Chapter 394
There is one thing that even Liu Mingyu himself did not expect.
In the original historical time and space, due to the Denglai Rebellion, Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Shandong, wanted to recruit pacify, but missed the opportunity due to various constraints. As a result, Kong Youde outside the city colluded with Geng Zhongming in the city and rushed into the city. Sun Yuanhua was taken by the rebels and failed to commit suicide.
He refused the rebels' plan to support him as king, left Dengzhou and entered Beijing, was arrested and imprisoned, and was eventually killed. In fact, the author believes that he is actually not to be jealous of death. He is not unfair at all. Like Yuan Chonghuan, he has a way to die.
As the saying goes, the result is purely a hooligan. However, it is undeniable that Sun Yuanhua's death affected the historical process: Xu Guangqi failed to save students and was discouraged. From then on, he bid farewell to the military and died soon afterwards. The artillery-making talents in the Ming Dynasty were exhausted and weapons reform suffered heavy damage. It can be said that Sun Yuanhua's death represented Western military experts sending out of the Ming Dynasty's army.
However, Jiannu became the big winner: seven months after Sun Yuanhua's death, Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming were unable to gain a foothold in Shandong, so they crossed the sea to the Later Jin Dynasty, bringing more than 13,000 people and hundreds of ships. The most important thing is a large number of Western artillery and skilled firearms.
The defection of this most elite firearm unit of the Ming Dynasty caused a huge change in the military power comparison between the Ming and Jin Dynasties.
When Sun Yuanhua was stationed in Dengzhou (now Penglai, Shandong), he valued the Liao people, but the Shandong people excluded these foreign households everywhere. When Kong Youde led his troops to go to war, he encountered a closed-door suspension along the way, and the Liao soldiers were frozen and hungry all the way.
When they arrived at Wuqiao, a very hungry soldier snatched a chicken from the servant of Wang Xiangchun, a prominent family clan in Shandong. The servants came to the door with their power. Kong Youde stole the chicken and "passed through arrows and went to the camp". The long-suppressed anger of the Liao soldiers was ignited, and they beat the domineering servant to death with a punch. Kong Youde panicked and wanted to spend money. At this time, the crowd was in aroused, and the soldiers were about to mutiny, and both sides needed to calm down.
But Wang Xiangchun's son became even more domineering and refused to let go. Kong Youde was desperate and was instigated by others. He became angry and became brave and led the riots to destroy the Wang family.
The rebels turned against each other and returned to Dengzhou, and the matter became more and more serious. However, at the beginning of the mutiny, Kong Youde did not want to rebel, but Sun Yuanhua also insisted on resolving the mutiny in a peaceful manner and tried to recruit pacify. Unfortunately, he wanted to appease, but his colleagues from Shandong wanted to take the opportunity to destroy the Liao army.
Because Kong Youde's rebels had a large number of firearms, the Ming army in Shandong was no match for them. They were still waiting for the revenge, but in the end they waited for the news of Sun Yuanhua's death. They lost their last hope and decided to be an enemy of the Ming Dynasty. The situation was completely out of control.
The biggest difference from history is that in this rebellion, he did not get captured in the beginning of history, nor did he flee to Beijing. When Kong Youde attacked Jinan City, Sun Yuanhua and Zhu Wannian were captured together. Then Kong Youde's rebels, including Sun Yuanhua, became prisoners of the Liu family army. At that time, the Liu family army captured more than 200,000 people, so Sun Yuanhua was deported to Daning.
Because he understood technology, he actually got into the Guns and Cannon Bureau. As a technician, Sun Yuanhua was a fool as an official, but he still had two tricks in technical management. Especially Sun Yuanhua, according to the Thunder Cannon of Liu Family Army, the biggest weakness of the Thunder Cannon is that its effective range is too close.
Since the effective killing range is only more than 150 steps, the Thunder Cannon is completely different from the machine guns of later generations. It can only be used as a weapon on the defense line and cannot cover the infantry's attack.
Therefore, the Thunder Cannon equipped by the Liu family army is actually not the main equipment, nor is it transferred to the company level, but is used as a regiment-level support firepower.
After arriving at the Daning Guns and Cannon Bureau, Sun Yuanhua participated in the improvement and development team of the Guns and Cannon Bureau. As the saying goes, the butt determines the head, and the head determines the thinking. As the former governor of Denglai, Sun Yuanhua's first step was to summon many craftsmen, some of whom could make rockets with hundreds of tigers.
This is actually one of the standard weapons of the Ming Dynasty. It has a rocket of 100 units, but its range and power make Liu Ming dissatisfied with it. This kind of equipment is not equipped in the Liu family army. There is also a kind of equipment called the Divine Fire Flying Crow, which is somewhat similar to the iron fist rocket launcher in later generations.
Relying on gunpowder to boost, it can be launched to more than 100 to 200 steps. Although it has two wings similar to crows' wings, its stability is not good. Liu Mingyu also has no production or equipment.
Sun Yuanhua used the skills of these craftsmen to combine the 2000 tigers, the flying crows of the Divine Fire, including the flowering bullets produced by the Liu family army, as well as the various advantages and disadvantages of the Thunder Cannon, and produced the 20-point of the Thunder Cannon.
When Liu Mingyu saw this improved Thunderbolt cannon, he saw that it was the same two-wheeled cart. There was no bottom of the carriage on the carriage, but just a lonely wheel with twelve iron pipes on it.
When Liu Mingyu saw this moment, he was shocked and sweated.
The appearance of this thing is really too similar to the 107 in later generations. If the tires are replaced with rubber tires, it can be said to be exactly the same.
"Is this the Thunder Cannon you invented?"
"Yes, the sound is like thunder, and the sound is like lightning!"
Sun Yuanhua looked at Liu Mingyu and said, "If the Marquis doesn't believe it, you can try it!"
"All right!"
Liu Mingyu said, "Try it!"
Sun Yuanhua said: "Let's start!"
As a craftsman ignited the fuse with the torch, the thick guide made a hissing sound, and a fluffy explosion sounded. Under the force of gunpowder, rumbling and flying towards the distance, white smoke filled the cannon position, which was terrifying. Liu Mingyu hurriedly and a group of military experts picked up the telescope early and stared at the distance.
The rocket shells flew over the target and kept flying forward. As the booster gunpowder burned out, the fuse of the second-stage rocket was ignited again. The rocket shells flew for five or six miles before falling reluctantly, turning into a ball of orange-red fireball, the sound was like thunder and shrapnel splashing, which was extremely spectacular.
Liu Mingyu nodded slightly: "Look at the killing effect!"
After half a day of patrol, the people guarding the shooting range came to report with a pile of broken shrapnel: "A total of more than 650 shrapnel were collected, and the ants were not present within 25 meters of radius, and the farthest killing radius of shrapnel was 67 meters!"
"The radius is twenty-five meters, which is nearly two thousand square meters. If this gun just now fell into the big array, at least one of Jiannu's Niulu would have to be destroyed?"
The most important thing is that this rocket launcher has a very fast range, and the launch method can be regarded as a string of firecrackers, a fuse, and twelve rocket launchers, which can be launched within ten breaths.
Ge Chuanfu glared at Sun Yuanhua fiercely: "A prodigal!"
Liu Mingyu looked at Sun Yuanhua and said, "How much does it cost?"
"Each piece costs about thirty taels of silver!"
"What?"
Liu Mingyu was stunned: "This guy just now only cost 480 taels of silver?"
"That's right!"
This is simply a smashing person with money.
Sun Yuanhua also knew that the cost was a bit high and hurriedly explained: "If the Marquis wants to build one thousand vehicles, the cost can be reduced!"
One thousand taels? A volley is 480,000 taels of silver?
Ge Chuanfu said a little annoyed: "Old Sun, there is no such thing as you! The fire cotton used as nitrification brocade, the cleverly designed fuses, and the special high-explosive nitrification cotton loaded inside, are all money! Even the shell is valuable! The money for making such a shell can make one hundred solid lead bullets!"
"But one hundred lead bombs are not as lethal as one of our shells. If we had made such bombs earlier, Kong Youde would not have thought of making any waves in Shandong!"
Chapter completed!