"Brother Zheng, can you let me touch this bird?"

Dong Youyin greeted Wang Zheng with a smile, and after getting the agreement, he hurriedly took it, and his big hand kept rubbing on the bird's gun, Huang Yang and Shao Yong also hurriedly surrounded him, leaving Wang Zheng alone with a frown.

Seeing that Dong Youyin was amazed, even Guan Qingtian couldn't bear it, and walked to the side to take a closer look:

"This bird gun looks a little different from those guns, why is it so powerful?"

The first bird gun made by the Wendeng camp looks slightly different from the Weisho bird gun, and now the Weisho bird gun mostly pursues range, ignoring power and quality, and the craftsman treatment is too poor, resulting in a serious decline in quality.

Therefore, most of the bird guns in the guard are mainly 'long', and there are many craftsmen in the guard who are mixed and waiting for death, and do not know the craft, but even this kind of craftsman knows that it is not difficult to make bird guns, and it does not matter whether the raw materials of the gun are good or bad, as long as it is long enough, it can cope with the past.

The bird gun of the Wendeng camp does not have an almost exaggerated length, abandoning the flashy range, thickening the body with fine iron, although the range is only one hundred and fifty steps, but this is already the standard bird gun range, only within this range, the bird gun can become a real magic weapon.

If it is slightly improved in the future, it is not wishful thinking to penetrate the iron armor around the Tartar.

"A few blacksmith shops are working with all their might, how much can be made in a month?" Wang Zheng asked suddenly.

Fan Ruohai said respectfully: "If you go back to Xietai, there is still a shortage of craftsmen everywhere at the moment, even if you work day and night, it is difficult to make ten strokes in a month..."

After speaking, Fan Ruohai lowered his head and looked at Wang Zheng, worried that he would be blamed for this, but saw Wang Zheng frowning and didn't seem to notice him.

Wang Zheng didn't care about this, just shook his head and said:

"This speed is not good, if you lack people, go to me to recruit, go to Penglai to recruit, and then go to Laizhou Mansion to recruit, silver is not a problem, the key is to recruit craftsmen with craftsmanship, if you come to some people who eat and drink, watch your head!"

Feeling excited, Fan Ruohai said repeatedly: "Xietai rest assured, even if the little one has the courage to deceive Xietai, he will not dare to deceive Xietai!" ”

Since it was already possible to make bird guns, Wang Zheng began to think about recruiting and training bird guns, and the next morning he called Dong Youyin and other sentinels to come to discuss.

......

"Bang, bang, bang!"

This day was the second day after the expedition, and the sound of three drums came from the Wendeng camp official hall early in the morning, and everyone who heard it knew that this was the new Xietai king vying to gather for a meeting.

It's just that the generals who entered the official hall this time were almost all replaced with fresh faces from top to bottom, all of them were solemn men with tigers on their backs, and they all entered the official hall with respectful and solemn expressions.

"The last general will wait to visit the Xietai!"

"Don't be formal, all colleagues take a seat!"

In addition to Wang Zheng's henchmen Dong Youyin and Huang Yang, the generals of the Wendeng battalion present also had Gao Shan and several other newly elected sentinels, all of whom were promoted after passing the examinations.

Liu Daliang and the others didn't see any of them, although their current names are still sentry officers, but they are all empty sentry officers, and they are no longer the original real power generals.

As early as the first month of his succession, after Wang Zheng stabilized the situation, he immediately ordered that all the families and soldiers in Liu Daliang and his hands be disbanded and their homes confiscated.

Later, it was found that among these soldiers, there were also a small number of serious military households with families, and there was no need for Wang Zheng to implicate these people, so Guan Qingtian was responsible for recording them and sending them to An Jiayin to go home to farm.

After they went home, they were all honestly farming, and they were talking about the good of Wang Zhengwang Xietai, not only let them go, but An Jiayin was also distributed in full.

Leaving these people behind, most of the rest are homeless ruffians, and it will be difficult for these people to be properly settled, they are used to being lazy, and if they are released like this, it will definitely be difficult to control, and sooner or later something will happen.

Wang Zheng has a large number of good soldiers at hand, and he will not want this kind of soldier ruffian who has not done enough at all.

These people were not worried at first, but they were still talking and laughing, because there were too few young and strong people like them who wanted to come out to serve as soldiers, and few generals from all over the country were willing to let go, and most of them were about to be assigned by Wang Zheng.

This is also the unspeakable hidden of the generals in various places, the more the army is in chaos, the fewer people want to come out to be soldiers, especially in the late Ming Dynasty, the name of officers and soldiers is not stronger than bandits.

In some places, it is not enough to be robbed by bandits and rogues several times, and the officers and soldiers have to rob them again after passing by...

For them, it is better to be coerced by thieves than to be exploited as soldiers, and when recruiting, it is common to see a single figure for several months.

The generals in some places had nothing to do, that is, since the third year of Chongzhen, there have been cases of officers and soldiers forcibly enlisting military households.

In this way, the number of officers and soldiers has gone up, although the generals will press them under their own hands with knives, but this kind of people do not want to be soldiers in their bones, and they can't see anything when they fight against the wind, and they are all as fierce as tigers, but as long as they encounter a little setback, it will definitely be a rout in groups, and the combat effectiveness can be imagined.

Wang Zheng naturally knew the root of the low combat effectiveness of this kind of officers and soldiers, and gave him a good soldier, and he would not exchange ten soldiers for ruffians.

Therefore, the rest of Liu Daliang and other old departments were arranged by Wang Zheng to work as coolies in various manors.

The salters also profoundly implemented Wang Zheng's order, you can be obedient and do whatever you want, but if you have a little bit of caution and are found by the salters, they will immediately turn their faces and start without showing any affection.

Wang Zheng's Yan Ding is known for his prestige, and his combat effectiveness is stronger than that of the guards, and the soldiers and ruffians are all scattered to various places, and they are alone, and after the sporadic incidents at the beginning were suppressed by the local Yan Ding, there was no voice.

The official hall of Wendeng Camp became clean after being cleaned by Wang Zheng, Wang Zheng's expression was solemn, and there was no polite words from the official family when Wu Weizhong was in office, and he put forward the theme of this time straight to the point - recruiting bird guns.

After listening to Wang Zheng, Huang Yang began to groan, Dong Youyin didn't understand anything, and he didn't have anything to say, he just closed his mouth and stood aside, and the rest of the sentry officers all started to discuss, Gao Shan frowned, and clenched his fists:

"Xietai, according to our Ming military system, the bird gun must carry short knives and spears and other weapons to defend himself, our new bird guns can weigh more than ten or twenty pounds, and the weight of short knives and spears is not light, so I am afraid that few people can run in battle, I think it is better to ask the craftsman to reduce some weight?"

It was the first time Wang Zheng had heard such a statement, and his expression at the moment was a little exciting, and he asked: "The bird gun is a long-range suppression, why do you want to bring a melee weapon?" ”

"Xietai doesn't know, our officers and soldiers are in battle, and every time they don't wait for the enemy to come to them, they open fire, and as a result, the medicine runs out, and the enemy rushes to the front, and the bird gunners are simply slaughtered."

After Gao Shan finished speaking, another sentinel added:

"Yes, Xietai, the bird gun often blows up the bore, and there are a lot of dumb bombs, and eight out of ten shots are ornaments, which is why the bird gun is equipped with a short knife and a spear for self-defense."

Wang Zheng laughed, this is really laughable, what is the meaning of the existence of the bird gun, in this way, what is the use of holding the bird gun.

Obviously, the officers and soldiers in front of the formation were afraid of death and did not dare to fight, and the craftsmen who made the bird guns were slack and their skills were not perfect, resulting in the bird guns being unable to exert their normal power, but at this time, people attributed the problem to the fact that the bird guns were not very powerful.

What's more, this kind of standard bad habit has actually become a custom of the official army, how can it not be ridiculed?