Da Song: The opening game killed Ximen Qing

From winter to spring, after a winter of development, the strength of the Liangshan rebels became stronger.

More than 5,000 people from the entire two armies have been trained.

Especially the arrival of the leopard head Lin Chong, it made Wu Song feel at ease to hand over the army to him to train. Combined with the discipline training of later generations, the overall strength of the Liangshan rebel army has been greatly improved.

According to Lin Chong, if the equipment and number of people were equal, the forbidden army of the imperial court was definitely not an opponent of the Liangshan rebel army.

However, the weapons and equipment of the Liangshan rebels are still too poor.

Even if Wu Song gritted his teeth, he let Zhu Gui buy two thousand divine arm crossbows and two thousand sets of foot armor from the forbidden army.

It only allowed the Liangshan rebels to initially complete the installation.

It may be easy to deal with the local troops of the Song Dynasty.

But if it fought against the forbidden army, especially when it was outnumbered, it would be difficult for the Liangshan rebels to win.

At that time, I am afraid that I will have to shrink in Liangshan Water.

“Grand Commander, the rebels must have their own military production capacity. In this way, you will not be subject to others! Compared to ordnance, iron, etc., it is easier to buy. Lower price than buying ordnance outright! Lin Chong suggested.

“I naturally know that. However, we do not have enough craftsmen and do not have drawings of the crossbow. It may be very difficult to produce it! Wu Song sighed.

“Grand Commander, I may be able to solve this aspect. I used to have some connections in the Forbidden Army and knew some craftsmen. Most of them have a hard time. If the rebels could give them better treatment, they might be willing to join the rebels. Lin Chong said.

Wu Song was overjoyed suddenly: “Okay, Brother Lin, you can send someone to invite.” As long as it is a craftsman, I welcome any come! ”

In the Song Dynasty, the status of craftsmen was not high, and it could even be said to be very low.

Even if they have created a large number of advanced weapons for the army, they are more often no different from slaves, trapped in various craftsmen prisons for life, knowing that they will die of old age.

In addition, the work is extremely heavy, and many people are exhausted to death at a young age.

Every year, many craftsmen run away because they can’t stand it.

But once they are caught, they are often beheaded.

It can be described as extremely tragic.

After getting Wu Song’s permission, Lin Chong immediately began to arrange the rescue of these craftsmen.

In just three months, at least a thousand craftsmen from various craftsmen escaped to Liangshan Shuipo, allowing the Liangshan rebels to establish a huge ordnance workshop in the back mountain.

Thanks to the technology mastered by these craftsmen, the Liangshan Rebels have been able to build sharp weapons such as foot armor and divine arm crossbows on their own.

Even, Wu Song made many suggestions, asking these craftsmen to transform the foot armor and the divine arm crossbow.

Although the foot armor is strong in defense, it is too heavy, and the weight of fifty or sixty pounds is worn on the body, making it difficult for the soldiers to fight for a long time. Even if the soldiers of the Liangshan rebel army, with adequate training and sufficient meat supply, were physically strong, it was also difficult to fight for long.

The same is true of the divine arm crossbow, although the power is amazing, but the weight is not light, plus it takes a lot of force to be able to pull the bowstring, a crossbowman often shoots a dozen arrows, and then is unable to continue to release arrows.

This will have a great impact on the combat effectiveness of the troops.

Takematsu proposed to reduce the armor in other parts while strengthening the armor in terms of the chest and abdomen and head. This reduces weight while ensuring defense of critical areas.

Injuries from arrows in the limbs are usually not fatal.

In this way, the weight of the step armor was reduced to thirty pounds. Compared with the previous weight of fifty or sixty pounds, it is already much better.

At the same time, the weight of the crossbow of the divine arm has also been reduced to a certain extent. Wusong even proposed replacing some key parts with lighter weight mild steel to further reduce weight while ensuring the performance of the crossbow. At the same time, it is not easily affected by the weather.

These suggestions surprised the craftsmen. They never expected that a martial artist like Wusong would actually have such an opinion.

In order to ensure the manufacture of ordnance, Wusong put Zhu Gui in charge and found a way to buy a large amount of iron. Even if it is temporarily unavailable, it can be made into weapons and stored here.

The current Liangshan rebel army is only 5,000 people.

Next, the Liangshan rebels will continue to expand their army.

On this day, Wu Song, together with Lin Chong and other rebel generals, began to discuss the combat formation of the rebel army.

In order to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the rebels, Wusong specially took out the large phalanx battle formation of the European Fran machine for the reference of the generals.

“I heard that a country called Franji, thousands of miles away in the west, specially designed such a phalanx in order to deal with the cavalry of the enemy country. Fifteen hundred people armed with spears formed a phalanx as a whole. On each of the four corners, two hundred and fifty crossbowmen were deployed. Wu Song introduced.

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