Zhang Huchen pinched the knuckles of his fingers, and in the click-click sound, a satisfied smile appeared on his bearded face.

At the enlarged meeting held in the cardinal's room, which was also attended by senior military generals, the cardinal's room put forward a strong plan to expand the army to 30,000 or 50,000 within six months, which made every military high-ranking officer excited.

Military administration, military training, military orders, staff officers, logistics, and all departments will fully cooperate with the unified promotion of the cabinet, and large-scale recruitment of miners has been carried out in the areas of Nan'an and Gukou, and sailors and sailors have been recruited in Zhangzhou and Quanzhou......

What makes Zhang Huchen most happy is that Kong He has allocated a large amount of money for the purchase of horses, several large merchant ships have gone north, according to the price of the north, the price of a war horse above one meter and a half is between forty and sixty times, in comparison, an ordinary war horse is about twenty times, a miscellaneous horse is only about six times, a mule and a donkey are about three to four times, and a fine war horse of dozens of times is indeed worth a lot of money, quite expensive.

Previously, the Nan'an Hou Mansion also invested a lot of money and purchased two batches of war horses.

The horse that the riding camp is riding now is the first batch to be purchased, and it cost tens of thousands of yuan...... After that, Luo Fangbo sent hundreds of Tianfang horses, and now that the Eastern Domain has sufficient funds, the purchase of Tianfang horses in large quantities again is also on the agenda.

The herd of the Arabian horses should reach at least a few thousand horses, and at the same time expand the breeding grounds in order to obtain a stable source of the horses in a few years.

Otherwise, the war horse breeding plan calculated at least 20 or even 30 years will not be urgent, I am afraid that after many years of war, Donghu will unify the mainland, and the war horse population of the Eastern Domain will not be enough to support large-scale wars.

The purchase plan is to buy Mongolian horses and Qingtang horses in the north, with a scale of more than 10,000 horses, and the time is at least several months, and it is estimated that they can start to transport war horses back and forth before the year.

In this way, the scale of the cavalry can reach about four or five armies, and Zhang Huchen commanded a cavalry battalion of more than 500 people to a cavalry commander at the level of Xiangdu commander.

The cavalry of more than 10,000 people is used in a centralized manner, which is also a luxurious measure in the Great Wei, and the cavalry group in the entire north is only about 30,000 people.

With the respect of the commander of the chamber, the cavalry that can be commanded and used in a unified manner is about 10,000 people in the five armies.

Zhang Huchen jumped in a leap, and he was also able to command the most famous cavalry chamber of the Great Wei Dynasty, which was really exciting to think about.

Although most of the people and miners do not know how to ride horses, at most they have experience in riding donkeys and mules, but it doesn't matter.

The cavalry attachés in the Eastern Domain have already figured out a complete and systematic training method, which ensures that a recruit with no foundation in horsemanship can become a full-fledged iron cavalry knight in half a year, and if he has more than a year, it is not difficult to become an elite.

Relatively speaking, both nomads and fishermen and hunters were good at riding and archery, but that was a long process that began in early childhood, and the cavalry of the Eastern Domain did not need such a long time, which was the victory of the system over the inheritance.

Of course, this victory is still your own speculation...... Zhang Huchen touched his chin, while considering the recruitment and training plan, he was really eager to try, I don't know when the cavalry of the Eastern Domain will be able to set foot on the battlefield in the north?

Whether it is an island like the Eastern Domain, or a mountainous and offshore place like Fujian Road, it is actually not suitable for a cavalry battlefield.

The land of Qilu, the Central Plains battlefield, the Yanzhao Plain, and the broader north and grassland, this is the place suitable for the cavalry to gallop.

A squire soldier handed over the kettle, and Zhang Huchen gulped down the water, droplets of water dripping down his thick beard. In fact, this is a young general in his thirties, full of vitality and vigor, and his body is also full of strength and self-confidence.

At this moment, Zhang Huchen saw his colleagues in ordinary gray robes hurrying past and entering the gate of the palace.

"Jin Jian?" Zhang Huchen's expression froze.

……

When Jin Jian entered the mansion, Xu Zixian had already been with Chen Wen? drank wine and listened to the bridesmaids spread the tent.

After a few glasses of water and wine, Xu Zixian felt slightly drunk, perhaps because of the wine, or because of these familiar rituals that touched the soul.

When the ceremony is over, the hair has been combed in a bun and the face is smooth, Chen Wen? When the fair-skinned goose egg face appeared in front of Xu Zixian's eyes, it made him feel that everything before was worth it.

"When I was in Qizhou." Xu Zixian gently hugged Chen Wen and said softly: "I swear to marry you." ”

Chen Wen? The body trembled slightly...... She began to grow her hair after the horn, and no man had touched her body since then, including her father and brother. This time, she was taken into Xu Zixian's arms, and smelling the breath of the young man's body, made her feel extremely flustered, expectant, and afraid of Xu Zixian's next move.

However, I heard Xu Zixian's words with emotion, this time Chen Wen? The tension has also eased a lot. The girl pursed her lips and smiled, and said, "Whether you were talking about poetry or words, you were ridiculed and ridiculed by me, why did you like me?" I don't believe it, you must be coaxing me. ”

About a few hundred years later, the girl's style of speech is similar to that of the one in her arms......

Xu Zixian bowed his head slightly, in Chen Wen? With a light kiss on the cheek, his hand was already removing the girl's clothes, and he said with a smile: "Maybe since then, I have been Wen?" Are you convinced? ”

Chen Wen? His cheeks were red, and he wanted to break free from Xu Zixian's arms in his heart, but because of etiquette, he could only let him hold him and do it.

The maids and servants waited outside, and the cleaning and changing of clothes after the round house were all for the help of these personal maids and servants. Therefore, the dowry maid of the big family is also called the maid of the house, and it can be used by the owner at any time.

Even during intercourse, some maids had to stay in the house and serve at all times.

Xu Zixian would not have such a bad taste, nor would he give any woman a name, and he would pass on these rules to future generations, because of course he would not let the maids stay, and at the same time, at this moment, he would not be distracted by any other woman.

……

After Jin Jian came in, he knew that he was a little late, the guests dispersed, and the guards had already finished patrolling and clearing, and they were on duty to rest.

Only the servant women who had been drawn from the official village were sweeping everywhere, and even these things came to an end, and many of them held brooms and yawned quietly, and when they had finished cleaning everywhere, they were about to go to rest.

Jin Jian didn't choose to bother Xu Zixian, after all, although the matter was urgent, it was not to the point where it was necessary to knock on the newlyweds' room and disturb the big things in the round house.

He decided to wait under the eaves outside Xu Zixian's room, and he didn't enter the house, but sat cross-legged under the eaves.

Lin Shaozong, who was pressing the horizontal knife, slowly paced over, glanced at Jin Jian, Jin Jian smiled at him, shook his head, and said softly: "There is a change, but it is not confirmed." ”

"Do you want to call His Highness out?"

"Don't worry, I'll talk about it tomorrow morning."

Jin Jian hesitated slightly, but still smiled: "It should be the wishful thinking of a group of people, with their kind of goods, what can they do greatly?" I'll talk about it tomorrow. ”

"It's okay, it's not good to disturb tonight."

Lin Shaozong and Jin Jian are both young generals, and they have been following Xu Zixian for a long time, of course they understand that this marriage in front of them is still the princess Chen Wen? In Xu Zixian's heart, this matter, not only King Zhongshan has been waiting for a long time, he has been following him, and these subordinates who are attached to him have also been anxious for him for a long time.

Lin Shaozong and Jin Jian in front of him were like this, but they didn't expect that their past experiences and knowledge would affect Jin Jian's judgment, and he never thought that the night delay would affect the development of the entire Fujian Road and even the future pattern of the entire Great Wei!

……

Due to the wedding, the convoy sent by Li Gu and Xu Ziwen left Fuzhou City easily and began to gallop towards Jianzhou.

On the way, when passing by the town of Nan'an, it seemed that they were embellished with cavalry.

There were several knights, riding horses in the distance, like ghosts and ghosts. The weather was fine, the sky was clear and bright, and after midnight the moon was unusually clear, and they could see each other for miles.

The convoy of horses stretched out for a long time, and after leaving the city, Li Gu's people gathered on horseback, and then more convoys converged one after another, forming a huge team of more than 100 carts and more than 100 people following.

Before the rebellion in Jianzhou, caravans of this size were actually quite common.

"It doesn't matter." The old tooth general of Zhao Wangfu, who had bumped into Li Gu before, looked at the knight under the moonlight in the distance, and said with a big grin: "It must be a ranger sent by Nan'an Town." ”

"Those merchants have become the climate, too."

"Isn't it the King of Zhongshan who supports their waists?"

"What kind of chamber of commerce, Dawei has never had such rules. If the King of Zhongshan can still gain power, I don't know how much chaos he will have to make. ”

"It doesn't matter if he's a sea god needle or not, we will stir up the wind and rain this time."

A group of generals and officials of the palace, as well as the people in the rivers and lakes collected by Li Gu, all put on a big grin and a nonchalant face.

The convoy contained millions of dollars and a large number of military equipment, including long knives, horizontal swords, shields, armor, divine arm bows, longbows, foot bows, and short bows, which were not allowed to be made by the people. Horizontal knives, long knives, folk iron shops can be made, bows can also be made, and the rest of the military equipment is strictly forbidden to be made by the people, and the private armor is more than three collars, and the person in charge is hanged, and the servants are exiled. There is also a god arm bow, and it is a capital crime to imitate one! Under such a strict punishment law, there are very few iron field owners who secretly hide and make armor, and they dare to counterfeit and manufacture the Divine Arm Bow, which minimizes the risk of spreading this unique Chinese crossbow technology.

As for the long sword, horizontal knife, obstacle knife, and step bow, this kind of weapon has no technical content, it is nothing more than the iron used better, and the forging is more careful, so that the best weapons can be cast, and there is no need to engage in technological monopoly.

And Huaxia in the millennium ago there was a method of filling steel, good weapons, with the method of steel, you can get a sword and knife that sharpens iron like clay, but many casting skills are lost, so that the current treasure knife collectors, most of them like Tianfang knife and Japanese knife, because the inheritance of its skills is not broken, not like the end of the Tang Dynasty, Huaxia is considered to have experienced an earth-shaking catastrophe, many skills are lost.

……

The most important thing in this convoy is a large number of divine arm bows and armor, including a lot of fine iron weapons, at least a few thousand long? and a large number of horizontal knives, barrier knives. More than 100 divine arm bows and more than 1,000 longbows and foot bows. In addition, there are more than 300 collar armor, and the number of armor does not seem to be very much, but if it is linked to the law of the Great Wei, the private collection of 300 collar armor is the first important case since the founding of the Great Wei Dynasty, and it is estimated that at least dozens of heads will fall to the ground, so think about it, the number of these armors is simply terrifying.

With these ordnance, plus money, these military attaches who came out of King Zhao's mansion were arrogant and confident.

According to Li Gu's plan, the momentum will be great, and King Zhao will send troops, and these people will pull out tens of thousands of people to join King Zhao, and their status will change in an instant.

The team officer to the capital, the head to the commander, is no problem.

After that, the town guarded Fujian, King Zhao opened the mansion, they were powerful and blessed, and they had a lot of benefits, and they were crowned with a wife and a son, and they were unspeakably beautiful.

They pointed to the horses, mocking, abusive, mocking, and so on.

……

Hearing the noise and laughter and scolding, Gao Huairen, who had been silently observing the situation of the convoy with a bow on horseback, twitched the corners of his mouth, and he really didn't know what to say.

Due to the importance of Nan'an Town, the Military Intelligence Department has a special monitoring team here, scattered all over the town, no matter where there is an abnormality, they must be the first to notice the abnormality.

The people from the Military Intelligence Department first reported to Fuzhou, originally going to the Eastern Domain, but now the King of Zhongshan and Jin Jian, the head of the Military Intelligence Department, are both in Fuzhou, which saves a lot of things.

As for not being able to enter the city in the middle of the night, this is just a trivial matter, and it is not the first time that members of the operation team of the Military Intelligence Department have climbed over the city wall.

The garrison of Nan'an Town also received the news, and Gao Huairen and Li Shouli got up as soon as possible, and then rode over to sentry.

There are not many war horses in the town, only about 20 in total, which are used for pond horses, and the military attaché usually has no tasks and does not ride horses, but only walks on his legs in the town.

"Where did these guys come out of the ground?" Li Shouli was also quite confused, stroked the mustache on his chin, shook his head and said: "If you say that the caravan does not sneak out of the city in the middle of the night, if you say that it is a pole, the scoundrels will not gather such a convoy to attack Nan'an." If it is said to be a noble convoy, it is impossible to travel so noisily in the middle of the night. ”

"These people are very courageous." Gao Huairen said coldly: "Noisy laughter and scolding, it doesn't look like a person in the rivers and lakes." Those scoundrels, who come out in the middle of the night to do those unseemly deeds, walk on tiptoe, how can they be so fanfare, laughing and scolding. And when he saw a ranger like us, he was not vigilant, but insulted and laughed, which showed that he had no fear. In my opinion, most of them are the tooth generals of the noble family, and they are companions. ”

"Then why did you come out in the middle of the night and sneakily go to Jianzhou?"

"Well, it's hard to say."

Gao Huairen's face was solemn, and he said: "According to the people of the Military Intelligence Department, although it is vague and it is impossible to tell us the real information, but according to the statement it revealed, most of these people are from Zhao Wangfu. sneaked out of the city and went to Jianzhou, maybe there was some conspiracy. It's a pity that we can't claim it without authorization, otherwise they will be taken down with a surprise attack by concentrating the government army. ”

Li Shouli showed contempt on his face and said: "These stupid birds, half of them are enough. ”

Under the moonlight, the two generals of the government army sat on the war horses like iron casting, surrounded by a few Tang horses waiting for the military order to be delivered, and at the same time, they were also personal guards, and everyone was the leader? Or press the sword, the bow and arrow are ready, not to mention the assembly of the government army, just the number of cavalry in front of him, dare to harass the unprepared convoy.

But without military orders, there is nothing to be done.

Gao Huairen was originally an old man with a serious character, otherwise he would not have been sent as a left-behind military attache after Wu Weisan, and although Li Shouli dared to die violently, he did not dare to easily spoil the great affairs of the King of Zhongshan, otherwise he would not be redeemed. The two military attachés had to sit quietly on their horses, watching the convoy leave from the outer official roads of Nan'an Town, and the government army did not move, but it made those people in Zhao Wangfu even more arrogant.

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"There are 30,000 stone of grain." Luo Zhenbang talks a lot, and his short and sturdy body seems to have infinite vitality, not like a Mr. Yin and Yang who sells out the rivers and lakes, but like a short and strong hero.

Li Kaiming nodded slightly and did not speak, but there was a satisfied look on his face.

Liu Maoqi on the side laughed and said in a mocking tone: "Li Gu's old man, as well as Xu Ziwen's child, the Pu family's color, is quite refreshing and beautiful!" ”