"Alas...... It scared the hell out of me~"

Gently stroking his chest to calm down the strong heartbeat, Qin Ling finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's really ~ I'm worried about him now, what can I do in the future? This stupid guy, if it weren't for me...... Without it, we don't know what it will become. ”

Since Zhou Dunji recognized Wang Hongyu's military training results, of course he would not continue to make difficulties.

Li Tiezhu made better quality arrows, and he personally paid him to express his gratitude.

A few days later.

During this period of Wang Hongyu's special training, the resources that he had worked hard to win before also arrived.

Liu Shimin, the eunuch of the seal ribbon, Huang Kezhang, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and Xu Guangqi, the Zuo Zanshan of the James Mansion, came.

It also brought 50 Fujian craftsmen, 30 Macao and Luzon gunners, as well as 4 thousand-pound bronze cannons and 20 new self-made firearms.

Although Shangshu Huang Kezhang is a civil official, he likes martial artists instead.

He said heartily: "Hahaha~ The generals are exempt, the old man is from Fujian, where there are eight mountains, one water and one field, some people can't survive to Nanyang, with the opening of the sea during the Longqing period, now there are also people who have learned the art of casting cannons and come back to serve the Ming Dynasty."

Today, the old man has brought over all the craftsmen and gunners he has accumulated for decades! ”

Later generations knew more about Xu Guangqi's cannons, Yuan Chonghuan's cannons, and Sun Yuanhua's cannons, but there was less propaganda than their earlier Huang Kezhang.

There are reasons such as the earlier age of his activity and the slightly worse quality of the cannons he made, but more importantly, he is not a Donglin Party, and with the changes in the situation later, he gradually lost his status and right to speak, and there was no opportunity for further performance.

He also has a very good personal relationship with Xu Guangqi, and they are both enlightened people who have a certain understanding of the development of the world.

Gunners and craftsmen from Fujian, who had been to Macao and Luzon to the sea, were also arranged to participate in this battle in history, but under the influence of Wang Hongyu, there were a little more than then.

Those self-generated firearms were bought by Xu Guangqi and the missionaries at a high price, and 20 strokes was already the current limit.

Among several southern armies, the most proficient at using firearms were the Zhejiang soldiers, and Xu Guangqi promised to give Zhang Mingshi his own firearms, so half of them were distributed to the Zhejiang soldiers, and the rest were equally distributed to the main generals.

The four cannons were used intensively, and a hundred people were formed by hiring gunners, and each army sent a few people as escorts and auxiliaries to form a hundred people, and the generals of the Southern Liaoning Army directly governed these 100 people.

Huang Kezhang introduced that in fact, there are a total of 8 large bronze cannons in this batch, and the other 4 are already being sent to Liaodong, and it is estimated that Xiong Tingbi will be arranged in Shenyang Chengtou on the front line.

Shenyang Cityhead?

Wang Hongyu suddenly remembered something, remembering that there was an incident of overheating and explosion of artillery in Shenyang City in history, could it be these ones?

He privately leaned next to Xu Guangqi and asked about the situation of this batch of guns, and asked about the workmanship, operation, and gunpowder of this batch of guns, right?

"The gunner served in the Aceban Duck Army, and the gunpowder was well protected, and the cannon was made of copper, so it was said that it would not overheat, so it was safe."

From the information he obtained, Xu Guangqi could not find a safety hazard.

So why did it blow up? I remember that the explosion was very violent, which made the originally very unfavorable battle situation plummet, and became the last straw for the fall.

Is it really as some people say, it is the sabotage of spies, or the war is too hasty, and the cannons and gunpowder have not had time to cool down?

Wang Hongyu inspected the 4 cannons with questions, the gun body is bronze, the appearance is also carved, the inside of the gun barrel is relatively smooth, and the workmanship is still good when you look at it directly.

It is......

！？

Two of the cannon casters were a little short of breath just now, especially when they were checking the barrels themselves, but now they gradually calmed down.

I just experienced Zhou Dunji's special training, so I am more sensitive to the speed and speed of breathing, and I inadvertently grasped this detail.

These two craftsmen have a bit of a problem.

Wang Hongyu remained silent for a while, everything was as before, as if he hadn't found anything, and only found Xu Guangqi when the gunners and craftsmen settled down in the camp.

Check the cannons made by these craftsmen one by one, and the two of them just made two cannons, one of which is already being sent to Shenyang, and the other is the one he just checked.

"These two people were a little abnormal just now, I'm afraid they ran a little strangely."

Xu Guangqi and he came to the four guns, and there was almost no difference in appearance from the appearance, but a slight difference in sound could be detected by tapping the barrel lightly.

"There is a difference in materials!"

Although Xu Guangqi is not proficient in cast iron, it is relatively common for him to cut corners in casting guns, or to omit some steps in order to rush the work.

Could it be that this is also the case with this batch of cannons?

Let's not leak the rumors, let's weigh them, they used a boat to weigh four cannons one by one in the nearby river where grain was transported, and these four cannons were similar in caliber and size, so it stands to reason that the difference in weight would be very small, but the result was that the cannon was nearly 100 catties lighter than the others.

"Copper for iron, copper is heavier and more expensive than iron, and it is a capital offense to be sold by the two of them."

Xu Guangqi hates this kind of cutting corners the most, Daming has a lot of sophisticated manufacturing capabilities, but there are always various problems in implementation.

"There is Huang Kezhang, the secretary of the Criminal Department, who is here, and he can strictly interrogate the two bad thieves and directly behead them to show the public!"

"Wait~"

Wang Hongyu's eyes flashed with a gleam, and he thought of an idea that could direct this bad thing to the good side.

"I want to keep these two people behind, not to be executed for the time being, and let them work as coolies in the army."

Xu Guangqi was not surprised after hearing this, after all, these two people had the skill of casting cannons, and they had a strong warning effect on directly killing, but the skills of these two people were also gone.

"But can you control them? With this kind of criminal record, it is easy to reoffend. ”

Wang Hongyu was confident: "It's okay, I have a way to make them work obediently." ”

Xu Guangqi knew that his skills were unfathomable, so the matter was decided, Huang Kezhang and Xu Guangqi knew about it, and secretly dealt with the two craftsmen, and with the majesty of Shangshu, they were all recruited in an instant.

It turned out that in addition to the copper cannon casting technology of the Ace Plate Duck, these two people were also familiar with the iron cannon casting of the Ming Dynasty, copper was more expensive than iron, so they cast the core with iron inside the gun chamber, and the outside was still bronze, so that they could make the difference and get by.

Really!

While Huang Kezhang, the secretary of the Criminal Department, was furious, Wang Hongyu was ecstatic.

That's great! Their initial mastery of the casting method of iron-core copper cannons is far better than finding someone to grope for it from scratch.

This technology was ahead of the world in the Ming Dynasty, although it still existed spontaneously during the Wanli period, but it was already maturing during the Chongzhen period.

These two men were first condemned to death, and then they gave them hope.

Looking at them who kept kowtowing and begging for mercy, Huang Kezhang was still angry, claiming that he would kill them and teach them to the world, and all his family members would be exiled.

The two of them were so frightened that they kept kowtowing.

Wang Hongyu saw that the time had come, and came forward and said, "Do you two want to die or live!?" ”