"By the way, Lord Li Wen, I also bother you to collect all the ink from the various academies in Wuwei County and all the scholars' homes, I will be of great use. In addition, one of the crockpots in this city is counted as one, and I want them all. Seeing that Li Wen was about to walk out of the command post, Zhuang Fudi seemed to suddenly think of something, and called Li Wen to him and said.

Li Wen was suddenly stopped by Zhuang Fudi, and then he was told a bunch of things that he didn't know why, so he nodded habitually in confusion at this time. Anyway, the relationship between the two in private is not bad, so Li Wen also knows that with Zhuang Fudi's temperament, he will never do something useless at such an urgent juncture. Therefore, after leaving Zhuang Fudi's command post, he arranged for his subordinates to go door to door to buy ink stored in the scholar's house.

As early as when the "Law of the Western Regions" was formulated, Li Wenyuan wrote an inexplicable sentence about the sanctity of private property into the "Law of the Western Regions", and regarded it as the basic law of the entire law, so even at such a critical juncture, Li Wen still habitually used the funds of the Wuwei County government to buy paramilitary materials such as ink and crockpots from the people.

When he watched his subordinates carrying ink one by one, carrying clay pots from all corners of Wuwei County to the ordnance factory in Wuwei County, Li Wen couldn't help but secretly wonder what kind of role this stinky ink used by literati could play? Why is Zhuang Fudi suddenly so concerned about this kind of thing? However, after a few thoughts to no avail, Li Wen gave up the use of continuing to study this thing, after all, the war was approaching at this time, and there were a lot of things that he needed to deal with.

Li Wen was busy purchasing ink and clay pots and arranging the pacification of the people, and after Zhuang Fudi sent Li Wen away, Zhuang Fudi came directly to the military camp in the city, and convened the military chiefs at all levels of the 7,000 people who stayed in Wuwei County at this time to hold a meeting together.

After watching the officers at all levels below sit down in turn, Zhuang Fudi walked up to the platform, calmly glanced at the people in the audience, and then said to them: "Fellow comrades, I don't need to say the situation facing Wuwei County at this time, as soldiers, you should also know a little bit in your heart at this time. Yes, now the city defense force of our Wuwei County cannot be said to be weak, it can only be said to be very insufficient. Moreover, it has been confirmed that an army of Turks is coming to us in the starry night, and unfortunately because the troops we have placed on the front line are all infantry, we will have to defend the county town of Wuwei County by ourselves while they are also rushing back to support. This period of time is not long, but it is not short, it is a full three days. But if it's unfortunate, it's actually a blessing.

You must know that it was the Turks who came to attack the city this time, and they did not carry many siege equipment with the army. Moreover, in the past few years, we have carried out the work of clearing the land around Wuwei County, so that there are no forests within a radius of five miles from Wuwei County, so it is also a little difficult for these Turks to build siege equipment from local materials, so it is not a problem for us to defend Wuwei County, and we must be able to defend Wuwei County. But one of the most important problems we face now is how to minimize our casualties in the battle to defend Wuwei County.

Let me tell you about some of the corresponding military supplies for defending the city in Wuwei County now. We now have less than 2,000 muskets, and many of them are sent back from the front for maintenance. In addition, the gunpowder and projectiles that are equipped with the musket are also the most scarce at present, and I have roughly calculated that each musket can be divided into four projectiles on average.

However, there is good news, there is a large number of strong bows and crossbows and countless corresponding arrows in the armory warehouse of Wuwei County. Therefore, in the next city defense battle, we may have to use these arrows as the main weapon to fight, I hope you are not lazy in the bow subject in your usual training. We have a lot of inventory, so the focus in the next battle of the city defense is not how to kill and injure as many enemy troops as possible, but to try our best to prevent the enemy from landing in the city. After all, we don't have enough people, and if we let the enemy army get to the top of the city, then it will only be a matter of time before the head of the city is lost.

It is true that we can forcibly conscript civilians in the city as reserve soldiers to be put on the battlefield at the critical moment of the battle in accordance with the wartime emergency conscription bill in the "Law of the Western Regions". But you also know that this is just a matter of making more corpses on the battlefield against the Turks, so I don't want to do it, so I hope that you can cooperate sincerely in the next battle, as long as we cooperate properly, then the Turks will not be able to step on our walls anyway.

I will convey the next combat missions to you through the Captains, and I will give you corresponding mission instructions for each stage. All you have to do is do everything you can to boost the morale of your troops, and do a good job in the task I have given you. In a word, a loser does not lose the battle. Whether our Ninth Legion is a wolf or a dog depends on this battle. Okay, that's all I'm going to say, adjournment. ”

After Zhuang Fudi sent off these military commanders, he came to the ordnance factory next to the barracks, wanting to see what kind of maintenance the muskets he had sent before, how many of them could be taken out and put into battle now, and what was the output and quality of the gunpowder and projectiles that were produced accordingly?

But before Zhuang Fudi stepped into the military machinery manufacturing station, he was choked by a foul smell coming from inside. Zhuang Fudi frowned and walked into the ordnance factory, looked at the large water tank full of water in the courtyard, and asked the craftsman on the side with some curiosity: "What is this?" What do you do with such a yard? ”

The craftsman looked at Zhuang Fudi with a strange gaze and said, "Chief of Staff, these are all the added ink that you have requested. Rest assured, these inks have been personally blended and tested by our craftsmen who process the oil here, and they will definitely surprise the Turks in terms of viscosity and smell. ”

(End of chapter)