The Counterattack of the Villains in the Movie World

Chapter 201 The Bombed Mortar
When the administrative organization of the Ming Dynasty moved to Nanjing City and began to restructure, the [-] Pioneer Army led by Shi Dakai and the [-] Ping Bei Army led by Zuo Zongtang began to march.

Part of the area originally occupied by Nanjing City, when they got the news that Nanjing City was captured by Ming Dynasty, Chen Taiping surrendered, and Chen Taiping said that "China is not under the control of God", everyone should submit to the rule of Ming Dynasty, so they directly chose surrender.

There are also a small number of areas that are unwilling to surrender. In the face of the vanguard army and the Pingbei army, they finally realized the reality and chose to surrender or be captured.

During this process, the population and land area of ​​the Ming Kingdom continued to increase.

Although Wu Yan ordered to exempt the agricultural tax of the Ming Dynasty for three years and only collect the commercial tax in order to buy people's hearts, he is still fighting, but the financial resources of the Ming Dynasty are getting stronger and stronger.

Among them, there are also reasons why Chen Taiping, Wei Changhui and other former high-level officials in Nanjing City had their crazy wealth accumulated over the past few years stolen.

With money, it is natural to raise more soldiers.

The Pingnan Army, which originally had only more than 1 people, became the third army of the Ming Dynasty with a staff of 5 people, and completed the expansion in a very short period of time.

Xianqing, who originally wanted to take advantage of the absence of the Vanguard Army and the Pingbei Army to attack Daming, was defeated in a battle with the [-] Pingnan Army led by Wu Yan, and became honest again. Shengbao and Lei Yicheng Still lurking.

Because of the rapid increase in the size of the country, although most of the original enemy forces in these areas were disarmed after surrendering and became civilians, or settled in fields, opened mines, built roads, and entered factories, many elites were still selected.

As a result, the original Jiangbei Army became the fourth army of the Ming Dynasty with a strength of [-], and was renamed the Pingxi Army.

And Feng Zicai, the major general of the Pingxi Army, is also a famous general in another world, and even has the title of national hero.

He was originally a subordinate of Xiang Rong in the Jiangnan camp, but he really came to prominence when the Jiangnan camp was broken in 1856. He became a subordinate of Zhang Guoliang, the deputy in charge of military affairs in Xianqing, and wiped out more than [-] camps in one day.

But because of the battle in Tokyo City, the Jiangnan camp was destroyed by Shi Dakai in advance. He felt that Xianqing was corrupt, so he didn't go to the Jiangbei camp to follow Xiang Rong. Instead, he went to Tokyo City to join the Ming Dynasty and joined the Pingnan Army .

Later, he made military exploits during Wu Yan's personal conquest, and again when Wu Yan led the Pingnan Army to meet Xianqing's southward division.

Combined with his historical fame, Wu Yan directly promoted him to be the commander of the Pingxi Army.

So far, Wu Yan's Ming Dynasty has four famous generals in the late Qing Dynasty, Zuo Zongtang, Shi Dakai, Feng Zicai, Li Hongzhang, and the Pingnan Army, Pingbei, Pingxi, and Pioneer Army with a total of 20 elite troops and an elite navy composed of [-] navies. .

Among them, the Pingnan Army, led by Wu Yan, did not go out, but together with some of the champion battalions of the champion army, and the martial arts army from the original martial camp, they jointly defended the front line of Tokyo City and Nanjing City.

"Not a single warship was built, this Li Hongzhang..."

Wu Yan's military strength of the Ming Dynasty has reached unprecedented strength, but there is a very weak point in it, that is, the only formally organized Pacific Fleet of the Ming Navy.

There are [-] navies in the air, but there is not even a warship that Wu Yan can take a fancy to. The [-] navies are used for daily training, all of which are the original Hunan Army Navy, the original Nanjing City Navy, and the area occupied by Wu Yan. The original Xianqing Navy, the broken ships of these three navy.

It's okay to transport troops, but going out to fight is simply for nothing.

But Wu Yan also knew that Li Hongzhang couldn't be blamed for this matter, if he wanted to blame, he could only blame him for being too demanding.

Although Li Hongzhang was given 5 people to form a shipyard, he was not allowed to build warships that could be built with existing technology, but to let them build iron-clad ships.

Not to mention the high cost of steel required for an ironclad ship, but to mention many key technical points, which took a lot of time to solve.

For example, the steam engine is used as a power source to convert the propulsion of the ship, such as the welding technology of the iron-clad ship and so on.

You know, as early as 100, nearly 1765 years ago, Watt invented the double-cylinder steam engine, and in 1768, he cooperated with the Birmingham Turbine Factory to manufacture a steam engine for ship propulsion, that is, a steamboat.

Wu Yan's vision is high and his skills are high, so naturally he will not fall behind.

When his steam engine is applied to ships, it should actually be called a steam turbine, which is one of the ship power sources still used by modern ships.

Although the internal combustion engine is better, even if it is built now, there is no oil to use.

The earliest welding technology should have appeared at the end of the nineteenth century. At this time, it was still in the middle of the nineteenth century. Shipbuilding used riveting technology or forging welding technology.

The so-called forging welding technology is to beat the metal with a hammer after heating, so that it can be welded together, which is laborious and unpleasant.

Wu Yan had to become a scientist again and developed the manual arc welding technology.

To study this technology, electricity must first be invented.

The invention is not rigorous, because as early as 1800, someone invented the battery, which was also the first battery in human history, called the voltaic pile.

In 1820, someone discovered the phenomenon of electromagnetism.

Although Nikola Tesla was not born at this time, Wu Yan could also manufacture a hand-cranked generator, and then let martial arts masters shake the hand-cranked generator at a high speed and at a constant speed.

But the problem is that with electricity, Wu Yan can't make welding rods.

The technical difficulty of the welding rod lies in the coating. The so-called welding rod is actually the steel wire covered by the coating. The steel wire is easy to manufacture, but the coating with very complex components needs to reach a certain level of chemical technology before it can be manufactured.

Seeing that there are fewer and fewer remnants of the original Nanjing City, Wu Yan can only give up temporarily, and wait for the next crossing.

What if you don't have to invent it yourself?
But there is one more thing that Wu Yan must invent. This is what he secretly swore to during the last imperial conquest.

Even Shi Dakai could think of using an iron shield to protect the artillery, so Xianqing must also be able to think of it, and Xianqing has much more resources than the original Nanjing City. A little difficult to play.

Through the news from the two undercover agents Sheng Bao and Lei Yicheng, Xian Qing even went a step further and specially built a defensive armor for the artillery.

It can be understood as turning the artillery into a 'tank' propelled by manpower and animal power.

So Wu Yan must develop a mortar.

Although the artillery also has a certain shooting arc, the angle is far less high than that of the mortar.

Moreover, compared with the artillery used by Ming, Xianqing, and even the great powers, mortars have great advantages in terms of range and portability.

The real portable mortars are slightly stronger, and one person can carry two or three on the road.

During World War II, about 70 years later, mortars were capable of firing at ranges of 400 to 5000 meters.

What Wu Yan wants to build is the mortar of the World War II century. The gun mount is actually not difficult. It consists of a bracket, a buffer machine, a screw-type aiming machine and a tripod. The technical difficulty lies in the buffer machine that improves shooting stability. , and a screw-type aiming machine aimed at the target.

However, Wu Yan is not prepared to make more, just make ten "laboratory samples" first. This kind of epoch-making weapon only needs to be used at a critical moment, and it is enough to determine the entire victory.

Mortar shells can actually be regarded as large 'bullets'.

The difference from the 7.62 caliber bullets that Wu Yan has been able to mass-produce is that the bullets fired by the white horse sharpshooter are solid bullets, while the bullets fired by the artillery shells are bursting bullets.

This kind of bullet-like shell is also called fixed-loading shell. The projectile and the cartridge (propellant) are integrated into one.

Wu Yan has the technology.

But the production link has a lot of trouble.

"Break up again?"

When he heard a roar, Wu Yan, who was adjusting the gun carriage, picked up the binoculars and looked at the gun room more than 300 meters away.

A low-rise bungalow was half collapsed, and someone rushed in and lifted out a blood-soaked worker who didn't know whether he was alive or dead.

Wu Yan's mood was even worse.

In addition to a little unbearable in my heart, there is also melancholy about the high accident rate.

Making cannonballs is different from making bullets. Even if the bullet accidentally ignites the gunpowder, it will not be a big deal, as long as not all the gunpowder is put together.Because the shell needs to be filled with a large amount of gunpowder, if you are not careful, it will explode directly.

For this reason, Wu Yan specially ordered people to build several gun houses, which were separated one by one in the plain area, just to avoid gathering and creating situations, and all of them would be ruined by an accident.

But even so, this was the second accident that occurred in the three days since the experiment began to manufacture shells, and it was the first accident that Wu Yan saw with his own eyes.

Not only is the accident rate too high, but the yield rate is also relatively low.

A total of 72 qualified 43mm artillery shells have been produced. As for how many of them are truly qualified, we will not know until they are used.

Even the mortar shells manufactured by modern technology may explode directly when put into the gun frame, let alone the current level of technology?
"Your Majesty, the worker is dead."

Hearing this report, Wu Yan was not in the mood to finish debugging the mortar, and was even more afraid that the chamber would explode suddenly and blow himself up half to death. It would be bad to waste Zod's character card.

"The pension is 300 taels, and the fertile land is 1 square meters." After Wu Yan finished speaking, he asked again: "What's the situation in his family?"

[-] square meters sounds like a lot, but it is actually only [-] acres, which is not a big deal.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, he has a son and two daughters in his family. The son is nine years old, the eldest daughter is thirteen, and the second daughter is eleven."

"Ask his family's daughter if she would like to be a maid in the palace, and her son will be sent to Nanjing College, where board, lodging and tuition fees will be free."

A court lady was definitely a good job in the feudal dynasty. Nanjing College was also established by Wu Yan after he came to Nanjing. It is a new type of college that combines primary schools, middle schools and universities.Although the current faculty is not new, but the future can be expected.

"Thank you Your Majesty for your grace."

Wu Yan waved his hand and asked, "Who is willing to try this new firearm for me?"

Mortars must be tested, but since he is the emperor, it is of course impossible for Wu Yan to bear the risk of blasting the mortar himself.

Originally, he was going to fire the first shot, but the accident he witnessed turned him into a ruthless monarch.

"My minister is willing."

"Your Majesty, this is my honor."

This is a good thing in this era, there are many people who are not afraid of death, and there are also many people who are foolish and loyal.

Wu Yan didn't even say a big reward, and Yong Fu had already stood up.

"Draw lots."

Wu Yan didn't designate who would come, but let fate decide, and soon a guard stood up excitedly.

"Put the cannonball in, and run straight away, as fast as you can." Wu Yan stepped back and said, "Got it?"

The guard stood next to the gun mount that Wu Yan had adjusted, carelessly picked up a shell and put it at the muzzle, and then looked at Wu Yan who had already retreated 20 meters away.

Wu Yan, who retreated to a safe distance, said aloud: "I count to three and you let go, one, two, three."

When the three sounds fell, the guard let go of his arm, and then ran towards Wu Yan with lightness kung fu. He opened his arms as he ran, as if he wanted to help Wu Yan block the power of the explosion.

boom……

There was a loud noise, and the guard who ran a few meters away in an instant was pushed by a wave of air to run faster, but he couldn't run steadily, and he staggered and fell to the ground.

But he got up quickly, as if nothing happened.

It really exploded.

Wu Yan sighed, whether it was building a ship or a mortar, the process was much more difficult than he expected.

"Your Majesty is guilty, please punish me."

Seeing Wu Yan's ugly expression, the guard hurried over and knelt down.

"Get up, you are not only innocent, but also meritorious." Wu Yan said: "You will be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver when you rise to the rank of lieutenant."

Wu Yan's bodyguard was the imperial bodyguard, and his grade was not low. When Wu Yan won the first-class martial arts examination and was named the first-class bodyguard in the Xianqing imperial court, his grade was the third-rank.

However, this grade is actually just a name, because there are 60 first-class guards in Xianqing, 150 second-class guards of the fourth rank, 270 third-class guards of the fifth rank, and 900 blue-ling guards of the sixth rank. [-] people, more than officials of the same rank in the Sixth Ministry.

After Wu Yan founded the Ming Dynasty, although there was also a bodyguard office, there was no division of the first-class bodyguards. There was only one bodyguard battalion with a total of 300 people. After Wu Yan restructured the military system, the per capita number was second lieutenant, platoon leader captain, and company commander major , Colonel Battalion Commander.

This military rank setting is different from that of the regular army. It has been raised a lot, but it is also normal. After all, they are imperial guards.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness..."

The other guards around were also very envious, but they were just pushed by the aftermath of the explosion. Your Majesty is really a mighty emperor.

Wu Yan also sensed the eagerness of the guards around him, so he planned to continue to let people experiment with the mortar.

Although there is a risk of bombing the gun and running away, the guards are all martial arts, and they will not be killed or disabled if they put it down and run away.

It was at this moment that he suddenly heard the system beep.

"Congratulations to the host for completing the second stage of the world task and obtaining the world gate fragment (2/5)."

"The random traversal opportunity is activated, do you want to traversal?"

It's finally here.

Wu Yan, who was in a bad mood, immediately became happy. He knew that the original Nanjing City was completely gone, and he was finally able to cross again.

"Put these away and look after them, and go back to the palace."

Wu Yan can't wait to go back and prepare to travel. He really wants to go to the modern world, and then find someone to come back to help.

And before crossing, you must follow the old rules and use up the three lucky draw chances you got from the mission world of "Swordsman".

With the growing national power of Ming Dynasty, he should be able to smoke some good things, right?

(End of this chapter)