Indeed, as Min Yuanqi said, everyone thinks that the Liukou should go south at the end of this year or the beginning of next year. Because he first got the Beijing Division, he could not do it without a few months of hard work to gather the soldiers of the Nine Frontiers and pacify the Beijing Division, sort out the state capitals in the north, and determine the territory from Guanzhong Shanxi to the Beijing Division.

It's already May, and it's too tight to make the trip when the autumn season is high.

In winter and early spring, the horses were exhausted, and it was quite difficult to use the troops in the cold.

Therefore, at the end of the year, the first part of the army arrived in Shandong and Xuzhou, and the main force of the army began to move south in February and March next year, and arrived at the Xuhuai battlefield in April and May, which was almost exactly one year.

In fact, this is also a relatively optimistic algorithm, if it were not for the fierce battle of the Qing army, the main force of the Qing army pursued to Shanxi and Henan, and fought many times with the main force of the army in Henan and Tongguan, the Qing army in the south is afraid that it will be a few months earlier, a major event that dominates the world, who has the patience to wait for a long time?

If Li Zicheng can successfully harvest the mountains and seas of Jizhou in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Wu Sangui will surrender and sort out the northern defense in just a few months.

Send a part of the troops from Shaanxi to the pass, along the Beijing division to Henan and Shandong, part of the troops along the Jingxiang River, several roads of at least 300,000 troops, with the southern Ming monarchs and ministers, others are not easy to say, Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo must either run away or surrender, the general trend of history will not change much, and the fall of the Hongguang Dynasty will only be sooner rather than later.

Shen Yong calculated that there were more than 100 guns a month, so that there would be more than 1,000 guns by next year.

According to the plan of the lord in front of him, he can establish an army of more than 10,000 people in three battalions by next year, so that he can be qualified to wrestle with the southbound army.

According to the establishment of three battalions, the number of cavalry trapped in the war horses can not be counted, but the gunners are two spears with a sword flag team, and then two firearms, a division will have about 500 people in the future, 200 pikemen with 200 guns, a thousand headquarters and four divisions with 2,000 people, a battalion with 4,000 people, the configuration of firearms is at least nearly 1,000, and the three battalions need about 3,000 guns, and the gap is too big.

Shen Yong's face is ugly, if he delays the big plan of the adults, he will not be able to resist the southward rogues in the next spring, even if he can coerce the people to flee south across the river, but in this large area in front of him, the homeland where he has lived for more than 200 years will have to be abandoned, not only that, but I don't know how many people will die on the way to escape.

Even in modern times, hundreds of years later, people are easy to feel tired when they go out, and even have colds, fevers or gastrointestinal problems, which is called adaptation.

This reaction is based on each person's physique, in fact, hundreds of years later, people eat and drink things have been roughly similar, and there are subtle differences in eating habits, such as Cantonese cuisine pays attention to the original taste, Hunan cuisine is spicy-based, Huaiyang cuisine pays attention to the knife work of ingredients, and Jiangnan cuisine has many dishes that are too sweet and greasy for outsiders to eat.

However, the various cuisines are also gradually merging and converging, and in slightly larger cities, there will not only be various local cuisines, but even foreign restaurants such as Thai food, Vietnamese food, and Japanese food.

In the era of the Ming Dynasty, more than 100 miles is different dialect accents, different diets, different customs, different climates, and there is no high-speed rail car to travel, ninety out of nine people who fled do not even have a mule and horse, so they can only walk every day. When fleeing, the physical exertion was fast, the diet could not keep up, and most of the people were malnourished, so after escaping for ten days and half a month, the strong men were also emaciated, and the old people were the first to fall, and then the women and children.

Shen Yong fled from the southeast of Shandong, and he didn't know how many refugees he saw on the way.

The old man fell to the ground, and the woman cried with her sick and starving child.

The expressionless man digs the grave and buries his wife and children.

Along the way, people not only have to fight hunger, disease and exhaustion, but also an endless stream of bandits and bandits roar and horses, forcibly plundering people, snatching the little food that people have left, ignoring the howling of the refugees' families, plundering beautiful women and women, and carrying away the backbone of the family.

All kinds of tragic circumstances make Shen Yongshi often wake up from nightmares after more than ten years!

In this life, he would never want to embark on that miserable escape again! Of course, Shen Yong was also unwilling to watch the soldiers and civilians of Yunti Pass forced to embark on the road of fleeing and wandering.

When people leave their hometowns, even if they are a few broken houses, they can barely shelter from the wind and rain, and they can make a living with a few acres of thin fields. Once he left his hometown, he stayed under the eaves of other people's houses, by the ditches, and beside the road, pointing to the big households in other places to give porridge and put food, often not eating a mouthful of hot food for several days, under the bleak wind and cold rain, shivering and shivering under the eaves of others, looking at people's eyes, Shen Yong's impression of such things was too deep.

Just think about it, it is impossible to increase the progress of the drill pipe, and there is no other way to think of it.

Min Yuanqi had already strode into the workshop, looking at more than a hundred craftsmen and apprentices drilling pipes with a flat face.

In fact, now it is the apprentices who are doing this work, and most of the skilled craftsmen are to make bird parts or armor, and a small number are to make spears, waist knives, or shields to make spears, shields, and knives.

The crafting side of the weapon is the most lively, tinkling from morning to night, in fact, this job is also the easiest.

It is a folk blacksmith who has never fought a weapon, looks at each other for a few days by the side of the craftsmen, and then asks for some technical details, and tries to fight for a few days, and is almost qualified.

The important thing is that the charcoal fire must be sufficient, the furnace must be qualified, and the tools must be excellent, and then you can just watch those craftsmen forge it.

There is enough fine iron, Sugang, the tip of these spears and the blade of the Qi knife are all made of steel, and the whole body is made of fine iron. Such weapons, even if they are the most worthless spears, the tip of the gun, the holster, the barrel, the two and five guns are three or two to three two five, compared to those shoddy folk spears that are not worth a spear head, a gun barrel, one or two are not worth it, and the military standard spear here in Yuntiguan can also be said to be the top quality spear in the Ming Dynasty.

Min Yuanqi also did not ask people to fight those strange spears, what hook sickle guns, tiger tooth guns, big guns, pick guns and the like, all of them are made of two and five long and short guns, the gun formation is divided into two or three rows, the front row of long guns, the back row is slightly shorter, and the front and rear can complement each other.

The spear is also quite long, not too short.

The saber used by the knife player is also all according to the shape of the Qi knife, the blade is made of steel, and the fine iron is made, so the Qi knife is generally worth six or seven taels of silver, and it is also excellent and abnormal.

As for the borehole handle, either change to a short gun, or use the old weapon first.

Min Yuanqi had a feeling that the boring handle was quite good for making short knives as the main way to make up for the leaks and mending knives, but in the face of the charging Eight Banners cavalry boring handle was thin and fragile, he was considering another weapon, and he had to go to the test with Min Yuanzhi for the time to decide whether to change all the weapons in the hands of the boring handle.

Weapons are easy to make, and the firearm in front of you is the biggest problem.

Each of the more than 100 apprentices had a fine iron pipe in his hand, and there was a splint at the bottom of his foot to fix the pipe, and all of them stood and drilled the fine iron pipe with a drill bar.

Even if a sinker steel drill is used to drill fine iron pipes, the speed visible to the naked eye is almost invisible to the progress.

The apprentices in front of me are all fifteen or sixteen years old to twenty-five or sixteen, all of them are healthy, strong and ingenious, many of them are from hundreds of households around them, they originally came to participate in the training of the flag army, hoping to get a way out, but because of the excellent and excellent in the assessment, only a small number were sent to the cavalry, and most of them stayed in the workshop as apprentices.

This result made many apprentices dissatisfied, but when they learned that the craftsmen's income was higher than that of the banner army, their families were quite satisfied no matter what.

There is no need to practice hard and sweat, and there is no need to fight the battlefield, as long as you exert some strength in the workshop and the shed, you can get a higher income than the ordinary flag army, and you want more?

The salary is high, and the study is serious, just a little more than a month of effort, at least more than 100 apprentices drill up the gun pipe to be presentable, not like the beginning, either crooked or oblique, it is difficult to drill out of the qualified gun tube, that will be the veterans are the main, the apprentices are watching from the side, taking the abandoned gun pipe to practice.

This is also the reason why only more than 30 guns have been made now, and there were too few veterans before.

The gun pipe is rolled with two fine iron pipes, one large and one small, and the previous forging and casting will take a lot of effort, so that the rolling is mainly to thicken the gun pipe, so that it can not be easily exploded.

As long as the manufacturing process is standardized, even if it is inevitable that there is a certain possibility of exploding, the risk of exploding the chamber under normal operation is extremely small or even negligible.

That is to say, those officials of the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty who do not care about things at all, and who mainly pursue the corruption of materials, as well as those official craftsmen who are enslaved as slaves, can create a useless firearm that must be blown up three times.

Min Yuanqi was extremely satisfied with the quality of these pipes in front of him, but when he saw the apprentice with a steel head drill pipe, he could only sigh and shake his head.

Everyone has done their best, but when they get into the shape of their bodies and tremble and sweat profusely, looking at the progress in front of them, it is estimated that it is still a normal progress of about an inch a day.

One inch a day, when the drill reaches the qualified progress, it will take exactly a month.

If we want to speed up the progress of drilling pipes to reach the minimum standard of more than 300 pipes per month, the number of apprentices in front of us will nearly double.

Where can I find so many good seedlings that can be used quickly?

Yuntiguan is said to be the boundary of the health office, but each hundred households are no different from villages, that is, enough talents are selected from the countryside.

It is precisely from the villages that it is the most difficult to select talents.

Long-term poverty, isolation, and conservatism, coupled with the lack of information, people in the village may not be born with poor intelligence, but in childhood, their experience and growth are far behind by the children in the city, and when they grow up, this gap is even more obvious, they are even stupid enough to distinguish between left and right, do not know the simplest addition and subtraction within ten, and do not understand the most basic common sense such as politics, culture, and military at all.

Even fewer people understand things like handicraft that require technology and common sense.