Li Yu was pitted by Zhangjia, if he didn't have a pistol, I'm afraid Nanyang would have bled like a river.

It seems that these weapons should be equipped as soon as possible and familiarized as soon as possible, who knows if Zhu Quanzhong and Zhang Quanyi will go crazy and give him a surprise attack?

Although there are not many weapons now, they are better than nothing, right?

At the same time as recruiting soldiers, Li Yu's guards were officially equipped with pistols.

According to the instructions of the king, the guards took all their armor away, wore a robe with a missing crotch, and tied a belt around their waists, and the holster was put on the belt on the right hand, with a fixed medicine box on the right side of the belt and a buckshot box on the left. The horizontal knife hangs on the left waist.

As for the bows, spears, and rifles, these weapons will be left to the others.

The hundred-man guard turned into a pistol squad overnight.

Every day, except for the guards who were on duty in the palace of the state, everyone else trained at the training ground.

In fact, the training content is not complicated, drawing the gun and shooting and quickly reloading ammunition are the main training items, and the accuracy of shooting is not taken into account at present.

"Draw your gun, check your weapon."

Dozens of strong young men wearing robes with cowhide belts around their waists drew their pistols in their right hands, opened the wheel nest, and flicked the wheel with their fingers, and the nest rotated flexibly, making a rattling sound.

"Check the bomb nest and keep the nest empty."

The guards raised their guns to check the nests.

"Empty nest."

"Empty nest."

"Empty nest."

……

Dozens of people were quick to report the situation of the bomb nest.

"Ready to take the medicine."

The guards put their pistols in their left hands and pulled a paper tube from their fanny pack with their right hand.

"Bite open the charge."

They put one end of the paper tube into their mouths with a brush, and when they bit it, the head of the paper tube was torn open.

"Pour medicine into the nest hole."

The guards poured gunpowder into it with trembling hands and feet.

"Take out the buckshot and put it in the nest."

The above steps were performed six times.

"Bomb nest reset."

Click, click, the runner rebounded into the card position.

"The bomb bar is pressed six times."

The guards turned the bullet nest in turn, and compacted the bullet head and gunpowder with the bullet lever.

"Turn on the nose and put the primer."

"Raise your gun, aim at the target in front of you, prepare, go!"

Rumble.

Rumble.

Rumble.

……

There was thunder and smoke in the training ground.

Some people trembled their hands and feet and did not dare to shoot, some people closed their eyes as soon as they pulled the trigger, and they did not dare to look at the target at all, and some people twisted their heads to the other side for fear that the bullets would jump on them, and the scene was chaotic.

It took a moment for the first shot to stop one after another.

Fang Xing carried a whip in his hand and whipped them one by one.

The guards screamed.

Seeing Li Yu angry, can he still fight like this?

Practice, practice to the death.

After three days, the guards finally achieved basic unity, let the gun pull the trigger, no longer hesitate, no longer afraid, and dare to look at the target.

Li Yu personally served as the instructor and showed them how to load, how to aim, and how to shoot.

Those who perform well in training are promoted to captains on the spot, and those who perform poorly are directly demoted to small soldiers.

Half a month later, I finally got a little shape.

The reload was calm, the gun was no longer shaking from side to side, the aiming was reliable, and the shooting was resolute.

After this period of live shooting, although a lot of ammunition was wasted, these guards really felt the power of the pistol.

At the end of each round of shooting, they go to the target to see their results.

The lead bullets embedded in the wooden board all show that this thing is a stake.

Today's six-turn guns have a coarse caliber and a large charge, and the sound of explosions is naturally loud, and every shot is like thunder, which is a kind of torture for the gunners of the pistol team, and after a long time, the hearing of the ears will naturally decline.

In order to protect the ears of the gunners, Li Yu made ear guards for them, filling them with kapok in a double layer of linen, the upper part was connected by a string, and the lower part was tied to the lower jaw.

Usually pull the ear guard behind the ear, and pull it on the ear during training.

Now the guards are on duty in the national palace, and their morale is high, and they are also full of confidence in being on duty in the palace.

Li Yu went to Nanyang County to recruit 500 tooth soldiers, and now he has recruited 500 new soldiers, these are his own soldiers, in order to let them adapt to the new weapons as soon as possible, Li Yu decided to let the pistol team put on a show in front of these people, so that they can have a long experience.

On July 26, the rain passed and the sky cleared.

The large school yard was full of black-pressed soldiers.

The 1,000-tooth army lined up neatly, looking at the dozens of people in front of them.

With a command, these people calmly loaded their guns and raised their guns to aim, and opened fire.

The rumbling thunder made the new and old soldiers present tremble in their hearts and tremble, and their calves trembled, which was completely different from listening to it in the distance and feeling of being there.

After the three rounds of shooting, the guards of these performances stood majestically behind Li Yu.

"Soldiers, the children of Nanyang."

Li Yu stood on a platform, his voice was calm, and his momentum was like a rainbow.

"This is the thunder in the palm of your hand that you have heard, and it is also a new weapon produced by our Nanyang itself, which is extremely powerful."

As he spoke, Li Yu waved his hand, and someone carried the target through the military formation, asking them to carefully look at the bullet holes on the target and the projectiles embedded on it.

After many people saw it, their hearts were awe-inspiring, and their hearts were in awe.

This is the thunder in the palm of King De!

After watching it all, Li Yu continued his speech.

"Everyone has seen the power of our new weapon, and with such a weapon, we are an invincible army in the world, defending the country and fighting rebellion."

"Do you want such a weapon?!"

"Yes!"

"Do you want to?"

"Yes!"

"Be louder, I can't hear you!"

"Yes!"

"Okay, as long as you want such a weapon, I will give you such a weapon, but you must train strictly to make a good weapon work to the best effect!"

The pace of production of pistols is accelerating.

Zhou Kuan found hundreds of craftsmen for the head of the high craftsman, and soon integrated into the production.

The master also came up with an idea.

Each craftsman is only responsible for the production and processing of one part, which can improve production efficiency.

From the original production of two pistols per day, it has now increased tenfold.

By the beginning of August, the stockpile of pistols in the warehouse was as high as 600 units.

The 1,000-tooth army was divided into two battalions.

Li Xiong and Fang Xing each led a battalion.

The 600 pistols were 300 per battalion, and they were trained first.

Soldiers who do not have guns are trained to transport supplies first.

Each soldier carried two boxes of ammunition on their backs and ran around Nanyang City as part of their physical training.

Three days later, the men went to live-fire training, and the others came back to carry the ammunition boxes.

These new troops were no longer equipped with any armor, and like Li Yu's guards, the linen lacked crotch robes, large cowhide belts, fixed medicine boxes, bullet boxes, and pistol holsters.

At a glance, the military appearance was neat and uniform.

The reason why armor is no longer equipped is to reduce the load and increase the flexibility and mobility of the soldiers.

According to the current firing distance of the pistol, it can basically resist the enemy at about 100 meters, and entering 70 or 80 meters is the effective killing range.

It is really not easy for ordinary bows and arrows to kill them, unless it is a hard bow with more than one stone, there are still not many such masters.

Li Yu's pistol team became the coach.

When the pistol team was training, the amount of ammunition wasted was not large, but as soon as these 600 pistols were trained, it was different, and seeing that the ammunition in the warehouse was decreasing day by day, Zhou Kuan and Li Huaixian's anxious mouth foamed.

Not only does the medicine workshop produce day and night, but even the Shenji workshop is busy repairing guns.

Although ink ball iron can be replaced by iron, it is not steel after all, and the barrel of the gun is deformed and unusable after 300 shots.

The barrel had to be replaced.

Shenji Workshop had to arrange craftsmen to produce more barrels and replace these pistols that had reached the end of their lifespan, otherwise there would be a danger of exploding.

More than a dozen people blew up their chambers during training and blew their eyes out.

For the sake of safety, Li Yu stipulated that the barrel of the pistol should be replaced in time after 250 shots.

Despite this rule, only a very small number of guns need to be replaced, and it is difficult for normal training to shoot more than 200 rounds.

Li Yu had already released the training, and the two battalions had been training day and night, and more than 80 rounds had been launched.

They have become veterans and can reload ammunition while observing the target, and can basically do blind filling.

As for the accuracy of shooting, it is already possible to do it within fifty meters, eight out of ten shots!

As we enter August, the weather gets even hotter.

Today's training has long been separated from the training ground, and the two battalions have begun field training.

The ammunition and food and grass used for training were all pulled by the people's strong wagons.

When they arrived at the field area of training, all the soldiers carried a box of ammunition on their backs and went into the wilderness to train, attack the hillside and defend the high ground, although they only had pistols, but they still could not stop their enthusiasm for training.

They were happy, but Li Yu was very worried.

It's not a question of money and food, it's a question of production.

This is not the same as before, just producing loose medicine. Nowadays, it takes time not only to produce loose medicines, but also to produce oil paper tubes, and to order boxes.

Li Yu discussed with Zhang Yi of the firearms Cao, and mobilized all the housewives who were idle at home, and let them produce oil paper tubes at home, so that the production efficiency was greatly improved at once.

A large number of young women were also recruited to come to the pharmacy to dispense gunpowder, and the women were more careful in doing these jobs.

There are still a few pennies a day, a win-win situation.

The production efficiency is solved, but the problem of raw materials is still a headache.

One is that the price of raw materials has risen.

In the past few months, Nanyang has purchased a large number of sulfur and saltpeter, which has caused the supply of Dongchuan and Longyou to be in short supply, and the price has also risen a lot.

In addition, the various miscellaneous fees charged at the checkpoints in various towns along the way are also increasing, resulting in the price to Nanyang being more than fifty percent higher than usual, and Li Yu also secretly said that he couldn't bear it.

The other is banditry.

Not only were there many people stuck in the neck along the way, but also their lives were in danger, and the caravans trafficking raw materials gradually decreased, and the price rose reasonably.

Even the price of charcoal in Dengzhou has risen a lot.

Li Yu has been very anxious, the time is about to be September, and now not only the production of pistols, but also grenades must be considered.