The saber-killing weapon was born after the cavalry appeared on the battlefield. The most famous of them was the Modao used by the Tang army.

Since Mo Dao was not allowed to be buried with him in the Tang Dynasty, it was not unearthed in later generations, but according to records, Mo Dao was seven feet long, with a blade three feet long and a handle four feet long - one foot in the Tang Dynasty was about 30 centimeters later generations, which means that a Mo Dao was nearly one meter long. It is said that this weapon "a strong man holds it, and those who use the waist to slash the block with his waist are all made of powder", especially for fighting against cavalry, which is a powerful weapon for the Tang army to defeat the cavalry with infantry.

However, at that time, the military weapons of each Protectorate were provided by themselves, and the shape of the Modao was very different. In addition, the old problems that were not unearthed, there was no conclusion about its style in later generations. Even on the murals of Guo Ziyi's tomb, the Modao was completely shaped like a three-pointed and two-edged sword. However, the drawings brought by Zheng Tai were more like those recorded in historical books of the Tang Dynasty, except that the length of the blade changed from three feet to two feet, that's all.

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The reason why Chen Wen was shocked by the appearance of this weapon in Zheng Tai's hands was that the armor drawings he brought were a heavy armor made of large pieces of iron armor leaves. In addition to the helmet with an iron mask, breastplate, arm armor, skirt apron, and iron shoes were all there.

If it is used together with the saber, it is very likely that it will be the last heavy infantry group in the history of China's ** - the Iron Man Army will appear on the Chinese battlefield four years in advance!

According to records, the Iron Man Army began to be responsible for the construction of equipment by the worker Feng Chengshi, and Zheng Chenggong selected the candidates in the 12th year of Yongli.

At that time, it was not far from the Battle of Nanjing. In fact, the Iron Man Army was also Zheng Chenggong's biggest killer move in the Battle of Nanjing, and it caused a heavy bleeding to the Eight Banners Army led by Guan Feizhong for the first time. Even a year later, due to the heavy losses in the battle in Nanjing, the Iron Man Army's armor could only barely put the breastplate out. The remaining remnants of the elite troops still achieved that great victory in cooperation with the fleet of the Ming army.

The Iron Man Army is Zheng Chenggong's biggest killer in history. Because he is unable to form a large-scale cavalry, it is Zheng Chenggong's idea to choose to use heavy infantry and firearms to defeat the cavalry with infantry. In that history, Zheng Chenggong not only put it into action, but also achieved excellent results. In Chen Wen's opinion, this idea seems to be at least more reliable than the war elephants used by the Ming army in the Southwest.

According to Yang Ying's "Real Records of Conquest", Zheng Chenggong was influenced by the Southwest Ming Army at that time, and the style of the slashing saber was similar to that of the yn saber. Now, Zheng Chenggong was still relatively little influenced by the Southwest Ming Army. Instead, Chen Wen, who was adjacent to FJ, used the "already eliminated" mandarin duck formation to achieve good results on the zj battlefield, and was prompted to a certain extent, or stimulated. However, the zj Ming army had not equipped this weapon at all, so he took a different approach and equipped the Iron Man Army with a variant of the mutant modao.

Is that true? As an unscrupulous arms dealer, Chen Wen said that as long as this thing is not used on him, he can ignore everything else, especially when he came to the conclusion that the arms business is a profit-making industry, he is now hungry and thirsty, and his mind is full of small money from the Zheng family, well, silver.

The five thousand sets of full armor, in addition to the helmet, not only protect the whole body from below the neck, but also have requirements for the thickness of the armor leaves; one thousand Lumi guns are all standard equipment of the Ming army; there are also three thousand sabers with a total length of seven feet and a blade of two feet long. For these arms, Zheng Chenggong will pay up to one million taels of silver in April next year.

Being rich means being willful. I just made a big purchase this year, but I can still give out more than one million taels next year. The Zheng family’s wealth is really not just a joke. However, Chen Wen actually ignored one problem. With his fierce battle in ZJ, Zheng Chenggong not only has one more Zhangzhou Prefecture in the occupied area, but has not suffered the defeat of Fengchao Mountain. Moreover, most of the purchases were not used by the Ming army at all, but were directly traded by sea ships, and all the money was obtained.

Zheng Chenggong has the foundation of the sea trade, routes and sea ships. Now there is more of Chen Wen, the supplier, so it is naturally smooth sailing. This is understandable. Chen Wen, the sea trade matter is just a plan for the time being, and it cannot be exchanged for money by thinking alone, so for the time being, they can only rely on selling raw materials and finished products to obtain more resources.

Arms have now become a major item for Chen Wen to earn extra income. Unfortunately, the Ming army's military industry workshop is extremely barely enough to support the expansion of the army and daily consumption at its current scale, and it is difficult to increase production for sale. In terms of raw materials, Hong Chengchou's blockade is becoming increasingly short of.

From this, it seems that Chen Wen has taken such a large order at this moment, which makes it seem like some people are not satisfied with the snake swallowing an elephant.

"Master Xu, have you made up your mind about this?"

Chen Wen didn't know how much production capacity of the Military Industry Department workshop was, but he still took on this large order. Xu Yi didn't even dare to let go of this. Who made Chen Wen's position beside him? But I don't know if it was because he couldn't say anything or was overwhelmed by the task. Since Zheng Tai left happily, the young head of the Military Industry Department seemed to have become aged immediately.

"If you return to the country, you have calculated it. Even if you stop the weapons and equipment construction tasks of our zj King Division and ask the blacksmiths to build armor, sabers and Lumi guns, you may not be able to complete the order."

Xu Yi has been worried these two days. In order to increase the production speed, he is almost like pulling his hair. It can even be said that if he pulls his hair, he can increase the output. I guess he will use this method without hesitation.

Unfortunately, yield is not something that can be found when you want. For today's environment of handicrafts, the most important factor in determining output is craftsmen. The number of people and craftsmanship is the key. It is useless to rely on fantasy alone. According to common sense, the best way now is to recover more lost land as soon as possible and recruit more blacksmiths to build weapons. Perhaps only this seems to be the most reliable method.

Chen Wen could naturally hear Xu Yi's implication, but in fact he was very clear about the current situation of the Military Industry Department. However, he was not completely confident in this order, and he would reveal the answer at this moment.

"Those ideas that have temporarily stopped building tasks are correct, but they should not be to directly produce those products, but to make more hydraulic machinery."

Chen Wen's bold words made Xu Yilei feel burnt on the outside and tender on the inside. Hydraulic machinery used in military manufacturing can indeed greatly increase the output. He sharpened the knife and chopped wood. He had thought about this method. However, he hit the machine with a hand hammer. This is what the Mingjun's military department workshop has always done. He has calculated the time, and it is even better to let the craftsmen build armor and sabers.

"Duke, I have calculated that the time is not enough, and even more poor."

Although there are only two of them in the office room at this moment, Chen Wen is already a Duke. The difference in status is so blunt and disobeying Shangguan's orders is likely to cause Shangguan's dissatisfaction. However, the quantity of this order is too huge, so he has no choice but to come and pour these cold water in advance.

"How do you make those hydraulic machinery now?"

"Let those masters create them according to the records in the book."

"Everything was made?"

"Yes." Chen Wen's questioning knowingly made Xu Yi feel a little confused.

"Then you don't need those hydraulic boring machines, hydraulic forging hammers and other parts to directly create spare parts for other hydraulic machinery, and then those masters correct according to the tolerances to complete the assembly. Isn't this faster than knocking them out with a hammer?"

Chen Wen was born in that era of industrial age. Even the industrial devil who was not the one who could copy a complete set of modern industrial systems in a few months or years, he still knew some conceptual things.

Machines make products faster than manual labor, which is well known, but what is industrialization?

Industrialization is to use machines to make machines, and produce more products through the manufactured machines. In this way, productivity will grow exponentially like chickens and eggs. Only when dumping and overcapacity in later generations can occur!

It is precisely because of understanding this principle that Chen Wen asked the Military Industry Department to manufacture all the useful machinery in the books according to the text, and then use these to make new machines to further expand the production scale. However, these subordinates are still in the larger the occupied area of ​​the old fashioned style, the more craftsmen there will be; and the more craftsmen, the larger the production scale and output will be controlled by inertial thinking, which is also impossible.

He looked like he was so sorry that he could not make a steel. In fact, Chen Wen had more or less wronged Xu Yi and the craftsmen.

Putting aside inertial thinking, the Ming army had to expand its army almost every few months, and would engage in a large-scale battle with the Qing army almost every three months to half a year. The expansion and consumption made the military production pressure amazing, and the machinery created would be used in military manufacturing immediately. Only in this way can the army be guaranteed. But even so, the output could barely keep up with the progress.

This is the situation, who has the time to worry about anything else?

Xu Yi is not such a stubborn fool. After thinking about it for a moment, he quickly turned the truth into it. Once the old and inherent thinking mode is broken by new thinking, his whole spirit will immediately become excited. Even if Chen Wen had not been present, Xu Yi would have called all the masters involved in making machines and spread out this new thinking mode.

"The official will go and discuss with other relevant people."

As he said that, Xu Yi was about to turn around and run out of the office room, and obviously he was fully committed to it. He was willing to do things, know how to do things, and could really get in and study the tricks. This subordinate Chen Wen was very satisfied, but now he is not the time to continue to study it.

"Master Xu, next year is a year for our zj King Division to make great strides, which is crucial. Everything must be advanced at full speed from now on, and release the accumulation of the past few years. I don't have time to see you have a meeting here. What problems are there for military production? It's best to say now that there are a lot of reports waiting for review and applications. My office room has already piled up. If you go to those slowly, it will only waste more time."

Xu Yi knew everything Chen Wen said, sat down again, thought about it carefully, and then turned to him: "If you use machines to produce machines, you will go to study with relevant people. If you can succeed, you will not only be able to complete the order within half a year, but you will not think that there will be too much problem with the needs of our zj King Master's own weapons and equipment."

“This is a must!”

"What the Duke said is." After bowing his hand, Xu Yi frowned and showed a embarrassed look. "But the output is not only the speed of production, but the raw materials are even more important. Now that the Tartars' blockade order and the moving order, almost all the foreign bulk goods have been cut off. We are afraid that we can't even get iron ore in our six palaces."

Raw materials are a crucial existence in production. It can even be said that production is a process of recombining and matching raw materials. Without raw materials, it is hard to cook without rice. No matter how strong the production capacity is, it is in vain.

The raw materials such as wood, cloth, and leather required in this batch are easy to say, and they can be produced, but zj has never been a major iron-producing province. No large iron ore in China in later generations was in zj, let alone the territory of these six palaces.

The normal idea is to fight out as soon as possible to regain more lost land, especially those with large iron ore, such as Ma'anshan in Nanzhili.

Unfortunately, this idea seems even more nonsensical. Now his problem is that his troops are insufficient. If he can fight, would he still have to rely on the Zheng family to snowball the most powerful army on the southeast battlefield. Wouldn't it be easier than production?

If you don’t have money, you don’t have soldiers, and if you don’t have soldiers, you can’t fight. This seems to have entered a vicious cycle, but Chen Wen had already figured it out when he agreed to Zheng Tai’s contract.

zj is indeed not a major iron-producing province, and there were no large iron ore in later generations here, but Chen Wen remembered that when the Republic was first established, there was a period when it was attempted to catch up with the two strongest capitalist countries in the world with a weak industrial foundation. During that period, in addition to the iron products from ordinary people being handed over to iron and steel, people were also organizing people to explore iron ore. Among them, zj had discovered many small and medium-sized iron ore, such as Yanzhou Prefecture and Chuzhou Prefecture.

This era is not the era of large-scale industrialization in later generations. Handicrafts and current demand do not require much output. As long as these iron mines can be found and effectively mined, let alone orders, it may not be enough for the Ming army to expand its troops significantly.

After appeased Xu Yi, Chen Wen issued an order to recruit talents to investigate the mines. If there is insufficient manpower, machinery can be used, and machinery can be used to produce. If it really doesn't work, use the prisoners of the coolie camp to fill it in.
Chapter completed!