Chapter 13: Weapons Specialists

According to Dr. Zheng's instructions, the Jin Mansion prepared some liquid food for Gao Yingshu, and after instructing the maid to feed her into her stomach, he set up a large table of mountain delicacies in the front hall to invite her to be comfortable.

An Yi has not eaten a grain of rice for nearly a whole day since last night, but there are no outsiders in the Jin Mansion, so he can't care about anything and gobble it up. He looked at Jin Deju and called him to eat slowly, kept asking him which dish he liked to eat, and told the kitchen to make another one.

"No need... Don't bother uncle. An Yi hurriedly waved his hand, indicating that he had eaten enough.

He wiped the oil from the corner of his mouth, and then started from An Xin being kidnapped by mountain bandits, and told Jin Deju and his son eloquently. The two fathers and sons listened to the story so intently that they completely forgot the food on the table, and when they heard the three of them fall down from the mountainside, they were so shocked that Jin Mingyin's chopsticks fell to the ground.

An Yi said: "Counting, two days have passed, and tomorrow I will go to the camp of the King of Shu no matter what, Ying Shu will not be able to walk with me like this, and I will have to trouble Uncle Jin's mansion to take care of it for a few days." ”

Jin Deju replied: "Look at what you are talking about, as long as your nephew and daughter-in-law are willing, and live in the Jin Mansion for three or five years, it doesn't matter." Ming'er, I'll find a fast horse on the house for you, you go out of the village gate, ride along the Qingshui River at the gate for more than 100 miles, and then 30 miles after Songjia Village, and then you will arrive in Huayang County. ”

An Yi thanked Jin Deju again, so it seems that this Jinzhu Village is about 130 miles away from Huayang County, and it should be possible to reach it in about half a day.

"Uncle, which county does this village belong to in Chengdu Prefecture?" An Yi asked:

"Hehe, it doesn't belong anywhere. Back then, I left Chengdu County with Yin'er, and came to this ravine with some domestic servants. Jiulong Mountain is rich in timber resources, so I took my family to make a carpenter for this solid wood table, chair and desk.

Later, many homeless people settled here, including many skilled old carpenters, and our business became bigger and bigger. You know, your aunt is from Yangzhou, so she built this Jiangnan-style mansion. It wasn't until the famine in Huayang County five years ago that we took in a lot of homeless hungry people here, which led to the current scale of Jinzhu Village. ”

Jin De took a sip of the wine on the table and continued: "The gate at the entrance of the village and those militias are also recent, in order to deter the beasts that infest and hurt people everywhere in this mountain. ”

Hearing this, An Yi couldn't help asking: "The crossbow arrows in the hands of Uncle Jin's militiamen, I think they are very different from the standard crossbow arrows used in the Great Xia Dynasty, they are short and flexible, and the rate of fire is very fast, but they are made in the village?" ”

Repeaters were already widely used in the Central Plains in the early days of the establishment of the Great Xia Dynasty, and many armies, including the nomadic Liao State in the north, were also equipped with repeaters.

At first, An Yi didn't catch his attention when he saw the crossbow in the hands of the militia of Jinzhu Village, he felt that it was nothing more than a little smaller than a normal crossbow and easy to carry. It wasn't until he shot Liu Er with a crossbow in the morning that he realized the difference between this crossbow.

Jin Deju looked at Jin Mingyin helplessly, "You have to ask this younger brother of yours." He built a room by himself, and he didn't know how to study well every day, so he tinkered with all kinds of mechanisms in it, including this crossbow, which he also asked craftsmen to make. ”

His thinking is somewhat similar to An Zhiyuan, he is used to seeing the ups and downs of life, and he wants his next generation to study more and gain fame, that is the serious thing of honoring the ancestors, Jin Mingyin made these things in his eyes, they are all carpenter's work.

An Yi smiled, he empathized with Jin Mingyin's pain, and he also understood Old Man Jin's thoughts, so he said to this Jin Mingyin: "Mingyin, when you are full, can you take me to visit?" ”

Jin Mingyin looked at An Yi with wide eyes, he thought that An Yi would definitely say something like the old man of their family to persuade him to study hard, but he didn't expect An Yi to take the initiative to visit his "mechanical room", and hurriedly wiped his mouth, "Let's go, Brother Yi, go now!" With that, he pulled An Yi out of the front hall.

His so-called "little inventions", in the eyes of his father, are all not doing business, and the attitude of the old man Jin also determines the attitude of the whole village to a certain extent.

Old Man Jin took another sip of wine, scooped up a mouthful of the bird's nest soup stewed in the house and stuffed it into his mouth, and said to himself: "What a broken thing, see who is blindly showing off with whom." ”

To a large extent, the attitude of the old man Jin also represents the attitude of many clans and even ordinary people in the Great Xia Dynasty, this dynasty that has enjoyed more than 300 years of peace has long forgotten the war and danger, and the idea of emphasizing literature over military force has been repeatedly implanted in the minds of several generations, and only reading and scientific research is the only way to enter the top of society.

As soon as He entered the house, he saw all kinds of unnamed organs on the ground, on the table, and in the sky. On the table in the center, there was a crossbow made of all-metal, which was the one that Jin Mingyin held in his hand in the afternoon.

He stepped forward and picked up the crossbow, which carried a lot of weight. Jin Mingyin introduced him to him on the side,

"The crossbow of the Great Xia Dynasty is all on the back, and my crossbow has transferred the bracket to the bottom into a very short small 'tongue', and the crossbow arrow has also been cut off by half the length, and you only need to move your fingers to shoot the crossbow arrow. I made this crossbow with fine iron, and it is very powerful, but because the cost is too high, it has not yet been popularized to the militia. Now the crossbows in the hands of the militia are still wooden. ”

An Yi asked, "Wouldn't the range and power be greatly reduced?" ”

Jin Mingyin replied: "That's right, because of the change of the bracket, if the original structure is still used, then the power of the finger buckle bracket will be greatly increased, and the person who uses it will slow down the rate of fire because of the sore hand." This kind of small crossbow arrow, trained people can hold two crossbows in both hands, and in a few breaths, they can shoot all sixty arrows from two boxes, but the killing range is only fifty steps. ”

This kid is really a talent in this regard, and he said in his heart.

Putting down the crossbow arrows, he saw a rolled-up drawing next to the table, took it and spread it out on the table, and saw that there were some structural drawings drawn on it, as if it were a cannon.

"Is this one? Furlong machine? An Yi asked, "Where did you get this drawing?" ”

"It was a merchant in the Western Regions, who spent three hundred taels of silver, and for this, my father scolded me well, saying that I was a loser." Jin Mingyin scratched his head embarrassedly, if he used it to buy the four treasures of the study, he might spend three thousand taels, and the old man Jin would still praise him with a smile, but these are all strange and clever skills in Jin Deju's opinion, and they are a waste of money.

The Franc machine was introduced to Bactria from the West a long time ago, and compared with the original cannon of the Great Xia Dynasty, this cannon can fire continuously and eject like a fire snake, and is also known as a rapid-fire cannon. Mainly by dividing the whole gun into three parts: the barrel, the belly, and the sub-gun. In the pre-war preparation, the * projectile is first filled into the sub-cannon, and then the sub-cannon is loaded into the belly of the gun when the gun is fired, and the sub-cannon is ignited for firing, and then repeated operations, only need to continuously load the pre-prepared sub-cannon into the belly, which greatly reduces the time when the old-fashioned artillery still needs to be preloaded. The Great Xia Dynasty had already applied the technology of the Fur Machine to the army's artillery many years ago.

Jin Mingyin said: "I'm wondering if I can use this kind of sub-mother cannon of the Furlong machine to use it on the firecracker." It's a pity that there are no test items in this mountain village. ”

This idea struck An Yi's eyes, and the firearm had long been used as a new weapon against the nomadic cavalry in the combat units of Great Xia, including among the soldiers of Chengdu Prefecture, and the main practical tactic was the "three-stage strike" handed down from Emperor Gaozu. This means that the firecrackers are divided into three columns, which are reloaded, aimed, and fired in a cycle to make up for the fatal defect of the slow rate of fire.

But with the continuous improvement of new crossbow arrows, the firearms were simply not enough to deal with the nomadic cavalry that came and went. In most cases, after the three salvos brought down the front row of cavalry, they were harvested by the countless sabers behind.

"Good boy, when I solve the matter of the mountain bandits, I will take you to Chengdu County and let you see the real fire guns and furlong machine guns." An Yi smiled and said to Jin Mingyin,

His grandfather has served as the prefect of Chengdu for many years, and there are countless officialdom relations, and in this period of peace, it is not difficult to call Uncle Sheng, and it is not difficult to fire two shots and fire a few shots in the school field.

"Really?" Jin Mingyin's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he was so excited that he almost knelt on the ground and gave An Yi two heads.

"Young Master!" There was a knock at the door

"What's the matter?"

"Liu Er, who was locked in the firewood room, ran away!"