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The bearing workshop has ten craftsmen, and these ten craftsmen work together to produce ten rolling bearings a day. By June 29, the workshop had produced more than 100 bearings.

These more than 100 bearings are the treasures of Fanjiazhuang and must be used in the most critical places. Li Zhi hired a few carpenters and first equipped these bearings on the six-pounder gun, replacing the original wooden axle frame of the gun carriage.

The 18-pounder guns in Fanjiazhuang's city defense were all made on 15 June, and then the artillery workshop cast several more 6-pounder guns, and Li Zhi now has 84 6-pounder guns in his hands.

These six-pounder guns will be greatly increased in terms of mechanical power when they are fitted with bearings.

In the past, the six-pounder gun carriage needed four horses to be dragged to transfer, and when defending the city, the space on the city wall was narrow, and the horses were not easy to operate, so it was inconvenient to transfer the artillery on the city wall. With the bearings, the friction on the axle of the gun carriage was greatly reduced, and the gun carriage could move much more easily, and six gunners plus a few people could pull a three-hundred and seventy-five kilogram six-pounder gun for short distance movement. Therefore, the six-pounder cannon can be quickly transferred on the city wall and supported to the enemy's main attack at any time, which is a great advantage for the city defense.

If the artillery could not move, eighty-four light guns were evenly distributed among the four walls, and only twenty-one could be arranged in each direction. Now the artillery carriage can maneuver quickly, and it can concentrate the vast majority of artillery in the direction of the enemy's main attack to bombard the enemy.

However, Li Zhi was still not at ease with the city defense, and during the Chongzhen period, the Jurchens broke into Gyeonggi several times to plunder, and Li Zhi could only rest assured if he arranged Fanjiazhuang more tightly. In March, he hired 1,000 people from the vicinity to dig numerous large and small holes one or two hundred meters outside the city walls. These pits are two or three meters deep, the small ones are ten meters long and wide, and the large ones are tens of meters wide, and there are several layers from the outside to the inside, and they are dotted out of the city walls. By June, the potholes were all completed.

If the enemy's infantry attacked, the potholes forced them to take a detour. Within the range of the Minny rifle, the enemy had to bear a little more pressure of death for every extra meter around. If the enemy creates a chariot to attack the city, these potholes can directly stop the chariot. Only by filling these ravines will the chariot be able to move on.

For the infantry who left the chariot to fill the ravine, the Minnie rifle on the city wall would become their nightmare.

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On the first day of July, it was the height of summer, and the scorching sun baked the earth, leaving all the animals and plants as listless as if they were dehydrated. The high temperature makes people reluctant to move, and they sweat and feel uncomfortable after walking a few steps. In the wilderness, no other sound could be heard except the sound of cicadas that resounded through the four fields.

However, even on such days, Li Zhi did not relax his defense, and still let the soldiers train under the scorching sun.

Li Zhi came to the school field to review the training of the Selective Regimental and the Breaking Regiment.

Li Zhi's newly recruited eighty bird-pistol craftsmen quickly mastered the manufacture of flintlock pistols, and they were apprenticed for only one month. With their accession, the speed of production in rifle workshops increased significantly. By the first day of July, the rifle workshop had produced a total of four thousand and sixteen rifles. After removing the scrapped 130 rifles, there were 3,880 rifles that could be used, which was enough for each of the 3,700 musketeers under Li Zhi's command to have one rifle.

On the school grounds, 3,700 musketeers lined up in long lines with rifles, practicing how to stay head-on to meet the enemy.

Three hundred gunners, riding on horseback, simulated the enemy, galloped three hundred meters away from the musketeers, trying to get around the flanks and rear of the musketeers' formation. The officers of the musketeers need to adjust the direction of the front of each company platoon according to the proportion of the enemy's forces in different directions, so that the right force faces the right enemy, and does not let the enemy go around to the rear where no one is facing.

At first, the three hundred cavalry collectively circled the left flank of the musketeers, and Li Xing and various officers gave orders to the musketeers to rotate counterclockwise, turning the left flank into a frontal and facing the cavalry that went around the left flank.

The 300 gunners failed in one move, changed their tactics again, and divided their troops into two routes, all the way to the north and all the way to the south.

The officers of the Elective Regiment and the Broken Regiment gave the order loudly, and the heralds rode through the ranks on horseback, quickly passing the order down. The regiment on the north flank rotated 90 degrees clockwise to face the cavalry in the north, and the captivity regiment on the southern flank rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise to face the cavalry in the south, so that the cavalry simulated by the artillery battalion would not get into the loophole.

The cavalrymen of the artillery battalion, seeing that the musketeers were well coped, changed their tactics again, and they scattered their ranks to gallop back and forth three hundred meters away from the riflemen, threatening the musketeers in all directions like running circles.

The musketeers' officers met and formed a circle to hold all directions.

The cavalry gradually stopped circling and gathered on the eastern flank of the musketeers.

Li Xing and other officers immediately ordered the musketeers to break the circle from the west flank, stretch out the north and south semicircles, and once again face the cavalry gathered in the east.

The cavalry simulated several more cavalry tactics, but the musketeers always maintained the right strength to face the cavalry head-on. The cavalry had to go around in circles outside the range of the musketeers, and they had to go far more than the musketeers who rotated the direction of the troops. As long as the musketeers reacted quickly and adjusted their fronts, the cavalry could not go directly behind the musketeers, and were always faced by the musketeers head-on.

Li Zhi trained the musketeers, which was also the basic skill of the musketeers to fight against the enemy. Mastering this basic skill, the cavalry could not simply attack the flank and rear of the musketeers. On a real battlefield, only by pinning down the front of the musketeers with a large number of infantry could the cavalry go around the flanks of the musketeers and attack.

Li Zhi watched the training for half an hour and found that the musketeers had basically mastered the methods of facing the enemy head-on, and he was very satisfied. Now that the musketeers have mastered this tactic, they will not expose their flanks when facing the Houjin cavalry in the future, and they will always be able to face the enemy's main force head-on.

Li Zhi told the soldiers to rest on the spot and summoned several officers to him.

"How's the Broken Troupe doing?"

Li Xing patted his chest and said, "No problem!" It's time to go to war! Several times I asked the Selector Regiment to pretend to ride a horse to storm the front line of the Broken Regiment, and the Broken Regiment was accustomed to standing firm in the face of the charge of the cavalry group! ”

Li Zhi nodded and asked, "How are the shooting results?" ”

Li Xing said: "One hundred and thirty steps on the humanoid target!" ”

The Ming people take about 1.5 meters as a step, and 130 steps is 200 meters.

Li Zhi and the officers were discussing training there when they suddenly saw a family member in the distance riding a fast horse rushing towards this side.

Everyone stopped discussing and looked at the galloping family.

The family rode closer, jumped off his horse, led the horse and ran to Li Zhi, and half-knelt and shouted, "My lord, the Tartar is here!" ”

Li Zhi was stunned, and then he saw clearly that this family member was a soldier he sent to the Tian0jin Acropolis to collect intelligence.

"Here are the Tartars?"

The family raised his head and said loudly: "My lord, I heard from Deacon Sun in the governor's yamen, the news from the capital this morning is that the Tatars broke through the Dushikou on June 27 and entered Chang'anling from the Eagle Osprey Fort, and have already arrived in Gyeonggi. ”

The Tartars are coming!

Li Zhi took a breath and looked north.