Chapter 56 Preparation
Four people sat opposite each other in the Xiangyang City Lord's Mansion, all with extremely heavy expressions.

These four people are Guo Jing, Huang Rong, Wang Ming, and Lu Wende, the pacification envoy of Xiangyang City. They are discussing countermeasures for this battle. In fact, it should be said that only two people are discussing it. Lu Wende only wants to abandon the city and escape, while Wang Ming has no desire to discuss at all.

The total number of old, weak, sick and disabled defenders in Xiangyang City is only about 10,000. Even if the military genius Han Xin and the killing god Bai Qi were alive, they would not be able to turn the tables.

Wang Ming saw that they couldn't come to a conclusion, so he didn't want to waste time with them and asked, "How is the armor you ordered the military craftsmen in the city to make for me?"

Lu Wende immediately said in a flattering tone: "All the craftsmen in the city have been mobilized to work hard to speed up the work. It has been completed."

Wang Ming said calmly: "That's good! Let's go and take a look."

After saying that, Wang Ming walked out of the lobby of the City Lord's Mansion. Lu Wende had not seen what happened to Wang Ming outside the city, and was very disrespectful to Wang Ming at first. However, Wang Ming was not an honest man like Guo Jing. He directly pressed Lu Wende's acupoints, making him laugh for a long time, almost laughing himself to death. Now he was afraid of Wang Ming when he saw him.

Wang Ming couldn't help but sigh in his heart when he saw Lu Wende's servile attitude and his constant persuasion to Guo Jing to lead his troops to break out and abandon the city.

The Song Dynasty did not trust its military generals, so it let a group of literati take control of the military. Unfortunately, although they had military power, they did not have the bravery of soldiers, and most of them were spineless.

Soon they arrived at the parade ground, and several soldiers came to Wang Ming and his companions carrying some things.

"Mr. Wang! This is a chain mail armor, made up of nearly ten thousand iron rings and weighing twenty kilograms." Lu Wende pointed to the evil thing on the first wooden box.

"This is the strongest armor of our dynasty. It originally weighed 60 kilograms. Now it has been enhanced with life force, and now it weighs 81 kilograms." Lu Wende pointed to the second box.

"Well done, put it on for me." Wang Ming said with satisfaction.

Hearing this, several soldiers began to help Wang Ming put on the armor. The process of putting on the armor was very complicated and it was difficult to complete it by himself.

Ten minutes later, Wang Ming put on his armor and performed a set of basic boxing on the field. He thought to himself, "This armor weighs more than 100 kilograms. Its protective ability is considered to be armed to the teeth. It should be considered invulnerable to swords and guns."

The soldiers who put armor on him looked at Wang Ming as if he were a monster. They knew best how heavy the armor was. After he put it on, his movements were still as agile as if he was not wearing any armor.

After the Song Dynasty lost the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, it also had no horse farms and could only focus on infantry. This infantry armor supported the Song Dynasty for three hundred years, which shows how extraordinary it was.

"Mr. Wang! This is a spear," Lu Wende began to introduce the rest of the things.

Wang Ming took a look and saw that it was about three meters long, which was not what Wang Ming wanted.

"This is the Fang Tian Hua Ji used in daily ceremonials." Lu Wende was very good at observing people's expressions. He could tell in an instant that Wang Ming was dissatisfied, and quickly introduced the next item.

Although the Fang Tian Hua Ji was used for ordinary ceremonial purposes, the materials and craftsmanship used in its casting were extremely good. It was just too heavy for ordinary people to use.

Wang Ming was immediately excited when he heard the words of Fang Tian Hua Ji. How many people have not read "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" before traveling through time and don't know Fang Tian Hua Ji? In Wang Ming's impression, Fang Tian Hua Ji is the most powerful horseback weapon. "

He took the painted halberd, danced with it for a few times, then stopped, and said with satisfaction: "The Fang Tian painted halberd is barely acceptable, are there any others?"

"Yes! Yes! Yes! Bring it up." Lu Wende shouted.

Each of them brought up a weapon. "This is General Zhang's family heirloom weapon in the city. Because it is too difficult to use, they have been holding it back. Today I went to borrow it." Lu Wende introduced hurriedly.

Wang Ming was stunned when he saw the weapon.

"This is a horse lance, which is derived from a spear. The difference between it and an ordinary spear is that the spear uses an ordinary wooden pole, while the lance pole is made of the finest mulberry wood. This wood has a strong ability to bend, rebound and reset instantly. Our dynasty's famous Shenbi crossbow is made of mulberry wood. When making the lance pole, the mulberry wood must be peeled into millions of thin strips, which are then soaked repeatedly in an oil pool for a year to obtain the raw materials for bonding the wooden pole. Finally, after undergoing complex processes such as applying raw lacquer and wrapping with ramie cloth, it takes three years to form a horse lance with super toughness." Lu Wende fully explained the manufacturing process of this weapon, letting Wang Ming know the extraordinary nature of this weapon.

Upon hearing this, Wang Ming took the weapon, tried it, and felt it was very good.

"By the way, few people know how to use the horse lance, so I also asked for the secret book of the horse lance passed down by General Zhang's ancestors." Lu Wende took out a book from his arms.

Wang Ming took the secret book, flipped through a few pages, and put it in his arms: "I don't know how to use these three weapons. Since this horse lance has a secret book, I'll use it."

He had experienced the martial arts world of "Swordsman" where the martial arts moves were abnormally developed to the peak. Wang Ming was confident that he could learn the horse lance secret book overnight. The difficulty of horse lance was not the technique of use, but the strength.

Is Wang Ming lacking in strength?

No shortage!

You have to know that Cheng Shifei was able to lift the stone dragon in the square of Hulong Villa. Wang Ming's "Vajra Indestructible" was not fully cultivated, so he could not reach the same outrageous level of strength as Cheng Shifei, but the armor on his body and the lance weighing more than ten pounds were nothing to him.

Even though the horse lance weighs only a dozen pounds, it is much lighter than the giant iron sword which weighs sixty pounds, so it doesn't seem to take much effort to use.

In fact, it is not the case. To use this weapon, the strength required is no less than that required by that weapon, and it even exceeds that required by other weapons.

For example, you can easily lift your girlfriend who weighs more than 90 kilograms with both hands. If you put a one-kilogram object on one end of a wooden stick several meters long and hold the other end, ordinary people cannot lift it. This is a force lever.

Another feature of this horse lance is that it is very powerful in penetrating armor, and can be regarded as the king of cold weapons.

"Mr. Wang! This last item is the Tang Dynasty horizontal sword that you asked me to order the craftsmen to make." Lu Wende had the last box delivered.

Wang Ming took the knife, looked at it, and put it down.

"Tick! Tick!"

A soldier came closer, leading a strong and majestic horse. The horse was also covered in armor. This was why all the craftsmen in the city had to work quickly.

This horse is Guo Jing's chestnut horse, also known as the Ferghana horse, which was borrowed by Wang Ming and he ordered someone to make armor for it.

"You did a good job, go down!" Wang Mingdao.

"It is my blessing to be able to serve you, sir." Lu Wende slowly left. He was a government official and knew when to advance and when to retreat. He knew that he had to obey now, otherwise he would die.

Wang Ming plans to learn from Yang Guo who will be like Yang Guo thirty years later tomorrow and directly assassinate the Mongolian Khan to end this battle, so he is asking people to prepare weapons.

(End of this chapter)