Guan Yu's own martial arts are almost all in swordsmanship, and it is a long-handled broadsword, which is a weapon that Li Xiang has never touched. Don't look at the fact that he has practiced the "Breaking Ring Knife Method", but the difference between a short-handled knife and a long-handled knife is too great to be universal. Besides, without internal force, the power of the "Breaking Ring Sword Method" is also limited.

I practiced Guan Yu's knife technique first, and pondered for a long time, but I still couldn't think of a way. Just when he was worried, Liu Bei and Zhang Fei came over yawning. Liu Bei shouted from afar: "Second brother, why did you get up so early?" It's not bad to practice martial arts, right? ”

Li Xiang said: "Big brother and third brother, you also got up." I woke up in the morning and couldn't sleep, so I just exercised my muscles. ”

Liu Bei laughed and said: "Second brother is diligent, so there is no need to save face for me and the third brother, neither of us can compare to you." ”

Zhang Fei also said: "Big brother and second brother, don't delay here, let's have breakfast first." After eating, I will have a good discussion with my second brother. ”

Liu Bei said: "Okay! I also wanted to see the martial arts of the two brothers. Let's go, eat first! ”

After the three of them had breakfast, they returned to the practice ground again. Zhang Fei picked up his usual spear, and then waited for Li Xiang to choose a weapon. Li Xiang hesitated beside the weapon rack for a moment, feeling that he should be familiar with Guan Yu's own martial arts first, after all, this is a war plane, and the long-handled broadsword is the most commonly used. So he picked up the big knife, but when he got it in his hand, he realized that the knife felt light and fluttering, and he couldn't use his strength, so he turned around and asked Zhang Feidao: "Do you have a heavier knife?" ”

Zhang Fei shook his head in embarrassment and said: "Although I like to make friends with heroes, but before the eldest brother and the second brother, I really haven't seen that hero have such martial arts as the second brother, so the weapon is not prepared to be heavier." ”

Li Xiang reluctantly waved the knife twice with one hand, and said, "Forget it, just use it for a while, and ask the third brother's subordinates to be merciful." ”

Guan Yu's sword technique has no name, I don't know if it's him, in fact, the martial arts of this era don't have names, just a combination of some skills. Fundamentally speaking, the knife technique that Guan Yu learned is no different from the knife technique of the unknown young general, but in the hands of the masters, ordinary skills can also be combined to create dazzling and irresistible knife techniques.

Of course, masters also have their own styles, and it is impossible to be exactly the same, so even if Li Xiang inherits Guan Yu's memory, the skills of using the knife are all the same, and when they can be used, there will be a big difference. Fortunately, when Li Xiang crossed over to Guan Yu when he first debuted, no one was familiar with his martial arts style, so there was no need to worry about anyone seeing that he was not Guan Yu himself.

In fact, purely in terms of martial arts, the current Li Xiang is above Guan Yu. Li Xiang has experienced three crossings, and each martial arts has played a great role, especially the martial arts plane is much more advanced than the Three Kingdoms plane in terms of the depth of martial arts research, so in terms of martial arts cultivation, Li Xiang is higher than Guan Yu. And Guan Yu is not yet in the heyday of five passes and six generals, although he is already twenty-seven years old, he is still a fledgling and has never been in battle. Therefore, after Li Xiangrong mastered Guan Yu's knife skills, the power he exerted was a few points more powerful than the original Guan Yu.

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's martial arts were actually between the two of them, and the two of them started to fight, and at first Li Xiang fell behind because he didn't take advantage of the weapon. Fortunately, Zhang Fei also collected his strength, so he didn't let Li Xiang make a fool of himself at the beginning. But as Li Xiang became more and more familiar with the sword technique, and gradually combined with his own martial arts cultivation, Zhang Fei couldn't stay strong and began to go all out. But even so, he can still only fight with Li Xiang. This made Zhang Fei somewhat admire this second brother, not just because of his younger age. Because he knew that if Li Xiang changed into a weapon that he could use, he was afraid that he would not be able to support a hundred moves.

Zhang Fei was convinced of him, but Li Xiang himself was not satisfied, because he felt that his long knife technique was far inferior to the "Breaking Ring Knife Technique" in terms of level. So he tried to integrate the concept of "Breaking the Ring Knife Method" into the long knife knife method. The moves can't be universal, but after all, they are all knife techniques, and the concept is still figured out. And what is the concept of the "Breaking the Ring Knife Method"? It's just a few simple keywords: wild, ruthless, attacking like mercury, and defending to defend and attack.

This is very different from Guan Yu's own philosophy, the original version of Guan Yu is to build momentum before making a move, and once the knife is made, it will be a shock. Therefore, in romance, he is often able to kill his opponent with one sword, and Hua Xiong and Yan Liang were all killed by him. But once the opponent blocked his first few moves, Guan Yu showed some signs of weakness, such as the veteran Huang Zhong and the previously unknown Pang De.

Li Xiang should absorb Guan Yu's strengths and improve his weaknesses. With the "Breaking Ring Knife Method" as a reference, there is a direction to make up for the shortcomings. But it is still an old problem, that is, there is no internal force to support, even if the shortcomings are improved, it cannot last. Sustaining a wild attack requires an abundance of strength. Without internal strength, physical strength can only be substituted. But physical strength is limited after all, even if Guan Yu's body is extremely strong, it can only support about 100 moves. If you still can't take down your opponent, you will be very dangerous.

What to do? Li Xiang had a headache. I really don't know how Lu Bu, Ma Chao, Xu Chu and others did it, how could they fight all day? Could it be that their physical strength is so much stronger than Guan Yu? Impossible, right?

The discussion between Li Xiang and Zhang Fei finally ended with Li Xiang's knife being interrupted. If Li Xiang hadn't been cranky during the martial arts competition, he wouldn't have been destroyed. But even so, Zhang Fei was convinced of him, and when he called the second brother again, he was respectful.

In the next few days, Zhang Fei sold all his family property and used the money to recruit soldiers and horses for the three brothers to make a contribution. It's just that although Zhang Fei's family business can be regarded as a rich family, raising soldiers is the most expensive, and Zhang Fei's little family property is all invested in it, and he only recruited about 300 people. Even so, it was simply an infantry equipped with spears, not even leather armor, let alone iron armor and horses.

When such soldiers go to the battlefield, they are afraid that they will all be killed in a rain of arrows, right? Can you make a difference? Just when the three brothers were worried, I don't know if Liu Bei was lucky, or if there was something Li Xiang didn't know, there were two big businessmen who took the initiative to send 50 good horses, 500 taels of gold and silver, and 1,000 catties of fine iron.

In this era, ordinary iron contains too many impurities, iron is very soft, and ordinary iron swords can be bent by adults with one punch. The purity of iron is much higher, and it is the most suitable material for making weapons. With such good materials, the weapons of the three of them will not be worried. Invited master craftsmen, respectively, to create a double-strand sword, a green dragon glaive knife, and a zhangba snake spear for the three of them. And Li Xiang's Qinglong Yanyue Knife has to be used with his violent knife technique, so the weight is larger, and after the result is built, it is weighed on the scale, and it is a full eighty-two catties!

In addition to weapons, armor must also be crafted. It's just that Li Xiang can't look down on the armor of this era at all, it's too simple, not to mention the inadequate protection, and it's not convenient to move. I simply designed the style myself and let the craftsman build it according to the style.

The pattern given by Li Xiang is what he saw from the Internet, which is divided into several parts, such as helmet, shoulder armor, breastplate, abdominal armor, skirt armor, arm armor, leg armor, and iron boots. In addition, there are some improvements, such as the helmet has an inner lining, which is more comfortable and stable when worn on the head, and there is a visor that can be turned upside down for better protection; The cuirass is two whole concave iron plates in front and back, linked by folds, and the head is pierced through the hole in the middle, and then the front and back are buckled, covering the chest and back of the person, without a single gap; The abdominal armor is not found in this era, and it is made of six or seven arc-shaped strips of iron that are stacked and linked, which is especially convenient when bending over; The skirt armor is slightly worse, and it must be slit before and after to facilitate riding, but in this way the protection is poor, but as long as you ride on the horse, it is not a big problem; Then there are the three kinds of leg armor, arm armor and iron boots, and there are also arm armor in the traditional armor, but the leg armor and iron boots were pioneered by Li Xiang, especially the terrible thing is that Li Xiang deliberately thickened and spiked on the outside of the arm armor, in front of the leg armor, and on the tips of the iron boots.

After Liu Bei and Zhang Fei looked at the armor designed by Li Xiang, they were also greedy, so they simply set them in triplicate, and the three brothers were all equipped. It's just that although the armor is good, it has a fatal flaw, that is, it is too heavy! There are more than seventy pounds. It is more than ten catties heavier than the famous full-body heavy armor of the Song Dynasty - Buren Armor.

Liu Guanzhang and the three of them are all military generals, even if Liu Bei is worse, he can still hold up wearing such heavy armor. It's just that the armor is too heavy, and the burden on the horses is greater. Especially Li Xiang, the armor is more than 70 catties, the big knife is 82 catties, and his weight is almost 200 catties, adding up to 3560 catties.

Li Xiang didn't expect this to be the case, as a general, how could he do it without riding a horse? I simply put away this set of armor and wear it when I encounter a big battle, and I only wear ordinary leather armor embedded with iron plates in ordinary battles.

After everything was ready, Liu Bei led Li Xiang and Zhang Fei, as well as the three hundred warriors recruited, to surrender to Liu Yan, the Taishou of Youzhou. Liu Yan was overjoyed when he heard the news, and warmly hosted a banquet to entertain the three brothers. During the banquet, they talked about their respective backgrounds, and heard that Liu Bei was also a relative of the Han family, and the two of them were still uncles and nephews. This time, the two immediately became intimate again, and the uncle and nephew were hot.

A few days later, Tanma reported that the Yellow Turban thief commanded Cheng Zhiyuan with 50,000 troops and came to attack Zhuo County. Liu Yan immediately summoned Liu Bei, with him as the main general to lead the troops, and the captain Zou Jing led 200 troops as a supplement.

Li Xiang originally had a good impression of Liu Yan, and he could also be courteous to a person like the three brothers who had no background. But after hearing the news, he scolded angrily. Liu Bei and the others only had 300 people, plus Zou Jing's 200 people, there were only 500 people. And Cheng Zhiyuan has 50,000 horses, even if it is a rabble, it is not something that 500 people can resist, right? Zhuojun is the seat of Youzhou, most of the soldiers and horses are here, but only sent such a few people to Liu Bei, what does Liu Yan want to do? Players don't play like this!