Mu Jing only stayed in Wudu for two days, after discussing the northern defense with Huang Shao, he began to convene the various ministries of Wudu to discuss government affairs, this year Wudu and Hanzhong will build a Chi Road to Nanzheng, which is very important, and has begun to bid for it.

In addition, the spring ploughing in Wudu is also a trouble, and it is not as efficient as Hanzhong, even if Nong Cao comes to supervise, it is difficult to reach the level of Hanzhong, but on this basis, Mu Jing emphasized the importance of spring ploughing and knocked several county orders.

The next thing is to encourage, Mu Jing personally talked with the county commanders of several counties in Wudu, in addition to discussing government affairs, more importantly, encouraging them, so that they can settle down.

After finishing the matter in a hurry, Mu Jing set off to return to Nanzheng, Hanzhong.

On February 9, Mu Jing had already hurried back to Nanzheng.

Time is so rushed, this half a month, Mujing has been on horseback, the plan has been all set, now waiting to be implemented, time is everything, must be done in a hurry.

After returning to Nanzheng, Xi Zhicai had already arranged everything, and the official time to set off for the south was February 15.

The Han water is almost thawed.

From here, go south, go along the Han River, go through Wudang, Shandu, and then go straight to Fancheng.

When I arrived in Fancheng, it was about March, just when spring was completely opened, and when we entered the spring offensive, the battle against Jingzhou was officially launched.

But before that, Mu Jing has one last thing.

On February 12, Mu Jing went to Mingyi Workshop.

"Subordinate Chu Zheng, meet the lord!"

The workshop supervisor ordered Zhu Zheng to personally lead people and greet the pastoral scene at the door of the workshop.

Mu Jing dismounted: "No need to be polite! ”

He walked straight in and said, "What about Master Chu?" ”

"Father is working on a city-breaking crossbow!" Chu Zheng replied.

"The study of the city-breaking crossbow has followed!"

When Mu Jing heard this, his eyes lit up.

The city-breaking crossbow is a giant crossbow bed, and the crossbow arrows of this crossbow can be reflected at close range and can penetrate the city wall, but in research, due to the problem of bowstring, no progress has been made.

"Nanyang sent a kind of bowstring, and my father discussed it with a few craftsmen, thinking that it was possible to launch a city-breaking arrow!"

Chu Zheng is conscientious, as a supervisor, although he is only half a bucket of water for the technical aspect, but he will understand things big and small, which is worthy of his position.

"Check it out!"

Although Mu Jing didn't come here to break the city crossbow, he would definitely be happy to see this crossbow bed made.

He came to the back mountain, on a spacious school field.

"Wind!"

More than ten craftsmen are surrounding this giant crossbow bed, headed by the chief craftsman of Mingyi Workshop, Chu Liang, he shouted, and the four strong men on the left and right came up and began to jump on the crossbow bed, pulling the iron strings together.

This is a huge crossbow bed, five meters long, three meters wide, and about one meter and a half high, with rotating wheels on the left and right, which can move flexibly, and is equipped with a crossbow arrow, which is two meters long, and has a diameter of thirty centimeters.

It takes three or four people to work together to wind it, and if it is powerful, it is definitely a weapon for conquering the city.

"Fat!"

Chu Liang opened his mouth, and the winding mechanism was pulled left and right, and the giant arrow in the middle exploded like a cannonball.

Rumble!!!!

The mountain in front of him trembled, and this huge arrow was inserted into more than 50 centimeters, and two-thirds of it was exposed outside the mountain.

Chu Liang walked up, looked at the giant arrow, and then looked back at the crossbow bed, the iron string on it had collapsed.

"Failed!"

Chu Liang sighed and said: "The launch power is insufficient, the tenacity of the bowstring is insufficient, and there are still many things that need to be improved!" ”

Someone next to him is recording.

"Master Chu, we can make a thicker wire!" A craftsman said.

"Is it resilient?"

"This ......"

"The crossbow line must have enough strength to shoot the giant arrow, which requires toughness, and it can't be broken, and now it's almost broken, and no matter how thick the iron wire is, there is no guarantee that it won't break when it is wound!" In addition, a craftsman said softly.

The crowd was immediately depressed.

"Bang Bang!"

At this moment, there was a sound of clapping.

Everyone hurriedly looked up and saw Mu Jing clapping his hands and walking over.

Mu Jing looked at everyone with a smile and said: "Very good, your efforts have been seen in your eyes, this time it is just a failure, there is nothing to be frustrated about, failure is the mother of success, we must learn to deal with failure in order to succeed!" ”

These are his capital, the capital to conquer the world in the future.

The original frustration of the people was forgiven, so that they were not so depressed.

"Thank you, Lord Minghou, for your encouragement!"

Chu Liang bowed, and then said to everyone: "But failure is defeat, you go back, continue to think about how we can continue to improve!" ”

"No!"

Everyone absolutely respected Chu Liang, and as soon as he spoke, he immediately became quiet and dispersed.

"Master Chu, don't be so strict!"

Mu Jing said softly.

"The progress of Mojia craftsmanship requires rigorous temperament!" Chu Liang is hard and hard, his temper is like this, he can tolerate other things, but only in the attitude of the Mojia craft, there is no room for a little game, just like some scientific and technological researchers in later generations.

Mu Jing has no say in this regard, and he will not question Chu Liang's attitude, although he also wants to ease the mood of those craftsmen, but this rigorous attitude towards craftsmanship will not be wrong.

"The lord is here this time for that batch of swords!"

Chu Liang asked directly.

"Exactly!"

Mu Jing said: "Last year, I asked Master Chu to personally lead someone to design and build that batch of war knives, I may need to use them now, I don't know if they have been completed!" ”

"It's done!"

Chu Liang took Mu Jing to the iron casting workshop, dozens of big stoves, hundreds of blacksmiths, the scale has not known how many times it has expanded before, and now the weapons and equipment produced by Ming Yi are all excellent products, and they are the weapons that the various departments of the herdsman army pray for the most.

"You give it a try!"

Chu Liang handed a war knife to Mu Jing.

Mu Jing took it with both hands.

This is a long-handled war knife, in history, it is the sharp blade of the Tang Dynasty, the name is called, Mo knife.

When Mu Jing looked at history in later generations, his favorite was the kind of Mo knife used by the Tang Dynasty army, and the Mo knife soldiers of the Tang Dynasty were definitely the top ten types of soldiers that could be named in history.

"Grass Armor!"

Mujing drank low.

"In!" The soldiers of the two Divine Guard Battalions came up with more than ten grass armors stacked.

"Broken!"

Mu Jing used both hands to exert his strength, and his whole body exploded, and he directly waved the long knife, and the long knife slashed down, bursting out with unparalleled lethality, directly breaking through the ten layers of armor.

"Good stuff!" Mu Jing laughed: "Master Chu's design is so good, and it's so good!" ”

"It's still the lord's idea!"

Chu Liang didn't dare to take the work, the idea of this war knife was put forward by Mu Jing, he designed it according to Mu Jing's idea, including the design of the knife and the blade, all of which were kept improving, and he had to admit that after he built it, he was shocked.

This kind of war knife is more explosive than the head knife, and it can definitely cut the head knife with one sword.

"How much has been built!"

"Twelve hundred!" At this time, the superintendent Chu Zheng came out and replied: "It has already exhausted all the time and strength of our Mingyi workshop!" ”

"Originally, I was going to fight a thousand, this knife is still good, but it costs a lot of labor, and it also costs a lot in iron ore, and I can fight three skulls with such a knife, and then this kid as a supervisor forced me to fight two hundred more!"

Saying that, Chu Liang was very dissatisfied with his son's attitude.

Chu Zheng smiled, he supervised the work, as long as the results were achieved, regardless of the process.

Mu Jing couldn't help but smile, letting Chu Zheng be the supervisor was his wisest choice, ordinary people couldn't suppress Chu Liang, Chu Liang's temper was something his son could resist.

Twelve hundred.

Enough is enough.

He is going to set up a Modao battalion, as a personal guard battalion for this battle, to protect his side, to go out to fight, safety first, he has to consider the safety of the between.

A Mo knife battalion, about 800 to 1,000 people, 1,200 battle knives, plus the heavy armor that has been built a long time ago, can definitely be equipped.