Song Dynasty Iron Armored Army

Chapter 299 Artillery Towing
The strong man ran around for a long time to find Chai Lin. He thought that Chai Lin was in the village barracks, but Chai Lin was in the transport team to watch the new barracks formed by Liu Tang train mules.

The recruits in Liu Tang's battalion had strange requirements. In addition to normal military training, they were also required to be proficient in using mules, because mules were inseparable from artillery traction.

Taking a 150mm caliber artillery as an example, a steel cannon processed by a metal factory can only meet the strength requirement of [-] jin, but if it is cast from wrought iron by a steel factory, it needs [-] jin of weight, and a [-]mm caliber cannon It weighs [-] jin.It is definitely unrealistic to rely entirely on metal factories for mass production in the future, and it will require a large number of craftsmen to cast.Cannons weighing [-] to [-] jin will be even heavier with the carriage frame, and it becomes unrealistic to rely solely on manpower to tow the artillery carriage, so mules must be used, which is why Liu Tang and his battalion train to use mules .

Usually, artillery is not used, and today's Chaijiazhuang is full of people coming and going every day, and the population mobility is very huge, so all the artillery is transferred to the ship and the island.The training of the artillery battalion starts with driving the mules. After understanding the mules, they go to the island to train the artillery.

The people in the baggage camp were older, and most of them were good mule drivers, so they happened to train one-on-one.

In order to save the mule's physical strength, after training in the training ground, it is time to train on the road. It happens that a large amount of fresh vegetables need to be transported to Cangzhou City for sale every day, and each master brings an apprentice to practice on the road.

Liu Tang learned relatively quickly. After all, children in the countryside have seen it since they were young. They can barely drive a mule cart in a few days, but it is still too early to be handy.

Some recruits were sweating anxiously. The mule was disobedient and refused to be put on the trap, cursing: "This mule can't do it, it's a raw mule."

Chai Gang smiled and said, "It's not that mules can't do it, it's because your method is wrong, you should take care of it."

As soon as Chai got started, the mule obeyed the password obediently, without any effort at all.

Of course, not all artillery battalions will be trained to drive mules. A cannon needs six people. In addition to the solid iron eggs carried on the artillery cart, it also needs to carry a large amount of shotguns, iron eggs and other materials. In addition, it needs to be equipped with mules. Fortunately, artillery is a weapon that consumes a lot of money and materials.

Dian Zhengnan watched and shook his head: "I didn't expect the mule cart to be so troublesome, brother, I remember when can I ride the sweat-blood mule you promised to breed for me?"

Chai Lin said: "You have a really good memory. You still haven't forgotten about the sweat-blood mule. That sweat-blood horse was paired with six huge female donkeys. It's been seven or eight months old. Slowly growing up, it will take two years before I want to ride, just wait slowly.”

Dian Zhengnan scratched his head, this sweaty blood mule is really troublesome, he has to wait slowly.This is the only pairing of a sweaty BMW with a donkey.

A strong man came quickly on a mule and said, "Master, the corn is ripe. Old Liang Uncle invites you to come over."

Chailin was very happy to hear that, and said, "Okay, you go back first, I'll be right there."

The strong man went back, and Chai Gang rubbed his hands and said, "The farm owner said that with corn, the feed problem for mules and horses can be completely solved. I want to see it too."

"Okay, Liu Tang, continue training, but don't worry, mule driving is not something that can be accomplished overnight." Chailin said.

Liu Tang said: "Yes, don't worry, brother, you must have practiced well."

It sounds like a high-rise building is built on the ground, but in fact, it’s a chicken coop to plan the groove first. Everything has to be practiced from the most basic. There is no genius, but you don’t see it when others work hard.

When Chai Lin, Chai Gang and others arrived at the spring corn field, Chai An, Lao Liang, and a dozen or so old people from the village had all arrived.

Lao Liang had peeled several corns and found that they were almost ready.

Chai Lin looked at it, and said with a smile: "It's ripe, it can be harvested." When the grain is ripe, it must be harvested. Birds and insects are not allowed to eat it, and the consumption is astonishing.

As Chailin said, he chopped a corn stalk and gave it to the big black horse next to him. The big black horse ate it. The leaves were tender and delicious, and the straw was also delicious.

"Fresh stalks contain too much water, and mules and horses tend to have diarrhea after eating them. Besides, there are grasses everywhere in this season. The corn stalks should be dried and saved for feeding mules and horses in the winter." Chailin said.

Old Liang said, "We received the Cece output?"

"Okay, just keep the big sticks. The small sticks that are less than four taels are considered defective and cannot be kept for seeding. They will be kept separately. Let's harvest one mu of land today." Chailin said.

Three glasses of beer wine were prepared on the ground to pay tribute to the harvest, and then everyone started harvesting corn together.

It's easy to work when there are many people, even Chai An and the old people in the village can't help breaking corn.

Basically, two large cobs are harvested from each corn plant, and a total of 1000 cobs are harvested per mu of land, and more than [-] small cobs are excluded because they are not full.

While everyone was working, Chailin Anzhuang Ding first cooked a few pots of stunted small corn cobs, all of which were defective.They set up several large pots and cooked two or three hundred roots.The fire boiled, and the time when dozens of people harvested an acre of corn was already cooked.

"Come here, come and eat one, try it." Chailin greeted everyone to eat corn on the cob, which was delicious and a little sweet, delicious.Everyone eats one, and they are full of praise, and the taste is really good.

Everyone looked at the thousands of kilograms of corn cobs on the ground. The young men didn't feel much, and the old men were shaking with excitement.

An old man cried with snot and tears, and said: "This corn is so good, and the yield is really high. If I had this stuff when I was young, my brothers would not have starved to death." Millet and rice are not allowed, and they can only be regarded as coarse grains, but coarse grains can also satisfy hunger and fill people's stomachs, and they can be regarded as excellent crops.

Moreover, corn is a favorite food of horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, dogs, chickens, ducks, etc. Farmers who live well must raise some livestock, those with rich families raise mules, horses and donkeys, and those with poor families raise some pigs and sheep. Without chemical fertilizers, farmyard manure must be used for farming, and farmyard manure has to rely on livestock.

The corn cobs were packed and weighed, and finally a number was accumulated, which was [-] catties, which was not counted as defective products of thousands of corn cobs.

After Lao Liang said the number, everyone was stunned. What kind of concept, this is too strong.

Chai Lin said: "Don't get excited. It's just a fresh product. It needs to be peeled, dried and threshed to measure the yield. I don't think it's too much. There are still a thousand catties per mu. The benefits of corn are from stalks to corncobs, corn Everything is useful, and there is no place to waste. Everyone has also seen the husks peeled off from the outside of the corn, and the mules like to eat it very much.”

Lao Liang presided over the harvest and yield measurement, and for the sake of notarization, five respected old people in the village were specially selected to supervise the whole process.And it's still late July. After the corn is harvested, the land will be plowed out immediately, and carrots can be sown once.

Under normal circumstances, wheat and corn are harvested twice a year on one acre of good land. If we only talk about food, one acre of land is enough.

Zhuang Ding, who was watching, was stunned. The more he thought about it, the more hopeful he became. The yield per mu has increased, and one mu of land is equivalent to three mu of land. The good days for farmers are coming.

A Zhuang Ding said: "Our owner is simply the god of agriculture. He brought us such good food. Thank you, owner."

Hula bowed down, and Chai Lin quickly said: "Get up, get up, you don't have to be so polite. I have brought the seeds here for everyone. Whether they can be planted well depends on everyone's learning. After all, the new crops are different from the previous food planting methods." Same."

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