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Walking into Songxi Valley, Chen Hai understood why Ning Chan'er said that something was wrong. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Songxi Valley is sandwiched in the west of the middle peak of Ganquan Mountain, between the two mountain heads, there is a stone stream flowing out of the direction of the middle peak, there are more than 100 ancient pines with strange shapes growing in the valley, so it is called Songxi Valley.

The Songxi Valley is not deep, and there is a sentry post of the Black Yan Army on the top of the hill on the left flank, which can monitor the movements within a radius of seven or eight miles to the left and right, while there are only a few simple huts in the valley, such as the temporary habitat of hunters and medicine farmers who went into the mountains to hunt or collect medicine in the early years.

At this time, the snow covered the mountain, but the stream was not frozen and flowed down, Chen Hai and Ning Chan'er walked into the valley, and saw Le Yi with seven or eight old soldiers, holding shoddy fishing nets, standing knee-deep in the stream to catch fish and shrimp.

Since the victory of Huang Elkyuan, Le Yi has always been one of the core generals of the Heiyan Army, and has always mastered the most elite combat power of the Heiyan Army, fighting in Heyang, Lichuan and other places, and has made many achievements. Naturally, such a core general must also be protected with the strictest protection against possible assassinations.

Although Songxi Valley is also in the deep ridge of Ganquan Mountain, very close to the Zhongfeng camp, and there are also layers of sentry villages and mountain cities formed by the Black Yan Army's layers of sentry villages and mountain cities on the periphery, which is relatively much safer, but as long as the Black Yan Army does not build a high wall, or use a super defense array, the entire Ganquan Mountain will be shrouded, and the scouts and assassins in the West Garden Army who are good at hiding can also touch the deep ridge of Ganquan Mountain.

The high-ranking generals of the Black Yan Army, if they were not strictly protected, walked in the deep ridges of Ganquan Ridge, and it was not impossible to be assassinated.

The Le Yi in front of him definitely doesn't look like he's being closely protected, and at such a tense moment of war, Le Yi doesn't look like he's busy with military affairs and has every opportunity.

Chen Hai's original plan was to find Le Yi first, and use Le Yi's position in the Black Yan Army, hoping to do what he could, so that the Black Yan Army could reduce the casualties as much as possible, and the main force could withdraw from the currently entangled Heyang battlefield, so as not to completely lose its vitality here.

Walking into Songxi Valley and seeing the scene in front of him, Chen Hai denied the original plan, shook his head at Ning Chan'er, and decided not to reveal his true identity to Le Yi for the time being.

“……”

Seeing Ning Chan'er and Chen Hai walking into Songxi Valley, Le Yi was also very surprised.

His surprise didn't mean that he didn't notice Chen Hai's brief fight with Granny Crane just now, after all, the place where he fought just now was only twenty miles away from Songxi, separated by a few mountains, it was impossible for Le Yi not to notice it, and even in such a short period of time, the top level of the Heiyan Army in Ganquan Mountain knew that the Great Heavenly Master had sent another disciple to Ganquan Mountain to serve, he wondered how Ning Chan'er would take Chen Hai to him directly?

Although Le Yi was also accepted as a personal disciple by the Great Heavenly Master Gong Qing after the victory of Huang Elkyuan, in the past few years, his uncle Gong Liang taught him the true secrets of the Taoist Zen Institute and guided him to practice.

Ning Chan'er's temperament is already perverse enough, and now there is an ugly slave junior brother who has an even weirder temper, who almost vomited blood as soon as he entered the mountain, and the top management of the Heiyan Army is afraid to avoid it at this time, Le Yi subconsciously doesn't want to have anything to do with these two people.

"The battle situation is so urgent, why can Senior Brother Le be so leisurely, catching fish and shrimp here for fun?" Ning Chan'er asked with a grin, walked over and glanced at a big yellow eel with thick arms caught in the bamboo basket, the fine broken teeth were like jagged teeth, hideous and vicious, they could be called demon beasts, but they were tied to their heads with a red pulp copper wire, and they couldn't struggle in the bamboo basket.

"......" Le Yi glanced at the bamboo basket, did not explain why he was so leisurely in Songxi Valley, only said: "This big yellow eel can make a good meal, if you don't dislike it, just stay and enjoy it together, it can be regarded as a breeze and dust for your brother." ”

Chen Hai had contact with Le Yi when he first entered Jade Dragon Mountain, and Le Yi was just a silent protector of the Lu clan at that time, and then took refuge under Li Xianghai, and stayed by Li Yulin's side for many years.

In fact, before Chen Hai threw out a few military training records as bait in Leiyang Valley, he didn't realize that Le Yi would be the eyeliner of the Red Eyebrow Sect that had been hidden in Hexi for many years.

Le Yi gives people a very calm and silent feeling, plus he has been an orphan adopted by the Lu clan since he was a child, and he has always practiced within the Lu clan, who would have thought that he would be a spy of the Red Mei Sect?

At this time, Le Yi gave people the feeling that he was becoming more and more calm and silent, although he was only in the middle of the Ming Realm of cultivation, but standing there without saying a word, he gave people the feeling of being like a majestic mountain.

This means that although Le Yi only broke through to the realm of enlightenment after taking the Nine Turns Golden Liquid Pill, he has a small flaw in his cultivation, but after experiencing many things, his comprehension of the true meaning of the Tao has reached an unprecedented height.

The contemplation of the true meaning of the Tao is really not to shut yourself up in a cave with abundant spiritual energy, and you can do it behind closed doors.

Although Le Yi showed a cold look that no one was close to, Chen Hai and Ning Chan'er still followed behind Le Yi with shy faces and walked into Songxi Valley.

The eighteen medicine slaves who had been to Ganquan Mountain before all rushed to Songxi Valley to meet Ning Chan'er.

After Ning Chan'er left Yunmengze, she first went to Ganquan Mountain, and then went from Ganquan Mountain to Liquan to find Chen Hai, but she had stayed in Ganquan Mountain for a few days before, leaving most of the medicine slaves in Ganquan Mountain, and she didn't know what was going on, Le Yi suddenly became so idle.

Le Yi was reluctant to say, but the medicine slaves all rushed over to converge, Chen Hai and Ning Chan'er still knew from the mouth of the medicine slaves that before Ning Chan'er returned to Ganquan Mountain, the northern camp and the Hexi Qinwang army led by Dong Shou had a battle, although the northern camp suffered heavy casualties, but also captured the young general Li Yulin of Hexi.

After Le Yi learned the news, he remembered the old feelings, and rushed to the camp at the northern foot to privately release Li Yulin to the camp of the Qinwang army in Hexi, which angered the Heavenly Master Gong Liang and others, relieved Le Yi of his military power, and made him think about it behind closed doors in Songxi Valley.

Of course, as one of the most core generals of the Black Yan Army, Le Yi will be punished for releasing himself to the enemy without permission, but all military power will be taken away, and there must be deeper factors, but this is difficult for the medicine slave to observe in a short period of time.

Le Yi personally slaughtered the yellow eel that was about to become a climate for a banquet, Chen Hai and Ning Chan'er were strolling in the Songxi Valley, and saw a newly sorted out empty space behind a few simple huts, and there were more than a dozen craftsmen who had followed Le Yi to the Songxi Valley to think about it behind closed doors, and were assembling a puppet war beast with a strange shape and a shape like a giant scorpion.

Several craftsmen also knew that Chen Hai and Ning Chan'er were extraordinary, and Le Yi did not give orders to take precautions, so he did not stop, and stood aside with Chen Hai and Ning Chan'er to watch.

Chen Hai can be said to be a grandmaster-level figure in the field of puppetry, standing on the sidelines and watching the film, he knows that such a giant scorpion puppet war beast based on the transformation of the pavilion-level celestial machine chariot is to adapt to the rugged terrain of the mountains.

In addition to the original three pairs of weight-bearing wheels, the giant scorpion puppet war beast also has four additional retractable thick limbs and feet stretched out, which is so that after entering the complex terrain, the limbs and feet can directly move forward instead of the load-bearing wheels;

In the previous pavilion-level celestial machine chariot, the four shooting holes were all located in the bottom compartment of the chariot, close to the ground, and the firing angle was greatly limited;

Of course, the giant scorpion puppet war beast in front of him also has great shortcomings, for example, the internal structure is much more complex than that of an ordinary pavilion-level celestial machine chariot, and the shooting platform with a long scorpion tail must remain stable in the violent bumps, and the requirements for materials are extremely high, which is bound to greatly increase the overall weight and manufacturing difficulty, but in any case, the scorpion-shaped puppet war beast in front of him is an excellent transformation attempt for the pavilion-level celestial machine chariot.

Ning Chan'er glanced at Chen Hai, and the implication was to complain that Le Yi was influenced by him, and he was also obsessed with puppetry.

Chen Hai shrugged his shoulders, thinking to himself that it was not so much that Le Yi was influenced by him, but that Le Yi truly understood the essence of the ideas contained in the military training record.

On the earth, soldiers govern the army, and probably no one has thought about the possibility of improving the individual combat power of generals without limit, so in terms of improving the combat effectiveness of the army, in addition to paying attention to iron-like military discipline, it is more about making as many and more sophisticated weapons as possible to arm ordinary soldiers.

In the history of Yanzhou, the real soldiers who have had brilliant achievements also attach great importance to giving full play to the combat potential of ordinary generals; the magic weapon spirit sword can only be controlled by Xuanxiu disciples, and if the combat effectiveness of ordinary generals can be greatly improved, the puppet technique is a very worthwhile direction.

In front of him, it can only be said that Le Yi is on the right path, coupled with his true meaning of the Tao, he has a far deeper understanding than others, Chen Hai thought that in time, Le Yi may be able to truly become a grandmaster-level figure.

"This Scorpion Chariot is just something I came up with on a whim in Songxi Valley, and I tried to build one when I had nothing to do, but it was generally useless," Le Yi walked out at this time, and saw Chen Hai and Ning Chan'er staring at the giant scorpion puppet war beast in a daze, explaining the reason why he had created this thing in Songxi Valley, and couldn't help but open his mouth and ask, "What did you gain by going to Liquan to see Chen Hai this time?"

Since Ning Chan'er claimed to have seen the ugly slave serving beside his master Gongqing in Yunmengze, Le Yi had reason to believe that the "ugly slave" also went to Liquan with Ning Chan'er to see Chen Hai, and then returned to Ganquan Mountain from Liquan together.

There were few people in Ganquan Mountain who knew Ning Chan'er's true identity, and Le Yi was one of them, and he knew better than anyone the predicament that the Black Yan Army was facing in Heyang County at this time.

Even though Le Yi knew that it was extremely unlikely that he would be able to get assistance from Liquan this time, he had a glimmer of hope in his heart.

Ning Chan'er glanced at Chen Hai and said lazily to Le Yi: "What can I gain, the picture scrolls of the township-level Tianji chariot, wind flame airship, etc. are not top secret in the Tianji Academy, I got a few sets back, but can Ganquan Mountain be able to build it at this time?"

When it comes to strength, it will ultimately involve the control of resources.

In the past few years, the Heiyan army has controlled the northern part of Heyang County and the entire territory of Yanmen County, and after the old bureaucratic and clan system in Jiangfu County was destroyed, it also dispatched a large number of officials to restore the local government system of the prefecture and county, and sort out civil affairs, farming, post roads, water conservancy, and hoarding.

At the peak of the Heiyan Army, there were as many as three million soldiers and horses, and it was necessary to draw an unimaginably huge amount of resources from Yanmen, Heyang and other counties to maintain such a huge armament.

At the beginning, the sect lords of Yanmen, Heyang and other counties could not be moved away after hundreds of years of accumulation, and there were still some old bottoms that could be excavated, but they only supported it for two years, and after the old bottoms were quickly exhausted, the new production system had not yet recovered, and Le Yi, as the core general of the Heiyan Army, had already felt that this situation was unsustainable.

Even more than two years ago, they won many victories against the Tiger Ben army in the southern part of Ha Duong, but they could not reverse this trend.

This situation did not reveal any major problems for the time being, but after only half a year, a large-scale famine broke out again in Yanmen County, so that the supply of grain and grass to the Black Yan Army had to be reduced.

Naturally, there were also outstanding people from the eight clans of Jingjun, who quickly sensed the reversal of the situation, and it was only after that that the Xiyuan Army really came out of the Xiongguan Pass at the turn of Yan Ji, and the Zhulu Qin Wang Army also changed its previous state of playing soy sauce, and became active in looking for fighters in Heyang, Lichuan and other places.

Although there has not been a large-scale war since then, the decline of the Black Yan Army has inevitably been exposed.

In terms of war weapon manufacturing, there is no large-scale quenched gold placer ore found in Yanmen and Heyang, and if you want to obtain a large amount of quenched iron, you can only adopt the traditional method of infiltrating and refining rare gold and iron such as Xuanti fine iron and black sand gold into fine wrought iron to obtain different grades of quenched iron.

Before the war, the sect lords of Yanmen, Heyang, Lichuan and other counties could obtain five or six hundred thousand catties of quenched iron every year by the method of infiltration and refining, but after the Heiyan army took over these areas, even if the priority was given to resuming smelting and casting, the annual output of quenched iron smelting only recovered to about 300,000 catties.

This is only one percent of Juquanling's annual output.

In the past, the Black Yan Army could obtain millions of catties of quenched gold iron from Liquan every year through various channels, but at this time, the Xiyuan Army, the Eight Clans of Jingjun and the Nine Great World Lords all strengthened the blockade of the northeast foot of Qintong Mountain, and there was not enough input of quenched iron, and Ning Chan'er brought back more and more powerful battle weapon scrolls, which would not be of the slightest help to the current crisis of the Black Yan Army.

A township-level heavenly machine chariot requires seventy or eighty thousand catties of eighth-level quenched iron, which means that the Heiyan Army does nothing, and with the existing production of quenched iron, it can only build two township-level heavenly machine chariots every year.

At this time, Le Yi was trying to make this Scorpion chariot in Songxi Valley, but because he lacked enough quenched iron, he could only replace it with ordinary precision wrought iron. However, the strength of the fine wrought iron was too poor, and Chen Hai doubted that such a large scorpion tail would be directly shaken off by the bumpy terrain before it really entered the battlefield.

Le Yi built the Scorpion Chariot, it should be to find something to do for himself after being relieved of military power, it is to do experiments, and he does not expect to have the resources to build a Scorpio Chariot that can really go to the battlefield.

"Over there in the Tianji Academy, has there been an improved scroll for the Tianji Crossbow?" asked Le Yi.

Not to mention the township-level Heavenly Machine Chariot, even the Pavilion-level Light Heavenly Machine Chariot was a luxury for the Black Yan Army at this time, and at present, it could only concentrate a small number of resources and craftsmen to make more Heavenly Machine Repeaters; Le Yi was also more concerned about whether the Heavenly Machine Repeater had an improved version.

Ning Chan'er spread her hands, she wanted to grab Chen Hai's neck more than Le Yi, and asked if there would be a more powerful Heavenly Machine Battle Crossbow next.

Chen Hai stood aside and hugged his chest and said, "Even if the Heavenly Machine Academy Palace can build a stronger Heavenly Machine Battle Crossbow, it will inevitably be the Xiyuan Army that will give priority to obtaining equipment, and Senior Brother Le is still lucky?"

"......" Le Yi smiled embarrassedly, with the experience of Granny He's past, he was not interested in inquiring about the detailed life experience of the "ugly slave", after all, no one knew how many eyeliners Shizun and Uncle Gongliang had buried inside the Zhujun sect lords, and with Ning Chan'er leading him over, there should be no problem with his identity.

At the same time, he also knew that it was unrealistic for him to continue to expect the Heavenly Machine Academy Palace to continue to assist the Black Yan Army for no reason, the Heavenly Machine Academy Palace could really create a more powerful Heavenly Machine Battle Crossbow, and the Black Yan Army would indeed not be the first to get it, thinking of this, he felt that the future of the Black Yan Army was bleak again.

The arrow array box is similar to a magnetic launcher, Chen Hai is trying to deduce a more powerful magnetic arrow rune array prohibition at this time, and he also found a higher-level Dao seal in the snake scale book for reference and reference, but the real difficulty in upgrading the heavenly machine crossbow is not only to be able to throw a larger quenched gold crossbow arrow to a dozen miles or even dozens of miles away, but also to ensure that the thrown gold quenching arrow has enough lethality.

Otherwise, it would be of little significance to throw a gold-quenched arrow several meters long and like a giant spear more than ten miles away, except for attacking a fixed large target.

With such a long distance in the air, not to mention Xuan Xiu and Wu Xiu who have cultivation in their bodies, even ordinary elite soldiers can have plenty of time to avoid it when they watch the quenching arrows thrown from afar.

For ultra-long-range heavy artillery on the earth, shells have a killing radius.

On Earth, after the shell touches the target, the filling warhead explodes, using fragmentation shrapnel to kill the surface, and in the Jinyan Prefectures, how can he achieve this?

If you want to really upgrade the Heavenly Machine Battle Crossbow, the key is to create a quenched arrow that can impact and splash in all directions with fine shrapnel and a certain killing radius after contacting the target.

In this way, each such gold-quenched arrow is like a thousand-bladed sword talisman, which can tear through the enemy's defense array from a distance of more than ten miles or even dozens of miles, and directly throw it into the enemy formation or the enemy's city to kill a large number of enemies, which can truly be called a powerful weapon on the battlefield.

At this moment, an old man came and said that the yellow feast had been prepared, and invited them to the house for dinner.

Chen Hai, Ning Chan'er, and Le Yi had a banquet in a hut, and the medicine slaves and a dozen old craftsmen under Le Yi's command also formed three tables in the house on the east side.

During the banquet, Ning Chan'er talked to Le Yi about what she had seen and heard in Liquan and some of the latest weapons trial-produced by the Tianji Academy.

Chen Hai didn't need to ask, thinking that Le Yi should also be soberly aware that there was no way to fight this battle anymore.

At this time, what restricts the Xiyuan Army is still logistics supply.

In the eastern part of Heyang County, the Xiyuan Army, the 11th Route Qinwang Army, and many auxiliary soldiers and civilians, as many as 15.6 million people, had to be transported from the Jingbei region to the north of the country, and the journey was 4,500 miles.

Even if the Taiwei Mansion used tens of thousands of puppet beasts and a large number of cattle, horses, camels and beasts to transport grain and grass materials, it was still very difficult.

Therefore, the Xiyuan Army and the 11th Qinwang Army are currently mainly encircling Ganquan Mountain, but they are not in a hurry to launch a large-scale attack, which is mainly worried that once the grain and grass supply is given and the attack is frustrated, they will fall into a dilemma.

Chen Hai did not have a direct meeting with King Yingshu, but he had to admit that King Yingshu or there were grandmaster-level soldiers behind him who were planning and controlling the progress of the entire war. In other words, since he already has a relative advantage, he naturally does not need to use dangerous strategies, and uses troops in a dignified manner to advance and squeeze the living space of the Black Yan Army layer by layer.

This is also the most correct and the most difficult tactic to crack.

When the Wind and Flame Airship is incorporated into the Xiyuan Army, the Xiyuan Army will solve the bottleneck of logistics supply, and the tactical choice will become more flexible, and the Black Yan Army will become more uncomfortable when it fights in Heyang County.

A Wind Flame Airship, with a weight of 200,000 catties, looks like it can only be equivalent to the load capacity of a hundred puppet beasts, but the Wind Flame Airship travels one or two thousand miles a day, and it is not hindered by the Guanshan River, and the propulsion speed is twenty or thirty times that of the puppet beasts, and the reuse rate is much higher than that of the Organ Wooden Ox.

Once the Xiyuan Army has four or five more airships, the bottleneck of logistical supply will be completely broken.

Although the Tianji Academy Palace will not build the Wind Flame Airship for the Xiyuan Army in the short term, and the Taiwei Mansion and the General Supervisor do not seem to realize the importance of the Wind Flame Airship for the time being, and they have not sent people to the Tianji Academy Palace to negotiate the purchase of drawings, but Chen Hai believes that as long as the Tianji Academy Palace builds the first Wind Flame Airship, the British King Ying mentioned that as long as a group of generals under him are not stupid, they will immediately realize the importance of the Wind Flame Airship, and they will directly buy the picture scroll from the Tianji Academy Palace and arrange for the Mojia Division or the Arsenal Division to make it.

Of course, before the Mojia Division can create enough Wind Flame Airships, the Xiyuan Army will be more likely to choose the right side of the army, and will not be in a hurry to find the main force of the Black Yan Army for the final decisive battle, so as to give the Black Yan Army a window of time to retreat north.

"You go to Liquan at this time, does Chen Hai have any greater ambitions?" After being silent for a long time, Le Yi suddenly asked Ning Chan'er again.

Ning Chan'er glanced at Chen Hai and said to Le Yi ambiguously: "Maybe there is, but it may not show up so early?"

"He has already set up his own door in Liquan now, who would have expected this?" Le Yi still believed in his heart that Chen Hai had greater ambitions and said.

Ning Chan'er said quietly: "How can you convince those old guys to agree that you will lead the crowd to the Heavenly Machine Academy?"

"The situation is like this, there must be a strong army west out of Qintong Pass to threaten Yanjing in order to relieve the siege of Heyang!" Le Yi said resolutely.

"Chen Hai is sitting in front of you, you ask him yourself if he is happy to do this, right?" Ning Chan'er looked over and directly exposed Chen Hai's identity......

Chen Hai secretly hated the headache, but he didn't expect that he would fall into the pit that Ning Chan'er dug for him.