In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 224 Standardized Production

The heavy arrow standards of the Mongolian Army were learned from the Jinren.

When the Jin people were strong, the Jin people used heavy arrows to teach the Mongols severely.

After the rise of the Mongols, people who learned gold made heavy arrows.

However, there are not many heavy arrows used in the Mongolian army, because heavy arrows are not easy to make, and the requirements for bow strength and archery are also high. Those who do not have enough archery and bow strength will only waste heavy arrows in vain.

Liu Fu handed over two heavy arrows, one from the Mongolian Army and the other from the current Song Army.

Zhao Yurui looked at it with his hands, and it was obvious that the quality was better than Song Jun's.

The Song army was built according to the weight of the Mongolian army's heavy arrows, and the arrows were about three or two heavy. (About 110 grams in twos and twos in the Southern Song Dynasty).

The weight of both sides is similar, but the quality of Song Jun is better, and the penetration power is slightly stronger when it is tested.

"The Mongolian army attaches great importance to artisans. Every time a city is occupied, if a city is slaughtered, artisans will inevitably be left behind."

"But the skills of these craftsmen are still different from ours." Zhao Yurui compared the arrows of the two sides, and his craftsmanship was obviously better.

But he knew why, although the Mongolian army valued craftsmen, the treatment they gave to craftsmen was far inferior to that of Zhao Yurui.

This is also the reason why Song Jun's armor is getting better and better, and it is getting sharper and sharper.

Regarding the requirements for making cannons, Zhao Yurui and Hou Jinxue had to engrave the name of the craftsman on each cannon.

"The Mongolian army didn't use heavy arrows at the beginning. Many heavy arrows learned from the Jin Dynasty, and then gradually used heavy arrows." Li Pingbao explained on the sidelines.

Heavy arrows are all learned from the Jin Dynasty, and the standard of three and two heavy is also the beginning of the Jin Dynasty.

The arrows before the Southern Song Dynasty were also different from place to place, and there was no uniform standard.

Next, Zhao and Rui will unify the national standards for magic arm bows, strong crossbows, and step bows, and unify the national standards for arrows.

Unify the national infantry.

Unify national firearms standards.

The Artisan Bureau conducted many test shots that day, mainly to let the emperor see the protective power of the existing armor of the Song Army and the armor of the Mongolian Army, and the penetrating power of the arrows of both sides. After comparison, it is obvious that the Song Army is now stronger.

"How much can the magic arm bow be made in a month now?" Zhao Yurui asked after seeing it.

"Return to Your Majesty, now the master craftsman in the capital is making about two hundred god-arm bows every month."

"So little?" Zhao Yurui frowned.

There is no way, the artisan bureau is too busy, everything has to be made, including the infantry armor, and the firearms bureau has divided many craftsmen, the crossbow has to be made, and other weapons have to be made.

"Take me to have a look." Zhao Yurui asked to see the making scene of the God Arm Bow.

Walking on the road, he thought of Meng Gong's suggestion to cancel the third tier of strong crossbowmen, which would save a lot of strong crossbows from being built.

"The crossbow should be reduced, and the step bow and the magic arm bow should be distributed." Liu Fu immediately agreed.

After arriving at the scene, Zhao Yurui saw the craftsmen making.

The bow of the god arm is made of eucalyptus tree. Zhao Yurui found that it seemed to be a mulberry tree after looking at it.

This thing is very tenacious.

It is recorded in the book: 檿, a deciduous tree with alternate leaves, the inner bark can be used to make paper, and the tough wood can be used to make bows and chariot shafts.

"Is this a mulberry tree?" Zhao Yurui asked Liu Fu.

"Your Majesty is wise, it is a mulberry tree. The leaves can be fed to silkworms, the inner bark can be used to make mulberry paper, and the wood is a good material for making bows and chariot shafts."

It is not difficult to make the magic arm bow, but it is cumbersome, and the materials of each component are different.

There are mainly five parts: bow body, bow, Dengzi and gun head, horse face tooth hair, string.

The bow is made of mulberry wood, the bow is made of sandalwood, the board and spear head are made of iron, the horse's face is made of copper, and the strings are tied with hemp rope.

Zhao Yurui observed it carefully, and found that the bow was similar to a curved arm lever part, the bolt and the spear head were where the arrows were placed, and the horse-faced teeth were the parts for connecting the strings, which also had a lever effect.

Originally there was a part called the dry stirrup, which was in the shape of a ring at the front end of the divine arm bow. This was for the soldiers to step on with their feet to save effort.

Liu Fu explained to Zhao Yurui that in the past, the strength of the divine arm bow was two stones and three times, and it could shoot two or three hundred steps. Stepping, standing and loading arrows.

Later, the god arm bow was reduced to one stone and four fights, which saved a lot of effort, and it was possible to stand and load arrows without pedals, so the dry stirrup was cancelled.

Now the dry stirrup can only be maintained on the crossbow.

Ordinary crossbow arrows are about (0.8-9 meters) long, and the arrows of the god arm bow are only seven or eight inches long.

Zhao Yurui asked, is it seven or eight?

Liu Fu scratched his head, because it really didn't matter before, it can be used for seven inches and eight inches.

"Uniform standards, seven is seven, and eight is eight. If the range and strength are similar, and the seven-inch arrow is smaller and can carry more, then build a seven-inch arrow."

The range of the divine arm bow is about one hundred steps, which Zhao Yurui thinks is quite powerful, and a seven-inch arrow is enough.

After seeing the use of the divine arm bow, Zhao Yurui knew why it was called a bow.

Its structural device is like a crossbow, but because it is used vertically like a bow, it is called a bow.

In ancient times, the horizontal end was called a crossbow, and the vertical one was called a bow.

The structure of the god-arm bow is like a crossbow, but when drawing the bow, it has to be drawn vertically like an ordinary step bow, and there is no trigger, so it is called the god-arm bow.

At this time, Zhao Yurui discovered that when making bows on the spot, basically a craftsman led several apprentices to make a bow, and each made his own bow.

This may lead to different standards and slower speeds.

"The bow-making method also needs to be changed," Zhao Yurui said at this time.

They are grouped according to the parts of the divine arm bow and the parts that the craftsmen are good at. One group makes the bow body, one group makes the bow, etc. Whether the bow body or the bow, all parts are standardized, and then they can be assembled at will.

For a certain part, how much iron material is used, how much wood material is used, as much as you say, no more, no less.

How long, how wide, how thick is also strictly according to the standard.

After it is built in this way, all the parts can be put together to form a magic arm bow immediately.

In the future, if a part is broken on the battlefield, it only needs to be replaced.

"Determine the material and size of each part, no more and no less, so that the bows made of God Arm are all exactly the same."

"The length, weight, and thickness of the bow body must be the same. The more precise the bow is, the more reward it will be."

"God arm bows must be numbered, and cannot be omitted. The craftsman is determined by the number. If it is not made well, the craftsman is held accountable."

The emperor recounted them one by one, and the officials around him remembered them with serious faces.

Afterwards, it proved that the efficiency was indeed improved qualitatively by changing the emperor's building method. With the same number of craftsmen, 250 pieces could be made every month, and the number of apprentices was greatly reduced.

At this time, the demand for strong crossbows is small, and there are new processing craftsmen. The monthly output of Lin'an Prefecture can reach about [-].

On the capital side, only some artisans from Jeju Island and Lin'an are gathered here. According to Zhao Yurui's request, the monthly output of all artisan bureaus across the country will exceed this number in the future.

Because the capital mainly builds firearms, infantry armor, and divine arm bows are secondary.

Zhao Yurui plans to use two to three years to reach more than [-] moon-made god arm bows in the whole country.

In the afternoon, Zhao Yurui changed into regular clothes, took Niu Bao, Cao Youwen, Hu Song and a team of imperial city guards to the north of the city near Qianhumen.

There are many former Forbidden Army garrisons on the Qianhumen side, including the former Sizhong Army, the Yabing Village, the Infantry Si Yamen, the Huyi Battalion, and the Jiazi Battalion.
Jiaojunying and others are all here.

Now the Infantry Division Yamen and Yabing Village, Dianqian Division Zhongjun Camp, etc. have been changed into the Great Song Emperor's Personal Guard Training Camp, and the Qiji Court is next door.

Qijiyuan is a place to raise horses, all of which are high-quality war horses from Jeju and Xixia.

In the past, the horses here were used to reward the princes and ministers, and they were also used in post stations. Now they are specially used in post stations and training camps. There will be no such thing as princes and ministers rewarding horses.

The training camp covers a relatively large area, rebuilt from the previous three barracks, and divided into two parts: the playground and the classroom.

Zhao Yurui entered from the south playground, where teams of soldiers and horses were training everywhere.

The training here is quite strict, and it takes at least half a year to graduate. Some people will be trained for more than nine months, and then after being selected, they will be filled as grassroots generals all over the country.

As soon as the emperor entered the camp, Shi Hu'er, the person in charge of the training camp, was already waiting with a group of people.

"Greetings, Your Majesty." Battalion Commander Shi Hu'er was the former boy Shi Gou'er. He was one of the first graduates from the Wei Palace. He was brave and intelligent, but for some reason the name sounded rather stupid.

Zhao Yurui wanted to promote him, so he decisively changed his name to a more domineering one.

"Everything in the barracks is simple, get up and go." Zhao Yurui laughed and stepped forward to help Shi Hu'er.

Shi Hu'er's face showed emotion, he was originally a refugee from the north, he was sold to Lin'an by thieves, and finally bought by Zhao and Rui, the king of Yi at that time, it has only been two or three years, and he has already ranked among the generals of the imperial court. Still married and had children in Lin'an.

Everything he has is given by the emperor.

"I heard that your mother-in-law gave birth to two children. You can do it. The tiger father has no sons, and the Shi family has a son."

Shi Hu'er hurriedly said: "Thanks to Your Majesty Hongfu—"

The two chatted all the way, the emperor didn't have any airs, and Shi Hu'er was followed by a bunch of generals, all of whom showed envy.

Zhao Yurui was chatting with him while observing the playground.

When he first came, the whole playground knelt down to pay homage to the emperor, which made him very depressed. Later, he hurriedly ordered that the training should not be interrupted when the emperor came, so the teams were still training normally.

This place is basically used by him as a military academy. All the excellent grass-roots military officers from the [-]th Guards of the Beijing Normal University will be selected for training.

As he looked over, there were about 1000 people training on the playground in the camp, some practicing formation, some practicing horse riding, and some practicing throwing knives.

The distribution of flying knives in the army only happened after the fight with the Mongols.

There is not much equipment in the battalion now, and some teams are already training.

The Mongols carried Guduo, small hammers, and small axes with them, and they threw them over their heads and faces in close combat. The Song Army now also needs to promote learning, and all are issued throwing knives, and javelins will be added later.

Zhao Yurui went over to look at the flying knife.

Song Army flying knives are about [-] centimeters long and two fingers wide. They are relatively heavy, and they are very strong at piercing armor within ten steps, and they can certainly penetrate armor at five steps.

Sichuan specially sent the Mongolian army's willow leaf armor, lock armor, and Zha armor, and the craftsmen of the Song army conducted experiments on each armor.

As long as it hits within five steps, any armor can be broken.

But the flying knife looks simple, but it is quite difficult to throw.

Zhao Yurui looked at the first batch of officers practicing flying knives.

(End of this chapter)