Although the success of the development of rifled guns is exciting, it is still only a few prototype guns, and it is not yet possible to immediately form combat effectiveness. Second, in the face of the upcoming battle of Youyun, although artillery can play the role of the finishing touch, the main body of this "dragon" is still the more than 10,000 "flying dragon army" foot cavalry. After all, no matter how powerful the artillery is, the siege of cities and land still has to be completed by infantry. Therefore, after observing the test firing of rifled guns, the brothers of the Ministry of Military Affairs, in addition to assisting the Ministry of Science and Technology in selecting artillery candidates, focused their main attention on the expansion and training of the infantry of the "Flying Dragon Army." In addition to making every effort to arrange the production of new rifled artillery, the main research and development of the Ministry of Science and Technology has shifted to rocket artillery, which has already made a lot of progress.

In fact, the principle of rocket artillery is much simpler than rifled artillery, and as early as the middle of last year, the weapons section had already carried out many shiyan. The main reason why it has not officially started production until now is that the Weapons Section is very dissatisfied with its range, so it has not been proposed to the committee for final testing and finalization.

The main problem with the low range of rocket artillery lies in the propellant. Since there has been no progress in the development of high-efficiency propellants -- the quick-burning propellant used in artillery shells is not suitable for rocket artillery -- so far, only inefficient black powder has been used, thus limiting the range of rocket artillery -- a 107mm rocket has a range of only five miles (2,500 meters), but the weight of the warhead warhead has only reached 60 percent of that of a 105mm rifled gun, and the cost-effectiveness ratio is too poor. Moreover, this thing will produce a lot of smoke when it shoots, and it will be seen by the enemy from a long distance, and it is easy to expose the location of the firing position, and its own survivability will become relatively weak. In addition, its size and weight are much larger than rifled guns, and it is much more troublesome to transport, so whether to finalize the equipment, the brothers of the weapons section have been hesitating.

Of course, the short range and low power do not mean that this weapon is completely unusable. When the need arises, the brothers of the military department will not mind using the three prototypes that have been built for actual combat. After all, although the power of this guy's single shell is not great, one cannon has sixteen firing rails, and three cannons have forty-eight firing rails, and all of them are salvo at once, which is also a devastating blow to the surface target.

The brothers of the Ministry of Military Affairs and the Ministry of Science and Technology are fully preparing for the Battle of the Clouds, and the brothers of other functional departments are not idle. While fully cooperating with the Zhong family and his son, the Ministry of Intelligence also mobilized a lot of personnel to go south and north to strengthen Liliang in relevant areas, so as to obtain more information about Zhou and Liao, so as to know themselves and their opponents;

On the one hand, the Ministry of Commerce and Trade procured all kinds of logistical materials for wartime use, and on the other hand, most of the working capital originally stored in the core stores in various prefectures and counties was transported back to the "Liangyuan" to prevent unnecessary losses due to the war.

The Ministry of Agriculture is focusing on food storage. As soon as the first lunar month passed, Zhao Min'an began to arrange for the tenants who were idle to cooperate with the logistics department of the "Flying Dragon Army" to move out most of the grain originally stored in the granaries of various resettlement sites and transport it in batches to the fortified fortresses such as "Liangyuan", "Feilong Village" and "Xianglong Fort". First, it is convenient for the "Flying Dragon Army" to use, and secondly, it can also avoid wartime damage. In addition, while transporting grain from the resettlement sites of the displaced people, the Ministry of Agriculture also greatly reduced the food supply to the grain and rice stores of the team, so that the grain and grass of the "Flying Dragon Army" in wartime were more sufficient.

After the grain was transported to the various forts, it was handed over to the Ministry of Material Management, which had been expanded by the Committee, to store and dispatch it. In addition to the management of materials in the previous life, the material management department is now also in charge of the management of food, production tools, means of subsistence, and the management of materials related to the war, which was originally jointly responsible for the weapons section and the military department. And now You Yuan, who is nicknamed the "Minister of Logistics" by many brothers, has also changed his previous state of being more and less busy, and he is so busy every day that his feet do not touch the ground, and he lives a very "fulfilling" life. So much so that he repeatedly asked the committee if he could transfer Sun Yangyang, who had been transferred to the Ministry of Commerce and Trade, back to him, so as to relieve his work pressure. It's a pity that although You Yuan's wish is very good, in the current situation of the great development of the team industry, all kinds of shops throughout the sixteen states of Youyun and have expanded to Liao, Zhou, Han and other countries, the need for talents is extremely urgent, it is impossible for him to say that the brothers of the Ministry of Commerce and Trade are released. Therefore, at the enlarged meeting of the committee in March, although his proposal was discussed at the meeting, it did not form any resolution due to the strong opposition of the Ministry of Commerce and Trade. Now that things have dragged on like this, there is a great possibility that it will not be resolved. ,

Whether it is the transportation of silver money or the transportation of grain, it is not safe in this era when there are many bandits. Therefore, the security department responsible for the team's security work stepped up the expansion and training of the "security team" according to Zhong Youpeng's suggestion, and also sent a large number of "security team" Ding Zhuang to cooperate with the "Flying Dragon Army" to provide security for the team's transportation team. However, it is worth mentioning that the Ministry of Security did not adopt the previous method of centralized training in expanding the scale of the "security team" this time, but took advantage of the opportunity of the Khitan government's request for a crossing team with a large number of tenants to train the villagers, and combined the training of the "security team" Ding Zhuang with the training of the villagers, and conducted military training for the tenants and hired workers in the name of training the villagers in various resettlement sites. In this way, it can not only avoid delaying the agricultural time after spring, but also speed up Ding Zhuang's training, which is a good way to kill two birds with one stone.

Compared with the previous departments, the work of the committee as a committee that coordinates the work of various departments and coordinates the relations between them is not easy. Since Li Junwu and Yang Xin's main energies were focused on the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Security, which they were in charge of, Wang Kunjun and Zhang Weixin were all responsible for the day-to-day affairs of the committee.

As a result, Wang and Zhang have countless documents to read and approve every day, and they have to communicate and exchange with the heads of various departments in various ways every day, and they are very busy from morning to night.

This situation lasted for two or three months, and it was not until mid-June that the preparation work of the crossing team was on track and everything was on track. As the pressure of work was reduced, Wang Kunjun and Zhang Weixin had a little more free time, so that the two finally had time to spend with their wives and children.

So, on the eighteenth day of June in the lunar calendar of the eighth year of the Ying calendar, Wang Kunjun spent most of the day dealing with all the official affairs of the day, and arranged the affairs of the finance department to Hong Yan, the actual business director of the department, and then hurriedly returned to his residence to accompany his wife and children.

After talking to Han Qingwen for a while, teasing Wang Qi, who was already able to circle around him and talk to him non-stop, Wang Kunjun left Han Qingwen's bedroom and went to the other end of the house to accompany Zhang Xiaofei.

The reason why Wang Kunjun stayed with Han Qingwen for a relatively short time was not because he favored one over the other, but because Zhang Xiaofei's situation was a little special and needed a lot of care from him as a husband - three years after giving birth to her eldest son Wang Huan, Zhang Xiaofei was pregnant again, and she was already more than four months pregnant at this time.

Although this is Zhang Xiaofei's second child, women's feelings during pregnancy will always become more fragile, and they need more care and consideration from their husbands. Especially this year, Zhang Xiaofei is already thirty-nine years old, as an advanced maternal age, any mistake may bring danger to her or the fetus in the womb, Wang Kunjun can't help but care - although Wang Kunjun feels that Zhang Xiaofei is getting younger and younger since the crossing, but this kind of life-threatening matter, he does not dare to take it lightly.

Zhang Xiaofei needs Wang Kunjun to accompany her more, but it just so happens that the period from the time she knew that she was pregnant again to the present is the busiest day for the team since the crossing, although Wang Kunjun tries his best to go back to his residence every day to accompany his wife as long as he does not go out of the city, but because of a lot of work, he works late most of the time, and it is usually late at night when he returns to his residence. At this time, Zhang Xiaofei had basically fallen asleep, and it was impossible for Wang Kunjun to talk to her and distract herself. Although Zhang Xiaofei did not complain, Wang Kunjun felt very sorry in his heart. Therefore, now that I have time, I naturally want to compensate my wife more.

Seeing that Wang Kunjun rarely came to accompany him after work in the morning, Zhang Xiaofei was naturally very happy. While coaxing their son Wang Huan to play, the couple whispered quietly, and the family was happy and warm.

However, after this warm scene lasted only half an hour, it was broken by Zhang Weixin, who was in a hurry to break in, and Lan Xiang, the maid who came in with him with a nervous and uneasy face.

Such a faux pas is extremely rare for Zhang Weixin, who is bent on establishing Wang Kunjun as the leader of the team. Because of this, Wang Kunjun not only did not express dissatisfaction with his behavior, but hurriedly sat up from the bed, and after waving his hand to signal Lan Xiang to go out, he asked with a serious expression: "Old Seven, what's wrong?" ”

Zhang Weixin also realized at this time that it was rude for him to break into his brother's bedroom like this, but the matter was urgent, and he didn't care about Daoqian to Wang Kunjun, but raised a telegram in his hand to copy the newspaper, and replied solemnly: "Fifth brother, the eighth brother sent a telegram from Kaifeng, something big happened over there." ”