Yang Fan quickly invited the housekeeper Zhao Fu, the master craftsman Fu Laoliu, Chang Zhu, Li Hui, the housekeepers Xiang Yi, Xiang Ying, Song Gua master, and Song Yingxing brothers to hold a meeting.
"The No. 3 blast furnace that you are responsible for, Li Hui, and the twenty apprentices you brought will be managed by Mr. Song Yingxing from now on, and will assist Mr. Song in developing the new red cannon. Everything must be listened to by Mr. Song."
"Yes, sir, I have met Mr. Song." Li Hui saluted.
"Chang Zhu, you lead twenty apprentices to buy bricks and tiles, and build ten rooms first as a school building. One room will be used as an office room, and three rooms will be opened as a primary school. Three rooms will be opened as a kindergarten, and three rooms will be opened as a workers' technical school. Then
Find some carpenters to build tables, chairs, doors and windows. Also, clean up the warehouse on the east side and use it as a school building for a girls’ school.”
"Manager Zhao is going to recruit workers. He will recruit 300 people first. There are 2,000 strong magnetic rods in the warehouse, which can be used to absorb ore dressing. Find a carpenter to make some shelves that can be assembled into mineral processing equipment. Then I will give you the drawings. Then put the ore sand
Ship it back. Purchase some charcoal and start working first."
"Go to Xiang Yi to get the money and food you need."
Everyone else took orders and went to do things.
Brothers Yang Fan, Song Yingxing, and Zhang Gada stayed behind to continue the meeting.
Yang Fan briefly introduced the horse bandits that appeared in thousands of households in the rocky beach, and also talked about the authorization to form a group training.
"Mr. Song, you are a master of weapons. I would like to ask if there are any weapons that can be made quickly without long-term training."
"If it's a weapon, a stick will last a lifetime, a sword will last a lifetime, and a horse stick is the fastest." Song Yingxing said, "You can practice it in a month, but you can only guard the home and the hospital. You can't go to the battlefield."
Yang Fan continued to ask: "How about the crossbow?"
"As for the crossbow, bows and arrows are not good, and they must be practiced all year round to be effective. Otherwise, once the arrow is released, you will not know where it will fly. Crossbows can be made quickly. As long as adults or even children can use them, they can use them as long as they can string them. They can aim at the mountain.
, but this manufacturing is very troublesome and takes too long, so it must be purchased from outside. The government strictly controls crossbows and armor, making it difficult to obtain them on a large scale."
"Spears are the most useful. Any armor can block a spear without a reinforced tip, whether it is mountain armor, fish scale armor, chain mail or piercing armor," Song Yingxing said.
"The white-toothed soldiers who built the slaves wore triple armor, with riveted cloth face armor on the outside, chain mail armor on the inside, and cotton armor on the inside. Can't they stop the spears from being pierced?" Yang Fan asked.
"It can't be blocked. As long as you have enough strength, it will pass directly through the chest and pierce it." Song Yingxing said.
Yang Fan remembered the science program he had watched before. There was an episode called Ancient Weapons Revealed, in which half a pig was wrapped in cold-forged armor, and then pierced through at once, with the spear head going through half the pig for a foot.
Yang Fan asked: "How are firearms? Can you get started quickly?"
"Firearms are also very fast, and they can be used with just a few days of training. But the government control of firearms is very strict. It's hard to say whether they can be used in group training."
"What firearms training can be used?" Yang Fan asked.
"The magic gun can be used," Song Yingxing said with certainty.
Yang Fan immediately thought of the spear with its head pulled out, and the iron pipe that could shoot projectiles.
"This thing can only be fired once, and the ones I want to recruit are all new soldiers. The battlefield is tense, and it may not be able to shoot there. I am still a little worried about this opportunity. Moreover, long-term practice with the spear requires a lot of time.
It's too late." Yang Fan was a little worried.
Song Yingxing was silent for a while and said: "I thought of a way. There is a kind of firearm called a nine-section repeating gun. It can fire continuously."
As he spoke, he drew the drawing.
An iron pipe is about one meter long.
It is cast and looks a bit like bamboo.
There is a row of nine small holes on the side.
The front part is the injection port. The rear part is closed. It can also be equipped with a long gun shaft.
"How does this thing work?" Yang Fan was confused.
"Each section can be loaded with ammunition. A total of nine bullets can be loaded. If a lead is inserted into the small hole next to it, nine rounds of bullets can be fired from front to back." Song Yingxing said.
"Wouldn't the gunpowder ignite ignite the ammunition behind it? What if the chamber explodes?" Yang Fan looked worried, the gunpowder would burn backwards.
"No, after the propellant of each round of ammunition is loaded, a small piece of cowhide is used to wrap the projectile, and then it is pushed into the barrel. The cowhide is used as a spacer, so it will not ignite at the same time. The cowhide can also seal the projectile and
The gap in the barrel prevents air leakage and increases the shooting range.”
"Is this thing made of casting? Is it easy to produce?"
“It’s not difficult, it can be produced in the factory.”
"I have an idea. If the front gun head can be pulled out, then the back barrel can also be pulled out."
"This can be done, but what's the use of pulling out the gun barrel?"
"This one-meter-long barrel is already very heavy. If you connect it with an iron chain to the barrel of the gun, it can be made into a flail. These refugees are farmers. They are very familiar with the flail as a farm tool for threshing wheat. They can use it directly without training.
Such a heavy flail hitting a person wearing armor is enough to break the person's bones," Yang Fan said.
"What a great idea. Why didn't I think of it? It's more practical than a long gun and can be used as soon as you bring it. The bamboo-shaped barrel can increase the impact damage. It's not troublesome to modify. You just need to put one on the wooden pole.
The iron pipe is connected to the lower part of the barrel with a thin iron chain. The iron pipe head of the wooden pole can be installed in it. It is a long gun. When it is pulled out, there is an iron chain connected to it, which is a flail. In this way, the magic gun can be upgraded to a gun.
Three uses." Song Yingxing said excitedly.
"Mr. Song, I think that in addition to making long spears, firecrackers, and flails, in narrow spaces, such as indoors and narrow streets, pulling out wooden poles can be used as short spears and nunchucks, and it can be turned into long weapons.
Short weapons." Zhang Gada said.
"Okay, since you have experience, the weapon design should still meet the needs of the battlefield!" Song Yingxing was overjoyed.
"This is good. Let's build weapons according to this, recruit three thousand refugees, hold a group training, and each person will be issued a nine-shot magic gun." Yang Fan said excitedly.
Yang Fan suddenly thought that the new concept weapon Metal Storm invented in Australia later seemed to have a similar concept.
"Sir, I was a gunman in Liaodong and fired red cannons. I was a pikeman. I can train these refugees for you." Zhang Gada then recommended himself.
"Okay, you will lead the servants to be responsible for the training. These three thousand people are divided into six brigades. Each brigade of 500 people is called a battalion, with the front, rear, left, right, up and down as the camp number. The six servants will be the captains of the battalion, that is, the battalion commander.
, you will be the regiment training officer, and Zhao Fu will be the quartermaster. The establishment of the battalion is divided into units, teams, squads, and squadrons. A team has five people, and a team of ten people includes two teams. A team has thirty people, including three
Guys. A team of one hundred people, including three squads."
"My servants are all workers and have never been officers. I'm afraid they won't be able to lead troops. They can only play a supervisory role. Moreover, a battalion of 500 people requires a lot of officers. How to solve this problem?" Zhang Gada asked.
"There's no way to solve this problem. We don't have room for hundreds of officers. Even the guardhouses are all rotten and there are few who know how to fight. Let's do this. Living people can't die of urination. Let them choose their own officers and join the army.
At the beginning, five people elect a corps leader, each with one vote. This way, you can at least convince the public. Then you appoint a corps leader from the 600 corps commanders based on their performance. Then you appoint squad leaders and squadron leaders."
The first step is to appoint the team leader. You choose this. Starting from the team leader, you are responsible for nominating one of the three, and I will appoint it.
This chapter has been completed!