Quan Yutianxia GL

Liang Village is not big, but there are more than [-] families living here. Chuning thought that the trip would go smoothly, but he was blocked outside just before arriving at the village.

"Liang Chunhua! Liang Qiuyue!" The village head, Liang Ping, took a step forward, pointed at the two of them and yelled angrily, "What are you two sisters doing blocking the entrance of the village? I wonder if Mr. Captain has something urgent to come over?"

The woman called Liang Chunhua was very tall. Chuning measured it with her own eyes, and she was about two meters tall. Even though she was wrapped in a thick winter coat, she could still see the power hidden in her chubby figure.Liang Qiuyue was equally tall, but her figure looked very thin, as if she had only a skeleton.

Compared with his thin and small body, Chuning, who is still losing his height, really feels a little small.

The two people on the opposite side heard Liang Ping shout and ask, and the chubby Liang Chunhua said lazily, "Old man Liang asked our sisters to come and guard."

"Patriarch Liang asked us to come here?" Liang Ping was taken aback, and asked, "Did I tell you why?"

"No." Liang Qiuyue said: "He only said that this school captain is not allowed to enter the village."

Unable to find out the reason, Liang Ping had no choice but to look at Chuning apologetically, saying that he wanted to ask the head of the Liang clan in the advanced village to find out.

Chu Ning let him go, but he became interested in the two fat and thin sisters, and asked with a smile: "Then old man Liang believes that, you two sisters can stop the captain?"

Liang Chunhua took a look at Chuning, and said lazily, "You are the captain? With your body, a hundred of us two sisters can stop it."

"Oh! It turns out that the two heroines are martial arts masters with one enemy against one hundred!" Chuning pointed to his personal guards and asked, "What about them? How many can you fight?"

The two sisters glanced at each other, and Liang Qiuyue said, "Fifty."

Although Huo Yunshu had reminded her, Chuning still didn't quite believe it. She thought they were bragging, and asked with a smile, "Come on, why don't you try? If you don't hit fifty, just hit twenty."

Chuning's personal guards are all elites selected from the elite of the entire guard army, and they only make up one banner in total, but the combat effectiveness of this banner is extraordinary. When they usually practice in the battalion, they can fight against each other with this banner. An ordinary soldier of a division.

Today, the two teams of guards who came with Chuning were so despised that they all geared up and stared at each other.

Liang Chunhua didn't even blink her eyelids, she still looked lazy, Liang Qiuyue said, "No."

Chuning said, "Why?"

"Old man Liang didn't pay for the fight." Liang Qiuyue said, "So, you guys hurry up, so we can have dinner early."

Hearing this, Chuning was immediately amused by the two sisters who looked like living treasures. Seeing that Liang Ping hadn't come out, he asked the guards to fetch a string of copper coins and said, "If you can defeat all of my subordinates, then this string The copper coins will be yours, how about it?"

When the two sisters heard this, they looked at Chuning with surprise on their faces. Liang Qiuyue asked her elder sister, "Is this female captain out of her mind? Why does she always want to send her men to us to fight?"

"Never mind her, just take it if you have the money."

"But we don't know how to count money..."

"That's right, otherwise, when we win, let her invite you to eat until you're full!"

"Okay! Just do what my sister said!"

The two communicated loudly, but Chu Ning was grinning from ear to ear, but her two teams of personal guards were gnashing their teeth in anger—in the eyes of these two women, they had two teams of 24 people. It's only worth the price of a meal!

Liang Qiuyue came forward and negotiated the terms with Chuning. As long as her two sisters won the battle, Chuning would treat them to dinner, and they would eat white rice and meat until they were full.

Chuning thought to himself, how much can you two stomachs eat? Of course, he agreed wholeheartedly, and immediately asked the guards to put down their weapons.

After the guards took off their weapons, they immediately formed a formation, surrounding the two sisters. Although they were angry, they didn't dare to take it too seriously. They sent four people to attack from four directions at the beginning.

Chu Ning climbed onto the horse and looked down at the field from a high position. He thought he would see a wonderful fight, but unexpectedly, the two sisters started fighting with their fists in their hands, and they couldn't see the tricks. In less than sixty breaths, all of Chuning's personal guards were on leave.

Seeing helplessly that his personal guard was beaten into a dog, lying on the ground and not daring to bark, Chuning suddenly couldn't laugh.

Lose your face!

What a shame! ! !

It's simply called elite in vain!

The two teams were struggling to get up, and were about to plead guilty to Chuning, but they heard Chuning say: "Liu, Chu Fei, there are people beyond others, and there is a sky beyond the sky. Your strength is no match for them. It is normal to lose. Next time you win back!" That's fine."

"They won't win next time!" Seeing that Chuning was only focused on talking to her subordinates, Liang Qiuyue suddenly became unhappy: "How about treating us to dinner?"

"Okay! Come back to the county with me, and I'll treat you to dinner!"

After Chuning finished speaking, he rode his horse back, leaving Huo Yunshu and a team of personal guards here, waiting to negotiate with the village chief.

As soon as Chu Ning left, the two sisters followed suit without hesitation. However, when they reached the gate of the tent, they were unwilling to go in anyway.

Chuning had no choice but to ask the two sisters how much they could eat, but unexpectedly, they said that they had never had enough.

The one with black lines called Zhu Erxi, and asked her to cook five catties of white rice and five catties of pork first, but it was not enough, and then she went to cook a full ten catties of rice to feed the two of them.

Chu Ning always thought that all the soldiers of the guards under his command could eat enough, but he didn't expect that the two sisters could eat even more. The two of them ate enough for seven or eight people.

The two of them didn't say they wanted to leave after they were full, they just wandered around outside the tent, looking around, Chu Ning was very fond of these two live treasures, and wanted to give himself half a day off to play along and abduct them back. Unexpectedly, after only a few steps, she was found by the guards, who said that Zhuo Yuan, the head of the Craftsmanship Division, was waiting for her in the office.

"My lord, the method of pouring steel is really miraculous. These days, my subordinates and several foremen have tried many times, and the steel produced by this method can reach the level of [-] refined iron." Zhuo Yuan was very excited, with several newly cast ring-shou knives in front of him, he happily told Chuning how good the steel produced by this new method was.

Although he didn't know what level the Eighteenth Refinement was, but looking at Zhuo Yuan's expression, Chu Ning thought that it shouldn't be too bad, and asked with a smile, "Compared with the weapons of the Daqing imperial army, which one is better?"

This Zhuo Yuan came here by himself. It is said that he once worked as an engineer in the examination room of the Daqing court. Later, he had some conflicts with the engineer, so he left the examination room and wandered all the way to Donglai. He happened to meet Chu Ning looked for craftsmen everywhere, and he recommended himself.

Anyway, the Craftsmanship Division of the Guards Army was planned separately, and the access protection was extremely strict. Without Chuning's personal approval, these craftsmen could only enter but not exit, and even their relatives were placed in the camp. Chuning Don't worry about them having second thoughts.

"There are many kinds of weapons in the Daqing Dynasty. My subordinates take the example of General Gu Wenxiong's Southern Expedition Army." After all, he is an expert and has done things in the court. When it comes to the methods, Zhuo Yuan is very familiar with them: " Ordinary soldiers are all equipped with old weapons by the imperial court, a small part is made of copper, and most of them are made of iron. If it is the elite soldiers brought out by the generals, they are basically made of nine refined iron."

"Of course, there are also some generals who have high positions and are willing to spend money. The weapons they wear for their soldiers can reach the level of the eighteenth refinement." Zhuo Yuan continued: "However, in the entire imperial court, only the Habayashi Army and the Most of the Huben Army are equipped with eighteen-refined weapons."

Chu Ning remembered that the book he had read said that the method of frying steel and cold forging already existed in the Western Han Dynasty, but for some reason, the Daqing court, which followed the Western Han Dynasty, was generally equipped with iron weapons and armor. Then he expressed his doubts.

"As far as my subordinates know, some engineers in the imperial court's examination and engineering department know the method of frying steel, but that kind of method of frying steel is more effective than the method of filling steel taught by the lord. The texture is sometimes good and sometimes very poor, and after the steel is tapped, it needs to be folded and forged by the method of hundreds of refinements, and at most it can only be refined a few thousand catties a year, and the weapons that are cast are not even enough for the Habayashi and Huben armies."

After hearing the words, Chuning thought about it carefully, and understood the reason.In fact, whether it is the steel frying method, the steel pouring method or the hundred refining method, the ultimate goal is to remove impurities and increase the carbon content. However, craftsmen in this era are not very literate and only know how to act according to experience, without detailed instructions. Supported by the data, the composition ratio is different every time the steel is fried, so the carbon content of the refined materials is different, and the performance is also different.

And the method of pouring steel that Chu Ning copied to Zhuo Yuan is actually similar to the method of frying steel in the Western Han Dynasty. The limitations of financial, material and technical resources have only reached the level of the Daqing Imperial Court Examination and Industry Department. If one wants to obtain better weapons, a lot of manpower, material and financial resources are needed to continue to improve the method of steelmaking.

As far as Chuning knows, besides the pouring method, there is also the converter steelmaking method, and the steelmaking formula that Chuning remembers, in addition to carbon steel, there are also formulas for alloy steel such as manganese steel. For armor and weapons, manganese steel is better than carbon steel... However, no matter how useful these things are, they are still unattainable things for Chuning now. After all, just for Chuning had already poured more than 2 pennies into it for such a project.

"Mr. Zhuo, as you said, the performance of the steel produced by this method is equivalent to the level of eighteen refinements. So, is there any way for us to improve its performance?"

After throwing so much money into it, I thought it would greatly improve the equipment level of the Guards Army, but in the end it failed to reach the expected level. Therefore, Chuning's joy in his heart was limited.She remembered that it was said in a book before that in the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao had five hundred-refined sharp weapons, Sun Quan had three hundred-refined swords, and Liu Bei asked Pu Yuan to make five thousand "72-refined" swords... and she spent so much A lot of money and manpower, but even Liu Bei's equipment is not as good as it is, which is really unsatisfactory.

"Returning to the general master, according to my subordinates, if the general master wants to cast three/edge/lances, the current steel quality is completely sufficient. The most common method for three/edge/lances is to stab or pierce, so the quality of the material The requirements are relatively low, and the triangular thorns cast from the existing steel materials are completely enough to pierce the pig iron armor of the Habayashi Army." Zhuo Yuan said: "And now, the triangular thorns are cast according to the method taught by the general. The speed of guns and commonly used gun heads is very fast, and each furnace of molten steel can probably cast three hundred three-edged gun heads, or six to seven hundred commonly used gun heads."

"What about Dao and Jia?" Chuning asked.

"If the current steel armor is made by cold forging, the armor will be one point thicker, which can block the crossbow in the army." Zhuo Yuan handed a knife to Chuning: "If it is a knife, it can be used The existing steel material is artificially forged, and this is a trial-produced [-]-year-old knife, adults can try the effect."

Chu Ning pulled out the knife, and Zhuo Yuan also pulled out an iron ring knife currently equipped by the Guards Army, and placed it horizontally in front of Chuning. Chuning waved his arm to try his strength, and then chopped down , cut straight at the edge of the knife in Zhuo Yuan's hand.

With a sound of 'Zheng', Chuning almost let go of the knife due to the strength of the rebound, but fortunately she was not strong enough, and the strength of the rebound was limited, but she quickly stabilized her figure, and then looked at the old man. knife.

A deep gap was formed on the edge of the old knife, reaching at least one-third of the width of the entire blade, while the new knife in Chuning's hand, although a bit curled, could still be used after sharpening.

"Master, this saber is a fifty-refined saber trial-produced by my subordinates." Zhuo Yuan said, and handed over another saber.

Chuning took it, drew the knife out of its sheath, and slashed at the old iron knife again. There was no doubt that there was a temporary gap that reached half of the knife's surface, and the newly cast knife in her hand was not obvious. No damage, not even a blunt edge.

Zhuo Yuan took the knife from Chuning's hand, took advantage of the situation and slashed obliquely, hitting the iron armor hanging in Chuning's office.This is the last time the guards confiscated the spoils from the elite soldiers of the Jiaodong Palace. At that time, it was these iron armors that caused the guards a big loss, but unexpectedly, the armor is now like paper, about a penny thick The square piece of armor was cut off by Zhuo Yuan, if it was worn on a soldier, the blade would probably penetrate three points directly into the flesh.

Seeing this, Chuning was quite satisfied with the fifty-refined knives, so he asked, "How long did it take to cast these fifty-refined knives?"

Zhuo Yuan said: "Based on the existing steel quality, roughly two craftsmen can cast one handle in three days."

It's too slow. Now the entire Craftsmanship Division has less than 70 blacksmiths, that is to say, there are more than 2000 blacksmiths for every three. Now, Chuning plans to expand the number to nearly [-] people. It takes six or seven blacksmiths just to cast this saber. months, not to mention armor, crossbows and arrowheads to be produced.

Chu Ning once discussed with Huo Yunshu and Yan Lingge that if the imperial court really wants to fight Xianbei, it will definitely go out after the spring of next year, which is almost April. For Chu Ning, it is too late to get the weapons he needs Equipment made.

Since he couldn't force it, Chuning had no choice but to compromise and asked, "How much time does it take for the sword to be practiced at thirty?"

"Probably two craftsmen can cast one handle every day."

This calculation was not enough, Chuning hesitated for a while, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "Then let's cast all fifty knives, count as much as you can cast, how is the progress of the trial production of the god arm crossbow and eight ox crossbow at Mufu? "

"Returning to the general, the trial production of the god-armed nun and the eight-ox crossbow is not going well." Zhuo Yuan said with some shame: "The materials for making the crossbow are all high-quality, but the power of the trial production is not as good as the general. Waiting to guess, it may be a mechanical problem inside..."

This is a big problem. In the world where Chuning used to be, even with such powerful material resources and technology, he could not fully analyze the restored weapons. Chuning did not expect to be able to make them in a short time with the ability of these ancient craftsmen. I had no choice but to say: "You have to do your best to develop it, no matter if you need manpower or property, just tell the captain."

"Remember this, subordinates."

……

Chatted with Zhuo Yuan for a long time, until it was almost dark when Zhuo Yuan was sent away, and Chu Ning was going to the restaurant to eat, Huo Yunshu came back with the guards left by Chu Ning and escorted an old man.

As soon as he saw the little old man, Chu Ning recognized him, and immediately laughed: "Oh, so the old man Liang they mentioned is you, an old bastard, tell me, why did you block the captain from the village today? ?”

Unexpectedly, the old man's face was full of hatred, and he said angrily: "Bah! You wicked woman, you can kill or cut as you like, old man, I don't want to talk nonsense with you!"

"Oh my god? Old man Liang, how dare you scold the captain? Do you know that this is a violation of the law? Do you need to hold grudges for such a trivial matter at the beginning?"

Speaking of which, this old man Liang and Chuning also knew each other. After Huang County was broken down, many rich and powerful families in the county wanted to move. , and kept the land unsold.

"Small matter? Hehe, that's a trivial matter. I don't hold grudges, old man, but it doesn't mean that you, a wicked woman, don't hold grudges!" Just give money to buy things, and the queen will snatch the money back... This kind of evil thing, only you, a wicked woman, can do it?"

Chu Ning was stunned by the old man Liang's scolding, so he asked Huo Yunshu, "Uncle Huo, what's the matter?"

Hearing this, Huo Yunshu said angrily in a rare way: "Didn't many rich families be moved from our county before? Among those people were relatives of this old man Liang. Recently, news came that those people were robbed and killed in Ji County, and The old man got the news from nowhere, insisting that those people offended you and were secretly ordered by you, so they blocked you from entering the village..."