The second large-scale civil engineering work of the Ming army of the civil fort began again. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

This time, in addition to ordering the Ming officers and soldiers to repair the previously collapsed trenches, Shen Xi also mobilized all the forces in the city to widen and deepen the trenches, and dug various traps between the trenches and even inside the trenches, and planted mines and gunpowder of varying power.

When the soldiers heard that they were going to start work again, they all complained bitterly, but while complaining, the soldiers had to pick up hoes, shovels and other tools again and go out of the city to sweat like rain.

At this time, the hope of all the officers and soldiers to survive was pinned on Shen Xi alone, and they didn't know who to listen to if they didn't listen to Shen Xi in order to save their lives.

Soon after the second round of the project began, Hu Songyue ran to Shen Xi to pour bitter water, Liu Xu and Zhu Lie had a lot of opinions on Shen Xi before, but I don't know when, they became Shen Xi's staunch supporters, but Hu Songyue, who was appreciated by Shen Xi before, always made trouble for Shen Xi recently.

Shen Xi could see that no one in the city was making trouble for him, and these people were uncomfortable, so finally Zhang Yongxiao stopped, and Hu Songyue started again.

In the lobby of the command post in the west of the city, Hu Songyue cried bitterly: "...... One day out of the city, people will be tired out of a bird, most of the places outside the city are frozen, you need to use a fire to roast the ground to soften before you can dig again, Lord Shen, do you think you want to stop this errand, wait for a few days when the weather is warm? The snow hasn't melted yet......"

Shen Xi's luck is very good, since the first snow of this winter on the 17th, it has snowed one after another in the past few days, and the momentum of each snow is not small, temporarily solving the water problem in the city.

But there is also a bad thing about the snow, that is, the temperature has dropped too much, the temperature in the surrounding area of the civil fort has dropped to about minus ten degrees, although the soldiers are wearing thick clothes, they still feel cold to the bone, plus the ground is frozen hard, and the difficulty of continuing to repair trenches during the day has indeed increased a lot.

Without waiting for Shen Xi to scold, Liu Xu had already rolled his eyes: "Old Hu, do you want to die or live?" Lord Shen ordered the construction of the trench, he must have seen that the last time the Tartars attacked the city this way was too smooth, you see, the enemy found sandbags and logs, and then put up the door panels on them, and in some places even only need to build ladders and door panels, you can get to the city without danger, and even horses can pass......"

"If the next time the Tartar draws a scoop according to the gourd and gets involved in the restart, and the civil fort is lost because of this, can you afford this great responsibility?"

Hu Songyue was dissatisfied: "Why am I responsible? All I can do is the west of the city, and the other directions are not my responsibility! If the city fell because it had collapsed in other directions, why should it be on my head? ”

Zhu Lie shouted: "Okay, okay, listen to what Lord Shen has to say." Lord Shen, you just have to explain, I will resolutely obey the order, and there will be no two words! ”

Shen Xi shook his head: "It's said that three women are in one play, what are you guys doing every day?" Can't you do something meaningful except for an argument? However, this time Lao Liu was right, our previous trench was indeed not wide and deep enough, which caused the enemy to easily cross it after preparing in advance, and we must not make the same mistake a second time! ”

"It is true that the soil outside the city is not easy to dig after the heavy snowfall, but compared to the repeated hard battles that will be encountered in the city next, it is a little more to build a little more now, and it is not necessary to say that these trenches and mechanisms can save our lives when the time comes, don't you understand this truth?"

"But, Lord Shen ......"

Hu Songyue wanted to say something again, but was interrupted by Shen Xi reaching out. Shen Xi said: "This official doesn't want to listen to any explanation, this official only looks at the results, which general does a good job, this official will remember his great achievements, and he will also ask for merit and reward him when he returns to the capital in the future...... Let's see! ”

Hu Songyue said: "Lord Shen, don't use this kind of words to squeeze us, let's go back to the capital in this situation?" Fool it! ”

These words caused Liu Xu and Zhu Lie to look at each other angrily, and Zhu Lie scolded: "Old Hu, you kid has itchy skin, right?" Lord Shen said that if you can go back, you will definitely be able to go back, and now go out to dig a ditch, and the rabbit cubs who don't work will whip hard like you, what a bunch of fucking goods that are undersmoked! ”

Hu Songyue saw that Shen Xi's face was cold, and Liu Xu and Zhu Lie were even more in a posture of wanting to do something if they disagreed, and after thinking about it, he shrank his head and did not refute again, he knew that he had committed public anger.

Shen Xi was a little helpless about these three thorns, waved his hand and said: "The matter of building fortifications outside the city will be handed over to you, this official will supervise the manufacture of cannons and bullets for the past two days, and you can't go out of the city, please!" ”

Zhu Lie patted his chest and said with a smile: "Lord Shen, just go, there are us here!" ”

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At this time, the Tumu Fort had been transformed into a large arsenal.

Shen Xi brought out nearly 20,000 catties of gunpowder from Juyong Pass, and robbed more than 10,000 catties in the Tatar camp before, and at the same time, Shen Xi also looted a batch of pine trees the size of two people in the Tatar camp, each section of pine wood is one or two meters long, and he didn't think about what to do with it at the time, but now that the eyebrows are burned, Shen Xi thought that he could use this batch of pine wood to make "cannon battles".

Most of the soldiers in the Beijing camp were clumsy, but among the people and the soldiers who entered the city later, there were quite a few skilled craftsmen. Especially in Juyong Pass, craftsmen usually exist as reserves, and once they encounter a war, they will be incorporated into the army, and this time Long Qingwei sent them out as reinforcements, which is equivalent to cheapening Shen Xi in vain.

Shen Xi selected 400 people from them, plus the skilled craftsmen selected before, to create a craftsman battalion. At present, the bricks and tiles in the city have stopped firing, and the artisan battalion is currently mainly making fire bullets, mines, earthen grenades such as ash bottles and watermelon mines, and "unconscionable cannons" made of pine wood.

As the chief engineer, Shen Xi personally went into battle to instruct and teach these craftsmen how to use the available materials to make useful weapons.

This is purely driven to a desperate situation, Shen Xi has no choice, this small civil fort can't hold on at all, and can only find ways to increase his chances of winning.

"Look, my lord, this is the gun you wanted, I don't know if it's the same as the one you designed!"

Shen Xi was inspecting the craftsman camp when a young man in his early twenties handed Shen Xi a long "musket".

Because the Daming Flame has been improved many times, and recently a small Franc cannon has been used as a shotgun, so that the transformation of firearms is quite smooth.

There are many craftsmen in the army who can repair firearms, and Shen Xi found twenty or thirty people with a pull, and then used these people to set up a special "scientific research group", the main attack is the breech standard projectile gun.

In terms of actual combat performance, this kind of musket may have a big gap with the breech guns that became popular later, but this is the limit of what Shen Xi can do at present.

In the absence of a mass production system for the production of bullets, all Shen Xi could think of was to speed up the firing speed of the musket, improve the original musket, and then use the ready-made musket to transform the musket, but it could not change much...... After all, Shen Xi didn't have too many raw materials at hand, and it was unrealistic to smelt iron in this small civil fort.

Shen Xi carefully observed this breech projectile gun, and in general he was not very satisfied, the range of this thing is not to mention a mile, I am afraid that it may not be able to kill people from a hundred meters away, it is already a close-range combat weapon, and there is a gap compared with the Franc machine gun that relies on airtightness to launch projectiles.

"Keep the makeover!"

Shen Xi put back the half-finished breech pellet gun, and let the craftsman continue to continue the trial production according to the drawings, mainly involving the breech chamber, which is difficult to seal, plus it is too difficult to make rifling in this era, the iron smelting technology is backward, and the iron is also very brittle, all kinds of factors limit the pace of Shen Xi's gun making.

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PS: This chapter is written and released in the countryside, and the second chapter should come out before the early hours of the morning, sorry!