In the autumn of the eleventh year of Chongzhen, under the command of Governor Hong Chengchou, Shaanxi Governor Sun Chuanting and other officials, as well as the joint attack of various officials and troops of the Ming Dynasty, the various exile armies that were originally across several provinces began to be suppressed.

Many of the displaced people's troops were exterminated by the official army, surrendered or dispersed, and the rest were also squeezed back to the area around the junction of Shaanxi, Sichuan, and Huguang, and the area of activity was extremely compressed, and it was no longer the grand occasion of the past.

However, new rebels are still emerging in various places, spontaneously gathering together, opposing the government, constantly raiding villages and towns, and even attacking prefectures and counties.

But on the whole, the situation of the Wandering People's Army during this period was not optimistic, and the main forces of the Wandering Army, under the suppression of the government, did not have the grand occasion of coming and going without scruples.

Therefore, the officials of the Ming Dynasty and the opposition began to have an optimistic feeling about the future, and even Chongzhen, who had not even seen a smile for a long time, had a much more relaxed expression on his face during this time.

In the eyes of many people, as long as there is another half a year, these outcasts can almost be completely wiped out, even if there is a little left, it is no longer a climate, and there is nothing to worry about.

At this time, Chongzhen began to discuss with the ministers how to deal with Yu Xiaotian next, although the Jiannu outside the Guanxi has always been eyeing the Guannei, and even plundered the Guannai area several times, but the Ming Dynasty and the people, the vast majority of people do not know why, but they always have a contempt for the Jiannu.

Many people are mainly southerners, and privately believe that although the slave is rampant, but after all, it is only a disease of ringworm, although the slave chief Taiji is now in Liaodong south and north to ascend the throne and call the emperor, and established a great Qing country, but Liaodong is a bitter cold land outside the Guan, and the Ming Dynasty has such a vast territory, how can it not be their opponent?

Therefore, civil and military officials mostly think that Xiangwai must first be peaceful, and the only way to do this is to exterminate the exile army first, and then cut off Yu Xiaotian, the henchman of the Ming Dynasty, and then remobilize a large number of officers and troops to the north, and sooner or later they will be able to exterminate Jiannu and recover Liaodong.

In this way, a big war against Yu Xiaotian in Fujian seems to have been bowed on the string, and as soon as the suppression of the displaced people's army in the Central Plains provinces is over, it will start immediately.

All kinds of news about the imperial court's desire to levy Yu Xiaotian flew to Fujian from Beijing and various places like snowflakes, and fell on Yu Xiaotian's desk.

But Yu Xiaotian was unmoved, and after taking a look, he just threw it aside, as if it had nothing to do with him at all.

But in fact, after the middle of the eleventh year of Chongzhen, all the departments of the sea wolf have been transferred to the state of wartime, especially the factories and workshops related to the military industry, all of which have increased manpower and machinery, stopped the production of all non-war products, and started to work in full swing.

And in July, Yu Xiaotian also received good news from an industrial department and received a sample of the product he dreamed of.

Yu Xiaotian took this batch of samples, his mouth was almost crooked, this batch of samples was a small copper cap with yellow, orange and orange, which was the first batch of fire caps officially trial-produced by the Seawolf Industrial Department.

As early as a few months ago, the Seawolf Industrial Department, with the personal participation of Yu Xiaotian, had already developed nitric acid, and the first use of nitric acid was ordered by Yu Xiaotian to develop this kind of fire cap.

The fire cap is filled with thunder mercury, the development of thunder mercury has some problems, and even many accidents, and two of them are major accidents, people in this era have no understanding of nitric acid, and the danger of nitrification reaction is not any cognition, so the operator often carries out barbaric operations, and the result is no accident.

Even if Yu Xiaotian repeatedly reminded the personnel in this area that they must be careful and careful, and even personally formulated test procedures and specifications for them, they still couldn't stop these guys from doing nonsense, so it was strange to be immortal.

It wasn't until the gang fully realized the danger of doing this kind of thing that they knew what caution was, and the accident rate was reduced, and the industrial sector paid the price of dozens of casualties just by making this little fire cap.

But anyway, now the fire cap is still trial-produced, and during the trial production, it has been tested, the firing rate has reached more than ninety percent, the first few trial production of the fire cap-type wolf tooth rifle, after the trial of the fire cap as a firing device, the reliability has been greatly improved, and the operability is simpler, and the adaptability to the weather is much better.

Regardless of whether it is a windy day or a rainy day, as long as the gunpowder is not damp and the fire cap is properly preserved, the rifle can still be fired normally, which will undoubtedly play a huge role in improving the all-weather combat capability of the Seawolf Army and Navy.

Yu Xiaotian took this box of the first batch of trial fire caps, happy to see the teeth and eyes, quickly beckoned his subordinates to go straight to the shooting range, in the shooting range he used a newly made fire cap gun, that is, the later generations called the firing gun, Yu Xiaotian personally conducted a test shot, one hundred and ten Migne bullets in one breath, only encountered a blind fire situation, after replacing the blind fire cap, immediately fired successfully.

Such a high firing rate, so that the soldiers present are very strange, but also very excited, because although the sea wolf's flintlock pistol is more advanced than the arquebus, but the firing rate has always hovered between seventy and eighty, that is to say, the average firing is about seven times, will encounter a blind fire situation, although after the industrial sector repeatedly tackled, the flintlock mechanism has been improved, but the blind fire rate has never been greatly reduced.

But now with this kind of fire cap, the firing rate can be increased so much, and after the use of the fire cap, the rifle is easier and faster to load, and the ability to deal with bad weather is also stronger, if these guys don't like it, it's strange.

Yu Xiaotian's eldest brother, Liu Wang, has now become the commander of the Sea Wolf Garrison Battalion, although the official position is not big, but his status is very high, and he is quite prominent among the Sea Wolves.

And Liu Wang, this kid has been very low-key with Yu Xiaotian, and has won the trust of Yu Xiaotian, and now this guy has already grown into a big man, although he is not tall, he has developed well horizontally, and he has developed a body of tendon meat.

This guy likes to play with guns the most, he is a well-known gun slave among the sea wolves, he holds his wolf tooth rifle every day and does not let go, wherever he goes, after becoming a battalion commander, he still shouldn't get used to it, with two double-barreled short guns in his waist, and a well-made wolf tooth sniper rifle on his back.

After seeing the new fire cap gun held by Yu Xiaotian, he immediately itched his hands, stepped forward and took a newly transformed fire cap gun, and conducted a test shot, which can be said to be full of praise for this kind of fire cap.

Yu Xiaotian also ordered at the same time to immediately start mass production of this kind of fire cap, and the ordnance department also immediately stopped the production of flintlock pistols, and all of them switched to the production of this kind of fire cap guns, and called it the Wolf Tooth II rifle, and began to produce it as quickly as possible.

Moreover, the ordnance department also began to transform the original wolf's tooth rifle, converting it into a fire cap gun against time and re-equipping the troops for use.

In addition, the successful trial production of thundermercury and the trial production of fire caps, coupled with the mass production of springs, make many weapons can be applied, although the current production of nitric acid is very low, but for the time being, all of them are used to make fire caps, which is basically enough, anyway, now I don't expect to use nitric acid to produce any high explosives in large quantities, such an output should basically be enough for the sea wolf to toss.

As for the copper bowl for the production of fire caps, it is much easier to produce, first roll the brass into a thin copper sheet, and then take it to the stamping machine to be stamped and formed directly.

It's a pity that the current process can't make bullet shells, otherwise Yu Xiaotian would even want to trial produce a whole load.

But with the mercury, at least you can make a grenade that does not need to drag a pigtail and depends on someone to ignite it by hand, and then you can make a detonator, and the next step can even develop a rifled artillery, trial production of pointed explosive grenades, at the very least, the next step of trial production of mortars should have become possible.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian immediately handed over a set of mortar drawings that he had already drawn to the ordnance department, and the structural drawings of mortar shells were also handed over to the ordnance department to start trial production.

Because the spring is currently restricted by the material, the quality of the guide is not stable enough, and the elasticity is slightly poor, for the high bore pressure artillery, there is still considerable difficulty in manufacturing the firing fuse, either it may lead to early explosion, or it may lead to blind fire, so the temporary development of high bore pressure rifled guns, although the problem is not very big, but it is still too early to create a fuse for shells that can withstand high bore pressure and high muzzle velocity.

But a low-bore gun with low muzzle velocity such as a mortar should be able to create a workable shell fuse with the existing springs.

Once this mortar shell fuse is developed, then for the infantry firepower improvement, it is not a little bit so much, mortar, as a lightweight army artillery, can greatly improve the army's battlefield jamming ability, in addition, for attacking, compared with the general smoothbore mountain howitzer, it is much easier to use.

As for the production of gunpowder, now the sea wolf has solved the supply of saltpeter, and sulfur has also been found on the island of Taiwan, which can be directly collected to meet the production of sea wolf black powder.

With the improvement of materials and machinery, it will not be long before Seawolf can develop more advanced rifled guns to meet the needs of the Chinese to compete for hegemony in the future.

But at the moment, Yu Xiaotian is not in a hurry to do these things, because the weapons he has on hand now are advanced enough in this era, and they have formed a big generation gap with the hostiles, if they are too advanced, first, it is not necessary, and second, it is too wasteful of resources, so like rifled cannons and cylindrical pointed explosive grenades, he is not very urgent now.

Only when he conquered the Ming Dynasty and began to arrange a global hegemony would rifled artillery be put on the agenda, and even light ships equipped with a small number of rifled guns could easily beat the heavy gunboats of Western countries into a sieve.

(Hehe, I finally rushed back, I thought about it or decided to open a new volume, look at the name of this volume, everyone can guess, pig's feet are going to have a showdown with Chongzhen, and the next thing is the beginning of the mad Ming Dynasty!) Brethren, smash the monthly pass even harder! ）