Li Xiao immediately ordered that this divine crossbow be used as a prototype to let Taiwan's iron and steel plant immediately start production at full capacity.

Similarly, Li Xiao emphasized that in order to speed up the production schedule, all ingredients and materials are given priority to the supply www.biquge.info and production of Shenji crossbows, and if the manpower is insufficient, a group of temporary workers can be urgently recruited to work overtime to ensure that the crossbowmen trained now can have a Shenji crossbow as soon as possible.

When catching up with the schedule, Li Xiao definitely did not relax his control over quality.

He specially arranged a group of quality inspection personnel to strictly control the entire production work and each production process, and each output of the crossbow parts has a craftsman named to ensure that in case of quality problems, the source can be accurately traced back to the source, so as to hold the producer responsible.

In fact, this method is also used in steel mills when living other devices.

However, because the quality of this Shenji crossbow is related to whether the Tang Army can successfully take Mindanao and whether it can defeat such a major issue as Maguindanu, Li Xiaocai specially arranged a group of quality inspectors to come over, hoping to use strict testing methods to make the produced Shenji crossbows of excellent quality, so that the crossbow soldiers can use them with confidence.

Li Xiao demanded that within two months, the Taiwan steel plant should at least create 3,060 crossbows to meet the needs of a total crossbowman, so that Cao Bianjiao, which is now stationed on Mindanao, can launch a new attack on Maguindanu.

At the same time, after producing two prototypes, Li Xiao immediately sent people to urgently send these two prototypes to Tielongcheng, Shanxian County, Shandong, so that they could also produce such a divine crossbow at full speed, so as to complete the assembly of the troops as soon as possible.

Since then, Li Xiao's two important steel bases in the north and south have begun to produce this kind of magic crossbow with all their might, and each assembly line has been working overtime for production day and night, twelve hours a day.

While the production of the Shenji crossbow was being carried out, in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, the training of newly recruited soldiers was also being carried out intensively.

On one of the venues, the person in charge of training was Li Xiao's former guard captain Li Haoran.

It turned out that after capturing Manila, Li Haoran, the captain of the guard who had followed Li Xiao for several years, offered to go to the grassroots troops to train and improve, Li Xiao thought about it and finally agreed to his request.

After all, Li Haoran is getting older, and he is also a person who is eager to make contributions, and if he always stays by his side, it will indeed be detrimental to his growth.

It's just that because there is no transfer of the commander in charge of the army for the time being, it is impossible for Li Xiao to let Li Haoran start as an ordinary soldier at the lowest level, so Li Xiao can only let his own guard captain Li Haoran wait for the opportunity.

After he has a suitable post, it is not too late to put him in the grassroots troops.

Now, after this vigorous rectification and reorganization of Pingnan Town, Li Haoran finally ushered in an opportunity.

He was appointed by Li Xiao as the chief of Battalion B B in Pingnan Town, and in addition to 30 elite guards, he was also in charge of 1,530 shield soldiers and 3,060 crossbowmen.

And now, he is personally leading his troops and horses to conduct strict and arduous training for these soldiers under him in the training ground outside Kaohsiung.

These recruits, in the past few months, have gone through a series of basic exercises such as physical training, queue training, coordination training, and password training, and now they are practicing their professional skills diligently.

At present, the training of crossbowmen is in charge of the commander-in-chief Li Haoran, while the training of the shield soldiers is in charge of the commander-in-chief, Xu Erxian, the deputy commander of the general, and the subordinate general Xu Erxian under the former Manchu Zhishun Wang Shang Kexi.

After Xu Erxian surrendered to Li Xiao in Jinzhou, Liaodong, he was sent to Taiwan by Li Xiaofa along with another Jinzhou guard general Wanyan Yechen who was forced to surrender.

After several months of brainwashing and education in Taiwan, Wanyan Yechen was appointed as the chief of the second battalion and second post in Pingnan Town, and after participating in the battle against the central islands of the Philippines, he was recently transferred to Andong Town and transferred to Ezo Island.

Xu Erxian, was appointed as the deputy chief of the third post of the first battalion of Pingnan Town, because of his outstanding performance in the battle against Luzon, he was promoted to the second post chief of the first battalion of Pingnan Town after the war, and now because of the creation of a new battalion, he was transferred from the first battalion by Li Xiao and specially appointed as the deputy chief of the second general of the C battalion B of Pingnan Town.

Under the blazing sun, all the crossbowmen were sweating like pulp, but everyone was standing straight, with a high-spirited and serious expression on their faces.

They were called one by one by the commander-in-chief, Li Haoran, to practice the shooting of the divine crossbow.

Originally, each of these crossbowmen had to be equipped with a steel crossbow, but because the production progress of Taiwan's iron and steel plant was far from keeping up with the needs of use, they could only make fifty or sixty training sample crossbows and distribute them for the training of crossbowmen in the training ground.

"Tan Sangou, out of the ranks, it's your turn next!"

The commander-in-chief, Li Haoran, snorted majestically, pointing to the human-shaped target buttress sixty paces away.

Tan Sangou is a native of Beizhili, and his home is in the suburbs of Liangxiang County, quite close to the capital.

However, at the beginning of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, the Qing army entered the customs for the fourth time, and the county seat of Liangxiang fell into the hands of the Qing army, and a large number of soldiers and civilians, including the county order, were killed by the Qing army.

And the villages near Liangxiang County were all slaughtered by the Qing army.

Tan Sangou's family, because their homes were destroyed, had to become homeless, and in the process of fleeing south, his eldest brother Tan Dagou and sister-in-law Ma were all taken captive by the Qing army and have been missing since.

Unexpectedly, after their family fled south to Zhuozhou to seek refuge with relatives and friends, the Qing army attacked again, and the soldiers and civilians of the whole city became turtles in the urn, and it was difficult to escape.

Tan Sangou's family, who originally thought they were dead, never expected that they would have a chance to escape.

At this time, in order to rescue Lu Xiangsheng trapped in Zhuozhou City, Li Xiao urgently led the army to help, and when Zhuozhou City was almost broken by the Qing army, he repelled the Qing army in time and saved the lives of the people in the city.

Subsequently, Tan Sangou was transported to Shandong by the Tang army along with tens of thousands of other people in Zhuozhou City, and was taken to Dengzhou, Shandong.

Next, Tan Sangou's family was transported from Dengzhou, Shandong Province to Taiwan to settle down, and the family allocated land at the junction of Kaohsiung and Taitung, and finally settled down.

It's just that at this time in Taitung, there are still many natives who are not subject to the rule of the Tang Army, and these natives keep harassing the villagers who are farming in the local area.

These brutal natives were either wiped out after the local Tang army marched one after another, or retreated to the deep mountains and old forests of Taitung, and Tan Sangou's family finally lived a stable and peaceful life.

It's just that Tan Sangou, who has witnessed the barbarism and ferocity of those natives, and the fierceness and fierceness of the Tang army's attack, has already made up his mind to let himself become the Tang Army and get ahead in the army, so as to achieve his own life goals and win glory for his family.

In the previous Tang Army recruitment, because Tan Sangou happened to be sick at home due to heat stroke, he was unable to sign up, so he missed this recruitment activity, could not become the Tang Army, and could not participate in the battle of attacking Luzon in the south.

This mistake made Tan Sangou sigh all the time.

However, he also remembered the words of the officer of the conscription office, that is, the Tang Army will be expanded in the future, and he still has a lot of opportunities.

Tan Sangou has always kept this sentence in mind.

Sure enough, after the attack on Maguindanu was frustrated, many soldiers and horses of the Tang Army in Pingnan Town were transferred north to Ezo Island and became the soldiers and horses of Andong Town, and the vacant posts began to recruit new recruits again.

This time, Tan Sangou, who was athletic and responsive, successfully applied for the name and became a recruit of the Tang Army.

After a month of recruit training, Tan Sangou was recruited as a crossbowman in Battalion B.

Tan Sangou, who was wearing a two-piece cuirass and a gray iron helmet, heard the chief chanting his name, and hurriedly answered a sentence, and then walked out of the array quickly and came to the shooting position with a gray line drawn.

After taking the magic crossbow from the previous crossbowman, he began to operate it from beginning to end according to the regulations.

First of all, he put down the crossbow, but he picked it up from the ground, carefully tied it around his waist, and tied it tightly to make sure that it did not fall, and then opened the mouth of the bag, and pulled out a wrought-iron crossbow arrow.

The last time Li Xiao tested the prototype, it was a steel arrowhead made of stainless steel, but Li Xiao later considered that these crossbow arrows were consumables, and it was too extravagant and wasteful to use stainless steel crossbow arrows.

Therefore, it was stipulated that all the crossbow arrows used in this divine crossbow were made of medium-quality wrought iron.

In this way, the production cost of crossbow arrows was greatly reduced, but the hardness was almost the same as that of steel arrows, and because these crossbows were mainly used to deal with the Maguindanu indigenous soldiers who hardly had any armor, such wrought iron crossbow arrows, although they could not be compared with steel arrows, were completely sufficient.

At this time, Tan Sangou took a closer look at the appearance of the crossbow arrow.

I saw that this crossbow arrow was about half an arm long, the thickness of a little finger, and it was all made of wrought iron, and the whole was black and shiny.

At the triangular shape of the arrow, there is a deep blood groove, and at the position of the arrow, the color is obviously different, and there is a hint of grass green.

Tan Sangou knew that the reason why the color of the arrow was different from the body of the arrow was because the arrow was coated with poison.

It is said that this is the idea proposed by Li Dingguo, the mayor of Pingnan Town, to Li Xiao, the Duke of Tang Guo, to quench the arrows of the crossbow arrows with poison to ensure that the natives who are hit by the crossbow arrows will definitely die and have no chance of survival.

Those Maguindanu people can smear poison on the shuttle dart and brutally shoot our Tang army soldiers, so why can't our Tang army also apply poison and treat the other in the same way, and in turn kill these ugly people who resist to the end?

Therefore, Li Dingguo's suggestion was immediately adopted by Li Xiao.

Therefore, these crossbow arrows made from the factory were quenched with severe poison in a special poison workshop before leaving the factory, so as to greatly increase the attack power of the crossbow arrows.

What Tan Sangou didn't expect was that Li Haoran on the side saw that he didn't pull the string first, but drew out the crossbow arrow first, and he was immediately furious, he rushed over, slapped it fiercely, and slapped Tan Sangou in the face.

"Bastard! You don't pull out the crossbow first, but draw the arrow first, wait until you reload, do you have to throw the crossbow arrow on the ground first?! ”

Li Haoran looked hideous and yelled at Tan Sangou's ear.

Tan Sangou hung his head speechlessly, and his expression was very embarrassed.

"Again, if you bastard remembers the wrong order, Lao Tzu will beat you with twenty sticks!" Li Haoran shouted and re-ordered. Tan Sangou covered his face, which had been slapped with five bloody fingerprints, stood up in a daze, and began to complete his actions again amid the snickering of all the crossbowmen. He first picked up the Shenji crossbow, carefully inspected the various parts, then stepped on the pedal with the script, and forcefully pulled the crossbow string to the buckle of the hanging knife to tighten, first held the Shenji crossbow with one hand, and pulled out a crossbow arrow from the open crossbow quiver with the other, carefully loaded it in the middle slot of the crossbow arm, and pressed it with his hand, so that the whole loading action was completed. Subsequently, Tan Sangou held the Shenji crossbow in one hand and the front protrusion of the crossbow in front of the other hand to ensure that the Shenji crossbow would not shake when shooting. Then, with his head lowered and squinted slightly, he aimed the lookout in a straight line with the steel front sight in front of him, and aimed it at the humanoid target buttress sixty paces away. "Ready, put!" "Whoosh!" With Li Haoran's angry shout, Tan Sangou pulled the hanging knife, and the crossbow arrow let out a brisk howl, shooting straight towards the humanoid target buttress sixty paces away. With a muffled sound, the bolt of crossbow shot out just as it hit the arm of the humanoid target buttress. Li Haoran frowned, nodded reluctantly, and said, "This shooting is quite so-so." Tan Sangou, you must remember the order of shooting, you must not be confused. When you really get to the battlefield, the situation changes rapidly, and if you make a mistake and the enemy seizes the opportunity, the consequences may be unimaginable, do you understand? Tan Sangou nodded and replied loudly: "Chief Minister, I understand!" "Very well, you can re-shoot two more times, don't make another mistake." "I understand it below!" …… Under the blazing sun, all the soldiers sweated like rain, trained repeatedly and attentively, and the time of the day passed quickly and hurriedly. After a month of training by the whole army, the crossbowmen of the C Battalion B were the first to be trained, and each of them was equipped with a magic crossbow and thirty wrought iron crossbow arrows quenched with poison. At this time, Cao Bianjiao, who had been stationed in Zamboanga, could not wait any longer, and he proposed to Li Xiao that under the condition that the training of the general crossbowmen had been completed, he would be lazy and depressed for the long-term maintenance of the defense troops, so he asked Li Xiao to give an order to let him first send the general soldiers of Battalion B to Zamboanga and go to attack the country of Maguindanu. Li Xiao thought for a long time, and finally agreed to Cao Bianjiao's request. Raising soldiers for a thousand days and using them for a while, since this chief crossbowman has been successfully trained, it is time for them to go to the battlefield to fight bloodily and make meritorious contributions. April 12, 13th year of Chongzhen. The ships of the naval division, specially carrying this general army and horses, and carrying a lot of grain and grass, set off from Kaohsiung Port, went all the way south, and sailed straight to Zamboanga, where Cao Bianjiao's department was located. At this moment, looking at the turbulent and boundless vast sea, watching the flocks of seagulls screaming and flying in the sky, the heart of the crossbowman Tan Sangou was very excited. He subconsciously stroked the crossbow like an intimate lover, rubbing it repeatedly, his heart was full of longing for the future, and infinite desire for meritorious achievements.