The Kunshan military camp is enough to accommodate more than 10,000 people, and it is a camp specially prepared by Dayan for training Yulin cavalry. Ji Qingchen rode out of the school field, he did not return to the city immediately, but came to the Chinese army tent in the camp. At this time, the big tent of the Chinese army had been cleaned up, the big bed in the center of the camp tent had been removed, and a few stools for the generals to discuss the military situation were placed, and a few brochures and handsome seals were placed on the handsome case, a map was hung on the wall, and a sand table was placed in the open space next to it.

When Ji Qingchen arrived at the handsome tent, the guards around him were guarding the surroundings outside the big tent, and only Zhang Rang and Guo Quan followed him into the big tent. Seeing the new big tent, he nodded with satisfaction, walked to the handsome chair in the center and sat down, and after a deep groan, he said to Guo Quan, "Brother Guo, there is nothing big about it here, now you can go back, the training of the 'iron suit' is the most important thing, and it must not be delayed!" ”

"No!" Guo persuaded the order and strode out of the big tent.

Only Ji Qingchen and Zhang Rang were left in the big tent. At this time, Ji Qingchen asked Zhang Rang, "Let you send someone to keep an eye on Jiang Rou, is there any news in the past few days?" ”

"Your Highness, Jiang Rou seems to have noticed that we are paying attention to her, so she has been staying in King Lu's Mansion and has not come out, and it is difficult for our people to get into King Lu's Mansion to spy on her, so we haven't gotten any useful information to determine the purpose of her coming to King's Landing." Zhang Rang whispered in a dejected voice.

For Zhang Rang's answer, Ji Qingchen had already been mentally prepared, Jiang Rou was a secret guard who had been trained away from the country for more than ten years, and the people Zhang Rang sent to monitor her were all a group of people who had not been systematically trained, so let a few people monitor Jiang Rou, what useful information could they get? He estimated that Jiang Rou had already left King Lu's Mansion now, but Zhang Rang's subordinates didn't know what to do.

However, this also made Ji Qingchen a little annoyed, he didn't have a force around him that could be used, and now that he was staying in King's Landing, there were a lot of news that he wanted to hear but was always out of his reach, and there were many news that could not be delivered in time, making him feel like a blind man without eyes.

I can't sit back like this, I have to find a way to quickly establish a full-time intelligence agency, and I can't wait for Guo Quan's "iron suit"! Thinking of this question, Ji Qingchen frowned. After a long time, he said to Zhang Rang, "After you go back in the evening, you can discuss with Guo Quan, and first select thirty capable people from the six hundred people trained, and let them be in charge of our intelligence work in King's Landing with you!" ”

"Minions understand!" Zhang Rang bowed and replied.

"If you have talents in this area, you can also recruit them into the 'Iron Suit', you can just discuss it with Guo Quan. You have to remember that as long as he is a useful person to us, no matter what his background is, what kind of crimes he has committed before, as long as he can change his ways and be willing to serve me, I can be blamed for all his previous crimes. After thinking about it, Ji Qingchen made up his mind and said.

In order to be able to improve the strength of the monitoring around him in a short period of time, he had no other way but to strengthen himself through this method of taking the sword sideways. As for whether the rash use of such a group of people would cause him unnecessary trouble in the future, he didn't care about it now.

Zhang Rang suddenly heard Ji Qingchen say this, his body trembled, and his face showed a look of surprise, but it was only a flash, and he regained his composure and respectfully agreed.

Then Ji Qingchen didn't say anything more, and began to look through the account books of the ordnance, war horses, food supplies and other items in the battalion placed on the handsome case, the military department gave him a battalion of soldiers and horses, and did not send a military affairs Sima and the like to join the army.

In the past, when he left the country as a hostage, he followed Li Qingyi to deal with military affairs, and now he is familiar with these military affairs when he sees them again, and he will finish them before noon.

At noon, he had a brief chat with Bai Xiangcheng about the current combat effectiveness of the soldiers of this battalion. Bai Xiangcheng had already roughly understood the strength of this group of gentlemen through the morning's training, and he handed Ji Qingchen a piece of paper with many names written on it and said, "Your Highness, these people above are of great use, as long as they take time, they will definitely become brave generals in the army, and they may even become generals." ”

Seeing that Bai Xiangcheng had such a high evaluation of these people, Ji Qingchen took the thin piece of rice paper and looked at the names of the people on it seriously, he was already calm enough, but when he saw the names of the people on the rice paper, his brows frowned slightly. Because there are the names of Li Changzheng and Wang Yin, in addition to that: Liu Qingqing, Hou Xiaotian, Yang Zhixing, Zuo Zongquan, Cao Yukun, Zhou Shun, Lin Ping. There is no need for Bai Xiangcheng to explain Ji Qingchen anymore, none of the people on this piece of paper are the children of Pingming, they are all the children of the family. He was convinced of Bai Xiangcheng's ability, but he would not believe that the children of these clans in front of him could become brave generals or generals in the army in the future.

Bai Xiangcheng noticed the expression on Ji Qingchen's face, and he knew the doubts in Ji Qingchen's heart, so he said with a smile, "Your Highness's eyes on these people seem to be a bit one-sided!" ”

It's like Bai Xiangcheng who is arrogant and uninhibited that he dares to accuse Ji Qingchen like this from time to time.

"What does Brother Xiang Cheng mean?" Ji Qingchen asked. He was not a self-righteous person, since he knew that Bai Xiangcheng could say so, he was sure that Bai Xiangcheng would give a reasonable explanation for his opinion.

"Your Highness, maybe these people have made a lot of mistakes before, just like Your Highness said, they bully men and women on weekdays, bully unarmed people, and go to casinos and brothels to do all kinds of evil. But has Your Highness ever thought about their lives before they became the sons of gentlemen? The children of Dayan's family, boys must start practicing martial arts at the age of six, and must learn qin, chess, calligraphy and painting at the age of eight, and they will continue to adhere to this life until they are crowned at the age of sixteen before they can become teachers. Bai Xiangcheng explained unhurriedly, "The time period between the ages of six and sixteen is the most critical moment in a person's growth, and during this time period, they have been systematically trained by their own families, such as bows and horses, like swords, guns, swords, sticks, etc., they already have a good foundation, and they have naturally learned a lot of tactics in the art of war. That's why His Royal Highness will find out that today only nobles can produce generals, and civilians can only produce soldiers. ”

"Brother Xiang Cheng means that they are all jade, as long as we can carefully carve them, they will definitely become beautiful jade that shines in the world in the future?" Ji Qingchen had already understood the meaning of Bai Xiangcheng's words, so he asked with interest.

"Yes!" Bai Xiangcheng said with certainty, "But it's not His Highness who said that these ten people, it's this battalion people." ”

Seeing that Ji Qingchen was a little unconvinced, Bai Xiangcheng said to him with confidence, "Your Highness, Xiang Cheng has already tested them once in the morning, and found that the riding skills of the 1,200 people in the Xiao Cavalry Battalion are very exquisite, and the weapons they use immediately are still horse lances, and everyone has been immersed in horse lances for ten years. This means that as long as His Royal Highness can Xiang Cheng for a year, Xiang Cheng will not only be able to train His Royal Highness to train the ten tiger generals written above Li Changzheng, Wang Yin, etc., but also train His Royal Highness to train a terrified Tie Gewei like Beirong who followed the crown prince ten years ago. ”

Bai Xiangcheng was very excited when he said this, because ten years ago, the three thousand Tie Gewei beside Ji Chengqian, the prince of Dayan, were trained by Bai Xiangcheng's father, and they were a horse that was comparable to the tiger and leopard riding that left the country.

The lance was a noble weapon, very expensive, and difficult to make. It is a valuable weapon since the founding of Dayan, and its length and material are standard. If you want to make a horse lance, there are fixed standards for length, weight, and focus (center of gravity). Not to mention that the forging and stacking process of the lance head is too complicated and cumbersome, and there is a slight difference in the forging process, and the whole lance will be scrapped. Normally, the weight of a horse lance is about 20 to 40 catties, and the weight of a person with slightly larger arm strength is about 60 catties.

Secondly, the horse lance has very high requirements for the lance, and the production process of the lance is also very cumbersome, the lance of the horse lance is not made of pig iron, and the hardwood such as toughness is made by special technology, and the toughness wood is used as the bow for the topwood, followed by mulberry, oak, rattan, and the worst has to use bamboo. The main trunk of the finest tough wood is peeled off and glued together. It is also necessary to soak the fine scorn in oil repeatedly. The bubble is no longer deformed, no longer cracked. This is the first step.

This process takes almost a year, after which the strips are removed and dried in the shade for several months. Then glue with high-quality glue paint to form a handful of thick, eight feet long, and then wrap the outer layer of hemp rope. Wait for the hemp rope to dry thoroughly, apply raw lacquer, and wrap it in arrowroot cloth. Dry a layer and wrap a layer until you cut it with a knife, and the mallet makes a metallic sound, but it does not crack, so it is qualified.

At this time, the hardness of the lance is definitely not worse than that of pig iron, or even surpassed. Then go to its head and tail, truncated to about four feet. The front is equipped with a three-foot stainless steel lance, and the rear is equipped with a one-foot red copper lance. Constantly adjusted, the qualified standard is to use a hemp rope to hang two feet away from the tail of the lance, the whole Zhangba horse lance can be suspended in mid-air like a weighing rod, the end of the head and tail does not fall. In this way, the military commander can ride on the horse, so that he can maintain the balance of the lance without the slightest effort.

And the lance thus made is light, tough, and strong. Generals can charge with horsepower, or swing them in melee combat. It's just that the whole lance takes three years, and the success rate is only 40%, so the cost is surprisingly high. Therefore, since the founding of Dayan, Ma Lance has always been a symbol of the generals from the family.

And the most important point is that the person who uses the horse lance, a person wants to make the pole lance move like a rabbit, but it is as stable as Mount Tai, there is a tendency that people cannot escape the pressure, and it cannot be achieved without ten years of hard work. And now the 1,200 soldiers in his battalion are all skilled in horsemanship, and they are all good at practicing lance for ten years, Ji Qingchen, who suddenly heard the news, was also stunned for a moment, and then immediately came back to his senses, and immediately asked Bai Xiangcheng excitedly, "Brother Xiangcheng, what you said is true?" Can you be sure? ”

"Since ancient times, there has been no joke in the army, Xiang Cheng is already a soldier, how can he deceive His Highness with wild words?" Bai Xiangcheng said seriously.

"Ha Lu Ha - I really didn't expect to lose the mulberry elm and still be able to harvest the east." Ji Qingchen laughed wildly, looking in the direction of King's Landing, he secretly said to himself, "I'm afraid you will be disappointed with this result!" ”

In an instant, he immediately bowed to Bai Xiangcheng, "Brother Xiang Cheng, in the future, these Ten Tiger Generals and Tie Ge Camp will look at Brother Xiang Cheng!" ”

"Your Highness—" Bai Xiangcheng didn't dare to accept Ji Qingchen's big gift, and immediately assured Ji Qingchen, "Xiang Cheng will definitely live up to His Highness's expectations!" ”

"Yes!" Ji Qingchen nodded with satisfaction when he heard Bai Xiangcheng's answer.

Imagine how impactful it would be if 1,200 men were all lances and charged on horseback. As long as the battle is carried out on the plains, it is a hedge against the departing tiger and leopard riders, and I am afraid that it will not be left behind!

"Shu'er, you must wait for Brother Qingchen-" Ji Qingchen stood with his hands in his hands, quietly looking in the northwest direction and muttered to himself.

At this moment, a long-lost smile appeared on his face.