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Chapter 67: Initial Thoughts on Military and Political Affairs, Iron Mine News

"The officers and soldiers have gone up the mountain?" Yue Kaishan was stunned after hearing this, then threw the minions to the ground and shouted: "Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

A leader also stood up and said: "That is, if the army comes to attack the mountain stronghold, they will definitely go to the village down the mountain to eat, loot and extort. By that time, we will have already received the news."

Another leader said: "Our old mountain stronghold is so dangerous. Even if the army really comes to attack, it is impossible for them to attack the mountain so quickly."

The young man rubbed his buttocks and cried: "The village masters and leaders should go out and take a look. The army is really coming up the mountain!"

Although Yue Kaishan drank, he was not drunk and knew that this little guy couldn't lie to him.

Moreover, by now he had already heard shouts of death and screams.

Yue Kaishan relied on his martial prowess, drank again, picked up his mountain-opening sword and shouted: "Let's go, brothers, follow me and chop up the dog officers and soldiers!"

"Yes, chop up the dog officer army!"

Several leaders echoed loudly, and each took their weapons and followed them out of the cottage hall.

As soon as they came out, they saw a group of officers and soldiers still wearing cloth armor on a hot day, chasing a group of minions to the top of the mountain.

"kill!"

Yue Kaishan shouted loudly and rushed over first.

Several leaders originally wanted to follow suit, but they saw that some of the officers and soldiers who rushed up were actually wearing bright armor!

Suddenly, the leaders stopped one after another and watched Yue Kaishan rush forward alone.

Yue Kaishan was a little over 1.7 meters tall. He was quite tall at this time. He also had a beard and looked quite scary when he charged with a machete.

However, the "official army" knife players who rushed to the front not only were not scared off, but three or five people rushed forward together.

A team leader used a shield covered with wild boar skin to block Yue Kaishan's first blow. The others surrounded Yue Kaishan with their shields. Then they stabbed Yue Kaishan in through the gap in the shield, causing Yue Kaishan's blood to flow. , screaming with wide eyes.

Several knife players got out of the way, and the bandit leader, who was famous among the seven or eight surrounding villages for being able to stop his children from crying at night, fell down and soon lost his breath.

The captain cut off his left ear and immediately took the lead in charging towards the other bandits.

When several leaders saw this scene, they were so frightened that they ran towards the back hill.

"Surrender without killing!"

After reaching the top of the mountain, the "official troops" began to shout loudly for surrender.

At this time, Liu Sheng, Yang Heqing stepped on the tail of the "officers and soldiers" to the top of the mountain.

Seeing that the bandits were either killed or kneeling down to beg for surrender, Yang Heqing felt bored.

"These bandits really didn't fight. There were seven or eighty of them, but they didn't stop them for a quarter of an hour, and they let us attack them up the mountain.

And that Yue Kaishan, isn't he said to be quite good at fighting? Why didn't he see anyone there? "

Liu Sheng once heard the name of the village describe the appearance of Yue Kaishan. After listening to Yang Heqing's words, he smiled and pointed to the corpse not far away and said: "If nothing else, this person should be Yue Kaishan."

"died?"

Liu Sheng said: "Even if he has some courage, he can't stop the infantry who have learned basic cooperation without armor."

Yang Heqing pouted, "It means he's not strong enough. If it were me, three or five sword players wouldn't even think about getting close."

Liu Sheng smiled and said: "No matter how strong you are, it's useless. If I use a musketeer and hit them with a volley of guns, both of you will die."

Yang Heqing suddenly stopped talking.

He didn't know when Liu Sheng got ten firecrackers and equipped them with ten soldiers in the pro-army.The day before yesterday, he was brought out to attack a bandit stronghold, and with a volley of guns, dozens of people in the bandit stronghold collapsed.

Yang Heqing had also seen fire blunderbuss in Xinyang Prefecture. The local officers and soldiers didn't have many of them. They fired them all the way from afar, and they had to light a match rope first and wait, so they couldn't hit anyone at all.

The most important thing is that it is easy to explode and injure the gunman.

But the fire blunderbuss that Liu Sheng equipped for the pro-army troops could hit people with just one pull of the trigger after loading the gunpowder and lead pellets.

The barrel doesn't look thick, but it's sturdy and durable.If you look closely, you will see that they are all made of fine iron!
Although it was like the official gunfire, it took a long time to reload the gunpowder and lead shot after firing. But when it was ready, a volley of guns came at them. As Liu Sheng said, both of them would die.

Liu Sheng was also thinking about the fire gun - in the past ten days, he took two seamless steel pipes from the inventory and used a small multi-functional lathe in the villa to follow the flintlock information in the computer hard drive. Rubbed by hand.They are all smoothbore flintlock guns.

As for the flintlock device, he chose a rotating ignition firing machine instead of an impact flintlock machine that requires a spring.It's not that he didn't stock up on springs, it's just that his stock is limited and he doesn't want to use them.

Choosing smoothbore instead of rifled also has its own considerations.

First, there is no need to use rifled guns for his infantry at this stage. Equipping a certain number of smoothbore flintlock guns is enough to dominate the forces in the late Ming Dynasty.

The second is to make it easier for craftsmen to build muskets according to the pattern in the future, so that more equipment can be used in the army.

If a rifled gun is built from the beginning, with the production efficiency of a rifled gun, it will be many times more difficult to install it in the army in the future.

It would be better to equip the army with more smooth-bore flintlock guns first, and then consider the production of rifled guns when there are more gun-making craftsmen and even develop a military industry.

In fact, even for smoothbore flintlock guns, Liu Sheng did not plan to make many. Twenty or thirty guns were enough.

Because seamless steel pipes will be a scarce resource in this world for many years, one less pipe will be used. It would be a pity to waste it on muskets.

After all, he only has thirty seamless steel pipes that can be used to make guns, with a total length of only 300 meters...
Liu Sheng and Yang Heqing waited in the open space in front of the bandit village hall for less than a quarter of an hour before all the remaining bandits in the old village were captured.

Peng Youyi, the pro-army commander, came over covered in sweat to report the results——

"Reporting to the leader, this battle killed 21 bandits in Lao Shanzhai and captured 56 people.

In addition, 120 and five shi of grain and 350 and three taels of silver were found in the bandit's stronghold.Two pigs, five goats and dozens of chickens. "

After listening, Yang Heqing couldn't help complaining, "A village with 80 people and only a little money, food and materials, I really don't know how this old village is run."

Liu Sheng said: "The bandits in this old village don't farm. They rely on the village down the mountain for food and drink. It's normal that they don't have much food saved."

"Didn't the leader say that Yue Kaishan is colluding with the landlords down the mountain to oppress and extort poor people? Why don't we go and kill the big landlords in the village too?"

Liu Sheng smiled after hearing this, "That's exactly what I planned, but we can't destroy them all - just like what we did during the Lighting of Hong Kong, those with public complaints would have their homes searched and put on trial, and those without public complaints would just have to pay part of the money and food.

You will lead the people to handle the public trials in these villages. I will watch the first two villages to prevent you from making mistakes. "

Yang Heqing grinned after hearing this and said: "Don't worry, chief, I also come from a small landowner's family and I won't mess around."

After saying that, Yang Heqing shouted loudly and asked the standing army that came with him to gather and prepare to go down the mountain.

Seeing Yang Heqing busy, Liu Sheng was thinking, forget about the Red Lady, Yang Heqing and others. No other generals will be allowed to get involved in the public trial in the future.

Later, we can recruit a group of young people who know some words from the immigrants, first improve their literacy rate, and then teach arithmetic. While reserving teachers for opening schools and night schools in the future, we can also select people suitable for military and political affairs.

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Before the arrival of July, Liu Sheng and others wiped out all the bandits within twenty miles of Liujiazhai.

On the first day of July, the Red Lady and four other people were ordered to come to Liujiazhai for a meeting with Liu Sheng.

The conference room is the log house where Liu Sheng usually rests.

Liu Sheng placed a map of the Tianmu Mountain area he drew on the table and said: "According to the bandit leader of Fengtou Village, their iron materials were purchased from Tongshan, and it was said that a private person over there stole them. of iron ore. What do you think about this?"

As he spoke, Liu Sheng pointed at the Tongshan area northwest of Tianmu Mountain with the tip of his pencil.

Tongshan is located in Biyang County, Nanyang Prefecture. Its original name is Dafu Mountain. It is actually a whole mountainous area with Tianmu Mountain, just between the Tongbai Mountains in the south and the remaining mountains of Funiu Mountain in the north.

As for Fengtou Village, there was a group of bandits with great ideas. Although there were only a few dozen people, they kidnapped a blacksmith and made weapons and even armor in the village.

As a result, the "big event" had just begun, and Liu Sheng and Wen You were asked to lead their troops to break through the stronghold.

Discovering that there were blacksmiths and iron materials in Fengtou Village, Liu Sheng interrogated them and unexpectedly learned about the iron ore.

Under Liu Sheng's intentional influence for so many days, Hong Niangzi and others knew how important it was to the Chinese Ministry to own iron mines and iron yards.

Therefore, Lady Hong was the first to express her position: "Tongshan is not very far from here. Since we know that there is iron ore there, of course we must take it."

Yang Heqing smiled and said: "With our current strength, if we want to win a small iron mine, we don't just touch our arms with our sleeves - we pinch it with our hands."

Wen You said concisely and concisely: "I also think it should be taken."

Liu Sheng smiled and said: "Okay, let's discuss how many troops and horses we should bring there, and what should we do if we get there..."

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