My Daming New Empire

Like those generals written in Romance of the Three Kingdoms who beat soldiers, it's completely nonsense!

The so-called four great masterpieces of later generations, not to mention that they have not been written yet, have been written, and they are also the Internet novels and YY novels of this era.

On the first day of the meeting, it was only confirmed that the vanguard battalion would start first.Then it was all the time arranging various liaison offices and establishing a communication system, and finally it was busy until late at night before the supply system of each military guard was arranged.

Zhu Zhanji didn't return to his residence until Kuaizi, his head was in a mess, and he was dizzy by this backward war mode.

Seeing Li Liang who had been waiting for him, Zhu Zhanji felt a little weak. "What's the result of today's competition?"

Li Liang was full of excitement, and said with a smile: "Your Highness, although the young army is young, it is showing off today. The scouts of the Habayashi Guard can only make rough observations, escape, and disappear. They don't know astrology at all, and they don't know Surviving in the wild, I don’t know how to disguise in the wild, and I don’t know how to pass information without speaking. Mr. Zhao originally dismissed the young army, but after a day’s competition, he has already regarded the 200 young army as treasures.”

"That's good. I'm very tired today, so let me get the tonic soup."

Lying in the big hot wooden barrel, Qiuyue helped Zhu Zhanji hold his head, and Dongxue helped Zhu Zhanji carry the pheasant soup stewed with the ginseng Guben pill recipe of ginseng, Ophiopogon japonicus, asparagus, raw land, and rehmannia glutinosa.

After eating a whole pheasant and sweating again, Zhu Zhanji began to feel refreshed.

After meditating for a long time, he kept thinking about the backward tactical arrangements of this era in his head, but he didn't know how to change them.

Because this is not an era different from the war mode he is familiar with, but a difference of 600 years.

Even if he had some understanding of military training and tactical arrangements in later generations, the experience of later generations is completely inapplicable now.

He needs to learn from the beginning. As for reform, at least he can't talk about reform until he is familiar with the current method.

The military meeting on the second day was still arranging the supply route of the Noir Heavy Battalion. Not only could the Noir Heavy Battalion not become a burden on the march, but it also had to serve nearly a million people. It was not an easy matter to arrange it well.

On February [-]th, Liu Sheng, the governor of the left army, led the tiger talisman and served as the general who conquered the captives. He led the Shenji battalion to march north from the east road.

Zhu Zhanji looked at the map, and this east road is roughly along the Xilin Gol of later generations to the Hulunbuir area.

The Hulunbeier area of ​​later generations is now the settlement of Tatars. Four years ago, they rebelled and were defeated by Zhu Di.

The Tatar Khan Benya was driven away, and the original national teacher Arutai surrendered to Zhu Di, and was named King Hening by Zhu Di.

But their decline led to the rise of Wala. This time, Wala said that he wanted to deal with Alutai of the Tatar Asote tribe, but he was actually spying on Nuer Gandusi who is now under the rule of Ming Dynasty.

Alutai was beaten by Da Ming four years ago, and this time he was threatened by the Wala people, so he could only ask Da Ming for help.

Since Alutai surrendered, Daming naturally didn't want him to be wiped out directly, and then let the Oala forces get out of control.

Originally, Zhu Di didn't want Arutai to join the battle, because he was afraid that Arutai would fight back and attack the Ming army with Wala.

But after the long talk between Zhu Zhanji and Zhu Di at the beginning of the expedition, Zhu Di decided to give Alutai a chance, and also wanted to see the sincerity of the other party.

But he didn't dare to be careless, so he sent Liu Sheng's Shenji Battalion, who had defeated the Tatars four years ago, to join them.

To deal with the Tatars, Liu Sheng's Shenji Battalion had experience and psychological advantages.The Tatars were also afraid of Liu Sheng, so Zhu Di felt relieved that he would be in charge of the Eastern Front.

Before the expedition, Zhu Zhanji also went to Liu Sheng's Shenji Camp to reward the army on behalf of Zhu Di. This time the reward did not involve money, but just read the expedition letter written by Hu Guang and had a meat meal.

This expedition letter is actually the so-called Declaration of the War of Justice. Even if Daming is the first to dispatch the army now, he still has to label himself as a righteous army.

Zhu Zhanji also took this opportunity to watch the most widely used artillery and firecrackers in the world today.

Today's cannons are all made of copper tubes, the smallest weighs no more than five catties, and the heaviest weighs seven to eight hundred catties, with a caliber of about 110 mm.

The Shenji Battalion has only 5000 people, but with Zhu Di's support, it has now reached nearly 2 people.Nearly a quarter of them are artillery, a quarter are musketeers, another quarter are cavalry, and some are craftsmen and service personnel.

Cannons can be made of copper, but muskets are made of blacksmiths.The barrel is closed with a double-layer iron pipe, and the outside is tightened with iron bars.

Compared with the soil guns of later generations, due to the problem of craftsmanship, it is still far behind.

However, in terms of bullets, today's craftsmen have developed single bullets and scattered bullets, and cannons even have flowering bullets.

Zhu Zhanji originally wanted to take the opportunity to show off his knowledge of black powder, but only now did he know that there were more than thirty different formulas of black powder in the early Ming Dynasty.

Although firecrackers and cannons, including fireworks and firecrackers, all use black powder, the formula of each type of black powder is different, and the formula ratio is the most suitable for its use.

Although people in this era do not have much chemical knowledge, they definitely do not lack the spirit of experimentation.It's just that most of the time, they just know what it is and don't know why it is, and often they can only operate by experience, without leaving written knowledge.

This discovery also made Zhu Zhanji change his original plan. He decided not to study black powder, but to directly transition to nitrocellulose.

Because nitrocellulose is the most suitable gunpowder after black powder.

However, in this era, it is difficult to obtain sulfuric acid and nitric acid for large-scale production.

In his previous life, Zhou You had made overall investment in basic industries, and he had some understanding of three acids and two alkalis.

In the Tang Dynasty, Taoist priests obtained sulfuric acid by dry distillation of gallstone (bile alum).

But sulfuric acid is easy to get, but nitric acid is hard to find.

Because the reserves of saltpeter in the world are not large, except for Chile, India and the northwest region, there are very few other places.

The most important channel for Taoist priests to obtain saltpeter is mainly through boiling the soil of toilets, and the purity of saltpeter obtained by this method is very low.

The improvement of gunpowder is an indispensable foundation for a strong army.

Zhu Zhanji is also considering whether to take Zheng He to America first in the future to develop the saltpeter mine in Antofagasta.

Chapter 44 Marching

On February 21, Ningyang Hou Chen Mao and Fengcheng Hou Li Bin led the left and right sentries, Chengshan Hou Wang Tong and the governor Tan Qing led the left and right tucks, and set off from Beiping to Zhangbei.

They will go directly to Kulun, the royal court of the Wara people, and the ancient capital, Helin, via Erenhot in later generations.

The young army belonging to Zhu Zhanji and the scout battalion of Habayashi Zuowei also set off with them

And as soon as the grain and grass are supplied, the weight is heavy, and there are special medical soldiers and craftsman battalions also dispatched with the army.

The army remaining in Peiping has only a pure cavalry unit of less than 10 people, and they will not set off until early March.

With the participation of the headquarters, Zhu Zhanji is well aware of every step of the mobilization of this army.Regardless of his grandson status, he modestly asked the reason for every arrangement of the army.

This not only allowed him to acquire the basic knowledge of army mobilization in this era, but also made the generals in the army have a particularly good impression of him.

A militant grandson who is not afraid of war and is willing to contact the "rough people" of the army is very popular with the generals in the army.

This also made Zhu Di very satisfied, only one Zhu Gaosui was unhappy.

Just because of his status, he couldn't win over the generals in the army in every possible way, but Zhu Zhanji just lowered his figure a little, and all the generals flocked to him.

He originally thought that Zhu Di would keep Zhu Zhanji in Beiping, but he didn't expect that Zhu Di would take Zhu Zhanji to the grassland with him.

However, he is much more tolerant than Zhu Gaoxu.The desire for the throne is not as strong as Zhu Gaoxu, because he knows very well that there are countless obstacles between him and the throne.

If there is no good opportunity, he will never reveal his intentions.