The weapons sent by the imperial court arrived, but Gao Shixin was very dissatisfied. First of all, there were too few armors, only one thousand sets of armor, and less than one hundred sets of iron armor, and the rest were leather armor and cotton armor. The quality of cotton armor was far inferior to that of the Later Jin Dynasty.

The other weapons also made Gao Shixin very satisfied. The more than a thousand bird guns he sent were garbage and could not be used at all. They were all thrown into the warehouse. It was not as useful as the batch of three-eyed guns originally stored in the Liaoyang warehouse. The turtledove guns sent more than 500, but after his personal inspection, only ninety-seven cans could be used, and the others were defective. One thousand bows were sent, only 323 could barely be used; six hundred crossbows were sent, and the yield rate was less than half, less than 300 could be used.

Besides, the court did not provide the long-handled sword that Gao Shixin wanted, saying it was out of stock.

"The long-handled big knife, that thing is very precious!" Cao Wenzhao, who was responsible for escorting weapons and food, explained, "You have a little high requirement for Gaobaihu. That thing is very meticulous and consumes manpower and silver. How can the Ministry of Works have so much money? All the money is put into making firearms."

"But the firearms of the Ministry of Works are too bad. Those bird guns can be used as scrap iron and then melted into weapons!" Gao Shixin said, pointing to the bird guns that were about to be sent to the warehouse for sealing.

The current heavy firepower output units are three-eyed guns and long-handled big swords. In the future, the army in Liaoyang Xinzhen will only have long-haired guns and musketmen. The three-eyed guns and long-handled big swords of heavy firepower output units will all be replaced by coercion guns. However, the coercion guns with reliable quality need to be asked to supervise the construction of muskets after Zhang Yong and Jiu Qiansui take charge of the Sili Supervisor. Who dares to use the bird guns made by the Ministry of Works? At most three to four rounds will explode. If it is placed on its body, it will be an irregular time bomb, which may explode itself at any time.

Unexpectedly, the Ministry of Works actually tried to pick up the sword and even couldn't bear to build it. It seemed that Wanli was not as generous as the Age. In fact, Emperor Wanli was not very rich at this time. The three major sanctions of Wanli gave the silver saved by Zhang Juzheng to the Ming Dynasty and the silver harvested by Wanli Mining and Taxation Supervision. In recent years, Wanli finally saved some silver, but was defeated by Sarhu, and lost a lot. In this defeat, not only did some elite border troops be sent, but also a large amount of excellent equipment were sent.

Gao Shixin actually didn't understand how expensive a good knife was. The swords used by ordinary soldiers of the Ming army were shoddy blades, and they were curled after a few cuts, and they could not cut through the heavy armor of the Later Jin army at all.

However, the long-handled sword made according to Gao Shixin's requirements required that the above good knives were refined into steel. The knife was heavier and did not cut it much. With one knife, it could cut people and horses into two pieces. In fact, it was a heavy weapon. Although it was not as expensive as the Tang Dynasty Modao, it was necessary to build a large number of long-handled swords, with Wanli's current financial resources, the Ministry of Works would rather build a firearm than build such weapons.

Firearms are actually not expensive. Those shoddy bird guns cost less than three taels of silver, and one three-eyed gun is only about one tael of silver. To build a long-handled big knife, it costs at least thirty taels of silver, maybe more than thirty taels of silver.

Since the court cannot provide a long sword, Gao Shixin has to consider it himself. Is it better to build an axe soldier or a long-handled iron hammer soldier? These two types of soldiers are armor-breaking soldiers. Whether it is a large axe, a long-handled nail hammer, or a page hammer, the whole group hits the white-armored soldiers, and they can kill them with three layers of thick armor.

"Those who can use an axe require a lot of strength; long-handled iron hammers and nail hammers are the same, and require a lot of strength. Using a page hammer is the same as using a long-handled large knife, the requirements for strength are less than that of axes and iron hammers, but the page hammer is not easy to build." Huang Degong said.

The page hammer means that the hammer head is an iron core, with four iron leaves on the outside. This kind of thing weighs much lighter than an axe and a nail hammer, but the power of the armor is very powerful. When a page hammers hit the helmet, the helmet will be sunken first, and the brain will be hit; when the armor is sunken, the ribs will be broken.

But this thing is not easy to build, and there are many page hammers in the Ming Dynasty, but this thing is a kind of etiquette equipment used by the Han generals of the imperial palace. It is impossible to let the Han generals of the Jinyiwei send such things here.

Finally, Gao Shixin considered that it would be better to build an axe gun. The so-called axe gun is actually a Swiss halberd. A thin small axe is installed behind the spear head of the spear. Normally, there is no need to be a blade. Don’t underestimate the small axe. If you are hit, the armor really cannot defend against such things. It is a good armor-breaking weapon. It is very effective against the heavy infantry of the Later Gold. Moreover, the axe gun can also restrain cavalry like a spear.

The Swiss halberd is not particularly heavy in weight. It can stab and pick like a spear, chop and chop like an axe, and hook the enemy cavalry out like a hook.

What's more, after the heavy armored weapons in the back row are transformed into the formation of the spearmen, the Swiss halberd soldiers can also be integrated into the formation of the spearmen. As a supplementary force for the spearmen, it is very powerful.

It is not difficult to build an axe gun. Using a hardwood pole like a spear, you can create a gun with a small axe and insert it on the gun rod. As for the raw materials, it is very simple. You can melt all the inferior bird guns piled in the warehouse and make a batch of axe guns by making a new iron.

There is no worry about craftsmen. There are craftsmen in Liaoyang and Shenyang. After receiving the support of Xiong Tingbi, Gao Shixin brought all the craftsmen in Shenyang to Liaoyang to build weapons for him.

"We also need to create a batch of axes with a pointed cone at the tail, which can be inserted into the ground. It doesn't have to be too long, about four feet." Gao Shixin proposed to create a batch of medium-length axes.

"Make so many axes?" Xiong Tingbi asked, "But the length is too short, right? The longer the handle of the axe, the greater the power, and such a short axe is not good for Jiannu."

"This axe will be equipped for the turtledove gunman," replied Gao Shixin.

The ninety-seven turtle dove gun felt a little less. With Xiong Tingbi's consent, he selected three trigger guns from the warehouse to add them to Liaoyang New Town.

Originally, the standard weight of a turtle dove gun was twenty kilograms, but the weight of these turtle dove guns carefully selected by Gao Shixin was still somewhat different. Some turtle dove guns weighed twenty-five kilograms, some only 16 or 7 kilograms. The weight of the projectiles was also different. Some fired one or two kilograms, some fired one or six cents, and some even reached two kilograms, because the caliber of each turtle dove gun was different. This made Gao Shixin give up the idea of ​​fixed-loading paper shell bullets.

But without a fixed-loading bullet, the loading speed is really too slow. A guy as big as a turtle dove gun is not very fast, and it will be even slower if he does not use a fixed-loading bullet.

To this end, Gao Shixin came up with a solution: according to the caliber of each turtledog gun, bamboo tubes of different sizes are equipped, and gunpowder is placed into the bamboo tube, and gunpowder is placed in each small bamboo tube to fire a round of projectiles. When loading, pour the gunpowder in the bamboo tube into the gun mouth, stuff the projectiles in, and then compact them with a strip.

Each turtledog gun is equipped with a wooden fork. Because if such a large musket is fired in your hand, the recoil force is too high, so you need to insert the wooden fork into the ground and fire the turtledog gun on the wooden fork.
Chapter completed!