Li Kui, who was outside, saw Song Jiang and the others coming out, and said excitedly, "Brother Gongming, I just passed by and saw a big town below, why don't you go down there and play?" ”

Song Jiang had something in his heart, so he said, "You iron bull, you know that you have to play... That's it, Brother Huarong, you are most familiar with Liangshan, so you can take a few of them to play, and it's not a trip in vain. ”

Hua Rong was happy because of the flower carving, so he said, "Follow my brother's order, go, Tie Niu, I'll take you to open your eyes!" ”

Waiting for everyone to leave, Song Jiang and Zhu Yan walked to the residence under the leadership of Sergeant Liangshan, and when they arrived at the place, Song Jiang looked at the brand-new brick house and couldn't help sighing, "The wealth of Liangshan can be seen from this." ”

Zhu Yan closed the door, asked Song Jiang to sit down, and then said, "Brother Gongming, now it seems that although this Marquis of Pingyin has a heart of disobedience, he knows the situation and is not optimistic about Fang La's uprising. ”

Song Jiang poured himself a cup of tea first, drank it and said, "The key to Fang La's incident is whether Hebei Tian Hu and Zhang Di can cut off the reinforcements of the Western Army. ”

"Brother means that I should go to Hebei for a trip?" Zhu Yan asked.

Song Jiang nodded and said, "Fang La's uprising, whether it is successful or not, is a great opportunity for my Weishan brothers, if Tian and Zhang are not used, we will take the initiative to join the imperial court and attack Fang La, thinking that we can fight for fame with military merits."

If Tian and Zhang are used, we can bargain with the imperial court, and the official position will only be higher! ”

Song Jiang really didn't want to be an emperor, his biggest wish was to be an official, nine grades are fine, now, with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, his eyes are high, thinking that no matter what, he should fight for a position like the head of soldiers and horses, if it can be a civil servant, it will be good.

As for completely taking refuge in Jiang De, Song Jiang thinks that there is no need at this time, not to mention anything else, now Huadiao is Jiang De's scheduled wife, Hua Rong is his hardcore cronies, there is such a relationship, if Jiang De really gains power, I am afraid that there is no way?

"Brother Zhu Yan, now that Liangshan is ready to recuperate, I Weishan can't relax, and when I go back, I must collect more grain and grass, recruit more soldiers and horses, buy ordnance, and wait for the time." Song Jiang thought for a while and told Zhu Yan, who said yes again and again.

Song Jiang was making his own little calculations on one side, and Jiang De on the other side was meeting the new hero.

On the martial arts arena, a big man held a mixed iron rod to move his body, only a few feet of land to advance and retreat, the stick shadow is like a mountain, surrounded by the body, and a group of sergeants below applauded from time to time.

There was also a person standing opposite the big man, also holding a stick, it was Zhu Tong who came up the mountain this time, Zhu Tong stroked his long beard and shouted, "Brother, be careful!" Rushed into the circle of sticks, and then only heard the sound of sticks clacking like raindrops, but in the blink of an eye, the two had already exchanged more than ten moves.

"That's it! Stop it! Jiang De shouted below, the two glanced at each other, jumped left and right, and said to Jiang De, "Please comment on the Hou Ye." ”

Jiang De smiled and said, "The two brothers are rare heroes, where is Zhu Gui!" ”

Zhu Gui walked up from behind and said, "Zhu Gui is here." ”

Jiang De pointed at Han Bolong and said, "You have recruited a strong general for my Liangshan today, you should be rewarded, and the reward is three hundred yuan!" ”

Zhu Guixi said: "Thank you, Master Hou!" ”

Jiang De said to Han Bolong again, "Brother Bolong, with your ability, you should be reused, but my Liangshan has its own law, no matter who comes to my Liangshan, you need to start from scratch."

I will let you set up a ring here, if within three days, all the non-commissioned officers below the battalion commander will not win the battle, as long as you pass the study of the intermediate general class, you will be given the position of battalion commander, are you willing? ”

Han Bolong was overjoyed and said, "The villain is willing!" Please rest assured, the villain will die! ”

Jiang De nodded, and saw the newly promoted officers and soldiers in his absence, and they were busy for a long time before they were able to rest.

After a few days, Song Jiang and Zhu Yan left with Li Kui, who was obsessed with Liangshan, leaving Hua Rong to accompany Huadiao for a few more days.

On this day, Jiang De led a group of Liangshan leaders to the craftsman's workshop under the leadership of Gongsun Sheng.

The artisan workshop in Liangshan is very large, since the excavation of iron ore in several places to make iron and steel, Gongsun Sheng has been increasing the scale of the craftsman's workshop, at this time the Liangshan craftsman workshop, there are already thousands of craftsmen, can build almost all ordnance from artillery to arrows.

Of course, this is not enough.

"There are as many as 140,000 soldiers and horses in Liangshan, including the Sailor Horse Army and the Goryeo garrison, but because of the mixed sources and different armaments, our army's joint combat capability has been seriously restricted." Gongsun Sheng said to the leaders that this joint operation was still the term that Jiang De said to him a few days ago.

Although most of the leaders are from the rivers and lakes, they have been leading their troops for many days now, so they naturally know how important standard weapons are in the military formation.

To put it simply, the most basic gun formation in the army battle, if the sergeant's gun is long and short, light and heavy, then the combat power bonus of this gun formation is almost zero, and it is even better to let everyone fight separately and interfere with each other.

For another example, bows and arrows are an important means for the army to kill the enemy, and if all the sergeants' bows and arrows are not uniform, and the range is long and short, it is difficult to shoot the most lethal volley.

Of course, it doesn't mean that there can't be personalized weapons, such as Hu Yanzhuo's double whip and Niu Gao's double mace, which belong to Qimen weapons in the army.

Jiang De said, "In the next two or three years, unless the imperial court attacks us, there will be no big war, in these two or three years, our ordnance must find a way to unify and standardize, let you come today, is to take a look at some of our future standard equipment, these equipment will be introduced by Gongsun Daochang." ”

Gongsun Sheng nodded and continued, "After many selections and researches, now our arsenal has selected several types of ordnance, which are ready to be listed as new standard equipment in my Liangshan, let's talk about armor first. ”

As he spoke, several sergeants came over in armor.

Gongsun Sheng said, "My Liangshan future clothes and armor are divided into three categories: daily clothes, battle clothes, and dresses. Daily clothes are divided into spring and autumn clothes, summer clothes, and winter clothes, of which spring and autumn clothes are long-sleeved trousers, summer clothes are short-sleeved breeches, and winter clothes are long-sleeved trousers. The colors are divided into yellow-green, green, and black depending on the season.

The dresses are divided into two sets in summer and winter, both of which are black, of which the winter clothes are tweed and the summer clothes are silk. ”

Everyone looked at the sergeant in front of him wearing regular clothes and ceremonial clothes, and each felt novel, but Jiang De looked at the sergeant in front of him but felt familiar, if someone from later generations came here, they would recognize that the so-called spring and autumn clothes were the military uniforms of the Eighth Route Army in later generations, and the knee-length coats in winter clothes obviously had a hairy smell, and the dress was full of Hans flavor.

"Do you have any opinions, brothers?" Gongsun Sheng asked.

Chao Gai touched the tweed coat and said, "Dao Chief, these other clothes are just that, what is this?" How come I haven't seen it? ”

Gongsun Sheng looked at Jiang De, Jiang De coughed and said, "What about this... It is a new type of fabric, the process is complex, the price is expensive, and now there is only a small amount of production, but it will not be long before the output will go up, if you want to talk about the raw material, it is actually wool. ”

"Wool?" Everyone shouted in surprise, Xiao Rang touched his beard and asked, "There is a smell of sheep on this wool, this is worn on the body, I'm afraid..."

Jiang De smiled, "Don't worry, this fabric uses a new technology, and there is no smell at all, you can smell it." ”

Hu Sanniang is a girl, so she naturally cares more about this smell, she stepped forward and sniffed the sergeant's clothes, and then smiled, "Except for the smell of this brother's sweat, there is no other strange smell." ”

The sergeant's face immediately turned red, and everyone couldn't help laughing, Jiang De smiled and said, "Sanniang, don't tease your brothers, it's strange to wear this tweed coat in this weather, it's strange if you don't sweat hot, okay, if you brothers don't have any strange problems, let these brothers go down." ”

Everyone shook their heads, these clothes were so much better than the clothes they wore on weekdays, and they didn't think that the sergeant brothers would have any opinion.

Gongsun Sheng continued, "The battle uniform is armor, which is divided into three categories: leather armor, paper armor, and iron armor. As he spoke, a group of sergeants in battle armor and blades in their hands stepped out.

Gongsun Sheng waited for these soldiers to stand still, and then said, "Because it's a battle uniform, by the way, let's talk about the blade." Let's start with a simple water army.

The uniforms of the naval officers are paper armor, brothers, don't look at this armor is made of paper, but the defense is not low, this kind of paper armor is to first fold the paper thickly, and then hammer the wheel, hammered into three inches thick, and then nail it in some special positions, and finally cut into armor, ordinary arrows can not shoot through at all.

This paper armor is a sleeveless armor, which can be matched with shoulder armor, hand armor, skirt armor, or not.

The standard ordnance of the Naval Brothers is divided into five types, namely knives, axes, guns, bows and arrows, and ballistas.

The knife is a hand knife and the axe is a short-handled small axe, both of which are used in hand-to-hand combat

There are two kinds of spears, namely the sickle hook gun and the cone gun, which are mainly used in mid-distance fighting, the sickle hook gun is one zhang and four feet long, and the cone gun is shorter, which is one zhang and three feet. ”

Speaking of this, Gongsun Sheng paused for a moment and asked everyone to look at the melee blade first, Ruan Xiaoqi and the others were the most concerned about this, they stepped forward and took a closer look, Zhang Shun asked, "Dao Chief, what kind of material is used here?" We are all buying and selling on the water, and the blades are very easy to rust, so we must cook more and produce less steel! ”

Zhang Shun said that more cooked and less is actually referred to as the material of steel, most of the ancient steel is synthesized with wrought iron and pig iron, and the difference between pig iron and wrought iron is actually how much carbon content, with the standard of later generations, the general carbon content is less than 0.0218% called wrought iron or pure iron, the content is 0.0218-2.11% called steel, and the content is 2.11-6.69% called cast iron. The reason for the rusting of steel is that the structure of the iron-carbon alloy forms a structure similar to that of a galvanic battery, which leads to the oxidation of the active metal, so the iron-carbon alloy with high carbon content is more prone to rust.

Of course, the ancients did not know these scientific principles, but empirical science is, although they don't know why, they also understand that wrought iron is not easy to rust, and pig iron is easy to rust.

Gongsun Sheng smiled and said, "This is natural, the blades of the sailor brothers are all specially made, you see, there is a sign of water here, the material composition of this blade is different from that of Ma Bujun, after all, your opponent will not wear heavy armor, and there is no need to pursue indestructibility so much." ”

Zhang Shun arched his hand and said, "The Taoist chief is really thoughtful, but the younger brother is too thoughtful." ”

Gongsun Shengdao "But don't worry much, it should be, the naval army fights, the bow and arrow first, according to the instructions of the Hou Ye, our army's bow and arrow will be unified in the future, you brothers, this is the bow and arrow of our army in the future." ”

The crowd saw two archers in leather armor come out, and found that their bows and arrows were somewhat different, one was narrower and narrower, and the other was smaller but wider.

Gongsun Sheng said, "I bow and arrow, divided into yellow birch bow, black lacquer bow, white birch bow, hemp back bow four kinds of bows, black lacquer crossbow, female yellow birch crossbow, white birch crossbow, yellow birch crossbow, stirrup crossbow, wooden crossbow six kinds of crossbows, and then there are new bows and crossbows such as the divine arm crossbow, these bows and crossbows are either individual bows and crossbows, or heavy bed crossbows, each has its own way of use.

I and Hou Ye together to select the best of the best, and combined with the advantages of bows and arrows in Liaojin, Goryeo, Wa and other places, and then taking into account the actual combat of our army, it was determined that in the future, our army's standard bow will be two kinds, one is called the eagle bow, and the other is called the Li Guang bow. ”

The bow and arrow are the king of the military array, everyone stepped forward to take a look, Jiang De simply asked the two sergeants to set up two targets and test shoot them on the spot.

Ancient bows and arrows are generally divided into two categories, single bows and compound bows, single bows are bows of a single material, such as British longbows, Nepalese bamboo bows, and Japanese bows at this time, and composite bows are bows made of animal tendons and animal glue, also known as horn bows.

The advantages of the monomer bow are low production cost, short production cycle and strong environmental adaptability; The disadvantage is that under the mechanical efficiency, the bow body is too small, the power is insufficient, and the bow body is too large and the tension force is too high to control. The advantage of the compound bow is that the mechanical efficiency is high, the tensile force of the bow is close to the actual power, and it is much smaller than the single bow under the same tensile force, and the composite bow is mostly a recurve bow, and the actual drawing distance is greater than that of the single bow under the same circumstances, and the vibration of the bow body is small and stable; The disadvantages are high production cost, long production cycle, poor environmental adaptability, and easy to open glue and damage in hot weather.

From the perspective of marching and fighting, the cost of a single bow is much lower than that of a compound bow, so although many countries in the world know how to make a compound bow, because of the cost, the armies of many countries use a single bow.

Of course, it does not mean that compared with a single bow, the composite bow is better than the single bow, such as the English longbow, because the material is a purple shirt with extremely high hardness and density, and the performance has approached or even exceeded the horn bow made at a low and medium level, so it is still necessary to analyze it individually.

The eagle bow in Gongsun Sheng's mouth is actually an English longbow, but because there is no purple shirt, it is elm, elm wood is tough, mechanical strength is high, corrosion resistance is strong, it is a high-quality single bow material, and it is widely distributed, it can be seen everywhere in the Yellow River Valley, this one in the hands of the sergeant is made of elm wood on Liangshan, of course, elm is not as good as the purple shirt, and the performance is also worse, but it is also acceptable, and the sergeant in front of him can easily shoot with this eagle bow with a range of more than two hundred meters.

And Li Guanggong, in fact, is the Qing bow, the Qing bow can be said to be the culmination of the traditional Chinese bow, the bow body is made of horns, wood, and beef tendons and other materials, the Qing bow is not the same as the traditional Han bow, more stable and accurate, and the traditional Han bow pursues range and efficiency, therefore, the Qing bow must be equipped with an armor-piercing heavy arrow when used, if a heavy arrow is used, the Qing bow is almost an ancient sniper rifle, and the ordinary armor is no different from not wearing it within fifty meters.

But the range of the Qing bow is much inferior to that of the English longbow, and under the use of the sergeant, it can only shoot more than 100 meters, and because it is a heavy arrow, when it is more than 100 meters away, the target of this arrow no longer knows where it goes, which makes the sergeant's face almost red.