Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 652 Send troops again
"I have already made a note, and I will start to deal with these matters after all the matters related to the power plant are over.

After I go back today, I will gather all the people in the research institute and the Ministry of Industry to formulate a detailed plan, which will be handed over to His Majesty after the formulation is completed. "Song Yingxing said loudly.

"There is no need to worry too much about these matters. We just need to formulate a specific regulation. After all, the world has not been settled yet." Zhao Wen looked at Song Yingxing and said.

At the same time, the street lamps all over the streets and alleys of Xuan Town emit light.

Pedestrians in the streets and alleys looked at the street lamps on the side of the road with incredible expressions on their faces.

"Is this a street lamp? There are no candles, no flames, and it's just lit like this?" A middle-aged man walked under the street lamp and looked at the light from the light bulb installed on the street lamp, his face full of disbelief.

"When I was installing these street lights a while ago, I was still curious about what a street lamp is. After listening to the installation worker's explanation, I thought the street lamp was just a lantern with candles on it. I didn't expect to see it today and found out I was wrong. Where is this lantern with candles? This is simply a miracle. It can be lit without candles, and it is still so bright."

The face of the middle-aged man was full of surprise, and he kept sighing.

"Yes, yes, I still thought so at the time. I didn't expect to see me today, and I realized that I was wrong." Another middle-aged man also said with a surprised face.

A large number of people quickly surrounded the street lamp. They looked at the street lamp above their heads, and they all talked in surprise.

Although these people were surprised, they were far less exaggerated than Chen Donglai.

These people living in Xuan Town have seen too many strange things, so when they saw these street lights, their reaction was much smaller than that of Chen Donglai.

At this moment, a worker ran around these common people. He glanced at the street lamp that was lit above his head, and then ran to the next street lamp.

Scenes like this appear under every street lamp in Xuan Town.

When the workers inspecting the street lights returned to the power plant, they told Song Yingxing the news.

"Your Majesty, the inspection has been completed, and all the street lights in Xuan Town are on." Song Yingxing said to Zhao Wen.

"In that case, let's turn off the street lights now and turn them on at night. By the way, Aiqing remember to come to the Imperial Study Room tomorrow. I want to give you something." Zhao Wen looked at Song Yingxing.

Afterwards, Zhao Wen wandered around the power plant, inspected the power plant, and then returned to the palace.

After Zhao Wen returned to the palace, he took out all the light bulbs stored in the palace and had them installed on the lamp sockets in the palace.

As for Zhao Wen's imperial study room, since no desk lamps were made, the number of light bulbs was relatively large.

After the palace installed all the electric lights, it was already dusk.

As dusk approached, all the lights in the palace were turned on.

For the sake of beauty, most of the electric lights in the palace are covered with exquisite covers.

Because there are electric lights, the eunuchs and maids in the palace don't have to work hard to light candles.

Zhao Wen sat quietly in the imperial study room, and began to review the memorial by the light of the electric lamp.

As the territory grows larger, Zhao Wen needs to review more and more memorials.

The electric lights in the imperial study room illuminated the entire imperial study room, and Zhao Wen sat quietly in the imperial study room, correcting the memorials one by one with a Chinese ink pen.

At this moment, Zhao Wen saw a copy sent by the Military Academy.

This note was sent by the Military Academy when Zhao Wen was going to the power plant.

The content inside is the plan to attack Huguang and Shandong.

In the excerpt, Song Hu and Zhao Daniu were designated as the main generals to attack Huguang and Shandong, leading 16 regular troops and reserve troops, [-] regular troops and reserve troops to attack Huguang and Shandong respectively, with a total of [-] soldiers and horses.

Because Henan and Shaanxi have been captured, and Zhao Wen's enthronement ceremony is to be attended, Zhao Daniu and Song Hu have already returned to Xuanzhen.

Zhao Wen has also ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor now, so he can't lead the troops in almost every battle like before.

Now Zhao Wen has about 20 regular troops, but Zhao Daniu and Liu Wu command almost [-] soldiers and horses in Shaanxi and Sichuan.

It didn't take long for Shaanxi to be taken, and these soldiers and horses couldn't come back for a while.But Sichuan has not yet been taken, and the soldiers and horses under Liu Wu's command cannot leave.

After Zhao Wen returned to Xuanzhen, he began to ask the reserve army to exchange the soldiers and horses left behind in Henan and put them in Shanxi. Therefore, the number of regular troops in Zhao Wen's hands now is about the same.

As for the reserve soldiers and horses in Zhao Wen's hands, the number is much larger than that of the regular army.Moreover, when Zhao Wen attacked Henan's back cover, Liu Wenzhong, under Zhao Wen's order, recruited a large number of new recruits and filled them into the reserve force.

The configuration of the reserve army is far inferior to that of Zhao Wen's regular army. In the reserve army, there are only one 56 and a half for every five people, one 56 punch for every twenty people, and one light machine gun for every thirty people.

As for heavy artillery, they are even rarer, and some are only mortars and 40 fire.

This configuration was decided by Zhao Wending. Although the weapons and equipment of the reserve army did not dare to compare with the regular army, compared with the Ming army, it was still crushing.

According to Zhao Wen's arrangement, these reserve soldiers and horses will stay in the place in the future, so the weapons and equipment do not need to be too powerful.

The area of ​​Huguang in this era was very large, and its jurisdiction included Hubei, Hunan, and parts of Guangxi, Guangdong, and Guizhou. It was the largest province in this era, and its governing seat was located in Wuchang.Therefore, when attacking Huguang, more soldiers and horses are needed.

In fact, [-] regular troops can sweep Huguang, but it will take longer.

In addition to appointing Song Hu and Zhao Daniu as the leading generals, there were also a series of military arrangements. Zhezi listed all the rules and regulations for attacking Huguang and Shandong.

Zhao Wen read the scriptures, and finally wrote a "ke" on it with a Chinese ink pen.

Zhao Wen closed the booklet, put it on the table, and looked at Chen Donglai, "Send this booklet to the Military Academy after dawn tomorrow. Tell the people in the Military Academy to act according to the contents of this booklet. Try to arrange everything properly within half a month."

"Understood!" Chen Donglai bowed and saluted, remembering Zhao Wen's instructions in his heart.

Zhao Wen began to review the memorial again until midnight.

After reviewing all the memorials within a day, Zhao Wen stretched, yawned, and then went back to the bedroom to sleep.

In the early morning of the next day, Chen Donglai followed Zhao Wen's instructions and sent the documents sent by the Military Academy back to the Military Academy.

After the military academy received the return papers, it immediately took action.

All of a sudden, the whole Xuan Town became busy again.

On the third day after the military academy began to act, Song Hu and Zhao Daniu took the train to Taiyuan with their entourage and began to rectify the troops.

Carloads of supplies also departed from Xuanzhen to be transported to Taiyuan Prefecture.

Because of the existence of the Military Academy, Zhao Wen didn't have to deal with these things himself like before.

The time was so tense and busy, and Zhao Wen sat quietly in the imperial study room to review the memorial as usual.

Two days before the official dispatch of troops, Song Yingxing came to the imperial study and reported good news to Zhao Wen.

"Your Majesty, the welding machine has been successfully manufactured." Song Yingxing stood in the imperial study with an excited face, and said to Zhao Wen who was sitting in the upper seat.

In fact, the principle of the electric welding machine is not very complicated. With the resources Zhao Wen has now, it can be manufactured completely.

Although the advanced ones cannot be produced, the backward ones can still be produced.

The principle of the electric welding machine is very simple. It uses the high-temperature arc generated when the positive and negative poles are short-circuited instantaneously to melt the electrode and the material to be welded, so as to combine the objects to be contacted.

Its structure is very simple, it is a high-power transformer.

Electric welding machines can be divided into AC electric welding machines and DC electric welding machines. AC electric welding machines do not need to convert alternating current into direct current, and are relatively simple to manufacture. Therefore, the electric welding machine that Zhao Wen asked Song Yingxing to manufacture is AC electric welding machines.

After all, the electricity generated by the power plant is exactly alternating current, and there is no need to design additional alternating current converters.

Because of the lack of rubber and no plastic, the casing of the welding machine manufactured by Song Yingxing is made of painted iron sheets. After all, the welding machine needs ventilation and heat dissipation.

"Not bad, it's really good to be able to manufacture the electric welding machine in such a short period of time." Zhao Wen said with a smile.

Now Zhao Wen is not very excited. After all, it is not difficult for Zhao Wen to make an electric welding machine.

"After the electric welding machine is manufactured, it is necessary to start producing electric welding rods. Without electric welding rods, electric welding machines are useless.

I remember that I told you about the production process of welding rods and the precautions for producing welding rods before. After going down, let’s start manufacturing welding rods and strive to manufacture welding rods. " Zhao Wen said.

According to the different scenarios of use, welding electrodes are divided into a series of welding electrodes such as structural steel electrodes, heat-resistant steel electrodes, and stainless steel electrodes.

There are many welding electrodes that Zhao Wen cannot use at present, so the production method of welding electrodes that Zhao Wen gave to Song Yingxing is the most common production method of low-carbon steel welding rods in later generations, that is, the common J422 welding rods.

This kind of welding rod belongs to the kind of bad street welding rod in later generations. Zhao Wenxue's major is engineering, and the engineering major has metalworking training, including welders.

When Zhao Wen was in metalworking training, he heard the teacher introduce various welding rods and the production methods and processes of various welding rods in detail, so Zhao Wen also knows these.

"I take orders!" Song Yingxing bowed to Zhao Wen, and then hurriedly exited the imperial study with Zhao Wen's order.

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When the time for the official dispatch of troops arrived, Song Hu and Zhao Daniu led the soldiers and horses to leave Shanxi for Huguang and Shandong.

After walking for almost half a month, the two parties finally arrived in Huguang and Shandong.

Zhao Wen's soldiers and horses were simply not something these decadent guards could stop. After Song Hu and Zhao Daniu entered Huguang and Shandong, they took down five or six of them in just three days without any effort. A city.

In the land of Huguang, there were originally soldiers and horses drawn up by Wu Xiang and Wu Sangui, but they were transferred to the capital by Chongzhen's order, so now there are almost only a few guards left in Huguang.

How could these guard soldiers be Song Hu's opponents?Song Hu went down with a few rounds of artillery, and a white flag was erected on the top of the city, surrendering Song Hu.

Li Zicheng and the others who had been roaming around in the Huguang area became active again after Wu Xiang and the others left.

But this scene didn't last long, and they encountered Song Hu's soldiers.

After seeing Song Hu's soldiers and horses, Li Zicheng and the others didn't dare to resist at all, and ran away.

Back then Zhao Wen beat them hard enough, now Zhao Wen has become their nightmare, how dare they resist Song Hu's troops?

As for Zhao Daniu, the same is true. After entering Shandong, he has not encountered a decent resistance.

For a while, Song Hu and Zhao Daniu just felt that this battle was really meaningless.

When Song Hu and Zhao Daniu were in Huguang and Shandong, Chongzhen also received the news.

Chongzhen sat in the imperial study, looking at the battle report on the table, his face was as ugly as if he had eaten fly droppings.

"Three days, so many cities were lost in three days. What are these defenders doing for food? What are they doing for food? Incompetent, incompetent!"

Chongzhen kept getting angry in the imperial study, yelling and cursing the defenders in Huguang and Shandong.

Gao Qiqian and others knelt in the imperial study room, even breathing became cautious.

After a long time, Chongzhen sat slumped on the chair with a helpless expression on his face.

"The next city is today, and the next city is tomorrow. Shanxi is gone, Shaanxi is gone, Henan is gone, Sichuan is gone, and now Huguang and Shandong are also gone.

After these places are gone, it will be the turn of Anhui and Jiangnan.The world is so big, how much of my country can I give up? "

Chongzhen stared blankly at the roof, the helplessness on his face became more and more solemn.

Gao Qiqian didn't know how to persuade Chongzhen, so he could only kneel quietly on the ground.

"By the way, didn't you say that Qian Qianyi was missing before? I asked you to investigate, how did your investigation go?" Chongzhen suddenly remembered something, and looked at Gao Qiqian who was kneeling at his feet.

Gao Qiqian raised his head and looked at Chongzhen, his face was full of embarrassment.

"Your Majesty, the investigation is almost complete!" Gao Qiqian replied tremblingly.

Before Qian Qianyi left, he took a few days of sick leave for himself.However, after the holiday, no one from the Ministry of Rites saw Qian Qianyi.

The people in the Ministry of Rites thought that Qian Qianyi was seriously ill, so they sent someone to check on Qian Qianyi's residence in the capital.

Unexpectedly, when they arrived, they found that Qian Qianyi's house was empty.

The sudden disappearance of the servant of the Ministry of Rites is a big deal.If it can't be found out in time, it will be even worse for the already frightened capital.

Therefore, Chongzhen asked Gao Qiqian to deal with the matter.

After such a long investigation, Gao Qiqian also found a lot of things.Although the exact whereabouts of Qian Qianyi cannot be determined, Gao Qiqian can guess it roughly.

(End of this chapter)