Chapter 156 The pie is delicious, bronze mortar

In fact, dividing big chieftains into small chieftains was a method used by rulers in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties to "use barbarians to control barbarians, divide and rule", a bit like extending an order of favor.

Huang Li's creation of additional chieftains was merely an imitation. But the deeper meaning was not something that others could understand.

The unclear territory is one of the foreshadowings. Huang Li has already thought about it for the chieftains. The first thing is the land of Burma. Let the chieftains send troops to help in the war, and then use the land of Burma as reward.

In this way, the power of the chieftains at home was weakened, but they opened up territory for the Ming Dynasty and punished Myanmar for violating the Ming Dynasty's national power. It was the best of all three.

When everyone sat down again, An Kun was smiling, and he was more respectful to Liu Xiang. The attitudes of An Ruding and Chajia also changed, and ambitions were ignited in their hearts.

Liu Xiang took out dozens of seals and said to An Kun with a smile: "An Xuanwei, please quickly send someone to contact the local officials of each family and inform them of your highness's benevolence, righteousness and grace."

An Kun nodded repeatedly, smiled so hard that he couldn't close his mouth, and took the seal respectfully.

This is a huge benefit that can be seen, which is much stronger than his empty talk to win support. It is foreseeable that he will not fight the Qing army alone.

An Kun was not stupid either. He knew that raising a flag to start a rebellion required a high-profile name, so he contacted Pi Xiong to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty.

Can you tell the chieftains: "That old shameless Wu Sangui wants to steal my little wife. Brothers, follow me and kill him."

You have to admire the Eighth Prince's powerful move. People are for themselves and will be punished by heaven and earth. The real interests are much weaker than the humble slogans.

It must be a small one, also known as a ten-pound cannon (equivalent to seventeen pounds), and its total weight can reach nearly two thousand kilograms.

Relatively speaking, land warfare weapons are weak. Before the Ming army first arrived in eastern Sichuan, they ordered the arsenal to build them. However, it was not the focus of production and the output was never increased.

"Seventy days of rest and preparation should be enough." The Ming army looked at the production reports of the arsenal and estimated the weapons and equipment needed for the battle.

The craftsmen followed the drawings and cast two types of prototype cannons out of bronze.

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In order to get involved in the Shuixi Uprising, the Ming army had to be so slow. But now, the plan to attack Huguang has to be delayed.

Of course, after test firing, He Chun was quite satisfied with the shooting accuracy and range. Large artillery can also hit 800 meters, and small ones can reach more than 1,700 meters.

If there is no low-explosion explosive, you can only use closed gunpowder shells. Hollow iron balls are filled with gunpowder and installed with wooden conical time-delay fuses.

In addition to the people captured in Huizhou, Lueyang and other places, people from all over northern Sichuan have also finished moving.

A cannon weighing several hundred kilograms can be pulled by two horses. This is He Chun's ideal standard for a field cannon. There are problems with using wrought iron or steel, but according to the current smelting level, quality and output cannot be guaranteed.

The immigrants who came at that time were able to catch up with the spring plowing, and by the time of the harvest in the middle of the year, they could basically solve the food problem, and the government would subsidize food.

Even for a large field gun, if it can fire a seven-pound shell (equivalent to eight pounds), the total weight (cannon body, gun frame plus wheels) has reached a thousand pounds.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming army was very dissatisfied with the Napoleon smoothbore cannon. It was a field artillery with weak maneuverability, fierce firepower, and extremely complicated to manufacture and use.

Lu Tianxiang pursed her lips slightly, revealing a rather meaningless smile.

Putting the manufacturing of muskets aside for now, producing enough quantity to equip Liu Xiang is a task that can be completed in a short time.

If he was fighting for his little wife, who would risk their lives to help him? Who would do anything if there was no good, and he drank fake wine. I guess one word is "go away" and two words are "go out".

About eighty of the bronze flamethrowers built for naval warfare lost their reputation and were distributed to seven fleets, which is basically enough.

However, the Ming army discovered that although bronze artillery was durable, its weight was unflattering.

When He Chun went north along the Yangtze River for the first time, the people still woke up. It was not until the seventh comeback, before the battles in Zhaohua and Guangyuan, that the people realized that northern Sichuan would become a place where the two armies were fighting and confronting each other.

In order to improve its armaments as quickly as possible, the Ming army could only be advanced and second best, and created a bronze mortar with a range of more than a kilometer.

Coupled with rocket launchers, artillery, and trebuchets, the navy's combat power is not enough to defeat any Qing fleet under the Yangtze River.

But in the thinking of the Ming army, whether it reflects the scientific and technological content, it also has the advantage of crushing it, which makes me satisfied.

However, the reduction in weight of large artillery has slightly affected the killing power, and there is no sense that the gain is worth the loss. If it is powerful enough, the ten-pound cannon is the worst.

This made Huang Li sigh in his heart: The art of painting cakes in the palace is really amazing. Just seeing the small cakes, the little family was not so excited. When they eat them, they will still go crazy!

Viewed from the inside, the bronze mortar looks like a large, short and thick water tank. Only the Ming army knew that it was a weakened version of the "cannon with conscience."

Thinking of your parents' family, Wumeng Tusi, you want to tell your father the bad news as soon as possible. Of course, you should start the incident now and wait and see the situation. Anyway, it won't work for a year.

When the artillery is fired, the low-temperature gunpowder gas generated by the combustion of the propellant passes through the large eye of the wooden bullet holder, ignites the quick-burning gunpowder loaded in the wooden fuse, and pushes the shell out of the barrel.

Wealth and wealth are sought in the midst of danger, and only those who love to fight will win, and the world will lose its pie.

War is about to break out, and it is not the common people who will suffer. In addition, Liu Xiang has stepped up his propaganda efforts this time, and preferential policies have been formulated and promulgated. The alert people have stopped migrating to avoid disaster.

Yes, that bug was fixed by the Ming army. It's too late to rush early. Who wants to wait until the situation is gloomy before picking peaches? There is a way.

The journey up the river was quite slow, but the immigration work delayed some time. When the Ming army returned to Chongqing, it was not yet the eighth day of July, and it took less than a month from dispatching troops to returning.

The ensuing discussion was less smooth. An Kun fully accepted the plan of pretending to be tough, almost to the point of obeying his words.

In order to help the people migrate, He Chun left some troops in Baoning and sent the Jialing River Navy to patrol the river and transport the personnel to eastern Sichuan as soon as possible.

The work of resettling immigrants was handed over to the Prime Minister's Office; military training and expansion were handed over to the Little Governor's Office. The Ming army returned to Nanshan and ended the work of supervising the manufacture of weapons and preparing for war.

Although General He Chun and the soldiers did not feel much about this, they fought very few battles with their current weapons and equipment.

In order to increase the air tightness, a wooden holder was added to the cannon shell, allowing it to fly stably in the air like a badminton.
Chapter completed!