In the arquebus arsenal, there are large piles of inferior arquebuses captured from the battlefield in the corners, and firearms apprentices and villager helpers are busy working on them.

In the era of industrialization and non-industrialization, the most time-consuming and troublesome step in making firearms was mainly to drill the barrel, so although these arquebuses were scrapped on the battlefield and could not be used, many of the barrels were still well preserved and could be reused.

Since Shu Zifeng wants to build an all-firearms army, he naturally has to use all the materials that can be used, not only the captured firearms, but also those broken abandoned cold weapons, which have been scraped to the blacksmith shop and re-tempered, in this era, the number of iron weapons is the criterion for determining a country's true strength!

Because in the 16th century, except for the real backwoods, all countries basically mastered the skilled iron forging technology, and the only factor restricting their armies was the amount of iron minerals and the intensity of mining.

Although the refurnace will greatly deplete the iron material, at least a batch of ready-made iron ingots can be recycled, which is much less convenient than directly mining iron ore and then smelting iron.

After Shu Zifeng came to the arquebus arsenal, he walked directly into the 'R&D' room where the gunsmith was in the innermost.

The system buildings produced by the conquest system, each building will give at least one useful talent, and military buildings will often refresh talents with general potential and proficient in the combat ability of a certain class, and buildings such as the mint and arquebus arsenal will naturally be similar to the talents of senior technicians, especially the arquebus arsenal, not only brushed out a senior gunsmith named Engley, but also brushed out more than a dozen firearms apprentices by the way.

After all, nowadays guns are all built by hand, and if you rely on one person alone, you won't be able to smash a few muskets in a month......

Immediately after the completion of the arquebus arsenal, Joseph brought in dozens of quick-witted villagers as helpers, who would be the first apprentices to expand the scale of musket manufacturing.

Joseph was well aware of what his lord's most needed weapons were, and he attached great importance to the arquebus arsenal, ranking it as the most important production complex in Dehrim.

Engley's room was like a watchmaker's workshop, filled with small parts, several early flintlock pistols of a veteran Swedish musketeer who had been killed in battle, complete or scattered, on the table, and a thin, middle-aged man with old-fashioned lenses sat and fiddled with disassembled flintlock parts.

"Engley, the imitation of the flintlock pistol should be fine."

The system must be a high-quality product, and the gunsmith Engeli may be limited by the times and will have a narrower vision, but his hands-on ability and professional knowledge cannot be compared even to Shu Zifeng, who is from later generations who fights all day long.

After all, Shu Zifeng can only shoot guns and has never made guns, and he uses modern rifles, so he naturally knows the structure of modern rifles well, and even gives him enough parts, he can assemble them with his bare hands......

The rapid development of firearms is accompanied by the emergence of human industrial machine tools, there is no industrial foundation to produce various precision parts, no matter how talented the firearms designer can do anything, just like a small screw, let people polish by hand, and are not allowed to use any modern products, only primitive tools, that is really challenging the limits of human hands......

"My lord, the structure of the flintlock pistol is not complicated, I have figured out the principle of it, and I will soon be able to imitate and transform it."

The gunsmith Ngeli put down his work and bowed back.

"Well, your next main task is to convert all the arquebuses I have brought over into flintlock muskets, and I will supply you with all the manpower and supplies as quickly as possible, understand?"

"Yes, my lord."

[Ding, congratulations to the host for completing the progress of the musket, the gunsmith Engely fully understands the structure and composition of the flintlock pistol through imitation samples, and can even optimize and modify it, the arquebus arsenal is evolving into a firearm arsenal, and the apprentice will learn to make a flintlock pistol twice as fast.

The Gun Factory will no longer be limited to the constraints of the times, as long as there is enough time and samples, gunsmiths can create more advanced front-loading muskets, and the host can also stream them on demand to speed up development.

As your outstanding performance has been recognized by the Conquest system, the Dehrim Realm Rank Promotion Mission is hereby released:

Content: Capture at least one capital-level city, including Rostov-on-Don, and defeat the Tver and Vologda legions besieging Yaroslavl.

Reward: Deherim's direct system territory will be upgraded from the village level to the fortress level, and the new features of the conquest system will be opened after the upgrade.

The number of capital-level cities occupied (excluding Yaroslavl City) will be counted when completing the mission, and each additional city will receive an additional reward, which will be cashed out in the form of system buildings or lottery opportunities. 】

"Fortress level? Elf, what benefits will I get when my territory is upgraded? You have to give me some motivation, after all, this task seems to be beyond my ability, Rostov is not a garbage castle of those small and medium-sized nobles outside, it is more tightly defended than Yaroslav City, one Yaroslav City can block the siege of tens of thousands of Moscow troops, and my thousands of people are not enough to stuff the teeth between the city of Rostov. ”

Shu Zifeng, who came out of the gun arsenal, replied to the system elf in his mind.

[Shu Zifeng, where are you most worried about now? The system elf asked rhetorically.

"Of course, it is a reliable population and a mature army, training the army is too time-consuming and laborious, although war is the best place to hone the army, but the population given to me by the conquest system is really unbearable, the original 600 people are now less than 300, and this is still the case that I have repeatedly pulled the natives as cannon fodder to protect.

According to this ratio, wouldn't half of the 2000 system lords I just acquired have to die if they want to become real warriors in a short period of time?

Even if I have a plan to train this group of lords now, I don't want them to go to the battlefield again, with the scale of Deherim's development now, sooner or later it will be discovered, these two thousand people I still plan to use as the foundation to defend the foundation, and Deherim's production and food cultivation are inseparable from people, if I continue to use military force like before, I am afraid that the thousand acres of fertile land outside Dehrim will be abandoned. ”