Chapter 74

"Ahh

Suddenly, almost without any warning, after a dark indulgence with Kou Yun, Zhu Mingzhong sneezed, and he rubbed his nose while muttering to himself.

"Could it be that the wind is shining?"

Talking to himself, looking at the woman lying on the bed, tired of the woman who had already fallen asleep, Zhu Mingzhong's heart suddenly felt a burst of pride, proud of his current "toughness".

When he got up from the bed, Zhu Mingzhong deliberately looked at his body, although he paid a lot of attention to fitness in the past, but after crossing over, he still felt that his body seemed to have undergone some kind of change - strength, and now his body seemed to be full of strength, no matter in that aspect. Not only can you run around the city wall a few laps without taking a breath, you can easily play with a stone lock weighing up to 100 catties, and even in the aspect that this man cares about the most, it has also changed, more durable and more ......

Is this the "Crossing Syndrome"?

This "symptom" is good! I like it!

In addition to being proud, Zhu Mingzhong put on a plain middle coat, looked back at the woman on the bed, and the corners of his lips were a little unsatisfied.

"That's it for now, I'll find you a sister when I get back, and the two of you will serve together......"

As soon as the scene of the dark sky came to his mind, his heart suddenly itched, and then he shook his head and threw those noodle paintings out of his brain. Now there are other more important things.

After walking out of the bedroom, Zhu Mingzhong came to the outhouse, in the center of the outhouse, there was a wooden table, on the wooden table was a sand table made of mud, somewhat rudimentary, just rough Jiangyin City and several nearby cities and the surrounding terrain and rivers, this is Zhu Mingzhong instructed others to make a sand table.

It was almost midnight, Zhu Mingzhong, who stood up from the table, walked to the sand table again, staring at the cities around Jiangyin, Changzhou Prefecture, Wuxi County, and Changshu County on the sand table, and of course, Jingjiang County on the other side.

Now that I have the responsibility of recruiting Jiangnan, how can I recruit these cities, raise grain and grass for the 170,000 Northern Expeditionary Army, and of course, more importantly, clear the back road for the Northern Expeditionary Army, so as to cover the retreat of the Great Army when it is forced to do so in the future.

His brows furrowed, and Zhu Mingzhong's eyes stared at the sand table.

These days, whenever he has free time, he always continues to find inspiration from the many novels he has read, whether those novels are true or fake, they can always give him inspiration, but the inspiration did not bring him, but he was completely disappointed in the Chinese version of the "Spanish Phalanx" such as what musket and long spear array swept Liaodong - not only time, on the one hand, he did not have time to train a qualified pike phalanx troops, not to mention that he did not have time to make flintlock pistols, even the most ordinary arquebuses, and on the other hand, After several experiments, as he initially speculated, the terrain with a dense water network in Jiangnan was not suitable for the use of the "Spanish phalanx" at all. Especially in the absence of long-range weapons such as artillery, in the absence of artillery cover, the so-called "Spanish phalanx" would be bombarded into slag by the artillery of the Qing army, and a single shell could easily tear apart the bodies of dozens of people.

Without artillery, the soldiers who carried their own fine-mouthed bird guns could barely form a small bird flag. And how can the 8,000 "soldiers" who can't train and equipment like this sweep Jiangnan?

In order to get some weapons, Zhu Mingzhong even sent people to Guazhou to stay behind Liu You for help, and Wu Youcai's letter was extremely sincere, almost saying in the letter, "For the sake of the party and the state, pull a brother", but Liu You's reply was also simple - the Hongyi artillery in the city had been taken away by the general to attack Nanjing.

Is there really no one left?

Whether it was really a single one left, Zhu Mingzhong didn't know, but at least for now, he didn't want to get even a Hongyi cannon from others.

Zhu Mingzhong, who was staring at the sand table, finally set his sights on Changzhou City, the city wall of the "Southeast Giant Town", which is a high city and "dominates one side", there are sixteen Hongyi cannons and dozens of Franc machines.

If only we could take down these red cannons......

"That's sixteen cannons!"

Thinking so in my heart, staring at the small Changzhou city on the sand table, the city wall of this "southeast giant town" is ten miles long, two feet and eight feet high, far from being comparable to the Jiangyin city wall, and its city foundation is still made of huge stones, I am afraid it is not easy to take this city!

Artillery!

But the problem is that there is no artillery in their hands now, even if there is enough iron and copper, it may not be able to build the artillery in just a few days, although as a third-rate engineering student, but because of his love for the military, he can be said to be quite familiar with various front-loading guns in modern times, but it is precisely because of his understanding that he knows that casting artillery seems simple, but in fact it is not as easy as imagined, not to mention that mold making is extremely wasteful.

What's more, due to the difference in the cooling rate between the inside and outside of the barrel when casting the barrel, coupled with the material reasons, the casting rejection rate is extremely high, so there is a saying that "those who can get two or three guns can be used for casting ten guns, they are called masters". The rejection rate is as high as 70~80%. The cost of such a gun was naturally high, and the casting time was extremely long.

In this case, Zhu Mingzhong prefers to use the solid bore technology, using a hydraulically driven bore bed to drill holes directly. This kind of artillery is well-made, and the manufacturing is more rapid, after increasing the density of the falling shape and the temperature of the molten iron, its trachoma is less, the cost will naturally be reduced, and of course, the speed of manufacturing will also be improved.

Although it can be said that he is confident in the manufacture of a water-powered bore, he ...... History didn't give him time, a month!

It is not even a month away, and he must make all preparations after Zheng Chenggong's defeat, otherwise the "fields planted" here are likely to fall into the hands of the Qing army, so some things can only be thought about in his heart now.

It's just that history didn't give him enough time to try to make new cannons, and even made him afraid to try to make artillery, because he was afraid that these technologies would be obtained by the Qing army.

"Damn, I'm going to kill Lao Tzu now!"

Sighing in his heart, Zhu Mingzhong drew randomly on the paper with charcoal, and every time he returned home in the past few days, the only thing he did was to design a simple water-powered bore, and now this borehole was useless, so he could only start from scratch and study how to use those refined and more powerful gunpowder without cannons and muskets.

"If you can't do it, you ......"

Suddenly, Zhu Mingzhong's eyes lit up, and an extremely simple weapon appeared in his mind!

"That's right, that's it!"

Don't think you've suddenly cleaned up Kou Yun, because Chapter 68 is banned, so ...... Hey, it's still too sudden, let's try to revise the draft and lift the ban...... Ask for recommendations, ask for collections, new books need everyone's care! Thanks!