Is it possible that it is unsuitable to build artillery in Southeast Asia?

No.

Chen Mu could feel that as a junior, he was very attractive to Qi Jiguang. After all, not everyone was as skilled as him. Qi Shuai's inventions were progressively arranged step by step under the existing conditions, and various types of ordnance were reasonably arranged to achieve the best results.

He overthrew his original path and took a different approach. New cannons, new guns, and new armor were not very interesting to Qi Jiguang.

During the visit to the camp the next day, Chen Mu learned another trick from Qi Jiguang, and Qi Jiguang actually dressed the camp.

Chen Mu's flag army backpack was tied with tent cloth. Qi Jiguang asked the marching baggage team to carry tent cloth, and it was a type larger than Chen Mu's tent cloth. The color of the large cloth painting was of course not camouflage, but brick walls.

The camp was covered with tents. Qi Jiguang said that this was not to hide the traces, but to intimidate the enemy, so that the enemy could see from afar that our army had built a city wall and scared them to prepare siege equipment to give the soldiers in their camp time to respond.

Although it may not be done very carefully, but two or three miles apart, who can tell whether this is a real city or a fake city?

Chen Mu felt that it was already like this, so it would be okay to click on the camouflage technology tree!

However, what Chen Mu did not expect was that after Qi Jiguang used the cannons he made, he admired the Franco machine even more, the Nanyang Magic modified Franco machine.

"It is a good cannon with great strength and shooting far, but it is not suitable for Northern Xinjiang. Qi heard that General Chen built this cannon for ship battle? This thousand-pound heavy cannon was installed on the ship, and its power was incomparable. It could blow the enemy ship, but there was no ship available in the Northern Territory. Qi wanted a thousand-pound wolf machine just to make its sound so loud that it could suppress the morale of the enemy and make it fear. Anyone who entered the cannon was killed immediately regardless of the size of the big one."

"Besides, no matter how powerful the gun is, it will be in deviations when it is shot 600 steps and 800 steps away. If one shot fails, and the cannon is loaded, the enemy cavalry will have already rushed forward." This was what Qi Jiguang said when he used two new guns to fire up two guns and wiped the cannon barrels with a bucket. "If during the field battle, it would be fine if more than ten artillery pieces gathered to garrison the highlands and bombarded them together - it was just this Great Wall fortress."

Qi Jiguang shook his head, stroked his hand to the side of the Jinshanling Great Wall, and smiled bitterly: "I want to use cannons to fill them with dreams. An enemy platform has three wolf machine cannons, and in an instant, eighteen bullets were fired, and Qi was satisfied!"

Chen Mu blinked, Qi Jiguang meant that the firepower overflowed.

"In this case, you need four or three Franchise machines. It doesn't matter whether one is a five-pound cannon or not. It's okay to squat. Qi Shuai, because you still have this." Although the newly-built Nanyang cannon was regarded as unsuitable for city warfare by Qi Jiguang, Chen Mu was not discouraged. He fumbled out of the cannon cart for a while and took out a large cylinder, and then said to himself: "Wrong, this is a ten-pound, wait, there is one!"

A cylinder that was two circles smaller than before, and the small wooden tube blocked by coarse cloth on the top was held in Chen Mu and weighed it twice. He smiled at Qi Jiguang and said, "Qi Shuai, this is for a five-jin cannon. It contains thirty iron balls, and is supplemented by this large iron bullet."

Chen Mu's left hand scattering barrel and his right hand slim bullet, first showing his right hand and then showing his left hand: "You can attack from a distance and defend in close proximity."

Qi Jiguang smiled on his face. He knew why three people who mentioned Chen Mu to him thought he should meet this young general from Guangdong because it was just right.

Qi Jiguang was very detailed. At this time of development in the Ming Dynasty, not many of them could be called scientific. One is politics, the second is medicine, and the third is army.

Needless to say, politics has been studied for thousands of years. This has long become a discipline in China and has been studied in detail; medicine has made rapid progress after the Yuan Dynasty, and it has been divided into thirteen disciplines in the Yuan Dynasty, and has been combined into eleven disciplines in the Ming Dynasty to conduct specific research, until Li Shizhen further determined the use of the prescription and reached standardization; the last military was in Qi Jiguang's works.

There is a saying in later generations: A layman talks about strategy, while an expert talks about logistics.

Qi Jiguang refined his soldiers to strictly formulate regulations on how to eat, sing, how to buy vegetables, even how to bring war horses to cool off in summer and how to bring war horses to keep warm in winter. He didn't have to talk about how to fight.

In Qi Jiguang's opinion, Chen Mu was obviously too rough in military affairs. This kind of roughness was not bad. Just like the famous southern general Liu Xian, he was also very rough, galloping fiercely every day. As long as Liu Xian rode his horse and slashed his sword and circled around the formation, his subordinates could work hard for him. This is the characteristic of everyone.

Chen Mu was reflected in his focus. He paid attention to how thick the cannons were and how thick the armor was. In Qi Jiguang's view, this was the best guerrilla general in the court.

But the court could not grant him the position of a guerrilla general, unless he made a mistake, he would not be given a lower position.

Qi Jiguang smiled at Chen Mu, holding two shells in his hand, raised his hand and patted the cannon barrel and asked, "General Chen, how much does your cannon have to be transported from the Nanyang Guard?"

"Four thousand miles, one hundred artillery pieces are required to transport 500 troops, five hundred troops are prepared, one hundred and fifty carry mules and horses, and consume more than 4,000 stones of grain in March, and three thousand taels of silver." Chen Mu saw that Qi Jiguang wanted the Nanyang Guard to continue transporting cannons, so he said: "The food consumption is supplied by the roads of various counties and governments. It is nothing. The mules and horses are the ones with the greatest losses."

Chen Mu said as he took out his notes and read the reports: "When the marching was 10 days, the soldiers were not tired, and the road was laughing, and they walked seventy or eighty miles a day; when the marching was 20 days, the soldiers were tired, and the mules were also exhausted, and they were 40 or fifty miles a day; when the 30 days, the people could not walk, and the mules had to be forced to pull them. At this time, it would be very hard to march again, and it would be enough to walk thirty miles a day."

"After going forward, you have to rest for four or five days before you can continue moving forward." Chen Mu closed the notes and said: "If you can prepare 450 mules and horses, 1,500 troops on the road, and escort artillery in three parts, then there will be almost no road consumption, and the escort speed will be a little faster."

After passing through each county, each place only needs to supply thirty or forty stones of grain. If the soldiers in the middle are replaced, they can rest. The artillery that could only be transported once in March or even June can be increased to once in two months. Then in one year... Chen Mu opened his five fingers and said, "There can be transported 400 artillery pieces to the northern border in a year."

Qi Jiguang didn't expect Chen Mu to say so much. Chen Mu rushed to say it all at once, but there was nothing he could add. He was really stunned for a while and simply skipped the topic: "I heard that your flag army is very well trained. Qi was also a guard officer at the beginning. He didn't train the guard well. You are better than me. Northern Xinjiang is at the time of employment, so Altan will not know when he will invade the border again."

"The capital is a large dye vat, and it will be broken whenever you come in. Qi and Tan Junmen set up a chariot camp, requiring new artillery guns in the Nanyang Guard. The artillery must be built and transported, and the enemy must be attacked and deterred. You cannot leave at this time."

"You and the five hundred flag troops under your command will be the squad for a year. How about the guards of Changping? The commander of the Nanyang Guard, General Zhaoyong, General Chen."

Um?

Chen Mu was a little confused.

"General Chen?"

"Yes, Deputy General Chen." Qi Jiguang clapped his hands very seriously and looked at the distant clouds and sky high in the distance. "The generals are all controlled by Qi. Changping is not an easy place to guard. General Chen, can you shoulder such an important task?"

Good afternoon! I feel so sad when I have a fever. I recommend a book by my friend "Carrying AK to the Ming Dynasty"
Chapter completed!