Xi Junmai and Gao Kan were inexplicably excited, but Xue Rengui had a worried face: "In this kind of weather, if you have to march long distances and go straight to Saibei, I am afraid that the number of soldiers will be seriously reduced...... This Xue Yantuo didn't know if he had taken the wrong medicine, it was freezing this day, what was the provocation? ”

Throughout the ages, the most taboo winter march, not to mention the exponential increase in the cost of baggage, the thin uniforms are difficult to play the role of keeping warm, and the soldiers who freeze to death and frostbite are not much less than the consumption of a big war, and the most demoralization is the worst.

Obviously, Xue Rengui didn't think he could fight, and this time he went to Saibei more to train the army's adaptability in cruel weather conditions......

A strong army is fought, but if it is usually negligent in drilling, how can it be fought on the battlefield?

Sweat more in peacetime and bleed less in wartime, that's the truth.

Fang Jun said: "The military situation in northern Xinjiang is urgent, and the border army in Shuozhou is less than 20,000. However, this time Xue Yantuo made a big attack, and many of his tribes were under the command of the former Jieli Khan, and they had always been in contact with the Turkic descendants. Ashnasimo is certainly the leader of the Turkic descendants, but the comfortable life in Chang'an has made this eagle on the grassland fade away from its fierceness and fierceness, and has long become a canary in a cage, and no one knows how much blood courage he still has to rush to the death. Therefore, no matter how difficult the conditions are, the dispatch of troops must not be delayed. ”

Xue Rengui was awe-inspiring, and he rose up and responded: "Huh! ”

As a soldier, how can you complain about shrinking because of the difficult conditions of the march? As a general, if you are resistant, the low morale of the soldiers will be lost.

Fang Jun nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile: "But don't worry, a certain person is not a strict person, and later I will mobilize all the cotton clothes in my farmhouse to send them to the army, five thousand elite cavalry will set off first, and the rest of the soldiers will be drawn later. ”

After a pause, he looked at several generals and said: "Later, a certain will go to the Foundry Bureau, bring more firearms, this trip is an excellent opportunity to practice in the field, the northern Xinjiang is vast, there will always be a small group of horse bandits and robbers, just practice the application of firearms, proficient tactics, and can also find flaws in firearms in actual combat, and improve them." In the future, firearms will be the main means of war, and whether the right guard can become the most elite firearms unit in the Tang Dynasty depends on whether you can lead your soldiers to perfect the tactics of firearms! We are already at the forefront of the whole world, and we must not let the honor of the world's first army be handed over! ”

"Whoa!"

The three of them got up from their seats and agreed with a bang, their eyes bursting with excitement!

In the entire Tang Dynasty, no one knows the power of firearms.

Although firearms still have defects of one kind or another, every person of insight can realize that firearms will inevitably become the protagonists of war. It is easy to operate and powerful, even a child, a village woman, or an elderly person can kill the enemy after a simple exercise.

Imagine, if one day all the people of Datang are soldiers, who else in the world can match?

And the person who is most proficient in firearms in the world must be the handsome man who invented firearms in front of him!

Right Tunwei is naturally at the forefront of all the armies of the Tang Dynasty, and the time and place are favorable, and it will become the army that is best at using firearms! Once the right guard becomes the trump card in the sequence of the Tang army, everyone here will naturally rise to the top, and the meritorious deeds of the sky will be at your fingertips!

What a glory it is to control the first strong army of the Tang Dynasty?!

*****

In the heavy snow, the usually busy foundry bureau also calmed down.

Fang Jun inspects a simple lathe in a workshop.

Since it is a simple lathe, it is naturally the most primitive one. An iron frame is fixed on the ground, several gears are bitten together, connected with the water impeller at the other end through an iron rod, the water conservancy impeller is driven by flowing water, it will drive the gear to rotate, and a hard and brittle high-hardness scraper is fixed on the front gear, when rotating, a solid iron rod on the lathe will be drilled into a hollow iron pipe.

One barrel is done......

Although it is simple, Fang Jun pondered that this is probably the first lathe in the family, which not only makes the barrel production faster, but also smoother and more symmetrical, and its significance is absolutely extraordinary.

It's just that it's freezing at the moment, and naturally there is no running water to drive the gears......

Liu Zheng followed behind Fang Jun, took a finished musket, and introduced: "Now the quality of the musket is getting better and better, and there are very few cases of explosions, all thanks to the better and better barrels. If the quality of the barrel is good, you can charge more, and the musket will be more powerful. ”

Fang Jun took the musket, shook it in his hand, and took a closer look.

This is a drawing he drew from the rifles of later generations, the iron barrel is shiny, the wooden butt is polished very smooth, and it is comfortable to hold in the hand, which makes people feel like they have traveled through time and space......

"This is according to Hou Ye's suggestion, the medicine bag made after the unified dose, no need to weigh, as long as you tear up the medicine bag and pour the gunpowder into the barrel during the battle, and then place the lead bullet, and tamp it with a whole strip, it can be fired, simple and safe, Hou Ye is really a god!"

Liu Zheng slipped on the side and patted the horse......

It's not that he has no discipline, but since he was wronged and served as the head of this Foundry Bureau, he suddenly found that the energy contained in this place is too great! In the past, it was extremely rare to refine steel, which was smelted furnace by furnace, forged, cast, all kinds of methods, and endless kinds of utensils were produced, plus the manufacture of muskets and artillery...... With such resources in his hands, he Liu Zheng is not only a celebrity in the eyes of all the armies of the Tang Dynasty, but if he wants equipment, he must talk to him in a low voice, and even exchange interests, even those rich businessmen and giants are also leaning towards him with red eyes.

No way, shovels, pickaxes, saws, iron plows...... All kinds of tools with the largest scale and the best quality in the whole Datang, each of which can be sold all over the country, what kind of profit is that?

However, after all, the output of the Foundry Bureau is limited, and it is not Liu Zheng who has the final say on who will not give the tools produced?

In the past, Liu Zheng also relied on his family background, and he had a little face in the court, but the Hedong Liu family has gradually fallen down over the years, who still recognizes him? Not only that, the King of Jin was imprisoned, and he, the uncle of the princess of Jin, became a rat crossing the street, and everyone shouted and beat him, but it is human nature to seek good fortune and avoid evil, and everyone is far away from him, lest he be implicated one day......

But now it's different.

With such resources in his hands, whether it is a general or a businessman, who is not allowed to have a smile in front of him?

The taste of rights, so wonderful......

And for Fang Jun, who gave him all this, no matter how flattering he is, it is not too much.

He knew that Fang Jun didn't have a good impression of him at the beginning, what if he worked hard to build the Foundry Bureau, but Fang Jun changed his henchmen to manage it? It's nothing to lose your hard work, but if you don't have this power, it's worse than killing him!

It's just that he hasn't tasted the wonderful taste of power before, but now he has eaten the marrow and knows the taste, and he can't give it up anymore......

"How much stock?"

Fang Jun ignored Liu Zheng's flattery, in his past and present lives, he has had more experiences like this, and he will never change his position because of two nice words. Liu Zheng did a good job, and he naturally did not hesitate to promote, after all, with such a person in the way, his own trouble would be much less, otherwise he would come to him for resources, wouldn't he be annoyed? It's not good, and I definitely didn't kick him away without a wrinkle.

Liu Zheng obviously knows the foundry bureau well: "There are about 5,000 rods in total, but only about 2,000 of them have been tested." ”

"Very good, immediately load the tested two thousand rods, equip them with ten base ammunition, and send them to the right guard battalion, and at the same time bring five thousand earth-shattering thunderbolts."

Although the flintlock pistol is not afraid of snow, it is too slow to reload and cannot become the main battle weapon of the army, and can only be used as an auxiliary. The purpose of bringing firearms on this trip was only to practice tactics and find flaws in actual combat.

As for the musket to become the main battle weapon of the army, it must be developed to produce a primer......

Only with a primer can bullets and shells be produced, and thermal weapons will officially step onto the stage of war and sweep everything.

The shells of bullets and shells are very easy, and they can be forged with a mold through a hydraulic forging hammer, but without a primer, the warhead cannot be fired......

Fang Jun had watched a documentary before and remembered that the original primer was made of mercury nitrate.

But how did you get mercuric nitrate?

He was confused, we were just studying agriculture, and chemistry was a scum......

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