"That villain is willing to work for the proprietor and be a good furnace leader."

"Okay, let's go to Lingqiu in a few days." Zhang Han patted Cai Jiu's shoulder and smiled in approval.

"Yes...... Good. ”

Cai Jiu didn't expect Zhang Han to act so resolutely, he just said it here, and he planned to go to Lingqiu over there!

At the bottom, it is estimated that it is to recruit people, prepare materials, select the address, and then open the furnace!

The iron furnace of the Ming Dynasty is generally seven to eight feet high, some furnaces are more than two zhang high, four thousand catties of sunrise iron, two thousand catties of sunrise iron in a small furnace, a furnace is set up with great painstaking efforts, and the details should be careful everywhere, a little careless, the previous efforts are wasted, and the capital of thousands of taels of silver spent before was wasted...... The responsibility is heavy, Cai Jiu suddenly felt like a mountain of pressure on his shoulders.

"Do it well, don't be too nervous."

Zhang Han patted Cai Jiu again, and walked away with his hands behind his back.

He likes to see his subordinates walking on thin ice like this, it is better than being lifeless, in the Ming Dynasty, the merchants and the appendages of the merchants are a group of shrewd people, who know what they have to do and what responsibilities they have to bear, in contrast, the scholars who really control the country are a group of lazy pigs, no wonder they are slaughtered with flesh and blood.

After delaying for such a good time, Zhang Chun and Liang Xing came out first, both of them had fire guns next to the belly of the horse, one on each side, Wang Changfu also led the horse out, he was also wearing a chain mail in his robe, this thing Wang Changfu claimed to be a gift when he was in charge, Zhang Han also had his private collection, a chain mail was just a piece of chain mail, and it was not made by himself, so Wang Changfu kept it.

"Boss, this shot is so good." Wang Changfu took the torch handed by Zhang Chun, weighed the weight in his hand with satisfaction, measured the length again, and gently pulled the trigger.

"That's," Zhang Han smiled smugly and said, "Is there anything in the army?" ”

"Nope." Wang Changfu said: "In the early years, there were some good bird guns, which were also beaten with Fujian iron, Qi Shuai clearly said that he would use 20 catties of Fujian iron to make a gun, just to prevent damage and save materials, but as soon as Qi Shuai left, except for his old subordinates, who would listen to him?" Zhang Chen's general soldiers, they know that they are rushing and killing with their families, which is like Qi Shuai, the iron bucket-like formation of the operation, the car array of firefighters and the enemy of the Great Wall of Taiwan, the Tartars on the edge of the town have not dared to attack at all for more than ten years, Qi Shuai is a good general, and others are far behind. ”

Zhang Han found a point, Wang Changfu's eyes lit up when he mentioned Qi Jiguang, he boasted with spittle, and he was respectful in his bones, mentioning Zhang Chen and other famous handsomes in the town, even Li Chengliang and Ma Fang, they all disagreed, that is, Yu Dayou can still get some respect from him, but it is very few, in Wang Changfu's opinion, Qi Jiguang is worthy of the famous generals in the country during the Jiajing to Wanli years, and others are not worthy of lifting shoes for Qi Shuai.

If it weren't for the fact that this guy was not old enough, Zhang Han would almost have wondered if Wang Changfu had followed Qi Jiguang back then?

However, Zhang Han also agreed with Wang Changfu's words, he had been in the border town for a long time, and he had also seen a lot of generals of the Ming Dynasty.

During the war, the imperial court also paid the generals a salary of silver, and each family was paid two taels and four months, which was more than twice as high as that of ordinary battalion soldiers.

When the general is transferred, he can bring his family to take him to the post together, so that the family and the general are a typical personal dependency, and they only obey the orders of the general.

Compared with the generals who do not know the soldiers, the soldiers do not know the generals, the Ming Dynasty's dependence between the generals and the family can maximize the combat effectiveness, the generals do not retreat, the family does not retreat, the generals die in battle, and most of the family members have to be martyred.

Such a system ensured to the greatest extent that the northern defense line did not collapse, and the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia fought for so many years, and the border line has not moved back, and this system does not look bad.

But Zhang Han knew that the biggest problem with this method was that the number of family members was too small, a total soldier only supported a few hundred people, a guerrilla family raised one or two hundred, and the total number of family members in the entire Datong did not exceed 3,000.

These 3,000 people did not have a hard time dealing with tens of thousands of Mongols, because the Mongols were also feudal lords large and small, with backward tactics and no organization.

It can deal with Nurhachi, who is well-organized and completely stole from the famous Ming general Li Chengliang and his Houjin soldiers...... Zhang Han smiled.

"This is ammunition, Changfu, you put it away."

Liang Xing took out a few large cowhide boxes and handed them to Wang Changfu and Zhang Han respectively.

"This big box contains the ejection, and the small box contains the primer, don't be mistaken."

Zhang Han opened the box, and the ejection and primer inside were all wrapped in approximation, and the size was also different, the ejection was all granular, which could increase the kinetic energy and make the effective range farther.

Rubbing granules are available in Qi Jiguang's book, and the manufacture is very simple.

If it is a granule primer, the success rate of ignition should drop by one to two percent, and now the success rate is about eighty percent, if the granule is used, it will be reduced to sixty percent or even fifty percent, which is a bit expensive.

At this time, each person wore a special cowhide belt with a hook to hang the medicine box around his waist.

"This is a projectile, all of which were polished by Wang Debang and them, and three coins weigh one."

The projectiles were all lead pellets, each of which was ground into a round shape, and it was also packed in a box and hung on the other side of the waist.

In addition, there are things such as the war, and each person also puts it away separately.

When they were preparing, Yang Qiu and the Jiang family brother Wen Zhongfa and others rushed over, and more people made an appointment to meet halfway, and divided into two teams before and after, very close to each other, Zhang Han was willing to be a decoy erbium, but safety was still the first, even if the lure could not be tempted, he could not really let himself be swallowed.

The front team was led by Zhang Han personally, and the back team was supposed to be led by Wang Changfu, but he followed Zhang Han with a firecracker, and the back team decided to hand it over to Yang Qiu for the time being...... It's useless for others to have red eyes on this command, Liang Xing is barely qualified, and now he is also practicing firearms, Yang Qiu has turned to the secret front, he doesn't have much interest in command, others are not qualified enough, and they can't fight for each other, besides, Wang Changfu has been a family member and has actual combat experience, even if Liang Xing can't compete with him, others are also blind to think about it.

People gradually arrived, Wang Changfu's eyes swept away, those porters from the dart master immediately lined up, each of them put their weapons in the pocket, put them on the side of the horse's belly, there are also some with long and short weapons, there are pockets on the left and right sides of the horse's belly, and there are waist knives hanging around the waist, Wang Changfu can also help them.

Thirty or so people are the front team, after going out from the north gate, they went on the official road to Zhangjiakou, this official road is one of the eleven important official roads in the north of the Ming Dynasty, the maintenance is good, of course the road is still uneven, and generally speaking, it is okay to go.

Zhang Han was guarded in the middle, rode a horse to the northeast for more than ten miles, the Daliang Mountains have always followed the people, the towering peaks stretch endlessly, the Great Wall is on the left hand side of each person, winding and undulating, there are some sections directly built on the mountains, you can imagine how much manpower and financial resources were spent on the construction at the beginning.

Baoping Fort was also northeast of Xinping Fort, and as everyone passed by, the soldiers guarding the fort looked at them with curious eyes, but no one came out to interfere or interrogate.

Huamen Fort is in the mountains to the east, controls a long section of the Great Wall line, these forts and Xinping Fort are very close to each other, in the event of a war, there are some small military platforms around a few hundred steps, scattered among the villages where military households and civilian households are mixed, these military platforms are also placed along the Great Wall line, are the auxiliary facilities of the military fort, used to warn, garrison, patrol, and also store military supplies such as beans and grain and straw bundles.

Every few miles, there will be a small pier, the periphery is a small courtyard, the pier is three stories high, the sergeant guarding the pier lives in it, the highest floor is placed cow dung and grass bundles, in the event of an enemy attack, smoke during the day, open fire at night, how to cast, there are clear regulations.

The whole defense system is very three-dimensional and very strict, but it is a pity that the Ming sergeant in Zhang Han's eyes is very weak, his robe is shabby, his spirit is not high, his expression is haggard, listless, and the weapons in his hands are also rotten.

These forts, platforms, piers, plus the Great Wall, the city, the acropolis, the town, these defense systems, there are no strong soldiers to garrison, but they are useless dead things, such as Xinping and Baoping Huamen forts, which are very close to each other, but if the fort guards dare not fight, this echoes each other, how can they echo each other?

Zhang Hanyi immediately shook his head, not thinking about these heavy and dull things.

As soon as the mood changed, the scenery in front of him came to life.

The road is yellow, but there is long green grass growing on both sides, and to the north, large fields are barren, and the closer you are to the Great Wall, the fewer villages there are, and the less land is cultivated...... Before the mutual market, the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia often fought on both sides, most of the people close to the Great Wall were caught, even if people were fine, the land and floating wealth were also destroyed, after a long time, people naturally moved to the south, now even if the war became less, not many people moved back, to the side of the root of the Great Wall, the wild grass grew more than one person deep, a gust of wind blew, shrubs and grass bent over, making a rustling sound.

On the right is the endless mountain range, but only the top of the mountain still has some green, below the mountainside, shrubs and trees are very sparse, Shanxi is good, northern Shaanxi, the development is too early, the population growth is also very serious damage to nature, Datong is okay here, there is still some green, if it is northern Shaanxi, it is already extremely desolate, except for the crops planted by people, it is rare to see green.