Be the emperor from the postman

Chapter 98 Internal Reorganization
Facing the old man's flattery, He Jinzhao laughed twice, it's not that these craftsmen lack the spirit of research.

It's just that the imperial court doesn't pay much attention to it, they can't even fill their stomachs, how can they have too much thought to invent and create!
Even if it is invented, it will not be rewarded much after the court adopts it.

I really think that it is still "tyranny" now, maybe you can get a title if you invent a gadget.

The old Wangtou immediately said: "I estimate that with this lathe, a gun barrel can be drilled in three to five days.

I just don't know if the drilled pipe can be as fine as the hand-drilled barrel. "

Because drilling the gun tube is really a technical job.

If the gun barrel is crudely made, the whole gun is considered useless.

He Jinzhao waved his hand: "What's so difficult about it, let's compare the artificial group and the mechanical group."

Five days later, Pharaoh took a closer look at the gun barrel drilled out with a lathe, and found that there was not much difference from the handmade one.

After He Jinzhao saw the finished product, he became more and more satisfied.

Isn't this the era of queuing up to be shot?

"There is no doubt now, let me build him a thousand rods first."

"Yes, Captain, don't worry."

The old craftsman Wangtou felt how much He Jinzhao attached importance to the firecracker, and he became more and more satisfied. This was a piece-rate wage.

Dang Shousu, who was in charge of logistics, tilted his head and said, "Captain, isn't your handwriting a bit big, this thing is worthless."

"A thousand rods is still a small amount." He Jinzhao took the cattail fan and slapped it: "This firecracker may hit him a few hundred times before it should be scrapped.

As long as you don't hit him thirty times in a row, the service life will be longer.

As for scrapping, it will be melted and then made into other things, so there is no waste. "

As for the disadvantages of the matchlock gun, the gunpowder is wet due to rainy days, and the kindling rope cannot be ignited, so the musketeer is useless.

During the Battle of Sarsh, the rain and snow stopped suddenly, and the sky was full of fog, filling the valley, making it difficult to distinguish between the enemy and ourselves.

The Ming army was afraid and lit the pine branches to light up. They became living targets and were shot by Houjin. Due to the weather, the firearms were not dried without fire and could not be fired.

During the Battle of Sarsh, the shortcomings of the firecracker were fully exposed.

You must also pay attention to windy days. The wind can easily blow away the gunpowder in the medicine room, resulting in insufficient gunpowder for firing.

Even night attacks may not be useful, the fire is too easy to expose the target, and it is impossible to target the enemy.

In addition, the operation of the firecracker is complicated, and if it exceeds 100 meters, it cannot effectively penetrate the armor.

If the Tartars outside the pass were wearing double armor, they would have little penetration ability 100 meters away.

He Jinzhao also doesn't know how to make armor-piercing projectiles.

In the future, we can only find solutions in the direction of single-headed bullets, or make some heavy-duty firecrackers, specifically to deal with the double armor of the Tartars outside the pass.

But this is not something he needs to think about now.

The reason why He Jinzhao went to great lengths to find craftsmen who could make firecrackers was to make up for the gap between his subordinates and the officers and soldiers in hand-to-hand combat.

It is only the second year of Chongzhen, and the Ming Dynasty's official army hangs the hammer uprising army, there is absolutely no problem.

Especially the group of Nine Sides, there are not a few arrogant soldiers and powerful generals.

Unless there is a wavering inside them, He Jinzhao can be given an opportunity.

After listening to He Jinzhao's explanation, Dang Shousu stopped feeling distressed.

After all, the gun barrel needs to be forged from 10 jin of crude iron and [-] jin of refined iron.

"Then which post are you going to choose to train this arquebus, this operation is extremely troublesome."

No matter how vicious the Lumi gun is, it is also a kind of matchlock gun.

The operation is cumbersome, but the accuracy is still possible, nine out of ten.

"I'm going to recruit from the whole army. I will form a blunderbuss team alone to cooperate with the artillery team, and mix it with the thousand-man cavalry team as our trump card."

Dang Shousu understood as soon as he heard it, isn't this the Ming Dynasty's Shenji Camp?
All firearms!

He Jinzhao thought for a while: "I'm not used to using the Ming army's formation, so I decided:

Ten people make a small team, a hundred people make a hundred people a squadron, and a thousand people make a thousand people a brigade. Now all our people are soldiers.

There are nearly [-] people, and they are divided into ten teams of thousands of people. I will be the captain of the team and take charge of the ten teams. What do you think? "

"Uh, that's fine."

Dang Shousu thought for a while: "Captain, it's just that most of my second guards are family members. There are 720 people, old and weak, women and children. Should we split them into two teams?"

"No, split into three brigades, and the extra 720 people will form a team with my nephew Li Dingguo's 300-member youth team."

He Jinzhao just felt that with the current means of communication, there were too many people under his jurisdiction, which was not conducive to the transmission of military orders, and communication on the battlefield was extremely difficult.

Not everyone can remember what the semaphore represents when they are about to fight.

We are all human beings, not machines, and even machines may have bugs.

Especially when you are in the middle of the battlefield, the comrades around you keep falling down, or the arrows are screaming, and the cavalry of the enemy charges, brandishing a knife and rushing towards you.

Who can guarantee that he will not collapse in the face of this situation?

And fear is contagious.

Otherwise, there would be no such cases of turmoil and turmoil.

He Jinzhao appropriately reduced the number of people, streamlined the organization, and increased the number of "teams", so that he can continue to claim that he has 1 people outside the team.

As for others to believe it or not, that is someone else's business.

He Jinzhao's order was quickly carried out, in fact, the main reason was to divide the family members of the second post.

Whenever there are more women getting together, it is easy to cause trouble.

But once the mother is separated, she starts to cry and complain about hypocrisy again.

But this was nothing to He Jinzhao, he only cared about the training progress of the soldiers and the news of the officers and troops outside the city.

Through this detachment, apart from the cavalry team not changing, many people were transferred to form the firecracker team and the reserve artillery team.

The artisan team is led by He Jinchao's brother-in-law. It only has a size of a hundred people, but it has also been formally formed. It is expected that more people will be added in the future.

In addition, He Jinchao began to distribute money to recruit the people of Ganquan County to build wheelbarrows, so that several logistics teams and family members could adapt to the rhythm of running and pushing carts to transport food.

For this reason, He Jinzhao also announced that a collective unicycle transportation skills competition will be held in one month, and the winning team will be able to share the meat.

In this way, the members of these four teams who are the logistics team began to scramble to practice their cart-pushing skills.

After so many days of consumption, there is not much meat left, and those chickens and ducks still have to save their eggs.

In addition, some meat needs to be purchased, and there is no need for production. Raising soldiers is just such a waste of money.

He Jinzhao suddenly understood that the military generals of the Ming Dynasty had to constantly earn money in order to support their servants.

The only thing that made him feel gratified was that Chen Chong, a man from the Marquis of Ningyang, sent him a reply, saying that the cotton and war horse would be ready in a few days.

I hope that when he transports the things there, Ganquan County will not miss it, lest he make a trip in vain.

He Jinzhao raised his eyebrows slightly, and began to write back to Chen Chong.

(End of this chapter)