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However, Huang Jiancheng is not ambitious, as long as he can make iron at the beginning. As for the iron with too high sulfur content and brittle, or too many impurities are not conducive to post-processing...... None of this is a problem. Anyway, all the groups need now are ammunition iron, all consumables, as long as they can meet the casting requirements - the quality of the molten iron is not good, but Lao Huang's technology in making molds and pouring molds is very good, and the warheads are divided into two halves of the shell and cast at one time, and the grooves that need to be left in advance can also be poured out at one time. That's why Xu Huicai said, "Our metal processing capabilities are not bad."

"At present, we have a small blast furnace for ironmaking, a coke oven, a brick kiln specializing in burning refractory bricks, and a crucible for steelmaking, but they are all experimental in nature, and the performance of the smelted products is very unstable and can only be used as consumables."

Huang Jiancheng's words were as simple as himself, and he pointed to the stoves of different sizes behind him:

"The grade of refractory bricks is not high, and the calorific value of fuel cannot go up, and the level of these furnaces is only equivalent to the folk soil blast furnace in the iron and steel smelting period, and it is not easy to burn molten iron."

"And when are we going to get steel that can be used as a material for making guns?"

Wang Ruobin, a gun dealer, is most concerned about this, he has used up all the modern materials he can use, and without new materials to replenish him, the director of the arsenal, he will always be unemployed. Wang Ruobin was idle and bored these days, so he lay on the table every day to draw the patterns of firearms he remembered, from the most primitive single-barreled flintlock pistol to the Ak47, but he just couldn't find steel to practice.

"It's a step-by-step process." Huang Jiancheng is always so tepid, "Although these earth blast furnaces are of low level, they are the foundation for us to develop the metallurgical industry." All high-grade iron-making furnaces rely on the products of these earth-fired blast furnaces for their construction. Fortunately, we are clear about the whole process, and the principle and construction of more advanced blast furnace equipment are not a problem, we just need to go step by step - of course, there must be materials. ”

"How long will it take?"

Wang Ruobin only cared about this, Huang Jiancheng thought about it seriously and stretched out a slap:

"At least four months, at most half a year."

"It's been so long......"

The black gun dealer was very disappointed and continued to draw and have fun, but Pang Yu and the others were not very disappointed. It is enough to know that iron for shells is already capable of producing on its own.

Then I went to the chemical group to find out about the supply of gunpowder, and there was no need to worry about this - now the production of gunpowder is quite stable, and with a fixed source of saltpeter supply, the chemical group is no longer as shy in the manufacture of nitro explosives as it used to be, and the production of chlorate explosives is still maintained, after all, the more gunpowder, the better.

The final finalization of the 209mm mortar was more than ten days later. Lao Ma fulfilled his promise: within half a month of the artillery samples being taken out, the basic test firing content was completed, the firing parameters of this kind of artillery were determined, and a simple calculation scale was made -- with these numbers and tools, even a layman who had never touched a cannon at all, as long as he adjusted the amount of medicine packaging and the angle of the muzzle in strict accordance with the regulations, he could still make a difference. Of course, if you want to become a sharpshooter, you have to work hard to learn ballistics and conduct test firing.

In the end, the effective range of this artillery was determined to be within a thousand meters, which is really a short distance, but there is no way, and no one can solve the natural weakness of being too short. Of course, if the maximum charge is at the optimal inclination angle, Lao Ma can make this shell fly three thousand meters away, but then the accuracy cannot be guaranteed.

In the effective firing range, if Lao Ma himself operated it, the hit rate of this gun was still quite high, and the landing point error was only about ten meters. The surface of the shell is opened with fragmentation grooves when casting, and a single shell can split into 36 pieces of iron, and the effective killing radius can reach 15 meters, which is extremely sharp when used to attack the cluster infantry.

The only downside was that the rebar frame was often fired with the shells, but the problem was solved by adding a few hooks on the outside to get stuck behind the cannon. A total of two such oxygen cylinder mortars were manufactured, and Ma Qianshan and Lin Shenhe were responsible for one. The two of them each brought three assistants, a total of eight people formed an artillery crew, and Lao Ma served as the team leader. It's not that I don't want to do more, but there are too few oxygen cylinders, and the remaining bottles are of great use, and there are too few people who are experienced in artillery, so I have to make do with two first.

With artillery, the god of war, everyone is a lot more optimistic about the future situation, but the comfortable days did not last long. The reconnaissance team led by Tang Jian returned to Lingao on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year and brought back first-hand information about the Ming army in Qiongzhou.

And this information makes most of the traversers feel cold.

"The armed forces of the Ming army in Qiongzhou seem to have two parts, one part of the army is stationed in the attached Luocheng outside the city of Qiongzhou, and the other part is in the water village of Baishakou by the sea, mainly the water army, and the two places are about four kilometers apart."

In the courtyard of the Green Zone, the big white screen is playing the digital video taken by Tang Jian this time. The picture is showing scenes of the daily life and training of soldiers in the Ming Dynasty, because they are all long shots, it looks a little blurry. But the amount of black pressure is really shocking.

"What is the approximate number of them?"

Xie Xi was most concerned about this, and Tang Jian nodded very heavily:

"I've done the math, it's a rough estimate by counting the barracks and queues, but the difference won't be too big."

Taking out the small notebook he carried with him, Tang Jian reported the actual figures:

"The army stationed in Qiongzhou is about 3,000 people, and many of them are of the Li ethnic group. There were about 2,000 sailors in Baishakou Water Village, with a total of 52 ships, of which there were 15 relatively large warships, which were about the size of our ships. ”

With Tang Jian's explanation, the north latitude called up the picture, and Wen Desi and others, who were more familiar with the ancient ship model, recognized it at a glance:

"It's all a blessing ship...... Damn, there's still a treasure ship! ”

In the picture, a certain Ming ship is particularly large and wide, with flags flying high on it, which seems to be the appearance of a flagship. It is much larger than all other Ming ships, and Pang Yu once saw a replica of a Ming Dynasty treasure ship in his hometown Nanjing Treasure Shipyard Ruins Park, which looks similar to what it looks in the video.

"It's a very powerful sea force, who said that the Korean Navy can't do it before?"

No one is talking about this, it is a historical fact that the Ming and Qing dynasties have banned crossing the sea, but the history textbooks have not mentioned how the Ming government governed Hainan Island. Obviously, no matter how forbidden the sea is, the Ming government still needs warships to ensure the territory of the island, and it is not surprising that the Qiongzhou Navy has big ships.

"How are they fighting? How is it better than the guards we defeated earlier? ”

Some people began to hope that the other party's military quality was low, but Tang Jian quickly dispelled their illusions.

"I haven't fought each other, I don't know what the combat effectiveness is, but we have observed it for more than 20 days, they will have a training every three to five days, and a large-scale drill every ten days or so, although the knife and gun skills they practice and the queue look stupid, but at least it shows that they are professional soldiers."

There was silence in the screening room for a while, the professional soldiers of the Ming Dynasty - modern people are always superstitious about the word "profession", except for Tang Jian and Wang Haiyang, no one else in the team is a professional soldier. Even if modern people are better nourished, taller, and physically strong, but when they meet those professional soldiers who specialize in killing people face to face, I am afraid that no one dares to say that they are sure to win.

What's more, the number of both sides is not at the same level at all.

"One hundred against five thousand...... How can this battle be fought......

Even Wang Haiyang, who has always been the most resolute and optimistic, was a little stunned, not to mention other ordinary white-collar workers.

"Are we thinking about it...... Developing in a different place? ”

Sure enough, someone put forward such a point of view, but such an idea was quickly rejected, and even Ling Ning, who had always been the most advocate of changing places before, did not approve of moving the nest this time.

The reason is simple, for those who advocate escaping, it is only necessary to ask him one sentence:

"Where are you going? Where can I go? ”

-- In Lingao County, everyone has worked hard for the past few months, and finally has a hydropower station, a number of small factories and workshops, and the nearby mineral resources have been basically discovered, and the relationship with the surrounding people is relatively relaxed.

And if this qiē is abandoned, the energy problem will not be solved, and after several accidents, nearly a quarter of the ship's diesel reserves have been used, and all these factors have been combined to make the crossing crowd have no other choice.

"If this battle has to be fought, we are not completely out of chance." Pang Yu began to analyze everyone again, "The only advantage of the Ming army is nothing more than quantity, and we also have our strengths. ”

"First of all, of course, there is a technological advantage, our technical strength and weapons and equipment are well known to everyone, and there is no need to be verbose here. In the history of modern warfare, there have been many battles in which modern firearms have been used against cold weapons, and the side that owns firearms has won a complete victory. In the Battle of Bali Bridge that year, 30,000 Mongolian cavalry attacked the position of the British and French forces defended by 6,000 people, and more than 20,000 were killed. And what were the losses of the Anglo-French army - only a dozen people! ”

"Secondly, in addition to the superiority in weapons, we also have an absolute superiority in intelligence. It is very important that we know the great historical trend of this Ming Dynasty! For example, Xiong Wencan, the current governor of Fujian, we know that he is a dove who likes to appease him, and as long as he can withstand one or two rounds of attacks from the other side, we can win a good negotiation condition for ourselves. ”

"Brothers!"

Pang Yu finally used a very vivid example to cheer everyone up:

"In fact, a hundred years before our time, in 1533, a Spaniard named Pizarro did much of the same thing as us travelers: he destroyed the Inca Empire of six million people in South America, and how many men did he have? - less than one hundred and eighty, one hundred and seventy-seven to be exact, plus sixty-two horses and three arquebuses! ”

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