Hey? As if he had discovered something, Xiao Mo walked forward quickly, while Yu Gan and other officials of the Ordnance Department next to him. Although I was puzzled, I was still in a hurry to keep up.

Not far in front of Xiao Mo, there are several rows of warehouses, perhaps because of the need for a lot of space to store the strong bow and ballista, these rows of warehouses have been emptied, and the goods that were originally placed inside were all stacked outside the warehouse.

And what caught Xiao Mo's attention were all kinds of strange things piled up outside.

There are two parts to these strange things.

Part of it is piles of bamboo pipes. But it seems to have undergone special treatment, and it looks weird. Every ten of them were bundled together and stacked in the shape of a hill, and at first estimate, there were at least a thousand of them.

The other part is a pillow-sized cloth bag, which seems to be wrapped in something, bulging inside. It looks quite heavy, with occasional breakage. But it leaked a lot of black particles, judging from the pungent smell of those black particles, Xiao Mo could be sure that this was fire丨medicine.

Before walking to these two piles of goods, Xiao Mo first looked at them carefully, and then asked Meng Gan beside him, "Lord Meng, what are these two?!"

Meng Gan was slightly stunned, as if he didn't understand why Xiao Mo was interested in these useless things, but still explained respectfully: "Lord Hui, these two are the bamboo tube musket and the thunder god bag."

After hearing Meng Gan's words, Xiao Mo's eyes lit up slightly, knowing that the so-called bamboo official musket should be the most primitive musket, as for the Thor bag. I'm afraid it's similar in nature to fried bread, asked:

"How powerful are the two? Can it be used in real combat? ”

Meng Gan shook his head and said: "The bamboo tube musket, Li Ai uses the power of the fire covenant to spray iron pills, if you talk about power, it is more powerful than the three-stone strong bow." Within thirty steps, if you are shot, you will definitely die. However, although this thing is powerful, but the shortcomings are too great, first, although it is infinitely powerful within thirty steps, but the range is too short, and the power is limited to thirty steps, second, its accuracy is not accurate, and it is very prone to deviation, third, it is too slow, from cleaning, to adding gunpowder, and then to stuffing iron pellets, it takes at least more than 100 breaths before and after Shichuan, and with this spoon, time, a skilled person with a bow and arrow, can already shoot dozens of arrows, the most important porcelain, it is simply unbearable. If it is used more than five times in a row, it will inevitably explode. Then, Meng Gan pointed to the Thor bag on the other side and explained to Xiao Lian: "This Thor bag." The power is greater than that of the musket, fired by a trebuchet, and soon after landing, Fang Yan is like a thunderbolt descending from the world within ten steps, killing and wounding, but firstly, his power is still insufficient compared to Zhizhi's strength, and Fan Hoard is smaller (Note 1), and secondly, it is easy to accidentally injure his own people. Therefore, although there was a lot of inventory, it was not reused by the imperial court. Note 1: Insects are often seen in ancient nose contention films, as long as there is a power machine, it is loaded with hundreds of catties of boulders. In fact, this porcelain because of the temple performance especially known Meiding, in the ancient war, the trebuchet thrown, are heavy but a few pounds of piece force, once launched, all over the sky, dead and wounded, not only extremely powerful, but also attack Fan Tianshi; After listening to Meng Gan's everything, Xiao Mo nodded slightly, cocooned with some disappointment, but had no regrets.

Xiao Mo knew that in the era of black fire and medicine, and when the steel refining technology was not yet mature, the power of fire, medicine and guns could never completely replace bows and arrows.

At the beginning of this era, Xiao Mo had no illusions in his heart that he relied on the scientific and technological power of later generations to create countless guns and cannons, recruit troops and buy horses to dominate the world. But that's just a delusion to pass the time when you're bored. You must know that what Xiao Mo wrote in his later generations was liberal arts. The knowledge of all aspects of physics and chemistry has long been returned to the teacher, and he is not a military enthusiast, but he does not even know the principle of the manufacture of guns and artillery. And how is it made? It's just a matter of thinking about it.

What's more, this era is not yet suitable for the emergence of guns and artillery.

Therefore, from beginning to end, Xiao Mo never thought of borrowing the power of fire, and the reason why he asked Meng Gan at this time was just a fluke, and after learning that the guns of this era were as useless as his own thoughts, he gave up.

However, at this moment, the anomaly protruded.

At this moment, it was getting dark, and an early official who was following behind Meng Gan was accompanying him with a lantern.

However, there were people coming and going in the Ordnance Division, and all kinds of tools were placed at random below, and the official was careless, but he tripped and fell to the ground.

At the same time, the lantern also fell to the ground and burned rapidly.

Seeing that not far from the Thor bag, an open flame suddenly ignited, and everyone on the field was surprised, but among them, Meng Gan reacted the fastest, and hurriedly rushed towards the burning place, regardless of the danger of being burned, and stepped on the flame with his feet, while the others also reacted because of Meng Gan's movements, and hurriedly followed and trampled continuously.

Finally, the flame that was almost lit was finally extinguished.

Then, Meng Gan pointed at the official who fell on the ground and scolded: "What are you doing in ten?

You're on the verge of causing a catastrophe!! Once the open fire burns the thunder arsenic bag, none of us will survive. Do you know or not!! Even if we are not injured, once the mine bag explodes, the household sound can be heard clearly for dozens of miles, disturbing the people's hearts. After angrily reprimanding the official, Meng Gan bowed to Su Mo again and again with panic: "Let the adults be frightened, and ask the adults to surrender." , but Xiao Mo was stunned and frowned and thought about something. I only remembered what Meng Gan said, "Once the thunder god bag explodes, the sound will resound in the sky, and it will be clear and audible for dozens of miles", but he didn't listen to Meng Gan's apology at all.

At this moment, Xiao Mo suddenly thought. In this ancient war, especially in the case of this Thor bag, it is not only not useless, but the fork is very useful!!

And its role is not to kill the enemy, but to surprise the enemy!!

The people of this era, especially the northern barbarians. I am not familiar with this fire, although the effect of the fire, but the super loud sound it emitted is enough to give the enemy a great psychological impact, so that his morale will drop greatly and his courage will be lost. The most important thing is that the vast majority of the warriors in the northern Zhuoyuan are cavalry, once the thunder god bag explodes, the horses are panicked, the formation is chaotic, and a huge offensive is afraid that it can collapse in an instant.

Thinking of this, Xiao Mo suddenly asked Meng Gan: "Lord Meng, this thunder god is wrapped in the Ordnance Division, how much inventory is there?" Can there be mass manufacturing capabilities?

Meng Gan was slightly stunned, and said: "There are only about ten pieces of Thor bags in the car, although there are not many, but they are convenient to make, only fire and fire rope can be used, and there is no specialty" craftsmen who are engaged in this, but as long as the materials are sufficient, more than 100 pieces are made every day, but it is difficult to open Xiao Mo categorically ordered: "Put these Thor bags back into the stumbling towels immediately, and don't get used to stacking them outside." First, it is easy to ignite and explode, and secondly, these things cannot be used once they are damp. for the outside. Immediately dial out the craftsman who can make it. In the days to come, we will work on them with all our might, and when we transport ordnance to the front line in the future, we will transport all of these Thor bags together!!

Hearing Xiao Mo's order, Meng Gan was puzzled, but he still bowed down.

Seeing that Meng Gan carried out his order without refuting, Xiao Mo couldn't help but nod with satisfaction. He also said: "Besides, Lord Meng, this official still has a matter to discuss with you.

Meng Gan hurriedly said: "Don't dare to discuss, if the adult has something to order, he will leave."

Xiao Mo nodded and said, "The reason why this official asked His Majesty to take up the official position of this car stubble supervisor is because this official has a method that can increase the speed at which the Ordnance Division can manufacture a strong crossbow car. ”

Hearing Xiao Mo's words, Meng Gan's expression was slightly stunned, obviously he didn't expect that Xiao Mo, who didn't even know how to make bows and arrows, could actually increase the speed of craftsmen making strong bows and ballistas" Although he didn't believe it, he still said respectfully: "My lord, please advise the junior officer to listen to him.!"

Xiao Mo said: "That's the case, I look at the craftsmen in the Ordnance Division, when they make strong bows, from making bowstrings, to making bow bodies, to making horns and whales, and the combination behind the flag, they are all done by one person, not to mention the trouble and trouble, and it is a waste of time." The officer's idea was to divide the craftsmen in the Ordnance Division, so that some of them were responsible for sharpening the teeth, some of them were responsible for making bowstrings, some were responsible for horns and whales, and some were responsible for transporting and selecting suitable materials, and finally the most skilled workers were responsible for assembling. "Is it necessary?" Meng Gan just wanted to ask, but he was suddenly stunned.

The steps of the craftsman in making a strong bow are the most familiar to Mengan. The reason why the strong bow is slow to make is that there are many processes, for example, when boiling whales, craftsmen generally can't do anything, they can only take care of the fire, and an hour of time is wasted. When making a bow, you need to concentrate on it, and you can't take care of other things.

For craftsmen who have just learned to make bows and arrows, it is not difficult to handle the various seedling materials, but the combination of strong bows is time-consuming and laborious.

If it is done in the division of labor as Xiao Mo said, the whale making will be handed over to the raw hands, and the combination will be handed over to the skilled craftsmen. The time of each breath can be fully utilized, and according to Menggan's preliminary estimate, it can be reduced by at least one-third.

Most importantly, train a craftsman before. All the steps need to be taught one by one, but there are not many who can be fully learned, and this division of labor is made. Each craftsman only needs to master one of the steps. The number of craftsmen who can participate in it will increase greatly in the future.

Meng Gan estimated that according to Xiao Mo's method, 10,000 Zhang Qiangwan would be able to complete it in just five to seven days with the combined efforts of thousands of craftsmen of the Ordnance Division.

Of course, the premise of the assembly line operation is in the tea pieces with standardized accessories at this time. It is not yet possible to achieve the standardization of accessories, so that the quality of the ten thousand ji manufactured by the assembly line operation will not be satisfactory, but compared with the ten thousand arrows made by the previous rush, it has been greatly improved. "Everyone in the world says that adults are the stars of Wenqu. Menggan believes it today.

After thinking about it, Meng Gan suddenly bowed to Xiao Mo and said.