Shu Han of the Three Kingdoms I call the shots

Chapter 180 The Second Horn of War ([-]rd update)

Hengdao, a kind of knife that was only created in the heyday of Tang Dynasty. (Apex Fiction hand-written novel)

Some people may have a skeptical attitude towards Tang Taizong, but absolutely no one will deny that the Tang Dynasty was the most powerful time in Chinese history.

Although the Han Dynasty was strong and Emperor Wudi was strong, the national strength was indeed inferior.

At that time, the Tang Dynasty had a vast territory and a large number of people in the city.Everything is at its peak.The cross knife is one of them.Relying on the advantage of powerful weapons, the army in the early Tang Dynasty was almost invincible.

After the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty later, Chinese weapons were in a state of decline, and cheap standard weapons replaced expensive horizontal knives.

than sad.

And Liu Feng desperately hoped to develop the horizontal knife, but not for the sake of grief.He just wants to use a powerful weapon to resist foreign enemies.

Such as Zhou Yu, Cao Ren, Cao Cao and so on.

Now that the enemy is facing the enemy, when life and death are at stake, even a little more strength can increase the chance of victory by a little.Not to mention a super knife like Hengdao.

With urgency, Liu Feng left the backyard and came to the front yard.

In the lobby of the front yard, there was a man sitting. This man was about 35 or [-] years old, with a thick face and a calm aura.But judging by his expression, the man was a little excited at the moment, raising his head to look at the gate from time to time.

This man's surname is Zhang and his name is Wei.It was Liu Feng himself who appointed the little official in charge of the gang of blacksmiths.

When Liu Feng's figure appeared, Zhang Wei's excitement reached its peak.Standing up suddenly, he stepped forward to greet him and said, "My lord, the horizontal knife has been developed by many craftsmen, and it has already begun to take shape."

"Where's the knife?" Liu Feng asked impatiently.

"The knife still has some advantages and disadvantages, and the blacksmiths need to explain it to the Lord, so it is still in the arsenal." Zhang Wei said.

"Let's go to the arsenal." Liu Feng felt a little disappointed when he heard the words, but he couldn't help cheering up when he thought that he could still see Hengdao in just a moment.

"No." Zhang Wei responded.

Immediately afterwards, Liu Feng and Zhang Wei immediately left the prefect's mansion and drove to the arsenal.A moment later, the arsenal was in sight.

Liu Feng got off the carriage, walked into the treasury with Zhang Wei, and then went straight to the blacksmith workshop.

In the workshop, more than a dozen blacksmiths were gathering together, looking intently at a knife in front of them, which was about three and a half feet long.The blade is thin and narrow.

The eyes of these blacksmiths are full of obsession.From time to time, someone stretched out a rough hand to caress the blade.

They have been making iron all their lives, but they have never seen such a beautiful knife. No matter in terms of the blade, weight, and degree of use, it is the most beautiful knife the craftsmen have ever seen.none of them.

Even the movement of Liu Feng walking in did not attract the attention of the blacksmiths.

"Rang Rang, the lord is here." It wasn't until Zhang Wei squeezed in and yelled a few words that the blacksmiths came back to their senses, saw Liu Feng standing beside them, and said to each other, "My lord."

"Where is the knife? Let me see." At this moment, even these precious blacksmiths did not attract Liu Feng's attention. His heart was only looking forward to the appearance of the horizontal knife.Before he finished speaking, Liu Feng himself saw a knife on the case.

Although this knife is somewhat different from the horizontal knife that Liu Feng saw in the photos of later generations, it is basically the same.

The moment he saw the knife, Liu Feng's composure was shattered, and he gasped heavily.After a while, Liu Feng took a deep breath and regained his composure.

Stretching out his hand very steadily, he picked up the knife.

The hands were not cold, but rather warm, even hot to the touch.Don't think about it, this knife should have just been made not long ago.

Holding it in his hand, Liu Feng already felt the first characteristic of the knife, narrow and thin.Then light.The swords of the Han Dynasty were very heavy, and the heavy ones were clumsy.

And the weight of this knife is only a quarter of that of the Han sword.Lightweight, you can save energy.

The second feeling is beauty.The back of this knife is thick, and it gradually becomes thinner when it reaches the blade.Some patterns are exposed on it, and these patterns are natural patterns that are exposed during forging through folding.It is mysterious and beautiful.

The third feeling is sharpness.

Liu Feng stretched out his hand and scratched lightly on the edge of the blade, only to feel pain from his fingertips, and a drop of blood flowed out.

The characteristics of Han swords are heavy and large.durable.The huge sword body can withstand impact very well.Makes a sword capable of being used many times over and over again.

But his weakness is also very prominent, that is not sharp enough.Not strong enough, because if the opening is too sharp, it will cause a chip.

And the knife Liu Feng used was very sharp.

"Master Zhang said just now that you need to explain to me the advantages and disadvantages of this knife. I have already felt the advantages, so let me talk about the disadvantages." Liu Feng held the knife in his chest, and then made a downward movement, with a whistling sound , made this action very easily.

so light.Liu Feng, who practiced sword all the year round, couldn't help admiring in his heart.

The blacksmith looked at each other, and an old man came out of it.Liu Feng recognized this old man, his surname was Chen, and he was the most skilled blacksmith in this group.

This knife should have been made by him.

"My lord. What you explained before, such as earth-covered calcination, steel cladding, clamping steel, etc., we only researched soil-covering calcination, and other cladding steel and clamping steel are all at a loss. But during the forging process of this knife, It only incorporates the method of covering with soil and firing. Naturally, it is hard on the outside, soft on the inside, and tough in the middle." The obsession in Chen Tiejiang's eyes subsided a little, and he looked at Liu Fengdao with some anxiety.

To be honest, this knife didn't even take shape, it was just a knife with serious flaws.

Liu Feng's understanding of knives was limited, but what Chen Tiejiang said was obvious enough.He couldn't help but frowned and said, "Crisp? Not durable?"

Seeing Liu Feng frowned, Chen Tiejiang became more anxious.I also regretted that I told Liu Feng the news that this incompletely formed knife was made.

But at this moment, he had no way out, so he couldn't help but gritted his teeth and said, "Yes, it's brittle." After speaking, Tiejiang Chen said again: "This knife is actually the second knife. We used the first knife to test it. In the collision of weapons on the battlefield, you can only last about twenty hits."

After Chen Tiejiang finished speaking, he winked at a blacksmith behind him.The blacksmith turned around immediately, and handed Liu Feng a knife that had been broken into two sections from not far away.

Looking at the two-section knife in his hand, Liu Feng finally calmed down the fiery heart.

This knife is really not that easy to develop, too.After hundreds of years, the technology in it is not something that can be researched.

After only one or two months, these people have developed this kind of knife, which is considered very powerful.However, the defect is very serious, but Liu Feng doesn't care anymore.

Looking at the situation of these blacksmiths, it is impossible for this kind of knife to equip the army on a large scale in a short period of time.As for Zhou Yu, one of Liu Feng's biggest advantages was breaking the barracks.

Pulling out its vanguard is almost tantamount to victory.Just used on the blade, this kind of sharp knife can help the soldiers who break the barracks and break through the Jiangdong vanguard in a short time.that's enough.

As for the defect that it will break after twenty collisions, it is nothing at all in a confrontation with at most 2000 people.

It's not a large-scale war with tens of thousands of people, and soldiers need to be hacked until they are soft.

It was lucky enough to have such a knife with advantages and disadvantages before Zhan Zhou Yu.Liu Feng is not greedy.

"How long will it take you to forge this knife?" Liu Feng suddenly asked under Chen Tiejiang's anxious expression.

"Three days." Chen Tiejiang replied subconsciously, and then he realized something, and couldn't help but look happy. It seems that the lord wants to manufacture on a large scale, and he didn't blame them for sending defective products.

Thinking of this, Tiejiang Chen felt relieved.

Liu Feng frowned again, one knife for three days, and there were fifteen blacksmiths present, that is to say, fifteen knives could be produced in three days, 150 knives a month, and [-] knives a year.This output is low enough.

If the orthodox horizontal knife is developed in the future, and the technology of adding steel cladding and clamping steel is added, the output will have to decline.

The issue of cultivating skilled blacksmiths attracted Liu Feng's attention.But it's a matter for the future, so let's make do with it for now.

'I once said that as long as this kind of knife is forged, I will reward each of you with five hundred acres of land. Although it is only in its infancy, I will also reward each of you with one hundred acres of land. When the knife is thoroughly researched, I will reward the rest. "Liu Feng glanced at the blacksmiths, seeing that the blacksmiths were excited because of his words, he smiled slightly in his heart, and asked them to work hard, and they still need to be rewarded heavily.

After finishing speaking, Liu Feng paused, and then said: "However, in the next few days, you don't need to develop this knife anymore, as long as you forge the finished product. There are 150 handles a month, and there is no less than one handle." Said Then, Liu Feng glanced at the blacksmiths again majesticly.

"No." The blacksmith who was caught by Liu Feng's eyes only felt his whole body go cold, and he responded without hesitation while being terrified in his heart.

"Okay, don't delay your work for a moment." Liu Feng nodded. After finishing speaking, Liu Feng picked up the knife that was still in good condition, winked at Zhang Wei behind him, and left. go out.

After leaving the workshop, Liu Feng said to Zhang Wei: "You have managed well these days, you can go and withdraw one hundred gold from Xu Zheng later."

"Thank you, my lord." Zhang Wei said happily. To be honest, when he saw Liu Feng rewarding those blacksmiths just now, he was very jealous, but he also knew that he had nothing to do with forging this knife.

So it was just a bit of jealousy in my heart, but I didn't expect that even he would be rewarded.

As a petty official, one hundred gold is already a lot.

"Supervise them more in the future, don't let them be lazy, and at the same time take care of the food, don't neglect them, you know?" Of course Liu Feng's reward was not for a reason, he was afraid that Zhang Wei would neglect the blacksmith.

"Don't worry, my lord, I will do my best." Zhang Wei said seriously.

"In this way, I will take a step first, and there is no need to send it off." Liu Feng nodded and walked out.But in the middle, he turned his head again, raised the knife in his hand, and said: "This knife should also have a name. It was produced in Jingchu, so it is called Chu Dao."

"No." Zhang Wei wrote it down.

Soon, Liu Feng walked out of the arsenal, got into the carriage, and returned to the prefect's mansion.Kneeling on the carriage, Liu Feng held the Chu Dao in both hands, feeling a little more at ease in his heart.

Chu Dao?I have a little more chance of winning against you.Zhou Yu.Soon, Liu Feng returned to the prefect's mansion.

After getting the Chu knife, the excitement in Liu Feng's heart had completely calmed down, and the exhaustion all over his body could not help but pop up again.Therefore, after Liu Feng returned to the backyard, he fell asleep without saying a word to Cai Yu.

Although Liu Feng fell asleep, the troops in Jiangxia area were training intensively.Gan Ning's water army, Huang Zhong's infantry, and the soldiers of the broken barracks and the Shenarm battalion.The blacksmith's workshop on the side of the arsenal was filled with tinkling sounds day and night.

The intensive preparations before the war made the atmosphere of war more intense.

In this breath, a month passed quietly.

In the study room, Liu Feng was kneeling and sitting with a heavy expression on his face. He just broke up with Pang Tong. According to Pang Tong's guess, Zhou Yu's days to raise troops are just a few days away.

Although all the arrangements are in place, the soldiers of the God Arm Camp and the Broken Barracks are only training for a while these days, mainly to maintain their energy. There are unexpectedly two hundred Chu knives produced by the blacksmith.

Fifty handles more than expected.It was a small surprise for Liu Feng.

But when the war was about to come, Liu Feng still couldn't help being heavy, and it was all because Zhou Yu was too famous and capable.The most difficult thing is that their strength is far from it.

"It's useless to worry. Soldiers will block it, and water will flood it." At some point, Cai Yu walked up to Liu Feng's side and smiled softly.

Liu Feng only felt a scent that could not enter the tip of his nose, which was very refreshing.

"Hehe, you don't understand." Liu Feng said with a chuckle, how could she know how powerful Zhou Yu is, and Jiangdong's group of people are not easy-going lamps.It is not comparable to people like Huang Zu, and if you underestimate them, you will only die miserably.

"Hmph, I don't understand? I have met many people anyway. In the past, Wenpin had to be submissive to a kitten in front of me." A sentence you don't understand makes Cai Yu a little upset. The part popped up again, coldly snorted.

"The past was the past, and the present is the present. There is a saying that marry a chicken as a chicken and marry a dog as a dog. Wenpin, you will never see him again." Liu Feng rolled his eyes at Cai Yu with some displeasure.

Just then, there was a rush of footsteps.Immediately, a soldier led another soldier in.

One of them is a personal soldier of Liu Feng's mansion, and the other is travel-worn, pale and still panting.

Liu Feng's heart was shocked, and he vaguely felt something.

"My lord, there is news from Xiakou." After entering the door, the guard immediately bent over and said.

"My lord, a large number of Soochow warships were found on the Yangtze River." The pale-faced soldier gasped.

Liu Feng stood up suddenly, what should come, still came.