"This thing is really powerful." Li Xiao watched as a box of 600 rounds of ammunition was finished. The two soldiers next to him were wearing thick gloves. They pulled a circlip hard and successfully removed the smoking water gun barrel. Remove it.

A brand new slide was pressed onto the gun base, and the new slide barrel was successfully installed with a "click". Li Xiu said one minute was definitely a modest statement. Li Xiao looked at the watch. It was only twenty seconds at most. , compared with the super high rate of fire, the time it takes to change the barrel is not worth mentioning.

"But how are you going to carry this thing? You won't let soldiers carry it. I think this thing plus a few gun barrels weighs at least 200 kilograms. And that doesn't include ammunition!" Li Xiao scratched his head and added Another thorny issue comes to mind.

"Haha! Brother, look." Li Xiu pointed to the side, and Li Xiao was immediately speechless.

Where Li Xiu pointed, there was parked a wheelbarrow, which is very common in the north.

This kind of vehicle is famous for its simple structure, strong pushing capacity and low road requirements. For an ordinary farmer, pushing something weighing more than 100 kilograms is like playing. There are two wheelbarrows, and one can push a heavy machine gun. Another vehicle pushed the barrels and ammunition, and the five-man machine gun liner took turns pushing it. It was estimated that it could travel sixty or seventy miles a day without any problem.

Li Xiao nodded. This was the biggest comfort to him since the failure of the ak project and the mg project. Blindly climbing the technology tree is really not good. The design has kept up, but the required materials cannot be smelted, unless Li Xiao brings Baidu. Daming.

"This stuff is pretty good. You can take the opportunity to kill Mr. Ao when he comes to Jinzhou tomorrow. This guy recently went to Mongolia to pour illegal salt, and opened a winery in Beidahuang to brew pots. He made a lot of money."

"Really!" Li Xiu immediately beamed. He had long been disgusted with Ao Canghai's ability to make money on the edge of the Heilongjiang River by relying on the sky to be high and the emperor to be far away.

Needless to say, private salt is a traditional money-making project of the Liao army. Shaoguo wine is different. Some people like this high-purity stuff. They even named it Laolongkou. In Hebei There is a huge market in Shandong. Not everyone has the money to buy two bottles of Wuliangye. Laolongkou has captured a large portion of the bottom market with its high alcohol content and low price.

Nowadays, when you go to the food stalls on the street, you can often hear shouts of ordering: Two lamb kidneys, a bottle of Laolongkou, etc.

Ginseng and deer antlers from the Northeast were trafficked to Guanli by the carloads, and the prices were extremely high. After making Ao Canghai pay a heavy tax, Li Xiao turned a blind eye to Ao Ye's business.

"Brother, come and see this thing again." Li Xiu happily walked over with a bamboo tube and waved it in front of Li Xiao's eyes.

"What the hell is this?" Li Xiao took the bamboo pipe and saw a spring and a nail inside.

"I don't know, this is the latest mine." Li Xiu was so proud that the corners of his mouth almost turned to the back of his head.

"Landmines?" Li Xiao turned it over and over, his eyes almost saw the coils of mosquito coils, and he didn't realize how this thing could be connected with landmines.

"Add this and it will be done." Li Xiu smiled evilly and took out a bullet.

"This thing is just punched into the ground, with a bullet stuffed in it. As long as someone steps on it, the spring will bounce up and drive the nail to hit the bullet. The person who steps on this thing, this foot...! Hehe, if you pretend If you put a shotgun on it, half of your foot will be blown off. No matter who steps on it, you will be completely disabled and unable to escape.

Moreover, this thing has a simple structure and low price, so it is suitable for mass production. It is not heavy in weight, and one soldier can carry twenty or thirty soldiers. If they are planted densely on the ground, whoever rushes up will be unlucky."

Li Xiao took the "landmine" in his hand and turned it over again. How did these guys' heads grow? Why couldn't he remember such a simple and easy thing?

On the battlefield, it is far more beneficial to kill a soldier than to kill a soldier. A wounded soldier usually requires two people to take care of him. In this way, the opponent can lose three effective combat capabilities in an instant. Moreover, the miserable howls of the wounded soldiers can be given to the enemy.

Causing indescribable psychological pressure.

Low cost and high efficiency! This thing is worth promoting throughout the army!

"This thing you have is good. Huzi is fighting in the northwest and needs this thing. Find someone to make ten or twenty thousand to send to Huzi!" Li Xiao threw the thing in his hand to Li Xiu and walked towards the Xu brothers with his hands behind his back.

past.

Xu Erjue, Xu Ermo, and the two most powerful grandsons of Xu Guangqi. Top scientific and technological talents recruited by Li Xiu from the Xu family in Jiangxi!

"Did you make those booby traps?" Li Xiao prefers talents to weapons.

"It's a gadget, not worth mentioning." Xu Erjue immediately bowed and replied. Xu Ermo's eyes were always looking at the machine gun. The mines were made by his elder brother, and the machine gun was his work. And it was a work of painstaking effort!

The young man didn't know how many nights he didn't sleep because of the machine gun.

"The machine gun is not bad either!" Li Xiao patted Xu Ermo on the shoulder. As a commander for so long, he already knew how to get closer to these young guys as soon as possible.

"Thank you, Marshal!" Xu Ermo quickly bowed and saluted.

An ominous premonition immediately surged into Li Xiu's heart.

"The two little guys are good. Xi'an is going to set up an arsenal. It also needs an independent weapons laboratory there to manufacture some weapons suitable for use in the northwest. I wonder if you two brothers have...!"

"Brother! You can't poach me. I finally built up the naval arsenal. As soon as I saw some results, you poached people away. What will happen to our navy's weapons in the future?" Li Xiu immediately stopped.

If you do it, your dear brother will have no face when it comes to robbing talents.

"Don't be stingy!" Li Xiao yelled, his eyes were mischievous, and he looked at the two young scientific and technological talents the way his father-in-law looked at his son-in-law.

"No! I can ask for anything, but I won't give it to anyone." Li Xiu also became stubborn.

"Do you really want to give me everything?"

"Um!"

"First get a hundred machine guns out and send them to the northwest front."

"Brother... you... you are cheating on me." After hearing Li Xiao's request, he felt like he had been cheated. This time, he was tricked by his elder brother.

Li Xiao said "hey" and "hey" with a mischievous smile. He spent all day hanging out with super old foxes like Sun Chengzong and Zhang Huangyan, and he had already trained himself into a young fox. Li Xiu was still far behind in his moral skills.

"You can't say it's evil. It's very difficult for Hu Zi to deal with the Mongolian cavalry in the northwest. He can only rely on some terrain advantages to offset the mobility of the cavalry. The airship is easy to use, but we have too little fuel and the airship cannot be fully operational.

Go out. Secondly, the weather in the northwest also changes frequently.

A sandstorm directly caused three airships to crash. No one on board survived, which is not bad. The wreckage has been found. If the Mongols find it, they might be able to imitate it. At that time,

We don’t have any advantage at all.”

"As for the Mongols? A guy with a sheep herding background can also build an airship?" Li Xiu dismissed the industrial strength of the Mongols.

"Don't underestimate these Mongols. With the craftsmen brought over by Dorgon, they can already produce firearms. Of course, Wu Sangui must have supported many of the machines.

Westerners still have a good understanding of machinery. The news from Li Yongfang said that they have tinkered with something similar to a machine tool. Although it is not as good as our machine tools, it can already produce guns. Haven't you seen it in the South China Sea?

There are a lot of rifles, mortars, and rocket launchers.

Now Hong Chengchou leads two garrison divisions to defend the strait, and there are also 18,000 Japanese people. I always feel that the defensive force is still insufficient. Your Marine Corps needs to conduct training as soon as possible and lead four ironclad ships out of the strait next year.

This time we want to capture Ceylon.

And we have to rely on Ceylon to constantly harass India. India is the British's largest territory. We occupy Sri Lanka, just to constantly harass India. Wu Sangui has no time and energy to do things! This guy is so annoying, and now I really regret it.

I didn't kill him earlier." When Wu Sangui was mentioned, Li Xiao felt his teeth itch with hatred. But there was no way, Li Yongfang organized several assassinations, and all failed without exception.

After all, there are not many Ming people overseas these days. If an oriental face appears in a foreign land, they will be recognized quickly by others. Now Li Yongfang has also noticed this and started to train foreign personnel. I went to his training base last time.

There are actually several black people, and I don’t know where they recruited this guy.

"Okay! Seeing how hard Hu Zi is in the northwest, it's not impossible to get them a hundred. But Cao Wenzhao has to spend money to buy it. My machine gun wasn't blown by the strong wind. We will build a factory and recruit qualified people.

All workers need real money."

"Cao Wenzhao can get some real money in this miserable place in the northwest. The Ministry of War will allocate money to you, which is equivalent to the money for these one hundred machine guns." When Li Xiao and Li Xiu were talking, they noticed a guy not far away.

Sneaky.

This guy is plain-looking, wearing an olive green training uniform. Standing on the side, he doesn't look like a worker in a factory, nor does he look like a soldier on guard. This is a bit strange. Nowadays, whenever Li Xiao appears, he must be strict

Carry out security measures.

The security level is so tight that no strangers are allowed to enter. Why is there such a wretched guy standing nearby?

"Who is that person?" Li Xiao looked at the shrinking guy and turned around to ask Li Xiu.

"Oh! That! King of Liao!" Li Xiu said disdainfully.

"King of Liao!"

Li Xiao secretly laughed in his heart, he was another prince with a quick head.

A country cannot live without a king for a day, but the Ming Empire has been without an emperor for more than a hundred days. Although there is no emperor, the court continues to operate as usual. The new people who came in from the lower-level officials, after a short period of chaos, in various ministries.

Under the supervision of the officials, he quickly became familiar with his business. These days, the court was operating as usual. It seemed to be running more smoothly than when there was an emperor.

There is no emperor in the country, so the princes naturally get excited. Although everyone knows that the current emperor is just an idol-type tablet. But the emperor is an emperor after all, and many princes dream of having a tablet.

Since Emperor Longwu Zhu Yihai ascended the throne, the royal family's preferential treatment regulations have been reduced one by one. Zhu Yuanzhang's last words, that the descendants of the Zhu family were not allowed to engage in business, were also canceled by the clan government.

Seeing that their income is getting less and less, the princes dare not speak out. When powerful ministers are in power, even the emperor is nothing more than a tablet, let alone the princes whose status is far inferior to the emperor.

Now all the princes are thinking that their children can become emperors. At least, it would be better if they can take some care of themselves in the future. Especially the princes of close relatives have very delicate calculations in their minds.

When Li Xiao was in the capital, these princes often sent people to give gifts. Unexpectedly, when he arrived in Liaodong, he would see His Highness the King of Liao, and even more unexpectedly, His Highness the King of Liao was dressed so plainly. Li Xiao took a quick look.

I didn't even recognize it.

"Didn't he escape to the capital by chance when the Tatars captured Liaoyang? When did he come back?" Li Xiao thought for a long time, but he didn't expect when the prince returned to Liaodong.

"I have come back a long time ago, but I have been living in Shanhaiguan during this period. Although he is still a prince, the land reform in Liaodong was relatively early, and his fiefdom was divided long ago. I heard that he and Mao Wenlong had an old relationship back then, and they have been

It's all Mao Wenlong who is helping...

Now that he has long lost his airs as a prince, he is no different from an ordinary mechanic. Seeing that he still has some ink in his belly, Mao Wenlong said something again. I asked him to do a casual job in the arsenal, that is, to manage the warehouse. You

Not to mention, this old guy is quite serious. He manages the warehouse in an orderly manner. The old guy is very popular. He often has a drink with the workers and does not come out under the guise of a prince. The workers in the factory are all responsible for him.

He’s called Lao Zhutou. If he’s too dumb, he’s called Lao Zhutou.”

An approachable prince, and Mao Wenlong. These two keywords Li Xiao kept in mind! This time he came to Qinhuangdao, and another purpose was to go to Shanhaiguan to meet Mao Wenlong.

Chen Jisheng never confessed to Mao Wenlong until his death, but Li Yongfang, like a hound, had already found some clues. Many threads could already implicate Mao Wenlong!

This guy is in charge of the Army Officer Academy. It can be said that all the future low-level officers of the main division will be his students. Not only Sun Chengzong and Zhang Huangyan are worried about letting such a person continue to be the principal, but Li Xiao also feels a little uneasy.

But after all, he is an old guy who has been working with Li Xiao since Pidao, and he is now at this age. Li Xiao thinks it is better to let him retire voluntarily because of some love. Get him a villa in Tongzhou and let this old man

Sir, let's retire quietly.

Now another Liao king appeared, and Li Xiao's heart was ringing with alarm bells.

"The turmoil in the capital has not completely passed yet, so you have to keep a close eye on this King of Liao. I have discussed it with Mr. Sun and Mr. Zhang, and the throne is temporarily vacant. Anyway, our Ming Dynasty will go on without the emperor."
Chapter completed!