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Volume 1: The Arms Dealer¡¯s Feast Chapter 277: Construction and Artillery

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    As for whether the Vietnamese took this 1628-style rifle to imitate it, that has nothing to do with the Lushan.  It¡¯s not an amazing technology. Sooner or later, the Lushan Ship will put this fast gun on a big sale, and when Australia can produce its own steel, it may be sold very cheaply. The sooner it can be sold, the more money it will make - for those who can already  No one will spend a lot of money to buy products that can be copied.

    Now, when Lushan sells the Type 1628 rifle, it can only win with technology. When everyone can imitate the Type 1628 rifle, it will sell it at a bargain price and win with high quality and low price. According to the practice of dumping, this pair  The hit to local industry has been hard.

    The Lushan ship bought a large amount of grain and spent a lot of effort to transport it on the ship. Food in Vietnam is cheap because it is impossible to eat it all. Every year, a large amount of old rice expires and spoils, and some even rot on the ground.  There is no one to harvest.

    After making an appointment with local officials and businessmen to build a larger pier that is far enough into the sea, the Lushan went south to its destination - Spencer Bay, Eyre Peninsula.  Of course, when we get there, no one will call this place where natives are rampant Whyalla. The official name is still under discussion. Anyway, we are not anxious about these trivial matters.

    As for the flag of the Republic of Australia, it was born during the discussion, that is, the sickle and ax red flag - originally this sickle and ax red flag was also a taboo topic in the 1960s, but no one cares about it now, right? It does not hinder the Lushan number, which is mainly composed of young people.  Let's make a joke.

    The Republic of Australia not only considers the sickle and ax flag as its national flag, but also plans to use it as its national emblem to be printed on future coins. In the 17th century, Mr. Sun¡¯s grandfather was not born yet, so why bother printing him.  Moreover, in the 1960s, there was also a wave of trolls on the Internet who questioned Mr. Sun's ability. It can be said that except for his passion for revolution and the establishment of the Whampoa Military Academy, many things were criticized as useless.

    The weapons manufacturing personnel on board the Lushan have not stopped working. This 1628 rifle will be one of the flagship products of the Republic of Australia in the future. Now through continuous exploration and trial, the body parts and barrel of the 1628 rifle are already in the category of alloy steel.  This means it lasts longer and can withstand greater pressure.  However, steel is produced from the crucible every time, and the quality is different each time, but it doesn't matter. The best quality ones are reserved for the troops, and the lower quality ones are sold for money.

    Several teachers and students who are good at chemistry are busy using the equipment on the ship to make bullets. With machines, there are only two problems to solve. The first is the mercury fulminate and propellant for the primer.  The propellant can be replaced by collodion prepared in the laboratory, but this is not a long-term solution after all. The sulfuric acid and nitric acid in the laboratory will always be used up, and a characteristic of modern warfare weapons is the large amount of ammunition.  There is nothing wrong with mercury fulminate, because it is relatively easy to prepare, and the amount of primer used is not large compared to the propellant. Some prepared in the laboratory are enough to last a long time.

    But this is also temporary. In order to use better primers and better propellants, three acids and two bases must be developed.  Everyone thought very well, but when they arrived at the Eyre Peninsula and Spencer Bay, the desolation here and the ignorance of the indigenous people made everyone miss modern society even more.

    1628, June 9.  The first person on the Lushan coast to land on the Australian coast was a military team, who used the iron fist of the Republic to give a harsh lesson to the indigenous people who unscrupulously used boomerangs to attack large iron ships.  The people who traveled through the Lushan Cruise don't know if this is the original site of Whyalla, but there is a river here, which is very good for both fresh water extraction and the construction of hydroelectric power stations in the future.

    As for the indigenous people who lived nearby in the past, you can only sincerely say sorry. Who made you the weakest? There are still tens or even hundreds of millions of Indians in North America at this time. Compared to Australia, there are only aborigines at this time.  Less than a million, and with much lower IQs than Native Americans.

    After clearing away the unfriendly indigenous people nearby, the planning team, construction team, geology team, agriculture team, and health team landed in lifeboats one after another.  The immigrants on the ship also landed with groups of people carrying tools and food. The first thing they did was to start logging and building a large dock into the sea to unload the Lushan - if they always use lifeboats, they will use up the diesel on the ship.  To store supplies, everyone would have to use lifeboats to row the cargo. This efficiency is intolerable to modern people. Fortunately, Australia is rich in tall eucalyptus trees, and there is no shortage of raw materials for building wooden docks.

    In addition to the dock, building houses is also in full swing.  Chinese people pay attention to using local materials when building houses. Australia is rich in eucalyptus trees, so they use eucalyptus trees to build houses. The wooden house is built with a brick stove to burn the fireplace in winter. The house is still very warm - but the first building was not any house but a public toilet.  , modern people¡¯s health perspective always comes first.

    Because I don¡¯t know what evil germs there are in this era, in short, safety comes first.  As long as precautions are taken well, people can actually be immune to any infectious disease. Sooner or later, the drugs in Lushan will expire and deteriorate, and the modern pharmaceutical industry will not be able to survive in a few years.A series of constructions can be made.  Although many Chinese medicines and proprietary Chinese medicines have been purchased from Guangzhou and other places as specific medicines for some diseases, everyone is still a little afraid of the era without antibiotics. If you look at the history books, you will know that before the large-scale emergence of antibiotics, the death rate in this society was one of the highest.  High - Although scientific nursing can solve many problems, it is not all.

    ????????? Towering trees were felled one after another, their branches and leaves were removed, and then they were manually transported to the coast to build houses and docks.  The working immigrants occasionally felt at ease when they looked at the small mountains of food piled on the deck of the Lushan - they could last at least a few months with this much food.

    ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????With this little population and food? If there¡¯s not a capital city with a population of one million nearby, then it¡¯s really a pity that I have to travel through this time.

    The military households recruited by the Ming Dynasty were pulled ashore by Zhang Tiejun and others for military training. The military households were soldiers after all, and they still understood basic topics such as training and formation.  The original plan was to have Ming Dynasty people, Koreans, and Japanese mixed together for military training, but Zhang Tiejun's military team was unwilling to do this, and the language barrier would not be overcome.

    Saying it was a language barrier, Jin Sanduo thought maliciously that it was probably more of a psychological barrier that led him to train these Japanese ronin.  After all, there was an earth-shattering war more than 20 years ago. Although the country won and annexed District 11, many Chinese people still didn't have a good view of District 11.  Of course, for the sake of the country's prosperity, no one thinks that District 11 is not part of the country's territory.

    In the end, the Lushan No. 1 held a meeting and decided to allow immigrants with military foundation to receive military training - as for Yuan Shikai's training of peasants who needed to find honest jobs, it has been proven wrong in later generations.  During the Anti-Japanese War, many of the main soldiers of the Central Army were veterans with many years of experience. They were able to attack the enemy and protect themselves very well on the battlefield - as long as the superior officers regarded them as brothers, their tact would be tactful towards the enemy.  .  Many of the people on board the Lushan had fathers who were veterans like this. Many of the battle stories they told their children were of Central Army soldiers who had enough time to formally shoot at Japanese soldiers in trenches or fortifications in shooting competitions.  .

    Because of the pronunciation, the selected Japanese samurai were finally given to Jin Sanduo for training - anyway, they would be equipped with 1628-style flintlock muskets after training.

    This group of about 200 wandering samurai gathered these Japanese samurai together. Jin Sanduo drew a sickle and ax on the ground with chalk and asked: "Seeing that your demeanor is different from that of farmers, you must be a samurai."  ."

    The temporary leader of this group of warriors, Yahei, said: "The defeated general has lost his master's family. Originally, he should have committed seppuku, but we are not family members and are not qualified. So we wandered around in the hope of finding our master again.  "

    Jin Sanduo pointed to the sickle and ax on the ground: "I know that you have learned the art of war since you were young. It is an insult to you to work or farm. Now I give you a chance to be loyal to this flag and shed your blood for generations to come.  Are you determined to die?"

    Yabei asked: "Excuse me, are there any rewards or fiefs for serving this family emblem?"

    "These thousands of miles of Australia are our land. Although it is still a little desolate now, thousands of acres of land are nothing. As long as you have completed three years or achieved military exploits, you can get a piece of fertile land. You will receive a monthly salary of five yuan.  ¡ª¡ªIt¡¯s equivalent to about two and a half taels of silver. From now on, the monthly salary will increase by one yuan every year and there will be a reward for meritorious service. All food and rice for my family and myself will be covered.¡±

    With such a simple condition, Yabei and the more than a hundred wandering warriors behind him had their eyes red, and everyone knelt on the ground with a roar: "Please let us be loyal to this flag."

    "Yao Xi." Jin Sanduo said, "You must know how to use a musket."

    "Iron cannon? You know how to use it." Since the Warring States Period of Oda Nobunaga, muskets have been used on a large scale. Kinki and Kyushu were the first to use muskets on a large scale.

    "Musket, pay attention to my mouth shape. From now on, you must be loyal to this flag and work hard on the musket. There is also language. You must be proficient in Chinese. I know that many of you can understand Chinese characters, but knowing Chinese characters is not enough.  , and you also need to be able to speak. I will teach you this slowly."

    Japanese katakana itself is a kind of super simplified character. Many new things that cannot be described are also simple. They can be directly replaced with Chinese characters. Many of the pronunciations are the same. However, if you want to change to Chinese, you still need to work hard¡ª¡ª  At least it won¡¯t be easier than Cantonese people to learn Mandarin.

    "Look carefully, the bullets of this gun are loaded from the back with fixed paper shell bullets. Then, close it and lock it. This is the key, otherwise you will hurt yourself. Aim and shoot."

    Yabei looked at the structure of a paper-cased bullet and said, "Get in early."

    "Does Japan also have it?"

    MibeiThe head said: "In the early years, the Tachibana family in Kyushu invented the early entry method, which is to load one round of ammunition in the barrel first, and after the first round is fired, immediately load the paper shell and shoot. In this way, the first two rounds are fired simultaneously.  There is no need to clear the barrel of the gun, the rate of fire of these first two rounds is extremely fast."

    "Just understand the principle. Your task during this period is to learn proficient shooting and Chinese. Because this Australian 1628-style rifle fires very fast, when we attack now, we do not use a triple formation but a skirmisher formation.  This can effectively reduce the damage of artillery." As for the formation training, Jin Sanduo had not thought about it. Maybe those Ming Dynasty military households also needed to practice formation and organize housekeeping and other means to strengthen the discipline and obedience of the soldiers, but this batch of Japanese  The samurai are all professional soldiers who have been fighting for a long time. Once they are familiar with new weapons, they can go directly to the battlefield. It is difficult to distinguish the military families of the Ming Dynasty from the immigrants of the Ming Dynasty, and these samurai are all outstanding among the Japanese immigrants.  Standing the same.  One can tell at a glance that this is the difference between professional soldiers and farmers.

    Many passers-by on the Lushan Cruise also feel very good about Jin Sanduo¡¯s training. Historically, Japanese apprentices learned too fast, and those who could never become masters would starve to death after being taught by the masters.

    As the training continued, a simple wooden dock was built, but no more people got off the ship - all the immigrants had already gone off, and what was to be sent up now were livestock supplies and other large items.  People come and go on the simple dock like worker ants, transporting batches of materials to the town where dozens of large houses have been planned and built - these dozens of simple houses exist for the future.  It is used for immigrants. Each time immigrants come, they have to spend a period of purification here. They can only enter the city after it is confirmed that no one has high fever or other signs of infectious diseases.

    Not all the supplies have been delivered yet, and the construction team is already clamoring for more immigrants.  The number of immigrants who came here with the Lushan this time was as high as 8,000. Except for a small number of singles, the others came with their whole families. Among them, only more than 2,000 could be used as laborers by the construction team.  Among them, there were 500 people who were taken away by military units - including the more than 200 warriors trained by Jin Sanduo.

    More than a thousand strong laborers may seem like a lot, but hundreds of people are needed to cut and transport wood every day. After the dock is built, a lot of human resources are used to transport materials from the dock. The current construction progress of the construction team is obviously insufficient because  The labor force is not enough, and we don¡¯t know how many years it will take to get the labor force, so we can only continue to increase immigration.

    In fact, as long as the Lushan goes to sea again, the construction team will have hundreds more laborers.  However, as the geological team has explored the rich iron ore stored nearby, the construction team is naturally more anxious. The agricultural team can use old, young, women and children to carry out some simple farming and planting activities - Eyre Peninsula planting in June.  Why not? It will take four or five months before the weather turns cold. The growth cycle of most crops is only more than a hundred days.

    After unloading the cargo, the Lushan went to sea again for immigration to the coastal provinces of the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time obtained a list of goods needed by each group.  These goods are diverse, ranging from seeds and livestock to Chinese patent medicines, Chinese herbal medicines, grains and even metals.  Many of them were only remembered after arriving here.  Most of the passengers on the Lushan ship were missing, but there were more than 200 real warriors responsible for protecting the safety here. This time, many warriors also wanted to bring their families with them. According to them, they thought that their family was already a famous name in Australia.  If you are acting as a retainer, how can your family not stay in Australia as hostages?

    Because the port was only roughly built and many related equipment was not available, the personnel of the military industry team still stayed on the ship to build guns and cannons.  Yes, according to the personnel of the military industry group, artillery is actually technically simpler than rifles. Especially after the formula of alloy steel is developed, the chamber pressure it can withstand is greatly increased, and there is no need for iron cannons to be as thick as copper cannons.  of the pipe wall.  On this basis, the military industry group developed an export-type artillery - a 110mm front-loading smoothbore gun. In order to withstand higher chamber pressure, this artillery is also visually thin in the front and thick in the rear, and has undergone a perfect annealing process.  ¡ª¡ªAnyway, there are abundant power resources on the Lushan now, so we can work hard to build it.

    The 110mm front-loading smoothbore gun is cast with iron core iron grinding tools. The central cooling method is used during the cooling process - that is, the inner wall of the gun that should be cooled last is cooled first, and then the outer wall will produce an inward grip on the inner wall.  strength, the artillery cast in this way can withstand greater chamber pressure and has less internal damage and blowholes.  After Jin Sanduo successfully tested the gun, he touched the inner wall of the gun. It was as smooth as a mirror. It was indeed grinded by a modern industrial internal cylindrical grinder.

    Unlike the Ming Dynasty's Hongyi cannon, which weighed several thousand kilograms, the Australian-made 110mm 25-caliber front-loading smoothbore cannon weighed only 120 kilograms. It was a junior among the Hongyi cannons, but they all used black powder.  It can shoot as far as those several-kilogram Hongyi cannons - the maximum range is about 10 miles, about five kilometers, but this is the maximum charge and the angle of 45 degrees. It is meaningless to shoot such a distance in battle.  AndThe shells fired from this distance are not accurate, so in battle, the distance of two to three kilometers or even two to three miles is when the Hongyi cannon can exert its most power.

    With the cannon made of alloy steel, the Lushan had one more key product to offer when it was doing business. According to historical records, the Ming Dynasty government never hesitated to spend money on good cannons. This gun  Master Pao said he would sell it for two to three thousand taels of silver. It was made of fine steel.

    As a modern person, of course, we disdain the power and design of this artillery - there is no scope, and even the angle cannot be easily adjusted - the design of the Hongyi cannon mainly adjusts the range through the amount of charge -  ¡ªBut people in the Ming Dynasty can just use it as a treasure. Isn¡¯t that what selling goods is all about?

    Its benefits are obvious. After having the same range as the heaviest Hongyi cannon, its weight is more than half lighter than the lightest Hongyi cannon - even if it is loaded with a 120 kilogram weight on a cannon truck, regardless of whether it is animal-drawn.  It's easy to pull or push manually.

    "Build more. Not only big steel cannons, but also small steel cannons." This is the opinion of Jin Sanduo and the business decision-making group.  The more guns built, the more experience it will bring to the Lushan Crossing Group - Australia will also need naval guns, coastal defense guns and land warfare artillery in the future. As for the guns recently built, regardless of whether they are good or bad, they will naturally be regarded as high-end.  The goods were sold to the Ming Dynasty.

    These Hongyi cannon-level artillery were actually used to attack the city, but the Ming Dynasty was always upside down - or the Ming Dynasty was always under attack. Using this kind of Hongyi cannon to defend the city was half the result with half the effort, whether it was defending the city or fighting in the field.  On the contrary, it is not as effective as a lightweight cannon.

    After studying the historical artillery materials of the Ming Dynasty, the military industry team went to develop a shotgun with a caliber of 60 mm and 15 times the diameter. In the view of the military industry team, the Tiger Zun Cannon has an effective killing range of only a few tens of meters.  It's really ridiculous - the distance at which the 110mm front-loading smoothbore cannon can hit scatter shells can increase this number ten times. However, this is not a professional shotgun after all, and its coverage is limited.  Although the military industry group is not yet capable of making high-explosive projectiles - this requires high-performance spring steel - artillery that can shoot the projectiles one to two hundred meters and can break armor can still be achieved - bows and arrows cannot shoot like this  Far.  (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!)
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