Far faster than Wu Zheng's estimate, it only took one hour for the skilled craftsmen to use wood to manufacture various components according to Wu Zheng's intentions, and even the cylinders were made of wood.

Wu Zheng is really impressed, a wooden cylinder, the craftsman can make the barrel body drip without leaking just by using a wooden wedge, how can the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty let the foreign people occupy the peak of technology?

The whole half-human-tall device, except for the bucket for water, is all wood.

When the furnace fire is ignited, the device automatically acts through the components of steam storage and steam discharge, and through the lubricated components, slowly driven by the crankshaft and lever.

The eyes of all the craftsmen were filled with amazement, and it turned out that things could still be done in this way.

This was the beginning of an industrial revolution in which mechanical force replaced human labor.

When Wu Zheng ordered to use the material to be scaled up proportionally according to this device and used for forging steel, almost everyone had a look of sudden enlightenment.

Chen Shoujie was the most excited, as the supervisor of the military workshop, he was under constant urging and pressure from the General's Mansion, but the backwardness of the process made it impossible to significantly increase the output, and the biggest difficulty was the casting of steel.

And now, this problem is no longer a problem, everyone understands that forged steel is far tougher than cast steel, since ancient times, a sword made of a hundred forged steel, has been used as a treasure for generals, but how many days and nights of forging is required for this craftsman?

In the eyes of almost all the admirers, Wu Zheng announced three things, one is that from today onwards, the military workshop will implement a new measurement standard, redesign all products, produce them in the form of spare parts, and guide the gradual implementation of assembly line operations, the second is secrecy, the military workshop will immediately station the army, and the third is to encourage, but if the craftsmen make breakthroughs and improvements to the steam device, the government will reward them with a heavy reward of one to five hundred taels, and those who make special contributions will be given a lord.

When he left the military workshop, Wu Zheng's mood was happy, he seemed to have put down a heavy burden, because the seeds had been planted, and he had no reason to doubt the creativity and craftsmanship of the Chinese people, let alone the future harvest.

……。

Fang Guoan, he didn't expect Wu Zheng to make such a request.

This is probably something he has never encountered in his decades of career.

After watching Fang Guoan's training of the recruits, Wu Zheng put forward a plan, that is, from the 30,000 recruits, select the strongest top 100, divide them into two, and lead the training with Fang Guoan at the same time, for a period of 30 days, and then conduct combat drills to determine the future training outline of the musketeers.

Wu Zheng had no choice, and after reviewing Fang Guoan's three-month training for recruits, Wu Zheng found many problems.

It's not that Fang Guoan's training level is not high enough, the training method, courage, ears and eyes, hands and feet, camp formation, etc., are all overwhelmed, and there is no mistake or omission, indeed, Fang Guoan is one of the few remaining generals in the Ming Dynasty, and his training methods can be said to be rigorous to the extreme, which is not unrelated to Fang Guoan's desire to enter the core layer of Wu Zheng's forces.

With the support of the manpower and material resources of the General's Mansion, these 30,000 recruits were trained very well, so to speak, when Wu Zheng was reviewing, Fang Guoan gave an order, and the recruits who were reviewed were full of energy, "whooping" and rushing forward, with momentum like a rainbow.

Is it wrong?

That's right. At least Wu Zheng is satisfied.

But Wu Zheng always felt that something was missing, which made him feel uneasy and apprehensive.

Fang Guoan was also very depressed, he was looking forward to this review to bring him the opportunity to lead the troops to the battlefield again, his three thousand soldiers, this battle was good, and they were also honored after the war, and the highest military position has been promoted to the thousand general, which gives him hope in his heart.

But now, hearing Wu Zheng say this, he can naturally realize that Wu Zheng is not satisfied with his training, otherwise why would he train the troops in person, and then fight against the military drill a month later?

But he didn't dare to refuse, so he could only ask: "Does the prince have any objections to the training method of the lowly position?" ”

Wu Zheng glanced at him and said, "Lord Fang has misunderstood, this king is not denying your training method, but he just thinks that musketeers should not be trained like this." ”

Fang Guoan heard Wu Zheng's denial, felt a little comforted in his heart, and said: "The method of military training is much the same, brave, fierce, not afraid of death, obeying military orders, and strictly abiding by military discipline, you can be called an elite tiger." I don't think there's anything wrong with my humble position, and I ask the prince to correct it. ”

Wu Zheng shook his head and said: "Although this king is also from the army and has fought all the way from the battlefield, in terms of battlefield experience, it is obvious that Lord Fang is much stronger than me. ”

"Don't dare, don't dare to be lowly."

"But the musket army is a new branch of the army that has never existed, although there was a Shenji battalion in the previous dynasty, and then there was a new army trained by Qi Shaobao, but at least in the information I have, the establishment and combat ideas of these armies still lie in the musket as an auxiliary to swords, shields, spears, and bows and crossbows, just like Qi Shaobao's new army trained 80 years ago, its squad is composed of 12 people, one team leader, one shield soldier, one vine shield, two wolf soldiers, four pikemen, one palladium soldier, and only one firearms soldier. This is clearly very different from our musketeers. Different compositions naturally lead to different tactics. ”

Fang Guoan frowned slightly and said, "But how can the prince judge that the training method of the lowly position is inappropriate?" And how to confirm that the prince's statement must be correct? ”

Fang Guoan is indeed a little unsafe, leading troops, this is his strength, but now that Wu Zheng said this, his strength has become useless.

Wu Zheng said: "Lord Fang, don't be anxious first, this king has not asserted that he is right. This king also just learned from the handwriting of General Qi Jin Qi that in the first battle of Salhu, the elite of the Ming army lost nearly 50,000 people, and more than 20,000 pieces of artillery and guns were captured. The Ming army, Kong Youde, who was trained by the Portuguese, and Geng Jingzhong's firearms army surrendered en masse. As a result, the Manchus actually achieved an overwhelming superiority over any unit of the Ming army in firearms in the ensuing war. One of the battle examples is very illustrative, in the battle of Liaoyang, the Ming army of 1,000 firecrackers met the Qing army (descended to the Qingming army) 700 firearms, a distance of 100 paces, the Ming army fired firearms, saw that the Qing army did not move, so launched a brave charge against the Qing army, but when approaching to 20 steps, 700 Qing soldiers suddenly shot together, and only seven of the 1,000 Ming troops survived.

At that time, the two armies were almost the same firearms, and the two divisions split from the same camp, both received the same training, and in one battle, they could stand out immediately, what does this mean? It shows that the command of the Ming army's firearms was wrong, the tactics were too stiff, they did not know how to be flexible, and the muskets were only used as auxiliary arms of other services, which did not attract enough attention...... Fortunately, there is no war going on, and we have time to have a competition to determine how to train the musketeers in the future...... What's the matter, is Lord Fang timid? ”