Chapter 22: Improved Artillery

Zhang Jixiang smiled bitterly: "Lord Zhou, when there were only two or three thousand people in the military camp before, I could barely teach them, but now there are 10,000 soldiers, how can I teach them, I suggest that Lord Zhou recruit some more learned people to teach the soldiers." ”

Zhou Xian nodded and said: "Okay, I will arrange recruitment, and then you will manage these teaching gentlemen, I am here today, mainly to tell you the news of a new unit of length and a unit of weight in grams, and our army will use the new standard in the future." ”

Then Zhou Xian taught them the concept of rice and grams through the mysterious ball of light in his mind.

After Daniel Zhang and Zhang Jixiang came to their senses, Zhang Jixiang said to Zhou Xian: "Don't worry, Lord Zhou, we will definitely teach this new standard unit." ”

Zhou Xian nodded and said, "Now that we have 10,000 soldiers, I decided to rearrange your ranks, Daniel Zhang, you go and gather the soldiers." ”

Daniel Zhang said excitedly: "Yes, my lord, I will go and gather the soldiers." ”

After a cup of tea, all the soldiers gathered in the square, and Zhou Xian stood on the high platform and looked at these neatly arranged soldiers and nodded.

Zhou Xian picked up a simple loudspeaker and shouted: "Today's gathering is to select some officers to come out, and everyone must know the promotion system of our Zhou Jiajun, so I will only select senior officials today, and the rest will depend on your own performance." ”

After a pause, Zhou Xian continued: "Next, I announce the appointment of Daniel Zhang as the commander of the First Division of our Zhou Family Army, and Xiang Shaoyun, Sun Wu, Liu Hu, Zhang Shan, Li Huaping, Bao Changwu, Ou Jiahua, Zhang Guodong, Zhang Qingyun, and Wu Haibin as regiment commanders, and the positions below the regiment commander will be appointed and arranged by Division Commander Daniel Zhang and the regiment commanders. ”

Xiang Shaoyun and the other ten people stood up and gave a military salute to Zhou Xian, and said in unison: "Lord Xie is promoted, we will do our best for the Zhou family's army, and after death, we will repay the grace of the promotion." ”

Zhou Xian nodded and said, "Well, I hope you will train your soldiers well in the future and make more achievements for the Zhou family's army." ”

Xiang Shaoyun and the others replied in a loud voice: "We will definitely live up to the expectations of adults." ”

Zhou Xian said to all the soldiers again: "Soldiers, you have to train hard, now is a troubled time, there are wolves everywhere, we have a lot of enemies, we don't have much time, we will soon start a war with the enemy, and those who have made meritorious contributions in the future can be officers." ”

When the soldiers heard that they could make war exploits and become officers, they were all excited.

Zhou Xian said some words to motivate the soldiers, and then asked the soldiers to disband.

Half a day later, Zhou Xian walked out of the barracks and walked directly to the arsenal.

When he was talking to Daniel Zhang and Zhang Jixiang just now, he suddenly remembered that his army actually had no artillery, so as soon as he came out, he had to go to the arsenal and ask Zhao Laoyan to make the cannon.

Zhou Xian came to the arsenal and found Zhao Laoyan who was manufacturing bearings, Zhao Laoyan was a little surprised to see Zhou Xian coming back again, and asked: "My lord, why are you back again, but what else do you have to order?" ”

Zhou Xian said: "I forgot an important thing, I forgot to teach your arsenal to make cannons, without cannons, it will be a great loss to fight in the future!" Now go and call a hundred craftsmen, and I will teach them how to make cannons. ”

When Zhao Laoyan heard that she was going to make cannons, she excitedly agreed and went to find craftsmen, and soon found a hundred craftsmen.

When the 100 craftsmen heard that they were asked to make cannons, their eyes were full of joy.

Zhou Xian looked at them with such a happy appearance and said with a smile: "I came here to make cannons, and the cannons we made will become our main combat power in the future, so everyone must study carefully, cannons are the top priority of our Zhou family's army, and there can be no mistakes." ”

After Zhou Xian finished speaking, he taught the manufacturing method of the cannon to everyone present through the mysterious ball of light.

Artillery is usually composed of two parts, the gun body and the gun carriage, and the gun body part is composed of the barrel, the gun tail, the gun latch and the muzzle brake.

The barrel is used to give the projectile muzzle velocity and flight direction, and rotate the projectile, and the tail of the gun is used to hold the bolt, which is used to lock the gun chamber, fire the shell and draw out the cartridge after launch.

Breech-loading rifled guns usually use several shells such as solid, flowering, shotgun, or grenade shotguns.

Solid shells usually use ricochets to kill the enemy, and the use of the gunner is to use the principle of "hitting the water" to make the spherical solid shells bounce on flat ground and sweep the enemy's dense infantry columns at high speed, and the killing effect depends on the rebound, crushing and impact effects of the shells.

Flowering shells are a type of cannonball that explodes after being fired, and is mainly used to siege cities, bomb soldiers on city gates and walls.

Shotguns and shrapnel were mainly used to kill and injure cavalry charging at close range.

After Zhou Xian taught these craftsmen how to make cannons and shells, he let them go to their respective posts to make them.

Zhou Xian said to Zhao Laoyan: "After you make a batch of cannons, send them to the barracks, and let them set up an artillery regiment to step up training soldiers to use cannons." ”

Zhao Laoyan said: "Don't worry, my lord, we will speed up the production of cannons." ”

Zhou Xian chatted with Zhao Laoyan for a while, and then left the arsenal and returned directly to Zhou's mansion.

When he arrived at the house, Zhou Xian felt that it was too troublesome for him to run around on the road every day.

simply build a mansion in Monkey Mountain Village, so that it is convenient to deal with anything, so that when you think of Zhou Xian, you will let people go to Zhou Fugui.

Zhou Fugui was busy during this time, and now the Zhou family has bought four more shops in the county.

There are soap shops that specialize in soap and soap, perfume shops that specialize in perfumes, glass shops that specialize in glass products, and mirror shops that specialize in mirrors.

Zhou Fugui has to go to these shops every day to make arrangements, and now Zhou Fugui is also responsible for the transactions with Li Huafeng, and Zhou Fugui is also responsible for arranging and planning all the housing construction in Monkey Mountain Village.

When Zhou Fugui heard that Zhou Xian was looking for him, he immediately rushed back to Zhou's mansion.

Zhou Xian looked at Zhou Fugui, who was a little emaciated, and said, "Uncle Zhou, it's really hard for you." ”

Zhou Fugui said: "What the adults say, I'm very happy to be able to help you share some things, and I don't feel hard, but I think it's very good." ”

"I asked Uncle Zhou to build a mansion in Monkey Mountain Village, so that I wouldn't have to run around on both sides in the future."

"It doesn't matter if you build a mansion in Monkey Mountain Village, the construction in Monkey Mountain Village has begun to take shape, and the population will increase in the future."

Zhou Xian took out a drawing and said to Zhou Fugui: "This is the mansion I designed, Uncle Zhou came to take a look." ”

Zhou Fugui walked to the table and picked up the drawings and looked at them, but he couldn't understand them, and asked suspiciously: "What kind of drawings is this, my lord, I don't understand." ”

This is a three-dimensional picture drawn by Zhou Xian, of course Zhou Fugui can't understand it.

Zhou Xian explained: "This is a three-dimensional drawing I draw, so that it is convenient for construction. ”

As he spoke, he used the mysterious ball of light to teach Zhou Fugui the knowledge of the three-dimensional diagram.

At this time, Zhou Fugui was pleasantly surprised to find that he could actually understand this three-dimensional diagram.