nanming man

Chapter 524 Rearing the Arms for War
When Zhou Ronghua was reselling supplies, in order to keep accounts and check the accounts, he read a lot of characters and was able to read books.

He watched Romance of the Three Kingdoms in his arms for most of the night, feeling a little overwhelmed in his heart, and suddenly felt that the world today is just like what is written in this book. Marshal Gao is his lord, and he himself is the strategist in the book. There is a sense of substitution.

There is a sense of pride in this book, every character is very lively, all the heroes want to build a foundation, and the counselors and generals assist the lord to achieve great things together, so that people who have read it can't help feeling excited, feeling that the real man is alive , is about to do something big.

Zhou Ronghua couldn't help himself when he saw it, and his desire to help Marshal Gao get things done got even stronger.

Early the next morning, he went to the commander-in-chief's mansion to meet him. Like Gao Yihuan, he asked for some good horses, some cultural relics, and tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Gao Yihuan quickly satisfied his request and gave him an extra box of firearms for him to take along with him.

Zhou Ronghua made some preparations, just like the counselor in the book, he set foot on the road to Sichuan.

After Zhou Ronghua left, Gao Yihuan asked Xuan Yiwei to investigate the movement of the Qing army, while stepping up preparations for the war.

After Mobei Mongols attacked Shanxi last time, Wei Wujun intensified its infiltration to the north, but the time was short, so many spies failed to get access to the core secrets of the Qing Dynasty.

Most of these spies only had access to the bottom of the Qing army, so naturally they couldn't provide any particularly detailed information.

Judging from the intelligence at this time, the Qing army is very likely to attack Ming, but Gao Yihuan is not sure who will be attacked in the end.

Since it is impossible to be sure, instead of trying to guess, it is better to strengthen your own strength, so that you can deal with it calmly.

In July, Gao Yihuan began to resume the training of soldiers. From time to time, the sound of soldiers training and the singing of the art team could be heard from the school field.

At this time, the training of the soldiers was in full swing, and Gao Yihuan was running around in the training ground, firearms workshop, and Nanyang mine, preparing equipment and materials for the war.

As the saying goes, a worker must first sharpen his tools if he wants to do his job well.

Sophisticated equipment is a major feature of the Wei Wu army, and the use of firearms is a key factor for the Wei Wu army to win in the war.

After the fall of Yancheng, the north gate of Runing Mansion was occupied by the Qing army, and Runing Mansion was under the threat of the Qing army's front, and it was no longer safe.

Many rich people in Runing City moved to Nanyang, or simply moved to Huguang.

The workshops outside Runing City were severely damaged during the war. After the Qing army retreated, Gao Yihuan did not attempt to restore them, but moved most of the workshops to Nanyang Mansion.

Nanyang has many minerals and abundant resources. In addition, it is a basin surrounded by mountains, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, so it is relatively safe.

Gao Yihuan set up a firearms workshop in Nanyang. After the firearms workshop in Runing moved here, a firearms workshop with nearly 3000 people was formed.

The workshop in Xiangyang is mainly responsible for the production of gunpowder, thunder and other things, and the firearms workshop in Nanyang is mainly for casting firecrackers and cannons.

In the past year, Wei Wujun's military expansion has been rapid. Coupled with the loss in the war, Wei Wujun's armor, weapons, and firearms have been somewhat out of date.

For this reason, since the beginning of the year, the workshops under the jurisdiction of the Military Weapons Supervision have been operating at full capacity.

Although it cannot satisfy the equipment of a 20 army, it is still no problem to maintain the equipment of an elite armored soldier of about [-].

At this time, Gao Yihuan led a group of officials on the school grounds of Zhupaofang, and was watching nearly a hundred soldiers, raising guns in turn to shoot, hitting the thick wood fifty steps away so that sawdust flew, and the school grounds were filled with thick smoke.

This is a few steps earlier than the original blunderbuss, which can penetrate armor, which can't help but make their eyes shine.

Gao Yihuan nodded in satisfaction, and said to Chen Huiting beside him, "Chen Qijian, the range of this Lumi gun seems to have improved a lot!"

Chen Huiting said with a smile: "Thanks to the commander in chief who hired more than a dozen Fulang robots, our own craftsmen learned a lot of skills, otherwise the power of the firecracker would not have been so significantly improved."

Gao Yi laughed happily, "Those Bai Fans, please be obedient in the workshop!"

"A few craftsmen are okay, just give them money, but the head monk is a headache, and he often pulls the craftsmen to make people believe in his teaching." Chen Huiting said.

"Learn all their skills first, and don't worry about the rest for now." Gao Yihuan said casually, and then asked: "Have the self-generated firecrackers and explosive bombs been mass-produced?"

Chen Huiting hurriedly said: "There is still a problem with the fuse of the blooming bullet. After the improvement of the self-igniting gun, production has already begun."

Gao Yihuan laughed immediately, "Call out a batch of self-igniting firecrackers and show them to everyone."

"Of order! Commander, wait for a moment!" Chen Huiting hurriedly bowed, and turned around to ask someone to fetch the self-made firearm.

Gao Yihuan smiled and said to the generals: "Wait a minute, let you see the next good thing."

Not long after, Chen Huiting brought more than a dozen craftsmen, each holding a jet-black gun, to the shooting range.

Some of the soldiers accompanied Gao Yihuan to inspect the workshop and had heard of self-generating firecrackers, but looking at it now, they didn't think it was anything unusual.

At this time, the craftsmen had finished filling, and Gao Yihuan nodded slightly, indicating that it was time to start. Several craftsmen raised their guns and fired one shot.

Hao Yaoqi exclaimed, "Damn it, don't light the fire!"

Several generals of the Shun line were surprised, and even the generals of Wei Wujun who had heard of it were also secretly surprised.

For a moment, everyone couldn't help their eyes glowing, and there was a lot of discussion, but at this time the craftsmen had finished reloading again, and another shot was fired.

Gao Yihuan looked at it. The rate of fire was much faster than that of the blunderbuss, and its power had also increased. The sawdust from the wooden board seventy steps away was flying.

"Not bad!" Gao Yihuan looked delighted, and he looked at Chen Huiting, "How many are you making now?"

Seeing these firecrackers being made, Gao Yihuan was overjoyed, he had an extra hole card.

Chen Huiting said: "This is the first batch of self-generating firecrackers made according to the "Illustration of Military Weapons" combined with the self-generating blunderbuss of the Frang robot. Now a thousand guns have been produced."

"Such a good thing, why don't you make more?" Zhao Daxian interjected.

Chen Huiting said: "General Zhao, this kind of firecracker has just started to be produced, and the craftsmen are still unskilled. In addition, some of the parts have high requirements on craftsmanship, slow manufacturing, and the cost is too high. In addition, there are defects in the ignition device. Sometimes It can’t be ignited, so the production is not fast now, and it’s only [-] rods a month.”

Gao Yihuan frowned slightly when he heard this, his plan fell through, "This speed is too slow, let me build [-] rods for this commander as soon as possible, otherwise we won't be able to form a combat force."

Chen Huiting was a little bit embarrassed, but he still saluted and said: "I accept orders from humble officials."

Gao Yihuan suddenly asked again: "How many quick-fire bronze cannons are cast?"

"Marshal, the workshop lacks copper ingots, and the casting of copper cannons has stopped." Chen Huiting said.

"Stop it? Have all the copper ingots in the library been used up?" Gao Yihuan frowned.

Chen Huiting said: "The copper ingots have been used up, and a batch of copper coins and bronze mirrors have been melted in the workshop. The remaining copper ingots in the warehouse are reserved for casting parts of firecrackers. Casting cannons consumes too much copper."

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