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Although the stone walls on both sides of the Ape Jumping Gorge are extremely steep, the valley bottom is flat, and there are stone streams flowing, which is a rare place at the southern foot of Yaoshan Mountain where tens of thousands of people and tens of thousands of slaves can be placed in the Iron Cliff Department.

In addition to building fortifications on the periphery of the Ape Jumping Gorge, the land in the Ape Jumping Gorge must be used even more in every inch of land, and a large herd of cattle and sheep, mastiffs, horses, and more than a dozen huge grassland desolate elephants are all driven into the Ape Jumping Gorge, so as to ensure that the enemy army will besiege it on a large scale and that the Iron Cliff Department can have sufficient food.

Of course, the Ape Jump Gorge is extremely narrow, and the rugged terrain of Yaoshan Mountain is not conducive to herding herds, so the production and lifestyle of the Tieya tribesmen must be changed.

The herd must be changed from stocking to captivity, and even need to make use of the marginal and corner land as much as possible, planting crops such as corn and millet to supplement the shortage of food; as much as possible, it is necessary to arrange for the tribesmen of the Iron Cliff Tribe, to pick elixirs and spiritual herbs in Manyao Mountain, and to find suitable copper and iron veins near the Ape Jumping Gorge, to mine ores, and to control copper and iron, so as to ensure that tools and armor and weapons can be cast in batches in the future.

This is actually to ask the Tieya tribesmen to enter the agricultural era from the traditional nomadic civilization in an instant.

Although the power of inertia is extremely huge, before life and death, after the people of the Iron Cliff tribe moved into the Ape Jump Gorge, they accepted this great change in production and lifestyle, and did not encounter much resistance.

The bloody slaughter of the special Blood Demon Puppet made the Iron Cliff tribesmen, who were used to living scattered by water and grass, willing to gather in a few designated dense village gathering places to live together.

Of course, in order to make the Tieya tribesmen more suitable for farming life, Chen Hai suggested that Tiekun distribute 10,000 Yanzhou bitter slaves to the Tieya tribesmen to assist in land reclamation, farming tool construction, and cattle and sheep captivity.

This is not conducive to directly improving the situation of Yanzhou bitter slaves, but what Chen Hai really wants to do is not to rescue the hundreds of thousands of Yanzhou bitter slaves who were enslaved in the depths of Yaoshan Mountain, he currently wants to use all the existing conditions to fully excavate the strength of the Iron Cliff Department.

Whether a tribe is strong or not is closely related to the average cultivation level of the clan, but in many cases, the change in the organization of production also has a decisive impact.

The Tieya tribesmen were forced to abandon the loose nomadic production mode and gather at the southern foot of Yaoshan Mountain, which directly provided convenient conditions for the implementation of the military household system.

This also fully guarantees that every adult and able-bodied male and some female barbarians in the Iron Cliff Department will become potential soldiers that the Iron Kun can directly recruit. At the beginning, Tie Kun expected to be able to requisition a maximum of six or seven thousand soldiers from his clan, but if the military household government could really go down completely, when the great enemy pressed the border, the Iron Cliff Department could at most recruit thirteen or four thousand barbarians into the army.

This does not include the more than 10,000 Yanzhou slaves who originally served in the Hexi Army, Liangyong Army, Tianshui County Soldiers, and Yanmen County Soldiers, and were captured to Hanhai because of the frustration of the war.

Of course, with the implementation of the military household system, the number of troops that can be requisitioned and transferred by the Iron Cliff Department has nearly doubled, but there is a great shortage of blades and armor.

The elite and brave are all powerful, and ordinary iron or bronze weapons can no longer exert their strength, but there are no ready-made quenched iron sand mines along the coast of Hanhai, nor have they mastered the traditional method of smelting and quenching iron.

More of them were captured through war, and some gold-level armor was obtained from the Yanzhou clan lords such as the Hexi Army and the Liangyong Army, but the number was quite limited.

Even the more than 1,000 most elite brutes of the Iron Cliff Department want to equip all of them with quenching-level armor, which is extremely unrealistic at this stage.

Although there was no movement of troops and horses to reinforce Yaoshan on the side of Black Rock City, which was very infuriating and frustrating, the nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses gathered in the territory of the Keree Department and the Tuoba Department were estimated to be able to enter the range of Yaoshan after a month at the earliest, due to logistical supply problems.

In this month's time, the city wall made of rammed stone and mortar on the outside of the Ape Leap Gorge will be able to be built to a height of more than four meters, and when the time comes, it will initially form a defense system facing the grassland on the outer side of the southern foot of Yaoshan Mountain with the three stone plug forts embedded in the city wall.

And when the time comes, the Tieya tribesmen who moved into the Ape Jumping Gorge will also be able to adapt to their new life, and when the time comes, the enemy army will be blocked outside the Ape Jump Gorge, and the Iron Kun will still be confident.

However, it is not to block the enemy army outside the Ape Jump Gorge, even if it is the most successful, the Iron Cliff Department will not be able to contain a large number of enemy troops, resulting in the West Foot Bailu Gorge can not withstand it in the end, and it will be captured by the enemy, and the Iron Cliff Department will be reduced to a lone army, and the living space at the southern foot of Yaoshan Mountain will become narrower and narrower, and finally it will not be able to escape the fate of being annihilated.

How can the Iron Cliff Department rely on the Ape Jump Gorge to contain more enemy troops?

Tie Kun pondered for several days and walked into the Blood Demon Gorge - the Blood Demon Gorge is located in the depths of the Ape Jump Gorge, which is the nameless canyon where dozens of elite scouts of the Iron Cliff Department found the Blood Demon Golem a few days ago, and was torn apart by the Blood Demon Golem.

After the Blood Demon Incident, Chen Hai promised to teach the secret method of controlling the Blood Demon Puppet to the Wu Man of the Iron Cliff Department, and the only condition was that the Blood Demon Gorge, which was no deeper than Lixu, would be his personal territory, and he would be allowed to select a group of craftsmen from the Yanzhou Bitter Slave to create elite armor and weapons for the Iron Cliff Department.

Tie Kun walked into the Blood Demon Gorge and wanted to find Chen Hai, in addition to needing a clever strategy that could better increase the combat power of the Iron Cliff Force, he also wanted to see how far the Blood Demon Puppet had been refined.

In just a few days, the Blood Demon Gorge had built a few wooden houses outside the stone cave where the Blood Demon Puppet was hiding.

The four most potential witch cultivators of the younger generation of the Iron Cliff Department, Tie He, Tie You, Tie Mu, and Tie Fu, were all sitting outside the wooden house and meditating on their knees at this time, practicing the visualization mystic method passed on by Chen Hai, to destroy the qi and blood essence around them, turning them into the true yuan surging in the spiritual veins, and finally incorporated into the spiritual sea secret palace, and in the process, they also strengthened their own spiritual spirit.

Although the original spirit of the Blood Demon Puppet has not been completely dispersed, it needs Yao Wenjin and the four Iron Cliff Witches to re-refine it with their own divine souls, and this kind of refining method of the flesh puppet is extremely harmful to Yao Wenjin and their own divine souls, so they need some mystical methods to strengthen the foundation and strengthen the soul to cooperate, in order to refine the new puppet spirit step by step to be strong enough, enough to drive the blood demon puppets that are seven or eight meters tall and each weigh three or four thousand catties.

Only if the spirit of the newly refined puppet is strong enough, the Blood Demon Puppet can give full play to its combat instinct more thoroughly, and the more terrifying its combat power will be, otherwise, the Blood Demon Puppet will only move a few mechanical and slow movements, and no matter how indestructible the body is, what combat power can it have?

Seeing that Yao Wenjin was able to drive a Blood Demon Puppet to move slowly, Tie Kun doubted that with Yao Wenjin's lowly cultivation, it was possible to completely control the Blood Demon Puppet in front of him, but after all, Chen Hai handed over the other four Blood Demon Puppets to the Wu Man of the Iron Cliff Department to control, and he couldn't say that Chen Hai was too greedy at this time.

Tie Kun walked into the wooden house and saw Chen Haiji sitting on a straw mat made of Pu grass, calculating something, dozens of scattered pictures and texts on his body, like some kind of Dao Seal Talisman Array, but Tie Kun did not have the opportunity to learn the art of seal talismans, and watched Chen Hai for a long time, and he didn't know what he was calculating, but politely did not interrupt Chen Hai's calculation.

After waiting for a long time, Chen Hai came back to his senses from the calculation, and when he saw Tie Kun by his side, he seemed to be taken aback, of course, Tie Kun was suspicious of Chen Hai's pretending.

Tie Kun told the Iron Cliff Department about the difficulties encountered at this time, and asked, "Is there any way that Cao Gong can teach me?"

"Tianji Hou is about to agree to sell a few heavy crossbows to the Iron Cliff Ministry, but the Iron Cliff Department does not have a large supply of quenched iron, it cannot cast a large number of heavy crossbow shells, and a few heavy crossbows have no chance to exert their power," Chen Hai said, "But as far as I know, in addition to the large amount of quenched iron produced in Liquan, the exquisite capital of the Xiqiang Kingdom also has a certain amount of quenched iron output. Shahai, enter the Exquisite Capital Protectorate, and with the friendship between the Iron Lord and the Divine Marquis and the Exquisite Lady, you may be able to buy the quenched iron ...... from the Exquisite Metropolitan Protectorate."

"This is the reason why Shenhou let Cao Gong infiltrate the Yanzhou Bitter Slave and find me?" Tie Kun asked.

Chen Hai calmly faced Tie Kun's aggressive gaze, although Tie Kun's mouth said that he was reluctant to think about his old master, he still wanted to protect the interests of the Tieya Department first, so he and Yao Wenjin would continue to cover up as Cao Wen and Cao Jin, and would not directly expose his true identity for the time being.

However, Tie Kun puts the interests of the Iron Cliff Ministry first, so it does not prevent him from explaining some matters that can be cooperated and beneficial to the Iron Cliff Department more thoroughly.

"If three-quarters of the quenched iron transported by the Iron Cliff Caravan from the Elite Capital Protectorate can finally arrive in Tongkou City, I believe this is an important reason why Shenhou asked my uncle and nephew to come over to assist Tie Ye. Chen Hai said.

At present, due to the restrictions in Hexi, the eighth-level quenched iron material transported from Lucheng to the Tianji Academy Palace is only 30,000 or 40,000 catties per month, which is far from meeting Chen Hai's needs for casting heavy crossbows, Tianji chariots and other heavenly machine weapons in Hengshan, and it is necessary to immediately open up a new transportation channel outside Hexi.

This is also one of the main purposes of Chen Hai's trip north.

The grasslands on the west bank of the vast Hanhai Sea are full of demon barbarian tribes belonging to the Black Stone Khanate, and only the Iron Cliff Caravan that also belongs to the Black Stone Khanate can secretly transport the quenched iron from Lucheng from the northern route, neither alarming Hexi nor the other tribal forces of the Black Stone Khanate.

"Can the Iron Cliff only keep a quarter of the quenched iron as payment?" Iron Kun asked in a deep voice.

"Tie Ye thought that there would be very little quenching iron shipped out of the Elite Capital Protectorate, so he would think that a quarter of the amount was used as a reward, and it was not worth the risk?" Chen Hai asked with a smile.

"How much should that be?" Iron Kun asked.

"How much can there be, it still depends on the caravan organized by the Iron Cliff Department, how much quenched iron can be transported at a time, and it can also hide the eyes of other tribes, but no matter how small the amount is, it is enough to make the Iron Cliff Department the overlord of the land near Yaoshan for thousands of miles. Chen Hai said.

"The territory of the Blackstone Khanate is not peaceful, even if the secret of the quenched iron is not leaked, but the caravans of the Iron Cliff Department frequently haunt the depths of the grassland, which is very likely to arouse the greed of other tribes, and the Iron Cliff Department will not have much combat power to protect the caravan at this time. Tie Kun said with a sigh.

"As long as Tie Ye is willing to do this, not only the guards of the caravan can be transferred from the Longxiang camp to disguise themselves as slave soldiers composed of Yanzhou bitter slaves - in addition, in the Tongkou battles, the Longxiang camp also captured more than 4,000 barbarian soldiers, and Tie Ye can also redeem them in batches to supplement the ......lack of combat strength of the Iron Cliff Force," Chen Hai said.

The ransom of prisoners has always been secretly carried out between Yanzhou and the Hanhai tribes, and even if most of the barbarians captured by the Longxiang camp are from the Mengwu tribes, as long as they are redeemed by the Tieya tribe, these prisoners of war cannot return to their original tribes casually.

Either these tribes will pay the same or even more ransom to the Iron Cliff Tribe, or these prisoners of war will serve the Iron Cliff for decades until they are old and decrepit before they can return to their original tribes.

This is also the rule of the grassland, and it will not be trampled on at will just because the Mughul are stronger.

"What if the Iron Cliff wants to build a Heavenly Machine?" Iron Kun asked.

"Maybe you can hire a few craftsmen from the Heavenly Machine Academy Palace to help the Iron Cliff Department build the Heavenly Machine Weapon, or you can teach the puppet ......technique," Chen Hai said.

"The Heavenly Machine Academy Palace has transmitted the Heavenly Machine Weapon to Hanhai, so it is not afraid of touching the anger of the people?" Tie Kun asked.

"The secret map of the Heavenly Machine Weapon has long been spread throughout the Yanzhou Lords, who can confirm that the Heavenly Machine Weapon was transmitted to Hanhai by the Shenhou? Tie Ye is sure that the Black Stone Khanate and the Tuoba Department have not mastered the manufacturing map of the Heavenly Machine Weapon?" Chen Hai asked with a smile, "Besides, Tie Ye is based on Yaoshan Mountain, and he can threaten Tianshui County in the south one day, and the more stable the Shenhou will be in Tianshui County, you don't need to worry, just because of the anger of the public, Yanjing City can take the Shenhou, you just need to know that the Shenhou has no disadvantage to the Iron Cliff Department." ”

Yaoshan is located on the south bank of the Hanhai Sea, the straight-line distance from Yucheng Ridge, in fact, is only more than 9,000 li, more than half of the distance from Yucheng Ridge to Black Stone City, just because after the beginning of spring every year, the Tong River and other major rivers, due to the first melting of the ice in the south, cause these northward rivers, every spring will flood, the road is blocked, making the distance from Yaoshan to Yukou City look very close.

Of course, even if there is a flood, even if tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of troops are not good at walking, but the distance of thousands of miles from Yuchengling to Yaoshan will not be impossible to find a road for hundreds of people to pass through after the beginning of spring.