Gai Xun is a good hand in the whole army, sometimes professional and unprofessional, you can see at a glance.

The 8,000 soldiers who had just been recruited could no longer see any trace of the new army under his two-day drill.

The appearance of the army is neat, the swords and armor are shiny, and the momentum echoes up and down.

Located in the rear of the great northwest, to travel a long distance to attack the land of Longxi, grain and grass is a big problem.

After discussing with Gai Xun, Liu Yun decided not to transport grain, and the soldiers brought their own seven-day rations.

In other words, this battle must be decided within seven days.

Otherwise, the soldiers risk starving to death and mutiny!

Before the army started, the hundred guards who came with Liu Yun were quietly sent out by him and sixty.

A large number of these 60 people will quietly infiltrate Jincheng and Yuzhong as merchants and exiles, spread news, and engage in sabotage by the way, so as to respond to the attack of the army.

Liu Yun intends to set up the Jiugong Division, an espionage department focusing on assassination and intelligence espionage.

This was a small test at the beginning of its establishment.

The remaining six people went to the road in batches.

Their mission and message are the same, informing Wang Zhi, who is guarding the road at this time, to lead his troops to lurk in the area of Yuzhong.

In order to get the news to the ground smoothly, Liu Yun had to use this extra careful strategy.

In the winter wax moon, the New Year is approaching, and the cold wind from the depths of the Eurasian continent becomes more and more violent.

Dunhuang County, a land on the northwest border, ushered in the coldest moment.

The agreed date for the departure of troops had to be delayed because of the cold weather.

After visiting the business of Guangzhi County, Liu Yun endured the pain and exchanged the horses he had just exchanged for a large number of wool and other animal hairs such as cattle and camels.

In the land of Dunhuang, less linen and silk fabrics have become more rare.

Most of the materials used to keep out the cold can only be found on animals.

Cardigan, a popular garment that swept the countryside in the 20th century.

It was pulled out by Liu Yun more than a thousand years earlier, and it was picked out through a few smooth red willow branches.

Although the things that came out of Liu Yun's hands were not attractive, they didn't look like woolen sweaters.

But it can also be used, it's a piece of clothing, or a piece of wool made of clothes, which can barely be called a woolen sweater.

The point is, it's really warm, it doesn't matter if it's good or not, after all, novices are on the road.

The sweaters of 8,000 soldiers were extremely difficult to weave by a few people, and it would take at least a few months.

So, Liu Yun thought of another way, everyone supported themselves and weaved their own.

After Liu Yun tried to weave one, he successfully became a teacher.

The family originally had a horse farm, but now on the training ground, more than 8,000 people sit on the ground in formation.

Liu Yun sat at the front, twisting the yarn with both hands very skillfully, "Pay attention to me, this yarn, you have to make it symmetrical and tight, otherwise the woven things will be stretched for you in minutes." ”

"The hands must be skillful, you must use that skill, this is not a march to fight, don't work hard one by one."

……

Gai Xun was next to Liu Yun, he was also knitting, and he had already knitted half a pair of woolen pants.

Gai Xun stared at Liu Yun when he started to knit his first sweater, and now he is skilled.

The scene of nearly 10,000 people knitting sweaters has to be said to be very grand.

It is in this society where men are inferior to women, a group of big men squatting on the training ground and knitting sweaters, looking more or less weird, and the picture is really too beautiful.

The ladies of the Gai family are also weaving, but it's strange that the speed at which they learn this thing is not as fast as a group of big men.

In the end, I had to be reduced to a handicap, doing some cleaning and sorting wool.

Six days later, on the eve of Laba Day, the troops finally started.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, there was also the custom of the Laba Festival, which gathered all things and feasted, which was the day of sacrifice to the gods, which was called the Laba Festival at that time.

However, it is not fixed on the eighth day of the first month, but on the third day after the winter solstice.

In the army, there are a few special people, and that is a local merchant who is familiar to Gai Xun.

They were very interested in the salt in Liu Yun's hand.

Even in the years when swords were rampant, they could not wear down their enthusiasm for business.

The caravan protected by the 8,000 troops is probably the safest caravan today.

The troops marched through the edge of the Tibetan Plateau and plunged into Xiping.

Under the cold iron armor, wearing thick sweaters, woolen pants, and velvet hats, in this cold weather that can freeze people to death casually, the incomparably warm soldiers are full of boiling war spirit.

If Gongsun Lu was here at the moment, he would definitely say that this was Liu Yun's trick to win people over.

This is indeed a trick to win over people, but Liu Yun is clearly here.

People's hearts are better than people's hearts, Liu Yun gives them all the guarantees, and the soldiers will also know to repay them by killing the enemy bravely.

……

When Liu Yun led the army to gallop in the ice and snow, on Izumo Mountain, the workshop run by Gongsun Lu was finally completed.

Originally, Zhao Deng was temporarily in charge of the prison, but now a person named Zhuo Gang is in charge.

This is Gongsun Lu's promotion, it is said that this person is a descendant of the Zhuo family, good at smelting iron, calcining hundreds of steel, so that he stands out from many craftsmen.

In addition to the iron-smelting workshop, next to the original mine, three workshops, the salt workshop, the paper mill, and the garment workshop, were also completed and put into operation smoothly.

Today's Izumo Mountain, even in this cold winter, is particularly hot.

At the foot of Izumo Mountain, the Zhang's Dock, which was originally built by Zhang Ling with the intention of expanding his power, naturally returned to Liu Yun after his death.

It is now the most secret place in the whole of Hanyang, guarded by 500 armor soldiers, and no one is allowed to enter.

That place is now the highest of the several workshops in Izumo Mountain, the gunpowder workshop.

All the manufacturing of black powder, process improvement, and manufacturing related industries are carried out there.

Liu Yun has done a very thorough job as a shopkeeper, and in these things, he only mentions ideas, and doesn't care about anything else.

In his words, he is an outsider, and he really doesn't understand these things.

But he'd seen and used these things, and he probably knew how they came about.

Therefore, he only puts forward ideas, and the rest of the things are done by professional people, and he can't do it anyway.

Whether it is the ancients or the present, they are all equal, and the ancients who can create a hundred flowers blooming in the spring and autumn and can create such complicated words are not ignorant.

They may just be missing a point of inspiration.

Even in Liu Yun's view, the wisdom of the ancients is even better in some aspects.

Regarding those ideas about the workshop, Liu Yun repeatedly mentioned them many times during the chat, so Gongsun Lu also remembered them many times.

In the end, Gongsun Lu found out that just Li Yun's thoughts, he piled up half a room of bamboo slips.

In iron smelting, Liu Yun has mentioned hundreds of steelmaking, steam engines, seamless steel pipes, and so on......

In salt making and clothing making, Liu Yun mentioned a lot of normal saline, sewing machines, cotton clothes, leather boots, and so on.

However, Liu Yun mentioned the most, definitely the glass, telescopes, cannons, and snipers.

But all this was recorded in detail by Gongsun Lu, and some of them had sketches.

This means that Liu Yun is the master here, otherwise, he will definitely be killed by people as a psychopath.

Not to mention recording these things, no one will listen to them.

But precisely because Liu Yun was the master of the entire Hanyang County, Gongsun Lu not only listened to and memorized these words, but also gradually began to implement them.

After unifying Hanyang County, Gongsun Roku summoned almost all the craftsmen of the county to Izumo Mountain.

All this began at about the same time as Huang Fuxian began to implement a series of agricultural policies.

As for those ideas, those things, even if no one had heard of them, but the lord ordered them, these craftsmen must rack their brains to think about that direction and find a way to make things.

……

The atmosphere in Jincheng suddenly became a little chaotic.

I don't know where the news came from, but it was said that Gai Xun had raised troops in Dunhuang County, entangled an army of nearly 100,000, and the troops were directed at Jincheng!

This news, just like the goose feather snow that has been flying all over the sky for a period of time, has spread everywhere.

Whether it is a rich merchant or a pawn of a peddler, almost everyone seems to know.

But those who lived in that majestic palace, with tens of thousands of soldiers in their hands, and who had power over the northwest frontier, did not get the slightest news.

It feels like someone who should know everything, but he has been isolated from this world.

After arguing countless times in a row, Han Sui finally sent out scouts.

The scope of the spy has been as deep as eighty miles to the north, almost to the point of breaking the Qiang.

However, the news from the sentinel was as white as this vast snowy land, and there was nothing.

Cheng Yin, as usual, took a few of his own soldiers to the towering city wall of Jincheng, and he came to inspect and distract himself.

Only by standing on this high city wall can you see the undulating Luyin River.

The direction in which this great river flows is the direction of hometown.

In fact, Cheng Yin is not a homesick person, and his fame is more cost-effective than this.

He just didn't have anything to think about, so he thought about his hometown in Hedong, across the Qianzhong Mountains.

I didn't want to go to the city as soon as I saw a candidate who couldn't take his eyes off the north.

The candidate looked very seriously, the cold wind, wrapped in snow slag, blew by himself, and he didn't even blink his eyes.

Cheng Yin laughed dryly and said, "General Hou really thinks that Gai Xun's thief will lead the troops to knock on the pass, right?" ”

Hearing this, the candidate turned his head and looked at it, and said: "It must be strange if something goes wrong, even if they don't attack Jincheng, they will choose a place to move troops, but now I can't think of where they intend to attack!" ”

Cheng Yin couldn't help laughing, he stretched out his frozen red hand, grabbed it in the wind, and said, "General Hou, do you see it?" Fight in such a cold and snowy place, unless he, Gai Xun, is a madman! Even if he really led the troops to knock at this time, and we didn't have to wait for us to do it, God would have cured him of his madness in winter. ”

The candidate did not refute Cheng Yin's words, but said in passing: "Sending troops on a cold day is naturally not a good strategy, but I always feel that this matter is very wrong." The gossip that was flying all over the sky should have been spread by the enemy's spies, and according to common sense, Gai Xun's calculation should have been to make us panic and lose the morale of our army. ”

"You are just worrying about the sky, and sending troops at this time is self-defeating! Hanyang County was robbed by an ignorant thief, and the lord didn't dare to send troops rashly because of this ghost weather, so he delayed it again and again! Cheng Yin said incomprehensibly.

He couldn't figure out what the candidate was thinking in his head, he was usually a normal person, why he died in this matter.

The candidate's brows furrowed fiercely, he half-raised his right hand, and said, "Brother Cheng, think about it carefully." Could it be that Gai Xun is just a suspicious soldier and deliberately scares and scares us? But why did he do that? ”

Cheng Yin raised his head and looked at the snowflakes falling from the sky, which was already goose feathers at this time, making him feel as if he was flying.

Turning his body slowly, Cheng Yin said casually: "That old guy Gaixun, he is already old, and it is normal to go crazy, and he can't be treated as an ordinary person!" Since ancient times, no matter how cruel the war, the winter is the time to raise, how to fight or how to fight in the spring of the next year, and fight in winter, jokes! Just look at the guys around you, they can't even lift a knife when they're so cold, how can they fight? ”

The candidate nodded, "It makes sense, it makes sense, but why did he spread the news?" ”

Cheng Yin glared at the candidate fiercely, "How can I ...... with your brain?"

"Wait!"

Cheng Yin's words were not finished, but he suddenly heard a loud shout from the candidate.

"What? Why? Don't let people say no, I'll tell you your brain......"

The candidate's voice suddenly became nervous, and shouted, "Look! ”

Cheng Yin suppressed the anger in his heart and looked at the candidate.

For a moment, he was also stunned!

"God, this Gai Xun is really a madman!" Cheng Yin was dumbfounded and muttered.

I saw that on the slope of the hill less than five miles outside Jincheng City, a group of Xuanjia troops appeared like a ghost.

Xuanjia black horses, they appeared there quietly, and even the soldiers defending the city had just discovered it.

Slowly, teams of Xuanjia cavalry appeared there.

The phalanx grew larger and larger, and in the blink of an eye, it covered the entire hillside, with nearly 10,000 people on sight.

At a glance, the black armor silver spear of the same color was like a black tide, stagnating on the white snow.

Even the white vapor they spit out could be seen clearly above this tower.

In a spirit, Cheng Yin and the two candidates shouted at the same time: "Express, the enemy is knocking!" ”

Jincheng, which was silent in winter, suddenly thundered with war drums, and the atmosphere suddenly became solemn.

This is the eighth day that Liu Yun left Dunhuang County, and Jincheng Pass finally appeared in front of him.

Looking at this majestic city, Liu Yun suddenly wanted to take it!