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"I think too much, I don't know how the training in other cities is doing, if it doesn't meet the standards, it's useless to think more." Gongsun Du shook his head suddenly, sighed to himself, and then laughed again.

The heavy shield soldier and the round shield soldier are training by himself, and now he naturally knows what is going on, not to mention that he has become an elite, at least there is no problem on the battlefield.

In addition, he also believes that with the training method written by him himself, and Xu Rong, the commander, has very good ability, and his training ability is also very high, so it is not bad. Even if it may be because it is different from the class I know before, even if it is still close to expectations, isn't it at least a month left, which is enough?

After beating Taizu's long fist three times, Gongsun Du felt a lot warmer, and hurriedly had breakfast, and did not rest, and hurriedly instructed the training of heavy shield soldiers and round shield soldiers.

Subsequently, Gongsun Du began to routinely conduct daily training for the remaining 20,000 infantry troops and 5,000 cavalry troops to maintain combat effectiveness.

A morning's training was almost over on this cold day, so after lunch, Gongsun Du didn't care about them anymore, but walked out of the barracks and headed for the blacksmith workshop in the middle of the first mountain.

There is a way, if you want to be good, you must first sharpen your tools! That's it!

Before entering the blacksmith's workshop, the black pillars of smoke floated over the mountains and forests as always, looking very strange.

After several inspections by the guards, Gongsun Du entered the blacksmith's workshop, and a wave of heat suddenly came to the shop. However, Gongsun Du came a lot of times, and he expected it, so he was not half surprised.

Gongsun Du casually picked up a heavy shield that seemed to have just been built, glanced at it roughly, and then raised his fist and beat it a few times.

Bang, bang, bang~

Listening to the dull voice, Gongsun Du nodded: Sure enough, there is growth.

It was not without heavy shields before, but because the smelting technology was not good, and it was difficult to build, there were few people who could use it, so except for the workshops of the imperial court, few people knew this technology. The heavy shield soldiers temporarily use it is just a "heavy shield" that has reached its weight but does not have the due defensive power.

Now, it looks like it should be okay.

"Have you tried it? How's the defense? Gongsun Du turned around and asked the blacksmith who came to his side and managed it at some point.

"Hui Zhugong, I have already tried, ordinary blades, such as knives, guns, arrows, halberds and other blades, at most leave a shallow trace, even if it is a pulley bow created before, it is at most a small hole." "You can only shoot through a small crossbow, but the crossbow of a crossbow can't completely penetrate it." ”

Gongsun Du smiled with satisfaction and said, "Very good!" To get to this point, I believe everyone has done their best. If you want to make a heavy shield with higher defense but lighter weight, you can only do it after the smelting technology is improved, or everyone's craftsmanship is improved. Very good, very nice! There's a reward for everyone. ”

The latter words were addressed to all the craftsmen in the workshop, and they all grinned and felt that the efforts of these few were worth it.

"Thank you, Lord."

Gongsun Du was a little surprised when he heard it, without him, he was too poor, even if he had a reward, there was no money to use for a reward. spread his hands and said: "But everyone also knows that a certain person has no money now, and he is as poor as everyone else, and he still has some food." In this way, each person will be rewarded with one stone of grain. ”

In a word, hundreds of stones of grain and grass were used. Fortunately, if it was before, Gongsun Du would have been worried about the lack of food, but since Mi Du also worshiped him, he didn't worry about it, and now there are a lot of them. There are nearly two million stones, and there is food at home, and there is no panic in the heart.

However, this almost hollowed out the Mi family's family foundation, if Gongsun Du was not righteous at this time and abandoned the Mi family, it can be said that the Mi family would have to take forty or fifty years to relieve his breath. This is still the case where no other family has fallen into the trap.

"Lord, most of us are old and single, and we belong to the kind where one person feeds the whole family and is not hungry. Leave it to the brothers who are going to battle, they need it more! A red-covered guy said.

"Yes, my lord." The rest chimed in.

Gongsun Du was very moved in his heart, but he did not agree: "This matter is so decided." If there is no reward for meritorious service, who will be willing to die for someone in the future? ”

Only then did everyone agree, saying, "Thank you, lord!" The Lord is wise! ”

Gongsun Du waved his hand and motioned for everyone to continue, and then took the little official out of the workshop.

"How many heavy shields are there now?" Gongsun Du asked casually.

The little official had already memorized these things by heart, and hurriedly replied: "There are already more than four hundred and twenty heavy shields, and in two days at most, there will be five hundred." ”

"Hmm." Gongsun Du nodded and asked again, "What happened to the other things?" ”

The equipment of the general soldiers has long been completed and sent to the various cities. Since about a month ago, only the equipment for the new special classes has not yet been crafted.

"Except for some of the equipment of the heavy cavalry, there is still a lot of difference, and the rest is almost the same, and it can be completed in about ten days." The clerk replied.

"Heavy riding? What's missing? ”

"The heavy armor of the war horse!"

"This thing shouldn't be difficult, right?" When Gongsun Du heard this, he couldn't help but feel surprised. Originally, he thought that it was the heavy armor worn by soldiers, because although horses are also equipped with heavy armor, it is relatively simple, because the size of the horse is so big, and its importance is lower than that of people, so it is not comparable to the heavy armor worn by soldiers. In order to achieve better defense, the heavy armor worn by the heavy cavalry is one-piece armor, unlike other armor, which is composed of almost all parts, or even many parts. Different concepts, the distance between the front and back of the human body is small, which greatly increases the difficulty of building.

The little official explained: "The masters feel that this kind of heavy armor is very valuable, and they think that if they master this technique first, the other types of blade armor will be much simpler. ”

After a pause, he said, "Later, it turned out that this was indeed the case, and after completing the creation of this heavy armor, they found that the speed of crafting other blade armor was much faster. Otherwise, it would take at least ten days and a half more to complete the lord's request. ”

Gongsun Du enjoyed the adoring eyes of the little official, was in a good mood, and said, "Everyone is really hard. You're not bad either! By the way, how is the winged Dapeng knife made? ”

Finally, I asked again.

The little official was originally very happy to hear the praise, but when he heard this, he was quite worried in his heart, and replied: "Back to the lord, all the masters feel that they are not capable enough, so they haven't started to do it yet, and they want to talk about it after a while." ”

Gongsun Du frowned when he heard this, and he was so frightened that the little official immediately knelt on the ground. But then Gongsun Du let go, because he understood that everyone didn't want to disappoint him and didn't want to be looked down on by him, so everyone was reluctant to do it, hoping that after the craftsmanship progressed, they would come to create such a perfect blade.

However, now Gongsun Du does not have a blade to take advantage of, but Xianbei is coming, and he can't do it without a blade, so he shook his head and said: "Tell them, don't be in a hurry for the time being, first build a handle and let someone try it." ”

After speaking, he seemed to be worried that someone would be punished if he didn't do well, and said: "Tell them that this is what was said, and even if it doesn't meet the standard at that time, it doesn't matter." However, it must be built by mid-April. ”

"Yes, my lord."

Then Gongsun Du went to the vicinity of the mining cave to take a look, and saw that there were obviously a lot fewer "miners", Gongsun Du muttered: "It's not all bad things for Xianbei to attack, it's better for you to do such a dangerous thing as mining." ”

Nearly a winter passed, and the captives were half dead, and the speed of mining had slowed down considerably.

But it was not from exhaustion and starvation, but from freezing to death. There was no way, it was impossible for Gongsun Du to provide them with too many clothes.