The Great Song Dynasty went north to recover the first battle of the homeland, recovered Qiongzhou in three days, and the loss of troops was negligible, and the Qiongguan Yuan army went up to Xuanhui to make Long Wenxiang, down to the head of the horseman, none of them missed the net, and the Song army won a great victory. Long Wenxiang also became the highest-ranking Mengyuan official captured by the Song army since Deyou.

After the war, Long Wenxiang was escorted to Yacheng, and was sentenced to Ming Zheng, and was also punished with a car split. After that, the first level was returned to Qiongguan and sacrificed in front of the newly built Five Righteous Warrior Temple.

This result, coupled with the news of the annihilation of Ali's army in The Hague some time ago, was quickly transmitted by the Black Crow Organization in the dark line of the Central Plains Prefecture Mansions, and quickly spread all over the world, shaking the Quartet, and the anti-Yuan armed forces from all over the country rushed to tell each other. At the same time, the news that the new monarch of the Great Song Dynasty is about to ascend the throne has made countless heroes even more excited.

The new dynasty needs fresh blood; The new monarch needs a new generation of courtiers. At this time, the sooner you enter the new dynasty, the sooner you appear in front of the new monarch, the more you can get great benefits. At that time, it is time to fight for a prosperous general, and his name will go down in history.

In the summer of 1280, north to Fuzhou, south to Qinzhou, more than 20 coastal capitals, almost every merchant ship, fishing boat, warship, there are righteous people who defected to Qiongzhou, including many righteous people from the 36 villages of Motianling: Li Zi, the lord of Nan'an, Huang Xian, Tang Ren, and Hu Wenke of northern Jiangxi......

These righteous men may be broken into pieces and go south in batches; Or the whole ship in the name of maritime merchants, casually order the goods, hang a sheep's head and go to Qiongzhou without even selling dog meat.

In addition to strengthening port entry and exit inspections and maritime patrols, there was no overreaction on the Mengyuan side. It is also understandable that unless a maritime ban is imposed, there is no way to completely eradicate this phenomenon of smuggling.

At the same time that thousands of righteous soldiers rushed to Qiongzhou, thousands of enemy troops also gathered in Qiongzhou.

On May 22, more than 10 days after the defeat of Long Wenmaung and the recovery of Qiongzhou, Zhang Hongfan, the newly appointed marshal of the Mongolian and Han armies appointed by Meng Yuan, took office due to illness and arrived in Guangzhou. Li Heng, the right governor of Jinghu Province and the governor of Guangzhou, assisted Zhang Hongfan as the deputy marshal of the Mongolian and Han armies to discuss the Qiongzhou dynasty.

This time, most of the capitals did not dare to be careless, and used part of the Mongolian army guarding the Beijing division, the Tanma Red Army guarding Hebei, the Henan Han Army, the Gadolinium Army of Liaodong, the Women's Direct Army, the Khitan Army, the Goryeo Army and other servant armies, as well as a large number of new annexed troops in the south of the Yangtze River. The total number of troops reached more than 100,000.

Ali Hague is cloudy, and Zhang Hongfan's thunder is coming again. For a time, Yacheng was full of joy up and down, and everyone was in danger. The eyes of the government and the opposition are focused on the prison country and the king of Leizhou County to see how this lord of Zhongxing, who had defeated Ali Hague, would respond.

However, at this time, neither Yacheng nor Qiongguan could find the shadow of Zhao Lie. He neither returned to Yacheng to discuss strategies with the courtiers, nor did he supervise the deployment of the war in Qiongguan, where did he go?

Wan'an Military City, Iron House.

Zhao Liezheng and the new ordnance supervisor Guo Chenggui and more than a dozen masters of iron and gunpowder were around a model, pointing and discussing in a low voice, and there were apprentices behind him who were paying attention to what they were recording with their pens.

That model, if you look closely, is a 10-to-1 steel cannon!

From the appearance of this steel cannon, it is very similar to the tiger squat cannon of the Ming Dynasty. The gun body is smooth, the pipe wall is thick, the gun carriage is made of hardwood, and the key parts such as the frame, axle, and wheel are wrapped with thick iron sheets, and are marked with copper bubble nails, which looks exquisite and gorgeous, with a unique texture of metal.

At this time, in the newly built artillery research room of the iron house, Guo Chenggui's vigorous voice was echoing: "...... The blacksmiths cast cannons with the method that the prince said, but they failed repeatedly, and it took more than a month to make a cannon. Fortunately, we have a large number of steel plates, which can be used as gun bodies to cast guns. The inner wall of this steel plate is smooth, without a little bit of sand hole, and the thickness is not more than one point, but it is strong and abnormal, and the material is excellent, which is the best in the world. Just closing the gun body is a big problem. We have repeatedly tried and tested for more than a month, and have come up with two methods: one is reverse thickening and reinforcement, and the other is to use molten steel to weld ......"

In the battle of Qiongguan, the cannonball broke through the cannon, which gave Zhao Lie a great inspiration. He realized that with muskets, the Dragon Sparrow Army was already invincible in field warfare, but the siege was not enough, and there was a lack of effective long-range heavy weapons. In fact, Meng Yuan had just invented the siege heavy weapon Huihui artillery, and showed his might in the battle of Xiangyang, breaking through the world's fortified city that was second only to Diaoyu City in terms of defense and holding in one fell swoop, so it also had the reputation of "Xiangyang Artillery".

However, this kind of return cannon has great limitations, one is that it is too heavy and too large, there are too many disassembly and assembly components, and it is extremely inconvenient to transport. The second is that the return cannon is essentially a counterweight trebuchet, and the throwing parabola is limited by the elevation angle, and it is okay to smash the city of the same horizontal line, but it is not possible to smash the city that is too high, such as the mountain city. Therefore, returning to Xiangyang, where artillery can break through the river, it can't help the Diaoyu City on the high mountains and mountains.

As for the Song army's cannon...... A cannon requires hundreds of people to operate, and it can only be used to defend the city, and the power is not as good as the return artillery, so it's better to save it.

Zhao Hunt wanted to build artillery, and stone bullets were not considered at all. With the thought of it, all the materials of the military industrial base went through Zhao Lie's mind, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

In the military industrial base, there are two tons of steel plates, which are mainly used for casting bolt parts, as well as machetes, hand axes, steel pipes, daggers and other street fighting weapons. When Zhao Lie first took over the military base, there was a batch of stocks, including various types of shotguns, pistols, and knives, axes and daggers. Zhao Lie, Ding Xiaoyi and others all have equipment. However, Zhao Lie soon realized the irreproducibility of steel, so it has only been used to cast bolt parts for rear-loading guns, and has never been used to make knives. In this way, there is a large surplus of steel plates. Five or six hundred guns, the final steel consumption is no more than a thousand catties, and three-quarters of it is left, which is just used to cast cannons.

So Zhao Lie gave an order, and an artillery research and development team led by Guo Chenggui and gathered the top blacksmiths and gunpowder craftsmen of the Great Song Dynasty was established, and immediately took action.

Zhao Lie gave Guo Chenggui two sets of plans: one is to cast the cannon independently, and the other is to use ready-made steel plates to weld the cannon.

Self-casting artillery involves a lot of technology and testing, and it is obviously not possible to do it in a short period of time. Guo Chenggui and other masters tried more than a dozen times, but they couldn't even create a model, which proved this. Therefore, the use of one and a half tons of cold-rolled steel plate in the military base has become the only option.

The cold-rolled steel plates are cut to a five-metre-long and two-metre-wide specification and folded into two piles of heights. Take a steel plate, as long as it is rolled up, it is an excellent gun body. Of course, in fact, this is impossible, the barrel with a circumference of two meters, thicker than a gasoline barrel, is not an artillery, but a mortar. IF IT IS CUT VERTICALLY INTO QUARTERS, EACH FIFTY CENTIMETERS, IT CAN BE ROLLED INTO A CALIBER OF 150MM, THAT IS, A 6-INCH GUN.

That said, this does not mean that a single steel plate can be rolled into four gun shafts. SINCE THE THICKNESS OF THE STEEL PLATE IS NOT MORE THAN 3MM, IT IS CONSIDERED THAT THE WALL OF THE GUN BODY IS TOO THIN, SO IT IS NECESSARY TO SUPERIMPOSE AND WRAP, STACK FOUR STEEL PLATES WITH A WIDTH OF 50 CENTIMETERS, LAYER BY LAYER, AND PUT THEM ON THE MACHINE TO STAMP INTO A STEEL PLATE WITH A THICKNESS OF MORE THAN 10MM, WHICH IS THE BARREL MATERIAL.

There are two problems to be solved here: one is that the four steel plates are stamped into a complete and dense steel plate, which cannot be done manually by manpower in any case, and must be electric. The second is the sealing and welding of the steel plate rolled into the barrel.

Electric is first of all electricity, where did the electricity come from in the Song Dynasty? Fortunately, there is no electricity in the world, but there is one diesel generator and five hundred kilograms of diesel fuel in the military industrial base. These two things have been idle for a long time, and this is when they finally come in handy.