Valley Emperor

When the arquebus was first made, Li Xuan's design plan included a bayonet, but at that time, there were only three craftsmen in Huangzhu Mountain, and there was no extra manpower to build a high-quality bayonet. It was a retreat, and I just got a stuffed bayonet.

However, the number of craftsmen in the Tang Dynasty has soared by more than ten times in an instant, from three to nearly forty people. The sufficient manpower also allows the Tang Dynasty to have more choices in making weapons.

Replacing the plug-in bayonet with a sleeve-type bayonet is the choice in this case. Although the sleeve-type bayonet does not seem to be anything special, the material requirements are much higher than that of the simple spear-style plug-in bayonet. .

Because when a sleeve-type bayonet is used for fighting, the reaction force received by the bayonet after stabbing the enemy will be transmitted to the crank arm and sleeve. The strength requirements of the sleeve and crank arm are quite high, and the quality requirements are high. It also requires craftsmen to spend more time to build.

In other words, working hours will increase substantially, and the concept of working hours is almost the most important concept for the military industry, especially during the war. .

Because the working hours are directly related to the amount of output, the Tiger tanks of the later Germans are powerful enough, but why they failed miserably in the hands of T34 and Sherman, because the performance of the latter two is average, but their craftsmanship is simple , the working hours are very low, the same workers, the number of tanks they have built is several times the number of Tiger tanks.

The previous Datang Dynasty could not afford the time cost of the sleeve bayonet, so they chose to choose the inserted bayonet.

But now, after the number of craftsmen has been greatly increased, this limit does not exist. As long as there are enough materials, they can completely build enough sleeve bayonet for musketeers in batches.

It didn't take long for Li Xuan to see several sleeve-type bayonets that were still glowing with metallic light.

This bayonet is almost the same as the bayonet of the modern musketeer in his impression. It is about 40 cm in length. The blade of the bayonet is relatively thick. This is because the quality of the bayonet is limited and the bayonet is relatively slender. In order to prevent the bayonet from breaking during combat Or the bending makes it unusable, and the middle part of the blade is thicker.

In this way, the bayonet plus the musket can reach a total length of about 1.8 meters, which exceeds the average height of the musketeers in the King Division of the Tang Dynasty.

However, compared with the three-meter-long spear, it is still much shorter!

This means that if the musketeers simply engage in hand-to-hand combat with the spearmen, the musketeers will die miserably, but the musketeers' bayonet is only an auxiliary function, they can still shoot, and wait for the other's spearmen to charge When the distance of more than 100 meters came to the front, it was enough for them to shoot many rounds of platoon guns.

Li Xuan picked up the bayonet and tried it out. Although he felt that the weight was a little heavier than expected, it was fine.

At this time, the blacksmith said: "The three samples we built have been tried before, although they will bend when they are too hard, but this is the limit we can achieve. If it is broken, it can only be made of stainless steel as a whole!"

Li Xuan didn't take it seriously after listening to it: "It's good now!"

The bayonet is made of stainless steel. Just kidding, these days, the stainless steel can only be obtained by a skilled blacksmith working day and night. The weapons made of stainless steel are the weapons of the highest quality in this era. In the Tang Dynasty, only the imperial sword of the emperor Li Xuan and several high-ranking generals such as Fang Dongquan and Chen Tufu were qualified to use this kind of fine steel sword.

It is impossible for ordinary soldiers' weapons to have this kind of treatment. The waist knives equipped by ordinary soldiers are just pig iron knives. Even the heavy armored sword shield used by the elites is only covered with a layer of pure steel at the beginning of the blade.

After fiddling with the bayonet in his hand a few times, Li Xuan asked the guards to try the musket, especially the loading and shooting after the bayonet was put on.

The result made Li Xuan quite satisfied. Although it was still very inconvenient to reload, it could be reloaded anyway, which was much stronger than when the bayonet could not be reloaded before.

After reading the bayonet, Li Xuan looked at several other projects in the workshop of the Ministry of Work. Among them, Li Xuan paid more attention to the transformation of the cotton armor captured from the Ming army.

Although these cotton armors are fairly good at protecting against bullets, their defenses against bows and arrows, knives and guns are not very good. The main enemy of the Datang King's division, the Ming Army, is still an army based on cold weapons. Their archer threat is not small.

Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the protection ability against cold weapons. It is impossible to create heavy armor such as chain mail. The Tang Dynasty did not have enough manpower to slowly build this kind of chain mail.

So Li Xuan chose the easiest way, which is to install iron sheets on the inner layer of the cotton armor.

In this way, the cost of transformation is not high, and the cotton armor captured from the Ming army can be fully utilized.

These cotton iron armors are prepared for large-scale equipment. Sword and shield soldiers, spearmen, and cavalry can all use them. As for the musketeers, they are exempted. After wearing the armor, these musketeers will greatly limit the tactics of reloading, firing, and switching formations. action.

After all, the cotton iron armor is also very heavy. If you add the helmet, the weight of a whole set can reach more than 20 kilograms, and the cotton iron armor alone has limited defensive effectiveness. Row.

But to fight against this medium-caliber musket with a caliber of 14 millimeters equipped by the Tang Dynasty, it can punch a big hole at any distance within 50 to 60 meters, and it is still the kind that will kill you or be disabled.

It's not very good at dealing with bows and arrows at medium and short distances~www.wuxiaspot.com~ If a strong bow shoots arrows at 20 to 30 meters, the thin layer of iron can't stop it.

In fact, the heavily armored sword and shield soldiers in the Tang Dynasty were all wearing double armor. With the helmet and a waist knife on, the entire equipment weighs more than 50 pounds.

Butcher Chen, a fierce man, wears three layers of armor every time he rushes into the formation, including cotton iron armor, chain armor, and iron armor, plus an enlarged version of the pig killing knife, which is enough for him to fight on the battlefield. Incarnate as a killing god, invincible.

However, wearing three layers of armor and a thick pig-killing knife can only be done by Butcher Chen, Cai Erhu, Fang Dongquan, and a few other men with a height of more than 1.8 meters. Wearing these equipment and running a dozen meters will make you get tired and lie down.

Wearing heavy armor, this is also an important reason why Butcher Chen is at the forefront every time he fights, but he is still alive. Otherwise, he would have joined the late emperor Lear long ago, and he would have won a Tang Dynasty there. The title of a fighter.

Looking at the many new and new weapons in front of him, Li Xuan showed a satisfied smile. With these 'high-tech weapons', what should the Ming army be afraid of!