In the twenty-first year of Xuanwu, the army invaded Yanzhou, and 50,000 cavalry were divided into three routes, such as a surging torrent, and were involved in Yanzhou Mansion. The whole of Yanzhou fell into a period of chaos, and hundreds of people were displaced.

"What? What did you say? After listening to the urgent report from the messenger who was galloping back, Zou Ling said with an ugly face.

"Lord Thorn Shi! The Yan tribe invaded Yanzhou, and now Bai County has fallen, and the Yan people are coming to Yanzhou Mansion. The messenger who had fled from Baixian said again.

"Damn the Devils!" Zou Ling scolded sharply, and the messenger echoed in his heart, his family has now fallen into the hands of the Yan people, and he doesn't know what the result will be.

"Damn the Devil, I have three months to go before I reach my term, can't you fight again three months later?"

"............" The messenger's face was ugly this time, but the opposite side was the Yanzhou Thorn History, and he was just scolding in his heart.

"Well, why are you still here? Get out! After Zou Ling finished venting, he found that the messenger was still staying in front of him, and when he saw the messenger, he couldn't help but feel irritated in his heart, and scolded him repeatedly.

The messenger had a gloomy face, except for the assassin Shi Mansion, and a group of young people in official costumes immediately came up: "Brother Xu, how is it?" Did the assassin say when he would send troops to rescue Bai County? ”

Brother Xu had a dark face and walked towards the tavern on the side.

"Brother Xu, are you talking?"

There was also news from Yanzhou that there were not many guests in the entire tavern. After sitting down, after drinking a few big sips of spirits, Brother Xu spoke: "Rescue, rescue a fart!" Lord Thorn Shi simply ignored it. Thinking of the previous words of the assassin Shi, Brother Xu felt a burst of anger in his heart.

"What then? Are our wives and children still in Bai County? Besides, we don't have a place to stay here! One of them said in a wailing voice.

"So what do you say? Just kill the seven of us? Can you save Bai County? Can you save your father and fellow villagers? One asked rhetorically.

"I ......" the man began to tear his hair hard, his face full of pain.

The crowd was silent.

"Hey, did you hear that? The Fire Lin Army has started recruiting again! A drinker spoke.

"Isn't it, this Huolin Army is almost five thousand people now, still recruiting? Can the Assassin's Mansion and the Governor's Mansion agree? The combat power of this Huolin Army is very strong, can they rest assured? One of them asked.

"This brother doesn't understand, now that the Yan Dynasty has invaded, the displaced people in Yanzhou City are surging more and more, so that the Assassin Mansion cannot be settled, and now someone can reasonably deal with a group of displaced people, and it is too late for the Assassin Mansion to welcome it. As for the question of you saying that the combat power of the Huolin Army is too strong, which makes the government feel uneasy, I may have been worried before, but now I am afraid that the combat power of the Huolin Army is not strong enough, after all, the people of the Yan Dynasty are coming, and if you want to hold Yanzhou, the more people, the better! A middle-aged man explained.

"Oh......" people who don't know why suddenly realized.

"It's a pity, my physique is not good, otherwise I would have gone to the Huolin Army to be a soldier!" A big man said with a sullen drink.

"Li Heitou, you're not afraid of dying on the battlefield?" One laughed.

Li Heitou raised his head and took a sip of wine and said, "What about dying on the battlefield, in that case, my family will be settled." Huolin soldiers, those who died in battle, their families are supported by Huolin soldiers until they can be self-reliant. ”

"Huolin Army, what a benevolence! Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many men going to join the army! Unfortunately, I don't have that body. One said.

"Let's go, brothers, let's go to the Huolin Army to enlist, maybe we can kill back to Baixian in the future." The young man surnamed Xu threw down the wine bowl, glanced at everyone, gritted his teeth and said.

The news of the fall of Baixian County soon spread throughout Yanzhou City, and the government could not hide it, so it had to send additional personnel to inspect the Quartet to prevent anyone from taking the opportunity to cause trouble.

Assassin's House.

"Lord Sima! Lord Zhou! Sue-sama! Presumably, the three of you already know what Zou meant by inviting you over! Thorn Shi Zou Ling said with a smile, but the anxiety and panic in his eyes did not hide from everyone.

Su Yun said: "Don't worry, Lord Assassin Shi, I have sent someone to inform the captain of Qi County, so that he can clear the wilderness and defend Qi County, and must not let the thieves take advantage of the loopholes. After speaking, he glanced at Sima Yun meaningfully.

The captain of Baixian County is Sima Yun's person, and Sima Yun seems to have a lot of relationship with the Yan people, this time Bai County fought a battle and fell into the hands of the Yan people, which made Su Yun very suspicious.

Seeing Su Yun's gaze, of course Sima Yun knew what he was thinking, but Bai Xian definitely didn't throw it out on purpose, but he didn't have to explain it to the other party.

Zhou Jun and Sima Yun also told Zou Ling that they had sent messengers to let the counties strictly guard the county seat, and began to clear the wilderness, gather the young and strong, and prepare for the reinforcements.

Zou Ling secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said, "What about the city defense of Yanzhou?" It is reported that there are no less than 50,000 Tatars attacking this time, can we hold it? ”

For civil officials, the comparison of numbers is the key to victory or defeat. Sima Yun said: "Lord Assassin, please rest assured, there are 3,000 government troops in Yanzhou City, 3,000 battalions under my command, 2,000 battalions under Lord Zhou, and 3,000 people under Lord Su, a total of more than 11,000 people." The people are not good at attacking the city, they are only good at horse warfare, and it is not easy to attack the city guarded by more than 10,000 people and the city is fully guarded, not to mention, Yanzhou City can now recruit tens of thousands of young people to defend the city at any time, and it will never fall lightly. ”

Su Yun sneered: "Won't you fall lightly? So what's going on in White County? After speaking, he turned to Zou Ling and said, "Lord Thorn Shi, the first task now is to immediately let the people outside the city move to the nearby county town and the better and stronger dock forts. Not a grain of grain was left for the Tassels, and all the wells were buried. Let the Yan Thief enter the Yanzhou Mansion without any supplement, and at the same time protect our people. ”

"The second is to immediately expel all the people in the city, no matter what their status, to avoid a situation similar to Bai County in the city. Third, start a night ban to prevent people from taking advantage of the night to do misdeeds. Fourth, immediately control the food and military supplies in Yanzhou City, so as to avoid long-term stubbornness in the future and a shortage of food and materials. Finally, the officials of the Assassin's Mansion can post notices in the city to appease the people, and at the same time reward those who report misdeeds. ”

After listening to Su Yun's words, Zou Ling sighed: "Lord Su is reasonable, this official will do it, as for the matter of defending the city, please leave it to the three adults, and Zou will try his best to assist in the logistics." Alas...... Don't let the people take Yanzhou Mansion away, otherwise, we will become ......"

Gushan Fort.

The current Gushan Fort is almost a large military camp, and a few households in the size of the dock fort within a radius are a small city. Nearly three months have passed since the last time Zhuangzi captured Qi Yan, and Zhao Xun has recruited troops twice, a thousand cavalry in the personal guard battalion, and Zhao Qingshan, the captain; Zhao Ning, a thousand archers of the Nufeng Battalion, and the captain of the school, his original position was filled by an outstanding person from the pro-guard team arranged by Zhao Xun; The heavy armor battalion has a thousand heavy armor and heavy shield foot soldiers, and the captain is a tall and burly Shunzi, that is, Zhao Shun after the name change. The Huozi Battalion and the Shanzi Battalion have also reached the establishment of 1,000, and the recruit battalion has no limit on the number of recruits, and it has been training recruits. Zhao Xun resisted the pressure to expand the number of soldiers, and the position was the result of today, and now his guess has finally come true, otherwise, it will be really difficult for him to resist the pressure of Yanzhou Mansion.

"Zhou Wenju, has the craftsman completed what I want?"

The craftsman battalion is the weapon production camp of the entire Huolin Army, which specializes in creating weapons, leather armor and other equipment for the Huolin Army.

"If you know how to be an adult! There are only 200 heavy armors, more than 700 iron heavy shields, and more than 3,000 throwing guns, which have not yet reached the number of adults demanding, mainly due to the lack of iron materials and blacksmiths, which is difficult to speed up. ”

"Well, I'll go back and think of a way to do this, you guys speed up, mainly heavy armor, first heavy armor, as for throwing guns, this is simple, you can let ordinary soldiers help build it."

Due to the lack of a long-range powerful attack weapon, the crossbow, in order to fight against the powerful people, Zhao Xun thought of throwing guns, which are simple to make and have great lethality.

In the West, the javelin is an important infantry weapon, but in China, due to the emergence of the strong crossbow, the javelin has become a chicken rib weapon, because whether it is range, rate of fire, penetration or hit accuracy, the javelin is far from being comparable to the strong crossbow. However, the javelin still has a clear advantage over the strong crossbow, that is, it is cheap to build and easy to carry!

In Chinese history, there were javelin cavalry in the Ma Chao Legion. Ma Chao's legion is not still bows and arrows, but is good at using long marks, and is characterized by taking off long marks, which often has the killing effect of injuring several people in a single bid for the dense Cao army. This kind of flying mark is actually born from the ancient Roman throwing gun, to be exact, the weapon used by Spartacus and the Roman legions in the battle to the death. Its spear body is long (more than 2.3 meters), its own weight dà, and its lethality is strong, and its attack power is far better than that of bows and arrows for lightly armored armies (which have a certain defensive effect against bows and arrows). In the battle at that time, it was seen from time to time that several arrows were hit and did not retreat, and those who were hit by the Xiliang javelin immediately lost their combat effectiveness. Compared to modern times, it is the difference between a gun grenade and a rifle bullet. After the Song Dynasty, the javelin was listed as a regular combat weapon in the army.

Of course, the large-scale use of this kind of javelin is still very dependent on logistics, in order to prevent the people from picking up the throwing guns they throw out for counterattack, all the throwing guns have brittle heads, and they will generally not be used again, and the short throwing guns used by foot soldiers are no longer in this list.

Zhao Xun's idea was that except for the heavily armored foot soldiers, all the foot soldiers carried three to four short throwing guns, which was a big killing weapon before the melee was in contact. The cavalry considered the manpower and was difficult to defend against the cover of the opponent's cavalry, so the length of the spear was shortened, the number of carrying, only three, and the other round shield resisted the opponent's bow and arrow with a longer range, plus a widened horizontal knife, and fought in close combat.

This horizontal knife is better than the original waist knife and machete, once forged, the soldiers have replaced him, this is the same as the javelin, Zhao Xun made it according to the memory of his previous life.

Speaking of which, the effect of crossbow arrows is far stronger than that of throwing guns, labor-saving, accurate, and long-range, although the hard crossbow does not match the cavalry, but the foot soldiers use it, plus the heavy armor foot guards are definitely the nemesis of most troops. It's a pity that there aren't many government troops of this thing, let alone a battalion soldier like himself, and he can't get the wood industry if he has money, this kind of thing is one of the weapons strictly controlled by the imperial court, and whoever gets it will definitely be in big trouble.

For the current Zhao Xun, there is a shortage of everything, lack of people, lack of soldiers, lack of horses, but there is no shortage of food, and now Zhao Xun has more than 50,000 grains hidden in Shiping Village, that is, five million catties, in other words, enough for 100,000 people to consume in two months, if you save, you can use more time. In Gushan Fort, there are also more than 10,000 but there is grain in stock. Of course, this is not lacking and it is only relatively speaking, which is also the reason for Zhao Xun's recent large-scale recruitment, there is food, but it has to be held.