Chapter 856 News About Wang Ying

Jinling.

After Zhao Xu decided to launch a decisive battle against the powerful clan, preparations for the war were in full swing.

On this day, he, Chang Wei, Qin Shan, Guantong and other generals gathered in front of a sand table.

This sand table covers the entire Jiangnan Prefecture, counties and mountains and rivers.

When he went south for inspection, Chang Wei and others were not idle.

I have been simulating the next war with the general.

"During this period, thanks to our propaganda, people in the south of the Yangtze River generally have a favorable impression of the north of the Yangtze River. Coupled with the excessive taxation and extortion by the powerful clans, they are even more looking forward to our arrival. The folk foundation has been laid, and the people in these prefectures and counties will be our help." Chang Chang Wei said slowly.

After a pause, he pointed the teaching pole in his hand at Jiangzhou, "During this period, many poor people in Jiangzhou, unable to bear the heavy corvee, fled from Jiangzhou to the three southeastern states. At the same time, due to the division of land among the three southeastern states, When the news reached Jiangzhou, it changed the minds of the people. Therefore, if the general believes that the people's support is available, he does not need to worry about food and grass, and he can destroy the powerful armies of Jiangzhou, Yuezhou, and Xiangzhou. "

Zhao Xu nodded. With the support of the people, supplies can be obtained from the location of the war.

The common people will even be willing to take on the task of transporting grain and grass to help them destroy the remaining powerful clan forces as soon as possible and live a life like the three southeastern states.

"Currently, the powerful tribes' armies are mainly entrenched in Jiangzhou, Bazhou, Yizhou, Yunzhou and Xiangzhou. As for Yuezhou and Guizhou, their defenses are weak. I think that we only need to send 10,000 people to sweep away the wealthy tribes in the two states. " Zhao Xu said, "Because we are going straight to Bazhou, the powerful people must not be willing to send troops to rescue.

"Your Highness is absolutely right." Chang Wei and others nodded.

According to the feedback of the soldiers of the Third Army who returned, Yuezhou and Guizhou were quite barren. The private soldiers of the wealthy families in the two states basically still used swords. The slightly better ones were just matchlock guns.

It is easy to clear them out. There is no need to include the two states as the focus of the attack, just treat them as suppressing bandits.

"However, just in case, we still need to stockpile some food and grass in the border cities of Zhezhou and Jiangzhou to avoid accidents." Zhao Xu said.

After thinking for a while, he looked to the west and said, "I will give you three days to prepare, and then lead the army to march to Jiangzhou, penetrate Jiangzhou and Xiangzhou, and approach Bazhou. I will order the navy to support you along Jiujiang."

"Yes, Your Highness." Chang Wei and the generals said loudly.

They have been waiting impatiently for a long time. The small powerful clan has been wreaking havoc for so long, and it's time for a battle to settle the matter.

While the group was talking, a soldier came in a hurry and presented a letter to Zhao Xu, "Your Highness, this is a letter from Wang Ying, the chief of the War Department."

Zhao Xu took out the letter and glanced at it, with a smile on his lips.

"Wang Ying has sent us good news. The test firing of the breech-loading gun was successful." Zhao Xu said to everyone.

When Chang Wei and other generals heard this, they exchanged glances with each other, with joy on their faces.

"Great, after the breech-loading gun, there is the breech-loading gun. Our firearms are about to enter the breech-loading firearm stage." Chang Wei laughed.

"Indeed, but just like the Qin-style rifles, these breech-loaded cannons still need to be mass-produced, but we don't wait any longer. The war will continue as usual. In the future, we will let the Beidi and Xitu people taste the power of breech-loaded cannons first." Zhao Xu sneered.

For him, the current front-loading rifled guns are enough to deal with powerful people.

There is no need to waste time waiting for the breech-loading gun to be installed.

Because time is more important than breech-loading guns now.

He wanted to end the war with the powerful tribe as soon as possible and pointed his gun at the wolves surrounding Da Song.

Moreover, he has a deeper understanding of breech-loading cannons than Chang Wei and others.

The breech-loading gun actually appeared very early, but it was just being improved.

It is not as good as the Folang machine gun of the contemporary Ming Dynasty, which is a breech-loading gun.

But the disadvantages of breech-loading guns and breech-loading guns are the same, there is the problem of air leakage.

The use of breech-loaded guns was gradually promoted after industrial progress and the problem of air leakage were solved.

Its advantage mainly lies in the rate of fire, not in the power.

Compared with front-loading guns, breech-loading guns can be said to be rapid-fire guns.

So, here's the real value of the breech-loading cannon.

In the same period of time, the firepower of the breech-loading gun is as fierce as that of the Qin-style rifle.

He briefly talked about this matter, which made everyone happy, and ordered everyone to go back and prepare for the war.

Then he sent people to Jinghai and asked Zhou Yi to dispatch eight steamships and eight sail warships.

After he cleared the perimeter, he was ready to go upstream from Jiujiang and attack Bacheng.

After giving these instructions, Zhao Xu glanced at the breech paper drawn by Wang Ying in the letter.

Simply put, this is a screw breech-loading gun.

The tail of the gun is in the form of a bolt, with threads in the barrel, and a large bolt-like gun bolt is fixed on the wall of the gun.

When loading, unscrew the gun bolt, load the shell, and then screw on the gun bolt.

The most important issue with this structure is the strength of the gun bolt.

At present, only high-quality steel refined in a converter can ensure that the bolt of this screw cannon will not be broken during use, ensure a sufficient service life, and at the same time provide conditions for mass production.

As for the ignition method of this screw cannon, the Bingzhan Division has also mastered it. It is actually the matchlock method of the grenade.

Insert the fire tube into the ignition hole, penetrate the powder bag, and then you can fire with one pull.

The contemporary application of this cross-bolt screw cannon is the German Krupp cannon that appeared in the mid-19th century.

What the British invented during this period was another type of Armstrong artillery with a vertical wedge bolt. Its main structure was similar to a card, and it had to rely on a fuse to ignite.

As soon as this breech-loading cannon appeared, it was listed as a secret weapon prohibited from being sold abroad by Britain at that time.

In Dasong, his advantage was that he knew the development path of firearms in advance.

So he directly excluded the Armstrong-type cannon.

At the end of the letter, Wang Ying also asked him to give the cannon a proper name.

So he immediately wrote a letter back to Wang Ying, and at the same time included the breech-loading cannon in the Qin-style series and named it Qin-style cannon.

And asked him to put into production and develop a large-caliber breech-loading cannon for the naval gun version as soon as possible to equip it on the ironclad ships being developed.

At present, his warships have an advantage in the sea duel because of the muzzle-loading rifled guns and shrapnel shells.

But this advantage is like a muzzle-loading rifled gun, which is easy to be cracked and caught up by the opponent.

Moreover, facing the huge navy of the Western Land, this advantage will be partially offset.

But as long as the ironclad ships are equipped with large-caliber breech-loading cannons.

The Yanzhou Navy will officially open up the generation gap with the opponent.

No matter how many sailing warships they have, the Yanzhou Navy has nothing to worry about.

Once the era of ironclad ships arrives, the Yanzhou Navy will be invincible on the ocean.

The seas of the world will become the inner lakes of Dasong.

Dasong's trade will also extend to any place it wants to go along the trajectory of the warships.