I am one year older than Chongzhen

The base area has been expanding irrigated land. Every year after the busy farming season, many strong laborers are organized to repair canals, build reservoirs and dig irrigation wells. This year, the manpower is at its most abundant.

Therefore, He Shouye and Liu Shifu can guarantee that when sowing next spring, at least 100 small watershed reservoirs and 100,000 irrigation wells will be able to function within a radius of 150 miles.

Due to a large number of seeds saved last year, the planting area of ​​corn, sweet potatoes and potatoes has reached 20 times that of last year. The yield is abundant and can feed at least 100,000 people.

Next year, we will expand the planting area of ​​corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes, and plant all the mountainous and sloping lands that are not suitable for growing wheat.

The total area can reach two or three times that of this year, striving to be able to support a population of 200,000 to 300,000 people.

Before Aqi Duolan set off, the autumn harvest in the base area had been completed and the food was safely stored in storage.

There are already fifty silos with a capacity of 5,000 shi, twenty silos with a capacity of 8,000 shi, and thirty silos with a capacity of 10,000 shi in the Xinghe City grain depot, which can collect and store grain.

The granary of Dongshan Fort can also store two to three hundred thousand stones of grain.

Preparing for war and famine is the basic policy formulated by Huang Yi. There is never too much food, and the base area is still buying food.

The granary in Dongshanbao mainly stores purchased grain and is expected to be full before the heavy snow closes the road.

It's getting cold, and everything that should come and shouldn't come has come.

Huang Yi, who seemed to be at peace with the rebels for three months, stopped pretending and had a showdown!

Today's Huang Yi can be said to have strong soldiers and horses!

In addition to the 1,000 infantrymen again drawn from the base area, there are 3,000 musketeers who can participate in the attack on Dengzhou City!

The weapons of Huang Yi's musketeers, at least excellent musketeers, are very different from those of the Ming army's musketeers.

Ming army musketeers generally used bird guns.

This is a kind of matchlock gun. It is a smoothbore gun without rifling. The distance is more than twenty meters, and the accuracy depends entirely on God's will.

Because in the late Ming Dynasty, corruption became common among Wen Tian and Wu Xi, craftsmen and materials were deducted at every level, and the quality of the gun was terrible!

The musketeers of the Ming Army were worried that the muskets would explode or leak air and damage their eyes, so they used methods such as filling less gunpowder, firing the muskets with their eyes closed, and emptying the muskets to protect themselves.

They don't care whether they can kill the enemy or not.

Therefore, the Ming army, which had begun to use firearms, was still beaten to the ground by the Jiannu, who mainly used cold weapons.

The production of weapons in base areas has long been standardized and is moving towards large-scale production.

Every musket and every barrel is a universal component and has a number, which can be traced back to the production craftsman and the acceptance foreman.

The barrel exploded within the fatigue life, and the craftsman who made it and the foreman who passed the inspection would most likely lose his head!

In order for his subordinates to be well-equipped.

Huang Yi was willing to spend his money.

It was clearly stated from the beginning that the civilian products in the base area must be of good quality, and the military products in the base area, every piece of them, must be of high quality!

The production of fire guns is even more stringent. If something goes wrong with one fire gun, several people may be beheaded!

Therefore, no matter which kind of muskets produced in the base area are used by the Xinghe Army musketeers, they can rest assured that they can strictly follow the quantitative loading and aim at the target.

Among these three thousand musketeers, 1,800 still use matchlock guns such as Rumi guns and bird guns copied from the base area.

However, a thousand musketeers have already replaced the flintlock muskets developed in the base and started mass production.

There were two hundred musketeers using a product unique in the world today - flintlock rifled guns, using Minie bullets.

These two hundred young men all have shooting talents. They are all excellent marksmen, selected from the three thousand musketeers.

Of course Huang Yi wanted the musketeers to be equipped with flintlock rifled guns and use Mini bullets.

It's a pity that the conditions are not mature!

well! Limited by gun production. Rifled guns have high barrel requirements, low output and high scrap rate. The current monthly output has just reached thirty.

The output of flintlock muskets is much higher. The monthly output in September was close to 200.

Aqi Duolan knew that Huang Yi was concerned about the production of guns and the development of new weapons.

Not only did he tell him about the output in September, he also told Huang Yi that the agricultural slack would start in October, adding a lot of strong labor to make steel and blacksmith.

It is expected that the output of various steel products can be increased by 30%.

As the proficiency of craftsmen of each component increases, the output and yield of flintlock guns will steadily increase.

In another half year, all regular musketeers will be equipped with flintlock guns, and all matchlocks will be eliminated for use by the base area militia.

The artillery casting technology in the base area has matured and reached scale. Now it can produce more than 30 cannons and small cannons a month.

This time the troops were increased, Huang Dayong, Huang Dazhi and others brought 72 more artillery pieces, and they were the new product of the base area, the "Sub-Mother Cannon".

The design idea of ​​the "Multiple Cannon" comes from early breech-loaded artillery such as the Big and Small Franchise.

The advantage of the Flange machine is that it can quickly replace the loaded sub-cannon and complete the shooting instantly.

The disadvantage is that the air tightness is too poor, resulting in a sharp reduction in range and power, resulting in insufficient lethality.

Improving accuracy can improve air tightness. Coupled with the spring assembly, Huang Yi, Lan Jinkui, Qi Xiaoshan and other great craftsmen brainstormed the "Multi-Sub Cannon" design and mass production.

Using the same amount of gunpowder and the same caliber, the range and power of the "Sub-Mother Cannon" are only half that of the Hongyi Cannon.

But the "Sub-Mother Cannon" can fire eleven shots in the time it takes the Hongyi Cannon to fire two shots.

With the "Multiple Cannon" firing shotguns, and firing eleven shots in a row, it will definitely become a nightmare for the intensive charge cavalry.

Another advantage of the "mother-child cannon" is that the mother cannon is much lighter and can be easily disassembled and transported.

Firearms these days have many flaws.

Muskets and artillery are afraid of wind, rain, and humid environments.

The development of an all-firearms force is a general trend, but it cannot be accomplished overnight.

Cold weapons, especially those capable of long-range attacks, cannot be eliminated immediately!

Because of Huang Yi's golden finger, the quality of steel in the base area was much higher than that of this era.

After spring steel was forged, the cost of crossbows produced in the base plummeted and their power doubled.

Qi Xiaoshan, Lan Jinkui and other skilled craftsmen have already mastered Huang Yi's military crossbow. They can not only copy it, but also use the design of the pulley group in other weapons.

Today's base produces steel-arm pulley bows, stainless steel pulley crossbows, pulley bed crossbows, all-steel pulley hand crossbows, semi-steel pulley repeating crossbows, and so on.

The shortcoming is low output. Because Huang Yi knows that this is not the right direction of development, he does not invest much manpower and material resources.

There is no large-scale production at all. It is still a manual workshop style, relying on masters to lead apprentices to work carefully.

Things are rare and valuable!

Only Mongolian warriors who have made great achievements in battle can receive the stainless steel pulley bow rewarded by Huang Yi.

Only warriors in the Guards who are good at archery can equip pulley bows.

Among the female cavalry led by Archi Dolan and Baoler, there were more than thirty skilled archers and horses, and they were only equipped with seven stainless steel pulley bows.

This is the privilege obtained by two beautiful concubines acting coquettishly and pitifully.