After taking the time to arrive at the workshop, Chen Wen did not come to chat and laugh with Fang Yizhi. After staying in the workshop for a while, Chen Wen and Fang Yizhi separated and followed Xu Yizhi to inspect the development of some new products.

The newly built muskets and gun rods displayed in the warehouse have been renovated. The sleeve-type bayonets that have been equipped for grenadiers can be installed on the muskets at appropriate times. Long-range musket players can temporarily play melee melee infantry, effectively improving the combat effectiveness of infantry.

Putting down the musket in his hand, Chen Wen turned to Xu Yi and asked: "How long will it take to complete all the updates?"

It took a long time to go from research and development to small-scale assembly to the entire army to the development of the sleeve bayonet. The development of sleeve bayonets was completed earlier, but the task of re-installing armor at that time was relatively severe. Even if it was not considered heavy infantry, the half-body armor of the firearms team and the armor of the cavalry would occupy too much production capacity. After all, the Ming army of Jiangsu and Zhejiang is also a military group of more than 100,000 troops. Even if the strength of the military industry department is strong, it always takes time.

"Report to the king, if nothing unexpected happens, the entire army can complete the dressing change within one year."

This time, this dressing change seems to be just a bayonet, but in fact, even the muskets need to be renovated together. Otherwise, if the bayonet cannot be installed, it is better to give soldiers a knife. It takes a lot of time, which is inevitable. After all, it is also a heavy task of tens of thousands of muskets. The hydraulic workshop is likely to be relocated this year. If the expansion of the army is included, the year will be very short.

"It's almost the same, just catch up."

The sleeve-type bayonet was the invention of Marshal Vaubon, a Frenchman who had been engaged in the art of fighting with each other for a long time in France, but that was more than 30 years later. Before that, even now, the bayonets in Europe were inserted, and the hilt of the bayonet was directly inserted into the musket, which not only hindered the shooting of the musket, but also easily caused damage to the musket. Apart from the ease of changing clothes, there was really no advantage.

There are more advanced bayonets. The connecting structure of the cab type is more advanced than the sleeve type. As for the blade of the bayonet, the triangular military spears in later generations are also very terrible weapons. However, for the current production technology level, the sleeve type is more suitable, and only when it is appropriate will it be popularized.

After leaving the warehouse, Chen Wen and his party went to the test site. The next weapon was not enough to just look at the appearance.

This test site is used to test artillery. After each artillery has completed casting, it must be sent here for testing. The location is also relatively remote, and there is a blocked forest behind the target, in order to prevent the shells from causing accidental injury to those who enter here.

On the observation deck, Chen Wen looked through the telescope and saw several rectangular tubes fixed on a trolley. Looking from Chen Wen, the front end of the tube was not visible, but the fuse at the rear end was connected into one from the tail of hundreds of rockets. As long as it was ignited, the rocket in the tube would rush out like a nest of frightened hornets.

Chen Wen saw this scene on the Internet in later generations, and it was well-known. This is the swarm of rocket launchers of the Katyusha rocket launcher known as the Ming Dynasty.

The so-called swarm of rocket launchers is just a general term. There are more than a dozen types of sizes in the Ming Dynasty, and the names are different. Many weapons works include "Martial Arts" and "State Training of Military Training". Chen Wen had long thoughts about this, but weapons have priority, so these weapons naturally cannot grab production capacity with cold weapons, cannons, and muskets. Moreover, the cost of this thing is really not low, so it has been shelved until now.

"King, the test site is ready."

Chen Wen could see that the two soldiers who were manipulating a swarm of rocket launchers had stopped their work and ordered the soldiers to sing flags to the observation deck. Today, the most important thing to come here is to see the power of this legendary weapon. After getting the signal that it was ready, Chen Wen nodded.

The flags were waving on the observation platform. After receiving the order, the soldiers who had received the order lit the fuse and then ran to the side cover like crazy.

In a blink of an eye, the moment the soldiers ran back to the cover, Mars entered the jar along the fuse. The next second, rockets with sparks ejected from the tail rushed out one by one, and the same was true for the Divine Fire Crow on the side. Its spectacularity was just like the famous weapon used by the Soviet army during World War II.

"It's really only the wrong name, no wrong nickname. This thing is really scary."

Chen Wen was not very clear about whether the inspiration for the Soviet army came from this, but today's scene did give him a real shock, which was something that could not be felt in the videos imitating and test-firing by foreign weapons enthusiasts in later generations.

The rockets flew out one after another. Chen Wen's vision was still concentrated on the swarm of horns at the beginning. Later, he followed the Divine Fire Crow and went to the distance. With the advancement of gunpowder, the range of these rockets seemed to be farther than that of step bows and even turtledove-footed guns.

The weapon shooting was completed quickly, and the rockets were densely inserted into the ground in the distance, and the scarecrows were even ripped with holes, and some even started to burn.

Chen Wen put away the excitement in his heart, estimating the distance between the swarm and the shooting target, as well as the killing range and power of the rocket, but his brows quickly frowned.

"How long is the range?"

After a while, after the soldiers' calculations, the report was quickly handed over to the observation deck. Since it was a firearm, its power was obvious, and the range was the aspect that Chen Wen paid the most attention to.

"Report to the king, this time the target is a hundred feet away from a rocket launcher. After the shooting is completed, the rocket's killing range is between tens of feet and dozens of feet of the target."

Before launch, Chen Wen clearly saw that these rockets were equipped with tail wings, which effectively improves their accuracy. This is the original rocket launcher, all of which were copied from books, and can have an attack distance of more than 300 meters. Although the error is not small, this weapon is originally a victory by quantity, which is understandable and is indeed worthy of praise from later generations.

"This thing is interesting, how much does it cost?"

Wars have always been burning money, and cold weapons are like this, let alone the firearm era. The weapons equipped in Chen Wenjun are the most cost-effective, which has a great relationship with the financial tensions of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the early years. But more importantly, only popularization can lead to combat effectiveness. Otherwise, if we just stay in books, can we scare our opponents away?

"Reporting to the king, this thing is indeed good except that it is affected by the wind, but the cost is too amazing. Especially since this thing requires a lot of hand-made, the machinery can create some parts, but more parts, especially the installation, require manual processing, which occupies too many craftsmen and processes."

When talking about costs, Xu Yi's crying face appeared again. This young official was aged teenager for several years in the Military Industry Department. He was very dedicated and responsible. He is indeed worthy of being a civil servant trained on Dalan Mountain. His expression of crying face at any time really made Chen Wen have nothing to say.

Xu Yi wanted to continue, but Chen Wen just heard that he had too much labor occupation, so he had no desire. Next, Chen Wen, a patient with mechanical obsession and mechanical obsessive-compulsive disorder, said to the miserable military industry supervisor: "Don't worry, I know that this disposable weapon is indeed not as good as artillery accounting at this stage, and the military industry department does not need to make too many. Some of them will be driven out in the near future and can be slowly built and maintained with a certain inventory. Don't worry."

When Xu Yi heard Chen Wen's words, he was relieved. Chen Wen's two "mental diseases" have now spread in the Military Industry Department of the Ming Army of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. His symptoms are not lighter than Chen Wen at all. The large-scale use of machinery has made them all focus on how to use machinery to reduce the human burden. After all, the population decline has been quite large in recent years. China's manpower shortage sounds nonsense, but it is real and very serious now.

"What about the other one?"

"Reporting to the king, I made one of the weapons. The range is really amazing, but the power and accuracy are a bit unsatisfactory." As he said that, Xu Yi took out a weapon experimental report and handed it to Chen Wen, and then explained: "And the bigger problem is that there are not a lot of processes at all, which is very troublesome. The officials thought that the cost-effectiveness was not very high, except for the deterrence."

"oh."

After reading the report carefully, the content was very detailed, including shooting time, wind direction and wind level at that time, visual altitude of weapon flight, and actual attack distance. I wrote a lot of them in a dense way.

Seeing this, Chen Wen nodded and then said: "This thing can be made. The priority is under a swarm of rocket launchers. It doesn't need too much. It's enough to keep inventory."

"The lower official obeys the order."

By the end of the year, the statistics on military merits had been basically completed as early as Nanjing's recovery. The rewards had already begun in the past few months, and even the distribution of land had basically come to an end until the end of the year. Don't think about it this winter, but next year's spring seeds will not be delayed, as long as local garrisons can recruit enough tenants.

In the ninth year of Yongli, with the victory of the two battles in Hangzhou and Nanjing, the Qing army's rule in Jiangnan was completely declared to end. The Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang had nearly a thousand miles northward, crossed the Yangtze River, and began to deploy defenses along the Huai River. The confrontation between the north and south of the Ming and Qing Dynasties began, but the comparison of each other's strength had begun to reverse, and the overall strategic initiative of the country had completely fallen into Chen Wen's hands. The rest will always have a result next year or the year after that, and Chen Wen is very much looking forward to this.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Chen Wen and Zhou Yueying came to his father-in-law's house as usual. As Chen Wen's status continued to improve, the Zhou family, who was the Chen Wenyue family, also received a lot of rewards. In terms of material and nominality, almost no one in the family has no rewards, and fortunately, the Zhou family has not had a large population, otherwise the Yongli court would have really spent money.

Compared to last year, the old and young people in the Zhou family respected him even more deeply. The atmosphere of the son-in-law's New Year greetings was too weak, and they were all so restrained. Thinking about it carefully, it was normal. Chen Wen's current status and strong strength have been in his hands since the rebellion, especially in the past two years, he has almost driven the Qing Dynasty out of the Southeast with his own strength. Faced with such a hero and his family has benefited a lot, a sense of awe is inevitable.

The family was extremely reserved to use the meal, which made Chen Wen feel so awkward. After using the meal, he sat together and chatted and reported to the king one by one. The difference between the upper and lower part had almost completely replaced the family atmosphere, making Chen Wen not feel at ease. However, he planned to liven up the atmosphere several times, but he could not find the topic until his father-in-law Taishan said tremblingly, and the hall was even more breathable.

"The son-in-law has now restored Nanjing. The two famous kings have made great contributions to the famous kings. Even the King of Xining is one or two inferior. Since the court can grant the Western thief Sun Kewang the King of Qin, the son-in-law must always have the title of a prince."

He respectfully called the King of Xining for Li Dingguo, and to Sun Kewang, he was a Western thief. There were three males in the Zhou family serving as officials in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and one daughter was Chen Wen's wife. He knew the senses of the surrounding forces of the Ming Army Group of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Of course, it can be seen from this that the difference between being Zhang Xianzhong's godson, Sun and Li, is so big.

When he heard this question from his father-in-law, Taishan, and saw the relatives present showing eager and anticipated gazes. Seeing this, Chen Wen almost burst out laughing.

The reason was nothing special. When he got married with Zhou Yueying, Zhou Yueying was considered an old girl at that time. Although she was known as a talented woman, it still did not prevent her from being said to be an old girl who could not be married. Especially when she went to Quzhou to report the news, the reputation among the gentry in Jinhua Mansion was even more unpleasant.

When Chen Wen and Zhou Yueying set a marriage date, Chen Wen even found the famous Yao Jiang Huang Xiaozi to propose marriage on behalf of the world. His father-in-law Taishan, who was extremely satisfied with his face, went back to beat the guys who were gossiping behind the scenes and said that his daughter could not get married. He told everyone that his daughter had the fate of being a marquis, which was delayed until today, which made those who were gossiping behind their backs secretly. There was no way, at that time, Chen Wen won the capital of the four provinces, and the situation changed greatly. How could he offend Chen Wen, the killing star for one or two words of fighting spirit?

In the following days, as Chen Wen's status continued to rise, the common phrases of his father-in-law, the Duke's wife, and then to the current princess of the county, almost no one can change them in a year.

Originally, those who were cursing behind their backs were all dumbfounded to watch the wonder of this man ascending to heaven. The object of his slander also changed from "the old girl of the wind demon who could not marry the Zhou family" and "the old Zhoutou who relied on his son-in-law to pretend to be a tiger's power". In their words, the ground of Jinhua Mansion finally caught up with a star that descended to earth to take on the momentum, but the woman was not strong enough and could not give birth to a daughter with a wealthy life. The Zhou family who moved from Shaoxing took advantage of it, which really made the local heroes sigh and regret it.

This statement was concluded until Zhou Yueying gave birth to a daughter in her first child. For the sake of inheriting the family line, they felt that Chen Wen would take a concubine soon. This statement hurts the whole Zhou family's family in the ears of his father-in-law Taishan. Therefore, the whole family was ambitious to "sell" the little girl from his family to Chen Wen.

But after all, his daughter and his distant niece were completely different. However, he had no choice but to worry about giving birth. It was not until the news that Chen Wen killed Yue Le in Hangzhou was returned, and he killed a prince Heshuo and could still be named a prince began to spread spontaneously among the people in Jinhua that he found a new direction for slapping in the face.

"I'm not hiding it to my father-in-law, it depends on the court. Your Majesty should not object. After all, the court has already opened a hole in the princes of a different surname, but now the government is in control of Sun Kewang, it's probably not that easy."

His father-in-law, Taishan, was really a wonderful person, so when Chen Wen listened to the rumors reported by the Supervision Office, he couldn't help but have the idea that he would have the same father as his son. With such a father, it was not difficult to understand Zhou Jingting's obsession with Zhu Zhixi.

Sure enough, when he heard this, Chen Wen's father-in-law Taishan first showed a little disappointment, and then began to indignately denounce Sun Kewang for being despicable and shameless, which immediately aroused loudly from his brothers and nephews, as if it was not Chen Wen who might be treated unfairly, but them.

When the two families marry, Chen Wen's location is located in the Zhou family, which is a rise in the water. In fact, not only the Zhou family, but also the generals and soldiers of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the civil officials are looking forward to the improvement of Chen Wen's status, because as Chen Wen's subordinates, they also have a rise in the water.

The expectation for the reward for regaining Nanjing's magical achievements did not make Chen Wen's relatives, subordinates, and all the people interested in it on the land of China waited for too long. On the 28th day of the first lunar month, the envoys of the Imperial Execution came slowly.

"... Jin Qing was appointed as the commander of the Han coyotes, land and land soldiers and horses to suppress the generals in Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Shandong, Henan, etc., and specially gave python jade to act cheaply, and put the seal of the general of the general of the Left Army Governor's Office, the Grand Tutor and the Grand Tutor of the Prince, and the King of Yue."
Chapter completed!