My Daming New Empire

Chapter 49 Meeting the Enemy

For a moment, everyone couldn't believe the authenticity of the information, because the amount of information contained in it was too great.

It was Zhu Zhanji who calmed down first, and asked, "Where are the scouts from the young army? How many people reported back?"

The messenger took out a letter and held it above his head and replied: "This man has traveled back and forth for more than ten thousand miles, and now he is recuperating in the forward camp. When the humble officer came to the camp, he was the only one I saw. This is the reply letter from this man, ordering I want His Royal Highness to accept it personally."

The Qianfeng Battalion is still more than three hundred miles away from Hulanhuhu, and I am afraid that the scout himself will not be seen at this time.

Zhu Di couldn't help asking: "The Zuo Dudu sent scouts so far away, how do they survive? How do they send messages?"

In the big tent of the military camp, Zhu Di called him Zuo Dudu. Zhu Zhanji stepped forward to accept the letter handed over by the scouts, and also reported back as Zuo Dudu: "The daily training of the young army mainly focuses on survival and concealment in the wild. One man and two horses, they come and go like the wind, they don't aim to fight, they avoid the army, they kill the enemy, they hide their whereabouts, and they support war with war."

Liu Sheng couldn't help asking: "How can we transmit information when we are thousands of miles behind the enemy's rear?"

"Straight into the enemy's rear, there is no going back."

Although what Zhu Zhanji said was simple, most people understood it as soon as they heard it.In other words, after these scouts got the information, they could only return and would not send them back.

Liu Sheng asked again: "How to ensure the accuracy of the information and not tamper with it for the enemy?"

"Three scouts will be sent back at a time, and the three pieces of information are the same. First, ensure that there are no accidents in the information, and then ensure the accuracy of the information."

Zhu Di said: "We'll talk about this later, let's see what is said in the secret letter first."

Zhu Zhanji came to Zhu Di's side, opened the wax seal, and unfolded the secret letter rolled into a roll.

These are several topographic maps, on each of which, in addition to the distribution of Beiyuan's personnel, important mountain peaks and rivers are also marked with latitude and longitude.

Of course, this longitude and latitude will not be based on the prime meridian of later generations, but the starting point of the meridian is the imperial palace of Yingtianfu in the Ming Dynasty, and the latitude is still based on the equator.

Therefore, even if the drawing of the map is not accurate, Zhu Zhanji can easily judge the reasonable orientation and terrain.

With these maps, not only do they know the current distribution of the Beiyuan people's forces, but they can also know where to act to cause more damage to the opponent.

After introducing the information, Zheng Heng asked suspiciously: "Your Highness...no, Commander Zuo. Are all the scouts of the young army capable of drawing maps? They also know how to draw stars!"

Zhu Zhanji asked back: "If you don't know these things, are you still a qualified scout?"

Zheng Heng had nothing to say, but his interest in Zhu Zhanji's young army immediately increased, and he turned around and reported to Zhu Di: "Your Majesty, this move by Your Highness undoubtedly created the ability to investigate in the army. I hope Your Majesty can promise Spread the art of drawing stars among the army."

But Zhu Di smiled and said, "I'll talk about this later. I also know a little bit about Youjun's star-linking technique, which is not the same as Si Tianjian's star-linking technique. It's just that not many people know about it, so it hasn't been popularized yet."

Because of the appearance of "Magellan", Zhu Di knew the general principle of sextant and relying on sextant to locate.However, Zhu Di didn't want to promote this technology, but Zhu Zhanji had already spread it.

But now it seems that promoting this skill in the military can have a very big effect.

There is also some pressure in his heart. Of course, Da Ming can continue to keep the star-stretching technique and this kind of sextant location secret, but this technology has been passed down from Xiyi. They have already mastered this skill, but it is meaningless for Da Ming to keep it secret. .

It's just that this topic is a bit out of date when the two armies are facing each other.

Therefore, everyone's attention quickly returned to the upcoming battle.

If the Wala army does not move tonight, they will definitely move tomorrow, and they will never delay until the day after tomorrow.Because if the vanguard battalion returns from Sanhekou, the current [-] Wala cavalry will be even more passive.

It was midnight when Zhu Zhanji came out of the big tent, but at least half of the soldiers did not sleep. On the one hand, it was to prevent the Wara people from robbing the camp, and more importantly, to face the pressure of the war, which made it difficult for countless people. fall asleep.

Especially those generals, most of them can't sleep, but those experienced veterans, those who should be on duty, should sleep.

When they set off from Beiping, the four romantic daughters were not with them. Zhu Zhanji had to ask the eunuchs to help him boil water every day and boil herbs for bathing.

Lying in the hot tub, the hot weather made him sweat profusely.But the numbing nourishment brought by the herbs made him reluctant to leave the water.

He was not worried about this war at all, because Zhu Di won all five Northern Expeditions.

But this kind of aggrieved also made him extremely depressed.

Obviously has the strength of flat push, but because of the low productivity, he can't show his strength.

The army of nearly one million did not dare to disperse too much, but they moved slowly when they gathered together. They could only force the Oirats to fight with them in a rogue way.

If there were convenient and easy-to-use guns at this time, the total number of these Oirats, Tatars, and Ulianghas would only be 300 million.As long as the logistics supply can keep up, a cavalry force of 5 people can kill all these Beiyuan people.

It seemed that after going back this time, it was time for him to put his plan for improving firearms on the table earlier.

Industrial upgrades can be delayed, at least a batch of more useful firecrackers must be produced first.

Not to mention the modern rifles of the later generations, even the matchlock guns like the earth guns of the later generations are much easier to use than the current fire guns.

The biggest problem now is the casting of the barrel.

No electricity, no motors, no machine tools.It is not so difficult to make a qualified barrel.

Now the gun barrels of Daming can only be cast into circular iron with grooves by skilled technicians, and then polished out bit by bit with a file.

Then use another piece of iron to seal the groove, and then seal it tightly with iron bars on the outside, which means that there must be two layers to ensure the sealing of the barrel.

However, there is no uniform standard for these barrels, so the quality of the guns is uneven, and the skills of technicians are infinitely expanded.

However, it is almost impossible to unify the standard according to the current technology.

Zhu Zhanji came out of the water, put on a close-fitting robe, and then lay down on the table to write and draw.

He didn't remember where he had seen a water truck used as power to drill the barrel of a gun. Ying Tianfu was close to the Yangtze River and had abundant water resources.

But when he really wanted to design this device, he found that this way was not feasible.

Because if the power of the waterwheel is to meet the requirements, the waterwheel must be huge and strong.As for such a waterwheel, let alone the transmission device, the core bearing alone cannot be manufactured now.

It can even be said that making qualified bearings is more difficult than making guns.

And the gears of those transmission devices must also be made of steel, and the wooden transmission device cannot carry the drill bit that can drill the barrel of the gun at all.

On the contrary, it is a drill bit, which is not difficult for Zhu Zhanji.

Because the best material for drill bits is tungsten alloy steel, the main components are tungsten, nickel, cobalt, niobium, titanium, and tantalum, which are all available in Daming.When the requirements are not high, the manufacture of tungsten steel is nothing more than more experiments.

What's more, there is no need for too complicated processes now, just the ratio of tungsten and steel is needed, and it is stronger than ordinary steel.

Material technology can still be tested by memory, but mechanical processing technology is completely impossible to solve only by memory.

"Your Highness, it's time to go to sleep. There may be a big battle tomorrow, you need to recharge your batteries!"

Zhu Zhanji looked at the dark sky outside, because the clouds were so dense that there was not even a little light.

"What time is it?"

"One quarter to ugly."