Hong Chengchou heard Aobai's exclamation, touched his beard disapplauded, and said, "What if all the people are soldiers?" As his territory expands, he will feel the same difficulty in governing the country, and not all people will be able to accept their strict management.

What is the purpose of studying and becoming an official?

They treat officials as slaves, so that officials can't make money, can't get a certain amount of remuneration, what can they do with that dead salary? Therefore, they are okay for a while, but after a long time, many people will fall to us or Nanmingguo, so that they will be chaotic, and we will have a chance. ”

Feng Quan didn't listen to Hong Chengchou's self-deception, at least now the Huaxia army will not have this kind of problem, and the current Qing army has to face hundreds of thousands of Huaxia troops with better equipment and advanced tactics than them, even if the Qing army has many people, but as he said to Hong Chengchou just now, hundreds of thousands of troops are still eating empty salaries and drinking soldiers' blood, can such an army fight?

Even if there are some elite troops, it is these people who can go up to send them to death, and the Manchurian army in Aobai is elite, but it is only tens of thousands, which is not enough to influence the situation.

"My lord, at present, we must first solve the problem of manufacturing our army's firearms, now our army's firearms have no good materials, the previous hoarded materials have been made into firearms, and now there are no good high-quality iron materials, and the firearms created are not only heavy, but also not very good quality, if this continues, we will not be able to complete all the new army's redress, and we will not have enough troops to cope with the upcoming decisive battle in half a year."

When Hong Chengchou heard Feng Quan's words, he also felt that it was not time to sigh, and it was not time to amplify the words to Ao Bai, and asked: "What is the quality of our army's muskets now?" ”

Feng Quan said: "Our army's musket is heavier than the Huaxia army's musket, because our army does not have the delicate Min iron like the Huaxia army, and at the same time, our army uses black powder, and the granular gunpowder produced cannot reach the power of the Huaxia army, and the manufacturing and procurement work of our army's arquebuses cannot keep up, resulting in many arquebuses that cannot be ignited, or burn too fast, and so on.

In short, various problems have led to the fact that our army now has the cost of fifteen taels of silver to imitate the Huaxia Army's arquebus to change 1, and it is said that the cost of the Huaxia Army's arquebus is only six taels of silver, and the scrap rate is too high, even if the craftsman is responsible for the system, let the craftsman engrave his name on each gun, the quality is not good, then the craftsman is killed, but the problem can still not be solved, our army's arquebus can be put 2oo, the Huaxia Army's can be put 3oo, and the quality can not be compared with the Huaxia Army. ”

Hong Chengchou touched the beard on his chin, "Then it's not a problem, I have a lot of soldiers, you can make it according to the current method, and some inferior materials are fine, the current quality is always better than the fire guns made by the Ming army before, and the fire guns made by our army before, the quality does not have to be too good, how can each soldier have the opportunity to release two hundred, can kill thirty immortals, or do not escape, it is already considered a good soldier, a battle does not take so long to solve, the focus is to build the artillery well, artillery is the best weapon that can be relied on in future battles." ”

"How's our artillery doing?" Hong Chengchou asked again.

"Artillery, we have completely abandoned all previous types of artillery, and now we are fully engaged in producing artillery of the same standard as the Huaxia Army. From three-pounder guns, to eighteen-pounder guns. At present, the artillery that our army can produce is three-pounder guns to nine-pounder guns, and the artillery produced by our army is too heavy for twelve-pounder guns and eighteen-pounder guns.

In particular, the eighteen-pounder cannon was huge, larger than all the largest guns of our army or the Ming army before, but fortunately, the barrel was long and it hit far, but it was not suitable for fighting with the army.

And it is inconvenient to move, it requires thirty-six pack horses, more than 100 people, pulling and pulling, weighing 12,000 catties, and can fight 3,000 meters away, but the power is good, but he is too heavy, the operation is too complicated, and he cannot follow the army to fight. ”

Feng Quan said embarrassedly.

Ao Bai was dumbfounded, patted his thigh and said: "Good cannon, it is more powerful than the general's cannon, the general's cannon is only five miles away, about 1,500 meters to 1,600 meters away, known as ten miles of erosion, if this cannon can really hit so far and put it on the city wall, that person dares to attack the city,"

Hong Chengchou said: "Lord Feng has done a good job, this kind of cannon can replace the previous red-clothed cannon, the general cannon, and guard the city." ”

"What about the twelve-pounder?"

Feng Quan said: "The twelve-pound cannon, weighing eight thousand catties, needs twenty-four war horses to drag, can fight two thousand meters away, about four miles, and its role can only guard the city and the coast." ”

"Oh, then send this kind of cannon to the mouth of the Pujiang River, put it on the shore, and guard the coast, although Zheng Chenggong has been obsessed with going overseas to find a paradise and establish his Zheng family dynasty, we have to prevent them from suddenly boarding 6 from Jiangkou and other places and attacking Yangzhou Mansion."

"Yes, my lord." Feng Quan said.

Hong Chengchou asked again: "According to this guess, the nine-pounder cannon is not very convenient, right?" ”

Feng Quan's face was a little red, but he immediately said comfortingly: "This, there are two kinds of heavy artillery before, the villain ordered the craftsman to make the other cannons lighter, although the nine-pounder cannon is still not as light as the Huaxia Army, but it is not too heavy, 1,500 catties, four war horses can still be dragged, the firing range is two miles away, about 1,000 meters and 200 meters, the power is still quite good." ”

"Oh, this is stronger than the artillery of the Huaxia Army, right?" Although Hong Chengchou's artillery suddenly appeared to be bulky, it was much better than that of the Huaxia Army in terms of range, at least not worse.

Feng Quan said: "It's not much more, Huaxia's nine-pounder cannon can also hit so far, their most accurate artillery has a maximum range of 800 meters to 1,500 meters, and the accurate range is about the same as ours, 1,000 meters to 1,200 meters." ”

"Yes, yes, four horses are four horses, a little worse, just a little worse, we don't have to attack the Huaxia Army in the future, what we have to do in the future is to defend, the nine-pounder cannon and the twelve-pounder cannon, the general big city can still be taken care of, put it on the city, fight the Huaxia army, it can also make them suffer heavy casualties, let's use the nine-pounder cannon as their eighteen-pounder gun, and the six-pounder gun as their twelve-pounder gun, although the range and power are not as good as theirs, but on the battlefield, we can build more."

Feng Quan said: "If you make more, you don't dare to guarantee the quality, and you may explode." ”

Ao Bai said: "Then let me catch more Han slaves as coolies, let them open fire, and blow them up." ”

Hong Chengchou and Feng Quan were a little uncomfortable, it was one thing for them to surrender and be traitors, but it was one thing for others to say that they were the same, and it was another thing for them to be said by the royal people they were loyal to.

Hong Chengchou waved his hand, "That's all for this school review, disperse, disperse, Lord Ao, Lord Feng, next month we are going to attack the Huaxia Army, let's take Jinling Mansion first." ”

(End of chapter)