"In terms of the army, the training of archers should still be paid attention to, this is the only long-range arm we have in our hands now, when fighting with prey and enemies, the strength of the archers is played well, and the army in front of us can get a better combat environment, you must pay attention to this, by the way, I let the arsenal newly built composite bow, how about the construction?"

Shu Han asked while eating peanuts, since the deployment of the army in Yeyu City was officially approved, this army is no longer a temporary army, but an army with a formal establishment, on the day the army was officially determined, many people left the army, because originally they came here to be temporary soldiers, and now that the soldiers are over, they will naturally return to their original posts.

But there are still more people who remain, including the children of those families, the people of the city of Black Iron City, they originally had their own jobs or lives, but after a few months of getting along, the army became their final choice of destination, and these remaining and newly recruited people constitute the current garrison of Noba City

After the establishment was formalized, Shu Han also understood that the army could no longer develop with the goal of only a temporary force as before, but had to have a long-term plan, first of all, special training for some difficult arms, including cavalry and archers.

Among them, the cost of cavalry is too huge, originally Shu Han also planned to train a hundred cavalry, form a cavalry company, including another twenty heavy cavalry, in this era of musket power is very limited, heavy cavalry is still the king of land warfare on this road.

But it's a pity that they have horses and people to form cavalry, but the price of forming cavalry is too expensive, especially the heavy cavalry, although the iron ore mining method proposed by Shu Han has nearly doubled the iron ore mining efficiency of Black Iron City, but it is still a huge disaster for the huge demand of Black Iron City, and at the same time, Liu Sanyi's side is also expanding the army, and the demand for iron ore is not lower than his own side.

Therefore, in the end, Shu Han applied for twenty sets of horse harness armor and knight armor, and he could only get ten sets, as for the rest, it was naturally an air attic, and Shu Han could not make any big progress in the cavalry, so he could only develop in the direction of archers.

After Shu Han systematically understood the archers of this era, he immediately arranged for Bo Rilang to organize a group of people to start training archery, and at the same time found Zhang Ruoming, using the power of the Zhang Group, to build a weapon factory in Yeyu City, specifically to make a factory for himself, and Zhang Ruoming was also very happy about this, after all, the weapons produced here, Shu Han received all the orders, which is equivalent to doing business without capital, only making money and not losing, such a good thing, Zhang Ruoming is naturally willing to do it.

And the first thing made by Shu Han is the compound bow, compared with most simple bows in this era, the power of the compound bow is greater, and it is easier to pull at the same time, unlike the simple bow, ordinary people can't pull it away at all, originally Shu Han also wanted to make crossbow arrows, but because the shooting distance of crossbow arrows is relatively short, and the accuracy is very low, so he finally chose to give up.

Finally, after the selection, four hundred people were included in the ranks of the archers, this period of time has been stepping up training, and the production of compound bows has also been in place, the production of these bows and arrows is not difficult, although the technology of the Black Iron City is backward, but it is at the peak of the agricultural era, some technologies have even broken through to the early days of the industrial age, for a small compound bow, as long as you understand the principle, you can still make it by seeing the drawings.

Lin Bida said: "The training is good, some people even have the right head within 100 meters, and if you take it out now, if it is a group attack, it is barely enough, but if you talk about the accuracy of shooting alone, I am afraid it is still not good." Lin Pida's answer was relatively honest.

Shu Han didn't think that in just over a month, he would be able to master the bow and arrow under his command, in fact, this speed is already quite fast, after all, the simple bows produced by the original Black Iron City often require great strength to be able to pull away, and at the same time, the way of aiming is relatively backward, and today's compound bows are much easier, and the grasp of strength and accuracy is required to drop a lot, so that they can get started in a short time, as for mastery, there is no need to think about it for three or five months.

However, this also has advantages, that is, the appearance of the compound bow made Liu Sanyi very excited, and even sent someone to take a few tests from Shu Han, and then took the money to let the weapon factory in Yeyu City produce, which brought a lot of income, although the money was earned by Zhang Ruoming, but Yeyucheng also earned a tax, and more importantly, because he saw that it was profitable, Zhang Ruoming sent nearly thirty skilled workers to Yeyu City, including their children, wives and daughters, In this way, the population of Noba Castle has increased.

This is naturally a good thing for Shu Han, and at the same time, Shu Han is also preparing to build a new arsenal by himself, his relationship with Zhang Ruoming is very good, but it is not good enough to be able to do it wholeheartedly, and his brother also has to settle accounts, after all, the other party used to be his old boss, and the relationship is naturally not as good as Lin Bida, Zhang Song, who has followed him from suffering, is reliable.

It is not in Shu Han's interests to hand over all these industries and projects to Zhang Ruoming, eggs cannot be put in one basket, and the key technologies must be mastered by themselves, so Shu Han also proposed a plan to build a new arsenal, which was naturally agreed by the Black Iron City family.

As the population of the Black Iron City grew, the old plan of passing from father to son, from son to grandchild, and from generation to generation became obsolete, because the increase in population forced them to have a large number of idle people, and eventually forced women to return to their families and give up their jobs to men.

Many women can only stay at home to take care of the family in the case of extremely poor family conditions, so that more than half of the labor force in the Black Iron City can no longer continue to participate in the work, and now Shuhan wants to set up a factory, to build a variety of new facilities, which is naturally a good thing, many people have set their eyes on these positions, the vast majority of them are women. Chase Yo Literature

This directly made the garrisons of Yeyu City jump three feet high with joy, and many of them are single women, these young men are also single, naturally they are very excited, Shu Han also let them mess around, as long as both parties are willing, Shu Han himself has no opinion.

As for his new arsenal, Shu Han is not worried about any accidents, Zhang Ruoming's side Shu Han has already said that the production of composite bows will not trouble them, and at the same time, the production of iron tools will continue to be handed over to the Zhang Group, and the production of the arsenal will not disturb them, and this part of the business will not be shaken.

Today's arsenals do not produce those particularly high-end things, mainly bows and arrows, as well as military uniforms, military quilts, military thanks, and army rations, etc., these civilian to military goods, these things, even ordinary people can produce a little learning, women will not have too many problems, and there is not too much technology, as long as there is a lot of strength and can endure loneliness.

Shu Han directly recruited one hundred and fifty female workers from Black Iron City to complete this work, and at the same time began to build a new factory, which made Yeyu City more lively, and at this time when it came to the use of compound bows, Lin Bida also had something to say, he said: "These compound bows are really easy to use, and now in the army, those who hold bows and arrows are not to mention how spirited, but Shu Han, can't you really make muskets?" That's what really works. ”

"I really can't help it, I can make muskets, but gunpowder, projectiles, these are not things I can make." Shu Han can only spread his hands on this, he also wants to make these things, but where is it so easy, although there are materials that can produce gunpowder near the Black Iron City, but it is quite difficult to collect, it is impossible to mass produce at all, and the production force is even more difficult, not only for the process requirements are very high, for the entire parts assembly, the quality of iron has extremely high requirements, this is not a drawing can be solved, for this, further exploration is needed.

However, Shu Han also said: "Don't worry about this matter, I have already discussed with Yang Wangdi, let him send a group of ordnance experts over, I also have some ideas, we both combined, I am afraid that the rifle will not be made, but the general flintlock pistol should still be no problem, but the mass production is not good, you have to have a psychological preparation, in the short term, the bow and arrow are still the mainstream, you don't let go of this." ”

For muskets, Shu Han naturally will not give up rashly, advanced rifled guns can not be made, flintlock pistols can not be made, you must know that the world's earliest flintlock pistol, as early as the era of agricultural society has been made, and later Europe improved technology, improve the quality of the post-flintlock pistol, but also in the last years of the Ming Dynasty has been popular, these things, Shu Han believes, with the ability of the Black Iron City, can be imitated.

It's just that they lack some key skills and thinking, and at this point, Shu Han can undoubtedly help them, after all, among the skills that Su Yu gave him, there are a lot of things about firearms, and some key technical nodes, Shu Han can still master them.

It's just that these things are inconvenient for others to see, and now in Yeyu City, surrounded by their own people, Shu Han is naturally more assured to start this project, and Yang Wangdi also attaches great importance to this, Black Iron City's demand for firearms is very large, but due to the ability of production technology, most of the firearms can not be satisfied, even the range of twenty meters can not be accurately shot, and it cannot be compared with bows and arrows at all. As a result, most people have little confidence in muskets.

But Shu Han is different, for this person who has repeatedly created miracles, Yang Wangdi obviously gave a lot of hope, so he wanted some talents in the mechanical military industry, Yang Wangdi immediately arranged, and he had already arrived in Yeyu City in the past few days, Shu Han had met with them, they were all standard workers, and they were very good at how to make firearms, but they didn't understand the principle of it, and they didn't understand the majority, and they knew very little.

This is the situation in Black Iron City today, many manual things can still be explored by relying on physical objects, but many theoretical things have been incomprehensible with the disappearance of civilization, just like a clock, he knows how to repair it, but why it can be repaired like this, but he doesn't know at all.

But fortunately, they are also engineers who have received university education, although there are many areas of firearms that they don't understand, but they do not lack the spirit of research, and they do not take these things for granted, lying on the credit book and waiting for death, so when Shu Han explained to them his understanding of firearms and the direction of firearms production, their questions were one after another, and they even began to draw design drawings in front of Shu Han, it can be said that they are still very enthusiastic.

But it is still very difficult to really make it, after all, a firearm is not a simple industrial product, it is quite complex, on a gun, even the most primitive flintlock pistol has more than 130 parts, the design and configuration of these parts are very complex and cumbersome process.

And the strength of the Black Iron City, even building a crossbow arrow is so laborious, you can imagine how troublesome it is to build a firearm, after all, compared with firearms, the hand crossbow is too simple, and there are only about thirty to sixty parts, which makes the people of the Black Iron City sigh with admiration, not to mention a more advanced musket, without half a year to a year of study, it is impossible to produce drawings, as for the construction of it is simple.

After all, in the past few hundred years, although the family background that Black Iron City received from the Mu Ge era has been almost defeated, but it is still possible to pass down some knowledge, it may not be possible to build a gun, but the people who repair guns still have a certain reserve, as long as the design drawings can be drawn, let them do it, even if it takes a year and a half, I am afraid they can be built, as long as they can be built, they can continue to cultivate, and then form an industry, then Shu Han's goal in his heart will be achieved.

But it takes time to wait, so it is impossible to meet Lin Bida for the time being, the current situation has changed suddenly, and no one can say what will happen next, so it is necessary to master the power that can be mastered in advance, otherwise what is the popularity of muskets here, and not to train bows and arrows, it is an act of putting the cart before the horse.

Besides, training bows and arrows can improve a person's patience and arm strength, which in itself is also a good thing for the use of muskets in the future, so at this point, Shu Han can only persuade Lin Bida to retract, and at this time, the cavalry sent by Zhang Ruoming came to Yeyu City and brought back news about Yangcheng, and all of a sudden, Lin Bida and Shu Han were in good spirits.