The most fundamental reason that currently restricts the mobility of the Ning Navy is actually that the artillery is too heavy. Unlike the original artillery which weighed several hundred kilograms and several kilograms, the heaviest artillery piece of the Ning Navy is undoubtedly the five-inch breech-loading rifled gun. This two-inch The weight of the barrel alone of an 18-caliber artillery gun is as much as 8,000 kilograms.
If you include the gun hoe, muzzle brake, gun mirror, and base, the total weight is more than 20,000 kilograms. Even the Ning Navy's largest 5,000-material Jusha-class battleship cannot withstand the huge recoil.
Of course, the power of this kind of heavy artillery is also quite astonishing. If it is in a Phalanx formation, if Jiannu is a good person, he can be wiped out with one shot, blowing most of their troops into parts.
But the problem is that this kind of artillery is too heavy. Four of them have been produced so far, and they are still gathering dust in the artillery station. If the oxcart, that is, the steam locomotive, can be successfully produced, even if the wheeled oxcart cannot be towed, Can be placed on a steam engine train.
Seeing that Guo Xin was so capable, Cheng Shijie decided to cheat and learn the principles of steam engines and the structure of steam engine trains from later generations. He even found a craftsman on the Internet and ordered a handmade steam engine train model. Although it was a handmade model, This steam engine model weighs more than 380 kilograms.
After Cheng Shijie spent more than 20,000 yuan to buy it, it took him half a month to assemble it and give it to Guo Xin for study.
"It's incredible, so ingenious!"
When Guo Xin looked at this steam engine train model, his eyes almost went straight. He seemed to be an old bachelor who had been single for more than fifty years when he saw a beautiful woman.
In Guo Xin's eyes, this steam engine train is exquisitely designed. He actually understands most of the working principles. It's just that he can't imagine the various small accessories. It is made very precisely. It can be said that it is accurate, otherwise it would not be possible at all. After assembly, what made Guo Xin even more incredible was the welding of the pipes. The welding joints were smooth and airtight.
"Commander, I don't know which master craftsman this fire ox cart is from. Can you recommend it?"
"Well, this master craftsman has passed away, and his apprentices have not learned the true skills..."
"What a pity!"
Guo Xin didn't want such a legendary master to pass away. After all, judging from the results of building this fire ox cart, this master's skills were much more beneficial than his own. If we could cooperate, we would definitely be able to solve many problems!
"Commander, can I dismantle this fire ox cart?"
"Can!"
Cheng Shijie said: "Don't worry about dismantling it. There is another fire ox cart like this, but due to the serious damage, I'm afraid it won't be delivered in a short time!"
Guo Xin hesitated and said: "Commander, I'm just afraid of destroying the bad things!"
"Don't be afraid, don't worry, it's best to figure it out!"
Cheng Shijie patted the steam engine train model and said: "It's best to understand the technical difficulties of this train. In fact, this train is not practical and is too small. If it can be expanded ten times or even a hundred times, then it will be It can carry hundreds of thousands of kilograms of heavy objects. As long as this kind of vehicle appears, the curse of not selling firewood and not selling food for thousands of miles can be completely broken!"
Guo Xin also knew that what Cheng Shijie said was the truth. There is no shortage of food in Liaodong now, and the most food shortages are in Shaanxi and Henan. However, it is very difficult to transport food to Henan or Shaanxi, and 70 to 80% of it will be consumed on the way.
At the same time, Cheng Shijie returned to the Ning Haijun General Military Mansion with two prototype vehicles from Guo Xin. Of course, Guo Xin also made the most extensive improvements to this fire ox cart. First, he installed an armor-type shell. This shell was to protect the cart from being shot by arrows or slashed by knives. It was also installed on key units. The corner guards, especially the front, are actually decorated with a cow head.
Looking at the car now, this fire ox cart looks sharp and angular, with a unique aesthetic of industrial design.
Chen Guodong looked at these two strange vehicles and said, "Commander, how can this vehicle move without a shaft?"
"Guodong found a few people to drive these two cars for non-stop testing until they were scrapped!" Cheng Shijie couldn't believe the data provided by Guo Xin, and Guo Xin probably didn't understand the theoretical data either. Any invention is inseparable from violent testing. Only in extreme environments can the extreme parameters of something be tested.
Chen Guodong asked with some confusion: "Commander, what is uninterrupted testing?"
Chen Guodong was a little embarrassed. In fact, he knew these five words, uninterrupted and test, but he didn't know how to do it specifically.
Cheng Shijie patiently explained the concept of non-stop testing to Chen Guodong. Chen Guodong asked someone to drive a hot ox cart along the cement roads, dirt roads, dirt roads, hillside roads, and roads outside Jinzhou City. They started driving desperately through the ravine, while a fire ox cart was loaded with more sandbags to test its ultimate load-carrying capacity.
Money can reach heaven.
This sentence is true in the Ming Dynasty. Cheng Shijie rewarded a little-known Guo Xin and asked him to use 500,000 taels of silver to establish an engineering college with a status equal to the Agricultural College in Zhenhai City and the Agricultural College in Xinghai City. The medical schools are on the same level, and the territory is also on the same level.
This engineering college is built in Gaizhou, among the remnants of Changbai Mountain, and has a planned area of 3.6 million acres. Of course, these 3.6 million acres are not construction area, but planned area. Like the Agricultural College in Zhenhaicheng and the Medical College in Xinghaicheng, it has a test site in the county area.
The area of Zhenhai City is also not small, with a total area of more than 2.6 million acres, including more than 700,000 acres of grassland, more than 1 million acres of cultivated land, including forestland, and 140,000 acres of lakes. . Relatively speaking, the smallest one is Xinghai City, which has only over one million acres of land, of which about one-third is mountainous.
The engineering college in Ninghai City has a large area. The main reason is that Cheng Shijie will experiment with railways in Ninghai City in the future, and Ninghai City has all-terrain, including mountains, grasslands, plains, lakes, and forests. Only various terrain environments can be suitable for the future research of steam engine trains by the School of Engineering.
Although not all of the five hundred thousand taels of silver were handed over directly to Guo Xin, they were controlled by Guo Xin. This treatment can be compared with Chen Zilong and Yang Qingyun. Now both Chen Zilong and Yang Qingyun are members of the Liaodong Management Committee. This treatment , can be regarded as reaching the sky in one step.
The name Guo Xin also instantly spread from unknown to famous in Liaodong. Almost everyone knew that the reason why Guo Xin was able to rise to the top in one step was because Guo Xin used fire oxen to build a fire ox cart, which was appreciated by Cheng Shijie.
This greatly stimulated the technical craftsmen in Liaodong. Many people were actually dissatisfied with Guo Xin. After all, the real inventor of Fire Bull was Wang Zheng. And Guo Xin just integrated the train and the four-wheeled carriage based on Wang Zheng's invention of the fire ox.
With five hundred thousand taels of silver, Cheng Shijie seemed to have added a catalyst to the land of Liaodong, and a wave of integration began in the entire industrial manufacturing sector of Liaodong.
On the day when the Fire Ox Cart Factory just broke ground, Cheng Shijie received another report that a private carriage factory in Jinzhou had produced a steam-powered tricycle. Compared with the more complex four-wheel steering mechanism, the handlebar steering mechanism is simpler.
When Cheng Shijie visited this monster-named tricycle, he almost choked on his own saliva. This tricycle was not like the electric tricycles of later generations, but was similar to a three-wheeled motorcycle, with a three-wheeled motorcycle on the left side. Wheels, a large chair, and a horizontal bar armrest in front of the chair.
This little monster is as weird as it needs to be. However, the problem is that after warming up for fifteen minutes, this monster can hit a speed of 25 kilometers per hour.
However, the stability of this monster is not very good, especially when turning, it is easy to roll over.
Cheng Shijie is interested in the inventor of the monster, Zhao Xu, who can be regarded as a queen of a famous family. He is the son of Zhao Shizhen's second son, Zhao Yi, and the grandson of the famous inventor Zhao Shizhen.
Cheng Shijie encouraged Zhao Xu and went to Xinghai City. Xinghai City has the largest medicinal material planting base in Liaodong. Now, more than 700,000 acres of various medicinal materials are planted to meet the requirements of Xinghai City Medical College. research and applications.
Cheng Shijie's support for traditional Chinese medicine was all-round. After Yang Qingyun arrived in Liaodong, he assigned Yang Qingyun ten hundred households, with a total of more than 5,000 people for Yang Qingyun's control.
When Cheng Shijie came to Xinghai City, Yang Qingyun was undergoing an operation. There are now more than 600 doctors in Liaodong Xinghai Medical College, and they have trained thousands of disciples and disciples.
In fact, traditional Chinese medicine and Chinese herbal medicine have not received enough attention. Although rulers in the past dynasties have also supported Chinese medicine, the scale and intensity of support are far from enough. It can be called a drop in the bucket. Chinese herbal medicine is also not paid enough attention. Many doctors You also need to go into the mountains alone to collect medicinal materials. Occasionally, medicine dealers grow medicinal materials, but they are only driven by economic interests and are very arbitrary.
Cheng Shijie has now allocated hundreds of thousands of acres of land to grow Chinese herbal medicine. Not to mention how high the level of traditional Chinese medicine in Liaodong can reach, at least there is no problem in growing Chinese herbal medicine on a large scale.
In fact, the research of traditional Chinese medicine is not that difficult. As long as you are willing to spend money, you can always find a suitable ratio of traditional Chinese patent medicines by repeatedly testing them according to the formulas passed down. As for the experimental subjects, there are many in Liaodong. Not talking about people, but the vast number of wild animals in Liaodong. These wild animals can provide enough data for experiments.
However, this experiment was very unsuccessful. Yang Qingyun originally wanted to reattach the severed hand of a worker who had his wrist cut off. This operation would be extremely difficult in future generations. However, Yang Qingyun helped for six hours. As a result, the patient still did not step off the operating table.
Yang Qingyun didn't even see Cheng Shijie and locked himself in the room. It seemed that Yang Qingyun was hit this time.
On the second day, Yang Qingyun's mood finally stabilized.
"Commander, I'm very sorry about what happened yesterday!"
Yang Qingyun apologized to Cheng Shijie. Although the medical school has trained tens of thousands of doctors in more than three years, in Yang Qingyun's eyes, these doctors are all unqualified doctors: "Commander, training of traditional Chinese medicine is very slow. , how can we train enough qualified doctors? How can we speed up this process?"
Cheng Shijie smiled lightly and said: "This question is actually not too complicated!"
In later generations, many people say that Western medicine can cultivate talents faster and easier than traditional Chinese medicine. In fact, this is very nonsense. If a Western medicine doctor, like an excellent Chinese medicine doctor, has to be proficient in internal medicine, brain surgery, thoracic surgery, pediatrics, maternal and child health, oncology, cardiology, etc., they must be faster than Chinese medicine doctors. Strange things.
Western medicine only subdivides medicine, just like making a sophisticated car. It is very difficult to learn how to make a car. It would be much simpler if the car was divided into several modules. In later generations, this problem has actually been solved. Traditional Chinese medicine also learned from Western medicine and divided it into detailed disciplines.
"There is only one way to separate subjects!"
"Division?"
"right!"
Cheng Shijie said: "It takes less than ten or twenty years to train a general practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine, and it is very difficult to do it without extremely high talent. But the question is what if it is just subdivided? For example, in the acupuncture department, like this Doctors only need to understand basic medical theory and acupuncture techniques, plus a little practice, to be able to practice."
Yang Qingyun said: "Then if he encounters other diseases, how should he solve them?"
“Traditional Chinese medicine is not only divided into departments in schools, but also in hospitals. In small hospitals, it can be divided into gynecology, pediatrics, surgery, and internal medicine. In large hospitals, it can be divided into respiratory medicine, urology, gastroenterology, cardiology, and cerebrovascular medicine. , endocrinology, neurosurgery, pain surgery, etc., after subdivision, medical school teachers can lead students to study and research at the same time!"
Regarding the integration of traditional Chinese and Western medicine, Cheng Shijie has also had his own thoughts. Traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to "inspection, questioning, diagnosis and treatment". This is mainly a process of accumulation of experience. Therefore, the older Chinese medicine is, the more valuable it is, because only after seeing enough people Cases, in order to have rich experience.
Relatively speaking, Western medicine is much simpler. In the 21st century, most of the "inspection, questioning, diagnosis, and treatment" of traditional Chinese medicine have been replaced by machines, especially in diagnosis, which has been basically replaced by machines in many aspects. To a large extent, it is because of the lack of experience that there are fewer and fewer experienced doctors, or in other words, top medical resources are becoming more and more precious, so machines are becoming popular.
The model Cheng Shijie hopes is to use machines as much as possible to provide doctors with more references, but in terms of treatment methods, more traditional Chinese medicine methods should be used.
Compared with traditional Chinese medicine, the methods of western medicine are too rough, do too much harm to patients, and many drugs have too many sequelae. In these aspects, traditional Chinese medicine has advantages that western medicine cannot replace. It is precisely because it is more difficult to train talents for traditional Chinese medicine. In the future, Only then will Western medicine have a chance to become popular.
The practice model of traditional Chinese medicine is a medical clinic. It is very difficult to develop into a hospital. Cheng Shijie has unparalleled advantages in this regard. Using administrative power to promote the development of traditional Chinese medicine, the effect is simply unimaginable.
In Cheng Shijie's plan in Liaodong, each town must build at least one school, and also a hospital. This hospital must at least include gynecology, pediatrics, internal medicine, and surgery. It can basically treat some common diseases and establish county-level hospitals in the county. Hospital.
Yang Qingyun thought about it, looked at Cheng Shijie and said: "Commander, I feel that my medical skills are not good, prepare..."
"Are you going to invite some famous doctors to join the medical school?"
"That's the idea!"
Cheng Shijie smiled lightly and said, "You can invite me boldly, and you can rest assured that you will always be the dean of Xinghai Medical College!"
Just when Cheng Shijie and Yang Qingyun were discussing how to improve the medical and health level in Liaodong, Huang Taiji in Shenyang ran into trouble.
In fact, after more than three years of recuperation, especially after Lin Dan Khan's son Ezhe led Mongolia to surrender to Huang Taiji, Jiannu basically restored at least 89% of its strength in the Haizhou War.
With the remnants of Lin Dan Khan's more than 40,000 troops surrendering to Huang Taiji, Huang Taiji gained 40,000 to 50,000 horses and millions of sheep. This was a huge fortune, and it also made the construction of the impoverished city extremely difficult. The slave got a chance to breathe.
However, the problem is that everything has two sides. The increase of people and horses is a good thing and a bad thing. These cattle, sheep and horses need to eat grass, but the problem is, the problem is that the weather in the north is getting colder and colder, and the weather in the north is getting colder and colder. The drier it gets, especially as there are more cattle and sheep, those sheep can't eat enough grass, even the grass roots.
This creates a chain reaction. The more grass roots the sheep eat, the faster the grassland degrades. Without enough grass, there is no way to feed the large number of cattle and sheep. If there is no way to feed the cattle and sheep, there is no way to feed those many people and horses. .
In order to survive, they have only one way, and that is to go south.
However, the problem is that their Jiannu has been psychologically shadowed by Ning Haijun. If they do not find a way to restrain Ning Haijun's tactics, they still have no way to develop southward.
The lack of grassland development is only one aspect of the difficulty. The other aspect of the difficulty is actually the shortage of materials. The salt and tea shipped by Shanxi merchants were almost used up. Not to mention ordinary Jiu slaves, even Huang Taiji himself could not eat. When using salt, be as careful as you are with MSG.
Now not only ordinary people can't hold on anymore, but even Huang Taiji himself is going crazy.
During the court meeting held every ten days, the faces of the slave nobles were extremely ugly. Huang Taiji was even more gloomy. He looked at the crowd and said: "Autumn is about to come, but there is not enough pasture for cattle and sheep to fatten up. In winter, , I’m afraid it will be difficult to get through it. If this problem cannot be solved in time, the consequences will be very serious!”
Hauge didn't seem to hear Huang Taiji's words, his eyelids drooped, his eyes looked at his nose, his nose looked at his heart, and his mind wandered outside the body.
Daishan was picking his teeth with a thin thread.
As for Dorgon, he was playing with his fingers.
Huang Taiji's eyes fell on Wu Shojin, the household secretary.
Wu Shoujin said with a mournful face: "King Khan, there is nothing I can do about it. This year is even drier than last year. We have more sheep and more cattle. A piece of pasture that could only hold a hundred sheep now needs two to three hundred. Those grasses are not at all It’s not enough to eat…”
Now there are only two ways in front of Huang Taiji. Either kill some cattle and sheep, and the grassland will be enough to raise so many cattle and sheep. But the problem is that now their entire Dajin Kingdom only has one meal and no next meal. Even I lost more than 30 pounds due to hunger, let alone others?
Either go south and seize back the Songliao Plain from the Ning Navy. The vast Songliao Plain can easily solve the problem of insufficient pasture.
Hauge suddenly opened his eyes and roared: "Gather all the soldiers and horses, go south and fight to the death with Ning Haijun, and take back Liaoyang!"
Fortunately, Hauge's head was not kicked by a donkey. He knew that he would only capture Liaoyang and did not clamor to recapture Liaodong and annihilate the Ning Haijun.
Hauge's proposal won the support of the younger generation.
Yue Tuo rolled his eyes at Hauge and secretly scolded him for being mentally retarded. If they don't solve the artillery problem of Ning Haijun, what will they do to take back Liaoyang?
Are you taking human lives to consume Ning Haijun's bullets and artillery shells?
What is certain is that Ning Haijun has more artillery shells and bullets than the people of the Great Jin Kingdom. If they want to use up Ning Haijun's bullets, they will not have the population of the Great Jin Kingdom hundreds of times larger.
The conservatives and radicals immediately quarreled, and both sides were red-faced. The quarrels in the court of the Ming Dynasty were all about citing scriptures and hiding needles, but the quarrels in the court of Jiannu were about who was louder and more powerful.
Huang Taiji only felt pain in his head, and he felt from the bottom of his heart that it was too difficult for him.
Ever since the Jiannu rebelled against the Ming Dynasty under the leadership of Nurhaci with the Seven Hatreds, the Kingdom of Jin has been dancing on the edge of a knife. Compared with the Ming Dynasty, the Kingdom of Jin is really too small. They, the Kingdom of Jin, are like a gambler. Almost every time, they are betting on the fate of the country.
After the Battle of Fushun, they didn't even dare to go to Shenyang. Especially before Sarhu, when they heard that Ming Dynasty had recruited 470,000 troops to attack, how many Jianzhou warriors had a certain death mentality? battlefield?
Fortunately, they won that bet, and this was the beginning of their bet on the fate of the country. Just imagine, if the Ming Dynasty had not been so fierce in internal fighting, the whole country would pull each other back.
Especially Li Chengliang's Li Jiajun, the court guarded against them as much as it guarded against thieves. Can they win so smoothly?
If this war ends in a stalemate, what will happen to Daikin?
I dare not think about the consequences.
Huang Taiji knew very well that the Ming Dynasty almost killed the Jin Kingdom with just a little old man Sun Chengzong. If Sun Chengzong was dismissed in the sixth year of Tianqi, even half a year later, the Jin Kingdom would not be able to hold on.
The situation improved after occupying the entire Liaodong, especially the Battle of Daling River. However, the problem is that the old man Sun Chengzong is hateful. In the Battle of Daling River, the Jin Kingdom nominally won, but the problem is that they, the Jin Kingdom, did not get any benefits.
The army rations were burned by Zhang Chun, and Dalinghe Fort City was an abandoned city without a grain of food. Nearly 20,000 surrendered troops surrendered, but these were only more than 20,000 mouths crying for food.
After Cheng Shijie occupied southern Liaoning, large-scale land reclamation was the most regrettable decision made by the Jin Kingdom. If he had known that Cheng Shijie was so difficult to deal with, he would have used all his strength to kill him when he had just landed in southern Liaoning and had not yet established a stable foothold. he.
But he was too greedy. He thought about two to three million acres of grain and led the elite Eight Banners. However, Dajin lost the most critical battle.
The more Huang Taiji thought about it, the more he felt aggrieved. The war had reached this point, and the Kingdom of Jin had lost all its wealth, gained nothing, and was beaten half to death by Cheng Shijie. Now they were threatened by Cheng Shijie, but they couldn't defeat Ning Haijun.
When the ministers got tired of arguing, Huang Taiji sighed helplessly and said, "Is there any way to restrain Ning Haijun's artillery and blunderbuss?"
All the ministers stared at each other, saying they were tired and didn't want to speak.
Huang Taiji roared a little angrily: "Can it be that the 50,000 or 60,000 elites of the powerful Dajin Kingdom can't even do this? Could it be that Dajin, which has 50,000 to 60,000 tigers and wolves, can only wait to die, and there is no way to do it?" No?"
Dai Shan said with a bitter face: "King Khan, please calm down. It's not that the slaves don't try their best. It's really impossible! Ning Haijun's artillery fires very fast. Even if all the slaves are exhausted, they can't reach them... Furthermore, they have strong soldiers and horses, so it is really difficult to defeat them!”
Duduo also said: "Yes, King Khan, their fire blunderbuss not only shoots fast, but also shoots far, and their soldiers are not afraid of death. No matter how hard you fight, you can't beat them!"
There is another reason that the ministers dare not say.
The powerful generals of the Kingdom of Jin such as Amin, Mang Gurtai, Abatai, and Dege were defeated simply because Ning Haijun was too strong. Killing with a borrowed knife is what you, the fat old man, are best at.
In other words, when the Jin Dynasty was victorious, Huang Taiji could use his prestige to suppress all opposition voices. But the problem was that with the defeat of Liaoyang, Huang Taiji's prestige was not as good as before.
Especially the fourteenth old Dorgon, he didn't like Huang Taiji no matter what.
What Huang Taiji didn't know was that Liaodong had now entered the era of industrialization and was developing extremely fast every day. Especially with the emergence of steam engines, Liaodong's development would be even faster.
Technicians at the Liaodong Gun and Artillery Bureau have solved the problem of barrel rifling. In other words, Cheng Shijie requires a long range rifle that can accurately shoot enemy rifles within a range of one to two hundred steps. It will be soon Successfully mass-produced.
Moreover, the emergence of steam engine trains will completely remove the traditional cavalry from the stage of history.
Of course, what troubled Huang Taiji and Jiannu was not Ning Haijun's thunderbolts and artillery. The power of thunderbolts and artillery could certainly cause heavy casualties to Jiannu.
But the problem is that without Ning Haijun's trench warfare tactics, if they were on the Great Plains, they could also take advantage of the speed of the cavalry and use their lives to rush to the front of Ning Haijun's formation.
However, what troubled them the most was actually Ning Haijun's trench warfare tactics.
When Huang Taiji was despairing, Fan Wencheng said: "King Khan, I have an idea!"
"What?"
"We can treat others the same way we treat them and treat them the same way!"
Fan Wencheng smiled faintly and said: "Ning Haijun's trench tactics are not complicated. We can learn from them by digging trenches and building parapets to see how Ning Haijun breaks through this kind of defense. If Ning Haijun can break through it easily, we can You can learn from Ning Haijun’s tactics and in turn deal with Ning Haijun!”
"Wonderful!"
Huang Tai was very happy and said: "Just do what Fan Qing said!"
Following Fan Wencheng's proposal, he pointed out a feasible plan to Huang Taiji and all the slaves, so they sold the pot and sold the iron. Jiannu still made a batch of shovels and asked the Jiannu soldiers to dig trenches.
Trench and wall tactics are not too technically difficult. Even if the Jiannu technology is lagging behind, they can still learn it through Ning Haijun's method.
In this way, a trench about fifteen kilometers long was quickly formed under the hard work of the slaves who built the slaves, forming a defense line mainly composed of trenches and parapets.
A Niulu'er Zhenjiannu cavalry began to cross the Shenhe River, which was the default boundary with the Ning Navy.
If in the past, one Niulu cavalry dared to attack tens of thousands of Ming troops, now they have more than 300 cavalry, but like thieves, they quietly cross the river at night.
It was just not going well. Just as they crossed over, they saw a devastating firework rising in the distance.
Fireworks exploded in the air, and then another firework rose further away.
These Jiannu cavalry looked at this scene and said dumbfounded: "Is the reaction too fast?"
An organized Jiannu cavalry was discovered near Longgang Mountain Town, and the news was sent to Jinzhou City as quickly as possible.
At the same time, the soldiers of Ning Navy, who had been suppressed for a long time, quickly gathered.
In their eyes, being a slave is nothing but money. (End of chapter)
