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After some discussion, Zhang Zhun sorted out the various departments under Shengxia Zong and clarified their respective rights and responsibilities.

Currently, there are a total of the following eight departments in Shengxia Zong:

[Mintian Department] Manager Wang Mingyu and Hou Shanping.

[Juntiansi] Manager Liu Hang.

[Financial Department] Supervisor Yang Yinghan.

[Jingyan Department] Manager Yang Ruifeng.

[Iron Smelting Department] Manager Li Fenglai, Yin Gensheng, and Zou Huoming.

[Equipment Department] Supervisor Zhou Shiwen, Luo Dashan.

[Injured Retirement Office] Manager Lin Bin.

[Information Department] Supervisor Yang Dahao (Mouse).

Daily affairs are assigned to these eight departments.

The manager of each department is directly responsible to Zhang Zhun.

As for the guards, they are independent of Shengxia Sect, and only Zhang Zhun is qualified to mobilize and command.

At this meeting of Shengxia Sect, a group of outstanding people became the subjects of Shengxia Sect's inspection, including Wu Qingliang, Zhou Zhengyu, Zhong Wuying, Liu Baoyu, Yang Liren and others. Wu Qingliang and Zhou Zhengyu are both important backbones of the armed forces and guerrillas. Zhong Wuying is the deputy of the guard team, Liu Baoyu is the talent excavated by Liu Hang, and Yang Liren is helping Wang Mingyu to do things. The population of Fushan Institute is close to 8,000, and there are only a few people in Shengxia Sect, so it is very necessary to strengthen its own strength.

At this meeting of the Shengxia Sect, Zhang Zhun specifically asked everyone to be cautious and not relax their vigilance. Don’t think that if you win a battle in Baisha River, you will have peace of mind. The crisis in Fushan City is far from over! They killed their ex-husbands, and this matter cannot be easily stopped.

Zhang Zhun pointed out that the officers and soldiers will definitely not be willing to fail this time, and they will definitely make a comeback. The next time the officers and soldiers arrive, they will definitely be stronger. Zhang Zhun believes that every member of Shengxia Sect must maintain a high sense of crisis and must not take it lightly.

First of all, the Intelligence Department led by Mouse must pay close attention to the trends of Laizhou Prefecture. If the officers and soldiers make a comeback, it is definitely the officials at all levels of Laizhou Prefecture who are the backbone. Among them, the backbone should be Sun Zhixue, the governor of Laizhou Prefecture. He suffered the biggest loss in the battle of Baishahe, and he will definitely not give up.

Even the tentacles of the Intelligence Department were about to start to extend to Dengzhou Prefecture to closely monitor the movements of the soldiers in Dengzhou Prefecture. Denglai Governor Yang Wenyue is not an ordinary person. This person was originally a right-sponsor in Jiangxi, and served as the Censor of Huguang, and participated in the suppression of peasant uprisings many times. He was considered a decisive person. At present, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were mainly stationed in Dengzhou Prefecture. Laizhou Prefecture did not have many soldiers. If the court dispatched troops from Dengzhou Prefecture, Zhang Zhun had to deal with it carefully.

Secondly, all officers and soldiers of the guards must immediately carry out a large-scale training movement. The main content of the large-scale training movement is how to operate the Hu Ben Gun. Although there are not enough Hu Ben Guns to be sent to everyone, everyone should use wood and bamboo to imitate the various actions of operating the Hu Ben Gun and train in advance. In the future, if they receive the Hu Ben Gun, they will be able to operate it proficiently immediately.

Zhang Zhun’s requirement is that every soldier can perform conditioned reflexes and can load and shoot without passing through his brain. At that time, no matter what happens on the battlefield, it will be a passing cloud for them. The only thing they have to do is load, shoot, load, shoot... an infinite loop until they are knocked down or the battle is completely over.

Zhang Zhun also proposed the concept of sniper.

Each team can consider cultivating three to five snipers. The role of snipers is to find fighter jets outside the main battlefield and ambush the enemy officers. They must avoid the rich white smoke on the battlefield, hide themselves, approach the enemy, and then shoot with one shot. Considering the loading method of the Hu Ben Gun, basically every sniper has only one chance to shoot. If one hits, they must evacuate quickly.

The range of the Hu Ben gun is actually quite far away. In this era, it should be used as a sniper rifle temporarily as a sniper rifle. Of course, in the era without scopes, the vision of a shooter is very high, and at least the vision of a pilot in later generations must be as good as that of a pilot in later generations. Fortunately, people in this era had generally good vision, and choosing the best among the best is not a big problem. As for the instructor of the sniper, it is naturally Zhang Zhun himself.

Zhong Wuying, Yang Weiguo, Liu Jixiang and others all signed up for the sniper training class first. It seems that everyone is still very interested in this combat skill of killing one shot. Think about it, it would be like a sense of accomplishment that aiming at the enemy's commander dozens of feet away and one shot is fatal!

The next morning, Zhang Zhun arrived at the craftsman's workshop.

The main purpose of his arrival was of course to improve the quality of the Hu Ben gun. Zhou Shiwen, Luo Dashan, Li Fenglai, Yin Gensheng, Zou Huoming and others were all waiting for Zhang Zhun here. After a simple greeting, Zhang Zhun began to make his own suggestions.

First, Zhang Zhun set up a maintenance group in addition to the groups he had previously established, which was specifically responsible for repairing damaged Hu Ben guns. If necessary, the craftsman workshop may send people to follow the guards to enter the battlefield directly and provide maintenance services on the spot.

These faulty Hu Ben guns are actually not damaged in structure and can be reused soon after professional repairs. Zhang Zhun was considering whether to equip special maintenance personnel in the guards. If they can repair quickly on the battlefield and re-play the role of Hu Ben guns, the effect will undoubtedly be good.

Secondly, the specifications of the Hu Ben Gun are re-determined so that their loading speed is faster.

The original Hu Ben Gun had a total length of 36 inches (about 1200 mm), plus a buttstock and bayonet, and a total length of 57 inches (about 1900 mm). When it was raised, the muzzle was already at the position of the soldiers' chin and it was difficult to load. After research, Zhang Zhun and the craftsmen decided to reduce the barrel by 3 inches and 33 inches (about 1100 mm). At the same time, the length of the buttstock was shortened by a small part. In this way, the Hu Ben Gun did not have a bayonet, and the total length was about 42 inches (about 1400 mm). When it was raised, the muzzle was about the position of the soldiers' chest. The loading action would be much more natural.

Reducing the 3-inch barrel will not lose much range and will not have a big impact on the accuracy of the Hu Ben Gun. In fact, white smoke is shrouded in the battlefield and the gun smoke is everywhere. You can basically not see the target clearly from a hundred meters away. Even if the Hu Ben Gun has a range of 900 meters or even 1,900 meters, it cannot be fully utilized. If a modern rifle does not have a scope, it will not be threatening to targets two hundred meters away.

On the contrary, increasing the loading speed of the Hu Ben Gun, reducing the loading time, and reducing the damage rate can form more dense firepower. For the common human sea tactics during this period, it will produce great lethality. If the average fire speed of the Hu Ben Gun can reach five rounds per minute, even if the enemy has cavalry, it can knock the opponent down first.

Again, Zhang Zhun asked to change the push-up rod from the original wood to the iron, and merge it with the strip. One end is the strip and the other end is the push-up rod.

This can effectively prevent the pushing rod from breaking into the barrel. The pushing rod is broken into the barrel and cannot be pulled out in the battlefield for a short time, which means that the Hu Ben gun has completely failed, which is a very serious fault.

The last one is to continue to improve the quality of the Hu Ben gun.

Fifty accurate shootings are still a little short. Basically, the Hu Ben gun will be scrapped after one battle. Such utilization rate is really heartbreaking. No matter how powerful the Hu Ben gun is, Zhang Zhun cannot use it on a large scale! At least it needs to double it to reach a hundred times.

In fact, Zhang Zhun's expectation was that the Hu Ben gun could accurately shoot at least 500 times. The barrels of later generations had such a fast firing rate and such a dense shooting, and could reach a lifespan of thousands of rounds. The weapons of this era reached 10% of the level of later generations, so there should be no problem.

Craftsmen have a lot of suggestions on how to improve the quality of the Hu Ben Gun.

Among them, there was a craftsman named Li Delu who proposed to improve the number of times the barrel was used. The key was the quality of the steel. Only when the quality of the steel used for the barrel was increased can the service life of the Hu Ben gun be improved as a whole.

Zhang Zhun's current steel frying method is not the best quality, and there are still many impurities. The biggest feature of the steel frying method seems to have low requirements for raw materials, large output, and can quickly form a scale. It is very suitable for large-scale production of weapons. However, the Hu Ben Gun's quality requirements for the barrels are too high, and the steel frying method cannot fully meet this requirement. He suggested that the use of Baijing Steel is specially used to forge the steel for the Hu Ben Gun.

As mentioned earlier, steel frying is carried out in a semi-liquid state, so it is still difficult to separate slag and iron. Only through repeated forging can the inclusion be further eliminated. Under certain conditions, the more repeated forging, the more sufficient inclusion is eliminated, the better the quality of the steel, so a process of indicating the quality of the steel is produced by "refining numbers". This is the origin of the name of "steel making".

Volume 3 of Shen Kuo's "Mengxi Bitan" says: "I went to Cizhou to visit Cizhou and watched the iron crafting in the forging workshop to understand the real steel. Any iron with steel is like steel, if there are tendons in the face, and the soft surface is washed, the gluten will be seen, and the same is true for steel. However, if the fine iron is forged forged more than a hundred fires, each forged, it will be called light, and the pound will not be reduced until it is intensive, then pure steel will be pure. Even if it is refined, it will not be consumed. This is the pure iron, its color is clear and bright, and it will be dark and black, which is very different from the regular iron. There are also those who have refined it and no steel at all, which are produced by the earth."

This "fine iron" refers to the raw material of steelmaking. It is an iron-carbon alloy with a slightly higher carbon content and does not contain much inclusion. "One forging and one light" means that the inclusions are constantly removed, and the iron oxide sheet continues to produce and fall off. "It is relatively common forging but not reducing the weight" is actually reduced, and the amount is naturally reduced. "It is the end of refining and no steel" may be because of the high sulfur content, which causes heat and brittleness.

This is the most detailed passage in ancient Chinese literature about the process and principles of steelmaking in steelmaking. It can be seen that "Hundred Fine" means "Hundred Fine" and the center link is repeated forging. "Hundred Fine" is a kind of "pure steel" after removing the inclusions.

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