On August 15 of the first year of Longwu, this day is the Mid-Autumn Festival, the traditional festival of the Chinese nation. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Although Pang Yue did not give the officers and soldiers a holiday on this day, he still ordered the battalions to shorten the training time, and specially asked the men to make moon cakes and send them to the school grounds. During the morning break, the officers and men sat cross-legged and chatted while eating moon cakes.

Pang Yue was also talking to several of his subordinates about the problems that arose in the training and the areas that needed to be improved. Because he knows that his personal wisdom is limited after all, not to mention, he is still a modern person in essence, although he has hundreds of years of knowledge, he is still a little amateur in military training.

Just as everyone was discussing fiercely, Wei Yuan came over and whispered a few words to this Pang Yue. After Wei Yuan finished speaking, Pang Yue stood up suddenly, his tone full of excitement: "Is this serious?" ”

Wei Yuan was also excited: "How dare you deceive your lord?" Lord Huang, they're just waiting over there. ”

"Hahahaha......" After Pang Yue laughed, he said to several subordinates: "Everyone, it seems that today is really a good day, two happy events have happened in our Ganzhou Town one after another within one day!" Let's go over and have a look! ”

Although Zhang Yunli and the others were still in the dark, when they saw Pang Yue's face full of joy, they knew that there must have been great good news, so they all stood up and walked towards the gate of the school field.

Walking to the rest area near the gate of the school field, Pang Yue saw that Huang Wenyuan, Kang Dingen, and Long Wenzhou, the deputy of the Taishan battalion who had been sent to manage the iron factory, were already waiting there, and the group was all smiling.

"See your lord!" Huang Wenyuan, Kang Dingen and Long Wen saluted together on Monday.

Pang Yue smiled and waved his hand: "No courtesy, no courtesy!" Lord Huang, if there is any happy event, you can tell you about it. ”

Huang Wenyuan smiled: "Yes, my lord." Today, the Ordnance Bureau has produced the first batch of bird guns, a total of 100 pieces, and the iron factory has also smelted the first batch of wrought iron, a total of 1,000 catties. ”

After hearing this, Zhang Yunli, Shi Youliang and the others were also excited, Ganzhou Town was finally able to make its own iron and make weapons by itself! Although the first batch is not a large number, it has to be said that it is a major breakthrough.

"Lao Kang, did you bring the bird? Show me! Pang Yue is already looking forward to it.

"Brought, sir." Kang Dingen smiled and nodded, turned around and opened a fresh wooden box on the ground, took out a bird gun and handed it to Pang Yue with both hands.

Pang Yue took it and looked at it carefully in his hand, this bird gun is about one meter three or four long, six or seven pounds in weight, the barrel is black and thick, with a metallic luster, obviously made of fine iron, there is a crosshair and a door on the gun, and there is a wooden support obliquely downward at the back end, from which you can already vaguely see the shadow of a modern rifle.

Holding the bird gun and feeling the coldness coming from the gun, Pang Yue's heart was very excited: when he was under Huang Degong in the past, his officers and soldiers had been using cold weapons, and now they can finally be equipped with firearms! With firearms, the officers and men of Ganzhou Town will be able to avoid many unnecessary losses when facing Jiannu and Jiannu in the future, they will be able to give full play to their combat effectiveness to a greater extent, and they will be able to minimize Jiannu's advantage in cavalry and shooting! Although the current bird gun is not very perfect, Pang Yue firmly believes that the knowledge he learned in his previous life is not given in vain, and as long as he improves slowly, he will definitely be able to overcome the original defects.

"Let's go over there and try this bird's gun!" Pang Yue picked up the bird gun and walked towards the side of the school field with great interest.

Coming to the foot of a dirt hill on the edge of the school grounds, Pang Yue asked a few soldiers to erect a wooden plank against the mountain wall, and then asked Kang Dingen about the method of launching. …,

"Lao Kang, you load the gunpowder first." Pang Yue handed the bird gun to Kang Dingen, he knew that loading gunpowder was a delicate job, and the amount used was very particular, and he couldn't do it for the time being.

Kang Dingen took the gunpowder, took out the gunpowder from the gunpowder jar he carried with him, estimated the amount, poured it from the gun's mouth, stabbed it with a stick, and then used the stick to send a lead bullet in. After that, Kang Dingen opened the fire door behind the gun, poured some gunpowder into it, and took out the fire rope and installed it in the dragon head.

After doing this, Kang Dingen said to Pang Yue: "My lord, the gunpowder has been loaded, light the fire rope and pull the trigger to fire." Still, let me do it. I built this bird, and I should have tested it. ”

Wei Yuan also came over and said, "My lord, I'll come, you are the head of a town, and your safety cannot be lost!" ”

"Yes, my lord......" Shi Youliang, Lu Qiwu and others also came over to persuade.

"You guys go aside, it's not that serious!" Pang Yue scolded, and then asked Kang Dingen: "Old Kang, aren't you worried about the bird gun you built yourself?" ”

"Of course not." Kang Dingen said without thinking.

"Isn't that enough, since the bird gun you built is fine, then what's there to be afraid of? Give it to me! Pang Yue stretched out his hand.

Seeing Pang Yue's resolute attitude, Kang Dingen had no choice but to hand over the bird.

After taking the bird's gun, Pang Yue retreated to about eighty steps away from the plank, lit the fire rope, raised the bird's gun, closed his left eye, and aimed at the plank in front of him with the crosshair and the door.

Seeing that Pang Yue actually put his face close to the bird gun "desperately", the onlookers on the side were taken aback, and even the most daring Shi Youliang couldn't help but be dumbfounded. In the past, soldiers were worried about their own safety, and after lighting the fire rope, they often fired directly without aiming, and even twisted their heads to the side to not look at the target at all.

Pang Yue also knew what was at stake, so he decided to test the firing himself and use practical actions to dispel the scruples of the soldiers. Otherwise, even if Kang Dingen and the others made the bird gun well, if the soldiers didn't dare to use it, it would still not be effective.

Just when the onlookers were worried about Pang Yue's life or face, Pang Yue quickly pulled the trigger.

"Bang!" After the deafening sound, a puff of white smoke came out of the mouth.

When they looked up, they saw that the plank that was erected eighty paces away had been torn apart. The crowd of onlookers erupted in enthusiastic cheers.

"Hahaha, my lord is really accurate!" Shi Youliang was the first to shout.

"My lord's hand is really a hundred steps through Yang!"

"Even if it was General Fei Li Guang, it was just like that back then!"

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After a while, the officers and soldiers who were resting on the school field also knew about it, and they cheered together, and the tsunami-like sound of the flat ground startled the birds in the nearby forest into the air.

Pang Yue didn't care about this, walked up to Kang Dingen and said: "Lao Kang, you have created such a fine bird gun, and you have made a great contribution to our Ganzhou Town!" I will give you the reward you deserve according to the reward rules! In the future, you just have to continue to build. I don't have to worry about the bird guns you have created! ”

Hearing Pang Yue's words, Kang Dingen burst into tears, and the two craftsmen behind him were so excited that they couldn't even speak. Just now, Pang Yue personally tested the bird gun and gave them enough shock, and the later sentence "I rest assured" brought them deep touch.

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In the afternoon, in order to celebrate these two good news, Pang Yue specially gave the soldiers a half-day off, and went to the Ordnance Bureau with Zhang Yunli and the battalion officers to inspect it.

In the face of the collective visit of the high-level leaders of Ganzhou Town, Feng Yi and Yan Ming, the deputy envoy of the Ordnance Bureau, naturally did not dare to slack off, and put down the matter at hand and came to the door to greet them. …,

When they arrived at the Ordnance Bureau, Pang Yue and his entourage exchanged a few polite words with Feng and Yan at the door, and then began to inspect the interior. Walking into the gate of the Ordnance Bureau, seeing the rows of busy workshops and the blast furnace standing in the open space in the distance, Zhang Yunli and the others who came for the first time felt a little novel. However, when they entered the workshop and saw that knives, shields, spears and other weapons were constantly forming in the hands of the craftsmen, the expressions could not be described as novelty. Even Cui Shoucheng, who has always been known for his calmness, smiled from ear to ear, Shi Youliang and others were reluctant to let go of the weapons that were still with residual heat, as military generals, they all knew what it meant to have the ability to produce weapons independently.

Pang Yue came to a firearms workshop, and saw Kang Dingen supervising a group of craftsmen welding pipes. In his previous life, Pang Yue had more or less contact with a little information and knew that the production of this gun pipe was extremely complicated: first, the steel core of the cylinder body was used to make cold bones, and then the hot wrought iron was hammered on the outside of the steel core and rolled into an iron pipe, and the steel core was constantly extracted and cooled with water in the process of cladding iron to prevent the steel core and wrought iron from being welded together. After this section of iron pipes is made, they have to be welded together to get a complete gun pipe. One of the most critical is the welding step, if the welding is not strict, it is easy to cause the bird to blow up, so the slightest sloppiness must not be sloppy. It is precisely because of this that Kang Dingen has always been at ease in this link, and he almost has to personally check each batch of gun tube welding.

"Lao Kang, are you busy?" Pang Yue walked over with a smile.

"Oh, here comes my lordship!" Kang Dingen hurriedly saluted, and the other craftsmen also stopped their movements.

"You go on," Pang Yue said to Kang Dingen after greeting the craftsmen, "I want to ask, if the raw materials are sufficient, how many bird guns can you make in a month?" ”

Kang Dingen thought for a moment and replied: "The words of the answerer, plus the manpower transferred by the adults from the battalion, now there are more than 120 firearms craftsmen in the Ordnance Bureau, and if you go all out to build bird guns, you can make about 400 guns a month." ”

Although 400 is a bit insignificant for the thousands of soldiers in Ganzhou Town, considering the complexity of the production process of bird guns, Pang Yue is still quite satisfied with this number, and besides, he is not ready to let all his soldiers be equipped with bird guns.

"Okay, then you can do your best to build it, you don't have to worry about the raw materials." Pang Yue nodded and said, "In addition, each bird gun must be marked with the number of the craftsman, so that there will be a basis for rewards and punishments in the future." In addition to enjoying the original wages and food, all craftsmen will be rewarded with five coins of silver for each qualified bird gun they make. ”

Hearing this, the eyes of the craftsmen present could not hide their excitement.

"However," Pang Yue added, "if anyone builds a bird gun that blows up, he will be severely punished!" ”

"Don't worry, my lord, with me, there will be no mistakes." Kang Dingen assured with a straight face.

Then, Pang Yue remembered one more thing, and hurriedly said: "Lao Kang, when the soldiers first learned to fire bird guns, was the amount of gunpowder used difficult to grasp? ”

Kang Dingen nodded: "What the adults said is extremely true. This is one of the reasons why it is difficult to train for bird-fighting hands. ”

"So why not use the custom method? The appropriate amount of gunpowder and lead bullet needed for a single launch was packed into a paper tube, and each part was in equal amounts, so that the soldiers could directly reload the gunpowder without having to bother to estimate the amount, and it could also save a lot of time," Pang Yue came up with the idea of producing gunpowder.

Kang Dingen is an expert after all, and after a little thought, he applauded repeatedly: "The adult's method is very good!" When I got back, I asked the gunpowder workshop to make it in this way. ”

"Then Lao Kang, you have to worry more about it, so that the craftsmen must carefully weigh it when making it to ensure that each piece of gunpowder is in the right amount!" …,

"Yes, sir!"

After leaving the firearms workshop, Pang Yue asked Feng Yi, the chief envoy of the Ordnance Bureau, about some information, and explained the production tasks in the next few months to him. In order to save raw materials, Pang Yue has ordered to stop building all flashy weapons, cold weapons are supplemented by spears, swords and shields, bows and arrows, and firearms are only made of bird guns. As for the armor, because the iron armor is too expensive to use, and the current production scale of the iron factory is limited, Pang Yue told Feng Yi to suspend the creation of the iron armor first and concentrate on making cotton armor.

Pang Yue's explanation, Feng Yi naturally had to comply, firstly, because Pang Yue's identity was there, and secondly, he was indeed grateful to Pang Yue in his heart, if it wasn't for Pang Yue's order to reopen the Ordnance Bureau and improve the treatment of all personnel, he is afraid that he is still worried about his livelihood.

After that, Pang Yue summoned all the craftsmen like he did last time in the iron factory, personally announced to them a series of rewards and punishments he had formulated, and issued rewards to the outstanding craftsmen on the spot. Most of the firearms craftsmen received an additional reward of five coins, although it was not enough to make others envious. Under the stimulus of this living material, the originally lifeless eyes of the craftsmen gradually flashed with the brilliance of hope.

Although he paid some extra silver, Pang Yue felt that it was completely worth it. The artisans of this era were simple-minded and not demanding, and the reason why they were passive and slacking off in the past was entirely because the cruel reality pushed them to the brink of despair. The most effective way to open the knots in the hearts of these craftsmen is to give them a hope, so that they can understand the difference between good and bad work, and what they will gain if they do it well. In the long run, these craftsmen, who almost all have a skill, can play their due role.