Chapter 83. Two front teeth
Military merits are a good thing, and everyone wants them. After this first month of the year, Yizhou City had gathered four generals, six guerrillas, and three Dushi. As for Qian Zong, it was impossible to count them.
The news reached Lushun on the eighth day. The old man actually stopped fighting and rushed back immediately. Now Yizhou has almost gathered more than 16,000 troops, and the number is still rising. Although I don’t know what the Later Jin Dynasty meant to Yizhou, it is good to have more troops. At least it gave Huang Taiji an illusion that Dongjiang Town will spare no effort to defend Yizhou.
Although what bothered Mao Jue was that the military newspaper that reported the merits had to be changed again and again. Not to mention Geng Zhongming, even Shen Shikui had gifts handed over. All kinds of favors had made a patch. At first, Mao Jue's name was written with a few words Meng Pang Dahai, and later there were many more Tian Tao and He buns. After all, there were blood in the swords and weapons. Later, more and more, almost four hundred numbers were almost four hundred. It was a pity that he had only had eight hundred relatives when he attacked the city. I really don't know how these guys emerged.
Fortunately, these guys are aware of their own food. If Mao Jue is asked to supply military rations, it is possible that this young general will be really angry and will beat all the thick-skinned people to use military merits.
However, when these people come, it is not entirely beneficial to arrive. At least, the labor force is enough.
Anyway, the chief generals of each army mainly rely on the three or four thousand personal soldiers, and the remaining more than 8,000 are all for watching the fun. These chief generals all ask Mao Jue for requests to borrow troops, so they naturally have no answers to Mao Jue's request to borrow troops.
So, the Yalu River became a large construction site again.
In February of Liaodong, it was also a dripping water turned into ice. There was only a vast white snow in the world. However, on the beach, even the strongest ice melted, and more than twenty small blast furnace steamed buns burning lime were erected there. There were also many coal mines in Yizhou. The red stoves, let alone cotton coats, were all taken off their clothes nearby.
On the other side, there is a large cement pool, and the reaction between lime and silica will also dissipate heat, and the workers who stirred the cement slurry were sweating profusely.
However, those borrowed soldiers did not have such treatment. Even concrete forts still needed a lot of wood to make the core, especially the height of the fortress, the height of the wood, because Mao Jue really couldn't make steel bars now, so he could only replace them with wood.
Fortunately, he had an internship in the shipyard and knew how to heat-treated anticorrosion wood, but he never expected to use it here.
A large wood of a primeval forest weighs hundreds of kilograms or even one ton. There are no trucks these days, and the personal soldiers are so popular that they have to eat wood in the primeval forest, and they all feel sad like cats and see.
Fortunately, it is winter now, and the cruel and severe winter also brings some benefits. As long as you put the wood out of the forest, put it on a sled, use horses and drag it with people, the wide snow road can quickly transport the wood to the Yalu River like a highway.
Fortunately, there are snow trails, Yizhou has no volcanic ash. The volcanic ash that has become sleds and sleds is also transported to the Yalu River in this way. Due to the supply of raw materials, Mao Jue's fortress was slightly slower. However, in mid-February, it was almost done. On both sides of the wreckage of Jiannu's floating bridge, two fortresses of more than six meters stood there arrogantly. If the Yalu River in front of him was a huge bloody mouth, these two fortresses would stand there like two front teeth, one left and one right. Whoever dared to come in from this mouth must bite him and scream.
The two fortresses are not big in size. After all, the ancient military camp and the fortresses of Yuegu are at least the size of a large stadium. These two are only enough for a small playground, about 60 meters long and more than 50 meters wide, which is enough for three hundred households and about 150 and 60 people to station. But although the fortress is small, in terms of its strength, even if it is tens of thousands of troops surround it for a few months, it is probably impossible to conquer it.
Especially Mao Jue has many firearms.
"Hang up! Use force, one, two, three, pull!"
Knowledge is power. It is very difficult to pull a thing worth hundreds of kilograms or even two tons to a fortress of more than six meters. However, a triangle wooden bracket was set up on the top of the city, and several sets of pulleys were set under the wood. People below shouted horns and pulled ropes, and this thing was easily hung up.
Moreover, these cast iron heavy cannons imitating the Red Barbarian cannons were also enhanced in Mao Jue's hands.
"Your Majesty is such a genius!"
Su Changmei was a gunner in her early years, but later because she could count shells and equipped with gunpowder, she gradually rose to the logistics quarantine officer in Shangkexi Camp, holding thousands of household seals. However, standing on the fortress, this guy couldn't help but stretch out his hands and stroke the newly assembled heavy red cannon.
Unlike the original two sandbags or just a wooden rack under the cannon, this cannon stands a lot more complicated. Pig iron columns like two triangular rulers support the cannon and they are about to stand up. The gun ears are stuck in the front triangle iron a bit like a compass-measure iron. The iron chain is tied to the head of the cannon, and the iron chain is tied to the steel column in the center of the two iron racks. Two gear sets are stuck at one end of the column, and the hand-cranked handles below are still connected with the iron chains.
In addition, the triangular iron column solid wood base has four angled gears fixed to the ground, firmly stuck on a circular cast iron track, and there are also manual rotating handles connected to the base through iron chain gears. With such a turret, three people can control the muzzle to rise, lower, adjust the angle and direction. Not to mention the east, not even in the west of the same era, Su Changmei was not tired, and happily held the rotating wheel and kept spinning. He raised the cannon and then rotated ninety degrees again.
As for the foreign girl, Adrena still used to open her eyes and asked in surprise.
"How could you make such a thing!"
But immediately, the girl hummed angrily again: "I'm asking God again!!!"
With his hands behind his back and looking at the assembly of the second cannon, Mao Jue rarely answered her this time, satisfying the girl's curiosity.
"No need to ask God this time! This is a church called B Society."
Mao Jue didn't lie this time. The prototype of this big cannon was, but when he was playing Fallout 4, the famous Volunteer Army cannon could hit half a map. Mao Jue set a few of them in each settlement, and no matter where he was, he would have a shelling first, but he never thought that there was a chance to realize this thing.
Mao Jue told him frankly, but the girl looked contemptuous and stomped her feet angrily: "If you don't tell, don't tell me, don't believe me!"
"If you don't believe it, you'll get over it!"
He was happy, and Mao Jue stomped his feet and pinched his waist. This scene made Su Changmei, who had just come back from the excitement of the cannon, almost fell to the city.
A fortress of Tiger Squat Cannon was equipped with twenty fortresses, so the fortress was equipped with seven fortresses at four corners, and there was also a cannon stand on the corner of Yizhou City. There was no way. Even if the iron mold casting cannon technology was used in the late Qing Dynasty, the cast iron in Tieshan was enough, but the cannon was also a technical job after all. These seven gates were already in the Yuegu Gun Cannon Workshop for more than half a year. Even the Yizhou city walls and Kalao, Yuegu, the fortresses built earlier, were not equipped. Mao Jue's obsessive-compulsive disorder could only look at the empty corner and felt uncomfortable.
However, the Red Cannon can fire five to seven kilometers. After these seven cannons are installed, the flexibly mobilized cannons can exert their firepower to the limit. Within a radius of fourteen kilometers, the Yizhou City is also within this firepower radius. If Jiannu hits the Yalu River in front of him, it seems that he will burst into blood under these two fortresses, surrounded without attacking, and head straight to Yizhou, the cannons here can still be stared at his butt, and Mao Jue has basically built a three-dimensional defense.
With these two things, as long as the Later Jin Dynasty did not send out its main force, it would be no longer a problem to have ten thousand soldiers and Mao Jue.
The last cannon was transported and mounted on February 18th and February 19th, Yizhou City became more lively. The largest reinforcements arrived, Mao Wenlong's army arrived.
This time, Mao Wenlong basically made a soy sauce. The army landed from Lushunkou and stopped moving near Jinzhou. He just took the opportunity to take back Lushunkou, which was taken away by Yuan Chonghuan, and strengthened it. When he heard that Mao Jue had actually taken down Yizhou from behind, he ignored the military order of the old man Sun Chengzong who was the Liaodong governor, leaving behind some troops to symbolically continue to restrain Jinzhou. The old guy ran back on a boat.
Many military generals had already fought against the front station before. When the Governor of Dongjiang arrived, Mao Jue inevitably brought Mao Youde, Mao Zhongming, Liu Xingzha and other brothers to welcome the army. He asked the old guy to station the main force and also held a celebration banquet.
However, the banquet was only halfway through, and Mao Jue was taken to the study room behind by Mao Wenlong.
"Dad, you see, is this military newspaper that reports meritoriously successful?"
Others want to come to Mao Jue to gain military merit, so they have to give gifts and speak small words. Even the deputy general Shen Shikui is no exception. Only this master is confident of robbing military merits, and Mao Jue has to flatter him.
He bowed respectfully and smiled with his face. Mao Jue smiled and put the military merit book on like his grandson. However, he didn't even see Mao Jue's military merits on the poor, under the leadership of Mao Shuai. The old guy was so angry that he slapped his beard and stared at him and directly slapped the thing on the table, shouting in anger.
"Beast! You guys, okay! Why did I tell you before leaving? Stay behind and stay at peace. You guys are so happy, so you bring hundreds of new recruits to Yizhou and fight with Zhenglanqi! I'll give you some courage, do you dare to stab Shengjing?"
"It depends on how much money Shengjing has!"
"What?"
Mao Jue, who muttered in a low voice, quickly smiled again, and said sincerely like a child with a pound of more than 100 pounds.
"Where is the child dare? Only famous generals like his father can recover Shengjing. How can the child have that ability?"
Chapter completed!