On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the sixth year of the Apocalypse was the prelude, as in previous years, worshiping the heavens and worshipping the ancestors, feasting the ministers, and as for the generals who were far away in the sky, they were high-profile condolences to their relatives and families, giving rich gold and silver items to comfort the elderly people.

On the festive day, Zhu Youxiao happily married the three princesses, but he did not promise the princess to those people as in history. Since he has changed a lot of history, the marriage of these princesses has changed a lot, and these princesses will not be as short-lived as in history. Zhu Huiyan Xu was married to Xu Guangqi's grandson, Zhu Huijing Xu was married to Sun Chengzong's grandson, and the cute little princess who was delicate and cute liked Song Yingxing's youngest son who often played with his father in the palace. These princesses don't want to live in an unsightly place in the deep palace like in their previous life, Zhu Youxiao has always let them follow Xu Guangqi, Song Yingxing, and Sun Chengzong to learn poetry, calligraphy, etiquette and a lot of modern knowledge, and these three cattle are their teachers. Zhu Youxiao also tried again and again, and learned that the three of them really liked the princesses, so they promised their children and grandchildren, and Zhu Youxiao clearly told the three princesses that once they got married in the future, they must let go of their identity as princesses and have the consciousness of being the best son.

The idle days always pass quickly, and before you know it, it is the Shangyuan Festival, and the busy Lei Mingtian makes Zhu Youxiao happy, so he specially made a few barrels of special fireworks, and Zhu Youxiao sent these fireworks to the harem in order to show his filial piety, so that the Empress Dowager Liu and her sisters were very happy.

After starting work, Zhu Youxiao found Bi Maokang and Lei Mingtian in the study, took out the "Shenhuo" gasoline stove, and the "Zhurong" lighter, these things are not rare for the two, they are both people who have seen this kind of thing, and they have participated in the development of these things, but when they saw Zhu Youxiao solemnly find them, the two felt that maybe Zhu Youxiao had some clever idea.

Zhu Youxiao did have a new idea, having a gasoline stove means that a kind of mass killing weapon can be made, which is the famous lack of morality*. This kind of thing has little effect on long distances, but if it is used to defend the position, block the enemy's attack at a distance, especially for siege and defense, it has unimaginable power, and Zhu Youxiao brought them here for the purpose of letting them study this kind of big killing weapon.

The principle of * is very simple, just like the principle of the gasoline stove, the only difference is that the shape is different, and secondly, it is necessary to be able to ignite the fire while injecting oil, which is not a difficult matter, in the Song Dynasty there was a fire assault gun, but the fire assault gun used *. Zhu Youxiao was afraid that they would reach a dead end, so he used a sudden musket to ignite the fire, so he deliberately took out a lighter, a small killing weapon, in this era, this thing is also an epoch-making thing. This means that the principle of manufacturing * and the necessary things are there, it depends on how the two firearms experts can better combine them together, as for the most primitive distance, it is eighteen meters, which is recorded in history, I don't know if it can be made now.

Zhu Youxiao's only worry is that there is no better plastic hose now, and he wants to see what solution these two can use. As a result, the two used a few copper pipes instead, and directly used copper pipes to make gasoline-injected spears, and the slightly more troublesome thing was the ignition, because the ignition success rate of the lighter was not 100%, and sometimes I was afraid that the fighter would be delayed. It was Song Yingxing who solved this problem, he also had an idea, so he used the miniature DC motor made by Zhu Youxiao, and the test results were very good, the trouble is that the jet tube can't be too long, and you have to start the generator when you need to pull the * switch, this problem was handed over to Zhu Ling, in terms of organ transmission, this guy is a little expert. Finally, under the case of the hard work of many people, this primitive * was completed, and the distance of the jet was also satisfactory, about fifteen meters, that is, about four feet and five, which can be said to be more than enough to defend the city wall, and it must be approached when attacking.

After the successful development of this kind of *, Zhu Youxiao quickly let the firearms factory make 50 planes, and selected nearly 200 students from the students of the Daming Technical College to strengthen training, so that they can learn to use this weapon as soon as possible, as for military literacy, there is no need to worry about this, now all Daming schools have timed, quantitative, and standard military training, it can be said that the students are basically qualified soldiers after a little training.

By the middle of February, all kinds of preparations had been completed, and Zhu Youzhen was about to return to Zhenbei City, and he could not stay in Zhenbei City, so he had to rush to Maobao with this large number of new equipment and hand over these things to Mao Wenlong to guard against Russian Cossack bandits.

In order to ensure that it can withstand the future "European steamroller", Zhu Youxiao also equipped Mao Wenlong with a large number of mortars, and there must be enough gasoline, so Zhu Youxiao handed over almost all the current stocks of gasoline to Zhu Youjian and asked him to bring it to Mao Wenlong. I was also afraid that Mao Wenlong's soldiers would not be able to eat vegetables and cause problems, so they brought a lot of dehydrated vegetables and soybeans. In short, Zhu Youxiao asked Zhu Youzhen to bring all the materials that could be brought and that Mao Wenlong might need, and Zhu Youzhen's team expanded to more than 3,000 people, almost all of whom carried supplies, and there were nearly 10,000 horses with the team. This huge supply team is mainly carried by horses, and for this reason, Song Yingxing also designed a special saddle, and the other is a large carriage, which is estimated to be not too fast.

Bumu Butai still wants to go back with Zhu Youzhen, she is reluctant to leave Zhu Youzhen, only Zhou looks at Zhu Youzhen pitifully and just wants to cry, Zhu Youzhen smiled and comforted Zhou, he will come back soon, but when he can come back, he himself can't say.

Zhu Youzhen, who was worried about Mao Wenlong's safety, rushed forward desperately along the way, and tired the entourage enough, so Zhu Youzhen continued to improve his reward and boost morale. When everyone saw that Zhu Youzhen, who was the second prince of the royal family, was so hard, no one was tired anymore, talking as little as possible, complaining less, and hurried one by one, and finally arrived in Zhenbei City after nearly a month.

Sun Chuanting is now in Zhenbei City, Zhu Youzhen returned to Beijing for the New Year, Sun Chuanting himself couldn't go back, so he asked Cao Wenzhao to guard the troops for himself, and he personally came to Zhenbei City to guard here instead of Zhu Youzhen, this is Sun Chuanting's shrewdness, thinking about Zhu Youzhen everywhere, so that he has no worries.

Seeing the emaciated and excessively thin Zhu Youzhen, Sun Chuanting couldn't help but feel a little distressed, a month's march with a large number of heavy burdens for thousands of miles is indeed tiring enough, but there are still thousands of miles of more difficult roads to go, and Zhu Youzhen has to escort him personally. In order to make Zhu Youzhen easier, Sun Chuanting asked him to lead the horse team with some necessary weapons and materials first, and returned the auxiliary soldiers brought from the capital to fight, and replaced them with his own 10,000 elite soldiers and 5,000 auxiliary soldiers to escort the cart and then follow up.

Zhu Youzhen smiled, why didn't he expect to march separately, so many materials don't have to be transported at one time, or inexperienced, thank Sun Chuanting for his kindness, only rest for two days and then start the next slow journey, but this time Sun Chuanting also sent him 3,000 elite soldiers, Sun Chuanting also heard Zhu Youzhen say that the situation is a little serious, I'm afraid that Mao Wenlong can't resist it, this guy is tough and refuses to retreat, and it will be troublesome if he really suffers too much loss.

Got rid of the burdensome carriages, Zhu Youzhen's marching speed was much faster, although the road was not easy to walk, but the team of pure horses was still not a big problem, there were more than a dozen supply points arranged by Mao Wenlong along the way, which was much more convenient, and the indigenous people encountered along the way also helped Zhu Youzhen a lot, after all, Mao Wenlong mixed well in this area, drove away the murderous Cossack bandits, calmed the local people's hearts, and the goods brought by Sun Chuanting also helped the local natives solve a lot of life problems.

Kankan walked not far from Maobao, and saw that the vicinity of Maobao was sparsely populated, and occasionally met a few hunters who went out to hunt, only to know that the Russian Cossack bandits had been active frequently recently, robbing everywhere, and even Mao Wenlong's troops were not enough to clean up, it looked like Zhu Youxiao's judgment, the Cossack bandits really wanted to rob this piece of land.