54 Li Zixiao designed a new type of artillery carriage

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However, Li Zixiao's expansion of strength is not just a matter of recruiting troops, equipment, grain, and armor must be solved.

And to solve these things, he can't do it slowly on his own, he must go to build more of the old wealth of the village, and get more money, food and materials from him.

Now is the best time, so Li Zixiao is making intensive arrangements for this, releasing news everywhere, collecting displaced people, and at the same time blackmailing the surrounding big households to provide him with food and straw to support him to complete this plan.

If those big families knew that Li Zixiao was taking the grain and materials they gave, training his subordinates, and preparing to deal with them, it is estimated that these people would have to eat Li Zixiao's heart alive.

Li Zixiao also felt that it was unkind and righteous to do this, but if you want to achieve a hegemony in this troubled world, you have to do something and not do something, and there is nothing to say about benevolence and righteousness with these landlords and old wealthy.

When these landlords exploited the poor peasants, they did not pay any attention to benevolence and righteousness.

So Li Zixiao felt a little guilty in his heart, and after seeing the homeless people outside who were not covered and hungry, they all disappeared completely.

At least if he is allowed to control this area, he dares to guarantee that all the displaced people here will have clothing, food, and fields, and only if they have a pair of industrious hands, they will not be starved to death again.

In order for more poor people to have a way to live, and to get rid of those landlords and old rich people who eat fat intestines and pig brains, Li Zixiao instantly felt that he was carrying out an extremely great cause.

Well, to put it bluntly, Li Zixiao is like expanding his power for himself, looking for a suitable reason to defeat those big towns, so that he can feel some comfort in his heart.

As a traverser, Li Zixiao had also seen a lot of things about Li Zicheng in his previous life, and he very much disagreed with Li Zicheng's wandering behavior, and knew that as a force to rebel, the base area was very crucial.

In fact, Li Zicheng in history is not because he doesn't want to establish a base area that he can control, but because his reputation is too great, the officials and the army have been eyeing him from the beginning, and the army has encircled and suppressed him, and he has not been given the opportunity to establish his own territory at all.

The officials and soldiers came to encircle and suppress him, but he couldn't beat him, of course, he could only flee, otherwise he would not be beheaded by the officials and soldiers, in fact, his way of running around and coercing the people was really no way.

It wasn't until later that Li Zicheng led people to conquer Luoyang and obtained a large amount of money, food, materials and ordnance, which gave him the strength to compete head-on with the official army.

Now Li Zixiao is not as famous as Li Zicheng, and he will not attract the imperial army like a rotten egg like a fly.

There are two old brothers, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, blocking the gun, which attracts the attention of the imperial army, which just gives Li Zixiao peace of mind to get a piece of his own base area.

Although the Ming Dynasty was already full of holes in this era, Li Zixiao knew that the Ming Dynasty was far from exhausting its vitality at present, and the hundred-legged insect was dead but not stiff.

The strength of the Ming Dynasty is at least now with the strength of Li Zicheng's righteous army, which is far from being able to shake him, so at the moment he is only silently developing his strength and waiting for the time to come.

After the previous recruits went through this battle, they were immediately incorporated into the battle team by Li Zixiao, and after such a baptism of blood, these people were able to adapt to the bloodiness of the battlefield.

At this time, Li Zixiao had a total of four teams of soldiers, plus a team of scouts, a total of about 450 people, all of whom were veterans who had experienced a war and had seen blood.

These veterans who have seen battles have gone to the battlefield, and Li Zixiao doesn't have to worry too much about them collapsing, which can be regarded as the strongest combat power in his hands at this time.

Li Zixiao gave priority to all the resources in his hands to them, and good equipment and weapons were also selected for them first, and the food was also the most abundant for these soldiers, and they basically had meat at every meal.

Li Zixiao didn't plan to pay attention to fairness, after all, when a battle started, it was these soldiers who rushed to the front, and these could be regarded as people's lives in exchange.

As for the five hundred recruits that Li Zixiao had just recruited, they were all put into the recruit camp by Li Zixiao and were undergoing the most basic training.

A general in history once said that a soldier who has not passed the test of blood and fire cannot become a qualified soldier after all, and only by letting soldiers on the battlefield can they truly mature.

Although the training time for recruits is still short, and many subjects have not yet been practiced, Li Zixiao has no more time to train them slowly, and only let them grow in battle.

What's more, the power of his spear phalanx has been tested many times, as long as he doesn't encounter an enemy army that is too strong, it is really not easy to defeat his spear array.

What's more, now that in addition to pikemen, he has also selected a group of knife players who dare to fight in close combat, and with his javelin tactics, his melee combat ability is no longer a concern.

In addition, Li Zixiao's defeat of the officers and soldiers allowed him to obtain a batch of bird guns and form a musket team, plus the more than 20 skilled archers, which had allowed his team to obtain a certain amount of long-range firepower.

There are those six artillery pieces, such a quality of equipment, not to mention these strands of poles around them, even the 700 officers and soldiers of the Suiyang Guard Station before are far from them.

In terms of armor, he can't completely solve it for his subordinates at the moment, although some have been captured after several battles during this time, and he has also made some simple armor by himself with the materials sent by the landlord Lao Cai, which can be regarded as obtaining a batch of armor.

But these armors are basically still cotton armor and leather armor, some cotton armor is decorated with a little iron sheet, even if it is iron armor, the shape is different, it is very mixed, and the number is only less than 100 sets.

It was only enough for Li Zixiao's officers and elite soldiers, so when distributing these armors, he also had a lot of brains.

In the end, Li Zixiao still relied on the accumulated combat exploits of all his soldiers, and also used the armor as a reward, and issued it to those who dared to fight, these people were the backbone of his team and deserved the best protection.

In fact, when Li Zixiao promoted his subordinates to serve as army commanders and even grassroots officers, he was also based on his military exploits, and these subordinates were no longer surprised.

After he was so distributed, the big guys didn't have anything to say, where were the war exploits, the veterans killed a lot of enemies, and they dared to use their lives, and those who didn't have military merits naturally didn't have to think about it.

Life is a thing, it depends on yourself, the more afraid you are of death, the faster you will die, everyone in the veteran says so, if you want to live, you must dare to fight hard.

With combat exploits, you can naturally receive armor, and when you go into battle, you will have an extra layer of protection, and this truth has been instilled by Li Zixiao again and again, and has been recognized by the generals under his command.

Because of the increase in the number of artillery, now Li Zixiao's artillery team has finally grown again, for which he specially transferred a group of recruits and handed them over to Sun Dazhuang to lead, and he taught these recruits to use artillery.

Each artillery is equipped with ten people, responsible for carrying the materials used in various artillery, although the total number of people is a bit large, but Li Zixiao is not afraid of wasting manpower now, and it will be used by many homeless people outside the mountain every day, making it much easier for him to replenish the soldiers.

These people can follow those old gunners to learn artillery operation techniques, and when Li Zixiao gets new artillery and expands his artillery team in the future, these people will be reserve talents.

In this way, there will be no dilemma of waiting for his men to have more cannons, but there is no manpower to use them, Li Zixiao believes that he would rather let people wait for cannons than let cannons wait.

Hey? Li Zixiao always felt that this sentence was so familiar, as if he had heard others talk about it before, but he couldn't remember it anymore, but he used it if it made sense.

In addition, Li Zixiao also gave these gunners a waist knife, so that they can protect themselves when necessary, and there is no need to send knife players to protect them, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

The power of these two artillery pieces, such as the Furlong machine and the Tiger Squat Cannon, is still very impressive in this era, but Li Zixiao is the only one who is very dissatisfied with the operation and transportation of these guns.

The Tiger Squat Cannon was just that, it was originally a light close-fire artillery, similar to a mortar, and two soldiers could take it away, but he was not satisfied with the transportation operation of the three Furlong machines.

Although the medium-sized Furlong machine equipped by the Ming army was sharp, the gun carriage was very problematic, and the march was carried in large carts.

However, when it is used on the battlefield, it needs to be lifted down and placed on a wooden quadrangular frame gun mount, and even the procedure of adjusting the shooting height and aiming is very cumbersome and troublesome.

The transition of marching operations is also very complicated, and it takes a long time to complete the transformation of marching operations, and when the battle is about to happen, such a slow action is likely to delay the fighters, and things like this are unacceptable to Li Zixiao.

After carefully observing the three Furlong machine guns, Li Zixiao found that the Furlong machine guns used by the Ming army were still reassuring in terms of casting quality.

After all, this thing is no better than ordinary birds, and the Ming Dynasty's attention to artillery is much higher than these muskets, and cannons belong to the country's heavy weapons.

Therefore, the casting of artillery is cast by the Imperial Court Military Bureau, and there is no problem in quality, and the workmanship is also very rigorous and meticulous.

In this way, there is no need to worry too much about the accident of the explosion when using it, and the shape is also relatively standardized, and there are cannon ears on both sides of the gun chamber, which makes Li Zixiao very satisfied.

As long as these Furlong machines run with cannon ears, it is easy to do, in that way, these Furlong cannons will have room for transformation, Li Zixiao suddenly had an idea in his heart after looking around a Furlong cannon for a long time.

So he immediately summoned Old Master Wei, selected a few carpenters, and then drew a simple diagram with his own hands and handed it to these carpenters.

They were ordered to rebuild three new sets of gun carriages on wheels within three days using the wheels and axles of some large carts.

Designing this kind of gun carriage with wheels is not a difficult thing for Li Zixiao, a traverser.

In his previous life, Li Zixiao was a fan of history and military affairs, and he was still relatively familiar with those ancient artillery or something.

So designing a gun mount was a piece of cake for him.

After several carpenters looked at the paper drawn by Li Zixiao, after listening to Li Zixiao's order, they didn't dare to slack off, and began to work without saying a word.

This time, after defeating the officers and soldiers, they seized a lot of carts left behind, and after finding two sturdy carts and dismantling them, they started working overnight using the solid timber they had at hand.

Li Zixiao originally asked for three days to make a gun carriage with wheels, but the carpenters rushed to work overnight and built it in only two days.

Immediately, under the personal command of Li Zixiao, Sun Dazhuang took his men and these carpenters to lift the two Furlong cannons on top of the new gun carriage he designed.

The gun lugs on both sides of the Furlong machine were just fixed on the supporting gun carriage, and the top was fixed with iron bolts, and a new type of marching gun was announced.

This kind of artillery carriage, which was slightly modified by Li Zixiao, is divided into two parts, the front half is the gun carriage for reloading artillery, and the second half is an ammunition truck loaded with sub-gun ammunition.

Without modifying the guns themselves, the two Furlong guns were immediately rebranded after a few changes to the gun carriage and a little maintenance of the gun body.

The Furlong machine, which was originally very troublesome to convert on the march, was suddenly much more convenient to use after this transformation.

When not fighting, but on the march, the artillery cart is hung on the ammunition cart in front, and the ammunition cart can be easily dragged by two mules or donkeys.

When the battle is about to go, as soon as the hook attached to the gunpowder cart is removed, the gun can be converted to combat status as soon as it turns around.

Relying on the gunner, the gun cart can be pushed into the position, and after pulling the mule away, the ammunition cart will follow, and the combat preparations can be completed quickly.

"This is an eye-opener, our big boss is really amazing! This Furlong machine is put on this kind of gun carriage designed by the big boss, it is really easy to use~!

The Furlong machine is really easy to use on this kind of gun carriage, which saves the cumbersome steps of moving and erecting the gun before, and directly shortens it for a long time.

If this is pulled out to fight, if anyone goes against us, if they don't wait for them to fiddle with the cannon, our side will already open fire. It's amazing. ”

Sun Dazhuang stood on top of this wheeled gun carriage with a Furlong cannon, his eyes lit up, rubbed his hands, and said excitedly.

Sun Dazhuang has been tinkering with artillery with him since he was a child, and he has long been too proficient in artillery, and he can see at a glance at this time that this kind of gun carriage with wheels designed by Li Zixiao brings convenience benefits.

Just when Sun Dazhuang rubbed his hands, he was about to try to add this new gun carriage in person, how good the Furlong machine was at this time.

"Stinky boy, stand aside and let Lao Tzu take a look."

Who knew the movement here, even his old man Sun Tong was alarmed, Sun Tao pushed Sun Dazhuang away, and swaggered to the front.

There is no way, don't look at Sun Dazhuang at this time, he was young and young, and he became the captain of Li Zixiao's artillery team, and his subordinates were in charge of dozens of people, but in front of him Lao Tzu, he still didn't dare to be presumptuous.

"Yes, the Furlong machine is placed on this new gun carriage, and even the operation of the gun is much more convenient, and there is no need to worry about the gun carriage being overturned, and even aiming is much easier and faster.

Stinky boy, what are you still doing there, hurry up and familiarize yourself with this new artillery carriage, see how to get this thing, and try to be proficient in it.

In two days, when the big boss will take you out to fight the landlords and old wealthy, if you embarrass Lao Tzu, see if Lao Tzu does not dismantle your bones. ”

Sun Tong kicked Sun Dazhuang and scolded him harshly.

"Haha, that's a good thing! The big boss deserves to be the big boss, this head is better than the average person, I have been thinking of this idea for decades, why didn't I think of it! ”

Sun Tong surrounded like a top, these two new Furlong machine gun cars were spinning around, looking at this and touching that, the more he looked at it, the more he felt that the design of this car was very reasonable, and said in admiration.