Daqin Engineers

In terms of riding training, Shen Bing discovered that the reason why the Central Plains cavalry could not ride and shoot before was largely due to inertia.

To put it simply, most soldiers only want to be able to ride horses and march, so they don't want to further improve their riding skills to the level of riding and shooting.

This is related to the heavier foot combat in this era, that is, the cavalry often dismounts after reaching the destination.

This is also the reason why Wei Wei was puzzled by Shen Bing's request for cavalry and shooting.

Shen Bing's requirements are simple: craftsmen must at least be able to ride horses and soldiers must be able to ride and shoot, otherwise they must be driven out of the navy.

You must know that these were prisoners of the Wei army, and the fate of being expelled from the navy was to go back to be prisoners.

If they are lucky, one day they will be sent to enslavement or be incorporated into the dead soldiers to fight against the Chu army.

No matter what kind of result it is, it is far from the treatment of naval soldiers and the chance of promotion.

So upon hearing this order, everyone was practicing hard riding and shooting.

Of course, hard training does not mean blind training.

Shen Bing talked with Yan a few times and learned every point of riding and shooting in detail, among which even the attention that Yan himself did not realize was split step by step.

Shen Bing then divided the training into two steps according to these:

One is to let go of horseback riding.

The second is to put arrows on horseback.

The former is the basis of the latter, and only when you can free your hands to ride can you bend the bow and set the arrow.

The latter is the key and difficult point. It not only requires bow and arrow but also hits.

Let go of riding a horse is to practice riding on the back of a horse. This requires overcoming psychological fear and adapting to balance with your legs.

Of course, there is a process: the horse moves slowly at first, and then slowly accelerates after adapting.

When shooting arrows, use the rocker to simulate the bump on the horseback.

This may not be realistic on horseback, but it can reduce the casualties caused by training in a series of steps and also reduce the psychological pressure of soldiers.

Wait for the two to become almost one before you merge them into one.

Compared with riding and shooting, the training of water warfare is much simpler:

In combat, he still practiced bow and arrow...Many people like to use crossbows, but Shen Bing strictly ordered all arrows to be used.

Compared with horseback, crossbows can indeed be used in water warfare, because the crossbow can be opened with feet and waist on the ship.

The problem is that water battles are more where the ships of the two sides stagger and shoot at each other... There are also cases of head-on shooting, but relatively few, because the enemy and the enemy have shields on the front.

This means that water battles usually occur when the enemy is close, so the advantages of the long range of the crossbow are difficult to use, but the high rate of fire of the bow is very useful.

On the other hand, Shen Bing considered one point:

This is a unit that can ride and shoot and fight in water.

If they used bows and arrows as cavalry, and changed to crossbows in water battles... Doesn't it mean that each of them should bring two equipments, bows and crossbows, and two arrows?

This will obviously cause confusion and inconvenience of equipment and supplies.

So don't think about it, use the bow together.

The command aspect is similar to the infantry battle, that is, beat the drums to advance and honour the gold to retreat, and then play various flags and put in different formations.

This is not what Shen Bing is worried about. Training requires strict requirements and then practice makes perfect. The habit becomes natural. If you practice too much, it will include swimming. It is correct to practice breaststroke and freestyle if all the movements are standardized.

Shen Bing was still worried about the armor.

He asked several divisions of the engineers, whether it was a defense division or a blade division, they didn't know how to make armor.

To be precise, they don't make rattan armor... This should have been a problem with the blade master.

The blade division engineer called owe, it was the one who made him want to enter the water army after Cangtuo's favor made him make a saw.

It is said that he was born when his father owed someone else's debt and couldn't pay off.

In this era, debts can't be done for Lao Lai, if the defendant is not enough, he may be sold as a slave.

But at this time his father discovered a formula that would make the bronze sword more sharp and durable...

This is related to the manufacturing method of the bronze sword.

Copper itself is very soft, it will become hard after adding tin, but if tin is added too much, it will become brittle and easy to break.

This is what is said in "Lv Shi Qin Qiu", "golden soft and tin soft, if two soft are combined, it is rigid".

In fact, the ancients made bronze wares constantly using practice to find the best matching ratio, the most important of which is the matching ratio of bronze swords.

The proportion of bronze swords in Qin Shi is generally 66.6% copper and 33.3% tin.

But in fact, this is a formula with insufficient tin purity. Modern metallurgical knowledge believes that the tin content cannot exceed 20%, otherwise it will not be practical.

As a result, in ancient times, goldsmiths were always inaccurate because of the impure raw materials. There were various strange methods of casting swords among the people, and it is said that there were also people using furnaces.

If a certain goldsmith uses a certain proportion or method to make a few good swords, it will be a lucky one.

The father who owed him was one of the goldsmiths who hit the big luck, so he paid the debt.

So Qiancai is a master and becomes a blade master engineer, otherwise he should go to hard labor with his father to pay off the debt.

Shen Bing handed the sketch of the vine armor to Oow.

I was frightened without a glance at the sketch:

"Lieutenant, such a suit of armor is not something subordinates can control..."

"It's too difficult to make."

He obviously thought it was a bronze armor.

It is beyond his scope to make the bronze armor into this shape.

In addition, the armor of the Qin Army is still a unified standard, and it is impossible to change the shape for the three thousand navy men.

Shen Bing explained:

"This armor is made by Akato."

After hearing the words, he said "Oh". Although he was a little confused and didn't know what the rattan armor could do, he replied after reading the sketch:

"It would be much less difficult if it were made by Akato."

"But... it's not subordinate."

"The school lieutenant should look for the craftsman who made the folk weaving basket."

Shen Bing felt that this was reasonable, so he immediately asked his guards to find a craftsman.

After half an hour, Ren brought back the two old men, they were only shivering and pale in fright.

Shen Bing thought how Ren had abused them, and he knew it was a misunderstanding when he asked...

These artists were originally from Wei and Shen Bing and his party were from Qin Jun.

Although Daliang was already in Qin's land at this time, they hadn't changed their psychology yet, thinking that it would be more fortunate to be caught in the Daqin barracks this time, so they kowtow for mercy when they saw Shen Bing.

I didn't want to Shen Bing but just let them make cane armor.

The two elders settled down, and after reading the sketch carefully, they were confident that they could compile the answer.

It's just that if the quantity is large, it will cost money.

Of course, wages are required. If they don’t need wages, wouldn’t they want to starve to death without paying them?

Ask again, it takes about ten days to make up a full set of armor. If you count ten dollars a day, a set of armor costs one hundred dollars.

Those three thousand sets of armor... is three hundred thousand dollars?

Shen Bing could not help but cursed secretly:

"Three hundred thousand dollars?!"

"Where can I find so much money?"

For the first time in this world, Shen Bing was stumped by money issues.