Chapter 10 Equipment

No matter how hard Zhang Xuan endured all night, every morning when the sun came together, Zhang Xuan had to start the day's journey.

Let's go to the government office first.

I found that the government was empty. Zhang Zhen and the following people all went out to work, and the four words of arranging the household and the people could not be completed by sitting in the room.

Zhang Xuan didn't bother and returned to the barracks.

Just now I was ready to start the whole army to promote the warriors in the army, and prepared 500 people for Luo Yujiao.

It didn't take long for the king cannon to arrive, and he asked to see him.

Zhang Xuan immediately asked Zhang Yuanhai to invite Wang Cannon over. "Is there something going on?" he asked. ”

Wang Cannon said: "Tell the general, we are short of weapons. ”

"The problem of artillery will be put aside for a moment." Zhang Xuan only felt a pain in his head and said.

At the time of this large-scale army expansion, Wang's cannon also rose. As the general of the baggage post in the camp. Moreover, the baggage post of the Linying camp, which is said to be a sentry, is actually a small battalion. Wang Cannon is actually not only responsible for the baggage of the first battalion of Linying, but also the baggage logistics of other battalions, in fact, he is the logistics minister of Zhang Xuan's department.

The weapons assigned to the battalions were all taken from the king's cannon.

Zhang Xuan originally wanted to equip small artillery to every battalion and every outpost. But Zhang Xuan calculated carefully, and then he realized that artillery was too expensive. Not to mention the iron and copper materials required to cast cannons, the cost of use in the later stage alone is very high, and each cannon consumes a lot of gunpowder, and the gunpowder is not scraped from the sky, which costs money.

It's all money.

Zhang Xuan counted the artillery in his hand, thinking that it would be better to use this point of artillery and sprinkle it like pepper noodles in each battalion.

Therefore, Zhang Xuan included Wang Cannon's artillery team in the Chinese army. Become one of the forces directly under Zhang Xuan.

"But I'm not talking about artillery, I'm talking about other weapons." Wang Cannon took out a notebook and said: "According to the specifications set by the general, each soldier is equipped with a spear, or a knife, and a shield due to the shortage of sword and shield hands, or pikemen. and a bow and sixty arrows. Paper armor collar. ”

When Zhang Xuan heard the "paper armor collar", he felt as if he had found the problem. said: "Put the paper armor first." ”

Zhang Xuan's department, up and down, has only about 1,000 pairs of armor in total, and most of them are not good armor. But it's still a heavy weapon in the army. Many soldiers wear a jacket in winter, and it is not guaranteed to be cotton, and it is only a single coat in summer.

Zhang Xuan couldn't look at it a little.

As for building an all-ironclad army, Zhang Xuan didn't dare to think about it. It's a little too expensive. So I thought of replacing it with paper armor, which may have such and such shortcomings, but in any case, wear it

It also has the ability to protect itself.

However, the paper armor is not something that Zhang Xuan has as soon as his upper lip touches his lower lip. Zhang Xuan told Zhang Zhen about this matter, and Zhang Zhen promised to find a paper-making workshop in the city to try to make paper nails.

However, now the energy of the government is focused on the four major events of household arrangement, measurement, field granting, and relief.

"It's not a paper armor thing." Wang Cannon said: "This matter will be scheduled after the beginning of spring." ”

"Is it a bow and arrow?" Zhang Xuan asked.

Zhang Xuan actually doesn't like bows and arrows, after all, it is a historical process for firearms to replace bows and arrows, and Zhang Xuan has no intention of going against the trend of history, but Zhang Xuan has to find a supplement for his lack of long-range weapons.

The difficulty of building a sophisticated firearm is still above the artillery, and I am afraid that the ability of the king cannon will not be able to play. Moreover, the attitude of the army towards firecrackers and artillery is completely different, and they hate firecrackers and like artillery. It's nothing more than that the explosion rate of the fire gun is too high.

Therefore, Zhang Xuan will not build a firearm on a large scale until he finds a skilled craftsman, and even a general must conform to the mood in the army.

There were not enough artillery, there were no muskets, and there were only bows and arrows. But Zhang Xuan also knows that the production process of bows and arrows is long, and all of them are handmade. So Zhang Xuan was going to make a simple Western longbow to use. However, Zhang Xuan has not yet started this matter.

After all, the Scottish longbow he knew was like a long wooden stick tied to a rope, but what kind of wood was needed and how to use it, Zhang Xuan didn't know, he just glanced at it when he watched the documentary.

"The bow and arrow thing hasn't started yet." Wang Cannon lowered his head and said.

"So what's the problem?" Zhang Xuan said: "Could it be that even the knife, gun, shield, these three weapons are not in order, didn't they capture a lot from the officials and soldiers?" ”

"General." Wang Cannon said with a little indignation: "The things captured by the officers and soldiers can't be used at all. If the general doesn't believe it, ask the general to come and see. "Wang Cannon has been prepared for a long time, and has already brought several samples outside the door, one of which is a spear, a spear head, a knife, and a shield.

Zhang Xuan first picked up a spear, shook it vigorously, and suddenly shook out a spear flower, Zhang Xuan frowned and said, "This is a spear?" ”

Wang Cannon said: "Exactly, most of the spears of the officers and soldiers are like this. ”

The so-called flower spear, are the spear used in martial arts, mostly with cork, such as ash rod, as long as a light dance, you can easily dance out of the spear flower, it looks good, in fact, on the battlefield, it is not practical at all, on the battlefield, thousands of people come and go, spear stabbing. Just do a "piercing" to the ground, it's enough, and there is no need to do anything else at all. There's no time, there's no room for people to play tricks.

This is Qi Jiguang's so-called flower fist embroidered legs.

Zhang Xuan said: "In this case, it can be replaced with a hardwood gun." As he spoke, he took the tip of the spear and saw that it was okay.

"Yes, it's a good head, but most of them don't get to that point." Wang Cannon then came over with another spear.

"This ---" Zhang Xuan said, "Is this a gun head?" In Zhang Xuan's view, it is just a big iron lump. There is no fine polishing, no shiny edge, it seems that there is nothing.

"A considerable number of the guns of the officers and soldiers are like this." Wang Cannon said.

Seeing this, Zhang Xuan already had a bad premonition, so he simply didn't listen to Wang Dacang, he reached out to take it, he picked up the long knife, and slammed it hard, but he couldn't pull it away, Zhang Xuan still had some understanding of his own strength.

Although the strength is not large, it is actually greater than the ordinary people of this era.

That's the difference in physical fitness.

No matter how tightly a knife is stuck, he should be able to pull it away if he pulls it so hard. Unless the knife is rusty to death. His face suddenly turned ugly, and he slammed the long knife sheath on the ground a few times, only to pull it out halfway.

Judging from the general knife surface, this knife cannot be said to be a knife at all, it is just a piece of rusty iron.

Zhang Xuan slammed the long knife on the table, and his eyes saw this shield again, it seemed that this shield looked very good, and the tiger head on it was lifelike. "What's wrong with this shield?" He said as he picked up his shield.

As soon as he picked it up, Zhang Xuan immediately felt that something was wrong.

The portion is wrong.

It stands to reason that this shield should be made of hardwood as a core animal skin, or cowhide wrapped outside, but whether it is hardwood or cowhide, animal skin is a weighty thing, and it will definitely not be so light. Zhang Xuan stretched out his hand and slapped twice on the shield, smashing it hard, and the outer skin of the shield suddenly cracked.

It's not an animal skin at all, it's just a thick piece of paper, and then look at the wooden shield inside, it's not hardwood at all, but I don't know what kind of miscellaneous wood it is, rotten wood, Zhang Xuan can actually leave traces on it, if this is on the battlefield, it won't be of any use at all. Something that can be kicked with a single kick.

"Pop" Zhang Xuan smashed the shield on the table, he knew that the things of the official army were not easy to use, but he didn't expect that the garbage would reach such a point. It's as if he can never peer into someone's lower limit. He was no longer interested in taking a closer look, and said excitedly: "Let's talk about it, how much is the difference between swords, guns and shields?" ”

"There is a difference of more than 5,000 guns, more than 3,000 knives, and more than 3,000 shields." Wang Cannon said.

"What?" Zhang Xuan was taken aback and said, "There are so many? ”

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