The Great Bandit in Kangxi Year

Chapter 98
Jiang Tao saw that his uncle led all the craftsmen to discuss in the inner room, but Wang Tiebang, Wang Tiechui's son, did not leave. He stood quietly by his side, staring blankly at the ground, muttering words, but did not make a sound.

"Why don't you go?" Jiang Tao was curious and asked with a smile.

"The villain is not very proficient in making firecrackers, so what's the use of going?" Wang Tiebang woke up with a start, and said calmly, but there was no panic on his pale face.

"You are now a captain of the Black Tiger Army. You don't need to belittle yourself, but you can call yourself a subordinate." Jiang Tao reprimanded him softly, and then asked, "Then what kind of skill are you good at?"

"All my subordinates know a thing or two. In fact, my subordinates are thinking about how to shorten the cycle of the gun barrel." Wang Tiebang frowned and said the incomprehensible thing in his heart.

"Good job, let's go, take General Ben to see the drilling machines and boring machines of our Black Tiger Army."

Unexpectedly, he and himself thought of one, Jiang Tao was very happy, and praised loudly, if the problem of the barrel is not solved, mass production will simply become a joke.

"Yes." Wang Tiebang agreed, and led Jiang Tao to a house.

Jiang Tao saw more than a dozen old "machine tools" neatly placed in front of him. They used wood as the frame and a round stone plate as the inertia wheel. After being tied with leather straps, they were pulled manually to make the stone plate drive the drill bit to rotate.

It turned out to be a manual machine tool, which was beyond Jiang Tao's expectation. He was slightly disappointed, no wonder.

After all, this is the mother of machines. Jiang Tao thought hard, knowing that there are hydraulic machine tools in the West, he hurriedly asked: "Lieutenant Wang, there are many small waterfalls nearby, why don't you use a waterwheel as the power to drive the drill?"

"Water wheel?" Wang Tiebang was startled suddenly, as if he had thought of something, he asked eagerly, "Can you tell me in detail?"

"Well, the condescending water drives a waterwheel with a diameter of more than three meters, and the rotating waterwheel drives the big gear, and the big gear drives the small gear, and then..."

Jiang Tao immediately expressed his idea, but before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Wang Tiebang, who was surprised: "The general is a great talent, and the subordinates have already understood. Please ask the general Enzhun to handle this matter, and he will definitely be able to create something. Better drill presses and gun presses."

"Very good, sure, my general strongly supports it." Jiang Tao touched his bald head, did he understand?This kid is a talent, I don't know what kind of surprise he can give himself.

"Thank you, General." Wang Tiebang ran out rashly after finishing speaking.

If this kid can build a hydraulic machine tool, I believe that the cycle of making muskets will be greatly shortened. Anyway, it is useless to worry, so Jiang Tao went straight back to the Black Tiger Hall.

At this time Cheng Zhang had also come back, the two exchanged pleasantries, had lunch together, and did not wait for Jiang Zhong until dark, but waited for a long list.

At this time, the weather was beautiful and the snow finally stopped. Jiang Tao looked at the list and shook his head, how much copper, how much sulfur, how much lead...

These are hard to find and even more difficult to transport. The Escort Bureau I contacted before has no clue yet. Jiang Tao suddenly thought of the water bandits who blocked the river and robbed "death for money", so he couldn't help asking: "Uncle, this person's water Where is the fort?"

"It's more than [-] miles away from here. Does my nephew want to ask this person to help transport these materials?" Cheng Zhang also sighed. These materials cannot be bought with money.

"Sooner or later, I will meet him, and please ask my third uncle to contact him. Tomorrow morning, the head of the family will prepare a generous gift to meet this person." Jiang Tao said firmly, how could someone else snore on the side of the couch, so go and check his bottom first.

"That's fine, but the river will definitely freeze tomorrow morning. I'm afraid no matter how much money is given, his boat will not be able to move for a few days." Cheng Zhang nodded and reminded.

Hearing the river freezing suddenly, Jiang Tao's heart skipped a beat, and he asked urgently, "Really? When will the Black Tiger Guard arrive?"

"How can there be a fake? It's freezing cold." Cheng Zhang said confidently, suddenly felt something was wrong, and said in surprise, "Does the master think so?"

"At that time, adjust accordingly. Tomorrow, I will send him a thousand taels of silver first, and say that there is a big business negotiation. The day after tomorrow, the head of the family will go to meet this dragon in the water in person, hehe." Jiang Tao sneered, losing the support of the warship, a little water Bandits are not in his eyes.

"It's absolutely impossible. It's too risky to have all the elite soldiers in Heihuzhai now." Cheng Zhang was startled and hurriedly stopped him.

"If you don't enter the tiger's lair, how can you catch a tiger cub? Besides, this river is too close to us. Heihu is not at ease. Don't worry, third uncle. Heihu knows what he knows and won't mess around." Jiang Tao solemnly said, The importance cannot be overstated.

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But at this time, in Black Tiger Village, all the troops of the Black Tiger Army are training their troops.

When General Heihu was about to leave, he had already issued a military order: "Practice on March [-]th in winter, practice in summer, after the snow stops, use Jiang Bao and Luo Qian as the coaches of the warlords, train the formation in the morning, and practice assassination and fighting skills in the afternoon until the snow melts." , except for the garrison at Suishi Ridge, all the rest will withdraw."

In fact, Jiang Tao also wanted to add cultural lessons, but in the end it was a bit unrealistic, mainly because there were too few "teachers".

This time, even Wei Donglai and Wang Junyi were not spared. Seeing that the two left-behind generals were training, the soldiers of the Black Tiger Army dared not complain.

According to Jiang Tao's military order, Wang Junyi selected two thousand young men from among the fugitives, organized them into two battalions, named the Vengeance Battalion, and followed them for training.

And Jiang Tao's first batch of generals trained in Suishi Ridge all took on heavy responsibilities, and one person had to train more than two hundred people. Only then did he know that it is not easy to be a coach.

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As soon as Jiang Tao was free, he thought of Zhang Qian'er's calm and pretty face, and then regretted that he left in a hurry and forgot to bring the doctor camp. Oh, by the way, I wonder how Jiang Shi's injury is?

At this time, Zicao came over with the footwashing water, Jiang Tao was a little embarrassed, after all, in front of his little wife, he thought of another woman, which was too insignificant, he sighed quickly: "Follow my black Tiger is running around, and he didn't have a good day, so it's hard for you."

"The general is serious, and my family is willing. If it weren't for the general, the little girl would have died long ago, and it would be impossible to reunite with her family." Zicao wept softly again.

"Here, okay, okay, how is the old man?" Jiang Tao was a little overwhelmed, and hurriedly changed the subject. Feeling the touch of soft jade hands on his big feet soaked in hot water, he just felt distracted.

"it is good……"

Jiang Tao has been a monk for more than a month, and he can't bear it anymore...

In the afternoon of the next day, the soldiers of the Black Tiger Army who went to contact the water bandits finally came back, but the meeting place was at the other party's water village.

"Still very vigilant." Jiang Tao thought for a while, and finally made up his mind, even if the other party's water village is a dragon's pond and a tiger's den, he will go there.

However, the Black Tiger Guard hadn't returned yet, so Jiang Tao wasn't sure. After all, there were as many as a thousand people on the other side, and there were only a hundred tiger and leopard cavalry around him. There were more than five hundred soldiers in the base, but most of them had never experienced battle.

Cheng Zhang said a little nervously: "The head of the family thinks twice, we'd better wait for the Black Tiger Guard to come back."

"No, we can't weaken our momentum, and we can't be dishonest. Don't worry, my black tiger is not a tiger without claws. Besides, if there are more people, the other party will take more precautions." Jiang Tao said firmly.

"The head of the family, it's okay to go, but it's best not to be violent. Doesn't this person love money? See if he can take in these thousand people." Cheng Zhang saw that he couldn't stop him, so he simply offered a plan to delay the attack.

"Well, you'll know when you go." Jiang Tao nodded.

(End of this chapter)