1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 113
"That is to say, those thieves who escaped have gone deep into the interior?" Yu Fukun slapped the table annoyedly after hearing the investigation situation of Chen Dalang and others who returned and their speculations.

The six-day journey, at least three or four hundred miles away, even after chasing so far, I haven't seen any traces of those thieves.On the way, however, they found another camp of an indigenous tribe that had been breached, and encountered several fleeing indigenous people.But when the other party saw Chen Dalang and others, he turned around and fled, disappearing into the forest in an instant.

Send people deep inland to continue the pursuit, or just leave it at that, and let it fend for itself.In this regard, Yu Fukun is a bit caught in a dilemma.

Maybe those thieves are still fleeing inland, and they continue to coerce the defeated natives.There must be at least [-] people to pursue them to be sure.But how to carry supplies, four hundred miles, five hundred miles, maybe six hundred miles, how much supplies do you need to bring.All the mules, horses and cattle are used, and it may be possible to barely attack.

But the problem is, after defeating the opponent, if they can't be wiped out, what if they run away again?
But if they are left alone, if they are allowed to grow up and integrate several indigenous tribes, wouldn't they become a potential opponent.

"Uncle Kun, I think... just leave them alone for the time being!" Qi Tian weighed himself up and said, "There are no more than a dozen of them at most, no more than 20. Apart from a few knives, what do they have? Even if they What if you can unify several indigenous tribes and gather thousands of people?"

"We have artillery, muskets, and all kinds of steel swords, axes and spears. In the next few months, we can also build part of the city walls and forts. How can they threaten us?"

"We have such a long distance to attack them, and if they want to attack us, it will also be such a long distance. What's more, where do they get so much material reserves? Even if they have sufficient material reserves, they don't have mules and horses , without means of transportation, how to carry supplies?... They don't have any craftsmen!"

Yup!Yu Fukun slapped his thigh, I will hit you, it is not easy.Then if you come to beat me, wouldn't it be just as difficult!Just like what those scholars said, when the arrow is shot to the end, it has no strength, and it can't hurt people at all.

Those aborigines don't even have any extra food every day. Let me see how you organize hundreds of thousands of aborigines to beat me!If it really comes, it will be very good, there are coal mines, iron mines, and places to build walls and houses, but the shortage of people is terrible!

Putting aside the "little matter" of the thieves fleeing into the inland and integrating the aborigines, various industrial and agricultural constructions in Jianye City and Heishanbao continued to proceed in an orderly manner.

The more than 6000 acres of fields outside the Jianye City camp have grown to a height of more than a foot. The wheat and rice are sparse and shabby, and there is a high probability that they will create a very low yield.I don't know if the crops are not suitable for the land, or because they are all raw land.

However, corn, sorghum, soybeans, potatoes, and sweet potatoes are barely growing, but the output is not as good as that in the south of Ming Dynasty, even in the relatively barren places in the north, such as Shaanxi and Gansu.

However, after all, it was the first year of crop planting, so the yield was secondary.The most important thing is that they pioneered farming in the Hanzhou continent. It is believed that with the meticulous maintenance of the farmland and the irrigation of water sources, the growth of crops will be greatly improved in the second year (season).

Compared with the unsatisfactory performance of agricultural production, industrial production is full of surprises.

After more than half a month of small blast furnace steelmaking, the performance of the produced steel has gradually improved, and the process has also stabilized.This means that the two experimental small blast furnaces can be produced at full capacity.

And the cannon-caster Stephen Grichdin from Switzerland experienced seven or eight failures, wasting countless steels, and finally cast a 4-pound field steel cannon.

Since it is all made of steel, the entire cannon body is much lighter than iron cannons and copper cannons of the same specification. With the legs, the total weight is only more than 140 kilograms.A horse can be easily towed, and it even takes only two or three people to move it.

"Let's test the range and power!" Qi Tian brought a few teenagers and craftsmen to a flat ground outside Montenegro Castle to test this "small" steel cannon.

"...Okay, sir!" Stephen Grechdin wiped the sweat from his forehead.Just now, he and several craftsmen dragged the steel cannon that took him more than ten days of hard work to the test site.

Since he didn't know the pressure of the steel gun and the strength of the gun wall, he first stuffed a small amount of gunpowder, and then put in a projectile.

Turning to look at the knowledgeable young man behind him, he nodded expressionlessly.Stephan Grechdin took the match and lit the cannon.

"Boom!" With a sound, the projectile flew out instantly.

"How far?" Qi Tian looked up at the direction the steel cannon was shooting.

A moment later, a teenager ran sideways to the point of impact, and held up a flag made of Indian gray cloth.

"About 120 meters to 130 meters." Someone estimated the distance.

"Increase the amount of gunpowder one after another. We need to record the amount of gunpowder and the shooting range." Qi Tian turned his head and said to Qi Yuanshan.I remember that during artillery shooting in this period, there seems to be a saying that the gunpowder is fixed, and it is directly stuffed into the equipped gunpowder pack as far as it needs to shoot.

As the amount of gunpowder increases, the range of this 4-pound small steel gun gradually increases.

200 meters, 250 meters, 300 meters... Finally, the shooting range reached about 560 meters. No matter how much the gunpowder was increased, it would always fluctuate up and down at this distance.

The maximum range is 560 meters, so the effective range is within 450 meters. According to the shooting speed of one and a half minutes, you can fire four to five rounds when the enemy infantry rushes at normal speed. If you face cavalry, you can shoot One to two rounds.

Of course, if you are fighting the enemy, there must be more than this type of artillery. The 8-pound guns to the 12-pound guns will be placed in layers and firepower will be projected one by one.

"Continue to shoot according to the normal discharge amount, and test the maximum shooting life of the artillery." After determining the matching ratio of different discharge amounts and ranges of the artillery, it is time to test its service life.

"When shooting, you might as well record and measure the data of the muzzle shooting angle and impact point. In the future, when firing the cannon, there will also be a spectrum." Qi Tian doesn't know much about the shooting elements of artillery, but we can shoot one after another For the test of the shells, the recorded data can be made according to the statistical method of probability theory.

It seems that this artillery is also a technical arm.In a few years, we will have to popularize the mathematics and geometry knowledge in middle and high school for these teenagers.

Now, every night, Qi Tian spends one to two hours frantically recalling and recording all kinds of knowledge from his previous life, including mathematics, geometry, physics, chemistry, some physiological and medical medicines (basic medical common sense), geography, and even some vague knowledge. The world history of this era and the history of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.

He is very worried that as time goes by, all kinds of knowledge in his mind will gradually become blurred and even completely forgotten.Except for some historical materials of various countries during this period, all the things he recorded were placed in the silver vault in the storage area and locked tightly.Maybe, when a book printing workshop is built here, he will sort out these materials and mimeograph them.All these materials must be the most precious treasures in the Hanzhou Continent.He hopes that, in his lifetime, some of this knowledge can be passed on to the next generation, or the next generation.

The artillery test was handed over to several teenagers and craftsmen.And Stephen Grechdin was asked to continue to cast larger caliber guns, 8-pound, 10-pound, 12-pound, and even 16-pound and 20-pound heavy guns.

Qi Tian confessed to Stephen Grichdin that the range of the artillery may have a certain relationship with the length of the barrel of the artillery. Let him follow this idea to cast artillery with the same specifications as the European ones, but the range is much higher than their artillery.

Then, give him a few craftsmen and teenagers to be apprentices with him. In addition to cooperating with him to complete the casting of various cannons, he also needs to record and master the techniques of cannon casting.

Of course, Qi Tian honored his 200 taels of silver, and promised that he would be rewarded with another 200 taels of silver for each type of cannon that is qualified and stable in performance.

Not only cannon casting, but all craftsmen and entertainers, even some farmers, will be rewarded as long as they propose and perfect various crafts and tools.

Although, at the current initial stage of Hanzhou, the amount of silver does not reflect its due value at all.But under the accumulation, the children and grandchildren may come in handy!

(End of this chapter)