Cutting 1719

Chapter 43 Commendation
Regarding the problem of the Huaibei Salt Gang, Ning Yu didn't know how to deal with it for a while. No matter where he started, he was a little helpless. is not going to stop.

This time it was just an appetizer, and the intention was to tell the Ning family to stop.

Ning Zhongjing intends to find someone to try to negotiate with the other party. Obviously, the current Ning family has nothing to do with the Salt Gang far away in Lianghuai, and its strength is not as good as the other party. There is no other way except peace talks. It also added leverage to the peace talks.

Ning Yu didn't get in touch with this issue, but returned to the Eagle Battalion, and began to prepare for the battle commendation meeting.

Strictly speaking, under Ning Yu's many preparations, the students of the Young Eagle Battalion never fired a few shots at all, and they didn't have any decent struggles, just like a vacation-style battle.

However, Ning Yu still decided to narrate his meritorious service. This was also for the sake of morale. After all, not rewarding meritorious service would seriously damage the cohesion of the Eagle Battalion.

Therefore, after Ning Yu returned to the Young Eagle Camp, he worked out the procedures for the commendation meeting with a group of people from the staff office, and hurriedly went to the Ningjia blacksmith shop to make a batch of medals.

In today's era, whether it is the Green Battalion soldiers or the Eight Banners soldiers, they are rewarded with silver after they have made meritorious service. If you break a city, the amount of reward is often very rich. For example, the reward for first boarding is about 50 taels of silver.

However, Ning Yu hopes that the medal system established can be extended to more people in the battalion, so that everyone can become a role model, so that they can better drive the progress of others, instead of being reduced to an elite game.

On the 58th of the winter month in the 25th year of Kangxi, Ning Yu held a battle commendation meeting for the Young Eagle Camp on the training ground of the Young Eagle Camp, with red flags waving and morale like a dragon.

At this time, the Young Eagle Battalion is divided into two parts, the main camp and the auxiliary barracks. The auxiliary barracks is the mechanism officially established by Ningyu after the battle. It mainly accommodates soldiers who cannot enter the main camp but still have a certain combat power. , These people are responsible for the pruning of the camp in peacetime, and responsible for cleaning the battlefield in wartime, and do not undertake the main combat tasks. This mechanism is quite similar to the soldiers and defenders of the Green Camp, so it is not surprising.

Standing on the stage, Ning Yu looked at the hundreds of students and auxiliary soldiers in the audience, and shouted loudly: "The first battle of our Eagle Battalion was beautiful! You played like a man! I am proud of you !"

This sentence is from the bottom of my heart, they are Ning Yu's biggest support and hole cards now, and they are the kings that can be played.

The eyes of the students in the audience were reddish. These teenagers are at the most critical time in their lives, and Ning Yu is the elder brother who guides them forward, and is also their greatest reliance.

"Next, I will award honors to those who have dedicated themselves to this battle. What is a medal? It is a reward for military exploits. At present, the Young Eagle Battalion only awards two levels of medals for loyalty and bravery." As soon as Ning Yu's words fell, aroused The curiosity of many people.

"Dong Ce, for meritorious service in training and command, he will be awarded the third-class Medal of Loyalty, and he will be awarded five acres of land."

"Xu Chengliang, for his meritorious service in planning and command, he will be awarded the third-class loyalty medal and five acres of land."

"There is always wealth, meritorious service in training, meritorious command, awarded the third-class Loyalty Medal, and can be awarded five acres of land."

After the whole process of awarding honors, Dong Ce, Xu Chengliang and Chang Youcai won the third-class loyalty medal, the remaining eight captains won the third-class loyalty medal, and [-] cadets won the fourth-class loyalty medal.It can be seen that this new incentive method is more efficient than simply rewarding money.

In order to highlight the importance of the medal, Ning Yu specially asked the family to ask for [-] mu of military merit fields. These fields will be awarded to the soldiers of the Young Eagle Battalion in the future to encourage them to fight.Therefore, the medal is also bound to the military merit field, and officers like Dong Ce who have won the third-class Loyalty Medal can get five acres of land.

As for the Medal of Loyalty and Courage, it is specially awarded to soldiers and low-ranking officers. For example, the third-class Medal of Loyalty and Courage won by those captains can be awarded three acres of land, and the fourth-class Medal of Loyalty and Courage can be awarded one acre of land.

Regardless of the small one-acre field, it can be sold for seven or eight taels of silver these days. It can be said that it is the real foundation of a family.

For those student soldiers, they can feel the heaviness of the medal. After all, these days, having a field is more important than anything else.

Ning Yu looked at the excited students in the audience, and said loudly: "This is just the beginning, brothers, the future is promising! I hope everyone will continue to work hard to kill the enemy!"

After such encouragement, Ning Yu could obviously feel the more vigorous morale, and thought to himself: "If this is not 200 people, but 2 people, it will be difficult to say who belongs to Huguang!"

Thinking of this, Ning Yu didn't slack off, and continued to arrange for the soldiers to train hard. On the other hand, he hurried to the artillery workshop.

Today's Lei Tuozi is known as a master gun maker, so he usually doesn't go to work in person, but directs his apprentices to make guns.

Seeing Ning Yu rushing over despite the cold and snow, Lei Tuozi's eyes were a little strange. He really couldn't connect the somewhat dark and thin figure in front of him with the identity of the young master of the Ning family.

When did all the rich and powerful children work so hard?

However, Lei Tuozi also understood Ning Yu's intentions, and quickly said: "It was tested before. Although the wrought iron used in this new gun is much stronger than the previous pig iron, it is only wrought iron after all, and the chamber will still explode. It’s not that far away, so it’s safe to say that the kind of cannon that the young master is talking about won’t be able to be cast.”

Ning Yu sighed softly, and said: "Originally, this cannon would be stronger if it was made of bronze, and it would not be easy to explode the chamber, but now the price of copper is high, so it can only be made of wrought iron. Fortunately, the mine now uses a blast furnace to smelt iron. , the output of wrought iron has also increased. However, please ask Master Lei to make this Lei's cannon within the range of wrought iron."

Lei Tuozi chuckled, "This is what I have achieved over the past month. I still use wrought iron to make cannons, but on the basis of the original iron mold cannon method, I made improvements and tried a new method. , allowing the inner layer of the gun barrel to cool down before the outer layer.”

Ning Yu gasped. He knew how to make cannons. After the cannon-making was just completed, if the natural cooling was done from the outside to the inside, the outer layer would be colder than the inner layer. The principle of cold shrinkage will result in layer-by-layer expansion, which will reduce the strength of the barrel and make it easier to explode the chamber.

Therefore, when he heard that Lei Tuozi had a way to solve this problem, Ning Yu was a little excited, and urged: "Master, please solve the doubts in the boy's heart."

Lei Tuozi smiled and said, "At first the old man couldn't figure it out, but later he thought of this. Since the gun core has been replaced with iron, why not make it hollow?"

"Later, the old man discovered that as long as a pipe is added inside, and then water is added, the inside of the gun can be cooled first, so that the cast gun is stronger than the original iron mold cast gun, so now the newly cast six Jin Lei's cannon, even if you hit it, it will cover two miles." At this point, Lei Tuozi had a smug expression on his face.

Ning Yu smiled and said: "You are always really tall, the boy is completely convinced."

(End of this chapter)