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Steelworks, success!

The sudden relaxation made Qin Mu lose all his energy all of a sudden, and he fell asleep, sleeping for a full day and a night, before he opened his eyes.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he had to continue to face the situation in front of him.

Qin Mu found a way to produce oxygen industrially. It is to use zeolite as a natural molecular sieve to obtain oxygen, so that the top blowing converter is really almost indistinguishable from later generations.

Although the steel produced by the converter today cannot be compared with the billets of various categories in later generations, it is indeed the steel of later generations, not the steel smelted by the soil method of the Great Song Dynasty.

With such steel, the quality and quantity are sufficient, Qin Mu can be a violent soldier.

of the army, how to do without guns and cannons.

Qin Mu has not been able to expand his army before, and the most fundamental reason is that he does not have so many guns.

Now there is no fear, there is steel, there is a basis for guns. But steel is not a gun after all. From molten steel to seamless steel pipes, that requires another factory.

The heating furnace can be done, but the perforator is not.

I have to go back to the future to find a way.

Qin Mu was about to return to the 21st century, but at this time he received news from Zhekecun.

The Heavenly Master Army began to attack Jiangning Mansion.

Now more than two months have passed since the recapture of Jiangning Mansion, and the Tianshi Army has stabilized its position under the rectification it has undergone, and is now using Dangtu as its forward base to attack Jiangning.

Zhang Guo knew very well that if he couldn't take Jiangning, the Tianshi Army would not be able to enter the canal, so that the Jiangnan area would not be able to touch it at all.

If you can't take Jiangnan, you can't cut off the grain of the Song Kingdom, and you can only be pressed in an area west of Jiangning and south of the Yangtze River.

If this situation continues, it will be very unfavorable to yourself!

After all, the Great Song Dynasty has been established for a hundred years and has a deep foundation. He is now like a rich man, suddenly rich, and he is not qualified to compare treasures with Zhao Ji.

Only by taking the south of the Yangtze River can we barely stabilize the situation and start careful management.

If Jiangning Mansion can't be taken, then the Song State can use Jiangning Mansion as a base for advancement and constantly come to encroach on itself.

Da Song can lose once, twice, or three times and be fine, but he only needs to lose once and it will be over-Fang La is finished like this.

In order to grasp the strategic initiative, Zhang Guo immediately led the army down the river to attack Jiangning Mansion after rectifying the Tianshi Army.

Han Shizhong was a little frowning in the face of the warships on the river.

Take Jiangning Mansion, Zhao Ji ordered him to guard here. For the time being, the imperial court has no more men to send to him, so he can only hold it for a while.

In the past two months, Han Shizhong has enjoyed his personal life very much. It can be said that he was the happiest in so many years.

Jiangning Mansion is Jinling, which is the Nanjing of later generations. The so-called ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, the land of fireworks.

What you want here, even if it is looted by the Heavenly Master Army, it is just a drop in the bucket, and there are countless real good things.

Enjoyment is the best, but training should not be forgotten. After all, the Heavenly Master Army is not far away, and it will only take one day to reach Jiangning from when Tu goes down the river.

Now Han Shizhong does not have the conditions to go out of the city to fight - he has few ships.

Moreover, there are not many people in the forbidden army who can operate ships, and there are not many southerners under him.

After that night's great rout, Han Shizhong had more than 3,000 people left in his hands.

There were only a dozen ships, and some were tattered—they were hit by Deng Cheng's shells.

Fortunately, there are not many people in the Heavenly Master Army.

On that day, the Heavenly Master Army was also defeated, losing more than a thousand lives, and now although it has replenished 10,000 people, the recruits are not veterans, and their combat effectiveness is not so strong.

Now Jiangning City has become a stalemate.

The Heavenly Master Army continued to attack the city every day, but Han Shizhong and Zhe Kecun held the city wall steadily, and the enemy could not come up at all.

Jiangning City has enough grain and grass, and Han Shizhong has the confidence to defend it.

But Dangtu is not far away, and the Heavenly Master Army also has enough supplies, and it has more confidence to fight.

Zhe Kecun knew that Qin Mu had been working day and night for both agriculture and industry during these days, so he had never asked Qin Mu for a way.

Now that the steel plant has finally been completed, my brother-in-law should also take charge of the military.

Zhe Kecun really wanted to see the newly built steel plant, but he couldn't get out - Jiangning was besieged.

If it is a pure breakthrough, it is okay to walk from the shore, but it is not a bargain. What a detour!

And Han Shizhong couldn't let him go. As soon as the 3,000 folded family army leaves, Jiang Ning may not be able to hold it.

At this time, the Guards Regiment was also in a hurry. Except for Qiu Chen and his special operations team who left Jiangning City, most of the Guards Regiment stayed in the city.

They wasted more than two months in Jiangning in vain. The industry and agriculture of the new world are desperately building, and they are spending their time in Jiangning City, which is a crime against the future!

After Shi Yi and Liu Yunfei discussed, they also asked Qin Mu for the next plan.

What to do?

Qin Mu couldn't help but think about it.

It is a pure waste for the large troops of the Guards Regiment to be stationed in Jiangning for a long time, and now that the steel plant has been built, there is the capital of the rioters, and Liu Yunfei and others must be liberated immediately to start recruiting troops and expanding the team.

Now the Heavenly Division Army is surrounding Jiangning City, and it is not easy for the Guards Regiment and the Zhejia Army to leave if this problem is not solved.

It seems that the siege of Jiangning must be relieved.

The main force of the Celestial Division Army is the Sailor Division, and in order to solve the Celestial Division Army, ships must be used.

In terms of water warfare, Qin Mu really can't play the Heavenly Master Army. People who came out of the serious Southern Naval Division Base used the warships of the Great Song Dynasty.

A ship can carry two hundred men with armoured soldiers alone.

Moreover, fighting on the water is more than the skill of operating the ship and the weapons on board.

There are racket sticks, trebuchets, and all kinds of long-range and short-range combat weapons on the boat, and if you drive a small rubber boat over, you will have to smash into the bottom of the river halfway.

You have to build a ship!

However, there is steel and coal mines in Weishan Lake, but there are no big ships. The traditional shipbuilding workshop in this area can only build small boats!

Qin Mu had seen the boats made by the local shipbuilding workshop. The longest is only seven meters, which is compared to the battleships of the Heavenly Master Army, it is like a mouse meeting a cat - there is no need to play.

What to do?

Time is so tight, Qin Muzhen can't waste it anymore.

Sailors must be built and new equipment developed!

Qin Mu immediately summoned Ma Qing and Wu Xiaomei, and at the same time ordered Qiu Chen to requisition the local shipbuilding workshop.

Ma Qing and Wu Xiaomei didn't have time to unload the joy of the steel plant's commissioning, and immediately followed Qin Mu's baton to turn.

According to the division of labor, Qin Mu came up with a new set of designs and asked Ma Qing to modify the existing ships according to the design.

And Wu Xiaomei followed Qin Mu to create a brand new weapon.

There is a lot of strength in numbers, and the key is that the Weishan Lake area has been initially industrialized.

There is everything Qin Mu needs here, from technology to raw materials.

There are steel, there are machining centers, there are oil centers, there are small hardware factories, cement factories, and so on.

In addition to the absence of the chemical industry, the machinery is enough to support all of Qin Mu's actions.

On the Yangtze River, the Heavenly Division Army is also in action.

They are going to attack Jiangning City again today. Jiangning has become an obstacle on the way of the Heavenly Division's advancement, and Jiangning City must be taken.

Zhang Guo personally supervised the battle today, and he must finish his work in one battle!

Just as Zhang Guo put on his armor and was about to go ashore to cheer in person, he saw a few flashes of light on the water in the east.

What is it? He immediately climbed to the top of the battleship and looked up.

After a while, he saw the few shining points getting closer and closer to him. Now I can see it.

This turned out to be an iron ship!

Five small boats rushed towards the sailors of the Heavenly Master Army at high speed!

This surprised Zhang Guo and the Eight Immortals!

It's normal for boats to be on the water, but the boats are all wood, so why are these boats all covered in iron!

The Great Song did not have such a ship.

It's like hoplites on the water, putting armor on the ships.

This made Zhang Guo immediately think of the folded family. Did the iron horse of the folded family run to the Yangtze River?

If he just put iron armor on the ship, Zhang Guo would not be so surprised. What he couldn't understand was why these ironclad ships had no sails and oars.

Without these two things, how would the ship walk?

Even if you have to go, it's going down the river. But now the five ironclad ships are going against the current, what is the reason?

However, Zhang Guo didn't have time to think about the reason at this time, obviously it was an enemy or a friend, so he hurried to fight.

Although the ironclad ship was weird, the Heavenly Master Army was not afraid. Because these boats are so small, they don't even have two floors, and they look like small boats for fishermen to fish.

Zhang Guo couldn't help but snort lightly in his nose: "I don't think I can do it." ”

Such a tiny thing, would you dare to be presumptuous in front of the Heavenly Master warship?

"Meet the enemy!" Zhang Guo gave the order.

The signal flag for engagement was hung on the flagship, and the entire Celestial Division Army and Navy Division formed a formation and rushed head-on towards the ironclad ship on the Yangtze River.

The Celestial Division's military ship was large, with sails and oars, and it was also smooth water, and the distance between the two sides was rapidly approaching.

Tie Guan Li looked at the ironclad ship that was getting closer and closer with a little worry.

An inexplicable fear swelled in his heart.

On that day, when he was leading the Heavenly Master Army to fight smoothly, suddenly thunder fell from the sky, one after another, one after another, and the brothers who only blew up turned on their backs.

Then all of a sudden, Jiangning City was lost.

This series of strange scenes made Tie Guan Li can't help but suspect that Zhang Tianshi is coming.

Zhang Guo thought that he was a real person under the throne of Yuan Shi Tianzun, and then made several of them become eight immortals.

Don't really annoy the gods in the sky. After all, he is only a mortal, and there is no immortal aura in the mortal body.

If you really have mana, can you cure your lameness?

It's okay for those stories to deceive the ignorant people, and those who really have a bit of brains will find the unreasonable in this story.

Tie Guan Li can't even cure his lame leg, can he still be an immortal?

Mantian gods and Buddhas, is there one who is lame?

Monkey King can turn out a little monkey by pulling out his hair, but he can't even cure one leg, which is really unreasonable.

But now it's not his turn to think more.

The ironclad ship was about to rush in front of us.

Trebuchets are useless at this time. The ironclad ship is too small and the distance is scattered, so it is impossible to smash it at all.

Archery!

A rain of arrows flew up on the Heavenly Master's ship, as if a dark cloud had overwhelmed it.

Li Ren stood in the ironclad ship and steered it, not even moving.

His ship was covered with iron plates, not to mention archery, even the bed crossbow could not pierce it.

There wasn't even a crack in the boat when it looked at the front, and no one could hurt themselves. And I can see the outside situation clearly through the observation window.

Li Ren didn't know that he was actually driving a water tank now, and the observation window in front of him was the same as that of the tank commander in later generations. Even if you hit the observation window, you can't hit him personally - the two are not on the same level at all.

The ironclad ship was undaunted, and continued to rush forward without even half a minute of slowness.

Lu Dongbin shook the medicine banner and stopped the meaningless actions of his subordinates.

Arrows are useless, so don't waste them.

Let's get on the racket.

The Celestial Master Army was now lined up in several columns, like a forest, waiting for the ironclad ships to come in.

As long as the ironclad ships enter the battleship group of the Celestial Master Army, the levers on each battleship will be able to exert their might.

This stick is a seesaw that is not the same length on either side. The soldiers in the boat were able to pull the seesaw high and slam it down.

Ordinary warships can't withstand a few hits, let alone such small fishing boats. What if you put on iron armor? Can't hoplites also be stoned to death?

"Racket ready!"

The officers and men of the Celestial Division immediately began to act.

Seeing that the ironclad ships rushed straight towards the Heavenly Master Army fleet, but at this time, those ironclad ships suddenly turned a corner quickly, and drove past the front of the Heavenly Master Army fleet in an incredible way, and came to the outermost part of the fleet.

Now the jungle-like warship was useless.

They could only see the ironclad ships with a few ships on the very edge, and the other ships were all decorations, and they could not even see the enemy.

Zhang Guo couldn't understand why the ironclad could run so fast without sails or oars, and it could turn so flexibly!

It's like a god a boat! He's grown so big, he's never seen a boat do anything like this—it's not scientific!

Li Renke didn't care what Zhang Guo thought.

The ironclad ship he piloted was a newly designed speedboat designed by Qin Mu.

Ma Qing has now become the first person in the industry of the Great Song Dynasty, and it is not difficult to modify a small boat.

According to Qin Mu's request, he hung iron armor on the fishing boat - now Weishan Lake is more steel, and then installed the diesel paddle machine on the fishing boat.

In this way, the primitive fishing boat was immediately transformed into an ironclad airship.

The speed and handling of the ironclad are not at all comparable to the warships of this plane.

In terms of speed and control alone, the ironclad ship is like a cat and mouse against the Heavenly Division's warship, teasing it casually.

Li Ren steered the speedboat to the outermost end of the enemy fleet, and the soldiers opened a movable window on the side of the ship and pushed out a strange iron pipe.

"Fire!"

With Li Ren's order, a long tongue of fire erupted from the front end of the iron pipe.

The flame was more than ten meters long, more than the length of the racket.

At a distance where the Celestial Division's warships were completely unable to counterattack, the ironclad ships launched an all-out offensive.

The five boats were like five fire-breathing monsters, and they started a crazy barbecue around the Celestial Master warship.

Above the river, there was a sea of fire in an instant.