Chapter 167: Uncle Chen's Marriage

Zhang Zhimu said: "Let's think about it, if we tens of thousands of people have a musket in our hands, as long as there is enough ammunition and food. Our city does not build walls, let them in and engage in street fighting, how many of them can we deal with? ”

Ouyang He said: "If it is well organized, it should be no problem to use one as ten." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "As long as we set up obstacles in the streets and alleys of the city, and the other side does not have the impact advantage of cavalry, then we will wait for work at ease and fight in the streets at close range, and our muskets will greatly exert their advantages." So we have the financial resources and manpower to build the walls, so we might as well do more and more beneficial things. ”

Chen Yufeng said: "Yes, if we are really like what you said, all the people are soldiers, and the number of troops will increase greatly." Because the defense of the city does not require the physical strength of the soldiers, as long as they hide in the room and can shoot outside. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Have you ever thought about how much manpower and material resources and how much time it takes to build a city wall? In addition, from the moment we start to cultivate, the court will know, and the court will be suspicious of us. Besides, we also need to think about it at a strategic level. Strategically, when we are not strong enough, we will never turn against the imperial court, and when we have the strength, we will not be afraid of others attacking us. In any case, if we let others attack us when we are not strong enough, it will be a strategic failure for us. The best thing we can do now is to keep our heads in the dark. ”

Chen Yufeng said: "I understand what Zhimu said. However, I think that the good habit of the workers to participate in military training should be adhered to. You have to be able to shoot a gun. ”

Li Mao said: "It is still Mr. Zhang's long-term and thoughtful consideration. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "I have tried to produce smokeless ** today, and I can test it tomorrow." The explosion power of this smokeless ** is two to three times that of the black **, and in the future, our** will have to be replaced with smokeless**, so that ** can be made a little lighter, and in the future** there is no need to ignite again, and you can catch fire by pulling it with a rope. ”

Chen Yufeng asked: "Are you saying that you won't need to light the fire rope in the future?" ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Yes, in the future, our bow mines and crossbow mines will no longer need to be ignited, so that they will explode when they touch the target." It is called a trigger fuse. We can also make ** that explodes when a person touches it. ”

Ouyang He said: "Mr. Zhang, can you carefully talk about these things you said, with these things, our training materials will be rewritten again." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "It's going to be revised, but let's talk about it now." I haven't been looking at your lesson plans carefully, and that's why. I'm going to make rifled guns right away, because our smoothbore guns have a short range and low accuracy. And rifled guns, at the most, can shoot with an accuracy of 100 meters. Our muskets have a large caliber, a large recoil, and a small body is difficult to control. This time my rifled gun was ready to be used in 5.8 mm caliber. ”

Chen Yufeng said: "The 5.8 mm caliber is too small. ”

Zhang Zhimu said with a smile: "Uncle Chen, in fact, you don't know that the lethality of a 5.8 caliber gun in the future will be much greater than that of our current musket, because after the bullet enters the human body, it will flip, and it will be a small hole when it goes in, and a big hole when it goes out." And this gun can be very lightweight, and even women and children can easily use it. What's more, this gun, which can hold a lot of bullets at a time, can shoot continuously. ”

Ouyang He said: "If that's the case, we don't need to talk about the course first. I don't know how the battle will be fought in the future. At that time, it will not be one for ten, but one for hundred. ”

"Not only that, Uncle Chen, do you remember the last time you had to bring those Qing army cannons, and we didn't let you bring them?" Zhang Zhimu asked.

Chen Yufeng said: "Remember, you say it's all rubbish." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Yes, we will soon produce a mortar, with smokeless **, the power of the shell is greater than our current bow mine." Moreover, this kind of cannon can be carried by three or four people and run, maneuvering quickly, and shooting is very accurate. You say, with these weapons, do we need to drastically revise our tactics? ”

Chen Yufeng said: "In my opinion, the current class should be taught how it should be conducted, and the main thing is to cultivate the ability of officers. Talk a little more about how to lead the troops. Tactically, let's talk about what we've already been tested in battle. ”

Ouyang He said: "This matter will be done according to what Mr. Chen said." There is another thing, we have discussed a few times, that is, if we gain a foothold in Shanxi, where will we develop in the future? ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "We have to consider this point carefully, I think, maybe we have to operate in Shanxi for a period of time, then Shanxi is stable, and we are planning." I think the next step is to go south to take Henan. However, there are disadvantages, because in this case, we will isolate Li Zicheng from the Ming Dynasty, and we will be under pressure from both sides. So I haven't thought about it yet. ”

Li Mao said: "When we have the ability to go south to take Henan, we will not be afraid of being attacked from both sides." The advantages of going to Henan still outweigh the disadvantages. With Henan, we can open up the land transportation between the north and the south and occupy the advantage of the Central Plains. To the south, you can approach the Yangtze River, the northeast can rely on the Yellow River, and the west can advance to Chang'an. It's really not good, and it's convenient to return to Shanxi. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "What Brother Li said is that Henan is a place where soldiers must fight. ”

Li Mao said: "If Mr. Zhang has this plan, we mean to prepare as soon as possible, and when the time comes, it will come naturally." ”

Zhang Zhimu knew that the three of them must have come up with a good idea, and said, "Brother Li, tell me your thoughts in detail. ”

Li Mao said: "Uncle Chen has already introduced to me that the Yaogang Intelligence Department is a very efficient department, and we should send intelligence personnel to it as soon as possible." I also want to contact people with prestige in Henan for my use, and in the future, I will rely on the locals to pass through Henan. ”

In fact, Zhang Zhimu disagrees with this. Those so-called local celebrities are probably some local gentry, and they are afraid that their ideas are inconsistent with their own, but it is better to engage in a united front and use them. The experience gained from studying the history of the party is that different historical stages have different targets for united front.

Thinking of this, Zhang Zhimu nodded and said, "Brother Li is right. Henan is a place full of humanities, hidden dragons and crouching tigers, and there will be many of our like-minded people. You continue. ”

Li Mao said: "In the next step, our business should also cooperate with the development of business in Henan. We must secretly infiltrate the places occupied by Li Zicheng, because no matter who occupies the place, merchants must be allowed to enter and exit, otherwise it will be a dead land, and then we will have a chance. We have more advantages in Kaifeng, and it is no problem to have the face of King Zhou. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Brother Li is thoughtful. ”

Seeing that Li Mao finished speaking, Ouyang He asked: "Does Mr. Zhang have an impression of Li Yan?" ”

Of course Zhang Zhimu knew about Li Yan, who was a celebrity in the late Ming Dynasty. rebelled with Li Zicheng and was later killed by Li Zicheng.

Zhang Zhimu said: "You mean that? Li Yan, the author of "Song of Persuasion"? Hasn't he already defected to Li Zicheng? ”

Ouyang said: "Yes, that's what I'm talking about." This person's thoughts are similar to ours, but it's a pity that he defected to Li Zicheng two years earlier. However, a few years ago, I had a relationship with Li Yan. That time, I traveled to Qixian County, Henan, and we had a long talk with candles and had a great time together. Li Yan is a person who can be literate and martial, and has a good character, if he can win it, then we will definitely add an arm. ”

Chen Yufeng interjected: "Actually, the main thing we came here today is this Li Yan's matter. If this person can win over, it will not only be of great benefit to us in taking Henan in the future, but will also be a fatal blow to Li Zicheng. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Li Yan is now Li Zicheng's right-hand man, and it is too difficult to win him over. But everyone has this meaning, so you might as well work hard. There are only people in the world who can't do anything, and there is nothing that can't be done. ”

Ouyang He said: "I want to repair a book, talk about what I saw and heard in Yaogang, not talk about our future thoughts." Slowly it affected him a little. When the conditions are ripe, we will decide what to do. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Just do what Mr. Ouyang said, this matter should not be rushed." We're not at this stage yet, we're just laying out ahead of time. As for the future of really trying to win him, we have other means, and don't forget, we still have one card in our hand that is useless. Li Zicheng's nephew, Li Guo, is still in our hands. When the time comes, we will also use any discord meter and the like. ”

When the three of them heard Zhang Zhimu say this, they laughed together.

Chen Yufeng said: "We don't have anything else to worry about, but you are too high-minded, and some methods are afraid that you will not dare to use them, or you are unwilling to use them." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "As long as I can reduce losses, I will do whatever it takes. Those who can use clever methods never use brute force. ”

Li Mao said: "With our current strength, we can make several powerful forces around us be afraid of us, which is not easy. It is completely the result of the use of strategy, and now we have won a short time for development, and we must make full use of it. Let this period of time be as long as possible, if it is really like what Mr. Zhang said, our weapons can make great progress, then the whole form will change dramatically. At that point, it will not be a question of who will fight us, but of who we will fight. ”

Chen Yufeng said: "Zhimu, what you said just now are all weapons used by infantry, and the cannons are also small cannons that can be carried by three or four people." In the future, I am afraid that it will not be enough to attack the city and plunder the land. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Don't worry Uncle Chen, I have asked Yunhe to build a large hydraulic press, and the billets of the barrel in the future will be forged, and the steel material forged will be uniform and strong, and I am ready to engage in rifled rear loading guns." ”

Ouyang He said: "Mr. Zhang also told us what the breech-loading rifled gun means." ”

Zhang Zhimu saw that he was going to give a lecture again, but he couldn't help but lecture, "To put it simply, the shells are independent, the same as our current bullets, in this way, after firing one round, one more round, and the shooting can ensure continuity." The advantage of rifling is that the cannon rotates at high speed when it is ejected, so the stability of the shell is greatly improved, and the shooting accuracy can be guaranteed, and the firing range will be longer. The weight of the cannon will also be greatly reduced, and each cannon can be run with several horses pulled by pressing the wheel. ”

Chen Yufeng said: "In the future, Fan Chengkun and their warships can also install this kind of cannon." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Large-caliber artillery is the most suitable for installing large-caliber artillery on warships, because it does not have the problem of transportation. However, the wooden ship was equipped with too large caliber guns, and it was afraid that the hull would not be able to withstand the vibration of the cannon fire. In the future, if we build steel-hulled ships, we will be able to install large-caliber, high-precision rifled guns. At that time, we will have the final say on where our ships go and where the shells can cover. ”

Li Mao said: "At that time, we can control the banks of several major rivers, so we have the option to take them down piece by piece." ”

Ouyang He said: "Therefore, it is useless for us to determine any strategy and tactics too early. If it is really like what Mr. Zhang said, we must completely adopt a new strategy and tactics. Many times, we can surrender without a fight. ”

Chen Yufeng was also very excited when he heard this, and said: "At that time, we will be able to use the advantages of our weapons to occupy several strategic bases and control a large area. Then we take advantage of our economic advantages and slowly control these places. ”

The more these people talked, the happier they became, until Yang Yulin came in and asked, "Mr. Zhang, are you not going to eat dinner?" ”

A few people knew that they were hungry and it was time to eat.

Dinner was also eaten by Zhang Zhimu, Chen Yufeng and others, although Zhang Zhimu didn't do anything else in the afternoon. But I was still very happy in my heart, because I had unified my understanding with a few people, which was a more important thing than building a few weapons. Through this incident, Zhang Zhimu warned himself in his heart that he must spend more time communicating with his comrades-in-arms in the future.

Chen Yufeng's marriage was very grand, and Zhang Zhimu felt that it was no smaller than his own scene. Of course, Lu Chengxiang and Li Zhi have been busy with their own affairs. Lu Chengxiang did not forget to promote the products of Yaogang, and Li Zhi took the opportunity of a large number of people to contact all kinds of people.

Chen Yufeng's small building, the entire area, is larger than Zhang Zhimu's. The three-story cement skeleton building has a courtyard in the front and back, because Chen Yufeng has to practice martial arts every day, and he can't do it without a venue.

The old rule of the wedding is that Sister-in-law Xu arrived in Xiurong City the day before, and the next morning from Xiurong City, she used a glass carriage to take Sister-in-law Xu to the kiln. After arriving at the kiln, Zhang Zhimu watched the dazzling etiquette of those people. Chen Yufeng, a big hero, was also tossed and turned around, and he had no choice but to smile at each other.

To Zhang Zhimu's surprise this time, Chen Yufeng's friends from the rivers and lakes came a lot. Not to mention all over Shanxi, there are people coming from many places far away. It seems that the reputation of "Mountain Harrier" is not small, coupled with the influence of the kiln, those people who can get on the side of the rivers and lakes are here.

This also brings a little benefit.

The people in the green forest north of Yaogang have generally given face to Yaogang. However, if you want to develop to Jinnan next year, there are a few relatively large mountains along the way, so you need to get through. After Li Mao came back, he was going to go to Jinnan before returning to the south after the New Year, and these people in the rivers and lakes could still give Li Mao a little face. Li Mao said that he would first talk about it, if these people can give face, it will be easy to say, and if they don't give face, they will be destroyed.

Among the people who came to attend the wedding this time, there were two heads of mountains from Jinnan, after they arrived at the kiln, they had an understanding of the kiln, Chen Yufeng was polite in the past, and the matter was good. These two said that the kiln people can go to them whenever they have something, and the kiln people came to their door and let them go all the way.

In this wedding, Huang Yukun was busy with a slightly bulging belly. I'm tired at the end of the day. Zhang Zhimu gave her a good massage at night, and Huang Yukun stopped shouting that he was tired and fell asleep slowly. But before Zhang Zhimu woke up in the morning, he was woken up by Huang Yukun. Huang Yukun said that he asked Zhang Zhimu to accompany her to talk, and of course Zhang Zhimu understood how to speak. After a while, the two hugged each other. After resting for a while, Huang Yukun said, "Uncle Chen's marriage is finally done. I also had a little bit on my mind. It's just that I found a second-married woman for Uncle Chen, and I feel a little uncomfortable. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Aren't you just a second marriage, I don't think there's anything wrong with you." Uncle Chen and Sister-in-law Xu are in love, what's uncomfortable. ”

Huang Yukun said: "I also think that if you marry me, you will lose a little bit to you." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "It's all nonsense. As he spoke, he hugged Huang Yukun and began to kiss her again.

After the two of them calmed down, Huang Yukun said: "After a while, I can't accompany you, so let Yulin accompany you." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Nonsense, people are Huanghua daughters, you let people do this." ”

Huang Yukun said: "If you don't have a woman to accompany you for a few days, I don't think it will work, and I feel relieved to have her with me." Besides, sooner or later he will be yours, what are you afraid of? ”

Zhang Zhimu hugged Huang Yukun and said, "I can't bear you." ”

After getting up, Huang Yukun said: "The fish in the nearby river have been killed by our people. Yesterday I dug a few ice holes and didn't catch many fish, so you have to figure out how to do it. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "I have been ready for this for a long time. It's just about to be the New Year, and we went to Xishan Baozi to fish. ”

Huang Yukun said: "Xishan Baozi, thirty or forty miles away from here, I heard that the depths are bottomless, where do you go fishing?" ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Yes, I have seen the Xishan bubble, the lake is very large, and you can't see the edge in the distance." There must be a lot of fish there. I brought back a lot of fishing nets when I went south this time. ”

The wedding feast continued the next day. Zhang Zhimu didn't care about this, and when he came to the office, he asked Yang Yulin to find Li Yunhe and Lu Chengxiang.

When Li Yunhe and the others arrived, Zhang Zhimu pointed to the map and said: "Thirty miles to the north and five miles northwest along the Xiaoling River, there is a lake called Xishan Baozi. Don't listen to the West Mountain Bubble, think it's not big, in fact, it's a big lake. You can't see the edge in the distance. The lake is said to be very deep. I'm going to go there and dig ice fishing. ”

Lu Chengxiang said: "Catch some fish, do you need to run so far in the cold?" ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Mr. Lu, you are wrong, this time I am not going to catch a little fish, but a lot of fish." Do you remember how many of the nets we bought back in the south? ”

Lu Chengxiang said: "Of course I remember, there are a lot of them in the library." ”

Zhang Zhimu said to Li Yunhe: "You can find me a little lighter wood, and make it into such a big float, round or long, two hundred." "Zhang Zhimu is the size of a basketball. Since there was no foam buoy to be found, I had to use a wooden one.

Li Yunhe said: "Okay, I'll take it out for you in two days." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "I also have to prepare to set up a tent on the ice, and a stove will be built inside." To be able to live in people. The horses should also have a sheltered shed, and the grass should be laid under the canopy, otherwise the people and horses will not be able to stand it for a long time on the ice. Twenty horses were prepared to climb the plow. ”

Li Yunhe said: "It is easy for horses to climb the plow, and the carriage we captured can unload the wheels first and load them on wooden skateboards. ”

Zhang Zhimu made a list of some utensils that he could think of. For example, bamboo poles for fishing nets, nets, steel drills for ice chisels, steel forks for spearfish, winches, and so on.

Lu Chengxiang said: "Dozens of people also need a lot of things to eat and live, and it is too cold to forget to bring liquor." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "When the time comes, the sashimi will be liquor, not to mention how beautiful." I bring all the seasonings. ”

Li Yunhe said, "Just bring two big iron stoves." If you have coal, you are not afraid of cold. ”

When everything was ready, Zhang Zhimu, Li Yunhe, and Li Jing took twenty horses to climb the plow, followed the ice surface of the Xiaoling River, and advanced to Xishan Baozi. The weather is really cold, especially on the ice surface of Xishan Paozi, I feel extremely cold. The wind had swept the snow off the ice, revealing the green ice. Zhang Zhimu chose a place in the middle of the bubble that he felt could be very deep below, and asked everyone to set up a tent here.

Li Yunhe instructed everyone to unload the wooden poles from the horse climbing plough and began to use Xiaoice to chisel small ice nests on the ice to fix the wooden poles. Zhang Zhimu can't get his hands on these jobs.

Everyone worked together and soon set up the shed with wooden poles and mats. However, Zhang Zhimu went in to take a look, there was air leaking everywhere, and the inside was similar to the outside at night.

Zhang Zhimu said: "I can't ask for these mats in the future." So let's dig through the ice, take water and pour it on the mat, and if it freezes, it won't be permeable. ”

This trick really worked, the inside of the shed was not airtight, and then two large iron stoves were lit, and it was much warmer. At night, they slept on a bed made of wooden planks, which were all made of grain grass and leather, and everyone drank a little wine and clothes and lay down, and they did not feel very cold.

Because before going to bed yesterday, Zhang Zhimu instructed everyone to connect the nets into a fence of more than 2,000 meters, the middle part of the net is a large net pocket, the upper part of the net is tied to the wood float, and the lower part of the net is tied with a lead sinker.

So in the morning, when it was not bright, Zhang Zhimu got up and commanded the beaters to start going to the net.

First of all, an ice hole two meters long and half a meter wide was carved in the ice, and Zhang Zhimu told everyone that at this time, at the mouth of the net, one kilometer of the two-kilometer fence would be lowered into the water from here.

Zhang Zhimu instructed everyone to start digging ice holes at a distance of seventeen or eighteen meters, and each ice cave was one foot in diameter. Then use two seventeen or eighteen-meter-long bamboo poles, with two ropes dragging the net, from the mouth of the net to the direction of other holes on both sides of the ice, this bamboo pole is like a needle for needlework. After this pole shows up in another ice hole, he walks forward with the pole against this needle-like pole until it reaches the next hole. After gradually stretching the net in this way, start to walk forward and close the two nets together. The two nets went forward for more than 3,000 meters, and the two poles would meet to the outlet of the net, and the two poles were taken out, and the nets were slowly twisted up with a horse-drawn winch.

In order to prevent the fish from being frozen on the ice, Zhang Zhimu has asked people to get a lot of snow from afar to spread on the ice.

At this time, Zhang Zhimu told everyone that he was going to collect the fish, and everyone laughed and asked, "So you can catch the fish?" That fish is too stupid! "There were already fish coming up with the net, and everyone no longer suspected that there were fish, and they came up one after another to pick the fish. Because Zhang Zhimu knew that no one fished in this lake all year round, and the size of the fish would be very large, he always chose a four-inch net when he bought the net, so that the small fish would be missed, and the big fish would come up.

The fish that were hung up by the net did not arouse Zhang Zhimu's interest, and the spectacular scenes he had seen on TV many times in his previous life had not yet appeared, and Zhang Zhimu felt that the current fishing volume would far exceed the fishing volume at that time, because the fish in this lake did not know how much time they had been raised, and they did not know how old they were. In the previous life, according to the TV, a million catties of fish were caught in Chagan Lake, I don't know how many catties of fish can be caught in this Ming Dynasty?

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