Kangding City is the original arrow furnace.

Zhu Qizhu decided to build a city here to control the entire Kang District, which means Kangding.

Of course, the city has not started to be built yet, and Kang District is far from stable. However, at this time, there were tens of thousands of people gathered in Kangding City.

Gao Jitai's Tianquan's six-part recruitment 5,000 chieftain soldiers have all arrived, and Ma Qiancheng's white-rod soldiers have also escorted weapons, equipment, food and supplies one after another.

At this time, the number of white-sling soldiers reached about 5,000, but Zhu Qizhuo was preparing to mobilize another 5,000 elite white-sling soldiers to come over to pacify Kang District in one fell swoop.

Because horses were too important in the era without cars and trains, he could not develop cars and trains and dominate the world. Therefore, he had to take over Kang District and it must be turned into his horse ranch as soon as possible.

There were already dense tents on the grasslands on the opposite bank of the western part of the Changhe River. The number was even more than the number of tents in the western part of the Changhe River, and it was neat and tidy and extremely strict.

In the open space in the middle of the camp, Zhu Qizhuo, Ma Qiancheng, Song Yingxing and others were surrounding a carriage, as if they were discussing something.

This carriage was not transported from Chengdu or Chongqing, but was made here. Because the carriage was too large and the wheels could not be placed in the carriage, and the Dadu River could not pass through large ships of more than a thousand materials. Therefore, Zhuqiu just ordered people to make and transport the parts that were more troublesome to process the made wheels, axles and bearings in Chongqing, and the body was directly processed here.

What they were discussing was the structure of the carriage. Zhu Qizhuo and Ma Qiancheng realized that the elite legions under their command could not become pure cavalry. Even if each legion was equipped with ten thousand war horses, they could not use any equipment, because their equipment was mainly hot weapons. When they rode their horses, they could barely use muskets, but they could not use cannons.

In other words, they cannot exert their strongest combat power during the marching process. Only after stopping can they fully exert their power.

Moreover, the baggage required to carry much more than cold weapons, such as artillery shells, sky-burning thunder and musket bullets, etc. These cannot be carried with you, and must be loaded with a carriage.

Therefore, carriages are a must-have for every legion.

Zhu Qizhuo felt that since the army under his command could not become pure cavalry, it would become pure chariot soldiers. Anyway, their main opponent on land was Jiannu, and the chariot soldiers just restrained the cavalry, and the chariot soldiers were also relatively mobility.

So, what kind of chariot is the most suitable one to chariots?

Everyone has their own ideas.

For example, Zhu Qizhuo thinks that it is best to put all the food and supplies on the chariot, and even people can sleep on the chariot. This saves time to camp and the mobility of the chariots can be maximized.

Ma Qiancheng felt that the combat performance of the chariot was the most important. If possible, it would be best to add a giant spear similar to a chariot to each chariot. In this way, when facing a cavalry, you can directly push the chariot and hit it, and you can hit others in a mess.

The problem is that the load capacity of a carriage is limited. Even if a carriage walks on a hard stone road, it can carry up to two or three thousand kilograms. If it is a dirt road or even a dirt road, it can carry up to more than one thousand kilograms. If it is more, the horse will not be able to pull it.

This problem is a bit troublesome, because no matter which aspect of performance is used, it must occupy a certain load. If you want to exert all performance, a carriage will not be able to carry four or five thousand kilograms.

So, they discussed it for several days but couldn't discuss it.

Zhu Qizhu and everyone discussed the latest carriage for a while, but they still felt dissatisfied. They didn't know how to change the problem.

At this time, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "Oh, it would be great if Bi Maokang and Qi Jin came. Bi Maokang is a weapon expert, and chariots are his strengths, while Qi Jin is an expert in using chariots. The Qi family army is the only team in all the Ming army that was equipped as chariot soldiers. Why haven't these two guys come over yet?"

Sometimes, it is just such a coincidence that when Cao Cao is said, Cao Cao will arrive, and when Cao Cao thinks, Cao Cao will arrive too.

He was sighing there, and a secret guard suddenly rushed over and said loudly: "Report, Master, Lord Bi and Lord Qi have arrived."

Zhu Qizhu couldn't help but say surprise when he heard this: "Where have they been?"

The secret guard replied quickly: "The two lords have already got off the boat and are rushing toward this side. They should be able to arrive within half an hour."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Qizhi raised his hand and said, "Okay, okay, let's put this chariot here first. Let's go to welcome Meng Hou and the others, hurry up and prepare the horse."

Soon, everyone rode out of the camp on horseback and headed straight for the Dadu River.

At this moment, a flat road has been built in the valley leading to Kangding City from the Dadu River. If you ride a horse, you can get from the Dadu River Wharf to Kangding City in about half an hour.

Of course, Bi Maokang and Qi Jin could not have been running all the way like the secret guards who were sent to the orders, and they were carrying important things.

Everyone rushed to Ma Dong for about a quarter of an hour, and a team of hundreds of people appeared in front of him, and Bi Maokang and Qi Jin were the ones who led them.

Zhu Qizhuo came up and said excitedly: "Meng Hou, General Qi, you have finally arrived."

Seeing this, Qi Jin quickly pulled his horse and bowed, "Sir, please see the emperor."

Bi Maokang panted, but said, "Oh, this place, this place is really a bit breathless."

Zhu Qizhu couldn't help laughing and said, "Hahahaha, this is nothing. If you want to go west for a few hundred miles, you will probably be breathless."

Everyone gathered together to greet each other enthusiastically, and then they rode their horses towards Kangding City.

The Minister of Rites Bi Maokang and the Minister of War Qi Jin were actually ordered to bring a golden seal and ribbon to enfeoff the envoy of Changhe Xiyutong Ningyuan Xuanwei Deng. Unexpectedly, after coming to the camp, Zhu Qituo did not discuss this with them, but instead brought them to a brand new carriage to discuss the structure of the chariot.

In fact, the chariot has been almost done after several improvements. The problem is that if all performance is taken into account, the chariot is too heavy and the horse cannot be pulled.

Qi Jin was indeed experienced. After listening to everyone's description, he thought for a while and blurted out: "This is actually nothing. If a chariot needs to take into account all the performance, it is indeed too heavy. We can make several different chariots. A squad is equipped with three chariots of different performances and cooperate with each other. That's all."

Bi Maokang also pondered slightly and said, "Well, the angle of the rushing car can actually be improved. The main function of that thing is to collide with cavalry. In fact, the effect of installing a row of long spears in front of the chariot is the same. In this way, the spear can be removed when marching, which is not at all. If it is a chariot formation defense, the spear can also be used as a gun. The lethality within 20 or 30 steps is even stronger than the sky thunder."

Zhu Qizhuo was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately ordered the military craftsmen to start working according to the two of them.

Anyway, there are both simple sawing machines and various connecting materials here, which is very fast to process.
Chapter completed!