After everyone else left, Zeng Yu got up from the main seat, walked to Wang Qing and sat down. He asked Wang Qing, "Ziwu, how is the development of the Clothless Army now?" ”

Wang Qing knew Zeng Yu's purpose for staying, and he introduced the current situation of the unclothed army to Zeng Yu. At this time, it has been more than five months since Zeng Yu left Jinniu Mountain, and after he went down the mountain, the Wuyi Army under the management of Zhou Cang and Sun Hao has developed in an orderly manner in all aspects, and the soldiers of the Ruishi Battalion, the Marksman Battalion and the Reserve Battalion have begun targeted training under the leadership of their respective commanders.

Under Sun Hao's operation, most of the cottages in Anping County have almost been subdued or cleared by the unclothed army, and the rest are all in Huanglongzhai and the location is not far from Huanglongzhai. Because of the subduing of many small and medium-sized cottages, there are currently more than 10,000 people in the Wuyi Army, but because most of them are prisoners, and the proportion of young and strong people is not large, most of them have been arranged by Zhou Cang to go to mining and iron smelting.

As for the first group of the Clothless Army, some soldiers have now been selected to join the workshops as apprentices to craftsmen, or to supervise mining and iron smelting in the iron-smelting room. Because of the strict requirements of the Rui Shi Battalion and the fact that there were battle losses in the previous battle to subdue some cottages, the number of men and horses has only expanded to 3,000. The archer battalion under Wu Qin's command only increased by 500 people, expanding from the previous 300 to 800 people. However, the reserve battalion trained by Pei Yuanshao now has a thousand people, but Wang Qing has not tried it with the people in the reserve camp, so he doesn't know how powerful they are.

Zeng Yu was also a little disappointed when he knew that the number of people in the Ruishi Battalion was only 3,000 now, he thought that it should reach at least 5,000 now, but it seems that within a year, the Ruishi Battalion is estimated to only grow to 8,000 people at most. To do this, it is necessary to break through the Huanglong Village, and it is also necessary to control the battle damage within a certain range. He suddenly thought of the soldiers of the Rui Shi Battalion he had seen before, and asked Wang Qing: "The soldiers trained today are all the Rui Shi Battalion under your command, I see that their current equipment is all armored, are these all built by our own workshop?" ”

"Big brother, about twenty days after you descended the mountain, almost all of the first batch of workshop apprentices will be able to build weapons and armor. Zhou Cang listened to your order and asked Li Hu to give priority to building equipment for the Ruishi Battalion, we are 1,500 people, and we have all completed the refitting in less than a month. The brothers who joined later were armed and armoured. Wang Qing said happily that he was originally worried about the output of the unclothed military workshop, but after seeing that every soldier under his command had completed the redress, he had to admire the efficiency of the workshop.

"Yes, I wonder what about the current pig iron production?" Zeng Yu knew that since there was a mine, it was the king to turn her into pig iron and then process it into what he needed, so in addition to the current fighters of the Clothless Army, he was most concerned about this iron smelting and workshop.

Wang Qing recalled it and told Zeng Yu that about two months ago, Li Hu built two shaft furnaces according to the drawings given by Zeng Yu, but the first one was built because of his previous inexperience, and the construction was not large enough, and the output was not as good as the one built later. At present, although there are more prisoners in the cottage, they are mainly in mining, and the iron-smelting room is not manpowered, and the iron is only produced once a day, but it can also produce 2,000 catties of iron per day.

Wang Qing also said to Zeng Yu: "Big brother, don't you know, that kid Li Hu not only knows how to connect iron, but also can produce iron." But because if you produce ferrogun, you can only produce more than 70 catties a day. After Zhou Cang discussed with the second brother, he asked him to mainly produce pig iron first, and let the brothers' equipment be replaced first. ”

Iron is a kind of steel in ancient times, the surface is polished and then treated with corrosives, and the naturally generated patterns can be seen, representing the peak of ancient iron-making and steel-making technology. Iron is mainly used to make swords, and the swords created are extremely sharp, which can be said to be divine weapons in ancient times. If every soldier under his command could be equipped with a sword made of iron, thinking about the scene when they fought with the enemy, Zeng Yu couldn't be better.

But when he knew that the output of ferrophonium was so low, he had to hold back his excitement, and he could only regard this as a goal in the future, and now there is no possibility of achieving him.

"What is the scale of the workshop, I asked Zhou Cang to meet Li Hu's demand for manpower before I left."

"The workshop now has a total of 500 people, of which 200 are already considered craftsmen, and the rest are apprentices, all under the jurisdiction of Li Hu, the head of the workshop. They can now produce four hundred swords a day, or a hundred sets of armor, and as for arrows, if they are built with all their might, they will be even more. Because Wang Qing often deals with the workshop, he also knows the current scale and output of the workshop.

"Well, when the matter here is settled, I will go back to Jinniu Mountain."

When Wang Qing heard Zeng Yu say that he was going to see the situation of the unclothed army, he was overjoyed. The Clothless Army can be said to have been built by Zeng Yu and Wang Qing on the basis of the original Zhoucang, and now that there are preliminary results, Wang Qing naturally hopes that Zeng Yu can see its development and growth with his own eyes.

"That's a good dare, on Jinniu Mountain, the second brother also asked me to ask when you will go back to see." Wang Qing said happily.

Zeng Yu also thought of Sun Hao, and he couldn't help but compare him with Guo Jia. I don't know how he will feel after seeing Guo Jia, the two are the same type of talents, and I believe there should be a lot of common language. Thinking of this, Zeng Yu had more expectations for what would happen next.

"Let's go, I'll go see those soldiers in your Sharp Soldier Battalion."

Zeng Yu and Wang Qing came to the school field, at this time the soldiers of the Ruishi Battalion did not end the training because Wang Qing left, Wang Qing formulated strict rules, where it is not combat and marching time, adhere to normal training every day, cold and summer. This is even harder than the training of the Great Qin Ruishi, but Wang Qing knows that it is not as good as the Warring States Period, after more than three hundred years of development, both the art of war and the quality of the population have improved a lot compared to the Warring States Period.

However, the spirit of training can be inherited, that is, to endure more hardships in peacetime and shed less blood in wartime. Therefore, he raised the requirements for the training intensity of the current regular soldiers, and sure enough, the quality of the trained soldiers completely met the requirements in his mind, and they were invincible in battle.

In the expansion of the unclothed army in this half year, it encountered many small and medium-sized cottages that were unwilling to be subdued, but when Wang Qing led the Ruishi battalion to charge, the enemy was often defeated under a charge. Even if the number of people is far less than the other side, once when they attacked a cottage, the opponent's fighters were close to 10,000, and the Ruishi battalion only had 3,000 people, but in terms of momentum, the Ruishi battalion was not inferior to the other party at all. And in the next battle, although the opponent tried to stabilize the formation and counterattack, the Rui Shi battalion attacked too fiercely, and under the continuous impact, the opponent was quickly defeated. That time, the Ruishi battalion killed more than 2,000 people and captured all the horses left in the other party's cottage, while he only lost more than 100 people.

Wang Qing led Zeng Yu to the school field, the Ruishi Battalion was training in formation at this time, and Wang Qing asked the soldiers to stop first. After all the soldiers of the Ruishi battalion heard the order, all their movements came to an abrupt halt, and then they quickly assembled in front of Zeng Yu.

"I'll see my lord!"

The uniform voice shouted from the soldiers' mouths, and at the same time knelt down on one knee, at this time, Zeng Yu stipulated. He made all the soldiers in armor only kneel on one knee at most, and did not kneel on both knees, giving the soldiers the greatest respect. He originally wanted to quote the military salute in the future, but Zhou Cang, Sun Hao and others objected, and even Wang Qing said that it was inappropriate, so he compromised on one knee etiquette.

Zeng Yu also returned the salute, and he asked the soldiers to get up. Looking up, only about half of it were familiar faces from before, and the other half should have been selected later. But they all have one thing in common, that is, spirit, a momentum of the brave who meets on a narrow road, and a spirit of forgetting life and death.

Seeing this, Zeng Yu said: "Soldiers, just now I was worried about whether you could help me successfully master Anping County, but now that I see you, I know that this worry is unnecessary. In your eyes, I see the desire to fight, the pursuit of meritorious deeds. ”

"Fight bravely and be loyal to the lord!"

All the soldiers shouted together, and the shouts shook the sky and made people's blood boil.

Zeng Yu pressed his hand and said: "We didn't have a stable territory and reputation before, but next, you are an officer and soldier under my Anping County Order." I will discuss a unified reward and punishment system with Ziwu and them, and in the future, as long as everyone makes meritorious contributions, they will be rewarded, including money, titles, and even land. I Zeng Yu said to do it, then I will have people set up a monument on Jinniu Mountain, write down the reward and punishment system, if you don't do it, or the reward that the soldier should get is not fulfilled, you can directly find me, I will be your strongest backstage. ”

"Long live the lord... Long live the lord..."

After hearing Zeng Yu's words, all the soldiers became excited. They joined the unclothed army, no matter what the purpose was before, but there is one thing that is inconvenient to pursue, that is, to make meritorious contributions, and Zeng Yu just gave them a guarantee that as long as they make meritorious contributions, they will definitely be rewarded. And in other places, it's very difficult, and the reward is not related to meritorious service, but to the relationship with the superior. That's why these soldiers are so excited, which is equivalent to giving them a chance to rise as long as they work hard.

Wang Qing also heard what Zeng Yu said, but he was not like the soldiers, but instead a long-lost saying came to his mind - the military merit lord famous field house system. This is the system of the former Qin, which made the soldiers of the Qin State fearless of death on the battlefield, and let the six countries of Kwantung be annihilated under the banner of Great Qin. This system is the most coveted by all soldiers, and it is also the most feared monster by the enemy, it will make all the soldiers of an empire have a fanatical desire for war, but at the same time, it is also the most dangerous, because if it cannot be controlled, because of the strong desire for war, it will make an empire unable to stop the pace of expansion, and can only continue to attack outward! Offensive! Offensive!