"This thing is mainly intended to be used in rainy and windy weather, once it rains or winds, the primer in the fire door is easy to be wet or blown away by the wind, if the enemy has not entered the firing position for a long time, the fire rope may burn clean, and then the enemy has to re-clamp the fire rope when the enemy raids, which is the inconvenience of the bird. But the barrel of this self-generated gun is short, the firing distance is too close, and the power is small, and the key is that the reed is loose and cannot hit Mars, or the Mars is too small to attract the primer, it is too heavy to pull the trigger is extremely laborious, and if the force is too much on the trigger, it is difficult to hold the fire gun and aim and shoot, and I don't know where this gun has gone. Hit close, the power is small, it is difficult to fire, five or six out of ten guns can't be hit, and if they are fired, they are crooked, and the battalion soldiers don't like to use it...... In fact, all the battalion soldiers do not like to use firecrackers, the firecrackers made by the Ministry of Industry are mostly shoddy, and they may be injured by bursting when they hit three guns, plus the fire rope burning, all the battalions like to stay away from the shoulders and cheeks when they play, so that it is difficult to resist the power of the shock when they hit out, and they abound to hit the crooked and put them in the air, and they do not care about the training of the soldiers, no one pays attention to them and is reluctant to put the sulfur medicine, and the enemy rushes to the battlefield and releases it indiscriminately, and Li Jiucheng and others rush with cavalry during the battle of Dengzhou, and the town soldiers will put their guns indiscriminately, even if there are Xiyi instructors to drink and stop, it is useless…… This is still a trained town soldier, and if you haven't practiced it, you may not be able to succeed in defeating it......"

Shen Yong sighed, half of Shandong was eroded in the Dengzhou Rebellion that year, Denglai and Qingzhou and other places were harassed, Sun Yuanhua presided over the training and casting artillery, Dengzhou Town was walking on the road of pure firearms, but in the face of the remnants of the Dongjiang River, as long as a small number of elite cavalry rushed on both wings, the battalion of the entire Dengzhou Town was chaotic, the fire gun made a bean-like sound, white smoke and fire came and went, but there was no unified command, nor did it get close to the enemy soldiers to fight again, in the face of the enemy cavalry oppression queue was a mess of chaos and indiscriminate fire, It is not the opponent of Dongjiang Zhenbing at all.

This also made Shen Yong have no good impression of Huo Gong, of course, he couldn't show his emotions in front of Min Yuanqi, after all, he could see that the mood of the hundred households was quite high now.

In Shen Yong's view, whether it is the Dongjiang town soldiers or the Liao Zhen soldiers who defeated the Dongjiang soldiers, it is about the strength of the Jiajian soldiers, and there are quite outstanding cavalrymen on both sides. But they faced Liaozhen soldiers and horses with more armor, more cavalry, and more war horses, and the Dongjiang soldiers were not opponents in several field battles under such asymmetry, even so, Li Jiucheng, Geng Jingzhong, Kong Youde and others still grabbed a large number of supplies, wrapped up in several battalions and sailors in Dengzhen, and finally escaped from Dengzhou Shuiguan to the sea when there were more than 17,000 people, compared with the number of troops when they raised the army. These people fled to Liaodong and surrendered to Houjin, because with the cannon casting technician and the water battalion, plus a large number of people, Huang Taiji greeted dozens of miles out of Shenyang, and Kong Youde and others hugged and greeted, the two sides actually had a deep blood feud, but under the stupid habit of using literature to control military force and suppress soldiers, coupled with the intensification of the contradiction between the guest soldiers and the locals, as well as the resentment of Yuan Chonghuan to kill Mao Wenlong, finally made Kong Youde and others surrender and became the Sanshun king of the Manchu Dynasty.

Shen Yong still remembers the power of the cavalry, they are also most afraid of the sound of horses' hooves from the cavalry on the way to escape, as long as every time they hear it, it is a bloody killing, those Dongjiang soldiers are extremely vicious, killing people and eating and drinking are normal, those people have been starved in Phi Dao and other places, drilled through the old forest in Kuandian, and the bear blind man plus the big fist mosquito, and then fought with the Jurchens in the dense forest, and in the early years, he had to go to Liaozhong to attack, poison, and kidnap people, and his relatives and friends were almost dead after so many years, He also survived in the pile of the dead. Not only do these people not take other people's lives seriously, but they also don't care about their own lives, and it is difficult for the fugitives to survive when they are captured by these people, and only a few young people can be left behind to stay in the camp as slave coolies.

The Dongjiang cavalry was like this, and even the Liaozhen cavalry who rushed over to quell the chaos later was also corrupt in military discipline, and when they caught the fugitives, they killed and looted, and these guest soldiers did not treat the locals as human beings at all.

Shen Yong escaped from the ruins and corpses, the past experience was like a nightmare that he couldn't get rid of, he hoped to end the current mission as soon as possible, and quickly make iron armor and helmets according to the requirements of the hundred households, and use Su Gang to build spears and Qi knives, so that the armament of these banner armies in front of him can be updated.

If these hundreds of people are really fully equipped, even if one or two thousand battalions of soldiers come over, they can't help it, plus the place is remote, it is not worth using large soldiers, Shen Yong thinks that as long as there are no more than 10,000 troops to this seaside, ordinary small groups of military horses, whether they are officers and soldiers or rogue bandits, will not pose any threat to the defense here.

In the troubled times, there can be such a place to protect safety, plus there is enough food distributed every day, the family does not have to worry about food and clothing, Shen Yong is loyal to Min Yuanqi, and after seeing that Min Yuanqi is interested in self-generated guns, he can't take care of taboos and directly remind this thing that it is not practical.

Listening to Shen Yong's words, Min Yuanqi was disappointed, nodded immediately, and said in a deep voice: "I know." ”

Min Yuanqi was indeed quite interested in self-generated firearms, and he saw the introduction of a variety of firearms in various military books of the Ming Dynasty, including salvo rocket firearms such as a swarm of bees. Contrary to the superficial perception of later generations, these firearms are either fun or good-looking, or out-and-out murderous weapons.

In the case of rockets, loaded with gunpowder to boost the launch, if the charge is evenly workmanship, the rate of fire and power of the rocket under the gunpowder thrust are more than the power of manpower to eject with a bow and arrow, this thing is more equipped, on the battlefield to launch tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands at a time, the enemy is a covered long-range attack, of course, the premise of using this thing is to manufacture qualified, and the user has been through many drills, familiar with all the processes of launching.

It's a pity that the current Ming official army lacks these two necessary conditions, and the rocket is useless.

The fire gun is also, when Sun Chengzong was in Liaoxi, Sun Yuanhua built a pure firearms battalion when he was in Dengzhou, these two civilian officials have good ethics and character, but the fire guns of the battalion soldiers under their command are also uneven, the quality is high and low, and the style of the fire gun is also strange, and the quality cannot be qualified, the shooting rate is very low, the rate of fire, and the power are not satisfactory.

The rest of the military towns are also made by the Ministry of Industry, which is also a Wanguo brand, and most of the quality is inferior, so that the battalion soldiers are unwilling to be musketeers, and those who are in trouble would rather be pikemen or archers, and the best thing is of course to be horsemen, even if they are not family members, the probability of horses surviving on the battlefield is much higher than that of firecrackers.

Most of the large number of muskets used by the Ming army are arquebuses, and a small number are muskets, Min Yuanqi has never seen the self-generated guns in the book, of course he knows that this thing is a flintlock pistol, representing the direction of the firearm, but looking at the musket in his hand is indeed not very satisfactory, the tail of the musket is almost square, the spring looks very much, the gun tube is short, and the charge cannot be very much, which means that this thing is complex to manufacture, difficult to maintain, and the power is too small, in terms of loading and firing power and manufacturing, they all threw the flintlock pistol in Min Yuanqi's hand far away.

"There are more and more craftsmen here in Yanchi," Min Yuanqi said to Shen Yong: "You don't have to come here, Shen Yong, you pick some strong and clever apprentices to set up the stove, and start to work to build iron helmets, and at the same time start to make armor, you go back and make an order for all the items you need, and I will immediately send quartermasters to buy them." ”

Shen Yong was happy to hear it, he was first a blacksmith in the military town, weapons, firearms, helmets, armor, these necessary blacksmith-related equipment used in the battalion were all built, this is his old business, it must be handy to do it, it can highlight his role in the hundred households, it is much stronger than digging a pit here in the salt pond.

In recent days, Shen Yong has felt quite anxious, the Hun family and a group of women are cutting the robes of the flag army every day, Shen Li's ingenuity quickly became the leader of the women's tailors, and he can also receive food subsidies every day, if he continues to delay like this, Shen Yong feels that his position as the head of the family is about to be lost.

At that moment, Shen Yong knelt down and saluted, and said: "The villain must do his best to do his best to create high-quality armor and weapons for the flag army, and he will definitely not disappoint the adults." ”

Min Yuanqi helped Shen Yong up, and said calmly: "You do it with your heart, don't keep your skills to press your body, such as armor-making, lighter-making techniques, follow your apprentice to learn one, after reporting you, you can receive a bonus of fifty taels of silver, and the more apprentices you bring, the more rewards you will receive." In the future, if the army expands to a thousand headquarters, it will require a thousand iron armor and a large number of firearms, and there are no deep mountains and dense forests in Dahewei and Huai'anwei, and we have a large plain here, and there is a lack of hunters, and the people and military households are idle to either work everywhere, or go to the sea to fish by boat, and the number of qualified archers is too small. It takes labor and money to build, but a person who has never touched a gun can go from learning to use it proficiently, to being able to kill the enemy on the battlefield, no more than a month is enough, so the official can only consider building a fire gun to supplement the shortcomings of the archer. What we want to make is a bird gun, all of which are made of high-quality Fujian iron, and the process will be done according to the new book of discipline, and the success rate of the release must be guaranteed, and it must not be blown up after a few guns, which is related to everyone's net worth, including Shen Yongyou, so you must be attentive, not only teaching, but also building weapons, do you understand? ”

Only then did Shen Yong understand that he was not only the leader of the craftsmen, responsible for building a large blacksmith shop to make armor and iron helmets, but also responsible for bringing apprentices, because in the future, there may be more than 1,000 soldiers under the command of 100 households, or even more. Although Shen Yong is just a blacksmith, he also understands that most of the battalion soldiers have no armor, a small amount of cotton armor and leather armor, and only a few horsemen and generals are qualified to wear iron armor. Dengzhou's military salary is insufficient, and it is not as rich as Liaozhen, and even the generals may not all be able to wear iron armor.

If those banner soldiers who train hard every day can wear iron armor, and then use knives, guns and weapons made of Fujian iron, and the firearms are also qualified and sophisticated birds, these hundreds of people are afraid of the thousands of people in Dengzhen, and if the rogues are not prepared for a while, they may not be the opponents of these hundreds of people.

Of course, with Shen Yong's experience, he also understands that a strong army is not only a strong soldier, training, experience, courage, and salary, these things constitute a complete army, not to mention anything else, on the battlefield according to geographical conditions, use the golden drum banner to open up the team to engage the enemy, this is to test the command ability of the army generals, but also to test the level of daily training of the soldiers.