If Li Bashao and Huang Zong were a little slighted about the standards set by Yue Fei for the armory workshop at first, thinking that they were too lenient for craftsmen, after half a month, they were convinced.

There is no other reason, just because the output of weapons in this half month has exceeded the output of the previous month. What's more, the armor produced is all of high quality, and there are no shoddy goods at all.

Liu Huo and several craftsmen figured out a new method of frying steel in just ten days. Of course, it may also be that the ancestral unique skills are taken out. Xu Qing, the ambassador of the Ordnance Workshop, found that with this new method of frying steel, 100 catties of pig iron can fry 40 catties of good steel.

After Xu Qingbao and Yue Fei, Yue Fei decisively rewarded Liu Huo's group of craftsmen with 5,000 taels of silver. The treatment is mentioned at the head level.

Yue Fei's meritorious service was rewarded, which greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of the craftsmen. According to Xu Qing's report, many craftsmen did not work during the day, nor did they rest at night, but several people pondered new skills and new inventions together.

One person counts short, three people count long. It is naturally difficult for a single craftsman to achieve immediate results. But Liu Huo and several craftsmen invented the method of frying steel, which inspired them. After the craftsmen with good relationships get off work, several families will get together, and some will discuss how to make Datang's Mingguang armor and Mo knife reappear in the rivers and lakes. Some want to create the long-lost Zhuge Repeater. Some people think that their skills have not reached the level of masters, so they think about how to improve the existing swords, guns, bows and arrows to make them more powerful.

The only thing that made Yue Fei a little regretful was that Zhang Bao'er, who was regarded as a firearms genius by him, no longer studied new firearms, but instead studied bows and crossbows.

Xu Qing asked Zhang Bao'er why he didn't study firearms anymore, and Zhang Bao'er led Xu Qing to the gunpowder warehouse, pointed to the less and less gunpowder and said, "We are running out of gunpowder." ”

Xu Qing originally thought that tens of thousands of catties of gunpowder could make tens of thousands of thunderbolts, but he didn't expect that the warehouse would run out of gunpowder after only making 2,000 thunderbolts.

Looking at Xu Qing, who was dissatisfied, Zhang Bao'er hurriedly said, "Ambassador Xu, these tens of thousands of catties of gunpowder are all from Bianliang, and it is said that there are tens of thousands of catties of gunpowder, but in fact, in addition to the croton horse manure inside, there are more than a dozen other poisons, and the usable sulfur and nitrate carbon are less than 10,000 catties." Each thunderbolt uses four catties of gunpowder. No matter how little gunpowder there is, the power of the thunder will not be enough to hurt the armored war horse. ”

Xu Qing looked at the crotons and the like that were separated by the craftsmen in the warehouse, and asked a little strangely, "Since the really useful ingredient of gunpowder is only sulfur and nitrocarbon, what are they doing with so many croton horse dung poisonous weeds?" ”

Zhang Bao'er regained the liveliness of a child, and said with a smile, "Maybe the firearms masters in Bianliang want to make seasonings for stir-frying." ”

Xu Qing naturally didn't understand that gunpowder was originally a by-product of Taoist alchemy. Since you want to refine the Immortal Pill, of course, you have to add all kinds of strange minerals and all kinds of strange herbs.

If there was no genius Zhang Bao'er, the extremely complex gunpowder formula would not be subtracted by Jiao Yu until the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, and all kinds of strange things mixed in it would be removed, and only nitrate and sulfur carbon would be used to create a real gunpowder that began to take shape.

Xu Qing told Yue Fei about the lack of gunpowder. But Yue Fei couldn't get the raw materials for gunpowder. After all, the sulfur is far away in the sulfur globe country, and there is no way to get it inland. Now the state affairs are in chaos, and ocean voyages have long been stopped.

Yue Fei felt more and more that this Zhang Baoer was not simple. He must have guessed that there was a shortage of raw materials for gunpowder, so he used his brains on cold weapons.

Although Yue Fei knew that hot weapons were the direction of development in the future. But it doesn't matter if there are no firearms, as long as the Song people dare to fight and use cold weapons, they can still defeat the golden dog.

The armor produced by the ordnance workshop was urgently equipped with the Protectors, who wore high-quality armor and held high-quality knives and guns.

After Yue Fei eliminated the more than 10,000 bandits of Amitabha Buddhism, there were no more thousands of rogues in Yingtianfu. However, the small bands of rogues still harassed the good people a little far away from Ying Tianfu and looted the merchants.

As the reputation of the Protector Army for not disturbing the people spread out of Yingtianfu, there were obviously more merchants passing through Yingtian's bypass. After all, the one-tax system implemented by Ying Tianfu is not only much less than the exploitation of his land, but also very convenient and fast.

After a lot of business travel, those small bandits also gathered in Yingtian like cats that smelled fish. If you want to rely on more than a thousand cavalry to stabilize Yingtian, it is obviously a little difficult for Ji Qian.

The 5,000 Protector Army was obviously unable to hold the huge Yingtianfu. Even if Yue Fei attacked with defense, he sent Ji Qian and Hua Ruyu, a pair of happy enemies, to lead all the cavalry of the Protector Army to clear out the wanderers everywhere and collect the exiles. With the help of the people of various towns, and Hua Ruyu's familiarity with Yingtian's hometown, Yingtianfu was barely allowed to maintain a peaceful situation.

But every time Ji Qian returned to the city, she asked Yue Fei for troops. said that if Yue Fei didn't send him troops again, he would die of exhaustion before he got married.

At Zhihun suggestion, Yue Fei discussed with Huang Zong and Li Bashao and decided to arm the tens of thousands of captured rebels. After all, the heinous rebel army has long been beheaded, and although the remaining more than 10,000 rebel troops have done evil, they are not guilty to death. If they were to be locked up like this, and the walls would be repaired, it would really cost Lang tens of thousands of strengths. If they were expelled from Yingtianfu, the people of other places would surely suffer again.

Huang Zong had no opinion on the expansion of the army. Don't look at Zhang Xian a few days ago and singled out hundreds of rebels to annoy him, it was just because Zhang Xian was unruly. When Yue Fei asked for his opinion, he was a little grateful. Huang Zong knew very well that Yue Fei, as a training envoy of the Protector Legion, originally had the autonomy to expand the army. Now take the initiative to ask for his opinion, this is Yue Fei's respect for him. So Huang Zong said directly, "Master Zhihun is very good at this. With Pengju leading these rebellious troops, it is guaranteed that they will abide by military discipline like the new army of the people. ”

Li Bashao thought for a while, frowned and said, "After all, these people have done little evils. If they are allowed to take up arms again, there is no guarantee that they will not do evil again. ”

Yue Fei knew that Li Bashao had always been vicious and hateful, and he had too deep prejudices against the rebellious army, so he hurriedly persuaded, "Elder Li doesn't have to worry. Whether an army is evil or not depends mainly on the nature of its commanders. A good general will not have evil soldiers under him. In the same way, an evil general will not have good soldiers under him. These soldiers are actually like a flock of sheep, the generals tell them to eat grass, and they eat grass. Let them drink blood, and they will drink it. ”

Zhihun smiled next to him and answered, "Does Elder Li look at Pengju like a general who drinks blood?" ”

Li Bashao laughed and said, "I naturally trust Pengju." Okay, just take charge of the expansion of the army. But I would like to remind you that if we feed 5,000 men, we will last for two years. If you provide for 15,000 people, you can only provide for seven months. ”

Yue Fei said confidently, "Elder Li, please relax. I have seen the hardships of the people this year. I will not make up my mind about the people's life-saving food. Chen Gutong didn't give us 100,000 stone of grain, as long as he took out the grain. There is no need to worry about next year's military rations. ”

Li Bashao laughed and said, "The old man forgot about this stubble." That Chen Gutong did many evils in his life, but he did a good thing when he died. ”

Yue Fei had already told Li Bashao and Huang Zong the location of Chen Gutong's grain storage. It turned out that most of the military rations of Maitreya were hidden in the underground palaces of temples and Taoist temples in various places. But the place with the most grain storage turned out to be Chang Ping in Yucheng County.

Of course, if you walk into Yucheng County, you will find that it is empty. Because all the grain is hidden under the hollowed-out ground. This is a big project carried out by Guo Jing in cooperation with Chen Gutong, which is ready to be eaten by the Maitreya Sect when it raises a big event. I didn't think about it, but it was cheaper for the Protectors.

However, if you want to take out the grain in the regular closing warehouse, you must first take Yucheng. Yucheng County also sat on two scourges, Yang Zhifu and Huang Dujian who escaped from Yingtianfu. These two uncles already wanted to respond to Tianfu two days ago. They led hundreds of soldiers to Yingtian City to call the door. was shot by Zhao Hong with two arrows on the official hat above his head, and he was so frightened that he collapsed on the ground on the spot. Then he returned to Yucheng in a gloomy manner. I heard that strong men are being recruited and are preparing to go to war with the Protectors.

Yue Fei has never been a passive beaten. Since they wanted to attack Yingtian, he had no choice but to take Yucheng first. Many of the villagers in Yucheng have fled to Yingtian in the past few days, because the two masters simply want to peel off the bark of the villagers.

Yue Fei soon expanded the Protector Army to 15,000 people. Among them, there are 3,000 cavalry, with Ji Qian as the commander of the cavalry, and Zhao Honghua Ruyu as the deputy commander of the cavalry. There were 12,000 foot soldiers, with Zhang Xian as the commander of the infantry army, and Wang Guiyue as the deputy commander of the infantry army. Zhang Xian is still the deputy regimental training envoy of the People's Protector Army. A scout battalion was formed with three hundred old soldiers, with Yue Heng as the commander and Zhao Wanhua Chaoxi as the deputy commander.

This time, Yue Fei no longer locked the Protector Army in the city for training, but instead trained by fighting. Although the 3,000 new army of protectors lacked experience, they were all educated, and they were still qualified to serve as the commander of ten. And tens of thousands of chaotic troops have experience and murderous aura, and it is still possible to attack ordinary cities.

In just half a month, under the personal command of Yue Fei, the Protector Army quickly swept through the entire Ying Tianfu. All the county towns were captured by the Protector Army one by one, Yucheng, Suiyang, Dangshan, and Qixian. All the bandits were wiped out by the Protectors.

Governor Yang and Huang Dujian died at the hands of the people of Yucheng when Yucheng was breached. As for the county order books of other counties, Yue Fei instructed that as long as they had a good reputation, they could continue to be in power.

But to Yue Fei's great disappointment, all the county orders were killed at the hands of the people of the city. This shows that these officials are already synonymous with scourge in the hearts of the people. Once they have the opportunity, the people will not let them go at all.

After half a month of storming the city, the total number of the Protector Army not only did not decrease, but increased by more than 5,000 people. All of them volunteered to join the People's Protector Army in the regimental training of various counties. But it also lost more than 1,000 people. Almost all of these lost Protectors were killed at the hands of fierce rogues or horse thieves. The attack on the city resulted in almost no loss of manpower.

Because whenever the Protector's banner was erected under the city, the defenders of the city began to surrender. Those officials and generals who tried to resist were hacked to death in the first place.

When the Protector Army first suffered casualties, Yue Fei began to build a cemetery for the heroic soul of the Protector Army. Li Bashao has a huge manor in the south of Yingtian City, with excellent scenery and close to the river.

Li Bashao donated this manor to be used as the cemetery of the People's Protector Army.

Each of the dead Protectors has a separate grave and a separate tombstone. It is engraved with the name, place of origin, age, and the reason for the death in battle.

In the center of the cemetery is a tall bluestone tablet, which was removed from the gatehouse of the Fang family. Written on it are seven strong and powerful characters, "Heroic Monument of Protector Soldiers." ”

These seven characters were written by Yue Fei himself. Originally, Yue Fei wanted to ask Huang Zong to write, but Huang Zong told Yue Fei that it was more appropriate for him to write it himself. "Pengju, your position in the hearts of the Protectors is like a god. Writing it by you will make the Protector even more exciting. ”

Yue Fei also took it seriously. Although Yue Fei did not specialize in calligraphy, the words he wrote were like knives and axes, and the momentum was amazing. No less than those so-called famous calligraphers.

As Huang Zong said, the inscription written by Yue Fei himself made the Protector Army very excited. In particular, those rebels who have just been incorporated into the People's Protector Army have left their homes and have no relatives or hope. I always think that I am a lonely ghost when I am dead.

But from the moment they joined the Protectors, they suddenly found that they were no longer lonely, and when they were alive, they had comrades who were in the same boat as their sons, and when they died, they would not abandon their corpses in the wilderness and become the mouths of wild dogs. They will be reverently put into the grave by their comrades, to be the companions of many of their dead comrades.

If giving them a grave makes these poor people in troubled times grateful, then the tall ancestral hall built next to the bluestone monument makes these protectors crazy.

This is the Heroic Shrine of the Protector Army proposed by Yue Fei.

Yue Fei stipulated that on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the prefect would come to this Heroic Shrine to offer incense and worship the people buried here. In the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival and Midyear Festival, public sacrifice activities should be held, and the squires of Tianfu should come to worship.

As soon as this rule was issued, the Protectors became even more ferocious in attacking the Rogue, hardly caring for their own lives. They are not afraid of death. When you die, you can enjoy all the glory. The prefect who had to look up when he was alive had to worship himself and kowtow to himself. For that alone, it's worth dying. Besides, if you accept incense all year round, maybe your little soul may also have the possibility of becoming a god.

Don't blame the Protectors for being surprised, that's what they've heard since childhood. No matter what it is, as long as you receive incense over time, you will become a god.

Under the attack of the lifeless Protectors, no matter how fierce the horse thieves and no matter how ruthless the rogues are, they can't stop the Protectors from attacking a wave. By the time we entered July, the Protector Army had completely cleared Yingtianfu. Ying Tianfu restored the peaceful scene during the Xuanhe period.

After the pacification of Tianfu, Yue Fei originally wanted to let the Protector Army temporarily rest and wait for the recruitment order of the old general Zong Ze. Calculating the time, Zong Ze should also recruit all the troops of the original to go to Kaifeng and prepare to deal with the southward movement of the Jin soldiers.

Yue Fei didn't wait for the recruitment order of the old general Zong Ze, but instead received an urgent message from his senior brother Zhou Yi from Zhunning Mansion.

"The Golden Sword King Shan led 100,000 people to leave Taikang and went to attack Yingtianfu. Pengju must be careful. ”