The machete is four feet long, the back of the knife is heavy, the blade is arced, and the back is equipped with a handle that is six feet long with the thickness of an egg, the handle is made of a kind of wood called thick wood, this wood grain is fine, elastic and hard, it is used to make heavy crossbows, the wood of egg thickness is not easy to cut with a big sword, the total length of this knife is more than one zhang, and the total weight of the knife with a handle is fifty catties, which is definitely a heavy weapon in today's Daqin, because all the craftsmen have never seen such an exaggerated and heavy weapon.

The length of the spear is about the same as that of the broadsword, but the total amount is much lighter, the triangular pyramid-like blade is two feet long, and the handle of the spear is made of green oka wood used for charcoal burning, which is also the thickness of an egg, but the overall total amount is less than thirty catties, which is seven or eight kilograms, and it is not too difficult to use as an adult samurai

"Go to the stables and bring the horses with their horseshoe nailed! Bring the saddle equipment with you, and ask Yingbu to choose a few soldiers who are good at riding horses! ”

"Huh~" A guard took the order and left, and after a while, a few horsemen led six tall horses over, and there were a few people carrying saddles and protective gear, and after Chen Xu arranged for the horsemen to put the saddle on the back of the horse and buckle the belly belt, Yingbu galloped over with seven or eight forbidden soldiers wearing leather armor.

"Master Hou~" After everyone got off the horse, they all saluted Chen Xu together.

"Excuse me!" Chen Xu waved his finger and pointed to the big knife, spear and saber hanging on the saddle and said to Yingbu: "This is our newly created weapon, arrange a few people to ride a horse to try it and see if it can be used, this knife weighs fifty catties, you have to choose a ...... with great strength"

Yingbu basically dismounted after his eyes fell on this big knife and did not move away, Chen Xu jumped to the side of the war horse hanging on the big knife in a few steps before he finished speaking, reached out and took off the big knife and held it in his hand, and slowly danced a few times and said with excitement on his face: "Master Hou, although this knife is heavy, it is extremely handy, if it is against the enemy, there is absolutely no general......

"Hey, this bulky weapon is indeed powerful, but others won't stand up and let you chop, if you take it and fight me, you will die!" Yu Wuya, who had been holding the iron sword and did not speak, pouted and said.

Yingbu instantly blushed and said with a smile: "Brother Yu's martial arts are superb, and he is naturally different from reckless men like me!" ”

Chen Xu knew Yu Wuyan's virtue, in the eyes of these martial arts masters who cultivated the truth, all the ordinary masters were garbage, so he ignored him and said directly: "This knife is mainly used for horse warfare, and now there is a fixed saddle and stirrups, when riding, you can borrow strength, and your hands can be liberated when you rush to kill on the battlefield, and your waist and legs can cooperate with your arms at the same time, and this big knife can also exert extremely powerful power, as the saying goes, an inch is long and an inch is strong, as long as the strength is big enough, you can control the range of several zhang in a radius, The short blade of the sword can't take advantage of anything at all, so if you're so interested, try it on a horse! ”

"Okay~" Yingbu excitedly stuck the big knife on the ground and then turned over on the horse, stepped on the stirrup and reached out to hold the big knife in his hand.

"The target is a row of corn dummies there, remember to play to the strengths of the knife, go!"

"Driving~" Yingbu couldn't wait to knock the horse's belly, stimulated by a few raised blunt thorns in the stirrup, the war horse neighed and ran out, Yingbu's body shook violently, and then the waist and legs still sat firmly on the horse's back without falling, and one person and one horse rushed out in an instant like a sharp arrow.

The length and width of the martial arts arena are about 200 meters long, and there are two rows of straw figures made of more than 10 corn grass in the middle.

With the mud and sand splashed by the flying horses' hooves, Yingbu quickly adjusted his body on the horse's back, and swung his broadsword at a distance of about ten zhang from the first straw man, and swept it over the moment the war horse swept past the straw man.

"Bang~" accompanied by a black light, a piece of grass man flew up in the air, and the cut corn grass turned into grass clippings scattered in the air with the wind.

The speed of the war horse was very fast, and it swept past the second straw man almost instantly, but Yingbu could only adjust his body and broadsword again with his moves.

"Chop~" When the war horse rushed to the fourth straw man, the big knife in Yingbu's hand swung again, and the sharp blade cut the straw man in two.

More than a dozen straw men were about two zhang apart from each other, and soon Yingbu rushed through the strawman position, only cutting three, and then Yingbu turned the horse's head at the end of the martial arts arena to go around a big arc and then rushed into the strawman position again, this time after cutting off four, he slowly retracted the horse's reins and stopped three zhang away from Chen Xu.

"Master Hou, the speed of the war horse is too fast to cut off all the straw men!" Yingbu panted and arched his hands, his face was quite ashamed, although it was only two back and forth to kill, but his forehead was already sweating.

"It's already very good!" Chen Xu still praised a sentence, "This heavy and long weapon is mainly used to impact the enemy formation and kill the enemy's general, if you want to see it, you will kill, and the speed of horse combat is fast, killing one will cause chaos to the enemy, as long as the speed is used reasonably, horsepower, manpower, and knife power can only exert the power of the broadsword, once the practice is skillful, it is not impossible to take the head of the general among the ten thousand troops!" ”

"Don't worry, I will definitely practice hard!" Yingbu was excited, hung up the big knife and saluted with a fist.

"Well, arrange some people to practice spears and sabers are familiar, and at the same time you can also do some confrontation training, spears are lighter than broadswords, so the usage should be a lot lighter, mainly to pick the stabbing technique, which can allow the soldiers who are proficient in spear skills in the forbidden army to participate in the drill, as for the sabers, all the soldiers need to be familiar, the main function is close-range horse combat, because it is a one-handed knife, so the arm strength is relatively strong, and to give full play to the advantages of the saber light and fast, his use is very different from the sword, mainly cutting, When the horses are staggered, they rely on the blades to inflict external injuries on the enemy and make them incapacitated, focusing on killing rather than killing ......"

Chen Xu didn't know martial arts, and he didn't have the experience of fighting on a horse, to be honest, he hadn't even ridden a horse before he crossed, and the only animal he ever rode was the old buffalo that he had at home when he was a child.

But this does not prevent him from watching many costume TV series and movies, and he generally understands some elements of horse warfare, the most important thing is that the blade of the knife has a curvature, no matter how big or small the force is, as long as it is touched, it will cause cutting damage, and the sword is not straight, so to give full play to the advantages of the knife, it is necessary to let the soldiers be familiar with this characteristic of the knife.

But no matter what kind of weapon you use, you will naturally become familiar with it when you use it more.

Chen Xu arranged for a few helpers to go to the blacksmith shop to get a few more knives, guns and weapons, and let several forbidden soldiers ride horses to start simple familiarization and training, and then called Yingbu aside alone.

"What is the current movement of those people arranged by Shang Qi?" Chen Xu asked with a serious face.

"Back to the Hou Ye, we have been closely monitoring in the past few days, and there are about a dozen people in contact with it, and there are still people in the slave station today, I estimate that they will do it soon, do you want me to arrest all these people in advance?"

"No, spy on them, and at the same time arrange soldiers to take precautions, I want them to do it, I need a reason to uproot them, I want to make the Academy of Sciences a truly independent department, completely free from the influence of other government offices."

"Yes~" Yingbu clasped his fists and saluted.

In the blink of an eye, two days have passed, and the steel refined in the factory has reached hundreds of catties, and there are also twenty or thirty weapons of various kinds, according to the information reported by Yingbu, those who are ready to cause sabotage are ready to move, and they only need to give them a chance to be slightly negligent, and they will do it.

Chen Xu felt that the time was almost up, so after carefully discussing with Yingbu, he returned to the Hou Mansion and instructed the housekeeper to turn out his court clothes.

Early the next morning, Chen Xu got up early in the winter, brushed his teeth and washed his face, ate two big meat buns with millet porridge, and then changed into a brocade robe that only a marquis could wear under the service of several maids, wrapped a jade belt around his waist, hung two jade pendants rewarded by the emperor, and his hair was neatly combed and tied behind his head to prepare to go to the court.

After Chen Xu finished dressing up, several little maids watched Chen Xu Shi Ran walk out of the dressing room with bright eyes, his little face turned red because of excitement, obviously he was not very particular about dressing on weekdays, and he liked to tinker with some food in the kitchen when he had nothing to do.

Chen Xu was also quite twisted, although this court dress was tailor-made for him by the Shangyi Department of Shaofu, but this kind of pants were far less comfortable to wear than the straight-leg pants designed by himself, and the wide robe and big sleeves were not neat and neat at all, just when he twisted and pinched out of the door, he suddenly stepped on the hem of the clothes, and the whole person fell out of the threshold in the nervous exclamation of several little maids.

"Poof~" Chen Xu stumbled and almost gnawed on the ground directly, but fortunately, Yu Wuya, who was waiting outside, quickly grabbed him.

I'll go! Chen Xu stood in shock, then wiped the sweat on his forehead with his sleeve, and couldn't help but look back at the one-foot-high threshold.

"Hey, Engong is wearing this court dress, it's just beautiful!" Yu Wuya looked Chen Xu up and down, and couldn't help but praise repeatedly.

Chen Xu said with a dark face: "Can you use this word to describe a man?" ”

"Why can't it, in the past, Qi Xiang Zou Ji boasted that he was the most beautiful man in Qi country, and asked his wife and concubine guests, he was more beautiful than Xu Gong in the north of the city, and everyone said that he was beautiful, beautiful, moving, not an exclusive noun for women!" Yu Wuya said with a smile.

"How do I sound so awkward! Let's go, follow me to the court! Chen Xu took a step, and with palpitations, he quickly lifted the hem of his clothes with both hands, and went out cautiously under the gaze of the servants and maids.

"Hehe, Master Hou is so beautiful in this court dress!"

"Yes, yes, I'm afraid that there will be no second more beautiful young man Langjun in the whole Xianyang than Hou Ye!"

"Who said no, our Hou Ye is still the kindest Hou Ye in the entire Xianyang, no one can compare!"

"I really want to help him change his clothes every day!"

"I think you want to warm his bed at night!"

"So what?" A little maid covered her flushed cheeks, "Don't you want to!" ”

"I want to too, but it's a pity that Master Hou doesn't want us to serve in the bath and warm the bed!"

A few little maids whispered in a small whisper, watching Chen Xu get into the carriage and leave the house under the escort of a group of guards.

"How many of you want to slap your mouth, but you dare to talk about Master Hou privately!" The housekeeper scolded with a dark face.

A few little maids turned pale with fright, and hurriedly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, and the housekeeper sighed and said: "That's it, only our Hou Ye will be so good to you, hurry up and go to work, I will also find a craftsman to cut this threshold down, otherwise the Hou Ye will be injured next time, maybe Your Majesty will send us all to the northwest to reclaim the wasteland." ”