After having money and food, everything else was simple, and in late August, weapons arrived one after another, and Yang Lin began to devote all his body and mind to daily training.

Chen Shiqi, the governor of Sichuan, gave himself a month, and now more than ten days have passed, and the time left for himself is only more than twenty days.

Although they are all old weapons in the arsenal, they are much better than those built by the soldiers in the past.

According to the establishment of the two bureaus, there are 240 bright helmets, 240 sets of cotton armor, 240 sets of belts, and 30 sets of chain mail armor alone...

There are 80 long knives, 100 birds, 20 bows and arrows, 20 crossbows...

Looking at so many weapons, everyone's eyes lit up, and Yang Wei, Yang Cheng, Long Zhijiao, Yao Chonglie and others couldn't put it down.

Yang Lin said with a smile: "Everyone, storytellers often use eighteen kinds of weapons to describe a person's superb martial arts, I train according to Qi Jiguang's "Training Record", even if it is a killer array, there are small flag leaders, Wu Chang, rattan players, wolf players, spearmen, and boring palladium hands, so a single team involves five or six kinds of weapons, if you add bows and arrows, foot crossbows, it will only be more."

Although the folk say that the art is not pressing, but everyone also knows the truth that greed is not chewing, think about it, although the little flag commander is a little stronger than others, but it is a bit difficult to figure out such many weapons in just a few months. ”

Everyone was quite puzzled, Wang Guangxian arched his hand and asked: "My lord, raising troops for thousands of miles is used for a while, and training soldiers is already very hard, what shortcut do you have?" ”

Thinking of the regularization of the army in his previous life, Yang Lin nodded and said: "Don't ask for a big thing, you must be small and fine." We are accustomed to being a local soldier at will, and the most important thing for us to cooperate with the officers and soldiers in combat now is to unify the establishment and conduct training in a unified manner.

It was already very difficult for the rattan player, the palladium boring player, the wolf hand, and the spearman to cooperate, but now everyone uses different bows and arrows, foot crossbows, bird guns, etc., which will only make it more difficult. ”

The reorganization was originally arranged together in the same organization, so Yang Lin organized Zhuangding into three brigades.

They are the strong bow brigade, which is in charge of Yang Wei, who was born in Orion, and the soldiers are armed with cold weapons and fight with bows and arrows.

The arbalest brigade is in charge of the dragon frame, and the soldiers are armed with cold weapons and fight with foot crossbows.

The sharpshooter brigade was in charge of Yang Cheng and Yao Chonglie, and the soldiers fought with bird guns and long knives.

The most criticized thing about the ancient official army is to select the most brave and good at fighting to form a pro-army to fight, as the crossing clan originally wanted to change this status quo, but in ancient times, there was a shortage of resources, and qualified soldiers were very scarce, so Yang Lin had no choice but to form his own pro-army, that is, the bird gun brigade.

The Bird Gun Brigade was equipped after repeated requests, and its soldiers were even more stundy men selected from thousands of people, and they were now lined up in three rows and were ready to receive their weapons.

A hundred bird guns were received from the governor's yamen, and for the sake of solemnity, everyone now lined up in a line, and each point to the name of the person came forward to receive the musket from his hand.

There are two types of birds, namely small birds and large birds.

The vast majority of them are small birds for:

The small bird gun weighs about 6 catties and 5 taels, has a total length of 120 cm, a barrel of 90 cm, a caliber of about 13 mm, and can fire three coins (about 12 grams) of lead.

In addition to the small bird chong, there are more than ten big bird guns, that is, what everyone often calls the hook gun or turtledove foot gun, weighing about seven or eight catties, with a total length of 150 centimeters, a barrel of 120 centimeters, a caliber of 20 millimeters, and a gunpowder and lead weighing as much as 6 yuan, which is enough to kill and injure heavily armored troops.

The bird gun accessories include a barrage, which is used to build gunpowder lead.

A tin turtle, shaped like a closed container of a soft-shelled turtle, is used to hold gunpowder.

A lead bag can hold 300 rounds of lead.

There are 30 tubes of medicine tubes, each of which contains a gunpowder weighed in advance, wrapped in kraft paper, and tied to the body like a bullet belt now, which is the prototype of paper bullets. (In Qi Jiguang's "Record of Military Training", . ）

In addition to these large pieces, there are also five arquebuses, hammers, scissors, refining stones, medicine spoons, and ignition powder.

The Bird Gun can fire two types of ammunition, one is a scatter bullet and one is a solid bullet.

In addition to this, the Bird's Gun, which is slightly different from other units, has a casing-type spur mounted on it.

In the early days, musket units did not have hand-to-hand combat weapons, and pikemen were specially formed in Western Europe to protect musketeers, while in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, there was a development in the East.

In the early days, he equipped the musketeers with long knives, and held broadswords to compete with each other like righteous soldiers in the War of Resistance Against Japan, although he suffered a little loss, but he was not defenseless.

After that, there was a plug-type spur (the Ming Dynasty army was equipped as early as 1451), which could be used as a spear.

There are hidden blades at the end of the gun, such as Zhao Shizhen's Thunderbolt, Lumi Gun, etc., which are pulled out to fight when they are close.

However, these inventions had obvious disadvantages, such as the plug-type spur that completely sealed the muzzle of the gun after being loaded, and could not fire strong and medium gunpowder at close range.

Although the hidden blade solves the problem of hand-to-hand combat, soldiers need to be careful to hide the blade when releasing the blade, which will affect the effect of the discharging blade.

Holding a bird gun equipped with a spur, Yang Lin's first reaction was to install a knife holder on the head of the gun and equip it with a bayonet, but the accuracy of the spring in this era did not meet the requirements, and after thinking about it, he still used a casing type spur.

Like a scythe used in rural harvesting, the casing spur only needs to be threaded at the muzzle and tail of the spur, which can be tightened during battle, unlike the plug spur that hinders ammunition and shooting.

Of course, it was impossible to give this order directly, Yang Lin gathered everyone together to find a way for everyone to solve it.

Let's discuss the shortcomings of the plug sleeve first, and then ask everyone if there is any good way, anyway, I know the answer, and now it mainly depends on whether the soldiers like to use their brains to think about problems.

Everyone scratched their ears and cheeks, gossiping, and all kinds of ideas were the same, but after talking for a long time and not getting to the point, Yang Lin seemed quite anxious, and tried to guide: "As you think, this is similar to us fixing the axe, fixing the sickle, or the carpenter fixing the rafters when we repair the house, and now the barrel is covered with a spur, think about it, is there any other way?" ”

Long Zhi's frame froze the main head, his eyes lit up, and he said casually: "My lord, it's not okay to put a spur on the barrel, so is it okay to use a spur to put the barrel on it?" ”

Yang Lin smiled, shook his head and said, "The barrel of the spear? Quick, bring a bird gun and a dagger, let's take a look? ”

Holding the model and trying to put it up, he nodded first, and suddenly realized: "Yes, the gun spur sleeve barrel, after the gun is set, you can continue to load gunpowder, you can continue to put the gun, not bad."

But, how do you fix this spur? Alas, it's really just solved a problem and another problem arises, let's talk about how to fix it? ”

Some people seemed quite frustrated, while others came up with ideas, and in the end it was decided to make threads on the inner wall of the barrel and screw them on the periphery of the barrel.

There is no problem with the method, but the processing is very difficult, relying entirely on manual processing, which takes four or five days to complete.

In this way, the bird gun is equipped with a casing type spur, the prototype of this modern bayonet, although it is not a major technological breakthrough, but from the perspective of actual combat, it can be said to be a multiplier of the bird gun.

In order to resist the opponent's infantry in hand-to-hand combat, they were equipped with pikemen in the west and long knives in the Qijia army in the east.

With the bayonet, a cold weapon, the musketeer can shoot a long-range musket from a distance, and shoot a barrel projectile before hand-to-hand combat, without the need for a pikeman to protect him or to defend himself with a long knife.

It can be considered that without the bayonet, the musketeers could not form an independent army from other cold weapon units, and with the bayonet, the musketeers had the prerequisites for an independent army, so it can be seen that the significance of the bayonet to the musketeers.

After the successful development and trial production of the casing spur, the bird gun has the ability to defend and fight in close quarters, but now the biggest problem it faces is the problem of armor.