Horse infantry, that is, mounted infantry, they maneuver on horseback, dismount to fight, and are actually infantry.

Because of the small number of people, Chen Xian did not equip the horse infantry with spearmen, each horse infantry was a musketeer, in order to maintain a certain melee ability of the horse infantry, Chen Xian needed to equip the horse infantry with bayonets on the muskets.

But the bayonet is not as simple as it seems.

The sleeve bayonet is not a slip that everything will be fine with a sleeve, and a locking device is also needed to keep the bayonet on the barrel in the violent swing and impact, otherwise when desperately, the bayonet will fall, which will be too fatal.

In order to fix the bayonet, Chen Xian first made a small boss near the mouth of the barrel, which needed to be reserved when forging the barrel, and finally used a small file to finely sharpen.

When making the sleeve, you need to use a chisel to make a Z-shaped groove on the sleeve, and when the bayonet is loaded, first align the convex on the barrel with the entrance above the Z-shaped groove, and then push the sleeve to slide the boss along the vertical groove above the Z-shaped to the bottom, rotate the sleeve, let the boss slide along the transverse groove to the bottom, and then push the sleeve to let the barrel muzzle boss slide to the bottom of the vertical groove under the Z-shape.

In this way, it is more difficult for the sleeve to fall off the barrel, but because the sleeve and the barrel do not fit tightly, the sleeve will still wobble on the barrel.

In order to fix the sleeve, Chen Xian made a hole on the side of the sleeve, tapped the wire with a tap, and then made a butterfly bolt, (the so-called butterfly bolt is actually to smash the tail of the bolt flat to form a thin sheet that is easy to rotate by hand) Screwed into the screw hole on the side of the sleeve, pressed against the barrel, and fixed the sleeve and barrel.

With these two double insurances, Chen Xian finally let the sleeve bayonet stay firmly on the barrel.

The installation of the sleeve was not complete, because the bayonet and the sleeve were not in a straight line in order to avoid the firing area of the muzzle, but first extended from the side of the sleeve to one side, and only bent forward about four centimeters from the muzzle.

Such a structure is difficult to produce at one time, so Chen Xian adopts sleeves and bayonets to produce them separately.

In the production of the sleeve, on the sleeve side of the reservation of a fin-like structure, in the manufacture of the bayonet, the tail of the bayonet into a fish mouth shape, wait until the sleeve and the bayonet are formed, after the two are partially heated and red, the bayonet of the fish mouth and on the fin of the sleeve, just like the use of the steel clad method to hit the knife, the red hot two overlap, the small hammer is fast, the two can be welded.

After the welding is completed, it is reshaped, quenched, and resharpened again to complete a sleeve bayonet.

As for the accuracy of the sleeve and the barrel, it is not a problem, first, there are card slots, tenons, plus butterfly bolts are tightened, the sleeve and the barrel do not need high-precision coordination, and there is a gap of two or three millimeters does not affect the assembly of the two.

In addition, Chen Xian used the tape measure brought by the crossing as a benchmark to make a lot of clamp gauges and plug gauges to improve product quality, so the accuracy of the barrel he produced can be guaranteed to be about one millimeter regardless of the inner and outer diameter, and the sleeve is the same.

In order to improve the accuracy of the outer diameter of the barrel, Chen Xian also made a simple wooden lathe.

This lathe could not actually be called a lathe, because he could not turn it, so he could only clamp the barrel on the lathe, rotate it at high speed, and then let the apprentices use a file to sharpen the barrel by hand.

Through manual grinding and a uniformly calibrated special calibration, Chen Xian's factory can efficiently make barrels with basically the same outer diameter.

In addition to arquebuses with socketed bayonets, these horse infantry were armed with light helmets that were light but had a fairly good protective area and performance, plate cuirass, leather arm guards with iron plates staggered only on the outside of the arms, plate armor skirts with lotus leaves, knee pads to protect the upper and lower knees, and combat boots with iron plates.

It can be said that most of the plate armor that Chen Xian has just successfully trial-produced has equipped them.

Such equipment is not only more protective, but also far lighter than the same armor or cloth armor.

The production of plate armor has ceased to be a problem since Chen Xian built the first simple rolling mill.

In order to supply the steel plates needed for the production of plate armor, Chen Xian copied seven or eight more rolling mills.

These seven or eight rolling mills form an assembly line, a piece of iron plate that is beaten into five or six millimeters thick by a hydraulic forging hammer, after annealing, is sent to the rolling line, and the thickness can change from five or six millimeters to two millimeters, or even one millimeter, when it is passed through seven or eight rolling mills in turn.

Each rolling mill only needs to reduce the thickness of the iron plate by half a millimeter, such a processing amount, plus annealing can also be carried out in the middle to reduce the strength, for the hydraulic driven rolling mill, the pressure is not large, and the processing efficiency is quite good.

With iron sheets of uniform thickness, the production of plate armor depended entirely on the craftsmanship of the blacksmith.

Because it is an iron sheet, it is not difficult for the small hammer to be cold-processed by hand.

Before the crossing, Chen Xian specially invited a sheet metal worker at a high price in order to make plate armor by himself, and brought two apprentices in his own workshop.

Therefore, the technology of producing plate armor, Chen Xian himself knows, and the capable personnel specially drawn from his apprentices only took less than a month to produce plate armor that Chen Xian can see.

After the plate armor is formed, it is smoldered carburizing, and finally quenched, and the armor is transformed from iron to steel, and the parts of the armor that have been thinned by sheet metal processing, as well as some key defensive parts, are reinforced with rivets to reinforce the lining plate one millimeter thick.

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The number of cavalry generals who blockaded Laiwu and Yiyuan was not large, and the generals of each family were scattered, and the horse infantry had a great numerical advantage when facing them.

At the beginning, the generals and cavalry saw that the Yiyuan cavalry was outnumbered, and they all avoided it, so that the horse infantry could obtain information very smoothly.

However, as the heroes continued to strengthen the strength of the cavalry blocking the road, the number of cavalry soon exceeded the horse infantry led by Yang Miaozhen, and the other party began to harden.

At this time, Yang Miaozhen's outstanding military talent is reflected.

When the number of the enemy exceeded the hundred horse infantry under his command, Yang Miaozhen began to deliberately show weakness, and after seeing the other party from a distance, he began to flee, and was driven back to Baotaikou by the other party every time.

Of course, the enemy cavalry did not dare to enter the Baotaikou, and they were obviously afraid.

After a few days of weakness, the enemy's cavalry gradually began to careless.

On this day, Yang Miaozhen led a hundred horse infantry into the plain area southeast of Hejiazhuang again, and as a few days before, they were soon discovered by the sentry of the blockading cavalry.

Without Yang Miaozhen sending someone to drive away, the sentry rider did not hesitate to hit the horse and returned, and soon, a puff of smoke and dust rose from Hejiazhuang, and it didn't take long for Yang Miaozhen to ride a hundred horses.

As in the past, Yang Miaozhen began to retreat with a hundred horsemen.

They ran and stopped, and the cavalry chased them, and they ran, and the other party did not chase, and they also stopped to rest, and when the other party returned, he hung far away......

The generals of the cavalry were made to rise by Yang Miaozhen's kraft candy-like fighting style, and their patience became worse and worse.

After a few days of back and forth, the anxious generals became less and less vigilant.

The generals found that if they drove this Yiyuan cavalry back to Baotaikou, the other party would stop and not come out, so that they could take a breath.

As a result, the cavalry of the family would drive them back to Baotaikou every time before giving up.

Seven or eight days passed, and on this day, the Yiyuan cavalry reappeared, and the generals chased the cavalry out again as before......