"Father Zhao, I wonder if any of the blacksmiths in our hands can cast cannons?" After Liu Renyu finished talking about the soap and the cultivation of out-of-season vegetables in the glass greenhouse, he continued to ask.

"The blacksmith who forged the cannon!" As soon as Zhao Datie heard this question, he touched his head and thought for a while, before he shook his head and said, "My lord, my old Zhao Tou has never asked, I don't know if anyone will cast a cannon." ”

"Then please ask later, if there is a blacksmith who can forge cannons, and if so, let this person come to me, I have something to explain."

"Okay, my old Zhao Tou knows." Father Zhao agreed.

"Besides, how is the biogas for the hot air balloon collected by your industrial manufacturing plant?"

"My lord, according to your arrangement, the manure tank of the public toilet was sealed with cement, and the biogas you mentioned was collected, and we poured this biogas into the gas cylinder and used it on the hot air balloon, which can now stay in the air for a long time."

"Very good, biogas does not cost money, and can be produced continuously, you have to make biogas but you have to keep it well, and we will use it on the hot air balloon when the time comes."

"Okay, my lord, my old Zhao Tou knows."

"My lord, how did a hot air balloon give birth to something, is it amazing?" Li Jiye heard Liu Renyu talking to Zhao Datie about the hot air balloon for a long time, and when he was curious, he asked out loud what the hot air balloon was.

"Jiye, a hot air balloon is a good thing, it can soar through the sky like a bird, and it can also rise into the air and hover still. Imagine that when our army is marching, we will release a hot air balloon, so that we will not sit under the hanging basket of this hot air balloon at night, and then equip them with a clairvoyant mirror, and the enemy situation within a radius of five miles can be detected without sending a scout horse.

And if we march into the valley, and we are afraid that the enemy will have an ambush, we don't need to send people to climb the mountain to investigate, just send a hot air balloon to the top of the mountain, from top to bottom, we can reconnoiter the enemy's situation, isn't it convenient, and when we are fighting with the enemy, we can send a hot air balloon to fly to the top of the enemy's general's head with 10,000 enemies, and then throw 10,000 enemies on the head of the enemy general, what kind of effect do you say it will have? ”

"If this is the case, then the enemy army will be leaderless, and it will naturally be in chaos, and our army will take the opportunity to cover up and defeat the enemy. Oh, if this hot air balloon really has this function, it is really a militaristic weapon. After Li Jiye heard about the efficacy of the hot air balloon, he couldn't help but be amazed.

"Yes, the hot air balloon is indeed a militaristic weapon, and in a few days, I will take all of you to see this hot air balloon."

"That's a good feeling, the hot air balloon you said is so magical, I really want to see it." Li Jiye is a military general in the end, and he is very interested in war weapons.

"Jiye, the hot air balloon is a sharp weapon in the air, and I also plan to equip our Jingbian Fort Army with a sharp weapon on the ground, so that the air and underground complement each other, and it can enhance the combat effectiveness of our Jingbian Fort Army."

"My lord, what kind of militaristic weapon is that, please tell me about it." Li Jiye asked with interest.

"Jiye, you should know that when Master Mu Miao and Master Temple were in charge of Ji Town, Grandpa Qi Jiguang Qi, right?"

"Grandpa Qi, who doesn't know this big hero."

"That's right, when Grandpa Qi was guarding the northern frontier and dealing with the nomadic cavalry, in addition to the large-scale use of firearms, he also used the car battalion. So what I mean is that our Jingbianbao army also uses car battalions on a large scale. As for what this car camp should look like, Daddy Zhao, I'll talk about a sketch first, you listen to it first, and then I will ask the painter to draw the specific drawings, and then you will make it according to the basic drawings. ”

"My lord, you say, my old Zhao Tou listens."

"My chariot is going to be made like this, it should be roughly a cuboid, that is, the length is greater than the width, and then there are two large moving windows in front and two small moving windows, and three large moving windows on the left and right sides, and two small moving windows. The large movable window is the gun design hole, and the small window is the fire bolt shooting hole.

The size of this chariot should be one zhang long, six feet wide, and one zhang high, covered with iron sheets, and pulled by horses, and the wooden frame used to tie the horses should be able to extend into the carriage, so that when we set up camp, we can merge the chariots together, I say this, Daddy Zhao, do you know what it looks like? ”

"I roughly understand, but what to do exactly, it still depends on the drawings you provide, after we have made the model, we will ask you to come and see it first, if you are satisfied, let's make more chariots." Zhao Datie replied.

"There's no need to worry about this, Daddy Zhao, you can take someone to do it slowly."

"My old Zhao Tou knows." Zhao Datie agreed.

"My lord, the chariot you said, I generally want to understand what is going on, we don't have enough cavalry at the moment, and there are not many firecrackers, most of them are infantry, and with the chariot battalion, we can effectively resist the momentum of the enemy cavalry, so that we are invincible, plus we still have that hot air balloon, even if we encounter Jiannu, we don't have to be afraid."

"Yes, that's what I was going to do." Liu Renyu said with a smile.

"My lord, if we want to use the car battalion, naturally we need to use a gunner, but where are we going to find this gunner?"

"Jiye, why do you still ask me this question, of course, to recruit again. You've been guarding Jingbian Fort for some time, so isn't there any artillery in Jingbian Fort anymore? ”

"There are artillerymen, they were all Zheng Baihu's subordinates in the past, and you didn't say that Zheng Baihu's soldiers didn't want it, so you didn't let them defend the city anymore and let them go home."

"Then bring them back again, and then let them train new recruits, which we will use when we form a chariot battalion in the future."

"Yes, my lordship, do it now. By the way, my lord, you said that you want to set up a chariot battalion, but this requires a lot of horses, and the horses under our Jingbian Fort are just enough for the soldiers to use, and there are no surplus horses, but you don't know where to get horses. ”

"According to common sense, there is no horse to buy naturally, but at the moment we are short of horses, so we can only find the Mongolians to buy, but the Mongolians are not good men and women, they take a high price, but refuse to sell the best horses to us, rather than so, I think it is better for us to go directly to them to rob, so that we can not only train the army, but also save money."

"My lord, do you mean that we are about to fight the northern captives? When to set off, the humble post immediately went to call He Ergou's guy. Then he will gather his men and horses to follow you to the other side of the loop. Li Jiye heard Liu Renyu say that he was going to Hetao to grab horses, and thought that he was going to go soon, so he happily talked about recruiting He Ergou to Jingbian Fort to be the military attache of the town.

"Jiye, how can you say that the wind is the rain! The regular soldiers who can fight at our moment, even if we add Wang Zuojiao's department, are only 700 people, and the combat power is insufficient, so let's wait until the recruits are trained and our strength is increased to more than 1,000 people.

At the moment, we don't know anything about the situation on the other side of the Hetao, or how to take the road, except for the troops, so we will have to wait until I send someone to reconnoiter the situation on the other side of the Hetao, and then we will go to the Hetao after we have a reliable route for advancing and retreating.

Your priority now is to dig tunnels, then find gunners and recruit new artillerymen to train. Let me ask you, do we have cannons in Jingbian Fort? ”

"My lord, our Jingbian Fort previously had 20 tiger squat guns, 10 Franco, and 130 artillerymen."

"There are so many!? It seems that Jingbian Fort is really an important border town, and there are so many gunners, which is a good thing. Well, I think this way, in the future, our artillery team will get bigger and bigger, although we don't have so many artillery now, it doesn't mean that there will be no in the future, let's let these artillerymen as instructors first, teach a group of artillerymen to come out, and when we have artillery in the future, these artillery can directly participate in the battle. ”

"My lord, you have a point, I just don't know how many new artillerymen you plan to train?"

"Train 1,000 artillery soldiers first, and then it will be enough."

"More than 1000!? Dare to ask your lordship, there are so many artillerymen, you should go there to recruit. Li Jiye frowned and said incomprehensibly.

"There are still 14,000 displaced people outside Jingbian Fort, and most of these people are young and strong, so it is naturally not difficult to recruit some artillery."

"I know that there are many homeless people, and it is not difficult to recruit people."

"Well, Jiye, when you go to recruit people, you still have to adhere to our traditional recruitment standards, the age should not be too old, preferably between twenty and thirty years old, in good health, no dark diseases. Then you have to do a physical fitness test, and you can't ask for it if your physical fitness is too poor. ”

"Yes, my lord, the humiliation has been written."

"After the artillery is recruited, you are responsible for registering them in the register, registering the military branch as artillery, and the chief officer of the artillery, you will choose one of the artillery soldiers in our Jingbian Fort. After this person is selected, you will bring him to me and let me know him. For the other junior officers, you can choose some of the musketeers, and then they can choose some of them themselves.

After the artillery officers and soldiers were selected, the logistics office first distributed the settling-in silver and rations, and then allocated the uniforms. When you have settled down the money, food, and military uniforms, let the artillerymen start the exercise, and when you are training, you must remember that you should not be reluctant to use gunpowder and artillery, and you can use as much as you want, and when you run out, you just need to find the logistics department. ”

"Yes, my lord, the humiliation has been written." Li Jiye nodded in response.

"I'm looking for you today, I've finished what I want to say, so please take care of the things at hand. If you have nothing else to say, let's break up. ”

Ma Tianjun, Li Jiye and Zhao Datie saw that Liu Renyu had no more tasks to arrange, so they all returned to their respective jobs after giving gifts.

And after these people left, Liu Renyu said to Liu Renjie again: "Renjie, go and call Chen Danqing, I have something to talk to him." ”

"Yes, my lord, I will go now." Liu Renjie got the order, so he went straight to find Chen Danqing.