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After the Feihu County craftsman has trained the wool iron, he can use the excess labor to forge it to make fine iron. Refined iron can forge all kinds of iron tools, and Li Chongjiu first wanted to forge armor. The Cangtou army had previously obtained 300 iron armor from Wu Benlang Wang Zhifen, except for 200 equipped with armor cavalry, the rest were equipped with generals and officers above the team, plus zero loss replacement in the war, the number of armor was already very scarce.

Now with self-made fine iron, the Flying Fox County Craftsman can make iron armor, helmets, helmets are not counted, and a piece of iron armor costs at least more than twenty catties of fine iron. In addition to fine iron, the armor also needs leather, and the last thing Li Chongjiu lacks at the moment is leather, after defeating the Turkic Aqi last year, horses and sheep have slaughtered countless people, in addition to the meat is full, the skin is made of nitrate and made into cooked skin. At the moment, there is no pressure to make zuò armor and extract a thousand cooked skins. Li Zuojiang estimated to Li Chongjiu that after the workshop organized manpower, it could produce ten armors per month, and then the proficiency could be increased to fifteen.

Before the winter snow melted, Li Chongjiu led 200 armored cavalry and two regiments of newly trained 400 county soldiers to return to Huaihuang Town from Feihu County. This time, I passed through Lingqiu County again, and found that it was no longer the original barren appearance, and it was found that in the fields on all sides on the way, many displaced people returned to Lingqiu County and began to return to the old soil for spring ploughing. When the team came to the county seat, the city was still very dilapidated inside and outside, but there were already people who had begun to repair the four cities.

And on the city wall of the county seat, Li Chongjiu also saw the banner of the Sui army. After entering the city, he found that Chen Xiaoyi, the former county of Yanmen County, was actually here. You must know that the original meaning of the county guard of Yanmen County was to hold on to Lao County, take the inner Great Wall as a defense, and temporarily abandon the area around the outer Great Wall.

Li Chongjiu immediately went straight to the county government to meet the county Cheng. Chen Xiaoyi is a native of Hedong, upright, once in order not to kill a death row prisoner in vain, he contradicted Taishou Su Wei, and said that Taishou wanted to sentence the prisoner to death, so he killed himself first. After Su Wei was promoted to prime minister, he appreciated Chen Xiaoyi very much, thinking that he was a rare strong official, first promoted to the imperial history, and then let him come to Yanmen County as a county official.

It was not the first time that Li Chongjiu and Chen Xiaoyi had met, after the two took their seats. Li Chongjiu couldn't help but ask him why he disagreed with the county guard, not in Lao County, but in Lingqiu County.

As soon as Chen Xiaoyi heard Li Chongjiu's words, he stood up, bowed far away in the direction of the Eastern Capital, and said: "I am ordered by the Son of Heaven to defend the land for the imperial court. ”

Li Chongjiu couldn't help but feel secretly ashamed when he saw Chen Xiaoyi's solemn and righteous appearance, and he could only follow him to the south at the moment, and said: "Ten thousand years for the Son of Heaven!" ”

After the two sat down again, Chen Xiaoyi heard that Li Chongjiu was going to go out of the Great Wall again and go to Huaihuang Town, and couldn't help but look like he was careful, and said: "After the battle of Yanmen, Mayi, Shuofang, Yulin and other counties all found that the Turks went south to graze horses, according to the consistent strategy of the Hu people, spring is the time when cattle and sheep war horses are the thinnest, if it is a sudden southward expedition, it will definitely cause a large number of livestock to die, so in spring first take the opportunity to go south to chase grass, and in autumn when the fat and horses are strong, it is the time when the Turks invade the south. ”

Although I didn't say it very clearly, I knew the meaning when I heard the string song. The meaning of Chen Xiaoyi's words was to persuade Li Chongjiu to give up Huaihuang Town, move Yingyang Mansion to Lingqiu County, first hold the first line of the Outer Great Wall, and at the same time rely on each other with Feihu County, taking into account the two counties of Yanmen and Shanggu. Chen Xiaoyi talked about it, but saw Li Chongjiu smiling and not answering, but he understood what he meant, and sighed, obviously treating the other party as the same as himself, and refused to give up the virtuous of the court.

After Li Chongjiu led his army to rest in Lingqiu for a day, he set off the next day, and Chen Xiaoyi sent Li Chongjiu out of the city, and supported him with thirty crossbows before leaving. Chen Xiaoyi said: "This is different from Yanmen, please be more careful, beware of Hu people, if it is not good, you can retreat to Yanmen at any time." ”

After Li Chongjiu saw these thirty crossbows, he looked at the dilapidated county seat of Lingqiu County behind him, the less than 200 county soldiers guarding the city, and Chen Xiaoyi, who had a righteous face, and did not say anything. Li Chongjiu solemnly bowed deeply to Chen Xiaoyi again, and then whipped away.

After Li Chongjiu left the city, he did not immediately set off for Huaihuang Town, but waited for two days, taking this opportunity to recruit displaced people, lobbying to go to Huaihuang Town and Yuyi Town, and promising to have one dry and one thin meal to eat every day. This treatment immediately attracted a thousand displaced people, who were willing to go with them.

At this time, Li Hu, Su Su, and Lin Dangfeng led five hundred Li Family Dart Bureau dart divisions, as well as a caravan organized by two thousand people, and rushed to Yanmen from Taiyuan County. This time, in addition to bringing silk, tea bricks, and iron tools from the Central Plains to trade with the herdsmen, they also had various materials that were in short supply in Huaihuang Town. Learning the lesson of the last robbery of the Ah Fall Department, Li Chongjiu did not dare to take it lightly this time, and personally led the team to escort him.

All the way to Huaihuang Town, before leaving the Great Wall, the shadow of the Hu people's nomadism has been found, the dung left by a large group of sheep and horses can be seen everywhere on the grass, and there are occasionally one or two sharp soldiers in the distance. When Li Chongjiu saw this, he ordered the cavalry to outflank him and grab his tongue. However, these sharp soldiers were all sleek and sleek, and five or six good horses took turns to change horses, and in the blink of an eye they ran for several miles. The cavalry of the Cangtou Army was beyond the reach of the dust.

After several times, the cavalry finally captured a shepherd, who at first refused to confess, and only after some torture that he lost half his life, did he honestly confess. From his mouth, he learned that they were a branch of the Hun tribe attached to the Turks, and they went south to explore the way. The strength of the Hun Department is even better than that of the Ah Fall Department, after annexing the remnants of the A Fall Department last year, there are 30,000 people, 8,000 people, and now they have migrated thousands of miles from the tribe's hometown, and their Qi Jin has also moved the tooth tent to the south of Daihai. In addition, there are several small Turkic tribes near Daihai, and after Li Chongjiu listened to the details, he understood that Hu Renguo was really as Chen Xiaoyi said, and he wanted to take advantage of the weakness of the Sui Dynasty to herd horses south, and Li Chongjiu stepped up to escort the caravan to continue to move forward, after leaving the mouth of the Great Wall. It's not just about meeting Hu people on a ranger. Rather, they met one or two small Turkic tribes and their tents, and they suddenly saw the banner of the Great Sui and the caravan wagon, and they all reacted. The fierce Turks, armed with horned bows, rode from afar to keep an eye on the group of uninvited guests who had suddenly intruded into their pastoral area, and when they found out that it was a large caravan, they could not help but salivate again.

Li Chongjiu only had 200 armor cavalry, and the dart division cavalry team only had 200 cavalry, so he did not dare to go out to pursue these Turkic people who were dozens of horsemen and dozens of horsemen, so he silently endured. When the Turkic cavalry saw this, they marched even more unscrupulously to a place of several miles to observe, and to estimate the chances of winning the robbery. After several times, Li Chongjiu waited for the other party to relax his vigilance, and then ordered Eto to lead the cavalry to attack decisively, and after killing the two people, the arrogance of the Turks was alleviated and they retreated far to the side.

When the caravan was stationed in the field at night, the appearance of a large number of Hu cavalry showed that their tooth tents were not far away, and when they went out of Mobei in the past, the caravans had never encountered such a situation, even if they met the Turks, but only sporadically. You must know that as long as Mayi County is still in the hands of the Sui army, the Hu people will not dare to bypass this defense line and go south.

But now that the other party is unscrupulous, he even moved the tent here, and Li Hu, Su Su and many other merchants are worried overnight.

Lin Dangfeng entered Li Chongjiu's tent and asked worriedly: "Master Hou, this time I took the merchants to the grassland again, but when it was a risk, it was all about believing in you." You must know that the last time the caravan was attacked by the Ah Fall Division, nearly 100 people were killed and wounded. And this time, if it is attacked by the Turks again, it will not be a matter of hundreds of dead and wounded. And this mule horse has a large number of goods, which is enough to make more than a dozen of our chambers of commerce lose their money. ”

"Many business stewards have said that they want to return to the Great Wall, and if they only have a day's journey, it is a big deal to lose this trip, and their lives are still important."

Li Chongjiu sat under the oil lamp, was writing a letter, he put the pen aside and said: "Lin Dangjia, please rest assured, the business route is not easy to walk, which means that the merchants belonging to several gate valves do not dare to go out of Saibei, as long as we do this business, the profit will definitely be double that of the past." ”

"Where is there no risk in doing business, I have already written a letter to transfer troops from Huaihuang Town to here, and the reinforcements from the Xi Department have arrived together, and it will be enough to ensure that the goods are okay at that time." Hearing Li Chongjiu say this, Lin Dangfeng was a little relieved.

In the middle of the night, the sound of horns was incessant, and the sound of horses' hooves seemed to sound around the camp. All the merchants were in fear, holding their swords and leaning around by the fire, staring around in horror, and everyone was terrified.

The next day, it was just dawn, and there was silence on all sides, and the scene that they thought would be surrounded by a large number of Turkic cavalry did not appear, which reassured everyone who had been tossing all night. Everyone began to hurry up, and Li Chongjiu sent a team of twenty rangers to reconnoiter in all directions.

In the early afternoon, Li Chongjiu's rangers found a large amount of horse manure and scattered horseshoe prints five or six miles to the left front of the caravan. Li Chongjiu immediately asked the experienced Eto to personally come forward to investigate, and judged that the number of cavalry was no less than 500 horsemen.

On the third day, the rangers returned and found a force of more than a thousand cavalry at the back of the caravan, separated by more than a dozen miles, far behind the caravan. In the afternoon, a Turkic cavalry of more than 2,000 men was found in the north, which had reached ten miles away.

In a place close to the forest, Li Chongjiu ordered the homeless people to quickly cut down trees and grass to build a horse fortification. While building the fortifications, Li Chongjiu led his army to watch vigilantly in all directions, and there were five or six strands in the distance, and the Turkic cavalry belonging to different tribes gathered more than ten miles away from the caravan.

They had apparently come because of the caravan's caravan, and were ready to raid it.