After some time, Lü Wende received 500 horses from the Tatar bandits, and then he ordered the large stone cannons to be removed, and the people were chopped into firewood in the spacious places outside the city. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Jinghu system made Lu Wende stand at the head of the wall, holding the city head with both hands, and looked distressed at the heavy weapons in the army that gradually turned into splitting wood.

He had seen all those horses, and they could only be used for pulling labor, and none of them could be used to charge into battle.

In fact, the area south of the Yangtze River is not the world of cavalry.

So, with only cities, rivers and swamps, they were able to hold back the cavalry attacks of the Tatar bandit groups.

Lu Wende, the envoy of Jinghu System, looked at the onlookers and merchants in different costumes, and thought to himself, the people here may soon pass the news back, right?

But which of them is the intermediary?

It's hard to guard------

The White Crane Mall near Xiangyang City is part of the Yongchang market, which is the only trading market in the two countries.

The commodities of the Great Song Dynasty have always been in a surplus situation here, and almost all commodities are easy to sell, and the north wants them all.

The goods sent by the merchants in the north were selectively purchased in the south, and in the long run, the capital of the north unconsciously flowed to the south.

It's unbearable.

As a result, some governments in the north have also secretly relaxed some management, such as selling skins or large livestock, which are best-selling goods------ so that everyone's capital flow is not too different.

The tax situation in Xiangyang City is now looking better day by day, especially after the inexplicable appearance of many strange goods.

For example, round candles that are brighter at night, extremely refined leather goods, still colored, and very greasy soaps, all of which can be sold for a very high price. I even heard that it is more expensive than what Lin'an Xing sells in it.

Sea salt is cheaper, and merchants in the north have increased their purchases.

Jinghu made Lu Wende even eat the refined salt sold by the royal family.

After more than 20 years of struggle, the Lu family military group can be regarded as gaining a foothold in this place.

Lü Wende was very greedy when he was a general, and in the early years of the first emperor Song Lizong Chunyou, Lü Wende entered Beijing to meet the court, and Zhao Xijing acted as the commander of his army. As a result, he found out that Lu Wende's army turned out to be a military reserve!

So Zhao Xijing secretly consulted Lu Wende, so that Lu Wende was demoted for a time.

No normal court could allow a general to use the money to raise soldiers for his own use.

This made Lu Wende deeply understand that only his own people or relatives and friends are the most reliable reliance!

Therefore, he increased the cultivation of his own people, and now it finally has an effect.

Up to now, the Jinghu system has made Lu Wende and his family rich and rival the country, and the treasures owned by the Lu family are full of Dongyu, which is produced all over Jianghuai, and the wealth is also extremely rich. And the Lu family's descendants are in a splendid habit and a horse in their voices, which is far from being comparable to ordinary giant businessmen.

Compared with the property owned by the Lu Wende family, even Shi Chong is enough?

Therefore, to keep the two cities of Xiangfan is to keep the wealth of the Lu military group.

Of course, after Pingzhang Jia Yidao introduced the plan law in the army, he reined in a lot. After all, the primitive capital accumulation has been completed, and it has begun to earn money from commerce.

He saw that all the heavy weapons in the army had been chopped. After coming down from the city wall, he returned to the official palace and directly inquired about the establishment of the Vulcan Army.

Now, the arsenal where Lin'an is stationed has delivered another batch of arquebuses, enough to equip 600 people.

For arquebuses, Jinghu made Lu Wende not care. He thought his craftsmen might be better than those in the armory.

Moreover, the land of Xiangfan has been produced with coal and iron since ancient times, and there is no shortage of good iron here.

As soon as the arquebus arrived, Lu Wende, the commander of Jinghu Manufacturing, immediately made people follow suit, and he wanted all the soldiers defending the city, except for the crossbowmen. With all of them equipped, he wanted to see who could attack the city even though it was raining down on bullets!

Of course, black fire / medicine and lead, he still can't do without supplies, as well as leather armor.

A small official said: "Now, there is a kind of whale shell in Lin'an City, which is far lighter than cowhide, and can be used by me." ”

Lu Wende thought for a while and said, "If you write an official document, you need six hundred copies first!" ”

He is confident that for a place like Xiangfan that must be fought for, with a little military resources, the officials of the Great Song Dynasty will definitely not be stingy, besides, he still has the support of Pingzhang Jia Nidao.

Sure enough, two months later, as soon as the first snow fell, he received whale shells and black fire/medicine, as well as lead.

So, he drew six hundred of the best from the trained gunners to form the Vulcan Army.

Today, the first day of their official formation, the six hundred men were almost the same height, and they were all very strong and refined.

This contrast made the pikemen and archers behind them seem to be a bit more obscene.

The six hundred of them stood on the snow in six sections, wearing a wide-brimmed Fan Yang military hat with red tassels on their heads, a tight-fitting pale red whale armor battle skirt, and cowhide boots on their feet.

With an arquebus wrapped around his left arm, he holds a gun in his hands in front of his chest and stands on his crossed feet.

What do the Jinghu envoys Lu Wende and the sixth brother Lu Wenhuan think, how do they think they are heavenly soldiers and generals.

The subsequent military exercises made them even more happy.

I saw them shoot round by round at the wooden wall ten feet away, with wisps of green smoke rising, with the sound of gunshots, I saw that on the wooden wall, the part painted with human shapes bloomed with wooden flowers.

The city wall of Xiangfan is less than three zhang high, and ten zhang away can be fought so accurately, if there is a battle to defend the city, it will be won.

As early as the Northern Song Dynasty, the Northern Song Dynasty government wanted to keep the recipe of black fire/medicine secret, but this was just an imagination, as the city continued to fall during the war with Jin, often even ready-made black fire/medicine and pharmaceutical raw materials and craftsmen were captured by Jin, and because the technical content was not high, the production method of black fire/medicine soon spread.

So much so that in later battles, Kim would also fire artillery with bed crossbows.

When the Tatar bandit group destroyed the gold, it was obtained by them, and it played a considerable role in their westward expedition.

Of course, as mentioned above, due to the unexpected death of the big boss Meng Ke, the army of the Western Expedition had no intention of fighting, and after the main force retreated, it was defeated by the local coalition army in what is now Syria, and as a result, the method of making black fire/medicine spread to the Middle East and Europe.

Therefore, only a country with truly strong military strength can keep military and technical secrets.

At this time, an arquebus appeared on the dragon table of Kublai Khan's big leader.

The great leader of Kublai Khan picked it up and looked at it repeatedly, and said coldly to a general: "It took so much manpower to get this object?" ”

The general immediately knelt down and said, "Exactly, it took six dead and wounded to grab it." ”

The big leader of Kublai Khan didn't care about the dead and wounded of his men, he just felt that this thing was too simple, not as magical as the intelligence said.

"Try the gun and show me!"

So he drove to the military exercise field. (To be continued.) )