The defeat is irretrievable.

Wang Ling blocked on the left and right, facing the soldiers of Li Yuan's army who were in a raging spirit, and the demoralized soldiers of Liu only resisted for a while, that is, they did not flee in defeat.

Unlike Qi Gill's unreserved all-out shot, Wang Ling, who was suspicious of the smooth outcome of the battle from the beginning, finally left a little capital for himself to save his life.

From Hanzhong all the way to follow Wang Ling's headquarters soldiers to escort Wang Ling from Chencang all the way to Lantian defeated, more than 4,000 generals in the pursuit of Li Yuanjun, and finally fled back to only more than 500 people, which made Wang Ling see Liu Bang's general Zhou Yan stationed in Lantian Pass, couldn't help but feel sad.

Li Yuan won a big victory.

It was a battle, which lasted a short period of ten days, annihilating more than 8,000 soldiers of the Liu army who came to attack, and killing a total of 21 generals such as Qi Gill and other generals of the enemy, including three Qiang barbarian generals, among the enemy generals, only three or four people such as Wang Ling escaped.

After the victory of Chencang, Li Yuan immediately waved his troops straight to Jiang Shui and Ji Shui, and the Qiang tribes in these two places were encouraged by Qi Gill and launched a rebellion, and now it was time for the Qiang people to reap the consequences.

In May, Li Yuan led the army to sweep the Liangshui Valley, and the Jiang tribe resisted stubbornly, but was wiped out by Li Yuan's army.

In the face of Li Yuan's revenge killing, the tribes that saw the opportunity to move westward early rolled up their tents early, and those who were reluctant to leave and did not want to surrender and submit were killed, and the women served as maids.

The battle between ethnic groups for the right to subsistence and land rights has always been bloody and naked, and at this point, Li Yuan advocates not the practice of integrating Huairou as in later generations, but ruthless iron and blood and conquest.

Obedient, let you survive.

If you are disobedient, then completely erase it, this is the law of survival of this shijie.

The competition is brutal.

If you don't want to be left behind, you don't want to be killed, you must be cold and can afford to hold a butcher's knife.

As soon as the Qiang people were defeated, Yongzhou, Shanggua, and Wugong counties were all owned by Li Yuan, and with the example of Liliang, the young men and healthy women who migrated from the Guanzhong area began to reclaim and sow seeds along the fertile land of the river valley, sprinkling hope, looking forward to reaping the fruits in the coming day.

Different from the sowing of millet in previous years, this year, at the insistence of Li Yuan, the grain crops sown by the people in the Yongzhou area are wheat that has just been promoted on a pilot basis.

The earliest cultivation of wheat began in the Middle East, introduced into China and began to promote in the Warring States Period, after the unification of the six countries of Qin, in the Guanzhong Plain, the planting area of wheat has expanded a lot compared with the past, however, because the fruit of wheat is pulpy, if you want to grind into powder, you need to have a stone plate for grinding wheat.

Compared with other complex inventions, the grinding stone plate is not difficult for Li Yuan to make, and there are enough craftsmen from Xianyang all the way to the Great Qin Army who retreated to Yongzhou with Li Yuan, and they will naturally not have any idea of resistance to Li Yuan's proposal, in fact, it is the honor of the craftsmen to be able to do something for Li Yuan, the great hero of the Qin State to turn the tide.

Qishan, west.

Soldiering.

It gathered the most talented and capable group of craftsmen in the Qin State. Some of the county craftsmen who Sima Yin withdrew from Luoyang, plus more than 200 craftsmen made by the Xianyang soldiers, rekindled the fire in Qishan and cut down the wages to smelt iron.

The craftsmen of military construction are generally divided into four categories: master craftsmen, craftsmen, craftsmen, and craftsmen. The distinction is measured by the level of the jishu, and it is absolutely impossible to falsify this aspect.

They have no name, and the only place to leave their names is to inscribe the year, number, and their own name on the weapon, not to show off, but to prevent quality problems from being traceable.

In the vast war machine of the Qin State, the role played by military construction was extraordinary. Its existence has given the millions of Qin troops a unified weapon and a unified equipment. This made the Qin army have a greater sense of honor and a stronger desire to win in the battle with the armies of the six Kwantung countries.

One day in mid-May, under the personal guidance of Li Yuan, the stonemasons of the military began to make a strange stone grinding disc.

According to Li Yuan's account, the stone disc he saw was superimposed with two large and small stone disks that were hewn into a circle, and then the center of the stone plate was dug into a ball, and a solid stone sphere was installed on the central axis, and several funnel-shaped holes were drilled on the small stone plate, so that when the wheat fruit in the bamboo tube above fell from the small hole, under the squeezing of the two stone plates, the shell of the fruit was squeezed out, and the powdered kernels inside were squeezed out of the stone plate little by little.

When the first season of spring wheat is ripe in November, the people of Yongzhou can use the turning stone plate to grind the wheat into flour, and the flatbread made with the flour of wheat will be the main food of the northerners after a few years.

After instructing the stonemason, in terms of details, he had his own craftsman to grind, and he didn't need Li Yuan, a layman, to say anything more, accompanied by Sima Yin, Li Yuan then came to the workshop where the weapons were made.

Mo Shi is a young craftsman in the military construction.

Like other craftsmen, entering the craftsman gate, generally speaking, it is passed on from generation to generation, and the father passes the jishu to the next generation, and then to the hands of the grandchildren.

Count the ancestors of Mo Shi, famous, the famous sword-casting master Ou Yezi in the Spring and Autumn Period is his ancestor, and the two famous swordsmen of Ganjiang and Mo Ye are his great-great-great-grandparents, with the frequent wars, after several generations, the Mo Shi clan began to migrate from the south of the Yangtze River to Guanzhong, and eventually became a member of the famous Great Qin Army.

There are many craftsmen who have similar experience to Mo Shi in military construction, and for craftsmen, a stable environment, sufficient raw materials, and good treatment are their primary considerations.

Not every craftsman will give his life to forge a peerless divine weapon like a cadre and Mo Ye, ordinary people think more about how to survive.

In Mo Shi's hand, he held a ring-headed big knife, and where the handle was held and the blade was rolled up, there were already some scorched black places, which were the traces of the burning fire.

After Jiang Cong's death, the ring head knife was captured by the Qin army, such a sharp weapon as the most important trophy, was solemnly sent to Li Yuan by Menghu, for Menghu, this battle was fought vividly, sweeping away the shadow of defeat a few months ago, compared with reinvigorating the confidence of the border army soldiers, a sharp weapon is nothing.

"Master Mo, take a look, can this knife be re-exercised?" Accompanied by Sima Yin, Li Yuan had just inspected the newly built craftsman's workshop, and after knowing that Mo Shi was Mo Ye and the descendant of the general, he immediately ordered someone to send the ring head knife over.

Mo Shi's face was cold, and he smiled disrespectfully, his eyes were tightly nailed to the somewhat deformed big knife in his hand: "Revisiting the smelting, plus more than 20 catties of good iron stone, it may be successful, but there is a sixty percent chance of damage." ”

"In this way, this knife will be placed in Master Mo first, and then forged when the iron and stone are found." Li Yuan nodded, Mo Shi didn't say anything big, the probability of sixty percent damage is also real, compared with the melting pot of later generations, the form of the handicraft workshop has too many uncertainties in terms of heat, time, and the spirit of the craftsman.

According to Li Yuan's knowledge, there are almost no large-scale iron and stone mines in the Yongzhou area of Neishi County, and the nearest iron mine from Yongzhou is the Zhashui mine located in the area of Lantian County, Zhashui is located in the south of the Qinling Mountains, and is currently occupied by Liu Bangjun.

Iron smelting, sword casting, at the same time, is also a very expensive job, with Li Yuan's existing conditions, mining mature copper ore, to create a batch of bronze weapons and farm tools, is the realistic strategy.