In the rifling workshop of the Shanghai Gun Factory, the steam engine made a deafening roar, and the smoothbore guns were disassembled by the workers, and the barrels were heated on the stove, and then copied on the machine tools, and the machine tools driven by the steam engine rotated and pulled out the rifling wires in the barrels. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Mini bullet workshop, the rear-loading rifled gun workshop and the rear-loading paper bullet workshop are also busy, and the brand-new guns and ammunition are coming off the assembly line.

Newly produced Mini rounds, breech-loading rifled guns, breech-loading paper bullets, and freshly drawn rifled rifled guns are temporarily stored in the factory's warehouses, and when a certain amount is accumulated, these new weapons will be sent to the front.

In addition to producing new muskets and retrofitting old muskets, the gun factory also produces a large number of ultimate front-loading smoothbore guns.

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Fengyangzhu Town, which is a town named after the pearl harvesting of mussels, the Huai River flows through here. During the Song Dynasty, the Yellow River seized the Huai River into the sea, causing the lower reaches of the Huai River to be filled with sediment. In the Ming Dynasty, the Yellow River returned to its original course, but the lower reaches of the Huai River were filled with sediment, and the water of the Huai River could only be filled into Hongze Lake, and then into the sea through a number of small rivers.

Zhu Town, which was later the location of Bengbu City, was only a small market town by the Huai River at this time.

The spies of the Qing army have long found out that the end of the railway line built by the Qiongzhou army is in this town. After the analysis of Qing court officials and Qing army generals, once the railway line was completed, the sailors of the Ming army could take a train to the Huai River, and then put large and small warships into the Huai River, and then they could go down the river and capture Hongze Lake, first remove the threat of the hanging lake on the ground, and then open up the canal channel. Once the canal is opened, it will be the day of the large-scale northern expedition of the Qiongzhou army.

The small town of Zhuzhen became a heavy gathering place for the Qing army, with more than 50,000 green battalion Qing soldiers and more than 100,000 people gathered here, which was used to block the railway line from the south from reaching this place.

At the gate of the Qing army barracks, the Qing soldiers who had just had lunch walked out of the camp gate and went to the riverbank and woods to cool off. Located in the subtropical high-pressure area, the weather is unusually hot in summer, and at noon, there is no room for people in the stuffy tents, and the Qing soldiers who have had lunch can only go to the woods by the river to cool off.

On the edge of the Huai River, there are dense towering trees growing on the embankment, and the Qing soldiers sit in the shade of the trees and talk to each other.

"Minggou's land battleship is really powerful! If we let Minggou's land warship come here, can we stop it? A Qing soldier who looked to be twenty-five or sixteen years old said.

A Qing soldier with a beard on the side said: "Minggou's land battleship is powerful, but if you leave the railway, the land battleship can't run!" As long as we stop Minggou from building the road and prevent them from repairing the railway line here, Minggou's land warships will naturally not be able to come. ”

"Yes!" A Qing soldier who looked like a very long man said, "The road leading to us here has been dug with potholes, and there are trenches and earth walls everywhere. ”

"If Minggou gathers a large army and attacks with all his might, can we hold it?" The young Qing soldier who spoke just now asked tremblingly.

The Qing army slapped the young Qing soldier on the back of the head: "You don't have a long mind? The weather is so hot, will Ming Dog come to fight? When Minggou sets out after the autumn, our reinforcements will arrive! ”

Before the autumn, there will be a group of Manchurian, Mongolian and Han Eight Banner soldiers stationed in North Korea, and the North Korean Eight Banners and the North Korean Green Battalion will be transferred to Fengyang. After the Qing army stationed in Korea returned to the capital not long ago, Tuhai made a new arrangement, he transferred the main force to Baoding, which was used to block Wu Sangui's Northern Expedition, and then dispatched a part of the troops, together with the Shandong Green Battalion, to Fengyang to block the Ming army.

Within ten miles south of Zhuzhen, the Qing army dug five trenches that were more than 20 miles long, one zhang wide and six feet deep, and there was an earthen wall behind each trench, and the earthen wall was made of the soil dug out of the trench, the earthen wall was six feet high, one zhang wide, and a wooden fence was set on it. On the earthen wall, a wooden tower was built every 100 steps.

Trenches and earthen walls formed fortifications to prevent the Ming army from building the railway line here.

Fifteen miles away from the camp of the Qing army, the railway soldiers of the Qiongzhou army have built the railway line here, but the ground in front of the Qing army has been dug into potholes, densely laid plum blossom piles, deer stones, and horses, and a little further is the trench dug by the Qing army, the earthen city built, there are more than 50,000 green battalion Qing troops and more than 100,000 people stationed here.

"The Tartars in front have built the defense line impregnable, and our railroad soldiers have nothing to do!" The railroad soldier raised his head and glanced at the Qing army defense line in front of him.

Although Nian Yaoling used to be a soldier of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, after he was captured for more than two years, after brainwashing education and labor reform, he has been fully integrated into the big team of railway soldiers. The railroad soldiers also had a holiday, and during the holiday, he took the train to Pukou, and then crossed the river to Nanjing, where he met his father Nian Zhonglong.

Along the railway line, he was deeply touched by what he saw and heard, and the earth-shaking changes on both sides of the railway line made him feel the infinite power of industrial machines.

After the vacation was over, after returning to the team, Nian Yaoling began to really reflect on himself, for the Qing court in the north, he changed from hope to contempt, he thought that the Tartar court in the north would be defeated, and the last one to win the world must be Wang Yu!

Although the camp of the railway soldiers is only a line away from the defense line of the Qing army, the iron armor fire dragon of the Ming army is parked in the camp of the railway soldiers, and the Qing army is afraid of the powerful power of this land warship, so they do not dare to attack the camp of the railway soldiers.

The general of the railway soldiers glanced at the Qing army's defense line in front: "The Tartars are building the defense line impregnable, but if our main army arrives, this defense line will only be vulnerable!" ”

"The two Huai admirals have arrived!" At this moment, a long shout came from outside the barracks of the railway soldiers.

Surrounded by a group of pro-soldiers, Wang [Fu] Chen walked over and walked into the railway soldiers' barracks, and the officers and soldiers in the barracks knelt on one knee and saluted with fists folded.

"Brethren! Don't worry, the Tartars in front of us blocked our way, but our commander insisted on opening up the connection with the Wu army, and the day of the Northern Expedition was not far away! As long as our main army arrives, the Tartars on the opposite side are nothing more than local chickens and dogs! The king [auxiliary] shouted loudly.

After Wang [Fu] Chen finished speaking, he turned his head and ordered to his soldiers: "Distribute the new weapons issued to the railway soldiers!" ”

"No!" The soldiers bowed.

The auxiliary soldiers brought by Wang [auxiliary] ministers lifted the straw mats on the cart, took out a flintlock pistol, a double-barreled long gun and other weapons, and distributed them to the railway soldiers. These flintlock pistols and double-barreled longguns were originally the weapons of the king's [auxiliary] soldiers, because his infantry would be replaced with rifled guns, and the cavalry would be replaced with breech-loading guns, so the obsolete weapons were issued to the railroad soldiers.