"Keep singing?"

Gu Zi looked at Li Chaosheng and said suspiciously, Li Chaosheng smiled when he heard this: "Yes, since Zhang Xianzhong is so suspicious, we might as well make him more suspicious." ”

Gu Zi looked at Li Chaosheng puzzled when he heard this, Li Chaosheng smiled and said, "Shi Dalei's department is going to the copper coin pass tonight, right?" ”

"Well, the troops in front of them have arrived in Xunyang, and the telegram they sent us just now."

Xunyang is already very close to Tongqian Pass, the straight-line distance is only about fifty miles, and it can be reached in forty minutes by marching in a hurry, Li Chaosheng touched his chin when he heard the words and said: "By the way, what about our new artillery?" ”

Gu Zi said: "Our new artillery is too heavy, so the carriage is not fast, an hour ago, the transport team reported that they are still about thirty miles away from Xunyang, and they will definitely be able to reach Tongqian Pass before noon tonight." ”

Li Chaosheng nodded and said, "Okay, then everything is ready, only the east wind is owed, pass on my orders." ”

"Yes."

Gu Zi was upright, and at this time Li Chaosheng said: "Order, Li Dezhen's department, Shi Dalei's department, early tomorrow morning, with artillery as the main form of attack, bombard Zhang Xianzhong's department, and charge if necessary, but don't fall in love, the enemy will not pursue if he retreats ten miles." ”

"Yes."

Gu Zi responded, followed by Li Chaosheng and said: "In addition, I will send Li Chaomeng another telegram, ordering Li Chaomeng to lead the special brigade to set off tonight, hold the mouth, and not allow Li Dingguo to step into the mouth, and tell Li Chaomeng that it is best not to do anything in this battle, even if you do, the primary purpose is to repel it, don't kill too much, it is best to let Li Dingguo retreat." ”

"County Zun, what do you want?"

Gu Zi looked at Li Chaosheng, Li Chaosheng said: "With a little means, the whole army attacked Zhang Xianzhong to let Zhang Xianzhong know, the gap between him and Lantian let him know that it hurts, and Li Dingguo here, Gu Zi, I ask you, you said Zhang Xianzhong, Sun Kewang These people were killed by us and lost their armor, but Li Dingguo retreated intact, and when they all returned to Zhuxi County, Sun Kewang would take the opportunity to make trouble, and Zhang Xianzhong would not be suspicious?" ”

Hearing this, Gu Zi said: "Haha, I understand the county zun, the county zun is really high in your move." ”

Li Chaosheng waved his hand and said: "What is high or not, it's just the right medicine, since Zhang Xianzhong is a suspicious character, then let's let him be suspicious." ”

It's like Zhuge Liang's two classic battles, the grass boat borrowed arrows, and the empty city plan, if this opponent was not a suspicious person like Cao Cao and Sima Yi, but a reckless person like Dian Wei and Xu Chu, it is estimated that Zhuge Liang has been captured alive by these two guys.

When the time came, I saw two big black men carrying Zhuge Liang and said to Cao Cao: "Lord, this white-faced scholar is rowing a bunch of scarecrow-filled boats outside to disturb your sleep, and a certain family has caught you." ”

Cao Cao will definitely sigh, Xu Chu, Dian Wei is really a fierce general under my command.

Zhuge Liang must be shouting in his heart: These two are real tigers.

Therefore, watching people put down dishes, prescribing the right medicine is the mastery of the commander, the other party is suspicious, you will play more suspicious strategies for him, the other party is reckless, then you can just set up a set, don't play any twists and turns.

The order was quickly transmitted in the form of a telegram, and in the copper coin pass, Li Chaomeng saw Li Chaosheng's telegram and frowned: "Li Dingguo's guy is going to sneak attack Mandangkou, he really eats the bear's heart and leopard's gall, see if I don't clean him up well." ”

Li Dezhen hurriedly persuaded at this time: "Uncle Mengzi, don't get excited, the county zun said, don't let Li Dingguo lose too much." ”

Li Chaomeng said: "I know, but I don't understand why the county zun asked me not to be heavy on Li Dingguo?" ”

Li Dezhen said: "The county respect's thoughtfulness is something we can measure, let's not worry about this idle matter, the county respects us as we do." ”

Li Chaomeng heard this, thought about it, and said, "That's really cheap, Li Dingguo's guy." ”

Thinking about it, Li Chaomeng got up and said, "In that case, I won't wait for Shi Dalei, I'll order the people from my headquarters to go to Mandangkou now." ”

Li Dezhen got up when he heard this and said, "Uncle Mengzi take care." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw that the curtain of the command headquarters was opened, and the adjutant led Shi Dalei in and said, "I'm not late." ”

Li Chaomeng immediately smiled when he saw Shi Dalei: "I was talking about you kid just now." ”

"Brother Mengzi."

Shi Dalei hugged Li Chao fiercely at this time, and then hugged Li Dezhen and said, "I miss my brother." ”

The three of them exchanged a few words, and Li Chaomeng said: "Okay, you brothers, I have to rush to Mandangkou." ”

Shi Dalei heard this and said: "The military situation is urgent, so I won't keep my brother." ”

Li Chaomeng said: "Okay, when this battle is over, I will invite my brothers to drink." ”

"Okay."

There is not so much red tape when they are soldiers, the two exchanged a few words, followed by Shi Dalei and Li Dezhen sent Li Chaomeng out of the house, and when he returned to the house, Shi Dalei looked at Li Dezhen and said: "Dezhen, I received the order from the county honor, we should discuss how to attack tomorrow." ”

Li Dezhen said: "Brother Da Lei, come, you see this is the topographic map of Tongqian Pass, here is Zhang Xianzhong's camp, here is Sun Kewang's camp......"

Li Dezhen and Shi Dalei began to study the front-line defense map, and the two studied for an hour to figure out how to fight tomorrow's battle, and then they heard someone shouting at the outer door: "Report." ”

Li Dezhen looked up and said, "Who." ”

"Report, it's the brothers of the logistics department, they brought the artillery allocated by the county."

"Oh, please."

Hearing this, Li Dezhen and Shi Dalei's eyes lit up, and they shouted together, hearing this, the two of them almost spoke in unison, followed by each other's glances, smiled awkwardly, and tacitly understood each other, it seems that both of them have dirty thoughts about this batch of artillery for themselves.

The two smiled, followed by Li Dezhen, and got up and said, "Brother Da Lei, let's take a look." ”

Shi Dalei also laughed and said, "Look, look." ”

The two got up, and when they got outside, they saw a row of big carriages parked at Guanxia, which was covered with straw curtains, Shi Dalei and Li Dezhen glanced at each other, and then ran down the checkpoint quickly.

When I arrived at the level, I happened to meet the person in charge of the logistics department of Lantian.

"Old Willow."

The two saw the person in charge of the logistics department who was handling the handover, Lao Liu, Liu Cheng.

Liu Cheng is one of the earliest wave of bandits in Lantian, because he studied for a few years before becoming a bandit, and later under the promotion of Li Chaosheng, he first entered Lantian Academy for two years of study, and after coming out, he was in charge of logistics, and he worked directly to the logistics director for these years.

This time, the 500 new artillery pieces of the arsenal are too important, so he Liucheng will personally go to a wave.

Liu Cheng was ordering the handover at this time, and when he heard this, he turned around and saw Shi Dalei and Li Dezhen, so he smiled and said: "Hello two chiefs, did you smell my cannon before you came down from the command room." ”

Hearing this, Shi Dalei laughed and said: "I can't hide anything from you, Lao Liu, this is the new artillery of the arsenal?" ”

Liu Cheng said: "That's right, how to take a second look." ”

"Look twice."

Shi Dalei came to the car as he spoke, followed by the opening of the grass curtain, and his brows furrowed: "Iron? ”

Lantian's cannons are generally copper cannons, mainly because the copper cannons are much stronger than the iron cannons, and the iron cannons may be hot after two cannons, and they are not allowed to fire again, but the copper cannons can support three cannons, so the materials of the general cannons are made of copper.

At this time, Shi Dalei frowned when he saw the cannon in front of him, which was obviously not made of copper, and Li Dezhen also frowned slightly, didn't he say that it was a new artillery?

Seeing the expressions of the two, Liu Cheng said: "I don't know the goods, this cannon is much better than the previous copper cannon, let me tell you that this is our arsenal took a lot of effort to research, you think this is ordinary iron, this is steel." ”

"Steel?"

Shi Dalei and Li Dezhen glanced at each other, Liu Cheng said: "Come, I'll popularize it with the two of you, we all know that iron is made of knives and swords, and steel is the evolved version of iron, there is a way to be refined into steel, iron after thousands of hammers, after forging out the excess carbon, it can be called steel, and steel and copper comparison, has high hardness, high temperature resistance, good toughness and other characteristics, in the past, we used copper as a barrel, the temperature of three guns is too high, and the use of steel as a barrel, you can play six guns, the temperature will rise to a critical point. ”

"Six cannons!"

Hearing this number, surprise appeared on the faces of Shi Dalei and Li Dezhen, this is fully doubled, this is also equivalent to doubling the firepower, thinking of this, Shi Dalei and Li Dezhen are very excited.

Liu Cheng said: "Yes, this is one of the great advantages of our new artillery, and the second is that we have designed rifling in this new artillery." ”

"Rifling?"

Hearing this, Shi Dalei and Li Dezhen's expressions were confused, and then Liu Cheng said: "Well, this is a new research topic in the arsenal, and it is currently only used on new types of artillery, and it may be used on new muskets in a while." ”

"Well, what's this rifling?"

Li Dezhen asked curiously, and then Liu Cheng said, "Come, you put your hands in the barrel and touch it." ”

Hearing this, Li Dezhen reached into the barrel and touched it, and then said strangely: "Why are there spiral stripes in this barrel." ”

Liu Cheng said with a smile: "This is rifling, when the cannon is fired, the shell is pushed out, and with the rifling, the firing direction of the shell can be standardized, and the power of the shell will be increased, that is to say, the shell can be shot more accurately and farther with rifling." ”

Hearing this, Shi Dalei and Li Dezhen said: "Then this rifling is a good thing, how can such a good thing be used on this cannon, go back and tell the county honor, and take the copper cannon of our army to make a rifling." ”

Hearing this, Liu Cheng said: "Pull it down, don't bother, our arsenal has known about the rifling for a long time, but the copper cannon can't be made, its materials are not up to par, and the rifling is made in the copper cannon, and the rifling is smoothed out without a few shots, which is laborious and costly, and it is not worth it." ”

"Oh, that's what happened."

Hearing this, Shi Dalei and Li Dezhen nodded, followed by Shi Dalei and looked at the cannon in front of him and said: "You said that this cannon is so good, why didn't you make it earlier, if there was this guy, it would definitely be easier when he fought Tartar in Naturalization City." ”

Liu Cheng heard this: "Make it early, he won't be able to make it sooner, this new type of artillery can be made, mainly thanks to the Mechanical College of Lantian College, if they didn't make a waterwheel forging machine, we wouldn't be able to make a new artillery." ”

"Watermill forge?"

Shi Dalei was even more curious, I haven't heard of this thing, and it is not strange for Liucheng to hear this, Lantian College is the biggest treasure in Lantian, and it has not only cultivated a group of administrative talents, but also a group of scientific research talents.

It is with this group of scientific research talents that Lantian's science and technology tree is crazy to be filled, such as this waterwheel forging machine, which is a great invention.

In the past, Lantian steelmaking and ironmaking were all made by hand with a hammer little by little, and how much strength a person could have, he could only forge the material for making a musket for a whole day.

But the waterwheel forging machine, that is, Lantian from the manual to the semi-mechanical representative, the forging machine is a huge iron hammer, this iron hammer can have thousands of catties, with the waterwheel as the power, put the steel under the forging machine, a few bangs can forge a piece of iron, this hammer can withstand an old blacksmith's hammering for a day's workload.

It is precisely because of this invention that Lantian's steel output soared directly, which met the conditions for mass manufacturing of steel cannons.

And due to the emergence of the waterwheel forging machine, the steel production and price of Lantian fell rapidly, Li Chaosheng also prepared to manufacture steel cannons in large quantities, and replaced all the copper cannons in the army, after all, the cost of copper cannons is too expensive, copper is a precious metal in this era, and it can be spent directly as money.

I remember that when Lantian was the most difficult time to make artillery, Li Chaosheng smelted a bunch of copper coins in order to get enough copper, and now that he has steel, copper can be laid off and can continue to be used as his currency.

Li Chaosheng had even thought about it, and when the army's batch of copper cannons was replaced, they would all be sent to the mint, melted and manufactured into copper dollars, and solved the current situation of lack of copper in Lantian.

After Liu Cheng's introduction, Shi Dalei and Li Dezhen liked the new artillery even more, and then Li Dezhen said: "Brother Liu, didn't you say who commanded this batch of artillery?" ”

Hearing this, Shi Dalei's eyes also widened, yes, who is in command of such a good cannon.

The two looked at Liucheng together, Liucheng couldn't understand the thoughts of these two people, since Liucheng served as the logistics minister, he had dealt with these leading generals the most, and these leading generals didn't have any requirements, they just wanted to take more and occupy more, what good equipment was going to their own troops, and increase the combat effectiveness of their own troops.

So at this time, as soon as the two opened their teeth, Liu Cheng knew what they wanted to do, and then Liu Cheng said with a smile: "The two masters, I know what you mean, but what, none of you can take this batch of guns, the county commander ordered, I am the commander of this artillery team, by the way, measure the quality of this batch of guns, if the quality is qualified, you can expand the scale of production, and then you can collectively reequip." ”

Hearing this, Shi Dalei and Li Dezhen were slightly disappointed and said, "Oh, then you are busy, let's go." ”

"Hey, you two guys, help me carry the cannon to the city wall and then go!"

Liu Cheng shouted.

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