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After Xiao Tianjian had arranged these things, he immediately ordered Feng Gouzi to send his subordinates to cross the mountains and mountains in advance, sneak directly into the territory of Yuanqu County, and began to inquire about all kinds of news there to prepare for the next move.

After the recruits were recruited, they were immediately taken by Liu Bao to Dongye Town for training, and began to conduct strict training for the recruits, so that within two or three months, they could basically reach the level of being incorporated into the army.

In this way, by this time, the total strength of the Xingtian Army had basically reached about 4,000 people, which was basically the limit of Xiao Tianjian's ability to raise troops at the moment.

Although he controls the entire boundary of Yangcheng County, but after all, Yangcheng County is a mountainous area, and the population density is not large, all of which are calculated, the local households are only less than 20,000, the population is only about 80,000, and the arable land area is only about 200,000 mu. It is already the limit of what the people in his jurisdiction can bear at the moment.

So at present, although Xiao Tianjian has the intention to continue to expand the number of soldiers and horses, he has to follow Fu Deming's suggestion and control the strength of the Xingtian Army according to the actual situation at the moment.

However, fortunately, after this battle, the security chiefs of each village and village quickly gathered the young and strong villagers in their own villages to organize the township soldiers, so that the original local garrison could basically be handed over to the township soldiers of these townships and villages, and the main force of the Xingtian Army could free up their hands to do more things.

Just when Xiao Tianjian, Yan Chongxi, Luo Li and others were discussing how to attack Yuanqu County, a message came from Shuangfeng Village, which made Xiao Tianjian immediately abandon the matter at hand, and took Yan Chongxi and Luo Li and other generals to Pegasus and rushed to Shuangfeng Village.

After they arrived at Shuangfeng Village, Zhang Chao happily connected them to the village, and Xiao Tianjian walked all the way, checking the current situation of Shuangfeng Village all the way.

After this way down, Xiao Tianjian is finally satisfied, the wall of Shuangfeng Village has been built for more than four months, and the wall of several key places has finally been basically completed at this time, although the wall has not been completely covered with stones, but it is also in the finishing stage, and it is expected that there will be another month, and all the projects can basically be completed.

And Yan Chongxi and Luo Li also gasped after seeing this new type of fortress-style walled wall, such a walled wall is undoubtedly a terrible thing for people like them.

After these generals looked at this new wall, they all put themselves in the position of the attacking side and assumed that if they were allowed to attack Shuangfeng Village, how they should attack, the result was that after thinking about it, they all felt extremely tricky, and they couldn't think of any good way to capture Shuangfeng Village.

Starting from the bottom of the mountain to attack Shuangfeng Village, they can attack only two or three ways, in the face of such a wall, no matter where they start, can not effectively exert their combat power, can only take the method of adding oil to the wall, and constantly put the troops under the wall, and the angular wall, no matter from any angle, can be a fierce blow to the attacking side.

And the attacking side, but can not rely on their firepower, suppress the defenders on the wall, so can only passively be beaten under the wall, if there is no eighteen thousand people, if you want to capture this Shuangfeng village, basically do not need to think about it, so after learning that this kind of wall was planned by Xiao Tianjian, these guys are even more completely convinced of Xiao Tianjian.

After the generals entered the wall, Xiao Tianjian first let them go up to the wall to take a look, and explained to them the beauty of this wall, after listening, the generals were even more praised for this wall, Luo Li even after figuring out the structure of this wall, shouted loudly If he was allowed to garrison here, only 300 troops would be enough to block the attack of 10,000 enemy troops.

After Luo Li shouted, it immediately caused everyone to laugh, Xiao Tianjian also smiled: "Luo Li is a fierce general, it is no problem to be one hundred, but three hundred to ten thousand, obviously still laughing, but at least according to the Shuangfeng Village, it is not a big problem for our soldiers to be one as ten!" I'm confident in that! After saying that, the generals nodded again and again.

In a few months, Shuangfeng Village has undergone earth-shaking changes compared to when they just took over here, the traces of being set on fire by Feng Tiancheng have completely disappeared, all kinds of newly built sheds, houses are lined up one after another, leaving a wide passage in the middle, all kinds of craftsmen shuttle back and forth between the sheds, and all kinds of products are also continuously produced, transported to the warehouse, ready to be deployed to various places for use.

During this period, carpentry, mills, tanners, gunpowder workshops, and ironwork were basically all available, and craftsmen were also in full swing.

The most gratifying thing for Xiao Tianjian is that the dam he planned has basically been completed so far, and the stream that runs through the mountain has been cut into five sections, forming five step-shaped pools, and the natural spring water continues to flow into the stream, providing a relatively abundant amount of water here, driving all kinds of waterwheels, constantly running, driving all kinds of newly built machinery, running non-stop, and it seems to be very lively.

The sound of ironwork in the back mountain seems to never stop, the craftsmen are divided into two shifts, busy at their respective stations in the ironwork, and all kinds of weapons and agricultural tools are also continuously created in the hands of the blacksmiths, transported to various places waiting to be called.

Since there is a waterwheel, the work efficiency of the iron work continues to improve, not only the horizontal drilling machine for drilling has already been put into use, but also a hydraulic pestle hammer has also been put into use, the reciprocating hydraulic pestle hammer will liberate the blacksmith from the heavy work, just clamp the iron blank, put on the anvil under the pestle hammer, you can easily complete the forging of the iron parts, greatly improve the efficiency, but also save a lot of manpower.

Originally, it could not produce two or three bird guns a day, after having these simple hydraulic machinery, the work efficiency has also risen significantly, and now the output of new bird guns can basically reach the number of ten bird guns produced per day, don't look at the single-day output is not large, but a month down, you can produce three or four hundred qualified new bird guns, so that the Xingtian Army has been equipped with more than 500 new bird guns in the army during this time, which greatly enhances the intensity of the firepower output of the Xingtian Army, and at the same time, the original various kinds of messy bird guns, So far, all of them have been eliminated from the army, and the surplus materials have been distributed to the village and township troops, which not only solves the problem of unifying the equipment of the Xingtian Army's combat corps, reduces the difficulty of logistical support, and enables the unified distribution of fixed paper shell ammunition, but also greatly enhances the combat effectiveness of the local township troops.

Not to mention that the Bird Gun will continue to increase the amount of equipment in the Xingtian Army in the future, just the existing number, which also makes the Xingtian Army in the allocation of the Bird Gun, beyond the number of bird guns of many regular officers and soldiers, so that the fire gun has become the most important branch of the Xingtian Army, the original army equipped with those bows and crossbows, so far Xiao Tianjian decided to withdraw all of them and distribute them to the local armed forces, greatly simplifying the configuration of weapons in the army.

Xiao Tianjian also made a decision that even the recruit battalion should be equipped with a large number of equipment, so as to solve the problem that the recruit battalion has no bird gun for recruit training during the exercise, and directly from the recruit camp began to train qualified firecrackers, so that after the end of training, when transferred to the combat team, they can directly become qualified combat gunners, and there is no need to wait for the recruits to arrive in the combat team, and then select people for transfer training, so that after the recruits enter the combat team, they can directly go into battle to kill the enemy. Shorten the training cycle of the Musketeer.

Of course, if it is produced at such a speed, the bird guns equipped by the Xingtian Army will soon reach saturation, but Xiao Tianjian does not mind producing more bird guns as reserves, after all, the materials used in the current bird guns are not as good as the barrel materials of later generations, each gun barrel has a life of two or three hundred rounds at best, and after a few battles, it will basically be scrapped, so it is not possible to produce enough for now, so for a long time in the future, the production of bird guns will not stop, and a large number of them will be produced as a strategic reserve. For the expansion of the army at any time in the future, there is a ready-made reserve of weapons available at any time.

However, in terms of the current production capacity of Shuangfeng Zhai, Xiao Tianjian also knows that he has reached the limit of his production potential, if he wants to expand again, it is not the problem of insufficient raw materials, but the limitation of the number of craftsmen, so that he currently wants to continue to increase production, basically reached the bottleneck state, if he wants to continue to improve, he must cultivate a group of blacksmiths who will build bird guns, and the training of blacksmiths is not something that can be solved overnight, and it requires a lot of financial support, and then he has to take time, It's really time to find a way to develop a flintlock pistol!

However, this time Xiao Tianjian came here with his generals, not to inspect the production of guns, but to toss for several months, Gao Su, and finally tried to produce the first bronze three-pounder cannon of the Xingtian Army, and the test firing was successful, so he quickly notified Xiao Tianjian to come to acceptance, so Xiao Tianjian took his men down this trip in his busy schedule.

When everyone walked through the iron work and came to the cannon where Gao Su was, Gao Su had already packed up his clothes and hats neatly and waited here, with a triumphant look on his face, as if he was offering a treasure, and his chin involuntarily rose.

Originally, Gao Su promised Xiao Tianjian that within three months, he could cast a qualified bronze three-pounder cannon for Xiao Tianjian, but due to the lack of preparation at the beginning, this guy was very fine, everything had to be done from scratch, plus the bronze utensils that Xingtianjun got back, the materials were uneven, and after smelting, the bronze ratio could not meet Gao Su's requirements, so the three three-pounder cannons that were originally cast could not be used effectively because of quality reasons, and when the gun was tested, there was also an accident of exploding. In addition to injuring a craftsman, even Gao Su himself was almost killed on the spot, and was ridiculed by Yang Changshou Haosheng.

For this reason, Gao Su was also frightened, for fear that Xiao Tianjian would be angry and slaughter him, but after the accident was reported to Xiao Tianjian, Xiao Tianjian just said lightly, "Failure is the mother of success!" Everything is difficult at the beginning, as long as you work harder, I believe that Gaosu will succeed! As a result, after Gao Su received Xiao Tianjian's message, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time, he was also very grateful to Xiao Tianjian, so he immediately took his subordinates and continued to recast the new cannon day and night, and finally in early May, the first qualified bronze cannon was cast, and after the test firing, both the power and the range were comparable to the three-pounder cannon he used in China, so he quickly asked Zhang Chao to send someone to inform Xiao Tianjian to come over.

(Chapter 3 is presented, have you collected it?) I'll check it out! Hehe! ）