Lu Bu: My wife comes from two thousand years later

The person who was most dissatisfied with Dong Qing taking Hua Xiong away was Hu Zhen. Hua Xiong was the only one under his command who could fight. If he couldn't get back before the competition, he would most likely be the last one to win. The thought of having to perform the Jieyuequwu in public made Hu Zhen feel a toothache.

After Hua Xiong left, he walked into Niu Fu's tent.

"Zi Zuo, what are you looking at?"

Hu Zhen walked in uninvited and saw Niu Fu sitting beside the desk with a book of bamboo slips in his hand. He asked curiously.

Seeing that he was still in a bad mood, Niu Fu closed the bamboo slips and said calmly, "Nothing, what are you doing here?"

Hu Zhen sat down on the side and said, "I want to discuss the competition with you."

"What is there to discuss? Everyone just relies on their own abilities." Niu Fu said indifferently.

"It all depends on one's ability, but Lu Bu doesn't think so..."

Hu Zhen glanced at Niu Fu and continued, "I heard that Qing'er personally brought the Red Hare to Lü Bu the day before yesterday. Lü Bu embraced her in the parade grounds, but then deliberately rejected Qing'er's advances, prompting Qing'er to publicly declare that she must marry Lü Bu. Today, the lord ordered Yingwei to escort her to Bingzhou. I suspect they're going to investigate Lü Bu's past. The lord is planning to marry Qing'er to him!"

"That Lu Bu is good at understanding women's minds. The more indifferent he appears, the more Qing'er wants to marry him. Don't you think he's sinister?"

"so what?"

Niu Fu was mentally prepared for this matter. He had thought about stopping it before, but with Qing'er's temper, once she set her mind on Lu Bu, no one, not even God, could do anything to her. Niu Fu's brain wasn't working well, and he couldn't come up with a solution after thinking for a long time, so he didn't want to care about it anymore.

Hu Zhen sighed, "If Lü Bu marries Qing'er and wins this competition, I'm afraid he'll immediately become the lord's most trusted confidant, and then there will be no place for you and me."

The more Niu Fu listened, the more annoyed he became. "What on earth are you going to do after all this talk? Just be straightforward and don't beat around the bush."

Hu Zhen said, "I want to join forces with you to make Lü Bu lose the competition. If he comes in last, it will be enough to prove that he is just a brave man with nothing but courage. Then the lord will no longer hold him in such high esteem, and perhaps even prevent Qing'er from marrying him."

"How do we join forces?" Niu Fu asked.

Hu Zhen said, "Didn't the Lord ask Peng Guan, Dong Yue, and Duan Wei to discuss the details of the competition? I suspect if it's a competition of marching speed, we won't just be forced to run from the starting point to the end point. There will undoubtedly be obstacles or ambushes along the way. If we can scout the route and road conditions in advance, our chances of victory will be much greater."

"As long as Lü Bu is in last place in the first round, we can give each other a break based on our results in the first round. As for the third round, we can forget about Duan Wei. If we can get Dong Yue to side with us, we'll definitely win. If Lü Bu is in last place in two of the three rounds, he's bound to lose."

"So, you want me to go to Dong Yue to ask for information?"

Hu Zhen chuckled and said, "After all, you are the lord's son-in-law and are familiar with them. You will naturally have a greater chance of success if you go."

Niu Fu snorted coldly, "You have a good plan. If the lord finds out that you cheated, the blame will be mine alone."

At this point, he looked as if he had seen through Hu Zhen's evil plan. "Yingwei went to Bingzhou, and you were afraid he wouldn't be able to make it back, so you came to pick me up and cheat, right?"

Hu Zhen showed no shame at having his thoughts exposed, and said frankly, "That's my reason, but I mainly want to punish Lu Bu. If you don't want to, just pretend I didn't say anything. I'll take my leave now."

"Wait, who said I don't want to?" Niu Fu stopped him.

"However, we have to go together to bribe Dong Yue."

Hu Zhen originally wanted to trick Niu Fu into getting information to bribe people, so that if the lord knew about it, he could also get himself out of it. Unexpectedly, this silly Niu did not fall for it, and Hu Zhen had no choice but to follow him.

The two of them prepared gifts and went to meet Dong Yue. Dong Yue accepted the gifts without any hesitation.

Although the outcome of this competition had nothing to do with Dong Yue, he just wanted Lu Bu to lose. The reason was very simple. Dong Yue, Hu Zhen and Niu Fu all had similar abilities and were trusted by Dong Zhuo to a similar degree. Now suddenly Lu Bu, who was much stronger than them, came and obviously threatened their status. Who else could they deal with but him? The three of them hit it off and started to collude with each other.

Although Lu Bu did not know about the cheating of these three people, he had an idea when Hu Zhen suggested that the loser should perform a dance in public. If this person did not do some tricks, he would not be called Hu Wencai.

However, Lü Bu didn't take this to heart. He believed that as long as he was strong enough, he could defeat these two people no matter how much trouble they made. Every day, besides training his troops and Red Hare, he waited for Zhang Mo's reply.

More than half a month passed by, and Dong Qing and his group also arrived at Jinyang Juyi Village.

She took a look outside the village and had to admit that it was built in an extremely magnificent manner. There were three large earthen buildings, surrounded by a wall, and several crossbows were mounted on the roof of the earthen buildings. Although she didn't know much about war, she could see that it would take thousands of people to capture it.

Dong Qing asked the farmers again and confirmed that the owner of the three earthen buildings was a young and beautiful woman. He then led his men to ambush on the main road leading from the earthen buildings to the city, preparing to assassinate Zhang Mo.

However, she was destined to be lonely, because Zhang Mo was not in Juyi Village at the moment, but in Taihang Juyi Village watching the soldiers try out new weapons.

Since building a den of thieves in the mountains, Zhang Mo moved the forge to the mountains. Some time ago, he contacted a businessman to smuggle a batch of pig iron from Liaodong, and the weapons forge can finally start production.

Zhang Mo had mentioned the method of pouring steel to Master Guo before. The Fang Tian Hua Ji cast for Lu Bu was cast using the pouring steel method. Its toughness was beyond the reach of human hammering steel in that era. As long as there was enough pig iron, this method could be used to produce steel in large quantities with high efficiency.

With steel, weapons can be cast. Whether it is to deal with Dong Zhuo's Xiliang cavalry or the Xiongnu and Xianbei cavalry in Bingzhou, a saber is definitely indispensable. The blade of the saber is three feet long and shaped like a half moon. The handle is four feet long and has an iron spike at the bottom. It can be used in horse battles, foot battles, and water battles. Chopping off a horse's feet is like the wind sweeping branches.

After a period of forging by Master Guo and the young and strong men in the village, one hundred sabers have been cast and distributed to one hundred soldiers with the best physique and martial arts skills in the village for training.

Sabers have existed since the Western Han Dynasty. The ones produced in Juyi Village were nothing special except that they were much sharper than the sabers of the same period. What surprised Xu Chu and others the most was the newly made bows, which were nearly nine feet long, about four feet longer than ordinary bows. What was even more peculiar was the range of these bows.

Xu Chu stood at the edge of the training ground, looking at the arrows falling in the distance, and said in disbelief, "It's already two hundred steps away?!"

"Hmm!" Guan Hai put down his longbow. "This is probably the maximum range. It's basically the end of its strength. However, at around 170 steps, this bow can penetrate leather armor, which is a full 80 to 90 steps farther than an ordinary bow and arrow."

Xu Chu then picked up a bow and said excitedly, "Have someone put up an armored straw man over there. I'll give it a try."

Immediately, a soldier came up carrying a dummy. Xu Chu held the bow in his left hand and the arrow in his right hand. After the string was fully drawn, he released his right hand. With a whoosh, an arrow shot out like a meteor chasing the moon, heading straight for the straw man. Xu Chu put down the bow and saw that the arrow had actually pierced through the straw man.

Guan Hai said, "You are strong and your power is more powerful, but the hundred strong men I selected can only penetrate leather armor at this distance."

Xu Chu was filled with excitement. "Amazing! Incredible! When these two armies were shooting at each other, we could hit them, but they couldn't hit us. So why are we afraid of not winning? What's the name of this bow?"

"What's your name?..."

Guan Hai thought for a moment, then turned to Zhang Mo, who was watching the soldiers practicing saber slashing nearby, and shouted, "Amo, what do you call this bow?"

Zhang Mo ran over and said, "It's the English longbow. If you can't remember the name, just call it the longbow."

Xu Chu laughed and said, "It's so long, it must be called a longbow, but it can only be used by infantry, not cavalry."

Zhang Mo was somewhat speechless. "We only have about two hundred horses in our village, and that's enough for the cavalry and infantry. If the soldiers master the bow, they can accurately shoot twelve arrows in a minute, and with a volley, they can shoot fifteen. With further practice, twenty arrows is not impossible. With the cooperation of longbowmen and heavy cavalry, and taking advantage of the terrain, a cavalry of two thousand archers can almost kill a light cavalry of ten thousand."

Historically, during the Hundred Years' War between England and France, the English used the longbow's range advantage to restrain the French cavalry and defeated the French with fewer troops several times.

Because of Lu Bu, Zhang Mo has temporarily shelved her plan to assassinate Dong Zhuo, but the Hu people in Bingzhou are very rampant. In terms of riding and shooting, Zhang Mo's group of refugees and bandits will never be able to beat the Hu people even if they practice for another two or three years. She has never thought of fighting with them on horseback, so she thought of the English longbow, a bow with a very long range. Her archers only need to shoot a few rounds of arrows accurately on the spot before the enemy rushes over.

However, the longbow also has its disadvantages. It requires the user to have a strong physique, superb skills and coordination in all aspects, and it also requires years of training and practice. Currently, the village can only select a hundred archers who meet the requirements.

In addition to weapons, there is armor. When Zhang Mo was in college, she visited the European plate armor from the 16th century in a museum. The large plates of metal can withstand any attack from cold weapons, but the casting cost of plate armor is too high. Currently, only two sets have been made in the village as specimens.

"Amo, how could you come up with the idea of ​​making such a bow?" Xu Chu asked in confusion.

Zhang Mo said casually, "This is all taught by my master."

Xu Chu looked envious, "You are so lucky to have met such a powerful master."

Guan Hai said from the side, "That's because Amo is the reincarnation of the Military Saint, otherwise Master wouldn't teach you these things."

Xu Chu nodded seriously, "That's right!"

He spoke with a look of regret, "Do you think the heavens dozed off during your reincarnation? Why did they turn you into a woman? If you were a man, Amo, your future achievements might be even greater than in your past life. What a pity!"

Zhang Mo smiled and said, "Why is it a pity? I don't like fighting and killing. I made these weapons just for self-protection. I'm a lazy person and just want to live a life of idleness and waiting for death."

As they were talking, a soldier came running over from outside the training ground. "Captain, Zhang Yan has sent an envoy, and he's almost at the gate."