The advent of the Hundred Refining Sword soon caused a sensation within a small area of the royal family, but at the strict request of Zhou Bian and the Queen Mother, the Hundred Refining Sword was listed as the highest level of secrecy in the royal family. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Not far away, the royal craftsmen moved their families to a small courtyard specially set aside in the palace, and the blast furnace continued to operate, but instead of refining the hundred refining swords, they began to make lower-grade iron swords such as the Ten Refining Swords and the tips of iron spears, after all, if a large amount of equipment is still of poor quality, the price is low.

At the beginning of August, the wall of the new barracks outside the east gate was also built, although it was only two people high, but it could also play a defensive role, and the royal family was also a trustworthy person, and after a month of use of the peasants according to the forced labor law, they were all sent back, which won the unanimous praise of the farmers in the land of Wanggi. At this time, the common people were simple and always felt that it was right to do things for the royal family, so although it was the hottest time, no one complained.

The young master recruited 200 new recruits on the outskirts of Luoyang, as well as 50 children of the nobles of the clan who volunteered to serve as soldiers from inside Chengzhou City, plus those who were willing to serve as soldiers who had not received land outside Chengzhou City, and gathered 300 people, divided into six squads, and all of them were arranged to train in the recruit camp. The new army has not yet been subsumed into the Imperial Forest Army, and Zhou Bian's idea is that in addition to the three major military forces, the new battalion will be managed separately, and after some training, it will be assigned according to the results. The centurion of the recruits is the son of the palace guard, that is, Zhou Bian's spear master, responsible for everything, each team did not have a captain, but set up an instructor, in addition to Zhou Zhan, Zheng Ji and Zhang Hu in the Imperial Forest Army, but also mentioned Zhou Bian's close guards Zheng Xi, Zhao Yan and Liu Zhilai as instructors, in addition, in order to facilitate management, but also from the veterans of the Royal Forest Army every day to take turns a team to help train. The training in the entire barracks was in full swing every day, and some people were praised every day, some fainted under the scorching sun, some were punished for being lazy, and some people threw down their weapons because they couldn't stand it, of course, the latter were almost all children of the nobles of the clan in Chengzhou City. Such a hot training scene naturally made Zhou Bian yearn for it, but under the strict order of the Queen Mother, Zhou Bian had no choice but to train his twenty close guards in the palace every day, and play with the little fat man from time to time, and then inspect the progress of ironmaking not far away, or check Cao Jiuzheng's winemaking, and live a comfortable life.

Of course, the 300 veterans of the Royal Forest Army were not idle, and after receiving the first royal military merit reward, the spirit of training was particularly high. Considering the needs of the march in the future, Zhou Bian also ordered Pang Xing to take turns to drive each team of soldiers into the Luoshui to practice swimming, which frightened the soldiers who practiced under the scorching sun for more than ten hours every day without a break, because from the centurion to the most ordinary soldiers, few knew how to water, but fortunately, Pang Xing and several captains resolutely obeyed Zhou Bian's order, took the lead in the water, and tried to get to the water cooler than the shore. This is something that even Zhou Bian did not expect.

Bai Gui is also very efficient, in mid-July from the south of Korea recruited nearly 200 people, can go to a foreign land to fight for money, naturally are idle and even opportunistic people, so follow Bai Gui's advice in the letter, Zhou Bian Wang Sunman and Liu Yun led 20 veterans to drive over, and set up camp in the Jinma ditch at the western foot of Songshan Mountain, which has been set up in the ravine, only a sheep intestine trail leads to the north, but is not afraid of being discovered. Two fierce men with wooden sticks and a cart of dried meat and a cart of soju past, the first day of the whole staff lined up to stand in a military posture, anyone who does not obey, single or group beating, always to beat you down, at night, there is no trouble during the day, then everyone has meat to eat and drink, how can anyone in this world be really stupid, so the next day training has a lot of rules, of course, it is impossible to have meat to eat and drink every day, but that car of meat and a car of wine finally let everyone understand a truth, that is, obedient will have good fruit to eat, So gradually, the training is also on the right track. As for the two vacant seats left by Wang Sun Jian and Liu Yun after the departure of the Royal Forest Army, they were replaced by two veterans with excellent performance in the team.

Two months have passed, Cheng Zhou's side is like a new ground shoots like rapid development, the training of recruits outside the east gate and in Jinmagou is proceeding step by step, although each person is only issued a stick instead of a spear, but the formation and collective attack and formation defense have been practiced, of course, if you want to compare, naturally the people recruited in Jinmagou are slightly stronger, and Bai's recruitment is still in progress, so by the end of August, Jinmagou has been crowded with 300 people, So Wang Sunjian and Liu Yun also had to take some time out every day to sort out their housekeeping. And these three hundred people always thought that they were doing things for the Bai caravan, and the training of Wang Sunjian and the others was according to Zhou Bian's requirements, training them into an army that only knew how to obey the orders of their superiors, so often the implementation of military regulations was more important than the training of combat skills.

In stark contrast to the prosperity of the Chengzhou royal family, Luoyang and Gongyi are much more dull. Luoyang's Zhou Gong is young and respectful, under the praise of the Xin brothers, and fell in love with the liquor sent by Tu Ping, the second eldest of the Tu family, now it is not much time to be sober every day, and the more anxious Ning Yue's heart is like fire, seeing that the royal family is getting stronger and stronger, the carriage flows between Luoyang and Cheng Zhou, and I heard the sound of training outside the east gate of Cheng Zhou day and night, and the anxious Dr. Ning persuaded Zhou Gong to not pass, so he had to urge the Luoyang Fourth Division to step up training, but there were very few people in the barracks who bought his account, and Zhou Gong was reluctant to pay and reward soldiers, Dr. Ning ran between the Luoyang Ming Palace and the barracks, and his legs were about to break, but it didn't have much effect. In fact, this situation is clear to many old ministers and traditional nobles in Luoyang City, most people do not care about political affairs, only a few people are increasingly dissatisfied with Zhou Gong, it is also wonderful, Zhou Bian is really a blessed person, this Zhou Gong was still relatively calm when he was a son before, and now after inheriting his father's throne, he has become so unmotivated.

As for Gongyi's side, the child's class can only be in a hurry, seeing that Cheng is training every day, but he has no tricks. Gongzi's class was originally a failed attempt to fight for the position of Duke of Zhou before he lived in Gongyi, and Gongyi used to be a member of the Taibao clan, so he naturally disobeyed the Gongzi class, if it wasn't for Han Hou to send troops to help, the Gongzi class would have been defeated and captured. Among the three cities of Luoyang, Chengzhou, and Gongyi on the north bank of Luoshui, Gongyi is the smallest, with the fewest people, and it is not a place where commerce and trade are concentrated. Therefore, the Han soldiers in Gongyi are rampant and domineering everywhere, and the local soldiers in Gongyi dare not speak out, even if there is a small friction, they are also suppressed by the Gongzi class in order to please the Han soldiers, and their own people are suppressed, and in the long run, even the Gongzi class itself does not know how long it can last, but there is nothing to be done.

All in all, everything is turning in favor of the royal family. And on this ancient eastern land, the strife of the nations is like the stars in the sky changing every day, from the eight hundred town princes when King Wu destroyed the Shang Dynasty, to the more than 100 princes in the world when King Wu destroyed the Shang, and the princes continued to merge with each other, but now there are only twelve large vassal states left, so it is calculated that almost every year a country will disappear. And today, the Marquis of Wei is fighting hard to avenge the encirclement when he ascended the throne, Qin Bo is working hard to be ashamed of the west of the Snow River, the Duke of Qi has just stabilized his position, and the King of Chu is fighting happily with Bashu in the west, no one thought that in the center of this vast land, there is a place that has been neglected for a long time, where a major upheaval is about to take place, so that it will affect the pattern of the world, and the central figure of this upheaval will also be faced by the princes of the countries for the first time.

Of course, this is a later story, in the blink of an eye it is the beginning of September, the rice ears in the field have been golden, it is the harvest season, even in the palace of Chengzhou also smelled the gentle fragrance of rice. After more than two months of ordinary life, Zhou Bian seems to have grown a little taller, and the change in height will not be the most obvious, the most conspicuous thing is that Zhou Bian is much stronger. Yes, now that the royal family is rich, meat and soup are indispensable in the king's food every day, and Zhou Bian's face is also a lot ruddy, of course, the daily exercise is still persistent, so the whole feeling to others is no longer a child, but a teenager like a sword about to be unsheathed. I have to say that the genes of the ancestors are still better, otherwise a nine-year-old boy would not have grown so strong.

The quiet and ordinary life will naturally not wear out Zhou Bian's occasionally restless heart, and he has never forgotten the goal in his heart, Zhou Bian seems to be a little unable to wait. But fortunately, it didn't take long for Zhou Bian and Fan Yu to attack with an iron sword on the palace square on the eighth day of the ninth month, when Zhou Bian and Fan Yu were attacking with an iron sword, a hurried footstep sounded from far and near, and in the end, the footsteps seemed to bury the cheers of the little white fat man.

Hearing someone coming, Fan Yu first restrained the offensive and withdrew from the circle. Zhou Bian threw away the iron sword in his hand, and the white eunuch knelt down to catch it, and a little maid trotted forward to wipe Zhou Bian's sweat. The person who came was Jiang Ping, the intelligence head of the royal family, avoiding a group of guards, only taking Fan Yu and a few other people around him, Zhou Bian took Jiang Ping aside, only to hear Jiang Ping kneel down and say, "King, Han Hou has transferred troops to the north bank of the Great River, and a large number of soldiers have crossed Luoshui in Gongyi, and rushed west along the south bank of the Great River to Mengjin, where they crossed the Great River. Han Bing left in a hurry, and did not stop at all in Wangji, and went directly to Mengjin, so he did not damage the crops in my Wangji. According to the observation of Xiao's subordinates, from the morning to the present, there are about 1,000 people who have crossed the big river, and there are still four or five thousand people staying in Mengjin, and there are also people who have rushed to Mengjin from Gongyi. ”

"Then what news is there in the Wei Kingdom, has the Marquis of Wei transferred troops on a large scale?" Crossing the big river, the north bank is not far from the territory of Wei, and you don't need to think about it to know that Han Hou's deployment of troops must be aimed at Wei.

Jiang Ping replied simply, "Back to the king, the small manpower arranged in Wei has not replied, and there is no army transfer in Wei at present." ”

Maybe Wei Hou has already led his troops south at this time, or Wei Hou has leaked the news before he moves, so that Han Hou became nervous and quickly transferred troops to the north to defend Wei. However, these have nothing to do with themselves, there will be a battle between Han and Wei and Wei will win, so what he has to do is to take advantage of the situation to recover Gongyi and even Luoyang.

Zhou Bian looked up at the sky, the early autumn was a clear sky, but Zhou Bian knew that the wind and rain in the world were coming. Feeling that the fighting spirit in his heart was raised, Zhou Bian nodded again, and ordered Jiang Ping to get up one by one, and Jiang Ping left after half a ring.

The chess pieces that have been planned and arranged for a long time are about to start running!