In the 11th year of Wanli, two years later, the imperial court finally sent the Beiyang Banner Army to the Dongyang Military Office again, and it was known as two guards as soon as it came.

However, in terms of personnel composition, it is a bit like selling dog meat with sheep's head.

The serious Beiyang Banner Army had only two thousand-household ministries, and the remaining eight thousand-household ministries were all allocated from the inner guards. The emperor said in his letter that these eight thousand-household ministries were streamlining the two northern guards. Sha Tai's old and weak sent them to Asia with their families, and elite soldiers and generals guarding the capital.

The emperor had no taboos and even allowed them to lead their clan brothers and guards to help the young, with more than 30,000 people, and harbored huge amounts of military supplies from Tianjin Port.

Wanli said in the letter that he wanted to do this long ago.

As the war in the northern border was about to be hired, the best soldiers of the court were still limited to Qi Jiguang's command to follow the northern expedition. The Eastern Ocean was also in the midst of a war. Therefore, only 2,000 households in the north and 2,000 households in the east and 1,000 households were sent elsewhere to divide the newly released Beiyang army.

Qi Jiguang needed this group of people too much. The imperial court could send many troops to the north, withstand the north wind on the grassland, and withstand the tough battles outside the frontier, but there were very few troops who could attack the Northern Territory as a unit, and even fewer were able to fight and not get lost on the grassland.

The Beiyang Training Ground is the only place in the world where the energy production and quality of military soldiers is excellent, but the emperor is very optimistic in the letter, saying that this situation will be no big problem at this time next year.

Because the court opened another training ground, located near Tsinghua Park outside the city, it was called the Imperial Martial Arts Hall.

The remaining 1,000 Beiyang troops were sent there and rushed to various places to recruit flag troops last fall. The Imperial Martial Arts Hall did not return to Beiyang, the Ministry of War, nor to the Imperial Horse Supervisor. It was directly under the emperor. The power from appointment to dispatch was all under the hands of the emperor.

Wanli said in the letter that in order not to put too much pressure on the Beiyang Military Equipment Bureau, according to the military production capacity, the Imperial Martial Arts Hall "temporary" will train two periods a year, each period of training one guard force.

Therefore, since Chen Mu saw this letter, the Beiyang Military Weapons Bureau will no longer produce weapons and armor such as informal army use, and will continue to produce established military weapons, allowing Chen Mu to sell arms overseas and place orders with the Nanyang Military Weapons Bureau and the Xuanfu Military Weapons Bureau.

Chen Mu curled his lips when he read the letter. The emperor's vision was terrifying. What is the "weapons and armors used by informal army?" Master Wanli, your country is a vast empire. To this day, most places still use muskets and fast guns. Why is this fuselage bird gun so unbearable that it has become an informal army equipment?

We take out because we can earn more than the cost and freight plus one yuan. It is not because this thing is not advanced. It is still a very advanced weapon in the world. Most people can't use it if they want to use it.

But obviously, it is already an outdated individual combat weapon in the eyes of the emperor.

The reason is not the fixed-shaped Taiping Gun of the Fuslock Gun, but the crystallization of wisdom shared by the two eastern and western researchers, called the Wansheng Gun.

When the gun was handed over to him by the commander of the Beiyang Army sent to Asia by the Beiyang Army and Chen Mu's apprentice Shen Zonglian, he raised his eyebrows: "The cost of the gun has been reduced."

The appearance of the gun becomes complicated, and the cost will naturally increase, especially if it becomes so complicated.

What Shen Zonglian handed him was a gun without a support with a shape similar to the shape of a flint rope in his early years. The gun machine was still flintlock, and of course it was more beautiful and practical in shape. The eight-edge edge of the gun barrel was easy to create, with a slight magnitude of thin front and thick back to cope with the pressure of the chamber when ignited.

But this is a short gun. The gun machine is less than four feet tall. The gun machine is placed into the gun bed. The outside sides are covered with thin cast iron sheets and nails. In addition, you can't tell the difference between it and the Taiping gun in the past with your eyes. Only by holding it in your hand and holding the gun ready to be fired can you know the secret inside.

First of all, the gun is lighter. It has no gun support and the barrel is shorter. The position of the gun machine is a hollow metal piece, and the inside of the gun handle is also empty. At the same time, there is a cast iron cover at the bottom of the gun handle, which is marked with the Ming and Beiyang Military Offices on it. The center of gravity of the gun handle and the iron strip have been adjusted, so it is not difficult to hold it.

The caliber is larger, the gun barrel is more refined, the medicine pool is still on the right side, the direction of the faucet is opposite to the past, when pulling the trigger, it falls from the direction of the gun to the direction of the shooter, and a small arc baffle connected to the notched shot is added to the shooter side. Chen Mu's understanding is that this little thing is to reduce the impact of smoke on the shooter during play.

"It's much lighter and bigger in diameter. Is this... one or two bombs?"

He and Shen Zonglian haven't seen each other for several years. The scene of the cannons being fired in the past in Nanyang Guards was like yesterday. Now this disciple has become one of the best young officers in the Ming Empire. He clasped his fists with a confident smile: "The gun is three feet and six inches long, the gun barrel is only three feet, and weighs six kilograms and two kilograms; the gun is fired and the gun is equipped with a cone-type gun pierced, and the weight is seven kilograms."

"The gun body makes the northern birch wood, the solid iron steel wires make it stronger, the structure is simple and the parts are durable, and the entire gun will last for eighty hours together."

Shen Zongyi quickly and professionally reported the performance of Wansheng gun. When he said 120 hours, he saw Chen Mu raise his hand and signal, and heard him frown and ask, "Eighty hours, how many hours are calculated, twenty days?"

Shen Zonglian chuckled slightly when he heard this, clasped his fists and saluted and explained: "My master has not been in Beiyang for a long time. Now the military weapon bureau has special supplies for the gun bed and forty-two parts. The military weapon bureau only makes gun barrels and gun machines, and eighty hours are a cost-effective time."

"Now we use this to compare the cost of craftsmanship, which has nothing to do with output. In the past, the Taiping guns in the world were 93, and the gunsmiths had to build other guns. They were about 800 out of the month, which was 26 or 27 shots a day."

"Now Your Majesty has an order that the Beiyang gunsmiths can produce no other one. They can produce 1,400 shots a month, roughly forty shots a day." Shen Zonglian raised his eyebrows and explained: "There are many casting guns, and it is not easy to catch up with the construction of railways inside and outside the Continental."

Chen Mu understood this. Although the output did not increase much compared to when he left Beijing, judging by Shen Zonglian's meaning, the production capacity actually increased. He nodded with a gun and asked, "What about the performance?"

"The performance is very good." Speaking of this, Shen Zonglian nodded and said the parameters of the Wansheng Gun as clearly as possible, saying: "The maximum range is to be tested with a hundred poles, with ninety-five steps, and the killing is not armored."

"Forty-five to sixty steps is the best range, killing armor piercing; the best distance is twenty steps, breaking through three-point steel plates and four-inch birch."

"Compared with the Taiping Gun in the World, the Wansheng Gun is powerful, light in weight, and more durable. The flag army can carry more ammunition and supplies, but the rear power is slightly greater."

Shen Zong paused and said, "Your Majesty has set three specifications for Wansheng Gun, Wansheng Heavy Gun, Wansheng Killing General Gun, and the other two types of gun barrels must be one foot long. The heavy gun has a rack, and the killing general Gun has rack, rifle, and divine mirror, but they are not large-scale equipment and are too heavy."

"Your Majesty said that the Wansheng Gun was specially built for the Eastern Military Palace to deal with the Europa war."

Wanli's words are about the point. No one can wear a one-centimeter-thick plate armor, which means that no one can avoid such a big thing as the Wansheng gun. In fact, this also played the advantage of the Ming Dynasty - there was a lot of gunpowder.

This batch of arms will come in handy soon.
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