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Chapter 268 A family with little reputation

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    "Has the Governor already got a countermeasure?" Bai Zheng asked with a look of surprise on his face after hearing Huo Guang's words.

    The Anxi Armored Cavalry dealt a big blow to Bai Zheng. He has been thinking about how to break it these days. Now that he heard that Huo Guang seemed to have a way to break it, he was more excited than anyone else.

    "It's not a countermeasure. It can only be said that under the current conditions, the opponent's armored cavalry can be defeated. However if you encounter the main force of Anxi, the kind that easily costs thousands or tens of thousands, and the servant army has tens of thousands.  Legion, there is no way to crack it for the time being." Huo Guang said with a smile. Anxi's armored cavalry can sweep across Central Asia and West Asia, but it is not that simple to crack it easily.

    "Please give me an order from the Grand Governor. The last general is willing to be the vanguard." Bai Zheng knelt down and knelt on the ground. He couldn't wait. As long as there was a chance, he must personally defeat the Parthian armored cavalry. Otherwise, he would not be able to understand his own thoughts. The future is in front of him.  Against the Parthian Armored Cavalry, they lost three points in terms of momentum.

    Huo Guang looked at Bai Zheng with a helpless smile on his face, then stretched out his hand to help him up and said, "Mr. Wu An, don't be anxious. This matter requires the right time, place and people. No rush, no rush"

    Bai Zheng scratched his head in embarrassment. It was a bit funny, and it relaxed the whole atmosphere a lot.

    "Now we still have a few things to do. We are going to get the standard military weapons, as well as bows, arrows, crossbows and other items. Let's see how powerful this armor is." Huo Guang stopped his smile and said in a commanding tone.

    Then according to Huo Guang's instructions, all the weapons were placed in front of everyone. At this time, the iron armor of the Parthian cavalry had been propped up by a wooden figure. The wooden figure was placed fifty feet away wearing iron armor.

    "Archers, prepare." A row of ten Han army archers raised their bows and nocked arrows, aiming their arrows at the iron-clad wooden man fifty feet away.

    These ten people are currently the ten people with the highest archery skills in Yu Chenghan's army. With their strength and accuracy within a range of fifty feet, soldiers wearing leather armor will be shot through.

    "Let it go." Dongfang Shuo personally served as the herald. When Huo Guang nodded, Dongfang Shuo shouted "let it go."

    With a command, the sound of ten bowstrings vibrating sounded almost at the same instant.  Everyone only heard the sound of the bowstring and did not see the trajectory of the arrow at all. Then they heard a clanking sound of metal hitting in the distance.  All ten arrows that escaped from the string hit the armor on the opposite side. Some hit the breastplate, and some hit the chain armor on the waist.

    All ten arrows hit the target, but all ten arrows fell to the ground.

    "Go up and have a look." Huo Guang said and walked towards the armor in the distance.

    When everyone approached the armor again, they only saw some slight grooves and scratches on the Parthian armor. From this appearance alone, it can be seen that the damage caused by these arrows to the armor was almost minimal.

    Huo Guang leaned down and picked up an arrow that fell on the ground.  Everyone's eyes naturally fell on the arrow in Huo Guang's hand. It was obvious that the tip of the arrow was somewhat deformed, probably caused by the impact with the armor just now.

    "Try it with our army's standard machete." Seeing the changes in the arrows, Huo Guang frowned slightly again.  Then he continued to choose another weapon.

    This time Bai Bing walked forward personally carrying a standard machete of the Hexi Army.  The standard machete of the Hexi Army is forged from hundreds of refined iron. It is three feet seven inches long and weighs eight pounds and six taels. Each handle requires dozens of craftsmen to go through hundreds of processes and takes several days to complete. This machete was also used in the past year.  It was just completed in the Hexi Army.

    Among all the armies of the Han Dynasty, only the Hexi Army was equipped with such sophisticated standard weapons.  Because the value of such a machete has reached about three taels of gold, which is almost the annual income of an ordinary Han Dynasty family.

    Bai Bing now also has an official position of captain level. He held the sword in both hands and stepped forward with his feet, and then he was so angry that he slashed forward with all his strength.

    As the white soldier shouted loudly, the entire wooden man in iron armor fell down and fell to the ground, raising a puff of smoke.  Everyone's eyes fell on the armor on the ground, but no one noticed that Bai Bing's face looked a little ugly at this moment.

    After the smoke and dust fell, Huo Guang was the first to squat down. The position where the white soldier struck was the shoulder armor of the iron armor. At this moment, Huo Guang saw a dent appear on the shoulder armor. Although it was obvious, it still did not cause much damage to the shoulder armor.

    "Bring me the knife and let me see it." Huo Guang's face became more and more ugly. With Bai Bing's powerful and heavy blow just now, Huo Guang could feel that if there was a person inside the Anxi armor, even if the armor was not damaged, the person inside would be hit by a huge blow.  The strength was so shocking that it fell apart.  However, except for some generals, ordinary soldiers could not perform such an attack on the Han army.

    Bai Bing showed the machete in his hand to Huo Guang with an ugly expression.  This time not only Huo Guang saw it, but everyone saw thisAccording to calculations, the most sophisticated standard weapon of the Han army, the blade is now slightly curled.  In other words, after Bai Bing's slash just now, the machete is considered useless for the time being. If it wants to achieve normal effects, it needs to be re-edged and polished.

    "Try this" Huo Guang suddenly took off the sword from his waist and said.

    Huo Guang¡¯s sword has never actually killed anyone, but this sword was specially made for Huo Guang by Zhuo Junchen.  The Zhuo family is an iron-smelting family in Shu County. In recent years, with Huo Guang's secret support, it has become a first-class family in the Han Dynasty. However, the Zhuo family in Shu County still follows the old iron-smelting path. It can be said that Huo Guang's skill  The sword represents the highest smelting technology of the Han Dynasty, even compared to those famous swords passed down from generation to generation.

    This time it was Li Ling who took over Huo Guang's sword, because among these generals, Li Ling was the most proficient in using swords, and even his weapon was an epee.

    The epee is a relatively unconventional weapon. It combines the advantages of both knives and swords. It can both cut and stab. However, it is this advantage that makes the requirements for using the epee extremely high. This requires  Weapons that are both powerful and require skill make most generals shy away from them, but Li Ling, after several years of hard training, has mastered the use of them.

    Huo Guang¡¯s sword is a long sword with a slender and lightweight blade. This kind of sword is mainly used for stabbing and slashing.  Li Ling pulled out Huo Guang's long sword. There was a soft sound of the sword being unsheathed and a flash of cold light. Everyone couldn't help but sigh in their hearts, "What a sword."

    They saw Li Ling holding a sword in one hand and holding a sword flower towards the iron armor. In the end, everyone only saw Li Ling's figure swaying, and the long sword in his hand had been pulled diagonally across the breastplate of the iron armor in an instant.

    "Bang" When Li Ling stood still, the breastplate of the Anxi Iron Armor suddenly broke off, and the second half of the breastplate fell to the ground, making a crisp sound.

    When everyone saw that the extremely strong Anxi armor was cut off for the first time, their faces showed a look of ecstasy. At this time, only Huo Guang noticed that Li Ling's face became as ugly as the white soldier before after using that sword.  .

    "Please forgive me, Governor!" Li Ling knelt down in front of Huo Guang with an ugly face, then held Huo Guang's sword in both hands and showed the sword to Huo Guang.

    "Hiss" When everyone saw that the blade on one side of Huo Guang's sword was also obviously deformed, everyone took a breath.

    "This turns out to be a lose-lose situation How are these armors made?" Dongfang Shuo was surprised that An An had such superb smelting technology and could create such strong armor.

    "It is indeed something that can support the inheritance of a noble It seems that Anxi's metal smelting technology and forging technology are much higher than ours" Huo Guang didn't feel sorry for the sword being scrapped.  It's the gap between the frightened man and An An in terms of metal craftsmanship.  He knew that although his sword had caused fatal damage to the Parthian armor just now, in fact, this kind of catching was more due to Li Ling using his sword to catch it. Half of the credit for cutting off the breastplate was Li Ling. Change it to another one.  Even if a person uses Huo Guang's sword, he may not be able to cut off the breastplate, so in the final analysis, the Parthian Iron Armor completely defeated all the weapons of the big man.

    The metal smelting technology of the Han Dynasty has always been ahead of the surrounding foreign races. Huo Guang has always thought that the metal smelting technology of the Han Dynasty should be unmatched by anyone in the world today. It was not until he saw the Parthian armor in front of him that he began to understand the world again.

    "Would you like to try using the crossbow?" Dongfang Shuo asked Huo Guang uncertainly. The problem that Huo Guang saw was also seen by Dongfang Shuo.  It can be said that the Han army currently has no weapons at all on the frontal battlefield that can break through the Parthian armor's defense.

    "Forget it, there's no need to try." Huo Guang waved his hand and said.

    The ballistae is already a heavy weapon in this era. Not only is a ballistae expensive to build, but it requires several soldiers to operate it. Moreover, the biggest weakness of the ballistae is that it is inconvenient to transport and can only be used remotely. Once the enemy is defeated,  As we get closer, the ballista becomes a burden.

    Perhaps the powerful lethality of the ballista can penetrate the Parthian armor, but the number of such things is too small, and it takes a long time to prepare for another launch after one launch.  For thousands of Parthian armored cavalry, it was nothing more than a drop in the bucket.

    "Put this set of Parthian Iron Armor together and immediately send someone to Shu County to hand it over to the Zhuo family. I hope they can find a way to crack it. At the worst, we big men have to master this smelting process." After seeing the Parthian Iron Armor,  After being strengthened, Huo Guang's mood became a little depressed. Now he didn't know how to face tens of thousands of Parthian armored cavalry. In the end, he could only order the armor to be handed over to Zhuo Junchen.

    Huo Guang hoped that the Zhuo family, which was not outstanding in its original history but had given him a great help, could surprise him again.

    People often only think of the Zhuo family, a wealthy family with only a few words recorded in history books, when they mention the love story between Zhuo Wenjun and Sima Xiangru.  CanIt is said that all the brilliant achievements of this family have been overshadowed by the brilliance of Zhuo Wenjun, a talented woman of a generation.

    And in Huo Guang's life, the first woman who helped him the most was Zhuo Wenjun. Later, because of Zhuo Wenjun's relationship, the contemporary head of the Zhuo family, Zhuo Junchen, took the initiative to join her.  When Huo Guang was based in Hexi to expand his army and prepare for war, he realized for the first time how powerful this family, which had been ignored by the world and history, was.

    Not many people know that when Lu Shu joined forces with the Zhuo family in Shu County, he quietly controlled nearly half of the Han Dynasty's business.  Then iron-smelting blast furnaces were built in Shu County, and a large number of iron ingots were forged, and then quietly transported to Hexi through Lu Shu's trading firm. It can be said that nearly 70% of the weapons of Huo Guang's Hexi Army came from Shu County.  Zhuo family.

    It was only then that Huo Guang understood why when she left Chang'an, Zhuo Wenjun said that Shu County could be used by her if she needed it, and she said it so confidently!
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