New Ming Empire mixed in America

Muyang dog has always been one of the dogs that Li Mingqi dislikes, second only to Mo. But it is also ahead of Yiyi dog and Hahan dog.

Therefore, Li Mingqi personally gave instructions to send Yang Yongyuan out of the country and put him on the entry blacklist forever.

So Yang Yongyuan was thrown onto a merchant ship out to sea overnight. In order to bid farewell with tears to the soldiers of the National Defense Force who came to see him off, he tied himself to the mast and vividly described what it means to be in a fishy situation between the military and civilians.

Only two of the three talents recommended by Liu Youcai were left, which made Lao Liu depressed for a long time.

However, after seeing Yang Yongyuan happily being sent out of the country with gifts, the only two people left became the mayor with peace of mind.

One became the mayor of Xinming Town, and the other became the mayor of Qingren Street Town. His immediate boss was Liu Youcai.

The first thing they had to do was to work with Liu Youcai, his son and Sun Laifu to formulate laws unique to the Xinming Empire based on several legal books provided by Li Mingqi.

And Li Mingqi also has his own work to do, which is to go to the Foxconn factory to test-fire the artillery.

Most workers at Foxconn today are engaged in assembling bullets.

The bullet casings were produced by Zhang Yu and others from the Royal Research Institute using a stamping machine.

Foxconn workers are responsible for making gunpowder, loading bullets with gunpowder, installing warheads, and affixing flash caps.

The artillery that Li Mingqi was invited to test-fire this time was the first M1857 12-pound field gun they copied.

This field gun has a barrel length of 66 inches (1.676 meters), a caliber of 117mm, and a barrel weight of 1,227 pounds (556.57 kilograms).

The diameter of the left and right wheels is 57 inches (1.45 meters), and the total weight (gun body, gun mount plus wheels) weighs 2445 pounds (1109 kilograms).

The total gun combination (the whole gun plus the front trailer and the attached ammunition box) weighs 3865 pounds (approximately 1750 kilograms). (from Du Niang) (range as shown in the picture)

These are not the most critical, the most critical thing is that this is the first artillery piece that Chinese blacksmiths participated in the entire production process.

Zhang Yu and others hoped to take this opportunity to build cannons and learn more about foreign techniques.

But later I discovered that except for a few engineers, the skills of these white-skinned workers were just like that.

After Li Mingqi arrived at the test site, the test firing team had prepared the artillery and corresponding artillery shells.

The loading of this kind of front-loaded smoothbore gun is very simple. Several members of the test firing group quickly completed the loading, and handed the specially lengthened match rope that used to pull the ignition tube in a T shape into Li Mingqi's hands.

As Li Mingqi pulled hard, the twelve-pound Napoleon cannon (imitation) roared loudly, making his ears buzz.

The wooden wall standing a thousand meters away was directly penetrated, and the wooden barrel behind was also shattered. The clear water in the barrel splashed everywhere due to the huge impact.

Seeing that the target was successfully hit, everyone in the test firing group cheered.

Li Mingqi successively experimented with solid bombs, explosive bombs (shrapnel bombs) and shotguns.

To be honest, Li Mingqi was a little disappointed. In addition to the solid bullets being better, there was almost an accident when firing explosive bombs.

Because the explosive bombs use time fuzes, there are too many uncontrollable factors.

So when Li Mingqi fired the explosive bomb, the explosive bomb exploded ten meters away from the artillery.

Historically, it was precisely because of the instability of explosive shells and shrapnel shells that the most common artillery shells used by both sides in the Civil War were solid shells.

However, the range and power of the solid bullets did not satisfy Li Mingqi.

For this kind of shooting experience, it is difficult to surprise him. A thousand meters away is a good thing, nine hundred meters is a good look, and eight hundred meters is a good shooting experience.

Unless artillery is used intensively, it can effectively kill the enemy. This is only when the enemy adopts line tactics.

If you encounter trenches and bunkers, even a 12-pounder howitzer is more reliable than the Napoleon 12-pounder field gun. Of course, the premise is that the 12-pounder howitzer is placed in the enemy's face.

Unfortunately, due to the same reason as before, the explosive bomb obviously cannot fulfill its obligations very well. Compared with it, the shotgun is much more reliable.

It has a very good killing effect on line infantry within 400 meters. It vigorously sponsored the remarriage activities of many women during the Civil War.

Just like the compassionate Dr. Gatlin said: "I really couldn't bear to see the soldiers being hurt, so I just let them die."

Moreover, Foxconn's imitation artillery is obviously not as good as the genuine ones. Li Mingqi immediately said that using this kind of artillery is simply irresponsible to the imperial soldiers.

Make changes, big changes! And we must strictly control the quality!

Although this imitation twelve-pounder gun has various shortcomings, it is still an artillery piece.

So soon, Sun Laifu heard that his arsenal could produce cannons, so he got involved with Li Mingqi.

"It's not that I'm stingy, it's really because that kind of artillery is impractical. Blacksmith Zhang and the others have already started researching on rifling the inside of the artillery."

"After they study it, they will equip it for the National Defense Forces."

Li Mingqi was really annoyed by Sun Laifu's ink, so he told him the truth.

In fact, it is not only studying how to carve rifling, but the Royal Academy is also studying how to cast cannons using the high-quality steel brought over by Li Mingqi.

Napoleon's artillery made of bronze was too heavy to be carried in the field.

Using steel is much stronger than using bronze, and the quality of the steel obtained by Long Live Lord is quite perfect.

Everyone at the Royal Academy felt that they could definitely build a steel rifled artillery piece according to the drawings given by His Majesty.

"Long live my lord, we are about to start a war with the foreign devils. The soldiers will suffer a lot if they don't have artillery."

Sun Laifu became anxious when he heard that he had to continue waiting. If the guns removed from the two battleships were not too heavy, he would have fought with the fort.

"Then the soldiers cannot be allowed to use artillery produced by Foxconn. A total of twelve rounds were tested, and two explosive rounds exploded early. Only the first three solid rounds hit the target. This is because they were calibrated in advance."

Li Mingqi explained the facts to him and reasoned with him. It wasn't that he wasn't equipped with artillery, it was because the current artillery was not up to par.

Seeing that Sun Laifu was still struggling, Li Mingqi issued another soul torture:

"Do you dare to let soldiers use such artillery?"

Well, Sun Laifu really didn't dare to use it. Now there is not a single soldier in the National Defense Force who can fire artillery, and it is all supported by 14 Spanish artillery instructors.

If there were more Spanish artillery instructors, they could still use this tactic of killing eighty enemies and damaging one hundred and two.

But there were only a few artillery instructors, and Sun Laifu already regarded them as treasures.

However, Sun Laifu, who still refused to give up, took the National Defense Force soldiers to Foxconn in the next few days.

He also said that he wanted to let the soldiers feel the power of the artillery in advance. All fools knew that they were threatening the artillery engineers.

However, in order to solve the problem of insufficient heavy weapons, Li Mingqi once again carried forward the spirit of using toys if you can't understand the blueprints.

Determined to launch a Zaun weapon from certain countries in the 21st century - the Kasan rocket launcher!

The missile body is made of ordinary steel pipes. Even if there is no steel pipe, you can roll one with iron sheet. The tail fin adopts a relatively simple welding method.

The warhead can also consider adding a simple detonation method such as a fuse.

The range only needs to be more than one thousand meters, and the explosion damage does not need to be too accurate.

As for fuel... Li Mingqi can only say that sugar and corn syrup are good things, and by the way, there are also chemical fertilizers and...

However, this kind of weapon is a long-term research direction. Li Mingqi is just a talker, and there is no ready-made weapon on Taobao.

However, Li Mingqi has a backup plan, which is the mortar. This kind of weapon that can use one bullet as a firing fuse is much more reliable than a rocket.

Of course, it does not need to be compared with the range of modern mortars, which can easily reach four or five thousand meters, as long as it can shoot more than one thousand meters.

So in order to give Zhang Yu and others a general understanding of mortars, Li Mingqi could only rely on the toys on a certain treasure again...