When Xiao Ming came to the armament warehouse the next day, he was just in time for the colonels to move weapons out, and a large number of materials were moved out of the warehouse.

Knives are all kinds of sabers, machetes, ghost head knives, simple knives, glaive knives, eyebrow sharp knives, pen knives, dry knives, etc., a yard of black iron tools, and the pipe warehouse for maintaining weapons has been cut with oil and stones, and it is absolutely no problem to kill people.

Spears are also various, two-edged, three-edged, even four-edged, others such as hook sickle guns, snake spear guns, crane beak spears, ring guns, plain guns, crutch guns, dragon neck guns, cone guns, Taining pen guns, etc., are all made of wood as a rod, the upper gun head, the bottom of the iron hammer and the lance and mace, these long weapons can be used with wooden poles, the sharp blade is snowy, shining in the sun.

In addition, there are short weapons, whip hammers, etc., and even a few sledgehammers weighing dozens of pounds, tumor-shaped, the warriors of the Song Dynasty, as long as they have two strengths, they all like to use sledgehammers, which are full of majesty.

The rest were large bundles of bows and arrows, of which there were two kinds, one was long, which was shot with a longbow, and the other was shorter, which was fired from a crossbow, and the matching longbow and short crossbow were also carried out of the warehouse in large numbers.

Bows and arrows are small items in the warehouse, but the largest number, I don't know how many years of inventory, although they are tied, but many arrow shafts are rotten, even the rope tied is broken a lot, now there are a large number of repairs, related glue paint silk feathers and other things are placed on the ground, there is a set of exquisite, good bows and arrows need to use a wolf tooth arrow with a barb, with a birch rod, the tail of the arrow should also be carved Ling, such arrows not only have a long range of penetrating power, but also very stable, belong to the products of fine work, unlike the crossbow arrows made by Xiao Ming Refining Workshop, Rusty arrows can be used, the tail of the arrow can be used with a little feathers, and the mechanical force can correct the instability of the crossbow arrow, but the carving arrow is different, the use of the carving is to pursue the stability of its flight, but once the war starts, the amount of bow and arrow is huge, how can there be so many eagles, the eagle makes you pluck the feathers, so basically it is to use goose feathers, or even chicken feathers.

What Xiao Ming was most interested in was actually gunpowder, which was also the purpose of his trip, Yang Zhen led him to a warehouse dedicated to storing firearms, which was a fireproof warehouse, gunpowder and firearms were all stacked in it, and a large amount of lime was sprinkled in the warehouse, Xiao Ming knew that it was for moisture-proofing.

The huge black barrel is full of black powder, and there are hundreds of such black barrels, but Yang Zhen obviously doesn't care very much, the reason is that the formula of this large batch of gunpowder is too old, and the ingredients of the ratio still belong to the initial stage, and Xiao Ming gave Yang Zhen the new formula last time, Yang Zhen found that the power was amazing through experiments, so he lost confidence in the original gunpowder.

And Yang Zhen's own gunpowder according to Xiao Ming's formula is now less than five barrels, lonely in the corner of the side, because there is not much saltpeter, can only be matched so much, in fact, the gunpowder of the entire firearms warehouse, in this step of nitrate, once a craftsman suggested using seabird feces to replace, the result was very ridiculed, Xiao Ming was shocked when he heard the news.

Being able to know that the droppings of seabirds are rich in nitrates, this person is not simple, and he urgently asked where the craftsman was, but unfortunately he learned that he was long gone, Xiao Ming sighed for a long time.

"Brother Xiao, can the droppings of seabirds really be used? There are a lot of these things near the sea! Yang Zhen saw Xiao Ming sigh and couldn't help but ask.

"It can be used, of course it can be used, time is pressing, now it can only be like this" Xiao Ming told Yang Zhen in detail, it is a pity that hundreds of barrels of gunpowder cannot play the role it should have, Xiao Ming told Yang Zhen to let him find some empty gunpowder barrels first, pour out one-third of the gunpowder in the gunpowder barrel that was originally filled with gunpowder, and then mix it with dry seabird droppings, add iron sand, gravel and broken porcelain pieces, compact, and finally draw out the fire twist fuse, make a giant grenade, and move some of the gunpowder barrels to the refinery, Xiao Ming also helped make some, In a short period of time, Xiao Ming thought that with these big grenades, there was no problem in defending Hangzhou City.

Although Yang Zhen didn't know exactly what Xiao Ming wanted to do, he still did it, because he felt that Xiao Ming would definitely not be busy, and after arranging the manpower, Yang Zhen led Xiao Ming to see the firearms.

Xiao Ming was really disappointed in the past, the firearms in the Song Dynasty were too primitive, all kinds of pole-lifting muskets were made of bamboo, just like a big firecracker, if it exploded, the sound would be very loud, and there were fireballs, poisonous smoke balls, thistle terrestris, thunderbolts, etc., Xiao Ming shook his head when he saw it.

When Yang Zhen proudly introduced the three-eyed firearm made of cast iron to Xiao Ming, Xiao Ming couldn't help it, and he asked Yang Zhen, who are the users of these firearms? Yang Zhen actually told him that it was the archers who used firearms, and they first fired a shot with a rifle firearm, but because the muskets were slow to reload with gunpowder, these people changed to bows and arrows and continued to fight.

"Only artillery needs to be operated by a special person," Yang Zhen said.

"And what artillery? Take me to see it," Xiao Ming said urgently.

The guns of the Song Dynasty are very varied, such as Xuanche cannons, car cannons, single-tip cannons, double-pin cannons, five-pin cannons, seven piggyback cannons, whirlwind cannons, whirlwind car cannons, one-legged whirlwind cannons, whirlwind five cannons, hand cannons, lying car cannons, belly cannons, tiger squat cannons, combined cannons, etc., but there are only two or three of them that are really regarded as artillery, and to put it bluntly, it is actually a stone thrower! However, there are not several artillery pieces suitable for defending the city.

Xiao Ming stared at the cast iron ball used as a cannonball on the ground, and sighed in his heart: "The cold weapons of the Song Dynasty are not bad, the war has taught the Song people a lot of things, on the basis of inheriting the previous generations, absorbing the advantages of the weapons of the surrounding ethnic minorities, and constantly improving and perfecting them, so that the varieties and shapes of cold weapons are more suitable for the needs of combat, and the quality has been further improved, but after all, the weapon is to develop in the direction of hot weapons, in the era of firearms and cold weapons, the general trend of weapons development is the gradual development of firearms, Cold weapons gradually died out, but in the Song Dynasty, when firearms first appeared on the stage of war, although firearms have made leaps and bounds, and played a certain role in the war, because their degree of development is not very high, it is inevitable that there are some defects and deficiencies, and it can not meet the needs of various battles and completely replace cold weapons, many battles, especially melee combat, still need to rely on long and short cold weapons to solve, and firearms basically have to rely on cold weapons to launch, therefore, cold weapons are still the main weapons of warfare. ”

The Black God Crossbow designed and produced by Xiao Ming is actually designed based on this in the modern era when thermal weapons are very mature, so the performance and power are naturally much more powerful than the crossbow arrows more than 900 years ago.

Xiao Ming knows very well that weapons cannot determine the course of war, but weapons are an indispensable key element.

"It seems that we need to give priority to solving the problem of weapons, and we must manufacture projectile weapons as soon as possible, this thing is equivalent to the nuclear deterrent force in our hands" Xiao Ming finally knew why many time-travelers wanted a pistol the most when they arrived in ancient times, and they didn't have this thing in their hearts! Ancient society is not as romantic as imagined, but full of all kinds of dangers, this Xiao Ming has experienced it.

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Looking around, Xiao Ming was not very satisfied with the current situation of weapons in the Song Dynasty, and decided that it was necessary to rely on himself to develop and improve a complete set of military weapons systems, so that there would be fewer orders from the imperial court? After all, Xiao Ming still likes to do business, but because of this era in the late Northern Song Dynasty, the development of force seems to be an inevitable choice.

Thinking about it, Xiao Ming looked up but was completely attracted by the things in front of him, looking at the metal blades all over the ground, as well as the armor pieces propped up on the wooden frame.

"Huh! Could this be the legendary - step man armor? ”

"Yes, it's exactly this," Yang Zhen said proudly, and then frowned again, because he also saw the armor pieces scattered on the ground.

Xiao Ming was very interested in this, squatted down and studied it carefully, and Yang Zhen gave him some explanations on the side, there are three kinds of foot armor, pikemen, archers and crossbow shooters, the weight is different, but the number of nail leaves is the same 1825 pieces, made of iron armor leaves with leather strips or nails, which is a typical armor, its protection range includes the whole body, the total weight is 29 kilograms, and the protection can be improved by increasing the number of nail leaves, but the weight will rise further, for this reason, the emperor personally gave orders, Infantry armor is limited to 29.8 kg. Archers and crossbowmen weigh slightly less.

Yang Zhen sighed: "It's a pity that these step armors were made ten years ago, and now there are less than a hundred sets, and no one has maintained and repaired them, and now they have been damaged and scattered." ”

"It's okay to have our refinery repair it for you, just make it cheaper for you, hehe" Xiao Ming said with a smile.

"That's really unwanted, although the number of step armor is small, but in the defense of the city, find some strong people to wear step armor, and wave the big sword, that is invincible!" Yang Zhen was also happy, and immediately found someone to come and send all the damaged Buren Jia to the Gu Clan's refining workshop as soon as possible.

The repair cost of a set of step armor is fifteen taels of silver, that is, one hundred and fifty yuan, and the repair of one hundred sets of step armor, a total of 1,500 taels of silver, one thousand and five thousand dollars, Xiao Ming made another profit, and his mouth immediately blossomed, because he saw that the nail piece of each step person has a round hole, if it is connected with a leather strip and nail nails, it is very troublesome, it is better to have an iron wire to connect, and then lining it with a thick cloth, saving time, effort and money, too simple!

In fact, this kind of armor with leaves connected together, Xiao Ming is not optimistic, he wants to wait until the steel is mature, pull out the steel wire, and then use the steel wire to make chain armor, which is light and good protection, of course, these things need to be sold to the imperial court, but his own tiger guard does not need this kind of thing, because Xiao Ming himself has better ideas, after all, he wants to develop a group of armed people with firearms and projectiles, and the protection cannot be the same as ordinary armies, it must be more advanced.

After talking and laughing, it became a business, Xiao Ming was a little proud, so much so that Yang Zhen's request for him to send another five thousand crossbow arrows also agreed, but it was only for the arrows, and the others were pretended by themselves, Xiao Ming was not dizzy.

Yang Zhen was grateful, he actually had high hopes for the batch of Black God crossbows bought from Gu's refining workshop, but the shortcomings of the Black God Crossbow were actually the problem of arrows, to deal with the siege troops, if you want to kill and injure the enemy in a large area, you need to turn on the function of three consecutive shots, at this time there are not enough crossbow arrows It will definitely not work, fortunately, crossbow arrows are easy to make compared to bows and arrows, just use bamboo sticks, as long as there are arrows, and Xiao Ming's refining furnace comes out of the optimized molten steel, a mold can produce hundreds of arrows, this kind of arrows are very hard, It is very lethal, and he can get five thousand arrows for free, Yang Zhen is naturally happy.

The two of them were going to be busy, Yang Zhen signed a contract with Xiao Ming, and organized people to carry weapons, arrows, gunpowder, and other things to the city wall, as well as organizing people to carry things like rolling wood and stones, and Xiao Ming also rushed back to the refinery to arrange the repair of the foot armor.

There are no pedestrians on the road anymore, and now there is a very tense air in the air, Xiao Ming and the four tiger guards are sitting in the carriage, looking at the black clouds that are slowly rolling in the sky in the distance, which is a sign before it rains again, Xiao Ming has a little excitement in his heart.

"He [milk] is a bear, in the troubled times of the stormy world, watch me create a special era for God to see!" Xiao Ming has a lot of pride in his chest.