Weapons and equipment will suffer losses in daily use and during combat, and the loss is not small.

For example, the most common cold weapon equipment such as the sword, even if the elite cavalrymen such as Sun Zhi and others are equipped with good swords with blades, the blade will still appear to be curled or even bent and broken after multiple chops.

As for the iron swords that most ordinary soldiers are equipped with, they will be bent and broken after just a few cuts.

This is true for swords, and so is other weapons and equipment.

Therefore, after a battle, a large number of damaged weapons often appear to need to be repaired.

This is also the reason why ancient troops often brought blacksmiths with them, in order to repair swords and weapons anytime and anywhere.

There were originally two blacksmiths in Sun Zhi and his group. They were all brought with them when they broke through the Henan Prefecture. Unfortunately, when Ruzhou broke through Chen Zhibang's interception, the two blacksmiths were all separated. I don't know if they were killed and injured by the officers and soldiers or escaped during the breakout.

Anyway, there was no one.

This has led to the problems facing Luo Zhixue now.

Nowadays, many weapons and equipment in the army need to be repaired, but there is no useful blacksmith in the army.

Luo Zhixue also asked about the prisoners of war, and the results obtained made Luo Zhixue helpless, and even made Sun Cheng feel speechless after he found out.

Because the Fendi Dragon and his group also had a blacksmith, they just snatched a blacksmith and brought it back on the way. However, when they attacked Sanshui Village, the blacksmith was not very shot by the cavalry under Sun Jie...

Then there was nothing!

Sun Jian sighed and said, "Damn, since he is a blacksmith, why didn't he speak earlier? If he really said he was a blacksmith, his brothers under him were not ignorant of the importance of it. How could he shoot him!"

Luo Zhixue said: "It's useless now, but it's urgent to find another blacksmith to come back, otherwise our army's broken weapons would not be repaired."

After thinking about it, Luo Zhixue said again: "We have to find some iron materials to come back."

Sun Cheng said: "Although iron materials are difficult to find, you can always find some of them if you spend more time. If it really doesn't work, you can repair them with damaged weapons. But it's not easy to find blacksmiths."

Luo Zhixue also knew why Sun Cheng said so.

What is the most precious thing in troubled times?

Food and weapons!

Needless to say, the food is more important than this weapon.

In the chaos of times, the heroes danced around, and these weapons that must be used to recruit soldiers to fight are not.

Even if there are no high-end products such as artillery, firearms, armor, bows and arrows, there must be ordinary weapons such as swords, spears, and spears.

And how do you come from the weapon?

In addition to seizing, it is built by itself. In order to ensure the normal use of weapons and equipment, craftsmen are also required to repair these weapons.

Not many of the thief leaders and generals in the official army who could get along were real stupid people. They knew the importance of weapons very well and the importance of craftsmen.

Therefore, in troubled times, technical craftsmen, especially blacksmiths, are very popular.

How popular is it?

Basically, a thief leader would pack the blacksmith and take it away when he saw it.

Regardless of whether the other party wants it or not.

Sun Jian and his two original blacksmiths also forced the two blacksmiths in the town to take away after breaking through a small town.

Unfortunately, these two blacksmiths have disappeared in the breakout battle.

At the same time, a blacksmith in Funiu Mountain also died in the chaos. Now Luo Zhixue doesn't want to find a blacksmith to repair weapons, let alone Luo Zhixue is also counting on blacksmiths to get cannons and guns.

This is not the era of purely cold weapons. You can use swords, bows and arrows to make small fuss, but if you go to the real battlefield, you will die miserably without artillery.

The border troops of the Ming army in Ji and Liao had long used red barbarian cannons, and there were countless other short-barrel cannons.

After the Qi family army of the Ming army was transferred to the Ji Liao area in the early years, the reason why they could continue to beat the barbarians to guard the border was not because of the Yuanyang Town, the Sancai Formation, but because of a large number of light artillery.

The Qi family army directly brought a large number of light artillery onto the carriage and played with the cannon chariot array.

This kind of cannon array has the advantages of high maneuverability, strong firepower, and formation defense. It is very useful to deal with barbarians who are still in the era of cold weapons.

Similarly, in the Liaodong direction, they suffered too much from the Ming munitions in the past years, and they were also focused on developing firearms, especially heavy artillery.

Dongkai also learned from Europeans, and installed two-wheeled and four-wheeled cannons for field aircraft on heavy artillery, directly using heavy cannons (Red Barbarian cannons) with long tubes as field cannons, and finally successfully pulled dozens of heavy cannons directly to Songjin front line.

By the time of the Battle of Songjin, although the performance of the firearm equipment of the Ming and Qing dynasties was a little worse than that of the European counterparts of the same era, the number was quite large.

Both sides fought with guns and cannons.

Dongkai relied on heavy artillery to forcibly break through the two cities of Tashan and Xingshan, laying the foundation for victory for the Battle of Songjin.

In contrast, the large number of small caliber and short-barrel light artillery equipped in the Ming army was almost useless in this decisive battle between the Ming and Qing dynasties, and a small number of red and barbarian cannons were only used to passively defend the city and failed to achieve decisive results.

By the end of Chongzhen, the Eastern Abduction had actually surpassed the Ming army in terms of firearms. In addition, the Eastern Abduction had its original advantageous cavalry, heavy armored infantry, etc., making it even more difficult for the Ming army to fight the Eastern Abduction.

To be honest, it is rare for the Ming army to be able to protect Shanhaiguan before Chongzhen hangs himself under the superior military pressure of the Eastern Abductee.

It’s not that the Ming army is too scumbag, but that there are artillery in the east...

Well, this is also self-deception. A Ming Empire, who has been playing various artillery for more than two hundred years and even the Red Barbarian artillery for decades, has surpassed its artillery advantage in less than ten years.

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Luo Zhixue knew the importance of guns and cannons these days. Although they are just a group of small thieves now, who said that thieves cannot use guns and cannons?

Luo Zhixue was also counting on getting a batch of guns and cannons, and he turned around and lined up to kill him.

When Sun Jian and his group were guarding the frontier, they actually used firearms. They used three-eyed guns and other groups. However, they were later transferred to the mainland to suppress the thieves. Faced with a group of thieves who didn't even have many swords and spears, they gradually stopped using guns and cannons.

Because using guns and cannons to hit thieves feels like they are a bit like shooting mosquitoes with cannons. It’s not a waste, but you can’t fight... The thieves don’t fight you face to face, and they turn around and run away when they see you... Who is stupid enough to wait for you to pull out the cannons and take out the muskets to line up?

The officers and soldiers took firearms to suppress the thieves, but they couldn't even catch up with them, so why did they say that they could suppress the thieves?

Secondly, the three-eyed gun that Sun Cheng and others used before seemed to be a firearm, but the reason why the cavalry of the border army in the late Ming Dynasty liked to use this thing was because it could still be used as a hammer after firing.

This thing is easier to use against Dongkai.

Because the East Capture multiple armors are not very effective in dealing with them with traditional swords or spears, but the effect of using some heavy weapons to directly hammer them is even better.

But the thieves didn't even have much armor, and they were more useful with traditional weapons such as knives, spears, bows and arrows.

Over time, Sun Zhi and the others simply used three-eyed guns instead of using traditional knives, spears, bows and arrows.

So now there are no firearms in Sun Jian and his group.

However, this did not hinder Luo Zhixue's determination to get the firearms troops.

The only problem now is that Luo Zhixue has no guns and cannons, and there are not even craftsmen who build guns and cannons.

Not to mention the craftsmen who build guns and cannons, even ordinary blacksmiths who can repair swords and spears...

Luo Zhixue had no other good way to deal with this problem. He directly sent people to the surrounding villages to find out where there were blacksmiths.

Not to mention, it is really hard to find a high-level talent like blacksmith. There was no blacksmith in the villages around Funiu Mountain. He only found two carpenters and brought them back.

However, Luo Zhixue was not giving up and asked Sun Jian to send someone to the edge of the mountain or even outside the mountain to search. If he found it, he didn't need to report it. He just brought the person back.

As for how to bring people back, Luo Zhixue ignored it.

Sun Cheng also knew the importance of senior technical science and engineering talents like blacksmiths to their rebellious cause, so he immediately responded and appointed his confidant Wang Weizi to take people there.

But don't expect to see the blacksmith in a short period of time.

Without a blacksmith, you can't stop not repairing weapons or creating weapons.

Without a blacksmith, Luo Zhixue was preparing to go into battle himself.

While he was busy with other things, he also carefully recalled all kinds of knowledge about steel and casting.

In the process of careful recollection, no matter what is useful or not, just write down any thoughts, and then slowly organize them out when you look back.

As a modern person who once lived in a big explosion of knowledge, Luo Zhixue remembers a lot and complicated things in his mind. He doesn’t think about it on weekdays. However, when he thinks about it carefully, he finds that there are quite a lot of things he knows. Although most of them are not deep enough, he knows why, and there are huge gaps.

But even so, after detailed recollection, Luo Zhixue was able to find many useful and useful things.

For example, the steel knowledge that is key to recall.

To repair and build weapons, in the eyes of ancient people, perhaps this is a craftsmanship, and there are various steelmaking secrets such as steelmaking. The blacksmiths also adopted the master-apprentice inheritance and did not disclose the tips of iron making and steelmaking.

However, in Luo Zhixue's view, this thing is a simple high-temperature melting, casting and molding, and adding an appropriate amount of carbon to obtain different types of steel with hardness and moderate toughness.

After thinking about the basic principles and specific steps for several days, Luo Zhixue directed several people to start building the bellows and furnaces.

He wants to bring people to repair and build weapons by himself.

After all, being a human being cannot be too pedantic. It is impossible to say that if the butcher Zhang is gone, he will have to eat a pig with hair, and if the blacksmith is gone, he will have to fight empty-handedly.

At worst, Luo Zhixue can just lead more people to make trouble, but he still doesn't believe it and can't make it.

Anyway, it is not him who will do the specific tricks at that time, but EY and others...

After all, he is a scholar, and it is the true nature of a real man!

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