Chapter 54: Precious Things
Liu Yu himself is also eating radish stewed mutton in the room, although this is a good food in winter, and it is not appropriate now, but because there is too little pork in the city, he can only do this.
"Brother Yu, look." Uniformed Lori jumped in and put a large cloth bag on the table, Liu Yu immediately smelled a smell of quicklime, and without opening it, he also guessed what was inside. The stomach suddenly churned, and the mutton that had been put in his mouth was quickly thrown into the bowl.
The golden pheasant slave proudly opened the four corners of the package, and a huge head appeared in front of Liu Yu's eyes, this girl's unique hobby really made Liu Yu not know what to say. Seeing her flashing big eyes and looking like she was begging for praise, Liu Yu held back her disgust and nodded solemnly, and waved her hand to take it out quickly.
After the little girl went out with the thing puzzled, Liu Yu couldn't help it anymore, bent down and picked up the copper basin under the bed is a big vomit, all the things he had just eaten were vomited, and he drank a sip of tea on the table, his stomach was still very uncomfortable, and he sighed and threw it down, this meal today is inedible.
"Hey, Brother Yu, don't you eat it, then I'm welcome, alas, but I'm hungry." The golden pheasant slave didn't know when he came in again, and when he saw Liu Yu's situation, he smiled stealthily, and picked up Liu Yu's chopsticks and ate them.
Liu Yu looked at the expression on this face, and suddenly remembered that after having a good time with Sunset that day, she also had the same look. A burst of tears welled up in his eyes, his heart softened, and he brought a large bowl of dishes in front of him to the little girl, and gently called her: "Eat slowly, no one will rob you." ”
"Brother Yu, don't you like me like that, but I only know that, how can this be good? I thought that the golden pheasant slave lowered his head, his voice became smaller and smaller, and Liu Yu didn't hear the words clearly.
"Stupid words, what kind of character is my sister Pheasant, a heroine who can kill the enemy in battle, even Jiang Cai's son admires you very much." Liu Yu looked at the girl's little face that was no longer tender and smooth due to the erosion of wind and frost, as well as the knuckles that had become thick after long-term arching, and the thick calluses on the belly of the fingers, patted her shoulder and said gently.
"Really, you don't have to trick me, that Jiang Ning, he was a little arrogant earlier, and later, hehe." The golden pheasant raised his face, his big eyes flashing with light, as if he had thought of something interesting, and smiled.
Liu Yu looked at the small mouth close at hand, and had a strong urge to kiss, "Beast." He secretly scolded himself, people are not yet adults, this idea is too despicable, what is wrong with him, and he is not a chick who has never seen a woman.
"You came from outside the city, did Jiang Dutong tell you anything?" Gathering his mind, Liu Yu asked casually.
"Oh, the commander wants me to tell you, the Tartar striker is approaching Jiangning Town, the reconnaissance cavalry is blocked by the enemy, and it is impossible to approach, he will lead the team to retreat to Banqiao, and I want you to prepare a countermeasure." The golden pheasant slave bit the meat in his mouth, and replied vaguely, just cut off someone's head, but this will not be taboo at all, the nerves are really thick enough.
The news was expected by Liu Yu, he let Jiang Cai be outside the city, and he did not have the intention of blocking the Tartars. That's too difficult, and it's not cost-effective. Now outside Jiankang City, the surrounding dozens of miles of "strong walls and clear fields" have been nearly completed, all the people have either entered the city, or scattered elsewhere, basically achieved Liu Yu's request, a grain of rice, no one left to the Tartars.
Now his mind is all on improving the city defense, because he has not seen the power of the "return cannon" with his own eyes, Liu Yu can only speculate from the history books. Fortunately, after personally inspecting the city wall, I found that thanks to Ma Guangzu, the former prime minister of Jiankang Mansion, these city walls were almost all newly built in recent years, so they were extremely strong, which gave Liu Yu a little more confidence.
When discussing with Wang Lixin the method of city defense, Wang Lixin was not worried about the problem of attacking the city, and bluntly said, "The guards are not afraid of death, and the soldiers are all using their lives, so there is no city to go down." "Tell Liu Yu that he doesn't need to think about it, with the current shape of Jiankang, as long as there is no shortage of food, it will be difficult for the Yuan people to break the city.
"Brother Yu, Jiang Dutong's subordinates are not good, only a few hundred old soldiers can be used." Just thinking about it, I heard the golden pheasant slave say this.
"Why, I think they ride well." Liu Yu listened very strangely, the last time he sent troops to rescue Jin Ming, he observed the table of more than 1,000 people, why didn't he work?
"You ride a good horse, maybe you draw a bow and shoot arrows, or you can hold a spear to meet the enemy?" The golden pheasant slave was disgusted, turned his head and drank half a bowl of soup.
"Are you saying that they can only ride horses, but not spears and bows on horses?" Liu Yu thought about it and understood, this is not the modern cavalry of later generations wielding a saber in one hand and holding the rope in the other, the weapon of the Song army is a spear, which must be used with both hands, not to mention riding and shooting, which requires some talent.
"Why don't you use a knife, a scimitar that the Tartar doesn't use, and the bending knife you took the last time you broke through the north gate." Liu Yu took out a tissue and helped the golden pheasant slave wipe the oil stains from his mouth and the dust on his face.
"You say this? I'm used to using a bow, it's inconvenient to carry a spear, I really have to fight the enemy, the ordinary Tartar three horsemen are not the opponent of Jiang Du's unified pole gun, the scimitar is too short, and it is normal to kill foot soldiers. The golden pheasant lifted his saber and placed it on the table.
Liu Yu pulled it out, he had also used this kind of knife, and he also slashed Mao Shixiong, so he didn't think it was short. However, he didn't know about the cavalry, Jiang Cai still remembered the situation when he rushed to rescue them in Lugang that day, and he was indeed invincible and unstoppable.
"What kind of weapon did your brother make, why haven't you seen him use it?" Jin Ming has been training the more than 20,000 defeated soldiers in the forbidden army camp, and under the policy of sticks and carrots, it has been quite effective, Liu Yu went to see it once, and he was no longer as depressed as before.
"Well, I can't sue you, it's an expensive thing anyway." The golden pheasant slave's answer made Liu Yu puzzled, what is "expensive things"? Is it that he is holding a golden sword?
Jiang Cai hasn't come back yet, and Jin Ming and Liu Shiyong can discuss these with him in this city, and when he inquired, he learned that Liu Shiyong was a naval general, and he was good at bows and crossbows. It is recorded in the history books of the strange road that after the defeat of Jiaoshan, a student wrote to impeach Chen Yizhong, "Zhang Shijie used the military in the water, and Liu Shiyong used the water in the land".
After eating, Liu Yu took the golden pheasant slave to the forbidden army camp in the north of the city, Jin Ming and they had finished their training and were eating, and when they saw Liu Yu coming, they got up one after another. Liu Yu happened to have not eaten much, so he also went to ask for one, and ate with everyone in the camp.
"Sabre?" Jin Ming looked at the shape of the curved-bladed saber with gauntlets drawn by Liu Yu on a piece of white paper, frowned and said nothing, he couldn't judge the merits without seeing the real thing, so he could only say it intuitively.
"This thing is not much different from our saber, a certain Guangjie army is a part of the palace front guard pro-army horse army, I am short of horses in the Song Dynasty, each horse army is a skilled person with bows and horses, and the time spent is innumerable. Taishou wants to train a large number of cavalry with this? But where did the horse come from? ”
Jin Ming nodded and shook his head, it was still that unsolvable problem, lack of horses and horses, so they could only be elite and strong, and the Song people couldn't wait to train every cavalry to be like Jiang Cai. Liu Yu thought for a while and understood what he meant, but this was something that proved advanced in later generations, and he didn't want to give up lightly.
This is not only a matter of appearance, but more importantly, the material, he has carefully studied the curved knife used by Song Bing, the hardness is not enough, it will curl the blade if it can't be cut for a while, it is too hard, and it is easy to collapse, and the smelting technology of steel is how many generations worse. I can't say anything about this, so I can only bring it for physical inspection next time.
"Lao Jin, what kind of weapon did you make yourself, you haven't seen it yet, can you take it out and open your eyes?" In a blink of an eye, Liu Yu changed the topic.
"Hugh listened to that Nizi's nonsense, very rare things, just ordinary guns." As soon as Jin Ming heard it, he knew that his sister had leaked his mouth, and glared at her fiercely.
"Brother Yu asked first, and I didn't say anything to him, don't give to me." The golden pheasant slave was still a little afraid of this brother who had been like a father since he was a child, so he was so aggrieved that he whispered his defense.
When Liu Yu heard this, he became interested, and he must have an inside story, and the officers who looked at him were also curious, and they were busy coaxing, and everyone saw that Taishou was like this, and they didn't make a lot of noise.
Seeing this, Jin Ming couldn't help but shake his head, but he couldn't resist everyone's insistence, turned around and entered the big tent, and after a while, he took a long stick out, Liu Yu looked at that thing, nothing surprising, what is there to hide.
"Catch it, Hugh is going to fall to the ground." Seeing his expression, Jin Ming tore off the cloth wrapped outside, and threw the stick over, Liu Yu subconsciously took it, and his hand sank, almost unable to hold it. With a pillar on the ground, Liu Yu erected the stick hard, and after a closer look, it was red up and down.
"It's just a cooked copper stick, and it's not very heavy, more than 30 catties, so it's stable." Jin Ming looked at him and said with a smile, Liu Yu only then understood what Jin Pheasant Nu meant, the copper of the Song Dynasty was expensive, this Jin Ming took thirty catties of copper as a weapon, isn't it an "expensive thing".