Chapter 50: Improving Equipment

After Xuzhou was settled, Zhang Liao wanted to travel south. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 info First, I want to meet Sun Ce, Zhou Yu, I don't know what is going on in Yangzhou now, and second, let's see if I will meet Uncle Liu Huang. Also, find more sages and talents, and bury heroes.

Before going south, Zhang Liao thought of doing some reforms for Xuzhou, as a traverser, some common sense can still be taken out and shared with everyone, after all, this is for the benefit of mankind.

First of all, the waterwheel. Thinking of it, Zhang Liao took Zhou Cang, Mishang, found a group of blacksmiths and carpenters, and built two iron shops and wooden shops in Xiapi City, and ordered Gao Shun to lead the trap camp to garrison around and train the trapped people. Because some things can be known, but some weapon reforms need to be told to the world with the blood of the enemy, not given away for nothing.

Waterwheels, and most importantly, axes. In the Han Dynasty, it was impossible to have related machines, such as lathes, computer gongs, wire cutting, or bearings, even gears could be made. Zhang Liao retreated and begged for it, and asked the blacksmith to melt some iron shi, through molding, hammering it into a wheel, piercing it into a hole in the middle, leaving an iron rod to pass through, and then some camphor wood, cutting it off, cutting it in the middle, smaller than the iron wheel, and then forcing the iron wheel into the stake. The rest is simple, make some planks for water leaves...

When the first waterwheel, erected in the creek. Taking advantage of the water drop, the stream water is injected into the big windmill like a waterwheel, and then spills out to another hill. Mi Zhu, Zhou Cang, and others were stunned and exclaimed, "The Lord is really a genius in heaven",

Secondly, the knife, Zhang Liao thought about it for a long time. In later generations, when he went up the mountain to chop wood, the wood knife: thick back, sharp blade, narrow and long blade, and a hook at the tail. Only those who have cut down trees on the mountain can feel how high-spirited a sharp firewood knife is. Three swords and two slashes forced to the top of the tree, and thousands of trees fell to me. Secondly, it specializes in cutting pig skulls, foot bones, and pork knives. The blade has a wide face and a thick back blade, but this blade is forged from stainless steel. As the saying goes, good steel should be used on the blade, and that's why. No matter how hard your bones are, the pork guy only needs to hold the pig knife in his hand, split, snap, and two clicks. Again, passed down to future generations, extremely vicious, titanium knife.

To sum up, thick back, single-edged, heavy, and extremely sharp.

Zhang Liao, draw the drawings. After many exercises and beatings, Zhou Cang finally took out a strange-shaped big knife. But the people felt that the weapon was obviously not a sword, but it was not a sword either, because the sword was curved. Zhang Liao was slightly excited, held it in his hand, slashed left and right twice, and the knife was blank. It weighs about twenty-five pounds and is about six feet long, which is actually a ring-headed knife without a ring. A strengthened version of the ring head knife, the body is straight and narrow, the tail is oblique with a point, shaped like a titanium knife. Thick back single-edged, cold. Just by lifting the void diagonally, it emitted a fierce murderous aura.

As a traveler in later generations, Zhang Liao has of course heard that the ring head knife has a great reputation. From another point of view, the Han Empire is to defeat the fierce Huns with a sharp ring head knife, and then, the Tang Empire, on the basis of the ring head knife to make a horizontal knife, in order to break the fierce Turks, more than 2,000 years later, the Japanese in the horizontal knife fierce and then created a titanium knife, the knife fierceness to the extreme.

Zhang Liao signaled, Zhou Cang raised his blade sword to slash, 'Pu', the piercing metal sound sounded, in the electric light, the sword was broken, the fracture was neat, and it was as bright as a mirror.

Zhang Liao thought about it for a while, and said to the forging master, "The blade is changed to four feet, weighing about fifteen catties, let's have three thousand first."

The blacksmith's face was difficult, "General, this knife has high craftsmanship requirements, and two people can only make one in a day, and it may not be a defective product."

"Time is not in a hurry, it must be a good knife", Zhang Liao secretly thought, Cao Cao should not attack himself so quickly, let's do it first.

Finally, stirrups.

There are no stirrups yet. The cavalry of the world, except for a few famous cavalry. It is mostly used for hurrying, running for a ride, stopping to release arrows, running again, stopping again, and releasing again. Even if Cao Jun rode iron, he relied on catching horseflies with one hand and a gun with the other, and smashed into the infantry formation. Of course, there are exceptions, Lu Bu single-handedly brought out the land and wolf riding, Dong Zhuo, Ma Teng, Han Sui, Xiliang Tieqi, outside the grassland, Yiren and others are good at running and shooting. But these tigers and wolves, who have ridden horses since childhood, have strong leg strength and waist strength. When running, he relies on his legs and the horse's belly, and his waist sinks, which is not something ordinary people can do. Running is also quite physically demanding and cannot last. Therefore, Cao Cao will admire and avoid Zhang Liao's thousands of wolf rides.

It wasn't until the appearance of the stirrup that the embarrassing situation of the cavalry was completely overturned. A small stirrup turns the cavalry from an auxiliary to a decisive one. It is recorded in history that the Huns, who were once defeated by the empire, became a lingering nightmare of the empire because of the reform of the stirrup.

At present, not only is there a lack of advanced blacksmiths, but such a revolutionary weapon is best taken out at a critical moment in order to get unexpected and rewarding. Zhang Liao secretly calculated and decided to put it down for the time being.

Zhang Liao instructed Gao Shun that the knife workshop was only allowed to enter, not to leave. Within a radius of five miles, patrolling day and night, suspicious people will be detained, and the big knife refined, don't take it out of the refining workshop first, and then worry about it when Zhang Liao returns from the south.