Chapter 12: The Divine Soldiers

Li Su unexpectedly agreed to this request, he felt that his force was probably the bottom of this group, and he did not contribute much to killing the enemy, and intelligence gathering did not conflict with the Li family's way of doing business, and even he felt that his mind was still good among everyone. Seeing that Li Su agreed, Lu Bu taught him some basic knowledge of modern espionage work, which of course were all parts that people of this era could understand. He suggested that Li Su could open tea houses, restaurants, brothels and other places in the surrounding counties and the national capital Luoyang, because such trading places had a large flow of people, and there were people of all religions and nine streams, which were more suitable for listening to news. There was no radio communication in this era, and he couldn't invent it, but Lu Bu thought of carrier pigeons, and the Han Dynasty had already used carrier pigeons, and Li Su promised to find a way to domesticate a batch of carrier pigeons after he returned. Lü Bu instructed Li Su to focus on the direction of intelligence collection at this stage, one is the Huns, especially the Northern Xiongnu, and the other is Luoyang. Lu Bu wanted to know what stage the general trend of the world had reached today, especially the Yellow Turban Rebellion and the development of Taiping Dao?

After Li Su left, it didn't take long for good news to follow. First of all, Ding Yuan sent 20 blacksmiths, 2,000 catties of iron ore, 2,000 catties of high-quality charcoal, as well as 500 copies of Han army standard armor, 500 people's standard configuration of hand crossbows, ring head knives, spears, longbows and other complete sets of equipment, as well as a large amount of crimson cloth. Lu Bu directly allocated the ore, charcoal and blacksmiths directly to the craftsman battalion, and the weapons and equipment were stored in the warehouse, and the current warehouse manager was Song Xian, Lu Bu found that Song Xian was very interested in managing and keeping the equipment, and he also had some experience, so he asked Song Xian to manage the warehouse. The most important thing is that along with the transportation of these equipment and materials, there are also three months' military salary, which is really easy for someone in the DPRK and China.

Soon, Guan Laotie also came to tell Lu Bu that a large number of suitable size throwing guns had been created, and after testing, the distance of fifteen to thirty zhang was the best killing range for throwing guns. The spear is two and a half feet long, and the sharp head is made of pure steel, which can also be used as a short gun in hand-to-hand combat. He also built a carrying gear for the cavalry that could carry four throwing spears, which he wore directly on his upper body in wartime, and two throwing spears on the left and right shoulders behind his back, all of which were in a one-handed position; Infantrymen can carry two throwing spears on their backs. Samples of stirrups were also successfully created, with the goal of equipping all horses with stirrups, which were used by the cavalry with good response, greatly improving the accuracy of archery and javelin throwing on horses, and generally increasing range as a great deal of force could be transferred to the arms. There is also a horseshoe, which was also successfully nailed to the horse's shoe, but the work of nailing the horseshoe was quietly carried out at the request of Lu Bu, the use of stirrups and throwing guns, Lu Bu also asked everyone to keep secrets, if conditions permit, do not leave stirrups and throwing guns on the battlefield, and maintain the mystery of secret weapons.

On this day, Guan Hai secretly came to Lu Bu, saying that his father had built a weapon for Lu Bu and asked him to invite Lu Bu over, and Lu Bu made fun of Guan Lao Tie for playing mysticism. When he arrived at the back mountain where the craftsman camp was located, Guan Hai led Lu Bu around the camp and came to the test site behind the camp. The site here is empty, it is the place where the craftsman battalion usually tries to build new weapons, Guan Lao Tie has been waiting there, there is also a wooden frame in the field, the wooden frame is half a person high, two zhang long, covered with red cloth, I don't know what is covered below. Lu Bu rode over with a smile, and Guan Lao Tie hugged his fists and saluted: "Great Commander, last time I said to build a weapon for you, and now it has been built, please see." "As he spoke, he took off the red cloth, and on the wooden frame between them, there was a weapon that looked like a gun but not a gun, and a spear was not a spear, two zhang long, and the tip of the spear at the front end was a sharp blade that was much wider than the spear edge, about two feet long, with blood grooves on both sides, and a copper tail cone at the tail of the gun, and the gun body may have been painted with black paint, and there was no reflection at all, and the material could not be seen." What kind of weapon is this? "Lu Bu used all his memories, and he didn't recognize this weapon." Back to the commander, this is the horse lance, invented by the former Han Wu Emperor Dynasty, and then fewer and fewer people used it, because the weapon takes too long to manufacture, the materials required are too valuable, and the weight of the weapon itself is large, and the heroes who can use it must be the heroes of the world. In addition, he also asked the commander to forgive Xiao Lao'er for the crime of deception, "Saying that, he knelt down on his knees, kowtowed and asked for sin, Guan Hai saw this, and quickly knelt aside. Lu Bu hurriedly jumped off the red rabbit and went to support the housekeeper's father and son, repeatedly promising that he would never care about his mistakes, and Guan Lao Tie told the truth.

It turned out that when he was in Jinyang, that Cai Changshi sent a lot of materials and asked him to build a treasure knife, in fact, it was not as the refining failure as he said later, but he found a rare treasure in the materials, dark iron, and a lot of weight, and I don't know where this Cai Changshi came from, it is more than enough to build a treasure knife. However, the blacksmith's love for precious materials is beyond ordinary people's imagination, and the blacksmith knows that Cai Changshi is not literate, so he lied that the forging failed and greedily inked these dark irons, which is actually a taboo in the blacksmith industry. But who is called Xuantie is too scarce, and Cai Changshi's reputation is really too bad. Later, even if he suffered a lawsuit, went to prison, and went bankrupt, he never touched the iron. Today, he built a horse lance for Lu Bu, but he spent a lot of money and used all these black irons, and the tip of the horse lance was made of a large amount of dark iron, and he wasted a lot of whetstones before he could barely open the blade, and the excavation of the two blood grooves was painstaking. "Commander, this lance weighs nine hundred and eighty-one pounds, and I am afraid that only you can use it freely in today's world, however, the fly in the ointment, the lance of the horse lance should have been made of more than 100 years of wood, and it also needs to be wound with hemp rope, coated with raw lacquer, wrapped in arrowroot, and then a layer of raw lacquer and a layer of arrowroot cloth, until the steel knife is cut up, making a sound of metal impact, but it is not cracked, it is qualified, but unfortunately this process takes two to three years, and it cannot be done in a short period of time. When you come across the right material or finished horse lance in the future, I will help you change it. When Lu Bu heard this, he was very happy, his martial arts and courage could not be matched by peerless divine weapons, the Red Rabbit Horse had it, and now he got the Xuantie Horse Lance, but it was like a tiger with wings. Lu Bu picked up the horse lance from the wooden frame, danced a few movements, very competent, eighty-one pounds of weight, others may not be able to use, but he felt that it was just right, but the steel gun also had a certain toughness, this horse lance in Lu Bu came, it was also elusive, Lu Bu couldn't put it down, rode the red rabbit horse, ran a few back and forth, the red rabbit horse carried Lu Bu plus the horse lance still did not have any difficulty.

Lu Bu asked Guan Hai to also ride on the war horse, take the weapon, and accompany him on a few rounds, but Guan Hai's long knife only collided with Lu Bu's horse lance once, and the handle of the knife was bent and deformed. Lu Bu became more and more satisfied with the precious divine soldier in his hand. Lu Bu was very grateful to Guan Laotie for taking out such a precious Xuantie for himself, and he promised that as long as he was under his command, no matter what status he was promoted, Guan Laotie would always be his craftsman manager, and Guan Hai would always be his sworn brother. Guan Lao Tie actually wanted a promise, and he just bet the treasure on Lu Bu.

In the following days, the most important thing is still to train the troops, after the physical foundation is laid, it is to practice the cooperation between the various arms, although Lu Bu's subordinates are only 1,000 people, but the weekday training is still in accordance with the Han army's drill training, spearmen, shield soldiers, crossbowmen, cavalry are all in order, especially the investment of new weapons and equipment, it is more necessary to cooperate with new tactics, Gao Shun is a genius of training and tactical choreography, he combined with new equipment to invent and create new tactics, so that Lu Bu is full of praise when he sees it. Moreover, Gao Shun also has a strong ability to understand and accept the new things and new terms in Lu Bu's mouth, and he is definitely a good staff officer. Lu Bu himself practiced the elite swinging cavalry with all his might, and after some new ideas and new ideas were generated, he directly asked Guan Hai to be responsible for building, such as the climbing rope fired with a hand crossbow, the anesthetic needle launched by the blowpipe, the hidden weapon made of quicklime, and so on. And the five archers all learned Lu Bu's continuous bead archery, although they could only pull a bow of one or two stones, but the archery skills were outstanding, and the accuracy made up for the lack of range, and they were also equipped with strong crossbows, which had to be wound with their feet, and the range reached 100 zhang.

A few days later, Li Su suddenly came to find Lü Bu, he told Lü Bu that he had just received the news that the Huns had gone to attack Yunzhong County again, and 20,000 people had been dispatched, and Li Su felt that this news was very important, so he personally came to report to Lü Bu. Lu Bu thought about it and asked him who led the Huns, and Li Su said that it was the Right Xian King of the Huns, because the previous attack of the three-way army failed, and the losses were all the subordinates of the Right Xian King of the Huns, and this time he came to take revenge.