The First Military Division of the Three Kingdoms

It's not because Chen Ziming is inside, but because the things inside are so important that Chen Ziming can let go of everything, even if the battle between Zhang Fei and Cao Cao has reached a critical moment, Chen Ziming will also put aside the battle and leave everything to come here.

"Let's start." Chen Ziming nodded, and several people began to test.

In front of Chen Ziming, there was a two-meter-high iron ball supported by three thick iron pillars, and the top of the iron ball was connected by an iron pipe, and the surroundings were fixed by iron frames.

"Pour water!"

A middle-aged man excitedly directed several people to work. There was a cover on the top of the iron ball. Four big men stood on the iron frame, twisted vigorously, and then slowly lifted it up. Then one or two big men lifted a bucket of water and poured it into the Inside the iron ball.

"Seal!"

The middle-aged man continued to direct, and the iron cover was slowly restored by four big men and closed tightly.

"ignition!"

The middle-aged man gave an order, and the ignition object that had been placed under the iron ball was immediately ignited, and the iron ball was burned by the fire.

"Add coal! Keep the fire going!"

The middle-aged man continued to direct the crowd. The coal they used was all clean coal. The fire was so powerful that Chen Ziming could feel the scorching fire rushing towards his face from a long distance away. However, Chen Ziming had no intention of leaving, and instead walked forward The purpose of this step is to see clearly the reaction of the iron ball.

"Here we come!" Chen Ziming shouted excitedly in his heart, and from the outlet of an iron pipe connected to the iron ball, water vapor slowly came out, and then it became bigger and bigger.

"crop....!"

In the end, the steam from the outlet of the iron pipe was getting louder and louder, and there was a piercing sound. Chen Ziming could feel the terrifying power from a long distance away. If anyone dared to touch the steam, he would be instantly cooked.

"Turn off the fire!"

"Back the coal!"

After a while, the middle-aged man shouted hastily, and then several people in charge of lighting the fire immediately picked up the tools that had been prepared, and quickly put out the fire under the iron ball.

"Huh..." The middle-aged man breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the fire was extinguished, and waved his hand to let the others leave, leaving only four youths who looked like skinny and tender flesh in front of Chen Ziming.

"Prime Minister, what do you think?" The middle-aged man asked Chen Ziming cautiously.

"It's only a quarter of an hour away, why stop?" Chen Ziming asked in confusion.

"The prime minister doesn't know. If this continues, the iron furnace will explode." As soon as the middle-aged man said, Chen Ziming immediately understood that this boiler does not have a pressure reducing valve at all. Fraudulently opened under strong pressure.

"Go back, let me think about how to solve this matter." Chen Ziming glanced at the simple steam oven, and took the lead to leave helplessly.

That's right, Chen Ziming made a steam oven. He wanted to make a steam engine. The working principle of the steam engine was very simple. He didn't know the complicated steam engine, but he could still make the original steam engine.

However, what made Chen Ziming very helpless was that the materials needed to make the steam engine were substandard, everything was substandard, and the most basic iron could be made well.

Ordinary iron is enough for useless steam engines, but what is the use of those things, are they for viewing? What he wants to get is a used steam engine, something that is epoch-making.

The only way Chen Ziming can think of now is to thicken the iron wall of the iron furnace, so as to prevent the steam engine from exploding, but it is completely unable to meet Chen Ziming's requirements.

Just like it is now, it is so powerful that the pressure inside the boiler is too high, and the whole boiler is in danger of exploding. Now this one is fine, after numerous tests, it is barely okay.

According to Chen Ziming's knowledge, when the boiler was first built, there were countless explosions, and more than a dozen workers were killed and countless injured. It took their lives to build such a useless boiler.

"The decompression valve should not be difficult, I have to remember it carefully." After returning home, Chen Ziming began to draw the decompression valve in his memory and its working principle on paper. It took more than a day to finally draw an ideal one. The pressure reducing valve that can be used in the middle is used, but how effective it is, still needs countless experiments.

"Steel, I need stronger steel!" What Chen Ziming wants most now is very strong steel, at least steel that can be used to make a qualified steam engine.

Otherwise, the steam engine can only be used for viewing forever and has no practical value. Moreover, the steam engine is too dangerous. Once the boiler explodes, its power will be lost. This factory has been repaired several times because of the explosion of the boiler.

In this era, there are no high-tech gadgets such as cutting machines. If you want to add a pressure valve to the boiler, the only way is to rebuild a boiler, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the efficiency is very slow.

"It seems that I am still too impatient. The production level in this era is too low. Although due to my influence, the production level has been improved a lot, and the quality of steel has also been greatly improved, but it is still far from the standard for making boilers. "

Thinking of this, Chen Ziming recruited the most powerful iron makers. Chen Ziming needs better steel, and needs them to continuously improve the quality of steel.

But steel can’t be improved if you want to improve it. One month later, Chen Ziming gave up and threw everything to those masters who made steel, let them study slowly, but don’t stop, steel is too important to Chen Ziming , Many things are inseparable from that thing.

As for the steam engine, the basic model has been manufactured, but its practicality is not strong. Let alone pushing the train and ship, the power is just enough to scald people. It is a joke to use it for production.

The things in Chen Ziming's head are really limited, and I can't remember them. Many things need to be studied slowly. After repeated experiments, Chen Ziming has recruited a large number of young people with flexible brains and loves research from Linzi Academy at a high price. Give them all the things, and then let them study slowly.

In a word, Chen Ziming only needs results, and Chen Ziming did not concentrate everyone on the research of steam engines, but sorted out all the related technologies such as the principle of gears and levers, and divided them into areas. To study separately, the ultimate goal is to make the steam engine take shape.

But it's too difficult. Those people know how to use the most basic gears and levers, but they can't understand the principles at all. Chen Ziming doesn't force it, and everything is done slowly.

Chapter 334 A Mess

Chapter 334 A Mess

After spending so much time and being unable to produce what he wanted, Chen Ziming was very disappointed. However, Chen Ziming was a little relieved that the seeds of the steam engine had been planted. As long as he was still alive, he would continue to be studied until until successful.

After Chen Ziming left the factory, after reading the official documents accumulated during this period, his expression was very ugly. It wasn't that there was a problem, but that too many people died, which far exceeded the bottom line in Chen Ziming's heart.

The reason why Chen Ziming didn't initiate the unification war was because he wanted to control the death toll, so as not to let the big man kill a large number of young men in one go.

But now it seems that Chen Ziming is a bit wishful thinking. In the two battlefields, Zhang Fei's side is better. Most of them are singled out by generals. Occasionally small-scale melees occur, and the number of deaths on both sides can be controlled.

But the battle between the south and Sun Ce got a bit out of control. Xu Huang used Pang Tong's strategy to burn more than 4 people in Sun Ce, and then Sun Ce used Zhou Yu's strategy to ambush Xu Huang's troops and killed Xu Huang's [-] soldiers. , Coupled with the large and small battles, the entire tree-shaded mountains flowed like rivers, and it can be said that the lives of the people were devastated.

In order to support the two huge meat grinding plants, Liu Bei not only formed a new army, but also recruited many young and strong to join the army, which greatly reduced the labor force in various places, which caused a considerable pause in production in various places, and many projects had to be stopped. down.

Moreover, the war consumed countless money and food, which made Liu Bei's treasury, which had just started to improve, empty again. Now Liu Bei is going to borrow money from those big families again to help. Chen Ziming frowned after seeing it.

Borrowing money is fine, but there must be a limit. You borrow money just because you have difficulties, and you haven’t paid back what you borrowed last time. Doesn’t this make everyone flustered?

"Come here, send an order to Xu Huang. The southern battlefield is mainly defensive. No active attacks are allowed to reduce casualties. As long as Sun Ce doesn't take the initiative to provoke him, don't provoke him." Chen Ziming immediately sent an order to the military department, ordering Xu Huang.

Sun Ce was only entrusted by Cao Cao to restrain Liu Bei's troops. Now that his mission has been completed, although he is a bit cautious and wants to take advantage of the fire, Sun Ce should also understand that Liu Bei is not qualified to mess with him, and he probably won't do it again. I'm daydreaming, as long as Xu Huang doesn't attack, Sun Ce should be happy to relax.

"Cao Cao, let me meet you, Liangzhou must be won." Chen Ziming had no choice but to secretly rely on it, but if Zhang Fei was allowed to do it like this, Liu Bei would not only develop, but even his own national strength would be destroyed by this battle. War wears down.

When Chen Ziming saw Liu Bei, he expressed his opinion. Liu Bei readily agreed, and he didn't want to continue thinking like this. Now this war has been going on for more than half a year, and it will be the end of the year in two months. If there is no breakthrough, The cost of nearly a million troops spending the winter is enough to wear down Liu Bei.

It's not that you can't fight in winter, but that fighting in winter will cost countless times more than usual, and it's too difficult. No matter who it is, they don't want to fight in winter.

Of course, when you are forced to do nothing, you can only bite the bullet. For example, Zhang Fei must not withdraw his troops now, otherwise Liangzhou will belong to Cao Cao.

After Chen Ziming arranged everything, he hurried to Hedong, preparing to take over the army of Hedong and end the Battle of Hedong as soon as possible.

I have to say that Chen Ziming's strategy was very successful. The south focused on defense. Since Xu Huang received Chen Ziming's order, he defended against danger and was unable to hold on. At the beginning, Sun Ce sent Xu Huang to have some kind of conspiracy, and be careful for a while. Later, seeing that Xu Huang really didn't want to come out to fight, Sun Ce was also happy to have a leisurely time. After a while, he sent people to call for battle, and then continued to confront Xu Huang without leading his army to attack.

Since Sun Ce attacked rashly some time ago, Pang Tong calculated that he burned more than 4 people, and almost made Sun Ce withdraw his troops and return to Jiangdong. If Zhou Yu hadn't planned to save the game, Sun Ce would have no news of fighting.

Of course, after several battles, Sun Ce also deeply experienced the strength of Liu Bei's soldiers and horses. Whether it is the quality of individual soldiers or weapons and equipment, they are much better than Jiangdong's soldiers and horses.

If Sun Ce wants to take advantage of the fire, those Xuzhous are completely idiotic dreams. Zhou Yu also persuaded Sun Ce not to continue to attack. Cao Cao is not a good person. Allies strike.