Zhu Youcheng opened the door and called all the Qianhu outside in.

"Dear thousands of households, our Jinyiwei has been bullied home now, and the goods transported have been robbed by a group of bandits."

Zhu Youcheng's words were like a drop of cold water falling into a hot oil pan, which caused a noise at the scene. Some were disbelief, some were filled with righteous indignation, and some were shouting loudly. Only Wu Huping and Chen Guoqi looked as usual and remained silent.

Zhu Youcheng was a little surprised and asked, "Wu Qianhu, Chen Qianhu, why don't you two speak?"

Wu Huping stood up, saluted Zhu Youcheng, and said, "Sir, you are angry, and scolding cannot solve the problem. What are we training hard for? Isn't it just to suppress bandits and Anmin? Since there are bandits, it's just to destroy them, why bother here? With this strength, it's better to go to the battlefield to cut off more bandits."

Chen Guoqi also said: "There is a standard idea that we should use weapons now and hit him."

Zhu Youcheng nodded in praise and said, "I think so too. Now let the ball first introduce the situation of the bandits."

"The number of bandits is unknown. I once sneaked into their kitchen. According to the food they consumed in each meal, there were about 3,000 people. The bandit leader and bandits were not stuck in mud. They were around 30 years old and from Shaanxi. They occupied a landlord's watchtower at the junction of Cangzhou and Dezhou. They used this as a base to attract rogues from all over the country, and seemed to have plans to rebel. This watchtower is similar to the Hakka land tower in Fujian. It is very strong, with five floors in total, and the diameter of the open space in the middle is fifteen meters. The exterior wall of the watchtower is made of stone and is about five meters high. There are two doors, located on the southeast and northwest sides, with no moat. The door is made of fine steel and has a gate structure. Because the door is too heavy, the bandits are lazy and rarely closed. However, there are shooting holes inside and outside the carving building, which are easy to defend and difficult to attack."

When thousands of households heard that the bandit's nest was actually in this structure, they all gasped. This kind of castle was tightly defended, like a turtle shell, which made people unable to speak and was quite difficult to fight. Unless it was used to use siege equipment. However, there was a roof on the fort, which was much more difficult to attack than a city wall. It was impossible to conquer without paying a heavy price. The best way was to surround the fort gate and trap the enemies. However, the fortress was full of rooms, and it was summer and I didn't know how much food was stored in it. This took a long time, and the army rations would have to eat up the Xizhen Fushi.

The room was silent, and everyone was thinking about how to capture the enemy's nest at the lowest cost.

After a moment, Chen Guoqi's eyes lit up. He said, "Now the bandits are recruiting soldiers, so the investigation will definitely not be strict. We can send people to sneak in and take advantage of the situation and suddenly attack the fortress."

Wu Huping said: "This method certainly has hope of success, but if the bandits are smarter and check the calluses on their hands, they will find that the calluses on our soldiers' hands are obviously caused by weapons, which is completely different from the calluses formed by farmers' use of farm tools. In this way, our soldiers will be in danger. I suggest a strong attack."

Chen Guoqi shook his head and said, "The soldiers' sacrifices are too great, I object."

"If our weapons were crossbows and swords and guns, I wouldn't suggest a strong attack. But what do we have in our hands now? Install a rifled musket! Its range is twice as fast as a strong bow, and it is extremely accurate. We can shoot outside the bunker. Snipe the bandits from the shooting hole and clear out the safe passage. Then send people to bury the bunker under the bunker and blow up the bunker."

"The shooting hole is so small, how many bullets will be wasted. The bullets of Xizhenfushi are specially made, which is not appropriate. Besides, the bunker uses a stone. How much does it have to be used to blow it up?" Chen Qi Wu defended himself.

"Let's just attack. In my eyes, no matter how much money is, it's not as good as the lives of soldiers. Remember when you were training muskets? Is it a row of bullets given to you, is that a bullet? No, it's a silver circle. But in order to make you less bleeding on the battlefield, I gave the bullets to you for training without blinking."

After hearing Zhu Youcheng's words, thousands of households felt warm. As the saying goes, one general succeeded and thousands of bones were undone. In order to win, many generals regarded the lives of soldiers as grass, deducted military pay in normal times, and exchanged human lives for victory in wartime. Where can anyone love soldiers as much as his son like the Lord of the Fushishi?

"I decided to bring a thousand elite troops to fight. However, before the troops moved, the food and grass would go first. Beijing was 500 miles away from Cangzhou, and the cavalry could travel 100 miles a day, about five or six days a day. So I had to prepare at least ten days of concentrated feed, and the soldiers' rations had to bring ten days. Don't tell me about the supply on the road, what if I didn't buy it? We can't let our soldiers fight on hungry. So in addition to a thousand elite troops, I also had to bring a thousand baggage soldiers. In order to rescue me,

I am still going to bring the medical soldiers on the battlefield, so I will prepare a hundred medical soldiers first. Fortunately, there are hundreds of four-wheeled carriages in the Xizhen Fushi Department, so the transportation of military food is not a problem. Attacking a solid fortress, artillery is the most effective, but unfortunately Sun Yuanhua started to cast artillery. Gao Di, the Minister of War, has an old age with me, and has a good personal relationship with Eunuch Wei, so it should be no problem to borrow artillery. Because this battle is to test the function of firearms, the elite and baggage troops I selected are all pure firearm troops."

Hearing this, all the thousands of households put their envious eyes on the two favorite generals of Zhu Youcheng - Wu Huping and Chen Guoqi. Wu Huping and Chen Guoqi were immediately a little proud, but Zhu Youcheng's next words were that some people were happy and some were worried.

"These thousand elite soldiers came from the thousand households of Chen State Qi, and the one thousand baggage soldiers came from the thousand households of Wu Huping."

Wu Huping became furious when he heard this and shouted: "My thousand-house soldiers are the best cavalry, why do you let my troops be a baggage soldier?"

Zhu Youcheng glared at Wu Huping. Wu Huping remembered the strict discipline of the Jinyiwei, and remembered that Zhu Youcheng once said that soldiers took obeying orders as their duty, so they retreated awkwardly.

"Originally, there is no need to explain the orders from Shangguan, but since you asked today, I will tell you that because Chen Guoqi's troops were the first to equip firearms and were most familiar with firearms, they were the vanguards. But the baggage troops I brought also had to participate in the battle. In this battle, whoever has the strongest army will be the vanguard next time they fight."

As soon as Zhu Youcheng's words came out, Wu Huping and Chen Guoqi secretly competed. After the meeting, the two of them conveyed the words of Lord Zhu to the soldiers with ignorance. Both troops screamed and their morale was unprecedentedly high.

After a while, Zhu Youcheng was about to ask someone to prepare a carriage and prepare to go to the capital. At this time, King Xin came over.

As soon as he came in, he grabbed Zhu Youcheng's hand and pulled him out. While pulling, he said, "Mr. Song is here, and he is indeed a talented person. He stopped me."

It turned out that Wei Liangqing had already taken Song Yingxing to the imperial village in the west of Jing. He was about to ask Zhu Youcheng to hand over the order, but was caught by King Xin. Since King Xin heard Zhu Youcheng's introduction, he thought "The Art of Heaven" was an amazing novel of gods and demons, and he was full of admiration for the author Song Yingxing, so he took Song Yingxing to the living room and started chatting with him.

After talking for a while, I realized that Song Yingxing had not started writing "The Work of Heaven" yet, but Xin Wang was not disappointed, because Song Yingxing was a very funny person, and he told some scientific principles in a simple and humorous manner. Xin Wang was not willing to be outdone, and also trembled the scientific knowledge learned from Zhu Youcheng for a while. Unfortunately, Song Yingxing was a person who liked to follow the root of the matter, and soon asked Xin Wang speechlessly. He had to come back to help rescue soldiers.

Zhu Youcheng was overjoyed and hurried out to greet Song Yingxing.

When he saw Song Yingxing and Zhu Youcheng had just finished introducing himself, Song Yingxing bowed to him twice.

Zhu Youcheng secretly wiped the cold sweat from his head in his heart. Fortunately, he either bowed three times, otherwise he would have said goodbye to the body.

"This first bow is to thank Lord Zhu for giving the title of the book Caomin, "The Heavenly Mandarin is a 'Tiangong is a 'Tiangong is a 'Tiangong is a 'Tiangong is a 'Tiangong is a 'Tiangong is a 'Tiangong is a 'Tiangong is a 'Tiangong is a 'The Heavenly Mandarin is a 'Tiangong is a 'The Name' is really good."

Zhu Youcheng was almost laughing in his heart. He had never seen such a bad person and praised the good title of the book. Although it seems that the name of this book was given by Zhu Youcheng now, even if no one reminded him, in another two or three years, Song Yingxing would think of the name of the book.

"This second bow is to admire the knowledge of the great master. I didn't expect that Master Zhu would become a genius and the knowledge that he taught to King Xin was unheard of, but it made me suddenly enlightened."

After hearing this, Zhu Youcheng understood the reason why Song Yingxing, a scientific madman, bowed to him. Fortunately, he came out early and did not let Song Yingxing discover his strengths elsewhere. It would be really unlucky to have a three-bow and make a memorial service.

Zhu Youcheng smiled and welcomed Song Yingxing into the study.

Everyone sat down with the host and the host, and after a while of greeting, they got to the point.

Zhu Youcheng said anxiously: "I have admired Mr. Song for a long time. I heard that in order to prevent the various scientific and technological technologies of the Ming Dynasty from being lost for various reasons, you went deep into various places to collect the skills of craftsmen. Only then did you come from afar. Do you know how to make steelmaking?"

"The Lord is the governor of the Jinyiwei Xifu Department. He has a high position and a powerful position, but he doesn't care about the Weapon Department, so why do you need to make steel?"

Zhu Youcheng stood up, paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, thinking about whether to tell him the truth. King Xin stood beside him and learned his movements very well.

Suddenly, Zhu Youcheng stood up and said, "Mr. Song, this matter is related to the fate of the Ming Dynasty. Can you guarantee that you will not disclose a word to outsiders? Of course, it cannot be recorded in your book."

Song Yingxing stood up and said seriously: "Song is also from the Ming Dynasty. Since this matter is so important, I will naturally keep my mouth shut."

So Zhu Youcheng truthfully told him the reasons for making muskets and the troubles he encountered, and also brought the flower of muskets and the muskets as heavy as small cannons.

Song Yingxing smiled and said, "Song has three methods of steelmaking."

Zhu Youcheng was overjoyed and said, "Mr. Song tried all three methods and found the most efficient and efficient method. However, I heard from the Westerners that mixing two metals together will have a higher strength. For example, pure copper is very soft, pure tin is also very soft, but once copper and tin are mixed, it becomes extremely hard bronze."

Zhu Youcheng tactfully told Song Yingxing about the advantages of the alloys studied in later generations.

Song Yingxing was overjoyed. He finally understood why the ancients used bronze to cast a tripod during the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

He bowed to Zhu Youcheng again. Zhu Youcheng was sweating profusely, but he still couldn't escape this third bow. Fortunately, Song Yingxing agreed to instruct the blacksmiths to carefully study alloy steel after making steel, and strive to develop alloys that are harder and more wear-resistant than steel.

Zhu Youcheng said in his heart: "If you are not lucky, just be unlucky, as long as the Ming Dynasty is not unlucky."

Unfortunately, he didn't know that the Ming Dynasty had encountered an extremely unlucky thing, which was caused by him. (To be continued, please search Piaotianwen, the novel is better and faster!

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