In the afternoon, there was a test of artillery in the school outside the city, and Zhang Ning specially asked Zhu Heng to accompany him to watch.
The scene was actually very boring. It took a long time to fire. After the shooting, the people in the Weapon Bureau had to check and record various situations, mainly to scrap some artillery that had internal injuries after filling the medicine and the gun barrel wall after test-firing.
So Zhang Ning and others looked at it for a while and then went up the Beicheng City Tower.
The cannon sounded occasionally, because this situation occurred from time to time. The officials and people in Changde City seemed to have become accustomed to it. Looking down from the city tower, the people on the street were still busy with their own affairs.
Looking at the abortion, you can imagine that people may say and set off fire again when they meet and greet.
It's Ah, or is it thunder?
The artillery currently tested is neither a mortar cannon for siege or a light mother gun, but a long-barrel field cannon, weighing more than one thousand kilograms; this is truly a heavy weapon in the Ming Dynasty, and by weight, it can be compared with the general of the Tianzi supervised in the late Yongle period.
Field long cannons mainly fire solid bombs, and can also be loaded with loose bullets and explosive bombs. The weight of solid bombs is between three and a half kilograms and four kilograms; as the use time increases, the diameter of the shells will also increase, because the barrel will extend and expand and become larger.
At present, this batch of artillery is a finished product after multiple tests and transformations. At first, because the cost budget is considered, the Weapon Bureau casts it with iron according to Zhang Ning's wishes. Unexpectedly, the scrapping rate is extremely high. In order not to explode the chamber, it can only continuously increase the thickness of the pipe wall. It is bulky and difficult to use, and the cost may not be reduced much. Later, the iron copper core casting method was improved and hollow cooling technology was used, which improved the performance of the first long-barrel cannon equipped by the Suzaku Army.
Its maximum range is more than two miles, and its effective flat range is about one and a half miles.
This heavy weapon, mainly field combat, is completely different from the mortar cannon projectile. The length of the gun body is twenty times that of the caliber, and the shell has extremely high initial velocity and penetration power.
The main way of attack is to bounce on harder ground, pierce through an infantry phalanx without any pressure, and it is not exaggerated to write that one shot is decayed for hundreds of steps in the official document.
Zhang Ning believed that he had the weapons that were absolutely superior to this era. There was a difference between the long-barrel heavy artillery and the rough cast cannons used by the Ming army. The barrel casting and inner chamber polishing technology are not something that others can possess in a short time.
What he wants now is a group of young officers who are capable of reading, literacy and understanding techniques and tactics, but it is difficult to attract enough talents in the territory he currently occupies. Moreover, most young people with family conditions are looking at the path of imperial examinations, and there are very few people who are willing to follow him, a rebel; only those bankrupt and refugees are most likely to get it, but they are really unbearable to use. Most of them are malnutrition and weak, and even ordinary soldiers are not qualified.
Zhang Ning silently stared at the city under his feet, buildings, courtyards, rivers, bridges, and the people in it were all under his power.
Suddenly he felt that he was a king, and he could do whatever he wanted in his territory, and he wanted to change, create, destroy, and do whatever he wanted.
Zhu Heng, who was accompanying him, faintly felt ambition in his eyes.
At this time, Zhang Ning turned around and asked Zhu Heng: The opportunity Zhu Butang mentioned in the official office in the morning, how to judge the best time to attack the Southern Route Army?
The heavy troops gathered by the government in Huguang have made Zhang Ning feel like a hint of trouble. Those people want to destroy everything he gets, and Zhang Ning also dreams of destroying it.
Now that he saw all the power of his army and artillery, he had long been looking forward to the arrival of that day.
Zhu Heng replied: The capital of Changsha Prefecture is east of the Xiangshui River. The wide surface of the Xiangshui River is not conducive to the crossing of the army. We must wait until the southern army of Changsha Prefecture crosses the Xiangshui River before taking action. We cannot expose our intentions before.Moreover, the terrain of the water network near the Xiang River is complex, which affects the speed of the raid. The best time is that when the Southern Army has completely left the Xiang River Basin and is preparing to advance towards Chenzhou, we will then go south and take its camp.Even if we fail to destroy this army, as long as we defeat it so that we cannot attack long distances into the battlefield in a short time, our goal has been achieved.
Zhang Ning has not fully agreed with this plan, but the situation is pressing, and I am afraid that there will be no better way.
Yu Qian's face couldn't help but appear in his mind. It was what he looked like a few years ago. Now that he is a little older, maybe it may have changed a little.
What would Yu Qian, the governor of Huguang, think?
In his previous life's thinking, Yu Qian was a more famous figure than the current emperor, so Zhang Ning never thought of underestimating the enemy...
In the past, the Xuande Emperor Zhang Ning had almost never known anyone. There was only one Xuande furnace that seemed to have heard of. Perhaps because Xuande dynasty had nothing to do in history, the emperor was not famous. It was not until now that Zhang Ning knew that this unknown emperor's ability seemed to be much more inconvenient than the famous Yu Qian. The difference is that he didn't live that long.
Yu Qian seems to be not over 30 years old and has reached the level of a senior member of the Ministry and the governor. He is not a second-generation relative of the royal family and nobles. He even has a little brain to think that such people are difficult to deal with.
Zhang Ning pondered for a long time and said: Maybe the government can judge that we will not divide our troops and resist the enemy. If they want to take advantage of the situation, they will first let the Northern Army give us enough pressure, restrain the main force, and then transfer the southern army to advance westward.
Zhu Hengdao: What the prince said is very true, but the attack from Changsha and the attack on Chenzhou is more than 600 miles long. The official army must be arranged in advance and the north and south roads are attacking together.If we have to wait for the Northern Army to fight with us and the Southern Army to start mobilizing, it will be too late. It is equivalent to the Northern Army facing us alone. The Southern Army has almost no effect in this battle, just like wasting troops.We don’t have to wait until the southern road enters Chenzhou before starting. As soon as they leave Changsha Prefecture, they will lead their troops south.
Zhang Ning nodded slightly: Let’s prepare this plan for the time being, and then observe the news reported by the horses everywhere. If the situation changes, then make plans.
The two of them said a while in the city tower. When the time was just right, Zhang Ning had to go home early because today was another good day for him, marrying Wenjun from the Xu family.
There is a reason why he is still handling official duties on such days, because the customs and rules do not require a ceremony except for a wedding, and generally they cannot have a big banquet. This rule is probably to save gifts from the world, otherwise you will hold weddings every few days, and relatives and friends come to get few gifts and can't take them out. How can everyone bear it?
Therefore, everyone can only hold a big wedding once in their life. If there is already a wedding, even if Xu Xian marrys a wife, he must act in a low-key manner. At worst, after getting married, friends will come and congratulate you.
In fact, it is not a big deal for ordinary people to take concubines at all. The difference between concubines and maids is not very big. They can be traded and have no legal status at all.
However, since Zhang Ning is the Xiang King officially enthroned by Jianwenjun, there is a big difference between the second concubine and the concubine of ordinary people. If you want to say that the king appointed by Emperor Jianwen is useless, it depends on where it is, it is useful in the places controlled by Jianwen and his system.
In the eyes of the world, the emperor and the prince seem to have three heads and six arms, and cannot be judged by common sense. It is very reasonable for the prince to have a concubine or a few more concubines.
The concubines except the official concubine are also respected by others. Just as the imperial concubines in the palace are not as noble as the queen, they are as noble as the queen, so Lao Xu's identity will be improved; otherwise, if his granddaughter is just a powerful concubine, there is no glory.
After Zhang Ning returned home, he remembered something. Not long ago, someone mentioned in front of him that Lao Xu seemed to have contact with women in the city, and was worried that there would be problems with people like Lao Xu who went privately.
However, Zhang Ning felt relieved. When Zhang Ning was an official, Lao Xu followed the leader of a secret spy, and now he is in charge of the newly established Guard Bureau, and he is all in charge of the intelligence yamen. He is not so easy to be fooled.
Perhaps Lao Xu felt that he was now developed and it was a pity that he had no descendants, and his granddaughter could not inherit the Xu family's incense, so what did he think?I don't know if he has that ability.
Zhang Ning is not in the mood to ask about these tragic things of his subordinates now. People of Lao Xu have no hope, and it is a good thing to have some wishes.
He once again felt that it was right to hand over the power to Zhu Heng, and Lao Xu could not take on such a heavy responsibility at all.
There was no atmosphere in the garden, but the servants and maids wore red festive clothes, showing that they were some special days today.Zhang Ning went to Yao Ji's place first.
Yao Ji was drinking tea in the open and ventilated pavilion. The tea she drank was not made from tea leaves. The water was white and clear and had a fragrance. It was probably a kind of health-care object with flowers and plants.
After meeting, she gently reminded her: Don’t meet Erniang today. She came to pay her respects in the morning. I said something to her, probably it worked.
Zhang Ning said politely: Fortunately, my mother is in charge of family affairs.
It was very quiet here, as if outside the world, Yao Ji's expression was also leisurely and calm. Her movements of picking up the exquisite cup on the stone table were elegant and gentle, which made people pleasing to the eye.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, a rumbling cannon sound broke the atmosphere here. It was the sound of cannon tests on the school field outside the city, which had not stopped completely for the whole day.
Zhang Ning said casually: The Weapon Bureau is testing the cannon, which may have disturbed the mother's mood.
Yao Ji chuckled softly, shook her head again, and said nothing.
After a while, she put down the cup and saw a red lips dyed on the edge of the white jade-like container.
This time, there are 80,000 people who are attacking us. Is there really a chance of winning?
Zhang Ning said: The cannon sound you heard just now is more powerful than the largest cannons cast by the government army. In addition, we also have powerful weapons such as collide guns, mortars, and mother-child guns.Zhu Butang also concluded that 10,000 Zhuque Army soldiers could fight 30,000 magnificently on the battle formation.We are planning this battle, and the situation is not too pessimistic, and there is a chance.Don't worry, Mother, I will do my best to win this crucial battle.
Whether good or bad, I can only rely on you.
Yao Ji sighed lightly, after a while she said again, but there is one thing that happened to be asked now. The Jinyiwei who caught him said that we may be familiar with the firearms from the sea, but I know that except for the prince, you have no way to go on the sea. How did you build it?
The scene was actually very boring. It took a long time to fire. After the shooting, the people in the Weapon Bureau had to check and record various situations, mainly to scrap some artillery that had internal injuries after filling the medicine and the gun barrel wall after test-firing.
So Zhang Ning and others looked at it for a while and then went up the Beicheng City Tower.
The cannon sounded occasionally, because this situation occurred from time to time. The officials and people in Changde City seemed to have become accustomed to it. Looking down from the city tower, the people on the street were still busy with their own affairs.
Looking at the abortion, you can imagine that people may say and set off fire again when they meet and greet.
It's Ah, or is it thunder?
The artillery currently tested is neither a mortar cannon for siege or a light mother gun, but a long-barrel field cannon, weighing more than one thousand kilograms; this is truly a heavy weapon in the Ming Dynasty, and by weight, it can be compared with the general of the Tianzi supervised in the late Yongle period.
Field long cannons mainly fire solid bombs, and can also be loaded with loose bullets and explosive bombs. The weight of solid bombs is between three and a half kilograms and four kilograms; as the use time increases, the diameter of the shells will also increase, because the barrel will extend and expand and become larger.
At present, this batch of artillery is a finished product after multiple tests and transformations. At first, because the cost budget is considered, the Weapon Bureau casts it with iron according to Zhang Ning's wishes. Unexpectedly, the scrapping rate is extremely high. In order not to explode the chamber, it can only continuously increase the thickness of the pipe wall. It is bulky and difficult to use, and the cost may not be reduced much. Later, the iron copper core casting method was improved and hollow cooling technology was used, which improved the performance of the first long-barrel cannon equipped by the Suzaku Army.
Its maximum range is more than two miles, and its effective flat range is about one and a half miles.
This heavy weapon, mainly field combat, is completely different from the mortar cannon projectile. The length of the gun body is twenty times that of the caliber, and the shell has extremely high initial velocity and penetration power.
The main way of attack is to bounce on harder ground, pierce through an infantry phalanx without any pressure, and it is not exaggerated to write that one shot is decayed for hundreds of steps in the official document.
Zhang Ning believed that he had the weapons that were absolutely superior to this era. There was a difference between the long-barrel heavy artillery and the rough cast cannons used by the Ming army. The barrel casting and inner chamber polishing technology are not something that others can possess in a short time.
What he wants now is a group of young officers who are capable of reading, literacy and understanding techniques and tactics, but it is difficult to attract enough talents in the territory he currently occupies. Moreover, most young people with family conditions are looking at the path of imperial examinations, and there are very few people who are willing to follow him, a rebel; only those bankrupt and refugees are most likely to get it, but they are really unbearable to use. Most of them are malnutrition and weak, and even ordinary soldiers are not qualified.
Zhang Ning silently stared at the city under his feet, buildings, courtyards, rivers, bridges, and the people in it were all under his power.
Suddenly he felt that he was a king, and he could do whatever he wanted in his territory, and he wanted to change, create, destroy, and do whatever he wanted.
Zhu Heng, who was accompanying him, faintly felt ambition in his eyes.
At this time, Zhang Ning turned around and asked Zhu Heng: The opportunity Zhu Butang mentioned in the official office in the morning, how to judge the best time to attack the Southern Route Army?
The heavy troops gathered by the government in Huguang have made Zhang Ning feel like a hint of trouble. Those people want to destroy everything he gets, and Zhang Ning also dreams of destroying it.
Now that he saw all the power of his army and artillery, he had long been looking forward to the arrival of that day.
Zhu Heng replied: The capital of Changsha Prefecture is east of the Xiangshui River. The wide surface of the Xiangshui River is not conducive to the crossing of the army. We must wait until the southern army of Changsha Prefecture crosses the Xiangshui River before taking action. We cannot expose our intentions before.Moreover, the terrain of the water network near the Xiang River is complex, which affects the speed of the raid. The best time is that when the Southern Army has completely left the Xiang River Basin and is preparing to advance towards Chenzhou, we will then go south and take its camp.Even if we fail to destroy this army, as long as we defeat it so that we cannot attack long distances into the battlefield in a short time, our goal has been achieved.
Zhang Ning has not fully agreed with this plan, but the situation is pressing, and I am afraid that there will be no better way.
Yu Qian's face couldn't help but appear in his mind. It was what he looked like a few years ago. Now that he is a little older, maybe it may have changed a little.
What would Yu Qian, the governor of Huguang, think?
In his previous life's thinking, Yu Qian was a more famous figure than the current emperor, so Zhang Ning never thought of underestimating the enemy...
In the past, the Xuande Emperor Zhang Ning had almost never known anyone. There was only one Xuande furnace that seemed to have heard of. Perhaps because Xuande dynasty had nothing to do in history, the emperor was not famous. It was not until now that Zhang Ning knew that this unknown emperor's ability seemed to be much more inconvenient than the famous Yu Qian. The difference is that he didn't live that long.
Yu Qian seems to be not over 30 years old and has reached the level of a senior member of the Ministry and the governor. He is not a second-generation relative of the royal family and nobles. He even has a little brain to think that such people are difficult to deal with.
Zhang Ning pondered for a long time and said: Maybe the government can judge that we will not divide our troops and resist the enemy. If they want to take advantage of the situation, they will first let the Northern Army give us enough pressure, restrain the main force, and then transfer the southern army to advance westward.
Zhu Hengdao: What the prince said is very true, but the attack from Changsha and the attack on Chenzhou is more than 600 miles long. The official army must be arranged in advance and the north and south roads are attacking together.If we have to wait for the Northern Army to fight with us and the Southern Army to start mobilizing, it will be too late. It is equivalent to the Northern Army facing us alone. The Southern Army has almost no effect in this battle, just like wasting troops.We don’t have to wait until the southern road enters Chenzhou before starting. As soon as they leave Changsha Prefecture, they will lead their troops south.
Zhang Ning nodded slightly: Let’s prepare this plan for the time being, and then observe the news reported by the horses everywhere. If the situation changes, then make plans.
The two of them said a while in the city tower. When the time was just right, Zhang Ning had to go home early because today was another good day for him, marrying Wenjun from the Xu family.
There is a reason why he is still handling official duties on such days, because the customs and rules do not require a ceremony except for a wedding, and generally they cannot have a big banquet. This rule is probably to save gifts from the world, otherwise you will hold weddings every few days, and relatives and friends come to get few gifts and can't take them out. How can everyone bear it?
Therefore, everyone can only hold a big wedding once in their life. If there is already a wedding, even if Xu Xian marrys a wife, he must act in a low-key manner. At worst, after getting married, friends will come and congratulate you.
In fact, it is not a big deal for ordinary people to take concubines at all. The difference between concubines and maids is not very big. They can be traded and have no legal status at all.
However, since Zhang Ning is the Xiang King officially enthroned by Jianwenjun, there is a big difference between the second concubine and the concubine of ordinary people. If you want to say that the king appointed by Emperor Jianwen is useless, it depends on where it is, it is useful in the places controlled by Jianwen and his system.
In the eyes of the world, the emperor and the prince seem to have three heads and six arms, and cannot be judged by common sense. It is very reasonable for the prince to have a concubine or a few more concubines.
The concubines except the official concubine are also respected by others. Just as the imperial concubines in the palace are not as noble as the queen, they are as noble as the queen, so Lao Xu's identity will be improved; otherwise, if his granddaughter is just a powerful concubine, there is no glory.
After Zhang Ning returned home, he remembered something. Not long ago, someone mentioned in front of him that Lao Xu seemed to have contact with women in the city, and was worried that there would be problems with people like Lao Xu who went privately.
However, Zhang Ning felt relieved. When Zhang Ning was an official, Lao Xu followed the leader of a secret spy, and now he is in charge of the newly established Guard Bureau, and he is all in charge of the intelligence yamen. He is not so easy to be fooled.
Perhaps Lao Xu felt that he was now developed and it was a pity that he had no descendants, and his granddaughter could not inherit the Xu family's incense, so what did he think?I don't know if he has that ability.
Zhang Ning is not in the mood to ask about these tragic things of his subordinates now. People of Lao Xu have no hope, and it is a good thing to have some wishes.
He once again felt that it was right to hand over the power to Zhu Heng, and Lao Xu could not take on such a heavy responsibility at all.
There was no atmosphere in the garden, but the servants and maids wore red festive clothes, showing that they were some special days today.Zhang Ning went to Yao Ji's place first.
Yao Ji was drinking tea in the open and ventilated pavilion. The tea she drank was not made from tea leaves. The water was white and clear and had a fragrance. It was probably a kind of health-care object with flowers and plants.
After meeting, she gently reminded her: Don’t meet Erniang today. She came to pay her respects in the morning. I said something to her, probably it worked.
Zhang Ning said politely: Fortunately, my mother is in charge of family affairs.
It was very quiet here, as if outside the world, Yao Ji's expression was also leisurely and calm. Her movements of picking up the exquisite cup on the stone table were elegant and gentle, which made people pleasing to the eye.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, a rumbling cannon sound broke the atmosphere here. It was the sound of cannon tests on the school field outside the city, which had not stopped completely for the whole day.
Zhang Ning said casually: The Weapon Bureau is testing the cannon, which may have disturbed the mother's mood.
Yao Ji chuckled softly, shook her head again, and said nothing.
After a while, she put down the cup and saw a red lips dyed on the edge of the white jade-like container.
This time, there are 80,000 people who are attacking us. Is there really a chance of winning?
Zhang Ning said: The cannon sound you heard just now is more powerful than the largest cannons cast by the government army. In addition, we also have powerful weapons such as collide guns, mortars, and mother-child guns.Zhu Butang also concluded that 10,000 Zhuque Army soldiers could fight 30,000 magnificently on the battle formation.We are planning this battle, and the situation is not too pessimistic, and there is a chance.Don't worry, Mother, I will do my best to win this crucial battle.
Whether good or bad, I can only rely on you.
Yao Ji sighed lightly, after a while she said again, but there is one thing that happened to be asked now. The Jinyiwei who caught him said that we may be familiar with the firearms from the sea, but I know that except for the prince, you have no way to go on the sea. How did you build it?
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