"Your Majesty."
"Your Majesty."
"Your Majesty."
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Zhang Qi waved his hand casually: "You go on, I'll just take a look."
He came here just to see the scientific research results of the world of riding and slashing. There was no need to mobilize troops.
The Materials Research Institute is the cornerstone. Only by developing suitable materials here can Zhang Qi continue to lead this era.
Walk through a corridor.
The temperature in the air has increased a lot.
This is the Metal Research Department, used to study and record alloy ratios.
Most of the research on bronze, lead, iron, and steel was conducted here.
The hosts at the beginning were several blacksmiths brought in from outside.
Now they have been replaced by the best people they brought out.
Decades of development have not been in vain, and there are forty or fifty types of alloy ratios that can be used.
There are currently as many as five or six types of steel subdivisions, and they are not just for making up the numbers, they are the ones that can actually play a role.
Of course, this cannot compare with later generations, but it can be regarded as laying the foundation of materials science.
The development of human beings is the development of materials, which is very important.
In addition to all kinds of metals, the most powerful thing of the Metal Research Department is the tall blast furnace in the center. It is nearly twenty meters high and is no different from the blast furnaces that will be seen in later generations.
It has a wide mouth, narrow waist, and curved belly. It can smelt most metal minerals in the world through wind heating, and the temperature can be controlled.
This blast furnace is one of the works accumulated over time. It was the result of one hundred and twenty years since Zhang Qi came to this world and sent away a generation.
On the blast furnace, Hu San's name is engraved in the first row.
Engraved by Zhang Qi himself.
The data of this blast furnace is recorded in great detail. Outside, several blast furnaces have been built near Xianbei's mines, smelting steel day after day, providing Zhang Qi's army with the highest quality steel weapons, and transporting building materials and metals. Accessories.
There are many departments similar to the Metal Research Department in the Materials Research Institute, and Zhang Qi glanced at them one by one.
Outside the Materials Research Institute, Zhang Qi was riding a hot-blooded horse alone. One advantage of NPC horses is that they will not pass with the passage of time.
And those imperial army horses that were once completed and used for reproduction have now turned into a handful of loess. The only ones left in this world are their descendants.
The sound of horse hooves ticking.
School.
library.
Agricultural institute.
Hydropower and Wind Power Research Institute.
Weapons Research and Manufacturing Institute.
There are various buildings, Zhang Qidu went in and took a look.
These are his trump cards.
It will shine in the outside world.
——
"uncle."
Huo Qubing lowered his head.
Wei Qing's face was extremely pale.
I thought it was a big victory, but I didn't expect that in the end, I was tricked by the Huns.
The number of dead in the battle was as high as 5,000, the injured were over 10,000, and the number of those who fled was countless.
There were hundreds of thousands of troops when they arrived, but now, there are only less than 100,000 left.
Moreover, the generals Li Guang and Li Gan died in the battle, as well as Gongsun Ao, who has not been heard from until now, and many captains.
The result was nothing more than the more than 4,000 Xiongnu heads counted after the war.
first.
Wei Qing felt powerless.
Looking at the corpses of the soldiers being carried together, Wei Qing lowered his eyebrows.
Based on his understanding of Liu Che.
The outcome of this battle has been decided.
He will not be found guilty.
You might even get a promotion.
Because Liu Che will defeat this game.
Turn into a big win.
to get the results he wants.
"Your Majesty, this time, I am scared."
Raise your head and face the dazzling sun in the sky.
Wei Qing closed his eyes in pain.
That cavalry.
That cavalry that looked like ghosts.
A tall horse.
Skilled in bow and horse.
Comes and goes like the wind.
No amount of words of praise were enough to erase the fear of them in Wei Qing's heart.
He led the troops back to support before.
They were still halfway, but they were already at their rear. This was such an incredible speed.
"uncle."
Huo Qubing noticed something abnormal about Wei Qing and spoke out again.
Wei Qing glanced at him and shook his head with a wry smile.
"Go to hell, we are defeated this time."
"Uncle, victory or defeat is a common thing in military affairs. We still have a chance."
"Disaster!"
"Until we can figure out a way to restrain the cavalry, we can only huddle within the Great Wall like we did in the past few decades. It will be so difficult to break out of the grassland!"
"There will always be a way, uncle."
Huo Qubing remained silent for a long time.
With that final glance, he could see how difficult the cavalry was.
Not to mention not being able to catch up, just the smoothness of command and control, and the attack power that is several times higher than that of the Huns. The completely enhanced version of the Huns, and it has been strengthened several times, how can we fight?
However, you should still speak harshly, at least not directly to fight.
"maybe."
Wei Qing's complexion improved slightly. He just felt a little weak before, but it was not enough to make him lose his fighting spirit.
"The grassland is not safe. Everyone, cheer up. Let's go home first!"
"go home!"
"go home!"
In a big defeat, no words can arouse the emotions of these defeated troops better than the word "go home".
Wei Qing sat on his horse and looked at the high slope in the distance, saying nothing for a long time.
The third day.
The Han army was already on its way home.
Zhongjun, Wei Qing, Huo Qubing, Gongsun He, and Li Ze walked side by side.
Thinking about it these days.
Wei Qing felt more and more strange about the cavalry.
"Where did they get so much iron?"
Each of the arrows recovered from the dead and wounded soldiers seemed to be carved from the same mold. The weight, length, and arrow shaft were all very neat.
It is completely different from the arrows of the Huns in the past.
"And those horses!"
Gongsun He also added that Wei Qing and the others just passed by the cavalry, but he was actually attacked from the front once.
If it weren't for the many carriages around him, he might have ended up like Li Guang. After all, during the decisive battle with the Huns, they, the generals, were already at the forefront to boost morale.
"We have never seen those horses before. Could it be that they come from the Western Regions?"
Li Ze asked.
"You mean Wusun Liejiaomi?"
Wei Qing frowned.
"It should not only be the Western Regions. If there are such crafts in the Western Regions, the Huns will not be able to capture them. Maybe there are traitors on our side. There are princes who have mastered such crafts who are secretly colluding with the Huns. Otherwise, the Huns alone can follow them. There is no way in the Western Regions to make such arrows!”
Wei Qing held an arrow in his hand.
Heavy arrows, the arrowhead almost a quarter of the size of his hand.
The arrow has a metallic luster and is neat without any holes.
This manufacturing process has surpassed the craftsmen of the Han Dynasty. Even Wei Qing's own sword has many small pits on it, and it was a sword given to him by Liu Che himself.
"Collect all the arrows and bring them back for Your Majesty to make a final decision. In short, everyone, the threat of that cavalry has exceeded that of the Xiongnu Shanyu. If we encounter it next time, it will be difficult for us if we have no countermeasures." Got it!"
(End of chapter)
