Chapter 33 On the Sword

As mentioned last time, Guo Youzhi asked how to see thousands of miles away without clairvoyance, so as to attack the target. Liu Hou did not answer him, but continued:

"Hehe, I'll tell you again, if our thunderbolt develops to the extreme, it only takes one to destroy a city, do you believe it?" Liu Hou continued not to answer his question, but threw another bombshell.

"This, this, how much thunderbolt does it take?" Guo Youzhi continued to be surprised.

"Hehe, Mr. Guo, there is nothing that can't be done, only unexpected, when the weapons and equipment develop to that point, do you think what you just said about logistics supplies, numbers, strategies or something is still useful?"

Liu Hou did not explain to him in detail how to achieve those means of reaching the sky, because it was definitely not easy to explain to an ancient person artificial satellites, missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles, and nuclear bombs. Besides, he didn't know much about these things.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, these are immortal methods, how can mortals master them."

"Alas, now we really can't master these means, and even if we do, we don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing, forget it, don't talk about it, let's focus on the present. I think the sword used by the Fuji Armor Army is too cumbersome, I don't know what you guys think? Liu Houdao.

"It's a bit bulky, this kind of knife is just right for generals with high martial arts and infinite strength, but for ordinary soldiers, it's too heavy, and they can't support chopping for too long." Zhao Yun has the most say in this, and he also feels the same way.

"We have to find a way to reduce the weight of the knife, of course, but only if we don't reduce the lethality." Liu Houdao.

"In fact, weight itself is also part of lethality." Zhao Yundao.

Liu Hou understood what he meant, and used the language of physics to explain that this is called potential energy. Raising the knife is a process of accumulating potential energy. Lifting a heavy knife is more laborious than raising a light knife, but correspondingly, the accumulated potential energy will also be more, and the lethality will naturally be greater when slashing.

"The key is to find a balance between what kind of weight can ensure lethality and save the most body."

Speaking of this, Liu Hou thought of the sword. The prototype of the Japanese knife came from the Tang Dynasty in the Tang Dynasty, and it was originally something that the Japanese people stole from our ancestors, so even if Liu Hou used this kind of Japanese thing, he would not have any psychological burden at all.

Tang knives were the first to have no arc, and at the end of the Tang Dynasty, some Tang knives with a slight arc appeared. Then, around the time of the Song Dynasty, the Wa Kingdom developed a unique shape of the Wa sword according to the Tang sword of our country, and exported it to the Celestial Empire in large quantities.

It can be seen that the Wa Kingdom is a nation that is very good at plagiarism and copycats. But at the same time, they are also good at perfecting the skills they have learned, even surpassing their original teachers.

Therefore, in modern times, the scientific and technological and economic level of the Japanese Kingdom surpassed that of the Celestial Empire and even some Western countries, objectively speaking, although they were a cruel and annoying nation by nature, but some of their spirit had to be admired.

Getting back to the point, Liu Hou remembered that after transforming the knife, he didn't say a word, and asked someone to bring a pen and paper and start drawing.

Liu Hou's family was poor when he was a child, and he didn't take any interest classes, and at that time, the school was also exam-oriented education, and art and music became dispensable in school, so his paintings were ugly.

Liu Hou painted the Japanese knife in his impression, but unfortunately, he has not seen the real Japanese knife, but he has only seen it in film and television works.

Zhao Yun took a closer look, and the knife drawn by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was a strange weapon with a long handle, a narrow and long blade, a slightly curved tail of the knife, and a groove on the knife body.

The handle of the knife is very long Zhao Yun can understand, that is to facilitate holding the knife with both hands, the current chopping action of the Fuji Jiajun is completed with both hands, and such a handle is believed to be better to hold than the current knife.

There is a groove in the center of the blade Zhao Yun also understands that it is a blood groove used to bleed, and many weapons have a similar structure, which can make people lose blood faster.

But the blade was so narrow, Zhao Yun disagreed, and he looked at the number marked by Liu Hou next to the pattern, and he was even more puzzled.

Liu Hou didn't know the parameters of the various parts of the knife, and he also wrote it by estimating. He set the thickness of the back of the knife to be between 4 mm and 7 mm, and the thickest part was near the handle, which was 7 mm thick, and then gradually shrank to 4 mm, and at the last inch of the blade was as thin as paper.

The blade is about 35 mm wide at its widest point, also close to the handle, and then gradually reduces to 30 mm, with the tip of the blade further reduced to a tip.

"Adou, with all due respect, such a thin and narrow knife can be easily cut off if it encounters an enemy's thick-backed knife. Unless, like your sword, you have a hundred steels of the highest quality on the outside, and a strip of mild steel on the inside to make it elastic enough. Zhao Yundao.

He has been teaching Liu Hou martial arts, although he has no name as a master, but he has the reality of a master, under Liu Hou's repeated insistence, and now that he is old, he has reached the age where he can rely on the old and sell the old, so he also called Liu Hou Adou.

In fact, Liu Hou preferred Zhao Yun to call him like this, and he didn't like the way Zhao Yun called him His Royal Highness the Crown Prince all day long.

"Boom!" With a bang, Liu Hou pulled out the "Fengyun" sword hanging on his waist, and a cold light flashed, reflecting on Liu Hou's face and looking miserable. The sword light flowed, like the wind blowing clouds flowing on the sword. For the first time, Liu Hou felt that in addition to being a metaphor for doing something very smoothly, the word "flowing water" could also be used to describe the optical effect of the sword body.

"Yes, the blade of the knife I drew is really about as wide as the blade. If you want its hardness to meet the requirements, you can only improve the quality of the steel. ”

"So such a knife may not be able to equip troops on a large scale." Zhao Yun said concisely and to the point.

"Uh......" Liu Hou was speechless by Zhao Yun, the smelting level of the Ministry of Industry has indeed improved a lot in recent years, which can be seen from the "wind and clouds" in Liu Hou's hands, but this high-level smelting and casting technology is very labor-intensive and material-intensive, and cannot be produced on a large scale.

Liu Hou thought about it for a while, this kind of knife with a thin back and narrow surface is really difficult to cast on a large scale, and he took it for granted. Why did the ancient people cast such a big sword, not because they didn't understand the benefits of lightness, but because the materials couldn't keep up, they had to do it.

Liu Hou was hit by Zhao Yun's words, and he was a little excited, and said: "Alas, forget it, since the painting is finished, send it to Pu Yuan, it depends on him whether he can build it or not, and build as much as he can first." Maybe he'll think of a way to increase production.

Originally, Liu Hou also wanted to draw the Mo knife in the Tang Dynasty, although he also didn't know the specific number of the Mo knife, but he remembered reading it in a forum before, saying that the Mo knife was actually similar to the Qinglong Yanyue knife used by Guan Gong or the three-pointed two-edged knife of Erlang God.

Now that he has been hit, he has stopped this thought, in addition to being hit, Liu Hou also thought of another problem. Legend has it that the Mo knife team of the Tang Dynasty slashed dozens of catties of Mo knives, which could cut the cavalry and horses into two.

Liu Hou was very skeptical of this statement, because although people and horses are flesh and blood, the resistance to the knife should be very large, and no matter how sharp the knife is, it takes a lot of strength to cut people and horses. Liu Hou thinks that it is already great to be able to cut off the human body with one knife, let alone a horse that is several times thicker than the human body and whose skin is several times thicker than a human.

The main reason for Liu Hou to give up the Modao was that he could see from these legends that the soldiers of the Modao team were all those who were tall and strong. This kind of person is a good man who is one in a thousand.

However, in the Three Kingdoms era, there were years of war, the people were not able to make a living, and most of the people were malnourished, short and short, and thin. In this case, it is estimated that it will be very difficult to assemble a team of tall and strong Modao teams. In particular, the Shu people themselves are relatively thin, and their size and strength are significantly different from those of the Guanzhong Han and the Qingzhou Han.

You can't go to Cao Wei's territory to recruit troops. The difficulty in the source of soldiers is enough to make Liu Hou give up the idea of the Mo Dao team, not to mention that Liu Hou also thought that the amount of steel spent on casting the Mo knife must be very large, and it is estimated that the cost of each Mo knife will not be much less than that of the musket.

In terms of lethality, the Mo knife is estimated to be inferior to the musket. In that case, why do you still develop Mo Dao Soldiers? Alas, it's still the musketeers who are king.

The statistics of the results of this battle were soon reported, and a total of about 10,000 enemy troops were killed, 20,000 were captured, and about 15,000 people fled, and Buqi only took 5,000 people to flee into Guangxin County. At present, our army has surrounded Guangxin County and is waiting for further orders from His Royal Highness the Prince.

Our army suffered a total of 579 casualties, all of whom were members of the Fuji Army, of which 130 were killed and 23 were disabled, and the remaining 436 were slightly wounded and there were no serious wounded. There were no casualties among the musketeers.

After hearing the report of the official in charge of statistics, Liu Hou was quite satisfied with the result, in the battle of tens of thousands of people, only more than 500 people were killed and wounded, and the exchange ratio between the two sides was so disparity that it could not be counted at all, which could not but be said to be a huge victory.

After Liu Hou arranged the rescue of the wounded and the compensation of the casualties, he hurriedly rushed to the outside of Guangxin County with Zhao Yun and the others, preparing to fight with Buqi again. Liu Hou knew that as long as he could solve the problem here, the rest of the matter would be smooth sailing, and Lingnan would have fallen into his hands.

As usual, he persuaded him to surrender first, but the birds did not bird Liu Hou, and sent an envoy to enter the city to negotiate with him, but he neither opened the city gate to let the envoy in, nor did he put down the hanging basket to hang the envoy up. Just sent someone to the city and said lightly: "Don't talk!" "It's over.

Shoot the letter of surrender with an arrow, and they will shoot it back intact, and there is no reply to surrender, nor to say no.

Liu Hou's persuasion only tried for one morning, and when he saw that the other party adopted a policy of treating him coldly, he didn't try it anymore. Liu Hou was very disdainful in his heart, what do you say you are pretending to be high and arrogant? People have the ability and capital to pretend to be high, pretending to be 13, you are all under the city, and you are about to die, what else do you pretend?

Just as Liu Hou was about to give the order to attack the city, he caught a glimpse of a war-free card hanging at the head of the city. Liu Hou was even more speechless, did you say that you would be exempt from war? Do you think that your own pig brain is also a pig brain?

Liu Hou really didn't understand this point of the ancients, is the war-free card really useful? Could it be that the man who can lead an army to attack other people's cities will be a humble gentleman and pay attention to faith? Could it be that he didn't know the truth of the soldiers' tricks?

But he didn't know that most of the ancient people talked about credit and demeanor, and most of the side that hung the war-free card had a solid city wall to block the attack, so one side hung the war-free card and the other party generally did not attack it until they didn't hang it again.

Liu Hou looked at the one-foot-square wooden board on the head of the city with the words "free from war" written on it, and his childlike heart was full of joy. He turned to the army and said, "Whoever is sure to shoot down that battle card with an arrow or a shot will be promoted to a higher rank and rewarded with 50 taels of silver." ”

"I'll come, I'll come......" Seven or Eight hands raised. Liu Hou saw that there were three musketeers on his side, and four or five on the vine armor army's side. Liu Houdale, hey! It turns out that there are so many sharpshooters and sharpshooters in his army, it's really Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

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