I seek economic hegemony in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 190 Prepared a small gift for Wu Jun

On the tenth day of November in the fourteenth year of Jianxing's reign, the weather in Jiangzhou was sunny, windless and cloudless.

Li Heng and Jiangzhou Governor Li Fu arrived at a secret house in the center of Nanfu City.

Li Heng looked around before following Li Fu in.

"Don't worry, Mr. Lang, this place is heavily guarded." Li Fu said, "No one is usually allowed on these streets."

Li Heng asked: "How is Tiejia's grain production now?"

"Ten students were transferred from the Capital University last month. They improved the cast iron process, saying it was covered with earth and calcined." Li Fu said, "The effect is excellent."

Having said this, Li Fu did not forget to praise: "Lang Jun's Imperial College is indeed very useful."

There were two cities in Jiangzhou in this era, one was the old city, located in the north of the Yangtze River.

The other is the new city, located between the two rivers, which is Nanfucheng.

Nanfucheng was proposed by Li Yan to be built to prevent Sun Wu.

Ji Han's defensive front line against Sun Wu was Yong'an, which was the Baidi City area, and the rear of Yong'an was Jiangzhou.

These two places form strategic depth.

After Li Heng established the Capital University, he began to secretly monitor military weapons in Nanfu City, Jiangzhou, in order to prepare for war.

Naturally, Chengdu also has ordnance supervision, but if the ordnance supervision is concentrated in Chengdu, transportation will consume a lot of time and manpower.

The war route against Sun Wu is mainly along the Yangtze River, so it is most suitable to set up an arms supervisor in Jiangzhou.

After Li Heng followed Li Fu and walked in, the sound of iron was heard inside.

"Mr. Lang." Standing at the door was Xue Liang, whom he hadn't seen for several months, "Please come this way."

"How about the new armor casting?" Li Heng asked.

Xue Liang said: "Fifty pairs have been cast and they are inside."

When we reached the innermost part, there were ten pairs of black armors mounted on wooden frames, which looked cold and majestic.

Li Heng suddenly became excited.

That's right, it's this kind of iron armor.

The pinnacle armor of the cold weapon era: infantry armor!

The whole body is composed of more than a thousand pieces of iron armor, weighing more than 60 kilograms, and is fully armed.

"Come on, put it on for me to try." Li Heng said suddenly.

"Lang Jun, this is very heavy." Xue Liang said.

"It doesn't matter, I'll try."

Li Fu smiled and said, "Let Mr. Lang try it."

Xue Liang then untied one piece, and after a while, Li Heng put it on.

As soon as I put it on, it suddenly became difficult to walk.

He couldn't help but think, did Yue Fei's army really fight in this kind of armor?

Can this fucking fight happen?

It seems that there is indeed a big difference between a trained strong army and ordinary people!

Li Hengqiang walked for a while, and suddenly felt that a lot of strength was consumed.

He couldn't help but become worried and asked Li Fu: "Mr. Li, what do you think?"

Li Fu said: "Invulnerability can only be broken through armor with blunt weapons, but it is difficult to kill accurately with blunt weapons."

Li Fu was also quite shocked. If the Han army really wore this kind of armor and went to the battlefield, Cao Wei could only dispatch the legendary tiger and leopard cavalry.

Even the state of the tiger and leopard cavalry can't compare to this kind of armor.

"But the movement has been greatly slowed down." Li Fu sighed again, "And there are not many sergeants who can approve this kind of armor."

"That's why only the elite can wear it." Li Heng walked to the wooden frame, picked up the halberd, and said breathlessly, "If we have five thousand armored troops like this when we win the battle of Jingzhou, we will have no worries! "

Li Fu laughed and said: "If you can really do it, you can quickly go north to Xiangyang."

"I'm afraid it will be difficult. We don't have cavalry and can't cover this kind of heavy armored army. We can easily be attacked by Cao Wei. But Sun Quan doesn't have cavalry either. Taking Jiangling is not a big problem. Even if Lu Xun comes to support from Wuchang, we can fight a defensive battle." , the worst case scenario is that the Wei army in Xiangyang also participates, as long as we have such an elite force, we can be as stable as a rock on the battlefield!"

Having said this, Li Heng began to take off his armor. "By the way, where's the crossbow?"

"Here." Xue Liang walked to the wooden frame in the corner and picked up a crossbow.

Li Heng said: "That's not what I want to see, it's the bed crossbow. I'm talking about the bed crossbow."

The crossbow in Xue Liang's hand has not changed much. The crossbow in the Han Dynasty has a range of about two hundred meters and is a very powerful weapon.

During the Western Han Dynasty, the Han army attacked the Xiongnu. Among them, the infantry held crossbows, and the Xiongnu cavalry were very afraid.

But this kind of long-range weapon consumes a lot of crossbow arrows.

The test is not the number of crossbows, but the number of arrows.

For example, when Li Ling fought against the Huns' cavalry, there is a saying in historical data: All five hundred thousand arrows were destroyed in one day.

"The bed crossbow is next door." Xue Liang said.

At this time, Li Heng had already taken off his armor and suddenly felt relaxed all over: "Let's go and have a look."

When we got to the next door, three large beds were placed in front of us.

Li Heng looked at it carefully, then looked at Xue Liang, and said, "You really made it happen."

In fact, there were bed crossbows in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but the bed crossbows in front of you are composite bed crossbows, which are not much different from the bed crossbows of the Song Dynasty.

It was the giant crossbow that killed Liao general Xiao Dalin with one arrow before the Chanyuan Alliance.

Not an arrow to be precise, but a gun.

The range is about 1500 meters!

Li Heng asked excitedly: "How far can it shoot? Have you measured it?"

Xue Liang said: "About three hundred feet!"

Li Fu on the side was shocked: "Three hundred feet?"

"Yes."

"Are you right?"

"We tested it many times, yes!"

"Okay, okay, how many have been produced now?" Li Heng was extremely excited.

"There are twenty now."

"Twenty seats?" Li Heng started walking back and forth, "First send all twenty seats to Yong'an and hand them over to Zong Yu. Now we will start working on them. We will build as many as we can."

"This kind of crossbow has very high requirements on wood and strings. I'm afraid..."

"You can do as much as you can. Aren't Wu Jun going to Yong'an? Let's use Wu Jun as a test!"

"Okay, I'll arrange the arrangements." Li Fu also became excited.

Once this kind of crossbow is put into use, it can play a great role at critical moments.

"How many crossbows have been produced so far?" Li Heng asked again.

"In the six months since the establishment of the crossbow arrows, the number of crossbow arrows has reached five million."

"Too few. Is there something wrong?"

"It was because the supply of iron and workers was insufficient in the early stage, but now it is gradually sufficient." Li Fu replied, "The big case of Lang Jun in the capital not only increased manpower for the army, but also for the weapons supervisor. , and some of the weaker ones among my generals have been transferred to the Ordnance Supervision."

"The number of arrows in the future can be guaranteed."

"That's good!" Li Heng laughed.

"But I heard that there are many unfavorable voices in Chengdu these days!" Li Fu reminded, "Some people even said that they would hand over Lang Jun to the state of Wu."

"Ignore those idiots!"

Regarding its attitude towards Wu, Chengdu is actually divided into two factions.

One faction is the main peace faction against the Wu State, and the other is the main war faction against the Wu State.

(End of this chapter)