In the wooden house on the top of the mountain, Zhao Cheng is explaining the structure of the brief repeater to a group of craftsmen, in this era, it is not easy to train archers, and a good bow and crossbow and arrow feathers, it is not easy to make, a good arrow, if you want to make it, it takes a dozen processes at least, and it takes a long time.

If there are fewer steps, the arrow feather will be inaccurate.

But what Zhao Cheng wants is not accuracy.

There are not many people under his command who can shoot arrows, and even if they want to train temporarily, it is too late, after all, he plans to forcibly capture Wucheng next spring.

He knows very well that the longer he wanders in the mountains and forests, the smaller the advantage, and it seems that the longer the time, the more he can accumulate strength, but in fact, if the soldier is away from the battlefield for a long time, after a long time, the military spirit will not be available.

He used the army to settle the fields, just temporarily planted a season of grain, a variety of a few years, the elite soldiers, will really degenerate into farmers, when the time comes, although compared with ordinary farmers, a little more brave, but in terms of combat effectiveness, I am afraid that even one-third of the current one-third.

Therefore, in the dynasties of the past and present, even if there is no enemy to fight at the border pass, the wise commander will let his men and horses take turns to attack, so as not to dull the soldiers.

Moreover, even if he had cultivated a team of archers, it would not have been possible to produce sufficient bows and arrows with the skills of his craftsmen.

Therefore, his plan is to create a large number of repeaters with no precision at all, and only need to have enough of them, and no matter how high the accuracy is, it must also give way to probability.

In fact, if it weren't for the limited conditions, he would have directly wanted to open a furnace in the mountains and make muskets directly.

There are many ores in the mountains, and it is not difficult to find the ore to make gunpowder, but the biggest problem is that even if he supplements the Dao method, unless he is going to build a super-large furnace, the furnace is small, and the temperature of the flame is still impossible to reach the standard.

Therefore, Zhao Cheng planned to build a musket unit after taking Wucheng and having enough conditions.

When the time comes, with the elite raising shields in formation, the muzzles of muskets pointed in all directions, directly advancing to the battle line, and there is no need to consider the problem of accuracy.

At present, although the musket cannot be manufactured, Zhao Cheng has already begun to make purified gunpowder, and he plans to make a batch of explosives packs to blow up the walls of Wucheng.

In this world, although there were Taoists who made alchemy a long time ago, and created something similar to gunpowder, which was also used on the battlefield, because the purity of gunpowder was not enough, the lethality was also limited.

As for purifying gunpowder, it is not that there are no Taoists who think of this, but the process is too dangerous, and Taoists are not golden, and the bones of the corpses that will be blown up are not left after a little accident.

However, it is precisely because the gunpowder has been refined that the Danlei vein has also been opened up in the Daomen.

Originally, I wanted to use Taoism to attract thunder, if it is a human immortal, it can be done in a thunderstorm, and if it is a dry day, it will be a heavenly immortal.

The Taoists who are good at alchemy use the essence of all kinds of mountains, uphold the virtue of the earth, and condense the thunder in the ground and the thunder in the palm.

It's just that if this thunder method is the most lethal, it will be extremely unstable, and it will explode in his sleeve if he is not careful, if it is the most stable, there will be no lethality, if you want to kill, it is better to bless your body with Taoism, obtain divine power, one sword at a time.

crossbows, gunpowder, fertilizers, Taoist officials, recruiting troops, taking villages......

What Zhao Cheng has to do now can be described as a thousand things, and many things need him to do everything himself.

Let's just say that this crossbow, if he doesn't tell it himself, there are some places where he doesn't talk about it himself, and his carpenters can make mistakes according to the picture.

However, all of these things are increasing his power from a tangible and intangible level.

Zhao Cheng expected that Wu Qi would now hear that he had deliberately released him, and he would take the news of Wu Cheng in the coming year.

Thinking about the other party, he will still sneer now, he is only a little remnant of the army, I am afraid that it is difficult to even get close to the city wall of Wucheng.

When the time comes, it is also to let the other party see what is called, the solidity of Wucheng is not as good as the thunder and fire.

Of course, the local method of refining high-purity gunpowder is indeed dangerous, if it were not for the subtlety of his Taoism, the understanding of Huangtian reconstruction, and the chemical knowledge from the "modern", the combination of the two, can guarantee that he did not blow himself up.

In the case of a low degree of industry, "alchemy" is indeed a dangerous job.

"General, this wood is not concocted by mud and water, even if it is carbonized by flames, it is still not durable, especially the delicate objects in it, I am afraid that if it is fired three to five times at most, there will be problems, if it is replaced by iron, the iron is too brittle, and it is not easy to fire......"

Li Shan, a carpenter next to Zhao Cheng, pointed to the drawings drawn with charcoal on the wooden board and said.

He is illiterate, but Zhao Cheng has already taken this into account, the whole drawing, only the pattern, and then the size marked with a horizontal line, one horizontal is one foot, two horizontal is two feet, half horizontal is half a foot, one-third horizontal, is one-third of the foot.

Now it has been half a month since the release of the Jixian Order, and Li Shan's carpentry level is actually not good, but in this Lianshan, he belongs to the tall man who is short, and Zhao Cheng is a meritocracy, because among the carpenters, the other party can already speak.

And after so much time, Li Shan's thoughts have changed again.

From the initial apprehension, to the shock when I saw "Roshan", and now, because of the manufacture of repeating crossbows, I have had close contact with this general for a period of time, and then look at the governance and law of the Ying Heavenly Army.

Although he has not read, he is still instinctive, in the feeling, there is a kind of other party, when he was young, he worked outside the mountain, and in his spare time, he hid in the corner of the wall near the teahouse, listening to the drama of the teahouse.

He vaguely remembered that the content of the play seemed to say that the great ancestor was seen by the imperial court doctor at that time, and the doctor deliberately said in front of many people that this son does not look like a human minister at a glance, but like a human master.

As a result, Dacang Taizu suffered many disasters, and finally almost died outside.

But then, the follow-up words of the doctor were poked into a word, and in the follow-up in the play, the Taizu of Dacang led the troops into the capital, caught the former doctor, and asked him, you look at my soldiers and horses, can they be strong? !

After that, he first killed the nine clans, and finally killed the doctor and skinned him and filled it with grass.

Now Li Shan's thoughts are that this general does seem to be the master of the people, and at such an age, he has such a means and bearing, could it be that there is really a god in this world? !

Huang Tian responded to the order, and the world returned to Zhao, he didn't believe it very much, but now, he has a little bit of faith.

Of course, he himself is already old, at this age, everything is almost dung, but his son is still young, so he wants to pave the way for his son.

As he spoke, he glanced at his son, who was a little farther away, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.