In the early morning of the second day, the army of the Northern Expedition began. Walking to a place close to the Great Khing'an Mountains, Feng Sheng looked at the woodland on the western slope that covered the sky and the sun, passed down the military order, and the army camped on the spot, and 200,000 soldiers and civilians and tens of thousands of foot soldiers went up the mountain to cut wood, so that when they reached the territory of Wuliangha, there was timber to build a solid camp.

Zhu Quan sat alone in the camp tent, scratching his ears and cheeks, thinking about how to solve the problem of firearms and bullets.

Jing Jun, Sima Chao, and Ma Sanbao knew that in the past two days, His Royal Highness King Ning and the three strange old men in the military department had been mixed together, and they were a little moody, and they didn't dare to dangle in front of him, so they went to practice bow and horse martial arts outside the barracks together.

Zhu Quan pondered while drinking tea: The biggest reason why the firearm is so slow is that after the gunpowder is loaded, it must be slowly tightened, and it will explode if it is too strong at all. It's like taking a shot and slowly making bullets. Thinking of this, he picked up a bamboo "bullet" stuffed with stones, and thought to himself: If you can make gunpowder and bullets into bullets in advance and reload them from behind, you can undoubtedly greatly increase the rate of fire. With the current amount of metal minerals mined, it is too unrealistic to make bullets from metal, what material can be found to replace it? Thinking of the distress, I couldn't help but reach out and pull the few short beards under my waist, and hated in my mind: What Chinese invented gunpowder and only used it to make firecrackers is nonsense. With a tingling pain in his jaw, the word firecracker flashed in his mind, his eyes lit up, he jumped up violently, and rushed towards the outside of the tent.

When he came to the open space outside the camp where Fan Wengang and others lived, Zhu Quan couldn't help but be stunned. Seeing a crowded crowd of people, a busy scene, Wei Ming was directing the carpenters in the two people to make a bunch of strange wooden utensils, a wooden box was placed on an ox cart, and there was a special huge crossbow arrow in the middle of the box, which obviously wanted to cooperate with the machine placed in the wooden box to make a powerful special ballista.

A stove was blazing, and Fan Wengang, the head of the Firearms Division, stood beside the two blacksmiths with his hands solemnly, frowning, pointing at something from time to time, as if he was asking the blacksmith to make something. .com Li Tingsong, the head of the armor division, stood not far away, changing several different cloths, cowhides, and even paper into a pair of armor, and then let the two sturdy sergeants constantly change the spears, swords, and crossbow arrows on the weapon rack on the side to pound the armor, so as to improve the protective performance and lightness of the armor. The three old men were busy with their own business, and they were completely unaware of King Ning's arrival, until Zhu Quan walked to Fan Wengang's side and tugged at his sleeve hard, and then he saw Zhu Quan beside him.

Zhu Quan smiled at Fan Wengang and said, "I have a way, let's try to see if we can make the "bullet" in advance." After that, he went to Li Tingsong and got a piece of paper, wrapped it into a cylinder, and then went to get a lead gun and a handful of gunpowder, loaded the gunpowder into the paper tube and gently wrapped it tightly by hand, and then stuffed the cone-shaped lead into one end of the paper tube to make a "bullet" model with paper instead of a copper shell.

Fan Wengang's eyes lit up, he reached out to take the paper bullet, and said with a smile: "Your Highness's method is the method of making firecrackers. ”

Zhu Quan nodded and said, "Exactly." After a slight pause, he frowned and continued: "It is the gunpowder in this paper tube, which must be extremely solid in order to exert the maximum explosive power, and you also need to be careful when making it, otherwise a bunch of bullets will explode, which is not fun." ”

"Haha, this is difficult to fall down, I liked to play with firecrackers when I was young, and I have also seen craftsmen make firecrackers." Fan Wengang said as he picked up a firecracker, wrapped it in a cylinder of paper and stretched it into the barrel to test the thickness and size, and then firmly glued a few "bullet shells" with paste, loaded gunpowder, gently stuffed it with a bamboo stick, and then went to the stove to bring a bucket of water, dripped a few drops of water into it, and then stuffed it tightly with a bamboo stick. After several times, the "shell" was tightly stuffed and placed on the ground two feet away from the stove, where the heat was rolling, and it was slowly turned over and baked. Oriental || .com

After a stick of incense, except for the three "shells" stuffed with gunpowder that were not flipped in time and exploded under baking, two were finally successfully made.

Fan Wengang handed Zhu Quan the two successfully made "bullet shells", and said with a smile: "Today, we are in a hurry, so we have to dry the gunpowder, and after the trial production is successful, we can dry it under the scorching sun for several days, and it will not be so easy to explode." ”

Zhu Quan picked up the "bullet case" and looked inside, only to see that the gunpowder inside had been repeatedly soaked, plugged, and dried, and had become dry and solid, as hard as dry mud, so he immediately picked up two conical warheads and stuffed them into the hollow end of the shell.

Fan Wengang suddenly frowned, pointed to the tail of the other end of the paper bullet, and said: "If this kind of bullet is fired, then the bottom of our firearm must also be poured with pig iron, otherwise the gunpowder will explode in the gun, and the force is two-ended, and the projectile cannot be shot out from the front to hurt people." ”

Zhu Quan stretched out his hand and scratched his head, squatting on the ground and meditating on the firearms he had seen in movies and TV before. Now he had already understood what kind of machine guns, submachine guns and high-end gadgets, for the current mining, smelting, processing is completely unrealistic, so he had to think about some simple firearms, when the beard was about to be pulled out, finally had an idea, jumped up and ran back to his camp, took a remaining bamboo back, cut off most of it with a knife, leaving only a small part of the broken thread, while stuffing the bullet from the rear end of the left hand to indicate the "barrel", and then the short end of the back end, indicating the end of the "gun handle", facing upward, said with a smile: "I have seen another kind of gun, this barrel and the rear end of the connection has such a joint-like bracket, after loading the bullet, and then close it like this, you can close the bullet tightly in the chamber, and then fire it with the trigger, after the shot, it is folded, the cartridge case is poured, and it can be reloaded again, and the gun is double-barreled, which can shoot two bullets at a time." It turned out that he recalled the way the double-barreled shotgun was loaded in a movie he had watched, and came up with such a method.

Ji Kuo was not the director of Fan Wengang, so he had to turn around and find Wei Ming, who was still developing a ballista on the side. Turning his head to look at Zhu Quan, he wondered in his heart: I heard that His Majesty summoned His Royal Highnesses King Ning and King Yan into the East Palace to read together, and I think he also learned the Four Books and Five Classics, these suffocating things, but where did he see such ingenious and powerful submachine guns and other things at a young age? It's just that these two methods just now not only solve the problem of bullets, but also can be loaded from behind, which is really incredible.

Wei Ming and Li Tingsong heard that His Royal Highness King Ning had a fresh "gun" demonstration, hurriedly dropped the matter in hand, trotted all the way over and squatted on the ground, and buried their heads in detailing how to make a double-barreled shotgun that could be reloaded from behind and fired by the machine.

After dark, Zhu Quan returned to his tent, while eating, he reached out and touched the few beards under his chin, looked at Ma Sanbao, who was bare and white on his face, and suddenly frowned: It seems that this thinking thing, if you are angry, you must change the problem of pulling out your beard.

Xu Ying, Qin Zhuofeng and Jing Kun knew that in the past two days, he and the three directors of the military department had developed firearms, which made the whole person a little stupid, and they were secretly funny in their hearts.

After a few days, the army finally reached the territory of Uliang Hawi Tabin Timur. The plain was so vast and desolate that even a single herdsman could not see it, and it was thought that he had heard that the army was falling, and he was afraid of being killed, so he fled far away.

After Feng Sheng and Fu Youde inspected the terrain, they chose a place to camp in an open and flat place on the bank of the Songhua River.

The construction site was in full swing, and countless sergeants and civilians were busy sharpening the thick logs at one end, and then driving them into the ground more than three feet below the ground to form a circular wooden fence. Leave a gap of about two feet between the stake and the stake.

Zhu Quan and Zhu Di stood beside Fu Youde and watched. Zhu Quan saw that the four circular camps of the army were divided into four corners. There was a square open space between the four barracks, and he couldn't help but be surprised: "Deputy Marshal, this barracks are divided into four points, and there is such a large open space in the middle, what is the point of it?" Although he had followed Lan Yu to fight in Gyeongju, he also knew that if he was to command the march to fight, in front of Fu Youde and Feng Sheng, who had experienced a hundred battles, he would be as tender as the tip of the bamboo shoots.

Fu Youde smiled and squatted down, placed the four stones in four places, signaled where the four barracks were, stretched out his hand and pointed to the empty space between the two "barracks", and said in a deep voice: "Since we want to open up wasteland and farm, we must try to make the land controlled by the barracks larger, and our cannons can reach about three miles at most, and the four barracks are all more than three miles apart, just outside the range of the cannons. Never dare to enter the large open space in the middle that is about to be cleared. Speaking of this, he turned around and pointed to the wooden fence not far away, and continued: "The logs of the wooden fence are about two feet apart, and the Northern Yuan cavalry cannot directly ride through the gap, and our cannons, bows and crossbows, can be shot at any position close to the wooden fence in the barracks, if necessary, the foot soldiers only need to turn sideways, and they can run out from the gaps in the wooden fence to kill the enemy." He knew very well that Zhu Yuanzhang asked His Royal Highness King Yan and King Ning to follow the expedition of the army, just to let them experience it, so he explained it in great detail.

Zhu Di looked at the four military camps and asked slowly, "I don't know how the strength of the four military camps is distributed?" ”

"About 55,000 cavalry, led by myself, lived in a camp. The remaining 120,000 or so foot soldiers were divided into three teams of about 40,000 soldiers using artillery, firearms, bows and crossbows, and each was stationed in a military camp. The 200,000 people were divided into 50,000 teams and placed in four military camps. Fu Youde said slowly.

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