When Lu Lingqi heard Lu Bu say this, her little face wrinkled: "When will it take? Daddy, your Fang Tian Hua Ji is more than 200 kilograms."

Lu Bu laughed and said, "As long as you practice martial arts diligently every day, there should be hope for ten years." Seeing that Lu Lingqi was still browning, Lu Bu encouraged him, "In these ten years, you can still take action in some small battlefields." Lu Lingqi couldn't participate in the battlefield with Xianbei cavalry at such a young age, but when dealing with those country thieves, Lu Lingqi could still take action to earn some experience value...

Lu Lingqi then smiled: "That's good, as long as Ling'er can go to the battlefield, no matter how big or small it is."

Lu Lingqi received her father's personal promise, and knew that Zhuge Liang, Lu Xun, Lu Meng, and Wu Ban did not follow him this time, so she rode the little red horse with satisfaction and followed Aunt Bu Fan back to the general's mansion.

Lu Bu reviewed the 80,000 troops that were about to take the battle. Among the 80,000 people and horses, there were 40,000 combat soldiers and 40,000 auxiliary soldiers in Lu Bu's Guard Division, 10,000 combat soldiers and all cavalry equipment were cavalry equipment, Gao Shun Division had 4,000 combat soldiers as cavalry equipment, and the Zhang Liao Division had 6,000 combat soldiers as cavalry equipment, and these 20,000 cavalry were arranged in a square formation.

The cavalry on the horses were all wearing light armor. The most prominent feature of the light armor is the oval deck on the chest and the back, which just protects the front heart and back. This deck has been polished and has dazzling reflections in the sun, just like a mirror. There are often words on the mirrors of the Han Dynasty, "Seeing the light of the sun, the world is bright", so Lu Bu named it the light armor.

The reason why Lu Bu named Guangming Kai was to distinguish it from the Tang Dynasty Mingguang Kai, which was popular among the mixed-race Xianbei species Li Yuan and Li Shimin, who were more like a Western-style plate armor.

In recent months, Lu Bu has not been idle in technological innovation. Zheng Hun, his disciple Ma Jun, and many blacksmiths, who have regained Lu Bu's trust, have successfully developed blast furnace iron smelting technology. They have built blast furnaces recognized by Lu Bu, loaded iron ore, coke and limestone from the top of the furnace. Preheated air is blown from the air outlet located at the bottom of the furnace, and the carbon in the coke is burned with the oxygen in the air at high temperature. The oxygen in the iron ore is removed during the rising process of the furnace, thereby reducing the iron. The refined iron is released from the iron mouth. The impurities that are not reduced in the iron ore and fluxes such as limestone combine to form slag and discharged from the slag outlet. The generated gas is derived from the top of the furnace and after dust removal, it is used as fuel for hot air furnaces, heating furnaces, coke ovens, boilers, etc.

According to modern technology, no coke was made. Lu Bu reluctantly replaced coke with refined coal. Although the iron produced in this way contained more impurities, it was better than nothing. The key point of blast furnace technology was to increase the combustion temperature, which led to the emergence of cast iron, and the iron production increased greatly.

After the iron production increased, it was forged by a hydraulic forging machine built by Lu Bu's suggestion. It was pressed into an iron plate suitable for attaching to the human body and then polished. When it was worn on the human body, the two iron plates were buckled together by iron rivets, which was very sturdy and solid.

Because whether it is a cavalry or an infantryman, the upper body is the most frequently attacked, so there is no need to wear it all over the body like the Western aristocratic knights. They just need to protect the front and back of the heart, and then wear an iron helmet with a mask. As for the limbs, they can be wrapped in leather hoods. If the limbs are all wearing plate armor like the Western knights, it will greatly affect flexibility and combat efficiency, and it will not be worth the loss.

After Lu Bu decided on his idea, he built hundreds of blast furnaces in cities near five iron ores in Bingzhou and Jizhou. Next to the blast furnace is a military factory. The military factory strictly implements the standardized operations that Lu Bu said. The efficiency was very slow at the beginning, but once strict standardization was implemented, the production quality stabilized and the speed gradually increased.

Lu Bu made a lot of money from the aristocratic families in the past few months. He invested more than 2 billion yuan in military industry. With so much money in it, tens of thousands of craftsmen in Jizhou and Bingzhou were building weapons and armor for the Central Army day and night. Finally, before Lu Bu swept the Hepatta, he made 20,000 sets of light armor, and Lu Bu was equipped with all the elite cavalry.

There was no longer any more mailings in the military factory, nor did they make scales or mailings, because Lu Bu found that it was difficult to effectively avoid the damage of crossbows, whether it was chain mail or scales, whether it was chain mail or scales. After all, there were still holes. The larger the hole, the more difficult it was to effectively avoid it. However, the plate armor not only effectively avoids the damage of swords and guns, but also avoids the damage of crossbows, because the plate armor was cast as a whole after all.

Of course, what is more important is the processing efficiency. The small iron rings of mail, scale armor, and other parts are too small. The processing is extremely cumbersome. It not only consumes manpower, but also difficult to process and strengthen. Especially for mail, the smaller the iron ring, the better the protective performance. Each iron ring must be welded and connected. The workload can be imagined. The process is troublesome, so the cost is relatively expensive. Moreover, Western plate armor is purely cast and forging and polishing, and does not require so much manual work at all. The cost is reduced after the iron smelting technology is improved. Moreover, after the plate armor is slightly improved, its protective force and flexibility to soldiers at the same weight are not as good as other iron armors, and it also provides more convenient conditions for hot and cold processing.

After polishing the light armor, it will have dazzling reflections in the sun. If you can choose to react well and fight against the sun, it will definitely bring great visual obstacles to the enemy and increase the winning rate.

The Light Armor is just a piece of protection for the body. In addition, the cavalry are equipped with arm guards, shoulder guards, knee guards and leg guards made of cowhide.

Through his battle with Dong Zhuofei's Xiong Army, Lu Bu further confirmed the uselessness of heavy cavalry. Although he knew that the Xianbei cavalry was the favorite to use heavy cavalry during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Lu Bu also accidentally created a bunch of iron lumps to deal with Xianbei cavalry. In Lu Bu's mind, the tactics of Mongolian cavalry are the manifestation of the highest technical and tactics of cavalry, and the mobility and flexibility are far better than impact.

In order to defeat the Xianbei cavalry this time, Lu Bu did not hesitate to use his killer weapon that he had collected for nearly a year, including the Gaoqiao saddle, double-sided stirrups, and iron horseshoes, all equipped on the mounts of the 20,000 cavalry.

In the past, the one-sided stirrups only played the auxiliary role of horses. They were no longer used after being mounted. Without the stirrups, the spear's piercing power was difficult to exert and was easily brought off by reaction forces. With the high bridge saddle and the double-sided stirrup, the cavalry sat more steadily on the mount. The hands that originally clamped the reins and horse's hair could be released. Holding the spear tightly, one inch long and one inch strong, the Xianbei cavalry's scimitar was not yet halfway, but they went to see the heaven of the immortality.

With the high bridge saddle and the double-sided stirrups, the cavalry does not have to always clamp the belly of the horse with their legs. As long as there are enough horses to transfer, it is not a problem to run five hundred miles or even one thousand miles a day and night. In the past, it would be impossible to hold on to the horse's belly with their legs and clamp them for half a day.

The horse's nails are the horse's nails, which protect the horse's shoes. In nature, the horse's nails can protect the horse's feet. However, in the use of horses by people, the horse's nails are often worn more than natural renewal. The appearance of horse's sole minimizes the damage to the horse's hooves due to contact with the ground, friction from the ground, and corrosion of accumulated water, which makes the horse's service life longer, and also reduces the impact of terrain on the cavalry, greatly enhancing the cavalry's long-distance raid ability!

After the 20,000 cavalry were replaced with the light armor, the high bridge saddle, the double-sided stirrup, and the horseshoe, they had been secretly trained for nearly a month. They had passed the initial period of inadequacy and could be fought.

Lu Bu's 80,000 army was divided into four routes, and he stopped and headed towards Bingzhou.

After arriving in Jinyang City, Taiyuan County, Lu Bu received rewards from the envoys in front of him, Jia Xu and Tian Chou.

As a native of Wuwei, Jia Xu had dealt with the Qiang and Hu people. This time he went to Beidi County, Wuwei County and other places where the Qiang and Hu people were occupied, and met with the leaders of several Qiang and Hu tribes, conveying the intention of the Lu Bu alliance.

The leaders of the Qiang and Hu tribes thought that Lu Bu wanted them to send troops to deal with the Xianbei together, but they were very hesitant because they did not want to offend the powerful Xianbei people. Although Tan Shihuai died and the Xianbei was divided into three levers, the thin camel was bigger than the horse. If they sent troops to support Lu Bu, Lu Bu would retreat and return to Jizhou after defeating, the Xianbei people would turn to deal with them.

Jia Xu saw their doubts and smiled calmly, "My general's requirements are not high. As long as our army deals with the Xianbei, the tribe can not interfere and accept the requests from the Xianbei people. The horses and sheep we seized from the Xianbei people will be distributed to you as part of them, and will develop a market in Fuping City, Beidi County, and trade with you on the same basis."

These Qiang and Hu people fought with the Han people for nearly a hundred years and were very wary of the Han people. When they heard Lu Bu was so generous, they became suspicious: "What if you are going to defeat each one? If you defeat the Xianbei people, you will deal with us Qiang people. We Qiang people are not that stupid!"

Jia Xu laughed loudly and said, "You are too worried. The reason why my general deals with the Xianbei is that he has the intention to regain some territory to resettle refugees. More importantly, my general has an irreconcilable hatred with the Xianbei people. My general's parents were killed by the Xianbei people. My general vowed to drive the Xianbei people to the north of Yinshan. Please rest assured that my lord has only one target, which is to attack the Xianbei people in Wuyuan County."

The Qiang people were still worried and had to make an alliance. Jia Xu thought about it over and over again, and finally signed the alliance, which agreed that Lu Bu would never invade the Qiang people's territory. Jia Xu sneered in his heart while signing it: "My lord said that the agreement with friends should be kept, and the alliance with the enemy is for tearing it down!"

Although Tian Choo was young, he had prestige on the northern border and had dealt with the Xianbei people. This time he visited the current Xianbei Shanyu Kuitou.

Kuitou was Tan Shihuai's grandson, but he did not have Tan Shihuai's prestige. Only the Xianbei people in the central region followed his orders, while the Xianbei in the western region did not treat him as a root. He had been worried about this for a long time, and now he finally had an opportunity to establish prestige in the Xianbei League.
Chapter completed!