Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 130 Mortar

With Zhao Wen's return, the entire Longmen Castle became more and more energetic.

Before Wu Keshan set off, Zhao Wen handed over the cement recently produced by the cement plant to Wu Keshan and asked him to take it back to Horqin.

As for the bricks and tiles for building the city, it would be unrealistic to get them from Longmen Fort, so Zhao Wen chose a few skilled craftsmen to follow Wu Keshan to the grassland to build a brick kiln in Horqin to fire bricks and tiles.

At the beginning, 1 of these craftsmen were unwilling when they heard that they were going to the territory of the Tartars.

But under Zhao Wen's coercion and temptation, and the promise that they will be promoted to stewards after they come back, they obediently followed Wu Keshan away.

Hai Lanzhu was left in Longmen Castle.The people on the prairie are different from the Ming people. Hai Lanzhu has been like a curious baby since she came to Longmen Fort. She runs around in Longmen Fort every day. Zhao Wen hardly sees each other all day long. .

The residential area outside Longmen Fort can only accommodate 3000 people. The extra refugees Zhao Wen did not build houses for them, but simply helped them build shacks and provide jobs.

The shacks are also built close to the residential area. Zhao Wen's purpose is to motivate them and enhance their motivation to work through a strong contrast.

Sometimes, people should not be treated too well, otherwise, they would not willingly go to work in cement plants and steel plants.

Although this is a bit cruel, isn't the whole world like this?If there are no poor people in the world, who will work?Who will plant the land?
Of course, Zhao Wen's bricks and cement were also sold to them normally, and the price was only the ex-factory price.

In this way, these refugees without houses have the confidence to fight.After all, according to the wages Zhao Wen gave them, a family of two laborers could build a similar house in less than a year.

The steel produced in the ironworks was used by Zhao Wen to make armor, steel knives and spears.

At present, Zhao Wen does not plan to sell the iron and steel produced by the steel factory to make armored swords and guns.

Although Zhao Wen was sitting in a warehouse, all the guns in the warehouse could not be used to arm soldiers.

After all, there are more soldiers armed, and it will be bad if someone instigates rebellion one day.

Soldiers in this era are not as enlightened as later generations. In an era when theories of ghosts and gods prevailed, Zhao Wen did not dare to entrust his future to a group of people who had just left the cropland for a long time.

In Zhao Wen's plan, a large part of the soldiers recruited in the future will use cold weapons.

The battlefield of this era is in the stage of alternating hot and cold weapons. Hot weapons have not yet entered the stage of history, and cold weapons have not yet been withdrawn from the stage of history.

In this era, almost all are face-to-face hand-to-hand combat, and there are very few positional battles like the later generations.

Therefore, it is not necessary for all staff to equip thermal weapons.

Keeping a certain amount of cold weapons also plays a certain role in hand-to-hand combat.

In this way, it is also easy to control the army.

Zhao Wen originally wanted to use the steel produced in the steel factory to make plate armor.

Although the protection of plate armor may not be as high as that of armor such as fish scale armor, it is more convenient to build.

But suffering from lack of continuous motivation, Zhao Wen had no choice but to give up.

If the plate armor is forged by hand, the time wasted can also produce fish scale armor.

The glass factories are also those, and they have been producing glass mirrors. At present, Zhao Wen has no intention of expanding.

After all, things are rare and expensive, and only a small amount of glass mirrors can stimulate the desire of wealthy businessmen to buy.

One afternoon, Zhao Wen walked around Longmen Fort a few times, and then returned to the warehouse space in a corner where no one was paying attention.

Zhao Wen looked at the open door of the largest warehouse, heaved a sigh of relief, and then walked in slowly.

Zhao Wen walked around inside for half an hour, then came out again.

"It's full of light weapons such as Type 56 and a half, Type 56 light machine guns, Type 67 wooden-handled grenades, and 40 fire, and there is no artillery, which is really disappointing." Zhao Wen shook his head and muttered with dissatisfaction.

Zhao Wen looked at a warehouse next to this warehouse, frowned and walked over.

Although this warehouse is not as big as the previous warehouse, it is not small. It is the largest one besides the previous one.

Zhao Wen looked at the iron lock hanging on the gate, took out the big black star on his waist, and fired a few shots at the iron lock.

After the gunshot, the iron lock snapped.

Zhao Wen put the big black star on his waist again, pushed the door open and entered.

As soon as the door was pushed open, a thick cloud of smoke and dust came oncoming.

Zhao Wen covered his nose, coughed twice, and then walked inside.

On the ground in the warehouse, there were many wooden boxes containing weapons that were more than two meters long, and a lot of dust fell on the boxes.

Zhao Wen looked at these wooden boxes and kept muttering, "What's in it? Why are the boxes so long?"

Zhao Wen walked to these boxes with a puzzled expression on his face, and wiped off the dust on them.

I saw the words "Type 55 120mm Mortar" appearing on the box in black.

Zhao Wen covered his nose and looked at the box excitedly.

"Grandma's, Type 55 mortar, this is a good thing." Zhao Wen looked at the box in front of him excitedly, then found a crowbar and pried it open.

As soon as the box was opened, a strong smell of butter came oncoming.

A Yuantong package wrapped in oiled paper appeared in front of Zhao Wen.

The Type 55 120mm mortar was designed and finalized in 1955 and put into mass production. The gun is a regiment-owned artillery.Used to fire 120mm mortar shells, grenades, smoke bombs, flares.

The Type 55 120mm mortar is a heavy mortar with a large caliber and high lethality.It has a total length of 2.3 meters in the marching state and a width of 1.5 meters in the combat state.

When firing, if the soldier loading the shells is not tall, he has to step on the ammunition box to load the shells into it.

Its longest range is more than 500 meters, which is 400 miles.The latest range is more than [-] meters, which is less than one mile.

The entire mortar does not have shells, and has a net weight of more than 200 kilograms. One shell alone weighs [-] kilograms. It is a veritable magic weapon for killing enemies.

The weight of the shell also represents its huge lethality. When a 120mm mortar shell explodes, the area of ​​damage caused by it is more than 100 square meters.

Moreover, this mortar has a precedent for shooting down helicopters, so it can't be said that it is not powerful.

Zhao Wen tore off the oiled paper with excitement, and looked greedily at the mortar covered with butter under the oiled paper.

"Grandma, if I get this mortar out, there is still a place in Daming where I can't go?" Zhao Wen stretched out his hand excitedly, and touched the barrel of the Type 55 mortar.

"This guy weighs more than 200 kilograms. I definitely can't lift it by myself."

Zhao Wen looked at the mortar in the box, and immediately jumped out of the warehouse.

After returning to Longmen Fort, Zhao Wen walked towards the Garrison Mansion excitedly.

Hai Lanzhu, who was wandering around in Longmen Fort, saw the sudden appearance, excited, and ran towards the Garrison Mansion. Zhao Wen said with a puzzled look, "Why is this guy like this? What kind of happy event did he meet?" , so excited?"

Hai Lanzhu looked at Zhao Wen who was leaving, shook her head, and then turned around in Longmen Fort.

After Zhao Wen quickly returned to the garrison mansion, he ordered Li Xiaosan who was guarding in the hall not to allow anyone to approach the backyard, and then went straight into the backyard.

Zhao Wen let out a long breath, and stepped into the warehouse.

Half a quarter of an hour later, Zhao Wen looked excitedly at the five wooden boxes containing mortars and a dozen boxes of mortar shells placed in the yard.

Although the Type 55 mortar is heavy, it takes no effort to move it from the warehouse to the outside world. You only need to put your hands on the weapon and think about it in your heart.

"Little San, Little San!" Zhao Wen shouted to Li Xiaosan who was guarding the gate of the yard.

When Li Xiaosan heard Zhao Wen's voice, he hurried in.

"Go and find Zhao Daniu and the others, and tell me that I have something important to do!" Zhao Wen said excitedly, pointing at Li Xiaosan.

Li Xiaosan looked at the ten-foot-long wooden box under Zhao Wen's feet, and thought, "My lord probably got a new weapon."

Li Xiaosan cupped his hands at Zhao Wengong, and then ran out.

A few quarters of an hour later, Zhao Daniu and others stood in front of Zhao Wen.

(End of this chapter)