The morning sun rises from the east, the courtyard, the pavilion, the rockery, the pond, all bathed in the golden sea of light, flocks of birds fly from afar, land on the top of the trees in the courtyard, chirp to the fullest release like a turning song. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Qin Feng opened the door and walked out along the cobblestone path, with a smile on his face, he walked briskly, behind him, with long hair and a shawl, and a lazy look Min Ruoxi leaned on the door frame with one hand, looking at Qin Feng's departing back.

Qin Feng turned his head, waved his hand, and said, "Prepare more good things to bring back, I will ask the horse monkey to wait for you, but you are also the queen mother now, this time go back to save relatives, don't lose our face." ”

Looking at Qin Feng's appearance of being anxious to show his strength in front of his mother's family, Min Ruoxi couldn't help laughing, "I know, go busy!" Come back as soon as you can! No other day or night. ”

"Of course, I have a wife at home, where can I stay outside, wash white, wait for me." Qin Feng smiled evilly.

Min Ruoxi's face flushed, "Let's go, it's not serious." ”

Qin Feng laughed loudly, put his hands behind his back, and walked out with Shi Shiran behind his back.

Xiao Ning, the squire of the military department, had already entered the palace early in the morning and was waiting outside his study.

Looking at Xiao Ning's somewhat tired expression and two big dark circles under his eyes, Qin Feng asked, "Haven't slept all night?" ”

Xiao Ning smiled: "What Your Majesty explained, Xiao Ning is not afraid that he will do it well, but he can't sleep, the cavalry will become an army a day sooner, and the combat effectiveness will be formed a day earlier, and my Ming Empire will be as stable as Mount Tai." ”

"I have a heart." Qin Feng said appreciatively: "Father-in-law Le, go and prepare a cup of strong tea for Lord Shilang, by the way, have you eaten early?" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, a cup of strong tea is enough, but I have already used it in the ministry earlier." Following Qin Feng into the door of the study, Xiao Ning replied.

The two sat down and took a sip of the thick tea brought by Father-in-law Le, the extremely bitter tea imported, Xiao Ning's spirit was also lifted, and he took out a stack of files from his arms and spread them in front of Qin Feng.

"Yesterday afternoon, after I returned to the Ministry of War, I invited Lord Wen Pengwen (skillful) from the Ministry of Industry, and invited some old cavalrymen from the past in Yuejing, as well as weapons experts from relevant aspects of the Ministry of War, to study the tasks assigned by Your Majesty." Xiao Ning said: "Based on the opinions of all parties, the first thing to determine is the style of the sabers used by the cavalry. Your Majesty, this is the pattern. ”

Taking the drawing from Xiao Ning's hand, Qin Feng looked at a knife pattern with the size indicated on the drawing. The knife type is slender and straight, some with an inner arc, and the length is about one meter two.

"Your Majesty, this kind of knife is a single blade, thick ridge, narrow blade, good for chopping, the whole knife is forged in one piece, there is a ring at the tail, and when fighting, the knife can be tied to the bowl through the rope. Let's call it the Ring Head Knife. Xiao Ning said.

Although there is no real thing, just looking at the pattern, this knife seems to be extremely simple, rough and not detailed, but if you look at it twice, you can feel that there seems to be a murderous aura in this simplicity.

"Is there any such thing as skillful craftsmanship?" Qin Feng put down the pattern and asked: "The cavalry fights on a horse, the speed is fast, the strength is great, this kind of chopping knife, if there is a problem in the manufacturing process, once it is broken, for the cavalry, it is equivalent to half a life." ”

After everyone discussed and determined the style, Master Wen also specifically talked about the manufacturing process of this knife, and the most important thing is to ensure the quality of this knife. Lord Wen said that he will use different hundred steels to repeatedly forge and fold, so that the blade can be rigid and soft, and the blade will not be broken because of the fierce fighting in the fighting, Lord Wen said that this technology is called composite steel technology, and there are some other heat treatment and quenching techniques, so the minister does not understand, but looking at the appearance of Lord Wen, it should be very certain. Xiao Ning said.

"With his skillful temperament, he should go and build a sample today, and when he takes out the sample, we will taste it again, and send it to the cavalry, if they think it is good, it will be him." Qin Feng nodded, "The weapon is for the soldiers, and they must find it easy to use." ”

"Your Majesty is wise."

"Don't put a top hat on me." Qin Feng smiled: "What about the stabbing gun?" I'm afraid this is much more troublesome than a knife, right? ”

Xiao Ning smiled bitterly, "It's not just a lot of trouble, it took us an hour or two to decide on the plan, and Lord Wen finalized the manufacturing process, but this gun, we argued all night, put forward more than a dozen plans, but were overturned one by one, and fought immediately, the spear is mainly to break the formation, rush, the cavalry on both sides hedge, its strength is unimaginable to ordinary people, no matter what wooden handle is used, it is impossible to avoid the end of breaking, and some people proposed to make it all made of steel, but this proposal was immediately vetoed by Lord Wen." The cavalry on the horse, all of them stabbed with a gun in one hand, not to mention its weight made it difficult for the cavalry to control at all, if it really stabbed something, even if it continued, the cavalry could not hold it at all, and if one was not good, it would hurt itself. ”

Qin Feng took out the pattern of the gun from the file in front of him, looked at the peculiar style of the spear, and asked a little strangely: "This is the plan you have finally decided, it looks a little strange." ”

Xiao Ning said with a smile: "It's also a coincidence, there is a young foreigner in the military department, his grandfather was a cavalry general of the Yue Kingdom in Kaiping County, and he had fought with the horse bandits who came from the Qin State in Kaiping for many years, but this gun was not something we came up with, but it was originally there." ”

"Already?" Qin Feng was a god.

"Yes, there were. This gun, which was his grandfather's trophy, came from one of the most famous horse bandits in the Qin State, who was chased by the authorities and had nowhere to hide because of the great anger of the people in the Qin State, and finally wandered to Kaiping County of the Yue State, where it was rampant for another five or six years. At that time, his grandfather was a horseman who chased down the horse bandit. And this gun was the weapon of the horse bandit back then. ”

"What are the characteristics? It looks like the blade of the spear is much longer than a normal spear! Qin Feng shook the drawings.

"It's very different." Xiao Ning said: "This foreigner once heard his grandfather say that the battle with this horse bandit was the most dangerous battle in his grandfather's life, and the horse bandit's gun, in the confrontation with the officers and soldiers, can almost be described as invincible, and a characteristic he described surprised us." He said that after the gun stabbed something, when it was forced, the handle of the gun could bend in a huge arc, but the body of the gun did not break at all, which was exactly what we wanted. ”

"That's exactly what we want." Qin Feng also nodded again and again.

"This gun is now in his grandfather's collection, and we told him to go home and get it." Xiao Ning said: "There is nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get them." ”

"Why didn't you show me?" Qin Feng asked.

Xiao Ning sighed, "After this gun was brought back, everyone tried it several times, and they were all surprised and happy, but in the end it was dismantled by Lord Wen, and even the shaft of the spear was cut in two by Lord Wen." ”

"Violent creatures, this guy, always so violent." Qin Feng was greatly annoyed.

"Lord Wen is studying how to make this gun, but he can't see a reason from the outside, so he can only disconnect him, and after disconnecting, even the well-informed Lord Wen also gasped, Your Majesty, if we really want to build this kind of gun, there is a huge problem."

"What's the problem, you say?" Qin Feng asked.

"It takes a long time, and it will take more than a year for a gun like this to be fully completed, and it will be extremely expensive, and the cost of a gun like this will only cost me to make dozens of knives or more." Xiao Ning said helplessly.

"So expensive!" Qin Feng also gasped, "It's just expensive, how can it take a year to make one?" ”

"Your Majesty, this spear is called a horse lance, which is divided into two parts, the lance blade is 50-60CM long, far longer than ordinary spear and spear weapons, and the lance has obvious armor-piercing edges and eight sides. Ordinary fish scale chain mail, iron circle armor, and bright light armor can be broken with a single blow under the armor-breaking lance. ”

"What is this gadget on the lance for?"

"Your Majesty, this is called a retention plot, and it is designed to prevent the lance from going too deep into the human body and not being able to pull it out, which is very practical." Xiao Ning explained.

"Leave the plot? That's a good name. Why can't you see that this thing is so troublesome to make? Qin Feng looked at the drawings in his hand.

"Your Majesty, it's not the lance that is in trouble, it's the lance." Xiao Ning pointed to the back section and said, "There is a lot of attention to this thing. The lance is not at all like the wooden pole used in ordinary guns and spears, but the main trunk of the finest toughness is taken and peeled into a uniform thickness and glued. The toughest wood is the most used for bows, followed by mulberry, oak, and rattan, and the worst is also made of bamboo. Soak the fine scorn in oil repeatedly. The bubble is no longer deformed, no longer cracked, and the first step has been completed. Then remove the strips and let them air dry in the shade. After gluing with high-quality glue paint into a handful of thick, zhang and long, the outer layer is wound with hemp rope. Wait for the hemp rope to dry thoroughly, apply raw lacquer, and wrap it in arrowroot cloth. Then paint is applied to the kudzu cloth, dried and wrapped in a layer, until it is cut with a knife, and the mallet makes a metallic sound, but it does not crack, so it is qualified. Then go to its beginning and end, truncated. The front is equipped with a stainless steel lance, and the rear is a red copper lance. Constantly adjusted, the qualified standard is to use a hemp rope to hang at the tail of the lance two feet, the whole horse lance can be in mid-air like a weighing rod at both ends without falling. In this way, the military commander can ride on the horse, so that he can keep the tip of the lance forward without the slightest effort. The resulting lance is light, tough, and strong. Cavalry can charge with horsepower, or swing it in melee combat. It's just that the whole lance takes too long and has a low success rate, so the cost is surprisingly high.