In front of Zhang Han is a model of three carriages, namely a heavy cargo carriage and a light truck, as well as a passenger carriage carrying people, the three cars are scaled down, including the front and rear four wheels, load-bearing axles, steering axles, all according to the actual situation, this carriage is not different from the real car except for being very small, only the size of a palm.

In addition to the three models of the carriage, Zhang Han also asked someone to make a model of the four-pound gun, and the wheels on both sides were also urgently molded, poured into molten iron and molded, not made of wood.

Chang Wei saw these things when he went to Zhang Han's house to hang out, but persuaded Zhang Han not to send the cannon up, for fear that it would be used by the military department to copy it, but Zhang Han didn't think so...... It is not difficult to imitate artillery, and the Ming Dynasty can imitate the Hongyi cannon, but what is the use?

The use of firearms is coordinated by the whole system, and the whole army must be equipped with new firearms tactics.

Hearing Yang Hegao's words, Zhang Han scolded with a smile: "What's the matter, is it possible to give you a great merit and give you a patent?" ”

Both artisan leaders said they didn't dare, and their faces were full of smiles.

Zhang Han said to Yang and Gao: "Has Lao Yang moved to a new home?" ”

"Moved!" Yang and Gao said: "Together with Chen Yaozong, he made chain mail, and made cuirass together, both times the adults were rewarded, of course the yard was there, and after the paste, some flowers and trees were planted, and people were asked to make a whole set of furniture, and a new yard was moved a few days ago." ”

Yang Hegao's wife was doing some chores in the Weapons Bureau, helping with things like wearing scales and armor, and every time she passed by the compound area over there, she would look at her in a daze, and she was laughed at for a while.

In fact, there are more than one person looking at those courtyards in a daze, but Yang Hegao's wife is more obvious...... The courtyard over there is a dozen rooms, divided into three, there is a vestibule and a back garden, rows of buildings are neat, there are some pavilions, flowers, trees, mountains and stones in the middle, all of them are gray walls and blue tiles, this kind of yard is not an ordinary farmhouse courtyard, compared with the garden-style courtyard of those scholars in the south of the Yangtze River, it is not a loss, and it is much stronger than the traditional pattern of Shanxi.

Speaking of this, Yang Hegao also showed a satisfied smile on his face...... Now that the big leaders of the craftsmen have moved into their new homes, how dare they dare to think of such a thing before? can save thirty or forty taels of silver, and a small courtyard with five or six rooms is already a dream.

Yang He Gao said: "My lord, now everyone's morale is very high, I can't wait to make things better and better, and I also wish that the status of adults is getting higher and higher, and those of us who follow will have good results in the future, and we can also bless our children and grandchildren." ”

Zhang Han nodded lightly and said: "People's hearts are like this, don't worry, I will definitely let you have a good future, and your children and grandchildren can also live a better life." ”

A group of craftsmen nodded frequently, and Yang Hegao said at this time: "My lord, after the soldiers are shoveled out, it also shows that Lingqiu steelmaking has been taken to a higher level, I have discussed with Chen Yaozong, and I plan to make some armor, so that a large amount of equipment can be used in a short period of time to make up for the lack of scale armor, what do you think?" ”

Zhang Han said: "How much is the cuirass made?" ”

"The cuirass has been made into more than 700 collars, and only a small amount of equipment is given to the infantry, most of which were led away by the cavalry, and Ren Jing's resentment on the infantry side is not small."

The number of heavy infantry is not large, at most one squad per bureau, and at most one flag team per division, most of the training in Li Zhuang is concentrated for training, Ren Jing is the strongest in archery and technical attack among the generals who do not accept his birth at night, and he is stronger than Duo'er, so the infantry is handed over to Ren Jing for centralized training, and the grievances of the soldiers are definitely not small, and most of Ren Jing is just reflected.

Most of the soldiers were equipped with iron scale armor before this, and there were a small number of soldiers who did not have iron armor, and in addition to the batch of iron scale armor bought, only a small amount of self-made iron scale armor. This thing is too troublesome to make, and each small round iron piece has to be carefully polished and formed, and then slowly worn into one, and finally can be made after multiple processes.

An iron scale armor, the mountain and light armor worn by the top generals, must be made for at least three months, and a cold-forged scarlet armor may take longer.

Even if there are a large number of craftsmen to make iron armor, they will not make too many at once, not to mention that the Ordnance Bureau also has to make spears, waist knives, shields, all kinds of spears and other weapons, and recently it has to help the Firearms Bureau to sharpen bayonets, which also requires a large number of manpower, and now the three bureaus employ 5,000 people, and there are 2,000 apprentices, but many people are divided into the Carriage Miscellaneous Bureau, where a carriage needs a lot of manpower, and it requires manpower for various processes, and the Firearms Bureau also employs a lot of people, and the molds and polishing and casting for casting cannons require a large number of manpower. Even if the test cannon is a cannon every day, dozens of people are waiting for a cannon, the Ordnance Bureau is also very tight, and now the main energy is used to make cuirasses, chain mail is also to be produced in large quantities, the iron scale armor equipped with soldiers was originally slow to make, and it is not taken seriously, and some soldiers are still wearing chain mail with leather armor, of course, it is a belly of resentment.

Zhang Han asked again: "When will the production of cuirass catch up?" ”

"Mr. Chang and Mr. Kong are surveying the river and are preparing to bring another river from the Sanggan River, which will require the construction of 10,000 rivers...... This matter is still being considered by the Military and Political Division, and it will only be reported to the adults after a contingency plan, and if this river is completed, there can be more hydraulic machines, and the number of cuirasses produced can increase from less than 200 collars a month to more than 500 ......"

"Oh," Zhang Han nodded: "I know this plan, in the past, we only had an east-west river that flowed from the Baiyang River, and the newly dug river was the North and South River, and the two rivers crossed, and after water conservancy adjustment, the water flow was accelerated, and many machines could be driven......"

In fact, this plan is not carried out by the Department of Military Affairs, but Zhang Han explained it, and now it has not been reported just because it is still being investigated, whether it is technically feasible, whether it can meet the needs of the future, according to the latest progress report, there should be no problem with the river, Zhang Han's father-in-law and Kong Minxing are both experts, one of them is to inspect industrial water, and the other is to take into account agriculture, which is considered to be all aspects of it.

"What is the difference between piercing armor and chain mail, iron armor?"

"The armor is actually a large iron scale armor." Yang Hegao explained: "The scales of the iron armor are small, layered, thick and strong, and the armor is particularly popular in the former Song Dynasty, the advantage is that the armor is large, a piece is worth dozens of scale armor iron pieces, so it is much faster to fight, compared with the chain mail, the toughness of the chain armor is excessive, and compared with the breastplate, the protection ability is also worse, but the advantage is that the armor leaves are large, easy to make, and the effect of the protective bow and arrow is good." I talked to the Taixi people in the barracks, their forging level is much higher than ours, before the use of firearms has been to make the whole body of plate armor, their nobles are all leading soldiers, wearing heavy armor and holding heavy soldiers, on the battlefield one can fight dozens of peasant soldiers, our forging skills here are poor, fortunately there is a blast furnace, can make up for this shortcoming. ”

Zhang Han listened attentively, and finally decided: "If you can do it, hurry up and make a batch, and within a month or two, all the soldiers should be equipped with iron armor, whether it is scale armor, cuirass, or piercing armor." ”

"Yes, don't worry, the Ordnance Bureau will do its best!"

Yang and Gao agreed, and seeing that Zhang Han had no other instructions, they retreated with Li Changnian and others.

Zhang Han took out the paper and approved a slip and a sub-...... for emergency appropriation Of course, Yang Hegao didn't say it casually, it takes a lot of investment to make armor, even if it is a garment, it will cost dozens of taels a lot, Zhang Han approved eight thousand taels, and the calculation is about the same.

There are less than 700 heavy infantry in total, all of whom are proud and elite in the army, and they are also the Dinghai Divine Needle of the Great Array...... Zhang Han's infantry array, firecrackers and cannons are the output of the attack, the spear phalanx is the advancing city wall, the firecrackers and cannons rely on the phalanx to advance, the cavalry cooperates with the phalanx on the left and right flanks, and has not yet the ability to fight alone, the heavy infantry is the Dinghai Shenshen needle of the phalanx, which can be attacked and retreated to assist the pikemen to defend, they want to protect the integrity of the array of the phalanx, strike at the enemy's guerrilla dead soldiers, protect the integrity of the array of the firecrackers, and break through to disrupt the enemy's position if necessary. Only good men with strong endurance and explosive power can become heavy infantry, they are wearing heavy armor, holding sharp blades, after strict long-term training in small queues, they can form large formations, or small-scale cooperative operations, the larger the scale of the battlefield, the greater the role of heavy infantry, and it is time to equip them with full iron armor.

……

In the first month, the entire military department was very busy, and even Zhang Han's Tianchengwei had more official business, and when he returned from the Tiancheng Acropolis for the last time, Li Guozhu and the others finally arrived to leave.

In addition to Zheng Zhilong, among the people brought by Li Guozhu, Zheng Zhihu and Zheng Zhibao were also willing to follow them north, He Bin and Gan Hui were also willing to go, Zhang Han asked Li Guozhu for these people, and also picked a bird flag team as an escort, as well as military and political personnel, mapping personnel, and staff personnel, and put together a large mission of nearly 100 people...... Chang Wei is definitely not good, he and Jiang Kui and others must go south, and going south to operate is also the top priority, Chang Wei must be involved from scratch, so that he will have the prestige to control the overall situation in the future.

In the end, Zhang Han ordered Mo Zongtong's general, in recent years, the branch shopkeeper from this big guy has become the regional shopkeeper, and has been operating Heyusheng's business in Yanghe City, groceries, grain stores, account bureaus, mules and horse shops, all shoulder-to-shoulder, in charge of dozens of semicolons, and the shopkeepers of several branches recently have gradually risen, Zhang Han felt that talents are rare, and decided to call him to go north, if it goes well, he can preside over the overall situation in the north in the future.

"You can't be polite to the Russians......" In the signing room, Zhang Han said to Mo Zongtong: "If you are reasonable, you must fight according to reason, if you have any ideas, you can't 'click', you must make it clear, our practice of doing business here to make money and tolerate things will not work over there, if you don't fight, don't say, people will treat you as afraid, afraid, or reasonable." Don't say that you have to fight for reason, and you have to stir up three points if you are unreasonable! ”

Mo Zongtong has been standing and listening, and he has not interjected, he is very quiet, but his eyes are very attentive, revealing some spiritual light.

"This Russian has such a temperament?" After listening, Mo Zongtong had a headache and frowned: "This seems to be a bit of a brute feeling?" ”

"Well, almost." ――

Have you had a holiday? Anyway, my son has a holiday, and I don't have to get up early tomorrow to cook for him and send him to school.

I wish you all a happy May Day.