At this moment, in Xuchang.
Bai Feng was leisurely watering the crops in the fields.
The crops were growing very well during this period of time.
Although the mansion had been abandoned for a long time, the land was indeed the most fertile in the entire Xuchang.
During this period of time, Cao Jie often came to look for Bai Feng and helped her water the plants.
After all, Bai Feng had sent the Eighteen Horsemen of Yanyun, Li Cunxiao, Li Yuanba, and Qin Liangyu to attack Sichuan with Deng Ai.
Bai Feng was the only one who could do the farm work.
However, it was only five acres of land, and the crops only needed to be watered. There were no special requirements.
There was no need to get rid of insects.
The seeds given by the System would not have insects.
After watering the crops, Bai Feng had nothing to do, so he opened the System Store to see if there was anything else that could be used.
He had to admit that the current System Store was much better than the previous one.
After the improvements, the System probably realized that the previous path was wrong, so it directly removed all the items that could increase one's strength.
The remaining items were changed to items that could be used as officials.
There were many items that would only appear in the modern era or later.
Not only were there food, but there were also gun blueprints.
However, not to mention Cao Cao, even if Bai Feng did it himself, he would not be able to make guns.
Firearms were not something that could be made if one wanted to. It required a very large industrial system.
At the very least, there should be steel materials that could be used to produce parts. Only then could guns be made.
Otherwise, how could these things be made out of nothing?
Bai Feng roughly looked and locked onto a very good item.
The way to use black gunpowder!
This was the only way to use firearms that could be used now.
Black gunpowder could be made in the Three Kingdoms period.
However, it was now the era of cold weapons, and people did not think about firearms.
Everyone's thoughts were still stuck on either hand-to-hand combat or a rain of arrows.
At most, there would be some construction machinery and catapults.
In fact, catapults were similar to cannons in the future, but they were far less powerful.
But even so, it was extremely effective in sieging cities.
If he could use gunpowder to create something similar to a grenade, wouldn't he be able to directly attack Liu Bei and Sun Quan?
After all, even if the Cao Army was already very powerful, they had a lot of people.
However, fighting in the south was far less convenient than fighting in the north.
The northern soldiers could not stand the climate in the south.
Moreover, they had to fight on the river.
Under such circumstances, the strength of the northern soldiers would be greatly reduced.
Of course, it was the same for the southern soldiers. If they were to go on an expedition to the north, they would also not be able to withstand the weather in the north, but it would be much better than the northerners.
After all, to resist the cold, all they had to do was stuff their armor with wool and other things to keep them warm.
However, the soldiers in the north were different. Just the fact that they were not acclimatized to the environment was a huge problem.
This was also the reason why Dong Yue Wu was only destroyed during the Three Kingdoms Period.
Since ancient times, the emperors in the north liked to run to the south when something happened. It was not without reason.
Therefore, Boss Cao's current strength was far from enough to deal with the Sun Liu Army.
However, although black gunpowder was easy to manufacture, it still required a certain industrial system to use it.
Firstly, it required steel.
In truth, during the Three Kingdoms Period, there was already a way to smelt steel. However, compared to later times, the speed was much slower.
Moreover, the cost was also very high. Hundred wrought steel, or even Thousand wrought steel, required a lot of manpower, resources, and money.
The armor and weapons of the Tiger Leopard Cavalry were made from normal steel.
However, compared to Hundred wrought steel, it was still far from it.
Even so, the Tiger Leopard Cavalry was still able to rely on their excellent equipment to sweep through the Three Kingdoms Period.
The difference between the Tiger Leopard Cavalry and the Formation Breaker was that the eight hundred soldiers of the Formation Breaker were all strong.
Every single one of them was at the level of a small general.
Although these soldiers were few in number, they had cooperation. Furthermore, Gao Shun himself was good at arranging troops.
Therefore, the Formation Breaker was the perfect counter to the Tiger Leopard Cavalry.
It was only after the Formation Breaker was gone that the Tiger Leopard Cavalry dared to call themselves the head of the army.
Of course, Cao Cao only managed to make five thousand Tiger Leopard Cavalry after much effort.
Only five thousand cavalry were made using most of Cao Cao's savings.
From this, one could see how much money was spent on steel.
However, Bai Feng naturally had a way to solve this problem.
The Infusion Method.
The Infusion Method was much simpler than the Stir-Frying Method, and it was also a sign of industrialization.
Furthermore, its production was at least ten times or even a hundred times more than the Stir-Frying Method.
This kind of efficiency was not on the same level.
However, to use the Infusion Method, one needed a furnace.
Without a furnace, one could not use manpower to inject steel.
After all, the melting point of iron was 1538 degrees Celsius. At this temperature, a person would melt the moment they touched it.
Therefore, a steelmaking furnace was very necessary.
Since he had finished the work on hand, he only needed to wait for the grain to ripen. Bai Feng went to prepare a furnace.
With a furnace, there would be an endless supply of steel.
With steel, one could strengthen armor and weapons.
Hundred wrought steel and pig iron could not be compared.
Hundred wrought steel was much tougher than pig iron, and it would not break easily.
In a battle between two armies, if the difference in strength was not large, then it would depend on the difference in equipment.
The one with good equipment would always have the advantage.
Imagine this.
The two of them were fighting. One of them was wearing armor and wielding a weapon made of pig iron.
On the other hand, the other one's armor and weapon were made of tempered steel.
In this case, unless the person who used Hundred wrought steel was a pig, he would definitely win.
Hundred wrought steel could easily cut through weapons made of pig iron. There was no doubt about this.
On the other hand, if a weapon made of pig iron were to hit an armor made of tempered steel, nothing would happen except for sparks.
At most, it would leave a mark.
It was precisely because of this that steel was especially important.
Hundred wrought steel was not only used for weapons, but also for the application of gunpowder.
It could be said that as long as there was Hundred wrought steel, its influence would be no less than that of high-yield crops such as potatoes and corn.
After all, one could feed people, and the other could allow people to expand their territory.
The two were simply indispensable and complemented each other.
One could stabilize internal affairs, and the other could resist foreign enemies.
Now, as long as these two things were done well, dealing with the Sun Liu Army would not be as difficult as before.
Thinking back to the time when he took Jiangdong, he had put in a lot of effort.
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