Song Dynasty Iron Armored Army

Chapter 373 Semi-Mechanized Production
Relief to the people in need, rectification of law and order, within ten days, the satisfaction of the people with the government has been greatly improved.

Lin Chong led the heavy cavalry back to Cangzhou, leaving only Li Kui's battalion of heavy infantry, who practiced hard in the battalion every day.

Chai Lin was still puzzled in the government office, and said: "It's strange, it's been half a month since we won Gaotang, why the imperial court didn't respond at all, and didn't even know about the neighboring counties?"

Wu Yong said with a smile: "Brother thinks too much. Gao Lian's cronies should be killed, and those who should be locked up. Even a dozen pigeons were stewed for him. The seals of all yamen are under unified management. The defense is all our people, and the defense of the traffic arteries is also our people. How can this information get out? Even if it goes out, without the seal of the government, who would dare to believe that Gao Tangzhou lost it? The most important point, we are not Foreigners do not oppress the common people, so to the common people, is there any difference between the magistrate’s surname Gao and Chai, they pay taxes the same, and farm the land for food.”

Chai Lin nodded: "It makes sense. Since the people's hearts are the world, if there is no people's hearts, the world will be gone. In other words, the imperial court will not respond to this matter until winter."

"The imperial court will know about this in winter, but the imperial court will not respond immediately when it finds out. It will take two months to mobilize the army and prepare food and grass. The soonest the imperial court will send the army is March next year." Wu Yong said.

At the end of the Song Dynasty, the imperial court basically had no quick-response troops, otherwise there would be no shame for Jingkang.

Chai Lin said: "We can't rely on the court's slow response, we have to respond quickly, and pass on the order immediately. Li Kui's department will expand its recruitment by 6000 to make up 6000 people. The new recruits will be treated the same as the reorganized ones. One person, one mu of land for raising Madao The Ruda Department of Haishi Island also immediately increased to [-] people."

"Brother, the main force of Chaijiazhuang is too weak, and the peripheral forces are too strong, isn't that not good." Wu Yong suggested.

Chai Lin said: "It doesn't matter, both Lu Da and Li Kui are trustworthy. What's more, our recruits are trained uniformly, and the influence of the generals is relatively small."

"Yes, give the order immediately."

Chaijiazhuang looks calm on the surface, but in fact the clouds of war are surging.

Workers in Tiangong No. [-] Battalion, Tiangong No. [-] Battalion, and the iron foundry are not allowed to leave the village. They can go home after get off work, but if they want to go out of the village, they can’t.

The workers worked overtime to make the Type [-] long-fire gun.In fact, it is the main accessories produced by Tiangong No. [-] Battalion, mainly springs, firing pins, card slots, etc.The wooden gun body is produced by the wood workshop, and the accuracy is down to millimeters, so the workers in each workshop and workshop do not know what it is for.Only when they arrived at the last assembly workshop of Tiangong No. [-] Battalion, did the workers here suddenly realize that it was the Type [-] firecracker that was made.

After almost half a year of production, due to the low degree of mechanization, the output has not been able to increase. A total of only [-] pieces have been produced. Adding the [-] pieces produced in the previous period, the total is [-] pieces.

Geng Gong was free, and started to tinker with bamboo tubes to make fire. Fire is a kind of fireworks, which can fly into the sky and spray flowers when lit.

Tiangong Second Battalion, Feather Arrow Factory.

The sound of the steam engine roared, and the sorted wood entered the wood splitter in the first step, and the wood as thick as an arm became a strip of wood.Workers cut the wooden strips to a certain length with a circular saw, and the next step is to shape them with a rotary knife. The square wooden strips are put in one by one, and when they come out, they have become round arrow shafts.

The 75cm standard arrow shaft is polished after it comes out, and the polishing machine is also driven by a pot machine. The arrow shaft is polished smooth and water-slick, very beautiful.

A group of three machines, three steps, only six workers, can process [-] arrow shafts in four hours.This speed can reach the speed of traditional handwork and the production speed of thousands of skilled craftsmen.These three machines were produced by Chailin Metal Works and powered by steam engines.It is another great invention after the pulverizer.

The production speed of feather arrows has been greatly improved. It must be known that tens of thousands of feather arrows are consumed in a war, which puts great pressure on logistics.

Well now, feather arrow shafts can be mass-produced by machines, and the arrowheads are stamped by machines in the iron foundry, and they can be directly mounted on the arrow shafts.The only troublesome part is the tail feathers, and it takes some experience to install the tail feathers.

The logistics personnel came to the Qingqi camp with feather arrows to look for Pang Wanchun. Pang Wanchun was training riding and shooting. He was sweating in the hot weather, and his leather armor was close to his body. He couldn't take it off casually. He had to rest completely, and he could take it off when he stopped sweating. .

"Commander Pang, this is the feather arrow produced today, please take a look to see if it is suitable for use." Logistics said.

After seeing it, Pang Wanchun was shocked, and said, "It's so ingenious, it's amazing, the shaft of this feather arrow is really too straight."

Pang Wanchun was very satisfied with shooting a few arrows, and arranged for the cavalry to practice with hundreds of feather arrows for a while, and he responded well, saying: "Okay, okay, let's give birth like this, it's very good."

The fletching workshop arranges production, and the workers enter the state of full speed.In addition to the normal salary, a monthly bonus of [-] Wen was paid.

In fact, archers will also classify feather arrows, the best quality is used for precise shooting, and the others are used for scattering or elevation coverage shooting.

Since then, Cangzhou soldiers have never been short of arrows, and the speed of semi-mechanized production is much faster than that of manual labor.

The iron foundry has also improved its technology, using the technology of casting wrought iron to cast the General Cannon, but the weight is a bit unbearable.A [-]-caliber general gun costs [-] catties, plus the total weight of the gun mount is [-] catties.

The wrought iron General Cannon is mainly used for warships, and it is too heavy to pull.The Liutang Artillery Battalion uses steel cannons produced by metal factories, which are much lighter in weight and much better in quality.

The iron foundry produces an average of five wrought iron cannons per day. In fact, the technology has matured. The reason why the production has not been expanded is because of confidentiality issues. Chailin is worried that the technology of casting cannons will be leaked, so the craftsmen used must be extremely reliable people.The output of five general cannons per day is also a lot. Calculated on the basis of three hundred days a year, that is [-] guns.

In the era of the Song Dynasty, firing a thousand cannons was definitely an epic battle, and how strong the enemy would use so many cannons.

The forging workshop is the hottest. The workshop that used to make hoes and shovels has completely changed. Now it is all about making spearheads, waist knives, axes and so on.

Even wooden car factories have begun to manufacture round wooden shields, small round shields are not big, composite shields composed of iron sheets and two layers of wood.

Only the core industry of Chaijiazhuang has changed, and the peripheral industries have not felt the change.

The government affairs of Gaotang were entrusted to Mr. Wu Yong, and Li Kui was responsible for the garrison.Chai Lin went back to Cangzhou to take charge of the overall situation. He took the big car of Sihai Automobile Co., Ltd. all the way at a very fast speed. He got up early and set off. After a while, I will go back to arrest and make the yamen stay overnight.

At this time, a Taoist with a strange appearance also came to the big car shop. This person was dignified and majestic.There are two pine buns on the head, a pair of apricot eyes, a square mouth and a tribal beard.

Dian Zhengnan pays attention to this Taoist priest from time to time, this Taoist priest is holding a seven-star sword in his hand, it is not ordinary at first glance.

Chai Lin came over, clasped his fists and said, "This Taoist priest is in Chailin, Xiachaijiazhuang. How dare you ask him what his name is?"

The Taoist priest said: "Oh, it turned out to be the owner of Chai Zhuang. I wanted to say hello just now, but I was afraid of being presumptuous. I didn't expect it to be true."

(End of this chapter)