Chapter 70: Making Weapons

The people in the tech group are very busy, and they have more to do than the executive group. Because the soldiers guarding the city gate were too strict to bring weapons into the city, they had to use some non-prohibited raw materials to urgently make a batch of weapons after entering the city.

First of all, what they have to do is to explode # medicine, otherwise what are the sulfur powder and saltpeter powder they brought in with all their great effort for? Firearms are the big killers of this era, so this must be done, and it must be the first to be made.

Another material for making gun#medicine is charcoal, which is available everywhere, and there is no need to do everything possible to bring it into the city.

So, under the auspices of Putan, some craftsmen began to grind charcoal, and then mixed sulfur and saltpeter in proportion, and began to make gunpowder.

The process of making gunpowder # is not complicated, there are two craftsmen in the team who are usually responsible for making gunpowder # in the Hong army, and with the guidance of chemical masters like Pu Dan, it is natural to make ignition powder. Soon, hundreds of catties of fire # medicine were made, and they were placed there waiting for the day when the vigorous day came.

The bow and arrow are the second most important weapon after gun#. This time when you enter the city, you will naturally bring some masters of making bows and arrows. The first is to make a bow, I saw that these craftsmen took some bamboo and began to make it, and these bamboos were mixed in the goods as a burden and brought into the city.

Who's going to pay attention to some of the burdens? Although most of the time the goods were transported by donkey carts, many times they still needed manpower to pick them, and the soldiers guarding the city gate turned a blind eye to these things, and no one thought that these bamboos could be used to make bows.

In fact, the general thatched bamboo can be made into a bow, not to mention, it is not the ordinary thatched bamboo that is mixed in with the Hong army, this is a special kind of bamboo, called tea pole bamboo, also called bitter bamboo, green fence bamboo, sand white bamboo, and arrow bamboo. It is a medium-sized bamboo, 8~13 meters high. With a diameter of 2~6 cm, it is mainly distributed in southern China, northern Vietnam, and Japan, and is very suitable for flute and bow making.

In later generations, some people have tested various bow-making materials, and the highest energy storage density value is the synthetic material glass fiber, which has an energy storage density of 13.46, which is the best material for bow-making.

But what people never expected is that the second place is actually the tea pole bamboo, its energy storage density is as high as 13.08, only a little smaller than glass fiber, much higher than other synthetic materials and natural materials, even the well-known carbon fiber is not as good as it.

If you are a fishing enthusiast, you will definitely know about tea rod bamboo, because it is a very good material for fishing rod making, and some famous brands of fishing rods are still made of it.

Of course, people in this era don't know what energy storage density is, even Liu Hou doesn't know much about this, and he doesn't know which materials are suitable for bow-making. He didn't know, but the craftsmen in the army knew, and the craftsmen in the army knew that it was because of the vine armor army brought by the vulture bones.

This is due to Liu Hou's tireless collection of craftsmen from all over the world, and he always gave them high treatment after collecting all kinds of craftsmen into the army, and promoted an atmosphere of mutual exchange and learning in the artisan camp, as well as an incentive mechanism to reward inventions and innovations.

Although these barbarians did not have much scientific knowledge, many inventions and creations in ancient China were obtained from practice, and they lived in that place for a long time, and naturally collected various materials nearby to try to make bows and arrows.

After accumulating long-term experience, it is natural to find the most suitable material for making bows and arrows in their living environment. After the craftsmen of the Ugo Kingdom were recruited into the Hong army, they were naturally motivated by the reward mechanism of the Hong army, and naturally offered this secret recipe for making bows in exchange for more rewards. Therefore, after the Hong army obtained this material, they made a strong bow that was far superior to that of Wei and Wu.

At this critical time, it is natural that all good materials are willing to be used, not to mention, these bamboos are very deceptive and can be easily brought into the city. These bearers have already been pre-processed and can be used directly to make bows. Now, craftsmen only need to work a little and combine it with other materials, and it is easy to make a strong bow that exceeds the standard bows of Wei and Wu.

Of course, it is so easy to say, but in fact it is not easy, and it is still very hard for several craftsmen to make a dozen strong bows in a short time, so they have to give up their sleeping time and rush to work overnight.

The bow has landed, and the arrow has to be made, but the shaft of the arrow is easy to do, just use some hardwood to cut it out, there is a skilled carpenter in the team, this is just a small matter for him, and the shaft of the arrow he makes is guaranteed to be straight and flat, and the thickness is the same.

The feathers of the arrow tail can only be provided by the people of the Li family, they are a big family, and it is still possible to kill a few chickens and ducks to eat, so that the feathers will naturally be there. In addition to feathers, the Li family also provided glue, lacquer and other materials for sticking tail feathers, which belonged to military materials, which were originally extremely difficult to obtain, but the action team only needed a small amount of materials to make dozens of arrows, and the Li family could still do it with great wealth.

Arrows are more troublesome, this is iron, and it is not so simple to strike iron. The Li family can only provide them with some simple carpenter and blacksmith tools, and there are also blacksmith shops in the city, and the Li family spent money to buy some basic blacksmith tools from these blacksmith shops, which can only be basic tools, and people are unwilling to sell that kind of important equipment, especially large equipment, after all, it is the belongings of people to eat.

The skilled craftsmen in the army came up with a solution, that is, to use truncated iron nails to make the inner core of the arrowhead, then wrap the outer layer with mud, knead it into the shape of an arrowhead, and finally put it in a charcoal fire to harden the mud.

These nails are not ordinary nails, they are made of stainless steel, they are very hard and sharp, the outer layer of clay arrows will shatter when they hit the target, but the core of the iron nails wrapped inside will pierce into the flesh.

The advantage of this is that the iron nails are normal civilian goods, they can be brought into the city openly, just a pair of iron scissors to cut the iron nails, in the absence of iron tools, this is a good choice, and this practice avoids the clanging iron process, do not have to fear being heard by the neighbors, increasing the risk of exposure.

Fortunately, there is a flavored herb called deer tendon in traditional Chinese medicine, which can strengthen the muscles and bones, nourish the blood and circulation, produce lean marrow, treat strain, continue to sustain injuries, strengthen muscles and bones, and replenish yang qi; It has a significant effect on long-term rheumatism, joint pain, lumbar and spine pain, muscle and bone fatigue or weakness, difficulty in gait, weakness of hands and feet, cramps in hands and feet, bruises, strain, muscle and bone pain, etc.

Such a good thing is naturally very marketable, of course, this belongs to precious medicinal materials, and only the nobles in the city can afford to consume it. But Chengdu is now the imperial capital, and the most important thing is to have high-ranking officials and nobles, and it is normal for the Li family caravan to bring a batch of deer tendons into the city.

The team brought the cow tendon that could be used as a bowstring disguised as deer tendon and mixed it with medicinal herbs to bring it into the city. In this way, the bow and arrows are all done smoothly, but the bow and arrow are only long-range weapons, and the warrior still needs a melee weapon after all.

There is no intention of fighting people in close combat in this plan, they only have a dozen or so action team members, and it would be very stupid and naïve to run to fight people in close combat. But in the Longtan Tiger's Den, any accident can happen, and once an unexpected situation occurs and you need to fight in close combat, the sword will come into play.

If you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of what if, just in case, you still need to prepare some swords to defend yourself. Military swords don't need to be thought about, you can only consider the people to the army, firewood knives, kitchen knives, pork knives, fruit knives These things are still easy to buy in the city.

It was still the people of the Li family who came forward and bought some civilian knives, sharpened the blades by blacksmiths, and then installed them with long handles to make a murder weapon that could cut people. The long handles were 4 or 5 feet (about a meter) of iron pipes, which were brought into the city under the guise of a bracket reinforced into a donkey cart, and were removed after entering the city and used by blacksmiths as weapon handles.

In fact, just such an iron pipe is already a good weapon, and the most commonly used by the ancient boys in later generations to split friends are water pipes and watermelon knives, which shows that the iron pipe is a very vital weapon. Although the iron pipe is a blunt weapon, it is heavy enough, and it can smash and break people's bones with enough force to smash and break people's bones, and it is not one of the seven weapons used in street fights.

Now the end of the iron pipe is equipped with civilian knives, which is even more powerful. In addition, some members of the executive team like to use some "Qimen" weapons. For example, there is a team member who likes to use maces.

His mace is still iron in essence. However, this iron pipe is thick at one end and thin at the other, and the thin end is used for shaking hands. The thick end is because of a smaller thicker tube over the iron pipe, which is screwed in through guò threads, and it is easy to disassemble.

There is also a special place on the thick end, that is, it is full of small holes, and on closer inspection, these small holes are also threaded. These threads are used to screw the nail in.

The nail was about two inches long, with sharp thorns at one end, and the other end already threaded, and as long as it was screwed into the small holes at the thick end of the iron pipe, the iron pipe, which was large and small, looked like a hedgehog full of thorns, and of course more like a mace.

There is also a team member who clearly likes to use the Meteor Hammer. His meteor hammer is made of a thin iron chain, and a hard, heavy knack is tied to one end of the chain, which is an improvisable meteor hammer.

The chains were used to tie the donkey and the cart, and no one noticed that they were being used to do the most vicious deeds.

It seems that it is easy to make these weapons, but in fact it is not easy at all, especially in the absence of processing tools and manufacturing equipment, so after the technical team completed the manufacture of all the weapons, it was discovered that three days had passed unconsciously.

In the past three days, the execution team has completed important reconnaissance tasks, and they have initially grasped Wu Yi's whereabouts and learned some fixed routes that he has to take almost every day.