The first furnace of coke came out, and Li Jie ordered someone to send it to the iron-making furnace for trial. A few days later, a furnace of molten steel was smelted. With steel, Li Jie was ready to make a saber, but he chose the Mongolian saber after thinking about it again and again.

The Mongolian saber has smooth lines, and the handle is generally slightly bent in the direction of the blade, so that the handle with the arc is more conducive to the rider's control and is not easy to get rid of, but the Mongolian cavalry knife body is thinner than the military saber, and the weight is lighter.

Li Jie was ready to replace all his cavalry with sabers, but he was not prepared to vigorously develop cavalry. His positioning of the cavalry is to raid and pursue on the battlefield, as a surprise soldier. Then there is the protection of the two flanks of their own military formation.

The attack power of its own army will be the most powerful at the moment, and the bed crossbow has solved the problem of pulling force and production process and cost, and can be manufactured in large quantities. And the bed crossbow did not shoot a spear, but a net pocket was placed in the center of the bowstring. There are two types of projectiles, one is the commonly used fire oil bomb. One is the gunpowder bullet made by Li Jie's own ordnance department.

Next is its own sky-shaking cannon, that is, the People's Liberation Army's conscienceless cannon. Then there is the forest of giant arrows shot by the giant archers, and the last firepower is the elm spray, which was only made in the Yuan Dynasty, and is a disguise of artillery, that is, a simple artillery, made of high-quality mountain elm. Iron and bronze cannons Li Jie can't make for the time being, but the elm spray is different, except that it has less charge than copper cannons or iron cannons, but the effect is no worse than copper cannons or iron cannons. No technology is required and the cost is extremely low.

Elm is divided into home elm and mountain elm, the elm itself is the growth period of the long texture is fine and hard, the north takes him as a beam, can not rot for hundreds of years and does not deform, mountain elm is harder than the elm.

Mountain elm mainly grows in the stone crevices of the northern mountains, cold and drought resistant, the wood is more dense and hard, it generally takes hundreds of years to grow to a diameter of 20-30 centimeters, like this to reach nearly 40 centimeters is quite rare. Due to the long growth period, most of the farmers in the old days used him to make axles and ploughshares, which were even more polished than the iron ones, and because the wood was fine and hard, the patterns were fine and beautiful, and the rich and noble families were also mostly used to make high-end furniture. However, because this tree is too hard, it is generally impossible to use knives and axes, and it takes an old carpenter to make it with the best tools.

But after all, wood is still wood, and the service life of this thing is very short, just five or six cannons, but at present, elm wood is everywhere, which ensures the source of wood elm spray. However, Li Jie is going to spray elm with shotguns.

After his own four blows, Li Jie believes that no team can support to the end, and his pikemen and sword and shield soldiers may only have to clean up the battlefield.

At present, there are nearly 30,000 troops, and excluding those stationed in the localities, the main force currently has 20,000. Li Jie made adjustments to the personnel again. Li Tang served as the commander of the cavalry, and he still had 2,000 cavalry under his command. Wei Chi Baolin: 4,000 pikemen, 2,000 sword and shield soldiers. Liu Tie's giant archers are 4,000. Cheng Moyu was transferred to the firearms battalion and commanded 4,000 troops. Among them, 2,000 were equipped with assault rifles that Li Jie suddenly remembered during the whole army.

The assault rifle is an improvement and development of the bamboo musket and the flying musket. The assault rifle uses a giant bamboo as a barrel and contains gunpowder and a sub-barrel, and when ignited, the bullets fly out of the bamboo barrel and kill the enemy. The firing range can be nearly 200 meters at most, but the shooting accuracy is very poor, and the accuracy is not enough to make up for the quantity. Two thousand assault musketeers fired in three sections, each armed with five assault rifles. The remaining 2,000 were organized into the middle military camp.

After the reorganization of the army, the troops were put into training again, although they were trained by exterminating the bandits. But Li Jie knows that this army does not yet have its own soul, the soul of fighting for whom! And it's not something you can give in a few words.

Li Jie found Xue Liang, "How many Jinyi guards are there in the army?" Xue Liang arched his hand and said: "There are more than 100 Jinyi guards in the army. "Order them to pay attention to the situation of the soldiers in the army!" Xue Liang was stunned, "Your Highness, aren't you worried about the soldiers?" ”

Li Jie smiled, "You think too much, although this army can be said to be invincible, but this army still lacks a spirit, a spirit that soldiers are willing to fight for." And this spirit will be the soul of this army, let you pay attention to the army, I just want to find the soul in these soldiers, the soul of this army that cannot be crossed no matter what difficulties it faces! ”

Xue Liang was stunned, but he still arched his hand and said: "Although I don't understand the lowly position, the lowly position will order his subordinates to do it seriously!" ”

When all parts of Datang were in turmoil, Luoyang and Xinxiang were peaceful. The autumn harvest has begun, and people's faces are full of joy, and this year's wind and rain have been smooth, and with the help of windmills, the harvest is obviously better than in previous years. Li Jie gave the soldiers five days off and went back to help his family with the autumn harvest.

The fields are busy, and the family is talking and laughing together. How many years of hard work, most of this year's harvest is my own, how good it would be if it was like this every year! The yield of barley is very good, basically more than 700 catties per mu, and the yam is more than 2,000 catties. The Chamber of Commerce came directly to the field to buy yams, and the yams of ten acres of land were sold for more than 20 taels of silver for rations, and the barley planted on ten acres of land was paid with a tax of 100 catties per mu, and there were about 4,000 catties of grain at home. Some people are shaken, it's so good for wives and children to have hot kang heads, but the soldiers are too tired! There are too many rules! His daughter-in-law is also chattering, "What's so good about being a soldier, now I don't have to worry about eating and drinking at home." Daddy, let's retire the soldiers! ”

This thinking of the soldiers was clearly revealed, and the training was obviously a little lazy. It's just that many people are still hesitant and don't want to pick this head. The Jinyi guards in the army discovered these situations and reported them to Xue Liang. Seeing that this army was about to cross, Li Jie was a little anxious.

Today's weather is good, Feng Shishi got off the night post and walked around the county with his companions. Now the family does not have to worry about food and drink, and he is a fire captain in the army, with four taels of silver a month. The yams and grain that the family can sell this year have been sold for more than 40 taels of silver, and today he wants to buy some things for the family. I pulled some flower cloth for my daughter and daughter-in-law in the cloth shop, and bought a few red head ropes for my daughter. On the street, I bought two roast chickens for my two sons, and said, "Half the size eats Lao Tzu," these two boys are too good to eat.

"Sell windmills! Sell windmills! The cries caught Feng Shishi's attention, and countless windmills turned on the vendors' straw sticks. After thinking about it, Feng Shishi shouted, "How much is a windmill," and the hawker saw that there was a business, and hurriedly said, "Two pennies a piece, military master." He took out two pennies and handed them to the vendor, and took down a windmill. Imagining his daughter smiling and dancing happily, Feng Shishi smiled. The companion smiled and said, "Stone, I miss the girl again." Feng Shishi smiled, "That's my girl who knows that she feels sorry for her father, every time I go back, she will let me sit down and beat my back, unlike my two stinky boys, who only know how to eat!" The crowd laughed and walked on.

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way! The horse was shocked! The horse was shocked! "There were shouts from the street in the distance, and the people ran away in panic, and a two-horse carriage ran in this direction like crazy. At this time, Feng Shishi saw that a little girl in the middle of the street might have been frightened, standing in place and crying helplessly. Feng Shishi was anxious, "Child, run!" Come on! But the little girl did not move. Feng Shi threw down the thing and rushed over, seeing that the startled horse was about to step on the little girl, Feng Shi hugged the child, turned around and threw the child to his companion. At the same time, Crazy Horse crashed into Feng Shishi at once.

A mouthful of blood spurted out of Feng Shishi's mouth, Feng Shishi was knocked far away, and blood kept gushing out of his mouth. The official who came running from afar struck the horse's leg with the stick in his hand, knocking the crazy horse to the ground. "Stones! Stone! His companions rushed up, picked him up and shouted. Opening his eyes slightly, Feng Shishi whispered, "I... I want to go home! "I closed my eyes and never woke up.

Like a thunderbolt in the sky, Feng never thought that her husband was gone, what would happen to herself and her children in the future! Holding her husband's body, Feng cried to death. The girl also hugged her mother and cried, and the neighbors came to help.

While he was in a hurry, a fast horse came running from a distance, and a brocade guard sat on the horse. After dismounting, Feng Shishi's men greeted him, "My lord, I don't know what's going on!" The brocade guard shouted, "His Royal Highness King Shou ordered that the funeral will be carried out in three days." All of the above fire chiefs are present, and His Royal Highness is here! "Stupid, the whole audience is stupid! His Highness is there in person! Just for a soldier!

Li Jie was talking to the nurse, and the two girls were playing in the yard. got Xue Liang's report, and Yang Tian shouted, "Found it!" Got it! The nurse who walked out of the house and watched the two girls playing, slapped Li Jie on the head, "What are you shouting, you scared me to death!" Li Jie touched his head, "It's okay, it's okay, I'm just a little excited!" Then he looked at Xue Liang, who was covering his mouth and snickering, and said, "Pass my order, all the officers above the fire commander are present, and I will go too!" Then Xue Liang, who didn't look dumbfounded, turned around and came to the desk, picked up charcoal and drew on the paper.

About a cup of tea, I picked up the drawn paper and took the two girls to the military craftsman camp. The head of the craftsman camp hurriedly knelt down to greet him, and Li Jie waved his hand to order him to get up. "Go and fetch the best coppersmiths and painters in the camp, and the king will make things." The head of the camp ordered someone to prepare refreshments for Li Jie and ran out. After a while, several craftsmen ran over and knelt down to kowtow to Li Jie. Li Jie hurriedly asked everyone to get up and took out the pattern for them to see.

After everyone saw it, they replied, "Your Highness, you can make it tomorrow!" Li Jie advised, "Be sure to do what I ask, and send it to me tomorrow!" The crowd hurriedly agreed.

Second, the head of the craftsman's battalion personally sent the things. The chief eunuch in the palace led him to the door of the study. The head of the camp held the tray in his hand, personally put the things in front of Li Jie, and removed the cloth from the tray. Li Jie was overjoyed when he saw it, "Okay, just this one in the middle!" ”