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In order to prevent Goguryeo from going north, the Yan State reorganized their Liaodong Frontier Army, and the so-called Liaodong Frontier Army actually only had three infantry regiments that were not fully staffed by the Yan army. Most of the soldiers were strong men captured from the local area. Weapons, personnel, and supplies of all kinds are scarce. And it was such an army, and the Yan army actually claimed to be the Liaodong Frontier Army. This kind of self-deception may only be able to achieve such an extreme by Yan Jun.

"In the past few days, I've been walking around and I'm in a bad situation." Zhao De shook his head and said to his chief of staff, Guo Sheng.

"Although the Yan Army claims to be a border guard, according to the depreciation of a border guard, there should be at least three divisions, but what you and I see is that there are only three regiments here, and the personnel, equipment, and morale of these three regiments are very poor, and these people are soldiers who have not been trained at all." Zhao De shook his head very dissatisfied.

"I think the people of the Yan Kingdom simply want our Zhao army to come here to help them defend." Zhao De said with great dissatisfaction.

"I know all of this." Guo Sheng said.

"Lao Zhao, these are no longer things we can solve. I have sent a telegram to the country about the situation here. But when it comes to concrete solutions, it is no longer something that those of us can solve. Moreover, we are here to lay mines, and other things are not beyond our control. Guo Sheng said.

"That's right." Zhao De nodded and said.

"But the situation here is so disappointing. Those Yan soldiers, they ate very poorly, although our Zhao army ate very well. But you also know that the defense of Liaodong in the future will still rely on these soldiers, and the mines will only increase the ability of defense, and the main body of defense will still be people. With such an approach, it is estimated that Liaodong will not be defended for a long time. Zhao De put forward his own opinion.

"Alright. We came here to lay mines, and the problems we found could only be reported to the above, and the specific things were no longer within our control. Guo Sheng said again.

"I said, Lao Guo, do you want to say that I manage too much?" At this time, Zhao De asked dissatisfiedly.

"Yes." Guo Sheng nodded dissatisfiedly and admitted.

"Why?" At this time, Lao Zhao asked suspiciously.

"You should also consider the Yan Kingdom, as well as the actual situation here, now the Yan Kingdom is not able to fill this defense all at once." Guo Sheng said.

"You saw it, too. There are only three border regiments here, but they are known as border guards, such a troop allocation itself has problems, plus weapons, logistics supplies, and morale, these are lacking, such a problem, it is estimated that Yan Guo himself knows, but it is very difficult to solve, otherwise they will not pin their hopes on us sappers. Guo Sheng said.

"Instead of talking about the Yan army's various faults now, we should sit down honestly and think about how to arrange the mines more securely and resist the attacks of more Goguryeo people." Guo Sheng said to Zhao De.

"I know, what you are learning in the Qin State, landmines are auxiliary weapons, and the real work is still those flexibly mobilized armies, and the Qin army does this." Guo Sheng said to Zhao De. Zhao De was a graduate of the Qin Military Academy to study, and as soon as his studies were over, he was transferred back to Zhao Jun's engineer regiment as the commander of the regiment, and this mission was completed by his regiment. Guo Sheng was born in the local Zhao Army, he did not go to a military school, and only relied on his military experience to serve as the chief of staff, but Guo Sheng is more pragmatic, he knows how to solve these problems practically.

"We already knew about the situation in Yan Kingdom when we came. The situation here is very bad, and this is what we know, we laid mines, according to the standards of the Qin army, naturally we need a lot of troops to complete, but you can also see it. Guo Sheng said to Zhao De. Zhao De was a studious person, and it was precisely for this that he was selected to study in Qin.

"There aren't many defenses here, but mines can give us a lot. It can be said that the role of mines is not only defense, I think, he should have a certain offensive nature, if we can arrange these mines well, we can definitely outperform an army of tens of thousands of people. Guo Sheng said excitedly.

"What do you mean?" At this time, Zhao De asked humbly. At this time, Zhao De realized his mistake, in his opinion. I really followed what Qin Jun's textbooks learned. Although the Qin army was the inventor and manufacturer of mine weapons, it was only used as a defensive weapon in the use of mine weapons. It can be said that it is an auxiliary weapon among defensive weapons, and its role is only to play the role of defense and vigilance. It is rarely used for large-scale configurations. Even in the recent anti-bandit operations in the Western Regions, landmines have only had the effect of blockade, and this requires a large area of minefields to complete. This kind of understanding is only a beginning, and it has not been popular in the military schools of the Qin army, and the teaching materials of the military schools are indeed what Zhao Dexue did.

"I think that we can create a blockade zone by placing a large number of mines, and if necessary, we can use different methods of mine placement to form an ambush area, so that even if we have insufficient numbers, as long as a large number of mines are placed on the main transportation routes, I think the problem of insufficient troops can be solved. Sometimes, as long as we have a small number of troops, we can solve the problem of insufficient defensive forces in large numbers. Guo Sheng told Zhao De his thoughts.

"Blockade zone, ambush zone?" Zhao De asked puzzled.

"Yes." Guo Sheng nodded and said.

"We understand the practical difficulties of the Yan army." Zhao De said.

"But I really didn't expect to use such a method to solve the actual problems of Yan Kingdom." Zhao De thought about it at this time and said. He read some of the Qin army's textbooks and thought he could fight. But what I didn't expect was that in practical application, he was still insufficient.

"Sir, don't blame yourself. In fact, not everyone can do this kind of thing, we are just here to lay out mines, if it were other people, they will do it, but we can't understand the meaning of the governor above, the intention of the governor above is naturally to let us use mines to drag, prevent, blockade Goguryeo's north, as long as this goal can be achieved, how to use mines should be arranged according to the specific situation. Guo Sheng said.

"Mines are dead, but the people who use them are alive, if they can use them alive. This is God. Guo Sheng said.

"Isn't this how our Zhao army fights?" Guo Sheng continued.

"Yes. There is nothing wrong with what you said. Landmines are dead, but people are alive, as long as we use them alive. Don't worry about anything. Zhao De suddenly realized, and then said with a smile.

"Alright. Sir, let's think about how to lay out these mines, and if we don't do a good job, we'll be punished. Guo Sheng said worriedly. Guo Sheng was very careful at the beginning of the matter of asking them to arrange mines, and after coming here to understand the situation, he had no choice but to turn the passive defense weapon of the mine into an active defense weapon. And used for large-scale blockades.

Zhao Guo Handan. The warehouse area of the Handan Iron Works is full of a large number of iron ingots, and some transport workers are nervously loading these iron ingots, most of which are transported to Taiyuan, or Shangdang County, Qin, where there are a large number of iron and steel mills, and these iron ingots will be further processed into steel, and then reprocessed into various steels. For example, rails, rails, and various machine tools, gears and other industrial products.

"We're just producing a lot of iron ingots. These iron ingots are all exported to the Qin State, and if this continues, it will be too simple. Li Mu said worriedly as he looked at the iron ingots piled up in the warehouse.

"Yes, Prime Minister, if we have the machinery and equipment of the Qin State, we will process some things, such as those rails, although they are not as wear-resistant and strong as steel rails, but the cost is cheap, and with a factory that manufactures rails, our processing profits will be very large. But the Qin people were slow to provide us with equipment, and there was no such mechanical equipment. We can't do that. The warehouse management of the warehouse introduced.

"Hmm." Li Mu nodded. The Handan Iron Works only produces a single ingot, which is the demand for rails in the current large-scale construction of railways. It was unexpectedly unable to be satisfied, and Qin State was unable to provide relevant equipment under the pretext of technical blockade, which made the profit of Handan Iron Works not very high. Although there is a lot of profit, but how long can such a profit be maintained, Li Mu is very worried, Li Mu is very clear, if the company wants to be competitive, it must constantly upgrade its products. This is also the reason why Li Mu came to Handan Iron Works to inspect.

"Although the Handan Iron Works can produce a large number of iron ingots, the iron tools we process are very limited, and the weapons cannot be further expanded into weapons-grade materials. Not only that, but the daily necessities we produce are just rough iron pots, and I am afraid that such products will not sell for much money? Li Mu looked at the stacked iron ingots and said to Li Zuoche. Li Mu was very worried about the poor competitiveness of Handan Iron Works' products. With the expansion of Qin's investment, if there are several factories like Handan Iron Works in the future, then the situation of Handan Iron Works will really be very bad. This is also an important reason why Li Mu is worried.

"Our products have to be upgraded." Li Zuoche nodded and said.