On April 16, the fourth year of Zhongxing in the Ming Dynasty, the firing pistol and new cannon developed based on the new gunpowder and primer were finally finalized and began to be put into mass production.

"Your Majesty, this is the firing pistol developed by the minister!" Ji Niansheng from the firearms workshop handed a firing pistol to Zhu Cijiao.

The gun is a breech-loading firing pistol, the body of the gun is about one meter long, and it can be loaded with a bayonet, although it can only be loaded with one bullet at a time, but it is also a weapon that is ahead of the times, and any army can run rampant in the world.

Zhu Ci is the soul of later generations, although he can draw drawings for the Firearms Bureau to directly manufacture the most advanced semi-automatic rifles, but he did not choose to do so, he always believes that everything must have a step-by-step process, too much to pull out the seedlings to promote it is not beautiful, after all, he can draw the drawings, but the current Ming in terms of craftsmanship can not keep up, even if he barely makes it, it will inevitably not be applicable.

"Ji Niansheng is meritorious! Reward! "Not only Ji Niansheng, but all the craftsmen involved in the research and development of firearms are rewarded.

"Thank Emperor Longen!" Ji Niansheng was a little excited, the reward was secondary, the most important thing was the emperor's appreciation and praise.

After reading the guns and cannons, Zhu Ciji also went to see it.

I saw a new cannon slightly smaller than the Shenwu field cannon placed in the stands.

This was developed by Chen Xin, the director of the Firearms Bureau, before he died, but unfortunately before it could be mass-produced, Chen Xin was killed by thieves.

This cannon is also a rear-loading firing gun, with a caliber of 90 mm, because the shell is a new type of high-spirit, powerful, more than twice as powerful as the current Shenwu field cannon of the Yinglong Army, plus a greatly shortened firing speed, twenty such cannons can catch up with the power of hundreds of field Shenwu cannons.

"Xiuxiu, it's been a few days since you took over the Firearms Bureau, it's not easy!" Zhu Ci stumbled and looked at Chen Xiuxiu beside him and asked.

Chen Xiuxiu was stroking the ninety millimeter cannon developed by Chen Xin before his death with a sad face at the moment, which was the most cherished thing for her grandfather before his death, and there were traces of his grandfather on it.

Hearing Zhu Ci's question, Chen Xiuxiu came back to her senses from her memories.

"It's okay, I was a little scrambling for the first two days, but now it's much better." Chen Xiuxiu exhaled and said, it could be heard from her tone that she must have had an extremely hard time in the past few days when she took over the Firearms Bureau.

Zhu Ci nodded and did not continue to ask in detail, since he said that he would give Chen Xiuxiu a month, it would be a month, in fact, Chen Xiuxiu's performance in the past few days had already made Zhu Cixiu feel very satisfied.

When Chen Xiuxiu first took over, for some reasons, there was indeed some chaos, but it was solved very well by Chen Xiuxiu, as far as a sixteen-year-old girl is concerned, there is no big mess, it is an achievement, Zhu Ci has a feeling, even if he is replaced by anyone else to take over the firearms bureau, he can't do anything better than Chen Xiuxiu.

Today, Zhu Cixiu has a firm determination in his heart, and Chen Xiuxiu will definitely be able to do better in this position in a month.

"Now that the Northern Expedition is imminent, the Ying Long Army urgently needs to be equipped with new equipment, and you have to pay close attention to the production of the Firearms Bureau, and strive to produce enough guns and cannons for the Ying Long Army to be reequipped in the shortest possible time!" Zhu Ci said.

According to Zhu Ci's original plan, the army will start the Northern Expedition in September at most, and within a month or two before that, the Ying Long army must all change its outfits, and then have a period of adaptation, so that the Ying Long army can be invincible and invincible during the Northern Expedition!

Speaking of the Northern Expedition not long after, Chen Xiuxiu was obviously stunned, and there was an obvious hatred in her eyes.

Immediately, this hatred was suppressed by her again.

"Don't worry, my emperor brother, Xiuxiu won't let you down, all guns and cannons will be produced in full force within three months!" Chen Xiuxiu smiled, quite playful, but there was incomparable firmness in her tone.

Those weapons will be used to kill Manchus in the future, and Chen Xiuxiu must try his best to ensure that the Firearms Bureau can produce them before the Northern Expedition of the Great Army.

Zhu Ci also smiled, he believed in Chen Xiuxiu's assurance, this is a meticulous girl who has inherited Chen Xin's character and temperament.

The Ming Dynasty was in full swing to produce weapons, and the Manchu Qing also imitated the first field cannon under the full urging of Dolgon.

In the end, it was imitated, the Manchu Qing field cannon weighed hundreds of pounds more than the Ming Dynasty's field cannon, the whole cannon weighed more than 500 pounds, and the cannon body was also relatively rough, presumably the power would also be affected.

The cannon was soon presented to Dolgon.

Although the imitation of the Qing Dynasty field cannon was not as good as the Ming Dynasty's Shenwu field cannon, Dolgon was already very satisfied.

Of course, he is not satisfied and has no time, he knows very well that the Ming army will inevitably go north within this year, and the Qing Dynasty is weak, and only by producing enough artillery can it compete with the Ying Long army, and even destroy the Ying Long army.

"With the existence of this cannon, the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners can be more than doubled!" Dorgon said confidently.

More than 500 catties of cannons, after disassembly, the heaviest parts are only 200 catties, the war horse can be consigned, according to the excitement of the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry, plus this kind of field cannon that can follow the Eight Banners to march quickly, Dolgon just thought about it and felt his blood boiling.

Although the wolf was not able to get the secret of the two secret weapons newly developed by the Ming Dynasty, Dolgon thought that it would not be more threatening than the field artillery, and the Qing Dynasty had field artillery, coupled with the 40,000 Qing Yinglong army secretly trained, Dolgon was already more than fifty percent sure of smashing the Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty and stabilizing the rule of the Qing Dynasty in the north.

In that year, the defeat of Xuzhou caused the Qing Dynasty to be weaker than the Ming Dynasty in terms of strength comparison, and Dolgon wanted to bring back this decline in the next decisive battle, and beat the Ming Dynasty's momentum back, so that the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty's strength comparison returned to the Qing Dynasty's strong and Ming Ruo's fundamental, only in this way, the Qing Dynasty could truly dominate the world and become the master of this thousands of miles.

"The regent, not only the field cannon, but also the minion has created a high-strength war knife according to the alloy strong steel required by the field artillery, this war knife is extremely sharp, and it can cut off the existing steel knife, dedicated to the regent!" The head of the Ministry of Works presented a cold-glazed sword to Dolgon.

The knife was forged entirely from high-strength alloy steel, which was time-consuming and laborious in order to curry favor with Dorgon.

At the same time that Sky Wolf got back the design of the Great Ming Shenwu Field Cannon, he also got back the method of refining high-strength alloy steel, which is several times stronger than the strength of 100 steel, and is an excellent material for casting treasure knives.

"Oh? Can you cut an existing steel knife? "Dorgon was intrigued.

Glancing at the director of the Ministry of Works, Dorgon pulled out the saber on his waist, and the two knives slashed at each other, only to hear a loud bang, and splashed a lot of sparks, and the people next to him, including the director of the Ministry of Works, were all silent, and their faces turned pale with fright!

"Hahahaha, it's really amazing!" Suddenly, Dolgon's laughter was heard.

Dolgon was looking at the two steel knives and laughing.

Of course, Dolgon was excited, his own saber was a treasure knife in the Qing Dynasty, but under this alloy war knife, there was a huge gap, and the alloy war knife itself only had a small gap of rice grains laughing, such a strong knife, Dolgon seemed to have seen the scene of the Eight Banners soldiers holding on to the world.

"Director of the Ministry of Works, now this king has ordered you to produce 200 field cannons and 80,000 of these knives within four months, can you do it?" Dorgon asked.

The eyes of the director of the Ministry of Works widened instantly, and he thought that he had heard it wrong.

"Regent, minion, minion" Before the head of the Ministry of Works could finish speaking, he heard one in Dorgon's nostrils, huh? The words were full of Sen Ran's coldness and murderous aura, and he was immediately startled, and immediately changed his words: "As long as the regent fully supports it, the slave will definitely do his best!" ”

The head of the Ministry of Works had already regretted it, and in order to deliberately sacrifice that high-strength war knife to Dorgon, now he was okay, and he lifted a stone and shot himself in the foot.

Since alloy steel is a steel that is stronger than 100 steels, the method of smelting will certainly not be simple, in fact, the Ministry of Industry and Manufacturing Bureau is only smelting 10,000 catties per month, and it is impossible to complete the task assigned by Dolgon.

Of course, it would have been possible if Dolgon had been willing to allocate a huge amount of money to support the expansion of the Ministry of Industry's Manufacturing Bureau in a very short period of time.

"Don't worry, since this king has said it, he will fully cooperate, there will be no shortage of manpower and money, you just do your best to produce!" Dorgon promised.

In order to defeat the Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty in the near future and achieve the victory of the second decisive battle between the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, Dolgon was desperate to empty the treasury of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and change the clothes of the Eight Banners before the decisive battle began.

Immediately, under the strict order of Dolgon, the Beijing Ministry of Industry Manufacturing Bureau began to desperately smelt a large number of high-strength alloy steel to produce field cannons and alloy war knives!

Both the Ming and Manchu dynasties were in full swing producing the weapons they needed, and the clouds of a great war began to gradually envelop the entire land with the passage of time, which could be a decisive battle that had never been seen before in history.

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