(Thanks to xinyunshu for the monthly pass, woo woo ~~~~~~)

However, after nearly half a month of busyness, although Lu Chen has dark circles and eye bags, the harvest is not small.

Coal mines, cement kilns, and iron-smelting plants are ready. He's already contributed all the knowledge he can, and all that's left is waiting.

The Huns had already promised Lu Chen that they would only come to Mayi to sell horses, but it was not that the Huns were too righteous, but that Lu Chen was too generous. Lu Chen took advantage of the name of becoming the fast son-in-law of Huchuquan Chenglong, and asked those Xiongnu nobles to pass the word to those Xiongnu nobles that Lu Chen would sell horses in Mayi without tax, and they would also get some stirrups and horseshoes and even gunpowder from Lu Chen for free. And all Lu Chen wanted was to sell stirrups, horseshoes, and new saddles to the merchants on their war horses. Such a good thing, the Xiongnu nobles naturally would not refuse, and the Yanmen was already very close, so an agreement was quickly reached.

Xianbei people are vast and sparsely populated, and their relationship with Lu Chen is not too good, but after bribing a few nobles, they also agreed to sell horses in Yanmen.

In this way, the horse market in Yanmen began to take shape.

Then, Lu Chen wrote a letter to Zhen Yi, in which he said the benefits and disadvantages, and asked him to move a small part of the family business to Mayi, so that on the one hand, he could attend his wedding with Zhen Mi nearby, and on the other hand, he could also sell horses. Originally, the Zhen family did not sell horses, so there was some prevarication at first. But Lu Chen then said, if you don't support me, I will let Gongsun Zan send cavalry to wash Wuji County in blood, Scar Yuan is now exchanging chrysanthemums with Cao Baldzi, do you think he has the kung fu to take care of you? Zhen Yi immediately replied. said that Lu Chen was too outside, and he must support his son-in-law, and he would also pull familiar wealthy businessmen to Yanmen to build momentum for him, and squeeze out Wuhuan Horse and Xiliang Horse in the market.

The old man is very sensible, and Lu Chen is not stingy, promising that the first ten wealthy merchants who came to Yanmen to contact him will get the ordnance business, and it is still a permanent eight-percent discount price, Lu Chen's stirrup, horseshoe and new stirrup These cavalry equipment. is already very famous (only Cao Ren is still cursing Lu Chen, the guy who plagiarized his stirrup idea, will not die well). And bombs and artillery are good things coveted by the princes of the world, so Lu Chen planned to buy arms, and the rich businessmen were suddenly excited. Quickly began to prepare to go to Yanmen to do a big job.

Busy. Half a month has passed.

This afternoon. Lu Chen went to the Weapons Bureau in the city (the iron-smelting factory only smelts iron, at most it builds farm tools, but cannot forge blades. Weapon-making skills are extremely demanding, beyond the ability of ordinary blacksmiths to do it), to check the production of stirrups and horseshoes, and to go to the Shenhuo Bureau to check the quality of gunpowder and the number of bombs completed. After all, tomorrow is the day when Liu Bao comes to Mayi to get stirrups, horseshoes and bombs.

followed Lu Chen to run around for half a month, and Pang Tong also lost a lot of weight, and his figure was slightly better.

On the way home, seeing that Xiao Junhou was so tired that his back was a little stiff, Pang Tong couldn't help muttering: "We don't really want to give Liu Bao those things, it's just a lie to him, why should Xiao Junhou check?" Let's get some rest early. ”

Lu Chen shook his head and said: "These things still have to be given to Liu Bao, but they have to wait for him to be attached, otherwise, do you think the Huns really want their people to submit to me?" And don't want to swallow them? Can the senior cadres of Jinyang watch us swallow and slaughter all ethnic groups and grow stronger, and gradually become bigger in the state? These things can be regarded as things for Liu Bao to settle down, and they are also to show him our strength, so that he can sincerely and without worries to join me. Again, to give ourselves peace of mind. ”

Pang is a little unmatched, not a rough brother like Cao Xing, but seeing that Lu Chen was thinking too much and not in good spirits, he couldn't help but complain: "Isn't it just a little Liu Bao?" Can you be so calculated? It's better to put him under house arrest directly, can he still obey? ”

"Ahh ”

"Seven captures and seven columns?" Pang Tong was puzzled, and watched Lu Chen enter the courtyard gate, he muttered, "With Liu Bao's discipline, once you arrest him, he will have to surrender, and he will be captured seven times?" Why bother? Always say that you are busy and you are tired, you do it yourself! ”

Engaging in coal mine cement kilns or something, Lu Chen may feel tired, but against Liu Bao, Lu Chen will definitely not feel tired. Counting it, this is a leisure and entertainment project that he has prepared in advance, which is used to relieve the fatigue of this half month.

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Lu Chen finally relieved himself of the burden and handed over the coal mine and cement plant and road construction to Chen Gong, and handed over the iron-smelting plant and the Shenhuo Bureau to Pang Tong to take care of.

Taking advantage of his leisure, he summoned Lu Bu and the generals that night to learn about the reorganization of the army.

After all, Pang Tong knew about dealing with Liu Bao, and no one else, Lu Chen, had a prophet. Liu Bao will come to Yanmen tomorrow, although he only brought three hundred elite horses, but he will have to fight a few battles, and Lu Chen also reported by the way. Moreover, the said seven captures and seven columns, it is not possible to rely on Lu Chen's eighteen cavalry soldiers alone, and these generals must cooperate together.

Since half a month ago, after receiving the reward of the emperor, Yanmen's army has been reorganized, roughly according to the list reported by Lu Chen, but in fact, there is a lot of deficit.

The generals who had been busy for more than ten days gathered together, and before they were completely seated, they began to pour their bitter water.

Among them, the big one is Lu Chen's father, Lu Bu.

Lu Bu's personal soldiers, the name has to wait for Lu Bu to take it personally, but the preparation is 500 heavy armored cavalry. In fact, the soldiers only drew a hundred people from the Long Xiang, far less than five hundred, and they were personally trained by Lu Bu, and there was no weapon armor and horse armor

Zhang Liao's status is higher than that of other generals, this is what Lu Chen promised, as long as there is a war, he will be the commander of the three armies, nominally, even Lu Chen and Lu Bu will obey his planning and command. In peacetime, although he is responsible for the reorganization of all soldiers and horses, he is only responsible for the training of Longxiang's cavalry. And the number of places in the Longxiang army is three thousand, which is also heavy cavalry, but in fact, there are only a thousand soldiers. The armor was only less than three hundred pairs of heavy armor of the old dragon army, and there were even fewer horse armors, only a dozen.

Zhao Yun was in charge of the drill of the Tiger Ben light cavalry, which was the only fully manned unit, with 1,200 men and 3,600 horses. That's it, thanks to the 1,000 white horses and 2,000 war horses that Gongsun Zan rowed over at the beginning, and it is precisely because of this that Zhao Yun is the most suitable to be the general of the current Tiger Army. Light cavalry did not need heavy armor and horse armor, but the most important things were spears and bows.

The trapped camp is naturally still Gao Shun, Cao Cao returned more than 300 heavy armors, and the rest claimed to be damaged, and Lu Chen didn't have much to say, which was considered dead without proof. The quota of eight hundred was before the trap camp, but it was reduced to five hundred by Lu Chen, Gao Shun was naturally very dissatisfied with this, but he only recruited enough four hundred people, and Gao Shun was even more unhappy. Fortunately, Lu Chen asked him to take out one hundred from the four hundred traps, practice them to the death, and use them as special forces in the future, called the dead soldiers. Gao Shun, who knew Lu Chen's beheading plan well, his face was a little better.

Wen Chou doesn't need to say much, he naturally still leads his own old subordinates, and now he has changed his name to the Shence Army, all of which are infantry, with nearly 3,000 soldiers, and they are not satisfied but they are about the same, and there is no supply of armor and blades. As a surrendered general, Wen Chou didn't complain about anything to Lu Chen. Lu Chen couldn't give material incentives, so he could only sue him that his soldiers and horses were the absolute main force of the Yanmen infantry, and Wen Chou also knew that most of Lu Chen's subordinates were cavalry, so he also knew that he would be reused.

Zhang Gu is a cow, known as the general of the capital protection, leading the capital to protect the army of 6,000, although it is a light infantry, but it is the army with the largest number of people in Yanmen! However, at the meeting, Zhang Gu sat in the corner and had no right to speak. Because, the so-called capital protection army, in fact, is the team of the city patrols and the former Yanmen defenders, the real number of people is more than 2,000, the number is slightly less than that of Wen Chou, and the equipment is extremely bad, Lu Chen didn't think about changing their clothes, there are still people wearing armor drawn with their own brushes, holding burning sticks hehehey, roaring out of, Zhang Gu blushed when he thought about it.

Cao Xing's Broken Army is actually Lu Chen's guards, known as three hundred, but in fact, there are only two hundred people, all of whom are veterans who have been cut out of the tiger and have no shortage of equipment and horses. The reason why Cao Xing's broken army was more than Lu Bu's guards was mainly because Lu Bu felt sorry for his son and forcibly crossed it from the tiger body, which was originally intended to be given to five hundred people, but it turned out that Lu Chen himself returned three hundred. Because the old foundation of the tiger is emptied, then it is not the tiger ben but the white horse righteousness, and Zhao Yun is not easy to practice.

And Lu Chen himself, although he is the general of Zhenbei and annexed the state classics, he only has eighteen personal riders in name, and he is called Youyun Eighteen Riders. found a reliable guy from the tiger ben and replaced the one who was hacked to death by nameless.

Yanmen's family background is indeed not solid enough, 1,100 heavy cavalry (equipment is very lacking), 1,400 light cavalry, 400 heavy infantry in the camp, nearly 3,000 Shence troops are combat infantry, and more than 2,000 Du Guards are patrols to maintain law and order. In the whole of Yanmen, there were only 2,500 cavalry and 6,000 infantry, and the armament was insufficient.

However, Lu Chen did not blush at all, and claimed to have 20,000 elites.

After all the generals except Cao Xing, including Lü Bu, complained and asked for the expansion of the army, Lü Chen simply vetoed the proposal to expand the army.

Although Lu Chen now has absolute power, even Lu Bu has to listen to him (this is mainly because Lu Bu dotes on his son, and he also knows that in addition to charging into battle, he is indeed inferior to Lu Chen in other aspects, which is equivalent to taking the initiative to let Xian), but this does not mean that everyone is really convinced.

However, Lu Chen was prepared, he pressed down with both hands, stopped everyone's gossip, and said, "You want to expand the army, do you think you have few soldiers?" No! Instead, you feel that your combat effectiveness is not enough, and it is not enough to surround Yanmen. Right? (To be continued......)