"In this case, let's go and break through a city first, put all the captured women, cattle and sheep into it, and at the same time inform the general of the affairs here, so that the general can send troops to take over the city, so that we can continue to come and go on the grassland without wind."

Zhang Yang is quite proud of his idea, which is definitely a good idea.

"Go and gather everyone, let a battalion guard these women and cattle and sheep first, and then let's attack the Aoki River, although the city is a little smaller, but it is still quite large to expand." After Zhang Yang said that, the soldiers began to go down and prepare, and today's battle made the soldiers' morale recover. Looking at the pile of women, their hearts were ready to move, if it weren't for the restraint of Zhang Yang, it is estimated that they would have stripped naked at this time, after all, they are all a group of young people with strong blood.

"The brothers will send these women to the city first, and then everyone will have one, if the two who are strong can do it, if it is not enough, then three!" Zhang Yang's words immediately made the soldiers below laugh, and the captured women couldn't understand Chinese, so they didn't know what Zhang Yang was talking about, but looking at their eyes, they could guess that the next step would definitely not be a good situation.

"Whoa~"

"Are the brothers ready? Let's go to the Aoki River! Zhang Yang shouted loudly.

"Ready!"

"Strive to be able to live in the castle of Aoki River at night, brothers go!" After saying that, Zhang Yang led the advance troops to the Aoki River. The rest of the men and horses led the women and the cattle and sheep slowly forward, and at the same time burned the old camp.

Approaching May, Bian Yujing's belly is already very big, and it looks like he is about to give birth, and now the three wives and concubines in the house are already with big bellies, which makes Liu Xia feel happy and deeply proud at the same time.

Luoyang is exceptionally sunny today, cloudless, windy and sunny, exceptionally refreshing. Liu Xia was watching the shooting of the newly made flintlock pistols made by the personnel of the Arms Department at the shooting range of the arsenal. After a period of development and testing, the flintlock gun is now ready for a prototype. As long as the sample gun passed Liu Xia's assessment, it could be officially mass-produced. It is precisely because of this that Li Sanhan of the Arms Department personally went to Luoyang City today to invite Liu Xia to come and see the results, so that Liu Xia could approve them.

Bang bang bang!

I saw that the wide and flat shooting range was full of three rows of soldiers armed with new-style muskets, first of all, more than ten people in the first row, each holding a musket more than three feet long in both hands, firmly fixed with two hands, and then lowered his head, closed one eye and aimed at the target motionlessly, and then under the order of a commander, his fingers quickly wrenched. A flash of fire flickered, followed by a deafening sound, and in an instant a hole appeared in all the distant targets.

The soldiers in the first row hurriedly crouched down and continued to load a long-barreled one-inch paper bullet, while the soldiers in the second row began to shoot, and with an order, there was another deafening gunshot, and the target broke a hole again. Then the second row of soldiers crouched down, and the third row of soldiers continued to shoot at the target.

Liu Xia stood on the high platform and watched the whole process very clearly, he looked at the soldiers and guns on the shooting range with great satisfaction, such guns are almost okay at this stage, Liu Xia pointed to the soldiers in the distance and said: "This gun is very loud, we can hear it from so far away, isn't it louder when they are so close?" Can they afford it? ”

Li Sanhan, who was beside him, immediately explained: "Back to the prince, do you know, those soldiers and commanders all have a special earplug in their ears, this earbud can greatly reduce the sound, although we listen to the sound very loudly, but they actually feel not too loud." Therefore, the person who directs the shooting must shout loudly before they can hear it, which is also a shortcoming at present. ”

"It's good to be able to do that, keep up the good work and do it perfectly. By the way, you know what**? Liu Xia paused and asked Li Sanhan and the others. **？ The subordinates don't know, and they ask the prince to make it clear. Li Sanhan and many other R&D personnel suddenly looked puzzled.

Liu Xia thought about it and understood, now ** has not appeared even in the West, where can these people know? Westerners haven't invented it yet, that is, they can't steal Western technology. Liu Xia knew that this ** would not be able to be developed in a while, so he focused on whether he could put several bullets in the gun at the same time, which was not only convenient for the soldiers, but also could continuously hit the enemy. Liu Xia said: "** is a fuel that is easily explosive, if it is in a dry environment, even very light friction and impact will cause an explosion, this can be used for ****." But nowadays, it's not easy to get it out, so you can explore it on the one hand, even if you can't get it, even if you develop a replacement. On the other hand, you have to think about how you can make each gun a few more bullets. ”

Although Li Sanhan and the others still had a lot of questions, Liu Xia turned around after speaking, and they didn't dare to ask again. In fact, even if they asked Liu Xia, they didn't know.

"Yes, we can go to mass production, and we don't need to produce the previous arquebus, and all the energy is devoted to the production of flintlock pistols. Other cold weapons were also scaled down and used to produce flintlock pistols. Seeing that Liu Xia attached so much importance to the flintlock pistol they had researched, these people were all very happy.

Li Sanhan smiled and said, "Lord Wang, let's all ask Lord Wang to give this gun a name!" ”

"Name-giving?" Liu Xia was stunned for a moment, then turned around again to look at Li Sanhan and the others.

Li Sanhan was still smiling, and the others were all staring at Liu Xia waiting for Liu Xia to give him a name, Liu Xia looked at it, if he didn't give a name, then these people still thought that they looked down on them, so they gave them a name, so Liu Xia pondered.

After a while, Liu Xia raised his head and said softly, "Then let's call it the Pingyu flintlock pistol!" What do you think? ”

"Good! Let's call it a flat gun, we were originally fighting for the Tartars, just as they wanted! Liu Xia said, and everyone nodded.

"How many silver coins do I need for this rifle?" How much can you produce in the first month? ”

At this time, Fang Linyuan, the director of the arsenal, said: "Back to the prince, the production of this flat flintlock pistol, all the costs are converted together and it takes eight silver coins, but most of these are caused by the high cost of steel materials, if the price of steel materials is reduced, the price of this flintlock pistol can be reduced to three and a half silver coins after optimization." If the whole factory is producing day and night, it can make 1,000 pieces a month. Eight thousand silver dollars were required, and five hundred silver dollars were needed for the workers' expenses, for a total of eight thousand five hundred silver dollars. ”

Eight silver coins are much more expensive than the arquebus, but the benefits of the flintlock pistol are obvious, you don't have to light the arquebus yourself, you don't have to worry about not being able to use it on rainy days, etc., and it is also faster than the arquebus, with a longer range and more accuracy. Eight yuan is eight yuan a handful, Liu Xia gritted his teeth and said, "You reduce the cost as soon as possible." After 8,000 silver dollars, the logistics department will pay you, and you can just take care of the production yourself. By the way, didn't this king build a steel mill? Wang En, how is the steel mill now? ”

Liu Xia's voice fell, and Wang En's face was not good-looking: "Lord Wang, the steel mill has only forged one ton of steel in the past three months. ”

"So little!" Liu Xia exclaimed, you must know that the steel forged in the next month is astronomical.

Wang Endao: "The general doesn't blame them, now the forging of steel is hammer by hammer, and the speed is naturally very slow." ”

Hammer by hammer? A sucker! Liu Xia's face was suddenly full of clouds, and he said angrily: "Stupid! Go back and rectify it immediately, you don't need to hit it with a hammer, didn't this king tell you to build a furnace, add all the iron ore to the right amount of carbon and forge it into steel? Although I don't know too much about the specific steps, don't you study them step by step? As soon as you return, you will build it with your hands, but as soon as possible. This king can't wait that long. ”

Wang En was also very unhappy at this time, and vowed to build the melting pot in Liu Xia's mouth immediately after he returned.