After learning some news about the major countries of this era, Cao Cao no longer kept Arsrf, and as for the news of other countries, it must be Egypt, India or something.

Let's not talk about whether these countries have the strength worthy of Cao Cao's attention, Arsrev alone does not understand clearly, after all, in this era, an understanding of a country often represents the strength of the country.

Just like in the same East Asian region, everyone is very clear about the news that the Central Plains Empire will inevitably be Han and Qin, but who will know which countries on the Korean Peninsula and which tribes on the Indochina Peninsula obviously have no news.

Even the northern steppe tribes near the Korean Peninsula can almost be called none-aware of their neighbors, after all, they are too weak!

Cao Cao, who got the news from the West, was in a good mood, thought about it, changed his clothes, and sneaked out of the palace, of course, the so-called sneaking is only above a certain degree of significance, at least Dian Wei and Xu Chu, the two have become door gods, and they are still firmly guarded behind Cao Cao.

Cao Cao, who left the palace, did not come to travel to the people like those emperors in later film and television works or novels, but came to the Royal Arsenal and was re-given a lofty name by him, that is, the earliest weapons workshop.

The Royal Arsenal not only produced the weapons used by the soldiers of the Great Wei Army at this time, but also studied other weapons, of course, this kind of weapons are cold weapons, as for hot weapons, Cao Cao wanted to study them. It's a pity that the facts are not satisfactory.

Formulations and raw materials for gunpowder. Although Cao Cao understands all these things, it is not enough for a hot weapon to have gunpowder alone. The early hot weapons were cannons and muskets to dominate the battlefield, but both of these things required a high level of forging technology, which was beyond the reach of society at this time.

Even if you really want to force yourself into the era of hot weapons, either it is like the assault rifle in the Song Dynasty, which is completely terrifying, and the lethality is almost zero, or just like at the end of the Ming Dynasty, you can put one or two shots to explode the chamber directly, which is not used to kill the enemy but to kill your own people.

Of course. The so-called not to the heart of the Yellow River is not dead, Cao Cao is still quite stubborn, after all, if the hot weapon comes out completely, then in this era, it will sweep the world.

Unfortunately, although Cao Cao spent a lot of money to find out the semi-finished products of muskets and cannons, the final solution was to blow up the chamber, but fortunately, the earliest test was the musket. Instead of artillery, otherwise the historical event of the Apocalypse Explosion would have changed to this era, and there would be a Hongwu explosion.

After climbing the technology tree of hot weapons is completely impossible, Cao Cao is dead. It is single-mindedly placed on the cold weapon, and it can't shine on the hot weapon, the pinnacle of the cold weapon. I can always make it, Cao Cao thought to himself!

Workers in the Royal Arsenal. In addition to manufacturing and repairing the weapons of the Wei army, it was the four swords that were wholeheartedly placed on the battlefield during the Tang Dynasty. Instrument knives, barrier knives, horizontal knives and Mo knives are studied above.

Among them, the horizontal knife, that is, the Tang knife of later generations, compared with the other three knives, the appearance of the horizontal knife is considered to be very fast, as early as the Jian'an years, the arsenal actually appeared in the horizontal knife.

But Cao Cao, who received the news, can be described as very excited, the power of the horizontal knife can be said to have been blown to the sky in later generations, although Cao Cao understands that the power of the horizontal knife will not be so great, but compared to the ring head knife should be regarded as awesome coaxing.

Cao Cao, who thought like this, had a cautious mentality, lest there be such immaturity as the heavy cavalry again, and finally fell to the east of the honor guard, he still gave priority to the internal experiment, and the final result was that Cao Cao himself ended the manufacturing and production of horizontal knives!

Hearsay destroys life, this is Cao Cao's last experience and emotion, the horizontal knife is mostly 60~80 cm, the narrow blade, such a knife as the main combat knife, in fact, the power is not good!

What Cao Cao didn't know was that the horizontal knife was actually not the main combat knife of the army soldiers during the Tang Dynasty, as early as the Tang Dynasty Six Classics, it was clearly recorded that the horizontal knife was a saber, and there was no trace of the horizontal knife being the main combat knife and the record of killing the enemy.

Therefore, it can be said that in the eyes of later generations, the powerful horizontal knife, to put it bluntly, is only the saber or command knife of the officers and soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, although the forging technology of the horizontal knife is indeed very superb, but this can only show one thing, that is, the Tang Dynasty was rich and capricious!

And this, on the Mo knife produced later, Cao Cao clearly understood!

The Tang Dynasty Mo knife was about eleven catties, and in this era, because the forging process had not yet reached the peak of the Tang Dynasty, the Mo knife made at this time was important, almost reaching thirteen catties, not to mention whether there were so many soldiers who could put on the armor and wield such a heavy blade, just to make a Mo knife iron is enough to make four or five ring-headed knives and more than 20 spearheads.

10,000 Mo knives, if replaced with ordinary weapons, can arm nearly 100,000 troops, and in the Tang Dynasty, Mo knives are almost the standard weapons of the army, and almost all of the troops in the rest of the capital are equipped with Mo knives.

The Tang Dynasty can be described as a rich and capricious representative, even the weapons of the army and the command knives worn by the generals must be so tall, although the Great Wei is also rich at this time, but compared with the Tang Dynasty, Cao Cao covered his face and announced the suspension of the Mo Dao plan, as for the imaginary, hundreds of thousands of troops equipped with Mo Dao to sweep the world, at this time can only be imagined.

The horizontal knife and the Mo knife plan failed one after another, Cao Cao had a great grudge against the blades of the Tang Dynasty, the weapons of the Tang Dynasty were completely mocking the poor, it was simply something that only the rich could play, and this time I came here just to see the progress of other weapons.

Although it is said that the blades of the Tang Dynasty have completely dissipated in Cao Cao's mind, there are no other blades, one of which is typical, that is, the crossbow!

Ancient China in the research and use of long-range weapons can be said to be the pinnacle, in other countries in the world is still using bows or javelins, the Chinese region has entered the era of crossbows, and in the Three Kingdoms period, there is an automatic weapon in the era of cold weapons, crossbows!

Cao Cao came here this time for the crossbow, and the beautiful blueprint of hundreds of thousands of Mo knives sweeping the world was shattered, but the blueprint of the rain of arrows that covered the sky and the sun still existed, or in other words, as long as the national strength and financial resources of the Great Wei could support it, this blueprint would soon be able to evolve into reality! (To be continued......)