The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 399
Praising heroes and not forgetting national humiliation is what Huang Sheng often talked about when he taught teenagers. The stories of the three heroes in the late Song Dynasty-Wen Tianxiang, Lu Xiufu, and Zhang Shijie are all familiar to the people of the Huang family system.

These two scholars have been enslaved by Houjin for many years, and they have been able to experience the pain of being bullied by foreign races. Today, they are fortunate to tell the story of national heroes in front of the emperor. Of course, they spared no effort.

Chongzhen had heard several emperor teachers talk about the history of the Southern Song Dynasty, and those old masters would only read the scriptures, and there would be no vivid descriptions like storytelling, the young emperor was fascinated by it.

After the defeat in the Battle of Yashan, Lu Xiufu threw himself into the sea with Zhao Bing, the young emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty on his back. There are more than [-] dead bodies in the sea.

Hearing this passage, the young emperor burst into tears for a while, and he was silent for a long time before giving the island a name—Lu Xiufu Island, the Zuo Prime Minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, or "Lu Gong Island" for short.

The place name of Hong Kong will no longer exist. There is only Lugong Island here.

Mr. Xinhai also offered 1 "Huaxia Tongbao" silver coins per year to ask Emperor Ming to agree to hire 300 servants of Mr. Guanqian Daohuang to garrison the island. North Korea only sent [-] soldiers to "Lugong Island" to demonstrate The army mainly participated in the garrison.

Emperor Chongzhen was very surprised and asked why.He learned from the two envoys that five years ago, when Master Huang Sheng was chasing Jiannu spies at sea, he happened to rescue Mr. Xin Hai who was about to be killed by pirates.

Therefore, the North Korean prince admired the military power of Mr. Huang's servants and asked to hire [-] of Mr. Huang's servants to maintain the law and order of "Lugong Island".

Mr. Xinhai is completely at ease with Mr. Huang's servants, and there is no doubt about the employment. The North Korean side only sent a small amount of troops to garrison "Lugong Island", and entrusted Mr. Huang Sheng's servants with full authority for security issues.

Mr. Xinhai could have done business with Huang Sheng in private, but now he actually asked Chongzhen for an order. The young emperor thought that Mr. Xinhai respected him very much, so he agreed on the spot, and asked the cabinet to issue an order to Mr. Huang to facilitate the matter.

The ministers saw that most of the defenders on the land of the Ming Dynasty leased to Lord Xinhai were servants of the ministers of the Ming Dynasty, and all of them smiled and nodded. This shows that "Lugong Island" is very different from Macau, where the Ming army is still stationed. .

The news of "Lugong Island" reached Huangjiawan Island three days later, and Huang Sheng immediately sent [-] Dongjiang Town residents to settle there, and residents of Zhongmingbao and Huangjiawan Island went there to develop.

Since Kinmen Island has thousands of troops stationed by Xu Xinsu, Liu Shifu, the musketeer who stayed behind in Kinmen, transferred half of the military officers and Xiangyong who had been trained for a year to run "Lugong Island".

The training of unicycle drivers was intensively carried out on Huangjiawan Island, because Huang Sheng knew that the road conditions in the south were not as good as those in the north, and there were too many places where four-wheeled carriages could not pass, while unicycles could be driven almost anywhere that people could walk normally.

The unicycle designed by the Huang family has a maximum load of [-] jin. The wheels are the same model as the four-wheeled carriage. The steel wheels are also supported by steel wires. They are still tin-plated to prevent rust. In the absence of rubber, the tires are still solid. Beef tires are better than nothing.

To reduce weight, the frame, pushrods, and wheels are all made of rolled tin-plated seamed steel pipe.

Huang Sheng’s design requirements for various military vehicles are that they can be quickly disassembled and assembled, and the unicycle is no exception. It weighs 180 kilograms and can be broken down into left and right frames, push rods, vehicle support legs, etc. The heaviest part is [-] kilograms Wheels attached to load-bearing steel axles.

When marching, it is inevitable to climb mountains and wading. It doesn’t matter if you encounter treacherous road conditions that even a unicycle cannot push. Just disassemble the unicycle, and all the soldiers will come to help carry it on their shoulders and reassemble it again.

The technology of Huang’s fasteners is quite mature. The bolts and nuts are tin-plated for anti-rust treatment. The important fasteners are made of nickel-nickel-nickel copper at any cost. The only purpose is to facilitate disassembly, and the marching efficiency cannot be affected by the corrosion of the fasteners. .

Huang’s horses rely too much on logistical support, because Huang Sheng puts people first and provides protection to the soldiers as much as possible. Soldiers can’t put on their helmets and armor when they march, and these equipment need to be transported.

The spare guns of musketeers should also be loaded, because if a first-level musketeer has three guns to shoot, the combat effectiveness will more than double, and a team of 500 people can play a role of more than 1000 people.

How easy is it to train a brave and resourceful intellectual youth as a first-class musketeer?Keep them safe and secure, of course.

How easy is it to train a man to push a unicycle?One month is enough.

The three musketeers were followed by two coachmen in rotation pushing a wheelbarrow loaded with [-] jin of equipment and supplies. Their role was greater than that of the six soldiers, so the Huang family's logistical support was the guarantee of winning battles with small losses and big gains.

Artillery and grenadiers are even more inseparable from logistical support. Shells, gunpowder, and "flying thunder" are not light, and even artillery vehicles need to be disassembled and packed by several wheelbarrows to pass through dangerous road sections.

The artillery that can accompany the army on the battlefield with poor road conditions can only be artillery with a caliber below the six-pound gun. Because the Huang family’s six-pound gun uses barrel hoop technology and is made of all-cast steel, the weight is [-]% lighter than the Napoleon gun. The gun body of the six-pound gun weighs six hundred catties and can be transported by a wheelbarrow.

In charge of training the unicycle drivers are ten heroic coachmen who were injured and retired from the bloody battle in Jinzhou. They are also researchers who participated in the design and finalization of the unicycle. They personally tried the unicycle and trained forty strong men from Dongjiang Town.

The ten injured and retired coachmen headed by Mo Huaiwu and Zhen Hanzhi found that the owner attached great importance to the construction of the wheelbarrow transport team, and sent five hundred strong men for training at once. Irregular supplies traveled a hundred miles around Huangjiawan Island.

The wheel of the wheelbarrow was the same as that of the carriage, so there was already a stock in it. Huang Sheng assigned the task of producing [-] vehicles as soon as possible. Zhang Laifu, the person in charge, stated that he would guarantee the completion within [-] days, and the quality would be high.

The head of the family told everyone that the Huang family might fight in the humid south, and everyone must be mentally prepared and have countermeasures.

During this period of time, whenever it was rainy, all the officers led the troops to carry out long-distance marching training in the rain. The raincoats, canopies and marching tents produced by Huang's family could fully meet the needs of 3 horses.

The training requirement is that the hot weapon troops must ensure that the artillery must be able to fire normally even if it is rainy for a month, the musket must be able to start, and the misfire rate must not be higher than [-]% under normal weather conditions. emissivity.

All soldiers have to brainstorm how to keep muskets and gunpowder free from moisture in rainy days, and how to dry damp gunpowder in a safe way. The wisdom of the masses is infinite. In this rainy spring, Huang's private soldiers have been trained and are not afraid of continuous rain.

Time flies like an arrow, seeing the Dragon Boat Festival in May, Huang Sheng is going to go to Nanyang again, this time Chu Er does not bother to follow the road, because because of her husband's hard work, the beauties have blossomed and bore fruit.

It's only been two months, and it's not obvious that Chu'er has a belly at all, but the beauty cares too much and is too careful. She pays attention to health care and pregnancy protection every day, saying that she must give birth to a healthy fat boy for her husband.

When the news came out, the Huang family was naturally elated. If the pregnant woman gave birth to a son, she would be the eldest son, the legitimate heir of the Huang family.

(End of this chapter)