At the end of December, Li Ze arrived at Yingzhou Shijiawu, the deputy envoy of Wuwei Festival Town and the assassin of Yingzhou, Xue Ping, the chief Shi Bao Hui, accompanied him all the way, and Liu Chenglin, the right governor of Qianniuwei, and Li De, the general of the rangers, also rushed back from Mozhou.

Outside Shijiawu, a grand memorial ceremony was held, here, the two thousand people of the Wuwei army were almost wiped out, and there were few people who could escape their lives. Even Liu Chenglin's Chinese army protector Liu Changfeng was seriously injured and has not yet recovered.

This is the first time that Li Ze has been systematically eliminated by the enemy since he formed an army, and before that, Li Ze can be described as smooth sailing, even when facing a whole town in Henghai, he also killed the other party and fled.

Li Ze actually knows very well that the longer the time, the closer he is to defeat, and there will be no real undefeated generals in this world. But what he never expected was that what made him have unforgettable pain for the first time was actually the owner of a small dock fort that he had never looked at in his eyes, a rich man in his heart.

This failure also made Li Ze really wake up, it is not those who are in high positions and have heavy troops, they are heroes, and there are many heroes in the recklessness.

The castle master of Shijiawu did not choose to run away at the last moment, but chose to kill himself, which also made Li Ze pay some respect to him. Although he fell into his own hands, he would definitely cut him with a thousand knives, but his choice to end himself in such a way is admirable.

This also told Li Ze a cruel truth, the other side he wanted to reach would never be so easy and simple, but there would be more tribulations he couldn't imagine waiting for him.

A monument was erected outside Shijiawu, this is already the second monument erected by Li Ze, the first one is in Mengjindu, Li Ze hopes that it is best not to happen again in the future.

Shi Jiawu now almost no one with the surname Shi, after that war, Liu Chenglin, who was angry, launched a retaliatory massacre in Shijiawu, and the men of Shi Jiawu almost never survived. And now living in Shijiawu and cultivating the surrounding farmland are the soldiers who were disabled and retired after Zuo Wei's continuous battles in Yingzhou. And more people are working hard to extract the oil produced in the Death Valley, not far from Shijiawu.

Now, under his rule, Li Ze has only discovered such a crude oil that can be easily extracted from the surface of the outflow. Of course, Li Ze knew that there were many such things under this land, but unfortunately, with his current ability, he didn't want to dig them out at all, so it was very important to flow out of the crude oil that could be easily extracted from the surface.

In that battle on the banks of the Yishui River, if it weren't for the almost devastating blow given to the most elite Chinese cavalry charged by Zhang Zhongwu after dozens of barrels of refined fire oil, Li Ze didn't feel that he had much chance of winning that battle.

Li Ze shuddered when he thought of that battle, it was the first time he really saw the almost suffocating scene when thousands of cavalry launched an attack.

There are tens of thousands of cavalry, boundless.

And in that battle, Zhang Zhongwu had 20,000 cavalry.

In that battle, Wanfu, more than half of Liang Han's infantry soldiers were killed or wounded, and Li Ze spent his old nose to smash down the thousand Mo knife team with countless money, and lost more than half.

You must know that even in the Tang Dynasty, Datang had an army of millions, but it was only a mere 20,000 Mo sword team.

The death of more than 600 Modao team members made Li Ze really hurt to the bones. Until now, the Modao team has only replenished more than 100 people. It's too difficult to find a truly qualified Modao player.

"Brother Xue, I sometimes regret Cheng Xu's department." Li Ze looked at Xue Ping and said: "But their performance is worthy of their name, if it weren't for Cheng Xu's desperate involvement of Pan Feng's entire five thousand cavalry, then in that battle, our losses would be even greater." ”

The entire 3,000 Shence army fought in Matouzhai until the end, and only a few hundred people remained, but they finally held the last bit of camp, and they held back the whole 5,000 cavalry.

Xue Ping was also saddened, the 10,000 Divine Strategies Army that followed him, but he carefully selected from the 200,000 Divine Strategies Army, who was a real warrior who dared to fight. There were no three thousand in the first war, and it is false to say that he is not distressed.

"It is their glory to be able to fight to the death for Your Majesty." Xue Ping said: "If they keep their military flags, then they will exist forever." ”

"That's true!" Li Ze nodded and said: "After this battle, although they only have a few hundred people left, the new army rebuilt with them as a skeleton will inevitably have a higher level of combat effectiveness. Brother Xue, this time I came here to ask for your opinion, if you agree, I will make up these 3,000 men for Cheng Xu's department. ”

Xue Ping shook his head: "I have already played the emperor in secret, and Your Majesty has decided to select another three thousand people from the Shence army to come to Wuwei." Speaking of this, Xue Ping smiled and said: "This is thanks to the heavy reward of the war dead, when Chang'an selected the Shence Army again, the applicants were enthusiastic, and Qin Zhao, the general of Zuo Wuwei, who was responsible for selecting the manpower, was red-eyed, saying that the essence of the Shence Army was going to Wuwei." But the emperor was quite happy. ”

Li Ze smiled, Xue Ping's move was naturally because he was afraid that he would mix sand in the Shence Army, but in fact, he did have this idea. But it doesn't matter, his reward after the war has caused extremely subtle changes in the heart of the Shence Army, didn't Xue Ping say that the applicants were enthusiastic? Didn't Qin Zhao say that he was all red-eyed?

Because the ones who come must be those who are really capable in the Shence Army, but they have not come out in the future, those who are poor and want to use their lives to fight for wealth, and even if they are not good, they can earn some wealth for their families. As for those sons and sons of rich and powerful families who are messing around in the Shence Army and mixing their qualifications, when they hear such a terrifying casualty rate, they are afraid that they will not be able to hide, where are they willing to come to Wuwei to die?

The reward that Li Ze took out was a rare wealth in some people's lives, but for some people, it was just some ordinary pocket money.

It's coming!

These people who came, all of them had the heart to make contributions, and all of them had the desire to be promoted and make a fortune, and when the time came, Xue Ping wanted to avoid the war, but he couldn't avoid it.

"That's fine!" He nodded faintly in approval.

"Jie Shuai, I want to transfer the four thousand Shence troops from Nangong County to Zhuozhou." Xue Ping said: "It's time for them to hone and hone." ”

"Don't touch them yet!" Li Ze shook his head and said: "In this season, it is just a siege of Jicheng, and transferring them up now will only add to the logistical difficulties." And it's hard to march now, and let's wait until after the beginning of spring next year! ”

"That's fine." Xue Ping thought about it, so he nodded and agreed with Li Ze's opinion. "Jie Shuai, about the kind of thing of fierce fire oil, I also played your majesty, please ask your majesty to order all places to find this kind of thing, can you also present a copy of the secret recipe for refining fierce fire oil to your majesty?"

Li Ze was noncommittal: "Brother Xue, Heluo, there is no such thing in the land of Guanzhong, and I am worried that I will send the secret recipe to Chang'an like this, but I am afraid that it will not be long before this thing will appear on many people's desks." That's not a good thing. ”

Hearing Li Ze's attitude, Xue Ping couldn't help but be a little disappointed. Thinking of the current predicament of Chang'an Luoyang, he could only sigh, Li Ze said yes, even if the emperor got this thing, what use would it be? The Tang Dynasty does have a vast territory, but in the battle on the banks of the Yishui River, the power of the fierce fire oil has been famous all over the world, no matter that Jiezhen found this kind of thing under his rule, would it be difficult to pay tribute to Chang'an? I'm afraid that I will quickly hide myself and secretly refine this weapon. Thinking about it this way, Li Ze's secrecy is a good thing.

"But Lu Long also has this kind of thing, where they are, it may not leak out." Xue Ping reminded.

"Brother Xue, don't worry." Li Ze said: "The fierce fire oil we have cultivated, compared with Lu Long's, there are still many changes, simply put, our power is much stronger than Lu Long's, and as time goes by, our power will become more and more powerful, as you will see later." Lu Long, it's just a first glimpse of the door, and now we have entered the hall and are seeking refinement. ”

"That's great." Xue Ping high-fived and exclaimed: "Before, I was worried that when we attacked each other in the future, the opponent's massive use of this weapon would cause us a lot of damage!" ”

"The most basic function of the fierce fire oil was originally only burning, and it was not impossible to extinguish him. If you want him to explode, you need a lot of restrictions, and in the future, our weapon will greatly reduce the restrictions on the explosion, and basically you can let him explode if you want him! Li Ze said with a smile.

"I also heard that the festival marshal used another explosive weapon in the Yishui River, which is also quite powerful!" Xue Ping asked.

Li Ze laughed: "Spread falsehood, that's just a thing, bullying those animals who don't understand personnel, the biggest function is just to cause some chaos." ”

Thinking of those gunpowder weapons with very majestic names, what kind of earth-shattering thunder, a swarm of bees, Li Ze smiled bitterly. If you want these things to really be put into actual combat, I don't know if you can still see them in your life? Pandora's box was opened, but the devil inside refused to come out, and he couldn't do anything about it. Because he didn't know how to make this thing more powerful.

"I see!" Xue Ping couldn't help but be disappointed.

"However, during the New Year's holiday, you can get it out to listen to it and watch it, and you don't need to burn the bamboo in the fire." Li Ze said with a smile: "During the Chinese New Year this year, Brother Xue might as well go back to Wuyi and take a look at this thing, it's also very interesting." ”