At the beginning of March, in the new village, the villagers who worked in the spring ploughing were busy in their fields, because the spring ploughing is the basis of the villagers' food and clothing for a year, Deng Shifeng could not ignore such a practical problem even if he wanted to grab labor from agriculture, there was not enough labor, the work of the iron factory, glass workshop and mine was basically in the state of confirming the lack of labor, but fortunately, the technical research in February not only allowed several factories to be fully loaded with full capacity, there are many semi-finished products and technologies waiting to continue to dig deep and digest, Such a semi-shutdown will not lead to nothing after spring ploughing.

The school is also affected by spring ploughing, children over ten years old are called back to their respective homes by their parents to help, only in the evening to return to the school accommodation and evening classes, taking advantage of this time difference, Deng Shifeng once again to two more promoted students to step up the small stove, in order to cope with the next more severe challenges. Although there are many achievements in February's technical tackling, there are obvious deficiencies in both technical personnel and young and strong labor, especially the students and assistants who follow him, one Qin Tian was put into the glass group as a technician, and the other was arranged to work by Qin Er's side to make work records, so that Deng Shifeng sometimes can't find a suitable assistant to help him, and the shortcomings and injuries of the population have gradually surfaced......

However, fortunately, February's harvest has basically satisfied and solved the technical problems that restrict him, and Deng Shifeng can at least now take Luo Dan and a few professional soldiers to conduct more than six hours of special military skills training every day. Because Luo Dan followed Deng Shifeng for two months in advance, he was able to train several recruits in basic physical fitness, queues, passwords and combat as a non-commissioned officer every day.

These specialized skills involve the technical tasks of stealth, infiltration, sentinel, assassination, tracking and counter-tracking, and the development of new rifles and related chemicals has also added another important element to the training course - shooting training and bomb throwing training......

An open space between the mine and the iron works, which was planned to be a concentrator for future capacity expansion, is now temporarily used as a good shooting range, where ping-pong gunfire is heard one after another.

To shoot, remove the drive lever under the trigger, slide the locking device down to open the chamber, clean the chamber with the bristle brush hanging on the gun body, if this step can be ignored at the moment of emergency, load the warhead and propellant that has been pre-packed and reserve a small part of the tail, pull the drive rod back slightly, and the refined locking device will form a shear force with the section of the tail of the gun chamber to cut off the tail of the paper propellant column reserved outside, so that the tail propellant is exposed to the action of the fire cap on the right side, Then remove the ram, remove the copper fire cap and paper primer belt from the firing point with the previous shot sticking to the paper, and pull out the next shot directly on the strike point of the ram, and aim the fire after this series of actions is completed.

Although this series of actions is a bit cumbersome, it has been much simplified compared to the front-loading flintlock pistol, and Luo Dan and several other soldiers have mastered this series of loading steps in only one afternoon, and even in the night training, everyone can basically grope in the dark to complete this series of actions.

After mastering the whole step process, Deng Shifeng was allowed to enter the live shooting, Luo Dan and several soldiers fired the first shot of their lives for the first time was shock, not only the vibration of the gunshot's eardrums, but also the shock of the recoil on their bodies, and the kind of spiritual shock when they saw the wooden humanoid target fifteen meters away shattered after being hit by themselves, what would it be like for this thing to hit a person......

The distance of fifteen meters is simply a pediatric distance for a rifle, after letting the soldiers adapt and experience the power of the rifle, Deng Shifeng pulled the target to a distance of one hundred meters, at this distance, the problem was immediately revealed, only one soldier bullet could hit the target, and the rest of the people, including Luo Dan's bullet, flew three or five meters away from the target......

This problem is not because the accuracy of the rifle is not good, these rifles are finished products from the barrel to the rifling and the key parts, and even Deng Shifeng has carried out calibration of each rifle, the worst one can be scattered within 100 meters within 100 centimeters, and the one with better accuracy can accurately hit the humanoid target even at 300 meters.

Soon, Deng Shifeng found the reason for the low shooting accuracy, mainly because the soldiers were afraid of muskets, the quality of firearms in the Ming Dynasty was uneven, these soldiers basically heard their parents and even grandparents say that the double terrible surname of firearms, so when shooting, soldiers will subconsciously deviate their faces from the gun body before pulling the trigger after aiming, which will naturally affect the shooting accuracy......

After finding the source of this serious mistake of movement deformation and psychological fear, he aimed to solve the fear of firearms among these people, and personally took the lead in actually making the rifle safe and reliable, which relieved the soldiers' fear of firearms, which brought the shooting accuracy back to the normal track.

Because of the high accuracy of this weapon, which Deng Shifeng named the Xia-style rifle, the soldiers' marksmanship improved very quickly, and in just one week, the shooting accuracy of the five people was basically guaranteed to reach the level of hitting the target within 150 meters, and the shooter with higher shooting skills could even achieve the basic target at a distance of 200 meters.

In order to really have enough good marksmanship in actual combat, you also need to hone psychologically and train the gun sense in a variety of different environments, and then Deng Shifeng took a few soldiers to Xincun and the iron factory as the center, and went around to hunt the birds and beasts that had slipped through the net before, so that the surrounding birds and beasts quickly became prey under the guns one by one, and also rubbed the experience points for the soldiers when increasing the supply of meat to the soldiers.

Compared with the daily live-fire training, the bomb throwing training is much less because the number of grenades made is not large and the power is more terrifying, but every day Deng Shifeng asked the soldiers to throw the simulated duds made out of the iron factory to ensure the amount of training, and after the soldiers gradually adapted to the psychological fear of this explosive, they dug a circular explosion-proof trench and took several soldiers to carry out the first live-fire throwing training. After these fighters broke through their fear of firearms, they did not have any problems in training, and Luo Dan and the other soldier could even keep their minds steady and throw good distances and accuracy...... This kind of thing that uses cast iron and wooden handles as the main body, glass powder and ignition powder as rubbing, and the fuse index explodes 120 grams of black powder after testing, even if it is not severely damaged by fragments within three meters, it will be shocked by the shock wave and cause internal injuries, and the unlucky point is that it is seven meters away, those iron fragments can also collapse him with a terrifying external injury!!

This kind of basic training lasted for three weeks, and in the process, Deng Shifeng also took a few people to make two bamboo rafts, and went down the stream to thoroughly understand the hydrology of the two small rivers, the river conditions, and the topography on both banks. Several people analyzed the terrain, environment, and the perspective of maximizing tactical damage, found the best defense points and control areas, and made some tactical preparations in advance. Considering the actual situation in the village, Deng Shifeng had the ironworks produce a number of long iron pieces with the thickness of their wrists, and hit several narrow and critical rivers to form artificial reefs of varying heights, which could ensure that even if the water level of the small river rose, there would always be one or two iron stakes that would make the intruder's boats suffer. In order to ensure that these artificial reefs will not be easily cleared by the opponent, the soldiers are using their strength to beat these iron piles extremely deep, without bringing tools or sending a large number of personnel to remove them in a short time, and if the opponent does this...... Then a few people who are responsible for blocking and delaying will not play a role, and that is already in the category of all-out offensive and all-out war.

After all this, Deng Shifeng sent someone to go down the river with Lu Yin and a message to Shapu Town to find a contact person set up by Huang Zhangshi there, which was also made with Huang Zhangshi last time, Huang Zhangshi was responsible for the trading of the entire trading house in Liuzhou, and Deng Shifeng was not convenient to leave for too long, so it was convenient for Huang Zhangshi to set up a liaison station here in Shapu Town, so as to facilitate the contact between the two sides.

Huang Zhangshi, who received the news, was naturally very happy to be able to transport a large amount of materials in the form of shipping, and a week later, Huang Zhangshi took more than 20 small boats upriver and came to Deng Shifeng's designated trading place. Because the dry season has ended, the water level of the small river has risen, so the carrying capacity of these more than 20 small boats is relatively large to reach 1,000 catties.

On the market outside, there have been imitations similar to survival knives, although the quality can not be compared with the original version of the Xianhu brand, but the price is slightly lower, and the number seems to be getting bigger and bigger, which is impacting the market of the original straight handle survival knife; Folding knives and switchblades are a bit difficult for those handicraft workshops, so no imitations have been found yet, but with Huang Zhangshi's sensitivity to the market, it is estimated that it will not be long before there will be imitations of folding knives with lower technical content.

Deng Shifeng has long been mentally prepared for the bad news brought by Huang Zhangshi, there is no technical difficulty for the village for this kind of thing, if it is not for the lack of manpower, once the iron factory and processing plant are fully activated, whether it is a price war or a quality war, those handicraft workshops have only a dead end, but Deng Shifeng does not intend to start eating sheep so quickly, let these craftsmen outside go bankrupt too early, and now he has no ability to take in these people, they are starving to death or exile, Didn't you find yourself awkward when you went out to grab the mouth......

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