As a serious Taidang County official, Ma Deheng now has a house and land, and he is even more proud that he has a status, which makes him sometimes have a feeling of being suddenly separated from the world and can't believe it.

Just as Ma Deheng sighed, a subordinate rushed over, "Deacon Ma, the county head's car has arrived outside the craftsman camp."

Ma Deheng stood up: "Go, follow me to meet the county head"

Su Jun is very satisfied with the current situation of the craftsman battalion, everything is so orderly, busy and orderly, in the past few months, the production efficiency of the craftsman battalion has been greatly improved, the daily production of ordnance has exceeded Su Jun's expectations, and the quality has also been greatly improved, Li Yongchang's fine iron production process has become more and more mature, the quality of the refined iron produced has been greatly improved, Su Jun's personal guard battalion and special brigade are now equipped with ordnance made of fine iron, and the combat power has been greatly improved, and it is expected that next year, the large-scale refitting of the troops can begin.

As a military county and the commander of the border county, the first stop of Su Jun's craftsman battalion is, of course, the armory workshop.

Ma Deheng accompanied Su Jun, watching with Su Jun and explaining for Su Jun.

"My lord, here is the three-bow bed crossbow and the strong crossbow workshop, the three-bow bed crossbow is huge, the operation remains the same, we have been exploring whether we can reduce his size and operation steps without reducing the power, after a period of repeated trials, now the three-bow bed crossbow we make has been greatly improved compared to before, and now the operator has been reduced to two-thirds of the previous one, and the size has been reduced a lot."

Ma Deheng pointed to a three-bow bed crossbow that had been installed beside him, and said proudly.

"Very good, good job"

Looking at the three-bow bed crossbow that has shrunk a lot, Su Jun is very satisfied, the three-bow bed crossbow is a sharp weapon for defending the city, but there are too many people who need to operate it, and if the number of operators can be reduced, more people can be freed up to defend the city, which is a big improvement.

"The main problem with the crossbow is that it is slow to wind, and it hurts the soldier's fingers a lot, so our current crossbow is mainly aimed at improving on this."

Ma Deheng took a strong crossbow handed over by his entourage, and Su Jun was curious to see that the appearance of this strong crossbow had changed greatly.

Ma Deheng smiled and stretched out his hand to beckon an apprentice, the apprentice took the improved version of the strong crossbow, hung the string on a device on his waist, stretched out his feet, the strong crossbow was already open, reached out and took a crossbow arrow, put it in the hook groove, buckle the buckle, and then put the flat end in his hand, respectfully handed it to Su Jun, Su Jun picked up the crossbow, aimed at the opposite wall, lightly hooked the trigger, a soft sound, the crossbow arrow shot out, inserted into the wall, the remaining momentum was not weakened, and the tail of the arrow was buzzing.

"Okay, that's amazing"

Su Jun blurted out praise, seeing that the time it took for the apprentice to wind just now was extremely short, Su Jun naturally knew that if he wanted to reach the winding time of the apprentice just now, if it was a strong crossbow in the past, he was afraid that only a very small number of soldiers with extremely outstanding arm strength in the army could do it.

And the current apprentice obviously does not belong to this list, this improvement is excellent for covering shooting during combat, the crossbow shooting distance is not as long as the strong bow, mainly used for close-range coverage shooting, such a winding speed, is not only to allow soldiers to shoot two or three more arrows, which will be a great blow to the enemy.

Seeing the two defensive weapons, Su Jun couldn't help but be interested, looked at Ma Deheng, and said with a smile:

"If there are any other good things, don't hide them, take them all out and show them to me."

Ma Deheng scratched his head embarrassedly and said:

"Master Su, we still have a few good things here, but they have just been developed, and now they only have samples, and we are waiting for the county head to give a tasting evaluation, to see if it can be mass-produced?"

"Let's go, let's take a look" Su Jun took the lead in stride, and said to Yan Qinghua beside him as he walked: "Qinghua, it seems that our craftsman deacon has really made us a lot of good things."

Yan Qinghua said with a charming smile:

"Yes, Master Su, Ma Deheng is indeed very attentive, to have such an achievement, it is a capable official, and the efficiency of the craftsman camp has been greatly improved in recent months, I am preparing to ask Master Su to reward them."

Su Jun stroked his palms and laughed and said:

"Be rewarded, be rewarded, but let's go see the new gadgets they are researching first."

Everyone followed Ma Deheng into a side door, although this door is in a huge factory, but there are still four guards with knives standing in front of the door, seeing Su Jun coming, the four guards bowed and saluted, sideways to the side, everyone walked into the door, but unexpectedly found that there were no windows in the room, black holes, although the door was opened, but still the light was insufficient.

Ma Deheng commanded the people to light the torches, and everyone saw that the area of this room was not small, and there was an iron cabinet placed at this end near them, and they couldn't help but be surprised, and asked softly:

"Deacon Ma, what kind of good thing are you, you actually put it in an iron cabinet in such a heavily guarded place." Gao Meng asked strangely.

Ji Nu stretched out his fist and slammed it on the iron cabinet, making a muffled sound, Ji Nu took a breath, "Such a thick iron plate, old horse, what kind of good thing is this?" ”

Ma Deheng smiled: "Two adults, the good thing is this iron cabinet."

Iron cabinets? Everyone was puzzled, Su Jun walked around the iron cabinet, looked at the neat rows of black holes on the front of the iron cabinet, and suddenly realized: "Ma Deheng, is this a repeater?" ”

Ma Deheng nodded and said: "My lord, you used to tell your subordinates that a weapon that can be fired continuously, and after your subordinates came back, they pondered and meditated, and some of the keys have not been able to come up, but then Li Yongchang made fine iron, and then used this fine iron to pull out the steel wire, and these problems will be solved. ”

Ma Deheng stretched out his hand to open the iron cabinet from behind, and everyone saw rows of neatly wound steel springs in the cabinet, and there were already apprentices holding iron boxes the size of crossbow arrows one by one, Ma Deheng placed them one by one in the iron cabinet, closed the cabinet door, and there were two apprentices holding a Z-shaped iron rod, reaching into the iron cabinet from one side, the two worked together to turn the iron rod hard, except for Su Jun, everyone else looked at Ma Deheng and others curiously.

Seeing the two apprentices draw out the iron rods, Ma Deheng walked to the iron cabinet with a proud face, and pulled it out of nowhere, and in the horrified eyes of everyone, crossbow arrows were continuously shot from the front of the iron cabinet, and they were inserted into the wall in front of them one by one, shaking the dust on the roof.

After a while, everyone woke up from their numbness and sluggishness, "Good thing!" Gao Meng shouted, and immediately attracted a large number of white eyes, Su Jun nodded and walked to the iron cabinet, and asked in a deep voice:

"This is indeed a good thing, Ma Deheng, how many arrows can this thing fire at a time?"

"About a hundred," Ma Deheng said proudly.

"It's a good thing, but it's a pity that it's too cumbersome, and it can only be used as a weapon to defend the city."

Su Jun said regretfully: "And this is a money-burning thing, Ma Deheng, the arrows fired by this thing must be made of iron all over the body, right?" ”。

Ma Deheng said: "Yes, handsome, wooden or bamboo arrow shafts are not good, and they will all be broken when the oar is shaken." ”

"One shot is a hundred arrows, and if there are ten hundred such things, and a single shot is thousands of arrows, how much iron does it cost? How much does it cost? We can't afford to play this kind of thing in Taidang County now," Su Jun shook his head and said helplessly.