Chen Xian thought about it, and asked Yang Yuanwai to reply to the Yang family, telling them that he was in a difficult time at this time, and he was cut off from the trade route and the source of coal and iron, so he couldn't take out these for the time being, if Yang Jianshi waited for him for half a year, he would be willing to take out two thousand pairs of armor and vests, three thousand three-eyed eye muskets, and a hundred cannons, but he could still afford thirty flying sand cannons, and finally add a thousand catties of gunpowder.

However, Chen Xian also had conditions, and he asked Yang Anguo to give him a thousand good stallions and mares as a dowry.

Two thousand pairs of armor, vests, Chen Xian defeated Liu Erzu and Jin Jun before and after, there are thousands of pairs of armor just captured, and there are hundreds of pairs of vests, as long as the raw materials are sufficient, for Chen Xian's hydraulic factory, it is only half a month's output, not to mention the three-eyed musket, when they defeated Liu Erzu, more than 2,000 rods were captured just by casting the three-eyed gun, and it is no problem to use it to recharge, as for the flying sand cannon, Chen Xian plans to make some small-caliber cast iron cannons specially used to fire small stones, To deal with this future uncle, he doesn't even understand what a cannon is, and if he is given a cannon, he can't play an effect.

Chen Xian is most distressed by gunpowder, but Chen Xian feels that this thousand catties of gunpowder is still worth giving, not only is Yang Miao really worth a thousand catties of gunpowder, but more importantly, through this thousand catties of gunpowder, Chen Xian also wants to cultivate a loyal customer who buys gunpowder.

Except for sending Yang Yuan away, Chen Xian didn't take this matter too seriously, so he plunged into the barracks and devoted himself wholeheartedly to training.

In the blink of an eye, it was the first year of Da'an, according to the news from the capital, in November last year, Emperor Zhangzong died, and the new year was the first year of Da'an, that is, 1209 AD, and it had been almost three years since Chen Xian came to this world.

At this time when there is no catch, the grain in Chen Xian's treasury is about to bottom out!

But fortunately, through this half a year, Chen Xian has completely trained the four newly established infantry battalions and two artillery companies. He also equipped the new artillery battery with six three-pound guns and four five-pound guns.

After the test of actual combat, Chen Xian and the artillerymen who participated in the war unanimously believed that one pound of guns and two pounds of guns were not practical, and on the battlefield, the caliber and the effectiveness of the cannon were not directly proportional, and for every point of increase in caliber, the power of the cannon would increase by three or even five points!

That is, the bigger the cannon, the better.

But the cannon can't be too big, for example, the seven-pound cannon, although powerful, but the recoil is too strong, the wooden gun carriage can not withstand such recoil, after the previous battle, the two seven-pound gun trucks are basically scrapped.

Therefore, Chen Xian returned the original two one-pound cannons, two two-catty cannons, and two seven-catty cannons.

After that, Chen Xian personally supervised the construction of ten three-catty cannons and four five-catty cannons.

Fourteen new guns, plus the original four three-pound guns and two five-pound guns, a total of twenty cannons were assigned to two artillery batteries.

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chose a moonlit night with sparse stars, Chen Xian first let the soldiers sleep during the day, get up late at night to eat, and then set off overnight and went straight to Tangjiazhuang!

Early the next morning, when the soldiers defending the city of Tangjiazhuang got up and poured out the urinals, they were shocked to see that an army that they could not count rushed to the wheat field outside the east gate of Tangjiazhuang and began to set up artillery and arrays.

Soon after the sound of a crazy gong, several people dressed in gorgeous clothes, outsiders or scholars, hurriedly climbed the tower to take a look, and then left in a hurry.

After Chen Xian finished the formation and commanded the cannon to fire a shot at the gate of Dongzhuangzi, the people on the entire city tower were scattered.

After firing more than a dozen cannons and completely shattering the simple city gate of Tangjiazhuang, Chen Xian sent the first battalion to attack Tangjiazhuang.

The 1st Battalion did not encounter any resistance along the way, and easily occupied the Tang Mansion in the center of Tangjiazhuang and the Xu Mansion opposite it.

As for the Tang family and the Xu family, in fact, these two families moved their important family members and masters to Laiwu and Tai'an half a year ago, and now only some of the generals and some of the stewards are still in Tangjiazhuang.

When these generals and stewards found out that Chen Xian's army was really calling, they fled from the West Gate without saying a word, leaving the entire Tangjiazhuang to Chen Xian.

However, it is precisely because of this that Chen Xian did not gain much in Tangjiazhuang, only found food for his army to eat for a month, and copper coins and other materials were basically gone.

The Tang and Xu families had already emptied their belongings in Tangjiazhuang, and the remaining grain was only rations for the generals and the villagers.

Since he didn't get enough resources in Tangjiazhuang, Chen Xian only had one choice left.

Chen Xian immediately sent people to recruit two militias from Xizhuangzi that had long been ready to go.

One of the militia members was mostly related to the farmers of Tangjiazhuang, and Chen Xian asked them to take over the next defense of Tangjiazhuang, and their main task was not to do anything about defense, but to use their relatives to publicize the tenants and yeoman farmers left behind in Tangjiazhuang.

The other militia is even more numerous, about a thousand people, and their mission is to follow Chen Xian to participate in the next combat mission!

Chen Xian rested in Tangjiazhuang for three days, and after arranging the occupation of Tangjiazhuang, he took four battalions and two companies of regular troops and 1,000 militiamen to the direction of Laiwu.

This time, Chen Xian set off early in the morning and passed through a section of mountains and forests between Yiyuan and Laiwu at noon.

Between Yiyuan and Laiwu County, there is a road in good condition between dozens of miles of low and gentle mountain woodland, which is the only export of goods in the mountain plain of Yiyuan.

After arriving at the western exit of the mountain woodland, Chen Xian left a thousand militiamen here and let them ambush them in the woods on both sides of the road.

After a short rest at the exit, Chen Xian set off again with the regular army.

Entering the Laiwu territory, Chen Xian scattered all the few more than 100 cavalry under his command as scouts.

In the era of cold weapons, if an infantry was attacked by someone in the form of a marching army, it was basically equivalent to being sentenced to death, even if Sun Wu could not save him in his second life.

The most basic role of the scout cavalry is to detect the enemy in advance and buy time for the main infantry to change formations.

Laiwu County is not far from the exit of the mountain forest, only more than 20 miles away, and on this road, it is basically a flat river, which is very easy to walk.

Compared with the Yiyuan Plain, where most of the area is still covered by vegetation, the vegetation on the Laiwu Plain is much sparse, and there are many barren beaches and grasslands on both sides of the road.

They walked seven or eight miles along the avenue, and farmland began to appear on both sides of the road.

When the people working in the fields saw them, they all fled towards the Zhuangzi in the distance, and the Zhuangzi saw them from a distance and closed the gate in a panic.

A team of nearly 3,000 people walked on the road in four columns, and the long procession stretched for several miles, according to the concept of the people of this era, such a large procession, no matter who it belonged to, would be a disaster for the people.