"What's your name?" Yu Feng played with a fire gun about six feet long in his hand, and asked the person kneeling below with a smile.

"If you go back to the adult, the villain's name is Bi Maokang!" The man below knelt on the ground and replied respectfully.

Yu Feng heard Liu Shengmin's report and specially came to this Xuejia Island to inspect. Although the firearms battalion is only a hundred households, Yu Fengyueyue threw away a lot of money, except for some ordinary weapons maintenance and the production of some ordinary firecracker guns, he has not been able to get any results, which makes Liu Shengmin a little apprehensive.

Moreover, there have been a lot of rumors, saying that the reason why adults support them is because they fancy the tricks in their hands, but Liu Shengmin, as an adult's family, does not want to forge ahead, lives in chaos, and wastes money and food in vain, which also makes Liu Shengmin sit on pins and needles, and wants to drum up something that can satisfy adults to suppress these rumors.

Yu Feng didn't have much advice on this matter, it was nothing more than asking them to think about it carefully, improve firearms, and it was best to be innovative, of course, with the foundation of the current firearms battalion, it would be the best thing to be able to build cannons. However, for these craftsmen, casting cannons is really too difficult to do, it took a lot of materials and painstaking efforts, except for drumming out a few tiger squat cannons and the like, there is no more achievement, even the Lingshan private port as a defensive Western Franco cannon, it can not be imitated, after injuring a few people, the craftsmen will die of this mind.

Among the talents that Yu Feng dug up from Tianjin, there is no master who can be familiar with the entire cannon casting process, and there is no craftsman who can participate in cannon casting, and they are all considered masters in the firearms battalion, but it is too unrealistic to want to get a glimpse of this kind of thing.

Fortunately, the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty, in the skills passed down from generation to generation, in addition to the "high-tech" work such as making cannons, also have a lot of other skills, seeing that the firearms battalion was neglected and underestimated by other colleagues, the craftsmen of the firearms battalion were all holding their breath, pondering that they had to make a good name in front of the adults, and show their faces to prove that the money on them was not spent in vain.

Therefore, there is no more urging and supervision from Yu Feng, after completing the monthly prescribed firearm production and weapon making tasks, the craftsmen all brainstormed one by one, and brought their subjective initiative to the extreme, and many family heirloom skills and firearms that were never easily made were also made one by one, and this time, it was Liu Shengmin's purpose to invite Yu Feng to come to Xuejia Island, and the firearms battalion was going to give treasures to adults.

Yu Feng listened to such a report, naturally full of joy, for a long time, this firearms battalion is the place he is most concerned about, "science and technology are the primary productive forces", the experience summed up by the great men of later generations, but after all kinds of verification, mastering advanced weapons is undoubtedly mastering the victory of the war, the human factor is important, that is, when there is no difference in the human factor, advanced weapons, is the most important weight on the balance of the war. Therefore, he did not hesitate to drop the matter in his hand and immediately rushed to Xuejia Island.

And the first thing that was presented made him very satisfied, no, it can't just be said to be satisfied, it can even be said to be shocked and relieved.

This is a fire gun, and unlike the fire gun equipped in the Yu Feng army now, this fire gun has no fire rope, and at the dragon head that originally held the fire rope, there are two more flints. When the trigger is pulled, the faucet is pressed down, rubbing against the flint to ignite, igniting the gunpowder in the medicine pool, and the fire gun is launched. From this point alone, this firebolt has overcome the huge shortcomings of arquebus ignition, which is affected by the weather, and the timing of the launch is in the hands of the shooter, which is already the prototype of a modern rifle.

Of course, this firearm is still relatively simple, and in the design of this Bi Maokang, this firearm can still fire arrows, which is simply the same as the design idea of modern gun grenades. Of course, in Yu Feng's view, this is inevitably a bit of a snake, holding a firearm to fire arrows, indicating that Bi Maokang is still stuck in the idea of using firearms as auxiliary weapons, and his generational limitations make him unaware that this firearms unit, in fact, as a separate branch of the military, is the trend of historical development.

However, this is all the end, just flint fire, this great innovation, has already benefited Yu Feng a lot, it can be said that the troops equipped with such a firing device, when facing the same troops equipped with muskets, victory is nine out of ten. When the arquebus is burned, you have to put the gun, you can wait for the opportunity and then aim and shoot, this hit rate can be imagined, what's more, if in the wind and rain lamp bad world, the opponent's fire gun only eight out of ten can't hit, and you are not affected at all, if you can't win the fight, that's a strange thing?

"You figured it up yourself?" Yu Feng asked, however, the look on his face made it clear to the people around him that the adult was in a very good mood at the moment.

"My brother mentioned this idea to the little one many years ago, and the little one tried it rashly, and it was a success, but it was not something that the villain could figure out alone!"

"Good!" Yu Feng nodded approvingly: "It's good to dare to try, I'm afraid to hold it in my heart, and I don't want to do it, Liu Baihu, write it down, Bi Maokang reformed the weapon, remember a miracle work, and reward a hundred taels of silver!" ”

Bi Maokang was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly knelt down and thanked him. He didn't doubt that this thing he had tinkered with was in the eyes of adults, and he definitely had a reward, but the reward was so rich that he really didn't expect it. Moreover, if you have miraculous achievements in the army, isn't it just around the corner.

"However, your firecracker, cast the function of rockets, see if you can get rid of it, firecrackers are firecrackers, don't engage in those other things, be greedy and not refined, concentrate on improving this, in the future, my Fengzi battalion said that it is not necessarily, the whole army will use your improved firecracker!"

Bi Maokang repeatedly said yes, the lord can point out the direction, for him, this is more important than anything else, not to mention what the lord said later, the whole army of the Fengzi battalion must use their own improved firearms, what a glory it is.

"Go down, think about it again, improve it better, and after a while, I'll come to see your results!"

Bi Maokang retreated, Yu Feng beckoned to Liu Shengmin, Liu Shengmin came up, "This Bi Maokang, you have to look at it well, food and clothing, naturally you can't miss him, if it's the amount of materials or something, don't restrict him, it's just a little bit, you must not let him and his family leave Xuejia Island!" ”

"Understood, sir!" Liu Shengmin nodded, in front of Yu Feng, he was naturally happy to get such a lottery, and at the moment, it seems that adults really value this Bi Maokang.

"What else is there to see?" Yu Feng said with a smile, he was very relieved to hand over the firearms battalion to this loyal family, and between his words, it was much easier.

"Call Ma Xiaoqi of the seventh small flag to come in!" Liu Shengmin looked at the roster in his hand and shouted outside the door.

It didn't take long for the sound of footsteps outside the door, but it didn't sound like a person, and as soon as he sang a promise, a swarthy man with five big and three thick walked in and knelt down to salute Yu Feng.

"Ma Xiaoqi, why don't you take out the things made by your Xiaoqi for the adults to see, what are you doing standing there stupidly?"

Seeing the innocent appearance of this swarthy man, Liu Shengmin reminded.

"Yes, yes!" The man looked very reserved, glanced at Yu Feng, and shouted outside, "Bring in!" ”

The two of them heard the sound and entered, but what they carried in was a wooden barrel large and small, and the wooden planks on the top of the barrel were full of holes the size of eggs, and I don't know what it was.

Yu Feng couldn't see that he was famous, so he simply got up and circled around the barrel a few times, but he still couldn't understand it.

"Ma Xiaoqi, what is this?"

"Lord Hui, this is a swarm of bees!"

"A swarm of bees? Well, you can explain it to the official in detail! ”

"Your Excellency, you see, this barrel is equipped with two layers of arrow grids, each layer can be placed sixteen rockets, under the partition plate, is the fire door plate, under the gunpowder, each rocket fuse leads to the small mouth of the fire door plate, after ignition the fire rope ignites the gunpowder, the rocket on the spacer plate can be launched at the same time, like a "swarm of bees" rushed out. Hence the name A Swarm of Bees!"

Yu Feng was shocked, what a swarm, isn't this the way modern rockets are launched? Could it be that in the Ming Dynasty, there was such a thing? Thirty-two arrows are fired at a time, and if there are hundreds of such swarms fired at the same time, wouldn't it be thousands of arrows to cover the target instantly, this thing is too awesome, and it may not be much worse than artillery, uh... If you only refer to field killing. You must know that most of today's artillery is solid bullets, and if you shoot it out, you may not be able to compare with this swarm of bees?

"How far can you shoot?" Yu Feng asked.

"Two hundred paces, the farthest can shoot up to five hundred steps!" Ma Xiaoqi said a little cowardly, "This swarm of bees, lit the fire rope, and the rest of the matter will be handed over to God, quasi-head, it's really impossible to say!" ”

Nonsense, one can shoot thirty-two arrows, you still want to be on the head, do you want people to live? Yu Feng was very happy in his heart, where did he care about what he said, looking up and down around this swarm, it was like a child getting a novel toy.

"This is Ma Xiaoqi's family heirloom skills, the villain has been in the army before, and he has also heard of the reputation of this swarm of bees, so it has to be a clever craftsman to do it, like the army can make five tigers out of the hole arrow that releases five rockets at a time, it is already a very remarkable thing, when Ma Xiaoqi made it, I don't believe it?" Liu Shengmin said on the side.

"Have you ever test-shoten?"

Liu Ma and the others both nodded.

Yu Feng rubbed his hands and couldn't wait to say, "Go out and let me have a round..."