Handan, Miyagi.

The spring sun is shining brightly on the body, there is a green meadow in front of you, and there is a small river in the distance, this situation makes people can't help but have an urge to write a six-hundred-word spring outing essay.

Fortunately, Zhao Dan is not following the Chinese teacher by his side, but following three important ministers of Zhao State, Zhao Sheng, Pingyuan Jun, Wu Xinjun Lian Po and Neishi Yu Xin.

At this moment, they were not located in the Longtai Hall to discuss national affairs, but came to the palace garden, where Zhao Dan usually couldn't come once or twice a year.

It is said to be a garden, but in fact, it is just a relatively primitive grassland.

Zhao Dan listened to Zhao Sheng's report as he walked.

“…… Hedong County officials have been stationed, and land surveying is currently underway, and land rewards will be launched soon. It's just the king, if that's the case, then what should the Qin people do with the people who lost their land? ”

Since Hedong County has now become the land of Zhao State, it is naturally impossible for the ownership of the land to remain in the hands of the original Qin people, and Zhao Dan had promised to give the land of Hedong County to meritorious soldiers before the war, so it is inevitable to recover the land.

But if the land is recovered, then the Qin people who originally occupied these lands will obviously become a problem that must be solved.

Yu Xin on the side interjected: "It's better to drive them all back to Guanzhong, and it can also consume the grain of the Qin State treasury." ”

Lian Po said: "It is better to conscript them to serve in the army, and they can also increase labor for the army." ”

Zhao Dan smiled, noncommittal to the words of the ministers under his command.

In Zhao Dan's view, although the opinions of these ministers have a certain truth, they also have the limitations of the times.

Population, in the case of not being fed, is actually a burden.

But if you can fill these bellies, then it is clear that the population of any country is as large as possible.

With a population, there is an abundant supply of soldiers and labor.

And under the same probability of success, the more populous the race, the more talents can emerge, and when the number of talents gathers to a certain extent, it is likely to trigger a qualitative change in knowledge, so that Zhao Guo will directly produce a leapfrog development of the times.

So for Zhao Dan, the more the better.

However, Zhao Dan summoned these ministers today, not for the sake of the population.

I saw Zhao Dan smiling at the three ministers beside him: "I summoned Zhuqing here today to witness the birth of an ace army under the command of the widow. ”

"Ace troops?" The three ministers of Zhao couldn't help but look at each other when they heard this, and they all had very obvious doubts on their faces.

As they spoke, they came to a platform that had been raised temporarily.

In front of this platform, hundreds or thousands of straw figures are erected on wooden shelves, and these straw figures look quite neat in a row.

Seeing this situation, several ministers couldn't help but be even more puzzled, only Lian Po looked at the straw men in front of him carefully, with a thoughtful look on his face.

Zhao Dan didn't talk nonsense, and gestured towards Mixian.

Mixian nodded, took out a whistle from his bosom, and blew it vigorously.

After the whistle, the sound of horses' hooves began to sound.

Lian Po, Zhao Sheng, and Yu Xin subconsciously set their eyes in the direction where the sound of hooves came from, and then their faces showed very surprised expressions.

It was a cavalry, but it was a cavalry that the three had never seen before.

Since the Hufu cavalry, the cavalry of the Zhao State, which has a large number of Lin Hu and Lou Fu Hu people, has become the most powerful cavalry among the seven heroes of the Zhao State, and it is also the only one that has completely eliminated the chariot soldiers, which has fallen behind the times of the army.

It can be said that when it comes to the level of commanding cavalry and the degree of cognition of cavalry, Zhao Guo is definitely the first in this era.

When Lian Po attacked the Qi State, he used the cavalry to fight with the Qi army many times, and the skilled fighters of the Qi State lost their armor, and later they didn't even dare to fight with Lian Po.

But even a general like Lian Po, who was good at using cavalry, had never seen such cavalry as he saw today.

In Lian Po's impression, cavalry should be the kind of cavalry that wears light clothes, like wolves in the wasteland, wandering around and out of the enemy's attack range, using bows and arrows to launch long-range attacks on the enemy - the so-called kite tactic.

Zhao's border cavalry army used this kite tactic to play Zhongshan to death and Qi to cripple.

But the cavalry that appeared in Lian Po's sight now was obviously completely different from Zhao Biancai.

At this moment, these cavalry that appeared in front of Lian Po were not light cavalry in the traditional sense of Zhao State, but a heavy armored cavalry.

The soldiers wore helmets on their heads, and their chests, arms, chests, thighs, and almost every place that could be seen by the naked eye were covered in heavy black armor, and only the two eyes peeking out of the helmets could be seen.

What is even more like Lian Po's surprise is that these knights are not only wearing armor, but even the battle under their crotch is also armored.

These horses, like the knights on their bodies, are covered with armor on their heads and bodies, and only two eyes are exposed, and they look majestic.

Even horses have armor?

Lian Po suddenly felt that his three views had been subverted.

The number of these cavalry is not large, and it looks like it should be a hundred-man cavalry team, but just such a hundred cavalry slowly walking towards it gives people a very strong sense of oppression.

Seeing this scene, although he hadn't seen the real majesty of this cavalry, Lian Po's heart was suddenly full of anticipation.

Fortunately, this cavalry did not make Lian Po wait too long.

I saw that the 100 generals led by the cavalry raised the spears in their hands: "The whole team, prepare to charge!" ”

With the order of the hundred-man general, the hundreds of cavalry behind him began to line up, forming a neat charging formation.

After the formation was completed, the 100-man general shouted again: "The whole army has it, charge!" ”

A hundred people gave this order, and a hundred heavily armored cavalry immediately went into action.

The horses under their crotches first took a few slow steps, and then gradually increased their speed.

Almost in a few breaths, all the war horses opened their hooves and galloped at high speed.

The earth kept trembling, and a hundred heavily armored cavalry rushed in front of the high platform like a dark cloud, like a black torrent, and then plunged heavily into the pile of thousands of straw men that had been set up on the other side of the high platform.

The next moment, countless grass clippings flew in the air.

When this heavily armored cavalry completely stopped, several ministers of the Zhao State on the high platform couldn't help but widen their eyes.

The thousands of straw men that were originally used as enemies were all destroyed in this charge.

Lian Po subconsciously narrowed his eyes, and a scene suddenly appeared in his mind:

On the battlefield, many soldiers of the Qin army were waiting for them, and the formation seemed indestructible.

But at this moment, a torrent of steel formed by this kind of heavy armored cavalry swarmed in, and countless spears stabbed heavily into the Qin soldiers, causing countless ghosts to cry wolf, as if destroying the entire Qin army's infantry in an instant.

Blood and severed limbs flew wildly in the air, and all the Qin soldiers fled in all directions like frightened sheep.

As soon as he thought of this, Lian Po couldn't help but lick his lips subconsciously, and suddenly felt a parchment of dry mouth.

I have to say that such a scene is really exciting.

Lian Po took a deep breath, and suddenly walked briskly down the high platform and walked towards the cavalry.

Zhao Dan glanced at Lian Po, a smile appeared on his face, and he turned his head to Zhao Sheng and Yu Xin beside him and smiled: "I don't know what a few Qing families think, how is this heavy cavalry of the widow?" ”

Zhao Sheng opened his mouth wide, the expression on his face was extremely shocked, and he sighed after a while: "If there are 10,000 cavalry, then Zhao Guo will be invincible in the world!" ”

Yu Xin on the side also nodded again and again.

Zhao Dan smiled and said nothing.

As early as the middle of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the people of China began to know how to cast iron.

However, due to the fact that the iron ore found in the land of China is poor iron ore with many impurities, this leads to high requirements for casting, and this requirement cannot be completed with the rough technology at that time.

It was not until the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period that iron weapons began to slowly become popular, with the discovery of more iron ore and the urgent demand for weapon innovation in war, as well as the scarcity of copper itself.

Among the countries of the Central Plains today, when it comes to iron casting, there is no doubt that the Wei State is respected, followed by the three kingdoms of Han, Chu and Zhao.

But Zhao Dan found a problem after going to the ironware workshop in Handan City of Zhao once.

That is, the craftsmen of this era did not know anything about the "steel frying method" and "100 steel making", which were widely known in later generations.

These two methods, in fact, as long as you have watched some TV series in later generations, you can understand what is going on.

The steel frying method is named because the molten iron is constantly stirred during the smelting process, like stir-frying.

The raw material of frying steel is pig iron, and the key point of operation is to heat the pig iron to a liquid or semi-liquid state, and use blasting or sprinkling concentrate powder to oxidize silicon, manganese and carbon, and reduce the carbon content to the composition range of steel and wrought iron.

Most of the products of fried steel are low carbon steel and wrought iron, which need to be forged to become steel.

Hundred steel, is to use the hammer to constantly forge the low carbon steel and wrought iron fried by the steel frying method, in order to play the role of impurities discharged, during the period of the steel embryo is instantly put into the cold water to soak, until the weight of the fine iron no change, the hundred steels will be fully formed.

It is precisely because of this that 100 steels are also known as "thousands of tempers".

The first batch of blast furnaces and factories have been quietly built in the northern mountains of Zhao State, and the armor weapons on the 100 heavy cavalry and war horses are the first batch of finished products of the blast furnace factory.

As he spoke, Lian Po had already taken a spear from a heavily armored cavalryman and made several movements in his hand.

"Drink!" Lian Po roared, and the whole person suddenly stabbed a shot at a scarecrow in front of him, only to see the tip of the spear swimming in the air like a poisonous snake, and then accurately submerged into the straw man's chest, and the wave blew up the straw man in all directions, and the momentum was amazing.

Lian Po was happy to see the hunt, and took this spear and smiled at Zhao Dan: "King, I love this spear very much, so I will reward it." ”

Zhao Dan couldn't help laughing when he heard this, you must know that this kind of spear is a special model for cavalry, and if it is used in the posture of an infantryman, it is actually a little too long.

However, Zhao Dan ignored these and asked Lian Po: "Wu Xinjun, in your opinion, if this heavy armored cavalry is used in actual combat, how powerful is it?" ”

Lian Po thought about it for a while, and gave an answer with great certainty: "In my opinion, if the number of this heavy armored cavalry is more than 1,000, even if the enemy has thousands of troops and horses, it is just like a mustard!" ”

Zhao Dan laughed when he heard this, and said to Lian Po: "Wu Xinjun, don't worry, in less than two years, the widow will definitely hand over three thousand heavy armored cavalry to you!" ”

Lian Po was overjoyed when he heard this, bowed to Zhao Dan, and said: "If there are three thousand heavy horses, the ministers will be able to clear the Liuhe for the king and calm the world!" ”