Chapter 22 The Age of Steel
At this time, the Ningbo front line was calm.
Yang Feng's fleet was blocked at the mouth of the Yongjiang River, and Xu Jiugong's navy did not have the courage to come out to provoke him. Although the total strength of the Qing army's cavalry and infantry armies on land had exceeded 30,000, it was blocked by the sea more than ten miles wide, which had no effect on Yang Feng.
Their only hope now is that the reinforcements of the Fujian Navy and the Yangtze River Navy arrived quickly. At this time, the Fujian Navy had already set off, but the Yangtze River Navy was still waiting for the order of the Ministry of War. In fact, Ashan had already received news that the Zhejiang Navy had almost been wiped out. His enthusiasm for participating in the war had long since let the basin of ice water be wiped out. Moreover, the warships of the Yangtze River Navy were all inland boats, small in size, poor equipment, and poor wind and wave resistance...
In short, this battle has to be relied on you, Fujian and Zhejiang.
Before the official order of the Ministry of War arrived, he was not going to run to block the gun for Guo Shilong. He had to wait for the Fujian Navy to arrive.
Just as the Qing army was waiting for reinforcements, Yang Feng's military strength was also expanding rapidly. At this time, his name had spread throughout Zhejiang, and he had become an idol in the hearts of all anti-Qing righteous men, the Tiandihui, the old subordinates of the Zheng family, retail investors who resisted national harmony, bandits with dreams, in short, all the mobs quickly rushed to their ideal holy land and towards this dazzling star.
Although the Qing army could not let them go, it was too easy to find a coast to board a boat and cross the sea surface for more than ten miles, not to mention that as long as there is no wind and waves, even if you row a small black-sailed boat, it would pass by.
"Mr. Lord, you are finally here!"
Yang Feng said with Huang Baijia's hand as he walked off the boat.
Huang Zongxi's son can be said to be a genius in the early Qing Dynasty. He was not only a master of internal martial arts, but also had all the knowledge of Confucianism and astronomy and calendar. He even understood medical biology. Some research was even close to evolution. However, he did not become an official in the Qing Dynasty and had always lived in seclusion among the people, so few people knew about it.
Yang Feng has high hopes for this person. After all, in such an era, it is really not easy to have such a person.
"After a few days after Yang Shuai left, he restored Zhoushan, wiped out the Tatar Navy, and killed two generals one after another. It's really admirable!"
Huang Baijia said with a smile.
Speaking of the charity who went back to handle housework, no one expected that Yang Feng would give them such a huge surprise. He captured the huge Zhoushan in just a few days and defeated the Qing army navy to almost no power to fight back. It can be said that it was a miracle. It was precisely because of this miracle that they had strengthened their determination to come and go with it. If Yang Feng was defeated at this time, they might not have come out again.
"Don't mention it, I'm so worried now!"
Yang Feng said with a wry smile.
"What's Yang Shuai worried about?"
Huang Baijia asked.
"We are worried about everything. Let's go to my place first. Are these nobles?"
Yang Feng looked at the group of old and small people behind him, especially one of the 17 or 18 years old girls. Now he usually looks at women instead of looking at their faces first, but their feet. When he saw that their little feet were no longer interested, no matter how beautiful they were, he was surprised that this girl was actually a celestial foot.
The latter lowered his head and looked very quiet. Perhaps he felt his hungry wolf-like gaze. He raised his head slightly and showed his pretty face, and then he quickly lowered again at the fastest speed.
"Yes, this is a cumshot! This is a dog's son."
Huang Baijia did not notice their interaction. He just introduced a few casually, and most of the others did not give in. His family was a dozen people. Yang Feng just said hello casually and quickly took them straight to his Grandmaster's Mansion, which was the original county government. Now he arrested Zhoushan's military and political affairs by himself, and even the case was tried, he had no laws. He didn't understand the Ming Dynasty's law, but he didn't use it. Anyway, his words were the law, and no one dared to have any objection to the judgment. Fortunately, Zhoushan was not big, with only tens of thousands of people. People are living a simple life these days and easy to manage.
After the General Manager's Mansion settled them down, Yang Feng and Huang Baijia began a serious conversation.
“First of all, the military issue.
The victory of these battles depends entirely on these things. These are weapons I made myself before. Now there are so many, and I don’t have time to do more. That is to say, it will be gone after using them. If these things are naval battles, they can support a few more times. But don’t expect land battles. I guess an ordinary battle will have to be consumed completely. Without these things, you know what level our rebel army is."
Yang Feng pointed to his arms and said.
In fact, his arms consumption was not much. He only used fifty rockets and three hundred grenades in the last war, and then he fired dozens of grenades. As for the ping of banana water, it doesn’t count. He still has more than a dozen buckets of banana water!
“Can these things be made by themselves?”
Huang Baijia said with a rocket launcher. He even knew the microscope, and of course he would not understand that this thing was a pure mechanical product.
"cannot."
Yang Feng said frankly.
“But there is something similar to it to make.”
He said, put a drawing on the table in front of him. The ones were drawn on it were rockets. The RPG rockets were indeed impossible to build, but Casan-level earth rockets were not difficult to build. After all, this thing was played by our ancestors for hundreds of years. The same is true for steel pipes or iron pipes. The rear wings are installed and the internal booster is used to use gunpowder. If it really doesn't work, it's okay to add some sugar. You can also buy sugar at this time.
“This thing is not difficult to build.”
Huang Baijia could tell at a glance that this thing was not difficult.
"The difficult thing is large-scale manufacturing. We need a lot of gunpowder, a lot of steel, and a lot of workers. In short, we need a special factory, a factory that continuously produces such things in large quantities. Then we must solve the problem of raw materials, otherwise this set of drawings will have no meaning to us."
Yang Feng said.
Huang Baijia nodded, he understood this principle.
"There is another more powerful weapon. Once this weapon is equipped with our army in large quantities and trains enough soldiers, the cavalry that the Tatars rely on to sweep the world can kick it into the garbage dump."
Yang Feng said as he took out a set of drawings again.
This is his new rifle.
Modern rifles using metal fixed-loading bullets are a bit too exaggerated because they don’t have that much material, especially copper for making bullets. Even if he builds black gunpowder rifles like Mauser 1871, they still have to use copper to make bullet shells. In the era of copper or coins, this is undoubtedly very exaggerated. Although he can do copper mines and factories by himself, under the current circumstances, what he needs is speed. The more factories he builds, the slower the speed.
Therefore, his weapon principles must be simplified in the production process, the better.
Using paper-carried bullets to load Dresse is a bit too much, because he needs to create a **** first, and he also needs a more advanced machine tool, but it is enough to load a gun on the front, and even a **** is not needed, so he uses a flintlock rifled Gamini bullet.
This is enough to deal with Kang Mazi, don’t take the Eight Banners cavalry as powerful as they are.
As for artillery, he is not interested in developing new ones for the time being, because this problem is easy to solve. Just change the shells. Wooden bullet cradles and wood pipe fuses create flowering shells. The artillery should use the most common artillery at this time, and the army's light copper cannons are fine. There is no need to make any major changes. Just change the shells. And it can also load the shells with white phosphorus and other things, and the killing effect is absolutely enough. In fact, until the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, copper cannons were still very common. The Japanese army was basically all copper cannons, but the Qing army had already started to use Krupp's cast steel field cannons.
But even these things are not easy for him.
“We still need steel.”
Yang Feng said frankly.
"How many? If there are fewer ones, you can buy some. Suzhou and Foshan are all made of steel. You can still buy some ways. Iron is easy to buy, but steel is indeed not easy to buy. These are refined, with very small output, and the Tartars are also watching them closely."
Huang Baijia said.
In fact, there was no gap between China and Europe in steel technology at this time. China was the steel filling method. Suzhou’s steel smelting technology was already very advanced. Europe was the Pudrin method. Simply put, it was a large tank stirring. The steel obtained was not very good because the furnace temperature was not enough. As for the output of crucible steel, it is a high-end quality and is only used when there are special needs.
"It's useless. I need a lot of steel. It's so much that you don't necessarily have enough to give me all the national output!"
Yang Feng said.
He wanted to play the steel age. At this time, the steel production was useless. It was the kingly way to go directly to the steel furnace, and it didn't have to be too high-end. The simplest converter was enough. Steel mills could also simplify it. In a short period of time, he didn't need to do iron ore and iron smelting. He could buy pig iron steel directly. Some pig iron could be sold to him, for example, he could buy it from Japan, Goryeo, Europe, and even Kamazi's territory.
There is nothing to be surprised about. As long as you have money to make money, Shanxi merchants can sell iron to wild boar skin to beat their own country. The merchants under Kang Mazi will also sell pig iron to themselves.
It is not difficult to make a converter. It is not difficult to use a part of the steel from there, build a graphite crucible here, and then melt it and assemble the casting accessories. You can even use simple machine tools in this way. Although it is best to drag a few from there, they are all motors. Now it is a bit exaggerated to use electricity, and he has to do a lot of things to generate electricity, which does not conform to his simplification principle.
But it is still okay to build a boiler and build a steam engine.
Then, it is simple to make a machine tool that just carries out the barrel.
What, no technology? This is not a problem. Yang Daxian had prepared a long time ago. A large box of such technical books were locked in his cabinet. He copied it from a university library in parallel time and space opposite some time ago.
But the problem now is...
“We need a coal mine.”
Chapter completed!