Tian Zhengyue led people to inspect the arsenal, and today he followed the newly appointed Sima Yangji - who is also the head of the new army - to the barracks to rectify, responsible for the inventory of the arsenal, the commander of the new army, Yu Wenwen, is now the assassin of Bazhou, so as a subordinate, they were arranged to help.

"According to the accounts, there are two crotch armors and five hundred collars in the treasury, and you can take them out." He said to Si Cang.

"Six hundred ring-headed knives, nine hundred spears, four hundred bows, at least a thousand arrows, and three hundred crossbows, all of them are taken out!"

Tian Zhengyue was already a soldier of the Anzhou Army before joining the New Army, so he knew a lot about the accumulated shortcomings in the army, and he was also very clear about the accounts of the arsenal: if the quantity on the books and the actual stock were two percent different, it would be considered a conscience, and forty percent would be considered ordinary.

In addition to eating empty salaries and drinking soldiers' blood in the barracks, it is not uncommon for military weapons to cut corners, taking one collar and two crotch armor as an example, if the iron armor piece is made of sufficient materials, each piece weighs more than five dollars, and the armor of hundreds of pieces of armor alone weighs at least more than ten catties.

The armor pieces need to be strung together and tied tightly, because when the armor is worn on the body, the armor will rub between the armor pieces, so the rope that binds the armor leaves is easy to wear and break, so the rope used to make the armor is generally an elastic leather strip, if the craftsman is black-hearted, use non-wearable hemp rope.

A well-made two-gear armor includes armor, leather strips, interlinings, etc., so that the weight is at least twenty catties, and if there are corners, the overall weight will be significantly lighter.

After the armor is made, it is issued to the soldiers, and it is necessary to pay attention to maintenance, otherwise it is easy to rust, and if it is not properly maintained in the rainy areas of the south of the Yangtze River, the armor will soon corrode, and another thing to pay attention to is that the soldiers will even secretly take off the armor and sell it for money.

Tian Zhengyue's method of checking the integrity of the armor now is points. The second is to check the rust of the nail leaf, and the third is to weigh. This time, they came over and brought five poles, saying that they wanted to see what kind of armor in the Xiyang arsenal was.

The accounts record that there are 500 collars in the arsenal of two grades of armor, and there are indeed 500 collars that are carried out. Tian Zhengyue asked people to take a closer look at the armor leaves and found that there were signs of new polishing, and at least half of the armor was tied with hemp rope, and the last one weighed that most of the armor was too light.

Based on the above indications, these armors are temporary, the quantity is right, but the quality is too poor, Tian Zhengyue asked Cangcao to take out the leather strips, but the other party really showed them: the inventory of the leather strips is very small.

The leather strip is cut with cowhide, pig skin, sheepskin, etc., and it has to go through the cumbersome process of soaking in water and straightening and consuming a lot of labor to deal with, a collar armor will consume a lot of leather strips just to make, and even if the leather strip is tied to the armor piece, but the armor will wear the leather strip for a long time, the leather strip will still be worn out, so you have to prepare a roll of rolls for backup, according to the inventory of the leather strip, it can be seen that these armor are either not properly maintained or are temporarily made up of the number.

Such armor is better than nothing, but it is only too good to be good. The weather in Jiangnan is hot, the armor on his body is hot, stuffy and heavy, if he can resist knives, guns or arrows, it will be fine, but these things are afraid that they are useless, Tian Zhengyue feels that these armors in the arsenal are chicken ribs.

Si Cang was a little uneasy when he saw that Tian Zhengyue and the others were middle-aged veterans, and then saw that the other party was silent, and finally settled down a little, and just thought about breathing a sigh of relief, but unexpectedly began to check the weapon again.

A new army soldier who followed Tian Zhengyue into the warehouse picked up a bow and pulled it, and then showed disdain, and the other soldiers tried several bows in a row, all with such expressions, Tian Zhengyue casually picked up a bow and looked at it and found a problem:

The quality of the bowstring is not good, the bowstring in the south of the Yangtze River is about 20 pieces of silk twisted into a strand, that is, the string bone is made of string bones, and then the thread is wound horizontally, and the silk is divided into three sections, and every seven inches or so is empty one or two points not entangled, because of this, when the bowstring is not stretched, it can be folded into three sections.

If in the Northland, most of the bowstrings are made of beef tendons, and the bowstring in his hand is made of silk, but it looks a little thin when it is thin. Tian Zhengyue is used to using a bow, so he doesn't need to look closely, and he finds that the bowstring is not made of enough materials, the winding thread is also so-so, and the bowstring is not coated with yellow wax, so it is basically impossible to prevent moisture.

Tian Zhengyue looked at the bow body and found that there was a phenomenon of degumming. He is good at shooting, so he knows what the cat is greasy: there are many bamboos in the south, so the bow body is made of bamboo slices and mulberry wood and beef tendon glued, when the bow is made, the bow embryo should be hung up and baked with fire, as short as ten days and as long as two months, and wait until the glue is dry and then take it down and then add beef tendon, glue and paint, if the bow body is degummed, it means that the production is cut corners.

He checked a few more bows and found that there were different degrees of degumming, so he asked where the oven was, Cang Cao led him to a room, there were several stove pits inside, Tian Zhengyue reached out to touch the stove, and found that the carbon black was old, it seemed that these stoves had not been on fire for a long time.

"I'm afraid these bows have never been seriously maintained," Tian Zhengyue thought, the bow is most afraid of moisture during maintenance, and it is most easy to be damaged in rainy weather, the rainy weather in Jiangbei is about June, and every time it comes to this season, the bow should be placed on the oven to dry in order to keep it dry, if it is not maintained, then the bow will easily decay and degum.

The condition of the bow is not good, the arrow is not much better, when the arrow is made in the south, the arrow shaft is mostly bamboo, take three or four bamboo strips and glue them together, and then use a knife to cut the circle and scrape the light, and then wrap the two ends with silk thread, of course, if there is an arrow bamboo, there is no need to be so troublesome, the problem is that the bamboo arrow shaft will generally be very straight, there is no wooden arrow shaft, that kind of dry will bend the situation, but now these arrow shafts are more or less bent, indicating that there is no intention at all when making.

Not only the arrow shaft of many arrows is not straight, even the tail end of the arrow feathers are crooked and twisted in the case of not a few, the feathers used in the arrow feathers are the best to the eagle feathers, followed by the horned eagle, if there is really no goose feather or goose feather to fill the number, the arrow feathers of these arrows are about the duck feather itself is not resistant to the wind, plus the arrow shaft is not straight, then shoot out the ghost knows where it will be.

Tian Zhengyue felt that he was completely unsure of hitting the bull's-eye with the bow and arrows in front of him to practice archery, and he pondered that even if he let the master of the history with superb archery skills try it, it would be impossible for the arrows to hit, and these bows and arrows were completely shoddy.

If you want to defend the city, you will have the courage to encircle and suppress the bandits or something, but if you want to fight against the soldiers in the wilderness, you will find death, where can these bows and arrows penetrate the armor of the enemy.

The condition of the spear is not much better, the crack of the spear shaft is more than usual, indicating that it is not usually well maintained, the blade of the ring head knife looks okay, but the traces of new grinding are very obvious, and the rust on the back of the knife is not light.

The quantity is in line with the accounts, but the quality is not complimentary, if you deal with the Shangguan inventory, you can fill the number, and the enemy is much worse.

Weak and unbearable, this is Tian Zhengyue's idea at this time......

Assassin Shi Guan, Bazhou Assassin Shi Yuwen Wen is talking with Governor Shi Renchong in detail, Ren Chong has been in Bazhou for more than a year, and he knows a lot about the situation of all parties, so Yu Wenwen is humbly asking for advice, and now the topic is the state soldiers.

"The soldiers of Bazhou Prefecture are weak, and they can withstand the repeated attacks of the Chen army by relying on the generals' troops and strong private soldiers." Ren Chong laid out the facts, this is a fact that Yu Wenwen must face.

Yu Wenwen wants to rectify the state soldiers, he raised his hands in favor, although the previous assassin Shi also had the intention to reorganize the army, because of many reasons, it was still not implemented, Bazhou was on the Yangtze River, facing the military pressure of Chen State, if it was not handled well, it would be easy to attract Chen Jun to join the Kou.

He was afraid that Yu Wenwen would not know how poor the ability of the Bazhou soldiers was, so he would tell the situation one by one:

When it comes to the combat effectiveness of the state soldiers, it is necessary to talk about the composition of the soldiers, and the state soldiers in Bazhou and other states are almost all world soldiers, and their families live in the city, so the morale when defending the city is acceptable, but it is difficult to go to the wilderness.

Since the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty in the Three Kingdoms, after the Wei and Jin dynasties, the military system began to prevail, after the Southern Dynasties, Song, Qi, Liang, Chen, the military system gradually declined, in order to meet the needs of the conquest, now most of them are recruited, but the defenders of the city are still mainly soldiers.

As the name suggests, the world soldier is a soldier from generation to generation, and all those who are soldiers are registered in the army, and a single independent household is not the same as a civilian, and the father dies and the son succeeds the generation as a soldier. The social status of soldiers and their families is lower than that of county and county households.

Because of the low status, poor treatment, low combat effectiveness of the soldiers, and the serious phenomenon of desertion, in the Southern Dynasties, Liang and Chen, the soldiers gradually declined, and the generals liked to use recruitment to solve the problem of soldiers, and the soldiers recruited by the generals naturally had to follow them, so the state and county soldiers often became the destination of the world soldiers.

Bazhou and Jiangbei states were originally the territory of the Southern Dynasty Liang, after the rebellion of Hou Jing was occupied by the Northern Qi and then seized by the Northern Zhou, the recruits who could fight under the fire of the war were either killed or followed the main general, leaving only the weak state soldiers, some of these soldiers were world soldiers, some were temporarily recruited soldiers, and the family lived in Bazhou with nowhere to go, so they ate and waited for death.

Even if there are recruits in the state soldiers, most of the capable fighters among them are accepted by the generals as a subordinate, and for these soldiers, it is better to be a subordinate to the generals, and the treatment is better than that of the state soldiers, so most of the people left behind are the old, weak, sick and disabled, and some thorns.

"What can fight is the generals' troops and some powerful people in the state, they have lived here for generations, so their determination to keep their family business is relatively resolute, but for these people, it doesn't matter which court Bazhou belongs to, as long as their own interests can be protected." Ren Chong made a summary, he was afraid that the other party would not turn the corner and added:

"Now that we are strong, they are naturally honest, but if they force it too hard, I am afraid that they will jump off the wall in a hurry."

"What does Changshi mean to let the officials and the local heroes live in harmony?" Yu Wenwen heard the off-topic, Ren Chong was afraid that he would act too radically and the heroes would turn their faces, and when the Chen army would attack the internal and external difficulties.

"Please make Jun Xu Tuzhi," Ren Chong persuaded, he knew that Yuwen Wen had the resources and the ability to organize the army, but he still hoped that it would be appropriate so as not to be too impatient and self-defeating.

"I know." Yu Wenwen nodded, the newcomer Guojiang Dragon had to take his time to deal with the ground snake.

Haoqiang? I like Haoqiang the most! (To be continued.) )