Early in the morning of August 4, the eighth year of Baoda (950 AD), when Lin Feng, who was dressed in casual clothes, took Lu Jiang, Shu Ya, and Wu Qiao to the Jinling School Palace on foot, he found that the scene in front of him was very different from the day before.

Lin Feng and his party walked around to the gate of the school palace from the side, and were about to enter the door, when they happened to hear the loud conversation between the two, Lin Feng quietly slowed down.

"You didn't see the scene of decimeter yesterday, especially in the afternoon, there were crowds of people, and people from the Fang family did not refuse, that is called a pride!" A strong man sighed roughly.

"Why, you still want to have such a good thing today?" A man next to him teased. He was not in the city yesterday, he was not given the Champa rice seeds, and he is still annoyed.

"Of course not! Think about it, what Lord Lin Fenglin did, which thing is not lively, you will regret it if you miss it! The strong man in front of his head said mysteriously.

"That's it, supermarkets, forbidden army competitions, and talent ceremonies, tsk, look at other people's shots, you can't accept it!" The thinner man answered.

Lin Feng couldn't help laughing, bowed his head and told Lu Jiang a few words to them, then turned around and stepped into the school palace. The forbidden army guarding the door naturally recognized Lin Feng, and immediately let him go after being stunned for a moment.

The strong man looked up and saw this scene, grabbed the thinner man, and said in a low voice: "The young man who went in just now can't be Lord Lin Fenglin, the people who went in at this time are basically examiners." ”

The thinner man stared at Lin Feng's back vigorously, and couldn't help laughing: "Don't dream, how can you have such a good life, you can touch Lord Lin casually?" That's the Wenqu star in the sky! ”

Lin Feng didn't hear the conversation behind, and walked straight into Zhidaozhai, and found that only Situ Zhouzong had not yet arrived. Because of last night's Zhou Mansion banquet, a group of examiners have become familiar with each other, and they immediately joked with each other about the amount of alcohol they had.

After a while, the chief examiner Zhou Zong arrived.

After a cold noise, the interview for the eighth question of recruitment began, soliciting the sharpest weapons in the world. According to Lin Feng's instructions, a forbidden soldier first took out a dozen forbidden army waist knives and put them on the bookcase next to him.

The two men who came forward were dressed in similar appearances, the same black and dirty clothes, and from time to time there were one or two small holes in them that were clearly burned by fire; The same black and red face, hands with bulging muscles, forearms exposed outside the clothes, and chest are all bulging muscles.

Lin Feng stepped forward and asked, and sure enough, they were all born in daily iron. However, one is from Huaibei Zhongyuan, called Yue Sheng, who brought a heavy knife, and the other is from neighboring Wu Yue, called Wang Yue, who is holding a light and agile sword, and when the sword is unsheathed, it looks cold and shining at first glance.

Lin Feng motioned for them to wait for a while, and then three more people came in outside the door of Zhidaozhai, each holding a knife in their hands, and the last one was the tall and handsome Zhao Bin.

Lin Feng motioned for the three of them to introduce their knives one by one, and the first tall and thin man stepped forward, pointed the blade of the knife with a slight arc upward, stretched out his hand and pulled out a hair, let go of the knife body, and the falling hair touched the blade, and simply broke it into two, and the man raised his voice and said: "The treasure knife from Fusang in the East Soil, the knife can be broken in an instant, and the iron is like clay!" ”

The examiners immediately straightened up, and the show looked dazzling. Lin Feng smiled in his heart, the good show is ahead!

The second man pulled out the scabbard of the knife in his hand, and slowly danced two knife flowers, and a dazzling cold light flashed between the rotation of the dark blade. The man said coldly: "Iron Treasure Knife!" ”

Lin Feng became interested, stepped forward and took the knife and looked at it carefully, when the blade of the knife turned sideways, the lines of the flowing water seemed to be faint, glowing with cold light, as if the knife body contained thousands of years of cold ice.

Regarding the material of the ancient precious cold weapon, Lin Feng had specially searched for it in later generations and had learned it in detail. In fact, in ancient times, the iron iron that was introduced to China by Persia and Popin (now Kashmir), as well as the "Damascus steel" respected by the Europeans and the "Blatt steel" said by the Russians, all belong to pattern steel. Patterned steel is also known as "flower iron" and "literary iron" in ancient China. The surface of the pattern steel is polished and cleaned, or corroded again, the pattern will be displayed, and its pattern form is nothing more than flowing water, colored clouds, chrysanthemums, wood grains and other common ones.

"Good knives! I wonder if this knife came from the north or overseas? Lin Feng suddenly asked.

The man was stunned for a moment, and didn't speak for a while.

The northern meaning in Lin Feng's mouth is obvious, that is, the Liao State in the north, that is, the Khitan people. According to the book "Jin Shi? Taizu Ji recorded: "Liao takes iron as the name, and takes its strength." The original meaning of the word "Khitan" is iron, which means strong. The Khitan originally belonged to the Donghu ethnic group, a branch of the Xianbei, and was separated from the Xianbei in the 4th century; During the Zhenguan period of Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, the Khitan tribal alliance turned its back on the Turks and annexed to the Tang Dynasty; In 907 AD, the Khitan established a regime; In 916 AD, the Khitan leader Nalu Abaoji founded the Khitan State; In 947 A.D., Taizong Yelu Deguang changed the name of the country to Liao, and its territory was the largest when it reached the sea in the east, the quicksand in the west, the Great Wall in the south, and the desert in the north.

However, Lin Feng still had a slight impression of the iron smelting technique of the Liao Kingdom, and the smelting technique of the Khitan at this time was still in the pit smelting method, which was relatively primitive, and the temperature could not be too high; And their main iron ore producing area is in the current Anshan area, and the iron ore grade will not be too high. Therefore, Liao's "iron" can only be regarded as surface annealed steel or some kind of low-carbon steel at best, and cannot be compared with real high-carbon steels such as Damascus steel and Tang knife.

"BMW is handed down by our ancestors, and the specific source is unknown. My father speculated that he was from overseas. The man paused and said.

In ancient China, iron from overseas was mainly produced in Persia (present-day Iran), Popin (present-day Kashmir), India and other places, and was introduced to China around the time of the Northern and Southern Dynasties. The sword made of iron is extremely sharp, and has the reputation of "blowing hair and penetrating the wind". Iron is supposed to be made from high-carbon steel and wrought iron, a technique that was later mastered by Chinese craftsmen.

Lin Feng knew in his heart and was slightly disappointed. His original intention in this question was actually to find efficient methods and capable people for steelmaking, and when it came to the battlefield of large-scale fighting, one or two circulating swords could not change anything!

When it was Zhao Bin's turn, he stepped forward, untied the cloth of the knife, showed a bright brand-new knife, and introduced: "The latest treasure knife refined by Master Sun Cuosun!" ”

Zhou Zong, Wei Cen and the others present immediately became excited, they had seen Lin Feng's knife slashing the forbidden army's waist knife with their own eyes.

Lin Feng pointed to the five forbidden army waist knives lined up on the desk, and said loudly: "All of them are treasure swords, which are rare in the world, but there is always a distinction between superior and inferior. This is the standard saber used by today's forbidden army, please come forward and use your own treasure knife to cut this waist knife, the one with the greatest damage effect and the least damage is naturally the sharpest soldier in the world! ”

After Lin Feng finished speaking, he stared directly at the man with the little Japanese Tang knife. The man suddenly changed color and took a step back.

Lin Feng couldn't help but laugh.

The Japanese sword of Little Japan was secretly learned from the horizontal knife of the Tang Dynasty in China, but it was combined with the characteristics of the short body of the Japanese to turn the straight blade of the original Tang knife into a blade with a certain arc, which can also be regarded as an improvement. However, there is one thing that the little devil can't learn: the Tang knife mainly uses the "hundred steel" and "Baotou steel" two, these two methods are time-consuming and laborious, so that at the end of the Tang Dynasty, many knots were exhausted by a Tang knife, and to the small country of Fusang, which has a small area and few resources, the Japanese knife mainly uses the "steel" technique that is lower in terms of technique, and a very small number of hundred refining swords are generally attributed to the daimyo, samurai and other powerful classes, and are rarely revealed in front of the world.

Historically, the fame of the sword was mainly blown out by little devils. The knife does improve in hardness, but the fish and bear paw can not be both, the knife will naturally become brittle as soon as it is hard, and the blade will be easy to break when it is brittle, and its durability will be greatly reduced. Moreover, this kind of high-carbon steel knife is easy to oxidize and rust, so later generations of movies and television often see devil samurai wiping a white cloth when he has something to do, you think he thinks, that's no way, the knife is too easy to rust!

According to historical records, the reason why the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty suffered a loss in their weapons when they fought against the Japanese with swords at first was because most of the Chinese soldiers used wooden handles to break when they were split. But later, the Ming army used bamboo guns soaked in boiling oil, and they immediately gained the upper hand! Later, the Japanese cobs ran into the iron rods of the monks of the Shaolin Temple, and even the knives were broken! Further down, in the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, what did the Northwest Army broadsword team make the devil Wuzi frightened, and even put an "iron dog collar" around his neck? That's because each big knife weighs 20 catties, which is ten times that of the sword, plus the "Eight Knives of Breaking the Blade" technique carefully tempered by many Chinese martial arts masters, one of the most commonly used and effective moves, the blade is dragged to the side during the battle, the knife slashes over, the blade is slammed on the ground, and the heavy back of the knife can be knocked off the sword at once, and then it is violently slashed down, and even the head of the devil can be cut off, which naturally makes the little devil who believes in the so-called "Amaterasu" and would rather disemboweled and dare not turn around!

The man finally shouted loudly and urgently: "The treasure sword should be cherished and protected, how can it perform such a crude damage method, I can't compare!" After saying that, he ran out of the gang with a knife.

Lin Feng couldn't help but laugh, and explained to the old and young examiners who were all confused: "The so-called Dongtu Treasure Knife, its body is very brittle, and the most taboo knife is the same, and it is hard!" It is said that when he tried the knife, he only dared to use the corpse of a dead person to test the knife, and because my national sword had to face heavy weapons such as mace, lance, hammer, etc., the number of collisions was also high, so when trying the knife, it was to cut the stone at the edge of the blade, and the standard was not to roll the blade. ”

Lin Feng's witty words immediately caused the audience to laugh.