Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 334 How to equip a 30 army

Taichang actually wanted to expand the army by 30 at one time!

It can be said that there has never been such a crazy move in all dynasties.

The expansion of the 30 army is not only a question of weapons and equipment, clothing, shoes and hats, pots and pans, tents, etc., are in huge demand.

Even the camps where they are stationed need a lot of space.

It turned out that the long camp where the Shenji camp was stationed must not be able to accommodate so many people, even if it had 20 people, Nanyuan couldn't do it either.

Taichang had already thought about it a long time ago, and he just pulled the army to the north bank of the Haihe River and stationed there.

In this way, not only can we reorganize and practice, but also build a new shipyard, and the transfer of grain and grass is much more convenient.

Because the Haihe River is connected to the canal, the grain and grass from the south can be directly pulled over by wheeled boats and spike warships. The soldiers of the Shenji Battalion and the Shenwu Battalion only need to unload the grain and grass from the pier and carry them into the barracks without going through any land at all. On transfer.

Ships can not only pull grain and grass, but also pull people. With the wheel boats and Spike warships, the speed of assembly of the guards in various places is quite fast. In less than ten days, the Shenji Camp and the Shenwu Camp The number of people expanded to more than [-].

At this moment, the north bank of the Haihe River is already tens of miles away, and there are voices of orders and drills everywhere, and new shipyards are also rising at a speed that is already visible to the naked eye.

The newly recruited guards practiced for half a day and built the city for half a day. The recruits from the Shenji Battalion and the Shenwu Battalion took turns to practice and build the city.

This can not only ensure the completion of the new shipyard as soon as possible, but also quickly improve the physical strength and endurance of the recruits.

These guards are all pure newcomers, they have never participated in any battles at all, and they are not very old.

Because the older ones, those who have experienced battles, have been transferred to the same level before, and the rest are basically these young and strong people who are just old enough.

This is also good, young people are growing their bodies, as long as they are provided with enough food, and then take turns to practice every day, their physical fitness will improve very quickly.

Moreover, pure rookies are more obedient than veterans who have participated in battles. As long as they practice hard for a few months, they can basically obey orders.

Now, the only problem is weaponry.

There is no shortage of gun heads, because the most equipped frontier troops and station guards are long guns, and the most stocked weapons in various places are also gun heads. Many people even have long guns. It is still very easy to put together 30 long guns.

Swords and shields are different. Even if they are prepared, there are not many of these two things, especially shields, which are basically not equipped with regular frontier troops.

There are 30 waist knives and 30 shields, and it is really not ordinary difficult to get them all in five or six months.

Fortunately, there was an arsenal in Wubei City, and it was an arsenal specializing in the manufacture of cold weapons. The personnel and factory buildings were all ready-made, but they had never produced so many swords and shields at one time.

Moreover, Daming still has steam machine tools at this moment, as long as a suitable steam machine tool is developed, the production speed is still very fast.

Sun Yuanhua, Song Yingxing, Zhang Jimeng, Cheng Jiashuo and others are currently working hard to develop machine tools for rapid production of knife shields.

At this moment, Daming's research and development capabilities are not so strong. In less than ten days, they actually produced a complete set of prototypes for rapid production of swords and shields.

When Taichang heard the news, he naturally came happily.

As long as the complete set of machine tools is efficient enough, it will definitely not be a problem to manufacture 30 sets of knife shields in half a year.

So, what is the efficiency of the complete set of machine tools they developed?
Taichang first came to the workshop dedicated to making waist knives.

At this moment, there are already a long line of machine tools in the workshop, and the first one is a plate pressing machine with a furnace.

I have to say that Cheng Jiashuo is indeed a mechanical genius.

After Taichang taught him the conveyor belt, he really developed a plate pressing machine that continuously presses plates.

At this moment, the orange molten iron is continuously flowing down from the high outlet of the special furnace. The specially pressed clay trough is quite smooth, and the flow rate of the molten iron is not slow, and because the clay trough is quite regular. A relatively regular thick iron plate.

However, once the molten iron cools down, it stops flowing.

At this time, a special iron conveyor belt is needed to pull the red thick iron plate into the press machine.

Cheng Jiashuo has already made the iron teleportation belt.

However, at this moment, the place where the iron conveyor belt is located is surrounded by water vapor, and it is impossible to see clearly.

Taichang took a look at the steaming water vapor and understood that this is because the iron conveyor belt needs to be cooled, otherwise, it would be softened by the temperature transmitted by the red thick iron plate, and it would collapse directly.

This Cheng Jiashuo is really smart, and he knows how to cool it with water.

So how does the pressure roller cool down?

You must know that the pressure roller is also continuously pressing the red thick iron plate. If it is not cooled in time, it will become soft sooner or later.

It is not possible to place the sink directly below, because the bottom is made of iron plates, and the pressed iron plates are easily oxidized, rusted and crusted by water vapor.

What Cheng Jiashuo thought was to directly enlarge the pressure roller, then open a hole in the middle, connect the water pipe, and let the water flow through the middle of the pressure roller.

Even Taichang didn't understand how the copper water pipe was tightly connected with the rotating pressure roller.

However, Cheng Jiashuo did it.

Two huge pressing rollers rotated rapidly, and the red thick iron plate was pressed into a thin iron plate less than half an inch thick.

This thin iron plate is continuously pressed out from under the plate pressing machine, and after being cooled by a long cast iron platform, it is directly inserted into a shearing machine.

The pressed thin iron plate is cut by a shearing machine and becomes a rectangular iron plate with neat four sides.

There is another shearing machine behind the shearing machine, and the rectangular iron plate about two and a half feet is cut into iron bars about the width of the palm at the second shearing machine.

Next is a shearing machine. The third shearing machine is specially used for corner cutting, that is, to cut off a corner from one end of the long iron bar, so that the front becomes a triangular sharp corner.

Next is a special stove, and the iron bar with the sharp corners is stuffed into the gap. After a while, the sharp corners are burned red.

Then there's a punch press.

As long as you pick up one side of the red-hot iron bar and punch it, the blade will come out.

Next came a special furnace and a punch press.

But here is the processing of the hilt end. After the hilt end is burnt red, the long strip for the hilt comes out when the punch is punched, and there is even a row of neat round holes in the middle.

After this step is completed, it is time to install the knife handle. The block on the knife handle has been stamped long ago, just knock it in. The wooden handle is two semicircular hardwood blocks, each with a piece of wood in the middle. Row of holes.

Just line up the hole with the hole on the back of the blade, drive in a row of rivets, wrap a strip of cloth and you're done.

Taichang directly picked up a ready-made waist knife and looked at it, with a weird look on his face.

This knife is really not very beautiful, the blade is straight, there is no curvature at all, and it is not beautiful at all.

Of course, fighting is not about looking better than someone else's knife, sharpness is the most important thing.

He looked at it, and then asked: "Chang Geng, is the sharpness of this knife bad?"

Song Yingxing nodded quickly and said: "Don't worry, your majesty, this knife is made of black iron. It's sharp. Even if you don't sharpen it, a log as thick as your forearm can be broken with one knife. If you sharpen it finely, it can be used as a kitchen knife for cutting vegetables. No problem."

Hearing this, Taichang couldn't help asking curiously: "What is Xuantie?"

How to explain this?
Song Yingxing said with some embarrassment: "The black iron is actually smelted according to the wrought iron formula used to make swords and swords in the past. Weichen followed the emperor's instructions and infiltrated some carbon into it. As a result, the effect of making turning knives is not good. Very good, but the sword forged with it is surprisingly tough and extremely sharp, this thing is just like the legendary black iron, so I simply called it black iron."

Oh, it turns out that this guy is a high-hardness alloy that has not been developed. He made this new steel by mistake.

The amount of carburization of this steel may not be high enough, so only the toughness is enhanced, and the hardness has not been significantly improved.

Well, high-hardness alloys are not so easy to develop, and it would be nice to be able to make this so-called black iron by accident.

At least, this dark iron is a good material for making swords or kitchen knives.

(End of this chapter)