Reborn Wu Dalang

After Xiao Feifei came here, he was very interested in everything around him.The "yard" here is very large, and the rows of houses are extremely neatly built, and countless workers are working in each room.Those workers are all dressed in neat uniforms, like soldiers, but they are making weapons instead of using them.

It was the first time for her to come to such a place. The little girl's heart broke out, and her eyes were full of excitement.

As for the noise here, she has automatically ignored it. She is only curious in her heart, and wants to explore this place thoroughly.

Wu Dong and Ling Zhen walked in the front. After walking for about a mile, a row of houses appeared in front of them. Ling Zhen said, "Commander, this is where bows and crossbows are produced! Now there are more than 3000 workers here!"

Wu Dong was taken aback, and said, "Are there so many workers here?"

Ling Zhen explained: "Commander, bows and crossbows are too important in war, so the number of workers here is a little more, in order to produce bows and crossbows faster."

After entering the rows of rooms, you can see that the workers inside are extremely busy.Here, the main production is still the magic arm bow.Speaking of it, the god arm bow is already the pinnacle of crossbows in the cold weapon era.The craftsmen of Liangshan have been trying to improve the divine arm bow over the years, but the skill of the divine arm bow has reached the apex of technology, and it is almost impossible to continue to improve.

Therefore, until now, the craftsmanship of the Divine Arm Bow is still the craftsmanship of the Great Song Dynasty, but the production method of the Divine Arm Bow has improved countless times compared to the Great Song Dynasty.

Here, the entire production process of the Divine Arm Bow was subdivided into 120 processes, and a true streamlined operation was implemented. Each worker was only responsible for one of the processes. The overall production speed of the Divine Arm Bow was more than ten times that of the Great Song Dynasty.

More than 3000 workers work overtime and can produce 5000 magic arm bows a month on average. Since the establishment of the ordnance factory, [-] magic arm bows have been produced.

This kind of production speed is extremely astonishing. In the most prosperous era of the Great Song Dynasty, the annual output was not so much.At the end of the Song Dynasty, the output of divine arm bows dropped to about [-] a year, and most of them were crudely made. It will break, and some will not work at all.

"In the past, when the imperial court was working as a court, only the best and most skilled craftsmen could make magic arm bows. At that time, there were only a few hundred craftsmen. Now the workers in our factory only need to be familiar with one of the processes. Yes, so the requirements for recognition are much lower than those of the Duzuo Academy. They only need a month or two of training before they can cooperate with other workers to produce the magic arm bow." Ling Zhen said with a smile.

"This is the advantage brought by industrialized production." Wu Dong nodded.

They went all the way, and finally came to the inspection workshop of the magic arm bow.Here, the workers will check the just-made magic arm bow to see if it meets the standard. If it does not meet the standard, it will be returned for repair, or it will be destroyed directly.In Liangshan, crudely made weapons are absolutely not allowed to enter the army, and they have extremely strict requirements in this regard.

"Governor, this is the God Arm Bow that was just produced." Ling Zhen handed a God Arm Bow into Wu Dong's hands.

Wu Dong took it, and his first impression was that it was very delicately made and the workmanship was very good.He drew the divine arm bow, put on the crossbow arrow, aimed at the target in front of him, and opened the bow to shoot.

Whoosh!

With a sharp sound, the target more than 200 meters ahead was shot, and Wu Dong led Ling Zhen and others towards the front.After arriving at the target location, it was found that it was a 3 mm thick steel plate. At this moment, the steel plate had been penetrated, and the arrow shot far away after passing through the steel plate.

"Sure enough! I have kept this magic arm bow." Wu Dong said with a smile.

"Governor, we are now preparing to continue to expand the production scale of the magic arm bow. Now we have 3000 workers, and we plan to recruit another 2000 workers, so that the number of workers here will reach 5000, so that we can produce 8000 magic arm bows a month. So many god arm bows can definitely meet the needs of the army." Ling Zhen said.

"8000, that's a lot! If the number of magic-armed archers in the army can reach [-], the power is absolutely extraordinary. I'm afraid there will be no problem facing the cavalry head-on?" Wu Dong said.

Although the god-arm bow was invented by the Song Dynasty, the number of god-arm archers assembled in the Song Dynasty never exceeded 2, and they were distributed among various armies.The battles that can be seen in the historical data are usually about a thousand people, at most thousands of people, rarely more.Wu Dong can imagine that after 10 people are equipped with the God Arm Bow, the feeling of arrows raining down will definitely be able to destroy all frontal enemies.Even if the cavalry has a speed advantage, it cannot fight such an army.The horse bow used by the cavalry is far inferior to the god arm bow in terms of range and penetration.

"If the god-armed archer can be equipped with good armor, like plate armor, the powerful attack and defense will definitely be a nightmare for cavalry. It's just that the plate armor is too heavy. If you want to equip infantry, you need to simplify it , as long as it can cover the chest and back, and then wear an iron helmet." Wu Dong held the magic arm bow in his hand, thinking secretly.

After a while, he uttered his thoughts and asked the members of the Academy of Sciences and the soldiers around him to discuss this issue, and everyone thought it was a good idea.It's just that it takes a lot of time to make such a simple plate armor.Now the production method of plate armor has just been discovered, and the production process is still very immature, and it is impossible to mass-produce it at all.

"Let the workers in the armor workshop study this issue with all their strength, and they must come up with a way to mass-produce simplified plate armor. By then, with the plate armor and a large number of divine arm bows, they will definitely be able to change the situation of future warfare." Wu Wu Road.

The person in charge of the Academy of Sciences and the factory carefully wrote down Wu Dong's words with pen and paper, not to mention this.

******

After staying in the bow and crossbow production workshop all morning and having lunch here, Wu Dong and others rushed to the artillery production workshop in the afternoon.

The place where the artillery is produced is actually not in the ordnance factory, because the artillery experiment requires too much space and is also very dangerous, so the artillery workshop is located more than ten miles east of the ordnance factory.

Wu Song and the others rode there on horseback. He was afraid that Xiao Feifei would fall off the horse again, so this time he simply hugged Xiao Feifei and rode forward together. Xiao Feifei's face was flushed, and he felt very warm in his heart. Thinking about something.

The people in the artillery workshop had known for a long time that Wu Dong and others were coming, and dozens of workers were already there to welcome Wu Dong's arrival.

"Governor, I have spent most of my time in this place. I personally participated in the design of the artillery here and watched them produce it myself." After arriving at this place, Ling Zhen was extremely excited and said with a smile .

They did not enter the workshop, but came directly to the test site, where more than a dozen cannon barrels were piled up, Ling Zhen strode up to a bronze cannon barrel, and said, "Commander, this is our latest research and development. The artillery is much lighter than before, only weighing 800 catties!"

Wu Dong and others also came to the cannon. He knelt down and stroked it slowly with his hands, feeling the bronze texture.This cannon is very similar to the ancient bronze cannon seen on the Internet before. The whole cannon is divided into three sections, with a line of fire at the bottom and a place to put ammunition at the top.

Although 800 kilograms is still extremely heavy, it is still much lighter than the first one or two thousand kilograms, and the shape does not look as rough as before.

"Governor, try it now! Would you like to light the fire yourself?" Ling Zhen was extremely excited and asked with a smile.

"Alright." Wu Dong nodded and said.

Ling Zhen looked at Xiao Feifei again, Xiao Feifei had already been wearing a layer of tulle on her face at this moment, but her face was too beautiful, this tulle couldn't cover her face at all, Ling Zhen didn't dare to look at her more, but said: "Your Majesty, why not?" Please cover your ears. When the artillery fires, it will shake the earth. If you don’t cover your ears, your ears will be damaged.”

Xiao Feifei was extremely surprised, she had no idea what this so-called "cannon" was.Whether it was the Song Dynasty or the Khitan Kingdom, no such weapons appeared in this era.It's just that the appearance of this thing is too weird, like a copper pillar.Hearing what Ling Zhen said so solemnly, she also hastily covered her ears.

At this moment, Wu Dong was ready to ignite the fire, and the people around him retreated one after another, only to see that the torch in Wu Dong's hand had already been lit.

boom!

There was an earth-shattering loud noise, and a tiny "cloud" appeared in the distance, which was formed by flying dust.The surrounding land was shaking constantly, the factory workers were fine, they had experienced this kind of thing many times, but the expressions of the soldiers who followed Wu Dong changed dramatically.

"Come on, let's go and have a look." Wu Dong turned his head and said to the crowd.

Only at this time did he realize that Xiao Feifei's face was pale, and he hurried over immediately.

"What's wrong with you?" Wu Dong took her hand and asked.

Xiao Feifei only saw Wu Dong's mouth opening and closing, but couldn't hear what Wu Dong said at all. He was anxious and afraid at the moment, and was about to cry.

Wu Dong looked at her, he probably understood what was going on, he couldn't help laughing, he stretched out his hand to cover Xiao Feifei's ear, and then rubbed it lightly, after a while, Xiao Feifei finally recovered his hearing .

"Husband, did the thunder explode just now?" Xiao Feifei asked with a pale face.

"The artillery was fired just now, let's go ahead and take a look." Wu Dong said.

At this moment, those war horses were fidgeting, obviously unable to ride anymore, everyone walked forward, and those workers ran forward.

When we came to a place five or six miles ahead, we saw a huge crater on the ground, and there were countless dust and debris around the crater.There are still many armors used for experiments in the crater. At this moment, all of these armors are full of small holes.

This time, what Wu Dong fired was not the previous physical bullet, but the real flowering bullet, which is what later generations called the grenade.Wu Dong visually estimated that the range of the shrapnel reached about ten meters. That is to say, if there were enemies within ten meters, they would basically be killed or injured by the bomb.

This kind of destructive power is naturally much inferior to the artillery shells of later generations, and the difference is huge.But with the technical level of this era, it is already very good to be able to do this, and Wu Dong is quite satisfied.

"Governor, we have just developed this explosive bomb. It is extremely powerful. We have decided to produce this kind of artillery with all our strength in the future. What do you think?" Ling Zhen said.

"That's right! When I read the materials yesterday, you also produced a small artillery, where is it? I want to take a look too." Wu Dong said.

Ling Zhen nodded hastily and ordered someone to bring the small cannon. After a quarter of an hour, two people came towards this side carrying a cannon.This cannon looks very delicate, only one meter long and less than 10 centimeters in diameter, almost a miniature version of the cannon just now.It's so small, and it looks like it only weighs a few dozen kilograms, so it's no wonder that two people can lift it up.

"So light!" Wu Dong was taken aback.When I read the information yesterday, I only knew that it was a small artillery, but I didn't expect it to be so small.

"Governor, this small artillery has just been developed not long ago. Its power is far inferior to the previous artillery, and it can only fire some lead bullets. The distance is not very far." Ling Zhen said.

"Which one of you will give it a try?" Wu Dong said.

At that moment, Ling Zhen and a group of workers fixed the cannon and put lead bullets on it. A soldier came over and lit the fire wire. After a muffled bang, the lead bullets flew out like lightning, and a cloud of smoke appeared in front of them, but it was obviously not as good as The great power just now.

Wu Dong and others rushed over again and found that the crater was much smaller.The distance of this small artillery is less than five miles, which is much worse than before.

But Wu Dong is more interested in the artillery in front of him. The previous artillery was too heavy, weighing more than 800 kilograms. It was too troublesome to transport, and there was not much mobility on the battlefield. It was good for attacking or defending the city. , but if it is a field battle, the limitations are too great.On the contrary, this small artillery has certain field performance.

"Can't such a small artillery fire explosive bombs?" Wu Dong asked.

"It should be possible. It's just that we haven't developed this small artillery for a long time, and we haven't developed the flowering ammunition specially used for it." Ling Zhen said.

"In war, such small artillery is more important. Ling Zhen, I think you can focus on this small artillery. Even if the power of this small artillery is not as powerful as the large artillery, if there are more of them, the effect will be extraordinary .” Wu Dong said.

"Yes, Commander-in-Chief. It's just that the smaller the artillery, the more difficult it is to produce the barrel. The bigger the gun, the easier it is to produce. We can't produce many of this kind of small artillery in a month." Ling Zhen said.

"Can you give an approximate amount?" Wu Dong said.

"Five to ten can be produced in a month, mainly because most of the gun barrels are waste products, and only a small part can be really used." Ling Zhen said.

The current artillery technology is very backward. Most of the barrels produced are unusable, and a lot of bronze is wasted. It can be said that the development of artillery is a very expensive thing.

"Five to ten, that's not a lot! You produce it with all your strength, and then transport it to Liaodong! Those large artillery pieces are also transported to Liaodong. Now Huarong is defending Wanyan Aguda, and all of these can play a role."