Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 350 Heluo Wind and Thunder 3
The proposal to form a mountain force was fully supported by Qi Hu.The old man's vision was always so sharp. Yang Menglong often only mentioned the beginning of many things before he realized the value behind them. In Nanyang, a place surrounded by mountains on three sides, the benefits of a mountainous force were obvious. He had no reason to not support.It's just that Han Peng and Xue Siming are a little upset, and there is another unit that grabs military expenses, shit!
The basis of the mountain troops is of course those soldiers from the mountainous areas of Hunan and Sichuan. There are 600 people, which is just enough for a corps.But Yang Menglong is still determined to separate this small army into an army of his own, named "Tiger Battalion".He gave full play to his genius creativity and designed a lot of equipment for the Tiger Battalion that was completely different from other troops. For example, he made a seven-foot-long spear based on the captured tiger guns, dark green or yellow-green camouflage uniforms, Machetes, combat sabers with jagged backs, high-waisted leather boots... It doesn't matter whether they are useful or not, as long as they are cool enough for him, they will be drawn in one go. His highest requirement, as for practicality... that's what Qi Hu, the chief of staff, has to consider!
After a period of busy work, a full set of equipment for the mountain soldiers was produced.The first is the camouflage uniform. Qi Hu tried it on and found that this kind of clothing is flexible and breathable. It is much cooler to wear on hot days. This is the effect that cotton military uniforms do not have.He asked in surprise, "What kind of fabric is this?"

Yang Menglong said proudly: "Linen! Didn't I plant ten acres of flax? Now that the flax has been harvested, I tried to weave it into cloth. Hey, the effect is pretty good, smooth and flat, strong and flexible, and not easy to get dirty. It is not easy to catch fire, and it is cool to wear in summer."

Qi Hu said: "This fabric is good. I hope all military uniforms will be made of linen in the future!"

Yang Menglong shrugged: "Then we have to wait another year or two until flax planting reaches a large scale." He pulled out a 32 cm long high-carbon steel combat saber and swung it a few times, stabbing it at a piece on the table. A piece of armor, nailed it on the table with a bang, proving that this strangely shaped fighting saber has armor-piercing ability that cannot be underestimated.As for the sharpness... Just look at the dull cold light on the blade, no one would be willing to try it with his own neck.

"This knife is very reliable. If you nail it to a tree, it will not deform when you hang it up. The blade is extremely sharp. If you have enough wrist strength, you can use it to cut off the enemy's arm... Don't underestimate these serrations, it can Saw off the hard logs!" The bastard introduced triumphantly.

The machete is a replica of the dogleg knife, nothing surprising.

Han Peng held a small crossbow with a quiver that could hold ten arrows at a time, and asked, "What is this thing? Why is it completely different from the crossbow we used to equip?"

Yang Menglong threw down the knife, grabbed the crossbow, and smiled: "This is amazing! It is Master Guo's masterpiece! Have you seen this arrow box? It can hold ten crossbow arrows, and it fires very quickly, with ten arrows in a row. No matter how much you have three heads and six arms, you can't dodge it... I'll show you." He grabbed ten crossbow arrows that were only a few inches long and pressed them into the quiver one by one. Push the quiver forward, then pull it back, whoosh!A crossbow arrow shot out and hit the target 20 meters away. Then he pushed and pulled, and whoosh, another crossbow arrow shot out... He repeated this group of actions. As the quiver moved back and forth, the crossbow arrows roared, In the blink of an eye, all ten crossbow arrows were shot. He grabbed a handful of crossbow arrows and put them in, and continued to push the arrow box. The sound of whooshing was endless, and soon, the poor target was shot into a sieve!
A group of generals who were commenting on the pile of equipment opened their mouths so wide that they could stuff a shot put into them, but they couldn't close their mouths.Qi Hu snatched the crossbow, frantically researched it, and tried shooting several arrows. He only felt that the shooting speed of this thing was too fast. It took enough time to shoot an arrow with the crossbow. Up to twenty arrows!He excitedly called: "Zhuge Nu!?"

The Zhuge Crossbow is a very legendary crossbow. It is very light and has the ability to fire continuously. The arrow box is movable. By pushing and pulling back the arrow box, it can complete a series of actions such as winding, loading arrows, and firing. The shooting speed is extremely fast. , is simply an ancient semi-automatic rifle.Unfortunately, due to various reasons, this kind of crossbow has been lost. Later generations copied it based on some remaining data, and it was impossible to achieve such an effect.

Yang Menglong said: "Well, it basically refers to the style of the Zhuge crossbow, except that the bow arm is replaced with a thin spring steel sheet, and some easily broken parts are replaced with more durable springs and screws, so that it can be faster. The speed of fire and the longer range. Its biggest advantage is that it shoots extremely fast, even a well-trained archer can't compare with it, and the biggest disadvantage is that its lethality is relatively small, and its effective range is only twenty steps. It can effectively shoot through leather armor and chain mail, and it can’t hit thicker armor such as cotton armor, let alone iron armor. However, in dense woods, this range is enough.”

Qi Hu smiled bitterly: "On a narrow mountain road, a few archers are holding such crossbows and supplemented by poisonous arrows. Even if there are thousands of troops, they will not be able to charge forward before their crossbow arrows are exhausted!"

Yang Menglong asked in amazement: "How do you know I'm going to equip it with poisonous arrows?"

Everyone rolled their eyes. Don't you know what kind of urine you are?The same is true of the insufficient lethality of the arm-opening crossbow. What Qi Hu thought of was to strengthen the arms of the arm-opening crossbow so that the crossbow arrows would have stronger kinetic energy. However, what Yang Menglong thought of was to paint the arrowhead with something that was not popular with everyone. Then Something almost killed Yue Tuo...

In a word, the equipment made by this second-hand product has received unanimous praise from everyone, especially those soldiers from Hunan and Sichuan, who love this equipment to death, it is tailor-made for them!Among all the equipment, camouflage uniforms and camouflage wax oil are the most praised by these soldiers from the mountains. Most of these soldiers are hunters and are well versed in camouflage. Let the enemy see them.And Yang Menglong's way of using them is also very appetizing to them: sneak attack!Yes, it’s a sneak attack, never confronting the enemy, but using the Tiger Camp’s familiarity with mountains and jungles and good at camouflage to sneak attack the enemy, and it’s pure brain damage to use these hundreds of people to fight against the enemy up!This is doomed to the style of the Tiger Camp. On the battlefield, they sneak up and plan to shoot cold arrows, poison and dig pits to beat black sticks. No matter how insidious their tactics are, most of the enemy troops are often dead and they don't know where they are.

In addition to forming mountain troops, Yang Menglong also made some reforms to the army.First of all, he ordered that all spring-loaded crossbows and arm-loaded crossbows should be replaced with Wangshan engraved with rulers, and a wooden simple front sight should be installed at the end of the arrow trough to form a simple and effective aiming device, allowing archers to Target enemy troops with precision at longer ranges.He also compiled the skills of aiming and shooting using rulers and crosshairs into a book and distributed them to every archer. This gave archers a greater advantage when shooting against archers - the bow is There is no way to add a ruler.

Then, he ordered to study a kind of lighter horse armor with good protection ability, equipped with cavalry.Prior to this, the horses of the Lancers were not protected by horse armor. Therefore, on the battlefield, facing the flying arrows, the horses were killed and injured so many that after the battle, many Lancers cried bitterly holding the corpses of the horses.For the Lancers, the horse is their brother. When the horse dies, half of them die.Yang Menglong felt sorry for the horses who died on the Dalinghe battlefield, and made up his mind to put armor on the horses.However, the headache is that the biggest advantage of the Lancers is speed. If the horses are armored, the burden on the horses will be heavy, and the speed will inevitably be weakened. On the contrary, it will cause greater casualties to the Lancers—— If Putting on iron armor, they become heavy cavalry. Heavy cavalry is subject to many restrictions, and it is impossible for them to enter the battlefield at any time like them.After some exploration, the craftsmen used mulberry paper to make a paper horse armor that could wrap the front half of the horse.To put it bluntly, this kind of paper horse armor is to fold multiple layers of mulberry paper into the shape of a nail leaf, and then connect them piece by piece. Piercing it, a horn bow with a weaker bow power can hardly penetrate it even if it reaches ten steps, and even the lead bullets fired by a bird gun can be easily blocked. Of course, the full thrust of a spear and spear cannot stop it Yes, but considering the five-meter long spear in the hands of the Lancers and the main task of the Lancers, the chances of the infantry attacking the Lancers' horses with their spears and spears are very small and can be ignored.The biggest weakness of paper armor is that it is afraid of water and fire. If you are afraid of water, you can wrap a layer of oil paper on each nail leaf to solve it. If you are afraid of fire, you can’t help it. What equipment is not afraid of fire?
The defense ability of the horses covered with paper horse armor has been greatly increased, at least most of the arrows need not be afraid.While thickening the Lancers' shields, Yang Menglong also sharpened their spears.After witnessing the power of the horse spear on the battlefield of Daling River, Yang Menglong was eager to give it a try. He planned to equip his lancers with horse spears - the lances that broke when struck were a bit cheating. If there were better horse spears, If so, of course you have to use a horse sword. Who would want to use a saber if there is a horse sword?An inch longer means an inch stronger, haven’t you heard?But when Qi Hu explained to him the cost and manufacturing cycle of the horse tree one by one, Yang Erhuo was furious: it would take at least two or three years to make a qualified horse tree, and the price of two horse guns was worth Gotta get a war horse!Damn it, this is such a nonsense!He doesn't really care about the price. The key is that the production cycle is too long, and the chance of rejects is extremely high, making it uneconomical.He thought of a way to come up with a substitute: use a [-]-meter-long steel bar that is slightly thinner than the little finger and has good elasticity as the spine, and combine the same length of bamboo strips that have been treated with multiple processes, one layer at a time. The layers are glued together, wrapped with thin iron wire, then painted with raw lacquer, wrapped in Gebu, and dried layer by layer until it reaches the diameter that is most suitable for grasping.The top is equipped with manganese steel stems and stems, which are one meter long. The counterfeit made in this way is two kilograms lighter than the authentic horse stems and has good elasticity. Due to the fine steel stems For protection, plus a steel bar as thick as a little finger as the inner spine, it would be extremely difficult to cut it off with a saber!
Such a counterfeit product, if the production cost of the pole is not counted, it can probably be exchanged for a leg of a horse...Horse lances are expensive, and half of them are on the lances that have a long production cycle and complicated craftsmanship.After Zhong Ning tried it, he said that this stuff is good, light, tough and strong, with extremely powerful armor-piercing ability, and it is easier to use than the authentic horse lance. Needless to say, brothers will use it in the future!
(End of this chapter)