Not only these craftsmen, but also Min Yuanqi himself, including Han Sen, who had just returned from Qinshan Island, the military officers who led the troops, and Zhu Wanchun.

Zhu Wanchun already knew that his family had been properly placed and felt more at ease. He had grasped the foundation of the Zhu family outside Huai'an for the time being. If it weren't for this, he would not be able to bring back these craftsmen and artillery.

Min Yuanqi had strong confidence in his heart. From his facial expressions, as well as his performance during the preparations for war these days, whether it was the Yanchi, the workshop, or the situation when setting up defenses, everyone saw that Min Yuanqi looked as usual and full of confidence.

Min Yuanqi is indeed quite confident, well arranged, the enemy's military situation is well known, the right time, place and people are in hand, and the enemy's situation is well understood, and the enemy's situation can be seen calmly and can be analyzed and dealt with calmly.

The so-called "knowing your own knowledge and then fighting" is nothing more than this?

On the other hand, the Shandong enemy side knew nothing about the situation at Yundi Pass, but was just a rash of energy. He took it for granted that this was just a small place that could be overturned in the blink of an eye, and it was a crushing force of a huge gap... Both sides were willing, and they both felt that only if they could win would a battle break out. There was no doubt that Min Yuanqi, who had known his own knowledge and analyzed the strength of the enemy and us, had more reason to trust that he would be the winning side.

"I've seen the general."

"Keep to the Lord."

The craftsmen did not show much timidity, and they might have seen many big names in Nanjing.

Not to mention anything else, the two places with the most powerful people in the world are one in the capital and the other is Nanjing.

There are many nobles under the Duke of Wei’s mansion in the city, guarding eunuchs and six ministers, and now there are new emperors and cabinets.

It is not unusual to throw a brick on the Nanjing city wall and knock down a red-robed official.

I have seen it for a long time, although I still hold politeness and respect, I do not have those expressions of fear.

"You are exempt from the gifts, and you don't have to kneel down after that." Min Yuanqixu helped everyone up, and then said, "The wages and treatment here are good. After you have been here, you will know that this official keeps his word. As long as you do your job well, you don't have to pay attention to the rest, and no one dares to bully you for nothing. Even if you have unique secret skills, as long as you take them out or be willing to take your apprentice, you can indeed improve the efficiency and power of armor, casting weapons, and making firearms, and there will be a unimaginable reward. When you settle down here, you will know slowly."

"I'll wait and thank you sir."

Amid the uneven thank-you voices, Min Yuanqi nodded with a smile and then stride forward.

These craftsmen have just arrived, so there is no need to say too much.

After staying there and gradually integrating into it, you will naturally understand that what you say is not false, and no matter how much you say now, it is useless.

However, the people transferred by Han Sen were unloading the ship's cargo, which made Min Yuanqi very interested.

Artillery, one cannon is gradually being displayed in front of Min Yuanqi's eyes.

After hearing the news, many military officers rushed over, including Min Yuanzhi, Min Yuanzhong, Min Yuanjin, Yang Zaijin, Gao Cuncheng, Xie Xiang, Shen Liang and others.

Even though most people come from the Jiangmen family, it is the first time for them to see so many artillery at such a close distance.

Even if it is outdated and not valued by Jiubian and the imperial court, this thing is not everyone who has the opportunity to watch the details at close range or even touch it with his hands.

This thing is a powerful weapon for the military and nationality. Even if there are red cannons in this era, this kind of Folang machine cannon still has a certain status, and its lethality can be regarded as a killing weapon.

With female cannons, child guns, and cannon stands, the total weight of each cannon is about 600 to 700 kilograms.

This weight makes the unloader a group of about ten people, separate the cannons, tie them with ropes, and then carry them out of the boat tremblingly.

After moving down, these Folang machine cannons were restored one by one. Thirty cannons were arranged neatly, and the black holes were aimed at everyone in front of them. Even if there were no members of the gun crew to operate the cannon, it still gave people a strong sense of oppression and threat.

Min Yuanqi walked to a Folang machine cannon, squatted down and looked carefully.

He has seen this kind of artillery in several military museums in later generations, including the old city walls of Nanjing.

At that time, I just looked at it with a curiosity. After all, the artillery we watched at that time had a history of hundreds of years. Compared with the artillery in World War I and World War II, the craftsmanship was primitive and rough, and there was no place to study except for years.

Now, when these cannons were presented to Min Yuanqi, he still felt the beauty of craftsmanship.

This thing is just a mud mold method or a wax loss method. The gun barrel looks very new and polished quite smoothly. The gun ears, gun barrels, sight lines and other accessories are all available.

Even the gun mount under the gun barrel is carefully made, and the gun barrel can be mobilized to calibrate the distance, which is much stronger than the original blocks of the general artillery used by the Ming army.

The barrel is more than one meter long, thin in front and thick in the back. Looking inside from the muzzle, there is a clear spinning boring line.

The tail of the body tube is obviously thick and can be opened.

After Min Yuanqi opened it, a craftsman brought a cannonball-like sub-gun, skillfully put it into the mother gun, then closed the tailgate and pressed it as tight as possible.

Even if the craftsman is very skillful and presses tightly, there are still obvious gaps at the tail of the barrel that can be seen by the naked eye.

This is the characteristic of the Furang machine cannon. The sub-gun can be loaded in advance. After the cannon is ignited, the projectiles in the sub-gun can be fired. In this way, multiple sub-gun cannons can be loaded in advance, and the speed of the shooting on the battlefield will be very fast.

The disadvantage is that the air-locking nature is insufficient, and the disadvantages are quite obvious when it comes to Red Cannons with a range of more than 1,000 meters.

The effective range is only 200 or 300 steps, which is much further than the musket and is much worse than the Red Cannon.

However, Min Yuanqi was still extremely satisfied. With the firearms fighting in this era, don’t expect the scene of hundreds of cannons. When Duoduo went south, the Qing army’s artillery was still on the way, and the daylily was cold when the cannons rushed over.

It is Gustav who really uses artillery well and reduces the scale. The integration of artillery and artillery mounts, and acts with ammunition trucks, greatly increasing mobility and using it on a large scale in field battles is still the thing that Gustav has done.

If you use the use of large-scale artillery to concentrate on the position and use concentrated fire to cross the enemy, it will have to wait for the Napoleon era.

In this era, the mobility, gunpowder performance, and the casting process of the artillery itself are not up to standard. It is still nearly two hundred years before the Napoleon bronze cannon era. Although the Folang machine cannon in front of me is relatively primitive, it is used on the current battlefield. No matter the weight, power, and maneuverability, these things are enough to make up for the shortcomings of insufficient power range.

There are also engravings above the barrel. These Folang machine cannons in front of you were cast around the 41st year of Wanli. For these artillery that have not been fired, it is not impossible to regard them as new cannons.

Min Yuanjin was jealous of the eyes, took a step forward, and said, "Do you want to try it?"

Yang Zhijin, Gao Cuncheng and others all looked at it, and they were very concerned about this artillery.

Min Yuanqi looked at everyone and smiled and said, "Just try it once, but there is a saying that these artillery must be used in a centralized manner and will not be placed in each department or the General Office of the Hundred and 1000 General Offices. At most, they will be handed over to the Thousand Headquarters for use."

There were two thousand headquarters, one led by Min Yuanjin, and the other was Gao Cuncheng. However, everyone was not in a hurry. The first small flag military officers who followed would each receive one thousand chief sooner or later.

Some people even feel vaguely that they can lead a battalion in the future.

With these thousands of elite soldiers as the foundation, Min Yuanqi has enough money and food. If Liu Zeqing's method of expanding the army can expand to 30,000 people in half a year, let alone a thousand headquarters, it would not be impossible for each to lead one or two battalions.

"I'll do it." Chen Liang took the initiative and strode forward, clasped his fists at Min Yuanqi and said, "Please let me give it a try."

"Of course it's you." Min Yuanqi said to Chen Liang: "Pick some clever ones from the gun, and then some bold ones, and finally some strong ones. Each cannon uses six people. What do you think?"

"Is there a lot of six?" Chen Liang said: "When I was in Dengzhou, I could use two people to make a cannon. When I needed it, I could carry the cannon and run. The other person would follow me with the medicine. The Folang machine used four people, three horses or three mules, one mule to pull the medicine, the other mule to pull the cannon barrel, and one mule to pull the cannon stand. Some pieces of things were carried by people. This was the gun crew of the Folang machine gun that Lord Sun had learned from the words of the Folang machine gun. In fact, this cannon was placed on the top of the city in the Ming Dynasty, just like the red cannon. The Folang machine gun said that the cannon should be used on the battlefield, so we practiced our energy, but later it was useless. Even those Folang machine guns were dead. Those who were not dead either escaped or were carried to Liaodong."

Chen Liang's face was also a little gloomy. Sun Yuanhua's pure firearms training in Dengzhou was also very exciting. There were more than 300 Portuguese mercenaries alone, and many Portuguese were instructors in Dengzhou army.

Queues, shootings, muskets and cannons were trained according to the rules of the Portuguese.

At that time, the senior leaders of the Ming army and the Ming Dynasty felt that these barbarians were more sharp using firearms. After suffering repeated losses in Liaodong, some court officials suggested that the court spend a lot of money to hire a large number of Western barbarians to fight in Liaodong.

The Portuguese, the Spanish, and the Dutch were very interested in being mercenaries, but the one who the court trusted the most was the Portuguese.

At that time, preliminary contact had been made. The court planned to hire thousands of Portuguese people, but this matter was not done.

This was also discussed during the Southern Ming Dynasty, and the Portuguese were also very interested. In their eyes, the Ming Dynasty was still a civilized country and should not be trapped by the barbarians who used bows and arrows.

Unfortunately, it was not successful later due to various reasons, but judging from various signs, in the late Ming Dynasty, both the court and the army were still relatively close and trusted in the Portuguese.

Perhaps the Portuguese settled in Macau during the Jiajing period, and later created a considerable miracle in Shuangyu and Jiangsu and Zhejiang maritime merchants.

If it weren't for the Meng Lang's killing during the Jiajing period, the maritime trade situation in the Ming Dynasty might have been much more prosperous than it is now.

The disaster of Japanese pirates during the Jiajing period was actually a big trouble caused by Jiajing and local banned sea hardliners. Originally, a large number of maritime merchants gathered from Shuangyu to Fujian's ports and islands. In order to maintain maritime order, marine merchants such as Wang Zhi would also take the initiative to wipe out those small pirates who did not abide by the rules and real Japanese pirates.

As a result, Jiajing insisted on strictly prohibiting the ban and sent officers and soldiers to gather a large number of maritime merchants to suppress a bloody river. Many of the Portuguese died, and the maritime merchants in the Ming Dynasty were even more injured.

After this battle, a large number of maritime merchants turned into pirates, began to nuisance along the coast, and even summoned Japanese ronin to go deep into the Ming Dynasty to burn, kill and loot.

After many years of chaos, relying on Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou and other good generals, they only wiped out the surface. If it weren’t for the opening of Yuegang first and the expansion of the scale of maritime trade in Longqing Wanli, the so-called Japanese pirate chaos would not have been completely quelled.
Chapter completed!