Ten days later, Blacksmith Camp.
Liu Yu looked relaxed, with his upper body bare, holding a large crucible more than a foot square through a long wooden handle. On one side of the blast furnace, Feng Qian and Mao Qiu were pulling the bellows vigorously, and in the furnace The color of the fire has begun to turn blue, and in a large pot added to it, the iron juice has begun, and the heat is rising upwards, roasting everyone within three feet of the blast furnace, all over their bodies. Wash.
With a "pop" sound, the last wisp of flame in the furnace changed from red to cyan. Maoqiu's face changed and he said loudly: "Let's start the pot!"
With quick eyes and quick hands, Liu Yu turned the long handle and thrust the crucible into the iron pot. He flipped it over and scooped it out, and a pot full of steel juice entered his crucible.
In the open space outside, more than a dozen sand-turning boxes have been lined up. The hole dedicated to the steel liquid is upwards, and the other places are tightly connected. Liu Yujian is walking like flying, carrying this large crucible of steel liquid. He rushed out of the blacksmith shop in an instant without spilling any steel liquid. Amid the exclamations of everyone around him, he poured the steel liquid from the large crucible into the dozen sand-turning boxes one after another. It wasn't until the tunnel began to overflow with steel juice that he stopped to pour the next box. In just a few minutes, a large pot of steel juice filled these sand-making boxes.
The craftsmen beside the boxes cheered and wore water-soaked leather jackets. They took the sand-founding boxes aside and shook them repeatedly so that the steel juice could fully fill the sand holes. Liu Yu put down the work in his hands, wiped the sweat from his face, looked at some sand-turning boxes that were being opened on the side, and breathed a long sigh of relief: "This is really fast. This stove alone can pour five pieces of water in a day." Ten boxes. One box can make twenty pieces of armor. Even if you re-smelt five pieces, there are still fifteen pieces. In other words, this furnace alone can make seven to eight hundred pieces in one day."
Kong Jing smiled and nodded: "Yes, it's faster than we expected. With two hundred furnaces running at the same time, about 150,000 pieces can be produced in a day, which is enough for three hundred pairs of armor. At this speed, We can equip 10,000 people in one month.”
Liu Yu nodded: "It seems that there is no problem with making armor, but soldiers cannot only wear armor without weapons in their hands. Does Brother Kong have any good ideas for making this weapon?"
Kong Jing curled up his lips and said: "As I said last time, Bailiangang cannot equip a large number of equipment. Even the Tiger Force is mainly based on long guns. What we want to build is just the head."
Liu Yu shook his head: "It's just a wooden pole and a horse head. I'm afraid it's difficult to take advantage of a strong opponent with a horse like this. I told you about the horse horse I told you two days ago. Do you think you can do something about it?" come out?"
Kong Jing sighed: "I've been thinking about this issue for the past two days. The production of horsetail is very troublesome. The materials are not impossible to obtain, but the kind of continuous oil immersion, drying in the shade, oil immersion, drying in the shade again, repeatedly It took several years to make something like the Southern Barbarian Vine Armor, which is too labor-intensive and time-consuming to make."
"Now the task we have received is to complete the equipment of 10,000 elite soldiers within three months, and at least 5,000 tiger troops must be guaranteed. So time is still very tight, and there is no time to do that kind of work."
Liu Yu still refused to give up and said, "Would it be better if the pole was made of steel?"
Kong Jing smiled and said: "Even the poles are made of steel, so the total of all the iron ore I have here is probably not enough to provide weapons for three thousand people. Brother Liu, you still have to consider the cost issue. The iron ore we have here is There is already a lot of ore, but it is not so luxurious that even the poles are made of steel."
At this point, Kong Jing curled up his lips: "Actually, the Qin army cannot be all cavalry, and their cavalry is also a small number. You don't need to build equipment according to the method of dealing with cavalry. Think about how to deal with the opponent's large number of infantry. That’s the kingly way.”
Liu Yu sighed: "It would be easier to deal with the infantry. But the Qin soldiers are so numerous. If we fight them in formation and slowly rotate regularly, I'm afraid we won't be able to attack and defend quickly. I've been thinking about it these days. , if we don’t use guns, is there any way to quickly break through the enemy’s infantry defense?”
Kong Jing's expression changed: "You mean to spread out the formation and attack quickly?"
Liu Yu nodded: "Yes, the strength of our army is far inferior to that of the enemy. If it is the Tiger Force as the vanguard, it only has a few thousand people. It is impossible to rely on these thousands of people to rampage among hundreds of thousands of enemy troops." In daily formations, battles, and courage, the reason why the Qin army is fierce is not because their equipment is better than others, but because their fighting will is far stronger than that of other countries' armies! That kind of aggressive fighting that is not afraid of death. This method can directly take away the enemy's energy."
Kong Jing smiled and said: "That's true. Qin's light soldiers don't even wear armor. They just hold sharp blades and are invincible on the battlefield. Do you want the Tiger Army to become like this?"
Liu Yu said with a smile: "I am still just a small soldier who has committed a crime and is trying to atone for my sins. How can I talk about formulating the tactics of the army? But I think that as the general of this army, I should give full play to the quick and fierce characteristics of our Wu people." , Heavy armor is just a cover tool for us to get close to the enemy to prevent arrows and bullets, but in the actual battle, the infantry on both sides are in a stalemate, and I hope to defeat the enemy as quickly as possible!"
Kong Jing nodded: "If it is a quick assault, the best way is to use a knife. Although assassination is more efficient than slashing on the battlefield, it is a battle in formation. If the formation is broken up, one-on-one In face-to-face combat, long weapons cannot be used, so a broadsword four or five feet long is best."
When he said this, he smiled: "Just like your thick-backed machete, it is the most handy thing. It is of moderate length and heavy enough. It can be swung in the crowd and sweep away everything. It should be most suitable for light soldiers." Rui Shi.”
At this point, Kong Jing suddenly frowned: "However, even your knife is not suitable for use by the Tiger Troops."
Liu Yu's expression changed: "Why isn't it suitable?"
Kong Jing sighed: "Because your knife is too hard and sharp."
Liu Yu was surprised: "Isn't a sword supposed to be hard and sharp?"
Kong Jing shook his head: "The enemy troops are also armored, and they are not just chopping melons and vegetables. On the battlefield, no matter how hard the knife is, it will be chipped and blunt after cutting ten or eight people. This is one of the reasons. . Secondly, your knife is too hard. When you cut people, it will shock you. If you kill more than thirty people, it will probably break. Not to mention that on the battlefield, swordsmen and soldiers are intersecting, and they often have to fight with the enemy. If the weapons are separated from each other, they are more likely to break. So if the spear head is blunt, you can replace it now, but how can you replace the entire sword?"
At this point, Kong Jing's eyes flashed coldly: "Only a knife with a sharp edge and a flexible back that can take away the force of the chop is the knife that is really needed. Liu Yu, I don't have it." There's a solution, maybe you can ask Fatty again if he has any tips."
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