On the second day after arriving in Nanyun City, Li Ye was busy revising the sketches of hand slaves and heavy slaves drawn on the road.
Mu Mu followed Nalan Yu to inspect the Forbidden Army early in the morning.
After looking at the weapon diagrams all morning, Li Ye felt that fast casting, low cost, and being difficult to imitate were important conditions for weapon design. If anyone could imitate it, there would inevitably be no weapons lost after a battle.
Because of these conditions, Li Ye designed more than a dozen sketches on the road.
After thinking for a while and imagining it again, Li Ye began to draw a picture. He planned to let most of the soldiers in Nanyun City be able to assemble the hand slaves.
Now design the hand-crossbow and heavy crossbow drawings. If it is well designed and built, it will be a great progress in the bow and arrow civilization of the five regions.
On this day, the eldest prince and the city lord came to visit, but Li Ye ignored them and asked them to wait.
The next day, Li Ye told Nalan Yu to tell the eldest prince that he would go to them after designing the drawings and to ask everyone not to disturb him in the past few days.
When Nalan Yu came to deliver food on the third day, Li Ye told him that he would come with the eldest prince and the city lord tomorrow.
On the morning of the fourth day, just as Li Ye and Mu Mu finished breakfast, the eldest prince, Yang Kaiyi, and Ma Feihu arrived.
Before it could be imported, the eldest prince shouted impatiently: "National Master, you are making us anxious."
Li Ye smiled faintly, pointed to the drawings on the table, and said: "First arrange for the foundry craftsmen in the army to gather together, and we will explain to them the manufacturing method of the designed drawings. If the foundry masters sent from the imperial city arrive, Just study together.”
The three eldest princes stood in front of the table and looked at the drawings one by one. Then they frowned. They were all practitioners and had a natural understanding of weapons. The more they looked at it, the more they felt that Li Ye's design was reasonable. When they saw the heavy crossbow At this time, the three of them were stunned.
"Master, will the effect of this one be as good as you said?" The eldest prince showed Li Ye the blueprint of the heavy crossbow.
"Yes, but this needs to be cast separately, at least into five parts. After it is manufactured, we will arrange for the Forbidden Army soldiers to install it, and then we will set up a heavy slave camp in the army. After that, I will also design a siege crossbow, and the same will Establish a siege crossbow battalion, and after these weapons are partially produced, I will transform and cast the military shields."
Li Ye said to the three eldest princes.
"In the early stage, due to manufacturing reasons, the hand slaves were only equipped with the soldiers who defended the city. Later, they were equipped with the forward battalion and were used for charging when the two armies were fighting."
"The finished product of the heavy crossbow will be available in the early stage, and it will also be used to equip the soldiers who defend the city. When the heavy crossbow comes out in the later stage, it will be equipped with the forward battalion to recover the three towns in southern Xinjiang."
Li Ye pointed to the three pictures on the table and spoke softly.
The eldest prince, Yang Kaiyi, and Ma Feihu looked at each other, but none of them spoke.
"The range of the hand slave is at least 130 feet, which cannot be lower than the range of the bows and arrows of the grassland tribes. The heavy slaves must penetrate the shield formations of the grassland tribes and deal a devastating blow when the enemy attacks the city. The heavy slaves are used The attack when retaking Xiaguan and other three towns."
"This is our bottom line not to kill innocent people indiscriminately. The purpose of the weapons I designed is to hurt people. It should be noted that every time an enemy soldier is injured, the enemy's combat strength will be doubled. If one more person is injured, the enemy will be delayed more. Live twice as much combat power."
Li Ye ignored the silence of the eldest prince and others and said quietly.
The eldest prince looked at Li Ye because if the blueprints Li Ye produced were leaked, it would shock the world and promote the reform of weapons.
"I promise you, I will arrange this matter myself." The eldest prince nodded to Li Ye.
Li Ye smiled and said, "Don't take this blueprint away yet. After I split it into five parts, I will give it to five different groups of craftsmen to learn how to make it."
"I will make the key core machine spring from easily broken metal. No matter if the weapon is lost or obtained by the enemy through other means, the weapon will be completely scrapped when it is forcibly dismantled!"
The eldest prince, Yang Kaiyi, and Ma Feihu suddenly realized it, and Yang Kaiyi took a deep breath.
Looking at Li Ye, he said, "I didn't expect that the imperial master not only designed the weapons, but also considered leaking secrets and counterfeiting them. I really admire you!"
Ma Feihu also nodded and laughed loudly: "With such weapons, we no longer have to worry about being unable to defeat the Huiyuan tribes. You must know that our bows and arrows could not shoot as far as them before, and our horses could not run as far as they did. Come on, I’m almost worried to death.”
The eldest prince also laughed and said: "This matter should not be delayed for a long time. General Ma, please arrange the craftsmen now. Arrange all the workers into five teams. Tomorrow, the national master will explain to them separately."
"If the craftsmen from the five regions haven't arrived yet, the craftsmen who have studied first will explain it to them. Production will start in five days at the latest."
"How much fine iron Nanyun City is needed for casting? Will the materials allocated from the five regions be available in time?" Li Ye was concerned about the issue of casting materials.
Yang Kaiyi thought for a while and replied: "For the materials needed for energy and other things, we prepared some when the emperor sent an order to dig the moat. It should be enough for the early production. After the materials allocated by the five regions arrive in Nancheng, we will arrange to enter On-site casting will not affect the overall progress.”
Li Ye nodded and said: "The main problem now is the training of personnel. The yield rate may be low at the beginning, but don't be afraid. If the casting is broken, just go back and start over. The early stage is to accumulate experience!"
The eldest prince nodded thoughtfully, looked at Li Ye and said, "What the Imperial Master said makes sense. In the early stage, just treat it as practice. If you fail, try again. The key is to ensure the quality of subsequent production and not make mistakes!"
"Winter is still half a month away. Before the winter solstice, I ask all the craftsmen to work overtime to produce two thousand slaves and five heavy slaves for me. After the winter solstice, I will give them to the grassland tribes who have occupied the three towns. What a surprise!" Li Ye said in a deep voice.
"Promise to complete the mission, I, Ma Feihu, can issue a military order to the national division!" Ma Tianhu said loudly.
"Forget the military order, you all go back and quickly arrange the preparation of craftsmen and materials. I need to modify the drawings and start training the personnel tomorrow."
After Li Ye said these words, he returned to the table and focused on revising the drawings, ignoring the three people around him.
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The three eldest princes left and returned to the eldest prince's residence. The three people communicated about Li Ye's drawings again, and they were all deeply shocked by the design of the imperial master.
You must know that once these weapons are forged, they will greatly change the status quo of the battlefield in southern Xinjiang. The soldiers of the five regions no longer need to be afraid of the lethality of the bows and arrows of the grassland tribes.
The eldest prince made a decision, and Ma Feihu immediately summoned the current craftsmen in the army and arranged them into five groups according to the existing personnel.
The city lord Yang Kaiyi immediately organized the soldiers of Nanyun City to gather the materials needed for casting to the casting location.
At Yang Kaiyi's suggestion, the five foundries were distributed in five different places in Nanjing Yuncheng so that everyone would not disturb each other.
It also avoids leaking secrets. After the parts are produced, they are brought to the city lord's palace and assembled manually by the national division.
The three of them put this decision into action immediately.
At this time, Li Ye was looking at the sketch of the weapon in the room and thinking. He knew that a weapon design would cause some problems.
If this hand-crossbow were leaked, the problem would be more serious. After thinking for a while, he started to disassemble and design the parts.
There was a pot of charcoal fire burning in the room, and Nalanyu prepared a pot of tea for Li Ye to boil, which made him feel very comfortable. He described the words in his hand very quickly, and he didn't go out all day.
The next morning, the three eldest princes came over and told Li Ye that they could give training and explanations to the craftsmen.
After stretching, Li Ye walked out. Nalan Yu and Mu Mu were already waiting for him at the door.
Smiling at the three eldest princes, Li Ye went back to the room and changed his clothes, then washed up.
Everything was fine these days, but he revised the drawings day and night without even taking a shower. In Li Ye's words, he stunk.
After changing their robes, together with the three eldest princes, followed by Nalanyu and Mu Mu, the group arrived at the foundry in the east of the city and began to explain the casting techniques and precautions to the first group of craftsmen.
In the first casting group, Li Ye spent two hours explaining the casting and techniques of iron construction parts to the craftsmen in detail. It was not until the craftsmen fully understood that they left for the next place.
When they arrived at the second casting group, it was almost noon. Li Ye, the eldest prince and his group had a quick meal in the foundry, and then began to explain to the second group of craftsmen, which took another two hours.
The third... On this day, Li Ye completed the explanation and training of three casting groups.
It took four days for Li Ye, accompanied by Yang Kaiyi, Ma Feihu, Nalan Yu, and Mu Mu, to explain and train the five casting groups twice.
It wasn't until late at night on the fourth day that the first batch of parts was produced and five different parts were placed in front of his desk. He nodded with satisfaction and thought to himself: "Finally the first step has been completed."
By the time five different pieces of spare parts were delivered to him, it was already midnight. Nalanyu had returned to the camp early, and Mumu also hid in his room, sitting on the bed and refusing to move.
Li Ye did not hesitate and immediately started to assemble it. In his heart, he already had a shaped hand slave...
At the end of the day, the assembly of the number one slave in the Five Regions had been completed. A shining black hand came out on his desk. There was a number on the parts: 00001, which meant that this was the number one slave in the Imperial City of the Five Regions. Assembled by his own hands.
After loading the newly produced iron arrows, Li Ye walked out of the house and walked to the square of the city lord's palace.
By this time, the snow had stopped, and a crescent moon hung in the sky, shining particularly brightly on the quiet square.
Stepping quietly in the snow, Li Ye walked and measured, and finally chose an open space one hundred and forty feet away from the house where he lived.
He dragged a wooden mannequin used by soldiers for training and placed it in the snow, then turned around and walked back...
"I don't know if it is lethal after being shot from such a long distance." He muttered as he walked.
Back in the snow in front of the house, Li Ye raised his sword, focused on Jingyun, and aimed at the wooden man stake in the snow.
With his fingers twitching, there was a "buzz" sound, and the iron arrow shot out, flying like a black light in the silver night.
Just for a moment, I heard a "bang" sound, like a firecracker going off in the dark night...
