I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 66
Chapter 065

Now it is October 27th of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Denglai Governor Sun Yuanhua received the news from Dalinghe City on September [-]th, [-] days ago.

Zhang Chun, the supervisor of the army, led [-] cavalry to support Dalinghe City. In all fairness, the preparations for this support were not sufficient. The [-] white soldiers of the Shimenchuan Army that were originally planned to be transferred were not in place, and they were also ordered to support Dalinghe City. Linghe's Denglai new army, plus the Dongjiang army's Kong Youde, Li Jiucheng, and Geng Zhongming's troops, totaling more than [-] troops, have not been deployed in place.

However, Zhang Chun On September 48th, a businessman who claimed to have escaped from the Daling River appeared in Jinzhou City. His name was Zhang Yifu.He is not a real businessman, but a secret worker of Jiannu. He spread the news in the city: "The Daling River has been besieged for [-] days, and the city has long run out of food. First, the city kills war horses and eats horse meat. The horses are almost killed. , started to eat people, of course, first to eat the unarmed city builders, and also to eat the soldiers who died of starvation. Only a few high-ranking officials still have one or two liters of rice!"

As the rumors spread more and more intensely, those merchants, peddlers, civilian husbands and Guanning Army 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 a conspiracy of Huang Taiji, or it can be said to be a conspiracy. It is true that the city of Daling River was besieged, and the food supply in the city was cut off. He escaped just because he was afraid of being boiled and killed. When he met Jiannu, he was released on purpose.

Because of this, Zhang Chun had no choice but to send troops alone without waiting for Denglai's new army and Shimenchuan army.In fact, if Zhang Chun waited for Sun Yuanhua's well-armed troops, it's really hard to say how the battle of Dalinghe would end.

After all, the Denglai new army under Sun Yuanhua has more than [-] large-caliber artillery pieces. If the bowl-mouth guns and tiger squat guns are counted, the number of large and small artillery pieces is as high as two to three hundred. Definitely Daming's strongest.

It's just a pity that there are not so many ifs in the world.

When Sun Yuanhua received the news, he almost ran away. On the one hand, he dispatched a navy 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 encountered a storm when he went to sea this time, and suffered heavy losses, so he had to order Kong Youde's troops to support Liaodong by land.

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

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

"Master Garrison, if you make two hundred crossbows every day, you must stop the Zhuge Liannu!"

"Zhuge Lianbo?"

Seeing Cheng Shijie's doubts, Zhou Yandong took Cheng Shijie to another factory area. There are dozens of tools in this factory area, which are tinkling and busy.

"Although our mountain mulberry crossbow is powerful, its rate of fire is slow. If you build a bow, you can train an archer. It doesn't take a year or two, but you can't train it!"

Zhou Yandong picked up a Zhuge Liannu, handed it to Cheng Shijie and said, "Master Guard, this Zhuge Liannu can hold ten arrows in a box, and it only takes five or six breaths (seconds) to shoot all of them."

Cheng Shijie tried the Zhuge Liannu. Although this kind of crossbow can shoot up to [-] steps, it can effectively kill Fan Tuan at [-] to [-] steps. It can shoot ten arrows in six seconds. This rate of fire is almost as fast as that of later generations. semi-automatic rifle.

"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 Liannu can't stop, can we recruit migrant craftsmen?"

"It's possible to recruit, but food is getting more and more expensive now!"

Zhou Yandong smiled wryly and said: "The price of food has been rising, one price a day, and there is no market for the price... To recruit more people, you need to buy more food!"

"Buy, you have food in your hands, don't panic!"

Cheng Shijie said: "Ning Haijun seized more than 8 taels of silver, and we collected more than 9000 taels of protection fees. The sum of these two sums totaled 12 taels, all of which were used to buy food. , we need to buy grain seeds, you have to pay attention to this."

For 12 taels of silver, grain is now half as expensive as it was three months ago, and it costs seven cents and five cents of silver per stone, which means that 12 taels of grain could buy 24 shi of grain three months ago, but now it can only 16 shi, a full 8 taels of silver.

After leaving the Jianu Bureau, Cheng Shijie came to the Firearms Bureau.

"How's the progress now?"

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

Cheng Shijie watched the craftsmen push a two-wheeled trolley over, and saw a huge disc with 32mm gun barrels on it.

"This……"

Cheng Shijie looked at the Thunderbolt barrel in surprise: "How many barrels do you have installed?"

"Thirty!"

The craftsman explained excitedly: "The Thunderbolt they made is too slow to reload. We calculated that it would take a quarter of an hour at the fastest to reload the eighteen barrels!"

Cheng Shijie turned to the back of the Thunderbolt, and found that there was a huge disc behind it.

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

This huge disk can be regarded as the gunpowder disk of the rotary blaster gun, and the principle is basically the same.There are thirty medicine chambers on this disc, which can be poured with gunpowder first, then lead bullets can be installed, and then the disc can be fastened behind thirty gun barrels.

The craftsman explained: "The little old man saw the wedge-shaped device of the Frangler artillery, and thought, the artillery is an enlarged firecracker. If the artillery can be made like this, so can our firecrackers!"

With that said, the craftsman began to operate a Thunderbolt.He took off the big roulette, put the disc in along the guide rail, and under the action of the guide rail, the powder chamber of the disc was precisely connected to the gun barrel.As the wedges are depressed, the disc is firmly attached to the barrel.

It takes only twenty breaths before and after, and this reload speed is not much slower than that of the heavy machine guns of later generations.

"How's the power?"

"Master Guard, please look!"

The craftsman began to operate the triggering device. The fly in the ointment was that the Thunderbolt was fired in the same way as a matchlock gun. As the match was ignited, the craftsman began to pull the trigger.As the trigger hit the match, the match began to ignite the powder chambers on the disc.

"Bang bang bang bang..."

A huge explosion sounded, lead bullets flew across, and sawdust flew on the target in the distance.Not long after, the thirty rounds of discs were finished, and the gun targets in the distance were also in a mess, and the three-inch-thick targets were smashed to pieces.

"How far is the range?"

"Three layers of iron armor can be broken within 220 steps, a single layer of iron armor can be broken within 270 steps, and an unarmored target can be killed within 320 steps. No matter how far away..."

Cheng Shijie silently calculated, within 360 meters, even Jiannu's white-armored soldiers would have to kneel and call Dad, the range is enough, of course, if the gunpowder is improved, the power can be improved.

"You are such a talent!"

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

"Reporting to Lord Guard, the little old man's surname is Huang, and his name is Lidong."

It can be seen from the name that Huang Lidong should be born on Lidong's day.

"Huang Lidong, you have done a very good job. To reward you for your invention of the Thunderbolt, I will reward you with one hundred, no, 1000 taels of silver!"

Cheng Shijie originally wanted to reward Huang Lidong with 100 taels of silver, but he soon remembered that the key to bringing Hangang Group back to life was that the special alloy with the internal number A1065 had just been successfully invented. Set of three bedrooms, plus 100 million incentives.That was 100 million in [-].

At that time, the housing price in Beijing was more than 3000 per square meter, and you could buy a commercial residence of about [-] square meters in Beijing, and it was still in the third ring road.

It is precisely because of this time that a lot of money bought a horse bone that instantly kicked off the upsurge of independent innovation within Hansteel Group.

Cheng Shijie immediately changed his words and increased the reward.

"1000 taels of silver?"

Huang Lidong was stunned at that moment.

"Thank you Lord Guard!"

"Thank you, Lord Guard!"

Huang Lidong knelt down to Cheng Shijie.

"This is what you deserve. In addition to the reward of 1000 taels of silver, this garrison will give you an additional [-] acres of land!"

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

"This is too much!"

"not much!"

Cheng Shijie pointed to the modified Xunlei blunderbuss and said, "This modification of yours has improved it to only [-] breaths from the original one-fifteen hour reload. Do you know what saving this quarter of an hour means on the battlefield? ?”

"what?"

"It means that our Ning Haijun brothers will die a lot less, and the dead will die countless more."

Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "With such a sharp weapon, if we put dozens or hundreds of vehicles in front of the formation, the enemy can still charge over?"

"I can't rush over!"

"Isn't that right?"

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

"21!"

"How many can be built in a day?"

"Five tools can be built in three days!"

"Huang Lidong, I will add people to this garrison. Before the end of the month, that is, within [-] days, at least [-] people will be built for this garrison!"

"Master Defense, in fact, it is not difficult to build a Thunderbolt, the hard part is the turntable!"

"In addition, this garrison would like to give you an opinion. Three discs for each thunderbolt are too few, and at least seven discs are needed!"

Cheng Shijie used this big disc as a bullet clip. During each battle, 180 rounds of ammunition were prepared in six clips.

Seven discs and 210 lead bullets can basically satisfy the consumption.

Here comes the problem, Ning Haijun does not have the establishment of Thunderbolt Gunners. If other soldiers are allowed to operate this equipment, then the skills these soldiers have trained before will be wasted.

"It seems that Ning Haijun will expand its army again!"

Cheng Shijie thought to himself, two soldiers are required to operate a Thunderbolt, and two soldiers can push it forward, but a team of twelve soldiers cannot be equipped with six Thunderbolts.

A team is equipped with a maximum of two Thunderbolts, and other personnel are responsible for loading the large discs, that is, the bullet clips.

In this way, it is estimated that 420 will need 500 teams, [-] people, plus eight artillery pieces, and at least [-] more people will be recruited.

(End of this chapter)