The so-called Senhu Guard Station is not under the jurisdiction of Nankai Guards, but is under the Nankai Military Command, and its strength is much stronger than the average Senhu Station.
A general Qianhu Station has a full strength of 1,000 troops, while a guarding Qianhu Station requires more than 1,500 troops.
It is precisely because of this that the Ming army was able to gather the number of two thousand this time.
But having said that, Sun Xuebin really gained a lot from this battle.
In addition to tempering the new soldiers and turning them into veterans through battle, they also captured more than 1,400 Ming troops.
And these Ming troops will be sent to Shilu Iron Mine to replace one thousand coolies in Shilu Iron Mine.
As for the 1,000 displaced coolies, they will be sent to Jiaozhi Hongji after ideological education.
To put it simply, most of these thousand coolies were pirates, and the rest were Ming soldiers who had been defeated and captured many times.
Regardless of their previous identities, once they are sent to a foreign country, they will have no other ideas and can only rely on the coal mine development team.
After this victory, Sun Xuebin and others collected information from many soldiers after the war, compiled it, and handed it over to the industrial group.
This battle exposed more problems than the previous battle, such as the Thunderbolt 1646 rifle being inconvenient to load, the rate of fire being too slow, and not powerful enough, the Napoleon cannon's solid shells having low lethality, etc.
If those Ming troops could persist a little longer and rush into the trenches, the Thunderbolt 1646 rifle would have no bayonet.
That means that in close combat, the riflemen in the dock area are almost powerless to resist.
After a comprehensive evaluation, Sun Xuebin and others came to the conclusion that the existing Thunderbolt 1646 rifle could not withstand the charge of a large group of cavalry.
In fact, when five or six hundred riflemen form an array, even with Napoleon cannon cover, when the number of cavalry increases to two hundred, they will definitely be able to rush into the riflemen's array.
"We need more powerful rifles, bullets, artillery, and, by the way, explosive shells! The number of our soldiers is too small and we simply cannot withstand any losses! You must know that there are two full soldiers on the entire South China Sea Island.
Wanduo Mingjun!"
This was a topic raised by Sun Xuebin at the post-war discussion meeting of the Provisional Management Committee.
Of course, we all know that we should develop better rifles, bullets, artillery, and explosive ammunition, but these involve one problem, mercury fulminate and nitrocellulose.
Fang Xiaoyue was presiding over the completion ceremony of the first phase of the project at the chemical plant when she received the news that the military group strongly requested the upgrade of firearms and artillery.
Well, actually this is not a formal ceremony, but just a group of people from the industrial group setting off firecrackers and then conducting a trial run of the first phase of the project that has been constructed.
Of course, this phase of the chemical engineering project is actually a small workshop.
In order to establish the chemical system as soon as possible, the first phase of the chemical engineering project includes three acids and two alkali.
After Fang Xiaoyue pressed a button, various reaction chambers in the workshop began to operate.
Many technicians looked at various instruments nervously.
It can be said that this small chemical workshop actually condenses the scientific and technological knowledge of the entire dock area, and can be called the most high-end civilization crystallization of this era.
Not to mention other things, the instruments used to measure the temperature, gas content, etc. in the reaction chamber alone have almost exhausted the high-tech items such as chips, instrument panels, electronic thermometers, etc. that can be collected in the dock area.
Simply put, the existence of these instruments can reduce possible accidents in chemical workshops to an extreme.
After all, if there are any abnormal changes in those reaction chambers, they will immediately appear on the instrument and sound an alarm on the computer.
As long as the person on duty doesn't sit there and doze off, generally speaking there won't be any problems.
Of course, if an accident occurs in this chemical workshop, or a catastrophic accident occurs, the level of chemical industry in the dock area will collapse, and it will not be able to reach this level for at least ten years.
After all, it would be impossible for Fang Xiaoyue in the dock area to manufacture high-tech items such as chips in a short time.
You know, in future generations, there are hundreds of countries in the world, and the countries that can produce high-tech products such as chips on their own can only be counted on one hand.
To put it simply, in high-tech industries such as chips, if laboratory-level production is okay, a few hundred researchers may be able to handle it, but if you want industrial production, you will need at least hundreds of thousands of industrial workers.
to support.
After all, for high-tech products such as chips, the various upstream production chains alone are mind-numbingly numerous.
One day later, Fang Xiaoyue announced that the trial run was successful.
Immediately, the more than ten time traveling technicians present cheered one by one.
The naturalized soldiers who were on guard duty on the side saw the thieves suddenly becoming very happy, but they were wondering in their hearts, what happened to these thieves?
Little did they know that what they were witnessing was a technological miracle that created a century.
For the first time, humans have precisely controlled chemical changes and put them into industrial production.
Since there were no accidents in the trial operation of the chemical workshop, and considering that stopping the chemical workshop once would be extremely wasteful, Fang Xiaoyue had no idea of stopping the chemical workshop for inspection.
Instead, after handing over the chemical workshop to a few Chuanzhong technicians, the energy was transferred to the development of mercury fulminate and nitrocellulose.
Well, it is impossible for the chemical workshop to be operated by naturalized migrant workers. In that case, it would be equivalent to planting a time bomb next to the dock area.
For now, the chemical workshop can only be run by technical personnel from across the country.
Of course, from this time on, they also need to train professional chemical technical workers. Otherwise, when the second, third, and fourth phases of the chemical plant are expanded in the future, there will not be so many technical personnel to be responsible for the operation.
As I said before, all the time-travel technicians are treasures, and each one is a carrot.
This time, Zhang Feifei racked his brains and finally moved all the technicians in the chemical workshop from other places.
Mercury fulminate and nitrocellulose are actually very easy to prepare in the laboratory.
After all, in later generations, this kind of knowledge will be lost on the streets. Any college student who knows a little bit about chemistry can make it. The only problem is that the raw materials are hard to find. After all, this is a dangerous product.
What Fang Xiaoyue and others need to do now is to develop a technical specification manual for industrial production.
With the technical specification manual, industrial production is actually relatively easy.
After a few small laboratory accidents, mercury fulminate was made and nitrocellulose was made.