After the team out of the boundary of Raozhou, it can be regarded as entering the Wuyi Mountain Range, the Wuyi Mountain Range is connected to Xianxialing in the north, Jiulian Mountain in the south, in the northeast and southwest direction, about 1,000 miles long, the average mountain height is more than 300 zhang, the mountains are towering and green, and the forest and sea are pervasive.

The mountain road is narrow, and sometimes when the road ends, the carriage is no longer passable, Xu Chen had to ride a horse with the soldiers, the riding skills are not perfect, and it didn't take long for Xu Chen, who was sitting on the horse, to be squeaked.

can be the main general, before the army, there must be the prestige of the main general. Xu Chen had no choice but to order someone to find a rope to tie his legs to the horse's pedals, and then wrap thick strips of cloth around his chest. It's just that in this way, the flow of qi and blood gradually slowed down, and at the end of the day, in addition to the swollen and painful joints, there was also muscle soreness, which made Xu Chen grin.

"Ancient generals are really not easy to be!"

Fortunately, the young man recovered quickly, and Xu Chen had a lot of good medicine on his body, and after more than ten days, Xu Chen's riding skills soared, although he couldn't ride a horse and gallop, he could easily control it.

On this day, the team passed the Nanniang Ridge, and the gourd mountain was in front of it. Hulu Mountain is not high, looming in the clouds and mist, but there is a way to "look at the mountain and run a dead horse", not to mention in the Wuyi Mountain Range, where the mountains are gathered.

After many turns, it took two days to reach the foot of Hulu Mountain.

It is connected to the lead mountain in the north, Jianyang in the south, and is on the dividing line of the east and west roads in the south of the Yangtze River. Neither Raozhou in the north nor Nanping in the south could extend the power of the government here.

This place is also a pass north of Wuyi Mountain, and it is also the first line of defense of the rebels in the Wuyi Mountain Range.

The strategic purpose of the rebels is very clear, to hold the land of Sanzhou south of Xianxialing, east of Wuyi Mountain, and north of Jianzhou, and use the sea to the east to make the powerful sailors a sharp weapon to attack and harass the Tang Dynasty.

As a result, important checkpoints need to be heavily guarded.

According to Wang Zhonghe's previous plan, Xu Chen only needed to enter the Wuyi Mountains to clear the remaining strongholds of the rebels. At the beginning of the marching battalion, the general commander of the battalion had analyzed the movements of the rebels and deduced the general disposition of the rebels, and the generals in the battalion agreed that the main force of the rebels must have all left the mountain, otherwise it would not have been possible to achieve such results in such a short time.

When discussing the military situation at the beginning, Xu Chen did not say a word, unlike these generals, who almost relied on the analysis and speculation of military reports from various places. Xu Chen, who has Huaqing as the internal response, knows more about the situation of the rebels.

Xu Chen knew that as soon as Li Yi and the others returned to Quanzhou, the rebel's newly established base, Li Yi had already sent elite soldiers and horses west into Wuyi Mountain, and heavily defended various key roads and checkpoints in Wuyi Mountain.

Most of Xu Chen's subordinates are newly recruited soldiers and horses, and they have not been on the battlefield, so their combat power can be imagined. Originally, Wang Zhongsi thought that it would not be a problem to send these recruits to clear out the rebel strongholds with little resistance. On the contrary, the pacification work after the extermination requires more effort from the people who lead the army, which is why Wang Zhongji chose Xu Chen.

And Xu Chen knew the situation of the enemy and himself, but he still accepted this military order without saying a word, so he naturally had his own considerations.

Now that he has entered the officialdom, Xu Chen needs to go further. As a young man, if you want to get a bigger official position, even with the help of the prime minister's teacher, you need to make enough credit from your own family.

The Tang Dynasty has the most important military merits, and the military generals spent a lot of effort in order to compete for the position of the commander of the counterinsurgency, and Li Lun did not wait for the army to be assembled and hurriedly waved his troops south, all because of his moving military achievements.

Xu Chen also needs more military exploits to support himself to gain more power, and for this Xu Chen needs more battles. The gathering of rebels in Wuyi Mountain is an excellent opportunity for Xu Chen.

Xu Chen, who has gunpowder, a weapon of war, does not have much fear of fighting, even if most of his hands are recruits who have never seen blood.

The battlefield is the best place for the recruits to carry out sharp changes, and at the beginning, didn't their brothers also just take a few bamboos and overturn the "one tyrant in the east of the city"! Now the young men who are strong and strong are no longer the beggars in Yuzhang City, and even the young people who have defeated such inhuman beings as cultivators have extremely rich combat experience, and they are also well-equipped, so there is nothing to be afraid of.

Yes, well-equipped! In order to arm the 3,000 brothers under his command, Xu Chen spent tens of millions of copper coins!

Yes, you read that right. It's not 100,000! It's not a million! It's 10 million! It's about 10 million copper coins! It's about 100 million yuan of copper coins! It's about the same as a year's tax of the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty only used three or four percent of the taxes to support the army of millions in the whole world. But Xu Chen spent several times the amount of money spent on the Tang Dynasty's military spending, and only equipped 3,000 people!

This is no longer an army!

This is clearly a moving treasure trove!

All the Mingguang armor is handmade by the master, light and strong, and the armor in the Tang army can only be possessed by the commander of a large army, Xu Chen's brothers, each of them has ...... Two sets!

Easy to change.

There is still a piece of gold silk soft armor on the inside of the armor, and the materials are the best, all of which are collected by Chai Lao and Lu Zhi from the rivers and lakes. There is a silk undershirt in the close-fitting body, all of which are good Suzhou goods. Naturally, these things are also two sets, all of them are two sets!

The horse lance on the victory hook is all the extension wood for the rod, after a thousand layers of wrapping, winding, the front wrapped in the steel lance head, after the red copper lance. This single mallet is worth a thousand yuan!

The knives on the waist are all Malaysian Shiske knives imported from overseas, and the bows and arrows on their backs are naturally all exquisite longbows made by famous artists.

By the way, there are also horses! Qingyishui's big food horse is good, but now in the mountains, it is not suitable to use tall and abnormal big food horses. Therefore, before setting off, Xu Chen was all replaced by Yunnan horses, which are used to walking mountain roads, and they are also the best breeds of Yunnan horses, which are able to maintain high speed running and long-lasting endurance on rugged mountain terrain.

One man rode in two, and each horse had a huge bag full of black iron balls, and the ravines on the iron balls were very ugly. At the beginning, during the training in the recruit camp, these unremarkable iron bumps once made the teenagers fall to the ground in fright, and tears flowed. The power of heaven impressed the teenagers, and to this day, whenever their eyes touched the cloth belt, many teenagers still had weak limbs.

Each of the young soldiers was followed by two sturdy auxiliaries, who were also honest men selected by Xu Chen from among the refugees. Most of them had some ties with these young people, and at the same time, all the families of the auxiliary soldiers were also taken to Ryukyu by Xu Chen. The auxiliaries are now in the Ryukyus, and every family has land, and they have a high allowance during their military service. With a multi-pronged approach, we don't worry that these auxiliaries don't work hard when they fight, and they are not afraid of danger, and these auxiliaries abandon their children and nephews and escape alone.

In addition, Xu Chen's group of brothers still had a lot of pill talisman seals that were scavenged from the cultivators last time, and these things could not be measured by money.

In order to make up for these equipment, Xu Chen has let Peng Ze run in Datang for more than a year, in addition to building warehouse outlets all over Datang, he has spent a lot of money to acquire these excellent equipment, and Zheng Tai, who has been going to the ocean several times, naturally also shouldered the heavy responsibility of finding good knives and horses for his brothers. These things can be regarded as treasures, Xu Chen can gather so much, in addition to skillful acquisition, he also has his own robbery.

In short, it is a sentence, local tyrants, rich, are capricious!

In Xu Chen's eyes, these teenagers are the most precious, money is nothing but things outside the body, Xu Chen, who has the knowledge of later generations, now has at least the strength to protect himself, and money is nothing at all.

For the equipment on their bodies, the old men in the team didn't care at all, most of these brothers who had followed Xu Chen since Yuzhang didn't have much concept of money in their hearts.

In the minds of these people, the impression of money is only one penny, two pennies, and three cents...... And lots and lots of money!

When he was a beggar, he had a few pennies in his hand, and after following his eldest brother...... There's too much money! I can't count it, so why count it?

Most of the newly recruited teenagers in Shengzhou are poor refugees, and in the eyes of these teenagers, the Mingguang armor covered with black paint is about the same weight as the iron pot used for cooking. As for the lance and Damascus leather knife, which are also dyed black, they are not just a spear with an iron head and a black wood knife!

However, the silk underwear on the body is a little unaccustomed to wearing, and at the beginning, I was reluctant to wear it for many years, and I hid it and took it out to show off when I was ready to go home for the New Year. It was only after the instructor gave repeated orders and whipped a few teenagers who refused to change their teachings that the teenagers carefully and reluctantly put them on their bodies.

From then on, whenever the camp was set up at night, rows of teenagers would squat by the small river by the camp, carefully wash the underwear they wore every day, and then scrub their bodies desperately, for fear of damaging the fine silk.

As a result, the tent no longer smells the smell of the feet of the recruits during training.

Compared with these illiterate robes, Zhang Tianyi, who was born in the general's door, was taken aback by the set of equipment on his body. Until today, the equipment has been in hand for more than half a month, and Zhang Tianyi still has to check it every day before going to bed, and when he sleeps, make sure that the equipment is within his reach, for fear that when he wakes up, it will be empty.

After camping every day, when others were washing silk and satin underwear by the stream, Zhang Tianyi held a large number of "broken copper and iron" in the surprised eyes of others, as if caressing the carcass of his lover, and gently maintained all kinds of equipment.

The strange eyes of the robes made Zhang Tianyi very uncomfortable, and he endured it for a long time, and finally ...... Still not telling the truth.

He guessed that the reason why Xu Chen covered up these treasures was that once these simple peasant teenagers learned the value of these equipment, they would desperately care for these equipment, even on the dangerous battlefield, they would subconsciously avoid damage to these equipment.

That obviously went against Xu Chen's original intention of spending a lot of money to buy these equipment for them, and he gave up the basics.