Chapter 1438 Perpetual Calendar Rifle

When Ao Bai was reorganizing his troops and preparing to conquer the south.

Han Yu was not idle either, he was also actively preparing.

In addition to dividing farmland and tax exemptions in the three occupied provinces and promoting compulsory education, they also recruited good men and women and expanded their army.

He expanded his grenadier regiment to twenty regiments, and the total number of troops expanded to 200,000.

The generals of these newly formed legions are all promoted from the outstanding soldiers of the first legion. Their basic loyalty and combat effectiveness are still guaranteed.

With such a large army, Han Yu initially had the capital to dominate the world.

In addition to the expansion of the army, Han Yu also contacted Frankie merchants through the port and directly bought all their warships and artillery. He also ordered a large number of warships and artillery. As long as they could be shipped, Han Yu would Can be purchased.

After hearing the price given by Han Yu, those Frankie merchants immediately returned home happily and tried to bring back more ships.

They believe that as long as they complete this business, they can earn enough money to last several lifetimes, and they will never have to worry about money in the future.

Looking at the Frankie businessman leaving happily, Han Yu showed a sneer on his lips.

It is more troublesome to build a ship at this time. If you build it with new wooden boards, although the newly built ship will fit perfectly, after a while, after the water in the wooden boards is evaporated, gaps will be left. Some boards will even deform, and the ship will be damaged. Risk of sinking.

Therefore, the planks used to make ships need to be dried in the shade for several years before the ship can be built.

During this period, the number of ships available was fixed, and it did not mean that you could build as many ships as you wanted.

If Han Yu has one more ship, others will have one less ship. It will take several years to make up for it.

This reduced the difficulty for Han Yu to compete for world hegemony.

Anyway, he ransacked the homes of officials in three provinces, and the silver in his hands was enough to achieve his goal.

In addition to purchasing, Han Yu directly occupied all the shipyards in Guangdong and Guangxi, allowing these shipyards to produce large ships, recruit sailors, and train the navy to prepare for future goals.

In fact, Han Yu didn't care much about these wooden sailboats. His real goal was to make some iron-clad steam sailboats.

With this thing, the speed of the ship can be greatly increased, and more and larger-caliber artillery can be equipped.

It's just that the power system has not been conquered for a while, and it only stays at the paper stage.

In addition to preparing for war, Han Yu also did not forget his purpose in this world, which was to practice magic.

When he was practicing magic, he constructed a steam engine through continuous practice.

Then, he used this steam engine as a mother machine and gave it to craftsmen to disassemble and study, and then reproduced the mother machine.

At this time, the machinery was not very complex and it was easy to reproduce.

After those craftsmen studied and understood it, they spent a month and made hundreds of replicas.

Then, under Han Yu's guidance, these machines worked hard to produce a rifle newly "invented" by Han Yu.

The rifle "invented" by Han Yu is a copy of the Xia Sepo rifle. This rifle is a bolt-action rifle with four riflings, breech loading, and fixed bullets.

The bullets use paper-cased fixed bullets.

Not using metal cartridge cases is not because Han Yu does not know the benefits of metal cartridge cases, nor does it mean that the craftsmanship is not up to par.

It was entirely because of the lack of copper in the Ming Dynasty.

This problem was not solved until later generations, and only steel-cased bullets could be used.

However, the paper-cased fixed-loading ammunition is not as bad as imagined.

The effective range of this rifle reaches an astonishing 800 meters, and its accuracy is also very high.

After process modification, the paper shell burned relatively thoroughly in the magazine.

Except for not being able to fire continuously, the rest of the effects are pretty good.

In addition to its excellent performance, the most prominent feature of this gun is that it is equipped with a 72 cm long bayonet.

This bayonet is already longer than many short swords.

After being attached to the gun, the length of the rifle reaches two meters, and it can be used as a spear.

This gun, in this era where matchlocks and muzzle-loading smoothbore cannons are king, can be said to be a dimensionality reduction strike that can sweep all old weapons into the trash heap of history.

Because this gun was "invented" and manufactured during the Yongli period, Han Yu named this gun the Yongli rifle.

With the issuance of Yongli rifles, the combat effectiveness of Han Yu's Grenadier Regiment has doubled exponentially.

After being issued with rifles, Han Yu began to train the soldiers to use skirmish lines and three-three system teams to attack.

In the age of matchlocks, in order to ensure the power and accuracy of the muskets, the musketeers often had to advance to a distance of twenty or thirty meters from the enemy before starting to attack.

Moreover, dense formations are also easy targets for enemy artillery fire, which in disguise increases the lethality of enemy artillery.

After the soldiers with rifled guns were transformed into skirmishers, their lethality increased due to the increase in accuracy, and the loose formation also reduced the lethality of enemy artillery and matchlocks, which could be said to be a crushing blow to the army of this era. pressure.

"With this kind of army, why not worry about conquering the world?"

Han Yu thought as he looked at the legions training seriously on the school field.

At this time, a messenger ran in.

"Your Highness, Oboi has led an army to Chenzhou."

"Arrived at the border?"

Han Yu raised his eyebrows.

"Very good. My army has just been training for a while. It's still a little bit behind just relying on training. It still needs actual combat training."

"How many people did Obai bring?"

Han Yu asked.

"Obai took the Eight Banners of Manchu, Mongolian and Han with him, totaling 100,000 people."

"It's only 100,000 people. It's too arrogant."

Han Yu snorted coldly.

"I won't bully him, so I will lead three legions. Let's see who is more powerful, his Eight Banners Army or my Grenadier Regiment."

"The army sets off!"

Han Yu issued the order.

The first, third, and seventh grenadier regiments walked towards the outside of the school grounds, pulling various carriages towards Chenzhou.

A few days later.

Obai led one hundred thousand Manchu, Mongolian and Han Eight Banners to gallop forward.

The procession stretched for miles.

Obai looked at the troops with bright armor and nodded with satisfaction. With such an army, what kind of enemy cannot be defeated?

"General, Guangdong Province is ahead." A deputy general said.

"finally reached."

Obai licked his lips: "Go ahead and inform us that there is a town controlled by thieves ahead. After taking it, we will not seal it for three days!"

After the order was passed, the spirit of the whole army was lifted.

They walked for dozens of days, all the way from the capital, to Guangdong Province for what?

Isn't it just to grab some money and go back and enjoy it?

Now, finally here, everyone involuntarily tidied up their armor and prepared to show off their talents.

At this moment, a scout horse came in front of Obai.

"General, a thief's camp has been discovered ahead!"