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Chapter six hundred and twentieth: the ring head knife and horse lance

The sun rises from the east, and the courtyards, pavilions, rockery, and ponds are all bathed in the golden sea of ​​light. Groups of birds flew from afar, landing on the top of the tree in the courtyard, chirping and releasing the moving songs. Qin Feng opened the door and walked out along the pebbled path. He was full of smiles and looked refreshed. Behind him, long hair was draped over the shoulders, and a lazy face was holding the door frame with one hand. He leaned against Qin Feng's back as he left.

Qin Feng turned around, waved his hand, and said, "Prepare some good things to bring back. I'll ask Ma Houer to come to you later. After all, you are the queen now. Don't lose our face when you go back to visit the marriage this time."

Seeing Qin Feng's eagerness to show his strength in front of his parents' home, Min Ruoxi couldn't help laughing, "I understand, go ahead! If you can come back soon, come back soon! There is no other day or night."

"Of course, I have a beautiful wife at home, so how can I stay outside? Wash and wait for me." Qin Feng smiled evilly.

Min Ruoxi's pink face turned red, "Let's go, I'm not serious."

Qin Feng laughed loudly, walked out with his hands behind his back.

Xiao Ning, the Minister of War, entered the palace early in the morning and was waiting outside his study.

Looking at Xiao Ning's somewhat tired expression and two big dark circles, Qin Feng asked, "Didn't sleep all night?"

Xiao Ning smiled: "Xiao Ning is not afraid that he will do what His Majesty has told me, but she can't sleep. The cavalry will be formed one day earlier and the combat effectiveness will be formed one day earlier. Our Ming Empire will be as stable as Mount Tai."

"I'm interested." Qin Feng said admiringly: "Eunuch Le, go and prepare a cup of strong tea for the Minister of the Secretariat. By the way, have you eaten breakfast?"

"Thank you, your majesty, a cup of strong tea is enough, but it has been used in the department early." Xiao Ning replied as Qin Feng stepped into the door of the study room.

The two sat down and took a sip of the thick tea brought by Mr. Le. The extremely bitter tea was imported. Xiao Ning was also excited and took out a stack of files from his arms and spread them in front of Qin Feng.

"Yesterday afternoon, after I returned to the Ministry of War, I invited Master Wen Pengwen from the Ministry of Works (skillful hands), and invited some former old cavalrymen and weapons experts from relevant departments of the Ministry of War to study the tasks you assigned by Your Majesty." Xiao Ning said: "Comprehensive opinions from all aspects, the first thing I have determined is the saber style used by the cavalry. Your Majesty, this is the pattern."

Taking the drawing from Xiao Ning, Qin Feng looked at a knife pattern with a size marked on the drawing. The knife shape was slender and straight, with an inner arc, and the length was about one meter and two meters.

"Your Majesty, this kind of knife is made of a single blade, with a thick ridge and a narrow blade, which is conducive to chopping and chopping. The whole knife is forged in one piece, and there is a ring at the tail. When fighting, the knife can be tied to the bowl through a rope. We name it the ring-headed knife." Xiao Ning said.

Although there is no real thing yet, just looking at the drawings, this knife seems to be extremely simple, rough and detailed, but looking at it for a few more glances, you can feel that there is a murderous aura that comes to your face in this simplicity.

"Is there any saying that skillful hands are above the craft?" Qin Feng put down the pattern and asked: "The cavalry fights on horseback, with fast speed and great strength. If there is any problem with the manufacturing process, if it breaks, it will be like half of its life for the cavalry."

"After everyone discussed and determined the style, Lord Wen also specifically talked about the creation process of this knife. The most important thing is to ensure the quality of this knife. Lord Wen said that he would use different 100-fen steel to repeatedly forge and fold, so that the blade body can be combined with both hardness and softness, and the blade body will not break due to violent fighting. Lord Wen said that this technology is called composite steel technology, and there are other heat treatment and quenching techniques. I don't understand it very much, but looking at Lord Wen, you should be very confident." Xiao Ning said.

"With his skillful character, we should create samples today. When he takes out the samples, we will review them and send them to the cavalry. If they think it is good, then it is him." Qin Feng nodded, "Weapons are for soldiers, and they must be useful."

"Your Majesty is wise."

"Don't put a high hat on me, either." Qin Feng smiled and said, "Where is the spear? This is probably much more troublesome than a knife, right?"

Xiao Ning smiled bitterly, "It's not just a lot of trouble. It took us an hour or two to decide the plan for the knife. Lord Wen even finalized the manufacturing process. However, we argued for this gun for a whole night and proposed more than a dozen plans, but they were overturned one by one. We fought immediately. The spear was mainly to break the formation and collided, and the cavalry on both sides hedged. The power of the cavalry was even more unimaginable. No matter what wooden handle was used, it would be impossible to avoid breaking. Some people even proposed to make all of them with steel, but this proposal was immediately rejected by Lord Wen. On the horse, the cavalry were stabbed with guns with one hand. Not to mention its weight, the cavalry was not easy to control at all. If it was really stabbed, even if it was constantly, the cavalry would not be able to get it at all. If one was not good, it would hurt itself."

Qin Feng took out the pattern of the gun from the file in front of him. Looking at the spear of a strange style, he asked strangely: "This is the last plan you have determined, it looks a bit strange."

Xiao Ning smiled and said, "It's a coincidence that there is a young Yuanwailang from the Ministry of War. His grandfather was a cavalry general in Kaiping County of Yue. He had fought with the horse bandits who had been wandering over Qin in Kaiping for many years. But this gun was not what we thought of, but it was already there."

"Originally?" Qin Feng was stunned.

"Yes, there was already. This gun was his grandfather's trophy. It came from one of the most famous horse bandits in Qin. He was chased and suppressed by the officials in Qin because of the outrage in the public, so he had nowhere to hide. Finally, he fled to Kaiping County, Yue Kingdom, where he ran rampant for another five or six years. His grandfather was a cavalry general who chased and suppressed the horse bandits. This gun was the weapon of the horse bandits back then."

"What are the characteristics? It seems that the spear blade is much longer than an ordinary spear!" Qin Feng shook the drawings.

"It's very different." Xiao Ning said: "This Yuanwai Lang once heard his grandfather say that fighting with this horse bandit was the most dangerous battle in his life. The horse bandit's gun can almost be described as invincible in the confrontation with officers and soldiers, and a characteristic he described surprised us. He said that after the gun stabbed something, the handle of the gun became able to bend out of a huge curve when it was subjected to force, but the gun body was completely cracked. Isn't this exactly what we wanted."

"It's indeed what we want." Qin Feng nodded repeatedly.

"This gun is now his grandfather's collection. Now we ordered the man who went home to get the gun." Xiao Ning said: "It takes no effort to find a place to break the iron shoes."

"Why didn't you bring me a look?" Qin Feng asked.

Xiao Ning uh, "After I took the gun back, everyone tried it several times, and they were both surprised and happy, but in the end it was removed by Lord Wen, and even the spear was cut into two pieces by Lord Wen."

"This guy is always so violent." Qin Feng was very upset.

"Mr. Wen is studying how this gun is made, but there is no reason from the outside, so he can only disconnect him. After the disconnect, even the knowledgeable Lord Wen took a breath. Your Majesty, if we really want to build such a gun, there is a huge problem."

"What are the problems you said?" Qin Feng asked.

"It takes a long time. It will take more than a year to complete a gun like this, and it will cost extremely expensive. The cost of such a gun is probably to make dozens of knives or even more." Xiao Ning said helplessly.

"So expensive!" Qin Feng also took a breath, "It's fine, how can it take a year to make one?"

"Your Majesty, this kind of spear is called a horse spear. It is divided into two parts: the spear tip and the spear pole. The spear tip blade is 50-60cm long, which is far longer than ordinary guns and spear-like weapons. The spear tip has obvious armor-breaking edges and has eight sides. Ordinary fish scale chain mail, iron round armor, and bright light armor. Under the armor-breaking spear, it can be broken with one blow."

"What is this gadget on the spear tip for?"

"Your Majesty, this is called leaving a plot. It is designed to prevent the spear tip from being too deep in the human body and cannot be pulled out. It is very practical." Xiao Ning explained.

"Leave a plot? This name is good. But I can't tell that this thing is so troublesome to make?" Qin Feng looked at the drawings in his hand.

"Your Majesty, what's trouble is not the spear tip, but the spear pole." Xiao Ning pointed to the back section and said, "There are many considerations in this thing. The spear pole is not like an ordinary gun at all. The spear pole uses a wooden pole, but takes the main trunk of the high-quality tough wood, peeled it into uniform thickness, and glued it together. The tough wood is the most important thing for the bow. The mulberry, oak, and vine, and the worst is to use bamboo. Soak the fine sapphire repeatedly with oil. The soak is no longer deformed and no longer cracked. The first step is completed. Then take out the strips and dry them in the shade. Then use high-quality glue paint to glue it into a thick handful of about meter long, and wrap the outer layer with hemp rope. When the hemp rope is dry, apply raw paint and wrap it with kudzu cloth. Then, then use high-quality glue paint to glue it into a thick handful, about meter long, and wrap it with hemp rope.

The lacquer is applied on the gauze cloth, and it is dried and wrapped layer by layer until it is cut with a knife. The spear rod makes a metal sound, but it keeps cracking. This is the case. Then it is removed and the ends are shortened. The front is equipped with the head and steel spear head, and the back is installed with a red copper spear. Continuous adjustments are made. The standard for passing is to hang a hemp rope two feet at the tail of the spear. The entire spear can not fall or fall in the air like a scale rod. In this way, the general can hold the spear tip forward without any effort. The spear made in this way is light, tough and strong. The cavalry can hold the horse directly to charge, or wield it to fight in close combat. However, the whole spear takes too long and has a low success rate, so the cost is amazing...
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