Chapter 208: Northern Mineral Deposits
White Tiger Village Chen Da's request for help, only Moyunzhai Shan Xiongfei sent troops.
The two joined forces with 10,000 green forests and successfully repelled Xue Yi.
Several other village owners who were in danger, seeing this scene, also immediately attached themselves to Shan Xiongfei.
In this way, the combined army of Shan Xiongfei and Chen Da suddenly reached 20,000 people, and Xue Yi's army of 30,000 fought against each other.
Now, in the central cottage, there are only seven or eight village owners left, and they are at a loss.
Xue Yi saw that he couldn't gnaw at Shan Xiongfei's forces for the time being, so he could only retreat to the next best thing and annex the remaining remnants of the cottage master.
These seven or eight village owners, faced with such a situation, dispersed in a hurry.
There are 2 village owners who choose to take the initiative to submit to Xue Yi, and 3 village owners who choose to join the Shan Xiongfei camp and continue to fight against Xue Yi.
The other 3 village owners directly brought all the people to Lin Yuan.
These three village owners were still co-opted by Li Ying.
Looking at the chaotic commotion and the beginning of civil strife in the central Dahong Mountain, Yang Ye directly stopped the army and let them continue to fight internally.
Lin Yuan is also happy to see it come to fruition.
Lenin was right, the fortress is easiest to storm from within!
While allowing infighting in the central part of Dahong Mountain, Lin Yuan and the officials of the Ministry of Industry also began to arrange a large number of geologists and timber experts to enter Dahong Mountain to survey the mineral deposits and precious timber in the northern part of Dahong Mountain.
Timber experts, in particular, wept with joy after entering Dahong Mountain.
Because the trees here are all thousand-year-old trees, including cedar, cloud pine, and chestnut trees...... Many of them are towering into the sky and are superb beams of wood.
In addition, there are some very precious qualities, such as the Imperial Tree, Iron Power Wood.
Ironwood is an excellent material for shipbuilding.
Its material is comparable to gold and iron!
It is recorded in Mao Yuanyi's "Wubei Zhi" that the Guangdong ship was built with this material, and its hull was very huge, strong and resistant to wind and waves, and suitable for long-distance sailing.
Moreover, if the Guangdong ship collides with the Fu boat, the Fu ship can be smashed directly!
Because the material of the lucky ship is pine and fir, and the material of the Guangdong ship is iron wood.
After discovering Tieli Wood, Lin Yuan immediately sent troops to protect it, and mobilized carpenters to mine it.
"Lord Yu, there are a total of 53,078 trees in this piece of iron wood, of which about 300 have been matured!"
Listening to the official report of the Ministry of Engineering, Lin Yuan nodded.
300 trees means 300 ships!
Tieli wood was too precious, and Lin Yuan didn't plan to cut it all, so he ordered that it should only be mined for more than 500 years.
These 500-year-old, 100-meter-long, are the best choice for building a ship, or a three-masted gunboat.
Up to now, 6 Damingfu ships have been built, but none of the three-masted gunboats and building ships that are larger than the Damingfu ships have been built.
In addition to technology, there is the scarcity of materials.
Now that the shipbuilding has jade flags and poles, and the materials are also ironwood, the three-masted gunboat can finally be launched.
There was good news about timber, and the agreement of the mineral deposits was also pleasantly surprised.
After geologists surveyed the Dahong Mountain in the north, they found 142 iron mines, including 94 third-grade iron ores, 41 six-grade iron mines, 6 eight-grade iron mines, and 1 nine-grade iron mine.
The iron ore of the third grade and below, the ore produced, can only smelt the lower grade fine iron.
Inferior fine iron, suitable for forging bronze-level weapons, as well as daily necessities, such as iron plows, hoes, etc......
Iron ore of six grades and below, the ore produced can smelt medium-grade refined iron.
Medium-grade fine iron, suitable for forging silver-grade weapons, as well as special iron tools.
Iron ore of nine grades and below, the ore produced, can be smelted into high-grade fine iron.
High-grade fine iron, suitable for forging gold-level weapons.
At the same time, in the Jiupin iron ore, there is a chance to produce the best refined iron.
The finest fine iron is the material for forging purple gold weapons.
Lin Yuan didn't expect that the iron ore in Dahong Mountain was so rich.
6 eight-grade iron mines, plus 1 nine-grade iron mine, iron ore at least 40 million units, smelting high-grade refined iron is not less than 20 million units, enough to build 400,000 troops of gold-level equipment.
And that's just the northern part of the Dahong Mountains.
Not even one-third of the size of Dahong Mountain.
It is conceivable how huge the mineral deposits of Dahongshan are.
In addition to iron ore, 32 copper mines, 8 silver mines, and 1 gold mine have been discovered.
Since ancient times, copper, silver, and gold have been money.
With these mineral deposits, Lin Yuan's territory does not need to worry about money in a short period of time.
There are also some tungsten ore, tin ore...... These mineral deposits are all rare mineral deposits, and Lin Yuan has sent troops to protect them.
As for all kinds of precious medicinal materials, rare and exotic beasts, there are countless of them.
On July 25, the unrest in the central cottage finally subsided.
Xue Yi has been merged and integrated, and has already gained 40,000 soldiers, and Shan Xiongfei's combined army has nearly 30,000 troops.
Two waves of forces, hating each other.
At the same time, he was very afraid of Lin Yuan's army on the north side and the west side.
The tripartite army, no one dared to strike first.
Just as the three sides were at a stalemate, another spoiler reappeared.
Zhong Ziang is gone and back!
I don't know what means he used, but he actually made the 18 village owners in the south of Dahong Mountain bow down to their subordinates.
Zhong Ziang integrated the forces of the southern green forest and made a comeback with 10,000 green forests.
His arrival immediately won the support of Cui Juan and Xue Yi.
The three of them were integrated, and all of them were under the command of Zhong Ziang, so that Zhong Ziang's troops broke through to 65,000 people, forming a crushing trend for Shan Xiongfei's forces.
Zhong Ziang's idea was very straightforward, that is, to merge Shan Xiongfei's forces, and then fight a decisive battle with Lin Yuan.
It's just that Lin Yuan will never allow such a thing to happen.
As soon as he learned that Zhong Ziang had gone and returned, Lin Yuan sent Dai Zong, Li Ying and others to contact Shan Xiongfei and try to recruit them.
However, Shan Xiongfei refused on the grounds that he had not defeated them.
Lin Yuan also sent people to spread rumors among the people controlled by Zhong Ziang and publicize the benefits of taking refuge in him.
This plan is really useful.
Of the more than 1 million people controlled by Zhong Ziang, many of them were tempted.
Some people began to leave the cottage and prepare to go outside Dahong Mountain.
Moreover, the number of people who think this way is increasing.
In the end, Zhong Ziang had to send troops to suppress and forcibly detain the people.
It's just that he did this, which completely caused the dissatisfaction of the people, and at the instigation of well-intentioned people, a large number of people have begun to gather to resist.
At this time, Yang Ye led the army to advance.
Wei Yan, Xin Qiji and other generals attacked at multiple points, captured several cottages, and rescued a group of people who were imprisoned.
Zhong Ziang immediately sent Xue Yi to lead 20,000 green forests, and went north to refuse to defend various key roads to resist the Flying Bear Army and continue to move south.
In order to avoid long nights and dreams, he himself personally commanded 45,000 people and directly launched the final battle against Shan Xiongfei.
The two sides had a fierce confrontation in the area of Moyunling.
Zhong Ziang led his troops to launch a general attack on Moyunling from three directions, southeast and west.
Both sides committed tens of thousands of troops, and casualties continued to rise.