After the next dynasty, Liu Zhi immediately summoned Fang Zhi, the commander of the Shaofu, the important ministers, Jia Ying, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Jiang Qian, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and others.

"Fang Shaofu, what happened to those weapons I asked you to build a year later?"

Liu Zhi's thoughts of wanting to fight had already begun since the first month of the year, although he did not make up his mind at that time, he still took precautions, and ordered the painter to draw a batch of drawings and hand them over to Shaofu for production.

"Back to Your Majesty, everything has been built, and the horizontal knife, long axe and spear, as well as the horseshoe have also been developed." Grabbing

This series of unfamiliar names made the other people feel like they were falling into the clouds, and they couldn't figure it out at all.

"Alright, come, I'll show you the new weapons."

However, Liu Zhi did not explain, but smiled mysteriously and walked towards the outside of the hall.

To be honest, he didn't know whether these weapons could reach the level of damage he had in mind.

He was a very irresponsible weapon porter in later generations, and the key point was that he did not understand the forging process, only the form of the forge, but not the reason for it.

So he ordered the painter to draw a pattern according to his memory, and then accompanied it with a simple description, and left it to the craftsmen of Shaofu to explore and improve on their own.

Now, it's time to put the results to the test.

Shaofu Weapons Department, a sharp horizontal knife appeared in front of everyone, it was an upgraded version of the ring head knife that prevailed in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, reached its peak in the Tang Dynasty, and became a conventional weapon in the army.

The ring head knife is the standard blade of the Eastern Han Dynasty, developed from the sword, the knife is about one meter one to one meter two, the back is thick, the blade is wide, forged by hundreds of steel, suitable for one-handed holding, chopping, chopping and other killing actions.

In the Han-Hungarian War in the heyday of the Western Han Dynasty, the light cavalry equipped by the ring head sword was invincible and made great contributions.

In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, with the rapid development of iron-smelting technology, the ring head knife has spread all kinds of troops, and is called the divine knife, which makes all different races change color.

At this time, the cavalry was heavily equipped with ring-headed knives and long crossbows, which were amazingly lethal in both long-range attacks and close combat.

The infantry, on the other hand, adopted a standard combination of ring-headed knives and hook-inlays, and specialized in dealing with long pole blades such as halberds.

In this case, everyone couldn't figure out why His Majesty would abandon the divine sword and develop a new weapon.

"Your Majesty, the steel wrapping method you mentioned, we have tried and tested it repeatedly, and I don't know if it meets the requirements, please check it."

Bagan, the chief master of the Ordnance Department, presented his horizontal sword in both hands, and waited for His Majesty's comment with some trepidation.

In fact, the real Tang Dynasty horizontal knife has long been lost, and no one has ever seen its true face, and Liu Zhi has only seen imitations on TV.

Originally, he wanted to make a modern broadsword, considering that the use of the horizontal knife is basically similar to the ring-head knife, and no additional training is required, so it is easy for the soldiers to get started, and after weighing it again and again, they chose it.

The horizontal knife in front of me has a lot of weight, the ring head has been canceled, the design of the handle has been strengthened, and the guard has been added to make it more suitable for holding in both hands.

The clad steel of the blade looks perfect to the naked eye, there is no trace of inlay at all, and it has a special pattern, which is very gorgeous, but I don't know how effective it is.

Liu Zhi handed the horizontal knife backhand to Tian Yan behind him, "You come and try the knife." ”

Tian Yan took the horizontal knife and thought about it in his hand, found the feeling, then held the handle of the knife with both hands, and slashed down at the femur of the cow used to test the knife.

"When"

With a crisp sound, a hole was missing from the cow bone, Tian Yan erected the blade of the knife and carefully inspected it, the blade was violently shocked, slightly off, but it was not obvious.

"Good knives!"

Tian Yan's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help blurting out, rubbing the horizontal knife with his hand, and the more he looked at it, the more he couldn't put it down.

The femur of a cow is much harder than a human bone, and the general ring-headed knife will collapse when it is cut with all its might.

Only the top 100 steels can achieve this effect, but there is also a big disadvantage, that is, the toughness is not enough, and it is easy to break if the force is too strong.

But when Tian Yan used the knife just now, he knew by his hand that the knife was extremely tough, and the shock-absorbing performance completely exceeded expectations.

Fan Chao next to him saw it, his eyes turned green, "Commander Tian, let me give it a try." ”

Tian Yan sank his face and hid the horizontal knife behind him, "Don't give it." ”

This contrivedness made everyone laugh and cry, and they were also amazed at the unparalleled sharpness of the horizontal knife.

"Yes, this horizontal knife is very well forged."

After receiving the emperor's affirmation, the stone in Bagan's heart finally fell to the ground, and he hurriedly presented a spear.

The Horizontal Knife is an upgraded version of the Ringhead Knife, while the Spear is an upgraded version of the Spear.

The reason why Liu Zhi wanted to improve the ring head knife was because the form of combat in the late Eastern Han Dynasty had changed, and although the Huns were powerful in battle, they had no armor to protect themselves.

The ring head knife was light and easy to carry, suitable for immediate melee combat, and played a great role in the Han-Hungarian war.

However, the Xiqiang tribe has been mixed with the Han people for a long time, and has already secretly learned the iron smelting technology of the Han Dynasty, and made armor and iron tools, although it is still slightly behind the Central Plains, but it is not far behind.

Therefore, the horizontal knife with a good armor-piercing function naturally has an obvious advantage in the battle and is invincible.

The spear is the standard weapon of the infantry in the era of cold weapons, easy to make, low cost, and easy to use, suitable for attacking in formation, but also suitable for immediate attack on the enemy, belonging to the all-round weapon.

Especially in the case of the lack of cavalry, with a long axe to deal with the cavalry, the effect is extraordinary, Yue Fei of the Song Dynasty is to use these two weapons together, with only 10,000 infantry, defeated the 20,000 cavalry of the Golden Vulture Technique, which can be called a miracle in the history of war.

Of course, there are drawbacks, that is, it requires a lot of training to use it freely, but the requirements for battle in array are much lower, and it is much better than spears and halberds. Let's play

The spear was more common in later generations, the simplest is a white ash rod with a detachable three-edged gun head, and there are also iron gun rods, which are generally used by military generals.

In the Han Dynasty, the spear of the king of a hundred battles has not yet officially appeared, but the spearhead of the spear has begun to gradually shrink, and is evolving towards the form of the gun.

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Tian Yan took on the trial task again, and the gun and spear were used in a similar way, and they were lighter.

Dripping and pulling a spear, Tian Yan turned around and jumped up and stabbed with his backhand, and the spear was pierced on the stake tied with hemp rope, and then with a hand, the thick hemp rope broke layer by layer.

"It's good, I think it's much easier to use than a spear."

Grabbing. Tian Yan is different from those bells and whistles of the Yulin Army, he went out of the army and fought against the Qiang people for a long time, and his comments are eye-catching.

"Use a spear with a long axe, pick a horse with a spear, chop the horse's leg with an axe, if you can be familiar with the drill, you can make up for the lack of cavalry in my Han Dynasty with the battle formation."

Everyone listened to the eyebrows, this spear and axe looked inconspicuous, and it had such a miraculous effect, which was really exciting.

The Qiang people, the Northern Xiongnu and the Xianbei tribes are all horse tribes who live in pursuit of water and grass, and they can be said to be full cavalry.

Due to the constraints of the Central Plains, the cavalry was expensive, and the treasury was full when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was full, and a heavy cavalry of more than 20,000 people was cultivated with the strength of the whole country.

Therefore, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was able to win the Han-Hungarian War and cast the myth of an era.

Now the border states combined, scattered and scattered only more than 5,000 light cavalry, far from enough to crush the advantage.

Of course, the Yulin Army and the Tiger Ben Army of the Beijing Division are also considered cavalry, but their combat capability is debatable, and it is simply a waste of thousands of hard-won good horses.

Everyone looked at the three weapons and discussed, "I wonder how many of these weapons have been produced now?" ”

Bagan hurriedly replied, "There is no mass production yet, but we have prepared a lot of steel, and as long as we give an order, we can immediately cooperate with the Ministry of Industry to produce it." ”

Everyone nodded frequently when they heard this, it seemed that His Majesty had been prepared for a long time, and he didn't know who had developed so many artifacts, and he immediately felt deeply encouraged and had double his confidence in the victory of the war.

When Bagan finally took out the horseshoe, all the people were sluggish, and that's it? Also a weapon? It's too weird.

"Haha, that's a good thing."

Seeing that everyone present was confused, Liu Zhi smiled proudly and beckoned Bagan to bring a horse that had already been ordered with an iron palm.

It dawned on everyone that this was not a weapon, but a nailed to a horse's hooves.

Tian Yan came forward again, jumped on the horse, and trotted twice in the yard, and it seemed that the horse's paw did not affect the horse's mobility.

"Your Majesty, the person who can come up with this thing is really a genius, so that the loss of the horse's hooves will be greatly reduced, and the movement in special areas such as the desert will not be hindered."

MiaoBiKu.#99oM戅. Tian Yan, who was full of excitement, only felt that the surprises were one after another.

Horses were expensive in the Han Dynasty, and the number of horses suitable for combat was even smaller, and the damage to horses' hooves was always a big problem for cavalry, which caused many sturdy horses to retire early, which is a pity.

Now, just a small horseshoe, it will be solved, how not to surprise people.

"From now on, the Shaofu and the Ministry of Industry will make every effort to forge horseshoes, and strive to assemble all the border cavalry in the near future.

Try to make a batch of spears and axes, there is no limit to the number, how many can be made, as for the horizontal knife, you can take it slowly, don't be too anxious. ”

Fang Zhi and Jia Ying immediately led the order, horseshoes and spears and axes can enhance the combat effectiveness of the Han in a short time, and the forging process of the horizontal knife is more complicated, and the army is temporarily equipped with a ring-headed knife, so it can only be postponed.

As for the must-have weapon for all traversers: gunpowder, of course Liu Zhi will not let it go, after all, it is a cross-dimensional progress, and no matter how simple the artillery is, it is also a hot weapon, which is not the same as a cold weapon.

Compared with the backward late Eastern Han Dynasty, it is simply a mythical existence, and it is unbelievable just to say it.

Therefore, Liu Zhi's attitude towards gunpowder was also cautious, and he did not dare to show it easily, so he secretly entrusted this matter to Tang Heng, and asked him to organize a group of alchemy alchemists and weapon craftsmen to hide in the deep mountains and old forests and secretly study gunpowder.

In fact, he doesn't know the real modern gunpowder ratio, but he knows the composition of firecracker gunpowder, as a country child, who hasn't played firecrackers since childhood, that thing is simply too familiar.

Many old people in the countryside would refine their own soil nitrate, which was used to make simple detonators, fry fish or hunt, and then gradually no one made them anymore after strict control.

Although these techniques were crude, they were sufficient for the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the key lies in the refining of saltpeter and the mining of sulfur.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, with the development of alchemy, natural sulfur has been discovered, but it has not been taken seriously, so it will take time to explore and mine a lot.

The production of nitrate is much simpler, and Liu Zhi recorded in detail the whole process from searching for nitrate to drenching, boiling and making nitrate.

After several months of exploration, Tang Heng and others have produced a certain amount of saltpeter, and the mining of sulfur has also accumulated a lot, and the next step is the preparation of simple black powder.

According to the folk soil law, one sulfur, two nitrate and three carbon, after repeated experiments, they are now able to make simple gunpowder, and the next step will be to develop gunpowder canisters, rockets, guns and artillery.

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Of course, the powder jar is the easiest to make, similar to a land mine, but the real killer weapon is artillery, and that is the pioneering work of hot weapons.

However, due to the complexity of the process and the poor stability of soil gunpowder, it is difficult to make any major progress in a short period of time, and it takes time to explore slowly.

But the current situation, he is already very satisfied, this matter is urgent, and Liu Zhi does not plan to disclose this secret for the time being, and wait until the war is blocked, and the fire gun and the like can be mass-produced, and then suddenly launch.

At that time, it will definitely be able to sweep away thousands of armies and make all different races tremble, and this huge gap in strength can also form a strong psychological blow, and the recovery of all races will be just around the corner.

So Liu Zhi is not worried about the outcome of this war, he just needs time to prove it.

For him, the advantages of this war outweigh the disadvantages, firstly, it can divert domestic contradictions, secondly, it can plunder resources, and thirdly, it can completely control military power.

With strong force as the backing, any top family will become a paper tiger in front of him, vulnerable to attack.

At that time, whether it is land reform or rectification of the rule of officials, it can be vigorously implemented, and I believe that at that time, no one will dare to rise up against his rule without fear of death.

After arranging the production of weapons, Liu Zhi led the ministers back to the Zhongde Palace, the war had not yet begun, but they were already busy.

At present, the riot of the Yaodang tribe is nothing at all, in fact, as long as he gives an order, Liangzhou Muchong can handle it by himself, but what he wants is to use this as an excuse to attack the overseas Yaodang tribe.

So he gave only one word to the order of Chong Hui: drag.

If the war ends soon, then he will not have a ready-made excuse, and of course he can also find a gap to make trouble and create an excuse, which will be more troublesome and morally inferior.

He even gave a secret order to Duan Cheng of the Qiang tribe, asking him to deliberately provoke the Qiang people and expand the contradictions between the two sides.

Now, everything is in an orderly manner, raising the first batch of food and grass, building new weapons, recruiting soldiers for training......

Everything pointed to the national war, and as time went by, the atmosphere in Kyoshi became more and more tense day by day.