Compared with guns, the composition of mines and grenades is simpler, take the grenade as an example, a bamboo tube 20 centimeters long, in the barrel tamping gunpowder and the iron quinoa vine used to tie the horseshoe on the battlefield, leaving a little gap to fill the white phosphorus, connected by a lead, just pull out the lead in battle, white phosphorus and gunpowder will be mixed and exploded!

With the experience of Wu crossbow and Chu shooting gun, the development of mines and grenades would not surprise Qin Baichuan too much, but he once again had to sigh the wisdom of the ancients that under the premise that he almost did not give any mention, Wu Erya and Old Man Chu proposed to mix arsenic, sweat medicine, caustic soda, and white phosphorus with relatively low purity sealed in the gunpowder of grenades or mines. This Nima is terrifying, with Qin Baichuan's understanding, after such a grenade is successfully developed, it basically has the rudiments of poison gas bombs, flash bombs and incendiary bombs!

In addition to these, what shocked Qin Baichuan the most was that because he vetoed Qin Baichuan's idea of casting a gun body with stainless steel in the concept of firearms, the two old men may feel that they can't stand Qin Baichuan, or they may think that stainless steel has the advantage of steel, so they took Wu crossbow guns and Chu shooting guns as blueprints, and used Qin Baichuan's concept of firearms as a theoretical basis to further sublimate and derive a more lethal firearm, and the two old men named it Wu Chu Tiger Cannon!

The drawing of the Wu Chuhu cannon on the drawing is very detailed, the whole cannon is two feet three inches long, about more than 70 centimeters, weighs 48 pounds, and there are six wide iron hoops on the cannon body to prevent the huge impact force generated by the explosives from bursting the cannon hall, and the iron claws and iron stumbling are added at the end of the mouth, which can be fixed on the ground with iron nails to reduce the recoil of the launch.

Judging from the appearance, the Wu Chu Tiger Cannon developed by the two old men is quite similar to the meaning of modern mortars, and the iron shackles at the end of the mouth are carved into the shape of tiger claws, plus the surnames of the two old men, Wu Chu Tiger Cannon is therefore named. Holding these drawings handed over by Wu Erya, Qin Baichuan's face turned red with excitement, and he couldn't help laughing wildly! What else can the people of the Longevity Palace do if their kung fu is high, and they are not convinced? If you don't accept it, pull it out and try two shots!

Of course, drawings are just drawings, even if the process is simplified and the feasibility is increased, there will inevitably be problems at the actual implementation level. However, Qin Baichuan didn't think about these either, and left it to professionals like Wu Erya and Old Man Chu to deal with it.

Wu Erya was arrogant, and he would not ask Qin Baichuan where there were any shortcomings in these drawings, but the old man Chu asked Qin Baichuan's thoughts out of the idea of playing three strokes without dates. In fact, these drawings have been revised many times, and it is difficult to make any big suggestions with Qin Baichuan's little tricks, so in the end he only said two questions.

First, whether it is a Wu crossbow gun or a Chu shooting gun, these are all new weapons, for the Da Song sergeants who are accustomed to the light of swords and swords, if there is no systematic training, what is the difference between this thing and a burning stick in their hands? In Qin Baichuan's understanding, the gunners are all fed with bullets, so now the problem comes out, the production cost of bullets is too high, if it is measured according to the normal price, one or two silver can make up to ten Chu gun bullets!

Ten bullets to train a sharpshooter? Obviously not! Although the Chu rifle is a sniper rifle, it is not up to the level of a modern sniper rifle after all, which means that when training a sergeant, it may consume several times more bullets than a modern sniper in order to achieve tactical results in a real sense.

Qin Baichuan thought about it for a while, the ordinary snipers in the army were fed at least one or two hundred rounds of ammunition, even if all the young soldiers under him were talented geniuses, they needed to shoot at least three or five hundred rounds of ammunition during training, right?

According to Qin Baichuan's cost accounting, one hundred rounds of ammunition is ten taels of silver, five hundred rounds is fifty taels, and one person is fifty taels, not to mention equipping the entire Bliss Army with a Chu shooting rifle, that is, equipping the two hundred people of the Flame War Department who are responsible for his long-range attack, and the bullet cost he has to bear during training is tens of thousands of taels!

And that's just Chu Shotgun!

The Wu crossbow gun is easy to carry, and everyone can be equipped with one, even if its bullet cost is lower than that of the Chu gun, it can be thousands of guns, and the bullet consumption must reach a terrifying number!

In the final analysis, Qin Baichuan just doesn't have any money now!

In fact, the first suggestion made by Qin Baichuan did not belong to the scope of the arsenal that should be managed, so Wu Erya just snorted coldly after hearing it, ignored Qin Baichuan, and swaggered back to supplement sleep. At the critical moment, it was Old Man Chu who pulled Qin Baichuan and gave a solution.

According to the principle of Wu crossbow gun and Chu strike gun, make a batch of pure bows and crossbows, anyway, Wu crossbow guns and Chu shot guns have to be built many times to get the finished product, then these semi-finished products will be taken out and trained. This has at least two advantages, one is that it solves the training problem, and the arrows shot can be used repeatedly; Second, this can also hide people's eyes, after all, these things developed by Fu Python Mountain are very important, if they are spread, not to mention that the righteous king may have to snatch them, even the emperor cannot sit idly by.

Qin Baichuan was overjoyed for a moment, and after expressing his gratitude to Old Man Chu, he raised a second question, that is, whether it is a Wu crossbow gun, a Chu shooting gun, or even a mine artillery, if there are warheads, fragments, and hidden weapons, they must be quenched with snake venom that seals their throats with blood! Qin Baichuan's starting point is very pure, no one knows how penetrating these new guys are, and many people on the battlefield are wearing heavy armor, he wants only one result, even if he scratches a little skin, he has to take his head!

I thought that this suggestion was too little to solve, just send someone to catch some poisonous snakes, but Old Man Chu was quite reluctant. In Dasong, whether it is on the battlefield or in the rivers and lakes, the use of poison is the most despicable thing, so to speak, in addition to poison, you can do everything on the battlefield. It's like Dazhen and Da Yinguo, people win by virtue of being strong and fast, and winning is also above board.

Qin Baichuan expressed deep disdain for Old Man Chu's thoughts, in his opinion, where is there so much nonsense if he becomes a king or loses a villain? Besides, Da Song's combat effectiveness is not as good as that of barbarians, so where is it possible to defeat without some shady tricks? Originally, he wanted to take on this task himself, but the hidden weapons used in the firearms were all specially made, and they had to go through the hands of the old man Chu, and Qin Baichuan could only waste a lot of lips and tongues, which made the old man reluctantly agree.

Compared with these major events, the origin of Qin Baichuan's desire to ask the old man to help reforge the refined iron and make it into a light talisman armor was insignificant, and the old man Chu was even lacking interest in it. Anyway, the cast war knives and iron pieces are all in Fu Python Mountain, as long as they are left with enough raw materials, the excess Qin Baichuan can send someone to transport them away at any time, refining iron is a simpler thing, any blacksmith shop can do it.

Old Man Chu's excitement was obviously not on these materials, and after saying wow, he also found a random place and began to replenish sleep. Qin Baichuan pulled the old man of Chu Jia to communicate carefully, and probably learned that the armor of the Song army is generally made of 1,825 pieces of armor, and the weight reaches sixty catties, and the armor of the shield armor army is heavier, some even reach ** ten catties, and the lightest is the archer, which is also about forty catties.

In terms of the materials used to cast armor, ordinary sergeants used crude iron, that is, the first miscellaneous materials collected from iron ore for calcination. The main force of the Song Army is generally wearing second-refined refined iron, which is of high purity, and this is what Old Man Chu has stored.

If you want to reduce the weight of your armor and maintain or improve your defense, then the iron will have to go through the third quenching, which is extremely expensive, and the average amount of iron that can be forged into six taels of iron per kilogram is already the limit. Another point is that the iron essence is very easy to break and cannot be cast separately, so it is necessary to melt the silver and blend it to achieve the effect that Qin Baichuan wants, which is also the production requirement of the bright silver armor.

As soon as he heard that he wanted silver again, Qin Baichuan's head was bigger, and he tentatively inquired about the proportion, and Chu Jia didn't hide it from him, this kind of close-fitting armor is generally enough to protect the front chest and back, ** limbs, and the weight-bearing capacity of melee and long-range attacks is different, and the average ten catties of iron essence per pair of armor is about the same, and ten taels of silver should be added to each catty of iron essence, which is ...... A thousand pairs of armor will cost at least 10,000 taels of snowflake silver.

Qin Baichuan's brain was a mess, and he could make it up with gritted teeth for tens of thousands of taels of silver, but now the iron stored by the old man of Fu Python Mountain is only 6,000 catties, even if you add the armor that the old man has built and those that Du Bo secretly sent, I am afraid that the total weight of the iron is not 10,000 catties, and if you are full of calculations, you can refine 6,000 catties of iron essence, and according to the algorithm of ten catties per person, you can only build more than 600 pairs of armor! You must know that the materials for weapons such as bullets and Wu Chuhu cannons have not been included in this budget!

Qin Baichuan didn't know how he left Fu Python Mountain, with Wu Erya and Old Man Chu working day and night, he saw the power that was enough to protect himself and even dominate the world, but now he wants silver without silver, resources without resources, and all ideas can only be regarded as words on paper!

"Brother Qin, didn't you encounter something troublesome, why are you so worried?" Ding Sanshi saw Qin Baichuan on the shore, and when he saw him with a chagrined face, he asked suspiciously.

"No money." Qin Baichuan said with a bitter face: "I didn't know that there were so many places to set up a force and use silver, hey." ”

"Expected." On the way over, Qin Baichuan said his intention, Ding Sanshi was not surprised, and said with a smile: "It's that Mr. has asked too much, look at the whole Da Song, not to mention the private army, even if the forbidden army is only qualified to wear bright silver armor with military positions above the rank of lieutenant, how can there be such a Guizhou armor to equip ordinary sergeants like Mr.?" As long as the gentleman lowers his requirements a little, these problems are not problems. ”

Ding Sanshi's words were not unreasonable, Qin Baichuan thought about it, and finally shook his head firmly. Coming to Dasong, Qin Baichuan inexorably bred a sense of superiority that Lao Tzu was the best in the world, he had to do his best in everything, if he lowered his standards, he wouldn't be able to pass the level in his heart at all-speaking of which, it was a bit of a swollen face and a fat man.

Moreover, I also learned from Chu Jia's mouth that although the bright silver armor is expensive, its defensive power is at least three times that of the fine iron armor, even in the face of the barbarian's strong bow and hard crossbow, the bow and arrow cannot penetrate at all at a distance of fifty meters, and within fifty meters, unless it hits the vital point, it will only be slightly injured and not killed.

Forming the Bliss Army and letting those teenagers work for themselves is just to satisfy Qin Baichuan's selfishness, although he gave them a lot of silver, Qin Baichuan always has to think about their safety. Now what he Qin Baichuan can do is to give them the best, so it is indeed impossible to avoid casualties on the battlefield, but when it really comes, Qin Baichuan will at least not feel guilty in his heart.

It's nothing to be a man, it's nothing to be hard and tired, but to be frank and honest, and be worthy of your heart.