The land here in Hualong City is very fertile, and it is basically a plain, so after the immigrants came, they simply plowed the land lightly, and the oily black soil was exposed.
After planting the seeds distributed by the government into the ground and tidying up the houses allocated to them, the immigrants had nothing to do.
Cao Bianjiao chose to recruit workers at this time, which allowed the immigrants to increase their income in their spare time, and was naturally welcomed by the immigrants.
Later, some Tatars also came and asked if they needed help.
Naturally, the Ming army had no reason to refuse, so it finally formed an international infrastructure team composed mainly of immigrants and supplemented by Tatars and Kazakhs.
The infrastructure team did not go directly to build the castle, but first built the road from Hualong City to the castle according to the lines of the design department.
This is mainly a plain.
The so-called road construction is just to separate the road from the surrounding land, plant street trees on both sides of the road, then slightly prepare the road surface, and then spread a layer of sand on top, and the road is completed.
Even with such a simple repair, this road looks not much different from the cement roads in China.
If you look down from the world, Hualong City is in the middle, with ten straight roads leading to distant places.
At the end of the road is the castle.
After the road was repaired, construction of the castle began.
The immigrants used fire to peel off the stones on the mountain, and then used horse-drawn carriages to transport the stones piece by piece to the construction site.
Cao Bianjiao's requirements for the castle were high and strong.
It could accommodate 500 soldiers in peacetime, and it could become a nearby place during war.
It is a refuge for immigrants, and the design of the castle is of course also a matter of the design department of the institute.
Based on the original domestic Xiaowubao, the design department designed a fortress somewhere in between with reference to the bastion graphics drawn by His Majesty the Emperor.
According to the design department's idea, five hundred people guarding this fortress should have no pressure against an enemy force of less than 20,000 without artillery, and they can also cause a lot of damage to the enemy.
As for the enemy with artillery, it depends on whether the enemy's artillery can break through the defense of the fortress.
Anyway, the design department is currently targeting the 12-pound cannon used by the Ming Army for sieges.
The 12-pound cannon cannot be used against The fortress causes effective damage.
The defensive artillery on the fortress is not like the siege artillery.
It is no problem to use the 18-pound cannon or even the 24-pound cannon on the warship.
If the 18-pound cannon is used, it will be more than two miles around the fort. , will be the enemy's restricted area.
It's impossible for the enemy to get close, so how can we attack the city?
Cao Bianjiao thinks that the design department is thinking too complicated.
Will the General Staff agree to install eighteen-pound cannons on these fortresses?
As the Ming army advances further west in the north, the only enemy here is the Kazakh Khanate.
The Kazakh Khanate dares to Did he attack the Ming army and beat them badly?
He talked about this issue with the professor who led the design department, and the professor said helplessly: "I also asked the staff about this before coming here.
The staff said that His Majesty requested to strengthen the combat capabilities of Hualong City and its surrounding castles.
I asked Academician Lu privately about the supply of eighteen-pound cannons, even if he needed twenty-four kilograms.
He only said that His Majesty is very wary of religious countries, and this is to guard against the Kazakh Khanate. of."
Cao Bianjiao recalled that during the siege of Alma-Ata, the Kazakh warriors charged at the array of fire guns with swords.
Although they knew that charging forward would mean death, none of them flinched, and there seemed to be a strange look on their faces.
A good thing.
He nodded, somewhat understanding the emperor's concerns.
Soon people from the Ordnance Bureau came to Hualong City and gave him a long list, asking him to send people to collect sulfur, saltpeter and other items, and told him that His Majesty the Emperor had decided to build an arsenal here.
The Ministry of Railways also sent people to explore the railway line from Hualong City to Tomsk.
Domestic immigrants continued to come to Hualong City, and the imperial court even sent a civil servant to serve as the prefect of Hualong Prefecture.
He knew in his heart that Hualong City would be built into an important military base and food base for the Ming Dynasty, and would become a base for the Ming army to march northwest or even south.
The Ordnance Bureau acquired a large area of land near the fortress of Hualong City and began to build an arsenal.
Because Hualong's steel plant had begun to produce steel, the Ordnance Bureau started manufacturing machines first.
By the time the machines were almost ready, the collected materials had arrived, and it was time to start manufacturing weapons.
The first thing Hualong Arsenal manufactures are cannons, which are always eighteen-pound cannons.
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They are first installed on Hualong Army City and then on each fortress.
A fortress is equipped with twenty eighteen-pound cannons, evenly distributed in all directions, forming full coverage of firepower outside the fortress.
In addition to the original flint-fired muskets, the arsenal also made another type of musket with a short barrel, so that the entire musket was only two feet long and was specially used by the cavalry.
In this way, the cavalry can use this kind of fire blunderbuss to attack the enemy on horseback.
Of course, the range and accuracy will be worse than the original long fire gun, but when fighting on horseback and at a close distance, these shortcomings will not affect its practicality.
Soon, Cao Wenzhao sent a brigade to Hualong City.
The arrival of this state brought the number of Ming troops in Hualong City to nearly 20,000.
Only then did Cao Bianjiao have enough troops to man the forts and install cannons.
In addition to the five thousand people in the forts, Hualong City had nearly ten thousand people.
Even if the Kazakh Khanate attacked at this time, he was not afraid anymore.
Perhaps because of the severe beatings they received from Cao Bianjiao and Batur last time, the Kazakh Khanate never attacked or even had the intention to attack.
According to the reports from the spies sent by Cao Bianjiao, the Kazakh Khanate seemed to be trying to fight for heirs, and it was impossible for the moment to have the energy to deal with Hualong City.
Cao Bianjiao calmed down.
Since the Kazakh Khanate did not dare to attack him, it was impossible for him to attack him.
He wanted to occupy some space first.
He asked Cao Wenzhao for a fight and asked to take the opportunity to attack the Kazakh Khanate.
Cao Wenzhao wrote back and rejected his request, and only asked him to train soldiers in Hualong City and wait for the next action plan.
And strictly prohibit any provocation to the Kazakh Khanate.
The reason why Cao Wenzhao strictly prohibited provocation to the Kazakh Khanate was because the General Staff positioned Hualong City as the southern end point at this stage, and the main direction of the Ming army was still north and west.
At this time, Sun Fumin had already dispatched enough small teams to figure out the situation nearby, raised his troops and marched more than 800 miles westward, occupying a town called Omsk located along the Irtysh River. place.
After Cao Wenzhao received the report from Sun Fumin, the Ming army began to move westward again, and the headquarters of the Northern Navy District was moved to Ob City
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