In February of the third year of Jianxing, the prime minister showed the table, saying that the preparation of grain, grass and ordnance was completed, and His Majesty was requested to send troops to the south, and the south was determined as soon as possible, so as to boost the prestige of the Han Dynasty.

Emperor Yunzhi, Ling Taishi Ling chose an auspicious day.

The day after Feng Yong returned to Jincheng, news came down from the imperial court that the date of the southern expedition was set for March.

Zhao Guang and Wang Xun are both moving to the goalkeeper and will go south soon.

Knowing that Zhao Guang Wang Xun was about to go south, Feng Yong understood why Zhuge Old Demon would let him go back to the village first.

It seems that it is so that he can catch up with Zhao Guang and Wang Xun.

Fighting a war is not child's play, and it is not a random gathering of soldiers, and then you can kill all the way through.

Grain, grass, weapons, etc. must be prepared in advance, not to mention, the troops in front must also assemble at the designated place first, instead of setting off together from Jincheng.

Time was short, and Jincheng was suddenly enveloped in tension.

The brothers and others ate and drank in the Feng Mansion, and finally drank the ten jars of wine to the point that there was no left.

According to Zhao Guang, this time, I don't know when I will be able to eat such exquisite food again. This is my brother's reception banquet, and it is also my own send-off banquet.

Jincheng at the end of February is already warm in spring.

Feng Yong took Li Yiyang to bid farewell to Zhao Guang and Wang Xun on the official road, and Yin Yin told Zhao Guang with some anxiety.

The men of the gate go out to fight, and the women can only say goodbye at home, not go out to say goodbye, otherwise they will be laughed at.

Zhao Yun, this guy, now it seems that Zhao Guang is going to be completely released.

I heard that Zhao Guang himself said that before going out, when he was reluctant to go out with his mother, he was kicked out of the house by the adults of his family, and then scolded before closing the door of the mansion: "If this southern expedition dares to lose the face of the old Zhao family, you don't have to come back!" ”

This old guy has fought countless battles in his life, and it is estimated that Zhao Guang's expedition this time is estimated to be similar to running out for a stroll in his eyes.

What's worse is that Zhao Guang may have been influenced by him, and he didn't have the consciousness of going to the battlefield at all, and his expression couldn't be more relaxed.

This made Feng Yong a little worried.

"This time it's not as good as when it was peaceful, it was under the prime minister's orders. The prime minister strictly enforces the law, don't come nonsense, otherwise no one will be able to save you at that time. ”

Wang Xun is calm by nature, and he fought with Wang Ping on the battlefield at the age of twelve or thirteen, so there is no need to worry.

On the contrary, it is Zhao Guang, although he has a father of five tiger generals, but the matter of Yin Ping really makes Feng Yong's heart palpitate.

This battle in Nanzhong was the first battle personally commanded by Zhuge Lao Demon, and it was also the first time that the Han Dynasty mobilized troops after the Han Company was heavily damaged, and its importance is unclear.

Ma Tan, a proud disciple like him, will be killed by Zhuge Old Demon because he doesn't listen to military orders, and if Zhao Guang does something like Yin Ping again, his head will basically be lost.

Zhao Guang, who had a blue nose and swollen face, had two dark circles under his eyes, like a national treasure panda, and when he heard Feng Yong's words, he nodded again and again, "Brother's words, the younger brother has taken it to heart, and he doesn't dare to mess around anymore." ”

It's obviously a sad parting, and for some reason, Zhao Guang's appearance just makes people not take it seriously, and even feels a little funny - this guy, why does he always give you a situation when he is cold?

Thinking of this, Feng Yong was even more worried in his heart, "What's going on on your face?" When I left Zhuangzi yesterday morning, I was fine! ”

Does Zhao Laohan have the problem of abusing his son? Before leaving, you want to beat Zhao Guang violently?

Zhao Guang listened, touched the bruises on his face, and said a little unnaturally, "Yesterday, my sister told me that she hadn't urged me to practice martial arts for a long time, and this time I went south, and the military was dangerous, so I had to give me a guide to martial arts before leaving." ”

"Which sister?"

"Sister Guan."

"Oh."

Feng Yong nodded, and said in his heart that you can't be wronged, because you deserve it.

Zhao Guangluo said with some regret, "After the banquet the day before yesterday, Sister Huang was in a hurry to go back to Hanzhong to supervise the affairs of the grange, otherwise it would ......."

Just say this to you, if Guan Ji is here, I can't beat you again!

What's going on?,Always thinking about your sister fighting.,Interesting?

Feng Yong didn't bother to care about this guy who was always out of tune, and said to Wang Xun instead, "Zishi, this time you go south, you must be optimistic about Yiwen, don't let him be as willful as last time." ”

Wang Xun nodded and said, "Brother's words, junior brother remember." ”

Feng Yong turned his head and ordered the subordinates who came over, "Come on, bring the things." ”

The subordinates who followed Feng Yong each came up with a pair of armor and a horizontal sword.

"The battlefield is dangerous, one more good armor is one more life, and one more good weapon is one more hand. I, as an elder brother, can't help you much, so I can only let the people of Hanzhong Metallurgical create some things when I was in Hanzhong, and you can see if you can use them. ”

occupied several mines in Nanxiang County, and he couldn't occupy the pit without, and he had the identity of a Hanzhong Metallurgical Supervisor, so Feng Yong had some selfish intentions from the beginning, and asked the people of Hanzhong Metallurgical to try to use coal to smelt iron to see what the difference was from before.

There is no hope for steelmaking, although it knows the principle, but it only knows the principle, and the actual operation ability is zero.

Even if Feng Yong said the principle, the craftsman would definitely not understand it with a blank face.

So I had to use it to smelt iron first, anyway, there was already a record of coal smelting iron in the Western Han Dynasty, and there should be no threshold for this.

But the result was extremely disappointing for Feng Yong.

It is true that the combustion temperature of coal is higher than that of charcoal, and it is also true that you can quickly get a large amount of iron by smelting iron from coal, but note this, the quality of iron is extremely worrying!

The iron smelted is so brittle that it can't be used as weapons at all, but only as farm tools!

Therefore, it was effortless for Hanzhong Metallurgical to supply eight-ox plows to those manors in Hanzhong, and even the iron-smelting room was full of that kind of substandard iron.

Because of this, Huo Yi also came over to thank Feng Yong for his trip.

But Feng Tu couldn't wait to kick over those iron-smelting stoves!

What do I want this junk iron for?

Based on the knowledge of physics and chemistry he had studied, Feng Yong knew that this was because there were too many impurities in iron.

In addition, coal also contains a large number of other substances, which will also seep into the iron during the iron smelting process, so this situation occurs.

It seems that the book is right, whether it is iron smelting or steelmaking, it is necessary to further refine coal into coke to have a future.

It is also recorded in the textbook of using coal to make coke, but it only talks about the formula and principle, and then draws a schematic diagram of the furnace, what the actual thing is like - Feng Tujiao has never seen it anyway!

How do you tell him to do it?

But even if you can't do it, you have to bite the bullet.

During this period, I don't know how many people were burned to death by high temperature smoke, or poisoned by smoke, and even once there was a flash explosion, who knows how those uneducated slaves operated?

Anyway, the way to die is different.

Looking at the black smoke of the kiln, Li Yi and the others thought that Feng Yong was carrying out a sacrifice activity of a certain cult.

If it weren't for the fact that after filling in hundreds of lives, he finally came up with something that looked like a little coke, Feng Yong's little heart would almost be unable to bear the pain of the loss of manpower and stop directly.

Take the iron smelted from this thing, and then calcined it a little to make a weapon, it is simply a divine weapon!

Anyway, in the eyes of Li Yi and others, he is definitely a divine soldier.

The weapons used by the usual soldiers are cut down, and they directly collapse into a big hole, and if the quality is not good, it is not surprising that they are broken, but the divine soldiers only leave a slight gap.