Chapter 70: Knife Trial

"Hurry up, please, I can't help it. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info "Liu Ping hurriedly picked up the blacksmith Wu. Secretly, I picked up a treasure today.

Liu Ping took the Wu family father and son back to the barracks, arranged accommodation, ate meals, rested for a day, the next day, Liu Ping took the old man Wu and his three sons directly to the ordnance supervisor who made weapons, the old man Wu entered the ordnance prison, and looked at all kinds of weapons, the Song Junbu military standard Yanling knife, the spear with ash rod, the boxwood bow, and the black iron barbed arrow cluster. Dozens of blacksmiths were tinkling their weapons. Blacksmith Wu picked up a Yanling knife, took it in his hand and slashed it, knocked on the steel, and put it down without saying anything. By the way, I knocked on the step armor made next to me and touched the thickness.

"What does Uncle Wu think?" Liu Ping looked at Blacksmith Wu and said.

Old man Wu arched his hand, and said with disdain on his thin face. "General, the ordnance here is not very good."

As soon as these words came out, the blacksmiths who were working gathered around and said, "What! If we don't think the weapons we make are good, is there anything better? ”

"This old man must be pretending to be crazy, and the general must not listen to the crazy old man."

"Yes, the general needs to be clear." A group of blacksmiths left their work and said to Liu Ping.

Liu Ping smiled and didn't say anything, just looked at Old Man Wu and looked at the following. I saw the old man Wu pick up a Yanling knife and said to the blacksmiths: "Who made this Yanling knife." ”

"It's me!" A shirtless sturdy man responded. "What's up? Can't I fight? ”

Old man Wu smiled and said, "Yanling knife." The knife is two feet six inches long, it is a commonly used blade in my Great Song Bu Army, your knife, from the knife blank out of the oven to the shape of a total of three days, this knife is you five days ago, but the blade is too sharp, there is no sense of weight, your arm strength should be good, it should be forged more than 3,000 times, the direction of forging is from the tip of the knife to the root of the knife, it can be seen that you should have ten years of forging weapons. Is that right? ”

The hardcover man straightened his eyes and said: "What the old man said is right, this knife is indeed forged by me five days ago, and it has been forged more than 1,000 times a day in the three days after it was baked, and it is indeed forged more than 3,000 times, and I Zhao Si has indeed been a blacksmith for ten years." ”

Everyone around him was amazed, the disdain in his eyes disappeared without a trace, and the eyes that looked at the old man Wu became solemn, it seems that this old man really has two brushes.

Blacksmith Wu cleared his throat and continued: "But this is also the reason why this knife is unqualified, it is because your arm strength is too big, but you have not controlled the strength well, the upper part of the handle, the root of the knife, is here." Saying that, Wu Blacksmith used a carving knife next to him to draw a white mark at the root of the knife, and then said: "It should be the last part you forged, but the strength of your forging suddenly became unstable, and it was heavy and light, so there was actually a fault at the root of the knife, believe it or not!" ”

"You talk nonsense! There are no broken lines on the surface of this knife, how can you say that there are faults in the knife! Zhao Si blushed and said.

Blacksmith Wu shook his head and said lightly: "This knife, use it for a maximum of fifty times, and after fifty strokes, I'm afraid it won't be able to be used anymore." ”

"Uncle Wu, you can eat whatever you want, but you can't talk casually." Liu Ping said to Blacksmith Wu.

Blacksmith Wu arched his hand at Liu Ping, and said, "If the general doesn't believe it, he can let his subordinates give it a try." If there is a lie in what the old man said, he is willing to be dealt with by military law on the spot! ”

Damn, this old man is really so rooted? Liu Ping narrowed his eyes and looked at the dry old man in front of him, who didn't look like he was lying. After thinking about it, he said, "Sanduo! ”

"The subordinates are here!" Yang Sanduo, who has been promoted to the chief of the guard, said respectfully.

"Try this knife." Liu Ping said.

"No!" Yang Sanduo took the knife. He slashed at an iron pillar next to him that was trying his hand.

"Dangdang" Yang Sanduo slashed at the iron pillar one after another, splashing with firelight, one, two, three .......... Everyone counted silently in their hearts.

"Forty-seven, forty-eight, forty-nine, fifty." Finally, the cut was finished, and except for the large area of the blade, the knife did not appear abnormal.

Yang Sanduo put away the knife and said to Liu Ping: "Return, general, the knife is not ......" Before Yang Sanduo finished speaking, he heard a slight clicking sound in his ears, and he felt that the Yanling knife in his hand suddenly became much lighter. Most of the blade was broken and fell to the ground, leaving only a knife handle and a small part of the broken head, the sharp eyes saw clearly, the disconnected place was the position where the old man Wu used the carving knife to draw the white marks, and everyone exclaimed, really God.

Liu Ping picked up the broken blade and took a closer look, and found that there were still white stubbles in the interlayer inside, and his face was a little cold. A heavy snort between the noses!

Plopped, Zhao Si knelt directly on the ground, and beads of sweat the size of soybeans fell down his face. He kowtowed to Liu Ping and said, "The general forgives the sin!" The general forgives the sins! It was the villain's negligence for a while, it was noon when he hit the root of the knife that day, and the Huotou camp opened a meal, and the villain saw that everyone went to eat, and he was a little anxious, so he hastily finished the root of the knife. The villain is wrong! I hope the general will forgive his sins! ”

Everyone was dumbfounded, God, God. This old man is simply divine, he really doesn't show his face. Liu Ping looked at Zhao Si who was kneeling coldly and said: "If this knife is really used by a sergeant in the army, I am afraid that this knife will be broken after a fight, wouldn't it cost a brother's life in vain!" ”

"Damn the villain! Damn the villain! I hope the general forgives his sins! Forgiveness! Zhao Si said with a frightened face.

Liu Ping looked at Zhao Si and said: "Get up, but you are careless in this matter, this time I will spare you, this month's salary will be reduced by half, as a punishment, if there is a next time, it will be handed over to the military judge!" ”

"General Xie! General Xie's grace not to kill! Zhao Sizhan stood up tremblingly.

Liu Ping said to the craftsmen in the army at the Ordnance Supervisor: "You all remember, if anyone dares to act like this, beware of me, Liu Someone's sword, will not be merciful!" ”

"The villain doesn't dare!" The craftsmen knelt down one after another.

"Elder Wu, from now on, please be the head of the Ordnance Prison!" Liu Ping said in harmony with Old Man Wu.

"This... How can the old man be competent when he first arrives, let the old man do some ordinary work. Old man Wu excused himself.

"Hey~~ Most of Wu Lao's abilities have been seen, so don't shirk it! From now on, you will be the head of our Yongding Army Ordnance Prison! "Liu Ping cut the railway.

"This.... The old man was ashamed. Old man Wu arched his hand.

"Elder Wu, you have also stayed in Bianliang, have you ever known what good blades can restrain the cavalry of the Jin people!" Liu Ping asked.

Blacksmith Wu pondered for a moment and said: "General don't worry, the old man knows a kind of blade that can restrain cavalry, when I was in Bianliang, I had told the Shangguan about this kind of blade, but the Shangguan thought that this kind of blade consumed too much steel, and it must be a strong soldier who can be used, and the ordinary soldier is hard to use, so the old man has not mentioned it." ”

"What a blade!" Liu Ping asked.

"Mo Dao!" Blacksmith Wu replied.

"Mo Dao?" Liu Ping asked confusedly, what is Modao? Liu Ping, who didn't know much about ordnance, looked at Blacksmith Wu with a puzzled expression.

Wu Blacksmith said eloquently: "The general doesn't know that this Mo knife is a kind of popular in the Tang Dynasty*. It's just that since the Taizu of this dynasty, the marching formations are all based on the infantry army, and the spear and long halberd, the straight sword, and the hook and sickle have become widely used. This kind of strange knife is not cared for anymore. ”

"What does it look like? How does it work? Liu Ping asked.

"This Mo knife, seven feet long, more than four feet of blade, can be used immediately down, one knife chop, even people and horses are split in half! It's terrifying! Blacksmith Wu said.

"It's so powerful!" Liu Ping was a little moved by what he said.

"General, give the old man ten days, ten days, the old man will make a handle for the general, you can take a look!" Wu Blacksmith said.

"Good! Ten days later, a certain family came to see the effect! Liu Ping said.

Liu Ping and Old Man Wu agreed, then left the Ordnance Prison, and just about to go back to the camp, he saw Nake running over with a sad face, and said to Liu Ping: "General, we can't open the pot soon." ”

"What? What's going on? Liu Ping asked.

"Hey, our Yongding Army's salary is now doubled. This month, we recruited more than 5,000 soldiers, all the food was meat, and the cavalry battalion commanded by Yue added more than 3,000 new cavalry, and we could still meet everyone's armor and equipment, but there were not enough military horses. The two cavalrymen took turns to ride a horse, our horses were in short supply, and we could only buy horses from the Western Xia through horse dealers, but the horses were really too expensive, a war horse was two hundred taels, and more than a thousand horses were two hundred thousand taels, and the day before yesterday we bought more than a thousand Hetao horses, and now our money may only last for two months. ”

"Aren't there many celebrity calligraphy, paintings, treasures and so on? Find someone to sell it and exchange it, and I'll think of a way! Liu Ping scratched his head and said helplessly. Sure enough, a penny is hard to beat a hero, when will it be, you can't do it without money!

"No!" Take the echo channel. "Then the subordinates will arrange it first!"

"Go ahead!" Liu Pingdao. He got the order and left.

"Money! Money! Money! Why didn't I realize that it was so difficult to be a family. I really don't know that firewood and rice are expensive, and now I am really short of money. Liu Ping said with a headache. Won the battle! The damn Zhao Guan's family didn't give a penny of reward, so that Lao Tzu and the Yongding army drank the northwest wind, Cangzhou and the Daimyo's Mansion were just in the midst of war, and they couldn't levy much from the people. Headache, headache! ”

When Liu Ping was struggling, Xiaodouzi and a maidservant girl rode horses from a distance and hurried to Liu Ping. Xiaodouzi got off the horse and shouted urgently: "Brother Ping, go back quickly, a group of strange people have come to the house, saying that they want to pick up Sister Jin Zhi!" ”

"What a situation! Robbing the old woman!!? Liu Ping said angrily: "Let's go, go and see!" ”

ps: The home is decorating, come back from work to work, and then hurry up the update at night, Hanyang is tired like a dog every day, and has been insisting, everyone rest assured, absolutely keep changing! Hang on!!! Guys, give me some strength!! Thanks!!