When the indigenous blacksmith Xie Ergou of Kaifeng City, it was because of the good effect of the hydraulic forging hammer.

So with fiery energy, one after another of the embryos of the hundred steel cuirass were forged out one by one.

didn't know that in a warehouse not far from him, in his heart, he had already regarded the three grandfathers of the gods, such as Wolf Qing, Lao Tie, and Wu Pawn, who were currently depressed.

There is even a posture that is directly rotten and used as hob meat.

The main reason is that after a lapse of more than half a month.

All the netizens who participated in the mission this time, in addition to the three team members who are currently in Renbeidi such as Fengrui, Ah Li, and War Elephant, there are also four people who are still raising food in the Luoyang area, such as Lao Snake, Li San, Fenghuahui, and Fan Zhu.

All the rest of the crew finally got together again tonight.

It's a pity that after these two dozen people gathered together, they weren't going to have a good meal or drink, or a team battle or something.

In fact, it was Hu Biao and others who collectively came to Wolf Qing, Lao Tie, and Wu Shu to ask for accounts, and asked for all kinds of equipment and industrial products.

In the face of such a group of ghosts, it is strange that they can get up happily......

In his left hand, he picked up a half-length cuirasse with a silver-gray steel color that had been processed, that is, a fixed cowhide rope that was attached to it, as a cushion of cowhide.

In his right hand, he picked up a helmet with a brim, also made of 100 steel.

Hu Biao used the cuirass and helmets on his hands, and slammed them hard between the two, once, twice, three times, until he hit them more than ten times before stopping.

In the following time, he took out the pig-killing knife at his waist and slashed at the helmet and cuirass several times.

When you finally look at it, you can see that whether it is armor or breastplate, although there is some deformation between the two, it is not too serious.

The knife marks on it are not deep, showing the very good quality of the two.

In line with the idea of having one thing to say, Hu Biao then said to Lao Tie, who was in charge of this work, and praised him with a mouth:

"Lao Tie, 666.

The quality of these armors you produce is very good, and there is absolutely no way to break the defenses of the golden people's bows and arrows, swords, and even spears can be stabbed with one shot if they don't borrow the horse's momentum.

Even if it can't protect against blunt blows, there are only a limited number of positions that can be defended, and it still provides considerable protection for musketeers.

After all, in front of the musketeers, there are also sword and shield bearers and pikemen, taking into account the flexibility and sustained combat ability they need to fight, and they don't need to wear as if they were cans.

Such a protective force is enough. ”

After hearing the praise of the commander of the dead street, the three of Wolf Qing, Lao Tie and Wu Shu, such a secretary of the Ministry of Works, plus two servants of the Ministry of Works, just smiled with their eyebrows.

The problem is that before their smiling faces could be maintained for a few seconds, Hu Biao said 'but'.

Special! In these dead words, as long as the word 'but' appears, it is basically not a good thing.

In fact, this is also the case, Hu Biao's later words gave them a headache: "However, you said that this is the output of this half month."

After a cursory glance, there should only be about 2,000 sets.

That is to say, your production capacity is only 4,000 sets in a month, and only more than 20,000 sets in half a year, which is not enough, far from enough, and the output is far from the old nose from the requirements~"

As soon as he heard this, Lao Tie, who was in charge of the preparation of the armor, had to explain it in his mouth.

There is a reason for the current low output, and the blacksmiths, apprentices and other basic personnel of smelting and forging in Kaifeng City are only about 1,000 people.

Even after the soldiers and nearly one-third of the craftsmen built a large number of earthen blast furnaces, their daily steel output has reached an astonishing 80,000 catties.

And this is still the current situation due to the supply of raw materials such as iron ore and coal, which is not very stable.

With the improvement of mining and transportation in the future, such a steel output can be greatly doubled, or even more.

After all, to put it bluntly, the so-called 80,000 catties is only 40 tons, and the monthly output is only 1,200 tons.

If it had been placed in the modern plane, this kind of plant the size of a booper would have been forcibly shut down long ago due to problems such as low production and serious pollution.

However, in the Northern Song Dynasty, it can be regarded as one-tenth of the output at its peak.

Although the quantity is not much, it has perfectly solved the most basic raw material problem of the new court of the Great Song Dynasty.

The crux of the matter is that Kaifeng City and the surrounding areas are all plain terrain, although the water network is relatively dense, but there is basically no difference in the water flow.

A machine that should be driven by hydraulic power can only rely on the way of building a dam manually, resulting in a drop flow that can drive a water wheel.

But the number of such dams that can be built is limited, and the number of hydraulic equipment is now almost at its peak.

What's more, they still have a lot of manufacturing plans that haven't started, and once those planned equipment start to be manufactured, they will have to occupy some of the hydraulic machinery.

When the time comes, let alone increase, it is estimated that even 4,000 sets of cuirasses and helmets per month cannot be guaranteed, and so on.

As a result, before Lao Tie could speak, there were a few crisp gunshots in his ears, which immediately attracted the attention of everyone in the warehouse.

It was Lao Hei, Big Fish, Feng Che, and Chen Tang, who were testing the muskets that Wolf Qing had just made.

Compared with armor and helmets, this is a key weapon of the new army, which is naturally more important.

Immediately, everyone didn't care about the production of armor and helmets, and they rushed to the open space outside the warehouse......

Soon after, Hu Biao and the others saw it in the open space outside.

The chief instructors of the four recruit battalions, including Lao Hei, Da Yu, Windmill, and Chen Tang, are currently using muskets of different lengths.

At different positions between 50 and 150 meters in front of him, he put on a piece of fish scale armor or leather armor, constantly loading and firing.

In this process, everyone was pleasantly surprised to see some nice details.

It was in these muskets that the use of cartridge-filled gunpowder had already begun.

It is to use a small paper tube to fill a certain amount of gunpowder, and when using it, tear the top with a tooth, and pour a little granular gunpowder into the gunpowder pool as a fire.

More gunpowder was poured into the barrel of the gun and used as propellant.

It is not like the musketeers of the Ming and Qing dynasties, who put gunpowder in a container such as a cow horn, or a bamboo tube or a gourd.

Often when loading, as long as the hand shakes slightly, it is not more, but less.

In addition, they can find that on the bolt of the musket and the arms of Lao Hei and the others, there is no obstructive fire rope.

Immediately, Hu Biao was full of surprise, and shouted out of his mouth: "Wolf Qing, you kid can, in such a little time, you actually tossed out the flintlock pistol." ”

"The little thing, the most complicated thing about the flintlock pistol, is that it involves a problem of lighter; I asked the military to build a special tong boiler, and it was easily solved. ”

Facing Hu Biao's praise, Wolf Qing said in a very calm tone.

However, from the smile in his eyes, as well as the subsequent introduction, it shows that he is still complacent about this:

"We have preliminarily selected and trial-produced three muskets for the new army, and if you have no opinions, we will be able to mass-produce them from tomorrow.

The first is the main musket that is intended to be equipped with the most.

The model is the famous brown bess used by John's lobster soldiers, that is, the 1730 type flintlock pistol.

This musket is a front-loading smoothbore gun, with a caliber of 0.75 inches, and fires about 28 grams of lead bullet.

A skilled fighter who has been trained for a long time should be able to fire five or six shots in a minute.

Because we didn't have enough brass, some of the components had to be replaced with steel, so the overall weight of the musket was a bit heavier, almost 9 pounds.

The maximum firing range is 230 meters, but everyone knows how accurate the smoothbore gun is, and the bullet doesn't know where to fly so far.

Fortunately, as long as you hit, you can break the leather armor within 100 meters, and you can penetrate the heavy armor within 70 meters.

In addition, this thing has a bayonet, which is attached to the barrel of the gun, not the one that is directly stuffed into the barrel; Even after the opponent rushes close, the musketeers can still have some melee abilities.

The second is an improved version of the first Brown Bess musket.

Specifically, the caliber was changed to a smaller caliber of 0.5 inches, the barrel was lengthened by 20 centimeters, and four rifling wires with a depth of 0.08 mm were drawn out of the chamber.

After using the special lead bullet, it was a lot more troublesome to load, and in a minute of skillful operation, the rate of fire was two rounds in the sky.

Fortunately, after such a modification, the range and accuracy are much stronger.

Of course, hand-rifled was a disaster these days, so this improved brown bess musket was only intended to be produced in small quantities for the use of snipers in the army.

The third is the kind of short spear that the big fish now has in his hand.

Sounds familiar, doesn't it? Familiarity is right.

In fact, this thing is the special pistol of the officers of John's fleet back then, and the short musket that appeared in the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean" is this thing.

This thing has a shorter barrel and no rifling, so you don't have to think much about accuracy and power after more than 30 meters.

However, within 30 meters, the lethality and accuracy are still quite good, and it can be regarded as a portable musket for future cavalry units and officers. ”

It should be said or not, the above three muskets are very suitable for the current Great Song New Army.

I believe that with the craftsmanship of the eighth-level fitter of the wolf green brother, as well as the unique hobby of studying this thing when there is nothing to do, more advanced rear-loading muskets can also be manufactured.

However, considering the current conditions, the gains outweigh the losses.

Especially in the following time, after everyone started to shoot a few shots, they all praised Wolf Qing, Lao Tie, Wu Pawn and others.

Lao Hei even flattered and handed over a hand-rolled trumpet paper cigarette, and pleaded to the wolf green in his mouth:

"Dude, help me change that Lumi gun later, otherwise you have to blow it every time before firing, and you can't fire on your stomach, it's really troublesome."

"No problem, the parts are ready-made, and you can do it easily." After hearing this, Wolf Qing easily agreed.

For a while, the three people in the Ministry of Industry were praised by everyone, and it was a scene of rave reviews.

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It's a pity that in the following time, the three of them were quite uncomfortable;

It was after a burst of compliments, and the windmill snorted, and made a rather urgent request: "Hey! Brothers.

I also know that if we want to fully arm the new army, it will take a process, and we can take our time at this point, as long as we can complete it before the Jin soldiers send out the troops.

However, the current training subjects of the recruit camp will soon involve the use of muskets.

If this old-fashioned musket wants to hit quickly and accurately, it is simply inseparable from a repeated reload and shot, so in a week, can you provide us with 5,000 ordinary brown besils.

In addition, the improved brown besil and the short spear, fifty of each, are good; It can also allow rookies to take turns touching the gun and get started in advance.

Please, I also got a jar of good wine there, the one with a tiger whip soaked in it, and I will send it back to someone~"

But in the face of such a request for windmills and a bribe of good wine, the smile on Wolf Qing's face that was originally full of face suddenly solidified.

The main reason is still in the production of the barrel of a musket.

As a man with eighth-level fitter skills, he certainly couldn't have let the craftsmen use that kind of iron rod to wrap the red-hot iron and knock out the backward method of a gun barrel little by little.

Using a hydraulic drilling machine, a more efficient method, is his current choice.

But even so, at present he only has six hydraulic drilling machines at hand, each of which is working in two shifts day and night, and can produce sixteen or seventeen barrels in one day.

After all, it is necessary to take into account the problem of hot inside the barrel during the drilling process, and it is necessary to stop from time to time and pour a little rapeseed oil into it to cool and drink lubrication.

Removing some unqualified defective products, the output of about 100 barrels a day is up.

So, just for these 5,000 muskets, it would take him more than a month, and it would take him seven days to deliver 5,000 muskets? Let him do it with his life, that can't be done.

Not to mention, in the army reorganization plan.

There are no less than 35,000 muskets overall, which is such a frightening figure.

Of course, Wolf Qing can also choose to continue to increase the number of hydraulic drilling machines to increase production; However, this involves the limited driving force that the watermill can provide.

Increasing the number of drilling machines means reducing the number of hydraulic forging hammers, grinding machines, etc.

Thinking of this, the three people from the Ministry of Labor such as Wolf Qing looked at each other, and they could see each other, and now it was a headache.

It's just that soon they will know where they are now? More troubles are yet to come.

In the following time, a kind of netizens spoke one after another according to the work they are currently responsible for, so that more requests rang in their ears, which was completely urgent.

The windmill, after wiping a handful of non-existent tears, pleaded in his mouth:

"Brother, I'm not saying that Brown Beth is bad; The problem is that such a platoon of gun firepower is okay to deal with the charge of the infantry, but the cavalry is completely unable to bear it.

So, our cannon?

long-range 'Red General' heavy artillery, short-range Huzun cannon, Franc machine and other small cannons; I thought, how can all of them add up to 200 doors, forming a batch of firepower, which is enough for the use of new troops~"

Chen Tang then hurriedly picked up: "Yes, what the windmill said is right."

So the heavy firepower of the infantry, such as grenades and mines, should also be made as soon as possible?

Even if you don't have time to study the hair-pulling style because of the limited time, and throw it out after ignition, it's better than nothing, isn't it? ”

Even the concubine, the only female netizen in the Kaifeng area.

was also shaking one of Wolf Qing's arms, and said delicately: "Brother, Brother Wolf Qing, when will you be able to burn out the glass and make these products like mirrors?"

In addition, when will soap, perfume, shampoo, and other products be available?

You must know that according to reliable information, the first batch of wealthy merchants in the Jiangnan region have already escorted a batch of grain over; I want to get some fabrics and money, but it's all up to these products.

I still have two pairs of 'Pear Family' socks missing, do you want to see if you ......"

"Come, you're welcome, you just kill the three of us~"

This is a reflection made by the three people of the Ministry of Labor after Wolf Qing and the other three people looked at each other under the gossiping request of everyone.

Lying straight on the ground, he yelled at Hu Biao and the others.

It's exactly the same as they want to be rotten and want to make hob meat.

However, it seems that they can't be blamed, even if they know that the above people's demands are more reasonable; Musket loading is trivial, and it must be trained many times to develop muscle instinct in order to ensure the rate of fire.

The Jin soldiers' iron floating heavy cavalry and a large number of light cavalry are a bit unbearable with a platoon of guns alone.

It really needs to be combined with artillery, mines, and grenades to form a batch of firepower to break down when they rush to the front of the formation.

Otherwise, when they get closer, it will be very troublesome and cause great casualties.

The concubine is a girl, and her request is also very reasonable.

Don't look at the fact that now in Kaifeng City, they have more than 20 netizens who have mastered modern knowledge, but after the military, government affairs and other aspects are distributed, it is also a radish to occupy a few pits, and it is not easy for everyone.

For example, the concubine received different jobs from the Department of Commerce of the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Department of the Imperial City.

The latter is in the Imperial City Division that Yu Hanfeng is in charge of, not to mention the intelligence work involved.

In the former's business department, the concubine needed to find a way to get dozens of urgently needed materials such as silver, grain, oil, war horses, various large animals, cloth, and copper for the new Great Song Dynasty.

The key is that in today's Kaifeng City, except for some people, there is nothing left to really want and nothing to eat.

If you want to get so many things from outside, you can only rely on some high-value products; Relying on the little handicrafts brought by Hu Biao and them alone is not enough to sell.

Fortunately, most of them are veterans who have read online articles for many years, and of course they know that products such as glass are not high-tech, but they can be sought after by the ancients, and they are all good things that make a lot of money.

I'm afraid it's a palm-sized mirror, and selling it for a hundred is a conscience price.

When the time comes, merchants from all over the Great Song Dynasty will first transport all kinds of materials over, and then bring these high-value products back, won't the market come alive?

It's just that no matter how simple this thing is and you know the principle, you have to take someone to test it several times before you can make a barely suitable product.

It's just that there are so many things at once, and the three of them can't be busy cracking.

For a while, the three of them lay on the ground, facing these life-urging ghosts in front of them, which made them physically and mentally exhausted.

Even the 'Tiger Whip Wine' and 'Pear Family's Socks' are no longer attractive......

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