The Sacred Ding

Nearly a hundred organs fired a volley of crossbows, and the rain of gold-hardened arrows was as terrifying as a storm. Even the most elite and heavy-armored horses could hardly block its formidable power, while Kong Peng used light-armored crossbows, Lancers are the main ones, and naturally they dare not approach Nanjian Gorge easily, but it does not mean that Kong Peng, who is supervising battles in Yuchi City as a rebel captain, is helpless.

In addition to being the only four Dao Pill powerhouses remaining in the Pinglu Oasis, Kong Peng had served in the Northern Army for a long time before becoming a bandit. Not only him, but even the chief bandits under his command, All have rich experience in smelting the army.

According to the strong penetrating power of the quenched golden arrows, they chose a thousand-year-old hardwood in Yuchi City to manufacture a large number of double or even multi-layer tall tower shields.

This kind of tower shield is also extremely cumbersome, but it is mounted on wheels and is driven by three or five strong and strong players, which can effectively resist the continuous shooting of the organs.

This kind of tower shield vehicle made of thousand-year-old solid wood is still much lighter than the precision cast iron shield of the same defensive power, but it is strongly suppressed by the Jingjuejun Poultry Battalion on the logistics supply line, regardless of Whether it is an iron shield car or a tower shield car, Kong Peng wants to build enough in Yuchi City, but it can’t be done in three or five days.

Generals such as Ye Qinglin and Ye He still hope to make use of the existing weapons before Kong Peng, Zhang Xiong and other thieves can build enough targeted weapons in Yuchi City, Tian’ai Mountain, and Xiqiang King City. With some advantages, it first carried out a devastating attack on the more than 30,000 rebels assembled in Yuchi City.

Ye Qinglin and their considerations have their own rationale. The magic war chariot and the organ continuous crossbow are strong, but the number is still too limited. Once the iron shield car built by the rebels becomes large, the number will increase. For the huge battlefield, with less than a hundred organs, the role that can be played will become extremely limited.

The counterweight sling crossbow has low technical content and is easy to imitate. Once the rebels can build the sling crossbow in Yuchi City, their advantage in this respect will be weakened.

Although it is unlikely that the Monster God Temple will participate in the war directly, the rebels can still recruit poultry cultivators from the depths of the desert west of Pinglu to strengthen their poultry camp. They are temporarily in the iron The absolute advantage over Le Ling will gradually be weakened.

Chen Hai did not want to take the risk and rush to fight Kong Peng in Yuchi City at this time.

Although Chen Hai and Dong Ning handed over the command of the battlefield at the western foot of Tieling Mountains to Ye Qinglin, the elite troops deployed at the west entrance of Nanjian Gorge were not controlled by Ye Qinglin.

After deducting the outstanding army at the west entrance of Nanjianxia, ​​Ye Qinglin expanded his army to 30,000 after recruiting the children of the four surnames. Faced with the soldiers led by Kong Peng of Black Mountain Martial Venerable, yet It’s hard to talk about advantages.

Chen Hai still hopes that the real decisive battle will be postponed until after next spring or even later.

The Zhang Clan clan seized the King City of Xiqiang and established himself as a king. With the support of the Monster God Temple and the Tibetan and Qiang Kingdom, in the past six months not at all, it can effectively control the Pinglu Oasis, most of the city. Still maintaining neutrality, which means that Ye’s rule of the West Qiang State four hundred or so years, still has a strong foundation in the Pinglu Oasis.

At this time, they stood firm in Tieling and directly confronted the rebels. The delay in time was actually beneficial to them.

And a more important reason is that Chen Hai wants to take advantage of the current war pressure to forcefully promote the military system in Lucheng.

Although Zhao, Zhou and Yang Gu promised to move to the west of Tieling to rule a city after the war, once there is no war pressure, will they lead the children of most clans to withdraw from Lucheng and Ye Qinglin will still It’s hard to tell if you won’t keep the promise.

Especially the secrets of the muddy sand mines are hidden at the bottom of the Tianxuan Lake inside the Lukai Gorge. Once the curtain is officially lifted, all promises will become pale and weak in the face of huge interests.

To ensure that Jingjue Duhufu has absolute strength control over Lucheng after the war, we can only forcefully promote the military system under the great war pressure and when the resistance is minimal.

What Chen Hai 1st Step did was to transfer Ding Shuang from Black Mountain, and he was first responsible for reorganizing the forces left after Zhang Clan was expelled from Deer City.

Zhang Clan is one of the five surnames of Lucheng. Although it can only be regarded as an insignificant tribe within the Jin Yan prefectures, it has 170,000 acres of arable land from the west bank of the Lu River to Tieling. Several times the area of ​​the pasture.

Chen Hai organized twelve military villages on the west bank of the Luhe River and the eastern foot of Tieling Mountain to govern the land under the original Zhang Clan clan. More than 5,000 households and more than 30,000 people were incorporated into the military mansion to reward officials with military merit.

Without affecting the current situation of farming and animal husbandry, this action alone will recruit 6,000 more elite soldiers for the elite army.

Jing Juejun had previously recruited 12,000 elites from Black Mountain, six thousand elites guarded Lucheng, and six thousand elites teamed up with Ye’s Royal Family Army to guard the west entrance of Nanjianxia.

For the newly recruited six thousand new pawns, Chen Hai did not plan to spend half a year or more on training an army alone. Instead, he was sent directly to the west entrance of Nanjianxia, ​​with Wu Meng, Ran Hu, and Fan Dachun. The takeover, with a one-to-one ratio, was directly divided into small camps, directly expanding the force of the Jing Jue Army at the west entrance of Nanjianxia to 12,000.

In a short period of time, the average strength of the elite troops stationed at the west entrance of Nanjianxia will be reduced, but as long as there is no large-scale war before next spring, the new soldiers can quickly adapt to the high intensity. Training and familiarization with the battlefield; at the same time, there will be a group of grassroots military officers trained, and these grassroots military officers are the basis for the implementation of the military system.

For the slaves and subordinates of Zhao, Yang, Zhou and Gu’s four clans, the practice of Jingjue Duhufu cannot be so blunt and rude. Instead, it implements a redemption policy acceptable to all aspects; The slaves and subordinates who belong to the four surnames and are willing to join the Jingjue Army are all redeemed from the four surnames at the expense of the Jingjue Duhufu.

Jingjue Duhufu’s bid for every elite slave and his family is ten kilograms of hardened iron material. This is a very high price in the slave market of Pinglu Oasis; After a large-scale war, the four-surnamed clan can also take a large number of people from the enemy and serve as slaves.

On the one hand, Zhao Yangzhou and Gu Si surnamed hope that Jing Juejun will become stronger and will be able to fight with the Royal Family Army more effectively in the future to fight the rebels more effectively. On the one hand, he cannot refuse such an offer. .

As well as the fields and pastures of the four surnamed clans on both sides of the Lu River, Jingjue Duhu Mansion also offered for redemption.

For the entire winter of the six years of Celestial Emperor 70, more than 200,000 jin of hardened gold and iron materials and more than two thousand sets of armor were directly imported into Lucheng from Juquanling. They were used as seven thousand slaves and their families. The redemption of tens of thousands of fields was transferred to the children of the four surnames.

Ye Qinglin is also willing to accept such a redemption policy. After all, a large number of armors, bows, and gold-hardened iron materials were transferred from the Jingjue Duhufu to the hands of the four surname clans, which also directly strengthened the Ye’s Royal Family army. Strength does not increase Ye’s debt to Hexi.

During this period, not only the elite troops stationed in Lucheng were expanded to 10,000 people.

Chen Hai also took over an iron quarry and a smelting yard left after Zhang Clan expelled from Lucheng, and moved half of the craftsmen and craftsmen from the Black Mountain craftsmanship camp to Lucheng .

Chen Hai also requisitioned manpower to dig up the stone stairs leading to Lukai Gorge from the source of the Luhe River.

Lukai Gorge is located more than 3,000 meters above the source of the Luhe River, with extremely dangerous terrain.

In the past, Lucheng would never think of trying to build a city on Lukai Gorge. Naturally, it would not have thought of digging a stone staircase with a height difference of more than 3,000 meters, but the Monster God Temple dísciple was once from the south. The mountains approached Luhe. At this time, Chen Hai built a fortress on Lukai Gorge and removed a defensive array in Lucheng and deployed it on Lukai Gorge. This is justified.

Of course, before the stone stairs were dug out, a large amount of manpower and materials were directly carried on the back through the giant eagle.

The smelting furnace was directly dismantled from the Zhang Clan iron smelting yard; it was only the treatment of the quenched iron material that required extremely high furnace flame temperatures, but for Juquanling at this time, secretly Sending a set of high-level flame-collecting talisman array over is also something that people do not know.

On the first day of the Celestial Emperor’s 77th year, the foundry in Lukaixia successfully produced the first furnace of quenched hot metal and poured it into the pre-made halberd blank mold. Among.

Of course, these actions cannot be hidden from Hexi.

Hexi controls the opening of the westward desert, and can roughly count the quenched iron materials imported into the desert. Two phases and one calculation can tell where the problem is. Therefore, Lukaixia refined the first quench Chen Hai also specially invited Ge Xuanqiao and Du Linan to observe the scene.

“…” Du Linan looked at 4000-5000 catties of hot red hot molten iron, which was divided into molds and cooled to form. Fifty gold quenched battle halberd and war spear blanks were quickly cast in front of his eyes. , I didn’t even know what to say.

Quenched iron material is only a general term. Even the black iron bow used by Chen Hai at this time is strictly a hardened iron, but the content of black iron essence is relatively higher that’s all. If such an iron bow is completely cast with iron essence, the bow alone will weigh 20,000 to 30,000 catties. Who can use it?

At the time, according to the content of extremely precious gold and iron such as iron essence and Zichensha gold, the quenched gold iron was divided into 9-levels.

Level 9 hardened iron material can usually be used to cast the highest mortal armor; the eighth to sixth levels correspond to the yellow-rank low grade to high grade mysterious soldiers, which can be practiced Seal and array prohibition.

The Xuantai Zichen Halberd used by Chen Hai at this time is based on the eighth-level quenched iron material, with three hundred catties of Xuantai iron essence, 200 Jin Zichen sand gold, and battle halberd weight. More than 1000 taels is a hundred catties, but it can only be regarded as the fourth-class quenched gold iron.

The pure iron essence and Zichensha gold are several times more precious than Peak’s quenched iron, but it weighs nearly a hundred catties as much as a piece of iron essence than broad bean at worst. , It is possible to prepare and refine small and light Spirit Swords and magic weapons, but don’t think it can be used to cast large mysterious weapons.

The quality of the placer lake mud mined at the bottom of Lukaixia Lake is better than that of Juquanling. It can directly produce close to the eighth grade quenched iron. Du Linan suspects that the Monster God Temple knows Lukai The secret at the bottom of the gorge lake, will the intestines be regretful.

Hundreds of elite disciples in the Monster God Hall were so close to this unimaginable sect resource that Chen Hai was finally bluffed?

“Ge Old Ancestor, half of the quenched iron material produced here can be supplied to Hexi, but this secret may not be kept for a long time.” Chen Hai said to Ge Xuanqiao.

“You give the Monster God Hall a condition to allow them to segregate Changle City on the west side of the Pinglu Oasis. It is nothing more than leaving a back door for Taiweizong to add a Dao Academy here,” Ge Xuanqiaoqing He sighed lightly, “It makes no difference if I stay in Taiwei Mountain or in closed-door cultivation in Lukai Gorge. Besides, this girl Dong Ning also grew up when she was young, and I don’t want to see any accidents happening to her… “