In the city of Tianjin, three times a day.

The guard commanded three steps and one post outside the door, five steps and one post.The patrolman of the street carried a waist knife, and the evil god caught the so-called anti-thrabster agent everywhere.Outside the gate, a series of boomers were erected, and there were already many rumors on the top, spying on the "snace" body of the military aircraft.The body that was floating in the wind made people look at the heart of the thrill.

In the hall inside the gate, one by one, the general officials from all over the north straight to hold their breath and stay still and stand still.Sitting in the hall, a person was angry and scolding: "Or and other corrupt soldiers in peacetime, the soldiers are raging; in wartime, they are afraid of the enemy like tigers, and they are fading."One by one, unrepentant country, vain grace, what do you want?Come on, guys, put these shit down!”

The hall knelt on seven or eight local officials in Tianjin, and at this moment had been removed from the helmet, blazing buns, and bound to kneel like a porridge.Hearing that the people in the hall were about to behead, the officers under the hall begged for forgiveness and cried one by one, but were quickly dragged out by the sergeant waiting outside the hall.Without a moment's effort, a few bloody heads came up, and the anger dissipated, and the other officials in the hall were frightened enough.

Mark Shima Gong sat in the corner of the hall, coldly watching this scene, there is no sadness and no joy in his heart, like a withered well.He had long anticipated the situation at present, and knew the shortcomings of the current Ming Army - it was impossible to cheer up without cutting a few heads, so that it would stimulate those lazy and incompetent people.

Sitting in the hall is the governor of thistle Liao, Xue Sancai, next month he will be moved to the military department to still write, the result is that because Zhou Qingfeng came to attack, picked up such a hot potato.Now the "Revolutionary Army" has landed for three days, the invasion is like fire, a large number of towns east of Tianjin have fallen, and countless officials have been killed.The situation is bad, it is already the Xue Sancai on the fire, forcing him to personally come to Tianjin to abbot the big picture.

Only Tianjin, this place, has not suffered any military disaster for more than two hundred years, and the armaments are much more scattered than the border.Military households are good at planting land, generals are good at business, and it is really not good to fight.

Xue San arrived in Tianjin and immediately checked how many troops were gathered in Tianjin.The result is not good to check, a check found that there are no soldiers here in Tianjin.The governor of the court was forced to dispatch troops from Baoding, dense clouds, and Chang equal.A few of those who had just been dragged out and beheaded, among them were Tianjin soldiers who were used as scapegoats.

Waiting for this man to beheaded, the other generals in the hall were more stable.After that, all the sewage will be poured on the heads of the dead, and they will never be found on their heads.Seeing the people's calm face, even the look of joy, the cold-eyed Ma Gong can't help but laugh - these stupid talents, the great difficulty is still so unknown to live.

The real problem is just beginning.

Speaking of the great difficulties, Ma Gong could not help but look at Liu Fucheng, who was sitting opposite himself.This trip is very wide, the deep-seated slip of the head has also fallen into great bad luck this time.He backed up to Zheng Guifei in the palace, contacted the "Revolutionary Army" to do business, and sold his military capital to fish.Within a few months, Zhou Qingfeng took the army to immediately put him on a prototype.

Let you be as oil-slip-like, thousands of means, you can encounter a more vicious, blacker and more shameless, that can only be suppressed - for Liu Fu into unlucky, Ma Gong's heart is actually dark.

Right.

The daughter of Liu Qianjia was also a meat bun to hit the dog, and he never came back to Jinzhou.The maid he gave Zhou Qingfeng seemed to become a general of the other party, and his strength increased.The ghost woman turned to kill the official squire, who called a hard heart, and was in a hurry to express loyalty.The number of people in Tianjin who hates his enemies is countless.

Liu Fucheng sat opposite Mark, glanced at Ma Gong and bowed his head.The face he made this time was really dark.After Zhou Qingfeng landed, he also specially sent someone to contact him, hoping to talk about the old relationship and turn bad things into good things.Or contact Yuan light shadow or even Yena is good.

Who knows that Zhou Qingfeng did not recognize him by eating dry and turning his face, and shivering the theft of the secret sent to Jinzhou, mocking him as a traitor and should be teased by himself.Liu Fu became angry and angry, and the hate heart burned, but there was no way.

But to say that it is not good to say that Xue Sancai, who is sitting in the hall, is really bad.

Zhou Qingfeng's army sent to Tianjin, which really hit the big Ming morning's sullen stick.This is more vicious than Nurhachi from the Liaodong piece.From Tianjin to Beijing is a horse in Pingchuan, there is no danger.Coupled with Tianjin stuck in the north of the transport, if this place is not recaptured, the northern Daming River suddenly collapses.

On this blow, it immediately showed that Zhou Qingfeng's danger was more than a hundred times larger than that of the wild boar skin - according to normal history, the wild boar skin took the Liaodong Peninsula very early and controlled Lushun.But he will only attack from Jinzhou and the mountain customs line from the beginning.Later, Huang Taiji opened the trip and bypassed Mongolia at most.They never considered the short cut from the sea to Tianjin.

Hearing the crisis in Tianjin, the emperors who hid in the deep palace could not sit still, and even the governor of thistle Liao, Xue San, was ordered to destroy this group of bold thieves.When Xue San arrived in Tianjin, he found that the situation was worse than he thought.

In order to recover Liaodong, the national army transferred to Jinzhou to return to Yang Hao.Even the soldiers in Sichuan went, and the soldiers in the north were also drawn a lot.Tianjin and other places just guarded against emptiness, and the result was that Zhou Qingfeng, who did not play cards according to common sense, was killed by the sea.

This trick is really tough.

Xue San only found that there was no soldier available, no will be adjustable.He searched for soldiers everywhere, and until the sixth day of Zhou Qingfeng's landing from Jizhou, compliance, Baoding and other places gathered more than 10,000 horses.With so many people and horses, Xue Duju finally had the strength to fight a good war.He decided to send troops the next day and take the anti-throw of Zhou who stayed in the big mouth.

On the fifth day of the landing, Zhou Qingfeng also waited for the backup fleet he was looking forward to.This is a full 5,000 Liaodong militia who have received initial training, whether organized or disciplined, are much stronger than the migrant workers recruited from Tianjin by the trade department.This team is led by Yin Hu, the only Minister of Education in the "Revolutionary Army", who has become a firefighting captain.

Of the second fleet, the most notable was the 500-ton barge that had just been built.The ship's load is more than twice as large as the current Ming Army Marine Division's largest two-thousand-thirring transport ship.Although Zhou Qingfeng felt that 500 tons of boats could only be called, in the eyes of the locals in Tianjin, this large ship was already shocking.

“How did you get this boat?”Zhou Qingfeng originally approved the construction of this powerless barge was intended to be used to transport coal between Lushun and Shandong's Longkou.The two places are less than a hundred nautical miles away, and they can run with a sailing boat.

"After half a year of training, the mechanic of the machinery factory has greatly improved in terms of quantity and ability.Zhao Ze arranged for a 100-horsepower steam engine in the stern, and he personally built a complete set of drive shafts and propellers.

Although there were a lot of failures along the way, the ship ran fast.”Yin Hu said, "As long as the technology accumulates more and the technicians are more cultivated, we should be able to use the official steam-powered ship within a year."Shipbuilding tonnage can be stable at about 500 to 800 tons.”

Zhou Qingfeng noticed that the stern of the barge was standing on a chimney.Because the ship had landed, the steam engine stopped working, making this epoch-making ship look unpremarkable.But the "Revolutionary Army" came out of a sailless, no paddle, black smoke can go their own big ship.The news went away, and spread rapidly on the port's dock.

Limited to the dock discipline, there are not many people who come to see the lively.But there will always be three or two dock laborers looking out in the distance, as if to see something extraordinary.When Zhou Qingfeng saw the ship, he immediately thought about it, “This ship should be able to enter the river?”

“No problem at all.”Yin Hu said.The 500-ton ship is not much, and the barge is specially used to run the river on the bottom, and the navigation performance is very good.

"If I can get into the river, I have a plan."Zhou Qingfeng nodded, and he asked again, “What else have you brought me besides the 5,000 militia this time?”I told Zhao Ze before that he would quickly get out of the gun.Did he start?”

“No bed, what kind of gun?”

“Isn’t there any iron-casting gun?”It's fast and good."

Zhao Ze said that he had long considered the iron molded gun.But iron casting is also better than mud casting, not an advanced technology.The iron mode heat is too fast, which will cause the cast gun material to become extremely brittle and hard white-plated iron.This is an extremely serious defect, and it is easy to blow up.

Zhao Ze is engaged in sand casting, but he is a mechanical do not understand casting, is still groping.He is currently in command on the Geezhou front and has no time to direct this matter.At present, only a group of young technicians have been gathered to send information to let them think about it themselves.Success depends on luck.”

Zhou Qingfeng knows that "iron mold casting" or thanks to the junior high school history book, he really does not know that the essence of "iron mold casting" technology in the moment of invention behind.At that time, the West had begun to use more practical sand mold casting.But what kind of sand mold is, Zhao Ze, this half way out of the house is not clear.

Considering that the muskets are beginning to be equipped, the artillery has been difficult to produce, and Zhou Qingfeng will not be happy in his heart.He asked, “If there is no gun, then what’s the good thing?”

"There's nothing special about it, but it's something that's temporarily used."

“What?”

“The explosive packs project the crossbow.”

It sounds strange, and it looks weird too.

Twenty of these things were brought to the five-hundred-ton barge.Uncover the waterproof tarpaulin and reveal the bow gun rack of the lower part.This thing is about a meter five high, more than a hundred kilograms of weight, the wheel is carried, you can pull it with a horse.Zhou Qingfeng only looked at it to understand why he made this thing - this crossbow is basically wooden, and there are few metal parts.

The "Revolutionary Army" currently has a large number of carpenters, and the processing capacity of wood is already very strong.As long as the design is developed, the carpenters can make things themselves.Coupled with the spring river began to freeze, and the hydropower machinery began to use, making this all-wooden ordnance very easy.

Yin Hu introduced: "Because spring farming requires a large number of metal agricultural tools, at the beginning of the year we used all the iron materials exchanged for the first level to build hoes and iron plows and so on.After all, farming ensures that we have enough food and stabilize our regime.You also know that we are iron deficient in coal, and that we can use wood as much as possible."

For the "Revolutionary Army", spring cultivation is as important as war.If the war is lost and the "revolutionary army" is not done well, the hundreds of thousands of people in the Liaodong Peninsula will immediately eat the "revolutionary army".

Zhou Qingfeng nodded and asked, “How far can this thing go?”

"We used the torso-force spring as a twisting spring, and made two kinds of crossbow guns, light and heavy.Light can be maneuvered with the army, and the maximum range of three kilograms of explosives can be thrown to 500 meters away, and the effective range is within 150 meters.Heavy duty is used to deploy the position, it is not convenient to move, but can throw ten kilograms of explosives to 300 meters away.

There are a lot of weaknesses in this thing.The first is the accuracy is not good, the head is not very good.There is also a waste of time that cannot be used on rainy days, and the bulls are scrapped by the tide.It must be rectified after a period of time, otherwise the torque spring will fail.”Yin Hu said, "Finally, there is a very bad place, that is, the utilization efficiency of black gunpowder is too poor."The lethality of the dynamite bag is actually very poor.”

The explosive pack is used for blasting effect is good, but the effect of the explosion is not greater than its frightening effect.Zhou Qingfeng nodded and said, “Okay, although there is no gun, it can barely be used.”One hundred and fifty meters of effective range, but also with the military can maneuver, this temporary fit of the thing is enough."