Soldiers come to the world

Time gradually passed, and it was the autumn of the eighth year of Jian'an. It has been two full years since Liu Jing came to the Three Kingdoms era.

After Yuan Shao died of illness last year, in order to fight for the right of succession, the Yuan brothers broke out in internal strife. Cao Cao watched the changes quietly and waited for an opportunity to attack.

But in Jiangxia, although the general situation remained calm, undercurrents continued under the calm river. Huang Zu twice sent people pretending to be prostitutes to rob the belongings of Chaisang merchants on the Yangtze River, but Liu Jing broke them both times. Gan Ning escorted them and killed all the soldiers, so Huang Zu had no choice but to give up.

On the other hand, Huang Zu found out that Liu Jing had contacts with Jiang Dong, so he secretly sent someone to inform Liu Biao.

This news made Liu Biao furious and ordered Liu Jing to return to Xiangyang to explain the matter. Thanks to Kuai Yue's repeated support and the explanation that Liu Jing's reputation in Jiangxia had risen because of this incident, the matter was finally calmed down.

At four o'clock, the moon is bright and the stars are sparse, and a round of bright moon hangs in the sky. The bright moonlight shines on the Yangtze River, dyeing the rippling river with a layer of silver.

On the south bank of the Yangtze River, Liu Jing sat quietly on the bank alone, with his upper body bare, his thick black hair hanging over his shoulders, his eyes slightly closed, and the bronzed muscles on his chest undulating slightly. His physical strength was recovering little by little.

Liu Jing is already this year, and the years have carved a mature imprint on his sharp-edged face. During the one and a half years in Chaisang, Liu Jing would appear in the Yangtze River every midnight, and the long-term hard training made his body gradually develop. After the change, he became bigger and stronger, with strong muscles and bones, and his strength increased rapidly.

All of this is due to a relationship with Yu Zhenzi. If the external changes only make Liu Jing look stronger and stronger, but only Liu Jing knows the internal changes.

His strength has improved rapidly twice, one happened last winter, and the other happened this summer, it was a qualitative change resulting from the accumulation of quantitative changes.

The two successive increases in strength made Liu Jing seem to be completely reborn. The weight of the weapon he used increased from forty catties to seventy catties, and the bow strength also increased from the eight-dou bow to one stone and five buckets.

Although he still couldn't use Lu Bu's Fang Tian Painting Halberd at this time, he was not worried, because Zhao Yun had told him that there would usually be three chances to improve his strength, and he had already obtained two, so there was one last drastic change.

He waited patiently for his third chance, an experience that could not be met, and suddenly, every part of his body would be engulfed by a huge force. An extremely refreshing and joyful experience.

Liu Jing's physical strength has gradually recovered. He stood up slowly, bit the saber in his mouth, and jumped into the majestic Yangtze River again. He quickly disappeared from the river and sank into a deeper and darker underwater world.

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At a quarter of a hour, when the eastern sky turned white and the sky was bright, a melodious bell sounded from the top of the city, 'Boom—boom—'. The hundreds of vegetable sellers who had been waiting outside the city suddenly became excited and tuned in. Carrying vegetable loads, driving ox carts, scrambling to be the first to line up at the gate of the city.

The gate of the city creaked open on time, and traders, vegetable farmers and a few scholars who studied abroad rushed in, and the daily life of Chaisang City began again.

At this time, several followers came slowly on horseback, surrounded by the exhausted Liu Jing. The soldiers had long been accustomed to their leader's night training, and it was like this every day, rain or shine. The soldiers all admired his perseverance.

Liu Jing entered the city, threw the reins to his followers, and went directly to the city. He still needs to rest for half an hour to fully recover his physical strength.

All of this has long been done with ease, like this every day, there is a special rest room in the city tower, there is only a bamboo mat in the room, and nothing else.

He chewed and swallowed a dark green pill, and sat cross-legged on the bamboo mat. At this moment, all his spiritual thoughts disappeared, as if the whole person was in a boundless void, and his physical strength was in full swing. Little by little it started to recover.

Half an hour later, Liu Jing went down to the city in good spirits. The next step was to go to the barracks to inspect the daily training of soldiers.

Today, however, something unusual happened. As soon as Liu Jing walked down from the top of the city, a soldier greeted him, "Report to Sima, just now the county captain Xu sent someone to say that if Sima goes down to the city, please ask Sima to go to the iron workshop and say There is something important."

The iron workshop was established last year. It actually includes two workshops for smelting and forging. It is the most important weapon forging base in Chaisang.

Since last year, Liu Jing has purchased a large amount of high-quality iron ore from Danyang County through the Tao family, and also bought a considerable amount of coal from Bashu. Two hundred smelters are responsible for smelting high-quality refined steel.

Refined steel is high-carbon steel, and its smelting method was introduced by Zhang Qian from the Western Regions. In fact, an appropriate amount of carbon powder is added to the iron smelting to make the iron harder and thus create high-quality weapons.

Since smelting and building last year, Chaisang not only has two 10,000+ jins of high-grade fine steel, but also forged hundreds of pairs of special armor and weapons.

The iron workshop is located next to the water gate. It used to be a wasteland covering an area of ​​more than [-] acres. Liu Jing bought this wasteland from the owner of the land, built a warehouse, built a furnace, and built high walls around it. It is patrolled and guarded by two hundred soldiers, and the security is very strict.

During this period of time, Liu Jing also paid special attention to the situation of the iron workshop. A major experiment was going on in the workshop. It had failed dozens of times in a row, but it was getting closer and closer to success.

Just as Liu Jing walked to the gate of the workshop, he happened to meet Xu Shu rushing out head-on, with an uncontrollable excitement on his face.

"My lord, I'm going to find you!" Seeing Liu Jing, Xu Shu immediately said excitedly.

"Did it succeed?" Liu Jing had an intuition that it should be successful.

Xu Shu was very excited and said: "My lord, it's a success, it's finally built."

Liu Jing was stunned for a moment, and then he rushed towards the northwest corner like a gust of wind. He rushed straight into a room.

There were more than a dozen people in the room, including the official in charge of the iron workshop, Cao Wuqun, the Chai Sang worker, and several workers, and the rest were all famous blacksmiths.

In the middle of the room was a table with a length of three feet. At this time, there was a special weapon placed on the table. Judging from its appearance, it should be a sword, but this sword was about one foot long with a handle four feet long.

The shape of this long sword is a bit like the Zhanma Sword made by Shaofu Temple, but it is different when you look closely. The Zhanma Sword of Shaofu Temple is a kind of imperial artifact, which is generally not used in the battlefield, so both the feel and the shape are different. It is more exaggerated and stout, weighing 47 catties, and measuring one foot and five feet long.

As early as half a year ago, the craftsmen created the Zhanmajian, but that was not what Liu Jing wanted. If he was a more refined Zhanmajian that was more suitable for actual combat.

It took more than half a year and after dozens of failures, the craftsmen finally created the Horse-Chopping Sword that Liu Jing wanted. In fact, its shape is no longer a sword, but a knife, which is more slender and stronger, with sharp edges on both sides. , exceptionally sharp.

This horse-chopping knife weighs only 34 catties, is one foot four feet long, and has a thin and thin blade, as if it could be cut with a single blow, but in fact, this long knife is extremely hard, especially because the blade is made of the best stainless steel. Cheng, extremely sharp.

This is the Mo Dao imagined by Liu Jing. Although it is different from the Mo Dao used by the army of the Sui Dynasty, it is already very similar, and it has all the advantages of the Mo Dao, but all the craftsmen unanimously call it the "Mo Dao". Cutting saber.

Liu Jing picked up the three-meter-long straight-shaped saber and waved it left and right. A powerful killing intent came out of his hands. He imagined hundreds of heavily armored soldiers wielding the saber at the same time, like a wall pushing, Facing Cao Cao's extremely powerful tiger and leopard cavalry, they charged away.

Liu Jing caressed the blade lightly, there was a faint blue light on the blade, he suddenly turned around and shouted: "Wu Gongcao is here!"

Worker Cao Wu Qun immediately stepped forward to salute, "The humble job is here!"

"Let me ask you, how long does it take to make such a saber?"

Wu Qun bowed and said: "Reporting to Sima, we have fully mastered the method of making this saber, but the process is very complicated and difficult to make, and it will fail if you don't pay attention. Let's make a preliminary calculation. The three craftsmen used It takes half a month to build one."

Liu Jing stared at him sharply, "I don't care so much, I just ask you, how many can you give me in January?"

Wu Qun quickly calculated in his mind, and said bitterly: "At least ten, at most fifteen."

Liu Jing was a little disappointed. He planned to form a 500-man heavy armored soldier, but this speed equipment would take at least four years to complete. Four years later, it happened to be the 13th year of Jian'an.

Liu Jing put down the Saber and said to Wu Qun: "Try to speed up! In addition, just like making heavy armor, the crafting technology of the Horse Saber must be kept absolutely secret and must not be leaked."

"Please don't worry, Sima, this humble official strictly controls the secrets and will never let them out."

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Leaving the iron workshop, Liu Jing turned around and came to the barracks. At this time, the total number of Liu Jing's troops had reached 6000, of which 500 were stationed in Yangxin County and Xiazhi County each, commanded by Junhou Zhaozhi and Junhou Wangtai respectively. Gan Ning led 1000 people to station in Longwan City as Chaisang's side support.

The remaining 4000 people were stationed in Chaisang. These troops had undergone long-term training and were extremely elite. They were led by four generals, Wei Yan, Liu Hu, Liao Hua, and Li Jun, and they were loyal to Liu Jing.

After more than a year of development, Liu Jing has become the most powerful person among Liu Biao's nephews, with 6000 elite soldiers, more than [-] warships, and [-] war horses.

Liu Jing came galloping on horseback, dismounted in front of the camp gate and asked, "Is General Tiger here?"

"Reporting to Sima, he is leading the heavy armor training in the school grounds."

Liu Jing nodded, and walked quickly into the barracks. He saw Liu Hu from a long distance away. At the southwest corner of the school grounds, Liu Hu took the lead and was leading [-] heavily armored soldiers to practice the long knife array.

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