Chapter 250 The arsenal exploded?

In the thirteenth year of the first year, throughout the Yuan Dynasty, the form was very good. Although there were red scarf troops everywhere, they had been divided and surrounded, especially Liu Futong, who was the biggest threat, had gradually narrowed his territory under the joint suppression of Timur and Li Siqi, and Zhu Yuanzhang's troops were also surrounded in Chuzhou. Although Xu Shouhui's troops in the south captured Hangzhou, they were under the control of the province. The peasant uprising has fallen into a low ebb.

Taking advantage of this period, Zhang Yang is doing one thing: accumulating strength.

Although they hate the Mongolian tars, beating the tars is not a matter of a day or two, but a long-term strategic purpose. Before they have enough strength, it is not a shame to occasionally compromise with the tars. All the leaders of the uprising army, except Chen Youliang, have more or less contacted the court.

The dragon's potential is the dragon's must.

Several major salt farms are Zhang Yang's main fiscal revenue. Refined salt has been sold to the whole province and exported to most of them, solving Zhang Yang's urgent needs. With sufficient income, Zhang Yang's team has been greatly expanded, and each battalion has grown to 4,000 people.

Four thousand-person teams, one of which is a cavalry team, all equipped with Tianque, war horses, and a cavalry knife made of fine steel, which is also developed by Zhang Yang in combination with the characteristics of modern cavalry knives. It is a bit like a Japanese samurai sword. The back of the knife is very narrow and light in weight. The cavalry is responsible for the assault of the whole army. After training After that, they can shoot on the horse. They mainly kill and injure the enemy from a long distance, trying not to fall into hand-to-hand combat. The cavalry knife is only used as a last resort, because it is a very challenging technical action to install a bayonet on a flying horse.

Two thousand-person teams are all equipped with Tianque. Both teams are infantry, mainly responsible for the defense of the city and the main force of the attack. It is the backbone of the army.

The remaining thousand-person team is a miscellaneous army. There are five spear hundred-person teams. They rarely undertake offensive combat tasks, mainly used to protect key places. In case they are close to the tars and there are no bullets in the sky, the spear array can play a protective role. The spear team has been eliminated from Tianque's training. Since they can't hit the target accurately, they can only go back to use the spear. The elimination is ruthless and necessary. On the battlefield, they can't talk about emotions.

There are also three hundred-person artillery, who are mainly responsible for the artillery equipped to the troops.

Since getting Jiao Yu as a talent, Jiao Yu has been working hard and finally made a breakthrough in artillery research. At present, it is equipped with two different artillery.

A caliber of one and a half feet, a barrel is twelve feet long, and a square base at the bottom, which is placed at 45 degrees. The front bore is loaded with medicine, which is mainly used to scatter bullets and destroy a large number of enemies by the surface-shaped rain. The range is slightly farther than that of Tianque, about 500 steps, but the accuracy is not high. The advantage is that it is relatively light, only 100 catties. When fighting a war, it can be done by a four-person team. Two people are responsible for moving and aiming, and two people are responsible for loading and lighting. This kind of cannon is called a scattering cannon.

In another way, the caliber is still one foot and a half, but the barrel is 20 feet, and the body tube is about thirteen times the caliber. This kind of gun is loaded from the back. Therefore, Jiao Yu repeatedly studied the sealing problem of the tail of the gun and designed a special bolt. The back of the gun is thick and the front is thin, simplifying the weight, but it still weighs 400 catties, so, This kind of gun is mounted on two wheels, and the wheels are also equipped with a simple lifting device to change the elevation angle. Most importantly, the suff are engraved inside the gun.

So far, the polishing of the inner wall of the gun has been completed by the steam engine to drive the grinding wheel. However, the rifling still needs to be carved by hand, so the output of this kind of gun is very slow, and only more than 20 guns are equipped in total.

The caliber is uniform, all of which are one and a half feet. This is because a bag-type propellant is adopted. Every time it is launched, there is no need to pound the gunpowder, but the gunpowder has been pounded into a propellant bag with a one-and-and-a-half-half-circle circumference in advance, thus reducing the filling time.

Although the caliber is not large, the length of the body tube is increased, which increases the muzzle velocity, and the engraving of the rifling greatly improves the flight stability of the shell and improves the accuracy. Therefore, the effective range of this kind of gun is ten miles! Moreover, the iron shell is also very powerful. No matter how strong the wall is, it can't withstand the impact of this kind of iron ball at a very high speed.

This kind of artillery is named God of War. Although it is a little bulky, it can be dragged with two horses to advance with the field troops, and the city is invincible.

In addition to equipping field troops, it is also used to equip warships.

The remaining two centurion teams have been reduced to a complete logistics team, equipped with waist knives and carriages.

The defensive tasks of several battalions have not changed much. The first battalion of Shiyi mainly guarded the salt field, the second battalion of Tanghe, guarded Taizhou, the third battalion of Lv Zhen, guarded Xinghua, the fourth battalion of Bian Yuanheng, guarded Gaoyou Lake, the rest of the base camp, guarded Gaoyoufu.

Among these battalions, only Bian Yuanheng's fourth battalion is different. He has raised the team to 5,000 people, and also searched for many ships. There are five large ships driven by steam engines, the flagship of each thousand-person team, and the rest are all kinds of transport ships and fishing boats. When fighting, it is still in the sky. It is mainly shooting.

In addition to two thousand-person cavalry and three thousand-person cavalry teams, Zhang Yang's base camp also has a thousand-person short team. This team is mainly responsible for Zhang Yang's personal guard, and it is easier for short-term cavalry to target nearby.

The short fire gun has also begun to be manufactured in small quantities at the base, and the mule mouth has become shorter. Although the power is reduced, it is easier to make and easy to carry. As Zhang Yang's personal guard, this kind of fire gun has more advantages. This kind of fire gun is named Wufeng gun.

In addition to equipping Zhang Yang's personal guards, it is distributed to officials above the centurion.

There is also a sniper gun with a longer range of a few equipment, which is mainly equipped for the sharpshooters in each thousand-person team.

There are only more than 20,000 soldiers and horses under Zhang Yang's command, but it is already a waste of money to equip such an army. Even the rich private salt dealer, Zhang Yang is also a little painful. The only thing he can do is to let the army train desperately, and indeed let the equipped firearms exert its power.

After the summer grain harvest, Zhang Yang recovered nearly 500 stones of grain in Gaoyou and Taizhou. Because he was exempted from tax for three years, there was no land rent. However, if the people wanted to sell grain, they could only sell it to him. Even at the market price, the people were unwilling to sell grain. They were used to being poor and suddenly found that the granary was full. In addition to thanking Zhang Yang for his kindness, they all want to keep their own food. Zhang Yang has a good understanding of this kind of small farmer's idea. Now, his main means is to buy grain.

Zhang Yang's eyes have turned to the more distant south bank. In the south of Yangzhou Road, there is Pingjiang Road in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province. Zhang Yang has been to Pingjiang City (i.e. Suzhou City). The tall and towering walls and the vast fertile fields outside the city. The whole Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province are all rice warehouses, granaries, and grain in the north are mainly from Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province. They are transported by waterways, and Gaoyou The house is on the waterway of the canal.

Whoever controls Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces will control the richest areas in the world.

Just when Zhang Yanghu was staring at Pingjiang Road, a happy event happened in Xinghua City: Liu Ruo was born.

The happiest thing in life is the wedding night, when the golden list is called, and what is better than the two is that your next generation is born, the birth of a new life, and the feeling of being a new father is the most enjoyable.

When Liu Ruohan was about to give birth, Zhang Yang had returned to Xinghua City. Under the governance of Shi Nai'an, Gaoyou Mansion had all the government affairs in order, and those Mongolian soldiers imprisoned in the cage had long lost their fighting spirit and passed by. Occasionally, when the above official document comes down, he will call Li Pu, write whatever he should write, and then play it back, even if it's done.

He returned to Xinghua City with Zhang Yang, and there was also a thousand-person team.

The weather in July was extremely hot. Zhang Yang was outside the bedroom, listening to Liu Ruohan's painful shouts inside and walking anxiously.

In this era, there was no delivery room, no professional obstetricians, and no caesarean section. The only one was the experienced midwife. However, no matter how powerful the midwife was, she could not be compared with the obstetrician. The proportion of deaths from dystocia was very high. Zhang Yang listened to Ruohan's shouting one after another. I pinched a handful of sweat.

He wanted to open the curtain and go in, but he was pushed out by his mother. This kind of scene, even his own husband, is not suitable for watching.

"Wow, wow." Suddenly, a baby's cry came from the room.

"I gave birth, I finally gave birth." The maid's voice has come from inside.

"Ruo Han!" Zhang Yang couldn't help it anymore, opened the curtain and walked in.

Inside, the heat is hazy, and a large pot of hot water has been brought over. The midwife is wiping Ruohan's lower body with hot water.

When Cao saw Zhang Yang coming in, he immediately shouted, "I'm already a father, and I'm still in such a hurry. I'll go out first and wait until the child is cleaned, and then I'll show it to you."

Ruo Han's pale face flashed in Zhang Yang's eyes and was kicked out by his mother.

Having a baby in this era is not like what it was played on TV. When she came out, the nurse picked it up and showed it to the child's father: It's so cute. It's a boy. That's pure bullshit.

When you are born, a lot of amniotic fluid and blood will gushing out, and even urine or stool can't help pulling out, polluting the lower body, and then polluting the baby born from the birth canal. Therefore, hot water should be prepared. As soon as the baby is born, the dirt on his body should be simply and quickly scrubbed and then wrapped up.

In order to avoid infection, the mother's lower body must also be disinfected. These have to be dried with hot water before doing it. Therefore, when Zhang Yang went in, he saw several maids busy with cleaning.

And it is impossible for a newborn baby to raise his arms with both hands. The neck of the newborn baby is fragile, and as a result of that, the neck is immediately broken. You must wrap it up with cloth, and then hold your head with one hand and drag your ass with the other hand before you can pick it up.

After waiting for a while, Zhang Yang was allowed to enter the bedroom. Inside, Liu Ruohan had opened his eyes and looked at the child next to him. And his face was terribly white.

"Congratulations, sir, it's a boy." After the midwife finished speaking, she was ready to go down.

"Thank you, Grandma Wang." Zhang Yang said, "Take these five taels of silver."

"Sir, I can't accept this. It's an honor for me to give birth to my mother." As the midwife said, she left.

Mother? What is this name? My wife is my mother. Am I the emperor? These fools, don't make trouble for me, we have to emphasize it in the future.

Zhang Yang didn't know that the policy he implemented here gave the people real benefits. In the hearts of the people, he was already a high-ranking emperor, and everyone affectionately called Liu Ruohan Liu Niangniang.

"Ruohan, you have worked hard." Zhang Yang said sadly.

"It's not hard." Liu Ruohan smiled and said, "I'm very worried. If it's a daughter, will you look down on me? Well, it's a son."

"It's the same for boys and girls." Zhang Yang said.

"Then every time you mention it, you say what's wrong with my son in my belly," Liu Ruohan said, "At that time, people were worried to death. If it was a daughter, you don't know how to be angry with me."

Zhang Yang smiled. It has nothing to do with you whether to have a boy or a girl. It depends on what kind of tadpoles swim over.

Of course, women in this era don't know this truth. If they give birth to a daughter, they have no face to be a human being.

Zhang Yang gently stroked Ruohan's forehead and felt the temperature of her body, but there was a sense of guilt in her heart. For such a long time, he has been staying with Ruohan for less than a month, and he has been running around. Now, his career is getting bigger and bigger, but his family still can't take care of it. Maybe, this is It's fate.

And the reasonable Ruohan has never asked for anything for himself. He has always stayed by his side silently and dedicated silently. Here is the harbor of home. No matter what major events are encountered outside, as long as you think of home and the birth of a new life, your heart is full of warmth.

The stars outside are dim, and the evening wind is blowing, with a humid and hot breath.

Shi Nai'an walked out of the government office. Today, he worked for another day. First, he dealt with a theft case in Fan Shuizhai, and then met several "peasant representatives" from Baoying, hoping to implement the policy of land division in Baoying. He also inspected the defense of the city, returned to the government office, and received a letter from above. Official documents, the itinerary of this day is dense.

"Mr., it's time to go back to rest." Luo Guanzhong came over and said to Shi Nai'an.

"There are still a lot of things in Guanzhong. We have to prepare for a rainy day." Shi Nai'an said.

"Sir, what's the matter?"

"We have occupied Gaoyou for more than half a year, but there has been no movement in Yangzhou. I have a hunch that there will be a big storm."

"Sir, even if the Yangzhou garrison comes, we are not afraid. Now, on Gaoyou Lake, there are our navy. Moreover, in Gaoyou City alone, there are more than 4,000 troops, and there are many scattered cannons on the city. Even if the Tatars want to come, I'm afraid they have to weigh it. . Besides, now the lord is still Yin Jianzhou Yin, the county of the province. There is no reason for the province to do anything to us, right?

Shi Nai'an nodded: "Now our strength has developed a lot. Although the identity of the lord is beneficial to us now, I'm also afraid that this identity will limit the lord."

Limited? Luo Guanzhong doesn't understand.

"With such a military force now, it is reasonable to continue to expand the territory, especially in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province in the south, which is much richer than our current Huainan Jiangbei Province. However, the lord had no reason to use troops. Even if he attacked Gaoyou Mansion, he had to borrow the crazy assassination of the pig's brain. Even so, the province was very on guard and immediately sent two new governors and Dalu Huachi. Fortunately, the eldest brother made a decision immediately. If he got it, he would never let it go again. We are now very passive and have abundant troops, but there is no excuse to continue to expand our territory, unless we quarrel with the province and raise the anti-flag again. Shi Nai'an was worried.

How promising can it be in Gaoyou Mansion? It is the right way to continue to develop to the south. Moreover, the water nets in the south are everywhere, and the cavalry of the tars can't be used at all. The army of the tars were blocked in the north. They first took over the land in the south, had a strong foundation, and then destroyed the tars in the north, which was the right way.

Luo Guanzhong said, "Sir, the lord has a long-term plan. I'm afraid he has been thinking about Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces for a long time. During this period, he has come to me several times to understand the details of Changzhou Road and Hepingjiang Road. I have sent dozens of agents to these places to inquire about the information."

Shi Nai'an was relieved that he did not choose the wrong master. His eyes had turned to the south.

"Guanzhong, what's the situation in most of the capital?"

"It's normal in most of the capitals. With the help of the cover of grain trafficking, our people have successfully lurked in the capitals. At present, what we can find out is only some peripheral news. Our people are preparing to sneak into the home of the envoy of the Xuanzheng Yuan. They have been in contact with the housekeeper and can arrange an envoy. " Luo Guanzhong said.

Doing business is supposed to be used by each other. He Zhaoyi used Zhang Yang's refined salt to earn a large amount of white silver. Zhang Yang also used He Zhaoyi to sell out his inventory of refined salt. Now, the salt farm is working overtime to dry sea salt, but it is always cloudy these days, and the salt production of the salt farm has dropped. Li Shanchang has been fierce in the salt farm.

He Zhaoyi used Minmin as a cover to successfully put refined salt into the grain. With Minmin's support, the grain can make a profit, and refined salt can make a pot full of money. Taking advantage of the reasonable requirements of protecting He Zhaoyi, Zhang Yang successfully inserted his people into most of the capital and laid out chess pieces in advance.

"The lord returned to Xinghua this time. I heard that the sister-in-law is going to give birth?" Luo Guanzhong asked.

"Yes, I hope it's a dragon." Shi Nai'an said.

There are only two people present, and the two are masters and apprentices. Some words have no scruples. They are now helping Zhang Yang to fight the world, just to assist him to ascend to the Ninth Five-Year Plan. I'm afraid this is also the idea of many people.

Luo Guanzhong nodded, I hope so!

Suddenly, "Boom!" With a loud noise, a fire of several feet was ignited in the dark night sky, accompanied by a huge explosion.

The two were shocked at the same time: the arsenal exploded?

(to be continued)