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Chapter 289

Beigong Chun has always been decisive and said that he should train these Wuhuan cavalry well, and he would train them hard. After the inspection, he immediately set out to arrange barracks for these cavalrymen. The empty barracks left by the imperial guards after they withdrew were now in handy, and it was just right for them.

He arranged thirty-six Black Hawk Swordsmen among the Wuhuan cavalry, each of whom brought 100 Wuhuan cavalry, and asked them to clean up the 100 Wuhuan cavalry under him within three days and put them in a submission. So, in the next few days, the people with blue noses and swollen faces in the military camp increased in a geometric state. Fortunately, there was no field hospital here, otherwise those who went to seek medical treatment would squeeze out the place and explode!

In contrast, Li Rui's method of leading troops was much gentler. He ran to the more than 170 private soldiers of the Fu family to call him brothers, and for this reason he took out his own unique magic weapon: a jar of more than thirty degrees of wine.

For soldiers, the lethality of such a spirit is simply nuclear bomb level. After a few sips of spirits, the powerful generals of Zijiao were drunk and hugged Li Rui's shoulder and complained:

"You don't know about Captain Li, we feel so distressed!"

"To put it nicely, we are the personal soldiers, but to put it badly, that is the slaves of the Fu family. If the Fu family wants us to die, they will die, and if we want us to live, they will be unable to resist at all!"

"But Captain Fu is very good and treats us very well. With him, we have lived a good life for several years. It is also because of this that after he died, we sacrificed our lives to fight, not for anything else, just to kill a few more barbarians to avenge him! But what's the use? He died and will never come back, and we private soldiers are homeless!"

"Yes, our family is all in Hebei, and the Hu people have taken over it. If we have a home, we can't go back, so we can only follow Captain Fu to fight everywhere. Now Captain Fu is dead, and we are homeless!"

"We have heard of the story of you and Major General Beigong. You are powerful people, so we are willing to join you. We don't expect anything else. We hope that you will take us back to Hebei one day and find our roots!"

Li Rui repeatedly said, "Don't worry, the Hulu is the autumn grasshopper, and it cannot grow. We will drive them back to the grassland to gnaw on the grass. Then you can go back to Hebei!"

This is a bit like drawing a big pie, but these private soldiers chose to believe it, and they all screamed in excitement.

They are not stupid, and they all know how powerful the Hu people are. However, people always have to have a hope to survive, so they chose to believe that the Jin army will one day expel the Hu people from the Central Plains, and that one day they will return to their hometown in Hebei.

Li Rui gave them another cup, and when they were drunk, they suddenly asked, "Can I look at your sword?"

During the Battle of Ironmen Pass, he witnessed the scene of these cavalry squatting in dense formations and charging with swords. However, because the situation was too chaotic, he didn't see clearly, and he just felt that their swords were very long. Now he finally encountered them, so of course he had to feast his eyes.

These soldiers naturally would not refuse such requests. Several of them immediately untied their long swords and handed them to Li Rui. Li Rui pulled out one casually. The first feeling was that they were long, very long, from the hilt to the tip of the sword, the total length was about 1.5 meters. This is a typical two-handed sword. Holding one with all your strength with both hands can cut across the two torso. Of course, it is no problem to hold with one hand, but there is no way to make a slash like slashing, and you can only sprint forward. The lines of this sword are simple and beautiful, with a narrow and long sword body, and the opening angle of the sword tip is very small, extremely sharp. It is not a problem for a person with enough wrist strength to pierce three bodies with one sword. In short, this sword is an absolute killing weapon. Whether it is chopping or stabbing, it is amazing. The only disadvantage is that it is too long and it is inconvenient to use.

He took out a sword and handed it to the current boss of the cavalry, Fu Sheng: "Try this sword?"

Fu Sheng's eyes fell on the sword and he was stunned.

The first impression this sword gave him was that it was weird and weird.

Its overall structure is similar to that of ordinary Han swords. The sword body and hilt are one. The difference is that the hilt is curved and there are handguards installed. Some Han swords also have handguards, but they are twisted by the hilt, which is very simple. There has never been such extra handguards installed before. In fact, not only in China, but also in the whole world, this kind of sword with extra handguards installed appeared very late, which is extremely novel in this era.

The function of handguards is to provide some protection to the hands holding weapons to a certain extent, so as not to be cut off by a few fingers or half of the palm in a fight, and it will be disabled. This design may be a bit intrusive to the outsider, but it is very necessary.

In addition, the sword body is also narrow and long, with a blood groove in the middle. The tip of the sword is very sharp and powerful when stabbed. But it only has the sword body on one side of the guard who has opened the blade, and the other side is just close to the tip of the sword to enhance the lethality of the stabbing. The remaining large section does not even open the false blade, which means that this is a single-edged sword!

The entire sword is three and a half feet long, which is about one hundred and ten centimeters, and weighs nearly one kilogram. It is swinging...

Very easy to use!

Fu Sheng said in surprise: "Captain, this sword is strange. I have never seen such a sword before in the battlefield for so many years!"

Li Rui said: "Don't think it looks weird, it makes sense."

Fu Sheng said: "I hope to hear the details."

Li Rui pointed to the guard and said, "This guard is designed to protect the sword-holding hand. To a certain extent, it can prevent the hand from being directly attacked by the opponent's weapons. If a sergeant with high martial arts skills accidentally cut off several fingers by the opponent during the battle and then exited the battlefield, wouldn't that be a pity? In order to avoid such regrets, I designed the guard."

He pointed to the curved hilt again: "When you charge, don't you prefer to hold a long sword and point the opponent's protective mouth and rush straight to the first place? This curved hilt allows you to point the sword tip at the enemy more easily when charging with the sword, and at the same time, it also makes it better to exert force, even if you face the armored target!"

Fu Sheng asked: "Then this one-sided blade..."

Li Rui said: "This is designed to increase the power of slashing. If the sword is cut on both sides, the body is too thin and the weight is not enough. The power is not enough when slashing. The single-sided blade can greatly enhance the slashing performance, provided that you don't use the side that does not slash people!"

Simply put, this is a sword that combines the advantages of stabbing and chopping, integrating the advantages of the knife and sword. Its main usage is stabbing, but the power of chopping cannot be underestimated. Li Rui personally conducted an experiment and used it to chop bamboo filled with iron sand, and it was still dry. Those with some common sense know that dry bamboo is more than ten times more difficult to deal with than wet bamboo. When it is wet, you can easily swing it two pieces, but after it is dry, it is not easy to cut it off. However, this sword completed this task very easily. In the flash of cold light, iron sand flew around, and the pieces of bamboo filled with iron sand were cut into two pieces!

The cavalry cheered loudly: "Good sword, good sword!"

Li Rui took a sword flower and put the sword in a chic manner. This sword was created by him imitating the modern cavalry sword. His father was an absolute fan of cold weapons. He collected a large number of cavalry swords that had shined on the modern battlefield, such as the Chaksey scimitar of the Cossack cavalry, the stinging swords that were equipped with a large number of British cavalry in World War I, the M1913 cavalry sword designed by General Patton himself, the heavy cavalry sword equipped with French breastplate cavalry equipment in the Napoleon era, the Hussar Sabre, Mamluk sword, and even the Chinese cavalry equipment.

The Xuefeng Knife, the 65th Type Cavalry Knife. When he was idle, he liked to show off his collection to Li Rui, telling him the exciting history behind these cold weapons over and over again, and even taught him how to use it step by step. Thanks to him, Li Rui knew the development of cavalry weapons in various countries. He believed that the current long swords were not very suitable for cavalry combat, so he simply designed a single-blade cavalry sword that combines the advantages of swords and swords. Unexpectedly, he conquered these elite cavalry at once.

Li Rui smiled and handed the sword to Fu Sheng: "I'm giving it to you!"

Fu Sheng was stunned: "The captain wants to give this sword to the emperor?"

Li Rui said: "That's of course. I have asked the craftsmen to cast a large number of swords according to the style of this sword. It won't take long to get all of you to equip this kind of sword."

Fu Sheng held his sword, which was nearly 1.5 meters long, and was a little hesitant.

Li Rui knew that he couldn't bear to leave this sword. His former master Fu Ning had already died in battle and could not go back to his hometown in Hebei. This sword was their last thought. If even this sword was lost, then there would be no last thought.

He said: "Let's keep this sword as a memory. It's too long and not very suitable for cavalry melee. It's better to use this kind of cavalry sword in the future."

Fu Sheng hesitated for a while and finally nodded: "For this reason, thank you to the lieutenant!"

Li Rui smiled: "What are you thanks? You have come to my command. From now on, everyone will be brothers who share life and death. Maybe I have to rely on you to rescue me from the dead grave on the battlefield. Why are you so kind?"

Fu Sheng couldn't help but be slightly stunned and murmured to himself: "Brothers who share life and death..."

No one has ever said such things to them, even Fu Ning never said that he was a brother who shared life and death with them. He thought that just for this drink, the voice of "brother", this Li Xianshou Captain Li is worthy of his followers, and is worthy of his waving the sword in his hand to fight to the death.
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