A brand-new three-pounder cannon was placed in front of him, and after checking the chamber, Yellowstone smiled at Duncan: "The boring machine is still very good, a few blacksmiths will work for a month, and it will be good to use the boring machine for a day." ”

"Five hundred taels of silver, can you make it hard? Besides, I used it once this time, and I don't know when I will wait for it next time." ”

Huang Shi smiled silently, and Duncan added angrily: "There is also a waterwheel and a reservoir, which have been repaired for two whole months, and this artificial three-gun has also come out." ”

"The waterwheel can also be used to saw...... "After repairing the waterwheel, Huangshi also ordered the carpenter to build a set of water-powered sawing equipment, which used to require two carpenters to sawing the planks for three days, and the waterwheel could be completed in one hour.

"But it's only an hour," Rosenford couldn't help but remind him as he listened to Yellowstone's chatter about the power of the waterwheel, "If the stream accumulates water for two days, it can drive this waterwheel to run for more than an hour, and there is no big river on Changsheng Island, and the role of the waterwheel is really limited." ”

"You don't have to worry about this, I've already thought about it, but I don't have enough manpower at the moment," Huang Shi smiled and sold the pass, and then brought the problem back to the cannon in front of him: "This cannon is a field gun, right? I'm not going to produce a bunch of fortress guns." ”

Duncan nodded: "Yes, the standard field gun, with the addition of wheels, two horses can run fast." ”

"I can give each cannon four horses," Yellowstone, who was always generous to field artillery, patted the cannon and muttered to himself, "It seems that the time has come to form an artillery team." ”

Duncan's eyes lit up at once: "General, I am an absolutely qualified artillery officer, I have stated this point repeatedly. ”

"My army ...... Ming" Huangshi's original intention was to let Duncan do the training work.

Duncan impatiently interrupted Huangshi's statement: "General, I have made up my mind, I want to join the Ming Army. ”

"Don't regret it? Once I join the military, I can't just leave the country. ”

"I don't regret it, my surname is Deng, and my name is Ken. ”

Huang Shi tilted his head and thought about it, smiled and shook his head: "It's not good, single-character names are cheap names in my Ming Dynasty, they are all used by poor people and people without status, you see my subordinates, once they become officers, they all have to give a two-character name." ”

"Isn't that the general also a one-word name?"

"Yes, I'm too lazy to change my name," Huang Shi felt that this name was given by his parents, and it was the only one that could be kept as a memorial in this different time and space: "I, as well as Zhang Pan of the Lushun Army, etc., others know that we are from a humble background when they hear it, and our parents dare not usurp the two-character name." So Duncan, you'd better change your name, meet, what do you think of the name Duniz?"

"Oh no, I think the name Duncan is good, that's it. ”

"Whatever you want, then I can apply for the status of a military household in Dongjiang Town for you, and you will be a Da Ming Eye officer in the military register. Finally, I must remind you that, according to my Da Ming household law, the wife of the Semu officer must be a daughter of the Han family, and your sons and grandsons will also be of Han nationality. ”

Duncan shrugged, "No problem. Then he dragged Rosenford along: "He also asked to join the Ming army." ”

"Is it surnamed Luo?"

"No, General, I plan to have the surname Fan, so that my children and grandchildren can remember the noble blood of the family. Fan, who has been a fisherman and artisan for generations, said Rosenford, rolled his eyes: "My name is Fan Zhong, and I think my noble blood is worthy of a two-character name." ”

Huang Shi glanced at Fan Zhongzheng and said viciously: "Isn't this name too devoid of military demeanor, a bit like a literati." ”

"What did the general say? Of course, I need a two-character name. ”

"No problem," didn't you just want a two-character name, Huang Shi came easily: "Leyou, just call Fan Leyou, this name comes from the Book of Songs, it is very meaningful, and the last two words are just your words." ”

"Okay, thank you, General. Fan Leyou was overjoyed.

"But the general will call me Duncan in the future, and I will still call you the general. ”

"Yes, Duncan. ”

"I'm the same, the general can just call me Leyu. ”

Huang Shi laughed: "Of course you can, I will also call your word." ”

......

In July of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the autumn harvest had just begun, and Huangshi couldn't wait to mobilize the whole army of the firefighting battalion. Huang Shi believed that the strategic situation of the Later Jin Dynasty had not changed much, so that the war was inevitable, and he was anxious to let the soldiers learn from the war in order to further expand his combat force, which would reach more than 2,000 men by the fifth year of the Apocalypse.

Huangshi summoned more than 1,000 officers in the battalion, and first had to make a task briefing: "There are only hundreds of soldiers in the Fuzhou area, all of them are second-rate troops, counting the auxiliary troops who have been temporarily assembled and mobilized, the strength of Jiannu will not exceed 1,500 ......."

"In this battle, our fire battalion dispatched 200 cavalry from the 1st horse team and 800 soldiers from the 2nd infantry team, in addition to the temporary artillery team with the army to attack, with 20 officers and soldiers. ”

This troop configuration can be called the elite of Changsheng Island, because Li Yunrui swore to ensure that the Jin army did not build ships after Nanxinkou, and there were no fishing boats nearby that could be dispatched for hundreds of miles.

In order to fully wield efficiency, each gun should be equipped with a commander, a gun commander, three gunners, and five porters, in addition to carpenters, blacksmiths, grooms and other messy auxiliaries, so each artillery group Duncan was equipped with sixteen people, and Huangshi generously set up twenty people.

"The water battalion is responsible for picking up and dropping off soldiers, Mr. Shi Qian, the safety of our army will be handed over to you. ”

"Don't worry, sir. ”

Shi Ce was born in a family of pirates, and was a trade merchant with Japan in his hometown in Fujian, and was a Japanese in Zhehai. Shi Ce was arrested in the imperial court when he was a teenager, because he was still young and filled the army in Liaodong, and now he has become the commander of the Ming Dynasty official army, and the governor is the commander of the Changsheng Island Water Battalion.

"In the end, 600 auxiliary troops will be dispatched, and this time I will send troops to Changsheng Island, with a total of 1,825 officers and soldiers, 350 horses, 130 firearms, and a three-pounder field gun. ”

It is believed that this large-scale attack can make the Han Army Self-Defense Force in the local villages of southern Liaoning invincible, Wu Mu, the two Jinyi guards and the officers in the battalion are all high-spirited, and Huangshi is also full of confidence: "In this sortie, the purpose of our army is to burn more than 30% of the autumn grain of Gaizhou Jiannu, crisscross the suburbs of Gaizhou for three days, severely attack the Jiannu left behind in Fuzhou, and return safely before other Jiannu banners come to help." ”

"Gentlemen, work hard!"

(End of Section 8)

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