Today, Changbai Mountain and Yidu are the two most important iron-smelting bases under Wang Yong's rule, and there were a large number of mines in these two places before, with a history of more than 100 years of iron smelting.

Yidu was before the Northern Qi Dynasty set up a large number of weapons to the imperial court every year, and Changbai Mountain was dominated by the mines set up by the Northern Qi Dynasty's powerful families.

Both of these places have a strong foundation in advance, and there are also coal and iron mines in the area, which are more promising to rely on coal and iron mines.

Since occupying these two major iron production bases, although Wang Ze's original small iron mine in Changguang County is still producing, it has begun to change to the direction of high 'fine' cutting-edge, focusing on metallurgy and mechanical research, while Changbai Mountain and Yidu are large-scale large-scale factory production mode.

Now sitting in Changbai Mountain and Yidu to guide the production is Cao Blacksmith, who only rushed back from Jeju Island last month with Jiang Chuan, Zhang Hang and others who reinforced Qizhou.

Since Wang Yong occupied Yidu near Qingzhou and Changbai Mountain between Linzi and Jinan City, he found that the weapons made in the iron yards in these two places were far inferior to the 'fine' made by the cottages themselves, and there was no craftsman in the iron prisons and iron yards who were comparable to the level of the blacksmith Cao in the cottage.

At this time, although Wang Ze's old mother Gong Xi Wenyi was sitting in Qingzhou, but Gong Xi, who was born in a merchant family, was only good at 'manipulating' accounts, and it was difficult for a strong man to let her be in charge of technical work, and Wang Yong had just occupied Qingzhou, and others were not at ease, so he asked Cao Blacksmith's eldest son Cao Lei to stay on Jeju Island and recalled Cao Blacksmith back to be responsible for the manufacture of armor.

Cao Blacksmith, who has not been seen for a long time, still does not change the old appearance of loving to show, he holds a newly made ring head knife in his hand, and proudly said to Wang Ze and Fuyu Wang and Wu Qiong beside him: "It's not that my old Cao brags, these knives I made this time are sharper and stronger than the knives made by Xiangzhou Koukou!" In the Northern Wei Dynasty, it was an heirloom treasure! ”

As the son of the Baekje royal family, Buyeo Wang doesn't know where Koukouye is, but Wu Qiong, who has led the army to fight for many years, knows it very well. Xiangzhou knife is the most famous place for the manufacture of weapons in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and the smelting of many weapons in Xiangzhou is the leader.

However, although Fuyu Wang didn't know what was going on, it didn't affect him to distinguish the quality of weapons, Wu Qiong was an expert in leading soldiers, and he knew that Cao Blacksmith didn't 'mess' blow when he saw these weapons, and even if these weapons were not as good as the swords made by Xiangzhou Xiangkouye, they were not much worse.

Taking advantage of the gap between Wu Qiong and Fuyu Wang to pick up weapon samples there, Wang Ze asked the blacksmith Cao, who he hadn't seen for a long time, with some curiosity: "Uncle Cao, I think that the ironsmith smelting level of all the countries in the world can surpass yours, where did you learn the craft before?" In the past, everyone asked you and you didn't say it! ”

Blacksmith Cao, who had been busy for a month, had a scruffy beard, and when he heard Wang Ze ask him this question again, he smiled and said, "Didn't you say it before, you were afraid of bringing disaster to everyone!" But now there's no need to be afraid, it's actually nothing!

My old Cao's master is said to be the younger brother of Qi's mother Huaiwen, the old man used to strike iron in Xiangzhou when he was young, and later worshipped him as a teacher, and he didn't know that he was the younger brother of Qi's mother Huaiwen when he was learning art.

At that time, my master invented a special method of iron smelting, and the smelted knife was very sharp and never rusted. Later, it was somehow known, so a group of guys who claimed to be envoys of the imperial court came to invite the master to be the master of the Yecheng Iron Prison.

Of course, my master didn't obey, although he had no power or power in the people, he was at ease, and he never thought that the gang would invite my master to rob the master's unique 'door' without accomplishment. Later, when my master was killed, more than a dozen of our brothers killed those guys in revenge and then scattered and fled.

Before he died, Master passed on the skill of smelting the steel knife and the skill of the iron furnace to a few of us, and I don't know how many of my brothers are still alive. ”

Wang Ze listened to Cao Blacksmith's life experience, and he was also embarrassed in his heart, and he didn't know how many great inventions in Chinese history were annihilated in this way. It seems that no matter what good things there are, the government has to hold them in their own hands, and if people don't want to give them, they have to rob them.

Here, Wang Ze and Cao Blacksmith are talking about the past that is like a passing cloud, and over there, Wu Qiong and Fuyu Wang are already about to pick their eyes 'flowers'. Faced with all kinds of 'fine' weapons in the warehouse, Wu Qiong and Fuyu Wang simply bought them in large quantities without money.

Of course, the quality of these weapons is slightly worse than that used by Wang Yong and Wang Ze's subordinates, if they are the same as the weapons they use, won't they be pitted to themselves in the future!

Compared with the slightly hesitant Fuyu Wang, Wu Qiong not only bought a large number of conventional weapons such as knives and guns, but even the armored cavalry where Cheng Hu was located that he saw during the military parade before, and also wanted to buy a set of heavy cavalry armor to go back, and in the end, Wu Qiong even asked Wang Ze to buy 10,000 horse swords.

Of course, Wu Qiong's request was rejected by Wang Zewan, because the number of horse chopping swords produced by the iron yard is not enough for himself.

During the reorganization of the whole army this time, Wang Yong selected more than 10,000 tall, burly and powerful young and strong soldiers from various armies, greatly expanding the ironclad army of less than 1,000 people under the command of Zhou Tong.

Although the final number of the Ironclad Army was determined to be around 8,000 after gradual elimination in the subsequent training, the gap between the people and the sword was very large.

On the one hand, it is not easy to make a horse sword, even if a large number of various hydraulic machinery jointly invented by Cao Blacksmith's Mechanical College and Tan Carpenter's Carpentry College led by Tan Carpenter are now used in various iron yards, which greatly saves manpower.

However, the mass production of machinery is very suitable for ordinary conventional weapons, but not for the sword. The forging process of the chopping sword is very strict, and there is no room for a trace of defects, whether it is the beginning of the forging or the subsequent flash fire and carburizing, each step of the process requires very experienced old craftsmen to ensure that there are no accidents.

In this way, before Blacksmith Cao returned from Jeju Island, because of the lack of technical guidance in the ironworks, only a few hundred defective horse swords were made, and it was not until after Blacksmith Cao arrived that he was much better because of his guidance.

After more than a month of overtime, more than 2,000 horse-chopping swords have just been manufactured, plus the previous inventory and the horse-cutting swords that Zhou Tong and other former ironclad battalions have equipped in advance, and only more than 3,000 people currently have weapons.

In this way, until now, there are still more than 4,000 people left in the ironclad army without weapons, and now every day they are holding a horse chopping sword mold cast from pig iron, and practicing the skills of using a horse chopping sword under the instruction of the instructor.

Therefore, now the output of the Horse Slashing Giant Sword can't even meet the needs of Wang Ze's own side, where is there still spare output for Nan Chen.

It's just that Wang Ze is a little strange in his heart, didn't Nan Chen's army have already bought a lot of weapons before, why do they need so many weapons now? And I want to buy swords in large quantities!

In the face of Wang Ze's surprised question, Wu Qiong, who has always been calm, smiled bitterly and slowly explained to Wang Ze what had happened in Nanchen for more than a month, it turned out that Beizhou had begun to 'meddle' in Nanchen's affairs.

Since Wang Ze left Jiankang in early March, Chen Ba, who had not recovered from his long-term illness, personally sat in Jiankang despite his physical pain, and made great efforts to 'draw' 50,000 soldiers, almost most of the troops east of South Chen Jiankang.

These troops were led by Chen Qian, the king of Linchuan, and accompanied by Han Zigao, Zhou Wenhua, Chun Yukun, Zhang Zhaoda and other generals, and sailed up with more than 2,000 ships of all sizes to Beijiang Prefecture to support Lu Sida.

A few months ago, Wang Lin was unable to advance eastward because he was resisted by Shi Lu Sidda of Beijiang Prefecture, so he retreated and returned to Huangcheng, but because the old nest was later captured by Shi Ning, the assassin of Jingzhou in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Wang Lin was afraid that the army would be disheartened and had to attack Beijiang Prefecture again.

As long as Wang Lin captured Beijiang Prefecture, less than 200 miles down the river was Jiankang City, so at the end of March, Wang Lin attacked Beijiang Prefecture again from Huangcheng.

At this time, Hou Fill and Xu Du, the generals of the Southern Chen Water Army, rushed to lead the troops to garrison Beijiang Prefecture, and the two armies 'engaged' several times have been stalemate, Wang Lin saw that he could not win and transferred the general Ren Zhongsuo, who was originally stationed in Huangcheng, to the front line to help the battle.

It happened that the southwest wind was tight in the past few days, and Wang Lin occupied the upper reaches of the upper reaches of the wind to be helped by heaven, and was ordered by the heavens, and was proud to prepare to bypass the mouth of the South Chen Water Army, and lead the army down the river to take Jiankang.

Of course, it was impossible for Chen Jun's sailors to watch Wang Lin bypass Beijiang Prefecture and take Jiankang directly, so Hou Yao and Xu Du hurriedly led the navy out of the mouth to follow Wang Lin's fleet.

Wang Lin saw that Chen Junshui's division of the mouth of the water was following from behind, and immediately ordered to launch an attack on Chen's naval division, and he didn't know what Wang Lin's brain was made of, so he ordered to use fire to deal with the Southern Chen naval army that occupied the upper wind and Shangshui at this time, but Wang Lin set fire to the fire, but because of the direction of the wind, his own warships were set on fire.

Chen Jun's naval division was originally at a disadvantage in the 'engagement' with Wang Lin's naval army, but he didn't want Wang Lin's naval army to ignite the fire by itself, Hou Chong and Xu Du were surprised and at the same time, in line with the principle of 'seeing a cheap and not taking advantage of it, it is a bastard', and led the Southern Chen naval army to rush forward quickly.

First, he used a ship to deal with Wang Lin's battleship, and the trebuchet installed on the ship threw large stones onto Wang Lin's fleet, and the sailors on board were killed or wounded, and then they used a ship to collide and use a small boat to rush to the side of Wang Lin's navy to add another fire.

At this time, tens of thousands of reinforcements led by Chen Qian arrived in time, and under the two-phase attack of Chen's army, Wang Lin's army was defeated unexpectedly, and the sergeants were drowned and killed.

The defeated Wang Lin led hundreds of remnants of the army to flee westward, preparing to return to Huangcheng to continue to reorganize the army to wait for revenge, but what Wang Lin did not expect was that Huangcheng had already been captured by Chun Yuliang, the general of Southern Chen, who crossed the river from Jiangbei, so Wang Lin and his cronies were captured on the spot.

It is said that the matter is basically over here, but things are often full of variables, and the Northern Zhou, who had been pinching each other with the Northern Qi before, did not talk about it with the Northern Qi, and began to 'meddle' in the situation of the Southern Dynasty.

I'm looking for an unstable one! Wang Ze thought to himself that he was everywhere in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, not to mention that he had a 'leg' with the Turks, and he pinched each other with the Northern Qi all day long, and when the northern side was tired, he pinched up with the original quasi-ally Nan Chen again, and according to the point of view of later generations, this is the destabilizing factor in East Asia.

Originally, from the beginning of Chen Baxian's establishment of the Chen Dynasty, Wang Lin began to rely on the Northern Zhou Dynasty in order to fight against Chen Baxian, and now the Chen army has defeated the largest opposition force within the Southern Dynasty supported by the Northern Zhou.

The governor of Lingnan, Ouyang Sui, had already divided his troops with Mrs. Xian, one way Ouyang Sui's younger brother Ouyang Sui led the army down the Ganshui River, and all the way Mrs. Xian and Ouyang Sui's son Ouyang Su led the army down the Xiangshui River, and it didn't take long for Nan Chen to basically unify the decree, but at this time, the Northern Zhou who supported Wang Lin saw that his agent failed but did not do it.

Therefore, under the orders of Otsuka Zai, the military governors of the world, and the Gongyu Wenhu of the Jin Kingdom, the Northern Zhou Dynasty Governor Jing and Xiang and other 52 states of the military, and Jingzhou Thorn Shi Shi Ning from Yingzhou, which had been occupied by the Northern Zhou Dynasty, went down the river and went down the river to the city.

At the same time, Shi Ning's left flank had Yang Zhong, the general of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, leading an army of 50,000 to attack the land north of the Jiangbei River west of Qianshan (Dabie Mountain); There is also the Northern Zhou Yunzhou (now Anlu, Hubei) marching commander Sima Zhen, led an army of 30,000 to cross the south and attack the Xiangshui Valley.

In this way, the Northern Zhou, who was unwilling to accept the defeat of their agents in the civil war of Southern Chen and wanted to take advantage of the fatigue of the veterans of the Southern Chen Division, and the Southern Chen, who was bent on restoring the area ruled by the Southern Liang, started a new round of war in the north and south of the river in the upper reaches of Huangcheng.

Different from the previous battle in which the big guys besieged Northern Qi together, this time it was the turn of Northern Qi to watch the excitement, of course, Northern Qi was not idle, and was ready to roll up his sleeves and pinch Wang Yong's side.

Fortunately, Mrs. Xian and Ouyang Su on the Xiangshui side had already led a large army down the river to occupy Hengyang County, temporarily holding on to Sima's army and between Hengyang and Xiangzhou.

Because the frequency of 'engagement' between the two sides was very high, the Chen army's weapon loss rate was very high, and the Northern Zhou army had cavalry that the Chen army lacked.

At this time, there were less than 30,000 cavalry in the whole country, most of which were stationed in the Huainan prefectures and counties close to the Northern Qi, and only a few thousand cavalry could be used on the battlefields of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

Compared with the powerful cavalry of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the Chen army could only rely on the superior naval army to block the Northern Zhou army for the time being, but Jiangnan was able to use the naval army to block the attack of the Northern Zhou army. However, the land north of the river west of the hidden mountain is about to be lost because there is no danger of mountains and rivers.

Compared with the Northern Zhou Dynasty, which had a large number of artisan mines, there was a lack of weapons, and Nan Chen was lost because of the loss of Yizhou, which was rich in iron ore, and experienced Hou Jingzhi's 'chaos', which led to a lack of iron ore and craftsmen, so Chen Baxian had no choice but to send Wu Qiong, who was more familiar with Wang Yong and Wang Ze, to come to Qingzhou again to buy a batch of weapons.

In fact, Wu Qiong didn't say that in addition to the weapons needed by the Chen army on the southern front, some of the weapons purchased this time were bought for his father, and at this time Wu Mingche was leading the army in the Northern Qi to fight for Runan County on the north bank of the Huai River and its surrounding areas, and the demand for weapons was also very urgent for months of fighting.

is not only the need to deal with the Northern Qi Dynasty, but more importantly, Chen Baxian is now getting more and more sick, and he can only lie on the 'bed' couch every day to deal with official business.

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