The days when I pretended to be a cat in the Forbidden City[Comprehensive]

The first formed iron sheet was soon taken to test the hardness.In order to save time, and because Lu An said that he didn't care about it, the old Qin people directly covered the iron plate under the leather armor and then chopped with the standard weapons of the Qin State.

With one blow, the blade of the bronze halberd was shattered.

That's right, it's broken, not curled, but broken directly.

The onlookers immediately rushed forward to untie the leather armor. The leather armor was completely torn apart, but the iron plate inside had only a slight dent, which meant that the iron plate was an absolute defense against the bronze halberd! ! !

"It's not absolute." Lu An corrected, "Even if there was an iron plate blocking the blow just now, the bones would probably be broken. In theory, people are still (unsafe)..."

Before he could finish his sentence, the owner of the shop held his shoulders, and the five big and three thick Northwest men casually lifted Lu An, who was still a young man, away: "Mr. See if this weapon can be used to forge soldiers."

Advocating that the best defense is offense, Qin Jun pays much more attention to weaponry than armor. Lu An was a little embarrassed when he was pulled like this. He staggered and was supported by the caring Zhao Zheng before he stood up. stable.Seeing this, Zhao Zheng was immediately displeased and said, "Don't let it go!"

Ever since he was with Lu An, the little prince has been very low-key, the workshop is busy, and people come and go frequently. After all, Zhao Zheng is the height of a child, and he is dressed plainly. Some people didn't even notice this little gentleman standing here before.Even Fangzhu almost forgot the existence of the prince.

Hearing the scolding sound, the owner of the shop was startled. Seeing Lu An's distressed appearance, he let go of his hands and stepped back, bowing respectfully, "Your Majesty is being impolite, is Supervisor Lu in the way? Why don't you go inside and rest for a while."

Even so, the upright northwestern man has "fight" written in his left eye and "iron" written in his right eye, and his expression clearly expresses his true thoughts.Seeing this, Lu An was a little dumbfounded. After he stood firm, he rejected the suggestion to rest, but followed him into the workshop again.

He couldn't help with the matter of casting weapons, but he did make a suggestion, that is to change the current halberd into one piece.

The bronze halberds currently used by the Qin army are actually segmented. The halberd itself is a spear + spear, that is, the tip of the spear is taken off and loaded on the top of the spear, so that it has the ability of two weapons at the same time.In fact, some people tried to make a one-piece halberd in the early days, but in the end they all lost to the hardness of copper.

Copper is a very soft material and has good ductility, but both of them are useless as weapons. Weapons need hardness.Therefore, in order to meet the needs of its weapon identity, appropriate tin is added to increase its hardness when casting copper weapons.

But it's a pity that there is no such thing as both. Adding too much tin will affect the toughness of the weapon, which means it will become brittle.Short weapons are not easily affected by this, but if you want to make a one-piece copper halberd... then it is very likely that the copper halberd will be stuck in, and then the weapon will be broken into two parts.

This incident really happened. Although it was not in Qin State, the person who came back with half of the bronze halberd was a soldier of Qin State... It is said that the half was later repaired by this fateful Qin soldier, and it was made. took his own weapons.It can be said to be very ambitious.

Anyway, if you drop one on the battlefield, at least the other will still work, and if the one piece breaks, the other will fall off quickly.After many experiments, the craftsmen of this era adopted the assembly method of spears and daggers for the production of standard weapons.

But if you want to use iron forging, the situation is different. The first point is that the spear part must be lengthened.

The previous copper spear tip was only as long as a thumb, but if iron tools were used, it could be lengthened to the size of an entire palm, and the lengthening of the spear meant that the lethality could be greatly increased.

But on the other hand, a spear that can penetrate deeper will be tightly integrated with muscles and difficult to pull out. Even if the halberd bearer is a strong man, the force will definitely act on the part where the spear tip is connected to the stick body.

Lu An held up the copper spear to show everyone the connection. The standard method used by ordinary soldiers of the Qin army was to cut the wood and then knock the end of the copper spear into the wood, and then tie it with ropes.

The slightly higher manufacturing method is to make the bottom of the spear into a ring shape, put it on the wooden pole, and then drive the pin horizontally, but this manufacturing method is extremely complicated, and copper nails are not easy to make. Spearheads are advanced items that can only be used by officers.

But no matter which one is used for a long time, it will fall off and need to be refurbished.Ordinary soldiers can also tear off the cloth strips to pack themselves, while those of officers must be replaced by special craftsmen.

And no matter which one, if the spear tip is lengthened, it will be difficult to cope with the pulling force that has more than doubled.The ones fixed with ropes will not be mentioned, and the ones fixed with pins will also put forward higher requirements for the hardness of the wood used as the stick.

For standard weapons equipped on a large area, the more requirements are not a good thing.

Lu An roughly drew the shape of the one-piece halberd head on the bamboo piece with a pen. Holes were made in the stick to insert the part of the halberd vertically. The horizontal direction of the stick is tied, so that it can be guaranteed that there will be two directions of force to pull and fix the halberd head no matter when the spear is used for stabbing and closing the hand, or when the spear part is used for hooking and pecking back.

The owner of the shop has been handling weapons for many years, and he can imagine the real thing by looking at the schematic diagram. He immediately ordered a trial without hesitation.

Three days later, the trial samples were sent to King Qin's table, and the stranger personally lifted the red cloth covering the iron halberd.

The spear tip, which is three times as long, has a cold light, and the spear head perpendicular to the spear tip hides sharpness. The mysterious and exquisite patterns on the body all show its fierce nature.

"Your Majesty—" Fan Ju, the Prime Minister of the Right, cupped his hands and said, "I have ordered the weapons workshop to hurry up and prepare a team before the army goes out. At that time, Prime Minister Zuo can take it to training."

"Training?" Yiren's white fingertips were rubbing the head of the halberd up and down, and he was extremely fond of the mysterious and irregular pattern on it. This pattern is the proof of the fusion of several different irons.

When he heard Fan Juzhi's words, he snapped his fingers and raised one eyebrow, but the two ministers met their eyes and smiled together.

Yes, for the people of Qin, defeating the Eastern Zhou Dynasty was indeed no different from training soldiers.

As long as the Han and Wei countries on the side don't make trouble.In order to prevent their two countries from making trouble, Yiren also sent people to do some homework, which is why Qin Jun was ready to go, but Lu Buwei had to wait for two decades.

Yiren Nao nodded his halberd, "Is this thing made by Lu An?"

Fan Ju nodded: "Lu Shuijian has many talents, I think there are some in Shuijian..."

The strange man interrupted with a wave of his hand, "He is still young, it is not a bad thing to practice more. Moreover, he is happy to do the water prison, and the widows can use it at ease. If you need to borrow someone, if he doesn't If you are willing to do it, let his father urge him, this kid is filial, and he must not let his father work too hard."

The other person spoke a bit sourly, Fan Ju paused for a moment, and immediately praised the crown prince naturally, and the topic was lightly removed, and Fan Ju tactfully stopped mentioning the matter of rewarding Lu An.

Yiren himself is not good at martial arts, nor is he good at weapons. Professional things have to be done by professionals, so Yiren decided to hand over professional things to professionals, and the professional people in Yiren's population are naturally Bai rise.

Hearing this, Fan Ju, who had already entered the state of retirement preparation, casually said that he would send it off by himself, and the stranger agreed.

Fan Ju is ready to retire, but Bai Qi is not.

In fact, there is no such thing as an honorable retirement for the soldiers of the Qin State. Once enrolled in the military, they cannot be retired for life. As long as the country needs it, even the seventies and eighties have to go to the battlefield.

But Bai Qi is old after all, there is no war in the past few years, and there is no need to use his war, Wu Anhou naturally retired to live a retirement life, Fan Jutong can be regarded as a friend for many years, so naturally he does not even post Need to hand over.

Bai Qi also happened to not go out, saw Fan Ju sent a new weapon and immediately started to play in the martial arts arena.

"What do you think your Majesty's attitude is towards this Lu Xiaolang?" Now that he has come, it is inevitable to say a few words, what Fan Ju can't figure out is the thoughts of other people, "This Lu An is close to the weak crown. If it was a few years ago, this They are old enough to go to war.”

According to Fan Ju's thinking, if you meet a talented person, you should use it.Lu An has this talent, why is he still staying in a place like the capital water supervisor, he just pulls him over to improve his weapons.

Bai Qi was just waiting for his soldiers to tie the soaked straw into straw figures, Ben was swinging the halberd casually to test his hand, when he heard this, he looked sideways, "You really admire him?"

Fan Ju's old face suddenly wrinkled, with an indescribable expression on his face: "That's not true, after all, I have never made friends with him, but he is the son of Prime Minister Zuo after all."

The Lu family and Yiren's family are very close friends, but Yiren chose to suppress them at this time, which is a bit strange.Lu An's move may be said to be an improvement in the method of smelting, but it may be said to be related to Guozuo.Once this method comes out, the military equipment of the Qin army will not only have to be upgraded by one level, but how many soldiers from the Six Kingdoms will be able to resist?

Fan Ju even felt that if he could fully change his costume, he might be able to see Qin rule the world in his lifetime.But under such a great contribution, Yiren casually defined it as the act of "filial piety".

Lu An's father has already been promoted to Prime Minister Zuo, and it is estimated that he will be moved to Prime Minister You after returning from the attack on the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. He and the crown prince have such a deep friendship, Fan Ju has no doubt that Lu An will be reused once the crown prince succeeds.

Fan Ju and Lu Buwei have been in contact with each other in many ways, and they know their talents.One can know his son by looking at his father. Although Fan Ju felt that it was annoying for Lu Buwei to boast about his son all day long, he also knew that Lu An was indeed good enough to make Lu Buwei so proud.

It is precisely because of this that Fan Ju couldn't think more about Yiren's understatement.Bai Qi just glanced at him and knew that this old friend was going to complicate things again. He motioned the soldiers to cover the grass man with armor and said to Fan Ju: "You were in wartime, but not now, young man." It still needs to be sharpened.”

Fan Ju couldn't help but look sideways when he heard the words, and saw Bai Qi raised his halberd and stabbed straight at the grass man.If it wasn't for the spear on the other side of the halberd reaching outside the grass man, the wound would have been even bigger.

Fan Ju glanced at the miserable state of the grass man and his face was slightly moved. If this blow was placed on a living person, even if the immortal came to rescue him, he might not have a way to survive.

The wet straw is full of resistance, and its touch is very similar to the muscle tissue of the human body. Bai Qi slowly pulled out the weapon while observing the pulling effect of the resistance on the weapon during the process of pulling out the halberd.

The halberd performed perfectly this time, the blade and the wooden pole were perfectly combined without being involved at all.

Bai Qi repeated the stab several times, and the pull-out resistance caused by the lengthening of the blade was also strengthened, which added to the burden on the wrist of the soldier, but in terms of its lethality, such a burden is completely acceptable.

It is indeed a good thing.

Bai Qi shook his long halberd, summoned a soldier with starry eyes and handed it over to let them all try.

Seeing that he had returned to the courtyard, Fan Ju poured him a cup of tea, and continued the topic just now, "Wu An Jun means that the king treats Lu Xiaolang..."

Bai Qi raised a finger to stop him from continuing.Fan Ju immediately understood that Lord Wu An of the Great Qin State did not rely on force alone to conquer the world, but also had brains and analytical skills. In this regard, he decided to trust the old man's judgment.

Fan Ju immediately changed the subject, "That's right, do you know that Lu Xiaolang originally made armor for his old father? If that kid didn't spend hundreds of gold to buy back all the armor pieces he made, I really want to try it." How hard is the armor made of this refined iron."

"Oh, this." Bai Qi said rather indifferently, "I tried it."

How could you have tried! !

Fan Ju was dumbfounded when he heard the words: "You borrowed armor from Prime Minister Zuo? Why wouldn't he lend me a look?"

Bai Qi glanced at the friend who was accidentally exposed, and said: "It's not the prime minister, Bai has an old friend who was an official in Wei." He directly ignored Fan Ju's bright face, "An official in Wei can still be with you." "Being a friend" continued, "Now this person came to Qin with his whole family. The younger generation in this person's family happened to be old with Lu Xiaolang, so he got two pieces of armor."

Bai Qi said slowly, "When Lu Xiaolang came to see off his armor, someone happened to visit this man's home."

Liar!

Fan Ju's eyes widened and he looked at this calm but proud man in every beard. It's a coincidence that this man must be the one who counts, and most likely he wants to take advantage of this relationship to visit the door.

What a cunning Mr. Wu An, others only want to follow Lu Buwei's route, this person actually wants to follow the junior's route, how shameless? !

When the time comes, he will run in front of Lu Xiaolang as Lord Wu'an of the Great Qin Dynasty, and Xiao Wa will definitely offer him up respectfully wherever he can hold on.At that time, this old man will give some benefits, such as taking that Xiaolang's friend as an apprentice, wouldn't he ask for more!

How treacherous!

Bai Qi drank a glass of water motionlessly against Fan Ju's scorching eyes, and poured another glass for himself.Seeing that Fan Ju was still staring, he smiled at them, "Ying Hou, Mo doesn't want to know the results of the experiment?"

Fan Ju endured it and was discouraged: "I also ask Mr. Wu An to enlighten me."

Bai Qi narrowed his eyes slightly, his expression showed a bit of longing, he sighed, "If the Qin army can equip a strong army with this as armor, it can be said that the six kingdoms will all enter our Great Qin territory. "

Fan Ju's heart was agitated when he shot the case, but soon he realized the important point of Bai Qi's words, and his eyes suddenly widened. Is this armor?First? !

Lu Xiaoan spent a hundred gold to buy ten pieces to be used as the key protection inside the armor, but Bai Qi wanted to use these as armor and equip an army. After buying it, what else can I play!

... So I just think about it.Bai Qi sighed, "Be sharp first."

How could it be so reluctant?Is it easy to be sharp? ……etc.

Fan Ju suddenly thought of a problem that he ignored because he was too excited: the cost of this item is so expensive, no one knows better than him what is going on with the state treasury of Qin State, even if it costs money, it cannot equip the entire army.

How can this be good?The matter of armor is different from Nongsang. It does not come from encouraging development, but it needs to be spent on real money. So how do you get the money?

"Money?" Bai Qi laughed and said, "Yinghou is blinded by a leaf."

What do you mean by this?Fan Ju tasted the product, and suddenly, yes, in terms of making money, is there anyone in this world who can make more money than his leftist?If the money Lu Buwei earned was not enough... wouldn't that be able to motivate Lu Xiaoan?

...So that's the case, he suddenly understood what the other person meant by "go to his father if you need it".Your Majesty really thought it through.

At this moment, Lu Xiaoan, who has been defined as a "filial son" by the majority of the old Qin people, is enjoying a harmonious and beautiful family life. After handing over the painstakingly made nails to Lu Buwei, Lu Buwei is so proud that he even started to walk square steps up.

If he didn't know that the new method of forging armor is a secret and he can't tell it everywhere, he might be parading around in armor.

The old father was happy, Lu Xiaoan's status in the family had risen sharply, Lu Buwei doted on his son, and now he was going to dote on his son even more, even if Lu Xiaoan could brag about his father's affection, it would be too much for Lu Xiaoan, it can be called sweet happiness.

The fact that the armor piece was forged by Lu An was concealed and only circulated in a small area, which was also to protect Lu An's safety.So what everyone heard was that Lu Xiao'an spent a hundred gold to change his father's armor, and a hundred gold is not a small amount. People who inquired came to Lu Buwei to confirm the news, and Lu Buwei nodded with some restraint.

Until he heard a colleague exclaiming in admiration, "One hundred pieces of gold is exchanged for ten pieces of armor, the son is really filial."

Lu Buwei likes to hear others praise his son the most, but at this time he still has to be reserved and scold a few words. Seeing this man stroking his beard, he sighed, "It's rare for an old man to lead an army. How can I use the ten golds and one armor? It's too extravagant." Well, I have to talk about him later..."

Huh?etc?Ten gold and one top?A ten pieces?

Lu Buwei's hand stroking his beard suddenly paused, but the nails his son gave him were only eight pieces!The old wife sewed the armor onto his armor with her own hands. The front four and the back four covered his entire chest and abdomen, and he would never remember it wrong.

The question is, what about the remaining two pieces?