At this time, the Ningbo front was calm.

Yang Feng's fleet was blocked at the mouth of the Yongjiang River, and Xu Jiugong's sailors did not have the courage to provoke him, although the total strength of the Qing army and the two armies on land had exceeded 30,000, but they were blocked by the sea more than ten miles wide, and it could not have any impact on Yang Feng.

Their only hope now is that the reinforcements of the Fujian Navy Division and the Yangtze River Navy Division have arrived quickly, at this time the Fujian Navy Division has already set off, but the Yangtze River Navy Division is still waiting for the order of the Ministry of War, in fact, Ah Shan has already received the news that the Zhejiang Navy Division has almost wiped out the whole army at this time, and his enthusiasm for participating in the war has long been extinguished by this basin of ice water, not to mention that the warships of the Yangtze River Navy Division are all inland river boats, small in size, poor in equipment, and poor in wind and wave resistance......

In short, this battle has to rely on you, Fujian and Zhejiang.

Before the official order of the Ministry of War arrived, he was not going to run to block Guo Shilong's gun, and if he wanted to go, he would have to wait for the arrival of the Fujian Naval Division.

Just when the Qing army was waiting for reinforcements, Yang Feng's strength was also rapidly expanding, and at this time his name had spread all over Zhejiang, as if he had become the idol in the hearts of all the anti-Qing righteous people, the Heaven and Earth Society, the old Zheng family, the retail households who resisted the national ronghe, the bandits with dreams, in short, the rabble from all walks of life quickly rushed to their ideal holy land, to this dazzling star.

Although theoretically, it is impossible for the Qing army to let them pass, but under the condition that the Ming army has the right to control the sea, it is too easy to find a coast to board a boat to cross the sea for more than ten miles, not to mention that as long as there is no wind and waves at this distance, even a small canopy boat will pass.

"Mr. Lord, you're finally here!"

Yang Feng said as he pulled Huang Baijia, who had stepped off the boat.

Huang Zongxi's son can be said to be a genius in the early Qing Dynasty, not only a generation of grandmasters of Neijiaquan, but also Confucianism and astronomical calendars, even he understands medical biology, and even some research is close to the theory of evolution, but he is not an official of the Qing Dynasty, and has been hidden in the world, so few people know.

And Yang Feng has high hopes for this person, after all, in such an era, it is really not easy to have such a person.

"Yang Shuai recovered Zhoushan in a few days, annihilated the Tartar Naval Division, and killed two general soldiers one after another, which is really admirable!"

Huang Baijia said with a smile.

Saying that these righteous men who went back to deal with housework, no one expected that Yang Feng would give them such a huge surprise, and in just a few days, they laid down the great Zhoushan, and beat the Qing army sailors to the point that they were almost powerless to fight back, it can be said that it is simply a miracle, and it is precisely because of this miracle that they have strengthened their determination to run and follow, if Yang Feng is defeated at this time, I am afraid they will not come out again.

"Don't mention it, I'm having a headache right now!"

Yang Feng said with a wry smile.

"What is Yang Shuai worried about?"

Huang Baijia asked.

"Worry about everything, let's go to my place first, these are your relatives?"

Yang Feng looked at the group of old and young behind him, especially one of the seventeen or eighteen-year-old girls, he usually looked at women now not by looking at the face, but at the feet, no matter how beautiful the little feet were, he no longer had any interest, and to his surprise, this girl was still Tianzu.

The latter lowered his head and looked very quiet, perhaps feeling his hungry wolf-like gaze, raised his head slightly, showed a pretty face, and then quickly lowered it as fast as he could.

"Yes, it's clumsy! It's a dog. ”

Huang Baijia didn't notice the interaction between the two, he just introduced a few casually, and most of the others didn't bother to introduce, his family had more than a dozen people, Yang Feng just said hello casually, and quickly took them straight to his marshal's mansion, which was the original county office. Now he grasps the military and politics of Zhoushan himself, and even the trial of the case is in his charge, and there is no law, he doesn't understand the Ming law, but he has the law but doesn't use it, anyway, his words are the law, and no one dares to have an opinion on how to judge, fortunately, Zhoushan is not big, and it has a population of tens of thousands.

After the Shuai Mansion settled down for them, Yang Feng and Huang Baijia began to have a serious conversation.

"First of all, the question of the army.

The victory of these battles is completely dependent on these things, this is the weapon I used to make myself, and now there are so many, I don't have the time to do more, that is to say, if it is a naval battle, these things can still be supported a few times, but land battles are not to be expected, it is estimated that an ordinary battle will have to be consumed completely, without these things, what level of our rebel army is You also know. ”

Yang Feng pointed to his arms and said.

In fact, his arms consumption is not much, only a total of fifty rockets and three hundred grenades were used in the last war, and then he hit dozens of grenades, as for the banana water burning ping, it doesn't count, he still has more than a dozen buckets of banana water there!

"Can you make these things yourself?"

Huang Baijia held a bazooka and said, he even understands a microscope, of course he won't fail to understand that this thing is a purely mechanical product.

"I can't."

Yang Feng said very frankly.

"But there's something like that that can be made."

He said and put a drawing on the table in front of him, which was painted with a rocket, RPG bazooka is indeed impossible to build, but it is not difficult to build a Kasan-level earth rocket, after all, this thing is played by the ancestors for hundreds of years, steel pipes, or wrought iron pipes are the same, the tail wing is installed in the back, and the internal booster can be used with gunpowder, it is really not possible to mix some sugar, and at this time white sugar can also be bought.

"It's not hard to make."

Huang Baijia could see at a glance that this thing was not difficult.

"The difficult thing is mass manufacturing, we need a lot of gunpowder, a lot of steel, and a lot of workers, in short, we need a special factory, a factory that produces this kind of thing in large quantities, then we have to solve the problem of raw materials, otherwise this set of drawings will not make any sense to us."

Yang Feng said.

Huang Baijia nodded, he understood this truth.

"There's an even more powerful weapon, one that once our armies are mass-equipped and trained enough soldiers, the cavalry that the Tartars rely on to sweep the world can kick into the garbage heap."

Yang Feng said and took out a set of drawings again.

This is his new rifle.

The use of metal fixed bullets in modern rifles is a bit too exaggerated, because he does not have so many materials, especially the copper used to make bullets, even if he makes a black powder rifle like Mauser 1871, he also has to use copper to make cartridge cases, in the era of copper or coins, this is undoubtedly very exaggerated, although he can build his own copper mines, his own factory, but in the current situation, what he needs is speed, the more factories he builds, the slower the speed.

Therefore, the principle of his weapons had to be simplified as much as possible in the production process.

The use of paper-shell bullets in the rear loading of the dresser is also a bit excessive, because he still needs to make **** first, and he also needs more advanced machine tools, but the front-loading gun plus mini bullets is enough, and even **** is not needed, just use the flintlock rifled gun plus mini bullets.

This is enough to deal with Kang Mazi, don't think how powerful those Eight Banner Cavalry are.

As for artillery, he is not interested in developing new ones for the time being, because this problem is easy to solve, just change the shells, wooden butts and woodpipe fuses to make flowering shells, and the artillery still uses the most common artillery at this time, the army's light copper cannon, and there is no need to change much, just change the shells. In fact, until the First Sino-Japanese War, copper cannons were still very common, and the Japanese army was basically all copper cannons, but the Qing army had begun to use Krupp's cast steel field cannons.

But even these things are not easy for him.

"We still need steel."

Yang Feng said very frankly.

"How much? If it is less, you can buy some, Suzhou, Foshan these places are produced steel, think of some ways can still be bought, iron is easy to buy, but steel is indeed not easy to buy, this is refined, the output is very small, Tartar is also staring closely. ”

Huang Baijia said.

In fact, at this time, there is no gap between China and Europe in steel technology, China is the steel filling method, Suzhou's steel smelting technology has been very superb, and Europe's Pudelin method, simply put, is a large tank stirring, the resulting steel is not very good because the furnace temperature is not enough, as for the crucible steel, the output is very low, it belongs to the high-end boutique, and it is only used when it is needed.

"It's useless, I need a lot of steel, so much that even if you give me all the national output, it may not be enough!"

Yang Feng said.

He wants to play the age of steel, at this time there is a fart for that point of steel production, directly on the steelmaking furnace is the king, and it doesn't need to be too high-end, the simplest converter is on the line, the steelmaking mill can also be simplified, he doesn't need to engage in iron ore ironmaking in a short time, he can directly buy pig iron to make steel, and pig iron has people who can sell it to him, for example, he can buy it from Japan from Korea from Europe and even from Kang Mazi's territory.

This is not surprising, as long as there is money to be made, Jin merchants can sell iron to wild boar skins to beat their own country, and merchants under Kang Mazi will also sell pig iron to themselves.

And it is not difficult to make a converter, drag a part of the steel from there, make a graphite crucible here, and assemble the casting parts after melting, and even make a simple machine tool in this way, although it is best to drag a few from there, but it is all motors, and now the use of electricity is exaggerated, and in order to generate electricity he has to do a lot of things, which does not conform to his principle of simplification.

But it's okay to build a boiler and a steam engine.

Then make a simple, just a machine tool with a gun barrel out of it.

What, no technology? This is not a problem, Yang Daxian had prepared it some time ago, and a large box of such technical books was locked in his cabinet, which he copied from a certain university library in the parallel time and space on the opposite side some time ago.

But now the question is......

"We need a coal mine."

Yang Feng said.