Datang Lingnan King

Chapter 76 New Weapons and Equipment
"Haha, Weiguo, you have arrived first." Zhang Gongjin walked into the meeting hall of the Governor's Mansion, saw Feng Daiwen sitting there drinking tea early in the morning, and said with a smile.

"I've seen Uncle Zhang, hehe, I've been thinking about it all the time, just arrived, just arrived." Feng Daiwen explained embarrassedly.

"Hey, the old man was thinking about it early in the morning, so this is coming." Zhang Gongjin saw Ma Zhou and others walking outside, and said with a smile.

"I have met the governor, Lord Marquis." Ma Zhou and others came in and saw that the two officers were there, and hurriedly bowed their hands in salute.

Generally, when Zhang Gongjin and Feng Daiwen are together, they will call Feng Daiwen Marquis, and the personal guards will be called General Feng Daiwen.

"Hey, King Bin, Xu Changshi, you don't need to be too polite. Let's sit down and talk about yesterday's transaction." Zhang Gongjin waved anxiously.

"Returning to Dudu, this time the mutual exchange received a total of more than 118 million yuan in taxes, mainly 50 yuan from bulk transactions, and more than 68 yuan in taxes from store sales, leases, and other business transactions. War horses were recovered from merchants. 13000 horses, plus the purchase of grain and iron ore, etc., there is still more than 25 yuan." Ma Zhou took out a booklet and introduced them one by one.

"Cough, cough, is this all left?" Zhang Gongjin almost choked, coughed twice and asked in surprise.

"Many of these are just paid for the order, and the balance has not been paid yet," Ma Zhou added.

"Also, how far is it? What did you buy?" Zhang Gongjin asked in a low voice, afraid that he would be disappointed again.

"Shuofang has only found one small coal mine so far, which is not expected to be enough. I paid 10 yuan for a long-term order from the Wang family in Taiyuan, ordered a large amount of iron ore from the Changsun family, paid a deposit of [-] yuan, and ordered food from the Zhang family in Jiangnan. The Huang family in central Shu ordered saltpeter and other ores, and ordered a large amount of alkali ores from Henan." Ma Zhou reported everything in detail.

Here I want to say that in ancient times, many mines were in the hands of aristocratic families. The government was only responsible for issuing the amount of materials needed each year, and then it was enough to receive enough, and didn't care how to raise enough.

"What are we doing with so much iron ore?" Zhang Gongjin asked in surprise, thinking they had something different.

"Uncle Zhang, don't worry, my nephew asked me to buy it. I want to build new weapons and equipment. The sage knows about this. After I build it, let the sage have a look. As for the money, don't worry, Shuofang will be the biggest one in the future." Wool clothes production base." Feng Daiwen quickly explained.

"That's good, but this mutual market is really good, but it's a pity that it has to be once a month." Zhang Gongjin breathed a sigh of relief, and said greedily.

"Haha, Uncle Zhang, this is the first time so many people come to trade, and there will not be so many people every time in the future. Of course, there may be more." Feng Daiwen said with a smile.

"The Wang family and the Cui family said that there are too many goods to leave early in the morning, so they don't come to say goodbye to the governor." Ma Zhou recalled this incident and said to Zhang Gongjin.

"Oh, it's okay, I'm old, I haven't had a good rest, and I'm happy for nothing, Wei Guo, you can watch the arrangement, the old man is going to rest for a while." Zhang Gongjin left bored.

In Feng Daiwen's point of view, a good soldier is one who obeys orders, is physically strong, as strong as an ox, has the best weapons, best armor, best equipment, and best logistics, and can form the most powerful army.

Once you set a goal, you will work hard towards it. If you are physically strong, you need better food and more training if you are as strong as an ox. These will be handed over to Xi Jun and Feng Daihuo for them to train.

The best weapon requires the best steel. With coal, coke can be made locally, and coke can be fired at a higher temperature, and steel can be smelted directly. So the east of Shuofang is The barracks, which is also a new steel-making kiln, formed two clouds of smoke with the brick kiln to the west. During the day, you can see black smoke rising into the sky, and at night, you can see red light.

Maybe this is the price paid for development. Fortunately, Shuofang is sparsely populated and the pollution is not serious. It will be fine when it stabilizes. It seems that the new city needs to be re-planned. It is better to build a city in front of Shuofang. Chengtou thought secretly.

The best armor, Feng Daiwen, seems to be rattan armor, which is light and has excellent defense, so Lingnan and Central Shu are the best places to manufacture armor. Menghuo’s rattan armor soldiers have given Zhuge Wuhou a headache. Feng Daiwen has already asked The Huang family helped to find and buy it. Of course, it is impossible to have so many rattan armors to equip so many soldiers in the Tang Dynasty. The assault armor is also good, and can be used by infantry.

Shields used to be mostly wooden shields, but now with coal smelting and so many captives helping to mine, there is enough iron to make iron shields. Of course, not all of them are iron shields. In Feng Daiwen's design There are two kinds of iron shields, one is a wooden shield with an iron cover, which is mainly used to prevent bows and arrows when charging.

One is a large shield made entirely of iron plates, one person high, supported by wood at the back, with buckles on both sides, which can form a whole shield wall, and an extended spear is placed on top of the shield to completely become a hedgehog, that is, It can defend against cavalry charging, and can also be used as a movable city wall. Camping in the wild is a kind of defensive city wall. When attacking the city, it can also protect the team from advancing to the outside of the opponent's city wall.

Think about it, when your troops are escorted by a shield wall and use building carts, catapults, crossbows, bows and arrows to attack the city under the enemy's city wall, it should be very easy, especially the close combat of the siege does not need Soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, Feng Daiwen couldn't help being excited when he thought of these things. After all, every man yearns to fight on the battlefield and take the head of the enemy angrily.

As for the equipment, the three treasures of cavalry can also be formally built. Many cavalry in the past can only be said to be soldiers on horseback. It is much easier. With horseshoes, war horses will have a longer fighting life. After a big battle before, many war horses were injured and their hooves were still there. It's okay to run above.

The saddle, together with the stirrups, allows the knight on horseback to take advantage of the strength and free his hands, so that every knight can hold a weapon in both hands and keep his body stable.

In a battle between two cavalrymen of the same strength, the man with the stirrups and the saddle can exert [-]% more combat power. One needs to allocate strength to clamp the horse and stabilize the body, and the other uses the feet to hold the stirrups to borrow strength. , the result can be imagined.

Throwing spears are another weapon that Feng Daiwen provided for the cavalry. The spearheads are placed in front of wooden sticks, and they are thrown vigorously when the cavalry charge. People and mounts penetrate together, even if it is dropped and inserted into the ground, it will affect the attack of the cavalry behind, and it is also easy to recover after the war. It can be said to be high in quality and low in price.

Generally, you can continue to fight if you are shot by a bow and arrow in an unimportant place, but if you try to stick a short gun thick with a ping pong ball, you can still fight. If you try to pull it out, you will bleed to death.

(End of this chapter)