A few days later, Zhuge Jin's generals and 10,000 Danyang soldiers came, Zhuge Jun was happy, asked some questions, saw that the general was lukewarm to himself, laughed a few times, and let the general go to rest. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Early the next morning, a low horn sounded in Dazhai.

With the continuous sound of horns, the Xuzhou army drilled out of the grass huts and wooden houses, and gathered in the open space outside Dazhai like ants going out to feed.

It is already the middle of November, the weather is about to change, there is not much time left for the Xuzhou army, the Xuzhou army must complete the training within ten days, and then it is about to cross Mount Tai to start a long-distance expedition!

In the dead of night, the thatched hut by the river was bright with fire, and the sound of clanging was endless.

Behind the thatched hut, a furnace was built on the hill that was more than two feet high, and the bottom of the stove was slightly above the position of a dozen interfaces, and a dozen huge cowhide bellows were connected to these interfaces through brick holes, and on the side of each cowhide bellows stood at least two strong men with bare chests and stomachs, desperately agitating the bellows.

I don't know how long it took, a strong man strode forward, and suddenly pulled out a thing at the bottom of the furnace with iron tongs, and in an instant, the fiery red molten iron gushed out from the bottom of the furnace, and slowly flowed into the groove of the sand mold laid in advance.

Next, several strong men sent these cast embryos into the thatched huts for the next step of forging, and the other strong men lifted the top cover of the furnace, and threw the excess or broken iron swords, iron armor, iron helmets, iron halberds, and iron kettles into the furnace, and after they were filled, dozens of strong men stirred up the bellows again.

In that thatched hut, more than 100 blacksmiths of the Xuzhou army were riveting their efforts to build Tang knives, Nanshan cottage was flooded, and the Xuzhou army only grabbed two things, one was the flooded Yuan army rations outside the city, and then the blacksmith equipment in the city, and then it took a lot of manpower and material resources to finally transport the windbags, anvils, hammers and other equipment into the mountain.

A blacksmith man sweats like rain, is using the small hammer in his hand to guide the sledgehammer in the hand of the strong man opposite, and struggles to hammer the horizontal knife on the anvil. In order to improve the combat effectiveness as much as possible, Zhuge Jun decided to create more Tang knives, and he also planned to equip all the generals with Tang knives!

At this time, the Tang knife, due to the defects of metallurgical technology, neither the processing technology nor the material can be compared with the two Han ring knives of later generations, but because of its unique thick back shape, it has the upper hand in the face of double-edged thin swords.

Even the double-edged heavy sword of the Yuan army general is no match for ordinary Tang swords!

As for Zhuge Jun's so-called Tang knife, the processing technology is far from the Tang knife of later generations, but although Zhuge Jun's Tang knife is poorly made, it is better than longer, wider and thicker, thus making up for the gap in material hardness and toughness.

Of course, no matter how simple the current Tang knife craftsmanship is compared to the real Tang knife, it is not something that ordinary blacksmiths can master, so Emperor Yi has to personally handle the hammer, speaking of which, the master of Yi Di is really a bit miserable, other masters can sleep, but he still has to work hard here, more often, he is like a blacksmith.

While he was busy, Zhuge Jun suddenly walked in surrounded by Zhou Cang and others.

Yi Di hurriedly put down the hammer and saluted Zhuge Jun, Zhuge Jun waved his hand to signal that there was no need to be polite, and then took out a white cloth from his sleeve and handed it to Yi Di, Yi Di reached out and took it, and saw that a pattern was drawn on the white cloth, as if it was a sharp and thin spear, but it was different from the spear, the spear did not have a barb, but this thing had a barb.

At that moment, he must have said with some confusion: "Third son, what kind of weapon is this?" ”

"It's called a gunshot." Zhuge Jun explained, "Cast according to the pattern, and the wooden pole must be connected to the back. ”

As a traverser, Zhuge of course knows that throwing guns, in the West, whether it is ancient Greece or ancient Rome, throwing guns are important infantry weapons, but in China, due to the emergence of strong crossbows, throwing guns have become a chicken rib weapon, because whether it is range, rate of fire, penetration or hitting accuracy, throwing guns are far from enough to compare with strong crossbows.

However, throwing guns still has advantages over strong crossbows, that is, they are cheap to build and easy to carry!

With the current conditions of the Xuzhou army, there is neither the technology nor the ability to make a strong crossbow, so the gun has become the first choice, Zhuge has decided to list the javelin as the standard weapon of the army, at least the light soldiers must be equipped!

After the Xuzhou Army was equipped with Tang knives, large shields, halberds, javelins, and longbows, the field mode was basically formed.

The field mode of the Xuzhou army is basically like this, when the enemy infantry enters within one hundred and fifty paces, the longbowmen of the front battalion first carry out the first round of killing; When the enemy infantry is within 30 paces, the auxiliary light soldiers of the middle battalion use javelins to carry out a second round of killing; When the two armies met, the soldiers of the front battalion in the front row were armed with long knives and large shields, and the enemy infantry was close to each other, while the soldiers in the back row waited for the opportunity to attack with long halberds, and the auxiliary light soldiers continued to shoot the enemy with throwing guns.

Emperor Yi put away the pattern, and said to Zhuge Jun: "Third son, this style is quite simple, as long as it is cast, it doesn't need too much forging in the future, but it takes some effort to sharpen it, but it shouldn't be difficult to build eighty branches a day, but I don't know how many branches are needed?" ”

"Eighty branches are far from enough, I need eight thousand branches, and I need them in ten days!"

"In this case, more people will be needed to sharpen the cast gun heads."

"That's no problem, how many people do you need, just go to the various armies to choose, including the pro-guards!" After saying this, Zhuge Jun said again, "However, the creation of the throwing spear must not affect the creation of the long knife and the Tang knife, because the importance of these two weapons is far above the throwing gun!" ”

"No!" Yi Di shook his head and said loudly, "Within ten days, 10,000 triangular arrow clusters, 8,000 spear heads, 500 Tang knives, plus 20 long knives!" The last general will never be dishonored! ”

Zhuge Jun patted Yidi's shoulder, and said apologetically: "Sir, I can only work hard for you." ”

Yi Di said: "As long as Xiao Pei can be recovered, what does it matter if the last general is exhausted and dies in the blacksmith shop?" ”

"Okay, sir, I've written it down!" Zhuge Jun nodded and said solemnly, "After taking back Xiaopei in the future, I will definitely give you a great credit!" ”

With that, Harry Oil turned and walked away.