Chapter 137 Acceptance

After Xiao Tianjian arranged these things, he immediately ordered Feng Gouzi to send his men to cross the mountains in advance, dived directly into the territory of Yuanqu County, and began to inquire about all kinds of information there to prepare for the next step.

After the recruitment, the new recruits were immediately taken by Liu Bao to Dongye Town for training, and began to carry out strict training on the new recruits, so that they could basically reach the level of being integrated into the soldiers within two or three months.

In this way, by this time, the total strength of Xing Tianjun has basically reached about 4,000, which is basically the limit of Xiao Tianjian's support.

Although he controls the whole boundary of Yangcheng County, after all, Yangcheng County has a large number of mountains, and the population density is not large. All of them are counted, there are only less than 20,000 local households, the population is only about 80,000, and the arable land area is only more than 200,000 mu. During this period, although there is a continuous influx of people. In the boundary of Yangcheng, he sought the protection of the Xingtian Army and settled here to wait for the division of the field, but it can only accommodate more than 100,000 people, and 100,000 people have to support an army of more than 4,000 people, which is already the limit that the people in his jurisdiction can bear at present.

Therefore, although Xiao Tianjian has the intention to continue to expand the number of soldiers, he has to follow Fu Deming's advice and control the strength of Xing Tianjun according to the current actual situation.

Fortunately, after this battle, the chiefs of each village quickly gathered the young villagers to organize a township army. In this way, the original local garrison could basically be handed over to the township soldiers of these townships and villages, and the main force of the Xingtian Army could free up more things. .

While Xiao Tianjian, Yan Chongxi, Luo Li and others were discussing how to attack Yuanqu County, a piece of news came from Shuangfengzhai, which made Xiao Tianjian immediately leave the matter at hand. With Yan Chongxi, Luo Li and other generals, Pegasus rushed to Shuangfengzhai.

After they arrived at Shuangfengzhai, Zhang Chao excitedly connected them to the village, and Xiao Tianjian walked all the way to check the various situations under Shuangfengzhai.

After walking down this way, Xiao Tianjian was finally satisfied. After more than four months of construction, several key walls of Shuangfengzhai were finally basically completed by this time. Although the wall has not been completely stoned, it is also in the final stage. It is expected that there will be another month. All projects can basically be completed.

And after Yan Chongxi and Luo Li looked at this new burgh-style wall, they also took a cold breath. Such a shaped wall is undoubtedly a terrible thing for people like them.

After looking at this new wall, these generals stood on the offensive side and assumed how they should attack if they attacked Shuangfengzhai. As a result, after thinking about it, they all felt very tricky and couldn't think of a good way to attack Shuangfengzhai at all.

Starting from the foot of the mountain to attack Shuangfengzhai, there are only two or three ways they can attack. In the face of such a fortress wall, no matter where they start, they can't effectively exert their combat power. They can only take the method of adding oil and constantly throw their troops under the wall, and the angular wall, From any angle, you can make a fierce blow to the attacking side.

And the attacking side can't rely on their firepower to suppress the defenders on the wall, so they can only passively be beaten under the wall. If there are no 8,000 people, it is basically unnecessary to think about if they want to capture this Shuangfengzhai, so they know that this kind of village After the wall was planned by Xiao Tianjian, these guys were completely convinced by Xiao Tianjian.

After the generals entered the wall, Xiao Tianjian first asked them to look at the wall and explained the beauty of this wall to them. After listening to it, the generals praised the wall. After figuring out the structure of the wall, Luo Li shouted loudly that he would be stationed here. Just give him 300 troops, which is enough to stop the attack of 10,000 enemy troops.

After Luo Li shouted, it immediately caused everyone to laugh. Xiao Tianjian also laughed and said, "Luo Li is a fierce general. It's no problem to take one hundred, but three hundred to ten thousand, obviously still laugh, but at least according to Shuangfengzhai, it's not a big problem for our soldiers to be one to ten!" I have confidence in this!" After saying that, the generals nodded again and again.

After a few months, Shuangfengzhai has changed dramatically compared with when they first took over here. The original traces of arson by Feng Tiancheng have completely disappeared. All kinds of newly built sheds, houses are one after another, and there are wide passages in the middle, and all kinds of craftsmen. Shuttle between various sheds, all kinds of products are also continuously produced and transported to the warehouse, ready to be used everywhere.

During the

period, the carpentry workshop, mill, cobbler's workshop, gunpowder workshop and ironwork are basically all available, and the craftsmen are also working hard in it.

What gratified Xiao Tianjian most was the dam he planned. So far, it has basically been built. The stream that passed through the mountain was cut into five sections, forming five ladder-shaped pools. The natural spring water continuously flows into the stream, providing a relatively abundant amount of water here and promoting all kinds of The waterwheel keeps running, driving all kinds of new machines, and it seems to be very lively.

The sound of iron work in the back mountain seems to be uninterrupted. The craftsmen are divided into two shifts and busy at their respective workstations in the iron work. All kinds of weapons and agricultural tools are also constantly created in the hands of blacksmiths and transported everywhere to wait for call.

Since the watermill, the working efficiency of the iron work has been continuously improved. It has not only been put into use by the horizontal drilling machine for drilling, but also a hydraulic pestle hammer has also been put into use. The continuous hydraulic pestle has liberated the blacksmith from the heavy work. You only need to clamp the iron blank and put it. On the anvil under the pestle, the forging of iron parts can be easily completed, which greatly improves the efficiency and saves a lot of manpower.

Originally, it was not possible to produce two or three birds in a day. After having these simple hydraulic machines, the work efficiency has also increased significantly. Now the output of the new bird is basically enough to produce ten birds per day. Although the daily output is not large, three can be produced in a month. Four hundred qualified new bird gun, so that Xing Tianjun has been equipped with more than 500 new bird gun pieces in the army during this period, which has greatly enhanced the strength of Xing Tianjun's firepower output. At the same time, the original all kinds of messy bird gun have been eliminated from the army. With the remaining materials, they have been distributed to the village and township soldiers, in addition to understanding It has solved the problem of the unification of the equipment of the Xingtian Army, which reduces the difficulty of logistical support, so that the fixed paper shell bombs can be uniformly distributed, and also greatly enhances the combat effectiveness of the local township soldiers.

Not to mention that the bird gun will continue to increase the equipment in the Xingtian Army in the future. Only the existing number, it also makes the Xingtian Army exceed the bird gun equipment of many regular officers in the equipment of the bird gun, making the fire gun hand become the most important arm of the Xingtian Army. The original army So far, Xiao Tianjian decided to withdraw all the crossbows and distribute them to local armed forces, greatly simplifying the configuration of weapons in the army.

The next production of bird gun is not only to be equipped in the army, but Xiao Tianjian also made a decision that even the new barracks need a large number of equipment to solve the problem that during the drill period of the new barracks, there is no bird gun for the training of new recruits. He began to train qualified firemen directly from the new barracks, so that they can turn into battle after training. When you are in the army, you can directly become a qualified soldier, instead of waiting for the new soldier to arrive in the army, and then choose someone to transfer training, so that after the new soldier enters the army, he can directly go to the battle to kill the enemy and shorten the training cycle of the fire.

Of course, if it is produced at such a speed, the bird gun of Xing Tianjun's equipment can quickly reach saturation, but Xiao Tianjian does not mind producing more bird gun as a reserve. After all, the current materials used in bird gun are not as good as the gun barrel materials of later generations. Each barrel has a life of two or three hundred rounds. After the battle, it is basically scrapped, so it is impossible to produce enough for the present alone. Therefore, for a long time in the future, the production of birds will not stop. A large number of weapons will be produced as a strategic reserve for future military expansion at any time, and ready-made weapons reserves can be used at any time.

However, in terms of the current production capacity of Shuangfengzhai, Xiao Tianjian also knows that he has reached the limit of his production potential. If he wants to expand it again, it is not a problem of insufficient raw materials, but a limit on the number of craftsmen, which makes him want to continue to increase production at present, basically reaching a bottleneck state, as you want. If we continue to improve, we need to cultivate another batch of blacksmiths who can build birds, and the cultivation of blacksmiths is not something that can be solved overnight, and it requires a lot of financial support. Next, he has to take time to find a way to develop pyrographs. It's really time!

However, this time Xiao Tianjian came here with his generals. He did not come to inspect the production situation, but Gao Su, who had been tossing for months, finally tried out the first bronze three-pound gun of Xing Tianjun, and the test shot was successful. Then he quickly notified Xiao Tianjian to come to accept it, so there was Xiao Tian. Jian took his hands on this trip in his busy schedule.

When everyone passed through the iron work and came to Gao Su's cannon work, Gao Su had already packed his clothes and hats neatly and waited here, with a proud look on his face, as if he were offering a treasure, and his chin involuntarily raised.

Originally, Gao Su promised Xiao Tianjian that he could cast a qualified bronze three-pound cannon for Xiao Tianjian within three months. However, due to the lack of preparation at the beginning, this man was very fine. Everything had to be done from the beginning. In addition, the copperware brought back by Xing Tianjun was unevenly made of materials. After melting, the bronze ratio It failed to meet Gao Su's requirements, so the three-pound guns initially cast could not be used effectively due to quality reasons. Moreover, during the test, there was a bomb accident. In addition to injuring a craftsman, even Gao Su himself was almost killed on the spot. As a result, he was laughed at by Yang Changshou.

For this reason, Gao Su was also very scared. He was afraid that Xiao Tianjian would be angry and killed him. However, after the accident was reported to Xiao Tianjian, Xiao Tianjian just said lightly, "Failure is the mother of success!" Everything is difficult at the beginning. As long as you work harder, I believe that Gao Su will succeed!" As a result, after receiving Xiao Tianjian's message, Gao Su finally breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time, he was very grateful to Xiao Tianjian, so he immediately took his men and continued to recast the new cannon day and night, and finally cast the first qualified bronze cannon at the beginning of May. After the test, no matter the power was It was the range, which was comparable to the three-pound cannon he used in China, so he quickly asked Zhang Chao to send someone to inform Xiao Tianjian.

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