Back to the Warring States Period as Zhao Kuo

Three days passed, Zhao Kuo was almost tired of being with Tian Wan during these three days, and enjoyed the sweet life of the newlywed Yan Er.

On the fourth day, a refreshed Zhao Kuo stood on the training ground of the Zhao clan.

810 five soldiers and 170 light cavalry, this is the legacy left by Ma Fujun Zhao She to Zhao Kuo.

Logically speaking, Zhao Kuo is not a prince. In fact, he cannot have this kind of private army like his father Zhao She, but no one has made any comments on the existence of this private army. Because of Zhao She's legacy, on the other hand, it has a lot to do with Zhao Kuo's performance in the Battle of Changping.

Under Zhao Kuo's instruction, these soldiers started training.

It has to be said that these soldiers are indeed elite, they advance and retreat very well, and they cover each other equally well. They are indeed the troops trained by Zhao She.

Even Zhao Kuo, who combines the dual identities of later generations of traversers and contemporary strategists, is quite satisfied with this army.

But there is one thing Zhao Kuo is not satisfied with.

"There are too few cavalry."

Zhao Kuo said to Xu Li: "It's less than two hundred horses?

How can this work. "

As a traverser, Zhao Kuo knew the importance of cavalry.

Cavalry, the well-deserved No. [-] arm in the cold weapon era, the king of soldiers!Zhao Kuo looked at Xu Li, hoping to get an explanation.

Xu Li looked helpless, and said softly: "My lord, war horses are too expensive.

There is really no money in our house. "

As we all know, the reason why Zhao State is strong is because of the reform of "Hufu Riding and Shooting" carried out by Zhao Wang's grandfather Zhao Wuling when he was alive, and then rose step by step to the present.

Zhao State is also the only country among the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period that listed cavalry as a separate arm.

Therefore, war horses in Zhao Guozhong are quite expensive.

A war horse that exceeds the pass line costs tens of thousands of dollars, and it is not uncommon to see better ones of hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Zhao Kuo touched his chin and said, "Isn't it just money?

This won't be a problem right away.

Get in touch as soon as possible to see if there is a way to buy a war horse. "

Xu Li asked cautiously: "How many war horses does your lord want to sell?"

Zhao Kuo said without hesitation: "Let's bring a thousand horses first!"

Xu Li almost sat down on the ground.

With the current strength of Zhao State, with millions of troops and hundreds of thousands of troops, the entire border cavalry regiment is only [-] cavalry.

Zhao Kuo wants to raise a thousand war horses just by relying on the power of his own family?

Xu Li's face suddenly turned bitter: "Master, we really don't have so much money!"

Zhao Kuo said angrily, "Where are the king's rewards that Mr. Pingyuan just sent?"

Xu Li's face became more and more sad: "If those rewards are all used to buy horses, there will be no money left in the house."

Zhao Kuo's eyes lit up, and he said, "Then immediately buy a horse!"

Xu Li wailed: "My lord, after buying the horse, our family will not be able to support it anymore.

Now that the autumn harvest has just ended, how can we support next year's autumn harvest if we don't have money? "

Zhao Kuo said angrily: "I said it, it will be there soon!"

Xu Li just shook his head, thinking that his master was definitely too optimistic.

Although ginseng is indeed very useful, how could it be possible to sell so many?

What's more, Xu Li knew very well that Zhao Kuo's dividend from ginseng was only [-]%!Zhao Kuo looked at Xu Li with a strange smile.

Young man, you know nothing about luxuries and men's needs.

Just when Zhao Kuo was about to give Xu Li, his right-hand man, a little bit of economic knowledge, a sudden call came from afar.

"My lord, my lord!"

Zhao Kuo turned around and saw Guo Ye.

Zhao Kuo was taken aback by this look: "What's the matter with you, it stinks so much after you haven't showered for a few days?"

At this moment, Guo Ye was unkempt, his eyes were red, and there was a strong smell of stove smoke and peculiar smell all over his body. He looked more like a monkey than a human.

Guo Ye fell to his knees with a thud: "Master, Master" Guo Ye was choked up for a long time, unable to speak.

Zhao Kuo was a little stunned, and said cautiously: "Could it be that there is something wrong with the steelmaking method I taught you?

It shouldn't be. "

Since Qi Wuhuai is known as one of the ancient smelting masters, and is as famous as Ganjiang Moxie and Ou Yezi, Zhao Kuo has studied Qi Wuhuai in his previous life and has a systematic understanding of Qi Wuhuai's smelting method, so there should be no mistakes of.

Guo Ye choked for a while, tears streaming down his face.

Just when Zhao Kuo was already thinking about how to find a way for himself, Guo Ye finally broke down in tears.

"Old minister, old minister is so stupid that he doubts the forging method passed down by the lord.

The forging method taught by the lord is really an eye-opener that I have never heard of. Such a miraculous forging method can only be compared with the legendary Ou Yezi and the general Mo Xie!My lord, I have surrendered! "

As he said that, Guo Ye kowtowed to Zhao Kuo several times, his face full of adoration.

"Thank you, my lord, for passing on this miraculous forging method. I can get this forging method. Even if I die now, it's worth it!"

Zhao Kuo: "" Just speak well when you speak, it's really scary when you come up and cry and howl.

Zhao Kuo said: "So, the finished product has been forged?"

Guo Ye nodded again and again, the light in his eyes was extremely bright: "Master, it has been forged, please go and have a look!"

Zhao Kuo said: "Okay, let's go and have a look."

Guo Ye led the way, Zhao Kuo followed, and the last one was Xu Li who was half-believing.

Xu Li couldn't help muttering in his heart: "Did this Guo Ye have something wrong with his brain caused by smelting?

When we met two days ago, you complained to me that the master's smelting method was completely nonsense, but now you're flattering it? "

Xu Li had already started working under Zhao She when Zhao Kuo was a few years old. It can be said that Zhao Kuo was raised by Xu Li.

For so many years, Zhao Kuo has not even entered the smelting workshop a few times, and he is obsessed with the art of war every day. What kind of smelting can he understand?

With this deep doubt, Xu Li quickly followed.

He also wanted to see what kind of magic weapon his master could smelt, so that he was praised so much by Guo Ye, who can be called a first-class blacksmith in the world!

Chapter 53

After a while, everyone came to the blacksmith workshop.

To Xu Li's surprise, when Zhao Kuo appeared, all the blacksmiths and apprentices fell to their knees in unison.

"I have seen the lord!"

There is not only respect in this voice, but also fanaticism.

It's like the fanaticism of fans of later generations seeing their idols!Even Zhao Kuo himself was a little shocked.

Guo Ye carefully picked up a long knife, and handed it to Zhao Kuo respectfully: "My lord, please look, this is the first finished product!"

Zhao Kuo carefully looked at the long knife.

The back of the knife is thick and wide, the tip of the knife is extremely sharp, and the entire edge is very smooth, giving people a feeling of light flowing on the knife.

Zhao Kuo flicked the blade lightly, and a long and pleasant sound came into the eardrums. The light on the blade seemed to flow faster, which made people feel dazzled.

"A good knife, indeed a good knife."

Zhao Kuo let out a long breath.

In fact, as early as the Han Dynasty, the Huaxia people had already invented the casting method of making steel.

Hundred-smelting steel, as the name suggests, is the finished product obtained after thousands of tempers. In terms of sharpness, it is actually superior to Zhao Kuo's method of pouring iron into steel.

But Baisteel is not perfect, it has two big shortcomings.

The first one is expensive. Forging a hundred-steel weapon consumes an astonishing amount of steel. In terms of current prices, a hundred-steel knife is equivalent to two hundred adults eating food for a year.

The second disadvantage is that the forging process of Baisteelmaking is very complicated, which consumes a lot of time.

In the history of the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao once asked his skilled craftsmen to forge five steel knives, but it took three years just to forge these five steel knives!These two shortcomings doomed that the hundred-smelting steel knife could only be used to cast rare magic weapons, and could not be used to manufacture large-scale standard equipment.

Zhao Kuo’s iron filling method is different. This method can reasonably select materials according to different purposes, take advantage of the advantages of various materials, save valuable materials, and reduce costs and expenses.

Generally speaking, the edge of the steel knife mainly plays the role of stabbing and thus requires relatively high hardness, so as to ensure the sharpness of the knife, so steel with high carbon content and high hardness should be selected for manufacture.

The back of the knife mainly plays a supporting role and requires better toughness so that the knife will not break when it is subjected to a relatively large impact. In this way, wrought iron with lower carbon content and greater toughness must be selected.

It is precisely because of the above-mentioned similar understanding that Qi Wuhuai can skillfully combine wrought iron and steel when making knives, that is, "Su Tie". In this way, wrought iron and steel can be used in the right place. , which not only meets the different requirements of different parts of the steel knife, but also saves a large amount of expensive steel materials, which is beneficial to the promotion and popularization of the steel knife.

This is what Zhao Kuo needs, and it can be popularized on a large scale to every soldier under Zhao Kuo's command!Zhao Kuo smiled and said, "Try some sets of armor."

After a while, a set of bronze armor and a set of iron armor were hung on a cross-hair man.

The bronze armor is the standard armor of the Qin army today, while the iron armor comes from the Korean army.

Zhao Kuo took a deep breath, swung the long knife in his hand, and slashed at the Qin army's bronze armor.

There was a sound of gold and iron intersecting, and Qin Jun's bronze armor was cut in half cleanly, without even the slightest obstacle.

Behind Zhao Kuo, Xu Li's body shook, his eyes widened in disbelief.

Xu Li fought against the Qin Army in the two battles of the Battle of Yan and the Battle of Changping. Although the armor of the Qin Army is mainly bronze, due to the superb bronze smelting technology of the Qin people, the protective power Almost indistinguishable from armor.

If it was on the battlefield, Xu Li generally would not directly stab the bronze armor of the Qin people with his sword, but would look for deadly parts like the throat, or places with less protection like the arms.

Now, this steel knife split the armor of the Qin people at once, giving the impression that it was not a set of carefully crafted bronze armor at all, but an ordinary piece of firewood.

"How is this possible?"

Xu Li muttered to himself and rubbed his eyes subconsciously.

Zhao Kuo yelled again, and the saber flashed again, slashing towards Han Jun's iron armor.

This time, there was a louder sound of gold and iron intersecting, and the Han army's standard armor was also directly cut in half.

Xu Li: "" If the bronze armor of the Qin army just now can't explain the problem, then the iron armor of the Koreans is completely indisputable.

When it comes to smelting ironware, Korea is number one in the world!Today, the number one Korean armor in the world is no different from paper-made steel knives forged by Zhao Kuo.

Xu Li took a deep breath, and a rush of blood rushed to his heart.

Too strong, really too strong!Think about it, if Zhao Jun and Han Jun confronted each other in the future, the soldiers of the Han Army would not pierce the armor of the soldiers of the Zhao Army with a sword, and then the soldiers of the Zhao Army would cut the soldiers of the Han Army in half with their armor. It's just crushing.

With such a weapon, Zhao Jun is like a tiger with wings added!Xu Li raised his hand and slapped himself hard.

"Snapped!"

The world is spinning, it hurts.

But Xu Li didn't complain, but was extremely happy in his heart.

It was really not a dream, the Lord really came up with this unprecedented powerful forging method, allowing Guo Ye to forge such a miraculous weapon.

Xu Li gasped, and looked at Zhao Kuo with reverence.

In terms of military command, Zhao Kuo is the best in the world.

Unexpectedly, in terms of weapon smelting, Zhao Kuo was also invincible in the world.

I Xuli, what virtue and how can I be able to follow such a lord!In front of Xu Li, Guo Ye picked up the Chu army's iron armor very excitedly: "My lord, please look at this incision, it's so smooth, it's like, no, this is the real cutting of iron like mud!"

Zhao Kuo looked at the long knife in his hand, and found that there were two small, extremely subtle gaps on it, but it was not obvious.

Zhao Kuo nodded in satisfaction. After all, it was used to deal with the strongest bronze and iron weapons in the world, and it would be unrealistic to be unscathed.

Judging from the fineness of the gap, it would take at least several hundred sets of armor to be scrapped.

If a soldier can kill hundreds of enemies in a battle at the cost of scrapping a Sutie knife, then Zhao Kuo just wants to say that you can chop as much as you want, and don't cherish my knife!If an ordinary sword is used to chop armor, not to mention time-consuming and labor-intensive, at most two or three sets of armor will be scrapped directly.

This is the huge gap between the crafts.

This is where the power of the traverser lies!Knowledge changes everything.

When it comes to knowledge, Zhao Kuo can confidently say: "The whole world joins together, I'm in a hurry!"