Wuchang City, in the prefect's house.
Liu Jue sat on the seat of honor. He was still wearing the Scarlet Refined Armor, which had some blood stains on it. His slightly excited face had a hint of killing intent.
The battle had already ended. At this moment, Liu Jue was listening to Huang Zhong's report on the results of the battle.
Apart from those who died in the siege, the rest of the 15,000 soldiers that Zhou Yu had brought with him had either died, fled, or surrendered as captives because of Liu Jue's ambush.
There were about 3,000 people who surrendered. After all, they were Zhou Yu's soldiers. These surrendered soldiers were of first-class quality. If Huang Zhong trained them well, they would become a strong and capable army.
Apart from that, Liu Jue also seized countless resources, such as provisions, baggage, armor, weapons, and even more than 80 warships.
In order to take down Wuchang City, Zhou Yu had the navy participate in the attack, leaving only a few soldiers to guard the warships.
In the end, after Zhou Yu fled in defeat, these warships became Liu Jue's spoils of war.
After Huang Zhong finished his report, he said excitedly,"Young General, the results of this battle are too great. This battle has caused Zhou Yu to lose more than 10,000 soldiers. I'm afraid he can only retreat to Chaisang and won't be able to invade Jiangxia for a few years.”
"General Huang, you're right!" Liu Jue laughed loudly. Zhou Yu would probably need a few years to recover from this defeat. However, Gan Ning has already gone after Zhou Yu. If we can capture and kill him, it will be equivalent to cutting off one of Sun Quan's arms. That is the result I want to see.”
After experiencing this battle, Liu Jue realized the cruelty of war. He understood that if he wanted to compete with the dukes for hegemony, he had to learn how to kill decisively.
Be it Zhou Yu or Sun Quan, if anyone dares to block this daddy's path, this daddy doesn't mind killing them one by one!
Huang Zhong nodded slightly when he heard this. As the commander of the three armies, Liu Jue's greatest taboo was being soft-hearted.
" General Huang," Liu Jue continued," you are in charge of sending people to treat the wounded and bury the bodies. Even if they are the surrendered soldiers of River East, you must treat them as much as you can." In addition, organize the results of the battle and immediately send someone to Xiangyang.”
"Don't worry, Young General. I've already sent someone to do it." Huang Zhong cupped his fists and said.”
Although the battle had ended, there was still a lot of work to be done. Huang Zhong, Su Fei, and the others were very busy. After Huang Zhong reported the results of the battle, he chatted with Liu Jue for a while before leaving.
Liu Jue heaved a long sigh of relief. He was still very excited. After all, he had defeated Zhou Yu.
He was a famous general of Jiangdong who assisted Sun Ce and Sun Quan and left a deep mark in history.
After this battle, not only would there be no more wars in Jiangxia for several years, but Liu Jue's name would also spread throughout Jingzhou and Jiangdong. At that time, the people of Jiangxia would submit to him, and he would also gain great fame.
With prestige and fame, it meant that talents would come to seek refuge.
What was the most expensive thing in the 21st century? Of course, it was talent!
This sentence was also applicable in the late Eastern Han Dynasty!
After letting his imagination run wild for a while, Liu Jue opened the Hegemony System. The reward for the mission had already been issued. It was 50,000 Merit Points and a scroll of the 'Steel Imbuing Technique'.
Liu Jue ignored the 50,000 merit points and looked at the Imbued Steel Technique.
The items rewarded by the system were all top-grade, so this steel pouring method was definitely not simple.
The system was very humane and gave a detailed introduction to the steel pouring method. After Liu Jue carefully read the introduction, he could not help but reveal a deep shock on his face.
During the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were two main types of steel smelting techniques. One was the stir-frying method, and the other was the hundred steel smelting method.
The basic method of the so-called steel frying method was to heat pig iron into a semi-liquid or liquid state, then add iron ore powder and stir it continuously. After a series of reactions, steel was obtained.
The Hundred Refined Steel used fried steel as the raw material. After repeated folding and forging, it would obtain steel of better quality.
The emergence of the Steel Stirring Method and the Hundred Steels Method allowed the Han Dynasty to have a large amount of cheap and high-quality wrought iron and steel, satisfying the needs of production and war.
It could be said that the reason why the Han Dynasty could be so powerful and make the Xiongnu cry for their parents was due to the Steel Stirring Method and the Hundred Steels Method.
However, these two smelting methods also had flaws. The stir-frying process was complicated and not easy to master.
As the saying goes, if you want to obtain high-quality steel, you can only rely on experienced blacksmiths to repeatedly forge, but this efficiency is too low.
However, the steel pouring method solved this problem. It had a prototype in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and was perfected during the Northern and Southern Dynasties.
This method used high-quality iron ore to smelt high-quality pig iron. Then, the liquid pig iron was poured onto the wrought iron. After several smelting, steel could be obtained.
Compared to the stir-frying method, the steel-pouring method further shortened the smelting time, increased efficiency, increased steel production, and improved steel quality. Moreover, the operation was simpler.
Ever since the steel pouring method was invented, it had been used throughout the dynasties. At the same time, it was constantly developed and perfected. In fact, some places in the 21st century still used this method.
"Damn it, this steel pouring technique is simply a strategic weapon!”Liu Jue gulped. His palms were sweating from excitement.
This was a technology that was hundreds of years ahead of the Eastern Han Dynasty. To the people of this era, it was not too much to say that it was black technology!
With this method, Liu Jue would be able to obtain a large amount of steel of better quality than Hundred Refined Steel, and he would be able to forge thousands of sharp sabers.
During the Eastern Han Dynasty, although weapons made of refined steel were sharp, they had many flaws. Other than wasting time and energy, they were also very expensive.
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, a famous steel sword made of 100-grade steel could buy food for seven people for more than two years.
Therefore, the standard weapon of the Eastern Han soldiers, the ring-headed saber, was only made of high-quality iron sabers.
However, now that Liu Jue had the Imbued Steel Technique, he could mass produce such sharp weapons.
With a sharp weapon, coupled with elite soldiers, he wouldn't even fear Cao Cao in the north, let alone Sun Quan in the River East!
Conquering the world was just around the corner!
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