To illustrate, through Gao Yang's efforts, the newly built military factory near the Beijing Division can now produce qualified Ferguson muskets on its own. Although it is still mainly handmade, it is better than always needing Gao Yang to bring it from modern time and space, right?

Moreover, with the ignition of molten steel from the blast furnaces in the small steelworks, using the advanced processing machinery brought by Gao Yang, those skilled craftsmen have begun to try to make the barrels of Napoleon cannons.

The barrel requirements for this artillery are far less demanding than those in modern time and space. It does not need a complex process of special alloy artillery steel to imitate it. After all, the level of material technology in the eighteenth century cannot be compared with modern time and space.

Coupled with the commissioning of gunpowder, bullets, and shell production lines in the large-scale munitions factory, the Ming Empire has initially gained the ability to replenish the loss of firearms on its own.

These factories and production lines all have the same characteristics, that is, compared with modern time and space, the requirements for technical indicators are very low and very low.

Those small factories that have long been eliminated in modern time and space are all black technology that is ahead of the times. They can't use these factories that are shipped from Gaoyang.

Not to mention the production of electric drive production lines, even the production of boiler power cannot be done. In order to provide production equipment for the Ming Empire, Gaoyang had to ask the world's factories to specially customize these extremely backward production equipment and a large number of spare parts.

Don't think about the electric drive production line or anything for the time being. It is impossible for the Ming side to achieve self-sufficiency in electricity for at least a few decades. Gaoyang equipped them with boiler power drives, and they were all very primitive boilers. Although it is extremely backward in the eyes of modern time and space, it can be called an antique level. But in this day and age it is sufficient.

Before the advent of the second technological industrial revolution, the supply of electricity was almost impossible to achieve large-scale supply. However, Hi Sun has not completely abandoned electricity, a super core technology that represents the direction of future development. His choice is a hydroelectric power model that can last for many years of continuous power generation!

Several small hydropower stations have been built on several rivers near Jingshi led by a large number of laborers led by biochemical fighters with professional knowledge. In the future, as the reconquest area expands, a larger number of small hydropower stations will stand on many rivers of the Ming Empire.

All the equipment in these small hydropower plants, from the reinforced concrete to the generator rotors, is the most rugged and sophisticated equipment. Quality is absolutely nothing to say. At least for decades without any problems. Coupled with those spare parts that were tightly stored, Gao Yang estimated that these power devices could fully support the second scientific and technological revolution of the Ming Empire.

All the workers working in various factories is a new term for the people of Daming. Their treatment was enough to make everyone except the sergeants of the New Army blush. It is different from the previous situation when the officials of the Ministry of Industry were treated like slaves and passively slacked off their work. The enthusiasm of these workers is extremely high.

Because their salary is closely related to the quantity and quality of products. As long as these workers can ensure quality and quantity, then silver is naturally not a big problem.

Gao Yang has never skimped on anything in this regard. His attitude towards money has always been that everything that can be solved with money is called a thing.

Opposite. If you can't do the quality and quantity of the product. Then the punishment is very simple, you will be kicked out of the factory and never hired! If you go hungry after a full meal, it is worse than being hungry all the time! Because they have already tasted the smell of meat, and to go back to the bitter days of the old days is enough to torture people to madness.

Gone are the days when I was messing around in the Ministry of Industry, being passive and slacking off, and shoddy. Almost every product that leaves the factory can be regarded as finely crafted! The quality is highly guaranteed. If there is no quality assurance, it will not be able to pass the factory inspection.

From modern military uniforms to metal water bottles. From sapper shovels to cavalry knives, from cauldrons used by the soldiers to four-class carts for transporting supplies, from new muskets to new artillery, from fertilizer in fertilizer factories to canned luncheon meat in canning factories. Daming has begun to quickly embark on the right path of industrialization! Even if the scale is still small in all aspects at the moment, these are all seeds, and after careful cultivation, they will inevitably grow into towering trees one day! These are the solid cornerstones of the Ming Empire in the future.

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Out of Juyong Pass, after crossing the Badaling Great Wall, outside the Great Wall is Xuanfu Town.

Xuanfu is known as "Nanping Jingshi, and controls the desert in the rear." The danger of being mediocre on the left, and the solidity in the clouds on the right" is an extremely important frontier in the north of the Ming Empire.

Xuanfu Town has always been a place where soldiers must fight, and its strategic position is very important. Especially after the Ming Dynasty established the capital of Jingshi. Xuanfu Town is the place to defend the capital division and defend the Mongols from the south. The Ming Dynasty stationed heavy troops here all year round to defend the north.

After the rise of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he had repeatedly joined forces with various Mongolian tribes to enter the pass from here and plunder. A few years ago, Li Zicheng's Dashun Dynasty army occupied this extremely important military town during its westward expedition, until Gao Yang led his army to crusade this time.

The army of the Great Shun Dynasty stationed on the front line of Xuanda was Li Guo's subordinates, claiming to have 200,000 people! However, most of them are old and weak women and children who are waving flags and shouting behind the battle during the war, knocking pots and tiles. There are less than 50,000 soldiers capable of fighting in the true sense of the word.

The number of well-equipped and combat-ready troops, commonly known as the old battalion soldiers, is not large. The total number is only in the tens of thousands. There are even fewer under Li Guo. Its number is about six or seven thousand. The other 40,000 or so were young and strong people among the displaced people who were coerced by the peasant army. It's okay for these people to fight a good fight, but they really let them go against the elite and tough new army, armed to the teeth. That's pure death.

Li Guo was also a rare general in the Great Shun Dynasty, and he attached great importance to the new army that could destroy 100,000 Jianjun in one battle. I also know in my heart that I just rely on this little bit of people under my own hands. Wan is no match for the Forces nouvelles.

Li Guo himself and most of his capable soldiers and horses were stationed in Datong Mansion, and they could still supply some military supplies there. And Xuanfu Town is really dilapidated, the Manchu Qing and Mongol invasions have already turned this place into a desolate place, Li Zicheng last went west to the Beijing Division and completely looted and coerced, and now Xuanfu here can't even find a few living people.

Ordered to be stationed in Xuanfu Town was a general under Li Guo, Li Hu, who had followed Li Zicheng in the early years.

Li Hu's real name is Qian Youcai, and he is an ordinary farmer in Yulin, Shaanxi. In the early years of Chongzhen, when there was a great drought in Shaanxi, the whole family starved to death, and he was the only one who struggled to escape and joined Li Zicheng's command.

Over the years, he has fought all the way, and he has become a general of the unified army without dying. In order to show loyalty to Li Zicheng, and at the same time felt that his real name was not very good, he changed his name to Li Hu.

Li Hu, who was stationed in the Xuanfu Sanwei Xinghe Station, was about to fall to the ground with shock when he heard the news of the large-scale invasion of the new army of the Beijing Division. He really didn't expect that army would be able to come over the mountains and attack him when it was cold. In his mind, even if there was to be a war, it would have to wait until after the beginning of spring, and how did he know that the new army actually came over at this time.

Li Hu, who doesn't know a single big character, certainly doesn't understand what a professional army is. However, as a veteran who crawled out of the sea of corpses and blood, Li Hu immediately threw away the greasy chicken leg in his hand and shouted loudly for his subordinates to gather troops and prepare for battle.

The biggest characteristic of the peasant army is that there are many people! Everywhere they went, they plundered and took with them everything they could use and take with them. As long as an individual is wrapped up in his own army, the scale is like a snowball.

Li Hu has more than 100,000 people under his command! In this desolate Xuanfu Town, it can't be raised at all. At this time, most of these people lived on the bark of wild plants. If Gao Yang didn't come to attack this winter, it is estimated that more than half of these people would starve to death by the beginning of spring. Li Hu's military rations are not for these cannon fodder.

These cannon fodder were originally consumed, and Li Hu also planned to drive these people into the Jingshi to fend for themselves. Since the new army is here, let's just use it. If you can't win, leave it to the new army to have a headache and eat up their military rations! Aren't you officers and soldiers? Then go and raise these people.

Li Guo's order to Li Hu was to retreat all the way to Datong Mansion when he couldn't beat him, as long as he brought the people from the old camp back. The rest of the cannon fodder will be left to fend for themselves.

Goyang's army was well-trained, and although most of them were infantry, they marched quickly. As for the heavy artillery, Gao Yang brought a large number of horses from Mongolia and Guanwai, accompanied by a large number of four-wheeled carriages, and the speed was not slow at all when the road conditions permitted.

This four-wheeled carriage is an industrial product brought over from modern time and space by Gaoyang. Solid rubber tires can't be made in this space-time. The steel shock absorbers and bearing structures were enough to support the wagons to tow large quantities of supplies. Before the advent of mechanized troops, this could be considered the best means of transport. Of course, you only need to have a lot of pack horses.

Before Li Hu could gather everyone, Gao Yang led a large army to quickly occupy Huailaiwei. After that, they crossed the frozen Yanghe River, passed the famous Tumu Fort, and then forcibly occupied Baoan Prefecture.

After leaving Juyong Pass, the new army marched at a terrifying speed of more than sixty miles every day! You must know that there are many mountain roads here, and it is still in the freezing season!

Li Hu, who was alarmed by the astonishing advance speed of the new army, hurriedly set off from Xuanhua City with people. In the northwest of Baoan Prefecture, under Jiming Mountain on the bank of the Yanghe River, the new army in Gaoyang collided.

There is a river valley plain between Jiming Mountain and Yanghe, and the area is not too large. But it's enough for the two armies to fight here.

Gao Yang just doesn't care. Fight this rabble, how many people are given for nothing. He just had to do it step by step, and the result would be the same anyway.

Saving time and destroying simply and brutally is the best way to fight. (To be continued)