stubborn thief

Chapter 130 Help Me
Do not wear mandarin duck battle jacket.

Easy to think about.

But in practice, Liu Chengzong found that he wanted to be simple.

There is a lot of cotton in Wangzhuang, and there is not a little cotton cloth, but it is only enough to make more than 1000 sets of cotton clothes and trousers.

I'm even more worried about the color.

The best military uniform is red, and red military uniform can inspire people's courage.

Secondly, black is also good, it can look solemn and serious, and it is also resistant to dirt.

But Liu Chengzong couldn't choose any color. He didn't have any dyes, so he could only use the original color of purple flower cloth. If the color is washed deeply, it will be light ochre, and if the color is light, it will be similar to earth color.

This made Liu Chengzong worry for a long time.

Later I discussed with the sentry chief, it was really not bad, northern Shaanxi is full of earthy colors, plus a bunch of people wearing earthy clothes, if you are far away, you might be able to fool the scouts.

It wasn't snowing anyway.

Liu Chengzong would like to use his brain for the uniform of the military uniform, but in the real environment, there is no production line condition, so the simpler the better.

It is easy to design complex clothes, but it is difficult to follow the design.

Put it down and let Wang Zhuang and the women in the team do it, and finally handed in a bunch of different ones, which were more complicated than the design, and they didn't have the advantage of uniform dress.

The final regulations for military uniforms are a cotton cap with a neck that can be used as a helmet lining, a round collar with arrow sleeves, a cotton jacket with arrow sleeves, cotton trousers that close the calves, and a thick cloth wrap.

Ye Sali sewed a few ropes to tie the padded jacket with arrow sleeves inside as an interlayer.

When the weather is cold, tie the cotton lining, and when the weather is warm, take off the cotton jacket, and make the single clothes more spacious, and the uniform of dragging will not delay wearing.

Cotton jackets and trousers must run vertical lines at inch-wide intervals to prevent the cotton from running around.

There are no shoes, and the soles are too laborious. There will be no one to pick up the soles for a while, so they can only be purchased from various townships in Yan'an Prefecture.

In any case, the general had the intention of making military uniforms after the joint venture, which boosted the morale of the Lion Camp.

With these military uniforms, it is not possible to put on armor and cotton armor outside after winter, and it is not possible to completely resist the severe cold, but the winter of the second year of Chongzhen may be the warmest year for many of them in their lives.

Enough to make the soldiers and auxiliary soldiers feel excited.

Liu Chengzong first had someone make a body, gave it to the monkey in the sky, and tricked him into taking a bath.

In fact, the clothes were made by Liu Chengzong according to his own size, it would definitely not fit the Monkey King, as Liu Chengzong was much stronger than him.

Anyway, the Heavenly Monkey didn't know, and jumped into the Xingzi River with a heroic expression on his face, and he didn't know why this guy didn't like to take a bath so much.

After trying it out, I got a little fatter, but it looked okay with a belt on, so I added a wide cloth belt to my military uniform.

But the Monkey King was so happy that he put on his uniform and ran out to show off when the whole battalion had no uniforms.

I'm also very happy that the work sentry commander has succeeded.

Strange to say, Shicheng and I were taught by Wang Zheng in Sanyuan, and I mastered the technique of casting red barbarian cannons.

Making bird guns in Liujiazhuang, I was worried all day long.

But when I came here to make armor, I was not afraid, and I was very happy, feeling like I finally found an organization.

Shi Cheng, I have a three-snap beard, and I am used to swinging a hammer. My body is strong and powerful, and I can't feel wronged when I complain about my suffering: "The general doesn't know something. Liujiazhuang is very good, but it is surrounded by farmers. He Xin, the two families made guns, I am afraid that the government will send yamen servants to destroy us."

As he said that, the middle-aged craftsman raised his hand to embrace Xingzi River Valley, and said: "This is different, if the general's troops can't stop them, then the villain will be taken away if he is captured by the officers, there is no injustice."

The two craftsmen were already wanted, and they went to Yan'an Mansion to seek refuge and really fell into a den of thieves, but they didn't feel too sad.

On the contrary, I quite like the sense of security surrounded by deserters.

The two of them discussed on the way over that they should prepare a gift for Liu Chengzong.

Within a few days of coming here, Shicheng, I picked out a suitable one from the things I was carrying and planned to give it to Liu Chengzong.

It's a pistol.

But it was just a coincidence that when the commander of the division post gave Liu Chengzong the gun, he was standing on the shooting range and shooting arrows.

Liu Shizi lifted the ninety catty strong bow again, and within a few breaths hit the target with three consecutive balls.

Neat.

His strength is back.

The shooting interval of Lianzhu arrow is short, there is no chance to aim carefully, it depends on feeling, as long as the bow is slightly slow, it will be a miss.

But as long as the power comes back, this is not a problem.

Sanjian directly looked at the division commander standing next to him as skeptical of life.

"Master Liu, a man of quality, how did he give birth to such a fierce doll?" '

The division commander muttered in his heart: what he and He Xin worked hard in Liujiazhuang, the general in front of him may not rarely use it.

It is much faster to shoot arrows than guns, and the bow is strong and the arrows are not small.

Many individual weapons in the Ming Dynasty used muskets, but regardless of whether it was the Beijing camp or other places, weapons were selected according to the ability of the soldiers.

Firearms have not yet formed an absolute advantage over bows and arrows.

If you are proficient in bow and horse, then use a bow. If you have no strength and don't know how to shoot an arrow, it is more appropriate to learn to use a blunderbuss.

"Why is Mr. Shi here?"

Shi Cheng, I am the head of the sentry post, but perhaps because of the two souls in his head, Liu Chengzong respects craftsmen with excellent skills, and he must be called Mr.

He saw Shi Cheng and me holding the lacquered wooden box, put away the bow and arrow and asked, "What kind of treasure did you make?"

Mr. Xiucai said that I was very happy to make Shicheng, and at the same time I felt a little bit ashamed in my heart. After eating the food of Liu's family for so long, I didn't have anything I could take out, so I made a gun.

Shi Cheng and I secretly made up our minds in my heart: next time I must give the general a big shot, so as to be worthy of this respect.

The small pistol is too difficult to handle.

Shicheng and I pushed the wooden box forward, lowered our heads and said, "The villain and the bird gunsmith made a gun and gave it to the general."

Liu Chengzong is very interested in guns.

Firearms, the trend of future warfare, will eliminate all cold weapons in the long course of development.

Although it is not yet possible to drive other weapons out of the battlefield, Liu Chengzong has personally experienced the lesson of Zhong Huxue.

Without that shield, even the armor wouldn't be able to save him at such a short distance, Zhong Hu should have passed the first seven of this meeting.

Liu Chengzong took the wooden box and opened it to see that there was a single-barreled hand gun lying inside, with exquisite workmanship and five sub-guns, which felt good when holding the handle. Thick iron sheet, he asked doubtfully, "Franchise?"

This is similar to the small Francophone he saw in Cao Yao's cannon post. It also uses a thick iron plate to hold the tail end of the gun and mortise and mortise it into the barrel to complete the airtightness.

The heavier Franz machine is usually smashed in with a wooden wedge three or four inches thick to replace the iron piece because of its powerful medicine. Otherwise, the three- to five-hundred-jin cannon would be too heavy to use an iron piece.

"Yes, it's the Francophone!"

Shi Cheng and I explained: "The barrel of the gun is one foot long. The gunpowder uses granular explosives inside, and the medicine pool outside uses powder priming. Piao, as long as it is not damp, the paper is thin paper specially made by the paper workshop, and it can be beaten when the match is lit."

Speaking of this, the cannon-casting craftsman showed a complacent expression, and said: "The most wonderful thing about it is that after firing the first sub-cuppet, there is no need to refill the subsequent sub-cuppets, draw the card, unload the sub-cuppy, reload the sub-cuppy, etc. Load the blunderbuss card, pull it and hit it, and hit five blunderbusses in a row."

Liu Chengzong understood, and looked around while holding the pistol.

This thing is actually the Buddha wolf mobile gun, the improvement is very inconspicuous, just pour the priming powder into the external medicine pool in advance before loading the sub-gun ammunition, and cover it with flammable tissue paper.

Once the thin paper is damaged, it means no improvement.

But as long as the layer of paper pressed with the powder is not broken, it will be a sharp weapon when fighting in battle.

"How far can you hit?" he asked.

"It's short, if you hit a small target with [-] steps, it's easy to miss, and if you break through armor with [-] or [-] steps, you can take [-] steps."

The gun barrel is about the same length as the three eyes and the single eye, and the power is about the same, and the aim is the same. Maybe aiming at the small soldiers in the front row at fifty paces can scratch the itch of the leader in the formation.

"Good thing!" Liu Chengzong took the long pipe and looked at it again and again, then turned to Shi Cheng and me and asked: "You said you can shoot five guns in a row, how about releasing five guns?"

Shi Cheng, I blinked and was stopped by the question.

How can there be such a greedy person, the distance between face to face, so that you are not satisfied with firing five guns in a row, and you will ask what to do after finishing five guns, if you can't finish five guns, you should draw a knife.

However, the commander of the division was very grateful for General Liu's respect, and nodded after pondering for a moment, "After releasing the five blunderbuss...it's too hot to handle, and the villain must be careful when playing the blunderbuss. According to regulations, I tried to pack three times the medicine, and it should be able to continue to fight if it is not red normally."

As he spoke, he pointed to the gun handle and said, "There is still a gun card inside, in case the gun card breaks, you can use the gun handle even if you pull out the handle."

This little thing can be said to be very capable.

The peasant army should use this thing more. It is absolutely impossible for a hungry citizen to replace an elite frontier soldier with other weapons, but it is possible to use this gun.

Even riding on the back of a mule on horseback, aiming and shooting calmly.

Liu Chengzong raised the blunderbuss and asked, "How much can you do with this?"

"The barrel of this gun is short, and it is not difficult to drill the coiled tube, but it takes a lot of work to make the gun. Three blacksmiths make the barrel, two blacksmiths make the gun, and two carpenters make the bed. The material tube is enough, and nine guns can be produced in one month. .”

It's strange to say that since the old thief Cao talked about Liujiazhuang's production capacity of bird guns last time, he now counts this on a yearly basis.

Seven craftsmen, who have been in Chongzhen for 38 years, can equip the entire lion camp with such magical weapons.

Theoretically speaking, the work post of the Lion Camp should be able to increase the production capacity by three to five times, but the craftsmen can't just do this, that is to say, after four months, they can have more than 30 pieces of this.

Liu Chengzong felt that the thirty or so musketball soldiers stood in the infantry line, approached and crossed the shoulders of the front row and fired at the opposite side.

If you play well, you can break the formation. As for the bad performance, it's not a matter of weapons.

His family needs to equip a batch of this.

"Let's do it, find a carrier for the material, forget it."

Liu Chengzong was half-speaking, thinking that Chengyun was busy purchasing bedding recently, he waved his hand and said, "Look for Lin Wei, and make it according to the winter thirty, there is no shortage of this material in Wangzhuang."

Now that the Lion Camp is fully staffed, Cheng Yun is finally no longer a bare-bones commander, and has drawn two of Gao Xian's earliest subordinates to be the captain.

Eighteen frontier troops from Yanshuiguan, Guyuanying, and Liuguozhen, and [-] auxiliary soldiers from the Shangtian Monkey Division, were organized into heavy sentry posts and were at the disposal of Liu Chengyun.

Liu Chengzong also allocated a batch of five sentries to turn over the war profits and a hundred stone millets as start-up funds to purchase donkeys and mules and donkeys and mules to transport luggage in the future.

In a blink of an eye, it entered October, and the five outposts were stationed separately, and the frontier soldiers led the auxiliary soldiers to practice. A set of new military uniforms was sent to Wangzhuang, and then Wangzhuang issued armaments to each team.

Clothes to keep out the cold also mean combat effectiveness.

Clothes made of new cotton and new cloth, not to mention the hungry people under the Monkey King, even the frontier soldiers have not seen it for many years.

Just at the beginning of this year, Liu Chengzong was thinking of adding a wolf fur lining to his ragged war jacket.

It's all right now, and he also got a warm military uniform.

Of course he didn't forget, and asked someone to retrieve the three wolf skins from Liujiazhuang.

He could remember clearly that only one of the wolf skins was related to him.

One is high-profile.

He tried that one, but it wasn't enough to line the padded jacket, so he simply had someone sew it around the waist and abdomen, and the rest was just around the neck of the cotton cap, so he wouldn't be afraid of the wind in winter.

The other wolf was kicked to death by Hong Qi, so he simply spread it on Hong Qi's body and made a saddlebag cushion to keep the red-haired boy warm.

There must be a sequence in the distribution of uniforms. Liu Chengzong decided to distribute them to the wounded soldiers first. The wounded soldiers have poor resistance and cannot wear armor. It is more comfortable to have cotton padded clothes.

Soldiers and auxiliary soldiers will be sent out together, and when the soldiers' clothes are ready, they will be held, and when there are enough to distribute two pieces to each sentry team, they will be distributed together.

Basically, recruit uniforms are made every day, and recruit uniforms are distributed every day.

We're all very excited, so we can't favor one over the other.

Even so, it is only on the surface that the soldiers and auxiliary soldiers are equal. In fact, the number of soldiers is small, and in the end it is still the soldiers who wear the uniforms first.

There is no way to do this. Liu Chengzong's strength comes from the deserters and surrenders of the frontier army. He must treat his basic base favorably.

Of course, he didn't forget about others, so he sent someone to send a padded jacket and trousers to Liu Guoneng who was recuperating in Yan'an Wei, but the next day Liu Guoneng came in a donkey cart wearing a padded jacket and trousers, dragging a broken leg.

The one who drove him was Yang Yanchang, the commander of the Yan'an Guards.

Chen Ruji from one hundred households led more than [-] riders to guard, but he didn't even have a driver, so he had to let the commander sit on the shaft of the cart and drive the donkey cart.

It's really pitiful for the commander who makes this person unable to command.

But who knew that Commander Yang was still behind, entering the valley of Xingzi River, which was three miles away from Wangzhuang. Yang Yanchang didn't even drive the donkey cart, and just got out of the cart and led the donkey on foot.

Terrible!

If it wasn't for Liu Chengzong having Tang Qi to send an order early, Wang Wangyuan's artifact looked straight at him, I'm afraid he would really be deceived by Yang Yanchang's miserable appearance.

As soon as this man entered the gate of Wangzhuangbao, he simply ignored Liu Guoneng, rushed towards Liu Chengzong and shouted: "Brother Chengzong, please help me!"

Liu Chengzong was taken aback, he thought Yang Yanchang was coming to ask for a padded jacket, so he quickly took a step back: "No, who wants to kill you, why is he going to save you?"

"Emperor, Emperor Chongzhen, the emperor wants to kill me!"

"Sit down and talk."

Liu Chengzong's expression became serious, he called Yang Yanchang to sit down, and asked, "Did you reveal your secrets? How can I save you?"

"I didn't tell you anything, but you are the only one who can save me." Yang Yanchang held Liu Chengzong's hand, stared at him with wide eyes, and said, "Beat me, beat me hard!"

Liu Chengzong thought it was bad, did Ren Quan'er control Yang Yanchang too much, and he was mad.

This was the second time he had heard such a strange request.

"Eastern captives have entered the customs, and the emperor issued an edict to Qin kings everywhere, me! Qin king! I have two mothers-in-law and five children under my command. Take the head Qin king, this is to make me die."

Yang Yanchang followed closely and said, "Either your people will follow me, or you will beat me hard, until I cannot leave Yan'an Mansion, or I will die!"

Liu Chengzong didn't listen to anything he said, only the first sentence.

The Eastern captives have entered the customs.

(End of this chapter)