A few days later, when the Yuanzhou caravan arrived in Hanling City loaded with all the goods it had purchased, the construction of the town began in earnest. Vertex Says X 23 U OM

In the past few days, Liu Ce followed Hong Yingwen to inspect the fortress villages under his rule, and found that the weapons everywhere were deserted, the people were inaccessible, the dilapidated earthen walls and the potholed ground made him frown, and more importantly, almost all the people he saw were full of numbness and fear written on their faces, which made him realize that the situation was far worse than he imagined.

If you want to change this situation, the first thing to do is to let the people under your rule have hope for the future, and with hope, everything can go in the direction they want, so how to start?

The situation in Hanling was different from that of Meihe Town and Gaoyang City, after all, at that time, his main concern was the survival of the Jingwei Battalion, and he did not need to participate in the construction of the town, as long as there was nothing to rob the thieves. But now Liu Ce must take all factors into account, he has no experience in this aspect of governance, but no matter what, he has to force himself to learn and do it, because this is his foundation, and he cannot be allowed to slack off.

It seems that in order to develop the town, it is necessary to have mineral resources in order to develop industry. Farmland must be reclaimed so that the people can have no worries about food and clothing. In order to solve these problems, the first thing is to have a relatively stable development environment, Hulan people do not talk about it for the time being, but the bandits entrenched in this area are the first problems to be solved.

Unlike Heyuan, the bandits and bandits near the Han Tomb are basically hiding in the mountains and forests, once the battle is fought, it is difficult for the spear formation in the mountain terrain to set up a posture, and even if it wins, it is easy to cause great casualties, which Liu Ce does not want to see, if the bandits are to cause huge casualties, what else to talk about playing with the Hulan people? Therefore, Liu Ce ordered Feng Ying, Gao Laohan, Wu Chengxiao, and Qin Mo Yebin to bring a blacksmith named Zhang Gong from Yuanzhou to develop and build new weapons of his own design: Qi Dao and Jin Ballist.

Qi knife, the famous anti-Japanese general Qi Jiguang of the Ming Dynasty according to the Japanese knife, Tatar and the various advantages of the weapons introduced from the West are fused into a single weapon, which can be used with a shield, it is completely a close melee weapon, the knife quality is excellent can break the iron armor, and Qi Jiguang's knife technique, simple and practical, both offensive and defensive effects, in the process of resisting the Japanese to achieve an overwhelming advantage, often a battle down, the comparison of the casualties of the Japanese and the Qi army can be described as crushing. Moreover, Liu Ce found that this knife was also very suitable for mountain combat, so it became the first choice of blades in his heart.

Jin crossbow, hand crossbows in the Great Zhou are rare, even if there is, the power range is not large, the main problem is that it is time-consuming to reload, and there is no such high efficiency as a bow and arrow. However, the training cycle of an archer is too long, far less fast than the training of hand crossbows, so although the manufacturing process of crossbows is sophisticated and complex, Liu Ce is determined to equip them in batches into the Jingwei battalion. And Liu Ce also improved the crossbow manufacturing process, mainly because Zhang Gong actually knew how to make gears, which simply solved the most important problem for Liu Ce, as long as the gears were combined into the crossbow arm, then the crossbow resistance would be much easier, and it was not impossible to develop a crossbow array similar to the Qin and Han dynasties on a large scale in the future. In the previous life, why was the ancient heavy cavalry of my country not as dazzling as abroad, first, the scale of the battlefield was too large, and it was difficult for hundreds of thousands of heavy cavalry (different concepts of heavy cavalry and heavy cavalry) to play a decisive role, and second, the proportion of perverted bow and crossbow equipment directly led to the embarrassing status of heavy cavalry in ancient times in my own country. As for the so-called expensive and unaffordable? Liu Ce thinks that it is pure nonsense, a fishing and hunting civilization like Jin can have tens of thousands of iron floats, and the agricultural civilization will not be able to afford it? Are you kidding? Besides, isn't there any scum left that was destroyed by Liu Qi and Yue Fei? The first is the use of various types of crossbow arrows.

Thinking of this, Liu Ce simply went to Feng Ying's location to check the progress of ordnance building, so as to prepare for the next step.

"......" In the blacksmith shop outside the Hanling City near the river, a blacksmith is putting the shaped Qi knife blade in water to cool, and then carefully observed the curvature of the knife and whether the blade and the blade are flat, and then nodded with satisfaction and put the blade aside and stacked it, only to see a row of finished Qi knife blades around him, and the rest of the blacksmiths are also around.

Outside the blacksmith's shop, carpenters are making scabbards or hilts, and a group of strong men by the river are sharpening their blades in front of whetstones.

On the other side, under the leadership of Zhang Gong, hundreds of craftsmen are installing the shaped gears into the finished crossbow, and the side of the sliver will merge the dried bark of the otherworldly specialty into a crossbow string by hand, and then straighten it aside. After a while, the strings were taken and glued together with glue made from the sap of the black tree (a specialty of the Atlas......

In another blacksmith shop, Gao Laohan commanded some strong men to put the blacksmith's nail leaf in the bamboo basket and hand it over to a few craftsmen drilling at the door, only to see those craftsmen take a piece of nail leaf and place it on a small hydraulic drilling machine, each nail leaf with a small drill bit made of bronze quickly drill out four uniform holes up and down to facilitate splicing, at a glance, such a small hydraulic drilling machine is more than 40 units.

This kind of hydraulic drilling machine is Feng Ying's proud work, although the idea comes from Liu Ce. But the actual operation is still made by himself, which is a cross-era product, with the help of water flow speed and strength to achieve the purpose of rapid drilling, and the error of each hole is almost negligible, and it is more laborious than before when the drilling efficiency is higher when hand-chiseling or smelting, I don't know where.

The men put the drilled nail leaves in the bamboo basket on the other side, and after a while, they were moved to a huge room. There are more than 600 women in the house, who are assigned to different rooms, and are using tough ropes to splice the nail leaves to their designated parts, such as wrist guards, front chest, back armor, skirt armor, shoulder armor, and gauntlets......

This is the standardized assembly line production planned by Liu Ce for craftsmen. Each of the processes from ironmaking to iron-forming has its own assignment, as do other types of craftsmen, and this process has been promulgated, and the efficiency of craftsmen is far improved compared to before.

Of course, the most important thing is that Liu Ce's treatment of craftsmen is really good, and each craftsman and laborer has a guaranteed salary, which is determined according to the technical difficulty of the work. In addition, two meals a day, a meal of white rice, sufficient oil and water in the dish, there is meat to eat every two days, and the willingness to work overtime also gives extra wages and extra meals, and more importantly, it is divided according to the number of builds, but the quality must be guaranteed. In addition, there is a high dividend, that is, there is a technology, don't hide it, even if you take it out, as long as it is confirmed that it is indeed practical and your own originality, Liu Ce will buy it, and settle it in two ways: one-time buyout or monthly dividends. Under the stimulation of this high welfare, all the craftsmen suddenly exuded infinite enthusiasm, Feng Ying's hydraulic drilling machine and Gao Laohan's animal forging and the new Zhang Gong gear technology obtained dividends made these poor craftsmen extremely red, secretly determined to develop their own technical "invention".

These craftsmen and laborers were the first to rekindle hope for life, and laid an important foundation for Liu Ce's future industrial development, daring to fight alone against the entire Mengluo Empire, and daring to argue with the royal family of the Zhou Shi clan.

"General, three hundred Qi knives have been built, and another four hundred have been formed, I have personally inspected them, and the quality is absolutely fine, but the manufacture of this crossbow is cumbersome, and only seventy-six have been completed so far, and there is still a long way to go from the established indicators." Feng Ying saw Liu Ce asking, so he answered his question truthfully.

Liu Ce nodded in understanding: "I can't be in a hurry, after all, the gear processing required for the crossbow is very precise, and I don't expect to be able to produce it in large quantities in a short time, these finished Qi knives will be sent to each battalion tomorrow, and how is the progress of the iron armor?" ”

Feng Yingdao: "It's a lot faster than before in Meihe Town, this set of assembly line standardized manufacturing is indeed feasible, more than 140 sets of infantry armor have been produced in the past ten days, I believe that as long as the iron material is enough within a month, 300 sets is not a problem." ”

Liu Ce thought for a while and said, "How is the armor riding?" ”

Feng Ying said: "Chen Qing's original three hundred and fifty-two people, now one hundred and eighty-eight riders, thirty-five sets have been completed, in addition to those unqualified ring head knives I have repaired with the craftsmen, all of them have been inspected by Wu Chengxiao as good products, and two hundred and seventy have been produced, now the original Chen Qing Department has been completed, and the remaining part can also be used by recruits, as for spears and riding guns, the number is too much to estimate, by the way, riding guns can be punched on hydraulic drilling machines, as long as a little longer and thicker drill bits, Gao Laohan is building, I believe that it will be put into use tomorrow. ”

Liu Ce was very satisfied with the current progress, patted Feng Ying on the shoulder and said, "Old Feng, is the iron material sufficient?" ”

"Under this scenario, it can last for two months." Feng Ying replied truthfully.

"That's good." Liu Ce's eyes narrowed suddenly, and he said, "Shouldn't you also consider the armor and riding equipment?" ”

Feng Ying was amused when he heard it: "General, you come with me." ”

Feng Ying said and led Liu Ce to a room, only to see that there were ten sets of vests hanging inside, just looking at this posture, he knew that the momentum was extraordinary.

Liu Ce said excitedly: "Old Feng, you ......"

Feng Ying said: "General, I also figured it out, you are right, it is nothing to consume some iron, as long as it can protect the lives of the soldiers, less bloodshed, and more victories are more important than anything else, as early as in Meihe Town, I was secretly making it, but the weight of the vest is not one hundred and forty pounds, I cut some unnecessary parts, together with the leather armor, it weighs about ninety-two pounds, and the cavalry's seventy pounds of riding armor is too heavy, I cut it to sixty pounds without authorization, but the main protective parts have not changed, general, you can take it to train your personal guards first, In the future, there will be mines that will help you make more. ”

Liu Ce was very moved and said to Feng Ying: "Old Feng, thank you. ”

Feng Yingdao: "It's all so familiar, what do you say thank you, by the way, General, I have also built the trebuchet you mentioned, a total of twelve, do you want to go and see it?"

"Let's go!" Liu Ce took Feng Ying's hand and walked towards the catapult......

"Drink!" "Drink!"

On the school field in the city, thousands of soldiers armed with spears, wooden knives and shields practiced under the command of the battalion envoys, including one hundred and eighty people in the hands of Hong Yingwen, who were also incorporated into the Yang Kaishan camp and Sun Cheng and Feng Chou Nian camp to practice together.

Liu Ce did not discriminate against them, and issued a set of leather armor with iron nails to all the former Han Tomb soldiers, which will be distributed in sufficient quantities in the future, and the treatment and food are also equivalent to those of the veteran barracks.

After the restructuring of Liu Ce's army, the titles of each battalion have now changed.

Yang Kai Mountain, changed to the mountain word camp.

Yang and Huaibu were changed to Huaizi Battalion.

Sun Chengsuo's department was changed to Chengzi Battalion.

Yang Fan's department was changed to the sail battalion.

Han Feng's headquarters was changed to the Fengya Battalion.

The Department of Sorrow was changed to a pioneer battalion.

Xu Hui's department was changed to Huizi Battalion.

Guo Tao's department was changed to Langtao Battalion.

Chen Qing's department was changed to Qingzi Camp.

In addition, Liu Ce only led 300 personal guards, named Overseer Guard, which was originally held by Chu Zijun, but was changed to a broken military camp, which made Chu Zijun very moved. In addition, the Wu Zhenying Department is the Zhenzi Battalion, and in addition to the combat mission, the recruits are trained for each department during the conscription and assigned to each battalion after one month.

At present, the total strength of the Jingwei Battalion is 8,722 people, except for 2,300 new recruits and 700 of the 2,400 laborers, which is not half of the 22,000 troops it has allotted.

However, Liu Ce did not think about continuing to recruit new recruits without brains, firstly, there are not so many resources to equip so many people for the time being, and secondly, the difficulty of training will increase if there are too many people, which will affect the overall quality of the army. Liu Ce planned to fill the Hulan people with as many 10,000 soldiers as possible and wear all armor before they went south in the autumn, for a simple reason, that is, to pull the army out and break their confidence in the field battle with Hunu, at least so that the Hulan people would not dare to invade their territory easily.

But now, it's time to pull out and fight with bandits and bandits in another half a month to see blood, according to the words of the online game in the previous life, it's to upgrade the next dungeon, and by the way, seize some materials to maintain the expenses in the city, you can't sit like this. Jiang Xun didn't have to count on him anymore, and he didn't count on him at all, and it could even be said that he ignored it directly. Since its establishment, the Jingwei Battalion has been self-reliant, seeking food from the tiger's mouth with a knife and a gun, when have you seen other people's eyes in this kind of thing? Do you really think that you can be restrained everywhere by wearing official skin? Naive!

Besides, Jiang Xun's attitude towards himself, Liu Ce didn't care at all, it was impossible, damn Lao Tzu greeted you ten miles away and told you that I was coming, if you didn't come to greet him, forget it, and just send it with a letter of appointment? Don't even let the city in, do you treat your subordinates like this? Okay, you cow, let's see in the future, Hanling is starting to change his surname to Liu now, and your Jiang family will go coolly.