The great hero of the Silk Road, starting from a farm farmer

Chapter 104 A single musket is unreliable, so play with volleys!
Since the second uncle and even the sixth-rank officials didn't take the governor seriously, Song Yingkui's heart fell to the ground.Wazhou City does not allow people to enter with weapons on horseback, so they can only find a way to stay outside the city tonight.

Fortunately, about [-] miles away from the city of Wazhou is Weijiachuan. Tonight Song Yingkui is going to take his brothers to Weijiachuan to play the autumn wind. Who made Wei Dadao owe him favors?

Taking advantage of the darkness, a group of people rode into Weijiachuan.As soon as they arrived at their territory, Xiangyong from Wei Jiachuan came over. It seems that the defense of this place is very cautious.

The volunteer leader who came over met him at the front line of Haishi Fort. Seeing that he was an acquaintance of the Fifth Battalion Volunteer Team, he immediately let go of his guard and sent his men to invite Wei Dadao to the fort.

"Oh! Song Shoubei, what kind of wind is this that blows you to the border of our Weijiachuan?" Wei Dadao walked out of the gate of the fort, and when he saw Song Yingkui, he quickly saluted and said polite words.

"Brother Wei, don't you come here unharmed? Brother, this time I came to benefit from my brother's glory. I took my brothers to your place to stay overnight and beg for a drink." Wei Dadao felt okay when he was on the front line, but when he returned I don't know if things in the country have changed since then, Song Yingkui replied politely.

"Stay overnight? Brother, can't you enter Wazhou City?"

"Exactly! Look at me riding a horse with a knife and holding a banner. The official of Wazhou City will let me in like this?"

"Wazhou's defense is strict, it's hard to be a brother. What are you waiting for, hurry up and enter the fort, brother, I will greet the savior."

Seeing that Wei Dadao didn't say any more excuses, Song Yingkui led his brothers into Weijiabao.After entering the fort, the Wei family was still polite, and hurriedly greeted the food and settled the horses.

Weijiabao is a big fort, and the scale of the fort is larger than the newly built Shipingguan Fort. The members of the main house of the Wei family, headed by Wei Dadao, live in it. There are six to seven hundred people living in Guangbao.

After dinner, Wei Dadao took people to arrange Song Yingkui and his party to spend the night in the Wei Family Ancestral Hall in the fort.Brother No. [-], it is indeed impossible to settle down in ordinary places.

After tearing down the door panels of the Wei Family Ancestral Hall, and finding some planks and mats from other places, the brothers in the guard station unloaded the felt mattresses from the saddles and spent the night.Early the next morning, Song Yingkui hurriedly took his brothers to the gate of Wazhou City to wait for the second uncle's letter.

When it was almost noon, the second uncle finally left the city.

"Uncle, how's the situation?" Seeing the second uncle Song Yingkui, he hurriedly asked him how his public relations work was going last night.

"Here! This is the iron-making certificate issued to you by the governor's yamen. With this note, no one will be able to manipulate you for the private opening of the iron furnace. But this note is not for nothing. Every year in the future, you will have to Pay a tax of [-] catties of iron to the Governor’s Yamen. Iron materials are in short supply in the army. You need to send [-] catties of wrought iron to the Governor’s Yamen within two months. In addition, after the Governor heard that you opened a wheel factory in Guanli to raise soldiers , I also added a tax for you, and you need to pay another five hundred sets of wheels to the governor's office every year. Also, since you said that you want to pack stones at Shipingguan, you should hurry up and implement it after you go back. After two or three months, the warlord's yamen will send a commissioner to inspect the situation of the Shiping Pass city defense."

The second uncle seems to have taken care of all the troubles, but the problem is that he has to bleed again!Why do you feel a bit panicked by going through the back door?

But having said that, with the note approved by the Governor's Yamen and the conditions mentioned, everything I did was legalized. What a shitty Yuyuan County Yamen, there is no reason to make trouble for me, and it can be regarded as solving all problems in one go. It has been resolved, and this time leading people to petition has accomplished the expected goal.

"Be more uncle to take care of him. After Ying Kui returns, hurry up and drive out the tax that needs to be paid."

"Kuiwa, there are a few more things I want to tell you. Since you are smelting iron yourself, you should prepare all the weapons of the Shiping Pass garrison as soon as possible. The situation is not good, and you may be able to use them someday." In addition, when you send the wheels, send over a hundred more, this is a tribute to the warlord."

Song Yingkui didn't think it was too much to give a hundred sets of wheels to the military and political governor of a province. Ordinary people wanted to give them, but they didn't have the opportunity.After thanking the second uncle again and again, Song Yingkui led his brothers back home.

This petition made people bear a lot of taxes, but they got an approval letter, which is a mixed blessing.After experiencing this incident, Song Yingkui felt that he should think twice about asking the second uncle to do business in the future.The second uncle can do things, but he can't let himself only take advantage of his own interests.It is reasonable to pay a little price to find someone to do something. The problem is that the second uncle pays a little high every time he does something.

For example, this time, if the price of the things paid is discounted, there will be six or seven hundred taels of silver.We are just a small garrison officer, without a little bit of glory from the Dazheng government, and we have to hand over so much money to Dazheng every year. Is there anyone who employs such a person?
Back at Shiping Pass, the first thing Song Yingkui did was prepare to cast cannons.When I went to Wachuan City this time, I heard a lot of news about the current situation from my second uncle.The situation seems to be very bad. Even the second uncle asked himself to prepare armaments frequently, which shows that the upper echelons in the province have a sense of crisis.

For the overall situation, I can do nothing, but at least I must ensure that my brothers have the strength to fight in the event of a war.After several battles, Song Yingkui felt that artillery can definitely be used as a killer weapon on the battlefield of this era.As long as you have a few cannons in hand, no matter how strong the enemy army is, it will be difficult to get cheap from yourself.

Now that he can smelt iron by himself, the biggest difficulty in casting cannons is gone. When will it be better not to cast cannons at this time?

In terms of technology, the process of casting cannons is simpler than making guns.We don't make the rear-mounted cannons of the later generations, but just cast a thick iron pipe with a thin front and a thick rear, which can shoot a solid iron ball three to five hundred meters away.

With the solid front-mounted artillery, the enemy cannot advance into the formation, and it is difficult to effectively organize whether it is a cavalry charge or an infantry charge on the frontal battlefield.Song Yingkui feels that this is the greatest role artillery can play in the current era.With the cannon, facing the enemies of this era will be a dimensionality reduction strike, and they have to find a way to study tactics.

Cannons have to be cast, and grenades and muskets have to be remade.After going to the battlefield, Song Yingkui realized that although the musket he made had a problem with the reload speed, he could not be the main weapon on the battlefield, nor could he rely on the musket for individual combat.However, the short-range blocking ability of muskets is still not available in other weapons of this era.

Within a range of 30 meters, firing a shot will definitely work.The effect of a single firearm may not be obvious, so just play volleyball, build a platoon team of 30 people, stand at the front at critical moments, and see who is not afraid of death and dares to charge hard.Cannons, muskets and grenades can form a layered firepower network. It is extremely difficult for the army of the current era to break through this firepower network!
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