Bai Yijie said on the side: "It's great. I'll write a note to you later. You go to the treasury of the Tutor Department to collect the application items. From now on, the cost of your life and research will be the responsibility of the Tutor Department. Every time you have successful research, you will receive a heavy reward. Let's take Master Pei to the yamen to entertain you with a good student!"

Zheng Yunming considered how to stimulate these craftsmen to invent with both material and spiritual rewards. Bai Yijie considered other things.

Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, it has faced war competition with foreign countries established by the surrounding barbarians. Fighting on the battlefield is only one aspect, and even a small proportion. Other parts of the competition include the reserve of national strength, the formation and training of the army, the struggle of intelligence, and the competition of armor and armor, while the competition of strong armor and sharp soldiers is essentially a competition of the strength of craftsmen.

The craftsmen of the Song Dynasty were no less than any civilized country in the world today. The craftsman policy of the barbarian state to deal with civilized countries was to plunder. Every time the enemy's invasion, the popularity of skilled craftsmen was far more popular than that of treasures and women. Especially the talented geniuses like Pei Gen are the top priority in the eyes of the enemy. Bai Yijie believed that if he wanted to get a craftsman like Pei Gen, he would never be stingy even if he paid the lives of a hundred Mongolian soldiers.

Wogedei will not be stingy, and Bai Yijie will not be stingy either. He gave the Beiwei Army a death order, and would rather die than to ensure the absolute safety of the craftsmen in Jinghu.

Unlike the husbands far away in the high halls and temples, the young and low-ranking officials led by Bai Yijie have to face various practical problems. They have a deeper feeling about craftsmen, officials and rural gentry.

He said to Zheng Yunming: "The country's military is inferior to people, generals are inferior to people, and firmness and patience are inferior to people, so we must surpass the Mongols in military weapons and city walls. People like Master Pei Gen are the tricks for us to defeat the enemy. Of course, this thing also includes..."

While speaking, the two people had already walked in front of two large tubes. General Iron's trial production encountered many twists and turns, and it has not been successfully studied until today. The two metal cannons placed in front of Zheng Yunming are mixed with bronze. The style is roughly imitated by General Zhu, but like Pei Gen's musket, they use different walls of front and back. They are equipped with fire door top covers. The difference is that the fire door top covers of these two copper generals are made of iron sheets, with the name of the caster engraved on them.

General Tong was three feet and four inches long, with a diameter of six inches and six minutes, and a total weight of one hundred and eighty kilograms. What made Zheng Yunming happy was that even though he did not mention these craftsmen, they still came up with a way to strengthen the strength of the body tube, which was to build a copper hoop on the body tube as a reinforcement rib. There were five copper hoops on General Tong as reinforcement, and the rear tail was closed in a semicircle shape, and the fire door was opened above the medicine room.

The Song Dynasty finally entered the era of metal firearms from the era of bamboo and wood firing cannons. Zheng Yunming looked at the cannons that were already somewhat similar. He wondered what effect these weapons that appeared two hundred years ahead of schedule would have against the strongest cavalry group in history that was at its peak?

He was not at all relaxed. Even with these excellent firearms, the Ming Taizu's expeditionary army was still defeated by the Mongolian cavalry near Helin in another time and space. Later, facing the 20,000 cavalry of the Ola tribe, hundreds of thousands of troops of Zhu Qizhen, the orthodox emperor of the Shenji camp, had the elite Shenji camp, and the entire army collapsed.

Rather, firearms are a panacea for resisting cavalry. It is better to say that compared to the cold weapons that are already very skillful, these new murderous monsters are hard to control. There are various harsh restrictions on the time, place, climate and methods of training, manufacturing, use. If any conditions of this strange-tempered daughter are met, it will immediately turn its back and become even worse than the most ordinary hand knife.

"Express the president to demonstrate the launch of General Tong!" Bai Yijie ordered, and immediately several craftsmen and gunners who had been trained in advance came to prepare for the exercise.

"Forget it." Zheng Yunming waved his hand and said, "Didn't you have already performed in front of the commander in the morning? I heard the sound, and the momentum was ten times higher than General Zhu. How many can you cast before preventing autumn?"

The leading craftsman replied respectfully: "After creating these two guys, everyone is familiar with the process. According to this progress, fifteen pieces should be able to cast before the autumn season, no, twenty pieces..."

"What are these few pieces for?" Zheng Yunming frowned and said, "Can't you speed up? Divide the craftsmen into two shifts and cast them day and night!"

Bai Yijie said: "Even if you rush to cast day and night, there are only so many craftsmen who know how to cast. People's physical strength is always limited, so it is impossible for them to work for twelve hours."

Zheng Yunming smashed his fist in annoyance, turned around and asked Yang Xuan, "How many bronze generals do Xiangyang's city defense need?"

Yang Shun stuck out his tongue: "That's not a small number. Just guarding the four city gates and four corner towers requires at least three hundred general artillery. Currently, General Zhu is arranged to defend it. The newly-built bronze general can only be arranged as a killer weapon at the most important point."

"This is exactly what I am worried about." Zheng Yunming shouted: "Return to the Dutong Yamen, and then find Ge Tongzhi, Lu Tongzhi and all the generals. We will soon equip various firearms, but how the firearms should be used still needs to be carefully studied and deployed."

There is a peach tree in the backyard of the Deputy Chief of Jinge Department. It is said that it was planted during the Five Dynasties period and is now covered with a tall and erected pavilion. If Zheng Yunming usually talks about things casually, he will order people to arrange seats under the peach tree, and everyone sits anywhere and talks in a simple and relaxed atmosphere.

Now the one gathered under the tree are the supreme commanders of the two armies under the jurisdiction of the Deputy Commander of Jing and E.

"Since Chiyou killed his troops, the world has only known how to fight with swords, spears, bows and arrows. How could we know how to use firearms?" Zheng Yunming was in front of him, rows of pottery dolls and clay-fired artillery models: "All the methods of using firearms in our army are slowly explored in actual combat."

Wang Deng said: "Now the tactics of using firearms by the army are gradually taught to friendly forces. There are two main types of tactics. One is the tactics of defending the city. Before the war, determine the distance of firearms, use stones to make marks, or set up a benchmark at the top of the city. Once the enemy enters the range, all firearms will fire immediately and then reload again. The bow and arrow team will shoot arrows to continue to kill the enemy in the gap."

"One is field tactics. Before the army fights, two-wheeled carts equipped with General Bamboo are lined up in front of the formation. After both sides approach the range, a volley is carried out, and then the chariots retreat and the two sides engage in battle."

"The efficiency of both tactics is not high." Zheng Yunming held his forehead with his hand: "When defending the city, General Zhu can perform up to two rounds, up to three rounds of shooting, not to mention field battles, at most two rounds of fire. Firearms are new weapons of the Song Dynasty and are also the strengths of our dynasty. The commander has put forward a slogan to equip Jinghu with at least 10,000 hand guns, five hundred bronze generals and iron generals within three years. In the future, the combat power of firearms will occupy at least one-two-tenth of the army, and the role may be greater. If you don't study the tactics used in the firearms carefully, it will not work."

"Let's talk about what kind of tactics are suitable for firearms in daily life?"

"This is too simple." Ge Huai's loud voice shocked everyone's eardrums: "According to me, what are you calling General Zhu and so? Oh, the musket, who are not afraid of death before the war is started. When the war is fought, no matter how the enemy provoked, do not move. Whether it is archery or light cavalry, he will be considered a straw man. Until the enemy brigade is really approaching, he will not fire less than twenty steps. When the distance between twenty steps, he will spray all over his body. It would be strange if he doesn't scare the Tartars to death!"

Although he spoke vulgarly, he was still the experience of the actual combat faction. All new weapons, especially muskets and cannons, which have a greater reputation than actual killing effects, are the most wonderful use of them, and form a shocking group shooting effect in front of the enemy. This was very obvious in the earlier defensive battles in Shatou City and the Wulipo battle.

Lu Qingchun, who was sitting in the lower head, raised his hand and said, "Deploying the Iron Gun Team and the Zhu General's army in front of the palace army as a weapon to stop the enemy's pursuit, it will definitely scare the opponent's pursuers!" He was originally a general of the rear army, but now he has completed the position of the same commander, and is still the commander of the rear army in the Tulong Army. The first consideration is not attack but retreat.

Zhang Shun, the general general of the shooting army, pondered and said: "It's fine for General Zhu. According to the situation of the iron gun fire in the morning, although the effective killing of the iron gun is similar to that of the wooden bow, its shooting can't be guaranteed at all. I personally clicked it and could only ensure accuracy within dozens of steps. If it goes far, it would be a thousand miles away."

"It is the most suitable for defending the city." Yang Yu was appointed by Zheng Yunming to supervise the transformation of Xiangyang City Defense. After Zheng Yunming raised the point, many buildings suitable for firearms were built in the city defense facilities. Therefore, he considered the use of firearms more than others in defending the city: "With a city wall as a support, the disadvantage of firearms being not good at hand-to-hand combat can be maximized. At the same time, the enemy must be attached to the city and gathered under the city, so that the firearms can carry out intensive attacks at close range and shoot without any bullets, which is the time to show their strengths."
Chapter completed!