On the third day of the war, there was a camp tent in the west camp of the Anzhou Army next to the mouth of the two rivers.

"Thunder?" Yu Wenwen was chatting with Yang Ji while removing his armor, and the two 'thousand-year-old demons' were discussing the meaning of their new army's arrogance after successive victories.

Although there is no war in the new army at present, but the daily drill still has to continue, in order to get close to the actual combat, the soldiers and generals must be draped all over the body during the drill, as an example, Yu Wenwen naturally has to put on the armor.

Yang Ji, who had taken off his armor, was dressed in civilian clothes and helped Yuwen Wen unload his armor beside him: "Exactly, if you open the way with thunder all the way, then it is not difficult for the army to sweep through the Jingzhou Governor's Mansion." ”

"Then you have to have it, my father's attack on Fancheng and the big battle the day before yesterday are all used up, and my father has no place to get so much sulfur and saltpeter." After Yu Wenwen finished speaking, he immediately put the hood aside, and with the help of Yang Ji, he took off the neck guard and cloak one by one.

After Yang Ji loosened the armor, he took off the Mingguang armor again, then the arm guards, shin guards, and finally the leg skirt was untied, and the armor was finally removed.

"This Mingguang armor is really annoying, it's not as good as your sleeve armor and it's over with a convenient set." Yuwen Wen complained about the Mingguang armor he was wearing, and the popular armor styles in the last years of the Northern Dynasty were about Liangdang armor, barrel sleeve armor, and Mingguang armor, one is more expensive than the other, and the protection is getting better and better.

In later mythology, the prototype of the armor of the heavenly soldiers and generals - Mingguang armor has become popular at this time, Yuwen Wen usually wears Mingguang armor, but it is a little troublesome to wear, unlike the sleeve armor, like a modern T-shirt, a direct set is done.

"Princess, the style of armor is just as troublesome no matter how you wear it." Yang Ji hung this set of Mingguang armor from head to toe 'kit' on the shelf.

Yu Wenwen sat on a Hu bed, then pointed to another Hu bed and said, "Sit." ”

Hu bed is Maza, when marching and fighting, the generals are wearing armor, so they all sit on the Hu bed to talk, in addition to kneeling, this is also Yuwen Wen and Yang Ji's favorite seat when chatting in private, as 'descendants' they are still used to sitting on chairs.

Yang Ji sat on the Hu bed and talked to Yu Wenwen, this era is still mainly kneeling, if you sit on high furniture in front of the public and let your legs droop, this posture is considered uneducated or disrespectful.

"Sulfur and saltpeter are really hard to get, and you have to save slowly." Yuwenwen got back to the point after complaining about the armor, at present, there is no sulfur production area on the boundary of the governor's mansion of An, Xiang and Huangzhou, but the output is pitiful, and saltpeter is not much.

Yu Wenwen is about to take office as the governor of Huangzhou, and his subordinates know about the history of Bazhou, so everyone is looking forward to 'settling down' in Xiyang City, Bazhou Prefecture.

Bazhou is very convenient on the north bank of the Yangtze River, so it is much more convenient to do some forbidden things, as long as you give enough money, those merchants who come and go from the south to the north have nothing that cannot be obtained, of course, the number is another matter.

"Remember the loud noise outside Anlu City in early April, Bengong asked the blacksmith of the Ordnance Supervision to spend four months to build a cannon similar to the Franc machine, but the test firing blew up, this is still a low charge test firing, so the casting problem of the cannon body may not be solved in the short term." Yuwen Wen saw that Yang Ji wanted to speak, and he had already guessed what the other party was going to say, and he interrupted first.

He then added: "When you arrive in Bazhou, you can organize craftsmen to practice casting technology slowly, but you don't have to think about it at present, and the consequences are unpredictable." ”

The power of artillery is huge, and if the Anzhou army is equipped with a large number of equipment, then sooner or later all forces will come up with it, and eventually lead to the diffusion of technology: if the artillery is given to the Turkic khans on the steppe, the consequences will be serious.

The nomadic army has strong mobility, and the border defenders can only hold on to the city and wait for reinforcements to resist, if the other side has artillery, this siege weapon, then the Central Plains will never be peaceful.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Jianzhou Jurchens only eroded Liaodong before they mastered firearms, and when they mastered a large number of craftsmen to build artillery for siege purposes, they were no longer unstoppable.

Yang Ji didn't care much about whether the artillery could be practical, in history, the Sui and Tang dynasties did not unify the Central Plains like artillery, and the Ming Dynasty, which had artillery, lost to the Jianzhou Jurchens and the peasant army, so the iron had to be hard.

"In the future, the other party may also use thunder to deal with our army, and we have to prepare early." He feared that with the widespread use of thunder, the forces of all parties would sooner or later learn the secrets of this weapon.

Yuwen Wen nodded when he heard this, about the use of fire, he decided at the beginning of the year to put it into the battlefield in the form of earth-shaking thunder, the military application of fire, in history, from the end of the Tang Dynasty to arson, until the Yuan Dynasty experienced more than 300 years before artillery, so it is impossible for others to evolve into artillery.

He planned to use the thunderbolt to help the Anzhou army defeat the imperial army in order to occupy a certain territory in a short time. With a stable territory and a sufficient population, you will have the opportunity to farm.

As the so-called rare and strange, the soldiers of this era have never seen a weapon that makes loud noises and flames and can hurt people, so the power of the thunder can shock the other party, and after a year or two, the other party's military strength is also on the scale, and it can be hedged by thousands of troops and horses in the open, so the most precious thing now is time,

There are many cavalry in the Northern Dynasty, and if there is not enough cavalry to go out with the army, it will be over sooner or later, and the enemy army will only send cavalry to attack and even cut off their own grain routes is the most headache, and most of the Northern Expedition failures in the Southern Dynasties are due to this.

Yang Jian, the Duke of Sui, controls the little emperor and controls the government is the primary enemy, but Chi Hui, the Duke of Shu who set up another emperor to fight against him, may not be a good match, he is now loyal to the Great Zhou, but people will change.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao's initial ambition was only to be the general of the Han Dynasty's expedition to the west, if Wei Chi Hui killed Yang Jian and took power, who knows if he will next in the name of protecting the imperial power, Yu Wenming, Yu Wenwen and his son will be 'cut down', and even if Yu Wenliang and his son save their lives, they will be caged in Chang'an and what is the difference between lambs to be slaughtered.

Even if Wei Chi Hui wants to be a loyal minister of the Great Zhou and does not usurp the throne, then who knows that his son, nephew, and grandson do not have such thoughts, even if Yu Wenwen is the son-in-law of the Wei Chi family, he does not want to pin his family's life on the thoughts of others.

At least the three of them, father and son, must have an army that can fight and a stable territory to speak, so that people will listen, according to the current situation, if there is no such thing, even if you want to be a rich man, it is wishful thinking!

"By the way, you said earlier that there are some bad signs in the army, what do you mean exactly?" Yu Wenwen shifted the topic to the new army, and today Yang Ji privately reported to him that the new army had some bad signs.

Yang Ji's words were concise: "Proud soldiers." ”

"Proud soldiers?" Yuwen Wen was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then snorted: "What qualifications do they have to be proud soldiers?" ”

Yang Ji explained in detail what he knew: the pikemen felt that they were not afraid of anyone with their spears, even if they were armored cavalry, there was only one way to die, the swordsmen felt that the soldiers were like weak chickens, and the veterans who had boiled blood on the battlefield were old, and the archers felt that the archery skills they had practiced for four months were enough to show their might on the battlefield.

There are also cavalry, I think the enemy is skilled in archers and horses, but so, after winning two tough battles in a row, the soldiers of the new army, whether they are archers, swordsmen, pikemen and cavalry, are all tail cocked to the sky, and they feel that what kind of battle veterans are "not enough".

For this mentality, Yang Ji felt that it was very dangerous, the new army was able to perform well, mainly relying on the formation of a formation to resist the enemy, rather than personal bravery or outstanding martial arts, but in case of a strong soldier who could fight and break into the formation in one fell swoop, then everything would be over.

He and Yu Wenwen are generally very concerned about the new army, and they don't want this army that has spent a lot of their own efforts to 'be defeated'.

"But Erl? Bengong spent nearly 100,000 yuan on these two battles alone, and if he used it to train cavalry, it would be no less than a thousand horses. Yu Wenwen sneered as he pressed the knuckles of his fingers, "If it weren't for the war horse, it would be difficult for anyone to toss this fire oil bomb and a type A bomb." ”

"That's right, although the equipment used by the county government is powerful, it can be very costly, and it is not a long-term solution, victory or defeat is a common thing for soldiers, and according to the last general, it is necessary to pour cold water on the soldiers."

"Of course it can't last long, these things are too expensive and don't have that much money to burn." As soon as Yu Wenwen thought of his father's extravagant squandering of the thunder, his heart dripped blood, "Those guys don't know whether they are alive or dead, do you have any good way to say it." ”

Yang Ji didn't beat around the bush and said his thoughts directly: "County Prince, didn't you accept some captives yesterday, and the last general thinks it's just right to come in handy."

After the Anzhou army finished disposing of the prisoners yesterday and left camp and went north today, Yu Wenwen, who was "in the period of career rise at this stage", was arranged by his father and the new army under his command to stay at the mouth of the two rivers as 'jailers' to continue to guard the remaining prisoners.

Yu Wenwen, as a general who made great contributions in this battle, had priority, but he didn't grab thousands of prisoners to fill the soldiers, in addition to robbing more than 400 war horses, he only let Shi Wansui go to the prisoner camp and pick some of his old subordinates.

In the end, in addition to the labor force of building the pontoon bridge, there were also a group of "dregs" of more than 100 people, a group of "dregs" who were picked and picked up, and the rest was not good to use and could not be killed, and it was a pity.

They are soldiers, but they can't replenish the number of people under the various departments, not because they are unwilling to join forces with the court, nor are they extremely vicious people, but it is difficult to arrange.

They are not natives of Jingzhou, dismissed, either gather in the mountains and forests as bandits, or flee to the marching marshal Liang Shiyan, trapped in the beast fight, some battlefield fighting skills, so it is a pity to kill, if you receive the ministry, the generals have no opinion, but how to use it will be a headache.

The reason on the surface: the ability to have a big temper, if you are a big soldier, it is not easy to manage, as soon as you come up, you will be in the team, and the soldiers below will not be convinced, if you fight with the wind, it will be just a tough battle, I am afraid that there will be infighting.

Practical reason: The Anzhou generals knew that these people were thorns in the thorns through the generals, and they often complained about the unfair deduction of military salaries, food, and rewards and punishments on weekdays, and even openly confronted their superiors.

Drinking the blood of soldiers is such a thing, and the generals in the north and south of the country are more or less doing it, so no one wants to make themselves uncomfortable, and it is good to be honest and suffer as a soldier, if they recruit these whiners into their ranks, in case of mutiny, it will be a big head, so this is the real idea that they are unwilling to absorb the 'scum'.

can fight, but it's not easy to manage, it's really 'can't have both', thinking about it, the generals of the various departments pinched their noses and recruited a group of supplementary troops from these people, and the rest of the 'scum in the scum' just waited to be coolies until they died.

This group of people who are regarded as chicken ribs by other generals are taken into their own army by Yu Wenwen as a treasure, the reason is very simple: the generals are well-managed, the military is paid, and the rewards and punishments are fair, can you fight? That's great!

The soldiers were quite dismissive of these new 'defeated generals', and felt that they could not defeat the Anzhou army again, so they were quite contemptuous in their words.

Yuwen Wen and Yang Ji muttered for a while, and then they had a plan: Come to a martial arts competition, let those new army soldiers know how rubbish it is to fight alone with their martial arts, and they think that veterans of a hundred battles are easy to deal with.

In order to select the most 'powerful' person from the newly recruited captives to achieve the effect of the competition, Yuwen Wen asked Shi Wansui, who was also a new recruit, to serve as a staff officer.

"Tournament?" After hearing Yu Wenwen's thoughts, Shi Wansui was a little entangled and worried that the competition would seriously hit the morale of the soldiers of the new army, because he knew that the skills of these more than 100 scum and his old subordinates were not vain.

"In case the soldiers under the command of the county prince lose," Shi Wansui decided that his old comrades might not lose just by comparing his personal martial arts, so he was worried that if he made the scene too ugly, Yu Wenwen's face was gloomy.

"Lose? The worse you lose, the better! Yu Wenwen waited for the other party's words, "It's better to lose properly in the martial arts arena than to lose on the battlefield!" ”