In the next few days, Li Xuanqing led everyone to start looking for coal around Matoufeng, which is what was called coal in this era. China's coal utilization time is very early, and it gradually reached its peak during the Five Dynasties and Song Dynasty. However, the problem now is that although Li Xuanqing's Shuofang is rich in coal reserves, it is indeed difficult to find coal in Helan Mountain, but fortunately, Li Xuanqing relied on the memory of later generations to reluctantly find a mining point at the foot of Matou Peak. Although the reserves are a bit small, the quality of the coal is not bad, and the burial is not deep, which is convenient for several people to excavate.

After finding the charcoal, several people began to divide into two groups, one group made rattan baskets and transported the mined coal to the valley little by little, and the other group followed Chen Yu to build an earthen blast furnace and build a blacksmith shop. Chen Yu is familiar with this aspect, so everything is arranged by him.

It took more than a month to complete the preliminary preparations. And the time is gradually approaching late autumn, and the weather in the northwest has become very cold. Li Xuanqing collected the animal skins and furs he hunted on weekdays, and made a set of leather clothes for each person, looking like a grassland person. However, although the appearance is ugly, it solves the big problem of everyone in the mountains.

At this time, Chen Yu couldn't wait to start trying crucible ironmaking. So after getting Li Xuanqing's approval, he immediately began to ignite.

I saw that the earthen blast furnace began to slowly emit black smoke, and several people continued to add charcoal to the furnace, and the other people began to encourage the simple bellows designed by Li Xuanqing to blow the wind desperately. During this time, in addition to work, Li Xuanqing began to gradually teach several people the basic heart tips of the Pure Yang Heart Method, although the temporary effect was not very great, but everyone could still feel the pure Yang True Qi that Li Xuanqing said was running in the body, plus seeing all kinds of miracles when Li Xuanqing was running the True Qi. At this time, they all started to cheer up desperately, hoping to build good weapons as soon as possible and learn martial arts from Li Xuanqing.

Li Xuanqing watched everyone busy there, put down other thoughts, and began to calm down and think about what weapons to build.

After thinking about it, Li Xuanqing designed several plans, but he was not satisfied. The Five Dynasties period was an era of transformation of cold weapons in ancient China, with long lances replaced by spears, and knife weapons began to create brilliant achievements.

Therefore, Li Xuanqing finally decided that it would be better to build long spears for long weapons, and Tang knives for short weapons, that is, improved horizontal knives. Li Xuanqing is still quite satisfied with such a configuration. For this reason, Li Xuanqing even drew the dimensions, and only after explaining them to Chen Yu one by one did he begin to design his own weapons.

After thinking about it for a long time, Li Xuanqing finally chose to build a sword for himself. However, according to the sketch drawn by Li Xuanqing, this is a heavy sword, and the blade of the sword alone is more than three feet long, which is equivalent to more than one meter and thirty in later generations, and the hilt is almost six inches long, almost twenty centimeters, and the hilt is thick. If these can be reluctantly accepted, then what puzzles Chen Yu is that the long sword designed by Li Xuanqing has a blade width of two inches, and the thickness is two or three times that of an ordinary long sword, reaching about one inch, and the entire blade presents a diamond-shaped state. Such a strange combination, not to mention a long sword, is enough for a long knife.

Looking at Chen Yu's puzzled expression, Li Xuanqing secretly laughed, his special long sword could actually be used as a long knife, but he artificially changed it to a long sword. After seeing Tianxing Tie, Li Xuanqing thought of this design. The iron of the sky star is extremely hard, which can greatly improve the overall hardness of the sword body, and after the use of crucible steelmaking, the local carbon content of the sword body can be changed through the steel filling method and the method of covering the earth and burning the blade in the next step, so as to obtain a completely different steel. According to Li Xuanqing's vision, the thickest sword ridge in the middle of the sword body can reduce the carbon content, reduce the hardness, and obtain better toughness. There was no doubt about this point after Li Xuanqing asked Chen Yu whether he would cover the earth and burn the blade. As for whether the hardness and strength of the entire sword body will become soft due to the decrease in the hardness of the main sword spine and the increase in toughness, Li Xuanqing's plan is to solve the problem of softness and hardness by melting the Tianxing Iron and plating it on the surface of the sword body. At the same time, the Celestial Star Iron was extremely hard, and the strength of the sword blade was strengthened again. In this way, with the two narrow blood grooves on the blade, the entire sword body looks like it has the advantages of a long sword, and after being lengthened and weighted, the problem of chopping can also be solved at one time.

After Li Xuanqing patiently explained his ideas to Chen Yu one by one, Chen Yu excitedly said that there was no problem for him. Although I still don't understand the weird design of Li Xuanqing's long sword, I don't care too much.

As for the spear that Li Xuanqing designed for himself, Chen Yu had no opinion on the length and width of the tip of the spear that was deliberately lengthened, although the tip of Li Xuanqing's spear was almost two feet long. But what really puzzled Chen Yu was that the entire gun body was made of steel. Chen Yu roughly calculated that this spear could weigh more than 100 catties.

"Don't mind the weight of the spear, I think I can still move a 100-pound gun. Don't worry" Li Xuanqing patted Chen Yu on the shoulder and said with a smile: "You have time to think about whether you can make a steel pipe, so that maybe their spear can also become all-steel, and it can also improve the service life of the spear." ”

Steel pipe Chen Yu understood what was going on as soon as he heard it, but it was almost impossible to achieve seamless steel pipe in these years, so Li Xuanqing just said it casually and didn't care. But the speaker has no intention, but the listener has the intention. Li Xuanqing's words became the content that Chen Yu had been pondering for a while, and in the end, he really let him use the soil method to create it. Although it is not a seamless steel pipe, it is really realized with the help of other methods.

However, at this time, after Chen Yu learned about Li Xuanqing's design in detail, he immediately commanded everyone to start working. Chen Yu is more concerned about building weapons than Li Xuanqing, perhaps it has something to do with the fact that he was originally an apprentice in a blacksmith shop.

However, Li Xuanqing stopped asking after handing over everything to Chen Yu and them, except for hunting and preparing food for everyone, he almost didn't care about anything, and single-mindedly pounced on the few martial arts classics left by the bearded guest.

Since he decided to build a spear and a Tang knife, Li Xuanqing planned to study the marksmanship and knife technique. It's just that compared to the internal strength, the mind can be practiced by virtue of talent and the experience of later generations. This external skill, Li Xuanqing can only follow the secret plan little by little. Fortunately, when compiling the secret notes, the bearded guest took into account that the disciples of later generations may not have any martial arts foundation, so all the moves are accompanied by pictures in addition to the annotations of the formulas, otherwise Li Xuanqing may really hold the martial arts secrets and don't know what to do.

Therefore, in the next few months, Li Xuanqing was the busiest person among the several people, practicing the light-weight exercise left by the bearded guest in the morning-Floating Shadow. Obviously, Li Xuanqing used this light skill to chase the prey. But the effect is obvious, from the beginning of the morning can not catch a rabbit, to the later trance, like a butterfly like a flower to catch a rabbit roe deer that is still in a frightened state and wants to escape. Even recently, Li Xuanqing tried to race with a red deer, and he was stunned and grabbed the red deer's neck and dragged the red deer backwards to the valley.

The afternoon was spent practicing marksmanship, knife and swordsmanship. The marksmanship left by the bearded guest is called the "Five Tiger Soul Breaking Gun", a total of seventy-two styles, rigid and soft, complex and sharp moves, the so-called round essence is not sluggish, and it is not valuable to be quiet, quiet and the heart is not reckless, and the place is abundant, unpredictable, and the deification is endless. The marksmanship of the Five Tigers Soul Breaker Gun can be subdivided into basic moves such as piercing, stabbing, sealing, sweeping, slashing, winding, looping, blocking, holding, fluttering, pointing, dialing, dancing, and flowering. The name of the sword technique is very strange, it is called "Snow Flower Sword Method", Li Xuanqing pondered for a long time and came to a strange conclusion, it seems that this "Snow Flower Sword Technique" should not be a bearded guest to talk about Xi, but should be left by the red whisk in the three heroes of the wind and dust back then. There are only six styles of this snowflake sword technique, but Li Xuanqing feels that it is really profound and mysterious, and it is not something that he will be able to learn in a while. However, Li Xuanqing didn't care, he could learn the swordsmanship slowly. His top priority is to extract the essence of marksmanship and knife skills to create moves that suit his brothers.

As the saying goes, the sword and the moon stick practice the gun for a long time. Come to think of it, only knife skills are possible to achieve quickly. You can give priority to the knife technique, and then refine the marksmanship when everyone practices the knife technique, so that the time should be almost enough. Li Xuanqing closed the book and nodded.

So in the following time, Chen Yu was in full swing melting meteorites and forging steel, while Li Xuanqing was looking at the books and gesturing with branches. A whole month has passed, and Helan Mountain has ushered in the real winter, and the snowflakes have begun to drift in the inaccessible primeval forest here. And Li Xuanqing's knife technique was also summed up to the end.

"Twelve Sealing Knife Styles", Li Xuanqing stood up and began to hold the branch in his hand, using his modified knife technique. Chopping, chopping, cutting, teasing, sealing, stabbing, blocking, although it seems that one move is very simple and straightforward. With a simple move, the pure yang true qi puffed out, and a whirlwind blew on the spot, blocking all the flying snowflakes out of thin air. Everywhere Li Xuanqing's body went, all the shrubs seemed to be directly swept away. I saw Li Xuanqing suddenly jump, his right hand slashed down out of thin air, only to hear a "crackle" sound, the branches of the tree were strengthened and steel under the infusion of pure yang true qi, and directly split the branches of a tree in front of him.

"This move is enough, but it also needs to be matched with the corresponding footwork, and the big gun and halberd on the battlefield require the knife wielder to have flexible footwork under his feet in addition to being agile, so as to be able to adapt to the complex environment of the battlefield." The twelve sealing knife styles that Li Xuanqing had just cast were simplified from the knife technique passed down by the bearded guest. Although Li Xuanqing's martial arts path has just begun, he still has the ability to simplify his moves and find the most suitable vision.

There is basically no major problem with this knife technique, and the rest is to make up for the flaws in the moves and the loopholes in the knife technique. Li Xuanqing took out the charcoal he burned and began to record the moves he had just performed bit by bit next to the bearded man's knife technique, and after comparing and modifying them one by one, he nodded, anyway, his vision was not able to see any flaws at present.

After putting down the knife law book, Li Xuanqing returned to marksmanship. However, Li Xuanqing did not start to modify his marksmanship so quickly this time, but practiced his own moves and styles according to the record of the "Five Tiger Soul Breaking Gun". According to the experience of the previous life, this marksmanship can only be tried to modify after mastery, and you can't add moves yourself, but it is not difficult to simplify a few practical moves. After all, what Li Xuanqing needs is not a complete marksmanship, but a move that is suitable for opening and closing in a battlefield environment.

Besides, Chen Yu's side, since listening to Li Xuanqing's explanation, he has devoted himself to steelmaking. And I have my own ideas about the seamless steel pipe that Li Xuanqing mentioned before, and I plan to find time to experiment and see how the effect is.

But in front of him, the first thing Chen Yu was going to build was the strange long sword that Li Xuanqing described. Seeing the liquid molten steel smoothly refined in the first crucible, Chen Yu's eyes when he looked at Li Xuanqing suddenly became much hotter.

It's just that Li Xuanqing's mind at this moment is all about practicing marksmanship, and in addition to going out hunting to find food for most of the month, all the time is spent on these five tiger soul breaking guns. After such a long time of practice, at least Li Xuanqing is familiar with this move, and a set of marksmanship is also decent.

After Li Xuanqing became familiar with these Five Tiger Soul Breaking Spears, he had a feeling that they were not only suitable for foot combat, but also for mounted combat. Lingzhou is located in the northwest border, under the bitter cold, there are a lot of horses, ancient Liangzhou is the place of horse production since ancient times, and it is also the main supply base of military horses in the Tang Dynasty. So Li Xuanqing and Chen Yu are not very strangers to horseback riding. Therefore, this marksmanship can naturally be felt as soon as it is practiced.

Thinking of this, Li Xuanqing began to pick up a Tochigi pole beside him again, and began to practice the five tiger soul breaking spears with vigor. But seeing that the snow was flying, the figures flickered, and the wooden pole waved to drive a strong wind, which forcibly drove the snowflakes in the air to follow the shadow of the gun, and gradually, a strange whirlpool was flying rapidly with Li Xuanqing's figure, forming a small tornado between the cols.

"Ding", in the valley in the distance, Chen Yu also prepared enough molten steel and molds to start pouring for the first time.