"Cao Daban, how did you say that the thousands of people in the Black Armor Army disappeared without a trace for no reason? Among them, I'm afraid there is no other hidden secret! After Luo Yangxing left, Chongzhen asked Cao Huachun.

"Emperor, the black armor army has no king and no father, but it also has no rebellious heart, and has fled overseas, and the threat to our dynasty is actually limited, please take care of the dragon body." Cao Huachun cared about his master and kindly comforted him.

……

As the saying goes, whatever you want, you come, Emperor Chongzhen never thought that he cared about the whereabouts of the Black Armor Army, but it was the Tartars who came to complain.

It turned out that the Black Armor Army really went to Liaodong, the so-called art masters were bold, and the Black Armor Army only relied on a few thousand people to defeat the Tartars' Jinfu Erzhou, and captured countless people, even the Tartars were helpless, and they came to him to complain in front of the emperor.

“…… Your Majesty the Emperor, in order to prevent the two armies from fighting, I hope that the commander of the black-armored army who is good at provoking the border will be disposed of, and return the gold and property of the people after me, so as to avoid the scourge of the sword soldiers. ”

The Tartar envoy was full of threatening words, which made Chongzhen very dissatisfied, and he shouted and reprimanded: "Shut up, I dare to speak out against the small state of Bian, I am dignified and Chinese, and the people of Li are billions of trillions, how can you threaten the small state of Bian, left and right, give me a fight, I don't want to see such unreasonable people." ”

Since ancient times, the two countries have been at war, and if they don't kill them, although Chongzhen has an evil heart, he just drove out of the matter.

"Ben Bing, what do you think about this matter?" After the Tartar envoy was escorted away by the Han general on the palace duty, Chongzhen first asked Xiong Wencan, the acting military secretary of His Highness's service.

Xiong Wencan came out of the squad and said: "Your Majesty, since this black armor army is so elite, why don't you send someone to appease it and use it for my use, as for the threat of the Eastern Captives, you don't have to pay attention to it, our dynasty and the Eastern Captives will definitely have a battle, and someone will attack the Eastern Captives, which will be beneficial to our dynasty." ”

At this time, it was still February, Xiong Wencan had not yet gone to Fujian to take up his post, he had just been promoted from the left waiter of the military department to the acting secretary of Shangshu, so Chongzhen was the first to ask him.

"Hmmm! Lone also has this intention, this matter is done, and the military department handles the matter of appeasement, such as the commander of the black armor army who is willing to be appeased, can be moved to the deputy general of Changsheng Island, and is directly led by the governor of Denglai. Emperor Chongzhen nodded in approval and instructed.

"Obey the order!" Xiong Wencan answered.

At this time, a person stood up at the end of the Wen class, but it was Xu Yuqing in the military department, and he raised his sentence and said: "Your Majesty, Xu Yuqing is in charge of the military department, and sued Zhang Pan, the deputy general of Lushun, for hiding evil intentions, and the Changsheng Island, where the black armor army is located, is near the left, and he deliberately concealed it and did not report it." ”

Give a position in the matter, the official is lowly and heavy, it belongs to a kind of official, anyone who is caught can be sued, and it is not okay not to sue him, otherwise it is his own dereliction of duty, like Zhang Pan is clearly concealed and not reported, so he must stand up and sue Zhang Pan.

"Quasi-play, the Ministry of History, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Criminal Affairs will discuss and reduce their duties to investigate." Emperor Chongzhen made an order without thinking about it.

In this way, Zhang Pan made thousands of calculations, but he didn't expect that the Tartars would go to the Ming Dynasty to complain, and it was cool to be a warlord, and there was no restraint, but once the incident happened, he would inevitably be imprisoned.

However, it can be regarded as Zhang Pan's luck, Emperor Chongzhen in the court made a decree with his mouth, but he didn't know that at this time, the entire northern coast was frozen, and he couldn't go on a boat, and those officials who handled the case and appeased the officials couldn't make the trip for a while, so they could only wait until March and April, after the sea ice melted, and then go to Liaodong.

During this period, there were changes, and if there was someone in Zhang Pan's court, he could be notified in advance, so that he could find a way to deal with the crisis.

Zhang Pangui was a deputy general, although he was from a humble background in the past, but the deputy general was in charge of thousands of troops, and he was rich in oil and water, so he naturally sent people to public relations in the capital.

Someone secretly told Zhang Pan's retainer that the retainer was not a stupid person, otherwise Zhang Pan would not have sent him to the capital to take charge, he knew that his master was afraid that he would be in danger this time.

This is the emperor's will, and the evidence is conclusive, the argument is irrefutable, and it is in vain to find the most relationships, so he made his own opinion, sneaked back to Zhang Pan's hometown, and informed the master of such a catastrophe, and said that the whole family needs to flee to Lushun, otherwise the master will be imprisoned, which may cause trouble to the family.

Zhang Panqi Yu Weiwei, his wife in the main room, not highly educated, as soon as she heard such a catastrophe, she immediately became ownerless, she had no idea herself, so she obeyed the idea of the retainer, and the whole family absconded overnight.

In fact, in winter, it is not impossible to reach Liaodong, Lushun in the north is an ice-free port, so you can go to the south to take a boat to Lushun, at least to the boundary of Nanzhidi, the Zhang family is fleeing for their lives, naturally regardless of hard work, go straight to the south of the Yangtze River, and then turn around by boat to Liaodong.

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The Ming Dynasty finally looked at the Black Armor Army, and Emperor Chongzhen still wanted to appease him, all of which Yang Wenli, who was far away on Changsheng Island, didn't know anything about.

Some time ago, the explosions on Changsheng Island continued, and it only ended recently, indicating that Wang Rucheng and others had mastered the best plan for grenades, and the next step was to manufacture them in large quantities.

As soon as Wang Rucheng had some leisure, Yang Wenli summoned him to the front with an order.

"Ru Cheng, you can let your hands do the manufacture of grenades, and now I am developing mortar shells, and you continue to be my assistant."

"Great Commander, despite your orders, you can't ask for it." Wang Rucheng readily agreed.

"Some time ago, we were designing and drawing, today there are some eyebrows, we first build a hot-casting extrusion table, and then cast a cannon barrel, mortar shells involve mechanics and fluid mechanics, need to do a lot of experiments, these steps are indispensable."

Yang Wenli said to do it, personally took Wang Rucheng and the two of them to make a large screw model with the lost wax method, with the thickness of the bowl mouth, the height is only about one meter five, and the bracket that replaces the nut function, there is a little bit of difference here, because the force needs to be huge, so it is a cross-shaped bracket to strengthen the stability of the bracket, and there is a cross-shaped lever as thick as a child's arm, these parts are cast, Yang Wenli has experience, there is no technical difficulty, but it is more time-consuming.

Half a month later, the huge hot extrusion table was made, which was because Yang Wenli personally commanded his slaves to make it, and the speed was increased many times when there were many people.

The next step is to cast the mortar barrel and the inner mold of the barrel, the mortar barrel structure is very simple, it is a straight pipe, and the only technical difficulty is the firing pin inside.

The firing pin must be able to withstand high temperature burning, cannot be deformed, and its own volume is very small, so special steel must be used, which has a certain degree of difficulty.

Of course, Yang Wenli can't make special steel, but he can use the quenching process to dope the tip of the needle, and use a variety of different white plaster rare earth experiments to make the tip of the firing pin become a heat-resistant alloy.

The impact resistance in a red-hot environment is then tested, and the firing pin is cast into a pile shape to further increase the strength of the firing pin.

Doing material experiments is very time-consuming, Yang Wenli and Wang Rucheng have been doing it for ten days and half a month, and after such a long time of scientific research, Yang Wenli's urgency has been smoothed out, he is not in a hurry or dry, and he is still doing various experiments step by step.

…… To be continued