Early the next morning, Zhu Youcheng went to the East School Factory to transfer troops.

When he besieged King Xin by An Bangyan in Guiyang, Jinyiwei was furious. Who is Shinoh? He, like Zhu Youcheng, is the founder and soul of Jinyi Weixi Zhenfusi. Hearing that he was trapped in Guiyang by the thieves, the Jinyi guards asked to go to war despite the fatigue of returning from the expedition.

Chen Guoqi is the envoy of the Xizhen Fusi, who is in charge of the Jinyi Guard Army, so he naturally wants to go out together, and Wu Huping has been transferred from the Xizhen Fusi to take charge of the Jinyi Guard, does he want to go together?

It turned out that Zhu Youcheng was promoted to the commander of Jinyi Wei, and his two favorite generals Wu Huping and Chen Guoqi also followed the rising tide, Wu Huping was promoted to the town of Jinyi Weidong Town, and Chen Guoqi was promoted to the town of Jinyi Weixi Town.

Zhu Youcheng asked: "Huping, are you going to rescue King Xin with this official, or are you going to Dongzhen Fusi to train the navy?" ”

Wu Huping said without hesitation: "Although it is urgent to train the navy, if King Xin is besieged, the lower officials will be distracted even during training, so, my lord, I will go with you to help Guiyang." ”

Zhu Youcheng was also reluctant for Wu Huping to leave at this critical moment, so he took the five thousand brocade guards who had experienced the test of blood and fire on the battlefield in Liaodong and left the capital and went to Huangzhuang in western Beijing. After a series of hard battles, Jinyiwei's ● fire gun was damaged and the ammunition was almost used, so he had to go back and replenish it.

When they arrived at Jingxi Huangzhuang, everyone was stunned. Qin Ke had turned Huangzhuang into a large construction site, crisscrossed the ground and dug many ditches.

Qin could see that Zhu Youcheng led the troops to arrive, so he walked over and gave a military salute, and just wanted to report the construction situation, Zhu Youcheng interrupted and said: "Qin Ke, there is no doubt about employing people." Suspects don't need to. When you supervised the construction of the two courtyards, I said that the renovation of Jingxi Huangzhuang will be handed over to you, even if you transform Huangzhuang into the world's largest toilet, it will be up to you. ”

Qin Ke was moved in his heart and said, "Your Excellency trusts your subordinates so much, your subordinates will definitely do their best." Build a super royal village with super defense ability for you. Now the foundation has been laid, and it will be almost completed by June or July. ”

After saying that, he walked back to the construction site and instructed the workers to get to work.

Zhu Youcheng asked Wu Huping and Chen Guoqi to take the soldiers to change supplies, and then summoned Qiu Qiu and Ling Mengchu to the study and handed over the matter of human trafficking to these two. Ling Mengchu is upright, the ball is sleek, and the two of them cooperate with each other, and they will definitely be able to complete this task perfectly.

Of course. When Zhu Youcheng assigned the task, he used high-sounding reasons, and a set of big reasons were pressed, and the two of them couldn't resist it, and confidently agreed to be human traffickers - uh, no, it was to go to disaster relief, and by the way, solve the marriage problem for the Jinyi guards.

Completed the largest human trafficking in the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Youcheng went to the arsenal.

I heard that Lord Zhu was here in person, and three people who looked like black charcoal greeted him. Zhu Youcheng carefully identified it for a long time. only to recognize that these three people are Li Datie, Sun Yuanhua and Song Yingxing.

"How did you get this way?"

Sun Yuanhua didn't answer this question, pulled Zhu Youcheng inside, pointed to a large pile of steel pipes inside, and said, "My lord, please look, this is my newly cast cannon." ”

These things look like just a pile of scattered steel pipes with an inner diameter about the size of a football. It is much thicker than the redcoat cannon, but it is thinner than the redcoat cannon, and there are circles of threads at one end. It seems that these steel pipes can be connected to form a huge cannon barrel.

Zhu Youcheng exclaimed: "Nine, nine cannons!" ”

Sun Yuanhua was even more surprised than him, and said, "Master Zhu is really a genius. Just one glance reveals the name of Sun's newly cast cannon. But Lord Zhu, that was the name I gave a month ago, and now the name of this thing is called the Nine Sections Steel Cannon. Master Zhu, let's go out and try the cannon. ”

Sun Yuanhua commanded nine guards and carried the cannon to the open space behind the arsenal. The entire artillery was staggeringly heavy, but it was divided into nine sections, which could be easily carried by ordinary soldiers. The soldiers aligned the yin and yang threads of the barrel, rotated, and quickly assembled the cannon.

When the gunner reloads his ammunition, he hears a loud bang, and the solid shell is shot out 2,000 paces away, and it takes a telescope to see where the shell lands.

Zhu Youcheng was surprised and delighted, this is a sharp weapon for mountain warfare. There are many mountains in Guizhou, just find a hill, set up a nine-section cannon, and use a cannonball as big as a football, the lethality is terrifying to think about.

Sun Yuanhua was still chattering, and said: "Last time, I saw Lord Zhu go out with a tiger squat cannon, and I regretted that Lord Zhu did not have a weapon to kill the enemy. The most powerful artillery of the Ming Dynasty is the red-coated cannon, but unfortunately the cannon body is too heavy and the transport is troublesome. I often wondered if it would be possible to divide the redcoat cannon into nine or ten sections, so that each section would be much lighter and easier to transport. After the artillery was cut, combined together, the air tightness was much worse, and the barrel was easy to fall apart, and I never thought of a solution. The last time Li Datie invited me to drink, he threw the whole wine into the hot water in order to scald the wine. I was afraid that the hot water would get into the bottle and spoil the taste of the wine, so I quarreled with him. As a result, he scooped up the wine, and when I looked at it, there was not a drop of water in it. It turns out that the threaded interface can be waterproof, and the airtightness of the threaded interface must be very good. In this way, I made a nine-section cannon. It just so happened that Lord Song made good steel, and the steel cannon was cast, which was much lighter and stronger than the previous nine-section cannon, and the caliber could also be expanded. ”

Zhu Youcheng secretly admired, Sun Yuanhua is really a strange material. The airtightness of the threaded interface is good, this principle, Zhu Youcheng has long known, he is used to seal liquor, but Sun Yuanhua is used to cast cannons, which is simply better than blue. Zhu Youcheng couldn't help but sigh secretly, this is the gap between people and people, if it weren't for the scientific literacy that was more than 400 years ahead of this era, he would be a novice in front of Sun Yuanhua.

"Lord Sun, we are about to go to Guizhou, and the nine-section steel cannon is of great help to Jinyiwei, and how many have been cast now?"

Sun Yuanhua's eyes widened, and he said, "Why don't you give me a little more time?" Alas, I knew that the adults were going to go on the expedition again, even if I didn't sleep, I would have to cast a few more cannons. Now we have only built two, and there are not enough shells. Because the caliber of this cannon is very special, it is thicker than the tiger squat cannon and the red-coat cannon, and the shells cannot be universally used, so they have to be specially made. Now there are only 109 solid shells and 96 flowering shells, which I still earned. Master Li said that whatever weapons the arsenal produces, it must be approved by adults, and I am not allowed to cast more. I said that casting experiments, and that's why I won so much. ”

"205 shells, enough. The Yiren are just a bunch of frogs at the bottom of a well who have never seen the world, and these cannonballs are enough to scare them into running wolf. ”

Zhu Youcheng turned to Li Datie again and asked, "How are the firecrackers and grenades here?" ”

Li Datie replied proudly: "My lord, in the past few months, the villain has not rested. After the adults brought a large amount of sulfur from Dengzhou, the gunpowder in the arsenal was steadily rising. In the past few months, the arsenal has produced a total of 5,000 grenades and 2,967 firearms. ”

"What, in just over four months, nearly 3,000 firebolts have been born? You're not kidding. ”

"My lord, since Lord Song smelted high-quality steel in the arsenal, the arsenal's firecrackers have been changed to casting, and the speed has been greatly improved. This is not enough iron, and if there is enough iron, it will not be a problem to cast more. ”

"Okay, you can go to Cao Huachun and Cao's father-in-law to pay the silver, and buy more raw materials to come back. For Jinyiwei, the more the merrier. Now the Jinyi Guard has grown to 40,000 people, and at least 40,000 firecrackers need to be built to count. ”

"Forty thousand?" A black man spoke, revealing a mouthful of white teeth, it turned out to be Song Yingxing, who didn't speak just now, "Isn't the rated source of 30,000 soldiers in Xizhen Fusi?" How did you add another 10,000 people? ”

"You don't know, the emperor set up the Jinyi Weidong Zhenfu Division, with 10,000 sailors. The two towns in the east and west are all under the control of the official, and the sum of the two is just 40,000. ”

"The emperor is going to establish a sailor? Haha, I said that the holy light of the Great Tomorrow Son will shine brightly, and sure enough, I began to pay attention to sea power. With this Mingjun, we should be a big white. Song Yingxing was overjoyed, as a scientist, he naturally knew the importance of the ocean.

Li Datie took a new-style firearm in his hand and handed it to Zhu Youcheng.

Zhu Youcheng picked up the firecracker, feeling that it was about the same as the previous firecracker.

Li Da Railway: "My lord, although these firecrackers are cast, the caliber is exactly the same as the caliber of our original firecrackers, and the bullets can be used universally." ”

Zhu Youcheng skillfully loaded a bullet and put a gun in the open space, and sure enough, whether it was the feel, rate of fire, or range, there was no difference between the old and new guns.

Zhu Youcheng was pleasantly surprised in the arsenal, with these weapons, can the rebels in Guizhou still have a good end?

On February 26, the sixth year of the Great Tomorrow's Apocalypse, Zhu Youcheng led 5,000 Jinyi guards, 200 medical personnel, and 100 craftsmen, with 60 four-wheeled carriages, to Guiyang, where they would set out from Beijing, passing through Beizhili (today's Hebei), Henan, Huguang (today's Hubei and Hunan), and then enter Guizhou. This is a long journey, a journey that has been publicized in advance, looking at the long road ahead, Zhu Youcheng can't help but be a little worried, can he rush there before An Bangyan breaks through Guiyang?

"Ah Jian, you have to hold on, Brother Cheng will be here soon." Zhu Youcheng said silently in his heart. (To be continued......)

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