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When Wei Liaoweng set off for Jinghu, the entire Jinghu region was under the siege of the Mongol iron cavalry, the prefectures and counties trembled before the enemy's bloodthirsty slaughter, and the people died or fled in the tens of thousands under the gallop of the nomadic cavalry. By the time Wei Liaoweng began to return to the capital, the situation on Jinghu North Road and South Road had largely stabilized, and although the losses were heavy, the vitality was not exhausted, and the dilapidated state city was quickly renovated and the scattered people's fires were resettled. What made him feel even more relieved was that a group of young generals led by Zheng Yunming stood out in the conquest of blood and fire, and the Great Song Dynasty could withstand such a blow from the Mongols for many years, but what he was most afraid of was losing hope. Zheng Yunming, Wang Deng, Yang Luo, Bai Yijie, these young people full of vigor are the hope of the Great Song Dynasty and the bright future of the Great Song Dynasty.

This is also the most important thing for him to anxiously prepare to rush back to Beijing and face the report of the Son of Heaven. After all, the Son of Heaven also needs a hope.

When Wei Liaoweng was about to set off, the important officials of the entire Xiangyang City and tens of thousands of people came to see him off. He stayed in Xiangyang for less than a month in total, and the people certainly did not appreciate his kindness in governing the government. Instead, I hope that this rare court official can reflect the situation on the ground here to the central government in a timely manner. Since ancient times, the local sufferings can only be understood by the princes of the temples and halls through the words on the guò songs, and if a central official can directly hear what he has seen and heard to heaven, the effect is much more real than a thousand pieces of music on the Jinghu Lake.

Before stepping onto the boat, Wei Liaoweng shook hands with the officials one by one and said goodbye.

For Zhao Kui, his parting message was to urge, Zhao Kui's family was burdened with the shame of Zhao Fan's rebellion in Xiangyang, and it could only be washed away with the deeds of serving the country with loyalty.

For Zheng Yunming, it is more of encouragement and admonition.

"In ancient times, young talents have all gone through many twists and turns in training, so that they can hone their strong character and sufficient talents." Wei Liaoweng took Zheng Yunming's hand and said: "This first step you have taken, the entire Great Song Dynasty, no, there are only a handful of people who can be as smooth as you since ancient times, but the journey of life is very long, some people have a good start, but the end is miserable, some people have been depressed for decades, but they shine in their later years, I hope you don't become arrogant and relax your efforts because of the current achievements, you must know that this is Xiangyang, the gateway to the world, and any bit of your complacency can be seen not only by the imperial court, but also by Mongolia." ”

Zheng Yunming bowed down and arched his hand: "How dare you not do your best, tremble, and defend Xiangyang for the country!" ”

In fact, at this time, the entire Jing'e Deputy Governor was the most unexpected, and it was estimated that Zheng Yunming himself was the most unsuccessful for Jinghu.

Yang Luo was entangled in the affairs of the reconstruction of the city defense, squatting on the construction site from morning to night every day, under his strict supervision, Xiangyang City changed little by little, the city wall exposed less and less rammed earth, the lot of bricks slowly increased, and the towering bell and drum tower in the city has gradually taken shape. Not only in the city, the moat outside the city has been widened to dozens of zhang, not to mention that the ladder can not reach under the city wall, the moat has really become a moat, Yang Liang's craftsmen know a kind of three-boat bottomless boat, connected by three sampans, connected by wooden beams, paved with wooden planks, can be freely in the moat, transport weapons and materials.

Wang Deng urged the defenders of Xiangyang City to practice day and night, and he had to worry about dealing with all kinds of quarrels and complaints caused by this. Under the heavy body training, all the officers and soldiers complained bitterly, and even the Jing'e army began to rumor Wang Deng's new nickname "Living Yama King". However, Wang Deng did not back down, and still insisted on strict training, in addition to training the soldiers to jump deep trenches in double armor, but also urged them to practice building fortifications under the rain of arrows, and facing the high ground to attack. Every day, the generals took the soldiers' petitions to the Yamen of the system department to complain to Zhao Fan, asking the living king to lighten the means, so that the defenders of Xiangyang had a chance to take a breath, and the system division only pushed all the qiē on the Jing'e army, so Wang Deng trained hard during the day, and at night Ge Huai went to various military camps to invite the soldiers to drink and eat, and pulled in the relationship, and finally maintained the relationship between the Jing'e army and the army.

6 The Tulong army was only 5,000 men until the beginning of the war, and only two adults of the infantry could wear armor, and the rest had no armor protection and could only rely on shields to protect themselves. In the battle of last year, the casualties were actually not small, but it was only because the Tulong Army had strict military discipline and there was no frequent rout of the Song army, so there were no large-scale casualties. Subsequently, the Tulong Army was recruited twice, and its scale was more than doubled compared to before, and there was naturally a shortage of armor and ordnance.

After Zhao Kui arrived, he opened four arsenals for the Jing E army, including 100 famous divine arm crossbows, with a total length of three feet and two inches, made of mulberry wood. The string is two feet five inches long, made of hemp rope and wire, the crossbow machine is purely cast in copper, the arrow wood is very short, only a few inches long, and various fancy arrows are made of iron.

Zheng Yunming is the first time to see this legendary and famous weapon, he asked the 6 followers to organize the crossbowmen to perform, the divine arm crossbow is the so-called stepping crossbow, is to put the crossbow body against the ground, pull the bowstring up, and use the strength of the whole body to open the bowstring. When shooting, you can hold it in your hand or put it on a rack to shoot. Zheng Yunming taught people to connect ten crossbow arrows, five out of ten arrows, and still be able to penetrate the thick elm wood at a distance of 200 steps.

This is the first class of the Great Song Dynasty weapon, the Jin people started with a bow and horse riding and archery, the archery skills are superb, in the battle with the Song army, all arrows are empty, the Song army shooters are the first to strength, many brave soldiers can open a hundred catties of strong bows, waist open a few stone hard crossbows, but do not pay attention to shooting relatives, that is, the practice of aiming, in the battle with the enemy often only rely on a strong bow and crossbow salvo, hoping to repel the enemy with a rain of arrows. Therefore, the war with the Jin people always suffers, only the god arm crossbow is in front of the formation, shooting short arrows is both accurate and ruthless, the Jin people are extremely afraid, and it is listed as the two strongest weapons in the Song Dynasty together with the heavy axe that breaks through the iron cavalry.

Even the Mongols could not ignore this kind of weapon, etc., in several tough battles in the northwest of Fancheng in the west of Xiangyang City, the Divine Arm Bow burst forward and fired, and the Mongolian cavalry was killed by the Divine Arm Bow Many people. Even the Mongolian troops who returned north said to each other: "There is a general's cannon in Jiangling, and there is a divine arm bow in Xiangyang, and you can't go to both places." ”

Zheng Yunming handed over these 100 crossbows to the general archery army, who was already itching, and selected a hundred crossbowmen from them to equip the Divine Arm Bow, and transferred them directly to the personal soldiers in front of the tent, which was personally controlled by the deputy commander.

This is to follow the practice of the Jinghu system envoy, Zhao Kui got 300 crossbows, selected experienced crossbowmen from the army, and called the pro-effect god arm archers, commanded by Zhao Kui's tooth general Hu Bao, and left under the account of the envoy as a personal soldier.

Zhao Kui added more than that, and Jiangling's deputy envoy Bei Zhijie sent a hundred utility soldiers, all of whom were brave men wearing a full set of armor. Moreover, the armor on their bodies is slightly different from ordinary armor, in addition to the normal scarf, iron armor, iron cloak, and Luo ring waist armor, they also come with face armor, large masks, handguards, leg guards, and even copper wire and iron gloves. This set of equipment, is the time of the Bei Zhijie commissioned Zheng Yunming to build, Bei Zhijie believes that the future war between the Song and Mongolia is most likely to be a contest between attacking and defending the city, in order to break through the Song army city defense, the Mongols must form a large number of heavy infantry for the siege of the city, and the Song army used to restrain these monsters, the best is to establish their own heavy infantry team, so entrusted Zheng Yunming to make equipment to strengthen the existing infantry protection, Zheng Yunming then based on the armor of the Italian city-states of the Renaissance in the later Western Renaissance, It should be made in the shape of China,6 and continue to manufacture iron handguards, iron arm guards, chest guards, leg guards and other parts, and then combine them with the old armor to create a first-class infantry armor that is better than the armor of the Xining Chaobu people.

However, this kind of armor is also extremely cumbersome, and its weight is about equal to that of Xining Bu Ren Armor, and it has to be a strong man with one hundred miles of utility to be able to put on it. In addition, the price of Duanpingbu Renjia is also high and scary, even with the status of Beizhijie Jiangling Shouchen and Jinghu Deputy Envoy, he can only equip 200 people, 100 Xiangyang Zhao, and 100 himself.

This is not surprising, even in the Renaissance city-states of Milan and Venice, where the economy was prosperous, the country's power was at its peak, and gunpowder weapons were beginning to appear, and the status of heavy armor on the battlefield began to rise, the hoplite samurai equipped with a full set of infantry armor were only a very small elite. These men are often used as trump cards at the most critical moments, such as the trapping samurai who charge the enemy directly in foot combat, and the combatants who climb the walls first in siege battles.

Zheng Yunming personally created the Duanping Bu Man Armor, but the headquarters did not have the equipment. For the soldiers of the Jing'e Deputy Metropolitan Commander who worked hard to equip the three thousand collar iron armor bodies, the number was the first requirement, and these gorgeous armors were suitable for use to show off their strength, but they were not suitable for large-scale replenishment of the front-line troops who were almost naked and fighting the enemy. Fortunately, under the strict supervision of 6 Xunzhi, qualified armor and equipment were produced in a steady stream, and all the newly made ordnance was engraved with the names of the craftsmen.

6 He did more than that, his greatest achievement was to extensively check the account books of the people in Jinghu, and according to Zheng Yunming's arrangement, he formulated a training plan for armor protection and a mobilization plan for husband and service. In the past, the government transferred husband and wife, either temporarily hired or forcibly transferred to the countryside at will, which was not only inefficient, slow to act, but also greatly disturbed the people.

Now 6 follow the detailed mobilization plan for the Zhuang men of the whole Jinghu according to the account books of the people, each Zhuang Ding received a representative identity of the husband service mobilization card, after the start of the war by the army sent a special mobilization officer to the countryside with the local government to carry out the husband service mobilization, the means are simple and the mobilization degree is very fast, in the first simulated mobilization in Xiangyang concentrated 200,000 soldiers. The significance of this method is so great that later historians have linked the results of the previous Xiangyang Wars with the popularization of this method in Jinghu, "there is no Xiangyang without the law of conscription of the people followed by 6, and there is no Great Song Dynasty without Xiangyang."