Chapter 268: A Family with an Infamous Reputation
"The Metropolitan Governor already has a countermeasure?" When Bai Zheng heard Huo Guang's words, a look of surprise appeared on his face, and he asked a little eagerly. If you love to play and watch, come to Lewen
The blow of the ironclad cavalry to Bai Zheng is still relatively large, these days he has been thinking about the way to crack it, and now he is more excited than anyone else when he hears that Huo Guang seems to have a way to crack it.
"It's not a countermeasure, it can only be said that under the current conditions, the opponent's ironclad cavalry can be cracked. But..... If you encounter the main force of rest, there is no way to crack the army of tens of thousands and servants with tens of thousands of troops at every turn. Huo Guang said with a smile, the resting ironclad cavalry can sweep through Central and West Asia, and it is not so simple to crack it easily.
"Please give the order of the Grand Governor, and the last general is willing to be the vanguard." Bai Zheng knelt down on the ground, he couldn't wait, as long as he had the opportunity, he had to personally defeat the rest of the ironclad cavalry, otherwise his own thoughts would not be able to understand, and in the future, when facing the rest of the ironclad cavalry, he would lose three points in momentum.
Huo Guang looked at Bai Zheng, with a helpless smile on his face, and then stretched out his hand to help him up and said: "Wu Anjun, don't be in a hurry, this matter still needs to be in the right place at the right time, not in a hurry, not in a hurry.....
Bai Zheng scratched his head in embarrassment, it was a little funny, which eased the whole atmosphere a lot.
"We still have a few things to do. Go and get the standard weapons of the army, as well as bows, arrows, bows, crossbows, etc. Let's take a look at how powerful this iron armor really is. Huo Guang restrained his smile and said in a commanding tone.
Then, according to Huo Guang's orders, all the weapons were placed in front of everyone, and at this time, the iron armor of the rest cavalry had been propped up by a wooden man, and the wooden man wearing the iron armor was placed fifty zhang away.
"Archers prepare." A row of ten Han archers stretched out their bows and arrows, aiming their arrows at the iron-armored wooden men fifty zhang away.
These ten people are currently the ten people with the highest archery skills in Yu Chenghan's army, and with their strength and accuracy within the range of fifty zhang, ordinary soldiers wearing leather armor will be shot through each other.
"Put." Dongfang Shuo personally served as the herald, and when he saw Huo Guang nodded, Dongfang Shuo shouted and let it go.
At the sound of an order, ten bowstring vibrations sounded almost at the same moment. The crowd only heard the sound of the bowstring, and did not see the trajectory of the arrow at all, when they heard a clanging metal crash in the distance. The ten off-string arrows were all shot at the iron armor on the opposite side, some hitting the breastplate and some hitting the waist chain armor.
All ten arrows hit, but all ten fell to the ground.
"Go up and have a look." Huo Guang said a word, and walked towards the iron armor in the distance.
When the group approached the Iron Armor again, they saw only a few slight grooves and scratches on the Iron Armor, and from this appearance alone, it could be seen that the damage to the Iron Armor from these arrows was almost minimal.
Huo Guang leaned down and picked up an arrow that had fallen to the ground. Everyone's eyes naturally fell on the arrow in Huo Guang's hand, and it was obvious that the tip of the arrow had been somewhat deformed, which should have been caused by the collision with the iron armor just now.
"Try it with our army's standard machete." Seeing the change in the arrow, Huo Guang frowned slightly again. Then he went on to choose another weapon.
This time, the white soldier personally stepped forward with a standard machete of the Hexi Army. The standard machete of the Hexi Army is forged by a hundred refined iron, three feet and seven inches long, weighing eight catties and six taels, each handle requires dozens of craftsmen to go through hundreds of processes, and it takes several days to complete, and this kind of machete is also equipped in the Hexi Army in the past year.
Such sophisticated standard weapons are only equipped by the Hexi Army in all the armies of the entire Han Dynasty. Because the value of such a machete has reached about three taels of gold, which is almost the annual income of an ordinary Han Dynasty family.
Bai Bing now also has an official position at the level of a captain, he holds the sword in both hands and swings his horse under his feet, and then the angry dantian slashes it with enough strength.
With a burst of applause from the white soldiers, the entire wooden man in iron armor fell in response, falling to the ground and raising a puff of smoke and dust. Everyone's eyes fell on the iron armor on the ground, but no one noticed that Bai Bing's face was faintly ugly at this moment.
When the smoke and dust fell, Huo Guang was the first to squat down, and the position where the white soldier cut was the shoulder armor of the iron armor, and at this moment Huo Guang saw a dent on the shoulder armor appear, although it was obvious, it still did not cause much damage to the shoulder armor.
"Bring me the knife." Huo Guang's face became more and more ugly, the white soldier's powerful knife just now, Huo Guang could feel that if there was a person in the iron armor, even if the iron armor was not damaged, the people inside were also shocked by the huge force. However, except for some generals, ordinary soldiers of the Han army could not play such an attack at all.
Bai Bing showed the machete in his hand to Huo Guang with an ugly face. This time, not only Huo Guang saw it, but everyone saw that this kind of standard weapon, which was already the most sophisticated in the Han army, was now slightly curled. That is to say, the white soldier's knife just now, this machete is temporarily useless, and in order to achieve normal results, it needs to be sharpened again.
"Try it with this....." Huo Guang suddenly took off the matching sword at his waist and said.
Huo Guang's saber didn't really kill anyone, but this saber was specially created for Huo Guang by Zhuo Junchen. The Zhuo family is a family of iron smelting in Shu County, and in recent years, with the secret support of Huo Guang, it has already become a first-class family in the Han Dynasty, and the Zhuo family in Shu County is still taking the old way of iron smelting, it can be said that Huo Guang's sword represents the highest smelting technology of the current Han Dynasty, even compared to those famous swords.
This time it was Li Ling who took over Huo Guang's sword, because among these generals, Li Ling was the most proficient in the use of swords, and even his weapon was a heavy sword.
The heavy sword is a weapon that is relatively out of the way, he combines the advantages of the knife and the sword, both can cut and stab, but it is this advantage that makes the requirements for the use of the heavy sword extremely high, this kind of weapon that requires both strength and skill, so that most generals are discouraged, but Li Ling after several years of hard training, the use of it is perfect.
Huo Guang's sword belongs to the slender and light long sword, which is mainly used for stabbing and diagonal slashing. Li Ling pulled out Huo Guang's long sword, and a soft sound of the sword out of the sheath and a flash of cold light flashed, making everyone sigh secretly in their hearts, "Good sword." ”
I saw Li Ling holding a sword in one hand and holding a sword flower against the iron armor, and in the end, everyone only saw Li Ling's figure flickering, and the long sword in his hand had been instantly pulled diagonally from the breastplate of the iron armor.
"Bang dang ......" When Li Ling stood still, the breastplate part of the resting iron armor suddenly disconnected, and the second half of the cuirass fell to the ground, making a crisp sound.
Everyone saw that the sturdy and abnormally strong resting iron armor was cut off for the first time, and their faces showed ecstasy, and at this time, only Huo Guang noticed that Li Ling's face became as ugly as the white soldier before after using that sword.
"Please forgive the Governor!" Li Ling knelt down in front of Huo Guang with an ugly face, and then held Huo Guang's saber in both hands and showed it to Huo Guang.
"Hiss....." When everyone saw that the blade on the side of Huo Guang's sword was also obviously deformed, everyone gasped.
"This ..... It turned out to be a lose-lose situation...... How exactly are these iron armors made? Dongfang Shuo was amazed that Anxi had such superb smelting skills and could create such a strong iron armor.
"It's something that can support a noble inheritance..... It seems that the metal smelting technology and forging process of Anxi are much higher than ours...... "Huo Guang is not distressed about the scrapping of a sword, he is frightened by the gap between the big man and Anxi in terms of metal technology. He knew that although his saber had caused fatal damage to the rest iron armor just now, in fact, this kind of takeover was more because Li Ling was taking over with a sword, and half of the credit for cutting off the breastplate was on Li Ling, and even if a person used Huo Guang's sword, he might not be able to cut off the breastplate, so in the final analysis, the rest iron armor was completely better than all the weapons of the Han Dynasty.
The metal smelting technology of the Han Dynasty has always been ahead of the surrounding alien races, and Huo Guang has always thought that the metal smelting technology of the Han Dynasty in the world today should be unsurpassed, until he saw the rest of the iron armor in front of him He began to re-understand the world.
"Do you want to try it with a ballista?" Dongfang Shuo asked Huo Guang uncertainly, and Dongfang Shuo also saw the problem that Huo Guang saw. It can be said that on the frontal battlefield, the current Han army has no weapons at all to break through the defenses of the iron armor.
"Forget it, don't try." Huo Guang waved his hand and said.
Ballista is already a heavy weapon in this era, not to mention the cost of a ballista, it takes several soldiers to control, and the biggest weakness of the ballista is that it is inconvenient to transport, and it can only be used remotely.
It may be possible that the ballista can penetrate the Iron Armor, but the number of such things is too small, and it takes a long time to prepare for another round of fire. For thousands of resting ironclad cavalry, it is tantamount to a drop in the bucket.
"Pack up this set of resting iron armor, and immediately send someone to Shu County to hand it over to the Zhuo family, I hope they can find a way to crack it, and the worst thing is that our Han must master this smelting process." After seeing the sturdiness of the rest iron armor, Huo Guang's mood was also a little depressed, and now he didn't know how to face the tens of thousands of rest iron armor cavalry, and finally he could only order this set of iron armor to be handed over to Zhuo Junchen.
Huo Guang hopes that this Zhuo family, which is not outstanding in the original history, but has given him great help, can surprise him again.
The Zhuo family, a wealthy family that was originally recorded only in a few words in the history books, people often only occasionally think of the love story of Zhuo Wenjun and Sima Xiangru. It can be said that all the brilliant achievements of this family have been overshadowed by the brilliance of a generation of talented women Zhuo Wenjun.
And in Huo Guang's life, the first woman who helped him the most was Zhuo Wenjun, and then because of Zhuo Wenjun's relationship, Zhuo Junchen, the contemporary head of the Zhuo family, took the initiative to vote. When Huo Guang was based in Hexi to expand his armaments, he realized for the first time how huge the energy of this family, which was ignored by the world and history.
Not many people know that when Lu Shu joined forces with the Zhuo family of Shu County, he quietly controlled nearly half of the business of the Han Dynasty. Then in Shu County, a number of iron-smelting blast furnaces rose from the ground, a large number of iron ingots were forged, and then quietly transported to Hexi through Lu Shu's trading house, it can be said that Huo Guang's Hexi Army has nearly seventy percent of the weapons are from the Zhuo family in Shu County.
It was only at this time that Huo Guang understood why when he left Chang'an, Zhuo Wenjun said that if he needed it, Shu County could be used for himself, and she was so confident!