rushed back to the deserted village overnight and thoroughly sorted out all the young and strong men registered in the deserted village.

There were 100 guards and cavalry in the village before, and 200 village soldiers and soldiers. In the current turbulent times, Zhao Xun can't be consulted, so he can only forcibly expand the army.

There are still more than 1,000 miscellaneous weapons in the deserted village, mainly due to the lack of armor, and it is not a big problem to make up another two or three hundred people. The nominal guards of the deserted village are still configured according to 100 cavalry, and the number of cantonments has been expanded by 300 people, and the scale of the establishment has been increased to 500 people.

Although the father and son of the Liu family are not the material to lead the troops to fight, but Lincheng is far behind, and Guangxin is in the way, and the Black Turban Army has no possibility of breaking through Beihai County for a while and a half, so that they can hold the village of more than 2,000 people to prevent infiltration and harassment, and it is not a big problem to concentrate on Zhuangding Tuntian. What's more, there is also Gongzheng Yang Dun, how to cheat, Yang Dun knows best.

Xiao Er temporarily arranged for her to live in the public mansion, so she didn't have to worry about the deserted village, and it was not suitable for a girl's family to run around, if there was anything to do in the deserted village, the Liu family father and son could send someone to contact her at any time.

However, Bai Liyan secretly explained to the Liu family's father and son, Yang Dun, and Xiao Er, as a last resort, to keep all the craftsmen as much as possible to withdraw into Guangxin City, no money or equipment, even if it is a deserted village mutiny, as long as the craftsmen are kept, everything can be started again.

The vast majority of the people in the deserted villages are illiterate, and even if they have enough food and clothing, it is difficult to say that they will not be bewitched by the cult to betray their own people, and if the deserted villages also mutiny, the defenders of Guangxin and Lincheng are bound to counterattack.

As soon as the mutinous villagers have a hot brain, they may also start to kill, and then the base area that Bailiyan has worked so hard to run will be over, and the evacuation of craftsmen is the last measure in the worst-case scenario.

It took a whole day to arrange the defense and expansion of the deserted village, and on the second day, I took a half-day rest and inspected all the workshops non-stop.

The Black Turban Army is in full swing, and it is impossible to avoid a head-on battle with it, or win a big victory and chase the Black Turban Army to the west of Chenling. Either there will be a big defeat and the entire capital will be lost, and then the Black Turban Army should go north to attack Beihai County.

Even if the deserted village is transferred to wartime mobilization, it will not have any impact on the war situation, and even if the Xian army wins a big victory, the deserted village may still abandon agriculture and fortifications due to the wartime mechanism.

Since the defeat will also lose the crotch, it is better to simply gamble, bet that this battle will definitely be able to repel the Black Turban Army, and use the time gained by the war to further strengthen the economic potential of the deserted village.

Explaining the matter of the workshop to Yang Dun, Bai Liyan finally inspected the production of chain mail and new weapons. There are more than 300 male and female workers in the chain mail workshop, and women account for 70%, mainly because women are more suitable for fine equipment ring work, and manual work such as steel rings and wire drawing are responsible for men, which also improves the production speed.

At present, on average, every seven people, can produce four to five pieces of soldier chain mail per month, three months later, there have been more than 400 pieces of various types of chain mail, and the general officer chain mail work for a long time, only more than 30 pieces.

Bailiyan (Wei Xian) took away 300 of them, and the remaining 100 pieces were equipped with deserted village guards, and there was still production that could continue to be equipped with cantonment guards to enhance combat effectiveness.

The chain mail is made of steel, although the steel is more rust-proof than fine iron and pig iron, but it can not withstand the long-term erosion of the sun and rain, so the chain mail is boiled with a special pale blue plant dye of the North Sea for rust prevention, and the process has been similar to the modern chemical boiling black anti-rust process.

The blade of the long-bladed spear is a weapon between the horse lance and the spear, and the slashing performance of the medium and long distance is stronger than that of the spear, but it is not as easy to bend and break as the horse lance.

The short weapon is mainly a long-handled horizontal knife, and the blade length is about 80 centimeters, which is suitable for infantry hand-to-hand combat, because the horizontal knife has only one side of the edge, while the sword has two sides of the edge, so the blade of the sword is extremely labor-intensive, twice as much as the knife.

At present, steel is still giving priority to the production of chain mail, first, iron is far from enough, and second, the production of weapons is quite labor-intensive and metallic.

Steel is much harder than bronze, pig iron, and fine iron. But at present, there is a lack of physical and chemical means, the quality of molten steel is not high after the furnace, and it is still necessary to repeatedly hammer to improve the material, and then wrap the steel, heat treatment, all the processes can only rely on manpower, fortunately, the efficiency is extremely low, to create a good steel knife, it takes three blacksmiths a few days, and the blade accounts for one-third of the working hours.

The manpower and financial resources required for large-scale manufacturing are extremely inefficient. Suffering from the lack of a large river nearby, it is impossible to build a wooden iron pier forging hammer with a waterwheel to provide torque, and the Beihai is windy all year round, so Bailiyan plans to build a large number of windmills in the future.

First, it is used to grind grain and other raw materials, and secondly, it can be used to build wind forging hammers and forge steel, saving more manpower and improving production efficiency.

The use of wind power has not yet been documented, and it is only rumored that there are large wooden hydro machines in the main hall of the Gonggong School. Even in ancient China, a large number of wind mills appeared in the Ming Dynasty, and only a small number of them were developed before the Song Dynasty.

On the third day, the whole village feast, firstly, to win people's hearts, and secondly, there are some things that cannot be said normally, at this time, you can use the topic to play and give some people a warning. Third, the Black Turban Army used unknown natural phenomena to bewitch the ignorant peasants, and it was necessary to vaccinate some things, do a good job of preventive work, and let neighboring townships supervise each other, so that the sprouts found could be nipped in the bud in time, so as not to cause trouble.

To this day, the framework of the Black Turban Army's internal power department is still covered with a layer of mystery, and nearly four months have passed since Sun Guomin's rebellion, and the military system of the Black Turban Army and the relationship between superiors and subordinates are almost always a mystery, and no one knows who is the real commander of the Black Turban Army, or even their establishment.

The reason for this is, on the one hand, due to the contempt of the ruling class of the elite, and on the other hand, the use of the so-called "witchcraft" by the Black Turban Army can to a great extent deter and win over the hearts of the people inside and make them strictly keep secrets.

Since the uprising of the Third Black Turban Army, its main force has been erratic, and no one knows the core of the commander, even the so-called monarch Vane, who has never known its origins. If we start from the perspective of a cult and praise Wanne as the spokesperson of the gods in the world, Wanne may not be the real commander of the Black Turban Army, but maybe he is just a puppet.

At dusk on the third day, Bai Liyan led the guards to return to Guangxin with Sikong Nan and Xiao Er, Xiao Er temporarily arranged to live in the Guangxin Mansion, and originally wanted to make Sikong Nan stay in the deserted village to command the guards and guards. But after thinking about it, Sikong Nan is a general, he is thirty-three years old this year, and the highest position will not be the centurion under his command, let him continue to stay in the deserted village, and he will inevitably bury him.

The scale of this war is a million-level battle, and if you win, you will win a big victory, and if you lose, you will lose the country, so it is better to let him meet the market with the army, experience some experience, and have a deputy available for appointment in the future.

On the fourth day of Buddha dawn, the 40,000 soldiers of the camp in the south of the city lined up neatly in the school field, Guangxin Taishou Yuzhuang, Sima Xu Tan of the city government, Jiang Min of Guangxin and the generals gathered on the platform, Jiang Rong and her mother He and other family members could only look at their father, brother and husband in armor from far away from the school field.

According to the system, the feudal monarch does not preside over the fiefdom to send troops, only the feudal marquis and the feudal duke can preside over the local troops, and temporarily arrange the position of general, Guangxin Gong Jiang Min, as the real fief lord of Guangxin City, is obligated to preside over the military swearing-in meeting, and lead the Qinwang army to the south to Qinwang to rescue.

After a generous speech, 40,000 soldiers roared in unison, and the roar resounded through the sky and shook for nine days, and there were many bystanders nearby, all of whom were paying attention to the situation in the camp south of the city today, and more people were talking about the good and evil advantages and disadvantages of the Black Turban Army and the Xian King.

Bai Liyan even began to worry that if King Qin's army was defeated, it would not only have an impact on the entire Xian country, but even a huge incitement to the hearts of the people of the Central Plains. At that time, there will be no need for the Black Turban Army, and the peasants and untouchables in various localities will be able to attack them en masse, setting off an even greater flames of war.

After the oath ended, Jiang Min appointed and dismissed the generals of each army in turn.

Governor Jiang Min's army, since the Chinese army cavalry 12,000 people, the eldest son Jiang Gan as the Sima envoy, Luo Songting as the staff of the military division, Hu Mo as the right governor of the front army, leading 4,000 cavalry, Wang Jiu as the left governor of the rear army, 4,000 infantry troops.

The vanguard battalion does not have a left and right capital, but a pioneer officer, with Bailiyan as the vanguard officer, 800 soldiers, and a total of 1,000 men and horses with 200 people and horses in the city trough, and 450 war horses, which are driven by the vanguard.

The army set off at four o'clock, Bailiyan was the vanguard, the first to lead the army out of the city, Hu Mo and others followed, and marched towards the Lingling. The supply of the army was received by the counties and counties in various places, and then it was supplied by the army of the governor of Sima Jiang Yan.

Walking on the road, Sikong Nan couldn't help but ask suspiciously:

"Lord Wei, why did there be so many war horses under the command of Guangxin Gong in a short period of time, don't you feel strange?"

"It's not a good thing to have more cavalry, this time it must be a fierce battle, without cavalry to suppress the Black Turban Army, it is difficult to have a chance of winning. If there were 100,000 cavalry, there might still be a chance of victory. ”

"However, Beihai County is located in the Northland, even if you raise horses, you can't raise such good war horses. From a humble point of view, these war horses are all from the high-grade war horses of Song and Xu. ”

Sikong Nan actually wanted to say whether Guangxin Gong wanted to rebel, at this time, even if Sima Nan was Bailiyan's confidant, he categorically couldn't tell him at this time.

Guangxin Gongfu raised war horses, Baili Yan only did not know the second, this time King Qin only added more than 8,000 war horses, I don't know how many Jiang Min still has, and where to raise the war horses. This southward movement should not be all the strength of Guangxin Gong, at least half of it is still hidden.

If King Qin is meritorious, Jiang Min's expansion of the army will become a fact, and King Xian is helpless, if King Xian reacts too violently, Jiang Min is likely to contact others to watch the fire from the other side, and even does not rule out contacting Zhao Xun.

Thinking of this, Bai Liyan couldn't help but worry about the matter of King Qin, Lu Jizhi was able to be above the Marquis of Dingyang, thinking that he Dingyang Marquis had no courage at this time, leading less than 200,000 remnants of the army to confront the 500,000 Black Turban Army, so the commander could only choose one of Shangqing, Shangdafu, and Da Sima to serve as the commander, and it was very likely that Zhao Xun would be in command again.

First, the momentum of the Black Turban Army is flourishing, and the total number of troops is more than twice that of the Xian Army, even if the Jin Army moves east to defend more than 100,000 new troops in the north, it will take half a month to a month to complete, and the Black Turban Army will be able to come to the city within half a month, and I am afraid that no one will dare to take such a hot potato at this time.

If you win, it will naturally be a miracle in the world, but the problem is that 200,000 fights 500,000, where is there a chance of winning. In case of defeat, you will have to bear the infamy of ruining the country and breaking the capital, those powerful relatives who enjoy glory and wealth, who has the courage to dare to accept orders in danger, can only leave the mess to Zhao Xun, who does not love his grandmother and uncle, if he wins, he will win, and if he loses, he will win Zhao Xun.

The army left the city one after another, Qin Han stood on the drum tower in the south of the city and looked at the southeast, thinking again in his heart, after the capture of the Lingling, it would be his turn to emerge.

"Master Qin, Jiang Min has already left the city, and it is time for me to leave for the Changsun Kingdom." Gao Heng Road.

"Well, have there been any recent movements between the two factions of the Gonggong and the Royal Guest?"

"No movement yet. However, I heard that the imperial marshal was on his way to Xu State, and he was bound to pass through Sun State, so it was inevitable that people would have to investigate. ”

"Yes, Xu Guo transferred 200,000 troops from the south of Zhennan to the north to quell the rebellion, and the defense line of Qianyue Mountain for thousands of miles only had 100,000 troops of the Song State alone.

In this way, half of the hundreds of thousands of people in the hinterland of the Central Plains will go south to guard the border passes. lest the royal guest get involved in it, and it will be troublesome. ”

Qin Han breathed a sigh of relief, and Gao Heng couldn't help but worry and said:

"Master Qin, what if Jin Xuedi breaks through Qianyue Mountain and attacks the Central Plains at this time?"

Qin Han frowned, twisted his beard and said:

"yes, could it be that they still have this poisonous plan?"

"Don't be careful, Qin Ye, these old monsters believe that they are all incarnations of gods, but they can do everything. If Jin Xuedi really invaded the north, the countries of the Central Plains would have to draw troops south, ranging from 800,000 to more than 1 million. At that time, the main forces of the Central Plains countries will all go south, and the Black Turban Army will take the opportunity to become bigger, and the countries will probably no longer exist, and it is probably unknown who will be able to balance the Black Turban Army at that time. ”