February 22 of the sixth year of Chongzhen, Shenyang City, Taizheng Palace.

The emperor sat on the dragon chair, deaf to the crackling whipping in the hall, only closed his eyes and gently rubbed the slightly swollen forehead.

Ao Bai was naked, revealing a scarred horizontal flesh, kneeling on the ground, clenching his teeth and not saying a word.

The Yellow Flag Gushan Ezhen Darhan held a whip in his hand and whipped it again and again on his thick back.

Not long after, Darhan put away his whip, knelt on the ground and said respectfully: "Great Khan, the whipping is twenty full, please show the Great Khan." ”

Huang Taiji opened his eyes at this time, looked at the sweaty but silent bow with an expressionless face, and said lightly: "Calm down, if there is a next time, I will not forgive." ”

"Thank you for the great Khan's grace of not killing."

Ao Bai kowtowed three times, but did not stand up, but said respectfully: "Great Khan, the slave is willing to wear the crime and make meritorious service, when the Great Khan wields the Ming court, the slave is willing to be the vanguard, go straight to Shanxi Loufu, take the head of Qinchuan Xiang, and worship the warriors of my Dajin Kingdom." ”

"Hmm."

Huang Taiji was noncommittal, and said expressionlessly: "According to the news from the Xuanfu, that Qin Chuan killed a commander of the three products, and also killed three hundred private soldiers, and then hung his head outside Taiyuan City, in order to deter the officials of the three places of Jin Xuanda. ”

"This time, the bold and reckless man has made a big disaster, the Ming Emperor and the Manchu Dynasty civil and military will not tolerate him, it won't be long before the army of the Ming Dynasty will attack Lou Fu and ask the reckless man for blame."

Speaking of this, Huang Taiji rubbed the corners of his forehead again, and after pondering for a while, he suddenly sat up straight and said, "Yue Tuo, Darhan, Aobai, you three listen to orders." ”

When the words fell, Yue Tuo walked out from the side, clapped his sleeves and knelt down.

"Servants await the will of the Great Khan."

"Ben Khan ordered you to lead six Niulu 1,200 banner soldiers to Guihua City, and coordinate the left and right two battalions of the Hetao Departments, with Yue Tuo as the main general, Darhan as the deputy general, Ao Bai as the vanguard, and garrison the Qingshui River area."

"When the reckless man surnamed Qin is cornered by the Ming court, Ben Khan will send someone to recruit him, and when the time comes, you will bring him from the Bitou Pass into Lanzhou and go to meet him."

Hearing this, Ao Bai raised his head abruptly and asked in disbelief: "That person surnamed Qin has killed so many warriors of the Great Jin Kingdom, and the Great Khan wants to recruit him?" ”

Huang Taiji glanced at him indifferently, and said lightly: "The two armies are fighting, and casualties are inevitable, but each is its own master, the reason why he killed so many warriors of the Great Jin Kingdom can only be said that you and Ah Shan's skills are not as good as others, Deng Laikong has virtue Geng Zhongming can surrender, why can't he surrender?" ”

At this time, the Great Belle Daishan on the side suddenly spoke: "Great Khan, that Qinchuan is just a thousand households, and there are only a few hundred capable warriors under his command, which cannot be compared with Kong Youde Geng Zhongming, why did the Great Khan go to such great lengths to recruit him?" ”

Dolgon, who was young and vigorous, also took over: "Yes, that surnamed Qin is from the mountains and forests, a reckless man, if he takes the initiative to vote, how can He De let my Dajin Kingdom be so prosperous and mobilize the people, and go to meet him?" ”

Huang Taiji frowned and snorted coldly: "Do you really think that he is just a reckless man?" ”

Seeing that he was angry, Dai Shan and the others hurriedly bowed their heads and remained silent, not daring to say anything more.

Huang Taiji took a deep breath, eased his face, and said expressionlessly: "He can pretend to be the Fan family caravan to attack and kill Turush, destroy Ahsan with gunpowder, and resist the elite of the two hundred Great Golden Kingdom with a mere hundred guards, and so on, do you really think that he is just a reckless man?" ”

Dai Shan and the others buried their heads lower.

"If he can surrender, my Dajin can add a fierce general, if he refuses to surrender, and can escape the catastrophe of the Ming army, it will definitely become a big trouble for my Dajin country in the future."

"Of course, if he doesn't surrender, Ben Khan will find a way to get rid of him by the hands of the Ming army, Yue Tuo, you can wait until you go to the Qingshui River and see the opportunity to act."

"The minions obey."

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Except for the four hours when Chen Zhan slept, he spent the rest of his time in the cannon factory, leading craftsmen to make cannons day and night.

The speed of making cannons with iron molds is much faster than that of clay molds, a set of iron molds can be used dozens of times, as long as it cools down, as long as Chen Zhan is free, he can make cannons again.

It is too time-consuming to boring the barrel, and it takes a few days to boring the barrel and polishing the barrel after a cannon is cast, and a small cannon like the Tiger Squat Cannon can be done in two or three days, but a cannon with a larger caliber will take several days, or even ten days and half a month.

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p; Qin Chuan engaged in a set of assembly line methods, readjusted the staffing of the gun factory, and divided it into five teams, one team led by Yan Sanqi, specializing in smelting, one team specializing in casting the cannon body, one team boring the cannon tube, one team responsible for polishing the gun body, and the last team making gun trucks.

The different processes are handled by special personnel, which not only improves the production efficiency, but also trains the skilled craftsmen of the corresponding processes, and the quality of the artillery produced is slightly improved compared with the previous artillery.

After adjusting the production method, the Tiger Squat Cannon and the 2-foot-8-inch Small Franc cannon can produce one in an average of three days, the 5-foot Big Franc cannon takes about five days, and the red-coated six-pounder cannon takes 10 days.

Of course, the actual production efficiency is certainly not that high, because there are scrap products.

Once there is a scrap product, it means that those days of hard work are in vain.

Today, the artillery factory has built a total of 10 Tiger squat guns, 6 small Fran cannons, 2 large Fran cannons, and only the two of the 6-pounder guns in red have been tried before.

Among them, Ninghua is equipped with six tiger squat guns, three small Fran long machine guns, and one big Buddha long machine.

For the time being, Jingyou Town only has two tiger squat cannons and one red-coated six-pounder cannon, and there are no Francose machines.

The rest of the artillery will stay in Lou Fu, but only temporarily, and when the time comes, it will be transported from Lou Fu, and most of the artillery will be concentrated in Jingyou.

This place is the northern gateway of Lou Fu, after Ninghua can't hold it, it can still retreat to Jingyou, and the big families in Lan County will definitely come to join in the fun and fight with the Ming army, so this place must be heavily guarded.

Now the artillery factory is still working day and night, and when the Ming army comes, there will be four or five more tiger squat guns and a big Franc machine.

The musket factory was also working day and night, and eighty boring machines were running the rest of the time, except for the cooling time.

Li Xuejing made a total of a hundred flintlock pistols, of which fifty were sent to the Ninghua Institute, and the rest were all left in Lou Fu.

Flintlock pistols were made more efficiently than guns, mainly because drilling the barrel was too time-consuming.

After Yan Sanqi made the reverberatory furnace-type crucible to make iron, the iron quality obtained was greatly improved compared with before, and the quality of the drill bits, bearings and other workpieces created by this was also correspondingly improved, and now the time spent on drilling a barrel has been controlled within 20 days.

For Qin Chuan, this speed is still very slow, and the yield rate is still only about sixty percent, eighty boring machines work for a cycle of twenty days, can only get less than fifty barrels, plus the time spent on making other workpieces, installation, etc., about 60 flintlock pistols can be made in a month.

The only way to increase production is to increase the number of boring machines and expand the production line.

But Qinchuan faced a very important problem: Mengjiazhuang lacked space and could no longer expand the production line.

Unless the barracks of the Guan Emperor's army are moved out, Mengjiazhuang is completely converted into a military factory.

Qin Chuan planned to repel the Ming army, and after he was busy with spring ploughing, he would expand Mengjiazhuang, expand it by 100 zhang, and build a military fort, with the Guandi military barracks in front and the military factory in the back.

It is also necessary to build several workshops under the outlets of several reservoirs, where water-powered boring machines are used, where the barrels are drilled, and the finished barrels are produced and then transported back to the military factories for assembly.

Anyway, Mengjiazhuang is only ten miles away from those reservoirs, and it is only five miles away.

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According to the news that Zhao Wu and Lao Huang found out, Xuanda and Lanzhou were already dispatching troops, and the border army of Xuanda was gathering in the area of Shuozhou and Lanzhou, the number of which is unknown for the time being, but it was by no means less than 3,000 people.

Because the snow and ice had not yet melted, the mule and horse-drawn carts could not pass, so the grain and grass had not yet been transported.

With today's weather conditions, it is estimated that after Qingming, the ice and snow will gradually melt by the beginning of March, and after the flowers are completely bloomed in mid-March, the Ming army will move south.

Until then, Qin Chuan planned to solve a small trouble in the south first.

On February 26 of the sixth year of Chongzhen, there were still two days before the Qingming Festival.

Qin Chuan led a hundred red-clothed attendants, and Luo Daniu's six hundred first camps to leave Lou Fu, and headed towards Tieshigou Mountain.

There is a big Franco cannon, four small Franco, and four tiger squat cannons.

The red-clothed six-pounder cannon was not brought, because the mountain road was difficult to travel, and the cannon was too heavy, even if it was loaded with a gun carriage, it would be difficult to transport it across Tieshigou Mountain.

Those few small cannons are enough.

Qin Chuan is going to clean up Wang Gang, Leopard Wu and Ren Liang.

lest when the Ming army came to attack, these hanging hairs stabbed knives in the back.