"Equipment?" Meng Ben frowned: "My king actually wants to surpass the Iron Eagle Ruishi in terms of equipment?" ”

"That's right. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" Ji Yan said in a deep voice: "First of all, tell me what equipment they have?" Let's look at how to surpass them. ”

"Let's start with weapons. A broad-bodied short sword made of fine iron, a fine iron dagger, an iron-tired hard bow, and twenty long armor-piercing arrows, the arrowhead is also made of fine iron, in the shape of a slender cone, which can break through leather armor within 100 steps, and even some iron armor that is not well made. ”

"Let's talk about armor. The soldier is equipped with a cowhide shield and a cowhide armor all over his body; Officers with iron shields and iron armor can ignore ordinary bows and arrows. Finally, there are war horses, most of which come from the western grasslands, are tall and strong, full of endurance, and have excellent abilities whether they are running long distances or galloping short distances. ”

"It can be said that the Iron Eagle Warriors are almost armed to the teeth, and looking at today, there is no other army that can beat the right." Meng Ben shook his head slightly as he spoke, not having half confidence in what the Son of Heaven said about surpassing them in terms of equipment.

Ji Yan raised his head and pondered, and only looked at Meng Ben after a long time, his eyes bursting with light: "I can't say it, this king has no choice but to use a trick!" ”

"Trick?" Meng Ben asked suspiciously.

"One of the tricks is the saddle and stirrups; The second trick is a repeater. As Ji Yan spoke, his eyes gradually deepened, as if he saw a cavalry team with a saddle under his hips, stirrups under his feet, and crossbows in his hands galloping across the vast territory.

"Stirrups, saddles, repeaters?" Meng Ben's brows furrowed even deeper: "What kind of thing is this?" ”

Ji Yan was immersed in reverie, and it took a long time before he came back to his senses and said to Meng Ben: "Okay, you go and choose people, all the teams in Luoyang, as long as they are the soldiers you fancie, you have to come over directly." 1,000 people were selected, and training began in three days. As for these things, you don't have to worry about them for the time being, this king will go to discuss with Sikong Xia Xun, and give them to you to use after they are made. ”

"No!" Meng Ben responded, and until he left the Son of Heaven's bedroom, he was still thinking about what these things were.

Ji Yan was also thinking about these things. Saddles and stirrups have an unimaginable effect on cavalry, but they are very simple to make and can be easily imitated, so secrecy is the first place, and they can be produced first and secretly collected, but they must not be used until the critical time, and they cannot be exposed too early.

The repeater was definitely a good thing in the era of cold weapons, because it was launched by a machine, so it was more secure than a bow and arrow in terms of accuracy and armor piercing; On the other hand, he can be wound beforehand and is able to fire faster than a bow and arrow; In addition, it is a burst of fire, and when charging, it can form more rounds of blows to the enemy, and the lethality is greatly increased, especially the blow to the enemy's morale will be very large.

However, even the crossbow has disadvantages, first of all, the range is shorter than that of the bow and arrow, and secondly, when the crossbow arrows in the arrow magazine are used up, they have to be reloaded, which is very time-consuming, which may become an opportunity for the enemy to counterattack. In order for the repeater to become a decisive weapon on the battlefield, these two problems must be solved.

Increasing the range can be achieved by increasing the strength of the bow arm; The problem of too long reloading time is indeed very troublesome, Ji Yan thought about it for a while, and suddenly thought of the magazines of the later generations, yes, if the arrow magazines are preloaded like magazines, and then each soldier is equipped with a few more, when one arrow magazine is used up, just replace it with another arrow magazine, so that you can save the time of reloading?

However, whether the craftsmen of this era can turn this idea into reality, Ji Yan is not half sure, so he plans to go to the bow and arrow workshop of the Qiuguan Mansion to have a look and discuss it with the craftsmen.

Just as he was about to leave, Ji Fang suddenly hurried over, and said eagerly with a slight arch of his hand: "Qi my king, just received the information sent back by the Duchy of Eastern Zhou, Ji Dan took advantage of the fact that Ji Gen was detained by my king in Luoyang, and actually sent a letter of state saying that Ji Gen had been killed, and then set himself up as the Duke of Eastern Zhou. Just yesterday, with the slogan of Ji Gen's revenge, he gathered all the armies of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and mobilized a lot of countrymen, gathering a total of about 50,000 horses, and was about to attack Luoyang in the near future. He also contacted the Duchy of Western Zhou, saying that the Ji Dynasty had also been killed, and asked them to send troops together. ”

"It's really fat!" Ji Yan's face turned cold, and he said in a deep voice: "It's just right to come, this king is worried that there is no excuse to take back these two principalities, after this time, the east and west will cease to exist in two weeks!" Let Ji Qing bring the two weeks over. ”

"No!" Ji Dong hurriedly went out to convey the royal order.

Ji Fang looked at the young man Tianzi suspiciously: "That's a full 50,000 horses!" Is my king sure to take it? ”

"Of course, the key lies in the two Zhou Gongs." Ji Yan smiled slightly: "Sit down, and you will talk about the situation of the two countries with the two princes later." ”

After a while, Ji Qing took Ji Gen and Ji Chao into the Son of Heaven's bedroom, and there were several guards with weapons behind him.

"Go down!" Ji Yan said to Ji Qing and his guards.

"No!" Ji Qing and a few guards left quickly.

Ji Gen and Ji Chao glanced at each other, and they couldn't figure out what the Son of Heaven was going to do, but seeing that this posture didn't look like he was going to do something to them, he was slightly relieved.

"Uncle Wang, Uncle Wang, please take a seat." After the two of them hesitantly found a place to sit down, Ji Yan continued: "This king has been busy cleaning up the mess left by Ji Jing, Yang Han and others in the past two days, so that he has no time to take care of you, so you are tired!" ”

The faces of the two changed greatly, and they said in unison: "Ji Jing and the others were taken down by the king?" ”

"Yes!"

"Killed?"

Ji Yan said with a smile: "Although Ji Jing, Yang Han, Wang Xu and others have committed the great crime of exterminating the nine clans, after all, they are all old ministers of several dynasties, and they have made contributions to the Zhou family, and besides, this king never likes to kill people, so he just demoted them to civilians, did not kill anyone, and did not imprison a person." ”

Ji Chao was dumbfounded and directly froze, looking at the understatement of the Son of Heaven, it seemed that it didn't take much effort to clean up the three powerful ministers, when did he become so powerful? You must know that the private soldiers of these three families plus the six armies of the Son of Heaven have a total of more than 10,000 people, and how many people are there in the forbidden army?

After all, Ji Gen was more determined, and he quickly recovered, and arched his hand: "Congratulations to the king, now that these three people are removed, they will be able to govern the dynasty in the future." ”

"What is there to congratulate? The Zhou dynasty was originally the king's! Ji Yan waved his hand, and then said with a meaningful smile: "This king wants to congratulate Uncle Wang, you can be idle immediately, and you don't have to worry about national affairs in the future!" ”

Ji Gen frowned tightly: "What does the king mean by this?" ”

"Your position as the Duke of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty has been replaced!"

"What?" Ji Gen stood up suddenly, and shouted with a red face: "Who, who dares to do this? ”

"Don't worry, Uncle Wang, sit down!" Ji Yan said and looked at Ji Fang: "Give Uncle Wang a good talk about the situation of the Eastern Zhou Principality." ”

"No!" Ji Fangying looked at Ji Gen and said lightly: "The day after my king invited the Duke of Eastern Zhou to be a guest, Ji Dan announced that you had been killed, and then established himself as the Duke of Eastern Zhou. ”

"It's him!" Ji was quite skeptical of the words of the Son of Heaven at all, but as soon as he heard Ji Dan's name, he immediately knew that it must be true. He has always been clear about Ji Dan's ambitions, but this guy has a lot of people in his hands, and he usually looks respectful, he has never found a chance to get rid of him, and he didn't expect to be detained by the Son of Heaven for two or three days, and this guy jumped out immediately. With his strength, without his own control, it is really possible to completely control the Eastern Zhou Principality.

Ji Gen sat down indifferently, his heart was in chaos, and he fell into deep thought and did not speak for a long time.