Chapter 277 Construction and Artillery
As for whether the Vietnamese use this Type 1628 rifle to imitate, it doesn’t matter with the Lushan. It’s not a great technology. Sooner or later, the Lushan will take this quick gun to a big sale and special sale. After Australia can produce its own steel, it may be very cheap. If you can sell it earlier, you will make more money. For products that can be imitated, no one will buy them at a high price.
Now, the Lushan sells this Type 1628 rifle, and can only win by technology. When everyone can imitate this Type 1628 rifle, they will sell it to a bargain price and win at high quality and low price. According to the practice of dumping, this will be a heavy blow to the local industry.
The Lushan, which bought a lot of grain, spent some effort to transport this grain on board. Vietnam's grain is cheap because it can't be eaten up at all. Every year, a large amount of aged rice expires and deteriorates, and even the rice rots in the fields and no one harvests it.
After making an appointment with local officials and businessmen, the Lushan River went south to the destination - Spencer Bay on the Al Peninsula. Of course, after arriving there, everyone would not give this indigenous land arbitrary name Huai'ala. The official name is still being discussed. Anyway, these trivial matters are not in a hurry.
As for the flag of the Australian Republic, it was born during the discussion, which was the Scythe and Axe Red Flag. Originally, this Scythe and Axe Red Flag was also a taboo topic in the 1960s, but now no one cares about it, so it would not prevent everyone from spoofing the Lushan name, which is mainly young people.
The Australian Republic not only felt that the sickle and axe flag was used as the national flag, but also planned to be printed on the coins issued in the future. In the 17th century, Mr. Sun's grandfather had not been born yet, so why should he be printed? Moreover, in the 1960s, there were also a group of naval troops on the Internet that questioned Mr. Sun's ability. It can be said that in addition to his enthusiasm and the establishment of the Whampoa Military Academy, many things were criticized for being useless.
The personnel who made weapons on the Lushan ship have not stopped working. The 1628 rifle will be one of the fist products of the Australian Republic in the future. Now through continuous exploration and attempts, the gun body parts and barrel of the 1628 rifle are already in the category of alloy steel, which means that it takes longer to use and can withstand greater pressure. However, the crucible will produce steel every time, and the quality varies from time to time. But it doesn’t matter. The best quality is left for the subordinate troops, and some are sold for money.
Several teachers and students with good chemistry are busy using the equipment on the ship to make bullets. With machines, there are only two problems to solve. The first is mercury lysate and launching drugs for the base fire. The launching drugs can be replaced by fire cotton made in the laboratory, but after all, it is not a long-term solution. The nitric acid in the laboratory will always be used up. One feature of modern war weapons is that the ammunition is large. Mercury lysate is nothing, because it is relatively difficult to prepare, and the amount of primer fire is not large compared to the launching drugs. It takes a long time for the laboratory to prepare some.
But this is also temporary. In order to use better primer and better ejection drugs, the three acid and two alkali must develop. Everyone thought very well, but after reaching the Ayre Peninsula and Spencer Bay, the desolation here and the ignorance of the natives made everyone miss modern society even more.
On June 9, 1628, the first to board the Australian coast was a military team. The indigenous people who attacked the large iron ships with flying weapons were taught a fierce lesson by the Republic's iron fist. The people who traveled through the Lushan Mountain did not know if it was originally the original site of Huai'ala, but there was a river here, which was good for both the use of fresh water and the construction of hydropower stations in the future.
As for the natives who lived nearby before, I can only say sincerely that I'm sorry, who made you the weakest? There are still tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of Indians in North America, which is less than one million in Australia, and its IQ is much lower than that of the natives in Australia.
After clearing out the unfriendly indigenous people nearby, the planning group, construction group, geological group, agricultural group and sanitation group landed on lifeboats one after another. The immigrants on the boat also landed on a group of people with tools and grain. The first thing was to start logging and building a large dock into the sea to unload the Lushan. If you always use lifeboats, you will have to use lifeboats to row the volume after using the diesel reserves on the boat. This efficiency is unbearable for 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 local materials for building houses. This is a lot of eucalyptus in Australia, so they use eucalyptus to build houses. A wooden house is built with a brick furnace and a fireplace is still very warm in winter. However, it was not built at the beginning but public toilets. Modern people's hygiene view is always the first priority.
Because I don’t know what evil bacteria are in this era, safety is the first priority. As long as you are well prevented, people can actually avoid any infectious diseases. The Lushan drug will expire sooner or later, and it is impossible for a series of modern pharmaceutical industries to be built within a few years. Although a lot of traditional Chinese medicine and patent medicines have been purchased from Guangzhou and other places as special medicines for some diseases, everyone is still a little afraid of the era without antibiotics. If you look through history books, you will know that the mortality rate in society was so high before the large-scale emergence of antibiotics - although scientific nursing can solve many problems, it is not all.
Towering trees were cut down, and after being removed, they were transported to the coast to build houses and docks. The working immigrants felt at the occasional view of the hill-like grain piled on the deck of Lushan, and they felt at ease - so much food would take at least a few months.
For Lushan, this amount of population and food is everywhere. If you can’t afford a capital with a population of one million, you’re really sorry for your trip.
The military households recruited by the Ming Dynasty were pulled ashore by Zhang Tiejun and others for military training. The military households were finally soldiers, and they still understand the basic topics of training and formation. The original plan was to let Ming Dynasty Koreans and Japanese people mix together for military training, but Zhang Tiejun's military team was unwilling to do this, so the language barrier could not be passed.
It was said that it was a language barrier, but Jin Sanduo's malicious thought was probably more of a psychological barrier. He gave all these Japanese ronin to himself for training. After all, a shocking war more than 20 years ago. Although the country won and annexed District 11, many Chinese people still had no good faces to District 11. Of course, for the sake of the country's strength, no one thinks that District 11 is not a national territory.
Finally, the Lushan Army held a meeting and decided to allow immigrants with military foundation to receive military training. As for Yuan Shikai's training of soldiers, the peasants who needed to find honest and honest positions have been proven to be wrong in later generations. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, many of the main soldiers of the Central Army were veteran soldiers with a long time. They could attack the enemy well on the battlefield and protect themselves. As long as the superior officers regarded them as brothers, their slickness would be slickness to the enemy. Many of the people on the Lushan Army were such veteran soldiers. In many battle stories they told their children, the Central Army soldiers were leisurely shooting the Japanese in trenches or fortifications.
Because of the pronunciation, the Japanese samurai who were picked were handed over to Jin Sanda for training - anyway, they had to be equipped with the 1628 flintlock musket after training.
This group of wandering samurai gathered these Japanese samurai. Jin Sanduo drew a sickle and axe on the ground with chalk and asked, "See that your attitude is different from that of farmers. I guess he is a samurai."
Yaebu-ei, the temporary leader of the group of warriors, said: "The defeated general has long lost his master's family. He should have had a separatist, but we are not the retainers of the Book of Times and do not have the qualifications. We are wandering around in order to find a wise master again."
Jin Sanduo pointed to the sickle and axe on the ground: "I know that you have been learning military tactics since childhood and letting you work or farming is a humiliation. Now I give you a chance to be loyal to this flag and sacrifice your blood to death for generations to last for generations?"
Yabuiwei asked, "Is there any reward or fief for the loyalty of this family emblem?"
"This ten thousand 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 spend three years or make military achievements, you can get a fertile piece of land. You will receive a monthly salary of five yuan - about 2 and a half taels of silver. From now on, the monthly salary will increase by one yuan every year to make meritorious service and you will receive a reward of all the food and rice for your family and me."
With such simple conditions, Yabuiwei and the more than a hundred wandering warriors behind him were red in their eyes, and they knelt on one knee on the ground: "Please let us be loyal to this flag."
"You want to go west." Jin Sanduo said: "You can use muskets."
"Iron cannon? Can be used." Since the Warring States Period, muskets have entered a large-scale use state. Kinki and Kyushu were the first to use muskets on a large scale.
"Murder, pay attention to my lip shape. In the future, you must be loyal to this flag and work hard on it. There is also language and Chinese that must be proficient. I know that many of you know Chinese characters, but it is not enough to know Chinese characters, and you still have to be able to speak. I will teach this slowly."
Japanese katakapa articles are a kind of super simplified characters. Many new things that cannot be described are also simple. They are directly replaced by Chinese characters, and many pronunciations are the same. However, if you want to change to Chinese, you still have to work hard - at least it will not be easier than those of Cantonese people to learn Mandarin.
"I'm sure, the bullets of this gun were loaded from the back with a quantitative paper shell bullet. Then, close and lock them up. This is the key, otherwise it will hurt yourself. Aim and shoot."
Yabuiwei looked at the structure of the paper shell bullet and said, "Enter early."
"Does Japan have it?"
Yabuiwei nodded and said, "In the early years, the Tachikaka family in Kyushu invented the early entry method, which was to fill in the barrel of ammunition first, and immediately load the paper shell and shoot after the first round was shot. In this way, the first two rounds did not require cleaning the barrel. The fire rate of the first two rounds was extremely fast."
"Just understand the principle. During this period, your task is to learn skillful shooting and Chinese. Because the Australian 1628 rifle fires very fast, we do not use triassiding formations but straggler lines when attacking now, which can effectively reduce the killing of artillery." As for training training, Jin Sanduo thought of it. Perhaps those Ming Dynasty military households still need to train queues and organize internal affairs to strengthen the discipline and obedience of soldiers. However, these Japanese samurai are all professional soldiers who have fought old wars. After getting familiar with new weapons, it is no problem to directly pull them to the battlefield. It is difficult for the Ming Dynasty military households to distinguish them from Ming Dynasty immigrants, and these samurai stood out among Japanese immigrants. At a glance, people can see that this is the difference between professional soldiers and farmers.
Many time travelers of Lushan also thought that Jin Sanduo had a good training. In history, Japanese apprentices learned too quickly and could not be masters and starved to death after all, they taught them.
As the training continued, the simple wooden wharf was also built, but no more people got off the boat - all immigrants had already gone down, and now what they were going to deliver were large items such as livestock supplies. People came and went back and forth like worker ants, transporting batches of supplies to a town where dozens of large houses had been planned and built. These dozens of simple houses existed for future immigrants. Every time the immigrants came here, they had to spend a period of purification here, and only after they were confirmed to have no signs of infectious diseases such as high fever and high fever, they could actually enter the city.
The materials have not been sent all over, and the Construction Group is already clamoring to immigrate more. This time, the number of immigrants who came here with the Lushan River reached more than 8,000. Except for a small number of them who were single, the rest of the rest came together. Among them, there were only more than 2,000 people who could be used as strong labor by the Construction Group, and 500 people were left by military components - including the more than 200 warriors trained by Jin Sanduo.
More than a thousand strong laborers seem to be quite a lot, but hundreds of people are assigned to log and transport them every day. After building the dock, a lot of human resources are used to transport materials from the dock. Now the construction team is obviously insufficient because of insufficient labor. People who rely on their births do not know what year it will take to get them all together, so they can only shout to continue to increase their efforts to immigrate.
In fact, as long as the Lushan River goes to sea again, the construction team will have hundreds of additional labor. However, as the people from the geological group have explored the iron-rich ore stored nearby, the construction team is naturally more urgent. The agricultural group can use the elderly, young, women and children to carry out some simple agricultural reclamation planting activities - what can't be planted in the Ayer Peninsula in June? It will take four or five months to turn cold, and the growth cycle of most crops is only more than one hundred days.
After unloading the goods, the Lushan ship went out to sea to immigrate to the coastal provinces of the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time brought the list of goods needed by each group. These goods were varied, ranging from seeds and livestock to Chinese patent medicines, Chinese herbal medicines, and even metals. Many of them were only remembered after they arrived here. Most of the people on the Lushan ship were fewer, but more than 200 more genuine warriors were responsible for defending the safety of the place. This time, many warriors also wanted to take over their families. According to their thoughts, they were already a member of the Australian Daming family. How could their families not stay in Australia as hostages?
Because the port was only roughly built and there were no related equipment, the military team members still stayed on the ship to build guns and cannons. That's right, according to the military team members, the artillery is actually simpler than rifles, especially after making alloy steel formulas, the chamber pressure that can withstand is greatly enhanced, so there is no need for a pipe wall as thick as an iron gun. On this basis, the military team has developed an export-type artillery - a 110mm front-mounted smoothbore cannon. In order to withstand higher chamber pressure, this artillery is also visually fine in front and thick in the back and has undergone a complete annealing treatment. Anyway, there is abundant power resources on the Lushan now, so you can build it hard.
The 110mm front-mounted smoothbore gun is cast using iron core and iron abrasives. The central cooling method is used during the cooling process - to cool the inner wall of the gun that should have been cooled first, and then the outer wall will produce a tightening force to the inner wall. In this way, the cast gun can withstand greater chamber pressure and have fewer internal injuries and air holes. After the successful test of this gun, Jin Sanduo touched the inner wall of the gun. It was as smooth as a mirror, and it is worthy of being ground by a modern industrial inner circle grinder.
Unlike the Red Cannons in the Ming Dynasty, the 110 mm and 25-diameter front-mounted smoothbore cannons produced in Australia weigh only 120 kilograms. Among the Red Cannons, they are all small. However, they can be as far as those Red Cannons with thousands of kilograms. The maximum range is about 10 miles, about five kilometers. However, this is the time of the maximum charge and a forty-five-degree angle. It is meaningless to shoot so far during combat, and the shells fired at this distance are not accurate, so the distance between two or three kilometers and even two or three miles in battle is when the Red Cannons can exert their power.
With this alloy steel cast cannon, there were more fist products that could be used when the Lushan traded. According to historical records, the Ming Dynasty government never stings on spending money on good cannons. This cannon should be sold for at least two or three thousand taels of silver. This was made of excellent steel.
As modern people, of course, they are disdainful of the power and design of this cannon. Without gun glasses, they cannot even adjust the angle easily at will. The design of the Red Cannon mainly adjusts the range by the amount of charge. But the Ming Dynasty could use it as a treasure. Isn’t it just for selling goods to do this?
Its benefits are obvious. After having the same range as the heaviest Red Cannon, it weighs more than half the lightest Red Cannon - even if it is loaded with a 120 kilogram of the cannon truck, it is easy to pull and push from animal power.
"Build it. Not only do you need to build this big steel cannon, but you also need to build some small steel cannons." This is the opinion of Jin Sanduo and the commercial decision-making team. The more guns are made, the more experience it will bring to the Lushan crossing crowds. Australia will also need naval guns, shore defense guns and land war artillery in the future. As for the artillery recently built, no matter how good or bad they are, they will naturally be sold to the Ming Dynasty as high-end goods.
Such red cannons of the level of red cannons are actually used to attack cities, but the Ming Dynasty always put it upside down - or it means that the dynasty has been in a state of being attacked. Using this red cannon to defend the city with half the result with twice the effort. Whether it is defending the city or fighting in the field, it is not as effective as light small cannons.
Chapter completed!