The sound of fire banging continued to sound until the night, the moon rose on the east city wall, wandering between the bullfight, Zhao Xingde's tired clothes were soaked, and he almost lost his strength. Two thousand soldiers worked hard for one day, wounding 12 people and wounding 1 hip with sticks, and a total of 3,127 firearms that could withstand double powders were counted. Zhao Xingde immediately ordered someone to cover the two-layer infantry armor on the wooden stake, and ignited the fire within thirty steps, not only penetrating the double-layer infantry armor, but also leaving a big hole in the wooden stake.

In order to impress Wang Yan deeply, he deliberately selected ten calm soldiers and taught them on the spot to follow the three movements of standing, raising, igniting, and retracting.

When Zhao Xingde was training the soldiers, the blacksmith foreman Han Tie came over happily and bowed down and said, "The style of the iron spear head has been made, please take a look." After saying that, the craftsman behind him carefully presented a firecracker, and without waiting for orders, he disassembled and reassembled it and made two gestures.

"This is ......" Zhao Xingde looked at this strange thing, saying that he was a bayonet with a fire gun, or it was better to simply change the fire gun into a seven-foot spear, but the gun barrel made of pure iron in the front two feet or so looked a little weird. A wooden stick is attached to the iron gun head with a ring, the upper end of the wooden stick is slightly thicker than the mouth of the gun, carved into three grooves, only need to use the notch of the groove to align the three small copper protrusions welded in the mouth of the gun, the wooden stick is inserted into the gun tube, and then rotate the head of the iron gun, so that the copper protrusion slides to the bottom of the groove, and the gun head is firmly stuck on the gun tube. If it weren't for the short wooden handle behind the wooden pole of the firebolt to withstand the recoil, it would look like a spear of about seven feet.

"Isn't that what your lord said?" Seeing that Zhao Xingde was a little hesitant, Han Tie took the gun from the craftsman's hand, removed the gun head, and hung a rope loop at the end of the gun head stick on the hook under the fire gun, and the iron gun head was stuck on the ground and became a stick for firing the fire gun. It was only at this time that Zhao Xingde saw that the wooden stick behind the head of the gun was remade from the original supporting stick of the fire gun, and he couldn't help but secretly admire the ingenuity of the craftsman's mind.

Han Tie couldn't help but feel a little uneasy when he saw that Zhao Xingde still hadn't nodded his head in agreement, but someone had just eaten a military stick in the afternoon. He opened his mouth and explained: "This fire gun is iron in front and wood in the back, heavy in front and light in the back, if in the opinion of the villain, it seems more appropriate to add an axe before the barrel, a mace and other heavy blades, in addition, the long pole soldier who falls in front of him is equipped with a head to help him hit the horizontal hook." It's just that the adult wants to change the spear, and the villain only changes it to the spear, if there is something wrong, as long as the adult speaks, the villain can do it, no problem, no problem. ”

Zhao Xingde didn't expect that there were so many ways and exquisiteness here, and after thinking for a while, he felt that since the cold weapons installed on firearms were ever-changing, and only one spear would be left in the future generations, it was better not to change it easily. He pondered and muttered: "The musket hits dozens of steps away, it is an extension of the spear, rushing to the front, it is naturally still the use of the spear, this is called the same lineage, so there is no need to change it." He made up a reason, and he felt that he couldn't be trusted, so he casually handed the gun with the iron spear head to Su Wenyu, and said, "Is it good to try?" ”

Su Wenyu took it with a happy face, danced a few times, stabbed forward a few times, and said with a smile: "Compared with the spear, the front is heavier, but it's okay, so it's very good." ”

Han Tiedan also praised: "Mr. Zhao's words make a lot of sense. The villain is like a latrine open. "He was originally a blacksmith who had never studied, but he was promoted to the head of the craftsman because of his ingenuity and exquisite craftsmanship.

Su Wenyu was so suffocated that he almost lost his breath, and Zhao Xingde smiled bitterly: "It's over." After thinking about it, he felt that he should still respect the advice of the craftsman who was in charge of the ordnance, and then changed his words: "Since the front is heavy and the latter is more favorable to axes and ge, then add axes to three hundred spear heads, and add horizontal knives to three hundred spear heads." ”

Han Tie smiled courageously: "My lord commanded, no problem, no problem." But he secretly said in his heart: "Why do you need to add Hengge, you only need to add a short iron halberd head cast by Fan to the firecracker." The axe is a bit of a hassle, and it may have to be welded to make it stronger. However, he has always hidden these thoughts in his heart, and when dealing with Shangguan, he has always said the word "no problem", but because the things he has completed are often better than Shangguan's original ideas, no one has forced him to disobey him.

When Zhao Xingde was looking for other soldiers to try out the restructured iron gun, Wang Yan, who was full of tiredness, came, he didn't speak with a calm face, and Zhao Xingde was busy with the ten soldiers who had been practicing to perform a horizontal formation and fire. Although the burning of the medicine was followed by a succession, in a very short period of time, ten gunshots rang out, and the iron projectiles bombarded the iron leaves of the five pairs of foot armor placed thirty paces away.

As soon as the fire was completed, Wang Yan ignored the dissuasion of his entourage, and personally went to test the effect of the fire gun projectile, and when he saw the huge crater in the wooden stake in the step armor that was hit by the iron projectile, he was silent for a moment, and said to Zhao Xingde: "This fire gun does have merit. It's just that without further ado, I will give you 3,000 soldiers and 15 days of training, can you be worthy of a battle? "What he values this fire gun is the great damage to the human body after penetrating the iron armor. Ordinary bows and crossbows, even if they shoot through the iron armor, as long as they don't hit the vital point and pull out the arrow at the right time, it will be no big problem. Therefore, there are fierce generals in the army, with more than a dozen arrows in their bodies, and they are still fighting endlessly. There is also a saying that "Ningzhong has three arrows, not one knife, and would rather suffer three knives than change one shot". The iron bullets of this fire gun are different from the clusters of arrows, and it is also a pit when it hits a hardwood stake, and when it is driven into a person's body, it must be a blood hole, which is more powerful than pulling out the arrow on the spot after being hit by the arrow.

"If lead poison and mercury poison are used to quench the projectile, it may be more powerful." Wang Yan secretly thought, even if the Liao people's iron-walled camp had a strong armor and thick skin, and if they were hit by a few guts, they would inevitably be embarrassed to fight again. The soldiers were also heavily armoured, and it was inconvenient to avoid the guns, and five were worn together with iron chains, and one or two were wasted, which was equal to five being wasted. It is even more rare that this firearm can be changed into an iron gun, and after it is released, it can be used for hand-to-hand combat. Because the firebolt does not rely on the crossbowman's physical strength to fire, it is almost inaccurate to fire at close range, let alone worry about consuming the archer in hand-to-hand combat.

"Fifteen?" Zhao Xingde was stunned, and he heard the bombardment of the Liao army's artillery in his ears, and the firelight in the sky in the distance kept flashing, and finally nodded and said: "The last general will try hard!" ”

"Good!" Wang Yan said in a deep voice, "After the fifteenth, I will go out of the city to invite the Liao army to attack, and let the Liao people also taste the power of my Great Song firearms." He looked around at the more than 100 soldiers present and shouted: "Before the battle, the matter of the fire gun, if there is a leak, behead." Those who occasionally hear about it, sit together, and also behead! All the soldiers were in their hearts, and they agreed in a deep voice. Wang Yan's tone softened down, and said to Zhao Xingde: "Don't bother the second master, the two thousand soldiers of the second army in Zhenbei who came to test the fire gun today belong to your commander." I'll give you another thousand soldiers. This archery range is for you to practice the fire camp, if you don't have my order, trespassers will be killed. Those who do not respect the command in the fire camp, how much you cut, I will make up for you. ”

Zhao Xingde's face changed, and he said in his heart that the matter of moving the military stick in the afternoon was afraid that it had reached Wang Yan. But he heard Wang Yan say: "First follow me back to the ya, and report the details of the fire gun." ”

"Why didn't you behead Zhu Houwu on the spot?" This is the first sentence that Wang Yan said after entering the yamen.

Zhao Xingde was stunned for a moment, bowed down and replied: "Zhu Hou's five sins are not death. Su Wenyu said that he committed the forty-four beheadings of the four army, in fact, he was buttoning his hat, if he really governed the army according to the seventy-four slashes, he was afraid that the entire Hebei army would be cut in half.

Wang Yan's face sank like water, looking at the slightly shaking candle flame, he turned his head to a carved leak next to him, and said slowly: "At the second moment of the ugly hour, Zhu Houwu of the Second Army in Zhenbei was hit by the secret arrow of the Khitan people when he was patrolling the city, and he fell off the city, and his bones could not be found. ”

"What?" Zhao Xingde was shocked, he looked at the missing moment that marked the hour, now it is half an hour away from the ugly fashion, Wang Yan said this, it is to deal with the trouble of Zhu Houwu for him. Tonight, Zhu Houwu, who had been beaten with 30 military sticks, must lie in the camp to recuperate from his wounds, and he couldn't get up if his house was on fire.

"Zhu Houwu, it's just a side of the Zhu family in Bianjing, he fell into the city and died, and the Zhu family won't make a big move." Wang Yan said while flipping through the military book, "If you leave him alive, hold a grudge, and go back to climb relatives to stand up for him, the trouble will get bigger and bigger, maybe it will really become a big trouble." Yuan Zhi, as a general, cannot have the benevolence of a woman. ”

"However, this is not in line with military law and the court system!" Zhao Xingde argued forcefully that he couldn't believe that the ruler Wang, whom he greatly admired, would actually execute his subordinates without waiting for the imperial system.

"Military law, system?" Wang Yan raised his head and stared at Zhao Xingde, seeing that his heart was furious, he said slowly: "Then when Zhu Hou Wu violated military discipline by relying on his family background, where was the court system?" The law and system of the country are the means by which the imperial court governs the people. In this world, there are people who are outside the national law system, or who think they are above the national law system. Yuan Zhi, whether you want it or not, there is only one system between you and them, and the former Korean Wengong made it clear that the flesh of the weak eats the strong. ”

Zhao Xingde's hands and feet were cold, and he seemed to be forced to face a reality that he had been unwilling to face, and listened to Wang Yan: "Is it to be a peaceful and self-respecting people, to find the protection of a strong person, or to accept this system of the jungle." If you don't want to be a strange man who saves the world and protects the people, don't be strong in everything in the future. For thy credit in choosing the firebolt, I have said that. Wang Yan looked at the Jinwei Mansion to explore the situation of the Liao army outside the city, and said without raising his head: "Let's go out first." The training of the fire battalion is of great importance, and it must not be delayed. ”