In front of the gate of the county mansion where the two brothers rode together, the guards guarding the door were two newly established Tiger Guard guards, and when they saw one of Cao Pi and Cao Zhang, one of the guards stepped across the door and said: "Two sons, please stay, no one can trespass in the important land of the county government without the permission of the governor and the shepherd." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Cao Pi and Cao Zhang had both participated in the two Xuzhou crusades, so the guards also knew the sons of these two state shepherds.

"Huh? When were the rules made? Cao Pi frowned, in his impression, it seemed that he used to come and go freely.

"It's a rule that the Tiger Guards set up after they took over the defense of the county capital." The guard replied.

Cao Zhang secretly admired the efficiency of Cao Jun, now it is only the end of December 195 AD, and it has only been about 20 days to pacify Yanzhou, and the Tiger Guard Army seems to be the same, and has also taken over the defense of the county government, so I think I have also taken over the work of guarding Cao Cao.

Cao Zhang opened his mouth and said, "Brother Lao went to inform the state pastor that we were coming. ”

The title of "big brother" made the guard stunned for a moment, quite flattered, only to see the guard salute and say: "No! After saying that, he left in a hurry.

Cao Zhang turned over and dismounted, looked up and down the equipment of another Tiger Guard guard, and after becoming literate, Cao Zhang also read a lot of books, including some knowledge of military armor.

After looking at it for a while, Cao Zhang found that this buddy's equipment was different from that of most soldiers, in this era, the clothes worn by soldiers were called armor, armor was worn on the body, and the armor was worn on the head, and the hat was actually a hat, and the shape of the hats of all the soldiers of Cao Jun was similar to that of a pot, so it was also called a pocket, and there was a piece of iron at the back to protect the cheeks and the back of the neck, and the head was a vital part, so the soldiers' helmets were made of iron.

But the armor of Cao soldiers is divided into two kinds, most of the soldiers wear leather armor, the material of leather armor is made of oil-soaked leather and various processes, which can effectively defend against the blows of bows and metal weapons, but the effect is not too good, but the advantage is that the production cost is low, so most soldiers wear leather armor.

There is also a kind of armor worn by the Tiger Guard in front of him, the armor is made of pieces of iron, with sleeves, covering the elbow part, called elbow sleeves, waist belt, and knee skirt under the belt, long to the knee, called hanging legs, used to protect the thighs and knees, and the way of wearing is similar to the current short-sleeved T-shirt, and the iron armor is naturally several grades higher than the leather armor defense.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, although China's iron-making technology was the world's leading, it was still unable to manufacture this armor in large quantities, and it took a lot of time and money and materials, so it was not popularized in the army.

It can be seen from the armor worn by the Tiger Guards that Cao Cao is bloody, and the weapons of the Tiger Guards are also different from those of ordinary soldiers, the weapons used by ordinary soldiers are halberds, which are about two meters and five to three meters long, and the grip of the halberd is still wooden.

However, the weapons of the Tiger Guard are a one-meter-five long ring-headed knife and a trapezoidal shield with a short upper and lower length, which can cover the upper body when raised, and the shape is long hexagonal, and the middle ridge of the shield is slightly convex, decorated with tiger face patterns, which looks very murderous.

The shield and the ring head knife not only require a large amount of iron ore, but also much more laborious to refine than the halberd, the long halberd has a mold, which can almost be said to be mass-produced, but the ring head knife not only needs a mold, but also requires the craftsman to repeatedly forge, anneal, in order to strengthen the toughness of the blade, it also needs to infiltrate carbon sand and other processes, the same is true for the iron piece and shield of the armor, so the cost of a set of equipment for the Tiger Guard is enough to equip twenty ordinary soldiers.

"Third brother, what are you looking at?" Cao Pi asked curiously.

"I'm looking at his armor, tsk, that's good." Cao Zhang pointed to the Tiger Guard in front of him.

Cao Pi glanced at it and smiled: "You should go to the eldest brother's house to see his Mingguang armor, but it is much more beautiful than this, not only has there is a unicorn head heart guard on the chest, the abdomen is cast with a golden-bellied beast, the shoulder swallowing is also cast with a unicorn head, and there are gilded arm guards under the elbow sleeves, and a pair of combat boots made of 100 steels are worn under the knee skirt, tsk~ As long as it is in the sun, it can emit a dazzling light and confuse the enemy's eyes." ”

"Huh? Why didn't I see my eldest brother pass through on the battlefield in Xuzhou? I haven't seen any other generals pass through? Cao Zhang asked strangely, it stands to reason that the coquettish armor can be seen at a glance, why haven't all the generals below Cao Cao worn it? During the Battle of Xuzhou and the pacification of the Battle of Zhang Miao, Cao Zhang felt that the armor worn by Cao Cao and the others was similar to that of the Tiger Guard in front of him.

Cao Pi proudly explained: "That's because the eldest brother also got the Mingguang armor after recovering Chenliu, I heard that it was brought by General Lejin and Uncle Chun (Cao Chun) from Qingzhou, and it was created by craftsmen during the time they were stationed in Qingzhou. ”

"Oh, you know a lot." Cao Zhang said with a smile.

"You live in the house every day, naturally you don't know anything, these are all what my sister-in-law told me." Cao Pi was proud.

"Sister-in-law, sister-in-law! You really have a royal sister plot. Cao Zhang scolded.

"Royal Sister? What is a royal sister? Cao Pi asked in amazement.

"It's nothing, you'll find out later." Cao Zhangxin said in his heart, Yuan Xi's wife you robbed in the future will be four years older than you, what is it not a royal sister?

While the two were talking, another guard walked out of the county mansion with another person, it was the eldest brother of the two, Cao Ang, Cao Ang obviously did not wear the Mingguang armor that Cao Pi described as incomparably bullish at this time, but was wearing a white straight body, a belt around the waist, a white robe with a white skin, and a seven-foot magpie tail crown on his head, with a celebrity demeanor, seeing the two of them smiled and said: "What are you two doing here?" ”

This year's eighteen-year-old Cao Ang has already 180 in height, obviously because Cao Cao's genetics have played a very small effect, his eyebrows fly obliquely into the sideburns, and his facial features are like knives and axes, sharp and angular, and heroic.

"Big brother, we want to go to Luoyang with my father to have a look, I haven't been to Luoyang since I was so old." Cao Pi said.

"You've been, but you're still young, so I don't remember." Cao Ang smiled, turned to Cao Zhang and asked, "Third brother, do you want to go too?" ”

"Huh? There was a miasma made by Dong Zhuo, what are you going to do? Cao Zhang sighed.

"You know what? Luoyang is the thousand-year-old imperial capital, the holy city of China, the source of civilization, in the world, Emperor Gaozu once said, 'I travel the world, only see Luoyang', you can see the wonder of Luoyang. Cao Pi immediately refuted Cao Zhang.

Cao Ang said with a smile: "The second brother has read a lot of books, no matter what, this time we will go to Luoyang and there is no big deal, I don't think my father will refuse to let you two go together, third brother, Luoyang is in the middle of the world, it is a group of heroes competing in the Central Plains, and it is not a bad thing to go and see." ”

"Okay... It's not a bad thing to see what Emperor Han Xian looks like, Cao Zhang agreed and helped Cao Ang add the last sentence.