Li An was not in a hurry to go out, and listened carefully in the house for a while, and listened to what happened last night, and generally understood the battle situation that happened last night.

Because the word of mouth has more or less deviated from the news, the situation that Li Ang heard may not be completely consistent with the actual situation, but it is generally about the same, the combined forces of the Ottomans and Artik have won a great victory, and they have advanced to the north city overnight, and now they have occupied the north city.

The situation is roughly the same as Ang Lee's vision, that is, Osman and Artik have done a good job of their vision, everything is going in a good direction, and if everything goes well, the peninsula and Egypt will become new secession states, so that the Arab countries can achieve a good division, so that the Tang Empire can better control these countries and avoid the formation of another powerful state.

"Li Shilang."

When Ang Lee walked out of the room, many of his subordinates gathered and bowed.

Li An looked at everyone with a smile and said, "I heard what you said, Osman and Artik really didn't disappoint me, they did a good job, and we still need to continue to support them." ”

"Li Shilang rest assured, his subordinates have already arranged it, and several military industrial ships are all running at full capacity, and it is not a problem to make tens of thousands of arrows and thousands of knives and guns in a day."

The subordinate spoke.

"Li Shilang, since Artik has occupied the city in the north, should the city of Aden be owned by us?"

One of his subordinates said that he was more concerned about when Aden City would belong to the Tang Dynasty.

Li An thought for a moment and said: "Artik and the main soldiers and horses under his command have left Aden City, and there are very few people left, no matter who Aden City belongs to in name, in fact, it is already in the pocket of our Tang Dynasty, but everything needs a transition, we don't need to rush to announce the possession of Aden City, first help Artik govern Aden City, make Aden City better, so that merchants can earn more money, so that when we propose to occupy Aden City, there will be no great opposition." ”

"What Li Shilang said is that now Aden City is already in our pocket, what else is there to hurry, give a little favor first, so that the local merchants have got more benefits, I am afraid that they will beg to join the Tang Empire! Ha ha! ”

One of his subordinates said happily.

Li An was also very happy in his heart, but what Li An promised to Osman and Artik was that it had to be done, and he had to do his best to support these two guys in order to achieve the goal of splitting the Arab Empire.

At the same time, going over to see it in person can also better motivate the craftsmen to work better with more enthusiasm, so as to increase the production of weapons and support more Ottoman and Artik.

The raw materials for the production of weapons were obtained in the city of Aden, and materials such as wood and iron tools were not difficult to obtain, and the production of any commodity required money, which of course had to be borne by the wealthy Artik, who had occupied the city of Aden during these days, and Artik had gathered a lot of money, the largest of which was seized after the defeat of the leaders of the Umayyad dynasty, which accounted for more than ninety percent of their accounts.

After all, Aden City has always been a commercial city, and the officials of the Umayyad Dynasty have been operating in Aden City for decades, and the wealth obtained must be massive, after being obtained by Artik, Artik immediately took out a part of the money to recruit and mercenary troops, thus rapidly expanding the defense strength of Aden City, and Artik still has a lot of money left, enough to pay for the weapons provided by the Tang Dynasty.

Of course, in order to express friendship, many weapons are given away for free, and the price that needs to be paid is also very favorable, basically not taking advantage of Artik, even if it is zero profit, it is not an exaggeration at all.

For example, the first batch of weapons sent out is completely free, and not a penny will be asked for Artik, and it will be charged for providing weapons again later, and the Tang Empire cannot lose too much.

Artik's money is hidden in Aden City, but Ang Lee is not a bandit and will not send troops to rob Artik's wealth, but will only let Artik himself willingly take it out to buy weapons and other items.

Because it is a mechanized assembly line operation, the weapons manufactured by Datang are all mass-produced, and the cost of a single weapon is far lower than that of ordinary handmade weapons, and the quality is relatively good, which can be described as really good quality and low price.

For example, Datang's Fuyuan crossbow is far stronger than the handmade crossbow produced by Artik itself in terms of quality and range, but the price is less than half of the handmade crossbow, and even one-third of the price can be sold, which is really cost-effective.

Therefore, when Ang Lee proposed that Datang could sell cheap weapons to Altic for a long time, Altic seemed very happy, and said that he would definitely buy Datang weapons for a long time and become fans of Datang weapons, even if they entered peacetime after the war, they were willing to buy Datang's weapons, after all, no one would have trouble with money, Datang's weapons were good and cheap, and more and better weapons could be bought with less money, so why not? There are no fools in the world, everyone wants to buy good and cheap items.

Of course, after industrialization, many of Datang's items are of high quality and low price, and the cost of industrial production will inevitably be much lower than that of manual production, and a large number of high-quality and inexpensive products can be produced in large quantities, so as to squeeze the handicraft workshop strongly and make more money.

The military ship is located at the port wharf, and the three ships are docked together in order to better arrange the assembly line production operation and improve the efficiency of the military industry.

When I went south, I only had to take three military industrial ships with me, in order to provide a steady supply of weapons to the Tang army, so that the Tang army could be invincible, but along the way, the number of battles of the Datang army was not much, and the consumption of military equipment was very small, so the production of military industrial ships was intermittent, and many times it was completely idle.

Because the main production is cold weapons, therefore, the need for industrial machinery is not very much, mainly sawing machinery, cutting machinery, as well as iron-striking equipment, etc., in short, the use of these machinery, can be used to produce the required weapons and consumable arrows, shields and spears in large quantities, it is more convenient to produce.

Soon, Li An walked to the edge of the dock and entered the interior of the first military ship, because it was a military ship, so the cabin space of the immediate ship was very large, and it was still the scale of several floors, each layer could produce different items, and the top deck could be used to place various raw materials, when needed, it could be directly taken to the workshop below, and the finished products could also be stacked on the deck for easy access.

In ancient times, the army fought the largest amount of military materials, is the consumables such as arrows, especially after the invention of the crossbow, the demand for arrows is greater, if there is not enough logistics support, the crossbow and other weapons of the front army will become ornaments, just imagine, if the cannon of later generations has no shells, then it is a fart! It's just a pile of scrap metal.

Therefore, in Ang Lee's view, the production of a sufficient number of repeater arrows is the top priority of military production, and any weapon can not be produced, but the repeater bolts must be produced, and the more produced, the better, and the more quantities, the more the better the chances of Altic and Ottoman winning.

The structure of the repeater is somewhat different from that of ordinary arrows, which are relatively long, have feathers on the tail, and have larger arrows on the head, which is relatively expensive.

The length of the crossbow bolt is relatively short, not even half the length of an ordinary arrow, and there is no feather on the tail to stabilize the accuracy of shooting, and the arrow in the front is relatively small, so the difficulty of production is very small, and it is very convenient for large-scale production.

Because the structure is very simple, the materials needed for the crossbow bolts are nothing more than wood, pig iron, and the viscose that can connect them together.

The production of viscose is not difficult, the demand is not very large, wood and pig iron, which can be purchased directly from merchants, are not a problem at all.

The manufacture of arrowheads and arrow shafts requires Datang's industrialized machinery, and Ang Lee first went to inspect the production part of arrowheads, and saw a large number of craftsmen busy.

Because it is mass-produced, there are thousands of arrowhead molds, and next to it is the molten iron, which the craftsman pours into the mold, so that a large number of arrows can be obtained by only solidifying the molten iron.

Li An picked up an iron spoon with a wooden handle, scooped a spoonful of molten iron from the cauldron, and personally poured it into a small mold, because he was not a skilled worker, so the molten iron that Li An poured was either not enough, and he needed to add more, or he poured too much, overflowing on the outside of the mold, creating a lot of waste.

"Haha! Let's do it! The official is not easy to use. ”

Li An smiled, handed the wooden handle iron spoon to a craftsman, and walked to the finished product with great satisfaction, and saw tens of thousands of arrows that had been made.

These arrows are not cooled from the mold, but also need a very simple step, that is, grinding the grinding wheel, because after the molten iron is cooled, the top of the iron arrow may not be sharp, at least not sharp enough, and need to be polished a little, so that you can get a sharp arrow head.

Grinding does not require too high technical content, the time consumed is not very long, almost a few seconds can be completed one, at most ten seconds is enough, a person can get ten in an average minute, one hour to process a thousand without pressure, so, a day can process 10,000, a few people can get all the output.

The viscose was processed on another ship, and Ang Lee didn't look at it, and there was nothing nice about it, and the shaft of the arrow had to be inspected.

Li An walked down the stairs to the upper cabin, and saw the busy craftsmen, different from the simple tools on the lower floor, there are a lot of machinery on this floor, especially the machinery based on wood and the machinery for making round wooden sticks.

First, they brought in the raw material, that is, the cylindrical wood, which they needed to be five times the length of the arrow, and they first cut it into cylindrical wooden pillars, which were then peeled by machine to make smooth cylinders.

Then there is the chainsaw for sawing the planks, sawing the cylindrical wooden columns into pieces of planks, and then sawing the planks into small square strips.

These large number of small square wooden strips are the semi-finished products of arrow shafts, and they are to be taken to the round wooden stick making machinery not far away, and the power of the machine is used to make these small square wooden sticks into cylindrical small wooden sticks.

This looks a lot like an arrow shaft, but it's just a little longer, if it is directly broken into two sections, it is an ordinary arrow shaft, and the arrow shaft needed for a repeater is relatively short, so it needs to be broken into five parts.

During the processing process, the whole cabin was full of flying wood chips, and the environment was very bad, so all the craftsmen wore masks, which could protect their health and make them less prone to illness.

Ang Lee naturally needs to wear a mask when entering such a workplace, but Ang Lee has a gas mask, which is much better than a mask, and his subordinates are all wearing gas masks and following Ang Lee to inspect the work site.

The assembly line of this cabin and the placement of various machinery were all determined by Li An himself, and this time he came to inspect to see whether the subordinates in charge of this part were strictly in accordance with their own requirements, and whether they strictly complied with Li An's requirements.

After inspecting, Li An nodded with great satisfaction, his subordinates did a good job, completely according to their own requirements to deploy machinery and organize the assembly line, and at the same time, it did let different craftsmen wear different clothes, so as to facilitate the management of the assembly line and improve production efficiency.

Because it was inconvenient to say yes while wearing a gas mask, Li An patted his subordinates on the shoulder, which was regarded as a recognition of his subordinates' serious work.

The top level of the cabin is the assembly room, where arrows and shafts are assembled together to form arrows that can be used in battle.

When Li An walked up to the third floor, he gently took off the gas mask on his head, wearing this thing was too offended, and the breathability was definitely not as good as breathing directly.

It takes a lot of glue to assemble the cabin, so the smell is not small, but this smelly gas is not very harmful to people's bodies, as long as it is not a long-term contact, the problem is not big, so Li An does not need to wear a gas mask.

This step is non-technical, you just need to stick the arrow firmly to the shaft.