please make me king

Chapter 475 Enemy Taiwan
It was the first time Ma Yingniang saw such an exquisite and gorgeous weapon, and she liked it very much.Fearing that Zhang Shun would go back on his word, she asked again: "Give it to me?"

"Yes, here it is." Zhang Shun said with a smile, "I'm not very good at this, you can practice more when you have time, and you can help me shoot handguns later!"

"Okay, okay! Respect is worse than obedience." Ma Yingniang agreed, and put the weapon away happily.

Seeing that Gao Yizhi had been abducted by Zhang Shun, Han Lin thought that Zhang Shun had completed the task.He took a few steps back secretly, trying to find a chance to escape.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Shun saw his small movements at a glance, and walked over with a smile: "The priest has gone with the king. As a devout believer, Mr. Han, don't you want to accompany him?"

Where does Han Lin want to accompany?He didn't know how to refuse, so he could only cry and say with a sad face: "I have my mother on top, and my wife and children on bottom."

Without waiting for him to finish speaking, Zhang Shun threatened in a low voice: "You are leaving with me today, and there are believers who can cover you up. They only say that you have been captured by bandits and have gone missing."

"If you force me into Jiangzhou City to arrest you, no one will slander the court saying that you are a thief! At that time, you will not only have no good fruit to eat, but will also affect your family and your descendants!"

Han Lin had no choice but to agree in a low voice, and followed Zhang Shun out of the church with Gao Yizhi in a dejected manner.

Now that the matter was over, Zhang Shun was very satisfied that he had tricked an additional "Italian" priest.He was afraid that Licheng would remain the same, and something would happen in vain, so he hurriedly prepared to return to the city.

Fortunately, Gao Yizhi and Han Lin traveled all over the world, preaching everywhere, and they are also quite good at riding.Zhang took them by the way, and returned to Luoyang City in five or six days.

At this time, the outside of Luoyang City was much deserted, and the markets, houses, and workshops attached to the outside of Luoyang City were almost wiped out.There were even fewer people watching the excitement outside the city.

Some people saw another group of people rushing from outside the city, and stood sparsely under the shade of the trees to watch.He still pointed and pointed from time to time, but it was obviously much less noisy than when Zhang Shun left the city before.

Only the horse-blocking earth wall outside the moat was still quietly guarding outside Luoyang City.This earthen wall was built in the fourth year of Chongzhen. Because of the peasant uprising, the imperial court conscripted labor for fear of harming Fufan.

Outside the Luoyang city moat, build a circle of horse-blocking earthen walls, about one foot high and thirty-three miles long.He also took the opportunity to divert water into the moat, turning the Luoyang city moat into a moat to strengthen the defense of Luoyang city.

As expected, the horse barrier was never able to stop Zhang Shun's horses, and the moat never completely protected Luoyang City.

These defensive facilities were built one after another by the imperial court, spending money and using corvees, and worked hard for more than a year. In the end, they were all at the expense of Zhang Shun.

Although Gao Yizhi and Han Lin are not very willing to follow Zhang Shun, they are here now and want to show their talents.

In particular, although Gao Yizhi is not very proficient in the construction of "Western fortresses", he has never eaten pork, and has seen pigs walk.He has full confidence in Zhang Shun, who is willing to adopt the "Western Fortress" building technique, to defend the city.

When Zhang Shun arrived in the city, Hong Niangzi, Song Xiance, Zhang Shenyan, Zhang Dudu and others quickly put down their work and came up to him.

Everyone sat down in order of rank, Zhang Shun didn't care to take a breather, and asked about the situation inside and outside the city and the preparations for city defense.

Among the crowd, only Dudu Zhang was quite experienced, and he quickly replied: "There were [-] shi of grain in the city, and more than [-] shi were confiscated by the officials in the city. There are [-] shi of grain in other places around, and a total of [-] shi of grain."

Zhang Shun did some calculations, and now he has about [-] personal guards and cavalry under his command, Xiao Qinhu brought [-] infantry, Jiang He has [-] saber shieldmen under his command, plus Zhang [-] recruits. One thousand "hair gourds", although the training has not been completed, can be used to defend the city.

A total of more than [-] infantry, plus cavalry and civil servants, almost [-] people ate food.If the people in the city are not considered, there will be enough food for three years.Zhang Shun didn't believe it even if he was upright, the imperial court had the ability to besiege Luoyang City for three years.

So Zhang Shun nodded, indicating that it was barely enough to prepare food.

The governor continued: "Lu's family has a lot of sulfur. Previously, the craftsmen refined four thousand catties of sulfur in addition to iron smelting. As for charcoal, it is innumerable because of the burning of wasteland. One hundred thousand catties can be transported from Baodu Village More than that. Only when there is a shortage of nitrate, you can smelt and buy it from multiple parties to make up [-] catties."

"There are more than [-] catties of pig iron and [-] catties of wrought iron. They are all made of charcoal. The quality is excellent, which is beyond the comparison of coal-fired iron."

张顺皱了皱眉头，他到不知道后世黑火药最佳配比如何。这个时代常用配比为硝1两、硫磺1钱4分、柳炭1钱8分。

If sulfur is used as the benchmark and charcoal is not particular, it is basically possible to prepare [-] catties of gunpowder.However, if nitrate is used as the benchmark, I am afraid that only [-] catties of gunpowder can be prepared.

By the way, Zhang ordered: "There is still too little gunpowder. Let Li Baihu go to the mountains to buy it. There are many mines in Lu's, and mines and mines use this material more. Even if the quality is not good, you can buy some in large quantities to avoid shortage of gunpowder."

Afterwards, they discussed a few more issues, and after Zhang Shun dealt with them one by one, they left Hong Niangzi, Zhang Shenyan, Zhang Dudu, and Song Xiance to introduce Gao Yizhi and Han Lin to everyone.

That Zhang Shenyan, Zhang Dudu and Han Lin had heard about each other, and the three couldn't help being polite before they settled down.

Dudu Zhang took the lead in introducing: "I have personally led people to measure it. The circumference of Luoyang City is [-] paces in eight miles, four feet high, and the base is as wide as it is. The trench is five feet deep and three feet wide. The city gate is four feet wide. , Jianchun in the east, Lijing in the west, Changxia in the south, and Anxi in the north. The four gates of the city are covered with double towers, the moon city is built outside, and four corner towers are built, with a total of thirty-nine towers."

In the Ming Dynasty, three hundred and sixty steps were one mile, which was equivalent to about five hundred and sixty meters in later generations.Luoyang City is close to a square shape, and a city wall is usually about [-] steps, which is about [-] meters in later generations.

Unlike Han Lin, Gao Yizhi has no psychological burden.He hurriedly said: "I haven't surveyed the city in time, but I use common sense. In an ordinary square city, one enemy tower needs to be set up at each of the four corners, all of which are triangular. The old horse-faced tower is not legal, and it needs to be changed into a triangle. to make."

Zhang Shun heard that he didn't understand, so he ordered someone to present a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and asked Gao Yizhi to draw a sketch.

Gao Yizhi did as he said, and Zhang Shun couldn't help being happy when he saw it.It turns out that the so-called enemy platform is a triangular horse face.

However, its front is triangular, which can reduce the threat of artillery to enemy platforms.The back of the triangle is in the shape of a waist, and the artillery can hide behind it to launch the artillery calmly and strike the enemy horizontally, which is very clever.

Zhang Shun couldn't help being overjoyed, and quickly took them to the city wall to inspect Luoyang City, in order to improve Luoyang City System according to the actual situation.

(End of this chapter)