"It seems that both the horseshoe and the ringhead knife work well."

Sitting in the rear army, Zhao Wuxian watched the enemy's right army fall apart under the hammer anvil tactic, and said to the people next to him.

Because it was necessary to repair the damaged weapon, and at the same time record the performance and improvement plan of the new weapon, Cao Bing, the iron official accompanying the army, said respectfully: "Thanks to Mo Ye, this divine weapon can be used in the army!" Soldiers are proud to have a ring-headed sword. ”

Zhao Wuxian shook his head helplessly: "It took a whole year, and the blast furnace was not extinguished all night, and it only forged a thousand iron knives, which could only be supplied to the cavalry for the time being." After all, he only has one Ludi, which is not as good as the later Sun Wu's handwriting of forging tens of thousands of knives in a year.

The iron workshop in Momogaoka has been open for more than three years, and it has been mainly casting iron agricultural tools, but it has been slow to make progress in terms of weapons. It wasn't until Mo Xie arrived a year ago that she offered the iron smelting method inherited from Ou Yezi and the cadre, which greatly improved the quality and yield of iron.

So although Mo Xie replaced Cao Bing's position, although she was a Wu Yue woman, he didn't dare to complain.

Because General Zhao once publicly stated that with Mo Xie alone, he can be worth 10,000 apprentices!

Previously, the Eastern Zhao army had only used bronze weapons, which was like a man with only one foot, and it was difficult to support it alone. The supply of iron finally allowed the military industry of Lu to land on both feet, and many new inventions were created one after another.

For example, horseshoes.

Originally, the horse's hooves consisted of two layers, and the one layer that touched the ground was a hard horn, called a horseshoe. The horseshoe is in contact with the ground, and is corroded by the friction of the ground and the accumulation of water. Once on a long journey, it is easy to fall off. Affects the health and combat ability of horses.

This has always been a big problem for cavalry and charioters. It was Zhao Wuxian who came up with the idea, and that was to nail the horseshoe. The hoof-shaped horseshoe is cast with wear-resistant pig iron, which can not only protect the horse's hooves and delay the wear of the horse's shoes, but also make the horse's hooves grip the ground more firmly, which is very beneficial for riding and driving.

What was invented by the Romans three hundred years later appeared in advance in the Spring and Autumn Period.

The first to get this treatment was the war horse, and this time the Zhao family rode west, and the loss of the horses was small to single digits. The strength was preserved to the maximum, so that it was able to enter the battle one day after landing.

With Mo Ye's technique and Zhao Wuxian's correct guidance, Lu Guo has begun to run into the Iron Age. The booming iron-smelting industry has turned the warriors into a rare iron and steel hero of this era.

In addition to the horseshoe, which is highly praised by insiders but unknown to outsiders, Taoqiu is more famous for its new iron weapons.

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"When Xuanyuan, Shennong, and Hux, they used stone as soldiers; By the time of the Yellow Emperor, jade was used as a soldier; The time of the Yu cave. Bronze as a soldier; At this point, use iron as a soldier! This is what Zhao Wuxian said a year ago, after rejecting Taoqiu's plan to forge a large number of iron swords, and instead drew the shape of the "ring head sword".

He remembers it well. The ring-headed knife is a sharp weapon used by the Han army to develop a powerful cavalry, which is actually available in the Spring and Autumn Period of the Yin Zhou Dynasty, but it is only cast in bronze. Due to the limitations of the properties of the bronze itself. It is destined that melee weapons can only be based on stabbing, and slashing can easily lead to the destruction of weapons. Therefore, the bronze knife is very small and is only used for cutting leather. Cannot be used in actual combat. This kind of knife was widely used in Yan and Qi, and was also turned into a currency "Qi knife" by the Qi people according to this shape.

However, in the Warring States period, steel provided the tougher bones of weapons, and iron knives three or four feet long were born. Therefore, Zhao Wuxian's guidance was not too ahead of the times, but just made the ironworks take the right path in advance.

Because the tip of the handle is invariably made into a flat ring, hence the name "ring head knife". The head of the knife stem ring is forged in one piece, and then connected with the knife body by inlay welding, and then reinforced with eye nails, and installed with a wooden handle. The blade of the knife is repeatedly folded and forged with black-hearted malleable iron, less than ten times, more than twenty or thirty times, and then put into animal oil to quench and reinforce. This is the standard configuration of a thousand knives, as for the "hundred forging" sword in Zhao Wuxian's hand, it cannot be popularized yet.

When they first got their hands on the weapons, the cavalry were still skeptical, but as experts in cavalry combat, they naturally had their own reasons for inventing the tactics of the crow soldiers scattering the stars and hammering the anvil.

"The sword is not conducive to immediate combat, slashing, and breakage due to its double-sided blades, which is very disadvantageous in hand-to-hand combat of the assault cavalry. And this kind of ring-headed knife with a one-sided blade and a thick ridge is the most conducive weapon for slashing, plus the long-range and short-range coordination of the riding bow and iron halberd, which can greatly enhance the attack power of the cavalry! ”

This battle of Makino is the first time that the ring head sword has been used on the battlefield with a strong enemy, this kind of single-edged thick-backed short weapon specially used for chopping has a structural advantage, it is not as easy to break as a double-edged long sword, it can be held by a cavalry one-handed, and the use of skills is also relatively fast and proficient.

In a high-speed charge, the tip of the knife is pointed diagonally forward, which can easily cut the throat of the enemy, and when you raise your hand after stationing behind the horse, you can slash and splash blood, which can make the enemy lose its combat effectiveness. The blade of the ring head is three and a half feet long, even if it accidentally rolls off the horse, it is simply a devastating existence against the two-foot bronze sword that is common among the Handan soldiers.

Just like when the master Shangfu rode the division with a wild goose, which caused the chaos of the merchants, when hundreds of Zhao cavalry broke through the left flank of the Handan division with sharp blades, Handan Ji, who was in command of the right flank, was completely stunned......

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Brothers are against the wall, and the outside is insulted.

Although his ancestors were members of the Zhao family, from a very young age, Handan Ji only regarded the cousins of the Zhongxing clan as brothers, and treated the children of the Zhao family like passers-by.

Especially in the Pan Palace, the conflict made Handan Ji and Zhao Wuxian look like fire and water.

But it was only now that he realized that the fire was so fierce that it was almost drying up his little puddle.

It wasn't until after the battle began that he was shocked to realize that in just a few years, Dong Zhao's strength was so strong, the sharp blade, and the tactics that made people feel powerless for a while.

But, at this moment, you can't help but fight!

There is a saying that is widely spread in various countries in this era, "The hatred of the father is the same as the sky, the hatred of the brothers does not oppose the army, and the hatred of the traveling is not the same country!" ”

It means that the sons cannot live under the same blue sky as the enemy who kills their father, and no matter where the enemy is, the sons must find and kill the enemy with their own hands; If your brother is killed, you must always carry your weapon with you, and kill your enemy when you see it; If your good friend is killed, you can't live in the same country as the enemy, you either kill the enemy, or chase the enemy and flee abroad.

Handan Ji decided that Zhao Wuxian had a grudge against him to kill his father!

So today he is bringing a mourning soldier, a mourning soldier who rebelled angrily after the Handan clan was oppressed by the Zhao clan.

So Handan Ji had to fight, he may have been timid and avoided fighting before, but at this moment, he had no choice.

His soldiers could flee and surrender, but he couldn't.

If you can't get revenge, you can only die! This is the dignity of the martial artist of the Jin Kingdom, and his ancestors Zhao Chuan and Zhao Zhan all exert this spirit of being timid in the face of small things and not afraid of death in the face of big things, and this spirit flows in the blood of their family.

This is Handan's greatest pride, and it is also what they think is different from the Zhao family.

Handan Ji has never been afraid of death, otherwise he would not have done the thing of beating Zhao Wuxian and Zhao Guangde in the Pan Palace with the two gentlemen of Bank of China and Fan for the sake of resentment.

"Handan!" Faced with the imminent collapse of the front, he suddenly shouted loudly, and together with the guards around him, he held on to the last chariot barrier.

The long sword in his hand became heavier and heavier, and there were only a few people left around him, and the rest either died or fled, and the mourning soldiers of the Handan clan became so small and so frightened under the powerful blow. He went on a killing spree, his arms turning red all the way to his elbows.

Another enemy spearman rushed towards him, and Handan Ji cut off his spearhead with a sword, and then stabbed him in the hand and arm, his swordsmanship has always been exquisite.

Then, an archer without a bow grabbed an arrow and poked it like a dagger, but his thigh was cut by Handan Ji's personal guard, and he suddenly fell to the ground, Handan Ji laughed, and a sword pierced his heart.

In the end, a knight who rushed into the Handan army on a horse appeared out of nowhere, raised a terrible weapon with a single blade, and slashed at the shield of the guard, and after killing him, he was attacked by Handan Ji with a sword and stabbed under the armpit.

Killing three people in a row, Handan Ji regained his self-confidence, and in order to let the frightened soldiers return to his side, he raised his long sword again and shouted: "Handan! Handan ......"

However, the shouting stopped abruptly, and an arrow accurately entered Handan Ji's eye socket, leaving only the arrow feather outside, turning it into a bloody hole. Before Handan Ji could shout the next sentence, he fell to the ground headlong and died.

"Hit!"

Yan Gaoshang, who was good at shooting with an ape arm, maintained the posture of drawing the bow and shooting, and the bowstring was still trembling slightly. He smiled smugly as he watched the enemy general, who was wearing beautiful black armor and still resisting stubbornly after the battle collapsed, fall to the ground.

"Right in the eye socket!"

He remembered the lesson outside the city of Yangzhou, and began to engrave the word "high" on each of his arrow shafts, he would remember the location of each person who was shot to the ground, and after the battle, he would go to find the corpses one by one, cut off his left ear, tie the head, and then hold the blood-stained arrow shaft high to make a contribution to the lord!

Yan Gao doesn't have any hobbies, he just has a good face, and he likes to brag with the Paoze Township Party, in addition to bringing him a farm house and a meritorious man, this credit is enough to brag about it for a lifetime!

PS: It's finished, the exam is gone, and I'm asking for a monthly pass again, and I really want to know if I can get into the top ten of the monthly pass list. (To be continued.) )