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On the 24th day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, Feng Shaoguang got up early in the morning. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info In his previous life, this day was the birthday of his favorite grandmother, so he remembered it very well. When he was a child, on this day, he would get up early in the morning, walk a mountain road alone, and come to his grandmother's house four miles away to enjoy the delicious food of the day and his grandmother's love. Thinking of this, Feng Shaoguang couldn't help sighing, his grandmother had passed away as early as when he was in school, and now he has traveled to this strange world more than one hundred and sixty years ago, and the thoughts in his heart are even more nowhere to be trusted.

"Urgent! Holy King, there is an urgent military situation to report! Zeng Guanlan rushed into Feng Shaoguang's room in the backyard of Daozhou County. In this room, only a few people such as Zeng Guanlan and Luo Outline can break in directly without reporting.

"Oh, Guanlan, look at the dancing between your eyebrows, it must be some kind of joy, right?" Feng Shaoguang, who was pulled back to his thoughts and returned to reality, chuckled.

"Great joy! Holy King, it is a great joy! Zeng Guanlan lost his previous calmness, and the joy that he couldn't hide was on his face, and then said: "There is more than one!" ”

"Huh? More than one big event? You say, you dare to sell it to me? Feng Shaoguang couldn't help but be curious by Zeng Guanlan.

"The subordinates don't dare, they are just too excited. Holy King, the urgent report that just arrived this morning, Chen Defeng, the commander of the Holy Second Army, and Su Sanniang, the commander of the First Shui Army, led the Holy Army to attack Yongzhou successfully last night and captured the Yongzhou Mansion in one fell swoop! Holy King, this is the first capital city captured by our Taiping Holy Army. Zeng Guanlan said excitedly.

"Great!" When Feng Shaoguang heard that Yongzhou City was occupied, he also slapped his thigh excitedly and stood up. After taking two steps back and forth, he suddenly realized that something was wrong and asked, "What about the others?" Doesn't it mean that there is more than one happy event? ”

"Yes, Holy King, forgive your subordinates, your subordinates are so excited! There is also General Luo who persuaded the Ningyuan defenders to surrender and occupied the county seat of Ningyuan without blood. Zeng Guanlan obviously didn't take the occupation of Ningyuan County to heart, after all, compared to Yongzhou City, Ningyuan is only a small county town, and Yongzhou is the real city of the state capital.

"It's really a great event, double happiness! Guanlan, you immediately drafted a notice, ordered people to copy it more, and posted it in Daozhou, Jianghua, Yongming, Ningyuan and other places, announcing the great joy of our Taiping Holy Army's occupation of the state capital, so that the soldiers of the Holy Army can also have fun with the people, and at the same time, you can also inform the people of the strength of our Taiping Holy Army! Let those local squires submit to the rule of our holy kingdom with peace of mind, and don't have any more plots like the Jianghua Wang brothers! Feng Shaoguang instructed.

"Don't worry, the Holy King, your subordinates will do it!" Zeng Guanlan turned around and retired.

Feng Shaoguang walked to the wall, looked at the map of the Qing Dynasty on the wall, and whispered to himself: "In this way, most of the Yongzhou Mansion has been occupied by me. According to the historical route of the Taiping army, it was time to capture Guiyang and Chenzhou. There were thirty or forty thousand miners and the Heaven and Earth congregation of Shonan waiting to be recruited. ”

In these days in Daozhou City, Feng Shaoguang mobilized the Holy Army to recruit blacksmiths, and mobilized tens of thousands of holy army tails in Daozhou City to collect scrap copper and scrap iron in the city and suburban villages, cast more than 300 large and small copper cannons and iron cannons, and strengthen artillery reserves.

At present, the artillery in the Taiping Holy Army is all captured, different sizes, and many types, and some artillery cannons can not even find the corresponding size of the cannon, and can only be used as a stone bullet temporarily polished at the end of the card, and the power is greatly reduced. Suffering from the manufacturing process and the miserable level of steelmaking in this era, Feng Shaoguang did not have a good way to improve it immediately for a while.

However, Feng Shaoguang found that most of the original cast iron and scrap iron were white cast iron and wrought iron, and he had studied rough metal materials and heat treatment courses, and roughly knew that although the carbon content of white cast iron was low, all the carbon in it existed in the form of cementite, so the fracture was bright white. Due to the large number of hard and brittle cementite, white cast iron is hard, brittle, difficult to process, and has insufficient heat transfer properties. Gray cast iron solves this problem better.

Therefore, Feng Shaoguang used his only little knowledge of steel smelting to let the blacksmiths make a closed annealing furnace, re-melt the original cast iron and wrought iron, add a certain amount of charcoal and quartz sand, and heat treat the obtained casting blanks in a sealed annealing furnace, so that the cast iron structure becomes a flocculent graphite component, and the fracture is also gray. This kind of similar gray cast iron has better castability, wear reduction, good wear resistance, and simple melting ingredients, and does not cost much, the key is that the thermal conductivity is much better. After the blacksmith casts the iron cannon, the gunner experiments and finds that after several consecutive shells, the temperature in the chamber of the iron cannon is much lower than that in the original cannon chamber, which solves the problem of easy explosion of the original artillery, and the speed of continuous firing of the cannon is increased a lot.

Feng Shaoguang demanded that the newly cast artillery be unified according to the caliber size, no longer measured by size, and converted into centimeters. The most important thing is that the caliber of the barrel and the accuracy of the match of the gun should be high. If the cannon is to be stuffed into the barrel, it must be slightly smaller than the caliber of the barrel, too large or the same is difficult to stuff, but too small will cause the gap to be too large, and a large amount of high-pressure smoke after the explosion of gunpowder will leak, resulting in weak cannon launch.

The cupola cannon has a unified caliber of 21 cm, a total length of 70 cm, and a weight of about 700 catties, and is equipped with a four-wheeled wooden gun carriage. This cannon is only suitable for fixed defense at the head of the city or hill. The small caliber is unified to 8 cm, the total length is 54 cm, the weight is about 180 catties, it can be lifted or pulled, and it is supported by a wooden frame, which is suitable for field combat.

Ordinary artillery, large calibers are inconvenient to move, and they are not cast, but small and medium-sized calibers, which are divided into three categories: calibers of 11.5 cm, 8 cm, and 6 cm.

The rest of the artillery was not referenced, and the craftsmen in Daozhou City were of low level and could not be made by themselves. Feng Shaoguang himself is not good at weapon research, and his energy is limited, so he will give up for the time being, and wait for the contact with foreigners, and find a way to get the latest artillery from them.

In accordance with the requirements of the Holy King, Liao Damei organized a brocade camp, and paid appropriate wages to gather the women in the city to sew yellow, red, blue, and cyan military uniforms to strengthen the army. In the early stage, because the Taiping Holy Army was composed of the rear army at the end of the card, there was no unified clothing at all, at most the head was wrapped in red cloth, and the people such as the Heaven and Earth Congregation who joined later were even dressed in a variety of clothes, and some even did not have a unified red turban.

Feng Shaoguang, who came from later generations, knew in his heart that military clothing seemed to be just a trivial matter of clothing, but in fact, it was far from it. The army is a war team that needs momentum, and the unification of clothing is the simplest and most effective way to enhance the spirit of this team. On the battlefield, if the clothing is uniform, the comrades-in-arms will know at a glance, not only can they support each other, but also have an atmosphere of fighting together. For commanders, they can also immediately judge the merits of friends and foes and deploy troops. Compared with the outside people, an army with uniform clothing gives people a strong visual impact and has a strong deterrent effect.

Now that the Taiping Holy Army has begun to grow, there is a piece of territory, and some cloth has been seized, and it is time to unify the uniforms. In this Manchu era, Huang was respected, and Feng Shaoguang couldn't stand out from the crowd, although in his bones, he preferred red. Therefore, the Holy King's Imperial Forest Army is equipped with orange and yellow uniforms, the logistics army is equipped with light yellow military uniforms, the Holy First Army is equipped with red military uniforms, the Holy Second Army is equipped with blue military uniforms, and the Holy Third Army is equipped with blue military uniforms.

"It is still necessary to speed up its own development while the main force of the Taiping Army is attracting the attention of the Qing court in Changsha. Otherwise...... I thought that I had traveled back in time, and I had the knowledge and vision that was 160 years more than this era, and it would be easy to develop, but now that I want to start it, I realize that it is not like that at all. This is a whole series of system engineering, even if I know the drawings of the aircraft carrier, I can't make it, first of all, I can't even make a thick steel plate, let alone seamless pressure steel pipes, industrial gears and the like. ”

"If nothing else, even if I know a little about the Shasebo rifle, I can't produce it. At the very least, there is no way to develop the * thunder * mercury * in the fire cap, and the reaction of nitric acid and mercury is used to produce * nitric * acid * mercury *, and then alcohol is added, heated slightly, and then thunder * acid * mercury is generated. Not to mention that this temperature is uncontrollable in this era, the reaction is not complete when it is slightly lower, and there is a risk of explosion at any time if it is high. This nitric acid alone cannot be prepared in large quantities at present, and under the current conditions, it cannot be ionized, so it is necessary to produce concentrated sulfuric acid before using sulfuric acid to produce nitric acid. When you have a sulfur mine, you can study the ancient lead chamber method that the teacher talked about to make some concentrated sulfuric acid. Feng Shaoguang laughed at himself while calculating.

"Report to the Holy King, General Ning Yuanluo has sent another urgent report!" The chief of the guard, Lin Shifa, knocked on the door.

"Bring it, I'll see if there is any urgent news from this Luo outline." Feng Shaoguang was a little strange, he just received the battle report of conquering Ningyuan this morning, it has only been more than an hour, and there is a new situation?

After taking the letter and looking at it, Feng Shaoguang couldn't help laughing.

"Great, I just wanted to doze off, and this outline brother sent a pillow!" Feng Shaoguang saw Lin Shifa looking at him inexplicably, and he didn't understand, and he didn't explain.

Luo's urgent report was about finding out the emptiness of the Qing army in Chenzhou, Guiyang, and he marched into Chenzhou, Guiyang with Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang in three ways. In addition, it was mentioned that there were sulfur mines and gunpowder factories of the Qing army on the outskirts of Guiyang, as well as news of the discovery of saltpeter mines in Jiuzhi Mountain, on the border of Ningyuan and Lanshan counties. These major news hit one after another, and Feng Shaoguang almost jumped up, but because Lin Shifa was by his side, in order to maintain the glorious image of the Holy King, he held back.

However, Feng Shaoguang felt that these things were very important, even more important than conquering a county seat. The land of Chenzhou, Guiyang was Feng Shaoguang's key goal. Historically, the miners recruited by the Taiping army there formed an earthen camp and were proficient in the method of tunnel blasting, but the Taiping army later conquered the key force of Wuchang and Nanjing. There are also tens of thousands of heaven and earth congregations in the Chenzhou area, who have been dealing with local Qing soldiers for a long time, have rich experience in struggle, and are also a group of elite soldiers, which cannot be lost.

Feng Shaoguang, who was born in engineering, has long known about Guiyang, the world-famous thousand-year-old mining capital, not to mention the rare mineral found now that sulfur has been discovered. At that moment, Feng Shaoguang gave up his plan to go to Yongzhou Mansion and decided to lead his troops to Guiyang in person.