This time, it was Su Liuyi who broke the silence, and said slowly: "I am willing to lead the army to fight with Nama Fuji......

Before the words fell, he was interrupted by Zhang Shijie: "Fu Han (Su Liu Yizi) has another important task, cross the sea and return to his hometown on the same day, recruit sergeants, and Jing Zhan will lead the naval army to escort him, and be sure to ensure the safety of your father." Leave the matter of rebellion to the generals......"

At present, the dynasty lacks everything except gold, silver, and wealth: lack of iron, weapons, grain and grass, animal power, manpower, and soldiers...... Among them, the two items of military rations are the most important.

There were about 2,500 soldiers in the original army, and more than 500 people were killed and wounded when they attacked the military city of Jiyang. After seizing the military city, about 500 people of the new annex army and the Han army were collected, just to make up for the lost soldiers. According to the Song army's military system, 2,500 people were exactly the number of soldiers in the first army. At present, there are five armies in the downward plan, and there are no soldiers in the empty number, and the top priority is to replenish the troops. If you don't have enough troops, how can you deal with the encirclement and suppression of the Yuan army in the future?

When Qiongzhou got the typhoon, the location of the strait was favorable, so that the Yuan army gathered a lot of time, even though the whereabouts of the Xingchao were known early, but it was not able to gather troops to cross the sea and attack. If it was on the mainland, it would have been surrounded like an iron bucket. However, Qiongzhou lacks one thing: people.

There were too few Song people in Qiongzhou, and there was a shortage of soldiers. Although there are many Li Fang, it is difficult to recruit to say that it is difficult to recruit, and even if it can be recruited, it is difficult to form an army. The Li people are brave and brave, but they have a loose temperament and are difficult to train. It's okay to use a small amount as a surprise soldier, but it's not good to fight in a formation at all. Therefore, to recruit soldiers, you have to be Song people, and to recruit Song people, you can only recruit them from the mainland.

So who is best suited for the job?

Su Liuyi once had a nickname "Su 100,000", not that he had 100,000 yuan around his waist, but that he recruited troops in his hometown to be the king of Qin, and he responded to every call, and gathered tens of thousands of troops in a short period of time, and was known as 100,000 at the time, so he was called "Su 100,000". Su Liuyi's ability to recruit troops is strong, and the abundance of family resources can be seen. Who can take on this heavy responsibility?

Recruiting soldiers and injecting fresh blood into the Song army was no worse than or even more significant than the capture of the Wan'an army. If you think about this section, you can understand how urgent and important the task of the Su father and son is.

The food is worry-free for the time being. As a commercial port with three major ports, more than 1,000 customers, and thriving commerce, the grain storage of Yacheng Grain Depot is still relatively sufficient, and it is not a big problem to support at least a few thousand people. In addition, the main households, customers, and shops in the city have a lot of grain, but they can buy a large amount of food if they need it.

Zhang Shijie said angrily: "The Changhua Army is not worried, and the real tricky one is the Wan'an Army...... This battle must be done with all your might. The prime minister will control the soldiers and horses, and fight the horse thief in Wan'an! ”

There is no comparison between Wan'an Military City and Jiyang Military City, and its city has long collapsed and lost its defensive function, so this battle is not a siege battle, but a field battle. Even so, more than 2,000 Yuan soldiers should not be underestimated, and the Song army must at least have the same strength to have the strength to fight. At present, there are only more than 2,000 soldiers and horses left, and only Zhang Shijie can command all the soldiers and horses - not that others are incapable of commanding, but Zhang Shijie will never hand over all the soldiers and horses to others to command.

The generals responded violently, and the atmosphere was sufficient. However, Zhang Shijie opened his mouth and broke up the atmosphere that had just been ignited.

What Zhang Shijie said was: "Who is willing to be a pioneer and explore the enemy's reality?" ”

Except for the generals of the Dragon Bird Army to which Zhao Lie belonged, the generals of the other armies all complained and complained that they did not have enough weapons.

The armament is under the joint management of the Ministry of Industry and the Ordnance Superintendent. Ma Nanbao, the new servant of the Ministry of Industry, has now gone to the word "right" in front (the meaning of right is temporary) and officially assumed the position of court official, Ma Nanbao just complained that there was not enough iron material.

During the Southern Song Dynasty, due to the loss of various iron and steel producing areas in Hebei, the iron tax per year was greatly reduced, and metal materials were quite tight. At the end of the Xing Dynasty, due to fleeing all the way south, fleeing all the way and losing all the way, only the losses were not replenished, and the situation was even more serious to the point that there was almost no iron left in the treasury.

Due to the lack of stockpiles, it is impossible to solve the problem of weapons materials. At present, each army can only rely on itself, show its own means, buy or borrow or on credit, get iron materials from maritime customers, and replenish them by themselves. Originally, according to the military system of the Song Dynasty, the production of weapons was uniformly manufactured by the Duzuo Academy. However, if there is a need for each army, it needs to be declared level by level, and finally the Privy Council will transfer it for approval, and the Ministry of War will issue it after verification. The following armies have no right to forge weapons, and it is a great sin to control them without permission. It's just that the line of dynasties has fallen to this point, and all the rules have to be put aside, as long as the combat effectiveness of all armies can be restored as soon as possible, how to be suitable. This is also the reason why Zhao Lieneng can cast weapons by himself.

Zhao Lie's Dragon Bird Army also lacked iron, but what it lacked was only ordnance reserves, and there was no shortage of weapons needed for battle.

This brings in another big advantage of the flintlock pistol: low iron loss.

A flintlock pistol weighs eight pounds, the butt and other wood parts are removed, the remaining weight is six pounds, the wrought iron part of the barrel is about four and a half pounds, and the steel part of the bolt is more than one pound. And a standard hand knife made in the Song Dynasty also consumes three catties of wrought iron, and the blade part also needs to clamp steel. In other words, one flintlock pistol consumes only as much iron as two hand knives. And when two knives go to the battlefield, it may be full of gaps to be re-polished after a battle, and it is even common to break and damage and discard the battlefield. As for the flintlock pistol, it only fires lead and strikes the enemy from a distance, which is neither damaged nor lost, only regular wear and tear. As long as it is cleaned and maintained regularly, the service life of a stamped wrought iron barrel is about 200 rounds. Even if the barrel is scrapped, as long as it is sent back to the base, re-stamped into an iron plate, and then put into the machine tool pipe groove for a punch, it will be a brand new barrel. The recycling rate is so high that there is almost no risk of loss.

Such a comparison is cost-effective, and it is like a cloud. As for the killing effect, that's not to mention.

Speaking of iron materials, Zhao Lie has the impression that Hainan has the best iron ore deposit in the country, which seems to be called "Shilu Iron Mine", but it is not clear where and whether there is this place name in this era, and it is naturally not good to say much before finding out the details, so I can only pay attention to it secretly, hoping that there will be opportunities to explore and mine it in the future.

However, what Zhao Lie didn't know was that in fact, in the area under his feet, there was a medium-sized iron mine in later generations, and in the Song Dynasty, it was a large-scale iron ore field - Tiandu iron ore with reserves of 5 million tons. This is one of the only two iron mines in Hainan, but it is not as well-known as Shilu Iron Mine, so Zhao Lie didn't know about it at all.

In fact, the Song Dynasty has never been able to discover this iron ore vein, and the so-called holding a golden bowl to find food is probably like this.

Anyway, the Song army mainly focused on long-range strikes such as bows and crossbows, but Chen Zhi, the weapons supervisor, also complained about the lack of bow-making materials and the high wear rate of bows and strings. The materials required for bow making, such as rubber bands, feathers, arrow shafts, etc., are in short supply. However, the crossbow arrow is slightly better, and the arrow generally uses wood and bamboo as the feather, mainly because the enemy is afraid that "the one who gets the arrow can still shoot again", and the south has always been short of bamboo and wood. But when it comes to Lingnan, the climate has become a big killer of bows and crossbows.

Since coming to Qiongzhou, both the Song army and the Yuan army have suffered from the difficulty of maintaining the bow and crossbow due to moisture, and the bow and crossbow are the most important weapons of the two armies. Needless to say, the crossbow soldiers have always accounted for as much as four or five percent of the Song army. In addition to the Mongol army and the Tanma Red Army (Semu Army), the rest of the Han army and the new annexed army fought in the same way as the Song army, and they also took the bow and crossbow first. At that time, most of the Yuan army's troops distributed in the south were Han troops and new annexed armies, and their reliance on bows and crossbows was not under the Song army in the slightest.

No matter if you complain or shout, even if you dismantle the Ministry of Industry and the Ordnance Supervisor, you can't turn into an iron bow and crossbow. In fact, the generals will do this just to send a message - if you want me to be the vanguard, you can make up for me with weapons first. If you don't have enough weapons, you still have to go forward, so what's the difference between that and sending them to death?

Zhang Shijie's face sank like water, and his eyes swept over the faces of the generals one by one. Wherever he swept his gaze, the noise gradually became quieter. In the end, his eyes stayed on a few generals who had been acting calmly.

Not only Zhang Shijie, but also Wen Tianxiang, Su Liuyi and others noticed that Zhao Lie and his subordinates were not noisy or noisy, and they were very quiet.

Zhang Shijie glanced at Wen Tianxiang, who understood what he meant, thought for a while, and asked, "How is the Ligu ordnance built?" ”

Zhao Lie exchanged glances with Jiang Fenglie, Ma Nanchun and others, and came out of the ranks proudly, giving a military salute: "Wen Xianggong, Zhang Xiangxiang, the last general is willing to be the vanguard!" ”

The festival, which was still full of sound and waves, instantly quieted down.