After a short break, Fang Nan continued to deal with government affairs, and the top one was a report from Foshan.

In just a few days, through the efforts of a team of craftsmen from Hutou Village led by Wang Dazhui, the Foshan Arsenal has successfully cast a grenade and is in mass production.

In the two battles of He Yanbu's capture of Guangzhou City and Zhaoqing Fucheng, the role of hand grenades was completely revealed, and for the People's Army, which lacked close combat strength, hand grenades were a very good supplement, effectively improving the close combat strength of the People's Army.

No matter how fierce the Ming army is, it will be destroyed under the power of grenades.

In Fang Nan's view, as long as grenades are mass-produced and grenadier units are equipped, the problem of the People's Army blocking the third encirclement and suppression of the Ming Army is no longer very big, but in the case of a lack of firearms troops, the People's Army will have more casualties.

Whether in the past or at present, the three types of firearms that the KPA is mainly equipped with: muskets, artillery, and grenades, muskets are the most important.

If there are enough tiger guns, at a distance of several hundred meters, the KPA will be able to wipe out the enemy.

It's a pity that the manufacturing process of the tiger head gun is too high, and the People's Army can almost be said to have no industrial base, relying entirely on labor, so that it has an output of more than 150 pieces per month, which is still achieved through the joint efforts of the Hutouzhai Arsenal and the Yongan County Arsenal.

There are not enough Tiger Guns to defeat the enemy, so the KPA needs to engage in close combat with the enemy, and this is when the grenades begin to wield.

Although the power of the grenade containing black powder is not large, as long as the number is large enough, it is also a large area, and the battle between Guangzhou City and Zhaoqing Fucheng is enough to prove the role of grenades.

Both the tiger head gun and the grenade have a big effect, only the role of the artillery does not look great, of course, this is only relatively.

If one side is armed with hundreds of artillery pieces and the other side is in a dense formation, these hundreds of artillery pieces can fire hundreds of solid shells in a single salvo, which can bring more than 500 casualties to the enemy, and no one who is injured will be slightly injured.

And if a person is hit by a solid shell, how miserable the scene is, the morale of the side that suffered the shelling will definitely plummet.

In the past, when the People's Army and the Ming Army were fighting, the number of artillery of the People's Army was far inferior to that of the Ming Army, but in order to prevent shelling, the first offensive target of the People's Army was often the artillery positions of the Ming Army, and the artillery positions of the Ming Army were scrapped as much as possible.

During the siege of the city, there were Ming artillery on the city wall, and there was a large distance between people when the People's Army attacked the city, and the Ming army's artillery bombardment brought fewer casualties to the People's Army at this time.

By taking most of Guangdong, the number of artillery pieces possessed by the People's Army increased greatly, further increasing the strength of the firearms unit.

The manufacture of grenades is relatively simple, and the Foshan Arsenal is relatively easy to manufacture, while the tiger head gun still needs a few days to manufacture the first one, but the manpower machine tools necessary to make the tiger head gun are being built in large quantities.

According to Wang's estimates, by February, the Foshan Arsenal would be able to produce at least 300 Tiger Head Guns a month, much more than the combined output of the Tiger Head Zhai Arsenal and the Yongan County Arsenal.

This is still in the Foshan arsenal craftsmen are not skilled in the case, with the skilled craftsmen, the production of tiger head guns will increase rapidly, if the hydraulic machine tool is better than the human machine tool, with the addition of hydraulic machine tools, the output of tiger head gun will skyrocket.

But it also takes time.

After reading this report, Fang Nan had a little confidence in facing the Ming Court, and after thinking about it briefly, Fang Nan made instructions to ask the Foshan Arsenal to manufacture more grenades, and mass produce tiger head guns as soon as possible, as long as the scheduled tasks are completed, one-third of the salary will be issued as a bonus, and the more grenades, tiger head guns, and Franc cannons manufactured under the condition of ensuring quality, the more bonuses will be.

Fang Nan knew that the craftsmen of the Foshan Arsenal were doing their best to build firearms, and on this basis, Fang Nan took out bonuses and incentives, hoping to build more firearms.

Money incentives this kind of thing, the Ming army likes to do the most, and the effect is also good, in order to get promoted and make a fortune, many Ming soldiers will rush forward like crazy people.

The KPA rarely uses monetary incentives, but it can be used when necessary, and under the influence of money, the craftsmen will give 12 cents to work.

Put down this report from Foshan and look at the next report, this one is from Huizhou City.

Chen Feiying, mayor of Huizhou City, wrote in his report that hundreds of people in many places in Huizhou City want to join the People's Army, and these people are all from large families and want to seek an official position in the People's Army government at all levels.

In the past, there were only a few people who wanted to join the People's Army, but as the People's Army occupied most of Guangdong in successive battles, more people from large families wanted to join the People's Army.

They are all "intellectuals" who think very highly of themselves and are unwilling to serve as petty officials or anything, and obtaining an official position, regardless of whether high or low, is the only requirement for them to join the People's Army.

In this regard, Fang Nan directly gave instructions: just ignore it.

As the People's Army has more and more territory, the next batch of talents cultivated by its own system has not yet come out, and it has become inevitable to accept talents from the old era who are willing to join the People's Army.

However, Fang Nan planned to wait a little longer, and wait until the People's Army resisted the third encirclement and suppression of the Ming Dynasty, and then the People's Army would be able to give more people confidence, and these people who wanted to join the People's Army would not be half-hearted.

And if you want to join the People's Army, you have to meet one requirement, that is, you can write simplified characters, and everyone can write simplified characters, which is a system.

Now if someone strongly asks to join the People's Army, they can also agree, but they must start as a junior official, and they can also join the army and become a soldier of the People's Army, but the possibility of the latter is very small, and the possibility of the former is not very large, after all, these people think very highly of themselves, and it will not be so easy to put down their bodies to become a low-level official.

Read the instructions one by one, and soon the sky darkened, Fang Nan temporarily stopped work, had dinner, and continued to give instructions and reports after dinner, and generally had to be busy until he rested.

Separated from Hu Xiaoya for more than a month, Fang Nan missed it very much, originally Hu Xiaoya should have come to Guangzhou City, but Zhou Lei's second wife still had a big belly, Hu Xiaoya continued to stay in Hutou Village to accompany her, and most of the high-level family members of the People's Army were in Hutou Village.

It will be almost the middle of the year that Hu Xiaoya will come to Guangzhou City, which will take a long time to wait, and Fang Nan can't take the time to go back to visit, so he can only express his thoughts through letters.