By mid-to-late October, Huayangling also began to snow heavily and the rivers were frozen, and at this time of year, the situation in the northern part of Tianshui County suddenly became severe, and this year was no exception. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Although the defense area of the local armed forces of Tianshui County accounts for two-thirds of the Hengshan defense line, in addition to the 150,000 soldiers of Tianshui County and the auxiliary soldiers and people who also have 150,000 people stationed on the defense line in the western region, thousands of disciples of the Huayang Sect also gather in the Hengshan defense line to assist in the defense in winter; and on the second line of defense in the rear, there are still 100,000 reserve soldiers and horses to gather before the winter comes, which is much more reliable and thick than the defense of less than 30,000 soldiers and 50,000 auxiliary soldiers and people in the east.

After Chen Hai led the Longxiang battalion into Hengshan, he had no intention of asking for help from Tianshui County at all, but Tianshui County couldn't sit still at first, and appointed Wu Jinglin as a liaison envoy to lead the elite of 3,000 county soldiers into Hengshan.

The clans of Tianshui County still have their own thoughts about the arrival of Chen Hai and Long Xiang's camp, but everyone still knows in their hearts that if Hengshan is really missed, it will be the clans of Tianshui County who will suffer greatly. They thought that if there was a big mistake in Hengshan, they wanted Wu Jinglin to send back the news in time, and at the same time, the soldiers and horses assembled on the second line were also inclined to the eastern front as much as possible.

Wu Jinglin led his troops into Hengshan in mid-November, just in time for the Wind and Flame Airship to transport the two township-level celestial chariots, as well as the last Longxiang battalion soldiers who stayed in Lianshui Mansion into Hengshan City.

Zhou Jingyuan was also transferred to Hengshan this time, serving as a member of the army in Hengshan Prefecture, presiding over the reclamation of tuntian and the construction of factories.

At this time, Chen Hai officially handed over Lianshui Mansion, and of course, Wen Boyuan directly sent his descendants to take over the military and political affairs of Lianshui Mansion, and completely included Lianshui Mansion in the sphere of influence of the Su Guard.

After all, under the rule of Chen Hai, Lianshui Mansion resettled millions of people within a year, all the abandoned fields were restored, and the first batch of grain after the autumn was also harvested.

Only when the Su Guard Army controlled Lianshui Prefecture and then could it have the financial resources to continue to restore the people's livelihood in the south, until the northern part of Lichuan County, where Yu Zonghu was stationed, and the prefectures and counties along the Chu River to the eastern part of Gyeonggi Province, all of which were run by descendants, could they really have the foundation to compete with the Jingjun Zongwang.

Running Lianshui Mansion is one of Chen Hai's great contributions to the Su Guards.

In order to settle millions of displaced people, Chen Hai raised hundreds of millions of catties of grain, hundreds of thousands of cultivated cattle and almost the same number of mules and horses from all over the country in less than a year, these resources were all traded by the Tianji Academy Palace with war weapons and Tianji secret maps, and then Chen Hai neatly led the Longxiang battalion to move to Hengshan, and handed over the Lianshui to Yanran Palace to directly send someone to take over.

The so-called loyalty is nothing more than that; Wen Boyuan, Zhao Zhong and others, no matter how picky they are, they can't pick out the slightest fault and "disloyalty" from Chen Hai.

Wu Jinglin saw that the two iron bumps were unloaded from the wind and flame airship, and the sides were engraved with the logos of "Scorpio I" and "Scorpio II", and he still really liked it.

Although the Tianji Academy Palace announced a new quenching and miscellaneous refining method, which can directly use ordinary quenched iron to refine step by step and smelt more advanced quenched iron materials, but a township-level chariot will cost a total of 120,000 to 150,000 jin based on ordinary quenched iron, which is still a luxury for Tianshui County, which is weak and narrowly populated.

Even if Tianshui County relies on the western foot of Qintong Mountain and has the advantage of being close to the water, it now has a supply of nearly one million catties of quenched iron every year, but at this time, it is still prioritized for the casting of quenched armor, and it is not as luxurious as Hexi to the extent that it can build large-scale heavenly machine weapons.

Of course, these two township-level celestial chariots were first captured from the Guoziling battalion of the Xiyuan Army, and then they have been incorporated into the fifth battalion led by Wu Meng of the Longxiang battalion.

Although the Tianji Academy Palace had previously manufactured a large number of Tianji wararms, it was mainly sold to the outside world and exchanged for resources, and the equipment level of the Longxiang battalion was not immediately raised.

There can be some Tianji chariots, all of which were still equipped to guard the Dao soldiers in order to strengthen the defense of the Tianji Academy Palace before, and this time they were also temporarily taken out and handed over to the Longxiang camp for use first.

The Fifth Battalion is composed of 6,000 soldiers, but together with the Huwei Battalion, it will be the most important mobile combat force in the hands of the Longxiang Battalion in the winter defensive battle.

Whether it is a heavy or light sky machine tank, the body has been completely closed after several improvements, a new shooting tower with a large elevation angle and full angle rotation has been added to the top, and the firing position at the bottom has been reduced to two in front of the side, and the number of crossbows has been reduced from four to three, but priority has been given to replacing it with a new type of heavy crossbow.

It was also the Tianji Academy Palace that felt the severity of the winter defensive war in Hengshan, and the core figures such as Guo Hongju, Xue Cun, Ji Yuanren, and Zhao Ruhui all temporarily put down the affairs at hand and personally built twelve Tianji heavy crossbows within a month to strengthen the combat power of the Longxiang battalion......

At this time, the power of the Heavenly Machine Academy was truly reflected.

More than 5,000 apprentices from various counties of Yanzhou, they have no obligation to be loyal to the Tianji Academy, to Chen Hai or even to be effective, Chen Hai and the Tianji Academy Palace have no position on the apprentices of the craftsmen and apprentices to require them to be born and die for the Longxiang camp, and even more than half of the apprentices may be sent by the county lords to steal the masters, but each apprentice craftsman is required to manually make more than ten or twenty qualified heavy crossbows as an academic assessment in a month, and it is impossible for the apprentices to refuse.

As a result, when Wu Jinglin led 3,000 elite soldiers of Tianshui County to Hengshan, 12 Tianji heavy crossbows, 100,000 heavy crossbow shells, and 100,000 ordinary crossbow shells were also transported into Hengshan, and they were given priority to strengthening the combat power of the Fifth War Battalion Chariot Battalion.

The eastern defense line of Hengshan is located under the absolute ridge at the northwest foot of Qintong Mountain, less than 300 miles longitudinally and horizontally from east to west, and there are seven fortified walls built between the mountains ranging from 3,500 meters to more than 1,000 meters, blocking the gap in the south; while the main city of Hengshan is built outside the seven fortified fortifications, and has become the most important support point of the eastern defensive line.

Once the demons swarm up, Yokoyama Castle will be under the most pressure.

Considering that the demon barbarians are also quite skilled in the use of various tactics, and they are not only demon beasts that know how to kill, Chen Hai not only personally led the fifth battle battalion and Hu Wei battalion and 20,000 auxiliary soldiers under the command of Wu Meng, but also ordered Zhou Jun, Wang Gongchen, and Wang Qi to lead the second, third, and fourth battle battalions and other auxiliary troops and people to guard the seven defensive fortresses in the rear to ensure that the main force of the demon barbarian army is blocked.

Of course, at this time, there were also thousands of apprentices from the Tianji Academy Palace, who volunteered to come to Hengshan to assist in the defense and help make more simple and practical defensive weapons.

If a small number of demons bypassed the city and the fortified village, and directly climbed over the unprecipitous mountains into the hinterland of Tianshui County, Chen Hai planned to equip ten old-style Tianji crossbows and more than 100 spirit birds to mobile annihilation.

After all, the strength of the Long Xiang battalion is still too small to maintain multiple defense lines and block all infiltration.

More than 5,000 elite cavalrymen of the first battalion led by Le Yi were still stranded in Chomaling at this time, together with the Beijun coalition army under the command of the Miao clan; at this time of year, Beiliang County, Yong County, Yanmen County, and Liaoyang County had to bear even greater pressure.

Wu Jinglin led his troops into Hengshan City, met with Chen Hai, and saw that Chen Hai was still seven or eight miles north of Hengshan City, digging earth and building a low wall more than ten miles long.

The earthen wall is only more than one meter high, rammed in sections, leaving a gap for soldiers and horses to advance and retreat in the middle, and then on the left and right wings of this earthen wall, two small fortifications were built to expand the defense surface of Hengshan Castle.

The walls of two small fortifications are by no means strong, after all, in more than a month, they can only ram three or four meters high earthen walls, how can they be said to be strong?

In the fortified city and in Hengshan Castle, close to the foot of the city wall, eighty light stone-throwing crossbows have been deployed, and at this time, as many stone bullets as possible are mined and transported into the city for storage.

At this time, you can already see the demon outpost, haunting the snow field north of the Tong River, and the nearest is only twenty or thirty miles away from the north tower of Hengshan City.

The demon barbarian is a descendant of the ancient human race and the demon beast crossing, once the ruler of this land, with the rise of the human clan power, it was also more than 2,000 years ago, it was completely driven to the cold wasteland north of Taiwei Mountain.

Whether it is from the strong body shape, or the rough and ugly face, limbs, as well as the hairy or natural scale armor on the body, you can clearly see the traces of the bloodline of the ancient demon beasts, and some of the demon barbarians even have huge scale wings, which can soar into the sky.

Demon barbarians are naturally brave and brave, capable of large-scale mining and iron smelting, generally equipped with iron armor and fine iron war spears, and can also use iron to refine more powerful Xuanbing treasure armor; large-scale domestication of war horses, and these war horses are even more powerful than the fine war horses of Yanzhou; and also master the powerful blood sacrifice witch method, which has been the biggest threat to the northern border of Yanzhou for generations.

Wu Jinglin traveled in Yanjing for two years, and after returning to Tianshui County, he had to go to the Hengshan defense line every year to participate in the defense, and the combat experience with the demon barbarian soldiers was also rich.

No army wants to fight against the demon barbarian soldiers, and if it weren't for the strong defense of the fortress and the tactics of the demon barbarians who are not good at attacking the city and pulling out the village, Wu Jinglin doubted whether the sect lords of the northern counties would have the ability to stop the pace of the demon barbarian soldiers moving south......

When Wu Jinglin arrived, the generals of the Long Xiang battalion had already engaged in several small-scale contact battles with the outpost of the demon barbarians, leaving pools of blood in the snow-covered earth.

Chen Hai only wanted to suppress the demon barbarians who entered the Hengshan Gap to the north of the Tong River, and resolutely intercepted and sniped the demon barbarian outposts who crossed the Tong River and wanted to approach Hengshan City or other defensive villages.

Although many of the demon barbarians have been annihilated on the snowfield between the Tong River and Hengshan City, it is not enough to stop the demon barbarians' ambition to tear a gap from here......