Chapter Ninety-Three: Weapons and Equipment
Liu Yuetian quietly opened the window, it was dark outside, and there were occasionally one or two dog barking sounds in the distance, but there was no movement other than that.
Liu Yuetian jumped out, landed on the ground silently, and then walked towards the military camp in the north of the city that Xiao Er said.
Jincheng County occupies a small area, only about two miles from south to north, Liu Yuetian carefully walked through the alley, and arrived in the north of the city in a while.
This was originally a barracks, stationed hundreds of soldiers, these soldiers are either old, weak, sick and disabled here for the rest of their lives, if they don't violate the military law and are sent here to be exiled, so the original barracks are dilapidated, that is, barely inhabitable, but now, the barracks have been renovated, and more barracks have been built, and the area of the barracks has been greatly improved, and there are four soldiers standing guard at the gate outside the barracks, even though it is late at night, these guards are also standing straight, which shows how strict the military discipline of Daqin is.
"This barracks is heavily guarded, it seems that my guess is correct, and I will sneak in the direction of the oasis tomorrow to reconnoitre."
The other party has 5,000 cavalry, and the small Jincheng County can not accommodate so many men and horses, and only the oasis ten miles away is possible, as long as the main force of the army is determined, then Liu Yuetian's plan can be carried out in the next step.
Liu Yuetian was about to leave at this moment, and at this time, the sound of carriages and luan bells came from a distance, and soon seven or eight five-horse carriages arrived in front of the barracks under the escort of dozens of people.
"So many weapons broken today? Are you guys killing each other? ”
One of the guards at the door said jokingly.
"Alas, who says it's not, don't say that so many weapons have been destroyed at the end of the day, even if we are tired to death."
A soldier escorting the carriage complained repeatedly.
"Don't talk nonsense, hurry up and put all these weapons into storage, and repair them all tomorrow, if we delay the drill, none of us can afford it!"
A man who appeared to be the leader urged.
The gate opened, and a group of men drove the carriage into the camp and walked inside.
"Weapons?"
Liu Yuetian immediately understood, soldiers have to practice every day, ordinary drills are what to practice strength and speed, and there are fighting skills, and the closest to actual combat is naturally sparring, almost real swords and real guns.
But this kind of real combat sparring of real swords and guns has a lot of wear and tear on weapons and armor, and it's okay to say one or two pieces, but it's a big deal to replace them with new ones, but if they are damaged by hundreds or thousands, it will be troublesome.
In this era, weapons were crafted by hand, and it would take a blacksmith two hours to craft the simplest dagger, and more time to craft a sharp arrow and the tip of a spear.
In Tianshui, blacksmiths are all military members, and they lead their apprentices to constantly build and repair weapons every day, even so, it is not bad to be able to create dozens of weapons in a day.
If a weapon is damaged, it basically has to be rebuilt, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive, so Tianshui's soldiers rarely have actual combat projects during drills.
It seems that these soldiers of Daqin were damaged because of actual combat training, and these weapons were transported to the big camp in the city, a full five carts, I am afraid that there are thousands of weapons, this Daqin is really a big business.
Watching the other party pull the carriage into the camp, Liu Yuetian suddenly remembered something.
"There are Great Qin's weapons stored here, that is, there is enough iron, can't these iron be used to create weapons?"
The system can be used to craft weapons, and the quality of these weapons is much better than the weapons in reality, such as the cheapest iron short knife, which is good enough to compare with the Shu knife made by Dashu, the most advanced smelting technology today, you must know that this kind of Shu knife can only be used by the most elite soldiers in Dashu.
It's just that this most "cheap" iron short knife also costs thirty catties of pig iron, and so many raw materials are enough to create three or four ordinary knives and guns.
It was precisely because there were too many raw materials needed that there was only so much pig iron in Tianshui in addition to Liu Yuan's heavily guarded arsenal, so Liu Yuetian didn't want to make weapons for so long.
But now, this Great Qin's arsenal is close at hand, if they don't yin them, wouldn't they come in vain?
Thinking of this, Liu Yuetian changed his attention, as long as he secretly got into it and used the system to "melt" all those weapons, he naturally wouldn't get any ordinary knives and guns, and he couldn't take so much if he got it, it was best to have a high-end piece of equipment.
"By the way, I have a zircon on my body now, this zircon is the material used to make treasure armor, and the cheapest one is the Yanling chain mail that costs 200 merit points.
Yanling chain mail: treasure armor level, created by special technology, soft and close defense is amazing, inlaid with zircon to increase the defense by fifty, and increase the prestige of military generals and civil officials.
Yanling chain mail is the lowest level of treasure armor, the defense has reached fifty, it can be said that wearing this armor ordinary sword can basically be ignored, and this armor has no physical requirements, anyone can wear it, but the only thing that gives Liu Yuetian a headache is that the pig iron needed is as much as two thousand catties.
Two thousand catties of pig iron can make more than two hundred ordinary swords, which are worth dozens of taels when converted into silver, but looking at the weapons on the other party's seven carriages just now, I am afraid that it is more than two thousand catties.
Liu Yuetian was timid and secretly happy.
Of course, a weapon may not all be made of pig iron, such as a spear, except for the head of the gun, most of the barrels are wooden, otherwise, the iron gun with a whole body of pig iron may exceed 20 catties, and ordinary people can not move.
Most of the general short swords and short knives are made of pig iron, and the length of three feet is about seven or eight catties, which is acceptable to trained soldiers, as long as half of these weapons are swords, then Liu Yuetian has enough materials to create a Yanling chain mail.
There are two entrances and exits to this barracks, the other is the north gate of Jincheng, which has now been blocked, guarded by guards, and only the army can enter and exit.
Except for the entrance, there is a circle of hardwood fences, and the tops of the hardwoods are sharpened into sharp points, more than a zhang high, and ordinary people can't jump over them at all.
"You can only get over these fences."
The fence more than a zhang high is nothing to Liu Yuetian.
Thinking of this, Liu Yuetian took advantage of the night to quietly come to a hidden place, and then ran more than a dozen steps and jumped hard, while supporting his hand on the fence, his body flew sideways, and then fell to the ground silently.
Liu Yuetian shrank in a corner, staring at the soldiers at the door, the four guards walked around outside the gate, and it took a long time before they stopped, it was already early in the morning, and the guards were also a little sleepy, and after a while, they simply walked into the gatehouse and took a nap.
"Good chance!"
Liu Yuetao bent his waist and quickly rushed to the door of a courtyard, where the group that had just transported the weapons had entered.
There were five brick houses in the courtyard, and the seven carriages were also parked in the middle of the courtyard, but the horses had been unloaded and led into the stable.
"Three of the five houses are much larger than the other two, and they appear to be warehouses for weapons, the other appears to be an iron-beaten shed, which is supposed to be used to repair damaged weapons, and the last one is supposed to be occupied by the guards, but it is pitch black inside, and it seems that they are all asleep."
Liu Yuetian tiptoed to the door of a warehouse, and at the same time mobilized the system: metal raw materials were found, a total of 3,670 catties of pig iron.
A prompt sound came from the system, and at the same time, the image in the warehouse also completely appeared in Liu Yuetian's mind.
I saw that there were a large number of knives and guns stored in the warehouse, as well as bows, crossbows and arrows and various armors, all neatly classified, sword weapons were all broken blades, guns and arrows and other weapons were damaged at the tip of the gun, and there were many newly created weapons stacked next to them.
"Huh?"
Liu Yuetian did not immediately order the system to make these pig iron weapons, but it was these weapons of Great Qin that aroused his interest.
Of course, it is not that these weapons are so fine, no matter how fine they are, they are far from being produced by the system, but the way these weapons are assembled makes Liu Yuetian feel extraordinary.
Take Da Zhou as an example, if a weapon is damaged, such as a long knife rolled up the blade, then if you want to repair it, you have to re-smelt, quench, temper, cut the blade, etc., this process is afraid that it is similar to rebuilding a handle, sword weapons are better, after all, it is made of a piece of pig iron, the knife body is thick, the degree of wear resistance is higher, and the loss rate is naturally smaller, but the spear weapon is more expensive, the tip of the gun is small and sharp, the pig iron itself is very brittle, it is better to pierce it on human flesh, if it is pierced on a hard object, The probability of the tip of the spear breaking is very large, and this kind of spear tip is not small, but it is more time-consuming and laborious to build, ordinary blacksmiths can't build, only those experienced masters can make it, and the same is true for the blades of those arrows, an arrow shot out is basically the tip of the arrow rebuilt.
However, the manufacturing process in this era is very low, and the construction is basically done by hand, which means that the level of detail is not high, and many new gun tips that are replaced after a damaged tip cannot match the original barrel.
Take the soldiers of Tianshui as an example, the weapons they use all look similar, but if you look closely, some people use longer knives, some are shorter, some are lighter, and some are heavier, which does not seem to affect the battle, but once the tip of a gun is damaged, then the whole gun needs to be remanufactured.
But these weapons of Daqin are different, almost all weapons are the same in appearance, length, weight, etc., are the same, one gun tip is damaged, and the tip of the other gun can be installed immediately.
What does this mean? Others don't know that Liu Yuetian naturally knows it clearly, which means that Daqin already has the prototype of a standardized process, and all weapons are built with molds, and this technology is much stronger than Tianshui and even Dazhou.
In addition, these weapons are engraved with words, and the top one reads: Xiangguo Fan Ju, and then: Daliang made Meng Sheng, and the names Fan Ju and Meng Sheng are on almost every weapon.
"Good strict management system."
Liu Yuetian secretly exclaimed.