Bailiyan (Wei Xian) asked Sikong Nan to take a piece of chain mail, a horizontal knife, and a steel gun to give to Lu Gao as a gift. Lu Gao is a low-ranking general in the Xianwang Forbidden Army, equipped with fine scale armor, iron weapons, at first glance the sharpness of the horizontal knife, the tenacity of the steel gun, the most well-equipped forbidden army general around the Xianwang can't help but be shocked.

"What a sword!"

Lu Gao mistook the horizontal knife for a sword, and Bai Liyan hurriedly corrected and said:

"General Lu, this is a sword, not a sword."

"Knives? Why is it the same as a sword. ”

Lu Gao looked closely, and did not notice anything unusual except that the tip of the knife was an oblique blade with a reverse angle of 55 degrees.

"General Lu, the sword is a double-edged sword, and the knife is a single-edged blade, which is more suitable for chopping, so in order to facilitate assassination, an oblique angle is made on the tip of the knife."

Swords are usually double-edged, knives are single-edged, the wider back can withstand the huge impact generated when swinging, but the sword is not, the reason why the bronze sword is short and the spine is wide is precisely because it is too long and not conducive to slashing, and the bronze is brittle, and it is very easy to break under force, so it can only widen the blade to increase the strength.

Early the next morning, Bai Liyan rode alone to the official residence of Antai Hou Jitong, after Antai Hou entered the city, he had been living in the prince's mansion outside the palace when Jiang Hai, the king of Xian, was still the prince, and now the plaque has been completely removed, and it has been renamed the Liang State Minister's Mansion.

The minister's mansion has been forbidden within a hundred steps, and all idle people are not allowed to enter and approach without authorization. Outside the mansion, the guards of the Liang State are still heavily guarded.

"Who are you?"

The Liang army escort led by him shouted, Baili Yan got off the horse and gave a slight salute, and handed the tooth card to the past:

"General Lao is tired of communicating with An Taihou, and Wei Xian, the new envoy of this general, was ordered to come to report on his work."

"It's you!"

I felt that the young man in front of him was very young, and the generals of Liang Guo quickly looked up and down, and mocked disapprovingly:

"If you have any position in the Xian Army, it won't be that there is no one in the Xian Army, so send a chief to fill the number." The escort made a disrespectful speech, and everyone burst into laughter.

Baili Yan was expressionless, took out a piece of gold collar tied with a red rope from his arms, hung it in his hand, and said:

"This is the Liang Guo gold collar given by Mrs. Hou, report it to the general as soon as possible, otherwise the military plane will be delayed, and the general will not be interested in asking for your head, Antaihou may not be necessarily, go quickly!"

Baili Yan screamed, and Liang Guohu was shocked.

The golden collar is a symbol of status, and the generals of the Xian State took out the golden collar of the Liang State, and this alone can knock on the door of the Liang State Minister's Mansion. The escort general has also seen the market, and he knows that people are not easy to mess with, so he reined in his arrogance, and even made compensation, and turned around and went into the house to report.

After a while, Ji Tong wore an indigo robe and strutted out to greet him:

"I haven't seen you for a year, Wei Langzhong is unharmed."

"It's all thanks to the blessing of the marquis, I never thought that we would meet again after more than a year."

"Hehaha...... Wei Langzhong, please. ”

"Thank you, Master Hou."

As soon as the front foot left, the guards and the soldiers looked at each other:

"Who is this person, Master Hou actually came out to greet him personally."

"That's right, this person is not as old as me, and he has such a background, I think he must be a nobleman of Xianguo."

……

The Liang State Legation's Mansion has been rebuilt, and it has a new look than more than a year ago, and the useless and superfluous household belongings have been removed.

When he came to the backyard house, Ji Tong once again mentioned his son Ji Kang's condition:

"Wei Langzhong's wonderful hand aphrodisiac has been cured, and Kang'er has now recovered, without leaving any scars, even the imperial doctor of Liang State said that Wei Langzhong is the world's medical saint, and Ben Hou is very grateful."

"Master Hou has won the award, the doctor's parents' hearts, it is the duty of the doctor to relieve the pain and treat the injured, it is really not worth mentioning. It's a pity that this world is uneven, and I have to pick up a butcher's knife to fight on the battlefield, which is really contrary to the way of medicine, ashamed, ashamed......"

"General Wei's words are wrong." An Taihou had different opinions, so he immediately said: "The big husband is determined to be in the world, when he gallops outside the field, how can he stick to a corner of peace under the roof tiles." Treating the disease is for the small people, and galloping across the world is the great rule to save the people of the world, General Wei thought that Ben Hou's words were reasonable. ”

Bai Liyan nodded and said:

"Hou Ye is reasonable, to cure the world's diseases, it cannot be saved without fierce medicine, and the benefits of soldiers may be a good medicine. In the next place, he was ordered by the king to serve as the envoy of the Liang army, and asked the marquis to give instructions. ”

"General Wei is a genius, presumably Mr. Uncle Guang has already told the general, General Wei will stay by Benhou's side this time to give advice."

"It's better to be respectful than to obey your fate, but there is something I hope the marquis will help."

An Taihou smiled noncommittally, most likely knowing that Bailiyan was a lobbyist for King Xian:

"Wei Langzhong, Ben Hou really won't hide it from you, the Liang army is here to garrison the Lingling, and drag the main force of the Black Turban Army in Xianguo, so that it cannot go west to the Sishui River to threaten the hinterland of Sun State, this matter Uncle Guang should have said."

"The old gentleman did have an explanation, but since he was working for King Xian, he had to put aside his subordinates and ask the Hou Ye for troops."

An Taihou stood up with his hands behind him, carried Baili Yan on his back, and said in a solemn tone:

"This matter is not negotiable, Benhou can't use the blood of the soldiers of Liang State to fight for the territory of Xianguo, and General Wei will not say it anymore."

"Hou Ye, if you only borrow 50,000 war horses in Hou Ye's hands, can Hou Ye sell this face?"

"War horses! What do you want to do with your horses? ”

"Since the start of the war in June, the Xian army has suffered great losses in war horses, and it is planned to persuade Zhao Shuai to clear the wall, so it is urgent to raise war horses."

"Kiyono Strongwall? What is a strong wall? ”

"It is to turn the two counties of Xianxi and Qiunan into white land." Baili Yan Road.

At present, there is no widely recognized concept of the fortified wall, and the strategy of adopting the fortified wall and clearing the field is more suitable for the Xian army to defend against danger.

The Black Turban Army threw all its manpower into the war campaign, and its logistics were bound to rely on a huge amount of manpower to sustain it, and an army of more than 1 million people needed 5 million people to transport grain and grass supplies for it in a territory of four or five thousand miles, or even a wider territory, which was still a conservative estimate.

In order to maintain such a large army and manpower expenditure, it is necessary to devote more than twice as many manpower to life and production, and not counting the stocks of grain and grass that were plundered and stored before, all six million people are all out of production and engaged in the war, and with the current productive forces, at least 30 million working people are needed to support such a large army and logistics.

The population of the area under the jurisdiction of the Black Turban Army is between 12 million and 15 million, and after half a year of wreaking havoc and destruction, production has suffered unprecedented damage; the Black Turban Army has not been able to completely conquer the capital of Xianguo and Beihai County this year, and has taken away the richest land in Beihai, and its internal policy strategy has suffered a great setback.

Bailiyan's fortified wall and clear the field was not to stick to the existing defense line of the Xian Army, nor to clear the war production potential west of the defense line, but to clear the war potential in the territory of the Black Turban Army.

Taking advantage of the great plains of the North Sea and the vertical and horizontal rivers, the Xian Army was good at water warfare, relying on warships and supply ships, launched cavalry raids, swept away the population and livestock in the territory of the Black Turban Army, destroyed the agricultural, industrial and commercial productive forces, burned all the means of production that could be produced, and robbed all the grain, so as to weaken the war potential of the Black Turban Army to the greatest extent.

At the same time, the Black Turban Army was forced to constantly move in the population from the rear, fill its supply routes, and restore agricultural production in the territory under its jurisdiction.

In this way, Xianguo suffered a loss on the surface, and what he gained was more abundant population and war potential, while the Black Turban Army would only get more and more tired in Xianguo. You can even go up the river and enter the occupied territories of Sun, Xu, and Changsun to plunder the population and means of production in the rear of the Black Turban Army.

The biggest mistake of the Black Turban Army was that it did not mutiny a powerful naval division, which made it impossible for it to organize a large naval division to prevent the attack and harassment of the Xian army's flank in two to three years.

"Hou Ye has 30,000 cavalry in the 100,000 army, 20,000 spare horses and carrying strength, if you can lend it to the Xian army, the Xian army will have 90,000 horses of all kinds."

"Fifty thousand war horses is not a small number, and the losses under the battle are huge, what benefit can my Liang country have."

There are only interests and no friends between countries, even if they are of the same language and species, the Liang State of the country of the upper state also has no mercy for the vassal states.

Tai'an opened his mouth to be in the interests of Liang Guo, and he didn't plan to suffer a loss at all, if it weren't for Bailiyan's grace to save his son, if it was someone else, he would have been driven out of the door by An Taihou.

"Master Hou, don't worry, there is a second thing in the future, and the second thing is absolutely indispensable to the benefits of Liang Guo."

"Oh, General Wei might as well say it, if it is a good listen, Ben Hou can consider it."

"In the future, I will buy 1.5 million stone grain and grass from Liang State."

"One and a half million stones!" Tai'an was surprised and said, "General Wei didn't just talk about it. Xianguo is now the treasury of Taicang, which has been emptied, and he can't take out the silver money to buy 1.5 million stone grain, so how can General Wei use it as capital to buy grain from my Liang country. ”

Bailiyan is calm and confident:

"Liang Guo is currently short of coal and stone, and he is willing to buy this 1.5 million stone grain and grass in exchange for a coal mine in Liang State, I don't know if An Taihou is willing to make a deal."

An Taihou suddenly smiled strangely at this time:

"General Wei, Ben Hou heard me right, in exchange for a coal mine in my Liang country, in exchange for 1.5 million stones, grain and grass and 50,000 war horses in my Liang country, how can there be such a shameless business in the world. Ben Hou respects you as a generation of famous doctors, but you can't be so arrogant. ”

An Taihou's face turned straight, Bai Liyan's face turned straight, and he said confidently:

"If it's a coal mine hidden underground and never discovered, what does Antaihou think?"

Ji Tong suddenly felt even more inexplicable, and asked sharply:

"How does General Wei know where there are coal mines in the territory of Liang State."

"Zai Xia does know a coal mine in the territory of Liang that has not yet been discovered, and I don't know if An Taihou is willing to make this bet with Zaixia."

"Okay, Ben Hou gives you this face, what is the gambling money."

"I'm betting on this sword." As the words fell, Bai Liyan placed the saber on the desk and pulled out half of it to reveal a glittering cold light.

"It's really a sword!" An Taihou's face was shocked, and he was deeply attracted by the cold light of the horizontal knife.

The next moment Bailiyan said:

"This knife sharpens iron like mud and blows hair, and any iron sword can be easily cut nowadays. As long as Antaihou sends a miner to the place mentioned in the next two months to find it, if he finds nothing, he will give the treasure knife to Antaihou.

If he finds a coal mine, Antaihou should give 1.5 million stone grain and grass and lend 50,000 war horses to our country, and Antaihou is willing to make this bet. ”

"Okay, if General Wei loses, this treasure knife will return to Benhou. Let's say, where is the coal mine in my Liang country. ”

"There is a coal mine within a radius of 100 miles in Anliang Village in Songtao City, Guanling County, and Antaihou can order the ore to look for it."

"Oh, Songtao City. General Wei has never been to Liang State, how do you know that there is coal and stone underground in Anliang Village in Songtao City? ”

"I dare to ask Master Hou, Anliang Village in Songtao City is rich in black mud plaster."

"Ben Hou is lonely and unheard, I don't know what black mud paste is?"

"Black mud paste is a medicinal material, and where black mud is produced, there is an eighty percent possibility of producing coal."