Blacksmith Zhang said respectfully: "My subordinates were apprentices under the famous craftsman Zheng Hun when they were young, and they were guided by Master Zheng. ”

Oh, this blacksmith Zhang turned out to be a disciple of the master craftsman Zheng Hun, a disciple has such a skill, then Zheng Hun is not a master among the masters, how good it would be to get Zheng Hun to join the Phoenix Valley. Thinking of this section, Liu Ze couldn't help but be a little fascinated, but Zheng Hun is a famous craftsman, and most of his friends are powerful people in the current dynasty, and now it is estimated that he will not be moved.

"Was this gun ever named?" Liu Ze asked.

"I haven't been ordered yet, please give me a name."

Liu Ze pondered for a moment and said, "How about calling it the Gentian Bright Silver Spear?" ”

Everyone is applauded. Liu Ze handed the gun into Zhao Yun's hands.

"Zilong, let's try this bright silver spear while you can't get it."

Zhao Yun was stunned, he didn't expect Liu Ze to carefully build a good gun for himself, but BMW Shenbing has always been the favorite of military generals, and he no longer shirked, took the gun in his hand, and played a set of marksmanship in the open space in front of the workshop.

But seeing the gentian bright silver spear in Zhao Yun's hand flying up and down, like a dragon going out to sea, like a silver snake returning to the hole, a trip to the 8864 road pear flower marksmanship is handy, 10,000 pear blossoms turned into a silver rain, causing the craftsmen to put down their work, stop and watch, and wait for Zhao Yun to calmly collect the gun, the people who are drunk and obsessed with it burst into thunderous applause and cheers, even Liu Ze can't help but be stunned, that amazing marksmanship, handsome and elegant demeanor, how a handsome word, No wonder Zhao Yun's fans are hundreds of millions in descendants.

Zhao Yun hugged the gun and saluted: "It's ugly now." ”

Liu Ze said with a smile: "Zilong's pear blossom marksmanship makes it perfect, reaching the peak, floating like a frightening dragon, like a swimming dragon, unparalleled in the real world." ”

Zhao Yundao: "The lord has won the award." ”

Liu Ze took another green steel sword and handed it to Zhao Yundao: "Although this green steel sword is not a divine weapon, it is also made of the finest dark iron, which is extremely sharp, and it will give you the right to defend yourself." ”

The green steel sword is like a flood of autumn water, at a glance, you will know that it is a good sword, Zhao went to take the sword in his hand, and said: "Zhao Yun has not made an inch, the lord will give the BMW famous weapon, and the cloud is ashamed, and he is willing to be a pawn of the horse, in order to repay the grace of the lord." ”

Liu Ze said solemnly: "Zhao Yun listened to the order, immediately packed his bags, and set out with me in three days." ”

Zhao Yun was overjoyed, said goodbye, and went back to prepare. Liu Ze also returned to the big tent and ordered the herald to summon all the high-level personnel to the big tent to discuss matters.

Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Jia Xu, Guan Hai, Pan Feng, Wu Anguo, Zhou Cang and Zhao Yun arrived successively. Zhao Yun was specially notified by Liu Ze, and since then, he has also entered the core management of Phoenix Valley on behalf of Zhao Yun.

"Big brother, is there someone violating military regulations again?" Zhang Fei shouted loudly as soon as he entered the door.

Liu Ze glanced at him angrily, there are so many mouths here.

"The three chapters of military law have long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the military, I am afraid that no one has the courage to challenge the authority of military law with their lives, even if there are occasional traitors and criminals, they can be dealt with by one person in front of them, so why do they need to be so mobilized. Well, the main purpose of this meeting is to discuss the opening of a new base area. ”

Liu Ze ordered someone to open a large map, the map was made on white silk, the mountains, rivers, cities, and roads were clear at a glance, although the more modern map was much simpler, but there is no doubt that this map was absolutely unique in the Three Kingdoms era.

"The situation in the Phoenix Valley is probably well known in my heart, the area is too narrow, and it can no longer accommodate more people, in view of this, I decided to open up a new base area, and the target is Mangdang Mountain in the territory of Peiguo, Yuzhou." Liu Ze pointed to the direction of Mangdang Mountain, and on the map, a striking red circle had already been drawn.

Zhang Fei wondered: "Why did you choose Mangdang Mountain?" Looks like at least a thousand miles, right? ”

Liu Ze smiled and said, "One thousand eight hundred and sixty miles." ”

Everyone muttered for a while, but Zhang Fei spoke first: "It's too far away from the Phoenix Valley, separated by two states, and you have to cross the Yellow River, so it's better to go to Youzhou to develop." ”

Guan Yu also said: "Phoenix Mountain is a little smaller, but it is not difficult to find a larger mountain nearby [village, why should the eldest brother go far?" ”

"At the beginning, the establishment of the Phoenix Valley was relatively hasty, and the main consideration was that it was near the kiln factory, which was easy to manage, but with the continuous expansion and development of our power, the limitations of the Phoenix Valley were exposed, and two years later Zhang Jiao rebelled, and the fall of the whole territory of Jizhou was inevitable, so the new base site must avoid the main battlefield of the Yellow Turban Army. Mangdang Mountain is a hundred miles in circumference, there is no problem with 100,000 Tibetan soldiers, this mountain is in the four regardless of the boundary, it is very advantageous that it is not under the jurisdiction of the court now, occupied by bandits and robbers, as long as we take Mangdang Mountain, defend it with danger, and the court has not committed any crimes, you can save a lot of trouble. ”

For strategic considerations, Liu Ze naturally has the highest right to speak, since he has set Mangdang Mountain, others naturally have nothing to say, so he enters the next agenda, how to enter Mangdang Mountain.

Liu Ze continued: "According to the latest intelligence, the mountain king of Mangdang Mountain is surnamed Liao Minghua, although he is only a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy, but he has gathered tens of thousands of people and repeatedly repelled the encirclement and suppression of the court army, and he is definitely not a figure to be underestimated. So I decided to mobilize the men and horses of Wu Anguo, Chen Gang, and Wang Meng to march into Mangdang Mountain. ”

The three thousand men and horses of these three parts are almost all the strength of the Phoenix Valley, but if you really want to fight against the ten thousand thieves on Mangdang Mountain who are guarding by danger, I don't know what chance Liu Ze has of winning? Everyone has doubts.

"Three thousand men and horses on the expedition, not a small number, this campaign is different from the expedition to Wohu Mountain, the last expedition to Wohu Mountain we had the military order of the Minister of Zhongshan, and the crossing is only two or three counties, this expedition to Mangdang Mountain across more than a dozen counties in the three states of Hebei, Yanyu and Henan, if you act with great fanfare, it will inevitably be suppressed by the court army, can the lord have a countermeasure?"

Jia Xu's words hit the nail on the head, 3,000 people and horses traveled across the state and county to Mangdang Mountain, isn't that looking for death? I'm afraid that if I can't cross the Yellow River, I will be wiped out by the imperial army.

Liu Ze smiled slightly and said: "Wen He is extremely worried, as for the countermeasures, there are them, but they are just repeating the old tricks." Divide the 3,000 people into zero, pretend to be a few caravans selling horses or goods, and by the way, you can bring sweaty horses over, and all the teams will gather in Shuangpingji, north of Mangdang Mountain, and then change their clothes. Although there are many checkpoints on the road, the inventory may not be very strict, as long as each checkpoint is a few taels of gold, customs clearance is not a problem at all. ”

Liu Ze naturally saw the corruption of the officials of the Han Dynasty very thoroughly, and no one cared about the caravan carrying a large number of ordnance, even if the individual checkpoints were very detailed, it was just a matter of spending a few taels of gold.

Everyone nodded yes, Liu Ze didn't cause much trouble when he marched into the Western Regions last time, so it can be seen that it is still feasible to pretend to be a caravan. The plan for the expedition has been preliminarily decided, as for the specific tactical arrangements, I am afraid that it will only be possible to implement it after arriving at Shuangpingji, as for the tens of thousands of bandits, Liu Ze did not take it to heart, intelligence shows that most of the tens of thousands of people are women and children, even if half of them are young and strong, the equipment is extremely inferior, and it is basically not a threat, and the slight difficulty is the long-distance expedition, the difficulty of supply, and the unfavorable conditions of unfamiliar terrain, it seems that only when the terrain is unfamiliar will be adjusted.

In the end, it was agreed that Guan Hai Panfeng would stay in the Phoenix Valley, and the rest of the people would be included in the list of expeditions, and Liu Ze, Jia Xu, and Zhang Fei would lead the first team, pretending to be a caravan of horse sellers, and a thousand sweat and blood horses would be brought in it, because of the five hundred Dawan horsemen, the number of soldiers in the first team was not large, Guan Yu, Zhao Yun, Wu Anguo, Chen Gang, and Wang Meng each led a team, each team of five or six hundred people, pretending to be a caravan selling goods, and the war horses were used to pull the cart, and the armor and weapons were all hidden in the mezzanine of the vehicle.

originally wanted Zhang Fei to lead a team of people, but then he thought about it, with Zhang Fei's fiery temper, it wouldn't be bad if something unpleasant broke out on the road, so he still took it with him to the safety point. Liu Ze told the commanders of each team to keep a low profile, but never use force for anything that can be solved with money, and focus on the overall situation, and all teams should not be separated by more than 50 miles, and once there is something to do, they can take care of each other.

After arranging a qiē, Liu Ze led the first team to take the lead. Because he carried a thousand sweaty horses, Liu Ze chose a more remote road as much as possible, and stayed overnight, although there were some robbers on the road, but there were not many of them, Liu Ze directly ignored them, fortunately, those robbers were still smart, although the sweat and blood horses were expensive, but compared to their lives, it was not worth it, and seeing Liu Ze's strong team, they could only retreat in spite of difficulties.

All the way through the Yellow River, into the territory of Yanzhou, seeing that it is not far from Mangdang Mountain, there was a little accident when passing through Chen Liu at this time. Originally, it was the city gate order that set up a card to check at the city gate, and a petty official with a salary of fifty stones, who was already flashed by Liu Ze with a few taels of gold, and was about to let go, when a person behind him shouted: "Wait!" ”

Liu Ze looked back and saw that a man dressed as a military attache came galloping with a team of patrols, which frightened the city gate Ling Ling. But seeing that the military attache glanced at the city gate order, he shouted: "Bastard things, dare to let them go without inspection, and dereliction of duty, are you guilty?" ”

When he heard this, he almost sat down on the ground. Liu Ze took a step forward and said: "General, we are all law-abiding merchants, and we are passing through your land today, so please make it convenient." ”

The military attache looked at Liu Ze and snorted, "Law-abiding businessman? Hmph, I see that you are clearly entering the city with a murderer, plotting against you, coming and taking them all down! ”

His soldiers Hu Lala surrounded him, showed his swords and guns, surrounded the caravan, and as soon as he saw that the officers and soldiers were about to move, Liu Ze's troops were willing to be captured, and showed their short knives and weapons to confront them.

But the military attache clearly held the handle and said proudly: "If you really have a murder weapon in your hand and have bad intentions, arrest them all." ”

Zhang Fei was furious and shouted: "What kind of birdman are you, dare to arrest your Grandpa Zhang!" ”

Liu Ze pressed him down and bowed his hand: "Dare to ask what the general is called?" ”