Volume 1 Chapter 80 Sharp Weapons
Jiang Feng walked on the city with some confidence.
Everything is working according to one's own intention, especially this carefully designed celebration and declaration of war ceremony that has suddenly gathered the hearts of the military and people in Gushi City.
If you have money and someone gives money, Gushi City is like a big barracks. Everyone has only one thought in their hearts, that is, to defend Gushi City, their own homes and family!
"Old He, how is the layout here?" Jiang Feng stood on the city gate tower and stared at the northwest.
At this moment, the ant thieves probably had crossed the Huai River and were ready to take revenge? But they would soon understand that Gushi was not a hard bone that was easy to chew. If they were not careful, they would only get stuck in their throats, so they could not move in or backward.
"It has been strengthened and improved according to your requirements, but the sheep and horse wall is only replaced by wooden fences. Although mud is applied on it, it is probably still difficult to withstand the opponent's fire attack; the moat is blocked for too long, which is almost equivalent to re-excavation. The project volume is too large, so it cannot meet the standard in depth."
He Decai still looked a little cramped. Jiang Feng's change in status made him a little difficult to adapt at first, but when he saw Gu Minghai, Qin Zaidao and others were all at ease, he quickly entered his role.
"Well, this is also helpless. Even with the support of the whole city, we do not have the ability to create the world. It is not easy to achieve this level." Jiang Feng nodded, "Where is the car crossbow?"
"In the past few days, the craftsmen have only made five of them all night long. This is because there were two damaged and wasteful restorations in Gushiku. There are only three new works, and they are probably not comparable to standard crossbows in terms of accuracy and power. Most of the craftsmen have never done such things. Most of the time they spend exploring and relying on the understanding of several craftsmen who escaped from Guangzhou to understand something, so they are considered to have some clues."
He Decai smacked his lips and said with regret: "There are few craftsmen in Gushi City, and few of them really understand craftsmanship. Most of them are some people who have become monks halfway through the journey. This is all due to the guidance of Lord Luo and has come up with many ideas."
After the Caizhou army invaded Guangzhou, the gentry of Guangzhou was afraid of the style of the Yuan clan and fled to the neighboring states, some of which fled to Gushi. Although they were only temporarily living to observe the changes in the situation, given the large-scale invasion of Caizhou and Guangzhou, these gentry could only stay in Gushi, and then many craftsmen who escaped from Guangzhou City came one after another.
"Five?" Jiang Feng frowned. The number was too small. He tried his best to recall the history he learned in college. This crossbow should be the most powerful heavy weapon in the Tang and Song dynasties. It was opened with a winch and launched crossbow arrows, which was extremely powerful. But how effective can these five crossbows play?
"Well, the divine arm crossbow that the master mentioned is probably the original ancient craftsman. Without the graphics specifications, the craftsmen had no idea how to start. They could only fumble and make dozens of them, not knowing whether they were suitable or not. They had to wait until the brothers tried it before they knew it." He Decai didn't care about Jiang Feng's attitude and said to himself: "Mr. Luo said that due to the material reasons, the quality is worrying, and at most it will be scrapped after a few rounds."
"Well, how many dozens of them are made? That's great. Arrange your brothers to try it out immediately. What else can you delay? This thing is simple to use and does not require deliberate training. It can come in handy."
Jiang Feng was overjoyed. Unexpectedly, his courageous proposal really had some effect. This also depends entirely on Gushicheng's special geographical location, which happened to have a material library that can provide these materials for testing.
"Well, the craftsmen have tried it, and the range can basically be around 2000 steps, which is quite unsatisfactory, but the accuracy is difficult to meet expectations." He Decai said.
"It would be good if you can have this effect, just gradually improve it in the future."
Jiang Feng felt at ease. Although these dozens of divine arm crossbows may not change the situation, they are at least better than nothing. However, the divine arm crossbow is very consumable, valuable, and very easy to damage. It is not easy to get a large-scale equipment.
"What about the whirlwind gun I'm talking about?"
"Well, thirty cars have been made as said by the adults, and the operation is very simple. A car only requires a few people. We have experimented with it. It can shoot thirty or forty kilograms of stones out of 150 steps away. The stones are three feet into the ground, which is extremely powerful! If ant thief dares to come, they must let them taste the taste of the whirlwind cannon!"
When talking about this issue, He Decai immediately became energetic.
He didn't know why Jiang Feng suddenly thought of improving the production of the stone throwing cart.
The production process of the stone throwing cart is not complicated, but if you want to shoot out a large stone, you have to use a large number of soldiers, and the operation is clumsy and troublesome.
The balanced heavy hammer mentioned by Jiang Feng suddenly changed the original disadvantages of the stone throwing car. Not only did the number of people operating is much reduced, but it was also convenient and fast, and its power was increased exponentially.
In fact, Jiang Feng only remembered this improved technology after seeing the stone throwing cart of this era. He had not thought of a better way to apply the gunpowder technology. Only the innovation of this stone throwing machine technology is quite simple, he can still take advantage of the advantages of time travelers.
The Mongolian soldiers of the Yuan Dynasty in the previous time and space attacked Xiangyang, but failed to defeat it for a long time. The Hui people presented a new type of stone throwing cart and used a counterweight hammer to improve it. Not only did the number of people operating was greatly reduced, but the weight and distance of the projected stones were also greatly increased, which suddenly reversed the situation and the city of Xiangyang was broken.
This technology was even promoted and developed unprecedentedly after it was introduced to Europe, making it the deadly nemesis of the extremely solid castle in medieval Europe.
Jiang Feng had some impression of this super weapon in history, and he could use it by slightly renovating the existing stone throwing mechanism.
When Jiang Feng came to the factory’s own workshop, he saw a mess.
Unlike Dongfang, which He Decai manages, Xifang here is Luo Zhen's territory.
Dongfang is much larger than Xifang, and is close to the original Gushi Army's arsenal, which was only expanded after Jiang Feng officially took over the power of the Gushi Army.
It turned out that the Gushi Army's armor workshop was just the most basic repair workshop. Let's talk about three or five craftsmen, mainly to polish weapons and weapons back into the furnace, and to repair the armor by the way, which is better than nothing.
After Jiang Feng took over, he immediately transformed the place. On the one hand, he vigorously expanded the local craftsmen and craftsmen from Gwangju. On the other hand, he forced the craftsmen who had fallen from Gwangju to come here, even though it caused some dissatisfaction from Gwangju gentry.
Because many of these craftsmen were originally subordinate to them, but now they have lost the basis of power and are unable to interfere too much in the survival of these craftsmen, Jiang Feng insisted on his own opinion.
Dongfang mainly serves the basic weapons, equipment and weapons production and repair services of the Gushi Army. It gathered about fifty or sixty people and has begun to take shape.
Xifang is much smaller in scale, and to be precise, it is more like Luo Zhen’s personal workshop. Except for Luo Zhen who set up two or three young children of fourteen or five years old to help out among the children of the craftsmen, only Xu Jing comes here from time to time.
Fortunately, Xu Jing is in the future today, otherwise Jiang Feng would have felt a little embarrassed and didn’t know how to face the other party.
Chapter completed!