But in practice, Liu Chengzong found that he wanted to be simple.
Wangzhuang has a lot of cotton and a lot of cotton cloth, but even if it is full, it can only make more than a thousand sets of cotton clothes and trousers.
I am even more worried about the color.
The best military uniform is red. Red military uniforms can inspire people's courage.
Secondly, black is also good, it can look solemn and serious, and it is also resistant to stains.
But Liu Chengzong couldn't choose any color. There was no dye, so he could only use the original color of purple floral cloth. When washed, the dark color would be light ocher, and the light color would be similar to earth color.
This made Liu Chengzong worried for a long time.
Later, after discussing with the sentry commander, it was not so bad. Northern Shaanxi is full of earth-colored colors, and with a group of people wearing earth-colored clothes, they might be able to deceive the scouts if they were far away.
It won’t snow anyway.
Regarding the uniforms of soldiers, Liu Chengzong wanted to use his brain, but in the real environment, there was no production line, so he could only make it as simple as possible.
It is easy to design complex clothes, but it is difficult to make them according to the design.
I left it to Wangzhuang and the peasant women in the team to do the work, and finally handed over a bunch of different ones, which were more complicated than the design, and the advantage of uniform dress was lost.
The final regulations for military uniforms were: a cotton hat with a collar that can be used as a lining for the helmet, a round collar with arrow sleeves, a cotton jacket with arrow sleeves, cotton trousers with calf cuffs, and thick cloth wraps.
Sew a few ropes inside the yisa, and tie the arrow-sleeved cotton-padded jacket inside to serve as a sandwich.
When it's cold, tie it up with a cotton lining. When the weather warms up, take off the cotton-padded jacket. The single clothes will be wider, and the drag-and-thread clothes will not delay wearing them.
For cotton-padded jackets and trousers, vertical lines should be placed at inch-wide intervals to prevent cotton from running around.
There are no shoes, and the soles are too laborious. For a while, there will be no one to pick up the soles, so we can only rely on transportation to purchase them from various towns in Yan'an Prefecture.
In any case, the general had the intention to make military uniforms after joining the camp, which boosted the morale of the Lion Battalion.
With these military uniforms, they put on hoods and cotton-padded armor outside in winter to completely withstand the severe cold. However, the winter of the second year of Chongzhen was probably the warmest year for many of them in their lives.
Enough to make the soldiers and auxiliaries feel excited.
Liu Chengzong first had someone make him whole, and then gave it to the monkey in the sky, tricking him into taking a bath.
In fact, Liu Chengzong had these clothes made according to his own size. The monkey in the sky would definitely not fit him when he put them on. Liu Chengzong was much stronger than him.
Anyway, the monkey in the sky didn’t know, so he jumped into the Xingzi River with a heroic expression on his face, and he didn’t know why this guy didn’t like bathing so much.
Later, when I tried it, I gained a little weight, but it looked okay with the belt on, so I added a wide cloth belt to the military uniform.
But the monkey in the sky was so happy that when the entire battalion was out of military uniforms, he ran out to show off in military uniforms.
I am very happy that the work post commander has become a division commander.
It's strange to say that I was taught by Wang Zheng in Sanyuan and mastered the technique of casting red barbarian cannons.
Making blunderbuss in Liujiazhuang, I was in constant fear all day long.
But when I came here to make armor, I was no longer afraid, and I was quite happy, feeling like I had finally found an organization.
When I was a teacher, I had a three-part beard and was used to swinging hammers. My body was strong and strong. I didn't feel wronged when I complained: "The general doesn't know something. Liujiazhuang is very good, but there are people farming around. The villains and He Xin, the two families made guns for fear that the government would send officials to kill us."
As he said that, the middle-aged craftsman raised his hand and crossed the Xingzi River Valley and said: "This is different. If the general's troops can't stop them, then the villain will be captured by the officers and soldiers. It is not unfair."< /p>
The two craftsmen were originally wanted, and when they took refuge in Yan'an Mansion, they found themselves in a den of thieves, but they were not too sad.
On the contrary, I quite like the sense of security surrounded by deserters.
On the way over, the two of them discussed whether they should prepare a gift for Liu Chengzong.
A few days after arriving, Shicheng and I picked out a suitable item from the things I brought with me and planned to give it to Liu Chengzong.
It's a bludgeoning weapon.
But it happened to be there. When the division commander sent Liu Chengzong the gun, he was standing at the shooting range shooting arrows.
Liu Shizi raised the ninety-pound bow again, and within a few breaths, he hit the target three times in a row.
Clean and neat.
His power is back.
The shooting interval of the continuous arrows is short, and there is no chance to carefully aim. You have to rely on feeling. If the bow is slightly delayed, it will be a miss.
But as long as the strength comes back, this won't be a problem.
Sanjian directly made the division commander standing next to him doubtful about his life.
‘How come Mr. Liu, a gentle man, gave birth to such a fierce warrior?’
The division commander murmured in his heart: The general in front of him might not be interested in using what he and He Xin worked hard on at Liujiazhuang.
People can fire arrows much faster than firing blunderbuss, and the power of strong bows and heavy arrows is not small.
Many individual weapons in the Ming Dynasty used muskets, but regardless of whether it was in the Beijing camp or elsewhere, weapons were selected based on the soldiers' abilities.
Firearms have not yet formed an absolute advantage over bows and arrows.
If you are proficient in bow and horse, then use a bow. If you have no strength and cannot shoot arrows, it is more appropriate to learn how to use a blunderbuss.
"Why are you here, Mr. Shi?"
When I was born, I was the captain of the work sentry, but perhaps because of the two souls in my head, Liu Chengzong respected the craftsmen with excellent skills and always called them "sir".
He saw Shi Chengwo holding a lacquered wooden box, putting away his bow and arrows, and asked, "What kind of treasure are you making?"
The scholar called me sir, and I was extremely happy to have him become my master. At the same time, I felt a little ashamed. After eating for the Liu family for so long, I didn’t even have anything to come up with, so I made a gun.
After becoming a teacher, I secretly made up my mind: next time I must open the door for the general and come over with red barbarian cannons, so that I can be worthy of this respect.
It’s too hard to use a small gun.
When I was finished, I pushed the wooden box forward, lowered my head and said, "The villain and the gunsmith made a gun and gave it to the general."
Liu Chengzong was very interested in guns.
Firearms, the trend of war in the future, will eliminate all cold weapons in the long process of development.
Although other weapons cannot be driven off the battlefield yet, Liu Chengzong has personally experienced the lessons of Zhong Hu’s blood.
Without that shield, even the armor couldn't save him at such a close distance. Zhong Hu would have passed the first seven by now.
Liu Chengzong took the wooden box and opened it. Inside lay a single-barreled handgun, which was exquisitely made and equipped with five sub-guns. The handle felt good to hold. There was also a five-inch long small chain on the handle, and a small chain hanging from it.
Thick iron piece, he asked doubtfully: "Flanji?"
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This was similar to the small Franco machine he saw in Cao Yao's artillery post. It also used a thick iron piece to hold the tail end of the gun and mortise it into the barrel to complete the air sealing.
Because of the heavy potency of the gun, a heavier French gun is usually hammered in with a wooden wedge three to four inches thick to replace the iron piece. Otherwise, a three to five hundred kilogram cannon would be too heavy to use an iron piece.
"Yes, it's Franji!"
Shicheng I explained: "The blunderbuss tube is one foot long. Granular explosives are used in the blunderbuss, and powder primer is used in the medicine tank outside. After the medicine tank and the mouth of the blunderbuss are installed, they are sealed with tissue paper dipped in paste. The gunpowder is not used.
Gone, as long as it doesn't get wet, the paper is thin paper specially made by a paper mill, light the match and pull it and it will be beaten."
Speaking of this, the cannon maker showed a proud look and said: "The best thing about it is that after shooting the first blunderbuss, there is no need to pour out the primer, pull out the blunderbuss, unload the blunderbuss, and install the blunderbuss.
Install the gun card, pull the button and fire, five guns in a row."
Liu Chengzong understood, holding the blunderbuss and looking around.
This thing is actually a Folang mobile gun. The improvement is very inconspicuous. It is just that before loading the gun ammunition, the primer powder is poured into the external medicine tank in advance and covered with flammable tissue paper.
Once the tissue paper is damaged, it means it has not been improved.
But as long as the paper layered with medicinal powder is not broken, it will be a sharp weapon when fighting in close combat.
He asked: "How far can it hit?"
"The shortcomings are that hitting a small target with twenty steps is easy to miss. Twelve or three steps can break the armor, but you can take fifty steps."
The blunderbuss and the three eyes are about the same length and power, and the accuracy is the same. Maybe at fifty paces, aiming at the soldiers in the front row can scratch the itch of the general in the formation.
"What a good thing!" Liu Chengzong took the long tube and looked at it again and again. He turned to his teacher Chengwo and asked: "You said you can shoot five guns in a row. How about after firing five guns?"
Shi Cheng, I blinked and was stunned by the question.
How can there be such a greedy person, face to face, you are not satisfied with firing the five guns continuously, but you will actually ask what to do after firing the five guns. If you can't finish the five guns, you should take out the knife.
However, the division commander was very grateful for General Liu's respect. He pondered for a moment and nodded: "After firing the five blunderbuss... it will be hot to your hands. You must be careful when shooting blunderbuss. The sub-guns and blunderbuss shapes are made of the red Yi cannon, which is thin at the front and thick at the back."
According to regulations, I tried loading three times the medicine, and it should be able to be used continuously without redness."
As he spoke, he pointed to the handle of the blunderbuss and said: "There is also a blunderbuss card inside. If the blunderbuss card breaks, you can use the blunderbuss handle after you pull it out."
This little thing can be said to be very capable of fighting.
The peasant army should make more use of this thing. It is absolutely impossible for a hungry civilian to replace an elite frontier soldier with other swords, guns, bows and crossbows, but with this and cannon, it can be done.
You can even aim and shoot calmly on horseback and on the back of a mule.
Liu Chengzong raised his blunderbuss and asked: "How much can you do if you do this?"
"The barrel of this blunderbuss is short. It is easy to roll and drill the blunderbuss, but it is troublesome to make the blunderbuss. Three blacksmiths make the blunderbuss tube, two blacksmiths make the blunderbuss, and two carpenters make the blunderbuss bed. The material tube is enough, and nine blunderbuss can be produced in a month.
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It's strange to say that since Mr. Cao talked about Liujiazhuang's gun production capacity last time, he now calculates it on an annual basis.
Seven craftsmen, who worked for the thirty-eighth year of Chongzhen, were able to equip the entire Lion Camp with such magical weapons.
Theoretically speaking, the Lion Camp's battalion work posts should be able to increase this production capacity by three to five times, but the craftsmen cannot just do this, which means that after four months, they will have more than thirty of these. p>
Liu Chengzong felt that it wasn't bad for more than thirty gunmen to stand in the infantry line, get close to the front row and shoot across the shoulders, and then the front row to use their spears twice and then fire again.
If you perform well, you can break the formation. As for poor performance, it has nothing to do with the weapon. If someone's heavy artillery is sprayed in the face, it is purely bad luck.
His servants need to equip a batch of these.
"Let's do it, find a carrier for the materials, forget it."
Liu Chengzong was halfway talking, thinking that Cheng Yun was busy purchasing bedding recently, and waved his hand and said: "Go to Lin Wei and do the same thing as the thirty pieces in winter. Wangzhuang has no shortage of this material."
Now that the Lion Battalion is fully staffed, Chengyun is finally no longer a mere commander, and has selected two of Gao Xian's earliest subordinates as captains.
Eighteen frontier troops from Yanshui Pass, Guyuan Camp, Liuguo Town, and 500 auxiliary troops from the Shangtian Monkey Division were organized into heavy baggage posts and were at Liu Chengyun's disposal.
Liu Chengzong also allocated him a group of five sentries to hand over the war profits, and one hundred shi of millet as start-up capital to purchase donkeys and mules, as well as donkeys and mules pack cars for future transportation of baggage.
In the blink of an eye, it entered October, and the troops were stationed at the Five Posts. The border soldiers led the auxiliary troops for training. A set of newly made military uniforms was sent to Wangzhuang, and Wangzhuang issued armed troops to each team.
Clothes to keep out the cold also mean fighting power.
Clothes made of new cotton and new cloth have not been seen by even the border troops for many years, not to mention the hungry people under Sky Monkey’s subordinates.
Just at the beginning of this year, Liu Chengzong was still thinking about adding a wolf fur lining to his ragged jacket.
He's fine now, and he's also got some warm military clothes.
Of course, he didn't forget to ask someone to retrieve the three wolf skins from Liujiazhuang.
He remembers clearly that only one of the wolf skins has anything to do with him.
One is high-definition.
He tried his one, but it wasn't enough to line the cotton-padded jacket, so he simply had someone sew a circle around the waist and abdomen, and the rest was just enough to fit around the neck of the cotton-padded hat, so he wouldn't be afraid of the wind in the winter.
In addition, the wolf was kicked to death by Hong Qi, so he simply spread it on Hong Qi and made a saddlebag cushion to keep the red-haired boy warm.
There has to be a sequence in distributing uniforms to soldiers, so Liu Chengzong decided to distribute them to wounded soldiers first. Wounded soldiers had poor resistance and could not wear armor, so cotton-padded clothes would be more comfortable.
The combat soldiers and auxiliary soldiers are distributed together, and the uniforms are kept when they are ready. When there are enough, two pieces will be distributed to each sentry team, and then they are distributed uniformly.
Basically, new soldier uniforms are made every day, and new soldier uniforms are distributed every day.
We are all very excited, so we can’t favor one over the other.
Even so, it is only on the surface that the soldiers and auxiliary soldiers are equal. In fact, the number of soldiers is small. In the end, the soldiers still wear uniforms first.
There is no way around this. Liu Chengzong's strength comes from the deserters and surrenders of the border troops, so he must treat his base well.
Of course, he did not forget about others. He sent someone to send a cotton-padded jacket and cotton trousers to Liu Guoneng, who was recuperating in Yan'an Guard. As a result, Liu Guoneng came over in a donkey cart wearing a cotton-padded jacket and cotton trousers with a broken leg the next day.
Driving him was Yan'an Guard Commander Yang Yanchang.
Chen Ruji from a hundred households led more than 20 cavalry to escort him, but he didn't even have a driver. He had to let the commander sit on the shaft and drive the donkey cart.
The commander who was unable to command this person looked really pitiful.
But who knew that Commander Yang was still behind, entering the valley of the Xingzi River, which was still three miles away from Wangzhuang. Yang Yanchang simply didn't even drive the donkey cart, and got off the car directly to lead the donkey on foot.
How miserable!
If Liu Chengzong hadn't had Tangqi deliver the order early, he would have been deceived by Yang Yanchang's tragic appearance.
As soon as this man entered the gate of Wangzhuang Fort, he simply ignored Liu Guoneng, rushed towards Liu Chengzong and shouted: "Brother Chengzong, please save me!"
Liu Chengzong was startled. He thought Yang Yanchang was here to ask for a cotton-padded jacket, so he quickly took a step back and said, "No, who wants to kill you? Why should I save you?"
"Emperor, Emperor Chongzhen, the emperor wants to kill me!"
"Sit down and talk."
Liu Chengzong's expression became serious, he asked Yang Yanchang to sit down and asked: "The secret is exposed? How can I save you?"
"I haven't revealed anything, but you are the only one who can save me." Yang Yanchang held Liu Chengzong's hand, looked at him with wide eyes, and said: "Beat me, beat me hard!"
Liu Chengzong wondered whether Ren Quan'er was controlling Yang Yanchang too hard and was driving him crazy.
This is the second time he has heard such a strange request.
"The Donglu have entered the pass, and the emperor issued an order to the kings of Qin everywhere. I! King Qin! I have two aunts and five children under me. Take the lead, King Qin. This is going to kill me."
Yang Yanchang followed closely: "Either your people come with me, or you beat me, beat me so hard, until I can't leave Yan'an Mansion, or I'm dead!"
Liu Chengzong didn't listen to anything he said, only the first sentence.
