Li Yan stood in the valley and watched the training of the Blood Wolf Guard, nodding from time to time, these people were indeed making rapid progress under the supervision of Shi and Wei Liang.

The Nameless Valley has also changed a lot since the Blood Wolf Guard was stationed here.

In order to hone these blood wolf guards as much as possible, Han Qian also racked his brains and tortured them in different ways.

"Subordinate Wei Liang, I have seen the general." Li Yan walked through the crowd, walked to Wei Liang's side and stopped.

"No need to be polite, come! Wei Liang, you're here to attack me! Li Yan looked at Wei Liang in front of him, and wanted to see if the training was effective.

"General, this~?" Wei Liang looked at Li Yan suspiciously.

"Wei Liang, remember! At this moment I am your enemy, an enemy, do you know what to do? The Blood Wolf Guard's job is to find the enemy and kill them. Li Yan stared at Wei Liang and said in a deep voice.

"What are you doing? Show your courage and use your best strength to come up and knock me down. Li Yan saw that Wei Liang was motionless and reprimanded angrily.

"General, offended!" After Wei Liang finished speaking, he let out a loud shout, and his right leg quickly swept towards Li Yan.

"It's good to come!" Li Yan flashed quickly, exerted force on his legs, Li Yan and Wei Liang fought together, and Wei Liang attacked Li Yan's defense.

Wei Liang's fist hit Li Yan's head with all his strength, and it was about to hit Li Yan's face, Li Yan blocked with his right hand, and quickly attacked Wei Liang's face door with his left hand, Wei Liang could only defend with his hand.

The two of them were on the snow, you went back and forth for more than a dozen moves, Li Yan saw the move, and Wei Liang was sweating profusely on his head.

The blood wolf guard on the snow cheered loudly when he saw that Li Yan and Wei Liang were fighting hotly.

Suddenly, Li Yan took advantage of Wei Liang's distraction and punched Wei Liang on the head with a heavy punch, and suddenly the corners of his mouth were bloody, and there were blood stains on the snow. At the same time, Wei Liang was kicked heavily in the chest by Li Yan.

Wei Liang's whole person took a few steps back, leaving a series of footprints on the snow, and finally gained a firm foothold. Wei Liang licked the blood from the corner of his mouth with his tongue and swallowed it, and hit Li Yan again.

Wei Liang was like a red-eyed madman at this time, every punch was using all his strength, and Li Yan didn't dare to underestimate it, and his fists and palms made a "bang" sound.

As Wei Liang's physical strength was exhausted, after a while, the whole person was thrown down by Li Yan on the snow.

"General, my subordinates are incompetent, please punish the general." Wei Liang's face was hot, and he got up and knelt down on one knee towards Li Yan and said.

"Get up! Good life training, every training must be regarded as a life-and-death battle, Ben will hope that you will become a sharp knife into the enemy's chest in the future, so that the enemy will be terrified. Li Yan picked up Wei Liang and said loudly to everyone.

"Obey the general's teachings." Everyone on the snow knelt down on one knee and said in unison.

When leaving the Nameless Valley, Li Yan told Han Qian to intensify the training of the Blood Wolf Guard.

After Li Yan said goodbye to Han Qian, he rode his horse and ran towards the dragon head stream. These days, there has been no news from Hao Sheng of Longshoujian, which makes Li Yan very anxious.

Despite the heavy snow outside, Longshou Stream remains unaffected, and the craftsmen and men inside are adding iron ore to the blast furnace.

Li Yan came to the cottage, and after getting off the horse, he didn't see Hao Sheng for a turn, and he couldn't help but feel a little strange.

On weekdays, as soon as he came to Longshoujian, Hao Sheng came out to greet him, but now after turning around, Hao Sheng didn't even see a figure.

"Hao Sheng has seen the general, when did you come, general?" Hao Sheng suddenly walked out of nowhere and bowed to Li Yan.

"Ben has just been here for a while, what is Steward Hao busy with?" Li Yan saw Hao Sheng's face covered with beads of sweat, this snowy day was very strange.

"General, it's done! It's finally done! As soon as Li Yan finished speaking, Hao Sheng said with a smile on his face, and his two small eyes were almost narrowed together.

"Steward Hao, what did you say?" When Li Yan heard this, the whole person came to his senses.

"General Hui, the knife you want to build has just been successfully built by Master He." Hao Sheng said excitedly.

"Is that true? Take Ben to see it. Li Yan was very excited when he heard that the knife was built successfully.

Hao Sheng took Li Yan and bypassed several thatched huts and came to a remote house.

There were all kinds of iron tools piled up on the ground, and He Laosan held the long knife he had just created in his hand and slashed towards the iron pieces placed on the ground.

There was a screeching sound, and the iron on the ground was split open, and the long knife sank into most of the dirt.

"Hiss" Li Yan gasped deeply, the huge iron piece on the ground was similar to an ordinary Mingguang armor piece, wouldn't this be cut on a person's body, and he would be seriously injured if he didn't die.

"Xiao Lao'er has seen the general, but he didn't know that the general was coming, and he hoped to forgive his sins." He Laosan felt that there was someone behind him, and turned around to see Li Yan and Hao Sheng behind him. Hurriedly knelt on the ground and saluted.

"Master He, please hurry up, you have made a great contribution." Li Yan stepped forward to help He Laosan up.

"The general is really a god, and the little old man followed the method that the general said, and after more than a dozen attempts, he finally refined a furnace of fine steel last night. You see, General, this is a knife made from the steel smelted last night according to the General's drawing. He Laosan grinned and handed the long knife into Li Yan's hand.

Li Yan received the long knife in He Laosan's hand, observed it carefully, and weighed about forty or fifty catties in his hand, with a handle of four feet and a blade about five feet long, similar to the horse chopping knife of the Han Dynasty, and the freshly sharpened blade looked cold.

"General, little old man has tried, although this long knife is sharp, but it is extremely steel-intensive, a long knife like this can make three or four ordinary big knives is more than enough, and it takes a long time, I don't know why the general has to build this kind of long knife?" He Laosan looked at the long knife in Li Yan's hand and sighed.

"This general has its own opinions, how many of these long knives are made of steel at present?" Li Yan asked in a low voice.

"General, according to the current situation, within a month, if all the craftsmen work together, it is estimated that no more than a hundred long knives can be made, doesn't the general plan to build other armor?" He Laosan pondered for a moment and said with a puzzled expression.

"Hmmm! Not for now, your priority now is to create this kind of long knife for Ben, the more the better. ”

Li Yan stacked the iron pieces on the ground on top of each other, held the long knife in his hand, and looked at the iron pieces on the ground violently, and with a "bang", the blade penetrated the second layer of iron sheets, and the three layers below were concave.

Despite the hard slashing on the iron piece, the edge of the long knife still did not curl, and it was not as easy to roll as those ordinary large knives. In this regard, Li Yan was very satisfied in his heart, and it took a long time to put down the long knife in his hand.

"Master He, you follow this pattern and instruct the craftsmen below to build two hundred." Li Yan took down his military thorn and handed it to He Laosan.

"Yes, General." He Laosan took the thorn and opened his eyes wide to speak, but as soon as he thought of what to ask and what not to ask, He Laosan stopped.

"Is there still a lot of manpower for iron ore mining here?" Li Yan turned to Hao Sheng and asked.

"General Hui, now the iron ore in the Black Stone Cliff needs to be chiseled through boulders before the iron ore can be obtained, so~" Hao Sheng said hesitantly.

"This will be solved for you later, at present, we must speed up the mining and make the long knife as soon as possible, understand?" Li Yan couldn't help but feel a little helpless in his heart, these craftsmen that Ling Hu Dezhao sent to him last time had already taken great risks. It's not good to trouble him now, so I'll have to find a way later.

"Yes, don't worry, General." Hao Sheng gritted his teeth and bowed down and said.

After Li Yan explained to Hao Sheng, he also told He Laosan not to leak the method of steelmaking, otherwise he would bear the consequences. Of course, He Laosan understood his situation, and said yes again and again.

Out of the thatched hut, Li Yan went to see the craftsmen who were working, although these craftsmen didn't know Li Yan, but they also knew that this was a person in the army, and they stepped forward to salute.

"Steward Hao, you have to pay close attention to these people, it's not that Ben Jiang can't trust them, if it spreads, it will be a bloody storm." Li Yan walked to a secluded place and told Hao Shengdao.

"General Hui, under the general, these craftsmen and people have been assigned according to the Shiwu system of the military camp, and let them supervise each other. What's more, the wages given to them by the general are not low, and they are not allowed to go out alone in normal times, so no one should risk their lives to do that kind of thing. Hao Sheng looked at the craftsman in the distance and whispered.

"That's good! But don't be careless, if there is a situation, you have to report it in time or go to Han Qian to solve it. After Li Yan finished speaking, he turned around and jumped on the horse, and walked towards the outside of the Longshou Stream.

On the way back, Li Yan has been preoccupied, although he has been able to make armor, but the output is extremely low, and it is impossible to quickly equip it into a tiger and wolf army.

At present, it is feasible to solve the armor of the Blood Wolf Guard first, and then gradually replace the armor of the Zhenbei Army with the armor created by Longshoujian.

Now in the army, except for the captain and above, it is good for the rest of the soldiers to have leather armor, and some people do not even have leather armor. After all, if Xiliang's 100,000 soldiers and horses want everyone to wear armor, Xiliang's national strength is simply not able to bear it.

Two days later, in the North General's Mansion in Xihai Town, Zhang Jing invited the lieutenant colonel and above to come to discuss the matter.

"Silence, you are going to be summoned here today, but there is something important to discuss with you." Zhang Jing looked at the generals in the conference hall and deliberately raised his voice.

Zhang Jing's words fell, and the meeting hall suddenly fell silent, and everyone looked at Zhang Jing who was sitting on the main seat.

"According to the scout's report, Hu Lu, the younger brother of Rouran's Shelun Khan, when the defeated army withdrew to the royal court, he was stationed near the Lushui Lake less than two hundred miles away from my West Sea. Zhang Jing glanced at everyone in the court, and his gaze stayed on Li Yan.

"Dare to ask the general, how many soldiers did Hu Lu lead this time?" Li Yan asked.

"Hu Lu led about 6,000 elite horsemen stationed near the Green Water Lake two hundred miles away from Juyanze, and is currently exploring around." Zhang Jing walked to the bottom of the handsome platform and pointed to the sheepskin map and said.

"Shhh Six thousand fine riders~. When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but lift their hearts.

This is 6,000 cavalry, and the combat ability of the Rouran people is not inferior to that of the Huns. In terms of numbers alone, it is almost the same as the Zhenbei Army in Xihai, how can it not shock the generals.