Hua Xiong and Hao Meng also came over.

"Lord, why don't you give us good things."

Lu Bu said with a smile: "The two generals can rest assured, five hundred per battalion is enough for you to grow vegetable fields." ”

Hao Meng used a shovel as a big knife and waved it: "Lord, five hundred is too little, give more, with this shovel can also increase the speed of camping." ”

"Only give five hundred, the rest depends on the performance of each battalion's training, if the training performance is good, one hundred will be rewarded, or even more, go back to train well, and be ready for battle at any time, Qingzhou is not peaceful."

"Yes."

The two of them went back to the camp separately, Guan Hai was not embarrassed to come over to ask for it, his battalion soldiers were hard-working and hard-working, and the simple tools worked very fast.

Lu Bu sent three hundred shovels and two hundred hoes, and saw that they had made efforts to add another hundred.

The soldiers worked hard one by one, and when they saw Lu Bu coming, they hurriedly gave a salute.

Lu Bu waved his hand: "Everyone continues to work, what do you care about the general?" ”

"General Guan is digging a canal over there."

Lu Bu saw that Guan Hai was really a working material, shirtless, digging ditches hard.

"Bingyuan, the progress is so fast, other battalions have just turned over the ground, and you have started to build the canal here."

Bingyuan, this is the name that Lu Bu gave Guan Hai.

Guan Hai saw that Lu Bu was coming, and hurriedly put on the cowhide battle armor.

"See the lord, I sent thousands of people every night to take advantage of the moonlight to work for a few more hours. The brothers are afraid of poverty, and they have land to grow vegetables to eat, which is a great happiness, which one will not work hard. ”

Lu Bu nodded: "I'm very happy that Bingyuan can think so." Remember to build a pig house on the edge of the vegetable field, each camp will be divided into more than 100 piglets, if you don't raise it well, when the New Year comes, other camps will eat pork, and your camp can only watch. ”

Guan Hai patted his chest: "Don't worry, my battalion is designated to raise pigs well, if I can't raise them well, I will walk upside down." ”

It turned out that Guan Hai's family was very poor when he was a child, and he herded pigs for a living, and later the pigs in the family were also taken away by large households, and he was desperate and joined the Yellow Turban Army.

"Here are six hundred farm implements, which have been allocated to your battalion."

Guan Hai took the shovel, looked at it, and was surprised: "Lord, this is fine iron, isn't it fragrant to use it to build weapons?" ”

"In a war, not only weapons, food is an important material, soldiers have no food to mess up, and horses have no food to charge."

"The lord is right, it's just that I feel that this shovel can be made into armor by just beating and knocking, and there are armored soldiers on the battlefield, which is more than twice as strong as the soldiers without armor."

Lu Bu had a flash of inspiration, this shovel is made of orbital steel, and there is no problem with the thin two-millimeter to resist knife slashes, spear stabs, and ordinary bows and arrows, and the most important thing is that the exchange cost of this thing is very low, twenty-five exchange coins.

If it is used to make armor, four shovels in the front and four shovels in the back, it is enough to cover the vital points on the body, and the outer iron and inner skin, the defense is too powerful.

Lu Bu asked Chen Gong and Chen Heng to distribute farm tools, and he brought his own soldiers to the camp in the west of the city.

The ironsmith workshop in the army is in full swing, and the blacksmiths have grown from more than 500 people at the beginning to more than 500 people.

Of course, there are only more than 100 skilled among them, and the rest are apprentices.

Usually blacksmith apprentices, three years of study may not be a teacher, but Lu Bu has a strict order, all craftsmen are strictly forbidden to hide privately, each church of a blacksmith, reward ten times, the church more than ten craftsmen, for the craftsman, and so on, can not do it, there is a salary of 600 a month. If you find that you are not willing to teach well, you will be whipped or even cut off.

Lu Bu's strategy made Chen Heng not understand for a while, but the results were very remarkable, in the past, apprentices wanted to learn, and the master was not good at teaching, but now it has changed, and the master is chasing the apprentice to learn.

It was too noisy in the blacksmith's workshop, and it was clanging, and Cheng Lian called Zhang Tiezhu out.

Lu Bu took two shovels and handed them to Zhang Tiezhu.

"My lord, is this asking me to build a shovel? The shape can be beaten, but this kind of fine iron can't be made. ”

"It's good steel, not iron. I'm not here today to let you build a shovel, but to see if this shovel head can be changed to iron armor. ”

Zhang Tiezhu is an expert in the army, and he has always done this kind of thing, so he immediately compared it with a shovel and pondered for a moment.

"My lord, the villain has two ideas. The first is to create a simple armor for the soldiers, only four shovel heads are needed, two in the front and two in the back, and the gap part is worn with cowhide, which is very light and easy to make. The flaw is that there are holes on both sides of the armpits, and the defense is not strong, but it is much stronger than the coarse cloth clothes of our soldiers now. ”

"Then do you estimate how long it will take to transform such an ordinary soldier's iron armor?"

"Well, you may not be very skilled at first, but if you are proficient, it shouldn't be a problem to make two or three hundred pieces a day."

Lu Bu was overjoyed, and asked again: "What if it is made more delicate, and the defense is stronger?" ”

"That iron armor needs eight shovels, and the shoulders and sides of the thighs are also protected, but the production procedure of such an iron armor is complicated, a skilled blacksmith, equipped with two skilled assistants, one also takes ten days and half a month. Moreover, the armor is relatively heavy, and it is not something that ordinary soldiers can wear. ”

"Well, I understand this, good armor is tedious to make. Ben will give you 200 shovels first, and you will use them to experiment and make fifty pieces of simple armor, and when you have made them, show them to me. ”

"Okay, villain, let's arrange it."

The craftsmen in the army arranged a lot of work, one radish and one pit, Zhang Tiezhu recruited twenty skilled blacksmiths and fifty apprentices, and began to build simple iron armor.

The next morning, Lu Bu and Diao Chan were giving porridge in the porridge shed at the south gate, and now there are fewer and fewer people who come to drink porridge, and not everyone is rich. Instead, Chen Gong presided over the work-for-relief, and all the people who couldn't eat went to dig rivers and repair roads.

There is no pay for doing these jobs, but there are two meals a day, and many poor people who have nothing to do go to do this, so there are fewer people here in the porridge shack to eat idle meals.

Diao Chan got married for the first time, and under the careful care of Lu Bu, she became more and more beautiful, and today she came over to personally take charge of the spoon and share porridge for the people.

At this time, Zhang Tiezhu Pegasus came.

"Lord, I made two samples, and I ask you to decide."

Zhang Tiezhu worked overtime to make a simple iron armor and handed it to Lu Bu.

Lu Bu looked at it, and it was okay, and the shovel head removed a part of it and knocked out the arc according to the pattern of the human body. Two shovels in front and two shovels in the back, connected by cowhide rope and lined with coarse cloth, so that the body will not be worn out.

Lu Bu waved his hand and called a soldier on duty with a spear next to him.

"Put this armor on and try it."

"Yes."

This little soldier is still young, I'm afraid he is not yet twenty years old, and his body is average, about 1.7 meters.