（0113）

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After some discussion, Zhang Zhun sorted out the various divisions under the jurisdiction of Shengxia Sect and clarified their respective rights and responsibilities.

At present, the Shengxia Sect has a total of the following eight divisions:

【Mintian Division】Steward Wang Mingyu, Hou Shanping.

[Juntian Division] steward Liu Hang.

【Financial Secretary】Steward Yeung Yinghan.

【Refined Salt Division】Steward Yang Ruifeng.

[Iron Smelting Division] stewards Li Fenglai, Yin Gensheng, Zou Huoming.

[Equipment Division] stewards Zhou Shiwen and Luo Dashan.

【Injury and Retirement Division】Steward Lin Bin.

【Intelligence Division】Steward Yang Dahao (mouse).

It is said that regular affairs are assigned to these eight divisions.

The manager of each division is directly responsible to Zhang Zhun.

As for the escort team, it is outside the Shengxia Sect, and only Zhang Zhun is qualified to mobilize and command.

At this meeting of Shengxiazong, there were a group of outstanding personnel who became the objects of investigation of Shengxiazong, including Wu Qingliang, Zhou Zhengyu, Zhong Wuying, Liu Baoyu, Yang Liren and others. Wu Qingliang and Zhou Zhengyu were both important backbones of the armed forces and guerrillas. Zhong Wuying is the deputy of the escort team, Liu Baoyu is a talent excavated by Liu Hang, and Yang Liren is helping Wang Mingyu do things. The population of Fushan is close to 8,000, and there are only a few people in Shengxia Sect, so they can't be busy at all, and it is very necessary to strengthen their own strength.

At this meeting of the Shengxia Sect, Zhang Zhun specifically asked everyone to guard against arrogance and rashness, and never let down their vigilance. Don't think that if you win the battle at Baisha River, you will be at ease. The crisis in Fushan City is far from over! They killed the predecessor's Qianhu, and this matter cannot be easily stopped.

Zhang Zhun pointed out that the officers and men will certainly not be reconciled to this defeat, and they will certainly make a comeback. The next time the officers and soldiers arrive, they will definitely be even stronger. Zhang Zhun believes that every member of the Shengxia Sect must maintain a high sense of crisis and must not take it lightly.

First of all, the intelligence department led by the mouse must pay close attention to the movements of Laizhou Mansion. If the officers and soldiers want to make a comeback, they must still be led by officials at all levels in Laizhou Prefecture. Among them, the backbone should be Sun Zhiqi, the governor of Laizhou Prefecture. In the battle of Baisha River, he was the one who suffered the greatest loss, and he would definitely not give up.

Even, the tentacles of the Intelligence Department will begin to extend into the territory of Dengzhou Mansion and closely monitor the movements of the soldiers in Dengzhou Prefecture. Yang Wenyue, the governor of Denglai, is not an ordinary person, this person was originally a right-hand politician in Jiangxi, successively served as an envoy to Huguang and other positions, and participated in the suppression of peasant uprisings many times, so he can be regarded as a decisive figure in killing. At present, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are mainly stationed in Dengzhou Mansion. Laizhou Province itself did not have many soldiers. If the imperial court transfers troops from Dengzhou Mansion, Zhang Zhun will have to deal with it carefully.

Second, all officers and men of the escort unit must immediately launch a large-scale military training campaign. The main content of the large-scale military training campaign is how to be a tiger. Although there are not enough tiger guns to distribute to everyone, everyone uses wood and bamboo, and they must also imitate the various movements of the tiger and train in advance. In the future, when you receive the Tiger Ben, you will be able to do it proficiently immediately.

Zhang Zhun's requirement is that every soldier can do conditioned reflexes, and he can reload and shoot without going through his brain at all. At that time, whatever happens on the battlefield will be a passing moment for them. The only thing they have to do is reload, shoot, reload, shoot...... Infinite loop. Until you are defeated, or the battle is completely over.

Zhang Zhun also proposed the concept of a sniper.

For each squad, you can consider training three to five snipers. The role of a sniper is to find fighters and ambush enemy officers outside the main battlefield. They have to avoid the thick white smoke of the battlefield, hide themselves, get close to the enemy, and then kill with one shot. Considering the way the Tiger Gun is loaded, basically every sniper only has one chance to shoot. If you miss a blow, you must evacuate quickly.

The range of the Tiger Gun is actually very long, and in this era, it should be good to use it as a sniper rifle temporarily. Of course, in the era when there were no sights, the vision of the shooter was very demanding, at least the vision of later pilots. Fortunately, people in this era generally have good eyesight, and they choose the best of the best, but there is no big problem. As for the sniper's instructor, it was naturally Zhang Zhun himself.

Zhong Wuying, Yang Weiguo, Liu Jixiang and others all rushed to sign up for the sniper training class. It seems that everyone is still very interested in this one-hit killing combat skill. Think about it, what a sense of accomplishment it would be to aim at the enemy's commander dozens of feet away, and shoot fatally!

Early the next morning, Zhang Zhun came to the craftsman's workshop.

The main purpose of his arrival, of course, was to improve the quality of the Tiger Ben. Zhou Shiwen, Luo Dashan, Li Fenglai, Yin Gensheng, Zou Huoming and others are already waiting for Zhang Zhun here. After a simple greeting, Zhang Zhun began to put forward his own suggestions.

First of all, Zhang Zhun set up a maintenance team in addition to the various groups set up before, which was specially responsible for repairing the damaged Tiger Ben. If necessary, the craftsman's workshop may have to send someone to follow the escort directly into the battlefield to provide maintenance services on the spot.

These faulty tiger guns are not structurally damaged, and after professional repairs, they can be reused soon. Zhang Zhun was thinking about whether to equip the escort team with special maintenance personnel. If it can be quickly repaired on the battlefield and the role of the tiger can be re-played, the effect will undoubtedly be good.

The second is to re-size the Tiger Gun to make it faster to reload.

The original Tiger Gun had a barrel length of 36 inches (about 1,200 mm), and with the butt and bayonet, the total length was 57 inches (about 1,900 mm). When it was erected, the muzzle of the gun was already at the chin of the fighters, and it was difficult to reload. After research, Zhang Zhun and the craftsmen decided to reduce the barrel by 3 inches to a total length of 33 inches (about 1100 mm). At the same time, the length of the butt, also shortened by a small amount. In this way, the Tiger Ben gun was about 42 inches (about 1400 mm) long without a bayonet. When erected, the muzzle of the gun was about the position of the fighters' chest. The action of loading is much more natural.

Reducing the 3-inch barrel does not have much impact on the range of the Tiger Gun, nor does it have a big impact on accuracy. As a matter of fact, the battlefield was shrouded in white smoke and filled with gunsmoke, and the target could not be seen clearly from a distance of 100 meters, even if the range of the Tiger Ben Gun was 900 meters or even 1,900 meters, it could not be fully utilized. If a modern rifle does not have a scope, it is not a threat to a target at a distance of 200 meters.

Conversely, increasing the reload speed of the Tiger Gun reduces the reload time and damage rate, resulting in a more intensive firepower. For the crowd tactics that prevailed during this period, it would produce great lethality. If the average rate of fire of the Tiger Gun can reach 5 rounds per minute, even if the enemy has cavalry, it will be able to knock the opponent down first.

Again, Zhang Zhun requested that the pusher rod be changed from the original wooden to iron, and fused with the whole bar. One end is the throughbar, and the other end is the pushbar.

This prevents the pusher lever from breaking inside the barrel. The pusher lever broke inside the barrel, and on the battlefield, it simply could not be pulled out for a short time, which meant that the Tiger Gun was completely ineffective, which was a very serious failure.

The last one is to continue to improve the quality of the Tiger Hammer.

Fifty accurate shots is still a bit less, and basically after a battle, the Tiger Ben will be scrapped. This utilization rate is really heart-wrenching. No matter how powerful the Tiger Ben Gun is, at such a high cost, Zhang Zhun can't use it on a large scale! At least double it again, to a hundred times.

In fact, Zhang Zhun's expectation is that the Tiger Ben will be able to shoot accurately at least 500 times. The barrels of later generations, with such a fast rate of fire and such a dense shot, can reach a life of several thousand rounds. There should be no problem with the weapons of this era reaching the level of 10% in later generations.

As for how to improve the quality of tiger guns, craftsmen have a lot of suggestions.

Among them, there is a craftsman named Li Delu, who proposed to improve the number of times the barrel is used, and the key lies in the quality of the steel. Only when the quality of the steel used for the barrel is improved, the service life of the tiger can be improved as a whole.

Zhang Zhun currently adopts the steel frying method, and the quality of the steel obtained is not the best, and there are still many impurities. The biggest feature of the frying steel method seems to be that the requirements for raw materials are not high, the output is large, and the scale can be quickly formed, which is very suitable for large-scale production of weapons. However, the quality requirements for the barrel are too high, and the frying method cannot fully meet this requirement. He suggested the use of 100 steel, specifically for forging steel for the barrel of the Tiger Gun.

As mentioned earlier, the smelting of fried steel is carried out in a semi-liquid state, so the separation of slag and iron is still difficult, and only through repeated forging can the inclusions be further eliminated. Under certain conditions, the more times the repeated forging and the more fully the inclusion is eliminated, the better the quality of the steel, so a process of indicating the quality of the steel is produced by the "number of refining". This is the origin of the name of Bailian Steel.

Shen Kuo's "Mengxi Pen Talk" volume Sanyun: "Yu sent an envoy to Cizhou, forged the workshop to watch ironmaking, and knew the real steel." Where there is steel in iron, if there is gluten in the face, and the soft dough is exhausted, then the gluten is seen, and the same is true for steelmaking. However, take more than 100 fires of fine iron forging, each forging is called, one forging is light, and the two catties are not reduced, then the pure steel is also, although it is refined, it is not consumed. This is the purity of iron, its color is clear, and when it is polished, it is dark blue and black, which is very different from Chang Tie. There are also those who have been refined to the end and have no steel at all, all of which are produced by the earth. ”

This "refined iron" refers to the raw material of 100 steelmaking, which is an iron-carbon alloy with a slightly higher carbon content and not a lot of inclusions. "One forging and one light" is the reason why the inclusions are constantly removed, and the iron oxide scale is constantly produced and falls off. "Tired forging and not decreasing" is relative, in fact, the impurities are reduced, and the weight is naturally reduced. "Refining to the end and no steel at all" may be due to the high sulfur content and hot brittleness.

This is the most detailed description of the process and principle of 100 steelmaking in ancient Chinese literature. It can be seen that "100 refining" is 100 forging, and its central link is repeated forging, and "100 steel" is a kind of "pure steel" after removing inclusions.

From the perspective of modern technical principles, in addition to eliminating inclusions, repeated forging can also homogenize the composition, dense structure, and sometimes refine the grain, thereby greatly improving the quality of the material. A large part of the frequent problems with the barrel of the Tiger Gun is the uneven quality of the various positions of the barrel. If there is a problem with one of the weak links, the entire barrel is scrapped. Bailian Steel can just solve this problem.

The most common process used in 100 steels is multi-layer stacking forging, that is, many pieces of material are stacked and forged together. The composition of these ingredients can be the same or different. It can also be folded again after stacking and forging. The core of 100 steels is 100 refining. If you really do it and forge it a hundred times, the quality will naturally be top-notch.

Of course, Zhang Zhun didn't care much about these specific technical details. Zhang Zhun really doesn't understand ironmaking, what he wants is the result, not the process. The reward will never be stingy, as long as you have a good idea, Zhang Zhun will happily throw a lot of silver. For example, Li Delu's proposal was rewarded with fifty taels of silver. For a while, it was extremely eye-catching, and the mind was fully active.

Zhang Zhun is convinced that the wisdom of the ancients must not be ignored. I believe that with the wisdom of our Chinese, there should be nothing that cannot be solved. It seems that Zhao Shizhen actually understands the manufacturing method of Lu Mi Gong, but Zhang Zhun himself doesn't understand it.

…… Well, except for physics, chemistry and the like, the foundation is too poor.

In the end, after theoretical and practical verification, Zhang Zhun can be sure that the quality of 100 steels is indeed very good. The barrel made of 100 steels can basically reach more than 200 accurate shots, which greatly exceeds Zhang Zhun's original expectations. If you continue to pursue quality regardless of the cost, the quality of the tiger can be better.

However, the production of 100 steels is simply too low. It takes three days for a skilled blacksmith to forge three catties of steel. This is already the limit of manpower. And the barrel of a tiger gun needs to cost at least two and a half catties of 100 steel. In other words, a blacksmith can only provide one hundred pieces of steel for three days.

Therefore, in order to expand the production of tiger bones, it is necessary to have a large number of skilled craftsmen. Without a sufficient number of craftsmen, everything is empty talk. Seriously, Zhang Zhun misses the era of the machinery industry very much. As soon as the machine is opened, all kinds of parts will be manufactured in a steady stream, and there will be as many as you want.

Now, everything has to rely on manual work, not to mention the low work efficiency, and the cost is terrible high. The cost of raw materials is not to mention for the time being, and the wages of each craftsman are at least one or two taels of silver a month. Hundreds of craftsmen are a few hundred taels of silver every month. However, no matter how low the efficiency is, no matter how high the cost, he must grit his teeth and bear it. Otherwise, just wait for the enemy to come and cut your own neck.

Where can I find so many people?

Where are there so many skilled craftsmen?

Hey?

Wrong!

Zhang Zhun keenly captured something.

There are craftsmen, and there are quite a few of them, but they are only temporarily in the hands of others.

All I have to do is to dig these people up.

"Dig people!"

Zhang Zhun quickly made up his mind.

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