Qiming 1158

Chapter 920 The success of the artillery project

Zhao Tan put down the dazzling flag and stared blankly at Ye Yiwen for a long time.

"They came to Lin'an with only 4000 people? Or did they come from the Jiangnan West Road thousands of miles away? Are they... some kind of heavenly soldiers and generals descended to punish me?"

Zhao Tan's expression is very vain, and his tone is also very vain, as if he is asking people, he is also asking himself, and it is more like asking the sky.

"Your Majesty, the old minister will immediately send someone to investigate! We must investigate this matter thoroughly!"

Ye Yiwen ran away.

Zhao Tan, however, has not yet recovered from his doubts.

He had no idea what was going on.

When Ye Yiwen finally figured out what happened, Su Yonglin, who was far away in the central capital, also knew what happened.

Su Yonglin knew what happened even earlier than Zhao Tan.

Su Yonglin was really surprised when he heard that Zhao Yucheng's subordinate general Xu Tong led only [-] troops from Jiangnan West Road to Lin'an City and circled the city three times.

Then he laughed and clapped his hands.

"One daring general, and four thousand daring soldiers, can run amuck in the Southern Song Dynasty. The Southern Song Dynasty has really come to an end. How long can they hold on without perishing? Can't they wait? When our army goes south, it will collapse from within?"

Su Yonglin laughed again and again, and stopped after a while, then picked up a pen and began to write an order, ready to be handed over to the Privy Council for execution.

Su Yonglin has been paying close attention to Zhao Yucheng's development. Through the Skynet Army's channels, Su Yonglin can know what happened to Zhao Yucheng in a timely manner, and appropriately send them some gold subsidies so that they have money to use. .

Although things such as gold and silver are not legal tender and have no general market circulation function, few people dislike them as a symbol of wealth.

Although the monetary economy was very developed in the Southern Song Dynasty, it did not mean that gold and silver could not be exchanged for some important special commodities.

Such as ordnance, such as grain, or the information of the Song army and so on.

When Su Yonglin knew that Zhao Yucheng had survived the encirclement and suppression of the Song army, and even annexed tens of thousands of the Song army in a counterattack, and decisively won almost the entire Jiangnan West Road, he was really happy.

The Zhao Yucheng he taught was almost like his apprentice. This young man two years younger than him has completed his own transformation in just a few years, growing from a successor to a landlord family to a strong revolutionary fighter.

Abandoning the family business, abandoning a comfortable life, and risking his life to deal with the enemy in the mountains, just for the ideal in his heart and the belief that he will not admit defeat.

Then, he finally achieved certain success and transcendence, surpassed his former self, and embarked on a new path.

This is good.

Su Yonglin wrote a letter to him at that time, congratulating him on his success, and telling him that the Southern Song Dynasty would not relax its encirclement and suppression of him. The army came to siege.

Until then, he will still face many challenges.

There are various reforms going on within the Ming Kingdom, including political and military aspects. The Yellow River is being repaired, and the Western Xia is being annexed. In a short period of time, it is impossible to get out of the south to annex the Southern Song Dynasty. I hope Zhao Yucheng can understand it and insist on it.

The size of the Southern Song Dynasty is too large, and a Ming Dynasty with indigestion cannot rashly annex it, otherwise it will die.

Of course, if they can go south to the north and open up a route to connect with the Ming Kingdom by sea or land, they will be able to get support directly from the Ming Kingdom.

Su Yonglin will do his best to give him some support, as long as he can hold on.

Zhao Yucheng wrote back to Su Yonglin, saying that he knew it all and was ready to fight for a long time. The big deal was that he would return to Luoxiao Mountain to fight guerrillas. Anyway, as long as he was alive for a day, he would never make the Southern Song Dynasty easier.

He will try his best to restrain the attention of the Southern Song Dynasty for the Ming Kingdom, try his best to attract the Southern Song Dynasty's attention, and prevent the Southern Song Dynasty from doing any disgusting things when the Ming Kingdom is indigestion.

In short, Su Yonglin can rest assured.

Su Yonglin has always maintained correspondence with Zhao Yucheng. Through letters, Su Yonglin will also give some guidance to Zhao Yucheng, and Zhao Yucheng will also introduce him to recent events.

Zhao Yucheng admires Xu Tong very much, and thinks that Xu Tong is a young man with great potential and has some military talents, so if he is used to command the army, he can always make military achievements, so he is promoted very quickly.

Su Yonglin had just heard that Xu Tong had promoted the teacher, and now he learned that he not only defeated Qi Fang, but also counterattacked the Southern Song Dynasty's nest, which is said to scare Zhao Gou away again.

Good guy, this young man can do it!
Su Yonglin decided to give them a wave of collective honors, and gave them a promotion within the Revival Society.

At the same time, Su Yonglin paid attention to this young man named Xu Tong, and felt that he really had the taste of a famous general.

This Xu Tong was similar to himself at the beginning, just as bold and decisive. He was facing Qi Fang's attack, but he actually rushed to change homes with Song Jun.

How courageous!

Su Yonglin shared this matter with the big guys at the subsequent meeting, and the big guys were all surprised and felt that this young man was not easy.

At the same time, it also felt the corrupt internal affairs and weak army of the Southern Song Dynasty, as well as the extremely chaotic superstructure.

Under such circumstances, many members have asked whether it is possible to prepare for Song Song.

Su Yonglin expressed his views on this.

"The preparations for the extermination of Song have been going on all the time, repairing the Yellow River, annexing Xixia, operating Guanzhong, Liaodong, Shandong anti-corruption, etc., all of which are preparing for the extermination of Song, Song is a big country, we must admit, want to annex Song, it takes a lot of time."

Su Yonglin doesn't support starting a war against the Southern Song Dynasty now, even if the current Ming army can do it, he doesn't support it.

What he needs is not just a piece of land, he needs a piece of land that has not been smashed into ruins, and has more or less economic scale, so that tens of millions of people in the Southern Song Dynasty can be quickly stabilized, and their lives will not be left unfinished. .

So, he needs time to prepare.

But judging from the current situation, time is indeed on his side, not on the Southern Song Dynasty's side.

It is not only the national power that is changing and growing, but there are other situations that are constantly driving the strength of both sides to increase.

Such as the success of the artillery project.

Since the period of the General Affairs Bureau of the Central Capital, from the establishment of the project to the successful test firing of the sample, it took almost five years before and after, the artillery that can be mass-produced and installed in the army has finally been successfully tested.

The various twists and turns during the period were really difficult, and the craftsmen stunned him with the technical points of the artillery by relying on some of the solutions proposed by Su Yonglin that remained on paper and verbally.

According to Su Yonglin's idea, some of them worked hard towards the fuel, and some of them worked hard towards the iron smelting furnace, and the troops were divided into two groups.

I don't know what wonderful collision of ideas and brainstorms occurred in the middle, but a group of craftsmen smelted coke by relying on some furnaces that could no longer be soiled.

They lit up the technological point of local coking, and successfully produced relatively primitive and primary coke.

The fuel group was victorious, and the iron furnace group also made great progress.

They increased the height of the furnace, enhanced the thickness of the furnace, and enhanced the sealing of the iron-smelting furnace. According to Su Yonglin's idea, they did not blow cold air when blowing, but blown the treated hot air.

After the two divisions made great progress, they combined the results of their labor into one, combined with the improved method of pouring steel, and finally made a furnace of steel with a strength far exceeding the previous strength.

This furnace of steel became the main raw material for the first sample.

(End of this chapter)