On October 30 of the ninth year of Xuanli, it snowed heavily in Yanshan Pass.

On the morning of this day, the guard of honor set off at Yanshan Pass, walked out of this majestic pass, and walked into the endless snowfield, which is a foreign country.

The grasslands have long been covered with heavy snow, and the vast snowfields are uninhabited.

Based on this reason, Peng Chengwu, the general of the northern border army, proposed to Tuoba Qiu, the envoy of the relatives, to send an additional 1,000 people, on the grounds that it was a long way to go to the deserted country, and Princess Dayu was delicate and delicate, so she was afraid that she would not be used to eating on the way.

These 1,000 people were not the main force of the northern border army, but the miscellaneous servants in charge of logistics, so Tuoba Qiu finally agreed that Peng Chengwu would send 100 people to be responsible for the diet of Her Royal Highness the princess.

Bai Yulian was mixed in with this hundred miscellaneous servants, dressed up as a miscellaneous servant.

Fu Xiaoguan didn't go to the Wasteland, because he changed his original plan, and the team would not arrive at the newly built palace in the Wasteland and would return-

The Excalibur Army's combat effectiveness exceeded his expectations, and now they are in the territory of the Desolate Man, they have plundered several Desolate Pastures, have enough war horses, and all of them have changed into Desolate costumes.

When the guard of honor enters the territory of the wasteland, the divine sword will be unsheathed again, robbing the team, killing Tuoba Qiu and Tuoba Yuan by the way, and then snatching back Her Royal Highness the Third Princess.

As for the responsibility, of course the Yu Dynasty will hold the wasteland responsible!

As for the consequences, Fu Xiaoguan has no worries about the conflict between the two countries that may be triggered.

And Fu Xiaoguan also left Xincheng at this moment, he returned to Pingling County and came to the Zhouji blacksmith shop.

After these days of research, Blacksmith Zhou has a deeper understanding of this new method of steelmaking.

"Young master, you see, this steel has been a step further than iron in strength, but the villain thinks there is still room for improvement. These days, the villain has been wondering where the problem arises? Now it seems that the temperature of the villain's wok is not enough, resulting in the impurity content of the molten iron is still too high. ”

"Of course, it's such a material, after adopting Childe's method of refining a hundred times...... Blacksmith Zhou took out an iron bar and handed it to Fu Xiaoguan, "This piece is the finished product after the villain was forged by the method of hundred refining yesterday, and its hardness and toughness have surpassed the villain's pig iron pouring technique." ”

Blacksmith Zhou was completely immersed in this new method of steelmaking these days, and Fu Xiaoguan gave him a full thousand taels of silver tickets, which he used to buy a lot of materials, and of course, invited the best doctor for his son.

He smelted a whole piece of steel, using the method of frying steel taught to him by Fu Xiaoguan, which is already of epoch-making significance - that is, this method can now be mass-produced steel.

But he still feels that this steel is not perfect enough, and if it can be further improved in toughness and strength, it will be considered a technological breakthrough.

Fu Xiaoguan thought about it, it seems that this thing has to be matched with the blast furnace, and the temperature of the blast furnace can reach about 1200, but the blacksmith can't leave this place this week, what should he do?

He took this piece of steel and looked at it carefully, knocked it, shook it, and it was good!

With this thing, the improvement of both flintlock pistols and cardinal cannons will be improved, and the weapons and equipment of the Excalibur Army can also be updated.

Of course, there is a broader market for the application of steel, but if this thing is produced, the priority must be used in weapons and equipment.

"If you want to go into Pingling Mountain to see the ore vein, what is the best time to do it?"

"Back to the young master, it's best to be at the turn of spring and summer."

"Hmm......" Fu Xiaoguan nodded, he had to wait for half a year, and it would be a bit painful to transport the iron from Xishan to this place.

"Beat me into a ...... Tang knife, like this. ”

Fu Xiaoguan squatted on the ground with a charcoal pen and drew it, and Blacksmith Zhou also squatted and watched carefully, he didn't feel strange about the young master's strange actions and strange ideas.

The young master is not an ordinary person!

He didn't know how loud the name Fu Xiaoguan was in the world, and the method of frying steel proposed by the young master alone was enough to make him admire it.

"The knife is ten feet long, it is a straight knife, the back of the knife is ridged, the tip of the knife is curved, and the handle is wrapped in leather......"

Fu Xiaoguan said a lot more, and Blacksmith Zhou was stunned for a moment.

He had beaten iron for half his life, and he had fought a lot of swords, but he had never seen a weapon of this style.

You say it's a knife, it doesn't have the width of a knife and doesn't have the arc of a knife, you say it's a sword, it's not a two-sided blade, so the thing called Tang Dao that the young master said made Blacksmith Zhou's eyes light up again.

"Let's try it, villain."

"Don't worry......" Fu Xiaoguan dropped the charcoal pen and stood up, and asked, "Is your son okay?" ”

"Thank you, young master, little man, my son is good."

"You're going to let him inherit your craft?"

Blacksmith Zhou thought for a moment, "I'm just this one son, and the Zhou family's iron-making skills can't be broken." ”

"I have an idea you'd like to hear."

"Young Master, please speak!"

"I'm going to set up a weapons bureau in this place, and I'm going to craft weapons, including the Tang knife I just told you about, and of course everything else. This is not a small fight like your small workshop, it needs a larger scale, and it also needs to cover steel frying and refining. ”

"It will take a lot of blacksmiths, and I can send you some of them, but you'll have to take care of most of them."

"This weapon bureau will be handed over to you to be in charge, and you can teach them the techniques of frying steel and the method of refining. This kind of thing only prevents the progress of technology, in fact, this steel is not the best, and there is also an alloy called alloy, which is made by calcining and fusing different materials. ”

"I don't have time to go into detail about this, so you'll need to take them to your own research. Of course, this kind of research does not require many people, what is needed is experience, and here it is mainly about making weapons. ”

"After I leave, you plan it yourself, come up with a plan, and then find Zhang Ce, the person in charge of the cement workshop, he is one of my housekeepers, all the expenses and materials you need here are directly contacted by you and him, but the accounts must be clear, you may be competent?"

Blacksmith Zhou was taken aback, this was the young master's trust in himself!

The young master taught himself the method of frying steel and the method of refining, of course he has to fight the best blade in the world for the young master!

What could be more desirable as a blacksmith than smelting the best materials to create the strongest blades?

He bowed, "The villain will definitely live up to the young master's trust!" ”

"Well, I will ask Steward Zhang to build a new workshop at the foot of that mountain, which will be completed and put into use after the New Year, and you will receive people to prepare these days."

For this idea, Fu Xiaoguan had a temporary idea, and the progress of material science did not happen overnight, and now with this fried steel, it can already make the weapons of the Excalibur surpass all opponents.

Since Blacksmith Zhou can't go to Xishan, he will set up another weapon bureau here, and also recruit a group of reserves for Excalibur here.

In Fu Xiaoguan's plan, the Excalibur Special Forces will have 10,000 qualified soldiers, and when these 10,000 troops are formed, they will take the Wasteland Sacrifice Flag!