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After a short period of training in Fanjiabao, two hundred soldiers under the leadership of the veterans, have basically become familiar with the training of the queue, the sword and shield men and pikemen have begun to carry out combat training, with the early experience, the spearmen's stab training is much simpler, under the leadership of the veterans, one person trained five recruits, the progress is to let Xiao Tianjian rest assured,

The training of sword and shield hands is more complicated, but because Xiao Tianjian only emphasizes team combat, he does not have high requirements for individual martial arts, and more requirements are for mutual cover and cooperation, so after being trained by Yan Chongxi, the training of these sword and shield hands is simpler, and it is a few of the simplest and most effective slashing actions repeatedly, repeating an action hundreds of times a day, even if it is a pig, it can also form an instinctive conditioned reflex, not to mention a person, so compared to the training of a pikeman, Although the training effect of their sword and shield hands is slower, they don't need to worry too much about the speed of progress!

As soon as they arrived at Tianlong Village, it became a large training ground, and the shouting and killing did not stop all day long, and the shouting and scolding of the officers were mixed in, and the noise made the birds and beasts in the Tianlong Village area frightened.

After having the reward and punishment measures for military training, the training boom of the Xingtian Army has been rising wave after wave, and Xiao Tianjian has tried every means to introduce various incentive measures to mobilize the enthusiasm of his subordinates for military training.

Anyway, everything here is ready-made, Tianlongzhai has not suffered any damage because of the change of owners, and there is no need for too much reconstruction work at all, Xiao Tianjian only let the soldiers build a few arrow towers in a few dangerous places to monitor the movement outside the mountain, so a large number of soldiers actually have nothing to do, Xiao Tianjian did not plan to take this place as his long-term base, so he did not plan to let the soldiers engage in any basic production work.

In addition, since August of the sixth year of Chongzhen last year, there has hardly been a rain in this area of Shaanxi, and the land is dry and there is no water, even if he wants to open up the wasteland and farm the land, he can't solve the problem of irrigation for a while, so instead of wasting manpower and material resources on this, it is more cost-effective to train the troops with all his might.

Therefore, after he arrived in Tianlong Village, not only did the soldiers have to undergo high-intensity training, but even these soldiers had to undergo more rigorous training.

In addition to some necessary personnel to do miscellaneous items, Xiao Tianjian selected nearly 300 people from among the soldiers and also devoted them to full-time training.

And these 300 recruits, different from ordinary soldiers in terms of treatment, can also enjoy the treatment of three meals a day, but there is no good food for the soldiers, Xiao Tianjian once again set up another name, calling them the new barracks, as a supplementary soldier to the soldiers, and when necessary, cooperate with the soldiers to put into actual combat.

However, the candidate for the instructor of the recruit camp made Xiao Tianjian scratch his head a little, his combat team was still in intense training, and he couldn't spare any manpower for a while, at least before all the training subjects that had been formulated were completed, he couldn't spare manpower to train these recruits.

It turned out that the two platoon commanders of the baggage team had limited ability, and let them train these recruits, Xiao Tianjian was worried that it would not be effective, and after thinking about it, he could only send a few lightly injured soldiers who had just recovered to the recruit camp to serve as instructors in the recruit camp.

These lightly wounded in the first battle of Fanjiabao are all Xiao Tianjian's old subordinates, everyone has received Xiao Tianjian's training to a certain extent, after the first battle of Fanjiabao, they have not returned to the team due to injuries for the time being, and now all of them have been captured by Xiao Tianjian and filled into the recruit camp as instructors.

And these wounded, after the experience of a brush with death, also became much more fierce, as soon as they returned to the school field, one by one they became fierce and vicious, and shouted the command loudly, turning a group of recruits to the drill on their backs and crying bitterly.

After seeing the performance of these new instructors, Xiao Tianjian was a little relieved, although these so-called instructors are not very experienced in training recruits, but these guys are also trained by him personally, and everyone has learned some of his skills in training recruits, although he is inexperienced, but it can be used, Xiao Tianjian has no energy to act as instructors in person, so they can only let these people temporarily cross the river by feeling the stones, and summarize the experience of training recruits by themselves.

And Xiao Tianjian himself immediately turned his attention to weapons.

Because of the rapid expansion of the generals under his command, the shortage of weapons has become increasingly serious, even the spearmen of the war team, there are many people who are not equipped with a javelin per person, not to mention these soldiers and recruits, up to now, not to mention, most of the three hundred recruits in the new barracks are still holding bamboo guns cut out of bamboo, once they encounter a large number of enemies, it is not a reassuring thing to hold bamboo guns, so it is imperative that Xiao Tianjian thinks that it is necessary to solve the problem of taking advantage of weapons for his subordinates as soon as possible.

As soon as the training of the recruit camp was temporarily settled, Xiao Tianjian commanded several blacksmiths in the baggage team to set up a blacksmith workshop in the col behind Tianlong Village.

This blacksmith shop is not open immediately, at least the most basic tools such as anvils must be available! Anyway, they seized these things in Tianlongzhai and Fanjiabao, and together with the set that Li Xuanzhu brought out in Zhaojiazhuang, they can also make do with it.

Then there is the problem of iron furnaces and raw materials, to build a few iron furnaces, for these blacksmiths to use to melt iron, these things have to come step by step, several blacksmiths can also do this, it is not a problem, as for the iron materials to build weapons, they now have some iron tools and unsuitable weapons seized from Fanjiabao and Tianlongzhai and other things such as ploughshares and other things, can temporarily solve the problem of some iron materials, in a short period of time, it is not realistic to want to get more iron materials, Unless he can catch the line of the merchants dealing in iron in this area now, otherwise, don't think about buying iron materials, after all, this area is now chaotic like hemp, and the government controls iron materials very strictly, and there is no place to buy them if you want to buy them!

Then there is the problem of fuel, the iron furnace is indispensable to use coal, but the coal also has to go out to buy, not to mention the inconvenience of transportation, and it is very dangerous, so I have to use self-burning charcoal to solve this problem, and the blacksmith said that using charcoal is more advantageous than using coal, that is, the quality of the weapons will be better, Xiao Tianjian pondered for a while and felt reasonable, after all, there will be some impurities such as sulfur in the coal, and when the molten iron is smelted, it will seep into the iron, of course, it will affect the quality of the weapon to a certain extent. If there are fewer impurities in charcoal, the quality of the weapons will naturally be much better.

Although he studied mechanics, he was not good at ironmaking, so this kind of thing had to be left to these insiders, and he just gave his personal opinion.

After two or three battles with people, he also discovered that there is a problem with the spears they use at the moment, that is, the quality of the spear head is not good enough, when it pierces the human body or something solid, the tip of the spear they use is often bent or broken, and the strength of the spear tip is not enough, which will greatly affect the effectiveness of their combat.

After thinking about it for a while, Xiao Tianjian used a hardwood and a sharp dagger to cut out a model in the shape of a spear head and showed it to several blacksmiths to see.

"Can you make a new one from the one I have cut?" After Xiao Tianjian put down the wooden spear head, he asked a few blacksmiths.

These blacksmiths came over to watch, and nodded one after another: "If you go back to the big boss, it should be no problem for the small ones to make such a spear head, but this kind of gun head takes some man-hours compared to ordinary gun heads!" Like ordinary spear heads, I can make two or three guns a day, but to make such a triangular gun head, I'm afraid each person can only build one per day! ”

It turns out that this kind of gun head cut by Xiao Tianjian is, to put it bluntly, a three-edged thorn, with a length of about one foot, and there is a blood groove between every two stunned ones, with a hollow iron handle at the back, and at the end of the gun head, there are two raised winglets, which can effectively prevent the gun head from piercing the human body too deep and making it difficult to pull out.

Such a three-edged thorn is loaded with the barrel of a spear and turned into a long spear, which can be held in the hand as a short blade without being mounted on the spear, which is really a sharp weapon for killing.

The reason why Xiao Tianjian wanted to create such a three-edged thorn, in fact, the source of his idea came from the kind of five-six-sided rifle he used in military training in later generations, and the five-six-type rifle was equipped with a three-edged military thorn, according to the veteran, such a three-edged bayonet was extremely strong, and it could almost pierce a tree with a thick bowl mouth with full strength, and it also ensured that the bayonet would not bend.

And according to the veteran, this kind of bayonet also has a poisonous knife notoriety, some people rumor that this kind of military stab is poisonous, and it will poison people after stabbing the human body, but Xiao Tianjian thinks that it is just a rumor, and the real reason is that the three-edged stab itself has a high strength that is difficult to have with ordinary bayonets because of its structure.

Moreover, after the human body is stabbed by a knife and gun under normal circumstances, the muscles will contract violently, and the knife and gun that enter the body will be tightly "sucked", and it can even be deformed, which is more difficult to pull out, affecting the user's continued action, and the three-edged thorn can ensure that after stabbing the human body, the air will be introduced into the human body, so as to avoid "sucking" the gun tip because of the human body cavity pressure, and the gun holder can easily pull out the gun tip, and will not be unable to pull out because of the contraction of the human body's muscles.

As for the poisonous knife, it is just a false rumor, the real cause of wound ulceration is that the wound caused by the three-edged stab is a similar laceration, the wound is triangular or square, it is difficult to stop the bleeding, and there will inevitably be rust or grease and dirt on the tip of the gun, these things are easy to be carried into the human wound in large quantities when the bayonet enters the body, whether it is cleaning or stitching is very difficult, so it is easy to cause wound infection, so it is rumored that the three-edged bayonet is poisonous.

Now he is really limited in ability, if his strength is stronger, if he has more resources, he even wants to equip the sword and shield soldiers and musketeers with this kind of three-edged thorn, after all, the assassination action is compared to the chopping action, walking in a straight line, the speed will be faster, and the speed of fighting with the enemy on the battlefield is speed, which can often determine the life and death of the enemy in an instant, and the lethality of the straight stab is obviously much greater than the lethality of the slash, so Xiao Tianjian summed it up in his heart, once he occupies a base in the future, He made as many of these triangular thorns as he could to equip his men.

In addition, Xiao Tianjian has another purpose for making this kind of three-edged thorn, which is to reduce the deformation of the actions of his pikemen with such a three-edged thorn, because the three-edged thorn is not like the ordinary tip of the gun, there are blades on both sides of the ordinary tip of the spear, and some spears will shake the spear if they don't move manually, and they want to use the spear as a machete, and the three edges of the three-edged thorn are not bladed, in addition to going straight to kill the enemy, it is not necessarily stronger than a stick to sweep sideways, so using this kind of spear head instead of an ordinary gun tip can be said to be more than one stone. It not only improves the strength of the tip of the spear, but also improves the lethality of the spear, and also allows the user to ponder other uses of the spear to ensure the consistency of collective action during assassination.

You must know that with the medical level of this era, as well as the body's own resistance, as long as you take such a three-edged thorn, no matter where the stab is, you can basically guarantee that the life of the person who was stabbed has gone to eight or nine times, and there will be almost no wounded left, which is really a good thing, and a take-it-it activist like Xiao Tianjian will naturally not abandon it.

"As long as you can make it, try to make the quenching process a little better and make the gun head harder! As for slowing down, you just have to rest assured! Xiao Tianjian instructed a few blacksmiths.

Several blacksmiths hurriedly bowed down one after another to receive the order, and began to prepare for the start of work.