come on, take down all these people!"
Outside the hall were all the guards of Ning Wang Yan. After Ning Wang Yan was ordered, dozens of guards with knives rushed in, shouted loudly, and captured the civil and military officials who stood up.
The sound of begging for mercy sounded again in the hall.