Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 186 Arms Dealer
Wuyangwei's barracks became lively early on. As soon as the wake-up call sounded, more than 2000 soldiers got up, put on their clothes, shoes and socks, put on their leggings and rushed out to gather for morning exercises.The gate of the barracks opened, and groups of soldiers carrying equipment weighing about [-] kilograms poured out. They lined up in a neat line and began to run along the avenue. Countless feet were raised and lowered at the same time, with a great sense of rhythm, as if Every step is stepping on people's hearts, which is really spectacular.Lu Xiangsheng was extremely surprised. How did such a neat queue and such a tacit understanding come about?Anyway, the Tianxiong Army will definitely not be able to do it.

"Your soldiers are trained very well, very good!" Lu Xiangsheng was a little excited, "Thousands of people are in one body, advancing and retreating at the same time. This kind of momentum alone is very scary! Presumably they will also push forward like a wall when they arrive on the battlefield. Knives strike, clusters of knives strike, clusters of spears stab, clusters of spears stab, no one advances or retreats without authorization, such an army is terrifying!"

Yang Menglong waved his hand and said, "You can't praise them. Once you praise them, their tails will go up to the sky! In fact, they are still far away. It is easy to cure them. Give me the Tianxiong Army. I have There are a hundred ways to kill them!"

Lu Xiangsheng smiled bitterly, he couldn't think of any way for the Tianxiong Army to kill these monsters.

Of course, not everyone is participating in the morning run. More than 400 crossbowmen and more than 100 musketeers are lining up on the playground for shooting training.Lu Xiangsheng only took one look and was deeply attracted.I saw more than 400 crossbowmen lined up in three teams, with two drummers beating the drums in each team. These soldiers silently marched forward to the brisk drumbeats until they were only fifty or sixty meters away from a large row of targets. When they were far away, the drummer struck a heavy note, and hundreds of pairs of feet stopped at the same time. The first row of crossbowmen squatted, the second row half-knelt, and the third row stood upright, aiming their crossbows at the target.An officer shouted loudly, and the first row of crossbowmen pulled their engines, kick, kick, kick, kick! More than 100 crossbow arrows shot out. After shooting, the crossbowmen didn't even look at it. They immediately retreated to the back row and loaded the arrows as quickly as possible. The second row fired again. After shooting, they retreated. The third row continued shooting... …Hundreds of crossbows were all fired in a blink of an eye, the musketeer stepped forward to set up the musket, pulled the trigger, bang bang bang bang bang!The gunshots rang out like explosions. They were generally equipped with six-barreled electric muskets. One musketeer's firepower withstood the firepower of six musketeers. This round of rapid fire had already knocked the target upside down.It wasn't over yet. After the musketeers finished shooting, the first row of crossbowmen began to fire arrows again... Lu Xiangsheng was full of praise and high-fived: "Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful! Three consecutive shots, arrows raining continuously, and another It's great to use musketry to supplement the crossbows and buy enough reloading time for the crossbows! I think even the light cavalry, which is as fast as lightning, can't get through the firepower network of such a crossbow formation! Xiaoshuai Yang, you are so great! You're so smart, you came up with such a brilliant idea!"

Yang Menglong said: "I didn't invent this method. When the famous founding general Mu Ying ruled Yunnan, the natives of Yunnan repeatedly rebelled and used invulnerable giant elephants to charge into battle. General Mu Ying arranged the gunners in three rows, Taking turns to load and fire, I don’t know how many elephants have become sieves under the rain of bullets. In fact, you can also gather the gunners to practice three-stage continuous shooting. Slave will also be defeated under such a fierce blow."

Lu Xiangsheng first nodded excitedly, but when he heard the word bayonet, he was confused again: "Bayonet? What kind of knife is this?"

Yang Menglong said: "The bayonet is a kind of knife that can be mounted on the barrel of a firecracker. The blade is narrow, long and sharp. A four or five-foot-long firecracker is equipped with a nearly two-foot-long bayonet. It is almost like a spear."

Lu Xiangsheng was still puzzled: "Is there such a weapon? Why have I never heard of it?"

Yang Menglong suddenly remembered that there was not even a shadow of a bayonet in this era, what he said was too advanced, he couldn't help sticking out his tongue, and said bravely: "This... I also heard it from others, but it's nothing Difficult things are easy to make."

Lu Xiangsheng said excitedly: "Then can you build one for me later?"

Yang Menglong slapped his chest fiercely: "No problem! I just made one, so I'll ask someone to show it to you."

Xue Siming's squadron drove over. His squadron was training for hand-to-hand combat. More than 100 soldiers held shields in their left hands and horizontal knives in their right. They looked serious and murderous.Seeing Yang Menglong was there, Xue Siming asked those bastards to practice hard, ran over by himself, saluted and called: "My lord, why are you here so early?"

Yang Menglong said: "Lord Lu wanted to visit the barracks, so I brought him here. I said, Xiao Ming, have you had enough of my three-edged bayonet? Should you return it to me?"

This "Xiao Ming" made Xue Siming very depressed, I am obviously older than you, okay!But in front of Lu Xiangsheng, he didn't dare to refute, so he ran back to the dormitory with a heck, and quickly brought a brand new bird gun and handed it to Yang Menglong: "My lord, your gun."

Yang Menglong took it over and said, "This is a blunderbuss that I asked craftsmen to make. It is four and a half feet long, and anyone within fifty paces will fall."

Lu Xiangsheng saw that the gun barrel of this bird gun was slender and thick, so it must be very reliable in quality and quite powerful.Xue Siming pulled out a gleaming handle and handed it over. The shape of this handle is a bit like a long sword, but it is triangular in shape, half a foot long, and I don't know if it is sharp or not, but it is sharp enough anyway.Yang Menglong took it, and stuffed the handle into the gun barrel, and the whole thin handle wrapped with a layer of linen was stuffed in. As Yang Menglong said, the bird gun became a long spear with considerable length.Lu Xiangsheng's expression changed: The most troublesome thing about gun soldiers is that their self-protection ability is too weak. After firing one bullet, the enemy rushed to the front before loading the second bullet. They only got cut off, and so many A sharp weapon is different, at least the Gunners can protect themselves...

"Kill!" Yang Menglong raised his bayonet obliquely, and suddenly let out a loud cry. He stabbed like lightning, followed by a false stab, and then another thrust. It is a weapon for self-protection, and it is also a weapon for killing!
Xue Siming took two steps back and said to Lu Xiangsheng: "My lord, this bayonet is very evil. It is not sharp, but it is extremely sharp. It can penetrate even the skull! Once stabbed by it, the wound is not big, but it cannot heal. , the blood will keep gushing out, even if it is stabbed on the arm or thigh, the blood will dry up within a meal, and there is no cure!"

Lu Xiangsheng's eyelids twitched slightly: "Is it really that powerful?"

Xue Siming nodded vigorously, with a look of fear on his face: "It's true! I have tested it on pigs. A fat pig weighing two hundred catties was pierced with a knife, and then the blood flow continued, and it died not long after. It's still the result of stabbing at a non-critical part!"

Lu Xiangsheng wanted to look at the three-edged bayonet. This thing is really inconspicuous. It looks like a sharpened iron bar. How can it have such terrifying lethality?He wanted to pass the blunderbuss again, installed the bayonet like a gourd, and then followed Yang Menglong's example, shouted: "Kill!" With a sudden stab, a thick wooden board was pierced!
Xue Siming couldn't help applauding: "My lord is really born with supernatural power!"

Lu Xiangsheng pulled out the bayonet, and looked at the wooden board again, it was indeed a triangular cut.He took a deep breath: "It's amazing! Even if it's an iron armor, it can be pierced with a single knife, right? Little Yang Shuai, how did you make this three-edged bayonet?"

Yang Menglong said: "There is no need to forge, just pour the molten steel into the mold, take it out after cooling, heat treatment, and then polish it. That’s fine, ordinary steel won’t work.”

Said with some regret: "It's a pity that the technology is still a bit weak, and I can't open the blood tank... If I can open three blood tanks, the bloodletting effect will be better."

Xue Siming's complexion changed slightly.After seeing the tragic scene of a pig being stabbed to death by a three-edged bayonet, he felt terrified when he saw this thing.So Yang Menglong is still dissatisfied, and wants to make it more lethal?My lord, how perverted are you?Lu Xiangsheng, on the other hand, was just the opposite. He caressed the bayonet lightly and couldn't put it down, but he heard that it can only be made of high-quality steel. , Unfortunately, it's too expensive, alas..."

Yang Menglong was startled: "Expensive?" Then he realized that for Lu Xiangsheng, this level of steel was a bit expensive, and even if he wanted to equip a lot, he was powerless.He slapped his head and said, "Oh, actually, inferior steel is also acceptable. If you want it, I can sell it to you."

Lu Xiangsheng was overjoyed: "Really? I don't know how much it will cost?"

Yang Menglong said: "A handful of five renminbi silver, no bargaining."

Lu Xiangsheng said: "Then you are at a big loss?"

Yang Menglong said: "No loss, let me tell you, this thing is worthless at all! Besides, there are very few people in my army equipped with bird guns, and it is useless to ask for it! Do you want it? If you don't want it, I will send it Throw away all the three-edged bayonets in the warehouse!"

Lu Xiangsheng became anxious, and said repeatedly: "If you want it, you want as much as you want! Give me... six thousand!"

Yang Menglong curled his lips and said, "Why do you want six thousand? Ten thousand, round up." Throwing the gun to Xue Siming, he reached out and pulled out the horizontal knife he wore on his left crotch and handed it to Lu Xiangsheng: "Look at this knife. How about it? If it’s what you want, I’ll help out, my craft camp hasn’t opened for a long time!”

Lu Xiangsheng took the saber, pulled out a saber flower casually, and slashed a few times, no matter how he used it, he repeatedly praised: "A good saber, a good saber! It's neither light nor heavy, it's light and sharp, and it's easy to chop, stab, and chop. How to use and how to cut it, it is really a good knife!" Flicking the blade with his fingers, staring at the ray of light slowly flowing on the blade, exclaiming: "I am also used to using knives, but I have never seen such sharp ones. Knife! With its sharpness, it can draw a big blood hole on the opponent's body with just a light pull, so that the opponent's blood will not stop, it is really a good knife!"

Yang Menglong said with a smile: "This is... This is the Pofeng Knife, which breaks through the front and breaks the formation, and is invincible. It drank blood when it was fighting bandits, and cut off the bandits' spears like cutting sugar cane."

Lu Xiangsheng couldn't put it down, his envy was blazing, but his expression was a little embarrassed.

Yang Menglong waved his hand: "You want it, right? I'll sell you two thousand."

Lu Xiangsheng said embarrassingly: "How can I afford it..."

Yang Menglong said: "Hey, meeting such a poor client as you, I'm pretty unlucky... Forget it, the first business, I don't care so much with you, I will give you credit first, and remember to return it when you have money." I."

Lu Xiangsheng said repeatedly: "Thank you, thank you!"

Yang Menglong has fully entered the role, and then sells his own standard equipment to Lu Xiangsheng—a four-meter-long spear.Lu Xiangsheng personally tested it and came to the conclusion: this spear is so sharp that Jiannu's armor is like paper in front of it!Anyway, he already owed so much to Yang Menglong, and he had long since settled his debts. He ordered [-] long guns in one go, and [-] spare gun heads.Yang Menglong strikes while the iron is hot, and sells him his specialty product, the Dogleg Knife.The benefits of the dogleg knife are self-evident. It is light and short, but it has great lethality. Archers and musketeers wear one, and their self-protection ability is greatly enhanced. Pikemen wear one, even if the spear is cut off. , You can also use it to fight the enemy in hand-to-hand combat, without having to look desperately at the enemy's knife hacking into your body, with no power to fight back.Lu Xiangsheng was also polite, and ordered [-].This time he was really in big trouble. He had only been in Yang Menglong's barracks for a long time, and he owed a huge debt of tens of thousands of taels of silver!He is a clean and honest official and has no gray income. He doesn't know when he will be able to pay off this debt!
(End of this chapter)