The artillery team's diligent training does not actually refer to live ammunition training, but simulation training...

Because everyone in Sanshui Village has extremely limited gunpowder, which was secretly purchased by caravans from outside several times in the past. Just a small amount is not enough for combat, so naturally it is impossible to use it directly in large quantities in training.

Therefore, the daily training in the artillery team can only be conventional simulation training. If you want to conduct frequent live ammunition training, you have to wait until there is more gunpowder in the future.

Don't ask why gunpowder can still be purchased outside the mountains. Don't talk about gunpowder. If you are brave enough and have enough money, you can buy artillery if you find the right channels. There are several artillery pieces placed on the wall of the Song family manor.

What?

Some of them came from the rebels who looted the city, but most of them came from the government.

The officials in charge of artillery production in the government and the generals in charge of artillery in the army have to support their families. Selling some artillery powder and other things is normal operation.

The premise is that you have to be willing to give money!

The successful trial production of the two-hundred-pound light cannon also made Luo Zhixue pay more attention to the weapons workshop. After handling official duties, he would go to the weapons workshop.

Today's weapons workshops not only cast artillery, but also cast other weapons.

Such as muskets.

Muskets are not a problem for the Song blacksmith. After all, the Ming Dynasty has been using blunderbuss in equipment for decades. The Song blacksmith often took his two sons and several apprentices to make blunderbuss for the officers and soldiers.

The musket Luo Zhixue asked Blacksmith Song to build was based on the Ming army's standard bird gun, with some improvements, mainly a wooden stock that was more suitable for shoulder shooting and the addition of a bayonet.

To be precise, it is not a bayonet, but an iron spear. Due to the current limited technology, the flaky bayonet cannot bear the force and is easily bent and broken when stabbed.

For this reason, I simply got something similar to the tip of a spear and put it on it.

Anyway, after the musket is equipped with a bayonet, it is mainly used as a short spear. Due to the limitations of the craftsmanship, it is not considered that the bayonet can be used as a portable dagger after being removed.

The manufacture of muskets was nominally the responsibility of Blacksmith Song, but Blacksmith Song mainly focused on cannon casting, so his eldest son Song Dalang was responsible for more work.

Although Song Dalang is only in his early twenties, he has been making weapons with his father, Blacksmith Song, since he was a child. He has already gained certain knowledge in the making of various weapons and even muskets and artillery. Naturally, it is not difficult for him to make muskets.<

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The musket he built based on Luo Zhixue's request was tried by Luo Zhixue. I can't say how good it was, but it was still usable.

But for the time being, there are only two muskets.

It also takes time to make this thing. It will take a skilled craftsman at least a month to build a musket. Even if there are other craftsmen and apprentices to help Song Dalang, they will not get there soon.

The current production of muskets is too low and the quantity is too small to be installed at all. Therefore, they are unreliable in a short period of time. The main weapons for people in Sanshui Village to fight have to rely on cold weapons.

Long-range firepower still has to rely on bows and arrows. After all, the cavalry No. 670 in Sanshui Village has two sets of bows and arrows, both infantry and cavalry. Among the many recruits recruited at the same time, because they are all from mountain people, many of them have hunting skills.

With experience, some of the recruits who are hunters can also shoot arrows.

Therefore, overall, the bow and arrow capabilities of the anti-thief gang in Sanshui Village are quite good.

On the other hand, those ordinary infantrymen are worse. They don't even have enough ordinary cold weapons now.

They originally had some cold weapons in stock and repaired them, but with the continuous recruitment of soldiers, the original weapons were not enough, so they could only continue to build them, otherwise the new recruits would not have knives or spears to use.

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At the same time, Luo Zhixue also tried his best to produce as many armors as possible.

It’s not the kind of sophisticated armor that is time-consuming and labor-intensive. That thing is too troublesome and expensive, and it’s not suitable for them at the moment.

The so-called armor that Luo Zhixue asked the weapons workshop to make was actually just adding iron pieces to the original cotton armor, and for the sake of cost control, there would not be too many iron pieces.

The protective power of the cotton armor produced in this way is only average, but it is better than nothing. It can still be used to attach to some small bosses.

Luo Zhixue was concentrating on camp affairs, farming, grain collection, weapon building, recruiting and training new soldiers and many other matters here in Sanshui Village.

I also received news from Sun Chengli.

Sun Chengli sent people back to Sanshui Village and brought back the news of the expedition. The people who came back detailed that after Sun Chengli and others set out for the expedition, they first expected to attract officers and soldiers to go west, but met a group of bandit soldiers on the way, and then deliberately lured the officers and soldiers to the west.

He guided the bandits to where they were, and watched the officers and soldiers fight fiercely with the bandits.

Later, Sun Chengli and others were discovered and pursued by officers and soldiers, and Sun Chengli continued to take them in circles to the west.

Sun Chengcheng's personal soldier said: "The general asked me to tell you, sir, that the general will continue to lead the officers and soldiers to the west, and wait until they are close to the Lu family to get rid of the officers and soldiers completely and return. If nothing happens, the general will be here half a month later."

The general will return!"

After hearing this, Luo Zhixue nodded and said to Sun Chengli, "It's been a hard journey all the way. Go down and rest!"

After waiting for the others to go down, Luo Zhixue thought that Sun Chengli must have decided to get rid of the officers and soldiers and return because he felt that the autumn harvest grain collection in his hometown had been completed.

At the same time, the officers and soldiers were led to the Lushi area in order to make the officers and soldiers mistakenly think that they had fled into the Lushi area, and to completely shift the attention of the officers and soldiers from Funiu Mountain to the Lushi Mountain area.

But the specific effect remains to be seen.

After all, although our side tries its best to conceal the information, if the officers and soldiers still attach great importance to the Funiu Mountain area, they feel that even if the main force of the bandits entrenched in the Funiu Mountain area has escaped, they still think that there are remnants of the bandits in Funiu Mountain.

They will send troops into the mountains to sweep them, so that they will eventually be exposed.

But even if it is exposed, it will be a follow-up matter.

Safety should be guaranteed in a short period of time.

In fact, Luo Zhixue’s worries are not unreasonable.

Now Huang Guangmao is leading people back east while sending a small team of sentinels to Funiu Mountain to inquire about the situation.

The reason for him to make this decision is simple, for food!

He felt that since there were bandits entrenched in Funiu Mountain before, it meant that there should be a place suitable for bandits to survive in Funiu Mountain, especially villages that could provide soldiers and food.

He plans to send people into the mountains to get a batch of food...

He is very short of food now. Although he got a batch of food by annihilating the Sky-trading Tiger Doubt Bandits, he has to eat food every day, and neither Chen Zhibang nor Tan Zhengling will give him much food.

He led his troops to garrison in Lushan County and basically relied on self-financing for daily expenses. Obtaining trophies by killing bandits was the main method. On weekdays, he would follow the example of bandits and collect food directly from the countryside.

But it’s not easy to collect food outside the mountains.

In the past year, officers, soldiers and thieves have been fleeing repeatedly in this area of ​​Ruzhou. The ordinary villages have been robbed long ago, and they can't get much food even after working hard. The remaining large quantities of food are the manors of some gentry.

The thieves in these manors can attack without any psychological burden, but Huang Guangmao cannot.

It’s not that we can’t attack the estates of these landlords, but it’s just that it won’t end well after we attack them.

These manors that still have grain are basically owned by gentry, and behind these gentry are often officials. If Huang Guangmao dares to move, Huang Guangmao will be killed in minutes through the power of officialdom.

Just like the Song family manor before, all fools know that there are mountains of food in the Song family manor, but Huang Guangmao doesn't have the courage to grab it. Let alone him, even his immediate boss Chen Zhibang is not able to attack the Song family.

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Unless they plan to become rebels...

In Ruzhou, outside the mountains, there is not much food left to plunder, and where there is food, it cannot be plundered. This also gives Huang Guangmao a headache.

After all, his army consumes a lot of food every day.

At this time, Funiu Mountain happened to appear.

Huang Guangmao believes that since there were bandits in Funiu Mountain before, there must be villages that can support bandits. After all, it is impossible for those bandits to really live in the depths of the uninhabited mountains.

After simultaneously attacking a group of bandits from Ta Tianhu, he also learned through interrogation that this group of bandits were not bandits from Funiu Mountain, but came from Nanzhao County in the south. These people entered the outer areas of Funiu Mountain and swept across the area.

Many villages received a large amount of food.

Huang Guangmao was not interested in who the Sky-trading Tiger was, and he didn't even care that he had beaten the wrong person. After all, they were all thieves, and they would beat anyone. As long as they captured something and had someone killed, it would be fine.

After defeating Tianhu and his party, Huang Guangmao's biggest thought was that Tianhu and the others would be able to get this food as soon as they entered the Funiu Mountain area. If he searched carefully, wouldn't he be able to get more?

Huang Guangmao, who had this idea in his mind, didn't actually take Sun Chengcheng and the others seriously even after he found out that he had beaten the wrong person after defeating the Sky-trampling Tiger. He just pursued them step by step. When he saw

After Sun Chengli and the others fled to the Lu family, they stopped pursuing them.

Instead, I want to go back to Funiu Mountain to get food.

If this wave goes well, we might be able to produce military rations by next summer.

On the way back east, he sent sentries to Funiu Mountain to survey the terrain and inquire about the conditions of each village. He even hid it from Wang Jida, planning to wait until Wang Jida left the mountain and then sneak back to Funiu Mountain with his troops to get food.

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But what I didn't expect was that the respected king of Lushan County, Jida, was also very smart, and he actually noticed Huang Guangmao's move of sending out sentries.

After some forceful questioning by Huang Guangmao's subordinates, Wang Jida learned of Huang Guangmao's plan.

Stealing food? Is there such a good thing?

Wang Jida immediately expressed to Huang Guangmao that Funiu Mountain was also part of Lushan County. Since there were many mountain people in the mountain, he, as the honorary of Lushan County, naturally wanted to reintroduce these mountain people under his rule.

That's what the scene said, but Huang Guangmao knew that damn Wang Jida was also eyeing the food of the villages in Funiu Mountain, and directly stated that he would take 500 county warriors to Funiu Mountain to educate the mountain people.

In response to this, Huang Guangmao had no choice but to act together with Wang Jida, thinking that it would not be too ugly for Wang Jida to become popular.

Otherwise, Huang Guangmao was afraid that he would not be able to bear it and just cut him with a knife.
Chapter completed!