Chapter 911 The father-in-law

However, Ma Cheng approved without hesitation, this seemingly costly city bombing plan.

What if 50,000 kilograms of gunpowder is more than the lives of thousands of loyal and brave soldiers of the Ming Dynasty? If the logistics supply cannot keep up, it will be solved on the spot, otherwise it will take up such a large territory in vain. In addition to natural sulfur, it is necessary to travel a long distance from Dongzhawa.

Come on, saltpeter can be solved on the spot, artificially made nitrogen, natural saltpeter, Xinjiang, Central Asia, and wherever there is a saltpeter mine.

For saltpeter, you can buy some with the Kazakhs and produce some artificially. This is called fighting to support war.

High-purity natural sulfur must be transported from Dongzhawa. In order to ensure the needs of large-scale combat, a large number of local natives were driven into the sulfur mine by Ming military muskets, and worked more than twelve hours a day in the dispersed poisonous gas.

It is the cruelty of colonial wars.

Late at night, the military controversy dispersed.

After leaving a meal in Macheng, the generals and the officials surrounded the map with their bowls, pointed and mobilized a large number of military supplies and a large number of combat personnel to the front line.

Three days later, Irkutsk.

The sound of artillery roared. The reinforced Ming army used thirty artillery companies, with a total of 180 cannons besieging the Russians' strong cities. The Russian army used more than 60 large and large artillery guns to fight back, and the shells roared in the sky.

Afterwards, the buildings in the city were destroyed and approaching the Russian mainland, the Russian army's resistance suddenly became fierce. The Ming army, which surrounded the strong city on three sides, suppressed the artillery fire and dug up civil engineering.

Irkutsk City was surrounded on three sides, and on the other side, it was covered by the rainy season. There was severe water accumulation in the trenches.

Moreover, the tunnel was flooded as soon as it was excavated. The Ming army had to transfer a large number of craftsmen to build keel water trucks on the spot, draining the tunnels at the same time. It was not easy to dig the tunnels to the city and place a big firecracker.

In order to collapse the city wall south of Kutsk, Iran, the Ming army used all the technologies that could be used in this era, such as blasting, drainage, and civil engineering operations. A large number of experienced craftsmen returned to the place after the war, which triggered a new round of

Social change.

When this is the case, the one who decides the outcome of this war was the experienced craftsmen of major copper mines in Jiangnan. Military technology and civilian technology were originally connected. Most of the copper mines in Jiangnan were distributed in areas with dense water networks and abundant rainfall.

The copper miners in the Ming Dynasty had rich experience in drainage and tunnel digging. The Ming Dynasty was at least the world-leading technology of digging holes and drainage.

Front line, in the muddy camp.

A carriage was parked in the central army camp. Chen Yan led two guards forward and helped a trembling old man down from the carriage. The gray-haired old man, with dizzy eyes, was frightened by the rumbling cannons from the front line.

Shivering, Chen Yan did not dare to neglect his hand, and held his arm and pushed the trembling old man into a clean and tidy tent.

After entering the war, the old man trembled and said, "Little man, Li Guang, Yangzhou Prefecture, kowtow to the adults."

Chen Yan hurriedly supported the father-in-law and comforted him kindly. This father-in-law was a disciple of Kaiyuan Bingjia. He was a master of mine who was invited from Yangzhou, Jiangnan. This old man had never done anything else in his life, and had just started mining. Especially

He is good at opening copper mines. During the Wanli period, two copper mines in Qianshan in Dexing, Jiangxi Province were flooded with underground water. This master led the people to drain the water and resumed mining.

This old man was old and weak, and was the one whom Chen Yan borrowed from the other end of the military school. Chen Yan repeatedly guaranteed the old man's safety, and the other end of the military school reluctantly agreed to borrow. Such an experienced craftsman is now the Ming Dynasty military school.

The people who are rushing to recruit are more expensive than the other. There is no way, and it is weak. There are so few people who understand technology in such a large country.

There are many people who are familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, but there are too few masters who know how to start mining.

The old master Li Guang was also dizzy and suffered a life of murder. The old man saved dozens of acres of land, and was only sixty years old. The father-in-law was holding his grandson in his hometown in Yangzhou and enjoying his grandson, but unexpectedly he burst out.

With a sound of change, the Liao army entered Yangzhou Prefecture and took people. When the old man was a little nervous, a group of scholars who claimed to be Han Society rushed into the house. They gave food and things, and were hired when they left.

After two little maids, they were unable to refuse their affection later, so the old man moved to Kaiyuan and became a professor at Kaiyuan Prefecture School, teaching prospecting, mining and drainage.

Mr. Li was in a dream, and as if he was trapped in the clouds. When he was old, he became a seventh-rank official for no reason. The professor of military science was a seventh-rank civil servant, and he was on the same level as a county magistrate. He had just passed a few days of solid life.

A group of people rushed into the house and said it was from the Chamber of Commerce and wanted to invite the old man to go to the north of Seitou to explore. A few days later, another general said that he wanted to invite his father-in-law to be a general.

Poor an old miner who was timid and made up his mind to not go anywhere, so he steadily started the Yuan Bingzhi to become his seventh-rank official. It was not until a military order sent him to the army that Mr. Li sighed, if he had known that he had been in heaven.

I won’t lose my pie, and I became an official for no reason. I was retribution for being on par with the county magistrate. I should be sent to the army before leaving. I will explain all my affairs before and after leaving.

The father-in-law entered the Central Army camp and regarded himself as an old soldier in front of the army. After seeing Chen Yan, he looked around and volunteered to take care of the war horses and become a groom. Chen Yan was ridiculous and crying for a while.

An old man seemed to have listened to too much books. What happened before he was sent to the army. He sighed in his heart. Everything was inferior, but he could only study well.

Mr. Li's behavior was funny, but it was sad that the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty had no status and were suddenly reused, which was frightened and terrified. However, the scholars were useless. In front of the two armies, they all had nothing to do.

It is not as good as this old man to tie a scholar in the world.

The next day, ten miles away from Irkutsk city.

Li Zhengming, Chen Yan, dozens of senior generals of the Ming army, and hundreds of students from military students including Sun Yuanhua, surrounded Li's father-in-law in the middle, looking forward to watching a civil engineering company in the muddy open space, waving its pickaxe.

After digging less than three meters, the water gushed out, and the water surged out in an uproar. The underground water had risen again. What other tunnels could be dug?

With hundreds of people looking forward to the eyes, Chen Yan said with great anticipation, "Boss, Kaiyuan Zuoying, the soldiers of the three armies have fulfilled their affection."

Mr. Li was startled, took off his boots tremblingly, rolled up his trousers and jumped into the muddy puddle, touched the east, touched the west, and grabbed a handful of yellow mud and sniffed it.

Amid the noisy discussion, Li Zhengming couldn't help but said in a muffled voice: "Brother-in-law, can it work?"
Chapter completed!