The lance, in ancient Chinese cold weapons, is a heavy cavalry weapon, that is, a long-pole spear, which is the same as "矟" in ancient texts.

It is made of hardwood, and it is divided into two parts: the handle and the head. The handle is generally six feet long. The head of the lance is in the shape of a round hammer, some heads are equipped with a number of iron nails, and some are equipped with a clay at the end of the handle.

The lance has obvious armor-piercing edges, like the sword, has eight sides, generally up to two feet long, far longer than the length of ordinary spears and spears, which can be used for cavalry to charge with a lance and sweep with a dancing lance.

The production of the horse lance is very complicated, first of all, the mallet is usually used, the main stem is taken, peeled into a uniform thickness of the scorn, and the fine slab is soaked in oil repeatedly. The bubble is no longer deformed, no longer cracked, and the first step has been completed. This process takes almost a year, after which the strips are removed and dried in the shade for several months.

Then glue with high-quality glue paint to form a handful of thick, eight feet long, and then wrap the outer layer of hemp rope. Wait for the hemp rope to dry thoroughly, apply raw lacquer, and wrap it in arrowroot cloth. The kudzu cloth is lacquered, dried and wrapped in a layer, until it is cut with a knife, and the mallet makes a metallic sound, but it does not crack, so it is qualified.

Then cut off the head and tail about six, the front is loaded with the head of the lance, and the rear is compiled, and it is constantly adjusted. The qualified standard is to use a hemp rope to hang two feet at the tail of the lance, and the whole horse lance can be in mid-air like a weighing rod at both ends without falling. Only such a horse lance, on which the military commander rode on a horse, could keep the tip of the lance forward without the slightest effort.

The horse lance thus produced is light, tough and strong. The military general can hold the charge with horsepower, and the armor is broken by a blow under the attack of the horse lance; It can also be wielded in melee combat, using techniques such as splitting, blocking, intercepting, blocking, teasing, rushing, belting, and picking.

However, it takes three years to manufacture the whole horse lance, and the success rate is only 40%, so the cost is surprisingly high.

Wang Rong was simply confused about the record of the manufacturing techniques of the horse lance in the book. Isn't it sick to cut off the trunk of mulberry wood and peel it into strips?

Wang Rong decided to improve the technique, and he asked Lin Musen and several other carpenters to find wood suitable for making mallets, so as to reduce the difficulty of production and shorten the production period.

After half a year of repeated exploration and hundreds of failures, Lin Musen's military workshop finally succeeded in improving the manufacturing techniques of the horse lance, reducing its cost by more than 50%, and reducing the production time from three years to one year. It's still a lot more complicated than spears and spears, but at least it's improved.

As a result of the technical improvement, Wang Rong's Western Governor's Mansion had nearly 700 soldiers and personal guards, and all of them were equipped with horse lances, which are all the stocks of the military workshop of the Western Governor's Mansion today.

Wang Bo said indignantly: "This Zhong Ming, such a good thing is actually difficult to come out earlier, and Lao Tzu's riding spear has long been unusable." ”

The old dog said with a black line: "Lord Captain, these more than 700 horse lances have only recently been formed, and they are the best of the 1,000 finished products, and the remaining defective products have been recycled. ”

Wang Bo didn't say anything more, and shouted: "Let's go!" ”

Fifteen hundred cavalry, four thousand five hundred horses, marched north into the mountains.

Li Sujie immediately arranged for someone to erase the traces of the cavalry troops to prevent them from being detected by the scouts of Pusha Kingdom.

Wang Rong and his guards all flew through the canyon and came to the grassland, and the first team of guards scattered in a fan under the leadership of the captain Wang Tan to investigate.

Wang Rong led the second and third teams of guards to slow down their horses and slowly followed behind the first team.

At this time, the sun hung high in the air, and the cold wind blew Wang Rong's robe. He looked at the vast and empty grassland, and really wanted to shout in his heart.

But before he could come, he saw ten miles away, several chirping birds flying into the air, and a sharp shrill sound came from a long distance.

Wang Wei pointed over there with a horsewhip in his hand, and said to Wang Rong: "Captain, there is a situation there!" ”

Wang Rong waved his horsewhip and shouted: "I see, brothers, go!" ”

Several chirping dwarfs represent a large number of enemies, at least hundreds.

He was only halfway through the ten-mile journey, when Wang Rong saw a personal guard in front of him fleeing towards him.

And behind this Shi guard, there are hundreds of scouts of the Pusha Kingdom.

Wang Rong didn't have time to regroup his formation, he shouted: "Change the formation!" ”

The guards who followed him quickly changed formations, and the second and third teams turned into two wedge-shaped formations, and the Nashi guards who fled back saw the comrades in front of them change formations, and immediately passed through the middle of the two wedges.

Wang Wei led the second team's wedge formation, and Wang Wei led the third team's wedge formation, rushing towards the chasing Pusha scouts at a very fast speed.

Wang Rong could clearly see the attire of the enemy on the opposite side, they were wearing light chain mail, holding bows and arrows, and their feet were lightly clamped between the belly of the horse, and the feet should be in the stirrups.

Wang Rong took a long-armed crossbow from the side of his horse, and the crossbow bolts were already loaded, and the guards behind him followed suit, and when they were still a hundred and fifty paces away from the Pusha people, they sent the bolts out.

The scouts of the Pusha Kingdom on the opposite side were composed of the warriors of the Himi tribe in the Pusha Country, and their purpose today was originally to find a way in this Wolf Mountain, so that they could pass through the Wolf Mountain from this road and appear in Shuofang County to inflict a devastating blow on Dayong's army.

He didn't expect that when he was chasing and killing a Dayong scout with more than 200 people under his command, he would run head-on into the personal guard capital led by Wang Rong. But he was not afraid, because he could see at a glance Wang Rong's intentions.

As a rising star in the Pusha military, and although Mi Tuneng is not very old, he is fighting from east to west and has rich experience, although the formation of Wang Rong's army is strange, it obviously belongs to the charging formation.

And Mi Teng showed a hint of mockery on his face, he was a scout on his side, how could he charge face to face with Wang Rong, he raised the scimitar in his hand, all the way forward, and his legs clamped the horse's belly, raising the speed of the war horse to the extreme. The Pusha scouts behind him were armed with bows and arrows, pinching the horse's belly to increase the horse's speed.

I saw that the scouts of Pu Shaguo lowered their bodies one by one, lying on the back of their horses, and at the same time kept the bows and arrows in their hands in a state of readiness.

When the distance between the two formations was one hundred and fifty paces, and Mi Teng's eyes widened, carefully looking at the state of the cavalry of the Yongjun army opposite.

Suddenly, he found that the other party did not do the unique posture of holding a bow in mounted archery, but leaned over and held a crossbow.

And Mi Teng shouted, "Not good! ”

Before the words fell, a dense number of crossbow bolts came in the air.

With the powerful crossbow bolt and the horse speed bonus, the chain mail can't block the impact of the crossbow at all. The crossbow bolt instantly shot the Pusha scouts who had rushed and had not yet arrived and shot arrows into stabbed water bags.

Hundreds of flesh and blood bodies fell off the horse softly in an instant, and Mi Teng was the first to bear the brunt, and the crossbow bolt shot in Wang Rong's hand directly pierced his head and the iron armor he was wearing.