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Chapter 87 Jiashen Armored Vehicle

King Fu Zhu Yousong was still in Huai'an a few days ago. In December, he suddenly summoned him to Nanjing to face the king.

Chongzhen expressed his kindness to this brother who looked a little too rich. They were all the grandsons of Wanli Master. In this chaotic world, King Fu was not killed by Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong. King Fu was a blessing in disgrace. After arriving in Nanjing, King Fu was received by Chongzhen's high-level reception and brotherly friendship, which made Zhu Yousong a little flattered.

The emperor really didn't say that for the sake of King Fu's health, he ordered King Fu to go to the sauna of the Royal Club every day to steam. Speaking of which, the first time the emperor accompanied him to the sauna. The two took off their clothes and steamed them in the sauna. After a while, the fat man Zhu Yousong got sweat from the big beach. The sauna of the Royal Club is of particular importance. Although there is no electric heating and no automatic temperature control system, the charcoal heating is placed in the stove outside, and there is no carbon monoxide in the house. Charcoal heating iron plates, volcanic stones and tourmalines are on the iron plates, and the tourmalines are burned red, looking like charcoal burning, spraying a little water from time to time, and a heat wave rushed over. Fat Zhu couldn't stand it at first, but later he learned to enjoy it. After steaming, he felt relaxed. After steaming four or five times, he felt that he really lost some fat on his body.

But Fatty Zhu is a little lazy and even carries to the Royal Club. Therefore, His Highness Fu is very happy and directs people to draw the same things and build a "sauna" in the house. The sauna is a piece of cake! Fatty Zhu treats the red volcanic stones and tourmalines as charcoal, so he directly burns the charcoal stove in his own "sauna room". Fatty Zhu thinks that as long as you pour some water, you can enjoy the "steam shock". He doesn't know that the thing that looks like charcoal is Fang Yizhi finally found the volcanic stones and tourmalines. Of course, the charcoal stove is directly set up in the mulberry. It’s not impossible to get a room, just build a ventilation system. But how could Zhu Yousong know this? As a result, the copycat version of the "sauna" of King Fu was completely turned into a ventilated house, so he almost killed King Fu. King Fu fainted while steaming inside, and the room filled with carbon monoxide made King Fu walk in the gate of hell. Finally, he was lucky. The eunuch responsible for adding charcoal was not qualified to enjoy the sauna in the sauna. When he went in to add charcoal, he found something strange. Everyone carried the man out with all his hands and struggled for a long time before King Fu finally woke up.

Since then, King Fu no longer dared to sauna in his copycat sauna room, and he still took a bus to the Royal Club to steam authentic sauna. When Chongzhen heard about this, he asked the brother to come and explain it. Then he ordered King Fu to attend classes at the Royal Military Academy and the Royal Military Engineering Academy. He listened to technical classes in the morning and military classes in the afternoon. Chongzhen had some thoughts and sent King Fu to Zhang Xianzhong to train him, so as not to lose the royal face. He also hoped that King Fu would not be fooled by that cunning guy when dealing with Zhang Xianzhong. You can't say that in the first few classes, His Highness Fu was quite concerned, but three days later, His Highness Fu lost interest.

The negotiations with Zhang Xianzhong were progressing very quickly. Maybe Zhang Xianzhong was really worried that Luzon would be occupied by the "domestic tyrants" first, so he was a little impatient. Both sides were impatient. Chongzhen was anxious that the Japanese took Luzon first, and Zhang Xianzhong was anxious that the "domestic tyrants" took Luzon first. Both sides were anxious and an agreement was quickly reached.

Zhang Xianzhong's condition was that the Ming Pao would publicly publish the Ming Dynasty's statement, stating that the Ming Dynasty must guarantee to help Zhang Xianzhong seize Luzon. Zhang Xianzhong gave up Sichuan. At the same time, the Ming Dynasty would send hostages as a guarantee. This condition was of course unacceptable. Originally, letting Zhang Xianzhong go to Luzon was a curved fight against Japan. The Ming Dynasty was not suitable for both offending Spain and fighting against Japan, at least it could not be done publicly. Finally, it was replaced by a compromise plan: the Ming Pao first publicly stated that he would recruit Zhang Xianzhong. Zhang Xianzhong was recruited and moved to Taiwan after being recruited. Zhang Xianzhong also declared that he would accept the recruitment. The second point was that the Ming Ming assisted Zhang Xianzhong to capture the key areas of Luzon. Chongzhen sent King Fu as a hostage and returned King Fu to the relevant areas of Luzon. Of course, the external caliber was that Zhang Xianzhong escorted King Fu to Taiwan.

On this day, after King Fu finished steaming the sauna, he was summoned by the eunuch who had been waiting there for a long time to come to Chongzhen.

After the rituals of the king and his subjects, Chongzhen looked at Zhu Yousong, who was still so fat. He felt a little embarrassed for a moment, but the arrow was on the string and had to fire it. Chongzhen stood up, walked back and forth a few steps, and then said:

"Brother Yu, I have a big event. I want to ask Brother Yu to do it. Brother Fu is willing to share my worries?"

"What is your Majesty's order? I will follow the order." King Fu thought that this younger brother, who was the emperor, had never allowed the royal family to be involved in politics. He was usually guarding against thieves. The royal family was like a pig raised in captivity. He could eat, drink and have fun, but he could not interfere in state affairs, or even run out of his territory without authorization. In the ninth year of Chongzhen (1636), King Zhu Youjian of Tang led his army to serve the king, but was ordered to return to his country and be deposed as a commoner, and was in peace in Fengyang. King Fu touched his protruding belly and sighed in his heart.

As a well-educated man, he had always had some political ideals, but because of the royal family, he didn't even have the chance to be an official, so his laziness was completely forced. Why is the father and himself so fat? The father failed to fight for the prince, so he gave up on himself, and became lazy. He became fat over time and became fat and out of control. Alas! He was inherited from his head, and he was born a fat man, but he could only eat and be careless all day long. Obesity was refined.

King Fu was active for a moment, and his huge head was filled with fantasy of making achievements, and his emotions became a little excited.

When King Fu heard that he was going to be a hostage at Zhang Xianzhong, he felt cold when he thought of Zhang Xianzhong killing people and killing the royal family of the Zhu family. He counted the royal families killed by Zhang Xianzhong, including Chu, Xiang, Jing, Ji, and Rui. He was all killed by Zhang Xianzhong. Moreover, this person was so cunning that he changed his face and changed his face faster than reading a book. When he arrived at his place, he was not far from death.

King Fu's fat head was a little too short of his command at this time, and he would never dare to resist the order. King Tang was kind to serve the king but was deposed as a commoner. If he was deposed as a commoner, he would only starve to death in this chaotic world. Not to mention that the emperor's brother Chongzhen was cruel and ruthless, and he killed the ministers and killed him. His father was fighting for his heir with the father of the emperor. If he wanted to find an excuse to resist the order, who could he ask for his injustice?

After all, King Fu is not a fool, said:

"Since the emperor issued an order, I should follow the order. But I am worried about the insulting mission. As I see, Luzon is far away from Nanyang, how could Zhang Xianzhong be willing to abandon Sichuan and go to Luzon? I heard that Luzon is very powerful, and I also heard that Franji people are heavily guarding them, and Franji people are strong in ships and cannons are powerful. Zhang Xianzhong is probably not an opponent. Even if our Ming navy takes action, it may not be able to succeed easily, so I may have to bear the mission of Your Majesty."

Chongzhen had no choice but to do ideological work with this guy:

"Brother Yu, don't worry, you can go from Taiwan to Luzon, and take a boat to arrive in just two or three days. As for miasma, bring the miasma removal and miasma prevention agent prepared by the Ministry of Works, and cooperate with some miasma prevention measures. Miasma can no longer be harmed. Taiwan has verified it, so Brother Yu can rest assured. As for capturing Luzon, you don't have to worry about this. This is what, Brother Yu can follow me, so you might as well go and see something first."

Chongzhen thought that if the fear of death, Fu Wang would go there with peace of mind, he would have to add some confidence to the King of Fu Wang, and let this King of Fu look at the latest weapons of mass destruction in the Ming Dynasty. It was obviously necessary.

After running for a while, the four four-wheeled carriages came to a place. King Fu didn't know what medicine was selling in the emperor's gourd. He stepped on his fat thighs and got off the car with the help of two eunuchs.

Fang Yizhi had been waiting there for a long time, and the pigeon's message had already conveyed the news that the emperor was about to come to observe. Fang Yizhi had been nailing it here in the past few days, just to repeatedly test the performance of the first-generation armored vehicles.

After the ritual of the king and his ministers, Chongzhen explained:

"Fang Aiqing, you can demonstrate the armored vehicle and let King Fu see it too."

Fang Yizhi responded and entered a bungalow. After a while, the fence door of the bungalow opened, and a gray monster with six wheels slowly moved out. The monster looked like a big coffin mounted on the wheel, with a large iron pipe extending out in front of it, and the speed of movement looked like a cow.

Chongzhen pointed out the monster and introduced it to King Fu:

"Brother Yu, this is an armored vehicle, you can keep watching."

King Fu was wondering why the armored vehicle, which seemed to be a coffin, moved. It was neither pulled by the mules nor pushed by anyone, and it could move forward by itself. The speed was getting faster and faster. Although the speed was still not fast, it obviously exceeded the speed of the cow. At this time, something even more wonderful and strange happened. The armored vehicle actually turned around and turned around, turning around and then. The King Fu felt a little creepy. I don’t know if this monster was a demon or a ghost. Could that Fang Yizhi be able to drive away ghosts?

Next, a group of soldiers appeared, and there were ten soldiers in the row, all of which were in their hands. The rifle, King Fu had seen it, and King Fu was not in vain in the Military Academy. He knew Jiashen rifles and Jiashen shotguns. As the flag waved, the soldiers fired guns at the monster called the armored vehicle. The bullets hit the armored vehicle, sparks splashed, and the armored vehicle continued to move forward, looking unscathed. King Fu stared at the fearful eyes, wondering if he was in the world of King Yama.

In the realm, a heart thumps, who knows what strange things will happen next moment? His soul seems to be about to leave his body. Could it be that there is a so-called soul-repelling technique in this world? It seems that his soul will also be used to drive the monster that cannot be cut by the knife and cannot be stabbed by the gun. Could it be that Chongzhen around him was transformed by demons? It is said that Chongzhen can fly over the eaves and walls, and can drive the Six Dings and Six Aries, and can also escape from the earth. When I see it today, it is indeed a bit evil. The armored vehicle is called a combination of the word "Armor" and reveals the secrets of heaven, perhaps referring to Six Dings and Six Aries.

King Fu was dizzy, his whole body was weak, his mouth could not speak, and his feet could not move. At this time, a new strange thing happened. With a bang, a fire was emitted from the iron pipe, and an explosion came from the woods in the distance. Before King Fu could recover, another bang was heard, and the fire was emitted from the iron pipe, and the woods in the distance exploded again, and a ball of fire came up.

The two cannon sounds made Chongzhen feel a little relieved. The armored vehicle he personally participated in was finally successful. The 15mm steel plate riveted shell can withstand solid shells of 24 pounds. Of course, ordinary rifle bullets cannot do anything to him. Even a large thunder weighing 16 kilograms would be bumpy. However, after installing a 40mm cannon and a hand-crank machine gun, the weight of the armored vehicle reached nearly five tons. The crew had to add one and became five, three of which were the power to drive the armored vehicle.

The armored vehicle uses three-person drive, using a 1:8 leverage coefficient four-link system to drive the three-curve crankshaft connecting rod system. The gearbox uses a three-speed gear with a low speed of 1:40, a mid-speed gear with a mid-speed gear with a speed of 1:10, and a high-speed gear with a speed of 1:4. The low-speed gear is only a speed of 3 rpm, and the wheel diameter is 1 meter. At low speed, the speed per minute is less than 10 meters, and it cannot travel 600 meters in an hour. However, the speed of the medium speed is still tolerated, with an hourly speed of 2.2

6 kilometers, this speed is just as good as the speed of a cow. However, the high-speed gear can reach 5.66 kilometers, which is slightly faster than the walking speed, which is finally unsatisfactory. Although Chongzhen said that even if it is as slow as a cow, he was still not satisfied when he saw this thing as fast as a man trotting at the fastest, and he was still quite unsatisfied. He was still planning to try out a light and fast armored vehicle, preparing to add a 1:2 high-speed gear and a reverse gear according to the fifth gear design, so that he could reach a speed of 11 kilometers per hour.

Chongzhen was still thinking about it here that the armored vehicle had stopped beside him. The back door opened. Five people led by Fang Yizhi jumped down one after another and saluted Chongzhen. Since he got on this armored vehicle, Fang Yizhi led a group of craftsmen day and night, and worked day and night, and finally tried the first prototype car on the sixth day of the year. This armored vehicle naturally embodies Chongzhen's efforts, and of course it is inseparable from Wang Chengen's design. Although it was released on the sixth day of the year, this armored vehicle was still named Jiashen armored vehicle.

From the perspective of the world, this type of Jiashen-style armored vehicle is completely unavailable. Chongzhen just regarded it as a pot of ripening "fried rice" that has been ripe, but in this era, it has become a huge killer weapon. Fang Yizhi tried rifle shooting and grenades and thunder explosions, and was convinced that this armored vehicle was not afraid of 16 kilograms of black gunpowder thunder, and he was completely fascinated by this armored vehicle, so he personally learned to drive an armored vehicle. Every time Chongzhen wanted to observe the drill of the armored vehicle himself, he drove it, and this time was no exception.

When King Fu saw that he opened the door and five people came out of it, there was still Lord Fang Yizhifang, and he felt like he was waking up in a dream. But he was still unclear. He didn't know how the armored vehicle moved, and whether it was like a bicycle, and he could run with his feet. Chongzhen did not explain to the fat King Fu how it was driven. After all, this guy was engaged in work behind enemy lines. With this guy's willpower, he would sell the king of heaven for two days. Therefore, Chongzhen did not invite King Fu to take a look inside the armored vehicle, nor did he plan to tell him the principle of four-link labor saving, as well as the crankshaft connecting rod system and gear reducer. Letting the King Fu come over and take a look was nothing more than giving him more confidence.

On the way back, His Highness Fu was still thinking about this iron turtle that was not afraid of bullets. This thing called an armored vehicle was really shocking. With this thing, what are you afraid of? With this thing, you are afraid of the bullshit Qing soldiers! I guess the Tatars cavalry will never have any more plays to sing. When I think of myself, I can't help but become more courageous. With this steel beast, the Ming Dynasty was not afraid of the Tartars, so why should I be afraid of that guy Zhang Xianzhong? King Fu also asked the emperor specifically for this. After learning that the Spanish in Luzon did not have this thing, the fat King Fu was moved.

But King Fu is not a fool. You can be a hostage by yourself. You have to take the opportunity to discuss some conditions with the emperor.
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