After sending Yang Qiao'er and Yinglei's mother and son away, Chen Hai calmed down, and every day, in addition to deducing more subtle heavenly machine prohibition and studying more sophisticated weapon structures, the main task was to promote the construction of the defense line in Yuchengling. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

After more than half a year of migration, the 400,000 bitter slaves handed over by the Tuoba tribes and some of the generals of the Heiyan army were also resettled in the walled cities along the Yandang Lake, coupled with the influx of landless poor people from Tianshui and Qinchuan and the exiled criminals from Yanjing, the population of Hengshan, Yandang, and Tongkou rose rapidly to 5 million in less than three years.

At this time, the Tianji Academy Palace and the Long Xiang Army were still exchanging production materials from all over the country to the greatest extent, building water conservancy and reclaiming wasteland along Yandang Lake, and Chen Hai was still pushing for the grain production in Hengshan Mansion to reach the level of self-sufficiency this year.

In this way, the foundation of the Long Xiang Army in the northern part of Tianshui County can be regarded as truly solid.

In addition, Chen Hai also set up subordinate Taoist academies of the Tianji Academy in Yandang, Hengshan, Tongkou and other cities, as well as in the western foothills of Qintong Mountain, mainly to recruit disciples from the children of the poor who moved north and the generals of the Heiyan Army for training.

In particular, the potential of the remnants of the Black Yan Army that is worth tapping is too strong.

The remnants of the Black Yan Army had nearly 300,000 family members, including teenagers between the ages of ten and fourteen, as many as 40,000, and they were the reserve force for the remnants of the Black Yan Army and Yan Yuan from the very beginning.

During the flight north with the remnants of Yan Yuan's army, although he did not fight any tough battles, in the extremely harsh environment, severe cold and famine, he lost more than 100,000 people, but most of this part of the reserve force was preserved.

Moreover, these teenagers have joined the army with their parents since they were children, and they all have a certain foundation in martial arts, and what they cultivate in a unified way is the basic martial arts that Chen Hai copied into the training record.

This part of the teenagers, as well as the young generals between the ages of 14 and 18 in the Heiyan Army, totaling more than 60,000 people, were the first to arrange for the southward migration at the beginning of the year, and arranged to go to various Taoist academies to carry out more systematic martial arts, occult methods, heavenly machine puppets, military arts, and other aspects of cultivation.

The deal with the Lords regarding the Blood Demon Golem was also completed by the end of the summer.

Like the Dong clan, the Miao clan and the other valves were unwilling to hand over their share of the quenching iron production in Juquan Lake in the next two years, and in the end they chose to add the quenching iron to other materials and cultivation resources to trade the four hundred blood demon puppets in the hands of the Heavenly Machine Academy.

After the completion of this transaction, in the first half of the eighty-third year of Emperor Yitian, Long Xiang's army obtained nearly 15 million catties of quenched iron, and hundreds of millions of catties of grain and ordinary precision wrought iron, and hundreds of thousands of cattle and horses. In addition, there are extremely rare refining materials such as red pith copper, sand gold, tungsten gold, and primary elixirs such as red blood paste and tonic yuan powder, which are almost millions of catties, and in addition, there are nearly a thousand low-level Xuanbing spirit armors.

This batch of materials seems to be extremely large, but by the end of August, it was almost seventy-seven, eighty-eight.

It is unimaginable to train a strong army and resettle so many migrants in such a short period of time. It is also thanks to the fact that although the remnants of the Black Yan Army are broken, they still have some material base, and they do not need to rely completely on the supply of the Long Xiang Army.

There are some things that everyone knows, especially the huge flow of materials and people between Shouyang Mountain and Yuchengling, how can it be impossible to hide from the eyes of the lords?

And the three major battalions of the Su Guard Army, Feng Xia, Long Xiang, and Tiger Roar, Feng Xiao and Tiger Xiao all have 300,000 elites, but the Long Xiang battalion has always only had 50,000 soldiers and horses, Chen Hai at this time, even if he incorporated the remnants of the Black Yan Army, he was only barely able to reach a balance with Feng Xiao and Tiger Roar, which made the court, except for the British King, the crown prince Ying Dan and the princes and ministers of the various lords, frequently attacked Chen Hai in the imperial court and colluded with the rebels, Wen Boyuan and other Yanran Palace families, but could not accuse Chen Hai of anything.

And with Wen Boyuan dragging it out, even if others get real evidence, there is no way to convict Chen Hai.

Hexi sent troops to take such a big thing as Hexiang County, and the court couldn't say a few words of nonsense, what else could Chen Hai do?

It was also at this time that Chen Hai had a large amount of quenched iron surplus, and in the secret workshop deep in the western foot of Qintong Mountain, a large number of new quenched heavy arrows were cast for heavy ammunition.

In addition to supplying the four hundred Blood Demon Puppets to the Nine Valves, Chen Hai also had 600 Blood Demon Puppets in his hands, which were successively flowed into the second- and third-rate forces such as the Huayang Sect, the Wu Clan, and the Musashi Army through some secret channels, in exchange for some resources to supplement the shortcomings of the Long Xiang Army.

A blood demon puppet is equivalent to a ground-level soldier, and it is naturally worth a lot of money, and only in this way can the Tianji Academy Palace be able to directly compile a large number of refined Tianji weapons into the remnants of the Longxiang Army and the Black Yan Army and secretly send them to the second battalion of the Iron Cliff Army that is still in Yaoshan at this time, instead of selling them for other resources.

It was not until the end of August that the number of heavy crossbows compiled by the Long Xiang army increased to 100, and the total number of light and heavy celestial chariots increased to 100 times by the end of August.

In addition to the cumbersome military and political affairs, one thing Chen Hai focused on doing was to build a more powerful super rifled crossbow.

He envisioned that the combination of three to four arrow arrays would triple the length of the crossbow, and with the special armor-piercing heavy arrows, the range and penetration performance would be greatly increased by more than three times on the basis of the heavy crossbow.

However, the combination of multiple arrow array boxes requires absolute synchronization, and it is necessary to study a new formation prohibition in order to achieve this step.

The materials of the crossbow and the armor-piercing heavy arrows need to be refined with more advanced gold iron such as Shachen gold and refined Xuantie, and even the armor-piercing heavy arrows need to be additionally engraved with armor-piercing runes, etc., whether it is time or cost, they are by no means beyond the reach of ordinary heavy crossbows.

When Chen Hai was in Yaoshan, he thought through the manufacturing scroll of the super rifled crossbow, but on the island in the middle of the lake, in addition to Guo Hongju, he also mobilized more than a dozen craftsmen to assist with all his strength, and it took me more than half a year to successfully create a prototype after spending an unknown amount of extremely precious gold and iron.

However, this one piece is worth it.

The armor-piercing heavy blade arrows shot by the super bore crossbow can even directly pierce through the Blood Demon Puppet from a distance of 6,000 steps, and its attack power is comparable to that of a ground-level magic weapon.

However, Wu Meng and the others had a deep confusion in their hearts, the price of the super crossbow was not slightly worse than a ground-level magic weapon, but the rate of fire was reduced to one breath and one shot, and the attack power was extremely strong, but such a slow rate of fire, in addition to attacking fixed targets such as the city wall, even the martial arts cultivation of the Spirit Clearing Realm could easily dodge, is there any value in manufacturing?

Of course, even if he could only attack the city wall, Chen Hai also asked the Tianji Academy Palace to make a super bore crossbow every six months for backup, thinking that he could continue to improve the formation prohibition and continuously improve its performance in the future.

On this day, Chen Hai deduced for a whole day, but he still didn't have the slightest gain, he frowned, and put away all the paper scrolls and Taoist books. Su Aya, who was on the side with red sleeves and incense, showed an inquiring look.

Chen Hai rubbed his brows and smiled: "It's really hard, I'm afraid that the pure days are coming to an end." ”

Sure enough, at dusk, there was a big ship docking, lined with the red glow in the sky, Fang Xiyan went down the gangway, and congratulated Chen Hai with a smile: "Congratulations to Chen Hou, congratulations to Chen Hou." Before the emperor had returned the pearl, Chen Hou made a contribution to saving the orphans, and he had a meritorious service in guarding the border, and the saint was happy. Although all the ministers blocked it, under the efforts of Lord Wen and Lord Zhao, they still won the reward of the townsman for Chen Hou. ”

The lord of the township marquis, no matter how many people struggle all their lives, they may not be able to get it, but in Chen Hai's view, it is far less realistic than dividing Hengshan and Yuchengling into a county.

It's just that he also knows the current situation, and supporting Win and Win to ascend to the throne of God is the most important thing, and if he can win this township for himself, I am afraid that he also wants to take the opportunity of being enthroned to let him enter Beijing to discuss matters - this shows that Zhao Zhong and the others have also changed their attitude towards themselves.

Chen Hai had already set up the incense case, and Fang Xiyan stood on the side of the incense case with the holy decree in his hand, and read it out: "Chengyi Emperor's edict: I only rule the world with literature, and fight chaos with force." In the past, the demonic spirit was not swept in Yucheng, and it was actually a key place in Tianshui. Tianji Pavilion waits for Chen Hai, the grass creates Tongkou and the Yandang line in the north, and then becomes the male of the horns of Yucheng Ridge. It is the pillar of the imperial court and the dry city of the country. It is able to be both civil and military, and to repay the service can be regarded as a favor for its achievements but not praise. It is specially awarded as the heavenly machine and the edict of tin. In the play, the grand event of publicity, the national canon is not a private reward, the deep affection of Yanyi, and the great heart is inspired. August 13, 83rd year of Emperor Yitian. ”

Chen Hai thanked him and took the order, and Fang Xiyan walked towards the Lingdao Cave Mansion. Chen Hai's cultivation is now excellent, before seeing Fang Xi Yan's pale face and sluggish walking, knowing that he was seriously injured and not healing, now he has a hand, but he finds that it is difficult for this Fang Xi Yan to recover his cultivation.

Fang Xiyan noticed Chen Hai's abnormality, and said with a slight smile: "Chen Hou doesn't need to look at it, our family was hit by the jade mountain seal that day, although the meridians are not very bad, but the Linghai Secret Palace is dilapidated, and it is even more difficult to rebuild it." However, our family still has to thank Chen Hou, not Chen Hou for helping him, I am afraid that the emperor and Lord Zhao will fall into it. ”

Chen Hai smiled and said something good.

It was getting late, Chen Hai arranged for Fang Xiyan to rest in the Lingdao Cave Mansion, and the next morning, after sending Fang Xiyan away, he took Su Aya to ride the Cangyu Lingying back to Yandang City and fly to Hengshan City, and Cang Yi followed closely behind with the four demons.

Chen Hai Zhaolu could only bring a thousand elite guards into Beijing to be sealed, and he was also in good faith this time, and went straight to Yanjing City through Tianshui County.

Before leaving, Su Aya retreated, insisting on not entering Beijing with Chen Hai, Chen Hai persuaded for a while, but he could only give up.

He knew that Su Aya actually had a shadow, Chen Hai had never had a wife, and he couldn't say that someone would talk about this matter when he entered Beijing this time, even though Su Aya had been mentally prepared, he didn't want to worry about it.

Without Su Aya's company, Chen Hai's journey became a little boring. Fortunately, Yao Wenjin came from Juquanling to meet him halfway through, and chatted with him about Yanjing in the car tent, which was much better.

Chen Hai did not deliberately hurry, because according to his information, the situation in Yanjing was still some time away from winning or losing. There was an undercurrent surging under the calm Yanjing City on the surface, if it weren't for the situation in Yanzhou as a whole, and even the Blood Demon Tribulation that didn't know when it was coming, Chen Hai would be even happier to hide in the extreme north and live happily.

No matter how slow the pace is, the road will eventually come to an end, and the majestic Yanjing City is finally in sight. Chen Hai looked at the city where he had lived, and suddenly a shadow came to his mind. Dong Ning has now completely gained a foothold in the Elite Capital Protectorate, but he has not been in touch with her for a long time. Every time he thinks of that proud and independent beauty, Chen Hai feels very guilty in his heart.

After counting his more than ten years in Yanzhou, I am afraid that the two most important people to him are only Chen Lie and Dong Ning. Only the two of them not only did not ask for anything at all, but also did their best to silently dedicate themselves silently.

Chen Lie has been in the dead pass for more than three years, and there is no sign of leaving the customs for a long time.

Chen Lie is not having a good time in Hexi, naturally he will not have his own chances, without the assistance of external objects, it is not surprising that it is difficult to achieve Daodan. Thinking of this, he thought of Ning Chan'er who was smoky and flattering, she had been refining the Yundao Heavenly Pill for more than half a year, and she didn't know when she would be able to complete it.

Chen Hai sighed, shook his head vigorously, and left all these messes behind. His planning and accumulation over the years depends on the success of his trip to Yanjing.

As he was walking, his mind moved, and a team of people hurried over.

Chen Hai ordered the car to stop, but saw that it was Dong Pan who was surrounded by more than a dozen soldiers from Hexi Province and chased after him......