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Betting is not about losing.
Three hundred cavalry and six hundred Changping soldiers were Shi Dayong's bet.[
In the days that followed, Shi Dayong worked hard to carry out large-scale military training. Unfortunately, after several practices, his series of policies to train and strengthen the army failed.
The first thing to fail was steelmaking.
After repeatedly checking the standard weapons of the Ming army, Shi Dayong came to the conclusion that tougher steel must be smelted.
Use steel to make weapons to overcome the iron weapons of the Eight Banners soldiers.
How to make steel is a thorny problem that Shi Dayong needs to solve.
After combining his limited knowledge, he summoned his subordinates to start a large-scale steel-making, using the local steel-making methods of later generations.
The local method of steelmaking is feasible and low-cost, and Shi Dayong can completely afford it.
The specific method is to burn clay with strong adhesion into bricks, then use these bricks to build a blast furnace, then take charcoal and spread it on the bottom of the furnace, and then place various iron tools in the furnace, working day and night.
The fire burns fiercely, thereby reducing the carbon content in the iron, and the final product is steel.
Shi Dayong thought that there should be nothing wrong with the methods and steps, but when he started the furnace, he was dumbfounded. His original expectations and excitement disappeared instantly, because what appeared in front of him was not steel, but black balls.
Iron lumps look like tofu dregs.
"Sir, can this steel be used to make weapons?"
Faced with the doubts of his subordinates, Shi Dayong could only smile bitterly. He regretted not learning chemistry well in middle school, otherwise he would be able to make steel. It doesn't matter if the quantity is small, as long as the nine hundred people are well-armed, after all, these three hundred
The cavalry and the six hundred soldiers are his only capital. Only by building them well can he have the chance to make a fortune and change history. On the contrary, General Shi Dayong is still a small boat in the ocean, waiting for the arrival of huge waves at any time.
Steel can't be made, but it doesn't matter. If this way is not available, find another way.
………
The equipment of the Songshan Army is almost the same as the standard weapon of the Ming Dynasty army - fire gun.
It is said to be a fire gun, but in fact it is more appropriate to call it a bird gun. The barrel of the gun is extremely long, the loading is very cumbersome, and the killing effect is extremely poor. This kind of weapon that cannot be called a firearm at all obviously gave Shi Dayong the idea of improving it.
Improving fire guns is a very complicated project that requires sufficient professional knowledge. If someone from the arsenal in the previous life traveled here, then improving fire guns would definitely be a piece of cake. Unfortunately, Shi Dayong is just a gambler, although he also has
A college degree, but the school I attended back then was the famous Pheasant University - it only charged tuition fees, but taught the kind of stuff that everyone on the street knows. What can I learn?
However, the lack of professional knowledge is nothing to the ambitious Shi Dayong!
If there are difficulties, you must overcome them; if there are no difficulties, you must overcome difficulties even if they create difficulties!
In line with the lofty ambition of "trying to compete with God", the day after the steel-making failure, Shi Dayong once again summoned a group of subordinates. At the same time, he also called the only one in the army who knew how to make firecrackers.
Take Mr. Ma Zhong.[
Ma Zhong also has another identity. He is from Fusi, Jinyiweinan Town.
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Unlike the North Town Fusi who was in charge of imperial edicts and prisons, the South Town Fusi was in charge of the military discipline and health offices. It also had the same task as the Beijing Ministry of Urban Industry, which was the research and development and manufacturing of weapons.
Ma Zhong was a firearms craftsman in Fusi, Nanzhen. During the "Ji Si Rebellion", Southern Zhili sent troops to the north to King Qin. As a craftsman, he also went north with the army. How could he imagine that his department and the Qing army would fall apart before they even came into contact with each other?
After breaking up, Ma Zhong and several companions got lost with Shangguan, and finally ran into the camp of Shuntian Commander-in-Chief Ma Shilong, where they were forcibly taken in by Commander-in-Chief Shi Dayong without asking any questions.
You can earn a living wherever you go. Being a craftsman in Nanzhenfu is essentially the same as being a soldier in the Northern Army. They are both working for others. However, being a soldier is obviously better than being a craftsman. At least it is much freer.
Besides, you can't tolerate not agreeing. Don't you see Mr. Shi's knife always dangling in front of your eyes?
Just like that, Ma Zhong became Shi Dayong's subordinate. In the battle of Yongping, I don't know whether he drank too much or he really had the idea of "serving the country with loyalty", but he was the first to climb the Yongping city. After the war, his merits were discussed
As a result of the reward, Shi Dayong was promoted to Chief Qian, and he became Commander-in-Chief, and then they followed Qiu Hejia to the outside of the customs.
In fact, Ma Zhong was very puzzled by Lord Guard's abnormal behavior in the past few days. Although he had been working under Shi Dayong for only two years, he knew this grown-up who didn't know a word very well, and he knew that this grown-up of his own had a big head.
There is nothing in it at all, and I am afraid that there is not enough ink in my stomach. Apart from being bold and brute strength, it can be said that this grown-up of mine has no merits.
I don’t know which of his tendons are wrong. If you have the spare time to fix all these useless things, why don’t you lead the brothers to the mountains to catch some birds and beasts to eat.
I thought so, but I didn't dare to express it. You know that Lord Guard doesn't like others to make irresponsible remarks about his actions. A few days ago, when Mr. Qian Huang An persuaded him not to engage in steelmaking, he said:
He scolded me mindlessly, saying that sharpening a knife is enough to chop firewood, that if you want to do your job well, you must first sharpen the tool, etc., and that if you don't work hard in peacetime, you will bleed more in war, etc.
If you can't figure it out.
He is the garrison master, and he has the final say on the entire Songshan Fort. Whatever he says is up to him. Anyway, there is no war between the left and right, so just accompany the garrison master for a while.
With this idea in mind, Ma Zhong rarely devoted himself to working as a bricklayer with Lord Guard for a few days.
I originally thought that the garrison masters would stop as soon as Nao Shizi steel could not be trained. Unexpectedly, not even a day later, the generals were called to a meeting again. This time I heard that they were going to build a new type of firecrackers.
"This fuse is not good. It needs to be modified. The barrel needs to be thicker or shorter. The medicine cannot be filled in randomly. It needs to be measured. Well, also, the fuse is too long and it will be troublesome to light it. If it is windy or rainy,
Doesn't it mean that it can't fire? What's the matter? Change it, it must be changed immediately, it is best to put a flint inside it, and use the flint to fire, that's what it looks like... What? I don't understand? Hey, you guys are stupid brains,
Didn't you understand what I said yesterday?... Come here, get some paper and pen, I'll draw it for you to look at."
Shi Dayong hated iron and wanted to become a fat man. He didn't care whether his subordinates understood it or not. With a stroke of his pen, a specious musket was released.
After finishing the drawing, he looked at it carefully for a while, and after he was convinced that this was the musket he needed, he proudly waved his hands and called his subordinates to come over and take a look.
His subordinates looked at the painting with puzzled faces and whispered to each other, while he happily held his hands beside him, looking forward to the bright future with a large number of new muskets.
Not long after, I heard the voice of Mr. Qian Huang An: "Sir, what are you drawing?"
With the lessons learned from last time's dissuasion, Huang An did not dare to say directly what the hell Lord Guards had drawn this time. Instead, he asked politely first and listened to what Lord Guards had to say before giving a further reply.
Shi Dayong blurted out without thinking: "Gun!"
"gun?"
The generals were all stunned: What kind of spear is this? Why is there no spearhead at the front?
Realizing that the word "gun" was a bit ahead of its time, Shi Dayong hurriedly coughed, looked at Ma Zhong, and asked: "A gun means a blunderbuss. How about it? Can it be done?" [
"oh!"
The generals suddenly understood, and each of them showed strange expressions. Ma Zhong's scalp was even more numb, and it felt really bad to be called out by the guard again.
After seeing this so-called new fire gun for the first time, Ma Zhong subconsciously rejected it. He couldn't make such a weird thing. But in order not to offend the defense master, he also didn't want to be a "little bird" and cause trouble.
The guard master cursed angrily, and could only say in fear:
"Your Majesty's idea is good, but I'm thinking about it, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to transform this new type of fire gun according to Your Majesty's requirements."
"Why?" Ma Zhong's answer made Shi Dayong's excitement plummet.
Seeing the ugly look on Lord Guard's face, Ma Zhong felt even more uneasy, and could only bite the bullet and said: "The style of the fire blunderbuss drawn by you is extremely weird, something I have never seen in my life, and its mechanism is so clever that no one except me can do it."
To build it, I am afraid that except for the Ministry of Industry and Nanzhen Fusi, no one in our Ming Dynasty can build the gun you want."
"Ministry of Industry and Nanzhen Fusi?"
Shi Dayong's expression dimmed again, and he sighed in his heart. If he could go to the Ministry of Industry and Nanzhen Fusi, why would he need to go to you, a dabbler like you?
It's over, it's over, the steel can't be refined, and the firecracker can't be modified. How do I "sharpen the weapon first"?
In the following days, plans such as nitrocellulose and hand grenades were also rejected one after another. As the last landmine proved to be usable, it failed to be mass-produced, and Shi Dayong's Great Leap Forward policy of weapons modernization failed.
This is an inevitable failure, a failure that blindly goes beyond the times and ignores reality.
Although the knowledge of the time traveler is advanced, the objective conditions of the times do not allow development beyond the times. What's more, a time traveler who only knows diagrams is far inferior to a craftsman at the lowest level.
The development of history has its inevitability. Anyone who attempts to change history must face the actual era in which he lives.
If the advanced knowledge of time travelers is software, then the era they live in is hardware. Without the support of hardware, no matter how good the software is, it can only be a useful drawing.
The failure severely affected Shi Dayong's pride and ambition, but he was not confused or discouraged. He was reflecting on his advanced behavior.
All roads lead to Beijing, but this road does not lead to it. Should we not go to Beijing?