There were tanks in the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 534 Military Achievements and Gunpowder Bureau
Song and Jin's division of Nanjing Road in Liao Kingdom stirred up the situation in the world.

No one can guess his direction in this unpredictable situation.

Originally, Tong Guan sent troops to Yanyun, and the whole way was like a broken bamboo. He conquered Yanyun in two or three days and laid down the down payment of Nanjing Road. But who would have thought that Tong Guan would be defeated in Tanzhou and Shunzhou?
Not only failed to capture Tanzhou, but also vomited Shunzhou out of his stomach.

What no one expected was that the Jinren would break through Beigukou and enter Tanzhou at this time, and they happened to pick up this bargain and eat Tanzhou and Shunzhou.

Although they couldn't completely conquer the Nanjing Road, the army led by Yue Fei advanced fast, and the battle was fierce and fierce, and they also attacked the city and seized the land.As the main forces of the Liao people in Nanjing Road were completely destroyed in Yanjing, Shunzhou, and Tanzhou, and the rest of the state capitals had limited support, Yue Fei easily captured so many counties.

The only pity is Shanhaiguan, which was occupied by the Jinren first.

Otherwise, if Shanhaiguan is taken down, if Beigukou is in our hands again, we will have the ability to expel the Jinren at that time, and if these two entrances are sealed, the Jinren can only sigh outside the pass and go to the Great Wall.

Nanjing Road was successfully divided, and after the good news spread to Bianjing, Kaifeng, it was already New Year's Eve.

In this way, under the good news of the Yanyun War, the second year of Xuanhe was bid farewell, and the third year of Xuanhe was ushered in.

In the third year of Xuanhe, it is 1121 A.D. if converted with the time of later generations.

Although he failed to take down all of Nanjing Road, it occupied two-thirds of the territory of Nanjing Road. It has already substantially completed the plan for the first payment of Yanyun. Song Huizong was also very helpless about the variable Jinren. Fortunately, now The Song Dynasty still controlled the enclave of Liaodong. If Liaodong was exchanged with the Jinren at that time, it might be able to control the entire Nanjing Road.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty held a banquet for hundreds of officials in the imperial city, and rewarded the meritorious ministers, especially this time the main combat faction and the generals who went to Yanyun each received their due rewards.

The young general Yue Fei who declared his prestige in Yanyun was also personally received by Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty, and he was named a general of General Yanyun. At the same time, he was promoted to the commander of the military capital in the army.

This time Yue Fei jumped several levels in a row, and he entered the ranks of generals from a small fire with seriousness.

Song Huizong hosted a banquet on this day, and Li Chu, who was in Rufen Town, was not idle.

On this day, a lot of things appeared on the military merit exchange table today.

These things are mainly some technology or some mechanical equipment.

Such as toothpaste technology, toothbrush technology, stainless steel basin technology, craft sofa technology, paint technology, mirror technology and so on.

These technologies or mechanical equipment cannot be obtained in a short time with the contribution value of those merchants.The technology released by Li Chu is mainly exchanged for the people inside the Kirin Army. Although they don’t have to produce it themselves, they can give it to relatives and friends to be responsible for the production. They can even sell this technology directly to businessmen. Behind the same technology, there is also a suggested selling price of the Qilin Army, because I am afraid that the Qilin Army personnel who sell the technology will be cheated by profiteers.

In short, a large number of newly released things are for the benefits of soldiers or some meritorious generals, and it is up to them to deal with them.

No matter how it is handled, the rewards for these technologies or soldiers can rely on this to get a lot of money.

This is the benefit of military merit.

Li Chu can no longer have a headache about what to reward the soldiers, and he is not afraid of the embarrassing situation where the credit is too great and there is nothing to seal. Anyway, if you have military merit, then you can spend military merit to exchange it for what you need. , and this military merit can also be hereditary, if you can't use it up, you can pass it on to future generations.

On this day, Li Chu accompanied Axiu to spend a happy New Year in Rufen Town.

On this day, the fireworks in Rufen Town did not stop.

This is true in Rufen Town, and it is also true in Jiangnan.

Today's Jiangning City is already brightly lit.

The people in the city have installed electric circuits, switched on electric lights, and lights are turned on in every household. Today's night is no longer dark night, but bright as day, even brighter than day. Everyone loves the magic of this light bulb. I am amazed.

With lights, it will be much more convenient at night.

The matter of this circuit also inadvertently helped Li Chu complete another measure.

That is Merge Country.

Today's rural branches are too scattered, and even some villages have only one or two households, and the circuit installation is given priority to some large villages. Some small villages can't stand it when they see this, and they call it unfair. Why give them And not to us?
For this reason, Shi Tianyi directly proposed the idea of ​​merging the villages.

Merging several small villages into one large village is easy to manage, and it also takes good care of the people's own economy.

At the same time, people fled into the mountains and became mountain residents, etc.

This time, they used the installation of the circuit to lure them to take the initiative and obediently.

In addition to electric lights, Li Chu also delivered many fireworks, and the fireworks in Jiangning City did not stop all night.

The Gunpowder Bureau is managed by Hong Tianlei Lingzhen. Now the production of the Gunpowder Bureau is good. The black powder has been produced a long time ago. At the suggestion of Li Chu, cotton was found to make smokeless gunpowder. The power of gunpowder is even higher.

However, the matter of gunpowder is still kept secret among the entire Qilin army.

The only thing known is the personnel of the Gunpowder Bureau and some rewards from the Qilin Army, and then the soldiers of the Qilin Army.

The soldiers of the Qilin Army refer to the soldiers of the Qilin Army under the jurisdiction of the Qilin Army, not including the Haining Army, the Fushui Army, the Water Margin Army, and the Yingshui Army.The Qilin Army knew because the soldiers of the Qilin Army had added a course to their training, which was gunpowder.

The soldiers didn't know the formula, but they had contact with gunpowder, and they personally carried the explosive bag and threw it out to blow it up.

At the same time, the Gunpowder Bureau has already worked out a rough idea of ​​the concept of the flintlock gun proposed by Li Chu, and has already produced a prototype.

It's just that the current prototype is not as convenient as the composite crossbow.

In addition, now that the lathe has just arrived, it will take a while to get used to rifling the gun.

On the contrary, when it comes to artillery, the Gunpowder Bureau's research progress is the fastest.

There were probably a lot of artillery here, so Li Chu directly took two artillery pieces and put them in the Gunpowder Bureau. There were ready-made artillery, and the Gunpowder Bureau also made a replica according to the drawings.

This imitation cannot be directly called artillery yet.

It's called the cannon!
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