Not long after the successful creation of the rifled gun, Qin Chuan ushered in another good news: the twelve-pounder cannon was built.

The barrel of this cannon is five feet long, the caliber is three inches and five minutes, and after the test of three times the propellant, there were no problems, Qin Chuan and Chen Zhan built a gun carriage that could adjust the angle up and down, and installed the barrel on the gun carriage.

The early Napoleonic twelve-pounder guns in Europe were cast in bronze, and the barrel alone weighed a thousand pounds, nearly doubling the weight of the gun carriage.

The twelve-pounder cannon of Qinchuan was cast with pig iron, which was a little lighter than copper, but the barrel still weighed 800 catties, and it weighed 1,500 catties when loaded into the gun wagon, and it had to be pulled by two mules.

The bronze cast Napoleonic twelve-pounder cannon fired more than two pounds of propellant, and the effective range was nearly four miles, and a French artillery gun once recorded that it could accurately hit a target three miles away with a single adjustment of the angle.

After the test firing of the 12-pounder cannon cast by Qin Chuan, the maximum propellant was finally set at two catties, nearly ten catties of lead bullets, more than seven catties of iron bullets, and an effective range of three miles.

With such a long range, it can beat the two or three thousand catties of Hongyi cannons like the Ming army and Houjin.

Shells that are heavy enough can be more stable when flying, and with the ranging and aiming method that Chen Zhan learned from the Francophiles, they can have a certain degree of accuracy within a distance of three miles.

The melee power of this cannon is even more terrifying, and the effective killing range of the shotgun can reach more than 200 steps, far exceeding the bird gun, bow and arrow, tiger squat cannon, small Furlong machine gun, etc.

Qin Chuan named this cannon Tianwei General Cannon, and gave Chen Zhan a lot of labor to make more of this cannon.

Today, Emperor Guan's army already has 100 tiger squat cannons, 60 small Fran machines, 30 big Fran machines, 14 red-clothed general cannons, and this newly built Tianwei general cannon.

Chen Zhan had already handed over the manufacture of the Tiger Squat Cannon and the Franc Machine Cannon to other craftsmen, and only concentrated on making the Red General Cannon and the Tianwei General Cannon, striving to make the number of Red General Cannons reach 30 by April next year, and the Tianwei General Cannon should also have more than 10 cannons.

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This year's weather was even colder than last year's, and the ground quickly froze completely, and almost all outdoor operations were stopped.

The drought continues, and there has been no rain in the second half of the year since a few consecutive rains in July, because the air has too little moisture and no snow has fallen for a long time.

It wasn't until mid-December that the hinterland of Luliang Mountain finally ushered in the first snow of the winter, and it continued to fall for several days, and finally the snow thickness in the farmland of the Loufan Valley reached half a foot thick.

Qin Chuan deliberately sent people to explore the surrounding mountains, and only after learning that the snow on Luya Mountain, Zhouhong Mountain, Guandi Mountain and Yunzhong Mountain was basically about a foot thick, he was relieved.

With such a thick layer of snow and the moisture in the permafrost, when the ice and snow melt next year, dozens of reservoirs in Jinglelan County should be able to fill up with water, barely surviving the rainy season in July and August next year.

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On the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, the day after Chinese New Year's Eve, the entire town of Lou Fu was lit up with lights and festivities.

Today, more than 140 couples are getting married.

Among them are Luo Daniu and Li Anru, as well as Liu Youzhu and Meng Guiming's nieces.

Since returning from that expedition, Luo Da Niu got into Li Anru's boudoir and the overlord made a bow, Li Anru has completely fallen.

It's just that Luo Da Niu still licks a dog, the type of leper dog, and changes his ways to please Li Anru all day long.

For this, Liu Youzhu made fun of him a lot, and in three days, he showed how obedient and well-behaved his daughter-in-law was in front of Luo Da Niu, and when he saw Luo Da Niu being chased by Li Anru with a kitchen knife, he also pulled a group of Guan Di soldiers to applaud on the side.

Every time Li Anru just went back, Luo Daniu immediately changed into a fierce look, and brought a few Guan Di Jun, who laughed the most, out and beat him violently.

But on the day of the wedding, Li Anru was very well-behaved, obediently kowtowing to Qin Chuan for tea, and he didn't hear the beating and scolding after entering the cave room.

Qin Chuan sent someone to inform the Li family, but none of the Li family came.

After learning that Li Anru was married to Qin Chuan's subordinates, Li Pingdu also said that he would cut off the relationship with her and Li Yueru and no longer recognize these two daughters.

After Qin Chuan told the two sisters of the Li family the news, the two girls cried for a long time, Li Anru was fine, and it was okay to cry for a long time, but Li Yueru cried for a few days.

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Because of the cold weather and frequent delays in supplies, the Ming army's suppression of bandits was extremely slow.

The Ming army in Henan was insufficiently deployed, and the defense of various places was empty, and after the Liukou entered Henan, it was like a fish entering the sea, as if entering a no-man's land, and more than 10 prefectures and counties were captured one after another, and a large amount of grain was looted, and the hungry people from all over the country were in an endless stream.

The Liukou army grew rapidly, and the troops were divided, some stayed in Henan, some entered Huguang, some bypassed Tongguan and entered Shaanxi, and some repeatedly jumped between Henan and Shanxi.

Among them, Zhang Bingzhong went all the way west to Hanzhong, approaching Sichuan, but met the Sichuan Tusi Qin Liangyu head-on, Zhang Bingzhong was afraid of the prestige of Qin Liangyu and his Sichuan soldiers, turned around and ran, was chased by Qin Liangyu for hundreds of miles, killed so that he lost his armor and lost his armor, and ran back to Henan in disgrace.

In the city of Beijing, Zhu Youzhen has become more and more irritable recently, and he has been angry more and more often in the early dynasty.

Jin Shaanxi Yu came to suppress the bandits ineffectively, and the plan to attack and kill Qin Chuan also failed, but he hung 400 heads outside Taiyuan City, which made the people in the Yangqu area of Taiyuan talk about Lou annoyance Qin Chuan, and they all changed color.

This is a provocation, a naked provocation!

When the news of the blossoming and fruiting of the head tree reached the Jingshi, the entire government and the opposition were in a sensation, and the wine stalls and tea shops in the streets were all talking about it, and the storyteller began to portray Qin Chuan as the fierce god reincarnated by Zhu Yan, who passed through the bloody wind and rain, and the blood pointed out by the soldiers flowed like a river.

There are also people who depict Jingle Lan County and Lou Fan as hell on earth, with human heads hanging everywhere on trees and eaves, and all the window paper in Lou Fan Mengjiazhuang is covered with human skin......

At night, when the child cries, the adults begin to scare the child: if you cry again, Qin Chuan will come.

Some people remembered that after Qin Chuan was attacked and killed by Jiannu, he sent people to Yangqu to say in front of many officials in Shanxi: Blood flows like a river.

It was really a river of blood.

Snowflakes poured into the Forbidden City and piled up on Zhu Youzhen's desk.

When Zhu Youzhen saw the pile of songs, he was so angry that he scolded: I have wanted to kill the Qin thieves for a long time, do you need to remind you civil officials who don't do anything serious every day and only think about impeachment and impeachment?

Then, Zhu Youzhen asked Wang Chengen to burn those songs.

Then, in the early dynasties, countless officials came out of class one after another, and various depictions of heavenly soldiers and generals entering Luliang Mountain would definitely crush the Qin thieves into dust.

Wen Tiren, the first assistant of the cabinet, and Wang Yingxiong, He Wuyu, and other important ministers who were newly promoted to the university, also went out one after another, and asked Zhu Youzhen to send troops to attack Luliang Mountain.

In addition, there are also officials who impeached Wang Pu, Ni Chong, and the prison army Lu Jiude, Yang Jinchao and others for believing in the thieves and missing the opportunity to destroy the Liukou, so that the Liukou were able to cross the Yellow River south and plunder the land of Henan.

Wen Tiren and many officials immediately interceded for Wang Pu and others, saying that this matter was because Xu Dingchen, the governor of Shanxi, and Zhang Zongheng, the governor of Xuanda, were ineffective in supervising the war, and Cao Wenzhao, Zuo Liangyu, Li Bei and other soldiers and horses were delayed in entering the army, so they missed this opportunity.

Soon, there was another fight in the court.

It didn't take long for it to develop into a group fight.

Zhu Youzhen was so angry that he smashed all the pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the desk, so that the court calmed down and continued to discuss business.

Some people say that the main reason for this matter is that there is no unified dispatch of soldiers and horses from all walks of life, and it is proposed that the governor of Hong Chengchou should enter Henan to suppress bandits, and transfer a few more troops and horses from Shandong and Shuntianfu, and Hong Chengchou will coordinate and dispatch the armies of Xuanda and Xuanda on both sides, attack Luliang Mountain, and exterminate the Qin thieves.

As soon as this suggestion was put forward, some people immediately came out to oppose it, saying that the Mongolian Zar Khan Department was in the area of Kouluo and Gansu from time to time, and if Hong Chengchou left Shaanxi, he was afraid that Zar Khan would take advantage of it.

After a lot of fighting, Wen Tiren and others finally proposed that Chen Qiyu, the governor of Yansui, be the governor of the five provinces, coordinate the army to quell the bandits, and exterminate the Qin thieves.

Zhu Youzhen weighed left and right and agreed to the proposal of Wen Tiren and others.

In this way, Chen Qiyu, who made a big mistake in Chexia that could change the course of history, took office ahead of schedule and was the governor of the military affairs of the five provinces of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Huguang and Sichuan.

Almost at the same time, in the city of Shenyang, Huang Taiji and Zhong Beile also agreed to send troops to attack Xuanda in April.

Chongzhen for seven years, wind and rain are coming.