When Lu Hanqiang saw this pile of rags, and learned that his eldest brother Lu Xiangsheng directly found his shopkeeper in the capital and asked for 100,000 taels of silver, he couldn't cry or laugh.
In Lu Hanqiang's view, 100,000 taels of silver plus a good heart just gave him a pile of garbage and an unrealistic outlook.
It's not that Lu Hanqiang has to stubbornly think that in the war of feudal society, it must be a battle between spears, swords, armor and shields, he also knows that it is the general trend of the world to replace cold weapons with hot weapons, or how to say that he is a traversing person If he doesn't even understand this little bit of superficial knowledge, then as a traversing person, he will directly wipe his neck and hang himself.
Of course, Lu Hanqiang knows that in the Ming army, firearms have accounted for half of the entire army, and it can be said that it is at the forefront of the world's army of hot weapons and cold weapons, but the manufacturing technology of the Ministry of Engineering of the Ming Dynasty is indeed worrying.
I think that at the beginning of the battle of Salhu, the fire commanders in the forefront of the Ming army did not train in peacetime due to their lack of experience in facing the enemy, and they did not wait for the enemy to enter the firing range, and they didn't know who was nervous, so they let go of their guns indiscriminately.
As a result, there was no rifling in the fire system at that time, the bullets were still round, or inferior and full of moisture and other impurities, not to mention the power, after a row of guns, the smoke was filled, and the entire army array was surrounded in this gunpowder fog, first blinded the eyes of their own people, and then the bullets hit the moon more than the other party, and as a result, the Jiannu on the opposite side did not suffer casualties at all, and rushed over with a boom.
Everyone said, then put the second batch of platoon guns You pull it down, first of all, the soldiers usually have no gunpowder and lead training, at this time, the battle formation is nervous, the hands and feet are stiff and numb, it takes the old nose to reload once, in the face of the roaring Jiannu cavalry, there is no second chance to reload, and there is a key problem, or the quality of the fire system and the quantity of gunpowder loading at that time, at that time, there was no fixed charge package, how much gunpowder to fill, completely depends on the experience of the soldiers, and it is just that the soldiers have no experience, you have to dare to load the second row of gunpowder, That's definitely not killing the enemy, it's definitely suicide, and suddenly exploding the chamber is an inevitable result, and there is no second way out at all.
At this time, the fire commander after putting a row of guns became a pile of waste, and he simply became an object of slaughter.
And the fire commanders who became waste played a most important second role, that is, the fire commanders who couldn't put the second gun turned around and ran away in order to survive, directly disrupting the sword and shield formations of the formation, and becoming a good helper for the enemy, especially their unprepared performance, which completely collapsed the morale of the Ming army, which still had the strength to fight.
This was the current situation of the firearms unit at that time in the Ming Dynasty.
Due to the above problems, Lu Hanqiang resolutely did not join his own army and chose a suicide firearms battalion as one of the formations.
It's not that he doesn't want to develop thermal weapons into the direction of his future development, but it is indeed because the production process at that time restricts him.
In order to solve these fundamental problems, it is definitely a systematic project, not something that can be taken for granted.
As a traverser, there is a clear understanding of the direction of military development in history, firearms replace spears and broadswords, and the cannons of the god of war go to the battlefield, which is the trend of future development, but at this time, the manufacturing process of the Ming Dynasty has become the bottleneck of this development.
First of all, there was a thing that restricted the development of the military industry at that time, that is, steel.
At that time, the Ming Dynasty already had steel, but the process was extremely complicated, laborious and laborious, and the amount was low, so those inferior iron materials became the main raw materials in the Ming army, plus the eunuch officials of the Ministry of Industry were stripped and deducted layer by layer, and the craftsmen were lazy and slack, so what kind of good products could there be For example, the 30,000 fires that Lu Xiangsheng got for Lu Hanqiang this time, not to mention the poor workmanship, rough and rough workmanship, the barrel is rusted and bent, and the caliber is different.
In view of this situation, when Lu Hanqiang was in Pinglu, he wanted to build his own steel plant in the real sense as the basis for his own development of the military industry.
And this steel plant with mass production capacity, with Lu Hanqiang's current situation, he can't do it yet, at least not at present.
Even if Lu Hanqiang now has good steel, he can't rely on the craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry to make good firearms.
As we all know, the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty adopted the military household system, hundreds of years of inheritance, low status and poverty, being enslaved and exploited, has become the norm, even if you have the ability to reach the sky, in the eyes of those corrupt officials and cool officials, you are just a lowly craftsman, your children are born to continue to inherit their professions, even do not have the qualifications to study the imperial examination, which can really mobilize the enthusiasm of these craftsmen Therefore, sabotage and shoddy work have become the norm.
If a craftsman doesn't get you a year or two to make a bow and arrow, he will be sorry for all his companions, and the only thing that can be made is to see who is worse.
Therefore, in terms of workers and technicians, they still need to be trained by themselves, but talents cannot be cultivated in a day or two, and it takes time and opportunity.
At this point, Lu Hanqiang was the first to take care of it, that is, to befriend Xu Guangqi and Sun Yuanhua, the top scientists of the Ming Dynasty, especially Sun Yuanhua.
Under the auspices of Sun Yuanhua, there were more than 100 Western Hongyi craftsmen in the Shandong Dengcheng Cannon Casting Institute, and the best technicians of the dynasty that he had worked hard to cultivate, and now these foreign and domestic technicians were looted by Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming, and they were ready to use them to ask Huang Taiji for merit and reward, and change them for a red top.
But now the situation has changed, because Lu Hanqiang helped Wu Xiang directly reinforce Denglai Water City from the sea, so that Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming broke the water city, and the plan to loot the warships and ships went bankrupt, and at the same time, they were also defeated by Wu Xiang and Wu Sangui father and son and fled, these craftsmen and technicians were still in the remnants of Kong Youde Geng Zhongming's defeated army, and they were brought back for their own use and Lu Hanqiang put them in the plan.
Take-it-or-leave-it doctrine is always the simplest and most effective way.
If you want to develop your own strong firearms army instead of a junk army like the current one, you must achieve the above goals, if you can't make your own good firearms, then you should use a broadsword to pierce a gun and a longbow. t1706231537: