After no longer seeing the back of the Flame Army, Gao Huaiyuan said to Zhao Futang and Fu Daquan: "You should also step up training!" The Tartars will be stunned for a while at the beginning, but when they react, I'm afraid they will have to raise an army to attack! If you don't prepare in advance, you may be at a loss! The matter of building forts, not only several states and counties here have to do this, even Jinan Prefecture, also have to do, all villages must use the idle to build village forts, in short, if the Tartars come, every village, must become a nail, so that they can't gnaw and pull out!

Also, Zhao Futang! Your Jingdong army wants to expand its troops again, as long as the time comes, your side will also send troops at the same time to attack Hebei and the Youyun region, this time we will not do it, once we want to do it, we must even take back the land of Yanyun, and completely drive the Tartars out of the pass! Your ultimate task is to recover Yanyun and other places, not just Hebei and other places! ”

Zhao Futang and Fu Daquan immediately bowed down to accept the order, promising that they would never neglect this matter. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Gao Huaiyuan and Zhao Futang together in the direction of Jinan Mansion, and Jinan Mansion is the headquarters of the Jingdong Army, the main force is based on the Zhao Mansion left by Gao Huaiyuan to leave the descendants of the front of the palace and Peng Yibin's righteous army, and some of them are absorbed by the old department, over the years, Peng Yibin's body because of the previous trauma is too serious, although the injury has healed, but the body is not as good as day by day, he handed over the headquarters of the righteous army to Zhao Futang for reorganization, and gradually faded out of the military, returned to Tai'an to recuperate.

After so many years of rectification in Zhao Futang, the righteous army has carried out several large-scale reorganization, removed its dross and retained its essence, and dismissed the old and weak soldiers in the righteous army and granted them to the field, so that they can cultivate for the army and have a stable life, and those who remain in the army are some elite soldiers, so that although the scale of the righteous army has been reduced a lot, after merging with the officers and soldiers of Zhao Futang's headquarters, the combat effectiveness has been greatly improved. What's more, Zhao Futang, as Gao Huaiyuan's confidant, has won Gao Huaiyuan's true inheritance of the control army, after successive rectifications, the army has been quite strong, not to mention that they are now the regular army of the imperial court, with the imperial court supporting them behind, the base of the equipment has been replaced with new armor, and a lot of artillery has been issued to them recently, so that its combat effectiveness is in the first array among the Song army, and it is definitely above the local garrison in the south.

It's just that they have some trouble with the training of artillery, training artillery is not better than training ordinary infantry troops, which requires a long time of exploration, combined with live-fire training, and gunpowder is still a valuable material, Zhao Futang is a little reluctant to spend so much money, so the artillerymen have nothing to play, so in the artillery drill, the hit rate is a bit of a problem...

After Gao Huaiyuan watched a live-fire artillery drill in Jinan Mansion, he immediately shook his head and said to Zhao Futang: "Your artillery is not good!" There are less than one or two, and the rest are too far off, so if it goes on, when it comes to the battle, the artillery can only become a deterrent at most, but it cannot exert its due power, if it goes on like this, it is better not to equip you with artillery! What a waste of fighting! ”

Zhao Futang's face was red and he hurriedly pleaded guilty: "It's incompetent, gunpowder is still too expensive, and the military resources allocated by the imperial court to raise soldiers are already stretched, so the humble position does not dare to spend too much on artillery training, plus it is very difficult to control the artillery, and it is difficult for ordinary people to master, so this situation will occur!" Thank you for your understanding! ”

"Humph! Excuse me? This is unforgivable! Short of money? If you are short of money, have you ever asked the official to write a recital? Have you told the official about the lack of money? Also, there are gunpowder workshops in various places, and you have a large amount of gunpowder stockpiled here, but you say that you are short of money and are reluctant to let artillery live ammunition training, can this be a reason?

If you are short of money, the officer can find a way to let the household department transfer it to you again, and if you are short of people, the officer can assign you an artillery instructor, but the officer gives you a requirement, that is, within three months, the artillery must be greatly improved, if not, I will remove your artillery and equip other armies!

Now the garrisons in many places don't even have a single cannon, but you use the cannon as an ornament here! Hum! Luo Zhuo, you remember! When I came to Jingdong this time, Luo Zhuo asked me for a Shenwei cannon with a shy face, you have so much equipment for you here, if you don't need it, I'll bring it back to Luo Zhuo! Gao Huaiyuan didn't save face for Zhao Futang at all, and he slammed at Zhao Futang. Zhao Futang hurriedly knelt down and said: "My lord is angry, it's the official's fault, please rest assured, within three months...... No, within a month, the subordinate must ensure that the level of artillery will be greatly improved, otherwise, the lord will directly dismiss the lowly officer, and there will be no complaints about the lowly position, and these divine cannons will not be able to dismiss us for anything! After all, we are under a lot of pressure here, and we are counting on these cannons to deter the Tartars! ”

After Gao Huaiyuan frightened Zhao Futang for a while, he nodded and agreed to his request, stayed in Jinan Mansion again, studied the future battle plan with Zhao Futang, discussed the route of their future troops, etc., and then left Jinan Mansion and prepared to return to Beijing.

However, Gao Huaiyuan still didn't forget to go to Laiwu first, which was his personal arsenal, so he had to care about it.

And Laiwu is indeed developing very fast, there are chimneys everywhere, iron-making iron furnaces everywhere, iron is produced here, a large number of raw materials for Jingdong's armor come from here, and even many raw materials for building weapons in the Southern Song Dynasty are also from here, although the iron work in Xuzhou is also being restored and rebuilt, but in a short period of time, it is still one of the most important iron-producing places in the Southern Song Dynasty. . . .

And the officials of Laiwu Iron Smelting are not outsiders, it is the first servant Xue Yan accepted by Gao Huaiyuan, Xue Yan took Qin Hu and other craftsmen from Daye to move north to Laiwu in the early years, and later when Gao Huaiyuan recovered Jingdong and awarded the official, he gave Xue Yan a Laiwu magistrate County, anyway, he had this right at the time, and after reporting to Beijing, no one objected to his arrangement, so Xue Yan actually became the head of a county, in fact, to put it bluntly, he looked at his private arsenal for Gao Huaiyuan, And the government affairs here are basically done by the county officials and others under him, and his main focus is still on managing iron smelting. After years of exploration, the Kamui cannon has now been cast with wrought iron, and the ironmaking industry here has been revived again in the past few years, providing a solid foundation for the casting of artillery.

The successful casting of the iron cannon also saved Gao Huaiyuan a lot of money, and the cost of casting a wrought iron cannon was less than one-third of the cost of casting a bronze cannon compared to casting a bronze cannon.

In particular, Gao Huaiyuan found two years ago that there is a serious problem of non-standardization in the casting of cannons, that is, each casting a cannon, to make a separate set of clay molds, after each artillery is cast, it is a unique work in the world, so that the casting quality and specification of the artillery depends on the level of those craftsmen who open the mold, the overall quality can not be guaranteed, after the artillery began to be installed in these years, there are often accidents in the training, indicating that the casting process of the artillery is still lacking. . .

Coupled with the future war, now the garrisons around the country are strongly required to be equipped with artillery, and now the number of artillery cast by this technological means is far from enough to meet this demand, the reason why the Jingdong army is equipped with a lot of artillery, that is still the artillery that has been gradually hoarded over the years, and the newly produced artillery because of the problem of casting process, low output and poor quality, can not meet the needs of the military at all.

As early as a year or two ago, Gao Huaiyuan began to use his free time to search for how to solve this problem in his mind, and at the same time convened a group of clever casting craftsmen in Beijing to discuss, and finally his head flashed, remembering that there was a method used by a cattle man in the Qing Dynasty in later generations, and finally let him find a way to solve it, that is, to abandon the clay casting method used in the previous casting cannon, and replace it with a new iron fan casting cannon.

In addition to the shortcomings that the size of each gun will be different, there are also many unfavorable factors such as uneven cooling of the casting, which is easy to appear in the interior and is not easy to observe, resulting in explosion accidents when firing, and it is time-consuming and more cost-effective, which is a very cost-effective casting method. . .

However, after the use of the iron fan, first of all, the iron fan can be used repeatedly, and the cast cannon is uniform and cooled evenly, and there will be no water vapor to cause the casting sand hole, and the result is that after the trial production of the Beijing Division Ordnance Supervision Foundry Institute, the effect is very good.

So Gao Huaiyuan immediately sent someone to send this casting method to Jingdong Laiwu, and handed it over to Xue Yan to be responsible for promoting it in Laiwu, and at the same time, this process was also distributed to various casting workshops to implement.

Laiwu iron is now using this method, the quality of the iron cannon has been significantly improved, reducing the occurrence of explosion accidents, and at the same time greatly improving the efficiency of the cannon casting, an iron fan is used repeatedly, and the cost is greatly reduced.

And in order to speed up the speed of cannon casting, those gunsmiths under Xue Yan also used wrought iron and pig iron cast cannons at the same time, the iron cannon cast by wrought iron is light, can be loaded on the gun truck with the army as a field gun, and it is not easy to explode, and the texture of the pig iron cannon is relatively brittle, in order to avoid or reduce the explosion accident, the gun bore wall is thickened a lot, and the iron cannon is heavy and not easy to move, so it is transported to the city wall of the border city, as a garrison cannon, fixed on the fort above the city wall for use, so that it is faster to speed up the casting speed of the artillery.

When Gao Huaiyuan inspected here, he personally entered the cannon casting workshop accompanied by Xue Yan and Liu Chengyi to watch the situation of the cannon casting here, and saw that the craftsmen in the workshop were in full swing, and the iron furnaces were exuding high heat, constantly smelting molten iron, and then being poured into the iron fan by the craftsmen.

An iron cannon that had just been cast was immediately knocked open, and the red cannon body was taken out, and the burr ash on the surface of the cannon body was immediately cleaned with steel brushes and hammers, so that the surface of the iron cannon became smooth.

The cannons are then sent to the next process, where the bore is cleaned, the bore is expanded with a standard drill bit, and the bore is polished, and finally the cannons are cooled and sent to the final procedure for inspection, where grease is added to check for defects such as cracks, and there are people who specifically check whether there are sand holes in the bore or whether the size is standard.

The whole set of processes has been quite proficient, and what is more valuable is that Gao Huaiyuan has also seen that many original machinery has been used in the workshop, including both hydraulic blowers, small door cranes that lift heavy objects, and bench drills driven by hydraulic power, and some auxiliary machinery driven by mules and horses, which have greatly improved work efficiency.

(It's been a lot of struggle these days!) It has been more than a year since this book was written, and after a rough calculation, it has already been more than 2.8 million words! In terms of vertical and horizontal, it has entered the seventh place! For more than a year, there has been no interruption for a day, which is not to say that the author of every book is the same, but it is estimated that there should not be many authors who can do this!

Now it's finally the Chinese New Year again, and to be honest, I haven't had a Spring Festival in years! It's a little too tiring! But code words have basically become a habit! I can't bear to feel disappointed when a reader friend clicks on my book!

And whether to give myself a few days off this year is the reason why I am entangled, so I asked today, do you agree with me to rest for a few days! ）

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