I am one year older than Chongzhen

Chapter 228 Direction
In order to win the recognition and support of the Ming court, Huang Yi not only delayed becoming king, but even kept a low profile and refused to become king.

The new ideas in the new era are completely different from those of the ancients. Jiangshan belongs to the entire Chinese people with the Han nationality as the main body, not to the old Zhu family.

It is possible to be loyal to the country and the nation, but it is impossible to be loyal to the family.

Accepting the official position of the Ming Dynasty is only for gaining a foothold, and there is no possibility of being loyal to the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, the Ming Dynasty has come to the end of the world, no matter how capable but self-willed Emperor Chongzhen is diligent, he will soon perish the country and the Han people.

From then on, the land of Shenzhou will sink, and the clothes of China will be lost. The entire Han nation will live in humiliation with a small braid for more than two hundred years.

Huang Yi came, accepted his fate, and refused to accept his fate!He wants to change history and eliminate the misfortune of the Han people!

There is no way to opportunistically, compromise is impossible to seek perfection, negotiations will never lead to peace, and the only way is to completely wipe out the enemy.

Strengthening oneself is the only choice, and only by building a firearms force capable of turning the tide can we turn the tide.

The primary task now is to expand the army and train the army, expand the army again, and train the army again. There is no other way.

Even in the twelfth lunar month of winter, artillery training has been going on. By the end of February in the fourth year of Chongzhen, four three-jin regiment artillery had been scrapped.

The current artillery team has 160 gunners who are proficient in manipulating the three-jin regiment cannon, and two people can control one to complete the launch.

Of course, this is a ready-made thing. With sufficient preparations, two gunners can clear the gun, load the gunpowder, fill the shell, aim, and ignite...

In actual combat, it takes a lot of auxiliary soldiers to transport and deploy artillery in place, and prepare enough gunpowder packs, shotgun packs, etc.

Auxiliary soldiers who do chores are easy to train, and they are not as good as gunners who can aim and fire.

Therefore, 160 gunners are practicing every day. In the case of insufficient artillery, the gunner with the most accurate shot will aim and fire.

Most of the remaining gunners had to do auxiliary work.

The artillerymen in the base area can not only drive carts and ride horses, but must also be able to gallop on horses.

It is not enough to be able to drive a car, you must also be able to repair a car, and be able to disassemble and assemble artillery.

In the past two weeks, the artillery training has been mainly about transshipment. It is often seen that the artillery team of 160 people is galloping with eight cannons.

The most basic requirement is that artillery must have the ability to move 160 miles a day.

This kind of training not only tested the mobility of the artillery, but also proved the practicality of the four-wheeled artillery vehicle that has undergone a technological revolution.

Huang Yi is most aware of the importance of artillery, so the limited production of bearings and steel wheels, except for the development of a few sets of luxury passenger carriages, the rest are all used in artillery carriages.

There are no rubber tires, not because there is no record of rubber production in Huang Yi's mobile phone, but because there is no raw material. At this time, Daming has no rubber trees at all.

Huang Yi's mobile phone also has information about the raw material processing and production methods of Eucommia rubber, but it is a pity that there are no Eucommia trees in the base area, including the entire Yanshan and Yinshan areas.

There are a large number of eucommia trees in Shaanxi, which grow on the southern slope of the Qinling Mountains in the south of Shaanxi.

In the spring, people have to be sent to follow the Li family caravan to buy the leaves, bark, and branches of the eucommia tree, cook them into thick tapes, and return them to the base for further processing.

Shaanxi at the end of the Ming Dynasty was in dire straits. If [-] to [-] or even more ordinary people could survive by collecting the fruits, leaves, and bark of the eucommia tree to make rough glue, it should be counted as saving so many people.

Huang Yi knew that the gum production rate of the Eucommia tree must be far inferior to that of the rubber tree, so there was nothing he could do.

Today's wild rubber trees are in the jungles of South America. For a long time, Huang Yi was unable to get seeds and saplings.

It is useless to get trees or seeds. There is no suitable site. Rubber trees need tropical and subtropical climates to grow.

Therefore, Huang Yi is destined to use Eucommia rubber, which is very expensive, to be better than nothing.

In the absence of rubber for the wheel tires, the current cannon cart wheels are wrapped with a layer of cork soaked in tung oil for a full month, and the outside is wrapped with layers of cowhide.

This kind of steel hub cork solid tire wheel is half lighter than the all-wooden wheel, not easy to damage, and has a service life that is at least five times longer.

Another benefit is that it can hold more than three times the weight.

A total of 40 teenagers who can read more than [-] people were selected to participate in the training. They played guns every day, regardless of the cost. [-] of them were eliminated for various reasons.

Among them, 26 teenagers were injured due to accidents during training.

Accidents are not just bombs, falling from Mercedes-Benz horses and sports cars can also hurt muscles and bones.

As the saying goes, if you hurt your muscles and bones for a hundred days, of course you can't return to the team to participate in training in a short time.

Exploding the chamber does not mean that the chamber will be blown to pieces every time, it must be the wrong amount of loading, and it is several times.

This kind of situation is impossible to happen in the strictly disciplined base area soldiers.

The custom-made gunpowder packs are all marked, and the operations of novices are closely watched by the trainer, the town governor, and the seniors.

Newcomers will not be given the opportunity to make low-level mistakes such as loading two or more quantitative gunpowder.

As long as you are careful when testing the gun, even if the chamber explodes, it is impossible to cause huge damage.

What's more, the cannons at this time were fired with powder twist. When testing new cannons with no experience, the fixed amount of gunpowder was increased by [-]%, and the gunpowder twist was left longer.

After igniting the fire, climb over the blast-proof wall piled up with sandbags and get down on the ground. Even if the artillery blows up, it will not hurt the gunner.

A new gun that has passed the pressurized inspection is within the normal operating life, and even if the chamber explodes, it will only burst and leak air, which will not kill the gunner.

After the artillery fires beyond the scrapped life time, continue to test the gun to obtain the final effective life time, and the explosion-proof wall must be set up like the beginning of the gun test.

Every time the fire is fired, preparations must be made for the bomb to explode at any time, and the idlers stay away, and the gunner will lie down over the blast wall after firing.

All in all, these young people who have suffered a lot can withstand beatings and have strong endurance. Only a 20.00% elimination rate is acceptable.

The ideological education of soldiers in the base areas cannot be relaxed for a moment!

Huang Yi is already instilling a concept, strengthening everyone's beliefs, and clearly pointing out the development direction of the base area.

That is, the new army in the base area is fighting to rescue the oppressed and enslaved Han people.

It was a fight to overthrow Jiannu and the slave owners among the Tartars and liberate the slaves.

It is to create an equal society, to not be bullied, to live and work in peace and contentment for the people, to eradicate hunger...

Every half a month, Huang Yi called the town governor to have a meeting and study.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were only two township officials in a thousand households. Under normal circumstances, they were from the sixth-rank military position.

Most of the officers in the guard are hereditary, except for the town governor who is not hereditary. They are responsible for handling judicial proceedings within the guard and handling disputes between soldiers and civilians.

(End of this chapter)