The axemen leaped past the sword and shield men and charged towards the few who were standing among those kneeling on the ground.

The people who stood up to this time in Peng Yibin's infantry formation were all officers in armor, and the hunter's soft bow couldn't help them.

In Peng Yibin's infantry formation, only officers above the rank of two hundred elite officers could wear armor, and about twenty officers in armor formed a group and rushed towards one of the attack squads of Li Shi's company.

These felt that although Chen Xian had a musket deterrent on his side, after all, there were few people, and the muskets didn't know what was going on, so they all stopped, and it seemed that it was easier to deal with.

Seeing that the other party was charging back like himself, this group of newborn calves who were not afraid of tigers not only did not fear, but excitedly greeted them.

The axe and gunner in Chen Xianjun are all the best martial arts among the apprentices.

The soldiers and workers under Chen Xian's command studied and practiced in the morning and worked in the afternoon, but in the evening, they had free time.

If you like to read and study, Chen Xian provides a bright oil lamp in the classroom, and if you like to practice martial arts, Chen Xian lights a torch in the square to illuminate it, and teaches it personally.

This group of axe and spearmen is a group of good warriors.

There is also a reason why Chen Xian chose axes and guns as the main hand-to-hand combat arms in his army.

As a very representative weapon in Western military history, the axe gun was very interested in this weapon among the cold weapon enthusiasts of that year, and some of them were masters, so they tried to restore the use of this weapon through historical data and modern theories.

Among Chen Xian's customers, there are such masters.

Chen Xian was also very interested in axe guns, so he once asked for advice on the techniques of this weapon.

Although Chen Xian is not as proficient in axe and gun as he is in marksmanship, and he has not undergone long-term training, he is an expert in the skills and theories of using this weapon.

This group of people is trained by Chen Xian, a well-informed theorist, and they practice diligently every night, and they have companions to feed and practice, although they are still too immature, but they are also basically beginners.

Because he was mainly responsible for hand-to-hand combat, Chen Xian gave them priority equipment with the best new armor.

That's right, they no longer wore cloth armor, but piercing armor.

After the Yang family and the Bai family reconciled, they sent people to ask for reinforcements, and they exchanged letters and bought them with a lot of money, and they tossed back and forth for a month.

The reinforcements finally arrived, and they had to change their outfits and train for more than two months, and Chen Xian was in a hurry.

Chen Xian used these two extra time to develop the iron sheet rolling mill he had been looking forward to for a long time.

Because he had been thinking about this machine for a long time, he failed twice and then succeeded in trial production of the machine.

The main stress of this machine's frame, rollers, and more complex gears are all castings, which are also easy to connect with bolts.

At present, this rolling mill can only cold-roll iron sheets, and it can't roll steel plates, so Chen Xian called it an iron binding machine, not a rolling mill.

The power of the rolling mill is provided by the end shaft of a waterwheel.

First, the wrought iron is folded and forged into an iron plate with a thickness of seven or eight millimeters with a hydraulic forging hammer, then annealed, and repeatedly pressed on the iron rolling machine, and the rolling gap of the roll is adjusted with an iron wedge.

To press and roll an iron plate seven or eight millimeters thick and unevenly thick into a thin iron plate one to two millimeters thick, it needs to be pressed more than a dozen times, and annealed twice in the middle.

Compared with modern rolling mills, this is inefficient, but in this era it has been quite remarkable, a machine can produce more than ten square meters of thin iron sheet a day.

The thin iron sheet can be directly cut into nail pieces with iron scissors.

Next, after the nail piece goes through two processes of punching and grinding, and then goes through a batch of carburizing and quenching treatment, it can be worn and braided.

In order to punch the nail piece, Chen Xian specially developed a set of manual punching machine with the principle of lever, this punching machine is actually a large pliers, one handle of the large pliers is fixed on the bracket, and the other handle can be moved, on the bite of the pliers, the upper mouth is a conical upper die, and the lower part is a round hole.

This punching machine requires two operations, one person is responsible for pressing the pliers, and the other holds a small tweezer and puts the nail into the bite of the pliers, and there is a positioning baffle on the bite side of the pliers to maintain the consistency of the punching size.

After punching, the nail piece needs to go through a grinding process, not only to remove the burrs around the nail piece, but also to remove the burrs in the hole with a round file, so as not to reduce the life of the nail braiding rope.

Chen Xian had done this work before, after all, one of the two most lucrative side jobs of his farmhouse was making armor.

He took apart his suit as a sample and distributed it to several weaving groups, each of which completed a part of it.

In fact, after the armor is split into several parts, each part is very simple.

With a large number of people and a sufficient supply of parts (armor pieces), he divided labor and cooperated with two hundred people, and in just ten days, more than 30 sets of armor were produced.

In addition to piercing armor, this group of axe-gunners also carried replicas of Chen Xian's helmets, iron boots, and iron gloves.

Helmets with visors, iron boots, and iron gloves, Chen Xian has been taking the time to do them, but the cost of these three things is relatively high, and for more than a year, he has more things in his hands, so the output is not high, but fortunately, he has taught a group of apprentices, and there will be a steady stream of these products in the future, and with the improvement of the level of technology he has mastered, such as the emergence of iron rolling machines, water forging hammers and other tools, the efficiency of producing these things is also constantly improving.

What he wants to do is to separate the production of these things, form a multi-process division of labor, and continuously improve efficiency.

The reason why these axe-gunners are so unscrupulous is not only because their newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, but also because they wear such a set of equipment that is almost in time for the modern HMB (medieval fighting) game.

The only fly in the ointment is that Chen Xian has not yet developed chain mail, and the comprehensiveness of the defense of these equipment is still slightly insufficient......

When the leaders under Peng Yibin's command rushed to this group of axe gunners, they were a little dumbfounded, the armor worn by this group of guys even covered their faces and hands, almost not leaking at all, for such an opponent, the big guns in their hands, eyebrow sharp knives and other weapons were useless at all.

Among the leaders of this group, some people are equipped with armor-piercing weapons such as Guduo, but they are all short weapons, but the people in the hands of this group of perverts on the opposite side are all long-handled hammers, how can they fight?

If you don't fight, you can't do it, this fight, it's one-sided, the two sides of martial arts are almost the same, although the teenagers have poor experience, but they are not afraid of death, dare to fight "life", although the other party is experienced, but can't help but have a high fault tolerance rate on the opposite side! They chop someone with a knife, it's fine, and if they don't die with an axe gun on the opposite side, they will be seriously injured......

By the time another group of axemen rushed up, the battle was quickly over.