In front of the incense case, everyone drank blood wine, recited the oath, and then kowtowed to the order, set a long order, and from then on they were righteous brothers. Everyone was in a very good mood, and even Sima Dejiao and Yang Wei, who were half-pushed and half-worshipped together, were also infected by the atmosphere and laughed. Thirteen people, the eldest Cheng Lou is only thirty, the youngest is only seventeen, and the eighteenth Ling Yun is ninth. Speaking of which, the thirteen brothers are all brave people, although Cheng Lou is not famous in history, but the family is from a strong background, can be literary and martial, as the capital governor of the Jeju Hussar Army who can command 200 people, Cheng Lou's martial arts are no worse than the more famous son Cheng Yanjin in history.

Cheng Lou is good at arching horses, riding and shooting, and what he is best at is hitting the lance immediately. Cheng Lou has a good lance, and he has a good lance. Historically, Cheng Yanjin later organized the township to protect the territory and the people, and he had a family hand-me-down method, rather than cutting people with an ax in the romance, and only three axes. In fact, among the heroes of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, among the masters with the lance, Cheng Biting Jin can rank in the top four, and the first master of the lance is worthy of being the old black lieutenant Chi Gongwei Chi Jingde, not only the good use of the lance, but also the ability to grab the lance empty-handed that no one can match. In history, the other two masters with a lance were defeated in his hands, these two were the same masters with a lance at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Shan Xiongxin and Li Yuanji, and Cheng Yanjin was equivalent to them.

Cheng Lou borrowed the wine, took his own horse lance, turned over his own war horse, and improvised a piece of lance for everyone in the martial arts arena of Erxian Village, which attracted bursts of cheers. The so-called layman looks at the liveliness, and the insider looks at the doorway, as soon as Cheng Lou made a move, many guests in the village, including Ling Yun, saw that he was extraordinary. Ling Yun had to sigh, no wonder in history as soon as Cheng Biting Jin defected to Li Mi in Wagang, he was immediately relied on by Li Mi and appointed as one of the four hussar generals of the Pushan Public Camp Army, the four hussar generals armed by Li Mi's henchmen, and the other three were Qin Qiong and Luo Shixin, the brave generals who had followed Zhang Xutuo, the first fierce general at the end of the Sui Dynasty, to break countless enemies, and Pei Xingyan, who was once called ten thousand enemies by Emperor Sui. These three people are all fierce generals in the army who have fought countless battles, and Cheng Biting Jin was just a new voter at that time, and he was just a local tyrant in the countryside of Jeju before he came, which fully shows that Cheng Biting Jin is really good at riding and shooting, especially the lance method makes heroes like Li Mi amazed.

Dou Jiande, Sun Anzu, and Hao Xiaode stood aside, and they were also enthusiastic and excited.

"I'm going to learn to use a lance too!" The informant looked fascinated.

Dou Jiande smiled and took his daughter's hand, "This lance is not something that girls can learn, and even most men can't learn horse lances." If you want to learn some martial arts, your father can teach you fencing and archery, but the horse lance is not, you can learn the spear at most. ”

"It can make the lance so majestic, why can't women learn the lance?"

Shan Xiongxin listened and explained with a smile: "Because the horse lance is easy to learn and difficult to master, and the most courageous is the most powerful, women are naturally weak, so they are not suitable for learning the lance." He also likes this newly recognized goddaughter, although the informant is small, but there is always a heroic spirit in her, and even among a group of children, even boys are used to listening to her, she is a terrible girl. 's daughter Ailian, who is only a little over three years old, has now completely become the little follower of the informant, and she is closer than anyone else.

"Is it really that hard to practice?" The line girl was a little lost, and Cheng Lou's chic dancing left indelible traces in her little heart.

"The horse lance is difficult to practice, first of all, because the horse lance is very expensive, and the horse lance is very expensive because the horse lance is difficult to make, which is not a wooden stick with an iron gun head can be called a lance. Since the Qin and Han dynasties, the horse lance has always been a valuable weapon, and there are standards for both material and length. "Shan Xiongxin himself is a master of the lance, so when it comes to the lance, it is like a number of treasures, his one-handed horse lance skills, but really since elementary school, the pain of learning the lance will not be forgotten now.

The lance is difficult to learn, and the lance is even more difficult to make.

A good horse lance is very particular, and the lance is not any natural log at all, but the main trunk of the high-quality tough wood, peeled into a uniform thickness, and then glued with special fish glue. In terms of material selection, the tough wood selected for the lance is generally the best topwood for bow-making, followed by mulberry and rattan. Soaking the fine scorn in oil repeatedly, the bubble is no longer deformed, no longer cracked, this is only the first step, and this first step, it takes nearly a year. After a year, the strips are removed and dried in the shade for several months. Then glue with high-quality glue paint to form a handful of thick, eight feet long, and then wrap the outer layer of hemp rope. When the hemp rope was dry, it was painted with lacquer and wrapped in arrowroot. Dry one layer and wrap one layer until you cut it with a knife, and the mallet makes a metallic sound, but it does not crack, which is considered qualified.

Then go to its tail and truncate it to about six zhang. The front is equipped with a stainless steel mallet blade, and the rear end is equipped with a red copper lance. After continuous adjustment, the final qualified standard is that a hemp rope is hung at two feet at the tail of the lance, and the entire Zhangba horse lance can be kept horizontal in mid-air and the ends of the two ends do not fall, so it is qualified. In this way, the military commander rides on the horse, so that it can be held at the back of the lance and the tip of the lance forward without effort.

Such a lance, which takes three years to make, is light, tough and strong. Commanders can charge with horsepower or swing it for melee combat, and the compound mallet is lighter and stronger than a normal wooden pole. The glued pieces and the cross-wound hemp rope and arrowroot cloth can ensure that the horse lance can withstand more force at the same time, so that the horse lance will not be broken by the force when it collides, and it is also extremely elastic. It can really be described as a divine soldier who fights immediately, but it takes three years to make such a horse lance, and the success rate is only forty percent at most. The wood, lacquer, and glue used are all extremely valuable. As a result, the cost of construction is often prohibitively high. Since the Han and Wei dynasties, the horse lance has been a symbol of the generals of the family.

In the Great Sui, in addition to the military nobles who used horse lances, only the royal inner government forbidden army and the clan hussars were equipped with standard horse lances. In other hussar mansions and chariot cavalry mansions, even the precious cavalry mostly only used spears. Only a few generals from a family have their own horses.

Generally speaking, looking at the weapons of a general, you can often guess his origin.

At this time, in Erxian Village, Sima Dejiao, Yang Wei, Cheng Lou, Lai Hu'er, Qin Qiong, and a whole number of people who were officers of the imperial court, but only Cheng Lou and Yang Wei were the only ones who made the horses, and Cheng Lou and Yang Wei were both from big families. However, Sima Dejiao, Lai Hu'er, Qin Qiong, Lai Quan, etc. all use guns, and even the dignified county duke and the head of the Zhuguo Kingdom use guns to protect children, which also explains their origins. Although Sima Dejia's ancestor was also a military general, his father died early when he was young, and his family was in the middle of the middle, and he even had to go as a butcher's apprentice when he was young, of course, he couldn't afford to buy a horse lance, and he couldn't learn a horse lance. Qin Qiong's family is in a slightly better situation, but the ancestors are all low-level civil officials, and they can't learn horse lance when they are young. Although Lai Hu'er is now the head of the Zhu Kingdom, his father used to be only a county magistrate, and he died early, and he grew up in his uncle's house since he was a child. When he later made a contribution, he had already missed the opportunity to learn the horse lance again, because the horse lance is a weapon that cannot be learned in a day or two.

This dynasty does not prohibit hunting bows and long swords, but it prohibits broadswords, spears, strong bows, strong crossbows, and horse lance armor. Whoever secretly possesses horses, armor, strong bows, crossbows, broadswords, and spears is a serious capital crime, and if he does not do it well, he will be convicted of rebellion. Precious weapons such as horse lances are not allowed to be bought and sold at will. Only those wealthy families, or military generals, can be customized for their own use. With an identity like Shan Xiongxin, owning a horse lance is actually an illegal thing. The horse lance is so precious, ordinary people can't even have the horse lance, and naturally they can't learn the lance, especially the horse lance is a horse weapon, you have to have a horse to learn the horse lance, and you have to be a good war horse, not a horse. In addition, the horse lance belongs to the type of heavy weapon, and the person who practices the horse lance must also be the kind of person who is born with great strength, and ordinary people can't use it at all. There is also a difficulty in learning the horse lance, that is, there must be a special horse lance with a high finger, otherwise, it is impossible to learn without a teacher.

All kinds of conditions and restrictions have made the horse lance a symbol of the family general's background, and ordinary people are unlikely to learn the horse lance.

Lingyun thirteen righteous brothers, Yang Wei, Cheng Lou, Shan Xiong messenger lance and are masters, in addition to Xu Gai and Su Yong also make lance, all because they are all local heroes, family heirloom horse lance and lance method. And Dou Jiande, Qin Shubao, Sima Dejiao, Lai Quan, Wang Bodang, Huang Junhan, Zhai Rang, etc. are all guns, and even Ling Yun himself, although he can use a lance, but the best weapon he uses is also a gun, which will have the name of Yi Saburo with a white horse and silver gun.

"The single brother is worthy of being a master of the horse lance, and he knows so much about the horse lance!" Dou Jiande admired that although Shan Xiongxin is young, his horse lance skills are actually above everyone. Cheng Lou's horse lance is good, but it is worse than Shan Xiongxinlai, and the biggest difference between them can actually be seen from the lance of both sides. The horse lance is a heavy soldier, but Shan Xiongxin's lance is a heavier golden nail jujube yang lance, the head of this lance is larger than the ordinary lance, and it is covered with iron nails, just like a mace, this lance is much heavier than the ordinary lance, and it will feel heavy and light in the tail, and immediately hold the lance, generally holding the middle and rear parts of the lance. The normal horse lance is to add a copper coin to the tail of the lance as a counterweight to balance the weight. And this kind of golden nail jujube yang lance, the front is too heavy, although the weight of the lance is increased in the back, it is still difficult to balance, so it is immediately held, the front is heavy and the back is light, and more strength is needed. The most fierce is the power of the single male messenger. The golden nail jujube yang lance fully exerts and expands the advantages of the red-haired small spirit and the great strength. Cheng Lou is much worse than that.

Shan Xiongxin laughed for a while, and said to the newly married brothers: "It's not a secret, my single family actually has a horse lance workshop, specializing in horse lance, which has been handed down since my grandfather's time, and now it can produce 80 treasured horse lances every year, 300 high-grade horse lances, and 1,000 middle-grade horse lances." Today, I married Jin Lan with you, and the younger brother will give each brother a handful of treasured horse lances, a little respect, and please smile. ”

When Dou Jiande and the others heard this, they were all very happy, and it was almost difficult to buy a magic weapon like a horse lance. Not only because it is expensive and difficult to make, but the most important thing is that most of the horse lance craftsmen are monopolized by the imperial court, only for the imperial court to make the lance, ordinary people want the horse lance, and you don't know where to buy it with the money. Who would have thought that a single family would have an underground horse lance workshop that has been passed down for several generations and has an annual output of thousands of horse lances?

Even Ling Yun was shocked on the side, he really didn't expect that the Shan family was still an underground arms tycoon. It's just that I don't know how many swords, guns and armor they can produce in addition to the annual output of 1,000 horse lances!