Li Laoer was wearing a piece of iron-inserted cotton armor. This piece of cotton armor was seized when he killed a single Jurchen cavalry. Like the red war horse under his crotch, it was a trophy seized. There were two white-armored Bayala soldiers in the Fan family caravan. Li Laoer knew that the cotton armor on his body could not stop the heavy arrows shot from the twelve powerful bows of the Bayala soldiers.

"The Fan family of Jiexiu, there are Jiannu Tartars guards in the caravan. The Ming army in Zhangjiakou, Xuanda Prefecture, did not know what to eat. The caravan not only brought food, iron, salt and other prohibited items to go out to support Jiannu, but there were Tatars in the caravan, and Guanka Ming army didn't care. Just turned a blind eye and let them go out to leave?" Li Laoer said in his heart.

Li Laoer didn't know that the Ming army stationed in Xuanzhen, Zhangjiakou, were all fat and shortages. As long as the money was collected, they would be released directly. Officers at all levels of Xuanda, from generals to small flags of hundreds of households, all had enough benefits to the Shanxi merchants. Now the Ming Dynasty has owed serious military pay. These Shanxi merchants have fed the Xuanda garrison, and who has eaten enough to smash their jobs? Even the honest and honest governor Lu Xiangsheng of Xuanda could not uproot the major forces in Xuanda.

Li Laoer had long wanted to rob the Shanxi merchant caravan. These unscrupulous merchants brought out the seclusion food, iron tools and salt that the Jurchens in the Later Jin Dynasty were urgently needed, and exchanged for silver stains covered with blood. The silver was the proceeds of the Hou Jin Dynasty's several robberies. Many gold and silver treasures were stained with blood, as if silently telling the crimes of the Hou Jin Dynasty.

A Han man with a beard and a black dog-skin hat was named Li Hong, who was also a horse thief outside the border. He was a good brother who had been playing with Li Laoer since childhood. Li Hong had lived outside the pass for a long time and was no different from the Mongols. He had superb riding skills and accurate archery skills. He used a six-power riding bow and a ten-power step bow. The six-power riding bow could shoot light arrows to 150 steps away, and had great lethality against armorless targets. However, when a riding bow encountered a Jurchen heavy armored soldier protected by thick armor, his effect dropped rapidly, and dozens of arrows might not be able to kill a heavy armored cavalry.

"Brother, do you have the idea of ​​attacking the Fan family?" Li Hong asked.

Li Laoer replied: "Yes, the Fan family is the largest merchant in Jiexiu. Every time he ventures to Manchuria, he sends a lot of food and iron tools to the Jurchens. Otherwise, how could the Jurchens defeat the Mongolian tribes? Their goods were sent to Manchuria, and the price was more than ten times higher. Every time he exchanged them for Dongzhu, ginseng, bear skin, and countless gold and silver treasures. He was transported back to the pass and changed hands. I don't know how much profit it would be. If he could rob the Fan family, the gold and silver they earned would be spent in his life."

"If you have money, you have to have a life of life. Brother, do you see those two white-armored knights?" Li Hong pointed to the two Jurchen cavalry in the Fan family caravan and said, "That are the two most elite white-armored Bayalas of the Jurchens. They are the best warriors selected from the elite of a hundred battles. Each white-armored Bayala has practiced martial arts since he was a child, and has at least ten skills in archery, horse riding and shooting. Just the two of us are not their two opponents when we go up like this."

"Brother Li is sure to shoot one Baijia Bayala soldier with one arrow?" Li Lao Er asked, "If you can shoot one, I will leave the rest to my brother. I am sure to stab him under the horse with a spear."

Li Hong shook his head: "Impossible, I'll go over with one arrow, he can easily avoid it. Even with a bow, it's impossible to guarantee that a white-Argy Bayala can be shot with one arrow."

Li Laoer used a horse lance that was 18 feet long, which was his own weapon. Since this era, Li Laoer has been thinking about how to restrain Jurchen savages who were riding and shooting by archers. The combstone guns were obviously too slow to load and it was difficult to form suppression firepower. Although the armor-breaking ability at close range was quite good, it was easy to defend the city. In the field, the bird gunners would be suppressed and shot by the Later Jin archers. As for making flintlock guns, it looks simple, but it is very troublesome to make them. First of all, the springs of the flintlock guns are much more reliable than those of the bird guns. Otherwise, if they do not ignite, they must be made of the best Su steel.

A pound of Sugang can be sold for more than five taels of silver. Now even if it is six taels of silver, it is still priceless and difficult to get it. So Li Laoer gave up the idea of ​​making a flintlock rifle.

As for the three-eyed guns that the Ming army often used, this kind of firearm has a fast firing speed. Within thirty steps, it can break cotton armor and chain mail, within twenty steps, it can break iron cotton armor, which is covered with multi-layer heavy armor. If it is well made, the three-eyed gun is equivalent to a short-barrel bird gun, or three short-barrel bird guns are tied together. After being beaten, it can be used as a stick.

But the three-eyed gun is just a fire door gun after all. When firing, you need to hold a three-eyed gun in one hand and a fuse rope in the other hand, and then stab the three fire doors in sequence to complete the firing. It is extremely inconvenient to aim. Unlike a bird gun, just pull the trigger, you can press the fuse into the medicine pool and ignite the fire gun to fire the projectile.

But firearms must be powerful, first of all, the firearms and gunpowder must be qualified. Under the Daming craftsmanship system, the firearms and gunpowder created are mostly unqualified defective products. When soldiers use these firearms to fight, the first thing they should consider is not to blow up the chamber and hurt themselves. Is this killing the enemy or killing their own people?

Li Laoer, who had been thinking for a long time, first thought of was to build a horse spear.

The best thing to deal with cavalry is the spearmen, but the spearmen is an infantryman. If they win, they cannot catch up with the cavalry, and if they lose, they cannot run away. If they form a formation, the cavalry will not rush. If they do not form a formation, they will be killed. If they are not form a formation, they will be passively beaten. Therefore, the best thing to deal with cavalry is the spearmen, but Li Guanghui only realized after traveling to this era that the short spears in his hands are all disposable weapons, and they will quickly attack on horseback. When the cavalry hits the target, they must throw them away, otherwise the broken spear may in turn hurt himself.

So is there a rifle that can be used repeatedly? Yes, but that one is not called a rifle, but a horse lance, which is a weapon that truly uses a riding to defeat a rider.

However, this horse lance was very time-consuming to make. As early as five years ago, Li Laoer began to build ten horse lances. The wood used for the horse lances was the main trunk of high-quality tough wood, which was peeled into uniform thickness and glued. The tough wood was the best for bows. Soaking the fine wood repeatedly with oil. The soaking was no longer deformed and no longer cracked. The first step was completed. This process took nearly a year. After a year, the strips were taken out and the shade was dry for several months. Then, they were glued into a thick handful of 1,800 meter long, which was a Han ruler. One 8 feet long was four points and one meter. The outer layer was wrapped with hemp rope. When the hemp rope was dry, apply raw paint and wrapped with kudzu cloth.

The lacquer is dried on the gauze, and it is wrapped one layer after another until it is cut with a knife. The spear rod makes a metal sound, but it keeps not cracking. This is the case. Then remove the head and ends and cut it to about six feet. The front is equipped with the head of the spear, and the back is equipped with a red copper spear. Continuous adjustments are made. The standard for passing is to hang a hemp rope two feet at the tail of the spear. The entire spear can not fall or fall in the air like a scale rod. In this way, the general can hold the spear tip forward without any effort.

Horse lances are precious weapons. One horse lance can be worth a thousand taels of silver. However, Li Laoer made his own horse lance, and the cost of the first and second period was less than twenty taels of silver. It just took too long and the scrap rate was too high. In five years, ten horse lances only resulted in four poles, and the rest were scrapped.
Chapter completed!