After the meeting, Lao Ling took Wang Rui, Zhou Zhe and Yuan Fang brothers to the arsenal, all kinds of well-preserved weapons plastered with grease were listed in the arsenal, spears, arrows from giant crossbows on the city wall, and disassembled trebuchets.

"Lao Ling, you have a lot of stock, we can take it if we can take it?"

"Yes, there are siege chiselings, as long as you think that your fifteen hundred people can be carried to the Spirit Medium Mountain, you can take it!" Lao Ling put his hands behind his back and looked disdainful.

"Master Yuan, Master Fang, both of them are masters of Dao patterns and runes, I saw a kind of array in the book that can make objects lighter, I wonder if the two of you can make this catapult lighter?" Zhou Zhe obviously wanted to make Lao Ling laugh, but the answer he got made him stunned, and Yuan Yuan was a serious Taoist

"Naturally, although this catapult is not very strong, it is still feasible to engrave the formation on the chassis, and if it uses a bottle of spiritual liquid as the source of spiritual power, it can save a lot of trouble. As soon as he said this, Lao Ling was a little uneasy, and he obviously saw that the hair on the mole was trembling with the twitching belt of his face.

"Just kidding, just kidding, but I believe why Dashuai asked us to go to the Medium Mountain together, there are two masters, and I can wait for triumph. Lao Ling, this catapult is naturally not used, I think everyone has a bow and crossbow, and there is another one, what should I do if I cross the river?" Zhou Zhe never hesitated to praise him

"There are crossbows, but they don't cross the river? When you go north, the ice of the glacier can still pass people, and if you return triumphantly, you can swim to cross the river where the water is slow upstream. I have some wolf skins here, if I am afraid that the war will last for a long time, I will find someone to sew it up, one is to keep out the cold, and the other is to swim across the river, if there is poor water, blow full of air, tie the mouth, and it can be safe. ”

"Lao Ling, you are really a logistics genius, you can think of this idea. Zhou Zhe was just going to find some pigs, horses, cattle and sheep bladders, but now he has a better choice. Before he had time to cheer, he heard Lao Ling say again

"This stitching is manpower, my logistics camp can still carry and repair it, this stitching manpower has to go to the refugee camp to find, as for this money!!! "Okay! Wait for me here!"

"Hey, our battalion, more than 1,500 people eat horses. Before Zhou Zhe finished speaking, Lao Ling spoke again

"I also understand your difficulties, there are still some pig bladders in the warehouse, and I was going to make water bladders, but the taste is a bit big. ”

"Okay, okay, okay, just wolf skin, how about two hundred taels of silver?" Zhou Zhe thought to himself, anyway, at most 1,500 sheets, no one will work overtime. Unexpectedly, Lao Ling was not polite, turned sideways, and raised his head at a forty-five degree angle of disdain.

"Three hundred!" Lao Ling continued to change his angle.

"Five hundred!" Zhou Zhe was also helpless, the county official might as well be in charge now, Lao Ling turned around.

"Well, you have to be willing to do things, and you have to give up to get it, and I will prepare it for you in three days. But say in advance, you have to pay the money later, and if you don't give money, how can the refugees be motivated. I'll do it for you, if there is a problem with the quality, I'll do it for you with my own money. Lao Ling's words can be regarded as a reassurance to Zhou Zhe. Zhou Zhe nodded, holding an arrow of a cavalry crossbow in his hand, rubbing it carefully, feeling the smooth touch of the arrow and the simple road pattern left by the mold when the arrow was built, and then turned back to ask Brother Yuan Fang

"Two masters, this matter may be a little abrupt, I don't know if the two of you may improve a batch of arrows, if you encounter a strong enemy, this simple arrow may be difficult to use. Although Fang Fang was respectful in front of Lao Chen, he was also a young man, and he was not used to being called a master by others, so he picked up the arrow and looked at it and said

"You don't have to call me a master of the two, I can't wait for you to be a few years old, although this arrow is well-made, but the Dao pattern is engraved on the mold after all, and it has lost a bit of spirituality, if it is improved, it may take a long time, in this way, I will take a few crossbows and arrows, to try to improve, you are responsible for getting me some spiritual liquid, you are also a rune master who has entered the set, and it is very consuming to carve runes. "Fang Fang didn't ask for silver, he wanted a spiritual liquid that was more expensive than silver, but this had to be given, if he didn't climb the technology tree, how could he arm his soldiers to the teeth.

In the next few days, Zhou Zhe felt that he was really a poor man, fortunately, the spoils of war before the year were not shared, and as soon as he had a meeting with a few centurions to talk about the matter, Zhou Zhe ran with silver and spiritual liquid at both ends to see the sewing of wolf skins, and then to see what the Yuan Fang brothers had changed the bow and crossbow to. He also discussed with Lao Ling and exchanged silver for a lot of dried fruits, after all, he was prepared, even in the spring, he couldn't expect Beiyuan to grow fruits, and he ate dried meat every day, I was really afraid that they would have something wrong with it.

Looking at the consumption rate of spiritual fluid and silver every day, Zhou Zhe was distressed at first, but on the third day, he saw 1,500 multi-purpose wolf skins designed by Lao Ling himself, Zhou Zhe felt that it was still cost-effective, and looked at the people who sent the skins over, and there was an old woman with a little granddaughter he had seen, so he felt that it was worth five hundred taels of flowers. Xin Chai disguised himself as a sergeant during the day, saw the little girl, and took out a handful of candy and snacks from his pocket, looking at the exquisite snacks and sweets Zhou Zhe wondered, where did this thing come from, but thieves also have "Tao", her way is wild!

After a few more days, it was already close to the Shangyuan Festival, and Fang Fang and Yuan Yuan finally came up with an improvement plan for their cavalry crossbows. In fact, these improvement plans have been there for a long time, and due to the cost, it is impossible for Longquan Pass to have a hand, even if it is a cavalry bow and crossbow, it needs to be exchanged for military merit or silver. In addition to leaving a few bottles as a backup for Xin Chai and Yuan Fang's brothers to heal and replenish their spiritual power, Zhou Zhe used all the spiritual liquid. The result was a cavalry crossbow of the same size and weight, with improved range and power. The school field test firing, even the elite armor of the wolf rider Praetorian Guard can be easily penetrated.

In order to deal with a single enemy above the fourth order that may appear, such as an opponent like Horton, Wang Rui's spear, Liu Dabeard's bow, and the cobwebs have also been improved, and of course the spice gift package of pepper and chili noodles with lime powder is indispensable.

Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed. was busy until the night of the Shangyuan Festival, and Zhou Zhe was really relieved.

Zhou Zhe's full preparation in the past few days has actually been seen by the generals, if it were them, it would be absolutely impossible to do it so comprehensively, of course, it also happened that Zhou Zhe had a large amount of spiritual liquid in his hands as a basis, and on the sixteenth day of the first month, Zhou Zhe was not given time to breathe, and 1,500 people were summoned to a small school field, which had been transformed by Qu Hui, saying that it was Chen Yuanhou's order, and a big pit was filled with a mixture of water and ice, which was the most cold and biting. Qu Hui on the school field is wearing a single coat and his bright bald head is particularly eye-catching

"Boys, you have caught up with the spring training this time, go to the North Plains, cross the river to the north, swimming across the river is the most dangerous, if there is a hindrance in front of the enemy, and there are pursuers in the back, you will become a live arrow target in the water, even if you don't, this glacier is not a joke, freezing can freeze people to death. Qu Hui took out a leg of mutton out of nowhere and knocked it on the table, and suddenly the minced meat and bones fell to the ground, and then continued:

"The sheep has been frozen for a long time, if you have been frozen for a long time, you will not die or be disabled, I hope you will come back with all the shadows, this training will be useful, I will prepare ginger soup for you, everyone go down!" Qu Hui did not ink, first taught everyone to rub some snow on their bodies, which could get hot, and then put their feet in, and then submerged their whole bodies, and for a time the whole school was crying wolf.

A few days of soaking in ice water is just adaptive training, and next, it is the training of swimming across the river with equipment, dozens of catties of ice are transported from east to west by everyone, and then transported from west to east, Zhou Zhe's face is frozen hard, Liu Dabeard, who is not even idle to eat, is speechless, and fights as soon as he opens his teeth, Wang Rui doesn't say anything, Gao Leng is still cold, but this time it is really cold, stubborn little eyes with pale face can go to ghost movies without makeup, Zhou Zhe asked him why don't you use spiritual power to protect your body, Wang Rui replied very simply, if the spiritual power has been exhausted when crossing the river, others can hold on and you can't hold on to the morale of the army will be lost。 The happiest among the 1,500 people is probably Lin Xiaoer, and he doesn't see him with rough skin and thick meat, and going down to the glacier is like bathing in a bathhouse, and he doesn't know where to go and bring a fish into the water. As a result, Qu Hui found out about this matter, did not punish Lin Xiaoer, and praised your kid for being very talented, and then a group of people knew how hateful Lin Xiaoer was.

Qu Hui informed Lao Ling, invited a few auxiliary soldiers who knew how to fish, and I don't know where to find a bunch of live crabs and throw them into the glacier.

For more than half a month, the recruits and veterans spent this kind of torment, soaking in ice water together during the day, applying wound medicine together at night, eating hot pot, Lao Ling's logistics gave Zhou Zhe an ominous premonition, and this trip may be extremely dangerous.

The snow on the ground is decreasing day by day, and Longquan Pass has been opened and closed at the end of the Shangyuan Festival, Lao Ling is almost the busiest person in Longquan Pass, distributing seeds to refugees, and letting the auxiliary soldiers go to various villages to clean up the corpses left out before the year and prepare materials for spring training.

When the dragon raised his head, Zhou Zhe's 1,500 people were on vacation, and everyone also knew that this was preparing to go north, and they were arranging their own family affairs, and most of the sergeants in Longquanguan were children of good families, and most of them were from families, and only Zhou Zhe, Lin Xiaoer, Wang Rui, and Liu Dabeard were left in the courtyard. As for Xin Chai, no one knows where he is at the moment.

The four of them made a bunch of food, wine and food, and began to eat at noon, until after the afternoon, they said very little, even if they were as talkative as Liu Dabeard, they didn't say much, he also noticed the danger of this battle, Wang Rui just silently peeled peanuts, as if he was drinking alcohol. Lin Xiaoer just didn't speak, he could feel the dullness of the atmosphere.

Looking at the deserted courtyards around him, he didn't dare to think about how many people would come back after going north, for fear that these courtyards would remain so deserted in the future

"Brothers, if there is anything that has not been done, go and do it! Time is running out. ”

"Team Wang, do you have it? I don't have it anyway!" Liu Dabeard was the first to speak.

"Hmm!!!" Wang Rui groaned for a long time without another word.

"Liu Dabeard, I still remember the last time you looked at other people's girls, don't you go to say goodbye to others?" Zhou Zhe felt that it was too late to go at this time, otherwise he didn't know when he would come back, or even come back, maybe when he came back, Li Jiuyang and the little maid had already returned to Beijing. Liu Dabeard was also silent for a moment before replying

"Still not going, I just don't think I deserve her. Don't add to the annoyance of others. ”

"Okay, brothers, there are no outsiders today, when you arrive in Beiyuan, if the situation is too dangerous, even if the task is not completed, don't lose your life. Zhou Zhe raised his head and drank the last glass of wine and left the courtyard.

On the sentry tower, I found a place where no one was around, and watched the sun set, and in the plain far away from Longquan Pass, there were already scattered peasants working. Maybe the peasants work for a bite to eat, but he Zhou Zhe doesn't know where his path is. After waking up after entering the Spirit Grass that day, what was the corpse mountain, blood sea and earth fission that he saw, and what was the five-clawed golden dragon blood in the sky and the towering buildings in the sky. Zhou Zhe knew that it would definitely not be a dream, although each image was vague, it was real, it seemed to be his own memory, even if it was the array on his back, it was a mystery. And he has a feeling, this feeling is especially obvious when the body is hot, and the answer is in the Medium Mountain. So he is actively preparing, otherwise with his personality, he may have left a long time ago, just afraid of taking these thousands of lives.