Jiao Muhua has a similar personality and temper to Lu Gao and other salt lords, honest and honest, and serves in different positions in the forbidden army according to the order of family and dependency.

The forbidden army had very few opportunities to fight, and the chances of obtaining military merits were naturally much less than that of military soldiers, county soldiers, and conscripts. If there are no special circumstances, they will stay in a military position for the rest of their lives until they die of old age, and their promotion will be greatly restricted.

Theoretically, the forbidden army is the elite division of the vassal states, so the forbidden army soldiers are one of the few troops that implement the limited salary system.

The selection criteria of the forbidden army in various countries are very different, some are pure noble children and dependent families, and it is difficult to say about the combat effectiveness, but the loyalty is absolutely reliable, at least the noble forbidden army is loyal to the bloodline.

The advantage is that the combat effectiveness is very strong, and the disadvantage is that after the veterans of the various armies are exhausted, the combat effectiveness of the various armies will plummet, and at the same time, the veterans of the various armies are from different factions, and it will be difficult to deal with the relationship when they meet the former top boss.

And some vassal states are like soldiers, recruited and trained strictly, and their combat effectiveness and garrisons are equal, but they are much better equipped, and they can also be called elite.

In addition, the forbidden army of Xianguo is very special, and it has always been a forbidden army built by the core family of the salt lord and the dependent family of the salt lord as a huge source of soldiers. Therefore, the treatment of the forbidden army of Xianguo is the highest among the vassal states, and the treatment and source of soldiers between the forbidden army of the inner palace and the forbidden army of the outer palace are also very different.

A large part of the expenses of the Xianwang Inner Mansion went into the pockets of the forbidden army. But it's still worth the money, the fighting power of the Xianwang forbidden army is very strong, and the loyalty is also very high. In the battle of Duyang that year, at the last moment, the forbidden army was dead, if it weren't for the poor level of Ding Yanghou, it would not be so ugly to lose.

When he was young, Jiao Muhua brought Ding Quan:

"General, the man has been brought."

Bai Liyan glanced at Ding Quan, with a bun tied on his head, no different from other new Ding.

"Ding Quan, do you know someone named Wu Jiang?"

Ding Quan's pupils shrank when he heard the news, and he glanced at Jiao Muhua in the darkness, and his expression suddenly became panicked

"Hui, Hui, I don't know."

"Oh...... I don't know. But Wu Jiang said, you are in the same village, will you know each other? ”

"That must be nonsense, the leader must not trust the villain."

"Huh...... You also know it's the villain. Bai Liyan sneered: "Su Hong! ”

"The last general!"

"Take him to recognize people, remember, blend in with the crowd, and don't allow them to speak. In particular, pay attention to their hands and don't give them a chance to make a code. ”

"The last general obeys!"

Su Hong took Ding Quan to recognize people, and Jiao Muhua said at this time:

"General, there must be something wrong with this person."

"Looks like you've seen it, so wait and see what happens."

"No!"

When he was young, Su Hong brought Ding Quan back:

"Ding Quan, do you know that person?"

"I don't know, I don't know ......," Ding Quan flatly denied, and the panic on his face could be faintly seen in the darkness.

Baili Yan Cave is still silent if watching the fire:

"Alright, you can go back to the camp."

"Yes."

After Ding Quan left, Su Hong said:

"General, this person is clearly lying, why don't you kill him!"

"It's more appropriate for Fang Liang to come forward in this matter, and it's extremely inappropriate for me to start. Go, go and judge the man. ”

When he came to the camp again, he could see a panicked look on the man's face:

"Wu Jiang, where's your bun!" Bai Liyan asked in a deep voice.

The man was stunned for a moment, stretched out his hand to look up and down, and said in a panic:

"General, it's lost."

When everyone heard the news, their eyes were all ridiculous, and Bai Liyan sneered:

"Wu Jiang, do you know how you are different from me?"

"Different? No, I don't. Wu Jiang was still in the dark, thinking that the bun was some kind of item.

At this time, Bai Liyan's face sank, and he took out a horizontal knife and put it on Wu Jiang's shoulder and said sharply:

"You don't even know about your hair bun, and you dare to sneak into my military camp to spy on military aircraft, you know death!"

"General, why do you say this!"

"Hmph, you will also say, 'Why do you say this', this is the Central Plains Yayan, no one else can say it, why can you be the only one!"

"This ......"

Wu Jiang was shocked, and knelt on the ground the next moment:

"General, Wu Jiang is not lying, the general can't kill innocents indiscriminately......"

"Indiscriminate killing of innocents? Only then did Jiao Muhua and Ding Quan come to identify you, no one recognized you, you dare to lie and deceive the general here, come here, and tie me up before me! ”

"No!"

Strap it up to the left and right and plug it with a strip of cloth.

After Wu Jiang was escorted away, Su Hong hurriedly said:

"General, this thief's flaws have been exposed, why don't you kill him!"

"Someone will kill him. From today onwards, the whole army will implement a password system. ”

"No!"

The vassal states of the Central Plains generally adopted the password system, and the Xian army was no exception, but after entering the southern border, the dialect accents of the vassal states were very different, and the password system was only implemented within the armies, and was restricted by the dialects, and the allied forces could not pass the password, so the password system had mostly lost its recognition role during the southern border.

After Bailiyan went south, he did not adopt the password system in time, because the people of Xu spoke very differently from the people of Song and Xian, and it was easy to cause misunderstandings.

Temporarily detained Wu Jiang, Bai Liyan found Fang Liang and told the ins and outs of the matter:

"I won't kill Ding Quan for the time being, how to deal with him in the future, General Fang will decide for himself. As for Wu Jiang, the thief, please ask General Fang to do it himself, it shouldn't be difficult! ”

"Please rest assured, Fang Liang knows it."

"That's good, General Fang, please!"

Ding Quan is Fang Liang's person, if it happened in a remote corner, no one would know about killing Ding Quan silently, now that it happened in the camp, the direct execution of Ding Quan is not a secret at all, and it is easy to be used by people with ulterior motives.

Letting Fang Liang deal with himself is the only appropriate disposal measure, which can not only minimize the harm of Ding Quan, but also further investigate Fang Liang and find out Ding Quan's interpersonal relationships.

Fang Liang's execution of Wu Jiang was hidden, and on the second day, several people were found in the camp, excluding the old faces of the camp who were not tied with their hair buns, and three of them were all fresh faces.

On the third and fourth nights, the three tried to escape, but were decisively captured by the old pawns, and the content of the interrogation was the same as that of Wu Jiang.

A few days later, none of the Central Plains thieves sent by the Jinxuedi returned to the camp, and the legion commander Etis was extremely angry:

"Can anyone tell me why none of the four sent have returned?"

"Your Excellency, Legion Commander, the four of them have not returned to the camp so far, and most of them have been discovered by the northerners. It is reported that the northerners suddenly tied their hair on their heads today, and I am afraid that this incident exposed the people of Fan. ”

"Hell, then continue to send more people until you find out the terrain in the valley."

"Your Excellency Commander of the Legion, it has recently been discovered that several barrels of sulfur and saltpeter have been stolen from our army's bridgehead camp on the west bank, and the subordinates suspect that the northerners have done it, if the stalemate continues, they are very likely to also use saltpeter to set fire to sulfur and fumigate it, which will be very unfavorable to us!"

In the past few days, Bailiyan sent his old soldiers to dive over the mountains, and quietly touched the bridgehead on the west bank of the Waihu Lake by the Jin Xuedi people, stealing sulfur and saltpeter for their own use.

While the generals were speaking, the soldiers outside the tent entered the account and reported:

"Commander of the Qi Army, the rebels and this morning suddenly attacked our army, General Palifi was killed, and our army suffered heavy casualties!"

"What, Palifi is dead!" Etis was taken aback when he heard the news: "What is the situation, why do the northerners dare to take the initiative to attack Palife!" ”

"It is believed that the rebels used a weapon that they had never seen before, capable of making loud noises and sparks, and the power was amazing, killing hundreds of our troops in an instant, and in less than two quarters of an hour, 5,000 were routed by them."

The soldier said quickly, Etis and the generals could not imagine what kind of weapons the Xian army used to defeat them in just two quarters of an hour.

At the same time, Bailiyan captured the camp of the Jinxuedi people, seized more sulfur and saltpeter used for arson and poisoning, and everywhere could be seen, human stumps and large pits shattered by gunpowder. When Su Hong, Fang Liang and the others were still immersed in the excitement of capturing the enemy camp, Lu Gao, Jiao Muhua and the others were stunned, and their hearts were already set off in a monstrous wave.

"General Lu, this thing is so powerful!"

Jiao Muhua was stunned and said, Lu Gao touched his beard and frowned and said:

"It's not just powerful, if this thing is piled up under the city wall, it will be effortless to break the city, far more powerful than calcium carbide."

"I don't know how the general got this thing, why he didn't know anything about it before."

Lu Gao shook his head and said:

"The general is unpredictable, such a huge power, it is a top secret thing, you and I should not ask too much, it will always be of great use in the future, so as not to leak the heavenly opportunity and be taken advantage of by thieves."

"My subordinates understand!"

As an epoch-making invention, Bailiyan tried to use it for war more than once, but finally gave up.

The reason for this is that the technical threshold is too low, Xihuan's eyes and ears are all over Xianguo, and there have been several incidents of theft of drawings and samples, and black powder is not a chemical reaction synthesis after all, but a formula formula, once the formula leaks and spreads, anyone can imitate it.

Moreover, the smell of nitrate and sulfur in black powder is too strong, and it is easy to find the ingredients of the formula.

The national strength of the Xian State was not as good as that of the princes, and the princes obtained gunpowder in a short period of time, and their combat power would undoubtedly increase dramatically. Before the appearance of other thermal weapons that were used for gunpowder, the black powder that appeared alone was undoubtedly the most disadvantaged by the weak countries for low-tech products that everyone could manufacture.

The second is the restriction of sulfur, among the countries of the Central Plains, Changsun is the main producer of sulfur, accounting for ninety percent of the total output, and its north is located in Equatorial County, which has a large number of volcanoes and sulfur mines. The number of sulfur mines in other vassal states is scarce, and not a single sulfur mine has been found in Xian so far. As a strategic material, sulfur is an important material for poisoning at present, and the transaction price is expensive, which is not conducive to the cheap purchase of a large amount of equipment

Finally, the source of sulfur is mainly minerals, or chemical minerals are made by chemical means, the current exploration technology is extremely immature, there is no industrial-scale mining and production conditions, a small amount of black powder can not play a role in turning the tide of the war, on the contrary, because of the leakage of the formula, let the princes who sit on sulfur rise rapidly, and strongly block the export of sulfur.

And the pervasive existence of the Black Turban Army also made the use of gunpowder very difficult.

For a weapon that you have and I have that everyone has, it is obvious that the larger the population, the larger the territory, and the stronger the national strength, the greater the war advantage. And the more unskilled the weapon, the more its production is not subject to technical threshold constraints, and the stronger the reproducibility, between small countries and large countries, small countries are undoubtedly the most at a loss.

Until there is no technological generational gap, the emergence of any new type of weapon would be a disastrous outcome for small States.