Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty Chapter 522: Uneasy sleeping and eating

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In the court of the Northern Han Dynasty in Jinyang, there were a lot of people in a letter saying that the Great Zhou would attack the Northern Han Dynasty. People used all kinds of signs as evidence. It was said that Zhou's main attack direction had turned to the north. It is also said that Da Zhou did not regain the military power of the generals of the Forbidden Army, but wanted to continue to be aggressive.

In short, after the Great Zhou successively annexed large tracts of land in Shu, Nantang, Nanping, and Wuping, it is now a southern-level country, and the population of the country has already competed with that of the Liao Dynasty; in contrast, the northern Han Dynasty is the site It's really too small...The site is too small, and people, food, money, and materials are all very poor and can't support a large-scale long-term war. Moreover, the emperor Guo Tiesmith of the Zhou Dynasty was a pure martial artist, and he was famous.

Liu Jun, the lord of the Northern Han Dynasty, faced a great threat of force and could not sleep well.

The ministers all wanted to share their worries for the Lord. Someone suggested to talk to Da Zhouguo, but even Liu Jun himself felt unable to talk.

The grudges between Hedong and the Central Plains are too deep; the Northern Han and Zhou states are also too deep. Zhou Taizu Guo Wei rebelled and destroyed the (later) Han Dynasty; and the founding emperor of the Northern Han Dynasty was the younger brother of the (later) Han Gaozu. The Lord of the Northern Han Dynasty always believed that Guo Jiamo had seized the country of their Liu family, which was a complete feud. The Northern Han Dynasty claimed to be the "Emperor Nephew" from Daliao, and sought refuge from the Liao Kingdom, and the camp was completely hostile. In addition, there are more old hatreds: the battle of Gaoping when Chai Rong ascended the throne, the Northern Han Dynasty has always supported the hostile actions of Shu and Nantang...and the hatred of the two sides fighting for many years.

Sometimes the two countries can negotiate for the benefit of the enemy country. However, there is really no way to talk between some countries, and there is no way to talk about the relationship between Beihan and Dazhou. Only by hitting...

So some ministers suggested that Zhao Kuangyin should be reused. He felt that Zhao Kuangyin was a good general and was familiar with Zhou's military affairs and tactics. But Liu Jun quickly refused politely, saying that there is no shortage of good generals in the Northern Han Dynasty, such as "Yang Wudi" (Yang Ye), these are all battlefield fighters out of a thousand... Actually Liu Jun does not completely trust Yang Ye. Because Yang Ye's younger brother was a defensive envoy in the Great Zhou Dynasty; compared with Zhao Kuangyin's grievance with Guo Tiejiang, Yang Ye is not as good as Zhao Kuangyin in terms of position.

But Liu Jun believes that what Zhao Kuangyin is more difficult to control than Yang Ye is: Yang Ye is a pure general, Zhao Kuangyin is like Guo Shao. Liu Jun didn't want to see Zhao Kuangyin taking the lead in the Northern Han Dynasty.

Although Liu Jun was worried, his eyebrows were not burnt... After all, whether the Zhou army would use troops against the Northern Han Dynasty was still in the guessing stage. There was no sign inside or outside Tokyo that Zhou Jun was mobilizing troops and horses to use force.

...Moreover, although the Northern Han Dynasty is small and strong, it is not a bully country. Liu Jun was busy trying to find a way to prepare for it. Hearing that Zhao Kuangyin's people had captured the craftsman who made the armor, he sent someone to take over the prisoner and take charge of the matter.

Liu Jun has seen that kind of armor with his own eyes, and he pays particular attention to this matter. The person sent is Li Xin, a member of the Privy Council.

Li Xin was a very talented civil official. When I met the prisoners, I knew that the craftsman named Lu was out of stock. This man didn't even have a name, and he was called Da Lu.

There was a "cock" in Li's confidence, knowing that this errand was difficult. If there is something hidden in a person's stomach, as long as it falls into his hands, there are a hundred ways for him to vomit; but if there is nothing in the person's stomach, how can he vomit?

"Mansion Li, shall we bring the torture instrument in?" a subordinate official asked.

Lu Da's body trembled as he heard it, his face turned white.

Li Xin raised his head slightly, his bright little eyes swept across Lu Da's face, and said, "I won't use it for now."

"Hey." The subordinate staff answered with a fist.

Li Xin looked at the file in his hand calmly, and read the record about this person once. In order to save his life, Lu Da sold a Jiafang Fangtou surnamed Sun, killing the whole family in that Fangtou... Seeing this, Li Xin remembered Lu Da's expression just now, and he was already convinced that this person was not hard bones. People who have been forced to the end, it is useless to persecute too much.

"Does the death of the first family of Sun Fang have something to do with you?" Li Xin asked, his tone not fierce.

Lu Da, crying, nodded. The servant next to him cursed: "No mouth?" Lu Da hurriedly replied: "Yes, it's about..."

Li Xin turned his head and glanced at the leader Xu Yi, who was too busy to speak. Li Xin said again: "If you escape back to Zhou, will the government ask you to settle accounts?"

Lu Dadao: "Yes."

Li Xin beckoned: "Take his fetters."

Lu is very busy and grateful to Dade, thank you very much.

Li Xin said again: "You will stay here for the time being. Now think about what you have seen in the Armor Building Workshop. As long as the things you say are useful, you will have food and water today. Listen Understand?"

Lu Da hurriedly nodded, thought about it, gestured and said: "A big hammer, iron! Klang Klang..."

Li Xin frowned, and still took the pen to record.

Lu Da stretched out his hand and rubbed his temples, thinking hard: "There is such a big one, at least a few thousand catties! The iron chain is pulled up and down again, there is an anvil underneath... the armor is hammered out from below!"

Li Xin asked: "How many catties, nine thousand, three thousand?"

"Two or three thousand catties, or one or two thousand catties? It's heavy anyway!" Lu Da frowned.

Li Xin asked: "Do you remember anything?"

Lu Dadao: "There are wheels on the wall, and the chain runs through the next door. I haven't been to the next door..."

Li Xin nodded, stopped asking, and said, "You two can watch and give him water later." After saying that, he got up and left, walked to the door, and his opponent said: "Go hire some The blacksmith is back."

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"Driving!" Guo Shao yelled, carrying his head, and led a group of people to ride horses in Beiyuan of the Imperial City. A city wall in front appeared at the end of the grass.

It was like a small city, with brick-clad walls and wall stacks built on it. However, the walls were relatively thin and short, regardless of military defense function. That was a test workshop set up by the military inspector. Now Guo Shao has done a good job of secrecy. There is only one gate in this small city, which is almost isolated from the outside; and the small city itself is within the walls of the imperial city, making it difficult to communicate with the outside world.

Moreover, people in the world have nowhere to know. The only people who know are the two yamen, the military supervisor and the internal ministry.

This place is now developing firearms according to Guo Shao's wishes.

The firearms have been tested for the first time. Military Supervisor Zan Jurun wrote a memorial today, but Guo Shao was not satisfied... It's not that Zan Jurun's ability is insufficient, or the article is not well written. In fact, the memorial was written. It is very beautiful and detailed; but it is always flawed and logical. The ancient people's thinking habits did not have that sort of method of distinguishing, which may be the reason why they have not seen it.

So Guo Shao planned to take a trip to see the situation in person.

As soon as I entered some temporarily built houses, which were the living quarters of the craftsmen, I entered another door and soon arrived at the workshop area. Inside, all kinds of blacksmith's tools, iron materials, charcoal, and bellows were all available, and Guo Shao felt familiar and intimate when he arrived.

A group of dozens of people knelt down on the ground and shouted: "Your Majesty will live forever."

"Get up." Guo Shao said casually.

Zan Jurun and two civil servants stood beside Guo Shao, taking him to see things. In a room, I saw a row of metal tubes of different colors on the chopping board.

Zan Jurun said: "Your Majesty, it is all made according to your will. Please see, this one is a cast iron pipe. There are five cast iron pipes in total. After casting, the inner wall is slowly drilled and smoothed. However, the molten iron is slow to cool and there are blisters. The iron pipe is relatively small, and the size of the lead shot was just right during the test... The chamber was blown up. The cast iron is too brittle and the inner wall is not too smooth."

Guo Shao nodded slightly.

Zan Jurun pointed to another larger one: "This is also a cast iron pipe, but the pipe has a thicker wall, larger diameter, short_and thick. The test is not broken, but only ten steps. It’s far away, and you can’t wear wooden boards. The officials thought that this thing is not practical, inferior to the shuttle gun (javelin), and troublesome."

He changed another one and said, "This object is made of wrought iron repeatedly forged and wrapped with an iron rod; then it is drilled and polished smoothly. The lead shot is the right size. I put gunpowder on it and tried it. , The forging joint of the iron pipe is opened..."

Zan Jurun reported several metal pipes in succession. It's all what Guo Shao meant...because Guo Shao couldn't remember the craftsmanship of the fire_gun barrel at all, so he adopted the classification test method: as long as he can think of methods, try out one of them, and then test the performance one by one.

The techniques of casting and forging are completely craftsmen that can easily be done by blacksmiths in this age. The only novelty is the method and idea of ​​the classification experiment.

Zan Jurun said for a while, and pointed to a green tube: "It is cast in bronze, and it is also the best one. The bronze is cast first, and then the iron is drilled and polished smoothly. The bronze is better than iron. It’s softer, and it’s easier to drill...but there are often some debris inside, and it’s still impossible to make it too smooth. The gunpowder lead shot is the farthest. It can wear thin wood in forty steps, and iron armor can be worn in 20 steps. It’s not accurate... it's still inferior to the bow and crossbow."

Guo Shao picked it up and looked at it after hearing that it was the best thing in comparison. When I hold it in my hand, it feels very heavy, and then it is thicker and shorter; the diameter is small, and the tube wall is very thick. He looked at it for a while and always felt that something was wrong. He has never seen a real fire gun, but the gunpowder gun for shooting birds has been seen, and he has seen it on TV; it is completely different from this one. In his impression, the fire gun is much slender, not such a thick stick.

As for why this copper pipe is a bit short, Guo Shao also works as a blacksmith. He knows the craftsmanship. Casting such a small diameter pipe as a whole cannot make a long sand mold.

Furthermore, I heard Zan Jurun said that it takes only 40 steps to wear thin wood, and 20 steps are more lethal, and there is no accuracy... Guo Shao feels even more cold, thinking about shooting an arrow by himself. Probably stay on track! This gap is too far.

But when I think about it, ordinary marksman is not as good as his own with bows and arrows. It takes only a few dozen steps to maintain the accuracy and lethality, and I feel a little relieved.