Seeing that his son inadvertently leaked the details, Wu Xiang immediately coughed a few times to remind him. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Wu Sangui came to his senses and shut up.

But Xia Nan had already heard the market price of the war horse, and he had a bottom in his heart. Regardless of whether this price is Wu Sangui's trickery or really leaking, this price can be referenced, and then you only need to make a fuss about "sixty taels and one horses".

He took a moment to say: "The cost price of five taels of silver that General Wu said is probably the old yellow calendar in the Wanli and Apocalypse years. Now, even if the Ministry of War supervises the production of eleven taels and one bird guns, do you dare to use them? ”

Wu Xiang's father and son were speechless.

It is only a matter of time before the bird gun made by the military department is blown up, maybe it will be blown up after three or five shots, or it may be blown up after eight or nine shots, it all depends on luck, not to mention that it is allocated to the Guan Ning Army for free, even if the money is discounted for them to use, I am afraid that few people are willing to be bird guns. And the bird guns of the Qiongzhou battalion fired more than a dozen shots back and forth, and none of them exploded, and the generals of the Guanning Army saw it with their own eyes. Wu Sangui observed carefully, and he also found that the bird gunners of the Qiongzhou battalion dared to use their faces to stick to the body of the gun to aim, indicating that they were not worried about exploding the bore at all, and they had absolute confidence in the weapons in their hands, while the rest of the Ming army's bird gunners were all straightening their hands and raising the gun to the farthest end when shooting, so as not to be injured in the face when exploding, and there was no aiming action at all.

Xia Nan continued: "The bird gun made by my Qiongzhou battalion first selects the best purity iron ore, refines the best wrought iron, and rolls it into a composite barrel, which is completely integrated, there is no welding gap, and there is no need to worry about exploding. Then carefully make a completely different bolt structure, not with the fire rope to ignite, but with flint, so that it can shoot continuously. Finally, the technique of quenching 100 steels is used to create a sharp blade with a spear head, which can be used in hand-to-hand combat. How can such a bird gun be made for five taels and five dollars? ”

Wu Xiang's father and son were stunned when they heard it, they seemed to understand every sentence, but they didn't understand it very well, what composite barrel, what bolt structure, what quenching technique, which made people foggy.

Wu Sangui couldn't help but ask: "Xia Shen will reveal the secrets and plates, aren't you afraid that I will eavesdrop on it, and go back to Liaodong to find a skilled craftsman to draw a scoop according to the gourd and imitate it?" ”

Xia Nan said confidently: "Even if you can find a skilled craftsman, without me sending someone to guide you, the imitation is just a shape, and the bore has to be fried." Just like the Hongyi cannon that the imperial court imitated Xiyi, it is not yet capable of exploding. "Just kidding, the prototype of the Qionghai rifle is the British from the beginning of the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century to use the standard equipment brown bess flintlock pistol, until it was replaced by a rear-loading rifled gun, during which after successive improvements, the last short brown bess is the essence of the British army's two centuries of actual combat experience, with the convenience of the traverser, Lin Weiye stood on the shoulders of others and took a shortcut, so that there is now a Qionghai rifle, and Wu Sangui can make an exact gun with just a few words, then it is really hell.

He knew his own affairs, and Wu Sangui said casually, even if he could order someone to spend a lot of energy and time to imitate one or two bird guns with similar performance, what was the use? When he said this, he just wanted to win the initiative in the negotiation by belittling the other party's bargaining chips. He rolled his eyes and turned the topic to the bayonet again: "You said that the sharp blade of the spear head is made of the technique of quenching a hundred steels, is it an exaggeration?" If every soldier had a hundred steel knives in their hands, this hundred steels would be too worthless. ”

Xia Nan smiled, ordered someone to come in with a Qionghai-style rifle, took off the three-edged spear, and then said to Wu Sangui: "Please General Wu use his saber to slash this spear." ”

Wu Sangui pulled out the knife from the sheath in confusion, and slashed hard at the spear according to his words, sparks flew everywhere, and his arm was numb. Then he looked closely, and there was a slashing mark on the spear, but it did not cause substantial damage, but a small gap appeared at the edge of his blade.

Xia Nan continued, "Please place the saber horizontally on the table. ”

Wu Sangui obediently placed the saber horizontally, and Xia Nan smiled apologetically: "Offended." Then he raised the spear high and smashed it hard into the middle of the blade, and with a "dang" sound, the blade was smashed and bent, and the angle of the bend was close to 90 degrees, which looked like a "curved ruler".

"General Wu, please see, if this kind of spear is on the battlefield, if this kind of spear stabs compete with the sword, the sword will continue to cut this thick spear, but the spear can easily smash the scimitar. The sword that General Wu is equipped with must be a good knife, but it can't withstand this smash, let alone the sword of an ordinary soldier? ”

Wu Sangui picked up the "curved ruler" and was amazed, and Wu Xiang also looked up and down at the so-called "spear stab", salivating. It is no wonder that the Qiongzhou battalion dared to form a formation to deal with the cavalry of the rebels with this kind of spear thorn inserted in the head of the gun, and it turned out to be confident.

"Let's tell you the truth, this kind of bird gun is the guy I eat, and I buy it for someone else, and I don't sell it for any silver, although I am poor in Qiongzhou, I have not fallen to the point of selling guns to eat. If it weren't for the heroes of Guan Ningjun, I wouldn't have sat down to talk about this deal. ”

Wu Sangui and Wu Xiang glanced at each other and exchanged glances, and the father and son both saw their respective meanings: this bird gun is a good thing, it must be won, and the price can be compromised.

Wu Xiang asked: "We sincerely want it, and we also ask General Xia Shen to show sincerity, if this deal is completed, Guan Ningjun and General Xia Shen will be brothers." ”

Xia Nan pretended to think about it for a while, and then spoke: "If such a bird gun is for my own use, the cost price is twenty taels, and I will earn some hard money by selling it to your army, twenty-five taels of silver." Well, how about two bird guns for one war horse? ”

Wu Xiang calculated in his heart: twenty-five taels to buy a bird gun with excellent performance, and it will not explode, it can be used as a spear with a sharp blade, and it can be far and near, which is equivalent to combining the foot archers and spearmen into one, which is indeed not expensive. And although the price of a Mongolian horse is now speculated to a sky-high price of sixty taels, with the influence of Guan Ningjun's border pass, there is no problem in eating at a price of about forty taels.

He asked, "What about the small cannon?" ”

"General Wu is talking about the mountain cannon we use, right?" Xia Nan waved his hand proudly: "Originally, I sold it to others for a thousand taels, but you opened your mouth to say it, and the cost price was six hundred taels." ”

Wu Sangui was overjoyed, in fact, what they wanted most was actually this kind of light cannon. The reason why their father and son were entangled in the bird gun for a long time was to confuse each other, thinking that they valued the bird gun more, and only bought the artillery in passing, so as not to use the artillery to grasp the initiative in the negotiation. In fact, both sides are not short of money, but what they lack is the rare things that the other side has in their hands but they do not have -- the Qiongzhou battalion wants war horses but has no channels, and the Guanning army wants artillery that can be used in field battles but has nowhere to buy them -- both sides want to take the initiative in this transaction negotiation, and it depends on whose skill is skillful.