Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Source of Faith

Chen Xie has always hoped to stay out of the matter, but this hope is not a subjective desire of people to work. From the original simple life goal of wanting to earn money and live the life of a rich man, to the current goal, this goal has been basically achieved. When this goal was achieved, Chen Xie could not stop himself. The methods that he thought he was clever at the beginning have now become the force that binds him into taking the next step. As long as he stopped and didn't move forward, countless blood basins would pounce on him, devouring all the qiē he had.

Before the wheat harvest began, Chen Xie's return played a good role in stabilizing the team. After the baptism of sweet potato harvesting, the harvest of 5,000 and a half wheat is no longer too much of a problem.

Comrade Shenyi still habitually held an autumn harvest meeting first, and Squire Zhang was invited to attend the meeting. The people attending the meeting were both men and women, which made Zhang Yao feel very uncomfortable. Fortunately, he was accustomed to Chen Xie's peculiarity, and when Zhang Yao looked at Chen Xie, whose head had grown up and was tied with a leather band, sitting in the central position, there was a sense that this baby could no longer be looked at as before.

The purpose of the meeting is to draw up a wheat harvest plan, which may seem redundant, but in fact it is not. It's a way for Chen Xie to cultivate teamwork, and almost every time something like this happens, he will have a meeting beforehand, which is one of the things Chen Xie has valued the most in the past ten months. There is no talent, you can only cultivate yourself, and it is impossible for the scholars of the Ming Dynasty to condescend, and it is not the type of talent that Chen Xie needs. These people are very good at writing moral articles, and their practical experience is basically nonsense. It's not that all the scholars in the dynasty are at this level, but the base of this level is the largest.

At the meeting, Chen Xie gave a lecture and commended the previous sweet potato harvesting and fulfilled the promised rewards. After that, the organization of the wheat harvest was discussed. The process of discussion can be described as free-spirited, first making a rough plan as a skeleton, and then slowly replenishing and perfecting the flesh and blood.

Zhang Yao appeared quiet at this meeting, and had been observing the participants. Chen Xie is responsible for catching the general, and the following two maids are responsible for logistics preparation, transportation, and storage respectively, which seems a bit incredible. But there was no objection from anyone.

"According to the experience of the last time, the wheat harvest is relatively abundant in manpower. I think the focus is still on transportation, drying and storage, which must be fast to prevent the weather from changing. For this purpose, it is necessary to prepare no less than fifty four-wheeled carriages in advance, and the number of carriages that we can mobilize now is one hundred and thirty-five. From this, an adjustment can be made to increase the number of people who are involved in the front-line harvest. Yuzhu talked eloquently, Zhang Yao felt very mysterious, is this still the little maid at home?

"You can put the regimental training battalion into the front line for harvesting, and the baggage team is responsible for transportation." Chen Xie clapped the board, Yuzhu sat down, and Yujing skillfully recorded.

"The transport team guarantees that there will be no delays, and the small ones can be guaranteed with their heads." It was Mengzi who stood up and spoke, this young man who was saved by Chen Xie's life, and after following Chen Xie's side for about half a year, he was transferred to the regimental training battalion baggage team as a team officer.

"The problem of manpower, the small one is responsible for arranging it properly, and if there is a problem, the master only cares about punishment." The next thing to stand up was Xiaoxuan's own father Gu San, although he was illiterate, but he still had organizational skills, and he was paired with a literate half-sized boy as an assistant. To put it bluntly, Chen Xie lacks talents, so he can only do this.

The general framework came out, and then Chen Xie invited Zhang Yao to go to the study to drink tea and wait, and the other details were discussed and supplemented by the grass platform team team. Zhang Yao held the teacup, looked at Chen Xie's unhurried expression, and said with emotion: "Sihua, you teach well, these people have changed too much." ”

Chen Xie smiled and shook his head: "Actually, it's not a big deal, the right guidance, the organized plan, so that everyone knows what to do in advance." Once born, the second time matured, the ability will naturally come up. What I want to do is to let them understand that individual abilities are limited, and a close-knit team is the guarantee of success. The same can be said for any field. ”

Zhang Yao hesitated for a moment and asked, "Sihua, is your group practice like this?" ”

Chen Xie nodded as a matter of course: "The army has never been a place where individual martial arts dominate, and Zhao Zilong in the Three Kingdoms is a novelist." A comrade-in-arms is a person who can hand over his back, and the strength of the team, with strict discipline and strict cooperation, is an efficient killing machine. ”

Zhang Yao didn't ask, and got up: "I'm going to rest." ”

The wheat harvest began, and after a ritual, he took a sickle and cut it a few times, and then slipped away. The carriage sent Chen Xie to the foot of Longshan, because he often had to blow up stones, and this replaced the island as a secret training base for the artillery team. It's a bit funny to say, because gunpowder is often too wet to use on small islands. After a few attempts, Chen Xie made a change.

The camp was at the foot of the hill, and six steel-cast rifled guns and two 12-pounder guns were the entire artillery of this artillery group. Practice has proved that Napoleon's six-pounder guns and twelve-pounder guns, on the roads of the Ming Dynasty, in terms of convenient transportation, compared with the steel-cast rifled guns in front of them, are slag.

The maximum range of 15oo meters may not be the farthest artillery of this era, but it must be the lightest artillery of this era.

This kind of artillery also has zài defects, one is that it cannot shoot shotguns, and the other is that it cannot shoot lead balls directly, but can only shoot lead structure projectiles with a depression at the bottom and a cork at the back. If it were not for the problems of firing range and accurate suppression, rifled guns had no advantage over smoothbore guns. The main force of destruction in this era is actually a shotgun, which is to wrap a bunch of small lead balls in silk. This time when he went back, Chen Xie mainly solved these two problems. One is that the barrel of the rifled gun is lengthened, which can hit a little farther, and at the same time, on the basis of the existing rifled gun, the rifling is not drawn and the barrel is shortened, and the other is to order the production of molds for special lead balls. In this way, in the future, a relatively reasonable artillery fire structure will be formed in which rifled guns are suppressed at a distance and killed by shotguns at a close distance.

On the issue of hitting accurately, Chen Xie did not ask for it for the time being, but it was necessary to play quickly. Although he knows that relying too much on modern steel-cast cannons is not a long-term solution, the current Chen Xie has no choice. Casting cannons is not something that is within Chen Xie's ability at all. Among the blacksmiths who don't have much money, many of them are masters of the Nanzhili Ordnance Bureau, and they will cast some Tiger Zun cannons. Considering that casting the cannon by himself would bring some trouble, Chen Xie still gave up this opportunity. I just made a steel-making furnace and found a few literate young people to be assistants to the old blacksmiths, and together we studied how to solve the problem that the iron was too brittle. The reason for this problem is that modern technical data shows that it is due to the high sulfur content in coal, and the sulfur and phosphorus contained in iron ore have not been removed. In fact, this problem was also plaguing the technocrat Sun Yuanhua of the Ming Dynasty later, and his method was to thicken it, which also led to Sun Yuanhua's cannon death.

Without mentioning any nonsense, Weng Zhengqing, the officer of the queue, took one hundred of his subordinates and showed the results of training. One of the guarantees for the combat effectiveness of the modern army is the logistical pressure. This is even more evident in the artillery corps. Half of the artillery team with a capacity of 12o people has to be consumed on transportation support.

The artillery team's marching drill was the first step, and Weng Zhengqing commanded his subordinates to show Chen Xie a five-kilometer fast march. The blacksmiths of the Ming Dynasty were not bad at all, and Chen Xie's idea of marching with ammunition and artillery was realized. The ammunition cart on two wheels, connected with the mount of the artillery with the help of a hook, was called a four-wheeled sports car on the march. Two horses pulled by horses, and two horses as backups, even on the rural dirt roads of the Ming Dynasty, can guarantee a minimum time of five kilometers per hour.

After entering the preset position, the role of the ammunition vehicle was fully waved under the premise that the logistics troops were still dragging behind, and the preparation for firing was completed in just five minutes.

The red flag was raised and lowered, and after the order was issued, the six guns fired in turn, dusting the intended firing targets on the hillside, and although the hit rate was zero, Chen Xie was still deeply satisfied with the skillful operation and close cooperation of the gunners.

Pour water into the chamber and brush it a few times, and the reset work is also going on at the same time. It can be said that it was very smooth, and after a short adjustment, the second round of shooting was different, with six shells hitting two. In the third round of shooting, he hit four bullets.

That's good, the results are very good, this was originally a grass platform team. The only one in the entire artillery team who had experience with live ammunition before was a gunner dug from the Dengzhou Naval Division Battalion. This guy is still playing the so-called general cannon, and he has never seen such a high-end product as a red-clothed cannon.

After three rounds of firing, the artillery team immediately stopped firing and quickly moved to position. This training subject is required by Chen Xie, and it is very simple, he is worried that it will definitely be dangerous to stay in a position for a long time if he has a longer range of artillery.

Three people dragged artillery, two people dragged ammunition trucks, and one person was in charge of commanding, and after quickly completing the position transfer, Chen Xie thought that there was no need to watch this exercise. That's where your confidence comes from! If Zhang Keda is an interesting guy, Chen Xie doesn't mind using silver to make him open his eyes and close his eyes, and if he doesn't know how to be interested, Chen Xie doesn't mind dispatching those guys who do dirty work. If there is really a point out of control, then the only way to rebel is to pull the flag. Whoever comes will beat him back.

The 24 bronze cannons and 5ooo mini rifled guns in the warehouse are Chen Xie's greatest confidence and source of confidence. is like what the Water Margin said, "If you want to be an official, you will be recruited to kill people and set fires." "Of course, it's a last resort.

Chen Xie didn't think that Zhang Ke would be so brain-dead that he would hack Chen Xie, a famous squire in Dengzhou, without warning, after all, he was a military general. Denglai soldiers patrol Wang Ting, who is currently the highest governor of Dengzhou, and Dengzhou also has the prefect Xiao Yu. These two people took a lot of money from the United Firm, and Zhang Keda was very sad to pass them.

It can only be said that Chen Xie was too careful!

The process of wheat harvest was very smooth, and it was as calm as before, until the evening of November 18, when Zhang Keda quietly came to Zhangjiazhuang with several entourages and "asked" Chen Xie to meet. That's right, just ask to see!

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