After Guo Qi left the racecourse, he fell to the north camp of the city, and the Wufuya military guards who were originally stationed here are now only three mansions, namely the pro-soldier mansion, the crossbow mansion and the heavy armored infantry mansion, and the personnel leading the troops have also been slightly adjusted, Zhuo Yidao was promoted to the deputy general and the captain of the heavy armor infantry mansion, and the captain of the crossbow soldier mansion became Xu Feng, and Li Wu was still the captain of the pro-soldier mansion.

"The last general (lowly position) see the lord." Zhuo Yidao and Xu Feng saluted Guo Qi.

"Get up! This king is here to see, how is the training of the tooth guard? ”

"My lord, now that the soldiers of each province have been replenished, most of them are selected from the soldiers, the foundation is not bad, the combat strength of each province has been restored, and they can be put into battle at any time." Tang Biyan said.

"For the problems exposed in the battle of Huangyuan, we should focus on training; Now the hussar guards have not yet formed a combat force, if Xirong advances eastward, the king can only use the tooth guard, so no matter what the situation, the tooth guard can not have any problems before the war. Guo Qi said sternly.

"No! The end will understand. ”

Now Yongzhou's troops look like a lot, there are five palace guards, five palace hussar guards and seven government soldiers, a total of more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, plus 19,000 soldiers in Wufu Tuntian, there are 40,000 soldiers and horses; What's more, although the Tuntian soldiers are now fully equipped, their training is seriously insufficient, and it is good to maintain law and order in peacetime, but if they really go to the battlefield, they will basically die.

The hussar guards have not yet succeeded, and the soldiers of the seven provinces have their own defense areas, and they cannot be easily mobilized, so after calculation, the only troops that can be used in Guo Qi's hands are the Ya military guards, and they are not the five yajun guards, but the three Ya military guards stationed in the camp in the north of the city; As for the other two prefectures, the Sword and Shield Soldier Mansion and the Spear Soldier Mansion are now stationed in Huangyang Pass!

Guo Qi is still very relieved about the training of the Yajunwei, after all, after two battles, the Yajunwei has become regular, and there are still some elite divisions, but there is still a big gap from the real elite division; A real elite division must be tempered by war again and again to become a group with super combat effectiveness, and as soon as the elite soldiers arrive on the battlefield, they only know what they should do; Therefore, on the training ground, it is never possible to train elite divisions.

Then after returning to Yongcheng, Guo Qi climbed the city tower to inspect, now Yongcheng's city defense system has been established, all the arrow towers are also installed on large bed crossbows, most of which are octagonal crossbows, there are also single bow crossbows, the crossbow walls of these bed crossbows are made of soft iron.

Among them, the octagonal crossbow is also known as the three-bow bed crossbow, its range is an astonishing 1,600 steps, manpower can not pull it apart at all, can only use a winch, each time but at the same time to shoot five arrows, one of which is one large and four small, located in the middle of the big arrow, the arrow is as thick as a child's wrist, and the other four small arrows are actually short guns.

In addition to the bed crossbow, there are also yaksha beatings, wolf tooth beatings, and so on on the city walls; Among them, the Yaksha is famous for "staying in the guest", which is a kind of log roller with a length of one zhang and a diameter of one foot, with a dense nail on its body "reverse whisker nail", the top is exposed about half a foot of wood, tied to iron cables at both ends, linked to the winch, under the wall of the enemy army, it is thrown into the enemy group, and the winch can be crushed and stabbed to death by twisting the winch.

The wolf's tooth slap is similar to the principle, but it is not a racket with a lot of long nails on it, and there are hemp ropes tied on both sides, when the enemy attacks the city, the hemp rope is cut off and falls directly from the city, which belongs to a one-time type of supplies, but the wolf's tooth slap is relatively large, and the area of the blow is relatively wide.

In addition, there are catapults, thunderstone rolling wood, gold juice, thistle terrestris, etc., but these things are not usually placed on the city, but in the warehouse, and will be used in the city during the war.

Guo Qi came to inspect the city defense, a big reason is that he is not confident in holding Huangyang Pass, after all, if the Xirong army sends tens of thousands of troops, it is very difficult for Huangyang Pass to be defended, once Huangyang Pass is lost, Yongcheng will become Guo Qi's last refuge.

After inspecting the city defense, Guo Qi went to the workshop again, at this time there were more than 800 craftsmen in the Yongcheng workshop, and there were more than 2,000 apprentices; During this time, according to Guo Qi's orders, a large number of ordnance was being built to defend the city, including arrows, bows, short guns, yaksha rings, wolf tooth slaps, thistles terrestris, etc., all of which were key ordnances, and the efficiency of the workshop was greatly improved due to the use of assembly line operations.

"Humble and respectful, see the lord." Knowing that Guo Qi arrived at the workshop, Ling Jing hurried over to salute.

"Excuse me! This king is here to see. Guo Qi said: "How many ordnance can the workshop produce every day now?" ”

"My lord, now I can produce 500 swords, 300 spears, 1,300 short spears, 200 bed crossbows, 30,000 arrows, 200 crossbows, 10 bed crossbows, 5 yakshas, and 20 wolf fangs every day......

After listening to Ling Jing's report, Guo Qi said: "This output is still too low, at least it must be doubled." ”

"My lord, I'm afraid this is a little difficult." Ling Jing was embarrassed and said: "If you want to increase production, I'm afraid there are not enough manpower!" The workshop is such a large place, and the number of people is already saturated, unless another workshop is expanded, but it is still impossible to increase production in a short period of time. ”

Guo Qi thought for a while and said: "This king has an idea for you, simple things like arrow shafts and rollers don't necessarily have to be made by craftsmen in the workshop, but they can hire people from outside to do it, and stipulate how much it costs to make a roller, and let them go home to do it;

In addition, like arrows, the workshop only needs to make arrows, and then can be handed over to the people to assemble, the people receive arrows from the workshop, and after the assembly is completed, they will be handed over to the workshop for acceptance. ”

"My lord, you are so clever, you are so humble." Ling Jing said happily.

"The idea is for you, if the output can't go up by then......"

"Then my lord, you have seen the head of the lowly officer."

"What does this king want your head to do, this king is still pointing at you to work for this king for a few more years!"

After Guo Qi left, Ling Jing immediately summoned the officials and officials in the workshop to discuss, and soon came up with a charter, in addition to the simple things such as arrows and rolling wood that Guo Qi said, Ling Jing also carried out further deepening, and handed over the assembly of long spears, short spears, and bows and crossbows to the people, and the craftsmen and apprentices of the workshop only produced standard parts of the same specification.

After Guo Qi finished reviewing, this charter posted a notice in the name of the palace, which immediately caused a sensation in Yongzhou, and many people began to go to the workshop to pick up accessories and assemble them at home. Soon the workshop's output quadrupled, and the speed of its accessories could not even keep up with the speed at which the people could assemble them.

Of course, the workshop only accepts qualified products, and not only does not accept unqualified products, but also fines the assembler; But even this could not stop the enthusiasm of the people to make money, after the people had money, they began to buy grain, cloth, clothes and other goods, and Yongzhou began to gradually prosper; Of course, that's all for later.

In fact, the most reassuring thing for Guo Qi is Huangyang Pass, but after Guo Qi inspected the completion workshop, it was already very late, and it was too late to go to Huangyang Pass, so he could only wait until the next day.