China has developed iron tools in the Spring and Autumn Period, but by the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in the Western Han Dynasty, the quality of iron tools was not superior to that of other countries.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Zhang Qian as an envoy to the Dayue Clan, with the purpose of finding the Dayue Clan to form an alliance and flank the Xiongnu together.

Zhang Qian went through a lot of hardships to find the people of the Dayue clan, but the people of the Dayue clan have re-established the country, their name is Guishuang, they feel that Ah San is very easy to bully, and they are unwilling to return east to fight the vicious Huns.

Should it be to make the Han Empire fight more bloody with the Xiongnu? Although reluctant to form an alliance with the Han Empire, the Dayue people provided their own metallurgical and forging techniques.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, who obtained the Kushan smelting process, obtained the treasure, and the metallurgical technology of the Western Han Dynasty also ushered in a new development.

It is now the Spring and Autumn period, and iron has naturally been created.

If it is divided into a level, the metallurgical technology of iron in the Spring and Autumn Period should only be a very initial stage.

In other words, it is possible to smelt iron from iron ore, but it is not as technical as the use of bronze in terms of the technical process of making items.

Lü Wu witnessed the use of iron by craftsmen, and found that even when making iron pots, they still looked loose and porous after repeated forging.

It should be because the temperature is not enough, and the number of forging is insufficient, resulting in a large amount of gangue slag in the iron.

This kind of iron is called sponge iron in modern times.

"Don't think about modern quality...... Lu Wu thought of a few plans, and thought: "I remember some of the carburizing processes in the Western Han Dynasty, and there are also forging techniques, which should be verified by trial and error; I remember very well how Damascus swords were made, and some techniques could be used, but the iron ore in the Central Plains was not necessarily suitable. ”

So, just to hunt, Lu Wu entered the "inventor" mode again.

This is a matter of urgency.

Naturally, Lu Wu didn't really use a sword full of gaps, so he brought a bow and an arrow bag.

And here again the problem arises.

The bow is not a big problem, the bow looks quite new, and the bowstring made of beef tendon is also very elastic.

The problem is the arrows.

"What the hell is this?" Lu Wu held an arrow that was not straight at all, touched the wooden pole, and thought, "This is an arrow shaft made of Pu Liu?" Lack of mature craftsmanship to make the shaft straight. Arrowheads and feathers are fine......"

The arrow is not straight enough, which indicates that there will be no accurate head at all.

No matter how good the archery technique is, shooting this kind of arrow with a non-straight shaft is actually only relying on a feel, and there is no real accuracy.

The use of willow as an arrow shaft, that is, the shaft of wood, is called an arrow.

The use of bamboo or reeds as arrow shafts is called an arrow.

The former has a relatively long range because of its own weight.

The latter has a relatively short range because of its lightness.

At the same time, the lethality is not only related to the arrowhead, but also related to the arrow shaft.

Lu Wu had nothing to say about this era, and subconsciously began to think about it again, pondering what tools to make to process arrow shafts.

The old Lu family now has a total of fifty-eight samurai.

Eight of them were old men from the old Lu family, and the other fifty were sent by the Wei family.

The samurai were gathered.

More than half of the warriors from the Wei clan had armor, and each of them had at least one metal weapon.

The armor is mostly rattan braided armor, with a small amount of leather armor and no metal armor.

The weapons are basically Changge, with only a few swords.

The original eight samurai of the old Lu family, they looked at their new companions, and then at themselves, and their faces were worried.

Not to mention the gap in weapons and equipment, even in terms of physique, the gap between the two is a bit big, and they are a little afraid that they will be abandoned by the master.

The warriors from the Wei clan didn't know if they were crowding out the "old man", they had already formed a column of five rows according to a row of ten people.

The eight "old men" stood on their own side, trying to form a line of their learning peers, but they were still not in a row.

When Lu Wu arrived, he inspected the circle, walked directly in front of the warriors, and asked, "Disciple, take a step forward." ”

In the Spring and Autumn military system, the apprentice is the pawn, and the envy is the reserve.

Thirty-one of the fifty "newcomers" took a step forward; Only one of the "old men" took a step forward.

Lu Wu shouted again: "Captain Wu, take a step forward." ”

This time, no one moved half a step.

According to the Zhou rites, the minimum unit of the army is one "army", but basically it does not assign actions by the number of "troops", and at least one "two" is also needed; that is, a chariot and twenty-five foot infantrymen; A "pawn" is composed of four chariots and 500 soldiers.

The Jin state no longer organized its army according to the system of Zhou rites, and the most obvious thing was that after the "brigade" unit, the number of soldiers in the Jin army increased threefold, that is, to 1,500 soldiers.

At this time, there was a captain, but not much.

Five people form a "team", plus the captain of the army, a total of six people.

"Wu" is "Liang", that is, the commander of twenty-five people, and he is called "Liang Sima".

Lu Wu also made up for it, and only then did he roughly understand the military system of the Jin Kingdom, and when he saw that no one stepped forward, he had to say that he was actually very disappointed, but he also took it for granted.

Wei can send samurai, but not officers.

"The ...... of the excellent hunters this time"

Lü Wu began to draw a big pie, and promised that as long as he performed well, he would be promoted to become an officer.

At this time, the samurai were all gearing up, and they wanted to perform well when they were full of energy.

Regularly killing animals within the realm of the domain is one of the "activities" of the lord every year.

Otherwise, if there are too many animals, the damage to the farmland will be great.

If you don't kill everything, you naturally don't do the thing of killing chickens and taking eggs.

Not only will they not kill all of them, but if they find that they are already pregnant, they will give up hunting and killing, and they will be released if they are caught.

The killing of the beast is carried out once in a while, so as not to hurt and eat people.

Fifty-eight samurai were the main force of the hunt, and more than 300 men, women, and children were to participate in this "event".

Lao Lu's family didn't have a chariot, not even a few horses, and they relied entirely on foot to drive the animals from a large area to the prepared "pocket".

And to form an encirclement, and then drive the animals or beasts to a place, is a hunt.

Lu Wu didn't know that he was inactive, and when he led people to hunt and kill, he found that there was a tiger on the small mountain in his domain.

He also saw the fierceness of the samurai when he commanded.

Five samurai worked together to injure one, and one of them managed to plunge his sword into the tiger's mouth.

After they killed the tiger, they carried the tiger's carcass to Lü Wu's side.

Even though Lü Wu witnessed the whole process, they were still very proud to dictate the hunting process in scarce language, showing their martial bravery to the lord and reaping glory in front of the rest of the warriors and subjects.

The reason why the samurai chose to risk stabbing through the tiger's mouth was to sacrifice a full tiger skin to his lord.

The hunt lasted for half a month, and in addition to a tiger, they also killed a bear, and hundreds of other animals.

After the results of the hunt were processed, Lu Wu began to reward them according to their merits.

The meat would be distributed, and the samurai would get more than the subjects, and the rest would go to the lord.

Leather can be divided or not, Lu Wu asked the opinion of the old Zhuo, several officers who have been promoted need to be generously given, and the rest are not used.

"Lord, the servant is haggard and haggard." Jia Lao Zhuo said very seriously: "The Lord should be a virtuous person." ”

It means that the old Lu family is getting thriving day by day, and he, as the only retainer, already feels exhausted, and suggests that Lu Wu should recruit talents.