Wang Ergou, who was hiding behind, reacted] came over, and while the other party was pulling back the gun, he rushed up with a knife. Just as he was about to cut down the pikeman in front of him, he heard "Second row, stab!" I saw a spear tip suddenly appear on my right and pierce at me, and the knife in my hand was blocked outwards to block the gun, and I was about to swing the knife and cut again, "Third row, stab!" Another spear pierced from the right side and stabbed himself in the right ribs. A miserable scream came out of Wang Ergou's mouth, and before the scream was over, another spear pierced Wang Ergou's right rib.

More than 20 bandits all died under the spear, most of the remaining bandits were killed, and only a few people saw the opportunity quickly, knelt on the ground and begged for mercy and survived. After confirming that all the bandits had been eliminated, Zhang Fang ordered all the men and horses not to clean up the battlefield first, but to rest as a whole, and after sending personnel to be on alert, the soldiers fell silent. Although the training took a long time, the soldiers were killing for the first time, and a pungent smell of blood filled the air.

Someone started vomiting, and soon the vomiting sound rang out. The soldiers vomited all the food they had eaten. At this time, Zhang put down the order to open the meal, and the junior colonel next to him asked, "General, why do you still have to eat?" Zhang Fang said helplessly: "This is His Highness's order!" ”

The soldiers ate and vomited in this bloody atmosphere, and another order was given to rest in place. The soldiers slept on the ground with their clothes all night.

At dawn the next day, Zhang put down the order to clean up the battlefield, and the bodies of the bandits were buried in a centralized manner, and the materials in the cottage were counted. A total of more than 3,000 taels of silver, about 120 stone of grain, rescued more than 40 young and strong, and more than 20 women.

Back in the village to hand over the food to the villagers, the old man and the child were very happy, but then Zhang Fang was embarrassed, the bandits killed too many villagers, and several children have become orphans, if you stay here without the care of adults, Zhang Fang dare not think about it! Zhang Fang was about to leave with these orphans, Sun Hu took seven or eight young men and resolutely asked to be soldiers, and more than a dozen young women also followed the team. After asking the reason, Zhang Fang was embarrassed. These women had been ravaged by bandits, and many of their families had died. After much thought, Zhang Fang decided to take it back, and the team rested in the village for a day.

The next day, led by Sun Hu, the team headed south along the mountain range. Ten miles away, there is also a group of bandits, who are also extremely vicious and indiscriminately kill the people. This time, a hundred giant archers only shot two rounds, and the cottage was breached, and more than 100 bandits were all killed, and more than 30 young and strong people and more than 20 women were rescued. More than 100 stone of grain, more than 5,000 taels of gold and silver. Several more women insisted on following.

After a month of suppressing bandits, there are no more bandits around Luoyang. The soldiers left all the captured grain to the people, and the gold and silver harvested nearly 300,000 taels, oh! There were also more than 100 young women, all of whom had been ravaged by bandits, some of whom were left behind, some of whom had been kicked out of their families, and some of whom were unwilling to return home.

The situation was reported to Li Jie, and Li Jie smiled, "It's too simple, all of them will be sent to the army Zhonglangzhong, and let them bandage, feed and care for the soldiers!" Led by Manniang, it is called the medical battalion, without my order, all soldiers and officers are not allowed to step into the medical battalion for half a step, violators will be beheaded! ”

As for Sun Hu and these people, they didn't meet Li Jie's standards, but after Kaohu, they were all recruited into the scout camp.

The children all went to the academy, the younger ones were taken care of, and the older ones lived independently. Gewu College does not teach Confucian classics, but first allows children to learn Hanyu Pinyin, followed by short stories marked with Hanyu Pinyin. If you are able to read books independently, you can choose to study in the college.

Although there are still some old pedants who scold Gewu Academy for being tricky and deceptive. Li Jie didn't pay attention to it at all, and had nothing to say to the nerd.

The winch crossbow Li Jie has an idea, this thing is an ancient big killer! You can shoot up to seven heavy arrows at a time, with a range of up to kilometers! But it's too cumbersome, and it needs dozens of people to serve it.

In fact, the ancient craftsmen lacked engineering principles, and only relied on experience to make the bow as they thought it was, which was time-consuming and laborious, not to mention seriously damaging the fibrous nature of the wood, so that the shooter had to use a large part of the force to counteract the anti-force of the wood first. And Li Jie doesn't plan to work on the bow arm, it is a pure waste of time.

The crossbow arms of the bed crossbow made by Li Jie are not enlarged bow arms, but two very strong hardwoods, which do not seem to be elastic, and at the base of the crossbow arms, there are two box-like things. Inside the box is a cast iron part, which holds two very thick bundles of leather and cow tendon-like things tightly fastened, and the hardwood that acts as a crossbow arm is inserted into these two bundles of leather and cow tendon, which is actually a torsion spring. Outside, Li Jie used pulleys and ropes, but the rope at the front end was hung with a special iron bracket, and there were jagged hooks on both sides of the bracket, and then the bracket was placed on the arrow groove, and there were also jagged iron plates on both sides of the arrow groove, which could be bitten with the sawtooth on both sides of the bracket. These two biting serrations allow the bed crossbow to be opened in one go, and it can also adjust the opening force of the crossbow arm and adjust the distance of the range, which is a simple and outrageous design, but allows the soldier to save energy when operating the bed crossbow.

The crossbow machine on the bed crossbow was also removed by Li Jie, he directly buckled the bowstring on the top of the iron machine, and immediately turned the winch to tighten the rope after getting ready, and then saw that the pulleys were also pulled up by the rope, and with the rotation of the winch, the crossbow arms on both sides that seemed to be very heavy were slowly pulled apart.

A crossbow arrow like a spear was loaded, and Li Jie smashed it with a wooden hammer on the iron machine, and the huge arrow shot out at once, a thousand meters away.

Li Jie smiled, how many days have it been and finally succeeded! Own army can have such bed crossbows in large quantities. In the face of overwhelming blows, not a single army survived. If he replaces the Giant Arrow with a dynamite pack!

The vigilance of the Jinyi Guard against the weapon workshop has been strengthened again, and the silver of the craftsmen has increased again, and even the small workers have five taels of silver a month.

Li Jie greatly increased the silver of the craftsmen, and what the craftsmen did not expect was that with their daily lectures at the Gewu Academy, their status was also greatly improved. Not only the children are listening, but even some young scholars who like to study things are also listening.

Little by little, people are no longer doing things according to their habits, but trying to do whatever they can to make the changes they like. Harvesting wheat is no longer a group of people, but a man wielding a huge scythe, and with a wave it is a slice. The chef also began to learn how to stir-fry.

"Your Highness, great joy! Great joy! Liu Qi excitedly rushed into Li Jie's study. What's the joy that your wife has given birth to a son? Liu Qi rolled his eyes angrily, "Your Highness, don't make fun of it, it's indeed a great joy, Gu Nei Jia came to the news, the craftsman found iron ore in a ravine, and the amount was huge!" "What did you say? Iron ore! Li Jie jumped up all of a sudden. Yes, Your Highness! A huge amount of iron ore! "Come, prepare the horses!" The group hurriedly rushed out of Xinxiang County and rushed towards the valley. After a short time into the valley, there were Jinyiwei waiting at the mouth of the valley, and the group followed Jinyiwei along the river, and rode a horse for a long time, and saw a bunch of people who were busy there not far away.

Liu Ziyu saw Li Jie coming over and arched his hand: "Weichen, see Your Highness!" "Li Jie waved his hand, "There is no need to be polite, what is the iron ore content?" Liu Ziyu called out to a craftsman, and the craftsman arched his hand and said, "Your Highness, the ore content is about forty percent, and according to the current mining volume, there will be no problem in ten years." "Well, there are many rewards, and everyone has rewards." Turning his head to Xue Liang, he said, "The Jinyi Guard will guard this place and strengthen patrols, so that outsiders can't know that there is an iron mine here!" Xue Liang arched his hand and said, "Oh! ”

With the iron mine, Li Jie is ready to change the cavalry, and the cavalry equipment is really powerful when the national strength of the Tang Dynasty is strong, but with the decline of national strength, and it is not easy for good horses to obtain cavalry training, there are more and more infantry, and there are fewer and fewer cavalry. The saber of later generations became Li Jie's best choice.

Li Jie began to recruit a large number of workers, mining, quarrying, and refining all need manpower, and began the construction of the iron factory.

In fact, this so-called blast furnace is a behemoth in the eyes of people here, a magnificent project, but in Li Jie's opinion, it is simply ugly and can not be uglier, fortunately, this thing is designed by himself, taking into account the problem of temperature, adding tempering and heating facilities, so that the cold air blown into the blast furnace can be heated first, which can increase the temperature inside the furnace.

After the construction of the blast furnace was completed, the ore mined in it, Li Jie lit the charcoal with his own hands, the blower began to send air to the inside, the charcoal began to burn, the blazing charcoal fire, gradually heated the blast furnace, looking into the observation hole, the dark ore began to slowly become red, the start was good, but if you want to produce iron, it is impossible to calcinate without a day or two.

After a few days of smelting, it's finally out! The furnace door opened, and a stream of white molten iron rushed out, flowing through the condensation trough, and after condensing into iron, several blacksmiths stepped forward to check, "Your Highness, it's done!" It worked! "Is it wrought iron?" Li Jie asked, and a blacksmith struck twice with a hammer, "Your Highness, it's wrought iron!" Wrought iron! ”

Looking at the excited crowd, Li Jie thought, it is time to build a coke factory, as long as he smelts coke by himself, then a furnace will go down, and there will be no problem with thousands of catties of wrought iron every day.

The current coal mine is still mainly making Fengwo coal, and Li Jie always feels that it is a waste. With the discovery of iron ore, Li Jie thought he could build a coke plant. According to Li Jie's requirements, a coke furnace was erected next to the coal mine, and coking is much simpler than ironmaking, but it is distilled at high temperature in a closed environment.