Chapter 16: New Weapons

At noon the next day, Zhang Jie rushed here with a large team of people, and someone told Zhang Jie. Li Xiaoquan fell ill www.biquge.info Pen, Fun Pavilion, Zhang Jie was startled, and immediately called a doctor to diagnose and treat him immediately, but fortunately, there was no major problem to rest for a few days.

Zhang Jie immediately rested here, and told Pegasus to Jiang Hexing the news. Soon Jiang Hexing ordered Zhang Jie to build a city near the big river here, named it Chengwu, and let Li Xiaoquan lead the city in the future, and the prisoners did not need to be sent to Xianwu, and the recruits were also trained in Chengwu. Jiang Hexing sent some craftsmen to build everything in imitation of martial arts, and after the city was built with a foundation, they would consider continuing to march into the army.

A few days later, Li Xiaoquan's body fully recovered, he had little interest in urban construction, and wrote to Jiang Hexing to tell him that he was willing to continue to lead troops to sweep Wuhuan and rescue Hannu.

Jiang Hexing's reply letter arrived, which meant that Li Xiaoquan continued to lead the troops, and after Wuhuan was pacified, Li Xiaoquan guarded the city, and the barrier showed his strength, not to let him stay in the city now, Jiang Hexing scolded Li Xiaoquan in the letter, scolding him for not cherishing himself, not cherishing his brothers, and killing too much. After Li Xiaoquan received the letter, he was overjoyed, and it seemed that it was better to relieve himself of military power.

After resting for half a month, Ma Biao's team also found a group of people who rode horses very well, and under the leadership of Wu Kui, they were named the Lance Commando, and they were on a par with the Sabre Team in the future. Li Xiaoquan is not all resting, and took the opportunity to expand his cavalry team to 1500 people, although the novices are not so good, after all, they are all some riding and archery basics, and the sabers are not very familiar, but it is not a big problem to go to the battlefield, after all, many people have not been able to go to the battlefield before.

Zhang Jie now commands nearly 6,000 people, and even the archers have actually gathered 500 people for him, after all, many of these slaves in the border counties have practiced these since childhood like Zhang Jie, and now they get a lot of bows and arrows from Wu Huan.

Zhang Jie led the expedition again, and in less than half a month, he emptied the Wuhuan people near Liaoxi County, and attacked the Wuhuan people near Beiping County and Yuyang County.

There were no accidents on the battlefield, and they unexpectedly appeared in Xianwu.

Jiang Hexing has been busy with urban construction recently, encouraging commerce, promoting new furniture, promoting the use of cement, seeing the large use of cement, Xianwu City has been repaired, trade has been opened, and the grain and salt of Liaodong County began to be transported from the Liaohe River. The good news from the front line continues to come, and the days of Xianwu are becoming more and more stable, and there are already signs of prosperity.

Jiang Hexing saw that the foundation was almost done, and he was going to find someone to set up the weapons institute and research institute, and he was looking for a suitable craftsman.

On this day, a soldier came to report that King Fuyu had sent a messenger with Su, and now he was at the gate.

Jiang Hexing was puzzled in his heart, so he still asked the messenger to come in. A tall messenger came, dressed in white Hanfu and with long hair tied up in a crown, who at first glance looked like a rich scholar, less than 30 years old, steady and chic.

Jiang Hexing was very impressed and said: "I don't know what the messenger is called, what is the matter here?" ”

The messenger raised his head and said: "Xuanhe, the younger brother of King Yu of Xia Naifu, came to talk with Mr. Jiang, the lord of Xianwu City, on the order of my king, mainly because I want Mr. Jiang to redivide the boundary, the southern border of my husband Yu is 200 miles away from here, and the territory of my king is too narrow, so I want to talk to Mr. 150 miles south of my southern border, and the north of Mr. Jiang will be protected by us in the future, do you think it is good?" ”

Mr. Jiang was angry, and said with a smile: "Prince Xuanhe, do you have any other requirements, and I will see if I can agree to you together." ”

This Prince Xuanhe also said seriously: "If Mr. Jiang is interested, he can submit to my husband King Yu, and in the future, Mr. Bao will at least be the official of Ma Jia and Niu Jia." ”

"What kind of official position is that?"

"My husband is a great official, and the one who is in charge of horses is called Niujia, and the one who is in charge of dogs is called Goujia."

Jiang Hexing continued to laugh and said, "Prince, I want to ask you, does your husband have a Han slave?" ”

The prince became more and more proud, and said with a puffed chest: "Mr. Jiang, you may not know that my husband and my husband are rich families like Majia and Niujia, and their subordinates are all slaves, and there are also many Han slaves, and we also bought a lot of Han slaves from Wuhuan last year." If the gentleman submits to my husband, I myself can be the lord and reward the servant of the gentleman, how much do you want? ”

Jiang Hexing suddenly changed color, slapped the table and said, "Go back and tell your king to release all the Han slaves, otherwise you will wash all your necks." Our knives are not fast enough, and we are afraid that it will cause trouble in cutting it, which will only make you more painful. ”

The prince of Xuanhe also said stiffly: "I'm afraid that Mr. has more than enough heart and not enough strength, as far as I know, Xianwu City has it now."

There are only 2,000 recruits. My husband has a radius of 2,000 miles, and the soldiers are good enough to eat. Every family has armor, every household has a sword and gun, the population is 100,000 households, and it is an army of 100,000. ”

Jiang Hexing didn't want to talk nonsense with him anymore, and slammed the cup in his hand and said: "If you talk about it again, I'll kill you now, hurry up and get out of here, go back and release Hannu as soon as possible, otherwise I will regret killing you for the rest of your life." ”

Prince Xuanhe found that there were many personal soldiers, and each sword was unsheathed, glaring angrily, not daring to delay, and immediately left with his entourage. Jiang Hexing privately sent people to follow them to see if they had any other misdeeds.

After Prince Xuanhe left, Jiang Hexing thought about it carefully, and now the military strength is not enough, the training of archers is too slow, and the gunpowder is used up again. The battle is very passive, and in the face of the archers' hard attacks, there are always heavy casualties.

Jiang Hexing wrote a letter to Li Xiaowen, and then wrote a letter to Zhang Kai, sending his own soldiers with 50 cavalry, one person and two horses to deliver a letter to Li Xiaowen first, and then rest in Zhangwu, so that Li Xiaowen could arrange to take a small road, avoid the battlefield, and rush to Daijun as soon as possible. After rushing to Daijun, let Zhang Kai send people over and collect sulfur and saltpeter, and it is best to call the Fangshi from Shuyi County.

After the arrangement, Jiang Hexing considered setting up a castle in a dangerous place in the north of Xianwu, one is to monitor Fuyu, and the other is to defend Fuyu.

At this time, the person who monitored Xuanhe and Prince came back to report that Xuanhe had gone back, but they had wandered for a long time in a big mountain in the 70 northeast of Xianwu, and they picked up stones to look back, and the people who watched them carefully also brought back a few stones. Jiang Hexing looked at it, and he was very grateful to this Prince Xuanhe, it turned out to be iron ore.

No wonder he wanted this land, it was because of the iron mine, Jiang Hexing didn't think much about it, and immediately sent people to control the mountain, mine iron ore, and recruit Wuhuan slaves to repair the road from Xianwu to iron ore, and at the same time build a blast furnace in the north of Xianwu City, and start making steel. At the same time, a vigilant sentinel was sent near the boundary of Fuyu, thinking that it would be difficult for Fuyu to assemble the team without two months, Fuyu was not a professional army after all, and he raised troops in the people, how could he concentrate day and night.

Zhang Jie's team no longer had a hard enemy, and after inheriting Wu, about 500 miles west of Chengwu, he repaired the city of Mingwu directly north of Yuyang County to deter the southwest region of Wuhuan. In this way, most of the Wuhuan has been swept away, the Han slaves rescued tens of thousands of people, and the remaining Wuhuan people either went to the Han land, or went to Xianbei, or went to the Xiongnu, in short, it was almost difficult to gain a foothold under the back and forth of several large armies.

It's autumn, and it's cool every day, and the leaves have begun to turn yellow, and pieces are falling. At this time, Jiang Hexing's order arrived, and he dispatched people and horses to assist in the defense of Xianwu, and the person who gave the order told Jiang Hexing about Jiang Hexing's meeting with Fuyu in the previous paragraph, and the generals were very angry. Li Xiaoquan was the first to jump out and said to Zhang Jie: "I must go to beat my husband, I have bullied us, and I don't look at who I am, hum, I really don't know how good we are." ”

Just as he was saying this, Li Xiaowu coughed, Li Xiaoquan saw that his brother's face was not good, his eyes were only staring at him, and he felt that he might have gone too far, so he hurriedly stood aside.

When everyone saw Li Xiaoquan, Li Xiaowu was like a mouse seeing a cat, he didn't see his usual domineering, he wanted to be happy but didn't dare to laugh one by one.

Zhang Jie talked about the view of Jianghexing, the Han side, almost wiped out Wuhuan, in the future to explain to the Han Dynasty, the big war should not be, Chengwu and Jiwu city construction, has been prepared for emergencies, currently mainly for commerce, now by Li Xiaowen to manage, because Zhangwu City to guard against the enemy of Xianbei and Xiongnu City, by Li Xiaowu is responsible.

The rest of the men and horses, leaving enough for the garrison of these cities, were all transferred to Xianwu, ready to fight an unprecedented battle, an unprecedented evil battle.

Some people are happy and some are worried, when Li Xiaoquan, Wu Kui and other "butchers" are celebrating that there is still a vicious battle to fight, logistics Li Ming has a headache, he thought that he could take a good rest, but now a bigger enemy is coming soon. They also need countless money and grain, countless craftsmen, and countless cattle and sheep to consume. As soon as he thought of preparing for this, preparing for that, Li Ming only felt a little worried, although his family had been rescued, there were still many Han slaves in the hands of Fu Yu. What's more, Jiang Hexing is his nephew and son-in-law, and others can retreat, but he can't. Li Ming packed up the work in hand, and together with the brigade, he went to the north of Xianwu City to station.

After the troops were stationed, the river line also arrived, and the order was passed down, the troops were reorganized, and they continued to be called the Flying Tiger Army, and the army set up divisions, three divisions in the first army, three regiments in the first division, three battalions in one regiment, three companies in one battalion, three platoons in one platoon, and 12 people in one squad. In addition, an independent brigade was set up, and a large number of outstanding squad leaders and squadron leaders were promoted, and the whole army rejoiced. Jiang Hexing was renamed commander, the army commander was Zhang Jie, Li Xiaowu, Li Xiaoquan, and Ma Biao were all division commanders, and Wu Kui was awarded the commander of the independent brigade because of his outstanding military achievements.

The whole army carried out large-scale training activities, or the three requirements of law, strength, and speed, but began to require all arms of the army to cooperate in combat, and the cavalry began to practice horse archery, especially archery on stirrups and when running back and forth. The captured armor was distributed to a part of the army, basically the officers had, the ordinary soldiers were still linen clothes, the leather boots and sheepskin clothes ordered by various merchants in the previous period began to be distributed to the whole army, and as the weather became cooler, the deerskin boots here were still a good thing to keep warm.

The training can be completed by all grass-roots officers, and more importantly, the wise generals, Jiang Hexing, will gather the officers above the battalion commander level and begin to conduct rotational training. Although Jiang Hexing is not a military professional, as a person of later generations, his knowledge is not comparable to these people. His interpretation of war is also simple: it is the collision of forces. In a certain time and space, whoever has greater strength, who is more tightly organized, and who has strong continuity will be the final winner. Of course, in the real war, it depends on who will borrow strength, with the help of terrain, weather, with the help of rumors, etc., to see who borrows, this is the impermanence of soldiers, the interpretation of the impermanence of water, how to turn all the power into their own strength, this depends on experience, wit, but also courage, after all, the absolute superiority of the victory is almost non-existent, if the enemy knows that your absolute superiority does not run, it can only mean that he is innocent. But there are always not many such enemies, and many victories and defeats in most battles are undecided, and you must have enough courage, especially for the commanders, to be brave, to interpret the battlefield information at any time, and if you are confused, no matter how good the situation is, you may lose.

Jiang Hexing is fortunately a history teacher, and his stomach is full of historical stories, of course, he can't tell the generals where these stories come from. From the use of water, fire, medicine, poison, intimidation, discord, etc., the brains of all the generals are like opening a window, and combined with their own combat examples, they feel that they have improved a lot.

Although it is said that we should talk about combat examples and raise vigilance, after all, strength still comes first, and weapons are still particularly crucial. Fortunately, the blast furnace in the previous section was steeled, and now the blast furnace in Jianghexing burns coke, and he has coal, so he asked Li Xiaowen to organize people to transport it very early. It is very simple to make coke from coal, and it has become common knowledge in the era of coking by local methods, and the news is talked about every day, and coke has been made very early. Although the small furnace is more polluted, this era does not seem to have such a big impact, and Jiang Hexing reluctantly comforts himself that the air is good now, and it is not in the way.

With coke, wrought iron is used in the furnace when making steel, and the furnace mouth is used to clamp the pig iron plate back and forth, and at high temperature, the molten pig iron continues to drip down, and it is evenly poured into the wrought iron in the furnace, so that the steel of uniform quality appears.

The sabers of the Flying Tiger Army have also been changed to steel knives, in the past, in order to make the recruits accept it faster, this kind of sabre was only taught to stab an action, not to teach chopping, not to teach chopping, and then began to teach the action of chopping. Even if the chopping action is taught, it is still mainly stabbed, which is more lethal.

Sabres and spears were all replaced, and several generals also customized special weapons for them. Regarding the shield, the river line or infantry used the style of the Roman shield and made a wooden shield, which is light and not too laborious, and the defense is also excellent. The cavalry shield was slightly smaller, rounded, and easy to take away immediately.

On this day, Jiang Hexing called several major generals to see the weapons customized for them. Arrived at the martial arts hall, Li Xiaoquan's eyes began to shine, his customized big knife was placed there, about a zhang long, the blade shone in the sunlight, close to come, the cold was pressing, the knife handle was very long, made of iron, and the thickness of the general big gun, Li Xiaoxing lifted the big knife, as soon as he got started, he felt particularly handy, the previous saber always felt light and fluttering, there was no taste, this big knife, three tips and two edges, can be stabbed and cut, Li Xiaoquan danced twice, satisfied and refused to put it down, afraid that others would snatch it away.

Wu Kui chose a point steel gun, the whole body was pitch black, the tip of the gun was made of steel, Wu Kui held it in his hand, and played lightly, Ma Biao's big gun next to him was very similar to Wu Kui's, and the color of the gun body was lighter. He saw that Wu Kui was playing well, and he also took Wu Kui's gun, it didn't matter if he took it, he felt that the gun was sinking straight down, and Ma Biao's brain turned fast: "This is not good, it is still mine." Immediately gave the gun to Wu Kui, Wu Kui took it, he knew that his top boss was not as strong as him, he couldn't play, and of course he wouldn't expose it in person.

Zhang Jie, as the coach, specially made a longer and wider saber for him to use as a command knife, of course, it is also a treasure knife, whether it is stabbing or chopping, it is invincible.