Zhang Wei looked at Yang An's face with doubts, not knowing what kind of medicine Yang An was selling in the gourd.

"I wonder if you know about carbon steel?"

Seeing that Zhang Wei's eyes were full of confusion, Yang An showed a mysterious smile on his face, and further explained: "This carbon steel is also made of iron, but its strength is several times that of iron.

Zhang Wei seemed to suddenly realize: "My lord, but what do you mean by refining refined iron? ”

"That's pretty much it." In fact, the proportion of carbon in iron and carbon steel is just how much is in the iron, and Yang An has a complete method in his hands to refine carbon steel.

"Then without further ado, please go to the forges to make firearms according to what I have given, and I will arrange for someone to protect you."

For Yang An's order, Zhang Wei of course they did not dare to disobey, and immediately devoted themselves to the study of the flintlock pistol, although there are drawings given by Yang An, but after all, it is a product beyond this era, and it still needs to be studied thoroughly to make it.

Finally, under the trial and transformation of Zhang Wei and others day and night, three days later, the foundry finally produced the first flintlock pistol, and Yang An, who was particularly concerned about this, immediately came to the foundry as soon as he heard the news.

Yang An finally saw the first flintlock pistol of the Ming Dynasty in Zhang Wei's hand, which was very similar to the arquebus of the later period, but the flintlock scythe was also the cover of the fire door, and a stronger hammer spring was used to ensure that it provided sufficient impact force; As a result, both the trigger force and the wrenching hammer are more laborious and less accurate than the arquebus. However, compared to the arquebus, which "carried a far-long arquebus for a day's battle", the advantages of a flintlock pistol that only required a few small pieces of polished flint flakes were self-evident. Compared with arquebuses, the biggest advantage of flintlock pistols is not only that they do not have to worry about the light of burning arquebuses and the unique smell of arquebuses at night to expose the target, but also have a faster rate of fire, a smaller caliber, a shorter body, a lighter weight, less recoil, and a higher range.

The firearms of the Ming Dynasty could not defeat the Houjin, that is, the insufficient range of the Ming fire gun at that time, and the long loading time made it unable to compete with the bow and crossbow in actual combat. - The process of loading an open flame gun is quite cumbersome: first measure a certain amount of gunpowder and put it in the barrel, then put in lead bullets, then stuff some rags to hold the bullets and gunpowder, then fill the powder pool with another refined gunpowder, and then fix the fire rope to the trigger, open the powder pool, aim, and fire...... In the above process, the accident of any one step will make the projectile unable to be fired successfully; If fired, the projectile, which weighs less than an ounce, would fly out of the barrel at about 800 feet per second, and then have a half chance of hitting soldiers next to each other 100 yards away, and a shot a minute would be good.

This is the reason why the Ming army was not equipped with firearms in large quantities, and the role of firearms in the war was actually not as great as that of bows and crossbows.

"Let's go and test the power of this first flintlock pistol?" Yang An and the others came to the training ground excitedly, and someone had already prepared a target waiting for them.

With the sound of "bang", a small green smoke came out of the flintlock pistol in Yang An's hand, and Wang Wu, Zhao Si and others looked at the target in the distance, and they all gasped.

The target was three hundred yards away from Yang An, but under the projectile of the flintlock pistol, there was still a big hole in the target.

"It's much more lethal than a bow and arrow." Wang Wu immediately sighed, you know, the effective lethality of the bow and arrow is only about one hundred and fifty meters.

Looking at the power of the flintlock pistol in his hand, Yang An is also very satisfied, with the current technology, it is already very good to be able to make such a musket, although this flintlock pistol is still smoothbore, and the lethality and staying power are far inferior to the rifled flintlock pistol, but drawing rifling in the barrel is not something that the current industrial base can do.

Yang An still gave the musket in his hand to Wang Wu, who was greedy on the side, and then asked Zhang Wei solemnly: "Zhang Wei, I don't know how long it will take to make this flintlock pistol the fastest?" ”

Seeing Yang An's grim face, Zhang Wei hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth and said, "If the adults fully support it, the villain can probably make two or three flintlock pistols a day." ”

"Okay, from now on, whatever does Steward Zhang need, just tell the official, and the official will definitely satisfy you."

Seeing that Yang An attached great importance to himself, and had artifacts such as flintlock pistols, until this moment, Zhang Wei sold himself to Yang An, and followed Yang An with all his heart.

In fact, although the flintlock pistol is powerful, but it needs to be reloaded, a distance of three hundred meters, according to the speed of the cavalry, as long as the enemy has been shot five times, you can rush to the front of the musketeers, and the musketeers without the protection of heavy armor are the targets of the cavalry, as long as a shock can break up the team of musketeers, and the musketeers will still be slaughtered by then.

Yang An would not have taken this into account, so he followed the tactics of the musketeers and let all the soldiers train three-stage shooting, which was not Yang An's creation, and the former soldier squire used this method to defeat the Mongol tile spur troops who had laid down the Tumu Fort, so that they did not enter Beijing.

Moreover, Yang An also asked Zhang Wei to add a bayonet to the flintlock pistol, and asked the soldiers to practice the art of stabbing.

Yang An believes that as long as he is given a period of time, he can definitely train a strong army, which is his capital to settle down in this troubled world.

…….

Everything is on the right track, Zhu Defei is responsible for managing Baixin in the city, Zhu Yushang saw that after recruiting so many new recruits, together with Wang Wu, the two went to the barracks to torture the group of new melon eggs, as for Luo Daquan, after Yang An mastered the young Zhuang in Luoding City and slaughtered the squires in the city, he and Zhao Si were responsible for maintaining law and order in the city, and it seemed that they did not dare to have different intentions. Everyone seemed to have something to do, but Yang An seemed to be idle all of a sudden, with nothing to do.

Yang An, who had nothing to do, kept running to the barracks, and what perverted training tricks were used on these recruits, making everyone miserable, if it weren't for Yang An's full food every day after training, and meat to eat every two days, it is estimated that some people would have been unable to hold on.

Yang An, who secretly slaughtered the rich gentry in the city, suddenly bulged his pocket, otherwise he would not be able to bear the consumption of the military camp, but although the training was hard, after the nutrition kept up, the training results of these recruits were remarkable.

After more than ten days, the crowd completely disappeared from the scattered when they were just recruited, and the queue stood down, and there was really a bit of the spirit of a soldier in it, compared to those bandits and outcasts, but it was an army.

As for the training of three-stage shooting, Yang An didn't have so many muskets and not so much ammunition to consume, so everyone could only hold a wooden pole and hang a stone at the front end to train everyone's stability and cooperation with each other to achieve the goal.