(This chapter is not well written, I didn't check the information well, about artillery, there are common sense mistakes, please forgive me.) ）

It was just June, and it was hot.

If it was a peaceful day in previous years, the fields at this time should be full of green and oily crops. But now in this world, the land is barren, and the weeds are half as tall as a man.

The common people rebelled when they had nothing to eat, and the destruction caused by the rebellion made it impossible for more people to farm, so more and more people rebelled, and the world fell into a dead circle.

Compared with the dilapidated and desolate countryside, there is a different kind of noise in Dingyuan City. At this time, Dingyuan was a barracks, and after occupying Dingyuan, Zhu Wu's team expanded rapidly.

In January, the left army's army was expanded to four battalions of 2,000 men, plus Zhu Wu's personal guards and logistics auxiliaries, bringing the strength to 3,500 men.

Although these soldiers are from homeless people and ordinary people, they have really undergone a month of recruit training, and they are not like they are going to give a broken knife to a person's head.

The training was completed by Zhu Wu's personal army. The recruited recruits are uniformly trained, and after a month's recruitment period, they are being distributed to the teams.

The content of the training in this month is the military posture queue and the appearance of the army, people actually have a kind of commonality with dogs, and they can only be obedient after training and fighting.

However, the training syllabus from later generations is obviously beyond the tolerance of ordinary people in this era, and the hungry and red-eyed homeless children are okay, and they grit their teeth and endure it for the sake of two dry meals a day.

Many second-rate people who blended into the team couldn't stand the rigorous training and became deserters. But where to escape, let Lan Yu catch it back, and it will become a row of heads at the gate of the camp.

A few days after occupying Dingyuan, Guo Dashuai's reward came down. Zhu Wu added an additional name from the title of commander of the left army, Dingyuan to pacify.

The brothers who received it also rose to the top, and each of them became a thousand households. Anyway, the official name doesn't need money, Guo Dashuai casually seals it. It's Lan Yu, this kid, who is mixed into a hundred households.

This kid is not very old, but his military talent is extremely high, he was born to be a soldier, and when he comes back, he has an excellent relationship with Zhu Wu's old brothers, and he is like a fish in water in the army.

But this kid doesn't know whose temperament he wants, and his heart-to-heart is very ruthless, and the recruits secretly call him the King of Blue Yama.

I'm not afraid of Guo Xing, an old man like Li Sai is afraid of him. But that's fine, let him do anything that sings red-faced.

The barracks were lively, and the artisan workshops in the city were even more lively. According to Zhu Wu's instructions, Li Shanchang gathered the craftsmen of the whole city, but dozens of people, and drew a separate area to live in, and Xi Yingzhen Lao Dao led a team of soldiers to watch. Of course, people have to pay for their work, and they can't call people in vain.

Since there was a craftsman's workshop, it was like thunder every day, and one day it caught fire in the middle of the night, and the sound of explosions could be heard all over the city.

After that, not to mention people and ghosts in this area, the people will never come here if they have nothing to do.

………

In a wasteland outside the city, dozens of blacksmiths were trembling, but the person in front of them was now the master of Dingyuan, calming Zhu Wu.

Zhu Wu didn't pay attention to the craftsmen, he was looking at the two things in front of him, which cost thousands of taels of silver in a month, and the two things were made according to his wishes.

He has always believed that professional matters should be handled by professional talents. Although he has been a soldier, he knows nothing about mathematics, physics and chemistry except for military skills.

The army teaches you how to shoot a gun, but it will not tell you how to produce it or what the principle is.

Besides, firearms are no strangers to the people of the Yuan Dynasty, especially artillery. At this time, the artillery was called artillery, and a large number of equipment in the border army of Dayuan already had the rudiments of modern artillery.

This thing actually existed more than a hundred years ago, when the Mongols destroyed the Dajin soldiers in the Central Plains, in addition to obtaining, the wealth of the three generations of Dajin Daliao and the Northern Song Dynasty also obtained a large number of technologies and craftsmen.

When they went west, they brought artillery, otherwise the city of those barbarians would not be so easy to break.

Of course, these are what Li Shanchang said, and Zhu Wu absolutely doesn't know about his historical level.

All he knew was to tell the craftsmen what they wanted. And draw a figure on the paper, explain the principle, and then let it go.

I heard that the finished product came out, so I took Li Shanchang and his own soldiers, and asked Xi Yingzhen to choose a remote place for inspection.

It was the first time he had seen the finished product today, but when he saw it, he felt a little chilled. A metal pipe, a long iron bucket.

The metal pipe is tinged with cyan, and it looks like an ancient cannon in a film and television drama, with a length of one meter and a half and a muzzle of twenty centimeters.

"It's bronze?" Zhu Wu asked while touching.

The craftsman cowered, and after a while, the oldest old man stood up, "Back to the general, it's bronze." ”

Zhu Wu touched it in the barrel again, smooth and delicate, much stronger than the guns of the official army.

"Why is there no rifling in there?" Although Zhu Wu didn't know how to make it, he had watched documentaries about artillery during the Civil War and knew that the leap of artillery was rifling.

The craftsman's head hurriedly explained, "The little ones also tried the method you said, but they blew up!" After speaking, he glanced at Zhu Wu carefully, for fear that the young general would draw his knife and cut them.

The meal should be eaten in one bite, Zhu Wu will not blame others, science and technology cannot reach the sky in one step, only the accumulation of talents and continuous investment can have results.

After reading this, I took a look at the swarthy large lengthened iron bucket, which sold a lot differently, and there were hoops in the middle.

"Iron?" Zhu Wu asked, "Why can't it be made like a bronze cannon?" ”

"The little ones really don't have that ability!" The head of the craftsman wept with a sad face, and spoke with a trill, "Pig iron can't be cast into such a big tube. ”

The craftsman in front of him is in his fifties, his face is full of vicissitudes, they are the lowest blacksmiths in the world, they usually build farm tools, but it is really difficult for them to build artillery.

I heard that the best craftsmen in the world are in the capital, or in a larger city. Dingyuan, the county seat, really can't find any talents.

But talking is better than nothing, everything is difficult at the beginning, and there will always be results if you can persevere.

Zhu Wuwen said, "You guys bothered! ”

The craftsmen didn't expect that the young general not only did not blame, but said a good word, and they were immediately a little flattered.

"Don't dare, don't dare!"

"Don't be so careful when talking to me, I don't eat people!" Zhu Wu smiled, "Reload, let's try a shot." ”

After he finished speaking, a few soldiers who had seen firearms loaded under the guidance of craftsmen, and then a group of people hid far away.

Rumble!

With a bang, the bronze cannon body jumped violently, and thick smoke came out.

"Oh my God!"

Li Shanchang, who had been spending money on Zhu Wu on these craftsmen, slipped on the soles of his feet at the moment of the cannon and fell down directly.

Looking ahead in a daze, his beard trembled, as if he was greatly frightened, and muttered for a while, "Why is there such a big movement?" ”

Zhu Wu didn't have time to look at his jokes, so he walked over quickly. Two hundred meters away, a hill that was temporarily piled up with stones, has now been directly pierced.

"That's good!"

I was already prepared for useless thoughts, but I didn't expect that there would be a surprise, there are a few such cannons in the city, and no one is afraid of it.

The people next to him also came over and were secretly surprised. If this is beaten in the crowd, it can beat people to scum. Especially Li Shanchang, his eyes are straight.

"Try again!" Zhu Wu said excitedly.

Then he tried several more shots in succession, until the barrel seemed to be about to explode, and then he stopped.

It seems that the ability of the ancients is still underestimated, although it does not meet the imaginary requirements, but it is also a rare weapon in this era.

"Reward!" Zhu Wu's eyes lit up, "Daoist Xi, you are in charge of the craftsman's workshop, you have to reward these masters!" ”

"It's the gunpowder that Lao Dao is matching!" Xi Yingzhen said proudly, "This thing is still the foundation of the official army's gun, there is no old-fashioned gunpowder, it is still broken copper and iron!" ”

Zhu Wuda smiled, "I know that you are always meritorious!" Try this guy again! ”

Then the iron cannon was charged, and the group retreated again.

Rumble!

Blown up!

Zhu Wu's eyebrows were dancing just now, and his face would be dark. Sure enough, the higher the expectations, the greater the disappointment.

A group of craftsmen hurriedly pleaded guilty and knelt on the ground.

"Not this time, there will be next time, if you lack anything or something, you can ask Daoist Xi directly." Zhu Wu smiled, "Get up, I don't know how to craft, and I know that everything has a gradual process." ”

As he spoke, he asked Xi Yingzhen again, "How much can the bronze cannon do in a month?" ”

Xi Yingzhen stretched out two fingers, "No more, no one!" That's it, these craftsmen. ”

There is still a shortage of people and craftsmen. Zhu Wu sighed, "Then do it according to bronze first, and do as much as you can." ”

Xi Yingzhen didn't speak, and looked at Li Shanchang. The latter was Zhu Wu's housekeeper when he first arrived, and the money was in the hands of others.

"General, there is a word below." Li Shanchang said, "Although I have never seen such a sharp weapon in my life, it seems that attacking the city and plundering the land will do twice the result with half the effort." I don't have much to say about asking for money and things, but..."

As he spoke, he glanced at the craftsmen, "But this thing must not be leaked out, and now I am in the middle of the army......

"Understood!" Zhu Wu said with a smile, "From today onwards, the craftsman workshop will send another team of soldiers to guard it, and no one is allowed to enter and leave at will except me." ”

Confidentiality measures must be done well, Zhu Wubi understands it better than anyone else.

Suddenly, Xi Yingzhen said in a weird way, "Not only is it confidential, this thing can only be used by ourselves, and no one can borrow it in the future!" ”

Zhu Wu was a little embarrassed and said with a smile, "This is natural, in addition, the gun truck has to be made quickly, and this big guy can't carry it." How convenient it is to get a carriage and the animals to pull it away. ”

Xi Yingzhen said, "General rest assured, since the craftsman workshop is handed over to Lao Dao, he will not let you down." ”

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves suddenly came to mind behind him.

Turning around, Guo Xing dared to come on horseback, "Fifth brother, someone from Haozhou is here, the handsome's own soldiers!" ”

……

"Big Brother Flower!"

Zhu Wu rode back to the city, and when he entered the barracks, he saw Guo Zixing's henchmen and guards, and Hua Yun was waiting for him in the room with a few sergeants.

"Zhu Gongzi!" Hua Yun smiled, "I haven't seen you for a few days!" ”

"Just call me Little Five!"

These two people have known each other for a long time, and they have known each other since the inn, and their relationship is much better than that of others.

"Dashuai asked me to call you back to Haozhou!" Hua Yun laughed.

"What's the matter?" Zhu Wu smiled and asked, "Let Brother Hua come in person!" ”

"Let's win the battle, Liu Dashuai of Yingzhou has sent someone to give gifts, and your godmother is also going to enter the city!" Hua Yun said with a smile.

"Who's mother?" Zhu Wuyi didn't understand.

"Your godfather's wife, your godmother!" Hua Yun laughed, "Hurry up and let people clean up the wine and rice, I rushed all the way, and my stomach was already empty!" ”

Only then did Zhu Wu understand that yes, there is a cheap godfather, and there is a cheap godmother.