"Boom! Boom! Lao Tian of the Armory Workshop wheeled the hammer with his right arm and smashed firmly on the long sword in his left hand. The sound of the pen www.biquge.info is very rhythmic, and there is no difference between the time intervals of the two adjacent sounds, and the beads of sweat on his body are thrown down with his movements. After striking evenly in all parts of it for more than two hundred times, he stretched out his long sword into a pool of cold water next to it, and a puff of white smoke rose, and then took out the shaped long sword to examine it.

Lao Tian held the cigarette pouch in his mouth, squinted in the smoke to see the sword ridge on both sides of the long sword, looked at it for a while, nodded with satisfaction, turned the sword body to look at the blades and blood grooves on the other side, and looked carefully for a while before applying some tung oil to the sword and putting it on the basket that was already full of the same sword next to it.

"Lao Tian, do you think you are forging a sword for the emperor? Look at your heat, it's pretty fine hehe! But if you want to fight like this for each one, when do you plan to complete the number assigned by the captain? ”

Seven or eight feet away next to Lao Tian, a thin middle-aged man who was also dressed squinted for a while, and finally couldn't help but open his mouth disapprovingly and said that there was also a casting table in front of the person, and he was sitting on a small wooden bench next to the platform to rest, while looking at Lao Tian, he took a big sip of leaf tea on the table.

The similar eight or nine weaponsmiths next to him watched Lao Tian being said, and they also stopped what they were doing and laughed kindly. You persuade him word by word.

"Yes, Uncle Tian, now is the time when there is a shortage of weapons, General Zhou ordered half a month ago to melt down all the iron tools that can be collected in the city and start making them, and now there is still a lot of difference, it's not that I don't want to do a good job, but the quantity is more important now."

Lao Tian didn't pay attention to the thin middle-aged man, and continued to take out another sword embryo from the furnace and put it on the casting table, then picked up the big cigarette pouch and took a deep breath, then sighed comfortably, raised his eyes that were almost invisible by the wrinkled eyelids, looked at the person who said him before, and scolded unhurriedly: "You said that is a fart!" Can I be the same as you, these swords are all prepared for the rank of commander and above, I don't know how many I need to make in total? Every time these little generals fight, they are the key characters of the little rabbit cubs in Tule, and the number of people they have to deal with is several times that of ordinary soldiers, and the long sword and long mace are not strong and will be split in two days, do you let them save their lives? ”

After speaking, he turned his head to the younger craftsmen who had persuaded him just now and said: "You juniors don't understand this, old man, how many border battles have I experienced, and with King Ning's personal army, he began to kill such a country from when he was still a general. If that person is killed, he will have red eyes and deaf ears, and he will not know if his hand is broken, and he will not know if his sword is broken, he will keep chopping and chopping, and one by one he may not have a family, so he will fall on which battlefield, and he will never go back to see his old mother.

I can't help them as an old man, the only thing I can do is to make this knife, this sword, these spears as hard as possible and last as long. The well-formulated sword embryo, if you go down with this hammer, you may be able to help them save one more life. ”

Most of the weapons craftsmen in the workshop are blacksmiths temporarily recruited from Rongyue, and there are still a few who are old and experienced, these young people are still a little joking, after hearing the words of the old craftsman, the room is a lot quieter, look at Lao Tian, and then look at the weapons being built in their hands, they seem to understand what these things mean, and the people who are sitting also get up and continue to work, more serious than before, each weapon is tempered as carefully as possible.

In the palace of the general Rongyue Zhenyuan, a few hundred zhang away from the armory, there are two rows of fully armored generals sitting on the left and right of the middle hall, today is the pre-war united front meeting, all the generals in Rongyue City are gathered here, the atmosphere in the room is very low, and everyone is silent.

Zhou Zicheng looked at the saw-beaked gourds like this, and was slightly angry in his heart, and personally broke this oppressive silence.

"Cough, cough" Zhou Zicheng leaned forward, knocked on the table with his index finger bent, and looked up at the subordinates on both sides: "For the current military situation, what should we do, let's talk about our opinions." ”

After speaking, he looked back and forth, and hit the second sergeant under the right hand: "Mao Lin, tell me what you think." ”

A resolute-looking general who seemed a little silent stood up and replied decisively and resolutely: "General, my subordinates think that if there are no reinforcements sent from Pingyuan, Ansui, Honghua, and Pengcheng, we will continue to send them reinforcement requests, and shoot the competent people to go and show their interests, if they don't help on time, and when Your Majesty investigates after the crisis, these city guards will not be able to escape the charge of escaping from the battle and delaying the fighter plane."

However, we can't count on them all, and at the same time, we also need to try to send reinforcements to several other nearby cities, such as Qingcheng, which is two hundred and fifty miles away from us, although it is not as big as the four cities mentioned above, but due to the recent change of garrison, Qingcheng has exactly twice the strength of their usual garrison, although it is far away from us, but if we march in a hurry, it will arrive in about three days.

Moreover, Qingcheng is also a heavy place for military food hoarding in the southwest of Ningguo, as long as we get the holy decree of His Majesty, or if we can get an urgent edict from the governor of the southwest province, we can urgently requisition military rations, so that at least it can help us get through this crisis. ”

As soon as Yu Maolin's words fell, a mocking voice immediately came: "What Yu Duwei said is really simple. ”

The third-place officer on Zhou Zicheng's left raised his head, smiled sarcastically at him, and said in a cool voice: "Now those four major cities don't send troops, will he send troops if you go again?" When they send the army in a hurry, as long as it takes a few days at night, we can only suffer a dumb loss, and they can be said to have no time to help us! Speaking of the food in Qingcheng, hehe, I really want it, but the governor's edict? Our Governor Wang has already taken advantage of inspecting the people's situation in various places, and has already gone to hide in the high-walled courtyard of Ansui, can you still ask him to sign an edict to transfer food to you? You didn't wake up, did you? ”

Yu Maolin's face turned red when he heard this, and he didn't know if he was angry or because he couldn't refute it. He endured and bowed his head for a moment, then suddenly raised his head and hugged his fist at Zhou Zicheng and said: "General, Captain Wang's words are not unreasonable, please also hand over the task of going to these four cities to ask for reinforcements to his subordinates, if his subordinates can't bring the troops back within five days, let the general punish the crime!" ”

Zhou Zicheng's face sank like water, and he didn't speak for a while.

At this moment, the curtain leading to the backyard shook slightly, Zhou Zicheng glanced back, it was his staff master waving his hand to call himself, this master was his first entry into the military camp, his father, that is, the old Fuyuan general Zhou Rui personally handed over to his cronies, in order to make this staff willing to follow him, he tried his best to give extremely attractive conditions, it can be seen that the means and strategies of this staff master in the military staff make General Fuyuan extremely respected.

Zhou Zicheng waved his hand to several generals, signaled to suspend the discussion, and slowly walked to the front of the staff member in the backyard.

The staff member smiled slightly, saluted Zhou Zicheng without any panic, and asked, "Is this the last arrangement before the battle, the general, to decide the strategy of the battle?" ”

Zhou Zicheng didn't know what he was going to say, so he nodded slightly.

The staff asked again: "What result does the general want?" Do you intend to live and die with the city, or do you intend to come to Japan? ”

Zhou Zicheng frowned slightly, not very fond of the indifference and selfishness of the staff's words this time.

Thinking of this, his voice was slightly cold: "I don't understand what the teacher means,"

Feng Songming is not very old, but he is only speaking as a staff member. He was about twenty-seven or eighteen years old, with two thin beards on his face, and he wore a Taoist robe all the year round, and he was breezy and boneless, which made people think that he was thirty-five or sixteen years old, but he ignored the wrinkleless skin under his beard and his extremely handsome face.

Feng Songming was not in a hurry, but just bowed down and said to Zhou Zicheng: "General Zhou, please be calm and don't be impatient, Song Ming said this, of course, he didn't suggest that the general be a villain who escaped from the battle, or protect himself, if Song Ming can only come up with such a strategy, then how can he match the friendship of the old general back then." ”

After that, his face was slightly solemn, and he continued to Zhou Zicheng: "I just want to tell General Zhou that from the perspective of the current military aircraft, if the general wants to persist in resisting, counting on the other four cities is already a strategy, if you want to hold this city, you must start preparing for the decisive battle of defending Rongyue now, if you can't hold Rongyue, General Zhou will be a capital crime when he goes back, and it will ruin the reputation of the Zhou family for three generations!"

So if General Zhou wants a chance of surviving, he must be here. Whether it is to wait until the king's order to evacuate in the future, or to hold the fortress and wait for reinforcements, or to live and die with this city, we can't give up here, once we leave, Rongyue will be a thousand miles and a horse in the direction of Yuandu, and the city behind will be vulnerable, and the speed of our escape will definitely not be able to catch up with the speed of the cavalry to catch up with us and destroy the scattered forces of our army! ”