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Chapter 86 3.25 Response of Noble Personnel and Equipment
Chapter 3

3.25 Staffing, noble response

The ones who did it were naturally Wei Xu's staff at the Niutoushan Col base. In fact, these are the only people he can use at the moment.

A year ago, when Wei Xu arranged for Cao Yunqi and Zhou Yunyang to recruit people, he specifically explained that they wanted to recruit orphans aged [-] or [-], because such children are the easiest to cultivate.

On the one hand, most of them have been lonely since they were young, and their minds are not bad if they can live to this age; on the other hand, they have not yet formed their own three views, which can still be cultivated.

Furthermore, this age is not too old or too young. As long as the resources are sufficient, these people can be trained with twice the result with half the effort. At the same time, relying on the effect of the jade pendant to ensure loyalty can be said to be the best choice.

This is indeed the case. Over the past year, these people have learned the introductory martial arts of the Tianlongmen Beizong in the world of "Flying Fox", coupled with the abundant aura in the world of "Red Mansion", the progress can be called rapid.

In particular, Wei Xu bought a large amount of medicinal materials from the large amount of medicinal materials he brought back from Yubi Mountain Villa and returned to the world of "Red Mansion". These children's medicinal diet and medicinal bath are very abundant.

Over the past year, these children have generally grown in height, and some of them even popped out their heads!Now these people have become half-children, and they have a preliminary foundation.

In terms of weapons, although Tianlongmen Beizong is famous for its swordsmanship, as a second-tier sect in the world of "Flying Fox", it does not actually have a century-old heritage like Shaolin Wudang, and there are many miscellaneous martial arts in the world.

Therefore, Wei Xu's standard weapon for these little guys is a long-handled goose feather sword, roughly a four-foot long sword with a one-foot long handle, and the sword skills are taught by Zhou Yunyang.

Directly using the "Hu Family's Heart Method" for internal strength, coupled with the famous "magic power" iron cloth shirt body forging, the strength of these little guys now generally exceeds that of adult strong men, not to mention their physique.

But the most important means of killing that Wei Xu handed over to them was the strong crossbow. These were all distributed on a large scale about two months ago, and they were fully prepared just half a month ago!
These strong crossbows are naturally the steel crossbows that Wei Xu has been the main research object for a long time. Unfortunately, standardized mass production has not yet been achieved, mainly due to the delay in the production of crossbow arms.

Because Niutoushan is too close to the capital, Wei Xu did not dare to arrange the production of small blast furnaces, so he could only use semi-manual and semi-industrial methods to produce spring steel.

The problem is that there is an unsolvable problem in this way, that is, the spring steel produced in this way actually only meets the standard in general performance, and the details vary greatly.

The result is that there is no way to unify the standard in the production of the "bow tire", the core component of the crossbow arm. We can only rely on the blacksmith's experience and repeated trials to ensure the quality, and the speed will naturally disappear.

Fortunately, except for the crossbow arm, all other parts have been standardized. For example, the crossbow, trigger, etc. are all precision castings, which are naturally incomparable with modern times. This era is completely fine.

Therefore, in the current production of strong crossbows, as long as there are qualified crossbow arms, a high-quality steel crossbow can be assembled immediately. This is why more than sixty crossbows have been produced in less than two months!

You know, Wei Xu now has only fifteen qualified blacksmiths. According to the technical standards of the feudal era, a blacksmith may not be able to make a qualified crossbow in a year!

The problem is actually the same, whether it is a crossbow arm or a longbow arm, the production is actually very difficult, requiring repeated adjustments, gluing, drying in the shade and other processes, and the time often lasts for a year or even longer!
These steel crossbows uniformly adopted the "one-stone bow" elasticity. According to the standards of feudal society, this is already an out-and-out strong crossbow, no matter how high it is, it is not an ordinary infantry weapon.

For example, the famous "God Arm Bow" in the Song Dynasty can penetrate iron armor at a distance of 300 steps ([-] meters).

With steel crossbows and qualified manpower, the ambush against the enslavement mission this time was actually not complicated.

Wei Xu sent [-] people, and these people already have the strength no less than that of an adult man, and the others are almost there. Although they can be dispatched, it is unnecessary.

Thirty people, thirty steel crossbows, covering less than fifty cavalry deprived of speed in the form of three shots, basically it is a matter of loading arrows-aiming-shooting.

In just half a cup of tea time, none of these Jiannu ran away, and the only so-called "prince" who almost made a mistake was killed by the person in charge of the ambush with a tiger spear thrown by Cao Yunqi.

This is the first mission for the teenagers. Originally, Wei Xu sent Cao Yunqi and Zhou Yunyang here just to prevent any accidents caused by the poor performance of these children, so as to end it in time.

However, he obviously underestimated the endurance of these orphans who had been fighting with wild dogs since they were young. Except for a few people, the others couldn't help but vomit after seeing their "results" after completing the ambush.

No one held back during the whole process, and after vomiting, they all accepted the result of this task, and even cheered happily. These 24 boys and six girls really grew up!

There are a total of fifty teenagers in this batch, including forty boys and ten girls. Wei Xu actually trained them all according to the standards of military officers, and now it seems that the results are good. "Okay, this mission is successful, let's go!" Zhou Yunyang, who has always been their master, looked at the cheering teenagers and showed a satisfied smile.

"Yes, Manager Zhou!" After orderly voices, the group withdrew from the battlefield in an orderly manner.

Because Iron Net Mountain was a royal enclosure, there were few people there. In addition, Emperor Yongzheng revoked the original small number of garrisons, so that no one came here except for the caravan going north to Shanhaiguan.

It was also in the afternoon that a caravan specializing in leather goods and medicinal materials passed by, only to find the corpses of people and horses scattered all over the ground. The almost paralyzed caravan returned to the capital to report to the government.

The capital city almost exploded, because the higher-ups actually knew who did it this time!
That night, Rongguo Mansion, Jia Amnesty Court.

"Brother, Ziyang really gave us a total surprise this time!" Niu Jizong said with a wry smile at the banquet where only the Bagong successor was present.

"This kid, I've been holding back for more than half a year. Is this an announcement of his comeback?" Jia She shook his head with a smile and didn't take it seriously. This kid is the leader."

"Brother, do you think highly of him?" Liu Fang said dissatisfied. In terms of resourcefulness, his son Liu Dong has always been the undisputed No.1.

"In one year, this kid has cultivated dozens of confidantes, subdued two first-class masters, and acquired so many powerful crossbows, is your kid okay?" Jia She asked with a smile.

"What? His own staff?" Liu Fang looked at Jia Amnesty in disbelief.

"Brother, are you kidding? Didn't you arrange for him from Shenji Camp?" Niu Jizong also didn't believe it.

"I'm the commander of the Shenji Battalion. I don't know if the elite crossbowmen under my command are dispatched? Do you think everyone is like Wang Ziteng's trash?" Liu Fang said angrily.

"I have reliable information that the crossbow used this time is not the military standard." Hou Xiaokang said in a serious tone, "Qiu Liang reported it to me immediately."

If the soldiers and horses of the five cities feel that their strength is insufficient, they will usually seek support from the fifth army battalion, because among the three major battalions in the capital, whether it is the Shenji battalion or the three thousand battalion, it is not easy to move around on weekdays.

"I remembered, the last time that kid in my family competed in martial arts, he was the one who gave us the crossbow." Niu Jizong suddenly realized, "This kid made a crossbow privately, and he still has so many?"

"Forget it, let them worry about the young people's affairs. In the future, we can help with this kid's affairs.

As for how far he can go, it depends on his ability. "When Jia Amnesty heard that he had built a large number of powerful crossbows privately, he paused with the wine glass in his hand before saying.

This sentence can actually be translated as "give him appropriate help, and let him solve the remaining problems by himself, and life and death depend on his own ability."

"Listen to brother!" Niu Jizong smiled and picked up the wine glass and drank it down in one gulp!

"It seems that his 'Tongfu Inn' is much more complicated than we imagined!" Liu Fang said immediately after her heart moved.

"Two masters, one inside and one outside. The so-called 'Excalibur Gang' created by the inside one should be in charge of intelligence; the outside one is the force." Shi Guangzhu said with a solemn expression.

"It's not enough, he should have a special place for making ordnance, where is it? And who is in charge?" Chen Ruiwen said in a daze.

"It seems that Ziyang has a lot of things to hide from us. Among other things, that inn alone can't raise dozens of elite crossbowmen." Niu Jizong laughed.

"Brother, the Wei family boy might be in danger. Even what we can guess, we can't hide it from those who care about it. These crossbowmen" Liu Fang got stuck in the middle of her sentence, showing an expression of disbelief.

"Yeah, dozens of elite crossbowmen, even if someone wants to play outside the box, they have to think about whether they can handle it. The dozen or so armored cavalry in Jiannu have all become hedgehogs!
Don't forget, crossbowmen alone can't do anything, at least the same number of close combat elites is needed, that is, hundreds of people. "Jia Amnesty said with a sneer.

For a while, no one spoke again, and the atmosphere on the steaming wine table was a bit frozen!

(End of this chapter)