When Zhang Huangyan said goodbye that day, he gave Wang Xinyu a cloth bag.

After leaving the boat, Wang Xinyu opened the cloth bag, and was pleasantly surprised to find that there was a book inside, which was actually the book "Artifact Spectrum" written by Zhao Shizhen! This is a treasure!

Zhao Shizhen, also a native of Zhejiang, was implicated in the "Demon Book Case" during the Wanli period, and because he offended many people, he finally died of depression. His works are still collected in the coastal areas of Zhejiang, and Zhang Huangyan is one of them.

Wang Xinyu didn't know that Zhang Huangyan had no craftsmen in his hands and no production capacity, he originally wanted to dedicate the "Artifact Spectrum" to King Yanping a long time ago, but because of King Yanping's attitude towards King Lu, Zhang Huangyan hid this book. Later, I met Wang Xinyu, and heard that this person had made a flowering bomb, as well as a new siege method, and made great contributions, so I had the heart to let this book meet the people who really needed it. But then he saw this man digging into his corner, and he was angry, so he hesitated and refused to take out the book. In the end, he still gave the "Artifact Spectrum" to Wang Xinyu.

opened the "Artifact Spectrum" and looked through it, Wang Xinyu found that the level of Daming scientists back then was indeed extraordinary! In fact, the wisdom of the Chinese has always been very high, but it has not been fully developed.

The "Artifact Spectrum" recorded many weapons that Wang Xinyu had not thought of before, which surprised him very much. However, after reading the book carefully, I found that the manufacture of those weapons is very difficult, and many of them are still based on theory. Perhaps Zhao Shizhen had tried to produce it back then, but after all, because of the high process required and the high price, there was no mass production.

The rocket recorded in the book made Wang Xinyu's eyes shine: Isn't this a single rocket?

With this kind of sharp weapon, it is much more convenient for one's own special combat team to assassinate or destroy important targets.

However, the rocket in "Artifact Spectrum", because the rocket does not have a tail, may make the accuracy too poor, Wang Xinyu considered it himself, and installed the tail fins on the tail of the individual rocket. As for whether the tail wing should be made of paper, or wood, or bamboo, or even iron, that was the matter of the craftsmen, and he could only provide drawings.

Look at the electric switch recorded in the book, it is an epoch-making product! That kind of thing is actually a miniature version of the Franc machine gun, which can be loaded into the sub-gun, fired continuously with the arquebus, has the rate of fire of a breech gun, and is a very powerful weapon.

However, the bolt is fired with a fire rope and has a lot of drawbacks. So Wang Xinyu slightly improved the electric pistol, and it became a flintlock pistol that could fire quickly, which could be continuously loaded into the pistol and continuously fire bullets to reach the rate of fire of the later rear-loading rifles. However, the electric switch is expensive to build, the manufacturing technology is quite complicated, and like the Franc machine, there is a problem of air leakage, so it cannot be equipped in large quantities, and can only be used as a special combat weapon.

With individual rockets and electric switches, what weapons do you need to equip the special combat team?

According to the inspiration of the electric switch, Wang Xinyu designed the rotary tube pistol by himself when he was on the ship, the principle is similar to that of the electric switch, but the length of the sub-gun is increased, the long tube is removed, and the automatic rotation mechanism is added, it becomes a rotary tube pistol, which can fire seven bullets in a row, and then replace the barrel, which is actually seven sub-guns tied together, and can be fired continuously, so as to achieve the effect of the later revolver. It's just that there is no rifling, and the sub-gun is heavier than bullets, and the amount of ammunition carried is not too large, but it is enough for the special combat team, and a team member carries ten of these replaceable barrels, and there are 70 bullets, which can be fired 70 times in a row.

As for the Mini bullet rifle, Wang Xinyu himself wanted to make it for a long time, but considering that the cost of that kind of gun was too high, it could only be made in small quantities, so he didn't consider it. When he saw the electric switch, he had a whim: If the electric switch and the Mini bullet rifle were used alternately, combining far and near, it would not be a very powerful special warfare weapon? So he changed the drawings of the flintlock pistol and added rifling to make it this rifle. However, the bullets of the Mini bullet rifle are not easy to make, and the price will be much more expensive, and special molds will be needed to make the bullets at that time.

So today, Wang Xinyu came up with the drawings of four extremely powerful special warfare weapons.

Naturally, there are still some unrealistic and not easy to use weapons in the "Artifact Spectrum", and Wang Xinyu did not adopt them, such as the multi-barreled Thunderbolt, the kind of three-eyed gun that is equivalent to magnification, and the fire door is used to ignite, whether it is reliable or accurate, it is also troublesome to load, so it is not taken out.

"My lord, can you let me read that book?" Hong Xiguan asked.

Wang Xinyu took out the "Artifact Spectrum" and handed it over: "You can take it and read it, you can't understand it after reading it!" Everything here has been improved by me. ”

Hong Xiguan looked at it a few times, although he roughly knew what it meant, but he really asked him to draw the design drawing, he didn't have that ability, let alone take the essence of it like Wang Xinyu and improve it.

"This book is a weapon of the country, and we can't spread it out!" Wang Xinyu took back the book and wrapped it carefully.

The fleet did not stay much in Xiamen, and in addition to caring about the special combat team, Wang Xinyu also had to take a group of sailors and marine battalions to set off together.

When Gong Xiaoda heard that Wang Xinyu wanted to pick people, he had already concentrated the officers and soldiers of the Marine Battalion of the Navy Division on the martial arts training ground.

"I'm not here during this time, how are these people training?" Wang Xinyu asked.

"Back to my lord!" Gong Xiaoda arched his hand and said, "The adults are all good soldiers!" Although these recruits have only been trained for two months, they are ready to go to war! ”

"Good!" Wang Xinyu nodded with satisfaction, "This official now needs a hundred musketeers, a hundred long knife hands, and a hundred short knife hands. You choose a hundred musketeers for me, and I'll send the Tessie to their own firecrackers!" ”

Wang Xinyu's troops had eliminated the sword and shield men and reduced the pikemen, as he required strong armor and did not need heavy shields. As for the pikemen, they were later completely replaced by flintlock muskets with bayonets, so that pikemen, who could only restrain cavalry and were poorer in foot combat, could be phased out, and pikemen were replaced by lancers and flintlock muskezeers armed with bayonets.

"No!" Gong Xiaoda turned around and began to pick people.

The people selected are the musketeers with the best results in normal times.

Soon, a hundred glittering British flintlock pistols were fired.

The musketeers who were not selected looked enviously at the musketeers who had received their own firearms, and some could not help but drool when they saw it.

"Brethren! In the future, we will all switch to this self-generated firebolt! These are the first soldiers to change their costumes, and they will go with Ben to kill the enemy! As long as you do well, when the second batch of self-made fire guns is ready, they will be distributed to the brothers who have done well! Wang Xinyu stood on the podium and said.

Subsequently, Wang Xinyu asked Gong Xiaoda to take this group of soldiers to familiarize themselves with the training of flintlock pistols, and he asked that these soldiers learn to use flintlock pistols in one afternoon. In fact, it is very simple, the use of flintlock pistols is much simpler than arquebuses, and people who can use arquebuses well can quickly get started with flintlock pistols, and they can learn it in just one afternoon. The difference is that the flintlock pistols can be densely packed, because there is no need to worry about the arquebus accidentally igniting the powder pouch of the comrade.

Then the 100 chosen swordsmen were also given weapons: one for each and a good suit of armor.

Hong Xiguan asked on the side: "My lord, you went to Nanyang and still want to fight?" ”

"Yes!" Wang Xinyu nodded.

"Fight with whom? Fight with red-haired ghosts? ”

Wang Xinyu smiled: "Now General Ben won't provoke those red-haired ghosts!" Ben will take these people with them, so that they can see blood! ”

"Blood?"

"Not bad! Those Sulu people slaughtered our Chinese at the instigation of the red-haired ghosts! It's tolerable, it's unbearable! I'm going to show these Sulu people how good we are! Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty said well, those who offend me will be punished even if they are thousands of miles away! Ben will use the blood of those Sulu people to train our elite soldiers in the future! ”

However, there were no bayonets yet, and the musketeers who were issued with flintlock muskets were each issued with a short knife, and the armor of the flintlock musketeers was not bad, which was used to resist the primitive weapons of the Sulus, which could be said to be invincible.

The 300 soldiers selected were in intensive training that afternoon, preparing to set off with Wang Xinyu early the next morning.

Originally, Wang Xinyu wanted to go to the artillery factory, but he didn't go because of the urgency of time. Originally, I wanted to meet Miss Zheng, but I always felt that there was not enough time, and Wang Xinyu, who put work first, didn't even have time to go to the gun factory, so how could he go to Miss Zheng for a date.

Before Wang Xinyu's heels left the barracks, he heard rows of flintlock pistols firing in the barracks, which was Gong Xiaoda leading the musketeers and was training in a volley of queues.

Long-handled sword soldiers and short knife soldiers are also being trained.

In addition to the 300 recruits selected, in order to prevent accidents, Wang Xinyu still brought his own 50 pro-soldiers and 20 veterans who were newly incorporated into the pro-soldier team to set off, and the remaining 30 pro-soldiers and veterans stayed in Xiamen to be responsible for training the recruits.

A pro-soldier team of seventy men, they were not only archers, but also cavalrymen, and elite melee hand-to-hand soldiers. Although he didn't know what the use of cavalry was in the face of the primeval forest on Luzon Island, Wang Xinyu still brought a war horse, which might be useful for chasing and killing the Sulu people near the beach.

In addition to the troops, Wang Xinyu also brought the first batch of people who were ready to go to Luzon to cultivate the land.

The first batch of immigrants had a total of 400 people, these were Qing soldiers and auxiliaries captured in the siege of Yunxiao Zhao'an and other places, they had a certain combat experience, and when they got there, they would be given weapons, and ditches and wooden fences would be built around the manor to resist the attack of the Sulus. After Minzhuang arrived at Dingguo Bay, he would first let them build docks, barracks, and fortifications, so that they could provide facilities for self-protection. After that, the development of the land will begin.

Along with Minzhuang, there are also rice seeds, wheat seeds, sweet potatoes, potatoes, vegetable seeds, breeding pigs, sows, male and female goats, male and female cultivated cattle, chickens, ducks and geese and other animals and plants, which are used to develop wasteland and raise animals in Luzon.

Although these people are not very happy to leave their hometowns and go to distant overseas to make a living, they are all prisoners of war, and they are thankful that they can live a life, and they will not think about how to return after they are far from home.

On the docks, boatmen inspect their ships, and the sailor's auxiliaries are replenishing the fleet.

After Wang Xinyu came out of the Marine Battalion, he rushed to the dock to inspect the condition of the ships and the replenishment of the fleet.

On this voyage to the South Seas, in addition to his own ship, he also brought six search ships to the Great Fortune. Four of the Daifuku ships and their own ships have been loaded with cargo ready for sale in Manila. However, according to Wang Xinyu's request, two more ships were added, and part of the cargo on the Wuyu ship was unloaded and distributed to two empty ships.

When the five ships returned from Zhejiang, each ship was packed. After all, the journey back to Fujian from Zhejiang is short, and there are many islands in the middle that can be used as supply stations. As for the voyage to Manila, there are no supply stations along the way, and at most there are some uninhabited islands where fresh water can be replenished. And on the way, there is a possibility of encountering pirates and even the Dutch! Each ship must not be overfilled, and space must be left for battle.

Part of the cargo brought back from Zhejiang was moved to two empty ships.

The supplies brought out included buckets of fresh water in wooden barrels, bags of rice flour, buckets of fresh vegetables and fruits, bags of beans, buckets of cured meat, and a small amount of fresh meat.

In the South China Sea, fresh water is relatively easy to solve, and in Wang Xinyu's memory, there is fresh water on several nearby islands.