"Master, please take a look!"

A long sword with a dark gray body was handed to Lu Ren's hand, and after Lu Ren looked at it carefully, he inserted the long sword into the crack in the bricks on the ground, and then tried to gradually increase his strength to break the long sword. Soon Lu Ren found that under the premise that he did not use the physical strength enhancer, even if he used almost the maximum strength, the sword body was not affected at all, which meant that the tenacity of this sword was excellent.

Lu Ren nodded with satisfaction, and Lu Fang on the side also looked at the long sword in Lu Ren's hand with a rather reluctant gaze, and sighed lightly: "I didn't expect that the head of the family is also quite good at forging weapons. A long sword like this, even if it can't be called a divine weapon, is enough to be called a sharp weapon in the world. ”

Lu Ren was a little crying and laughing when he heard this, and said in his heart What kind of magic weapon can this be? To put it bluntly, it's just a tungsten steel longsword with a reasonable alloy ratio. But if you really want to compare the steel products at that time, the long sword in Lu Ren's hand is indeed a very good thing. It's not that there is any sharpness that can cut gold and jade, and iron like mud, but that this sword is strong enough.

After all, with the smelting technology at that time, coupled with the tight time, it was not easy to make a tungsten steel alloy sword blank and create it, and it was very difficult to completely polish the tungsten steel sword, and where did Lu Ren find the emery needed to polish this cemented carbide? Therefore, the sword in Lu Ren's hand is strong enough, but the sharpness can only be regarded as average, and under normal circumstances, it is a bit reluctant to cut leather products. Of course, it's still okay to stab someone without armor.

After waving it casually twice, Lu Fang handed over the scabbard in a timely manner, and said regretfully: "It's just a pity, if it can be a few more days, this sword can be sharpened." And if the head of the family can have such a sharp blade in his hand, he will be able to help the head of the family to kill the enemy more in front of the two armies and make meritorious contributions. ”

Lu Ren laughed and said, "Kill the enemy and make meritorious service? Do you want my life? Don't forget that I am a civil official, not a military general. If I could, I'd rather not even have the sword unsheathed. ”

Lu Fang also remembered that Lu Ren's skills were basically in civilian work, and it was unrealistic to let Lu Ren kill people to earn military merits, so he smiled embarrassedly.

Lu Ren didn't want to worry about this kind of thing with Lu Fang. The time that Lu Fang came to Lu Ren was not short, so Lu Ren had already realized that Lu Fang could be said to be the most typical clan child in that era. This kind of person can only be regarded as so-so in terms of ability, but he is very concerned about the prosperity and development of the clan.

If this is said in modern terms, Lu Fang is a person with clan totem worship, and it can also be said that the prosperity and development of the clan is Lu Fang's personal belief. And such a person, as long as it is beneficial to the development of the clan, will be extremely enthusiastic, and accordingly, as long as those things related to the development of the clan are entrusted to him, as long as it is within his ability, it is very reassuring and reassuring.

However, Lu Ren really didn't expect that his Meng Village actually had very good smelting and forging abilities here, if he hadn't had to go out with the army this time, he would have to get some good weapons and equipment on his body, just in case, he would really have been ignoring it.

Perhaps this is "the pot-bellied man can't see his feet when standing", the land of Wu Yue was originally one of the earliest areas in the Chinese mainland to replace bronze products with iron, according to reliable documents, the land of Wu Yue as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period has been popularized in large quantities of iron supplies, such as "Wu hook", "Longquan" These historical swords are also from Wu land, it can be seen how good the iron smelting technology of Wu Yue land was at that time.

And the Lu clan of Wu County has been in Wu for a long time, and there are naturally not a few people in the clan who make a living by fiddling with iron. Although there are not many people brought here by the Lu side to Xuchang, there are still a few people who can play iron and play well.

In addition, there are also many good blacksmiths among the people left here in Meng Village by the Zhongshan Zhen family, after all, the iron business of the Zhen family is so big, how can it be said that there are not some people who can play iron? Moreover, the small amount of tungsten in the sword in Lu Ren's hand was provided to Lu Ren by the Zhen clan.

However, since Lu Ren hadn't noticed this before, these two iron-playing people were just building farm tools and conventional weapons for the village militia in Meng Village, and then they had to help Lu Ren build something strange to them from time to time. This time, Lu Renyi said that he wanted to get some decent weapons, which made these people energetic.

As soon as the technicians at the two ends were added, Lu Ren gave corresponding guidance, and a tungsten alloy long sword of excellent quality at that time appeared. However, except for the one in Lu Ren's hand, the thirty or so Lu disciples who were ready to follow Lu Ren to the army were just ordinary stainless steel products. Of course, the ordinariness here is only compared to Lu Ren's tungsten steel long sword, which is really compared with other weapons at that time, and the quality is still very good. And Lu Ren took into account the problem of the practicability of the sword, and did not let these Lu disciples use the sword, but created a Tang knife with higher practicality.

Of course, armor is essential. Lu Ren is also a person who has been on the battlefield so many times, and knows the importance of a piece of armor on the battlefield. However, Lu Ren did not use the common method of interlocking iron armor at that time, but directly used steel plates to create plate armor. When it was built, Lu Ren also wanted to use stamping, but he didn't have that condition at that time.

However, this is not difficult to defeat the technicians of the Lu and Zhen families, they first cast an iron mold, and then put the burned steel plate on the iron mold, and used a hammer to create the shape of the plate armor, and then repaired those hairy horns and corners after forming, and a plate armor is OK. As for the inside of the armor, you can also attach leather armor, in addition to being able to strengthen the defense a little more, it also has a certain improvement in the comfort of wearing.

Of course, the defensive ability of such plate armor is not to be said, but it is a little heavier. However, Lu Ren's physical fitness is not bad, and if he really goes on the expedition, he will either ride a car or a horse, and there is no big problem with these weights. And those Lu disciples who followed Lu Ren, although the armor could not be as comprehensive as Lu Ren's armor, about half of the protection area could still be achieved.

"The head of the family, the children and equipment needed have been prepared, when is the head of the family ready to leave?"

Lu Ren shook his head and said, "Don't worry, Cao Gong's order has not yet arrived, and it is inconvenient for me to go directly to Xu Du." Besides, my main task should only be to escort grain and grass, and the actual departure will be later than the main army. During this time, you can let these children eat and drink well, and then take them to practice martial arts. ”

Lu Fang nodded and left with the thirty or so Lu clan disciples first, while Cai Yan came to Lu Ren's side and smiled faintly at Lu Ren: "Guo Xijiu went back to Xudu." ”

Lu Ren said "um" and said: "He is different from me, he must be with Cao Gong, so he has to make some preparations earlier than me." ”

Cai Yan didn't speak, but took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it to Lu Ren. Lu Ren thought it was left to him by Guo Jia, so he took it and took it to inspect it. But after just reading a few words, Lu Ren was surprised: "This letter ......"

Cai Yan nodded to Lu Ren. In fact, this letter was written by Cao Cao to Cai Yan, and the meaning of the letter was nothing more than to ask Cai Yan to be a good wife and mother, and at the same time to persuade Lu Ren to make more progress and make more meritorious achievements in order to seek fame and leave bamboo silk. But the implied meaning of the letter, Cai Yan and Lu Ren can see it, it is nothing more than asking Cai Yan to be a good "pillow wind" role, and blow more wind that is beneficial to Cao Cao in Lu Ren's ears.

Lu Ren smiled after reading it, and handed the letter back to Cai Yan: "If Lao Cao knew about the agreement between us, I don't know if he would be angry." ”

Cai Yan said: "Don't be too careless, it's better to be careful, after all, Cao Gong is not an ordinary person...... But seriously, even if you don't leave that day, I don't want you to stay in officialdom any longer. My father's experience in the officialdom back then was enough to scare me, so I don't want my husband to follow my father's old path again. ”

Of course, Lu Ren understands Cai Yan's mentality. And in the original history, didn't Cai Yan and Dong Ci also live in seclusion in the end? And at this moment, Cai Yan can have such a mentality, so that Lu Ren doesn't have to worry about Cai Yan will help Cao Cao do something that is not good for him.

Seeing that there was no one around, Lu Ren wanted to get close to Cai Yan, but Cai Yan pushed Lu Ren away and said: "It won't be long before you go out with the army, and you should accompany Wanmei more before that." You should know that I've always felt very sorry for Wanmei. ”

"Is it okay for one person to do it for a day? I didn't touch anyone on the third day, so I wasn't addicted to alcohol, was it? ”

Cai Yan glared at Lu Ren, and left without making any response, leaving Lu Ren there shaking his head helplessly and laughing at himself.

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In the blink of an eye, more than ten days have passed, and the time has come to the middle of September in the third year of Jian'an.

"The head of the Qi family, the children of the clan have all been fully equipped, and it is feasible immediately!"

In the front hall of the Lu Mansion, Lu Ren was packing on the hour, and when he heard Lu Fang's report, Lu Ren subconsciously nodded lightly, but then he sighed a little helplessly, and muttered to himself in his heart: "Why does time pass so quickly?" It feels like the day has come when I have to go with the army...... Alas, I now have a very deep understanding of the phrase 'the king wants the minister to die, and the minister has to die', Lao Cao said a word, I can't think of it! ”

Smiling self-deprecatingly, Lu Ren asked Lu Fang, "Hasn't Miss Mi rushed back yet?" ”

"......" Lu Fang was speechless and silent for a moment, and then his face turned straight, and he bowed to Lu Ren with a serious expression: "The head of the family, please allow a certain word!" The head of the family is about to go out with the army, and he should focus on all things in the army and have no distractions, so that he can make progress and retreat. You should not covet the love of women in your heart so that you have distracting thoughts, and if you think about them, you will have a big failure! ”

"I ......"