"Load pig iron from Jinmingchi, I'll take something back to your uncle to see, if he is interested, your Wang family will be the monopoly of this thing on Fujian Road in the future."

Huangzhou is not short of pig iron but lack of grain, Weiqiao Town pig iron production as long as you want to smelt, and then supply a few Wang family is enough, that thing is not steel, do not care about the carbon content, throw it into the blast furnace to burn, anyway, the blast furnace can not be extinguished, no Wang family also has to maintain a small batch of smelting every day.

Therefore, the exchange of pig iron for grain is not a loss, at least not for yourself. As for how many times the profit that the Wang family can make when they get the pig iron, it has nothing to do with themselves.

I have to help the Wang family again, let them earn more, so that they can tie this family to their chariots, so that Huangzhou will not be short of food in the next few years. In a few years, I can't think about the long term, and it will be a problem where I will be in a few years.

"But the glass jars used by those guys in the lab!" Saying that other crowns didn't react so quickly, as soon as he talked about making money, his brain speed immediately increased by two levels, no different from a genius.

"Don't dream, the matter of burning glass can only be carried out by Mawei City for the time being, but there is indeed glass on this thing. Mrs. Lian, quickly take this ignorant soldier to see what light is, the official still has to count the goods, and he has no time to talk to him about these pickles. "Take the crown to see the gas lights yourself? It's impossible, the prince must be reserved.

In fact, Hong Tao wanted to hurry up to see the steel plate crossbow produced in Weiqiao Town, although Wang Datou promised that as long as he was a qualified engineer and got the drawings, he would be able to make them meticulously, but he still didn't dare to believe it before he tried it himself.

The small 300 box carts were basically loaded with armaments, except for some cuirasses and helmets, the most important ones were three new weapons, rockets, steel plate crossbows, and siege crossbows.

These three weapons have already been made in small parts by the ironworks in Huangzhou City, but due to the limitations of manpower and raw materials, it is unlikely that too many will be produced in a short period of time. It is Weiqiao Town that can really embody the large-scale industrial production, and the thousands of workers are not hired for nothing.

Facts have proved that the production process and quality of Weiqiao Town have not only not regressed, but have also improved. The 2,000 steel plate crossbows they provided this time were somewhat different from those produced in Huangzhou City, with thick and thin crossbow arms, thin and thick. It's really not a matter of the level of craftsmanship, but a more scientific measurement method.

Spring steel, a special type of steel, cannot be artificially mass-produced at present, which means that the steelmaking workshop cannot control which furnace produces spring steel and which furnace produces ordinary carbon steel.

The reason is very simple, they do not have professional testing instruments and reagents, can not accurately determine the content of various raw materials, can only rely on the record of ore, coke, limestone and other substances of origin, source, grade or something, in the general range of experience to try to narrow the gap between each furnace, increase the probability of producing spring steel. But in fact, most of it is still a matter of luck.

To this end, the town of Weiqiao also improved the scale of the blast furnace and the open hearth, not to build a larger stove, but to build a little smaller, but to build several more. The same batch of raw materials is sent to different blast furnaces for refining in batches, regardless of labor costs and raw material costs, as long as there is an extra furnace of good steel, it is a victory.

However, in this way, the properties of each batch of spring steel are not the same, some have better performance, and some have slightly weakened performance. If it is all manufactured according to the drawings given by Wang Datou, it will cause obvious differences in performance between steel plate crossbows.

Although the Wu family is not as stubborn as Peng Da, they don't bother to do such work that does not conform to the identity of a master craftsman, but they can't miss Huangzhou's quota, what should they do?

The craftsmen found a rough way to measure the range of the crossbow arm's charge value, and then adjusted the range by changing the thickness and width of the crossbow blades, and finally reached a basic agreement.

Despite the fact that the steel plate crossbow is smaller than the Divine Arm Bow, its range is not inferior to that of the Divine Arm Bow when fired horizontally with wooden feather arrows, and its piercing ability is stronger. Because the arrows are all steel, they have a hardness advantage against the iron armor at this time.

If you use featherless arrows for short-distance shooting, you can't even carry the surface carburized plate armor produced in Weiqiao Town at about 30 meters, and an arrow is a hole.

Projectile, Hong Tao did not prepare this kind of relatively light weight arrows at all, it is too wasteful to shoot in a large area, and the arrows must be consumed after a battle, which is not conducive to long-term combat. But it's not that there's nothing to be done at a very long distance, and that's when the siege crossbow comes into play.

The siege crossbow is an enlarged and reinforced version of the steel plate crossbow, and its crossbow arm is composed of two layers of steel plates, the inner one is shorter, and it is fixed on the long arm with a steel hoop to strengthen the elasticity.

There is also a six-legged wooden frame under the crossbow body, usually the crossbow body and the frame are separated and put on the box car to move with the army, in wartime first use long iron nails to fix the four corners of the frame on the ground, and then use three bolts and two card slots to firmly fix the crossbow body on the shelf, and then use a ratchet winder to wind the siege crossbow.

The whole set of procedures only needs two soldiers to operate, and when necessary, you can also carry it up and run, as long as you press on a heavy object, you can also launch, and the accuracy is slightly poor.

It can simultaneously shoot two giant arrows thicker than a thumb and nearly one and a half meters long to a distance of 300 meters and pierce through all armor, and can also throw arrows with larger and longer feathers for more than 500 meters.

It can also be replaced with a bowstring with a leather pocket, which can be used to throw orbs such as small thunderbolts and canisters. The distance is a little closer, and the maximum distance is only two hundred and thirty meters.

The most interesting thing is that in front of the crossbow you can also add two planks, which are also bolted. These two planks were the defensive equipment of the siege crossbow, which Hong Tao borrowed from the Guolunov heavy machine gun. During the siege of the city, it can more or less defend against enemy arrow attacks, and the distance of more than 200 meters is not safe.

Don't look at the nearly 300 box cars, most of them are loaded with various crossbow arrows and small thunderbolts, but the heaviest and most space-occupying is not them, but the box cars themselves.

One hundred and fifty of them were purpose-built, and their frames, suspensions, spoked wheels, and box plates were thickened, enlarged, and thickened to make them stronger and more resistant to blows.

Of course, this is followed by a reduction in cargo space and a decrease in cargo weight. In order to travel for a long time, it must be driven by two horses or camels.

This is another new weapon of Hong Tao, the chariot!

It is not a chariot that charges into battle in ancient times, but a logistics transport vehicle that can follow the light cavalry or infantry on long journeys and play a defensive role in battle.

On the question of how to deal with the cavalry troops of Western Xia, Hong Tao did not choose to use cavalry to restrain the cavalry, but chose a chariot formation. On the basis of the Xiang army, it is possible to train them into soldiers who can fight in a few months, but it is impossible to train them into cavalry.

In addition to riding horses, you must be familiar with horse nature, understand the advantages and disadvantages of cavalry combat, and raise war horses, etc., and you will not be able to form combat effectiveness in three or five years.

Hong Tao doesn't have these skills, and Miao Kui, Jiang Erlang, and Shi Tong will have limited points. Xi Luosa is accustomed to cavalry combat, and has also commanded small and medium-sized cavalry attacks, but the fighting style of the Fan people is useless for the Song army, which is still useless.

Since you can't play cavalry in a short period of time, Hong Tao simply doesn't bother with that brain, let's play infantry. The threshold for this class is relatively low, and it is most suitable for a mallet general like himself.

It is true that he is not good at commanding cold weapons in combat, but the ancients were not very familiar with hot weapons and the tactics of later generations. In comparison, both sides are novices, and their disadvantages have been virtually reduced, but their advantages have expanded, and they have not suffered losses.

But the traditional infantry certainly didn't make it, marching too slowly, relying too much on logistical supplies. When encountering the Western Xia army, it had to be hanged and beaten, and if it won, it can't catch up, and if it loses, it can't run away.

Traveling with box carts and camels, this is a bit like the mechanized infantry of later generations. In terms of marching speed, it is higher than that of infantry, and it is basically the same as cavalry, but the combat mode is still mainly infantry.

The box car is an ancient armored vehicle, which can transport troops and supplies, and can also be used as a cover in wartime, which is definitely better than traditional infantry when used against cavalry.