Early the next morning, a low horn sounded in Dazhai.

With the continuous sound of the horn, the remnants of the five or six thousand Chu army drilled out of the grass huts and wooden houses, and gathered into the open space outside Dazhai like ants going out to find food.

The more than 2,000 remnants of soldiers from Jiangdong showed no signs of instability.

After all, the object of Jiangdong's allegiance is the entire Great Chu, not Xiang Han personally, in the eyes of these recruits who have just joined the army, the general is undoubtedly a bigger general than Xiang Han, the general wants to kill Xiang Han, what ability do they have to stop these little soldiers? Therefore, more than 2,000 remnants of Jiangdong soldiers calmly accepted the reality that Xiang Han was killed.

As for the pro-soldiers loyal to Xiang Han, there are only a few dozen people, what kind of climate can they become?

After nearly 6,000 remnants of the Chu army were assembled, Jing Qian and Gao Chu unceremoniously began to pick people.

The trapping camp is the main force of the Chu army's field warfare, so the first to come up to pick people is also Jing Qian, this guy honestly and unceremoniously selected a thousand healthy soldiers from among the veterans of the hundred battles who escaped from the wall, so that even the personal soldiers of the generals such as Huan Chu and Ji Bu did not let go, as long as they saw it, they were all selected and left, although Huan Chu, Ji Bu and others were reluctant, they could only pinch their noses and admit it.

Jing Qian picked a good person, and then Gao Chu, the Nufeng battalion did not need to have a close fight with the enemy, so Gao Chu did not pick people from among the veterans, but selected five hundred tall and strong men from more than 2,000 Jiangdong recruits, which is also a prerequisite for becoming a longbowman, who is too short and too small in strength to hold a longbow.

He also selected more than 200 sharp soldiers from the veterans of the first camp, plus more than 200 personal soldiers under the command of Jing Qian and Gao Chu, just enough 500 people, and he personally served as the first lieutenant, and at the same time appointed Gongsun Sui as the first lieutenant of the camp and acted as the lieutenant.

In the end, it was Jing Qian, who selected a thousand auxiliary light soldiers for his trapping soldiers!

After Jing Qian finished picking, Xiang Zhuang divided the remaining more than 2,700 people equally, and reorganized them into the front, rear, left, right, and middle five armies, and the five generals Huan Chu, Xiao Kai, Zhong Liwu, Yu Ziqi, and Ji Bu led an army, but it was said that it was an army, but in fact, there were only more than 500 people, and it was only the strength of one department.

After the deployment of troops, all armies and battalions began intense training.

It is already the middle of March, the weather is about to turn dark, and there is not much time left for the Chu army, the Chu army must complete the training within ten days, and then it is about to cross the Dabie Mountain to start a long-distance expedition!

In the dead of night, the thatched hut by the river was bright with fire, and the sound of clanging was endless.

Behind the thatched hut, a furnace was built on the hill that was more than two feet high, and the bottom of the stove was slightly above a dozen interfaces, and a dozen huge cowhide bellows were connected to these interfaces through brick holes, and on the side of each cowhide bellows stood at least two strong men with their stomachs, desperately agitating the bellows.

I don't know how long it took, a strong man strode forward, and suddenly pulled out a thing at the bottom of the furnace with iron tongs, and in an instant, the fiery red molten iron gushed out from the bottom of the furnace, and slowly flowed into the groove of the sand mold built in advance.

Next, several strong men sent these cast embryos into the thatched huts for the next step of forging, and the other strong men lifted the top cover of the furnace, and threw the excess or broken iron swords, iron armor, iron helmets, iron halberds, and iron kettles into the furnace, and after they were filled, dozens of strong men stirred up the bellows again.

In that thatched hut, more than 100 Chu army blacksmiths were riveting their efforts to make ring head knives, Shouchun was flooded, and the Chu army only grabbed two things, one was the flooded Han army rations outside the city, and then the blacksmith tools in the city, and then it took a lot of manpower and material resources to finally transport the windbags, anvils, hammers and other equipment into the mountain.

Yu Zi was sweating profusely, and was using the small hammer in his hand to guide the sledgehammer in the hands of the strong man opposite, trying to hammer the horizontal knife on the anvil, the battle of Dabie Mountain, so that the Chu army tasted the sweetness of the ring head knife, in order to improve the combat effectiveness as much as possible, Xiang Zhuang decided to make more ring head knives, and he also planned to equip all the generals with horizontal knives!

At this time, the ring head knife, due to the defects of metallurgical technology, both the processing technology and the material can not be compared with the two Han ring head knives of later generations, but due to its unique thick back shape, it has the upper hand in the face of the double-edged thin sword.

Even the double-edged heavy sword of the generals of the Han Army is invincible to the ordinary ring-headed sword!

As for Xiang Zhuang's so-called big horizontal knife, the processing technology is far from the Tang knife of later generations, but although Xiang Zhuang's big horizontal knife is poor in workmanship, it is better than longer, wider and thicker, thus making up for the gap in material hardness and toughness.

Of course, no matter how simple the craftsmanship of the big horizontal knife is compared to the Tang knife, it is not something that ordinary blacksmiths can master, so Yu Ziqi has to personally handle the hammer, speaking of which, the general of Yu Ziqi is really a bit miserable, and other generals can sleep, but he still has to work hard to make iron here, more often, he is like a blacksmith.

While he was busy, Xiang Zhuang suddenly walked in under the swarm of Gao Chu and Jing Qian.

Yu Ziqi hurriedly put down the hammer and saluted Xiang Zhuang, Xiang Zhuang waved his hand to signal that there was no need to be polite, and then took out a white cloth from his sleeve and handed it to Yu Ziqi, Yu Ziqi stretched out his hand to take it, and saw a pattern drawn on the white cloth, as if it was a spear with a sharp point, but it was different from the spear, the spear did not have a barb, but this thing had a barb.

At the moment, Yu Ziqi was a little sleepy and said: "General, what kind of weapon is this?" ”

"It's called a javelin." Xiang Zhuang commented, "It is cast according to the pattern, and a wooden pole must be connected to the back." ”

As a traverser, Xiang Zhuang of course knew the javelin, in the West, whether it was borrowed by ancient Greece or ancient Rome, the javelin was an important infantry weapon, but in China, due to the emergence of the strong crossbow, the javelin became a chicken rib weapon, because whether it was range, rate of fire, penetration or hit accuracy, the javelin was far from enough to be compared with the strong crossbow.

However, the javelin still has an advantage over the strong crossbow, that is, it is cheap to build and easy to take care of!

With the current conditions of the Chu army, there is neither the technology nor the ability to make strong crossbows, so the javelin has become the first choice, Xiang Zhuang has decided to list the javelin as the standard weapon of the Chu army, at least the light soldiers must be equipped!

After the Chu army was equipped with a ring-headed sword, a large shield, a halberd, a javelin, and a longbow, the field mode was basically formed.

The field mode of the Chu army is basically like this, when the enemy infantry enters within 100 steps (one step is about 1.4 meters), the longbowmen of the Nufeng battalion will first carry out the first round of killing; when the enemy infantry enters within 20 steps, the auxiliary light soldiers of the trapped camp will use javelins to carry out the second round of killing; when the two armies meet, the front row of soldiers in the formation is armed with ring-headed knives and large shields, and the enemy infantry is close to each other, the rear soldiers are waiting for the opportunity to attack with halberds, and the auxiliary light soldiers continue to shoot the enemy with javelins.

Yu Ziqi put away the pattern, and said to Xiang Zhuang: "General, this style is simple, just cast into shape, and then you don't need too much forging, that is, it takes some effort to sharpen the edge, but it shouldn't be difficult to make fifty branches a day, but I don't know how many branches the general needs?" ”

"Fifty branches are far from enough, I need five thousand, ten days to get it!"

"In this case, more people will be needed to sharpen the cast gun heads."

"That's no problem, how many people do you need, although you can go to the various armies to choose, including the pro-guards!" After saying this, Xiang Zhuang said, "However, the manufacture of the javelin must not affect the manufacture of the horizontal knife and the ring head knife, because the importance of these two weapons is far above the javelin!" ”

"No!" Yu Ziqi shook his head and said loudly, "Within ten days, 10,000 triangular arrow clusters, 5,000 javelin spear heads, 300 ring-headed knives, plus 20 horizontal knives!" The last general will never be dishonored! ”

Xiang Zhuang patted Yu Ziqi's shoulder, and said apologetically: "General Ziqi, I can only work hard for you." ”

Yu Ziqi said: "As long as Da Chu can be revived, what does it matter if the last general is exhausted and dies in the blacksmith shop?" ”

"Okay, I've written down what General Ziqi said!" Xiang Zhuang nodded and said solemnly, "After the revival of Great Chu in the future, I will definitely give you a great credit!" ”

With that, Xiang Zhuang turned around and left.

Seeing Xiang Zhuang's figure go away, Yu Ziqi's eyes quickly dimmed, speaking from his heart, he didn't think that there was still a possibility of revival of Great Chu, as the military advisor said, Liu Bang, the king of Han, had become a trend that swept the world, and it was impossible to reverse the overall situation with only six thousand Chu troops, but no matter what happened in the future, he would not betray Great Chu in the Yu Zi period!

While Yu Ziqi and the blacksmiths were busy making weapons, Gao Chu and his Fufeng battalion were also rushing to make longbows.

Gao Chu has a belly, muscles are knotted, and Jing Qian saw a hundred-year-old mulberry tree with two hands together, the longbow has extremely high requirements for materials, such a thick old mulberry tree, can be used to make a longbow but only a small part close to the heart of the wood, so at most can only make two bows, but the peripheral part can be used to make a javelin barrel.

Several former archers are carefully cutting bows.

Speaking of which, the new wood is actually not suitable for making bows, but the time is urgent, and there is no need to take care of so much, even if the longbow made is not satisfactory in terms of lethality and range, it is better than nothing.

Not far away, bundles of javelin guns have been piled up, each gun is seven feet long, about two inches thick in the middle, slightly thinner at both ends, the surface has been all sheared, and in the distance, Qin Ji is leading more than 100 female soldiers to rub the brown thread and twine from the brown skin and bundles of storage hemp, and then repeatedly winding them into strands of brown rope and hemp rope.

Farther away, the sharpened bows are stuck in specific slots, tied with hemp rope at the ends, and bent into different arcs, which is the last process before the longbow is wound - bow taming.

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