Two special draws, in all fairness, focus on the Spanish policy on the war, improve higher, if you can light up the arquebus in the future, the Spanish phalanx and the arquebus, the longbow combined, will be born a mythical army, according to Zhao Xin's previous resident card description, this Spanish phalanx, for the formation of the army has an overall bonus. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Spanish phalanx, which is extremely strong in its own right, combined with the longbow and the card bonuses of the Spanish phalanx, will almost certainly create an invincible army.

It's a pity that before the arquebus appeared, this card was just an ornament, Zhao Xin at this moment, he didn't even improve steelmaking, let alone the arquebus, perhaps, hit a lot of time, including himself, and might eventually be able to light up the arquebus card, but what is the use of such a card, the broken version of the Spanish phalanx, it is better not to light up.

Almost certainly, the next most important thing is to face the challenge of the Cloud Wing Army, the possibility of field battle is almost non-existent, because at least the other side is ten times that of this side, the Spanish phalanx may allow the regiment to practice less and fight more, but it cannot overcome the huge disadvantage in numbers, or defend the city.

There is no special lottery opportunity for the time being, Zhao Xin stopped, searched among the ancient chemistry, only 18 lit up, no, after lighting up three acids and alkalis, it was 15, more than 300, 15 were selected, it should not be difficult.

It's really true, Zhao Xin first of all, removed the time-consuming, such as Damascus steel, hemp steel, Jun porcelain, this kind of as little as four or five days, more than seven or eight days, or even half a month, Zhao Xin selected them, not to create new things, to create value, but to light up and light up.

Among the 300 species, most of them took a long time, but Zhao Xin still found out more than 70, almost a quarter, and then deducted some raw materials that were difficult to find, and finally delineated 25.

Next, Zhao Xin really started the refining of various materials like an ancient Taoist priest.

Among the 25 kinds, except for a very few, most of the rest are grade 1 raw materials, refining according to the refining methods provided above, plus occasional whims, with the help of this past chemical knowledge, one by one the lights are increasing, almost a day's time, Zhao Xin has completed the refining of 12 of them, and there are 3 kinds of materials that need to be used, which are not available on hand for the time being, so Miao Yuan will send someone to the Daimyo's Mansion to buy the goods, and he will come back in a few days.

sighed, it was still a little worse, just 3 kinds, but it was like a thin boundary, stuck in his throat, so that he couldn't upgrade.

Or, go to the showroom to see, although since yesterday, there has been no increase in new animals and plants, who knows if there is one today, and when I was about to go, Miao Yuan came in a hurry.

It turned out that the brick-burning master they were looking for before, as well as the pottery-burning master, had arrived.

From the beginning of coming to Miaojiazhuang, Zhao Xin made some preparations in addition to forming a longbow team and lighting Miao Yuan's steamed steamed buns, mainly bricks and pottery, the former is a necessary material for construction, a tall building, which requires a lot of bricks.

At present, the popular blue bricks in the Northern Song Dynasty are different from the red bricks that were once common in later generations, but they are in the process of development, because of the relationship between resources and energy consumption, and the red bricks that have been gradually eliminated are different.

As for the pottery, it was prepared for cement and glass products.

High temperature is the most important method of chemical reaction in ancient China, whether it is smelting bronze, steel, pottery, porcelain, etc., to put it bluntly, it is the calcination of materials, so that the materials can react through high temperatures, and finally form different substances.

Temperature, this is the first understanding of chemistry in ancient times, and whether it is glass or cement, it also needs high temperatures.

In the past, Zhao Xin was more anxious about glass, glass is a rare handicraft, unique charm, even in the era of glass is very cheap, glass handicrafts also have considerable value, some master glass handicrafts, can even be sold at a terrible price, in the Northern Song Dynasty, it is a priceless treasure.

But now, after a trip to Baozhou, after exploring the actions of the Wang family and Wei Gui's mentality, he completely changed, cement and bricks must be made as soon as possible, the sooner the better.

Miaojiazhuang's defense, against ordinary horse bandits, or a small force, this is enough, really compared with the forbidden army, it is too far behind, Miaojiazhuang's defense, compared with the special siege equipment of the forbidden army, can not be said to be paper-paste, but it is also about the same, really to enter the level of close hand-to-hand combat, the number of group training disadvantage, will become the biggest problem.

Bricks and cement must be available, and even once they are made, under the urgency of time, they can first renovate the interior mansion, strengthen the defenses on the original foundation, build a small combination of arrow towers and pillboxes, and then modify the perimeter, in short, increase the strength of his defenses, and provide enough protection for the longbow team as much as possible.

In the reception room of the mansion, Zhao Xin met several craftsmen, who looked inconspicuous, their hands were full of calluses, and they seemed to be doing a lot of work.

There are a total of 6 people, 4 brick makers, 2 ceramic craftsmen, Miao Yuan is a little embarrassed, because there are very few professional craftsmen in Baozhou, and it is not easy to dig up.

Sometimes, it's really not something that money can solve, after all, most of the workshops are passed from father to son, from son to grandchild, and some people have been doing it in this workshop all their lives, and if you want to dig him out, what price does it take.

It was not easy to find 4 brick-burning masters, but also thanks to the closure of a small brick kiln in Baozhou, most of the skilled workers, was dug up by some other brick kilns, and the rest of this was rounded by him, they are relatively professional, although not a big worker, but including the whole process of burning bricks.

The two pottery masters, but in two different pottery kilns, hired with high salaries, are all ordinary who focus on firing kilns, and they are not even middle workers, which is also the bottomless place in his heart.

Zhao Xin simply understood, the brick master he was very satisfied, basically, including every process, as long as you follow his instructions, you can fire, if it is before, he still needs to grope to be able to complete the entire firing process, but now, the ancient chemistry of the lighting, one of them, is the red brick, which has the details of the production of red bricks.

Many people think that red bricks appeared in modern times at the earliest time after liberation, but in fact, red bricks have appeared as early as the ancient Babylonian era, and the specific time of appearance is not examinable, but it must be earlier than the current Song Dynasty, and even in the ancient Roman era, it should have been widely used in architecture, and many ancient Roman buildings have red bricks involved.

In ancient China, there were green bricks, but there were few red bricks, Qin bricks and Han tiles said that the green bricks, which have been immortal for thousands of years, at this level, the green bricks are to surpass the red bricks.

However, the red brick manufacturing is convenient, whether it is energy consumption, cost, or output, it is not comparable to the green brick, the red brick manufacturing is easy, the steps are few, to a certain extent, you can also replace the human hand with machinery, the green brick is different, the stage of large production in later generations, the price of the green brick is several times that of the red brick, and the output has not come up.

The brick kiln is also under construction, Miao Yuan went to find a skilled master, from the green brick to the red brick change, the sealed brick kiln, the temperature is about the same, but one is sealed, burned for three or four days, add water, with the help of water vapor, the seal is formed, at least about a month, the red brick is much simpler, you can use the rotary kiln, has been burning, after it becomes, it will naturally cool down, the technical difficulty and production cost, far smaller than the green brick, of course, the price will be greatly reduced, and the output can also come up.

On this red brick of ancient chemistry, the process of red bricks is written in detail, and it is good to do it, and even in it, there is also the process of green bricks, compared with the two, Zhao Xin mainly focuses on the roll call, the different processes of red bricks and green bricks, it's okay, these skilled workers, should be able to get started easily.

Zhao Xin, who came from later generations, has always believed that output is above all else, and now is not the time to seek refinement, but the time to seek quantity.

A armor that can be called a treasure, which consumes a lot of manual work and has strong protective power, is definitely not as good as 100, or even 1000, shoddy armor that can provide basic protection. The former may be called a work of art, and the treasure is destined to be the rarest of the kind.

The latter is standard equipment, even in the era of cold weapons, the strength is also brought by steel, the number can solve most of the problems, the Song Dynasty is a feudal dynasty with the largest number of troops, but in addition to the 800,000 forbidden army, other armies, similar to the peasants, they are really not as elite as the forbidden army, experience or something, is another matter, the key is actually defense.

Especially for protection, take the peasant army uprising as an example, at first, the rebel army was just hungry peasants, they held sticks and forks at most, facing the regular army, maybe 500 regular troops, could impact ten times, or even 20 times the peasant army, the peasant army in this period was very weak.

However, in the later stage of development, with the capture and training, a group of elite soldiers grew up, especially after possessing armor and weapons, the peasant army showed terrible strength.

500 regular troops can kill 5,000 unarmored peasant soldiers, but they will definitely not be able to move 5,000 peasant soldiers wearing simple armor, and it is already very terrible to be able to fight against two.

Numerical advantage, sometimes you can solve everything, you use green bricks, before the arrival of the Baozhou mutiny, you can only build one or two turrets, for the imminent war, there is not much help, but with red bricks, it may be ten times or twenty times, even if the red bricks are slightly worse than the green bricks, after 200 years it is completely inferior to the green bricks, that is also a matter of 200 years, with red bricks you can even completely sort out the city defense of Miaojiazhuang, and even build a completely protected fortress, this is the most critical, In this way, with the 800 people trained in the group, it can resist the attack of 10 times or even more strength.