Song Yingxing pointed to the muddy water stream in front of him and said: "A dam can be built here, the project will not be too arduous, and the amount of water here is also large, and the upstream rainfall is abundant, and the flow will not be interrupted, which can provide large-scale forging equipment." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

The upper reaches of Turbidity Creek are located in the middle of Alishan, in the eastern part of Taiwan Island. In the mountainous area of the eastern part of Taiwan Island, the annual rainfall can reach 6,000 millimeters, which is very abundant to ensure that the flow of the muddy water stream will not be interrupted. Sufficient water can ensure the use of hydraulic machinery all year round.

The biggest weakness of using hydraulic resources is that the reliability is not as good as that of the steam engine, the amount of water in the river varies throughout the year, and it is difficult to ensure that there is enough water to provide hydraulic machinery in the dry season of autumn and winter.

If you choose large rivers such as the Qiantang River, the Min River, and the Pearl River, the difficulty of building large dams exceeds the technical strength of this era, and it is simply impossible to complete the project. The muddy water stream is chosen, the water here is abundant, the width of the stream is not very wide, the water is not very deep, the project difficulty is not large, and it belongs to the acceptable range.

Song Yingxing decided to build a dam more than 30 zhang long and 2 zhang high in a tributary of the middle reaches of the Turbid Water Creek, so that a reservoir could be formed one zhang and five feet above the ground. In addition, this is the middle reach, the forest was not developed, the soil and water are well preserved, and it is a tributary, so it is not prone to natural disasters such as floods.

Song Yingxing carefully considered the terrain selection of the factory area, because he chose a relatively open basin, and the surrounding mountains are not high, which is not prone to disasters such as landslides.

"Do we have enough of them now?" Wang Xinyu asked.

Song Yingxing replied: "We have recruited 3,000 local natives, and there are 5,000 slaves sent from Nanyang, and there is still a gap of 2,000 people. ”

"It doesn't matter if there are two thousand people missing, let Liu Qi capture more natives from Java Island to be slaves. There are not too many slaves, and there is enough food here in this domain for them to eat! As long as you can get things done! Wang Xinyu nodded.

In the afternoon, Wang Xinyu and Song Yingxing returned to the Dongfan Gun Factory in the northeast of Anping City.

After inquiring about Dai Cang, who was the director of the Gun Factory, Wang Xinyu learned that the Dongfan Gun Factory could now produce more than 1,000 flintlock guns, more than 1,500 bayonets, 500 sets of armor, and 2,000 sets of cold weapons such as knives and halberds every month. The monthly output produces four heavy guns of more than 12 pounds, 30 guns of less than 6 pounds, two swarm of bee fire vans, and three thunderbolt fire vans. The production of the new three-pounder hexagonal front-loading rifled guns is two in three months, and the output of the new front-loading rifled naval guns is one in three months.

The monthly output of the new firing needle-type Thunderbolt short gun is two, and the monthly output of rifled guns is ten, but it is still impossible to equip rifled guns on a large scale.

The production of various ammunition, ammunition supplied to smoothbore guns and smoothbore guns was sufficient, and large quantities of sulfur and saltpeter were imported from Japan, which were able to meet the production of gunpowder. However, the production of new types of ammunition is still insufficient, because the production process of new types of ammunition is extremely complex, and the new types of gunpowder made by artisanal laboratory methods simply do not meet the requirements.

"The production of flintlock pistols is still too low, and every time the war ends, there are weapons damaged in peacetime training, and five or six hundred flintlock pistols are scrapped every month." Wang Xinyu said.

Dai Cang asked someone to bring a musket and presented it with both hands.

Wang Xinyu took the gun and looked through it in his hand: "Isn't this the bird gun we captured from the Tartars?" Strange, why is there no arquebus? ”

Dai Cang replied with a smile: "It is a bird gun captured from the Tartars, and we have selected some of the better ones, which have been modified to become flintlock pistols. ”

In fact, the technique of changing the bird gun into a flintlock pistol is not complicated, as long as the arquebus hook device is changed to a hammer and flint, and then equipped with a card holder that can hang a bayonet, other aspects are not very different. The production of guns of this modification is much larger, which can make up for the lack of flintlock guns.

The most difficult thing to make in those days was the barrel of a musket. With the method of modifying the arquebus, the most difficult barrel did not need to be rebuilt, but only the firing device and bayonet mount were made. With such a modified gun, about a thousand units can be produced per month.

Dai Cang continued: "Dog Zi and Xu Gongzi also imitated three drilling machines, which can pull out eighteen barrels every month. Some flintlock guns of good quality, we will pull out the rifling and turn them into rifled guns. ”

This is also a modification to turn an ordinary smoothbore gun into a rifled gun. Just pick some of the best quality smoothbore guns, pull out the rifling, and you can turn into flintlock guns. This method of modification is also much faster than other rifled guns, and can equip a larger number of sharpshooters.

The Qing army has already begun to enter the semi-firearms, and it can be expected that in future wars, the Qing army will also adopt the method of lining up to shoot and fight with the Ming army.

At this time, as long as Wang Xinyu was equipped with rifled gunners, who accounted for one-tenth of the number of musketeers, he could use rifled guns to hit the battle line of the Qing musketeers from a distance, so that the morale of the Qing musketeers collapsed, and they could not form a formation to line up to be shot. Next, the Ming army marched in formation, concentrated firepower with a neat formation, and gave full play to the advantages of smoothbore guns, and won in one fell swoop.

In addition, rifled guns are also aimed at the nemesis of mounted shooting.

The Eight Banners charged on horseback, dismounted and shot arrows, and the range of the rifle bow exceeded that of the smoothbore gun. However, the range of rifled guns far exceeded the range of bows and arrows, and rifled gunners could shoot the dismounted Eight Banners soldiers from a distance.

It's a pity that the technical content of the Mini bullet is relatively high, and there is no way to equip the Mini bullet at present. That kind of bottom expansion projectile will have problems such as unstable rotation and lead hanging rifling, and only a more advanced level of technology can be produced. It is precisely because of the complexity of the technology that Wang Xinyu decided not to engage in mini bullets, and when the technical conditions are ripe in the future, he will directly load the breech gun.

Lifting the breech gun, Dai Cang said: "The production of the electric gun has been stopped, the cost is too high, and the power is not great. ”

The breech gun technology is not mature enough, and this miniature version of the Franc machine has the shortcomings of serious air leakage, too close range, little power, and too high cost.

Dai Cang and his son once experimented with rifling to increase the accuracy and power of the bullet. However, once this musket with serious air leakage is rifled, the bullet becomes less powerful! Because of the serious gas leakage, the propulsion generated by gunpowder and gas is seriously insufficient, and the resistance increases after the barrel is rifled, the thrust of gunpowder and gas cannot make the bullet increase to a higher speed, and a considerable part of the gas leaks out from the top of the magazine cover, which may burn the gunner.

"Now that this weapon has been abolished, what will replace it?" Wang Xinyu asked.

Dai Cang replied: "Replace it with the new Thunderbolt Short Gun, because the new Thunderbolt Short Gun has rifling, and the range and power have surpassed the original electric switch, and it is light and short, making it easier to carry." ”

The Thunderbolt has the same problem of air leakage, but the barrel is short, and the resistance of the bullet in the barrel is not too large, so there will be no serious problem like the electric gun.

Song Yingxing smiled bitterly: "They all use firing needle-type firearms, and the demand for lei mercury is too great!" At present, the LIU acid plant is not completed, where are there so many firing bullets that can be used in the night? ”

Dai Cang smiled, and asked someone to fetch a new double-barreled firecracker.

"This is a rear-loading smoothbore gun, which takes rear reloading, the rate of fire is much faster, and the air leakage is not so serious. It is still being tested, and if it is feasible, it can be engraved with rifling to increase the range, accuracy and power. Dai Cang introduced this musket to Wang Xinyu and Song Yingxing.

Wang Xinyu picked up the double-barreled smoothbore gun, and under Dai Cang's introduction, pressed the butt and the barrel, the barrel was facing the ground, and the butt and the barrel were separated, revealing two holes in the back chamber.

"This is a pre-loaded paper bullet, the front is a warhead, and the inside is a granular black HUO drug, which is filled with primer at the tail of the paper cartridge case, and after the bullet is loaded, a hole is pierced at the tail of the bullet with a sharp cone to expose the primer, and then the gun is closed, and the primer at the tail of the bullet will be automatically embedded into the primer pool. Then the trigger is pulled, the hammer and flint strike, the primer is ignited, and the bullet is fired. Dai Cang explained how to use this musket.

This double-barreled smoothbore gun, the loading method is somewhat similar to the later double-barreled shotgun, except that it is not a firing needle, it is still a flintlock pistol, so the process of loading bullets has one more step than a double-barreled shotgun to pierce the tail of the bullet with a sharp cone. But even so, the reload speed is still very fast.

With this musket, a skilled gunner could fire more than six rounds a minute, much faster than a front-loading flintlock pistol. It's just that with the current technology, the rear-loading gun still has the problem of air leakage, so the barrel can't be too long, and the bullet power won't be too great. If rifling is engraved, the bullet is a little more powerful than the Thunderbolt, but it is still far inferior to the front-loading rifled gun.

A front-loading rifled gun can shoot two hundred paces, that is, close to three hundred meters. And this double-barreled flintlock pistol, after rifling, has a range of about 100 paces, which is a little farther than a bow and arrow, but it still cannot be used as a sniper rifle.

"The price of the double-barreled firearm is still expensive, and the price of the bullet is also expensive, so it cannot be mass-produced, but it is still good as a medium-range suppression weapon that does not close the team at night." Wang Xinyu stroked the musket.

It can be said that the night team has the longest-range front-loading rifled gun, the new Thunderbolt short gun with a very fast rate of fire at close range, and the double-barreled musket at medium distance, so it is completely crushing for the sentry cavalry of the Qing army.

In the future, the Northern Expedition will enter the northern plains to fight. Once in the plains, skirmishes between sentry and sentry become very important. Before the Qing army entered the customs, several Houjin entered the customs and looted, and the Ming army and the Houjin army fought and suffered losses, mainly because the Houjin army shielded the Ming army on the battlefield.

The Houjin scout cavalry were the most elite warriors in the Eight Banners Army, and their mission was not only to spy on the military situation and understand the movements of the Ming army, but also to hunt down the Ming army's sentinels.

As a result, the Ming army sentry cavalry could not approach the Houjin army at all, on the battlefield, the Houjin army was one-way transparent to the Ming army, and the Houjin army knew the movements of the Ming army well, but the Ming army was like a fool and a deaf man, how could he not suffer a loss in such a battle.

Now Wang Xinyu is trying to improve the weapons and equipment that are not collected at night, that is, he wants to use weapons to crush the sentry cavalry of the Eight Banners. With these sophisticated equipment, entering the Central Plains in the future will be one-way transparency from the Ming army to the Qing army, and the Qing army's scout cavalry will be hunted and killed, and a group will die when they come out, and it will be impossible to spy on the intelligence of the Ming army.

On the other hand, the Ming army had night sentry horses on the ground, hot air balloons in the air, and spies inside the enemy, and every move of the Qing army could not escape the eyes of the Ming army.

When he was discussing the improvement of weapons with Song Yingxing, Dai Cang and others, someone outside came to report: "Report to the commander!" The envoy of the Tokugawa family of the Wakuni has arrived! I want to see the big handsome! ”

"The Tokugawa family? We were all in contact with the Satsuma Domain, and it was the Satsuma Domain that opened the port and opened the sea trade, and the Edo Shogunate closed off the country and forbade our ships from entering their ports, so why did they send people? Wang Xinyu felt very strange.

When I returned to Anping Castle, I saw a little Lori wearing a kimono, about thirteen or fourteen years old, and more than a dozen samurai had been waiting in the castle for a long time. Of course, the martial arts of the Japanese warriors were not low, and for the sake of insurance, all the Japanese warriors surrendered their weapons before entering Wang Xinyu's office.

When the little loli saw Wang Xinyu, she bowed ninety degrees and introduced herself in fluent Chinese: "The little woman Eagle Division Nobuko, the daughter of the Eagle Division Left Minister Fang, and the cousin of His Majesty the current Emperor Dongying. ”

Wang Xinyu looked at the little Lori carefully, and saw that this little girl had better skin than snow, very big eyes, a little baby fat on her face, and she looked very cute. The only drawback is that he is a little shorter, less than 1.5 meters. But that's not a disadvantage.,Short.,A little baby fat.,It looks like a child who doesn't grow up.,It's very satisfying for all Lolita's requirements.。

It's huge, at least there's e! Looks a lot like Ai Shinozaki! What a pink little Lori! It's so cute! Wang Xinyu thought secretly in his heart.

However, if Wang Xinyu knows a little more about the Tokugawa shogunate, he will know that Takashi Nobuko is actually very high in martial arts, she is a female samurai, and she is the daughter of the Tokugawa noble Takashi family. In fact, the Tokugawa family also has a marriage relationship with the Japanese emperor, for example, this Eagle Division Nobuko saw the female emperor of Akimasa, and wanted to call her cousin, the female emperor of Akimasa is the daughter of Tokugawa Kazuko, and the female emperor is the granddaughter of Tokugawa Tadahide.

Empress Meisho has abdicated and her younger brother has succeeded her, but now that her brother is dead, the current reigning Emperor Lingyuan is Emperor Lingyuan.

If it is about seniority, the current emperor will call Aunt Takaji Nobuko.

The Zheng family and the Tokugawa family rarely had contact, and the Tokugawa family sent a messenger, and it was a little Lori, which made Wang Xinyu a little confused.

Nobuko Takashi suddenly knelt on the ground and begged, "General! Only you can save us Japan! The Dutch are coming to Japan! They've hit Edo Castle! ”

When he asked about the situation, Wang Xinyu realized that after the Dutch left the waters of Guangdong and Fujian, they sailed directly to Japan, all the way over, and cleaned up the Japanese sailors. The Dutch navy went to the Satsuma Domain to plunder, and that's not all, and went straight to Edo, the headquarters of the Tokugawa shogunate! (To be continued.) )