Mao Qiao said: "I have a condition?"

Mao Shengli was very dissatisfied and winked at Uncle Mao Qiao repeatedly. He was thinking that you were too ignorant. If you gave you a face, you were even staring at me.

Liu Bu said, "No problem, you said."

Mao Qiao said: "I want to be your servant and enjoy the same treatment as a servant."

Liu Bu said: "No problem, you will be a member of the Liu family from today."

Mao Qiao: "I want to be an official, I don't want to be a military official anymore."

Liu Bu said: "From today, you will be the general flag of the servants, with a monthly salary of four taels."

Mao Qiao knelt on the ground all of a sudden and said loudly: "The villain Mao Qiao is willing to serve the adults. The adults will have their own divine arm crossbow in a month."

Liu Bu said: "What I want is 200 or more. You are already an official. I will give you wealth and honor for the rest of your life, but I don't want you to keep it. I will teach these technologies directly so that we can mass-produce them."

Mao Qiao was a little hesitant when she said this.

Liu Bu said: "What? Do you still have some reservations? I have to mass-produce these divine arm crossbows to produce results in large quantities. If one or two are used, they will have no effect on me. What is the difference between them and a few bows and arrows?"

Mao Shengli said: "Uncle, why are you hesitating? The lord exchanges with you for the official position. What else do you want?"

Mao Qiao gritted her teeth and said, "Subordinate to obey the order."

Liu Bu said: "Your choice will not be wrong."

Liu Bu was in a good mood and Chen Yuanyuan's affairs were perfectly resolved. Now when he was considering the equipment of the troops, they needed the protection of archers, but with their strength, they could not be raised for thousands, right?

Now that there is a divine arm crossbow, there will be a great improvement in both range and rate of fire, which allows them to have strong firepower to cover when fighting against worldly strong troops like Jiannu.

The Ming army was always suppressed and beaten when fighting against Jiannu. That was because Jiannu's soldiers were all brave and proficient in cavalry and shooting. Their shooters' attacks and ranges were far higher than those of the Ming Dynasty, and they could shoot and kill the Ming soldiers within the range of the Ming army. The Ming soldiers could only rush over and fight with them before they could win.

So the battle became more and more frustrating, which led to the myth of the Jurchens being dissatisfied with ten thousand and invincible.

After fighting to the present, even the entire Liao Town has been almost lost. Now in the Liaodong area outside the pass, their Ming Dynasty basically let Jiannu suppress the attack. Although there was no way to take the Ningyuan defense line for a while, they could detour Mongolia and directly attack the Ming Dynasty. It can be said that their advantage in riding and shooting greatly improved Jiannu's military advantage, and they kept suppressing the Ming army to fight.

Sooner or later, Liu Bu will choose to fight against Jiannu when he formed the army. If he fought with them alone, the Ming army might suffer a loss because they were all born hunters, professional soldiers who grew up in extremely difficult and harsh environments and have been trained for more than ten years. They have very powerful individual combat capabilities and close-range combat capabilities.

Since the Battle of Hunhe, the Ming Dynasty basically did not dare to engage in large-scale decisive battles with Jiannu in the wild, because their heavy armored infantry were far superior to the Ming army in the wild. Many people thought that Jiannu was their cavalry powerful, but in fact their heavy armored infantry was even more powerful.

Now that Jiannu has the red cannon, they are even more powerful and even more powerful.

However, their red-clothed cannons were not large, and they were all used for dissection and imitation. It is estimated that in a few years, a large number of imitations were released, and then Jiannu's troops would be invincible in the world.

Since Liu Bu decided to establish an army, he would fight Jiannu one day sooner or later. He had been wondering what to use to suppress Jiannu's firepower? He used to think of muskets, but he would not get the muskets for a while. He could only use the divine arm crossbow to suppress Jiannu's cavalry advantage.

Liu Bu immediately ordered Mao Shengli to help his uncle Mao Qiao move, and moved back to the garrison. He set up a large workshop for him in the garrison city, recruiting more than a dozen disciples, and specially creating a divine arm crossbow for him.

Mao Qiao is a master craftsman. Now he has an official position and is considered to be the first level of the general flag. According to the military system of the Ming army, he can manage more than 50 people. He is also a small officer. He has stepped into the official position and shining his ancestors.

Liu Bu attaches great importance to this and ordered the construction to start immediately. No matter what materials, manpower, or how much money he needs, he will get it immediately. What he wants now is to ask for hundreds of such divine arm crossbows.

His bow and archery troops only have more than 200 people. If they are placed in ordinary Ming army troops, one person will shoot an arrow every two or three minutes and twenty or thirty pieces in an hour. Therefore, their firepower is not strong and is not enough to cover them for a high-intensity battle.

Think about it, there are only 200 people, one person shoots archery, one person rests, and take turns to shoot archery, and you can shoot up to 0 to 30 pieces, so you need to rest. So they can only shoot up to 5,000 arrows and then you can't participate in the battle again.

However, if you have this kind of divine arm crossbow that is wound with your feet, it means that the soldiers can shoot continuously, shoot faster, and save more effort. It is not a problem to shoot more than twice as many arrows, and it can also be used continuously. This kind of firepower suppression is extremely powerful and can already give them the shooting ability of thousands of archers in the ordinary Ming army.

With 800 soldiers and a thousand archers, such military strength is quite good in Shandong, Daming, and at least it will not be worse than the other military leaders.

After Liu Bu determined the production factory and number of Shen'an Crossbow again, he immediately started watching Liu Zhongyong train his army.

Liu Zhongyong knew that their Liu family was facing great difficulties and crises and would be attacked by political enemies at any time, so he did not waste any time. After confirming the list of servants and determining eight hundred household officials, he immediately began to organize the army to conduct training.

Among this group of soldiers, each of them is an excellent soldier, with outstanding individual combat capabilities and very strong physical qualities. However, their strength is now not that everyone is so strong, and fighting is not a one-person fight alone, but dozens of people form a formation to fight together.

The formation set by Liu Zhongyong was relatively simple, without so many fancy things, no long snake formation, geese leash formation, and even the mandarin duck formation widely promoted by the Ming army was useless.

He used the simplest one-word tactic and the circular tactic used in the encirclement state, which was to let the soldiers line up or form a regiment, and then cover each other.

Their formation was somewhat similar to the famous Baigang soldiers at that time. In the second year of Tianqi, Chenyang was lost in Liaoyang. However, on the banks of Hunhe River under the city of Chenyang, Baigang soldiers from Sichuan blocked the continuous siege of Jiannu several times, killing countless enemies, and exerting the momentum of the Ming army.

The Battle of Hunhe was extremely fierce. Several master generals were all killed in battle, and thousands of white-sling soldiers were also killed in battle, which made Jiannu feel disappointed. Jiannu used to think that the Ming army was vulnerable, but after fighting with the white-sling soldiers, he realized that the Ming army was still powerful.

Liu Zhongyong also participated in the Battle of Hunhe. He was one of the few hundred soldiers who escaped back in the Battle of Hunhe. He was different from others. Others surrendered to Liaoyang and was preparing to continue to fight against Jiannu to the death. Liu Zhongyong knew that things could not be done, so he just wanted to change his lifestyle.

After such trouble, he changed from a formal officer to a fugitive army and was chased by the Ming army. His wife and children were arrested and imprisoned. He had no choice but to surrender to the Liu family and become a servant of the Liu family and serve the Liu family.

The tactics of the White Rod Soldiers left a deep impression on Liu Zhongyong. Their formations were simple and their weapons were extremely simple, but with their strong discipline, amazing willpower and team spirit, they united into a huge iron fist, which withstood the attack of the Jiannu army.

Liu Zhongyong has a deep understanding of the strong cold weapon combat capability of the Jiannu army. He had fought with them several times, and basically all the Ming army was defeated. Every time the civilian army was defeated, they were defeated, but they were forced to be beaten by the Baigang soldiers. If it weren't for the rebel Lin Wenfang's battle in the city, the cannons bombarded the Baigang soldiers' formation and blew them up, and in the battle of Hunhe, who would win or lose.

Although the Battle of Hunhe was said to have demonstrated the prestige of the Ming army and the white-rod soldiers, it was also true that thousands of troops were wiped out. Chenyang was lost, Liaoyang was lost, and Guangning was lost the next year. The Ming Dynasty lost one by one in the main cities of Liaozu outside the pass, and the decline of Liao Town was already irreversible.

Liu Zhongyong was disheartened. Although he wanted to change his life and was about to escape to the pass to become a turtle, he wanted to be a turtle, but Jiannu had no intention of letting go. After a few years, Emperor Tianqi passed away. In just ten years, Jiannu broke through the Great Wall three times in a row and burned and killed and plundered the pass.

Liu Zhongyong knew that the Ming Dynasty had been in decline, and sooner or later they would have a battle with Jiannu, either you die or I die. So although he was playing the slogan of self-protection when training the army, he kept thinking that their real enemy was actually Jiannu who was eyeing him outside the pass.

Therefore, when training the army, he always highly praised the combat tactics of the white pole soldiers and used this tactic to train soldiers. Although they did not have the white pole spears of the white pole soldiers, the spears were almost the same.

The tactics and weapons of the Baigang soldiers are not the key. What is key is their united spirit and fighting will. Their spirit of advancing side by side, pushing away side by side, and advancing without retreating left a deep impression on Liu Zhongyong.
Chapter completed!