Chapter 065

It was now October 11 of the fourth year of Chongzhen, and Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, received the news of Dalinghe City 14 days ago, that is, on September 27.

Zhang Chun, the superintendent of the army, led 40,000 foot cavalry to support Dalinghe City, in all fairness, this time the support was not fully prepared, the original plan needed to transfer the Shimenchuan Army's 9,000 white pole soldiers were not in place, and the Denglai New Army, which was also ordered to support Dalinghe, plus the Dongjiang Army Kong Youde, Li Jiucheng, Geng Zhongming, a total of more than 8,500 troops, was not deployed in place.

However, on the 19th of September, a merchant who claimed to have escaped from the Daling River appeared in Jinzhou City, and his name was Zhang Yifu. He was not really a merchant, but a meticulous work of Jiannu, and he spread the news in the city: "The Daling River has been besieged for forty-eight days, and the city has long been out of food. In the city, they first killed the horses and ate the meat of the horses, and when the horses were almost killed, they began to eat people, of course, first the unarmed city builders, and also the soldiers who starved to death. There are only a few big officials who still have one or two liters of rice! ”

As the rumors spread more and more, those merchants, hawkers, people's husbands, and Guan Ning soldiers who had relatives in Dalinghe City all forced Zhang Chun to send troops. Under the pressure of rumors, Zhang Chun had no choice but to send troops.

However, the problem is that this is actually the Huang Taiji conspiracy, it can also be said to be a yang conspiracy, it is true that Dalinghe City was surrounded, and it is also true that the city was cut off from food, and even this fine work, what he said was what he saw with his own eyes in Dalinghe, he was just afraid of being cooked, so he escaped, met Jiannu, and was deliberately released.

It is precisely because of this that Zhang Chun can only send troops alone without waiting for the Denglai New Army and the Shimenchuan Army. In fact, if Zhang Chun had waited for this well-armed army under Sun Yuanhua, it would have been difficult to say how the Battle of Dalinghe would have ended.

After all, the Denglai New Army under Sun Yuanhua has more than 80 large-caliber artillery, and if you count the bowl mouth gun and the Tiger Squat Artillery, the number of large and small artillery pieces is as high as two or three hundred.

It's just a great pity that there aren't so many ifs in the world.

When Sun Yuanhua received this news, he almost ran away, and on the one hand, he dispatched a sailor to Cheng Shijie, and on the other hand, he prepared a large army to support Liaodong by sea.

Of course, Cheng Shijie also knew that Sun Yuanhua went to sea this time and encountered a storm, and the losses were not light, so he could only order Kong Youde's troops to support Liaodong by land.

Then, when Kong Youde was in Wuqiao, because of a chicken, he reversed.

Counting the time, there is still more than a month.

"Lord Garrison, if you make two hundred crossbows a day, then you must stop the Zhuge Repeater!"

"Zhuge Repeater?"

Looking at Cheng Shijie's doubts, Zhou Yandong took Cheng Shijie to another factory, where there were dozens of tools and were busy with tinkling tools.

"Although the power of our mountain mulberry crossbow is great, the rate of fire is slow, if you make a bow, you can train the archers, and you can't train it without a year or two!"

Zhou Yandong picked up a Zhuge repeater, handed it to Cheng Shijie and said: "Lord Garrison, this Zhuge repeater, one box of arrows can put ten arrows, and it only takes five or six breaths (seconds) to shoot them all." ”

Cheng Shijie tried the Zhuge Repeater, although this kind of crossbow can shoot up to seventy paces, and the effective killing Fan Tuan is thirty to fifty steps, and ten arrows are shot in six seconds, which is almost as fast as the semi-automatic rifles of later generations.

"This thing is good, when Qin Wu came, if we had this guy, the battle would be much easier!" Cheng Shijie turned around and said, "Zhuge Lian's crossbow can't be stopped, can you recruit homeless craftsmen to come over?" ”

"Tricks are tricks, but now food is getting more and more expensive!"

Zhou Yandong said with a wry smile: "The price of grain has been rising, one price a day, and there is no market...... Recruit more people, buy more food! ”

"Buy, there is food in your hands, don't panic in your heart!"

Cheng Shijie said: "There are more than 80,000 taels of silver seized by the Ning Navy, and we have collected more than 39,000 taels of protection fees, these two sums of money together, a total of 120,000 taels, all used to buy grain, and in the spring of next year, we need to buy grain, you have to pay attention to this." ”

120,000 taels of silver, now grain is exactly half more expensive than three months ago, and it takes 7 yuan and 5 cents of silver to 1 stone, which means that 120,000 taels of silver can buy 240,000 stone of grain three months ago, but now it can only be 160,000 stones, which is enough to buy 80,000 taels of silver.

Leaving the Armor Crossbow Bureau, Cheng Shijie came to the Gun Bureau.

"How's it going?"

"Artillery, progress is slow now, but Thunderbolt has succeeded!"

Cheng Shijie watched as the craftsmen pushed a two-wheeled cart with wheels over, only to see that it was loaded with a huge disc with a 32-millimeter caliber barrel.

"This ......"

Cheng Shijie looked at the thunderbolt tube in surprise: "How many guns are you installing?" ”

"Thirty!"

The craftsman excitedly explained: "The thunderbolts they made are too slow to be loaded, we calculated that it will take a quarter of an hour to finish loading the eighteen guns!" ”

Cheng Shijie turned to the back of the thunderbolt and found that a huge disc appeared behind it.

Seeing this scene, he really underestimated the wisdom of the ancient craftsmen.

This huge disc can be seen as a powder disc for a revolver to explode a gun, and the principle is basically the same. There were thirty chambers on this disc, which could be poured with gunpowder first, then fitted with buckshot, and then fastened behind the thirty barrels.

The craftsman explained: "The little old man looked at the wedge device of the Franc machine artillery, and he thought, the cannon is an enlarged firecracker, the artillery can be made like this, and our firecracker can also be used!" ”

As he spoke, the craftsman began to operate a thunderbolt. I saw him take off the large roulette and put the disc in it along the guide rail, and under the action of the guide rail, the powder chamber of the disc and the gun pipe were accurately connected. As the wedge is pressed down, the disc is tightly connected to the barrel.

It took only twenty breaths before and after, and this reload speed was not much slower than that of later heavy machine guns.

"How's it powering?"

"Lord Garrison, please take a look!"

The craftsman began to operate the firing mechanism, but the fly in the ointment was that the thunderbolt was still the way the arquebus was fired, and as the arquebus was ignited, the craftsman began to pull the trigger. As the trigger hits the arquebus, the arquebus begins to ignite the powder chambers on top of the discs.

"Bang ......"

A huge explosion sounded, lead bullets flew sideways, and wood chips flew on the target in the distance. In a short time, the thirty-round disc was finished, and the target in the distance was also in disarray, and the three-inch-thick target was shattered.

"How far is the range?"

"You can break three layers of iron armor within 220 steps, you can break a single layer of iron armor within 270 steps, you can kill and injure unarmored targets in 320 steps, and you can ...... farther away."

Cheng Shijie silently calculated, within three hundred and sixty-seven meters, even Jiannu's white-armored soldiers had to kneel and shout Dad, the range was enough, of course, if it was to improve the gunpowder, the power could be increased.

"You're such a talent!"

Cheng Shijie patted the craftsman's shoulder and said, "What's your name?" ”

"Returning to the garrison, the little old man's surname is Huang, and his name is Lidong."

As can be seen from the name, Huang Lidong should have been born on the day of Lidong.

"Huang Lidong, you did a very good job, reward you for your invention of the Thunderbolt for the garrison, reward you with a hundred, no, a thousand taels of silver!"

Cheng Shijie originally wanted to reward Huang Lidong with one hundred taels of silver, but he soon remembered the key to bringing Hangang Group back to life, that is, the internal number of A1065 special King Kong was successfully invented, and of course, the person in charge of this project was rewarded with a three-bedroom apartment, plus a reward of one million. That's a million in '04.

At that time, the housing price in Beijing was more than 3,000 square meters, and you could buy almost 300 square meters of commercial housing in Beijing, and it was still in the Third Ring Road.

It is precisely because of this time that the original innovation boom within Hangang Group was instantly launched.

Cheng Shijie immediately changed his words and increased the reward.

"A thousand taels of silver?"

Huang Lidong was stunned at that time.

"Thank you, Lord Garrison!"

"Thank you, Lord Garrison!"

Huang Lidong knelt down directly to Cheng Shijie.

"This is what you deserve, in addition to the reward of this thousand taels of silver, this garrison will give you an additional two hundred acres of land!"

Huang Lidong was dumbfounded, and Zhou Yandong was also dumbfounded.

"That's too much, isn't it?"

"Not much!"

Cheng Shijie pointed to this devil's modified Thunderbolt and said: "This change of yours will take only a quarter of an hour to change the ammunition once, and it only takes twenty breaths to increase it, do you know what it means to save this quarter of an hour of time on the battlefield?" ”

"What?"

"It means that our brothers in the Ning Navy will die a lot less, and there will be countless more dead people."

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "With such a sharp weapon, let's put dozens or hundreds of vehicles in front of the formation, and the enemy can still rush over?" ”

"Can't rush!"

"Isn't that right?"

Cheng Shijie said: "How many Thunderbolts have you made?" ”

"Twenty-one!"

"How many can you build in a day?"

"You can build five bodies in three days!"

"Huang Lidong, this garrison will add people to you, and before the end of the month, that is, within nineteen days, build at least sixty corpses for this garrison!"

"Lord Garrison, in fact, it is not difficult to build a thunderbolt, the difficult thing is this turntable!"

"In addition, this garrison also has to give you an opinion, three discs for each thunderbolt are too few, at least seven need to be prepared!"

Cheng Shijie used this large disc as a bullet magazine, and during each battle, six magazines had 180 rounds of ammunition in reserve.

Seven discs and 210 rounds of lead bullets can basically meet the consumption.

The problem is that Ning Haijun does not have the establishment of Thunderbolt Soldiers, if other soldiers are allowed to operate this equipment, then the skills that these soldiers have trained before will be wasted.

"It seems that the Ning Navy is going to expand its army again!"

Cheng Shijie secretly thought that a thunderbolt needs two soldiers to operate, and two soldiers can push forward, but a team of twelve soldiers cannot equip six thunderbolt vehicles.

A team is equipped with a maximum of two Thunderbolts, and the rest of the crew is responsible for loading large discs, also known as bullet clips.

In this way, it is estimated that sixty bodies will require thirty teams, four hundred and twenty men, plus eight artillery pieces, and at least five hundred more men.