In addition to the musket team, Li Xiao's top concern is the artillery team.

The so-called artillery corps naturally refers not to artillery, but to trebuchets. With the smelting technology available on the island, it would be a fool's dream to try to make artillery. But trebuchets are fine, this kind of medieval thing, now it is not difficult to drum up at all.

In these years, trebuchets are generally divided into two types, one is called counterweight trebuchet in the West, and it is called Jinglan in China.

The other is called a torsion spring trebuchet, which is definitely an alien species. I haven't heard of a prototype in China!

Both types of trebuchets have their own advantages, and the counterweight trebuchet is too large and too heavy. It is generally used as a siege city, and it is very inconvenient to use it in the field.

The advantage of a torsion spring trebuchet is that it doesn't need to be assembled, and the disadvantage is that it is not as powerful as a counterweight trebuchet.

According to the characteristics of the two trebuchets, Li Xiao still chose the torsion spring trebuchet. The most important thing in this thing is the torsion spring, and the wire drawing technology has not yet been available in these years. But it's okay to get a thumb-thick steel rod, but the press brake doesn't. But fortunately, there is Zhao Tiezhu, this guy is definitely a descendant of Transformers.

After the cow roared, it actually bent the steel rod that was padded to the grinding disc. It is still bent against the grinding disc, and ten torsion spring trebuchets need twenty torsion springs. This guy was bent out in three days, and the excited Li Xiao rewarded the two roast chickens. This humanoid press brake is not something that anyone can have a chance to encounter. Li Xiao felt that he was really lucky.

"What's in your head?" When I saw this thing, I could actually throw a thirty-pound thing a hundred and ten steps away. Ao Canghai glanced back at Li Xiao dumbfounded, he knew too well how much damage this thing could bring to the wooden fence walls of the Eight Banners.

"It doesn't matter what I have in my head, what matters is if the stone is replaced with a powder keg full of gunpowder. What would it be like, you say? Li Xiao said with a smile.

"Mix it with iron nails and iron sand......! Holy, this thing can kill a lot of people. Man Gui was rarely smart, and Li Xiao found that as long as it was something related to the war, Man Gui's brain cells would be fully mobilized.

"And this thing!" Li Xiao picked up an object with four points from the side.

Ao Canghai took it curiously, but Li Xiao threw this thing on the ground. Ao Canghai was surprised to find that no matter how he threw this thing, it would have a pointed upward.

"This ......!"

"It's called a triangular spike, and no matter how you throw it, it will have a tip pointing upwards. Our ancestors will use it, I heard that it was invented by Zhuge Liang. You said that if this thing was mixed in the gunpowder, it would explode like this. This thing will be sprinkled all over the radius of dozens of paces!

If the Tartar cavalry had run over on horseback at this time......! Li Xiao smiled sinisterly.

"Holy shit! The horse's hooves were pricked by this thing, and the horse was not crazy. The cavalry in the charge will be thrown down and thrown to death. How did you figure it out, what kind of head are you! Man Gui stared at Li Xiao's head and looked at it, with the intention of opening it up.

"These things can still kill and injure infantry, and even the armor of the Tartars can't withstand the power of gunpowder explosions. You know, this is packed with thirty pounds of gunpowder. With this thing, we can throw them a hundred paces away.

We've got ten of them now, and how many people do you think we can kill after one launch. With these things and the musket team, we are not afraid of a thousand cavalry on the opposite side. Li Xiao imagined that a thousand cavalry would charge over frantically, but he was bombarded by himself and completely turned into scum. As long as I imagine it, I feel my blood boiling.

In fact, in these years, the smelting technology is not yet mature. Although the artillery is easy to use, the accident rate is also very high. The so-called accident is a bore!

Another reason why Li Xiao chose trebuchets was that trebuchets were faster to reload than artillery.

When the cavalry rushed over, the bows and arrows were only three shots. Reload speed, means survival.

Mao Wenlong nodded frequently beside him, "If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools." Brother Xiao, you have done it to the extreme! With these things, it is indeed not a problem to deal with more than a thousand Tartars. Brother Xiao made these sharp weapons, did he want to make some moves? ”

Li Xiao took a look, and the old fox was indeed the old fox. I showed these things to Man Gui and Ao Canghai today just to cheer them up. Unexpectedly, before he could say it, he was seen by Mao Wenlong.

"Lord Mao is really wise! We've been on the island for so long, even though we've just seized some silver. But it's not always a way to sit and eat, I want to go out and do a vote. ”

"Brother Xiao, my hands are itchy for a long time. Tell me, how do we do it? Hearing that he was going out to fight and grab silver, Man Gui immediately widened his eyes. He was poor and frightened, and was interested in all things that had to do with silver.

"I'm ready to attack Golden State! This place is close to us, and it is not well defended. The Tartar soldiers numbered about five or six hundred people, and managed hundreds of villages within a radius of a hundred miles. ”

"The fifth child went out two days ago, I'm afraid you sent it out!"

"That's right! The fifth master came back and said that a gold mine near Jinzhou had recovered 1,000 taels of gold. Note that it is not silver but gold. With these two thousand gold, our family is rich enough. It took a year and a half to eat, and there was no problem. ”

"With our current strength, it's still no problem to deal with five or six hundred people." Ao Canghai nodded.

"Again, I want to go ashore and recruit another group of people. The focus is on those who know how to build ships, and now is the time when there is no success. The fifth master is not to labor you again! "The fifth master was born in the land, and he has the most experience in the rivers and lakes. Seeing what someone says is simply a natural ability. This kind of thing, it is most appropriate for him to do it.

"I didn't say it, I promise to get you a shipbuilder. It's just that......! This salary! ”

"We still have a lot of silver, and we can pay more than that. But this time, you can't look for it in Liaodong. If we want to go to Shandong to find it, we will go to sea to make a fuss, and Liaodong will have to be tight for a while. ”

"Done! Then go to Shandong! When the fifth master spoke, his eyes looked at Mao Wenlong with shyness.

"The old man will write you a letter!" Mao Wenlong rolled his eyes, who let him have an uncle who was the political envoy of Shandong.

"With this letter, don't say a few. It's just dozens, hundreds, no problem! ”

"In that case, let's leave tomorrow night. Early in the morning, I should have arrived in Golden State. The day after tomorrow, let's have a real fight with them. ”

"Don't steal chickens and dogs in the dark, be happy! Joyfully! ”