Li Yan's voice fell, and the two hundred sergeants in front of him stood in place, all of them looked at me, I looked at you, but no one stood up.

"You can rest assured, even if you really quit, Ben will not blame, let alone any punishment, because the training that remains will be very unimaginable. Someone could die because of it! Li Yan walked into the crowd and said slowly.

"General, I am an authentic farmer in Guanzhong, and I joined the current Zhenbei Army after fleeing to Jiuquan City last year. I'm alone, I'm out of the way, I'm willing to follow the general! A tall man in the crowd said loudly.

"Me too, I don't want to go back and make people laugh, if I really die in training, I will admit it!" A man named Stone next to him said.

"If we don't leave, we are not afraid of the Huns, and we are afraid of just one training!" A high-pitched voice in the crowd said.

After a while, none of the two hundred men wanted to leave.

Li Yan nodded slightly and said: "Since all the brothers are willing to stay, then the general will train with you, I hope you don't disappoint the general." ”

The sergeants in front of them all widened their eyes when they heard that Li Yan was also training with them, and then shouted.

"From now on, you will be called the Blood Wolf Guard, you are wolves, you must have wolf nature, and any enemy in front of you will be your prey! Even if the other party is a tiger, my blood wolf guard is still not afraid! Li Yan said in a low voice to the soldiers in front of him.

Then Han Qian ordered everyone to divide into two teams, with their own duels to produce two team leaders, and the rest of the team leaders, even chiefs, and gang leaders also had their own competitions.

Two hours later, after a fierce battle, there were finally two team leaders and the rest of the team leaders, one of the two team leaders was called Shishi, and the other was called Wei Liang.

"Subordinate Shi and Wei Liang have seen the general and Captain Han!" Two teams stepped forward and saluted.

"Good! My blood wolf guard should be bloody, once all the prey is discovered by the wolf, all the blood wolf has to do is kill the prey! Do you understand? Li Yan looked at the two people in front of him, all of them had blue noses and swollen faces, and there was a trace of blood at the corners of their mouths.

"Yes! Checkmate! Shi and Wei Liang said in unison.

"That's it for today, start training tomorrow on Friday! Whoever is late will be given twenty rods! Li Yan's majestic voice came, and everyone hurriedly said yes!

Later, Han Qian ordered everyone to set up a camp tent and transport the grain to the camp. In the future, these blood wolf guards will always train here, and at the same time guard the dragon head stream.

On the fifth watch of the next day, Li Yan looked at the Blood Wolf Guard Sergeant in front of him, and after a night's rest, everyone was full of energy at the moment.

"Excellent! I hope you can keep it up. Now carry the logs in front of you, one for each team, run all the way to the south gate of Xihai City, and then return here the same way, and finally return to the three woods, and the meal will be halved! Let's go! Li Yan ordered towards everyone.

There are dozens of logs on the ground that are more than 100 catties, all of which were cut down from the Longshou Stream yesterday, and some of these freshly cut logs have not even cut off the branches.

As soon as everyone heard that the food of the last three soldiers had been halved, they immediately picked up the logs on the ground without saying a word, and ran quickly towards the south gate of Xihai City.

Five people carry a log, although it is not too heavy, but it limits the running speed, and if the coordination is not good, it will be slower.

In this way, when these blood wolf guards returned to the camp from the south gate of Xihai City, several hours had passed.

Then Li Yan began to train the fighting skills of the Blood Wolf Guard, and at the end of the day, everyone was scarred by their own people.

The Blood Wolf Guard's daily weight-bearing running and fighting have become their daily essential training, and every day at night, everyone is tired and lies down directly. After going on for half a month, everyone gradually got used to it.

A month later, these Blood Wolf Guards were already able to master the fighting skills, and in the cliff climbing training a few days ago, three Blood Wolf Guards fell to their deaths, which also made the Blood Wolf Guards see the cruelty of the training.

After that, the training of the Blood Wolf Guard was supervised by Han Qian, and Li Yan returned to Xihai City.

Now that it has entered November, a slight chill can already be felt in Xihai City, and there are fewer pedestrians on the streets.

Yesterday, Hao Sheng from Longshoujian sent a letter that the first batch of pig iron had been smelted from the iron ore transported from the Black Stone Cliff.

Li Yan was very happy after receiving the letter, starting from the operation of Longshou Stream, and now he has spent almost 5,000 taels of gold, and his efforts have finally paid off.

After dealing with military affairs the next day, Li Yan rode to Longshoujian on a sparkling shadow, and Li Yan wanted to personally see the pig iron produced by Longshoujian that made him think about it day and night.

"I've seen General Li, but I didn't know that General Li came in person, and I hope to forgive my sins!" Hao Sheng saluted Li Yan.

"Hmmm! Take me to see the pig iron that is made. Li Yan said lightly.

"Yes, General Lee, please!" Hao Sheng said and stepped forward to lead Li Yan into a thatched hut.

I saw that the ground in the thatched hut was neatly arranged with forged iron ingots, and half of the thatched hut was piled up.

"Steward Hao, how much pig iron has been refined this time?" Li Yan turned around and asked.

"Back to General Li, this time the iron ore accumulated for ten days will be smelted into a total of about 1,000 catties of pig iron, because the iron ore in the Black Stone Cliff is not easy to mine, coupled with the lack of manpower, this 1,000 catties is already the limit." Hao Sheng is also complaining.

"Steward Hao, how long will it take to make these pig iron into weapons?" Li Yan casually picked up an iron ingot and asked Hao Sheng.

"General Li, I don't know about this. Go down and call Master Zheng immediately, you will know as soon as you ask. Hao Sheng bowed to Li Yan and walked out of the hut.

After a while, Hao Sheng led an old man who was about fifty years old and walked in.

"General Li, this is Master Zheng, and his ancestors have been casting armor for the Great Jin Dynasty for several generations. My son-in-law finally found it. Hao Sheng came in and introduced to Li Yan.

"Little Lao'er Zheng Laosan has seen the general, I don't know what can serve the general?" Zheng Laosan, the blacksmith in front of Li Yan, bowed down and said.

"Oh! Master Zheng is exempt! Ben would have wondered how long it would take for this pig iron to be made into armor. Li Yan asked, pointing to the iron ingot on the ground.

According to the steelmaking method handed down by Xiao Lao'er's family, these pig iron need to be re-melted into iron and stone powder to continue smelting, and then repeatedly forged to get steel suitable for forging armor, so it takes a long time. According to the humble opinion of the little old man, it will take half a month to cast these pig iron into armor. Zheng Laosan saluted again and said slowly.

Li Yan knew that the steelmaking method that Zheng Laosan said was nothing more than the method of frying steel handed down from the Han Dynasty, and the steel obtained after frying steel still needed to be heated and folded repeatedly before the steel used to make armor could finally be obtained. This method takes a long time due to the variety of processes.

"Master Zheng, if you send more people, can you speed up the progress?" When Li Yan heard that it would take half a month, he also felt a little helpless.

"Returning to the general, the method of steelmaking lies in refinement, if you have to forcibly speed up the progress, I am afraid that the armor made by the little old man will outweigh the losses, please think twice!"

"Master Zheng, there will be a way, maybe you can speed up the progress, and you can also get a higher layer of steel." Li Yan walked up to Zheng Laosan and said in a low voice.

"Is this true?" As soon as Zheng Laosan heard this, the whole person came to his senses.

"Come with your ears, and I will tell you."

Li Yan told Zheng Laosan the method of the steel filling method that had been passed down for thousands of years in later generations, and Zheng Laosan looked suspicious after hearing it.

"General, is this really possible?" Zheng Laosan asked.

"If it's feasible, you can find out if it's feasible, if it's feasible, follow this method, and if it really doesn't work, then forge it according to the method you just said." Li Yan said and walked out of the hut.

Li Yan only had a cursory understanding of the method of filling steel in his previous life, smelting pig iron and wrought iron smelted into liquid in the same furnace, and finally obtained steel after repeated processing. As for whether it is feasible, Zheng Laosan has to try it to know.

Then Li Yan drew a knife that was a bit similar to the Han Dynasty sword that cut horses, but it was longer than the sword of cutting horses, about one zhang long, which was the Mo knife that killed the Turks in the Tang Dynasty in the later generations, Li Yan actually wanted to see its power in his heart.

If the Zhenbei army was equipped with a weapon like the Mo knife, it would be much easier to deal with the cavalry of the Huns.

"General, what kind of weapon is this?" Hao Sheng said with a puzzled expression.

"Just forge what you have drawn, and don't ask for anything else. If the casting is successful, report it immediately! Li Yan couldn't help but twitch in his heart.

After Li Yan confessed to Hao Sheng and Zheng Laosan, he took a turn in Longshou Stream, and the original horse thief cottage had been built into a armor workshop.

Iron-making blast furnaces are built along the edge of the stream, and the mountains on both sides of the valley are high, and the mouth of the valley is guarded without fear of being discovered.

When Li Yan was leaving, he told Hao Sheng to step up ironmaking. After returning to Xihai City, Zhang Jing asked Li Yan to go to the discussion immediately.

"General Li, this is a letter from Song Changshi, the Huns are ready to send troops to Jiankang County, and we must not be careless and must strictly guard the West Sea." Zhang Jing said and handed a letter to Li Yan.

After Li Yan took the letter and read it, he put down the letter in his hand, got up and clenched his fists and said: "Please rest assured, the general will definitely step up the training of sergeants, and I don't think the Hun thieves will have a chance to take advantage of it." ”

"Good! Military affairs are busy, so you should pay more attention. Also, you have to pay attention to the Rouran in the north. Hu Lu, the younger brother of the Khan Shelun, led his army to attack the Wusun Kingdom two months ago and returned from a great defeat, and he would have been worried that he would plunder our West Sea on the way back from leading the army. Zhang Jing sighed and said.

"The last general understands!" Li Yan couldn't help frowning.

Under the command of Khan Shelun, the Rouran people quickly pocketed the entire Monan to Mobei, and now they are also attacking to the west. Fortunately, the Rouran people fought against the Northern Wei Dynasty all the year round, which also restrained most of the Rouran people's troops.

In order to cope with the attack of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Rouran people allied with the Xiongnu Beiliang and the Later Qin of the Qiang people and the Northern Yan of Liaodong to jointly deal with the Northern Wei. Over the years, there have been dozens of battles of all sizes, and the Northern Wei Dynasty has rarely been defeated. This caused the Rouran to begin to attack from the east and west.